Daniel talks with the assistant city editor of the Chicago Tribune, Bill Rectenwald, about the heat wave in Chicago and the recent deaths there. Rectenwald says the temperatures are in the triple digits and police are mobilizing to insure the sick and elderly survive and to avoid the large number of deaths that occured earlier this month. Rectenwald says though such intense heat is not unusual in other states, Chicagoans are unaccustomed to such extreme temperatures.
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