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Temperature in Phoenix shoots toward record-breaking 120

As the temperature shoots toward 120 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona, fire crews are rushing to handle a surge in heat-related emergencies. When it’s over 110, your body can’t cool itself down, setting up the potential for deadly heat stroke. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source

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Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish on comedy, friendship, and a bat mitzvah

Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed and stars in “Here Today,” in which he plays a legendary comedy writer opposite Tiffany Haddish as a young singer – two of the funniest people on the planet here having to deal with a completely un-funny situation. Their on-screen chemistry trades on their very real off-screen bond, as correspondent Tracy Smith learned firsthand. Source

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The Flaming Lips’ “Space Bubble Concert”

The psychedelic rock group Flaming Lips have established themselves as one of music’s most prolific (and delightfully weird) bands. And don’t think a global pandemic might have slowed down their creative output. Correspondent Luke Burbank talked with band members Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd about their latest effort, the Space Bubble Concert, recently held in Oklahoma City, in which the band and audience were sealed into giant bubbles. Source

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NPR turns 50

On May 3, 1971, the National Public Radio news program “All Things Considered” premiered. To mark NPR’s 50th anniversary, correspondent Faith Salie interviews some of the network’s leading voices, including Susan Stamberg, Audie Cornish and Eric Deggans, and talks with other network veterans who blazed a trail in radio programming, and who continue to reinvent news and storytelling, including “This American Life” host Ira Glass. Source

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A new airport art installation takes off

Sarah Sze has created public art for display in New York City before, but never of this magnitude: a 50-foot-tall, five-ton constellation of images of the city she loves, in the newly-revamped Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport. Correspondent David Pogue talks with Sze about her airborne sculpture, titled “Shorter Than the Day,” that serves as a welcome for visitors to the Big Apple. Source

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Brooks Koepka wins the 2017 U.S. Open

CBS Sports’ Bill Reiter, host of “Reiter Than You,” joins CBSN to discuss U.S. Open winner Brooks Koepka, as well as the NBA draft kicking off this week with the Sixers acquiring the overall first pick Source

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Beyoncé’s twins arrive?

The entertainment world is abuzz with rumors about Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins, but the couple has yet to confirm their birth. “Entertainment Tonight” senior news editor Jennifer Perros joins CBSN with more. Source

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