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Excessive warmth, flooding threatens hundreds of thousands throughout U.S. - CBS Information Watch CBS News More than 100 million Americans were under heat alerts Wednesday night -- with more than a dozen states reporting "feels like" temperatures in the triple-digits. While parts of the West cope with heat, swaths of the Northeast are disaster zones …

Excessive warmth, flooding threatens hundreds of thousands throughout U.S. – CBS Information

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More than 100 million Americans were under heat alerts Wednesday night — with more than a dozen states reporting “feels like” temperatures in the triple-digits. While parts of the West cope with heat, swaths of the Northeast are disaster zones after heavy rain and catastrophic flooding. CBS News’ Omar Villafranca and Meg Oliver report.