uncertainty building on whether house speaker nancy pelosi will visit taiwan during her visit to asia. we ll have a live report from beijing. plus political chaos in iraq as protests in baghdad force sessions of parliament to be suspended. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky. an area that has already severed through days of heart break and anguish after massive flash floods is waking up this morning to more dreaded news, more heavy rain is on the way. a flood watch is now in effect and that s raising concerns about the ongoing search and rescue operations. at least 25 people have been killed, and that number includes four children, all from the same family. their aunt telling us they were siblings between 2 and 8 years old. neighbors say the parents tried to hold on to them, but the young children were swept away. there was a house there, and this trailer with this family of six, and it just washed them
good evening. there s yet more disruption on britain s railways this weekend as train drivers who are members of the aslef union walk out, in a row over pay. drivers from seven rail companies are involved in the strike. it s the second this week affecting passengers, with more strikes scheduled for dates in august. our correspondent, judith moritz, reports on the scale of the disruption. folkestone station this morning was a gateway to nowhere. no southeastern trains running and passengers who didn t know about today s strike caught by surprise. so we were planning to go to brighton and now we ll have to find an alternative. probably we ll have to take the bus or something. not right, because i don t go to london very often and i ve got a lunch date with my daughter and a friend. but not all stations are closed. though around 5,000 train drivers at seven companies have walked out over pay on a busy sporting weekend, not all lines are affected. at leeds station, northern rail
game there will be a nice moment for reflection. the race between rishi sunak and liz truss to become prime minister continues as former leadership rival tom tugendhat backs the foreign secretary. and pope francis has said he may need to consider stepping down and would do so if his health meant that he could not serve in the way he should. and at the commonwealth games, england sjohnboy smith wins the wheelchair marathon. we ll have all the latest live from birmingham. a 22 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a nine year old girl in boston. it comes after lincolnshire police released cctv images of a man they wanted to question over the killing of lilia valuteeta who was fatally stabbed in the town centre on thursday. two people previously arrested, have been released. our reporter, phillip norton, reports from boston. a kind, caring, adorable little girl, nine year old lilia valutyte, a schoolgirl said to be just playing on the s
as they wait for vaccines and testing. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state of kentucky, as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including six children. and the death toll is expected to rise. flash floods wiped out entire neighborhoods, scores of people are missing. kentucky governor andy bashir says it s hard to get a fix on the number of cell services out. bridges were demolished, and some homes were completely carried away. for many who have been affected, the damage is devastating. i don t know what we re going to do. we don t have no place to live now or anything. the water got to about there. we had about this much more room before we got flooded, and i ve never seen it that high. we came out of the house, and it was so swift that even a jet ski was hard for him to handle. and he took us out one at a time. federal disaster declaration will free u
already-devastating flooding. and, is taiwan on the itinerary? it s still a mystery as house speaker pelosi leaves for asia. putin makes his move. the kremlin s counter offer to bring brittney griner and paul whelan back home. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin with the humanitarian tragedy in the u.s. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state of kentucky, as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including six children. and that death toll is expected to rise. the raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods. scores of people are still missing. the kentucky governor andy beshear say it s hard to get a fix on the exact number since cell service is out this many areas, and he added that the state has never seen anything like this. here he is. there are still so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get into some ho