 and deadly hot. In California's Death Valley, where the mercury hit an unbelievable 128 degrees, one person is dead after being overcome by the heat while riding with a group of motorcyclists. Another person in that group hospitalized in Las Vegas. Not that it's cooler there. Parts of Oregon and California were broiling in record heat. Redding, California, at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley in Northern California, hit a record 119 today. In Phoenix, it never got below 92 degrees last night.