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NASHVILLE,Tenn.-Two more deaths in the Memphis area have been linked to high temperatures, bringing the heat wave death toll there to five, officials said Tuesday.The temperature in Memphis rose to at least 100 degrees again Tuesday,the fifth consecutive day of triple-digit highs,as hot air blanketed the south-central portion of the nation. Monday's top reading in the city was 105."This is unusual. Last summer we had two (heat-related deaths) all summer. This is five deaths over a six-day period," Shelby County Medical Examiner Karen E. Chancellor said.The latest two deaths were a 75-year-old man found in a home with no air conditioning and a 77-year-old woman found in her back yard where she apparently had been gardening, Chancellor said. Both were found Monday.The National Weather Service predicts Memphis temperatures will rise beyond the century mark through Friday.Temperatures were in the 90s at midday Tuesday from the western Plains to the East Coast,with scattering readings of 100. On Monday,thermometers registered above 100 in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Nebraska and Kansas, the weather service said.South Carolina and Missouri have each reported one heat-related death, and Illinois blamed three deaths on the heat since Thursday. Kentucky officials said the heat may have been to blame for one death, but that had not yet been confirmed.As in the days of Noah...
