>> rick leventhal joins us live from times square in new york city. no jacket today, rick. >> reporter: a absolutely not, jon. and a triple threat in the new york area, in the northeast region. excessive heat warning. air quality alert and ozone advisory because of ridiculously hot temperatures. it is so hot that these costumed characters in times square are taking their heads off and you really never see that in fact the streets of times square, relatively quiet here on a noon on friday afternoon. and folks are trying to beat the heat out here. there are more serious consequences. in fact we learned it is so hot up north that the plymouth, in plymouth, massachusetts, pilgrim nuclear power plant had to reduce the power output because the heat made the cape cod bay water too warm to cool reactors. they had to reduce the power at the power plant. it is apparently now we're told back up to full power. across the city, people are