When you open up your weather app and see a forecast for 85, 90, even 99 degrees, you

brace yourself for a hot day outside.

But for some in Arizona, living through a record breaking heat wave without air conditioning,

that's the temperature inside their homes.

Next after lunchtime in temperatures reaching 85 degrees in Saipollet Hamilton's apartment

unit, she says it went out Thursday evening.

Five days is a long time to go without no air.

When it's over 100 degrees, we're getting the temperature of the wall.

It's around 98 to 99 degrees.

This is what Hope McNally has been living in for the past two months.

Now she is hoping that she gets some cool air.

It's miserable.

It is miserable in here.

Earlier this week, Phoenix hit 19 straight days of temperatures clocking in at 110 degrees

or more.

A new record with a little relief in Saipollet and it's not just Phoenix.

Austin, Texas had 10 straight days with a high temperature of 105 degrees, also unprecedented.

Most of millions of Americans are living in places with dangerous levels of heat.

Places where air conditioning can be the difference between life and death.

And that means we're all desperately relying on the electric grid.

I didn't worry about it that much until really the past few years, we've seen some really

major examples of the grid going down for multiple reasons.

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