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with lester holt good evening americans feeling the heat tonight in ways and places they maybe never have where they live as high temperature records are expected to fall across much of the country. it is where we begin tonight. 38 million people across 20 states from california to the mississippi river right now living under heat alerts. record highs in the forecast today from cheyenne, wyoming where the forecast high is 99 to dallas/ft. worth airport which could reach 109. between now and wednesday nearly three dozen new record highs could be set the heat wave working its way to the east tonight, leaving the most vulnerable in its path at considerable risk experts are warning it is not summer as usual but rather another global gut check moment from a changing climate just as we face new obstacles in dealing with it. we ll get to that and the forecast from our team standing by in just a moment. let s start with miguel almaguer. reporter: shattering records and thre ....
Shattering records and threatening lives. tonight this is the brutal broil baking tens of millions it s sweltering and what s the worst is there is no air moving reporter: the blistering heat wave turning much of the nation into an oven. 141 million people experiencing temperatures above 90 degrees. 51 million sweltering in triple digits i make sure to bring water, take breaks. reporter: setting records across much of the country, today heat alerts for at least 20 states from california to mississippi. salt lake city tying their all time high sunday 107 degrees. memphis, houston, and san antonio having their hottest summers on record. without a doubt it is it is a life and death situation. reporter: dallas hitting 106 where michael steed, suffering from chronic health problems and living on a fixed income, could face a deadly summer i don t have ....
Retail store target is in hot water for selling a t-shirt that some say is sexist. it s being sold in the girl s juniors department. a milwaukee woman was so upset she launched a petition on change.org calling for the shirt to stop being sold by target. she claimed the shirt perpetuated rape culture by saying women were objects and not humans. back to what we were talking about before. this weather that the country is experiencing triple-digit temperatures are baking tens of millions from texas to new england today. scorching temperatures ranging from 103 to 107 from dallas to savannah. in new york city crews have been working through the night to restore power to residents after 20,000 lost electricity amid-hot temperatures. the heat won t let up for much of the midwest, which will see the hottest temperatures coming up this weekend. because of this weather, we have two videos of people trying to ....