brent: earlier i spoke to freelance journalist chris bockman in southern france, not far from where the heat record was broken today, and i asked him how it felt to experience record he. chris: horrible is probably the quick response. if i got in my car right now, which i would not want to do, 45 degrees today. it is a red alert. the french weather service for the first time put a red alert for heat in france ever. we're going to suffer here because it is 40 degrees tomorrow here. right now it is 9:00 and it must be around 30 degrees right now. not a good place to be. tuesday and wednesday i escaped to a river, that was the place to be. sails started here in france on wednesday and a lot of people did shopping for bargains but mainly for air-conditioning. brent: speaking of air-conditioning, other places you can go to escape the heat? southern france is not known for being a neck of air-conditioning. no, and to be honest i don't have any either. more and more so transport systems are taking into account that they have to have air-conditioning will last year was the second of their hotte