The death toll is rising as a persistent heat wave has kept temperatures dangerously high. The latest:
, cooling winds disappeared, Scarlett Hagins, spokesperson for the Kansas Livestock Association, told Reuters.Kansas had 6.5 million head of cattle last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and is one of the biggest beef producers in the United States., excessive heat warnings or excessive heat watches Thursday.homes and businesses remained without electricity Thursday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us., many for a third day.
More than 200,000 outages were reported at one point on Wednesday as high temperatures and humidity combined sent the heat index - or feels like temperature - soaring into thestarted Monday when severe weather moved through and were exacerbated by the heat as the week went on, officials with AEP Ohio, the state's second-largest power company, said.Some lines were damaged by the storms, while others were intentionally shutdown to help reduce strain on the grid, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Rangers had encountered the driver of the vehicle before, and launched a search for him as temperatures reached a record high of 123 degrees. The weather hampered their efforts. On Tuesday, the man's body was found by park visitors. He was identified as David Kelleher, 67, of Huntington Beach, California.
The U.S. isn't the only place experiencing suffocating heat this week. Much of Europe is also in the grips of a heat wave, with
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