which, by the way, is also a record. this dangerous cumulative heat and around the world all pointing to a our changing and warming climate, david. david: mola lenghi tonight. let s get to ginger zee. ginger. reporter: just melting here in marathon, florida, at day nine of 97 plus. that is almost three times their epic record that they set, you know, years ago, but this consecutive stretch of heat also 15 days in a row of 95 plus. that s just the florida keys where the waters are almost as warm as the air. not just here, new orleans, it s texas, it s all the way back to the desert southwest, las vegas also now on day five of 110 plus. they get to sunday, they ll tie and monday they break it. this is normal for this year, but certainly not normal for summer. real quick look at the flood watch, one to three inches with those storms and damages winds blasting through central tennessee and huntsville tonight. david: thanks again. we turn to a disturbing investigation in texas. a
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slow motion disaster. mind you, it happens every year, it s just that this year it s different for many of the communities that line the mississippi river. we re talking about some of the worst flooding in several decades. take, for instance, minnesota, this is just upstream along the minnesota or the mississippi river from lacrosse, wisconsin, which we will talk about in just a minute but these are people s homes. these are people s businesses that are being inundated by this rising flood water, this slow motion disaster that i m talking about. the way that we monitor the progress of the cresting mississippi river or similar rivers just like that, the red river, are river gauges, you are looking at the ones in flood gauge. the purple ones between minneapolis and lacrosse are the river gauges at major flood stage. there s 20 of them right now but we anticipate about another ten or so in the coming days as the water continues to pile up and we start to melt out some of the epic record
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