In the United States, more than 50 million people are now living under heat alerts and several western states experience a record-breaking heatwave.
Las Vegas recorded its hottest day on record yesterday, while Valley in California is also braced from unprecedented heat.
And this extreme weather of a different kind of the state of Texas,
some areas there have been evacuated, as Hurricane Beryl brings with it high winds and heavy rain after passing through the Caribbean.
Thomas McGill has this report.
Listering hot temperatures in Death Valley where the record for the hottest place on Earth is expected to be broken during this unprecedented heat wave.
It's already delivered temperatures of more than 130 degrees and that's been drawing thrill seekers to the area.
How many people in the world can say they've been to the hottest place in the world?
I think a weird sense of pride in it.
that you know I can handle I've been in northern Vermont in the time in minus 20 and now I've
been in the hottest place in the world.
Honestly it's definitely shocking I don't know how anything can survive out here.
But experts are warning the extremely hot temperatures, which are currently affecting around 36 million Americans, could lead to heat stress.
One visitor to the area died on Sunday from heat exposure, and this so-called heat dome remains over California.
There's no mistaking how hot it is.
You start to feel it on your skin, in your eyes.
They to dry, start to almost hurt a little bit over time.
So, it is quite the experience, and so that's why we really recommend that visitors
minimize their exposure if they're coming to Death Valley in the summer.
Firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires across parts of California as temperatures soar in Nevada and Death Valley.
Already, the hottest place on Earth.
after 134 degrees was recorded there in 1913.
Scientists say it's hard to link individual weather events to climate change, but say extreme events are becoming more common and more intense.
And CBS News correspondent Omar Villa Franca is in Galveston, Texas, where Hurricane Beryl has made landfall.
Well, right now we're getting winds between 80 and 100 kilometers an hour.
The peak wind we've had here in Galveston about 112,
but farther south where the storm barrel made, hurricane barrel made landfall, we had wind gusts over 140 kilometers an hour.
The wind gets all the headlines in these hurricanes, but the biggest killer is the storm surge and the rain.
We're talking 2 to 3 meters of rain and water from the ocean just coming in and flooding In the last decade,
more than half of the deaths in the US from hurricanes are coming from that storm surge.
That's something that officials here in the state of Texas and locally are warning people about.
People are heating that warning, they're staying inside, but we're getting a lot of wind right now.
power is out for much of the island here in Galveston, which is a big resort community.
People come out here for, compete the heat, but right now they are locked up inside trying to wait for this thing to pass.
That's the latest from Texas on Hurricane Beryl.
Let's get some of the day's other news for you now.
Heavy has caused major disruption in the Indian city of Mumbai with many roads flooded and flights and long distance trains cancelled or delayed.
Commuters have had to wade through knee-deep water in the commercial capital.
Some schools and universities remain closed.
More rain has been forecast.
further demonstrations on Monday, demanding the abolition of quotas for coveted government jobs.
More than half of all government posts are reserved for specified categories of applicants.
Protesters demanding the jobs be filled on merit.
Protests have also been held across the weekend.
The European Union's climate change monitoring service says last month was the hottest June on record.
Some scientists said it puts 2024 on track to be the world's hottest recorded year.
Every month since June 2023, 13 months now in a row has ranked as the planet's hottest since record.
awards began compared with the corresponding month in previous years.
