A shocking video from Texas shows a baby rescued from being locked in a hot car as the heat dome that ravaged the Southwest last week could widen and put 300 million Americans at risk.
The video was captured last Wednesday by a social media user watching from her car in an Arlington parking lot.
It begins with a man seemingly using a crowbar to smash through a vehicle’s windshield.
The man appears to be the child’s father, who accidentally locked the car keys inside with the baby.
A second man comes over to bang on the window one more time before eventually prying a large enough hole.
A shocking video from Texas shows a baby rescued from being locked in a hot car
It soon becomes clear that a baby is trapped in the car while the group of people work together to save the child.
According to the woman who filmed the video, an unseen woman climbed through the broken glass and gave the baby to one of the men outside the car.
The heat index last Wednesday was over 100 degrees in Arlington as many more Americans will face similar heat in the coming week.
While parts of the country are overheating, the heat dome has also helped bring torrential downpours in the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks, according to the National Weather Service.
The extreme weather across the country has resulted in over 2,600 canceled flights and nearly 8,000 delays, according to air traffic tracking website FlightAware.
Most of these occurred in the Northeast Corridor, which experienced severe thunderstorms over the weekend.
According to the Weather Channel, warnings will go into effect for about 300 million Americans as the heatwave hits the northern plains and Midwest in the coming days.
The National Weather Service has rolled out warnings and excessive heat warnings for large parts of the western and southern United States.
The National Weather Service has rolled out warnings and excessive heat warnings for large parts of the western and southern United States
Warnings go into effect for about 300 million Americans as the heatwave hits the northern plains and Midwest in the coming days
With much of the heat confined to the Southwest, parts of the Midwest further north are expected to experience temperatures in the high 90s to near 100C.
Places like Minnesota, Kansas and North Dakota could see scorching heat, with the Northeast possibly next later in the week.
The heat will continue stubbornly in the Southwest as Phoenix hit its 24th straight day of temperatures topping 110 degrees with no end in sight.
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 warnings.
Almost a quarter of the US population was hit by extreme heat warnings last week, in part due to a persistent heat dome parked over western states
While parts of the country are overheating, the heat dome has also helped bring torrential downpours in the Northeast, a pattern expected to continue for days, if not weeks
The heat warnings spread from the Pacific Northwest through California and the Southwest to the Deep South and Florida
Heat waves are not as visually dramatic as other natural disasters, but experts say they are more deadly. A heatwave in parts of the South and Midwest killed more than a dozen people last month.
Records are being broken all over the southern United States, from California to Florida. But it’s far more than that. It’s spreading worldwide, with devastating heat sweeping Europe and dramatic flooding in the northeastern US, India, Japan and China.
The world was in uncharted hot territory for most of July, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
June was also the hottest June on record, according to multiple weather agencies. Scientists believe there is a good chance that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, with measurements going back to the mid-19th century.