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Is it pounding harder than in the east. >> it's hot! >> reporter: all across the region, temperatures are crowding 100 degrees. in new york, subways turning into saunas. >> it's too hot. i can't take this. >> reporter: public parks being transformed into tank salons. >> there's sweat on every inch of my body. it's pretty gross. >> reporter: struggling to support the demand for air-conditioning, some people are warned to conserve in whatever way they can. in baltimore, a power outage. >> i suffer it out. it's all i can do. >> in a county outside of washington, d.c., the failure of a massive wat...

You can see the threat extends further than it did yesterday. in hartford, connecticut, we are keeping an eye on them. 105 is the heat index in those areas. 100 degrees is a dangerous situation from new england to d.c. now it's spreading farther west today than yesterday. today, we are going include the dakotas inside the warning areas. that's the danger. four days in new york and philly. d.c. at three. we are continuing up to the weekend. the big thing is when are we going to see the relief. with the cold front, you can see it sliding to canada. it brings cooler temperatures. you have a cold ...

Short. >> we stay right here out of the direct sunlight. >> reporter: a nearby food truck, customers rushed up and away with only the heat hanging around. >> i'm a warm weather person, but this is extreme. >> reporter: still, the heat wave rolls on. in california, low humidity and high temperatures complicating efforts to battle a wildfire that's taken several homes. in iowa, air conditioners could not cope. >> i could hear it running outside but could not feel cool air. i cranked open the window and the line was frosted up. >> reporter: cooler temperatures expected by the weekend. some folks ...

Only above normal temperatures for an already hot time of year. summertime july heat combined with humidity about 70%. that's what it's feeling like in the afternoon. we are not seeing the relief. look at this. we are seeing the concern spread in connecticut. look at that. we could see thresholds of 105 degrees. the heat is going to feel like 105. you can see this is all can way from new england to d.c. and here is the problem. this dome of high pressure is building. farther than it did yesterday. in minnesota, we are looking at it in the dakotas. a huge part of the country dealing with the he...

Two to three miles. the width was about half-mile wide. we did have strong storms yesterday. shrevepo shreveport, louisiana. we'll have wet weather today. there's some of the rainfall now. heavy rain from greenville, mississippi, to joust south of memphis. rainy and stormry for areas in the tennessee valley. the northern plains. a decent day from d.c. to new england. as we go through the week end, the northern plains best chance of severe weather, then the mid-atlantic, i think, from virginia, north carolina, to d.c., rain could move in saturday and be with you all day sunday. >> oh, that's to...