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A heatwave that impacted the US west coast over the past week is now moving east into the midwest and south-east, as millions of Americans have been under a heat alert at some point in the past week.

“Numerous near record-tying/breaking high temperatures are possible over the central High Plains and Southeast Sunday, and along much of the East Coast by Monday,” reported the National Weather Service.

Even this early in the morning, temperatures near this 3,500-foot peak reach triple digits, with this part of the U.S.-Mexico border under an excessive heat warning.

Volunteers with Borderlands Relief Collective, a group of private citizens from the San Diego area, are preparing to drive up the mountain and deliver water and first aid to migrants crossing into the U.S.

Almost as soon as they start climbing up, the group encounters a man sitting on the side of the road. He breaks into tears when he sees the volunteers approaching with water.

He is dehydrated and wearing shoes too small for his feet. In broken English, he says his name is Taleb, and he’s from Mauritania. Before NPR can get a last name, he’s rushed aside to receive care.

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• Hill noted in an email Thursday that 40% of the U.S. population lives in a coastal county.

Driving the news: The late June sale of the $200,000 Nantucket home comes months after a house valued at $2.2 million on the same street sold for $600,000. Another last October had to be demolished due to "extreme erosion" along the Massachusetts island's southwest shoreline, the Nantucket Current reports.

• Only "a couple of waterfront areas" are experiencing extreme erosion on Nantucket, and property values "are going up across the island," said Shelly Lockwood, a Nantucket real estate broker who helped develop a coastal resilience class for local agents on erosion and rising sea levels.

The big picture: Sea-level rise, a tangible effect of climate change, is accelerating across the U.S., per Christopher Hein, a coastal geologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary.

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• What's happening in Nantucket, a popular place to have summer houses among celebrities and billionaires, can be seen across the U.S.
• In the Outer Banks of North Carolina in May, officials had to close a stretch of beach after a sixth house collapsed into the sea due to erosion.
• Other coastal erosion hot spots include parts of California, like Dana Point, south of Los Angeles, and Plum Island, northern Mass.
• A new economic model from Duke University found that tax incentives for high-income property owners, coupled with federal subsidies for storm and flood damage mitigation, have driven coastal property prices higher despite rising climate risks, per a March study.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook southwestern Canada near Vancouver on Thursday.

The epicenter of the quake was around 130 miles from Tofino, a small district on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean off Canada's west coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tofino is around 130 miles west of Vancouver. The quake's depth was around 6.2 miles.

A population of around 2,000 in Tofino would be exposed to light shaking, the Survey said.

The rumbling was first detected just after 8 am local time. Its magnitude was first estimated at 6.5 by the USGS, before it was downgraded to 6.4 minutes later.

A brush fire in Hawaii fanned by high winds raced through more than 500 acres within hours, forcing closure of Maui's Haleakala National Park on Thursday while residents of the picturesque island continue to grapple with fallout from last year's historic blaze − the nation's most deadly wildfire in more than a century.

Fire officials said the current fire was sweeping southeast, driven by 40 mph winds. No homes had burned, but authorities issued an alert at 3 a.m. local time warning area residents to prepare for possible evacuation orders. Dozens of firefighters and tankers were battling the flames, and the county website was providing residents with updates on the fire's spread.

"The safety of our community is our top priority, and we need your cooperation to ensure everyone's well being," the Maui Fire Department said in its alert.

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Las Vegas set a new record on Wednesday as it marked a fifth consecutive day over 115F (46C), amid a lingering hot spell that will continue scorching much of the US into the weekend.

The blazing hot temperatures climbed to 115F shortly after 1pm at Harry Reid international airport, breaking the old mark of four consecutive days above 115F set in July 2005.

The brutal milestone marks yet another record for the Nevada desert city this week: on Sunday, Las Vegas hit an all-time high of 120F (48.8C). Even by desert standards, the prolonged baking the city is experiencing is nearly unprecedented.

Tropical Storm Beryl was picking up strength Sunday evening on its march toward the Texas coast as forecasters warned the storm would regain hurricane status and slam ashore early Monday, potentially as a Category 2.

"Hurricane hunters find Beryl slightly stronger," the National Hurricane Center said in its 7 p.m. CT update, which noted the storm's sustained winds had increased to 70 mph, 4 short of a Category 1 hurricane.

Beryl's impacts − such as strong winds, heavy rain, and rough seas − will begin in coastal Texas well before landfall, the center warned. "Winds are first expected to reach tropical storm strength by late today (Sunday), making outdoor preparations difficult or dangerous," the center said.

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A long-running heatwave that has already broken records, sparked dozens of wildfires and left about 130 million people under a high-temperature threat is about to intensify enough that the National Weather Service has deemed it “potentially historic”.

The NWS on Saturday reported some type of extreme heat or advisory for nearly 133 million people across the nation – mostly in western states where the triple-digit heat, with temperatures 15F to 30F higher than average, is expected to last into next week.

Oppressive heat and humidity could team up to spike temperatures above 100F (about 38C) in parts of the Pacific north-west, the mid-Atlantic and the north-east, said Jacob Asherman, a meteorologist with the NWS.

Records were broken in at least four Oregon cities on Friday, the NWS reported. Medford, which had a high temperature of 102F set in 1926, saw temperatures soar to 109F. The biggest leap, however, was in North Bend, whose record of 74F set in 1913 was busted by a spike of 11 degrees when it hit 85F on Friday.

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