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A summer hotter than normal or a winter cooler than normal. let's face it, the last couple years, we've been getting away with summers that haven't been that hot and winters not that cold. i'm afraid if we get a real hot sum they are year, we might find out how vulnerable the system is and how much it will hit us in the pocketbook. >> neil: thanks very much. very early on. the first noticeable heat wave. technically it's not summer yet. but enough that a lot of folks are putting out warnings and utilities are running at full capacity. so you know what can often happen. brown-outs, blackouts. j...

-- will be at grave risk of brown-outs and black-outs. our businesses will come to a halt in many cases and the american family will suffer the consequences in the form of lost jobs and a very diminished quality of life. even if the paris agreement were implemented in full with total compliance from all nations, it's estimated it would only produce .2 of one degree -- think of that -- this much. a selfish reduction in global temperature by the year 2100. in fact, 14 days of carbon emissions from china alone would wipe out the gains from america.

>> oppressive and uncomfortable and potentially dangerous with excessive heat warnings in effect and an air quality alert because of the high ozone levels in the air. official temperature in new york city reaching 99 degrees and feels like the heat index was up to 108 degrees. these conditions have proven deadly and can be deadly. we know of at least two deaths. one in kentucky and the other in philadelphia. new york city's department of homeless services is trying to prevent more health problems here by handing out bottled water and trying to convince the needy to visit hundreds of cooling ce...

ins priebus and dominique dawes and ryan beatty. "starting point" begins right now. our starting poirnt this morning, america's new golden girl is gabby douglas making history last night. 16 years old, first african-american to women the all-around gold medal. amanda davies, it was so z exciting to watch her. just perfection, out did herself each and every time. how was the feeling while everyone was watching her? >> reporter: it was incredible. it was probably written in the stars, did you know if you rearrange the letters of gabby douglas's sir name, what does it spell, but usa gol...

An anom ollie for year by year. >> you never know what you're going to see in a given year. this july is the trend for the future. >> how do you put all of this together for 40 years down the road and what kind of problems would we be facing globally, speaking, if this indeed is the case and the planet's heating up. >> i think that's the thing, is that heat is the number one weather-related killer in the u.s. it's above tornadoes, above hurricanes, things like that. and when you look at our infrastructure, infrastructure is quite old. when you look at what the projections are given population ...