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and hello and good morning to you all. millions of americans are in the grip right now of a massive heat wave. we will tell you which states are getting hit by this heat wave and there is a danger zone here, folks. we'll let you know how long this will last. also, a real power workout. people are producing energy by expending their own. we'll tell you how this works. also, really one of our favorite stories of the day here. caped crusaders taking to the streets in one northeastern town. yep, you're seeing superheroes. they're dressed up like them. talk to them this morning and th...

Are these freak weather conditions, just a coincidence or are they somehow linked? what's your take? >> the take is this -- all these things are the kinds of thangs we would expect to happen as the planet warms up. what we're seeing is that overall the planet's warming about .35 degrees per decade and places like greenland are warming up even faster, like 3 1/2 degrees per decade. all of these events from heat waves to stronger monsoons to loss of ice from around the world, they're all consistent with that. where it gets a little bit tricky though is assigning any one specific event is to say ...

To say this is global warming or not, and all i can say is that it has nothing, or very little to do with the surface temperature, and that's kind of what people always stress when talking about global warming. what's important, significant here, is that most of this specific glacier in northeastern greenland has actually melted from below by much, much warmer oceans, but that is there all the time, so that melting from below by the ocean, that this ice is floating on, happens all the time, and that accounts for about 80 percent of the mass, the ice being lost to the ocean. so even a massive p...

And noaa says that is not the only place feeling the burn. reporting globally this was the hottest first six months ever. since records began this is the warmest january to june with an average surface temperature of 57.5 degrees. for a look at today's complete weather forecast, let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, it looks awfully nice there in maine. but even mike trying to do the weather there saying it's super hot there as well. >> i used to live in maine for a while. i got married there on the coast. it doesn't get hot. the water is 55 degrees or so. it's very rare to get it t...

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