Summer heat sets records worldwide
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
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USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise looks at the slew of summer heat records being set worldwide.
Former President Donald Trump says he's been informed that he's the target of a federal Jan. 6 investigation.
Trump's fake electors have been charged by Michigan's attorney general in an alleged 2020 election scheme.
USA TODAY World Affairs Correspondent Kim Hjelmgaard has the latest on continued tensions in Israel over judicial reforms.
An American soldier has been detained in North Korea.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Wednesday, |
| 0:07.7 | the 19th of July, 2023. |
| 0:11.5 | Today, a closer look at severe summer heat. |
| 0:24.3 | Plus Trump could be indicted soon on charges related to efforts to overturn his 2020 election |
| 0:29.9 | loss, and an American soldier has been detained in North Korea. |
| 0:41.1 | It's not your imagination. |
| 0:43.1 | This is not a typical summer. |
| 0:45.9 | Heat records are being set around the world. |
| 0:48.1 | And as USA Today National Correspondent, Elizabeth Weas told me, this may be the new normal |
| 0:54.1 | in the years to come. |
| 0:55.4 | Thanks for hopping on, Beth. |
| 0:57.1 | Happy as always to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | So this summer heat has been particularly brutal in much of the northern hemisphere. |
| 1:04.5 | What kinds of records have been broken this year so far? |
| 1:07.1 | Oh, it is so hot. |
| 1:08.7 | It's just so hot. |
| 1:10.7 | June was the hottest June in all of Noah's climate records, which go back to the 20th |
| 1:17.2 | century. |
| 1:18.2 | They go back 174 years, and it's the hottest June we've ever seen. |
| 1:22.2 | And that probably means it's the hottest June. |
| 1:23.9 | It's been in a long time because only as bad as far as we've had records globally. |
| 1:28.6 | It's 1.9 degrees above average, and that doesn't sound like a lot. |
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