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This summer, it's hot. We don't need to tell you. America's been suffering a catastrophic

heat wave for more than a month. No part of the country has been immune. That means people

are scrambling to cope. Recently, the president even issued the country's first-ever heat wave

hazard alert for workers. But there's one obvious no-brainer option for staying cool,

and across the country, it's failing.

There should be no excuses to have any pools in Baltimore closed.

Warm summer days ahead, many city residents want to cool off, and one of the city pools

across Jackson, though. The pools opened earlier this month, but when we check them today,

our crews found pools shuddered and even won with green water.

It is a pool that has needed renovations since 20-30 years ago. However, due to heavy rains.

More than half of Boston City pools closed this summer. Same thing happened in Jacksonville.

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