The hot weather many Americans are experiencing is actually happening across four continents.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson and Peter O’Dowd talk with The Weather Channel meteorologist Mark Elliot (@twcMarkElliot) about the extreme heat, as well as torrential rains along the Eastern Seaboard on Monday.
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