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THE Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas (Dole 7) has urged employers in the region to allow their employees to take heat breaks due to the ongoing high temperatures.
911 calls have been relentless over the past few days in Portland, Oregon as a historic heat wave takes its toll in the Pacific Northwest and kills hundreds of people. The State Medical Examiner's office had reported at least 63 deaths in the state of Oregon since Friday. 45 of the deaths were from Multnomah County ranging from 44 to 97 years old with underlying health conditions. Authorities are in alert as weather patterns suggests that more frequent and intense heat waves are coming. "I know many county residents were looking out for each other and am deeply saddened by this initial death ...
Electricity, con-ed, on high alert after an outage knocked out power to a huge swath of manhattan's upper west side this week. and in madison, wisconsin two electric substations catching fire. not the day for it. animals feeling the effect too. from pets too overheated to take another step on new york's fifth avenue to this emu keeping cool at zoo new england. at illinois's brookfield zoo the bears and tigers staying close to their icy treats. now, the temperature is meant to get up here in new york this weekend, so temperature and humidity very, very high. the heat index for new york city thi...
Urging people not to make the treacherous journey to the united states. texas republican congressman steve stockman an opponent of the emergency funding says a better idea is for the president to save the money by simply doing a photo op. >> he's against photo ops. he should stand by a plane load of people sending back to guatemala and that send as message we mean business. >> reporter: whatever happens in washington it should happen down. while apprehensions are down, he expects that it's only a temporary lull and they will ramp right back up again when this oppressive heat breaks. >> it is h...