Ten-year-old Lilly Hwang-Geddes, left, of Ithaca, New York, plays in a fountain at the Yards Park on Thursday, July 5, in Washington. A record heat wave has been in the area for more than a week. 
Six-year-old Spencer Hwang-Geddes of Ithaca, New York, cools off at the Yards Park on Thursday. Weather forecast predicted the hot weather will last through Sunday with possible daily triple-digit temperatures. 
A boy enjoys the waterfall in the Yards Park fountain on Thursday. 
Chilren play in the fountain away form Thursday's scorching temperatires at the Yards Park. 
Shannon Mack and Bobby Rush keep cool with their dog, Bubba, in a pool at their apartment in Chicago on Wednesday. 
Keshyra Pitts, 7, plays in the spray of a hydrant in Chicago on Wednesday. 
Lori Bryant holds her 7-month-old nephew Justin Tackett as Marianne Oliver cools him down during the Fourth of July parade in Downers Grove, Illinois. 
Residents find relief from the heat at the McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday, July 3. 
Abbi Buck, of Cookeville, Tennessee, gulps a bottle of water as sweat drips down her face as she visits the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Tuesday. 
Katie Kiang finds shelter from the heat to study for the Graduate Record Examinations inside an air-conditioned mall in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday. Kiang's home is one of the thousands without electricity after storms hit hard. 
Gene Holmes splashes into a quarry lake after jumping from a rope swing on Monday, July 2, at the Beaver Dam Swimming Club in Cockeysville, Maryland. 
Without electricity to operate the pumps at his gas station in Silver Spring, Maryland, Ken Duckson fills a cooler with ice he cannot sell because his cash registers will not work. 
Aziz Taylor, 11, plays in a water fountain Monday in the Capitol Heights neighborhood of Washington. 
Lifeguard Niko Garcia jumps into a pool in Washington on Monday to try and beat the heat wave gripping the nation. 
A boy plays in a water fountain in Washington on Sunday, July 1, amid a record-setting heatwave in the eastern United States. 
Bryan Moran sprays his dog, Rocky, with water in Washington's Columbia Heights on Sunday. Eastern cities were forecast to approach or break record-high temperatures. 
Linda Gordon, right, finds relief from the extreme heat with an ice pack in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, June 30. 
Residents crowd onto the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in the powerful heat on Saturday. 
Beachgoers lie in the sun at Coney Island on Saturday. 
A boy plays in the ocean at Coney Island on Saturday. 
Workers brave the high heat to repair a storm-damaged roof at the Park Tanglewood apartments in Riverdale, Maryland, on Saturday. 
Beads of sweat roll down Francisco Hernandez's face as he works to repave Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, June 29. 
Children play in the water at Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, where temperatures topped 100 degrees on Friday. 
- NEW: Maryland has nine heat-related deaths: all men and all older than age 65 except one
- Triple-digit heat is again expected in the Midwest -- and East Coast
- A cold front should return temperatures to civility by Monday
- But the front will be relief at a price: damaging hail and winds are expected
(CNN) -- A cold front is expected in some U.S. states this weekend, bringing much-needed relief in communities baking in a lingering heat wave for more than a week.
The cold front will move across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Saturday, and into Ohio and the northeast the following day, bringing significantly cooler air, according to the National Weather Service.
But despite the cold front, temperatures could remain high until Sunday, with some grappling with the heat Saturday. The heat wave has left scores dead and hundreds of thousands without power.
Temperatures are projected Saturday to touch or top 100 degrees in a Midwestern swath stretching from south-central Iowa to the Chicago area to Louisville, Kentucky, to West Virginia, the weather service said. Southern Michigan, Inidana, Ohio, and southeast Missouri are also in the hot zone Saturday.
An excessive heat warning is also active Saturday on the eastern seaboard, from Newark, New Jersey, to Elizabeth City, North Carolina -- where triple-digit heat is also expected.
The heat wave is leaving a significant mark: Nationwide, there have been more than 4,500 daily record highs in the last 30 days, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Also, the heat has brought nearly 240 all-time record highs between June 23 and July 5, CNN meteorologist Alexandra Steele said Saturday.
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Forecasters said the cold front will help bring those numbers down some Sunday -- but at a cost. The front is expected to carry damaging storms, with large hail and strong winds, Steele said.
"It's relief at a price," Steele said.
She predicted a long, hot summer for the country.
"Heat begets heat," Steele said.
In Maryland, nine heat-related deaths have been counted since Monday, said the state's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The nine victims were men, and all but one were more than 65 years old, with the exception being between age 45 and 64, the Maryland agency said. Four deaths occurred in Baltimore, two in Baltimore County, and one each in Montgomery and Wicomico Counties, the agency said.
Couple pleads for utility's help Meanwhile, about 350,000 customers across 12 states and the District of Columbia will be suffering in this heat without the benefits of electricity, including power for their air conditioning and for refrigeration to keep their food edible, according to a CNN count from Friday night. Because utilities typically define each residential and business account as a customer, the actual number of people affected was not clear.
Many of these people have gone without power for a full week, thanks to strong storms fueled by the heat that barreled east from Indiana to New Jersey. Others have watched more recent but similar storms leave them in the dark.
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The hardest-hit state continues to be West Virginia, where about 167,000 customers had no power Friday night.
Residents have been stocking up on ice to try and save food from spoiling in their useless refrigerators to the point that stores have sold out on it, CNN affiliate WSAZ reported.
Roger Harrah said he traveled from county to county, some 60 miles, seraching for ice Friday and finally found a store with some.
"I thought I better get some while I can," Harrah said. "I tell you what it is rough living without ice."
The extreme heat has also damaged roads.
Wisconsin received about 30 reports of roads buckling Thursday, according to transportation officials. Earlier this week, a viral video showed an SUV airborne after hitting a patch of buckled Wisconsin highway. Missouri has also warned drivers to be on the look-out for pavement buckling from heat.
And since June 23, scores of cities have been the hottest they've ever been, on any day ever recorded. That includes 107 in Colorado Springs, 109 in Nashville and 106 in Atlanta. In Washington, the thermometer has gone past 95 degrees for nine straight days -- the longest such streak since modern record-keeping began.
The high temperatures have been linked to a number of other deaths nationwide.
That includes five deaths -- of men ages 48, 58 and 59 and two women ages 81 and 91 -- because of "heat stress" in Chicago, city public health spokesman Efrat Stein said Friday. An additional heat-related death was reported in nearby Cook County, according to Stein.
CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report.
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