Children play in the ocean at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York

 
Children play in the ocean at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York
Children play in the ocean at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York June 30, 2012. Nearly 4 million homes and businesses were without power on Saturday amid a record heat wave in the eastern United States after deadly thunderstorms downed power lines from Indiana to New Jersey. REUTERS/Eric Thayer