Some are supposed to be hot, but 120 degrees hot?

That was the high temperature recently in Palm Springs, California.

Roman Ruiz coordinates the city's homelessness response.

Many of the individuals are finding refuge under freeway overpasses, or there is like

a wash area that kind of goes through the city and that the area that's kind of most

covered with many of the bushes and the shaded trees and things like that.

The wash area he mentioned is like a dry creek bed.

He says that during the day, the city has spaced for people to cool off in their cooling

centers, but those close at night.

Dr. Gemma Kim runs a mobile health clinic in Palm Springs and has been treating unhoused

patients.

We're seeing like heat stroke, heat exhaustion, cramping because of the heat.

It's really all due to dehydration.

Meanwhile on the other side of the country, in Florida, an ocean heat wave off the state's

coast has broken records for water temperatures.

Usually in the summer, it can feel like climbing into a bathtub here, but right now it's more

like a hot tub.

Water temperatures typically average about 88 degrees in the summer.

Now there are about five degrees higher.

Water just offshore in Florida Bay near the upper keys hit 98 degrees last week, so that

is literally hot tub hot.

That's reporter Jenny Steletovich from Member Station WLRN in Miami.

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