A person walks on a boardwalk at the salt flats at Badwater Basin on Aug. 17, 2020, in Death Valley National Park in California. Temperatures reached 130 degrees there on Friday. John Locher/AP hide caption
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A person walks on a boardwalk at the salt flats at Badwater Basin on Aug. 17, 2020, in Death Valley National Park in California. Temperatures reached 130 degrees there on Friday. John Locher/AP hide caption
People jump from a pedestrian bridge at Lake Union Park in Seattle on Sunday as a record-setting heat wave blasts the Pacific Northwest. John Froschauer/AP hide caption