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Part of the country was relevanto well over 100 degrees for several days two weeks ago, we literally are seeing roads buckling, melting and crumbling. >> right. >> but, again, how do we think about long-term maintenance costs? it seems to be something we have a political problem accounting for. >> this is part of what we mean when we talk about resilient infrastructure. with the more frequent weather extremes we are seeing, you can pretty much guarantee that we're going to have more freeze that you cycles on roads in places like the midwest. unfortunately more deadly heat waves where we saw th...

Happen some year. the science is very clear on this. i and so many others have been trying to arouse our nation to an effort against climate change. and now we're here. the opening act has arrived. the climate catastrophe. we're getting it in the pacific northwest right now. i-5, some lanes buckled. we had to shut down lanes of our interstate through seattle today. we had thousands of people without power as you pointed out. sometimes lines just melted. but i think the important lesson for the pacific northwest is we're getting ours tonight. but everybody is going to get it. sea level rise in ...

This is a lot to bear for people who are living in that area. you've been a leader in the push to addressing the dangers of climate change. did you ever expect to see seattle at 107 degrees in june in 2021? >> we knew this was going to happen some year. the science is very clear on this. i and so many others have been trying to arouse our nation to an effort against climate change. and now we're here. the opening act has arrived of a climate catastrophe. and we're getting it in the pacific northwest right now. i-5, some lanes buckled. we had to shut down lanes of our interstate through seattle...

Look at all these cities where we expect major records to fall. dozens of them through at least wednesday. the peak mentioned tomorrow on i-5. it will be even warmer in seattle for an all-time record there. slight cooling but a dangerously long event, especially inland. linsey? >> that record-breaking heat. rob, thank you. now to the pandemic and rising concerns about the highly contagious delta variant. it's now present in all but one state. abc's trevor ault is in new york. >> reporter: tonight, the delta variant increasingly taking hold in america's undervaccinated areas just as health ex...

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