 to French democracy, plurality and equal rights. There'll be a lot of tactical voting today by those hoping to prevent it winning a majority and forming France's next government. Much of the U.S. is in the grips of a punishing heat wave. National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Chouinard reports. Today there'll be pretty widespread temperatures over 100 degrees over a lot of the western, the west coast, so a lot of California, portions of Nevada.