But on the other hand, or paw, theres things you should anticipate to keep your pets safe this summer. Dr. Gerard at north Shore Animal League of America Teaching us the tricks to make sure your friends stay cool for the summer. First things first you have to know your dog. Not every dog can tolerate the heat like every other dog. So your brachiocephalic breeds, the ones with short noses reporter like pugs or frenchies. Your dogs with medical conditions, older geriatric dogs, overweight dogs, they cant tolerate the heat. They can overheat very quickly. Reporter how do you know if they are overheating . Understand the signs. The excessive panting. Difficulty recovering. On to things like vomiting, diarrhea. Ataxia, where they become wobbly, know that you have a situation on your hands, that you need to address that. Reporter at that point cool your dog off with water and call your vet. Lucky for us its easy to prevent all of that. His tips . Always supervise your pets when theyre outside. Give them plenty of shade, clean water to drink and play in like these kiddie pools, and never leave your pet in the car. If your dog does want to go for a walk, early mornings and late evenings are best. Wed recommend that people actually place your hand on the pavement first. Most recommendations are between five and seven seconds. If you can leave your hand on the asphalt for that period of time, its probably safe for your pet. Reporter or give them fashionable booties. And one more doggone detail . Your pet can get a sunburn . Oh, yes. We definitely recommend sunscreen. Dont use the one that youre using on yourself, get one thats labeled for a pet. Reporter there you have it. Heres to a pawfect summer day with your best friend. And one final summer safety tip for your pets. If youre going boating, the most likely member of your family to jump out of a moving boat, your dog. So get him a life jacket. So important to remember, pets. Also thinking about people in this heat. For instance, in madison, wisconsin, homeless shelters are going to be open and they wont turn folks away even if theyve reached capacity. In d. C. , shelters will be open 24 7. Theyre going to keep area pools open late to help people beat the heat. Parents, playgrounds, one area that gets so hot, those slides, swings, the metal, think about kids. Great, great, great points. Protect the humans and animals. Everybody. Thank you, will ganss, appreciate it. A florida restaurant is delivering some hope with its meals. A pizza shop outside West Palm Beach is putting pictures of lost pets on its delivery boxes. Pet owners can drop off flyers. The service is free. The pizza stores parent restaurant is in new jersey and is providing the same service. This is great. We have another story in the show about West Palm Beach officials doing something that is not really too cool with the homeless. Right. This one, on the other hand, good job. Very cool, yes. And of course homeless, i mean, people without places to go in this heat, youve got to think about them too. Knowing that those shelters will be open late, wont be turning people away. Watching out for everybody. Yes. Stay with us, giz wiz up next. Want to freshen your home without using heavy, overwhelming scents . Introducing febreze one. It eliminates odors with no heavy perfumes, so you can feel good about using it in your home. For a light, naturalsmelling freshness, try new febreze one. tiffany ask yourself what your children or cigarettes. For as long as i can remember, my mother smoked. She died from lung cancer when i was 16. I could not take the chance of continuing smoking and not being here for my daughter. I know how much i needed my mom still, and i didnt realize it until i had lost her. You can quit. For free help, call 1800quitnow. Welcome back. So you dont have to spend a lot to find cool new tech gadgets. In fact, you only need to spend a few bucks. 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Of course i pretty much hit every single oncoming car. So finally i ended up that the app actually broke my screen, pretend. Yeah, and youre a way better driver in real life, im sure. I dont drive. Oh. I see why. Yes. I got maybe 30 seconds of play out of it. That was 5 bucks. Do you want to play a game . So this goes behind it wont go over your head, it goes behind your neck. Then ive got to press on a little button here. These are the sports fan. Then you just bend them. Youre sure theyre not beyonce fans . I think thats what it is. I bought mine for 11 because i got them the next day. Yeah, wow. If you dont mind, on ebay you can get them for 8. Okay. This is wow, i think i need it. I think i need it, yeah, uhhuh. So that is the sports fan. Yeah, thats cool. Its great. Just hold the button down for three seconds and that will shut them off. Okay, charging cables. These are charging cables that do a little light show. Ill just turn on the charger here. 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Oh, hey, you are home, okay, ill come on up. Im coming. Whoo wow. Incredible animals, those bears. Yeah, just fast r uhhuh. But this guy, he thought he had an intruder. Okay. Turns out it wasnt an intruder at all. It was wait for it oh all right. Yep. Thats his German Shepherd there. Joe corsi got an alert from his Home Security system, and it was just sasha the dog. Aww. Snout. Look at sasha, huh, huh . Saying, if anything, thats your reallife security system. Yeah. Protecting your home right there. Its me, its me. Oh, adorable. That happened. Adorable. Hey, also, this happened. At Citizens Bank park. Philadelphia. Oh a fan at the dodgers versus phillies decided to use the tarp and slide on across the field. Hes in trouble. Hes in trouble. Security, theyre trying to run them down. Im just trying to have some fun. Like he takes off real fast. Is he going to slide again . Whoo, having a good time. All right, they got him, they got him. Slip n slide there. I mean, he got some good fun out of it before they caught up to him, right . He definitely did. I mean, thats a way to handle a rain delay, right . That is one way to handle it. Right. And so from having fun on the field to having fun in the stands. A barehanded catch, watch this man. Wait for it. There it is. Did he get it . Beer in hand. Okay. Caught the ball barehanded. Humble about it too. Handed it to a kid. How about that. Watch this again. Hard to see. Nabs it with his hand. With the beer in the other hand. Um its a good thing he has the beer. Because hes going to feel that later. Right. At least he was paying attention, didnt get