Shocking video from Texas shows a baby rescued from being locked in a hot car, as the dome of heat that ripped through the Southwest last week could expand and put 300 million Americans at risk.
The video was taken Wednesday by a social media user watching from his car in a parking lot in Arlington.
The video began with a man using what appears to be a crowbar to break the front window of a parked vehicle in 100 degree heat. The man was apparently the boy’s father, who mistakenly locked the car keys inside along with the baby.
A second man came over to bang on the window some more before finally punching a hole big enough for people to get the baby out of the hot car to safety.
Shocking video from Texas shows baby rescued from being locked in a hot car
An invisible woman climbed through the broken glass and gave the baby to one of the men outside the car, according to the video’s filmmaker.
The heat index for Wednesday in Arlington topped 100 degrees as many more Americans will face similar heat next week.
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome also helped bring heavy rain to the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks, according to the National Weather Service.
The warnings will go into effect for about 300 million Americans as a heat wave hits the Northern Plains and Midwest in the coming days, according to the weather channel.
The National Weather Service has excessive heat warnings and heat advisories for much of the western and southern United States.
It looks like only parts of Washington and Oregon in the lower 48 states will be spared from above-average temperatures.
The National Weather Service has excessive heat warnings and heat advisories for much of the western and southern United States.
The advisories will go into effect for about 300 million Americans as the heat wave hits the Northern Plains and Midwest in the coming days.
With much of the heat contained in the Southwest, parts of the Midwest further north are expected to reach temperatures in the 90s and 100s.
Places like Minnesota, Kansas, and North Dakota could all experience scorching heat, with the Northeast could be next later in the week.
The heat will still stubbornly hold its own in the Southwest as Phoenix hit its record 24 consecutive days of 110+ degree temperatures with no end in sight.
“The heat is taking a significant toll,” said Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room physician at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, according to CNN. “The hospital hasn’t been this busy with overflow since some spikes in the COVID pandemic.”
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has said much of the country can expect above-average temperatures through at least the end of July.
The National Weather Service recommends limiting outdoor activities in areas where it issues heat alerts.
Nearly a quarter of the US population fell under extreme heat advisories last week, in part due to a stubborn dome of heat that has settled over western states.
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome also helped bring heavy rain to the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks.
Heat warnings stretched from the Pacific Northwest, through California, then across the South
Heat waves aren’t as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, but experts say they are deadlier. A heat wave in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people last month.
Records are being broken across the southern US, from California to Florida. But it is much more than that. It’s global, with devastating heat hitting Europe along with dramatic flooding in the Northeast US, India, Japan and China.
For most of July, the world has been in uncharted warm territory, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
June was also the hottest June on record, according to several weather agencies. Scientists say there’s a decent chance that 2023 will become the warmest year on record, with measurements going back to the mid-19th century.
