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Central Valley Heat

NPR's Richard Gonzales visits the farm town of Selma, in California's Central Valley, where a heat wave is taking a heavy toll on grapes and plums...and the farmers and workers who pick them. The hot weather has made the grapes mature too quickly, and everyone's scrambling to save the crop.

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