<p>Excited children run though water as the fountains are turned on at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Temperatures across the Northeast are expected to approach triple digits. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)</p>
June 21, 2012
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June 21, 2012 9:15 p.m.
East coast feels heat, humidity of summer
NEW YORK (AP) - Temperatures climbed toward the high 90s along the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as an unusually early hot spell heralded the official start of summer, with people wilting at graduation ceremonies, students trying to learn in suffocating classrooms and authorities warning folks to check on elderly neighbors.