Italy and France continue to grapple with extreme heat

Italy and France continue to experience high temperatures.

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00:00Pockets of Europe are sweltering through extreme heat. Weather forecasters say Italy will sizzle

00:08through its hottest weekend of the year, with French authorities warning of a heat wave

00:13sweeping through the country's south. One meteorologist says human-induced climate change

00:19is to blame.

00:34Nurses have been deployed in France's 28 affected regions to check on the vulnerable.

00:49The World Health Organization warns 175,000 Europeans living on the fastest-warming continent

01:08suffer heat-related deaths every year.