Live updates: Heat wave to scorch East Coast with record temperatures

As a punishing heat dome continues to intensify over the northeastern United States, scores of record high temperatures are set to be broken Wednesday from Michigan to Maine, including in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, N.Y., and Caribou, near Maine’s northern tip. This long-lasting heat wave is just starting to peak and will continue to scorch the Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic into the weekend. Tens of millions of people are under heat alerts.