A shocking video from Texas shows a baby rescued from being locked in a hot car, as the heat dome that plagued the southwest last week could expand to put 300 million Americans at risk.
The video was taken Wednesday by a social media user watching on from her car in a parking lot in Arlington.
The footage began with a man using what appears to be a crowbar to smash in the front window of a vehicle parked in the 100-degree heat. The man was apparently the child’s father, who locked the car keys inside along with the baby by mistake.
A second man came by to hammer at the window some more before finally breaking a hole big enough for people to lift the baby from the hot car and to safety.
A shocking video from Texas shows a baby rescued from being locked in a hot car
An unseen woman climbed through the broken glass and gave the baby to one of the men outside the car, according to the video filmer.
The heat index for Wednesday in Arlington was over 100 degrees, as many more Americans are set to face similar heat this coming week.
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome has also helped generate heavy rains in the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks, according to the National Weather Service.
Warnings are going into effect for about 300 million Americans as the heat wave hits the Northern plains and the Midwest in the coming days, according to the Weather Channel.
The National Weather Service has excessive heat warnings and heat advisories in place for much of the western and southern United States.
It appears only parts of Washington and Oregon in the lower 48 states will be sparred from above average temps.
The National Weather Service has excessive heat warnings and heat advisories in place for much of the western and southern United States
Warnings are going into effect for about 300 million Americans as the heat wave hits the northern plains and the Midwest in the coming days
With much of the heat contained to the southwest, parts of the Midwest further north are due for temperatures in the high 90s to near 100.
Places such as Minnesota, Kansas and North Dakota could see scorching heat, with the northeast potentially up next later in the week.
The heat will still stick around stubbornly in the southwest, as Phoenix hit its record 24th consecutive day of over 110 degree temperatures with no end in sight.
‘The heat is taking a major toll,’ said Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room doctor at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, according to CNN. ‘The hospital has not been this busy with overflow since a few peaks in the COVID pandemic.’
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has said that 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 the areas where it issues heat alerts.
Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population fell under extreme heat advisories last week, partly due to a stubborn heat dome that has been parked over western states
While baking parts of the country, the heat dome has also helped generate heavy rains in the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days if not weeks
The heat warnings spread from the Pacific Northwest, through California, then across the South
Heat waves are not as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, but experts say they are more deadly. A heat wave in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people last month.
Records are being shattered all over the US South, from California to Florida. But it’s far more than that. It’s worldwide, with devastating heat hitting Europe along with dramatic floods in the US Northeast, India, Japan and China.
For nearly all of July, the world has been in uncharted hot 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 is a decent chance that 2023 will go down as the hottest year on record, with measurements going back to the middle of the 19th century.
