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at this hour, more than 70 million people in the united states are under a heat watch. athena jones has more now on how people in new york are right to beat the heat and of course that humidity. we re here in new york s washington square park. this is the heart of new york university s campus, and we are dealing right now with a real temperature of 91 degrees, but a feels-like temperature approaching 98 degrees. take a look around this park, though. you would not know from the number of people out and about here that we re approaching a heat index of 100 degrees, but this is one of the areas new yorkers come to cool off. we talked this week about the urban heat island effect. that is cities and parts of cities with a lot of concrete, a lot of asphalt.

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