in the spirit of penance to honor an apology to the countries indigenous people. live, from cnn center, cnn newsroom was rosemary church. is good to have you with us. we begin with the blistering temperatures of the northern summer. record-breaking heat waves sweep across china, europe, and the united states. millions of americans are still under heat alert across parts of the u.s.. monday, three cities in the northeast sarr record-breaking high temperatures, and in the next 24 hours, we could see the same happening in the pacific northwest. in europe, the scorching heat is helping to fuel wildfires in some areas. this was the scene on the greek island of as crews battled a fire raging near a popular tourist destination. it is one of several wildfires burning across the country. in london, there were crews battling weather-related fires. all three are under control. another fire was also reported, southwest of the capital. millions of people are also dealing with swelteri
revelations of the latest january six hearing. i am michael steele in for ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. almost me left this room court overturn roe v. wade this country was effectively split into three separate americas. with three very different futures. hair is the landscape as we come on the air. since biden s decision at least eight states have enacted so-called, trigger laws. and the next 30 days or so sick states would similar laws on the books are likely to join them. and within the coming weeks and months, six more states are expected to issue new bans on all or most abortions. meanwhile, abortion will remain legal and protected in 20 other states and washington d. c.. that means abortion access is pretty much decided in 40 states. that leaves us with ten states. shown in the gray on this map. they represent tens of millions of americans literally living in a gray area. in those states access to a safe and legal abortion will likely hang in the balance based on
also, this is a critical week for the economy. we are expecting a deluge of economic data to drop almost every day. it will hopefully provide insight to the millions of americans getting pummelled by 40-year high inflation. some analysts believe the u.s. is hurdling into a recession but the white house is hammering the message that the economy is resilient. we ll get a better sense of how the public is feeling tomorrow when consumer confidence numbers come out. then it s the federal reserve s turn. it meets wednesday and will likely hike interest rates again to try to tame surging prices on everything from eggs to beef, to everything, rent as well. thursday gdp second quarter results are due. cnn s matt egan and rahel solomon are here with us. all of this economic data is going to be coming this week. what is most important? this is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the economy. politico dubbed it a category 5 storm of economic news coming and it could help the big
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s hearing. what we learned from the committee, they released a video that indicates that he was resist
as god s work. some high profile us firms have already offered to fund travel expenses for employees seeking out of state abortions. protests have been held outside the supreme court in washington and in other cities. there s renewed pressure on borisjohnson after the conservatives suffered a double defeat in parliamentary by elections. the liberal democrats overturned a big tory majority in tiverton and honiton in devon, while labour regained the west yorkshire seat of wakefield. the party co chairman oliver dowden has resigned, and the former leader, lord howard, has said it s time the country had new leadership. boris johnson conceded the results were not brilliant but vowed to keep going . here s our deputy political editor vicki young. liberal democrats are getting used to toppling tories in by elections. but this victory broke all records. the winning candidate said voters have sent a message. your behaviour, mrjohnson, makes a mockery of leadership. by any measure