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Outdoor concert in vegas yesterday. more than 30 people had to go to the hospital. alexandria steele is live for us in the cnn weather center. it is hot and only getting hotter. >> you mentioned death valley. if death valley hits 130, two degrees shy of our forecast, it will be the first time in 100 year, so we are in some rare air here. essentially, its an atmospheric blast furnace. its that high pressure ridge thats kind of acting like a dome, kind of trapping this heat in it. high pressure me...

Morning. 105 degrees in phoenix. their average for the high, which is hours from now, is 107, so theyre used to being in the 100s on average. today, 118 degrees expected. only 2 degrees shy of 120. only hit 120 three times ever since records have been kept. to las vegas we go. right now, already 103. thats their high for the day this time of year. 117 potentially. sunday, that would be the warmest they have ever been. so, fredricka, were not just talking about high for a day or high for a month....

Normal summer day. its pretty much too hot for anyone to be outside that doesnt have to. >> thank you very much for your reporting. theres no doubt its dangerously hot out west. its not your average heat wave. we have some perspective on whats happening in our western states and why. >> don, were talking about record heat. not just the record for day or a month but some of these places in the desert southwest will get to temperatures that they have never been to before. if so maybe once or twice...

Californias death valley today, and people are doing whatever they can to try to stay cool. alexandra steele is live for us in the cnn weather center. this is some oppressive heat, particularly dangerous, alexandra, for the most vulnerable of our population. >> you know, but with numbers as high as these are, its not only that. i mean, were talking about records that arent just highs for the day or highs for the month, but some of these places in the desert southwest could see temperatures that ...

They can come streaking through the earth earths atmosphere. were not tracking them like aster roids. -- asteroids. this one just happened to be on the large size. jon: what happens when it blows up? it is a rock. it comes streaking through the atmosphere at thousands of miles-an-hour. the friction when it encounters the earths atmosphere that makes it hot. what causes the explosion? >> when it comes into the earths atmosphere traveling over 30,000 miles-an-hour first thing that is happening com...

of their houses. the area is under a red flag warning, which means there is a chance a fast-moving fire could flare up again. some tense moments today after turkey scrambled jets in response to syrian helicopters that approached the border. turkey warned syria not to come close to its air space. im sweating up in here. >> yes, he was. former nba star, jason williams, sweating during my interview with him from his multi-million dollar mansion to his small prison cell, he talked to m...