Brace Yourself: No Relief from Triple Digit Temps

If you live in the Northeast, brace yourselves for another extremely hot and steamy day. Temperatures across much of the region will reach into the triple digits for the third day in a row.

"I know that it is, like, hot, really hot. But this is like excruciating hot! I cannot stand the heat!" one Maryland resident said.

From Oklahoma to New York City, it's the same: hot, sticky, and uncomfortable.

"It feels like 110 right now and that's not even moving around!" construction worker Manuel Pereria said. "Once in a while, we take breaks in the shade, we shift with the guys, try to get a break in the shade and then we come back and keep going."

This July scorcher is baking much of the country.

"Yesterday was impossible," said Maryland resident Linda Ringo. "I'm drinking water [and] I'm dehydrating."

A whopping 70 million people are under a heat advisory. The high temperatures are causing power cables to overheat, leaving New York's Staten Island University Hospital dependent on a generator.

"This kind of heat can be dangerous. People have to make smart decisions," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned.

With heat index values expected as high as 100 to 110 degrees, doctors urge people to keep an eye on the very young, the elderly, and those with chronic health problems. And watch for any signs of overheating.

"So things like confusion, sweating, your heart rate becoming faster, breathing faster, anything that is out of the usual," Dr. Bahareh Aslani, with Sinai Hospital, said.

Out West, it's a much different story. A bone-dry California got so much rain this week it washed away a bridge connecting Los Angeles and Phoenix.

In parts of the drought-stricken state, streets turned into rivers, flooding and damaging neighborhoods.

"It was just a huge amount of rain in probably 5 to 10 minutes," one resident said.

Despite the damage, all this rain is welcome in a state still experiencing four years of epic drought.

Meanwhile, relief is on the way for folks in the Northeast as forecasters say the high heat and humidity will give way to cooler temperatures later this week.

For now, the searing heat throughout much of country is sending people indoors, away from the brutal summer sun.