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Reading about 77 degrees now, but its going to feel a lot hotter as the day progresses. People here in the city bracing for another day of intense heat. Offensively hot. It offenders my sensibilities that it is this hot. I feel like im walking in a hot bath, an unpleasant hot bath. The humidity and heat index potentially dangerous. Its very draining and its hard to breathe. Which is why staying hydrated is crucial. We keep refilling our bottles every 10 minutes. We rest every 30 minutes or so. Thursday the weather system brought heavy rain to parts of our area, lightning setting off this fire in new jersey, a bolt hitting electrical wires. Center when a crane struck and cracked this window. As the hot weather continues into the weekend, officials are urging residents to do their best to conserve and limit use of high energy appliances. Lets just say the air is on. I just dont have the lights on. Reporter officials also urging you to check in on your neighbors to make sure they are okay
For everyone through the nighttime hours. So no changes over the next five days. Its going to be hot and humid. Theres that storm chance every day the next five days. More coming up. Despite the humidity, plenty of people braved this blistering heat today. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch live on the Upper West Side with more on how its going. Vanessa . Reporter well, dana, we are right now feeling el storms so nearby. You heard lonnie talk about rumbles of thunder. Well, look up. We have a storm cloud due site of us so we are not getting rained on but we are certainly hearing the thunder out here. Not a lot of sunshine at this point in time but that was not the case earlier today. The sun blared and burned up the blacktop. Heat index soared above 100. New yorkers we spoke to didnt excessive heat offensively hot. It offends my sensibilities that it is this hot it feels very muggy. Its very humid. Uncomfortable too hot for summer reporter why . Tell me why. Because in the wintertime, its freezing
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The first, i think, and most conspicuous reason is that the president ial election in afghanistan will occur on the 5th of april, and it will be the election which will facilitate the transition of authority and power from the karzai government in whatever form that has taken over the many years that they have been, he has been in power to what will come next. And were now beginning to get clarity on who those candidates will be. Some of them we expected, some of them we didnt. I think weve got some pretty strong candidates, actually. That elections going to be very important. Its going to be very important not just in the technical outcome, it is a democratic process that we hope will render an outcome that is credible, internationally recognizable as a credible democratic outcome. It will produce an administration with whom we hope we can work over the long term. Theres no reason to believe that it wouldnt given the slate of candidates were beginning to see merge. See emerge. But wha