 A federal law guaranteeing payouts to victims and communities will eventually pay for a long-term new water treatment plant, but Romero says that money has not arrived yet. Kirk Sigler, NPR News. More than 130 million people are under some kind of heat alert today. There are cautions from eastern Colorado up to New England. The warmest temperatures will be in Nebraska and Oklahoma, as well as in mid-Atlantic states from New Jersey down to South Carolina.