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Outside, it's 89 degrees, but inside the car -- >> 167 on the front seat, buddy. >> reporter: a scorching 167 degrees. >> there's another one. >> reporter: they open the car and realize there are two dogs. the owner charged with animal cruelty. these officers tonight warning about the dangers of hot cars. this year alone, 18 children have died from heatstroke in a hot car. >> 98.3. textbook perfect. >> all right. >> reporter: we saw first hand how quickly a hot car can affect an adult body. in 30 minutes, i went from 98.3 degrees to 105. >> 105. >> wow. >> reporter: in a child, that can happen...

Mc-lef.org and considered one of the finest charities in the country. that means more goes to the people that need it than to overhead and other reasons. how have you done it? >> we're all volunteers. most of us are vietnam or korean war era. we came back to not a real friendly country. it's incumbent on us in america really to support the troops and we're just one of the groups that does that. the thing that's different about us, if you give me a dollar, i'm going to use 98.3 cents of that dollar for the families. we give scholarships to families that lose someone in combat and on the line of...

What they're getting. they also have $500 million they're talking about for construction out of stimulus funds to build and modernize buildings and we do have a big picture on that. nationally, the education department has gotten basically $100 billion out of stimulus. by far, more than those road projects and you heard about shovel ready. >> by far the education department is grabbing $100 billion total, 98.3, 71 billion was awarded so far. the education department tells me 300,000 jobs have already been funded and we're hearing from folks right there at cnn.com/josh, facebook and twitter, jo...