What Americans are doing to beat the heat wave this summer

From California to Vermont, Americans across the country are trying to learn how to beat this year's heat wave.
More than 50 million people in the Northeast are at risk of severe storms Monday as a strong cold front brings a crashing halt to the extreme heat wave that set records across the region. Boston broke a daily record high temperature Sunday of 99 degrees as an "extremely oppressive" heat wave intensified in the Northeast, forecasters said, leading to at least two heat-related deaths over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the persistent, sizzling heat in the south-central U.S. will last a few more days, and a heat wave will build across the northwestern U.S., the National Weather Service said. Daily record highs are expected to be broken Tuesday from Northern California to the metro areas of Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Daytime highs will surpass the 90s each day and even eclipse the century mark in the Columbia River Gorge and Columbia River Basin, the Weather Service said.