France on red alert

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There’s another heat wave hitting Europe again for the second time in the past two months. France has put out a red alert, the highest heat warning in the country, which means that temperatures Thursday will be deadly. François Gourand with the national meteorological service, Météo-France, in Paris, explains. 

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