East Coast sees slight relief from dangerous heat wave

At its peak, the heat wave put some 132 million people under a heat alert and was blamed for as many as 34 deaths, according to the National Weather Service.

"The huge area of high pressure at most levels of the atmosphere responsible for the dangerous, record-setting heat in multiple states is backing out of the northeastern U.S. and neighboring Canada," AccuWeather.com's senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-weather-heatwave-idUSTRE76O39O20110725