Oregon's suspected heat-related death toll rises to 7
CBSN
At least seven people in Oregon are suspected to have died this week from heat-related issues amid a multiday-stretch of high temperatures which have scorched the region, authorities announced Saturday.
Oregon State Police reported that the seven deaths, preliminarily suspected to be from hyperthermia, occurred between July 25 and July 29. Four of the deaths occurred in the Portland metropolitan area, two in Marion County – which is located just south of Portland – and one in Eastern Oregon's Umatilla County.
Autopsies will be conducted to determine the exact causes of death, state police said. Heat-related deaths are tracked by the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office.
Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.