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Jenna: it is overwhelming in a big city but really anywhere day after day with the really high temperatures. on a more serious note we talk to our viewers about the concerns one can have when you re out in loft hot weather. it is easy to have it wash over us as it goes in day after day. how serious is the heat with when it comes to real health conditions? it is quite serious. looks like the whole country has a fever. we re looking at temperatures of 98 and above. one of the big concept west worry about is heatstroke. heatstroke is basically when your coartem ture reaches to 103 and 104. that is quite dangerous. our defense mechanism is sweating. by sweating that is your human air conditioner. you get rid of the heat. that is how you keep your coartem ture really low. what happens if you can t sweat and humidity is more important than temperature itself. the humidity prevents you from the sweat and it stays in. jenna: how do you get the temperature down really fast if ....
rick leventhal joins us live from times square in new york city. no jacket today, rick. reporter: a absolutely not, jon. and a triple threat in the new york area, in the northeast region. excessive heat warning. air quality alert and ozone advisory because of ridiculously hot temperatures. it is so hot that these costumed characters in times square are taking their heads off and you really never see that in fact the streets of times square, relatively quiet here on a noon on friday afternoon. and folks are trying to beat the heat out here. there are more serious consequences. in fact we learned it is so hot up north that the plymouth, in plymouth, massachusetts, pilgrim nuclear power plant had to reduce the power output because the heat made the cape cod bay water too warm to cool reactors. they had to reduce the power at the power plant. it is apparently now we re told back up to full power. across the city, people are ....
It was in its heyday when many people enjoying life-styles unthinkable to their parents and grandparents. there were hundreds of factories where parts depots were made and shipped all over the world. from 1910 to 1950 few cities were growing faster than detroit. jon: wow, amazing. fox news alert now. dangerous weather is scorching two third of the country. this extreme heat wave continues for millions. today s heat index values, near 100 degrees or higher. at least two deaths are blamed on the weather thus far a 78-year-old man in kentucky and a 57-year-old man in philadelphia. listen to the folks working outside in these brutal temperatures. 105 degrees. stifling heat. sun bearing down on you. got to make your money. today it was seen close to 100 degrees. it is pretty hot out here and i don t know if we re going to be able to make the whole day. ....
And basic services like garbage being pick up greatly reduced at a standstill. speaking at a news conference earlier early this morning, michigan governor rick snyder says it s really the only viable option. i don t view this as a terrible answer in the sense that now s our opportunity to stop 60 years of decline. this is fundamental. has anyone liked the detroit of 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago? how long has this gone on, and people have not stopped to say stop kicking the can down the road and do something. we are doing something. jenna: steve moore is joining us and as the governor just said, steve, for decades there s been questions about the financial viability of detroit. why now? why is the filing coming now? well, jenna, let me just give you a couple statistics on how bad things are in detroit right now. you know, if you look back 30 years ago, jenna, there were ....
Industry back on its feet. he is hoping that if he just keeps on saying how much he loves cars over and over again, that you won t remember he wrote an article, that was titled, let detroit go bankrupt. jenna: governor romney born in detroit, rejected the accusation that he wanted the auto industry to go belly-up. i said they need these companies, companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy and in that process they can get government help and government guaranties but they need go through bankruptcy to get rid of excess cost and debt burden they built up. jenna: this is not all about the auto bailout. let s fast forward to now. the white house is issuing this statement when it comes to filing of bankruptcy for detroit saying quote, the president and members of the president s senior team closely will monitor the situation in detroit while leaders on the ground in michigan and the city s creditors understand they must find a solution to detroit s serious financial challenge, w ....