we should have been for you in a few minutes. this is the kind of thing that a president, any president, would usually be monitoring while it s in progress from the oval office, from the white house situation room. that was impossible as we learn more about this raid because the president is quarantining. he got covid. this is something that was in progress while he has been isolating. we know that about 30 minutes, because of the covid, he s going to be speaking from the blue room balcony. it s not something we usually see from this president. mrs. oh leader who about a year ago argued limits to what was widely considered at the time a hasty withdrawal from afghanistan. it was never going to be pretty but that the u.s. was going to figure out how to go and kill terrorists without an afghanistan base. this drone strike, if confirmed, as we can for more details, it appears to prove the president correct in that regard but remember. this is a leader, when he was vp, and all som
we remember two legends. i contributed a great deal to the game. basketball superstar and civil rights champion bill russell. captain, the enterprise is up there. and television trailblazer initial nichols of star supreme court. power. power. these protest remembers at the steps right in front of the senate. many of them slept overnight on the steps outside here to protest the failure of the burn pit legislation. they all have this mumbo-jumbo about a budgetary gimmick but nothing changed. this is the oldest trick in washington. republicans are not opposed to any of the substance of the bill. i think it s a disgusting move. it s really an ongoing crisis at a scale almost unimaginable. you can see some of the garbage that s still over here, and can you actually see how high the water has come. this is what we do not want to see, a floodwatch. more rape coming and we expect the water to rise up each higher. and i m pamela brown in washington. you re
we ve never seen. we are spending way too much money to use to hide behind a veterans bill on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree is wrong. the first grain to depart from ukraine s black sea ports under this new agreement. resuming exports could be a critical first step in easing the global food crisis. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s monday, august 1st, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we begin with extreme weather fueled by a climate crisis unraveling in real time in the united states. in california, the mckinney fire has burned more than 52,000 acres. the governor has ordered thousands of people to evacuate leaving their homes to burn as high temperatures and drought make the blazes more intense. a heartbreaking realization for some that the fire has taken everything. i watched it from my bedroom. i watched everything come. it was headed right straight towards our property. that s when al
morn morning. in kentucky, rescues are under way. the state is reeling from flooding that claimed 28 lives including at least four children. rescue teams are desperately searching for victims in areas that have been hard to reach. the scenes in kentucky are horrific. floodwaters lifting homes off foundations. more than 50 bridges washed away. with the level of water, we re going to be looking at weeks. many houses swept quarter mile plus from where they were lost. water, a big problem with some of these areas. power. when we get over the rain, it s going to be really hot in the next week. so we re still in an emergency phase. let s go now to evan mcmorris santoro. he is live in hazard, kentucky. heartbreaking what we learned over the weekend out of kentucky, evan. tell us what you re seeing there now. i m standing on the side of highway 28 in perry county, kentucky, one of more than a dozen counties severely affected by these flash floods. as you can see, there is rain
good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. good morning. great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china s stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it s not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began s goal to help finance putt putt putin s war in ukraine. tell us more. we have known for some time about russia s project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven t been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasio