Nouran Salahieh

CNN — An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days.

An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days.

(CNN) — An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days.

By Nouran Salahieh and Gene Norman, CNN (CNN) — An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days.

CNN — The weekend is off to a sizzling start as more than one-third of US residents face heat advisories and additional cities are expected to see record temperatures in the coming days.

Las Vegas is sizzling under a prolonged heat wave that has delivered a record-breaking seven consecutive days of temperatures 115 degrees or higher amid a historically hot summer in the United States. CNN's meteorologist Elisa Raffa reports.

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Winder, Georgia CNN — The warning had come that morning by phone to Apalachee High School: There would be shootings Wednesday at five schools.

Lyela Sayarath was in her second period Algebra 1 class in Winder, Georgia, Wednesday morning when the quiet boy sitting next to her got up and left the class, the door closing and automatically locking behind him. The boy was known to skip class, and she thought nothing of it. Until he came back.