 If the Lord Almighty came out and said, Joe, get out of the race, I'd get out of the race. The Lord Almighty's not coming down. People are flocking to pools and cooling centers around much of the nation, from the Pacific Northwest to Arizona, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic are suffering as well, Mark Chouinard is at the National Weather Service. While it might not be a persistent heat wave at any one location, it does seem like the type of pattern where we'll have some part of the country experiencing excessive heat through a good chunk of July.