(11 Jul 2023)
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Houston - 11 July 2023
1. Various of kids playing with water in Splash Park
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tumpe Malbranche, Houston resident:
"I am new to Texas so this is super new to me. I'm from Michigan, so it is not this hot ever. Never sure if I'm sweating or if I'm just hot."
3. Various of Victor Eme drinking water at Arthur Storey Park, Houston
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Victor Eme, Houston resident:
"You know, it's just in the weather, especially in the summertime. You can't it's highly unpredictable, especially with the global warming and all that stuff. It gets it's like it's hotter and hotter every summertime."
5. Eme walking away in park
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Pompano Beach, Florida – 11 July 2023
6. Various people on beach and swimming
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tasha Foy, tourist from Virginia:
“It is oppressive. It is. It’s been very hot this week. We were not prepared. Happy that our Airbnb has a pool."
8. Various people playing volleyball
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Saccocio, local resident:
“I feel hotter this year compared to any of the other years. I don’t remember being this hot when I was a kid.”
10. Wide shot of mostly empty sunny beach
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Stanford, California - 11 July 2023
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University climate scientist:
"What's unusual is just how hot the temperatures are reaching in so many places simultaneously. And we have very clear evidence that global warming is the primary driver of that increase in the frequency of severe heat, the increase in the co-occurrence of severe heat"
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Phoenix - 11 July 2023
12. Various of Salvation Army workers setting up "heat relief" station to distribute free cold water
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Stanford, California - 11 July 2023
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University climate scientist:
"In the past week or two, if we look at the global temperature around the world, we very likely had the hottest days in recorded history."
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Phoenix - 11 July 2023
14. Worker hands water to man pushing shopping cart
15. Heat relief tent
16. Man with shopping cart walks away
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Stanford, California - 11 July 2023
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University climate scientist:
"So we know that severe heat has very acute impacts. It impacts human health and mortality and it impacts mental health, including the risk of self-harm."
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Phoenix - 11 July 2023
18. Workers setting up bags of supplies
19. Worker hands supplies to man
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Stanford, California - 11 July 2023
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University climate scientist:
"The challenge is that, you know, it gets hot in the summer, that's that's normal. But we're now in a climate where we're more likely to to experience more severe heat more often in in more parts of the country."
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Phoenix - 11 July 2023
20. Man walks away pushing shopping cart
STORYLINE:
Americans searched for ways to stay cool Tuesday as extreme heat gripped the U.S. from Florida to Arizona.
Houston experienced scorching temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Some families sought refuge from the heat by cooling off at a water splash area.
"It's highly unpredictable, especially with the global warming and all that stuff. It gets hotter and hotter every summertime," said Houston Victor Eme, who was exercising in a park.
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AP video by Lekan Oyekanmi, Daniel Kozin, Matt York
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