Parts of Asia Bake in Heat Wave
HOLMES: Want to take you back now to a story we mentioned earlier. That 27-year-old who became - made history by becoming the first Saudi woman to reach the top of the world's highest mountain.</s>BALDWIN: So you are about to hear from her. She is Raha Moharrak. She reached the summit of Mt. Everest back in May.</s>HOLMES: Yes, Becky Anderson talked to her about this remarkable achievement and how she got there.</s>RAHA MOHARRAK, FIRST SAUDI WOMAN TO SUMMIT MT. EVEREST: In my mind I kept thinking, 75, 80 percent people die on the way down. OK. So I was thinking, OK, celebrate, but not too much, because you still need to get down. So I go up there. And when you realize that you can see the curvature of the earth, it just - it hits you even more, like, oh my God, this</s>BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: How cold (ph) is it?</s>MOHARRAK: It is very cold. It was - it was minus 45, 50 wind chill that day. Someone actually said that, what's Barbie doing on the mountain? And then I said, don't let the Disney princess hair fool you. And I just walked away and then saw them on the way down when I summited - hi. You see my rock (ph). You know, it just - my way of telling them, don't, you know, stereotype.</s>BALDWIN: Her Disney princess hair.</s>HOLMES: Feisty isn't she. Yes.</s>BALDWIN: I like her.</s>HOLMES: I like her moxy (ph).</s>BALDWIN: She said she'd never give up. She knew she wouldn't give up, but she did worry about the cold. It's quite chilly.</s>HOLMES: Yes. Yes. Yes, she said she blocked out the thoughts of the cold by focusing on her parents and how they supported her.</s>BALDWIN: Oh.</s>HOLMES: Awe.</s>BALDWIN: Well, that's sweet.</s>HOLMES: It is, isn't it?</s>BALDWIN: Well, not -</s>HOLMES: Not that that would keep you warm, though, it's 50 below.</s>BALDWIN: Well, not so sweet, parts of Asia, people have been battling extreme heat there for weeks and weeks.</s>HOLMES: Yes, talk about the other extreme. In Japan, more than 50 people have died from the heat since late May. Temperatures there in some places hitting 105 degrees. That's a record.</s>BALDWIN: Over in China, a string of record hot days causing water shortages in Shanghai. The heat been putting a strain on the electrical grid in South Korea, prompting the government there to tell people to save power, turn off your air conditioners.</s>HOLMES: Chad Myers joining us now to talk about this. Before we get to the nuts and bolts of the heat wave, South Korea, they had a massive spike, didn't they, in the refrigerator pants.</s>BALDWIN: Refrigerator pants. Yes.</s>HOLMES: This is obvious.</s>BALDWIN: You - Chad's closet is full of them, right?</s>HOLMES: I want to know what they are.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I truly thought this would be something high-tech. I did.</s>BALDWIN: I know. I was thinking like ice involved in cooling.</s>HOLMES: Yes. A little motor. You wouldn't want a little motor, yes.</s>MYERS: A little motor, a little fan blowing through there. Whoo.</s>BALDWIN: Any way.</s>MYERS: I digress. They're just very thin polyester. Can't see through them, but the air does flow through. And they're 3.50 for white and black and about $4, $5 for the very colorful one.</s>HOLMES: Oh, I'm disappointed now.</s>MYERS: I thought you'd soak them in water and they'd evaporate or something like that -</s>HOLMES: Yes.</s>MYERS: But they want to still wear long pants in the summer and that's how they get away with it.</s>BALDWIN: Well, there you go.</s>MYERS: Wear as thin as you can. Look at this, though, for Shimano, Japan. I mean this is the hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere in Japan, any season, any time, 106. And, you know, they've had their power problems, obviously, as well there in Japan. China, 104. Shanghai yesterday was 99. I mean it's just hot everywhere across this area. Something that may help China a little bit is this Utor. Utor is going to bring at least a little bit of cloud cover into the hottest parts of China. It will bring some damage, though, at 110 miles per hour here just south of - there's Hong Kong over here. Here's Hanoi. So coming into the south China area here for the next couple of hours. As it does make kind of landfall, it turns to the left. It will kind of spread out some rainfall as well. Back out here toward the west - into western China, you do see an awful lot of mountains and those mountains could bring a little bit of flooding as well. Not only are we talking about China and Japan and all that, but Europe. Europe has been just sweltering as well. Slovenia picked up 105 degrees on August 4th. Austria, 104. These are places that are fairly high in the elevation too. They shouldn't be getting this high. Shanghai reached 105 in August. That is their hottest day ever on record. And, there you go, there's the hottest day ever in any place, any city, any time, in Japan, Shimanto (ph), 106 on Monday.</s>BALDWIN: If somebody's going to Italy and watching the weather there</s>HOLMES: Yes, it has been. Yes. Yes, it's hot there as well. You know it's funny, though, and you know this, Chad, you know, it was 108, I think, yesterday in Baghdad, but it's about what you're used to, isn't it, you know?</s>MYERS: It is.</s>HOLMES: In Japan you just - they're just not used to that.</s>BALDWIN: Not normal, no.</s>MYERS: And when you pack that many people into such a small place and then you turn off the air-conditioning, you fry a few nerves.</s>HOLMES: Yes. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Good to see you, my friend.</s>MYERS: Good to see you guys.</s>BALDWIN: Refrigerator pants. That's my takeaway.</s>HOLMES: Refrigerator pants. Pick some up, will you?</s>BALDWIN: Yes, OK. OK, coming up, we've all had a neighbor that does something we don't quite like, right?</s>HOLMES: Yes. Check out what this guy did. He turned his penthouse into a mountain top getaway. The people below not too impressed. We'll talk about it when we come back.</s>BALDWIN: Bring some boulders on over.</s>HOLMES: Yes, why not.