The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. July 7, 2010 Heat Wave Breaks Records on U.S. East Coast ------------------------------------------- The news comes as an East Coast heat wave is breaking records here in the United States. On Tuesday, the mercury level reached all-time highs in a number of cities including 103 degrees Fahrenheit in New York, 103 degrees in Newark and 102 degrees in Philadelphia. Temperatures are expected to again top 100 degrees today from Virginia to Maine. .