Ice-cream vendor Jose Villa, 65, from Sinaloa, Mexico, cools off on the edge of Echo Park lake in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 8, 2017. An excessive heat wave in Southern California set records in several cities, breaking a mark set for the date in Los Angeles 131 years ago, the National Weather Service said. Around noon, the downtown temp spiked at 96 degrees, topping the 1886 record by a degree. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)
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