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00:00An illustration to show the power of America's current heat wave, this time-lapse video produced
00:05by the National Weather Service shows crayons turning to liquid under the Nevada sun.
00:10A symptom of the soaring temperatures Nevada, like many US states, is currently undergoing.
00:16The state's largest city, Las Vegas, has recorded a record high temperature five days running
00:21in the past week, sweltering even for a city well used to it.
00:27I mean, it's just always insufferably hot down here, like we're always scampering from
00:31one air-conditioned building to another, so why I agreed to stand out here and talk to
00:34you is beyond me.
00:35But no, I don't keep records, I don't know if it's getting worse, I know I shot a movie
00:39here 20 years ago, it was 117 that day, you know, like, so yeah, it's just always horrible,
00:45more slightly horrible than before.
00:46Yeah, I bring, I have three bottles of water today, and I've already went through two,
00:52so we won't stay much longer.
00:56In neighbouring California, tourists continue to flock to Death Valley, undeterred by the
01:00death of a motorcyclist from heat exposure there last week.
01:04Many pose for photographs beside the visitor centre's thermometer, which even if it is
01:09a little higher than the real figure, gives an idea of what it's like.
01:12It's hard to portray how hot it is when you speak to people back home, so, I mean, that's
01:20an indicator, isn't it, take a picture, there's the temperature, 51, people, I don't know,
01:25they might have been hot before, but 51 is really hot.
01:29Dozens of locations across the West and South West are posting record temperatures, with
01:34almost half the population of the United States living under extreme heat warnings, an increasingly
01:39common occurrence as global temperatures climb.