This is the longest lasting heatwave this area has endured in over a decade. The NY region has broken electricity consumption records and this hot weather is expected to last one more day.

HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS CONTINUE...

NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN QUEENS-

HEAT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

* LOCATIONS...THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY.

* HAZARDS...COMBINATION OF HIGH LEVELS OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY.

* HEAT INDEX VALUES...UP TO 100.

This weather is not just a pain in the neck and every other body part you can identify.

The state of New York is experiencing power grid pains as peak electricity usage could break a record set in back in 2006. Consumers are being asked to conserve, but all they do is crank up their air conditioners on this fifth and final day of an extreme;y brutal heatwave.

CALIFORNIA FIRES
A wildfire east of Los Angeles has grown to 12.5 square miles in less than 24 hours.
Firefighters are dealing with explosive vegetation, nasty conditions and high temperatures
http://www.fire.ca.gov

MANDELA CELEBRATES HIS 95 BIRTHDAY IN THE HOSPITAL
South Africa's most famous political leader has been close to death for weeks with a lung infection.

RELIEF FROM US HEAT WAVE IS DAYS AWAY
A cold front is moving from Canada, but not until the weekend, as residents of the Northeast and Midwest states bake with temperatures in the 90s.

City Island Images decided to take an afternoon ride as temperatures soared towards the 100 degree mark and you believe me, it was hotter than I expected it to be.

We spoke with a cop who told me he had been outdoors for four hours directing traffic. Unfortunately, weather forecasters say that today is going to be an even hotter day.

Some less fortunate New Yorkers were forced into the city’s cooling centers and even emergency rooms. Senior citizens were hit the hardest by this amazing heatwave, flocking to NYC cooling centers to find refuge.

Tech entrepreneur Jack Hidary says he will run as an independent candidate in the crowded race for Mayor of New York City.

45 year old Hidary got rich after creating a website to let people search for work online. Wednesday night, he launched his own bid for a new job: mayor of New York.

Let's see what City Islander and elder statesman, Adolfo Carrion does and how he reacts. He now has to make room for his competition inside the Independence Party.

A Panamanian mystery is turning into a totally bizarre story involving a North Korea-bound ship being seized, then searched and finally detained following a violent struggle on the Panama Canal? This sounds a bit like an old scene from the Cold War era.