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Independent UK -   A summer heat wave has 245 million Americans facing 90-degree temperatures - with 30 million looking at triple-digits - as the system moves east. Heat records dating back 250 years are set to fall across the nation thanks to the prolonged wave that experts advise can have deadly impacts. "Be careful with doing new activities that can get you dehydrated quickly, so acclimate to the heat and don’t go out during the warmest parts of the day," Mayo Clinic Dr. Jesse Bracamonte said. "Try to find the coolest parts of the day to keep yourself healthy and away from heat-related illness."

AccuWeather forecasters say the heat wave will impact much of the eastern US between Sunday and Wednesday. More than 245 million people will experience 90-degree temperatures during the stretch. For many, high humidity will add to the miserable feeling making it feel hotter than the thermostat says.

 

Newsweek -   Officials in Texas continue to urge nearly 163,000 residents to boil their drinking water several days after Hurricane Beryl exited the state. Beryl made landfall in Texas on Monday as a Category 1 storm near the coastal town of Matagorda, before whipping northeast to directly batter the city of Houston, where over 2.5 million in the area quickly lost their power. . . Water systems can be damaged by hurricanes and other powerful storms due to power outages, service line breaks or flooding, potentially allowing what would otherwise be safe drinking water to become contaminated by dangerous pathogens.

AP News -  Hundreds of thousands of people in the Houston area likely won’t have power restored until next week, as the city swelters in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. The storm slammed into Texas on Monday, knocking out power to nearly 2.7 million homes and businesses and leaving huge swaths of the region in the dark and without air conditioning in the searing summer heat. Although repairs have restored power to nearly 1.4 million customers, the scale of the damage and slow pace of recovery has put CenterPoint Energy, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm and is doing enough now to make things right.