hit. Thats true. Be careful out there. Stay cool out there. They dont help single moms. Hi. Hi. What happened to our house last year . It flooded. And the water flooded out. Yeah. The red cross arranged the hotel for us. They gave me that break, that leverage, to be able to get it together and. Take care of them, you know . I feel like weve come full circle. Ket this is how ill do it. Sarah there you go. This morning on world news now, the heat is on. Millions of us are coping with dangerous tripledigit heat. More than two dozen states are under a heat alert. Well tell you how long well have to sweat it out for. Omar has a history of launching vicious antisemitic screeds. Send her back, send her back President Trump at his latest Campaign Rally not backing down from his racist attacks against four congresswomen of color as his supporters are heard backing him up. Back in washington the house kills a resolution to introduce an article of impeachment. Risky rescue. A pair of window washers dangling high in the sky. See how this came to an end. The pintsized pitchman getting attention of police. It wasnt all it seemed. Details on this thursday, july 18th. Good morning, everyone. Yes, it is the middle of summer but it is hot out there. Hot. And you saw yesterday steaming. Yesterday we celebrated National Hot Dog day. I decided to grill out on the roof in those temperatures. You guys see on instagram the last time he grilled out with those drumettes . And people loved them. I had my sweat rag, everyone knows as a southerner, if youre barbecuing, you need a sweat rag. I had the nerve to go running and i was like lord, dont let me pass out. We do begin this half hour with the blistering, oppressive, possibly recordbreaking heat gripping at least 28 states and likely lasting through the weekend. In washington, d. C. , for example, forecasters predict temperatures will hit 113 degrees saturday. Thats just 3 degrees cooler than death valleys forecast for the same day. So Health Officials are warning that so much tripledigit heat poses an extreme danger to public health, especially for children and the elderly. Heres abcs alex perez. Reporter from the east coast to the plains, more than half the country in the midst of what forecasters are calling the most dangerous heat wave in years. Oppressive humidity gripping the Delaware Valley today. It is hot, hot, hot out there and it is going to only get hotter. Reporter in richmond, virginia, the heat turning deadly tuesday. A 10monthold girl left in a hot car dying at the hospital. The heat index was 103. In 1995, a heat wave here in chicago killed more than 700 people. Emergency rooms are on alert, bracing for an influx of heatrelated emergencies. So someone comes in, we think that its heatstroke about four, six of us will actually put the individual into this ice bucket for 10 to 15 minutes to get their body temperature down as fast as possible. Reporter and in new york city, after that weekend blackout plunged a section of manhattan into darkness, fears that tripledigit temperatures this weekend could bring more outages. And well continually remind people to only use the energy they need. Reporter here in chicago were bracing for temperatures that will feel like 105 degrees the next few days. The emergency room doctor i talked to says even if youre staying hydrated, you can still be susceptible to heatstroke. The key, he says, is to get out of the heat and somewhere cool. Alex perez, abc news, chicago. Good reminders there from alex. One factor thats going to make this heat wave especially brutal is forecasters say temperatures wont be cooling down much after dark. Accuweather meteorologist adam del rosso joins us now with details. Good morning. Another hot and humid day across the plains into the midwest. Dangerous heat with high temperatures near 100. You factor in the humidity, Accuweather Realfeel temperatures in those darkest spots of red upwards of 110. Into the northeast, not as hot, still very humid. Watch out for spotty, heavy downpours. A couple of storms possible from the great lakes into the Northern Plains as well. Some of those storms could have some heavy downpours and gusty winds as well. All right, thank you, adam. Turning to President Trump reveling in his attacks on four congresswomen of color, calling them out one by one. The president took aim at the freshmen lawmakers at a rally last night in greenville, North Carolina. As he slammed Representative Ilhan Omar the crowd booed and chanted send her back. It came hours after the house voted to kill an effort to impeach the president in part over his racist comments about the congresswoman. Abcs terry moran has more from greenville. Reporter President Trump heading out for a Campaign Rally in North Carolina confident that the racial firestorm hes sparked with his tweets is stoking his base. Im enjoying it because i have to get the word out to the american people. Reporter he says its a political fight hes winning. So these congresswomen, their comments are helping to fuel the rise of a dangerous militant hard left. But thats okay because were going to win this election like nobodys ever seen before. Reporter its now days since trump tweeted in the kind of brutally bigoted language no president has used for decades that four liberal democratic congresswomen should go back to the countries they came from, even though three were born in the usa. And a new chant about Representative Ilhan Omar. Send her back, send her back reporter his White House Team defending him. If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring . Whats your ethnicity . Why is that relevant . It is because youre asking about he said originally. Reporter the battle turned to the house floor. Every Single Member of this institute, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president s racist tweets. Reporter every democrat but just four republicans voted to condemn the president s comments. Some of the president s democratic rivals say all this furor is just what he wants. This president purposely, i believe, distracts and attempts to distract by flame throwing. Reporter mary bruce asked Speaker Pelosi about that. Are you concerned that the president is goading you . With all due respect, lets not waste our time on that. Were not having him set our agenda, were setting our own agenda. Trump 2020 reporter here in greenville many backing his claim its not about race at all. What do you think of Speaker Pelosi saying what he said was racist . I dont believe hes a racist, period. You dont . I dont. On what do you