When we talk about the impacts of climate change, extreme heat may be silent, but it can be incredibly deadly.

In fact, according to data tracked by the National Weather Service,

heat kills more than twice as many people each year on average in the U.S.

as hurricanes and tornadoes combined.

Now it is standard in Phoenix for every truck, every ambulance to carry body bags and

body bags and bags full of ice in order to cool people down as fast as possible.

That used to just happen at the house.

In the Phoenix area, there have been 27 confirmed heat-related deaths this year,

but it's suspected to be the cause of nearly 400 more.

The wrong kind of record, the hottest day on earth,

ever.

It breaks the previous record held for a whopping one day.

And so as heat records continue to fall around the world, access to air conditioning is more important than ever.

But what happens when the power grid it's connected to is unreliable or non-existent.

My guest today is CNN Senior National Correspondent Ed Lavendera.

We're going to talk about why electricity headaches just seem bigger in Texas and go inside

the mission to light up Navajo Nation. From CNN, this is one thing.

I'm David Rhine.

So Ed, you're based in Texas, and it seems like on a pretty regular basis, we hear about huge

electricity issues in the state after a major weather event, and I guess I've been wondering

like why that is.

Yeah, there's definitely a feeling here in Texas about

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