(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Another heat wave blankets Washington, DC on Saturday (July 7) as temperatures hit triple digits and exceeded 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) for the 10th straight day.<br/> <br />The National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings for the nation's capital city, where temperatures reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) just after 4 p.m. in the afternoon.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: BOB TRIMBLE, TOURIST FROM PITTSBURGH, SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"Today we thought it was going to be a 105 (Fahrenheit) here and we think it is. So we're managing, it's a good day. At least the wind is blowing."<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: ELLEN PINOT, WASHINGTON D.C. RESIDENT SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"It's absolutely terrible. I mean it's just incredibly hot and I just worry about people who are without air conditioning, people who are out on the street."<br/> <br />It is only the fifth time on record that the high temperature in the Washington D.C. reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.<br/> <br />Across the country, more than two dozen people have died, including a four-month old girl from Indiana who police say was left in a car outside her home for an extended period of time when temperatures were above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius).<br/> <br />A cold front from Canada was expected to move south and break the record-setting heat and lower temperatures to below average levels over much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states by Monday.<br/> <br />Severe weather, including thunderstorms and damaging winds, was likely to accompany the cooler temperatures, forecasters said.
