for you. good morning to you, welcome to early start on this monday morning. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m ashlee. it s the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. it s incredible, but look how many states are now dealing with miserable conditions in ohio, 425,000 people are now without power. that s as of 10:00 p.m. last night. it s the same story in virginia and maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are just waiting for the power to come back on. just a whiff of ac in these extraordinary temperatures. the problem there doesn t seem to be much of a let-up in sight. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings. and now a state of emergency has been declared by the gove
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