 News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Jason Walker. Long, hot summer, and it's not getting any cooler anytime soon. Forecasters say the long-running heat wave that has already cooked much of the nation will persist into this week. National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Jackson. We have a heat dome that is centered over California today, and it will just persist for most of this week. We're expecting it to merely drift east over the Great Basin.