 In a New York Times op-ed, Clooney said he recently hosted a fundraiser for Biden and noted he was not the Joe Biden of 2010 or even the Joe Biden of 2020. A record-breaking heat wave is scorching the West. Over 70 million people are under heat alerts, with about a dozen California cities breaking all-time temperature records. There have been at least four heat-related deaths in Oregon since July 5th.