chicago hit with severe flash flooding stunning drivers stunned by the sudden rushing water. nascar fans faced downpours for the city s first street race delayed by 90 minutes due to the weather and it was shortened by 25 laps. still exciting though, a lot of fun to watch and today on the west coast residents are warned to brace for extreme heat with temperatures in some areas expected to soar, get this, over 115 agrees so we check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. adam. very active weather across the country continuing to see at least some of that here early this morning and it will linger the next couple of days. all those thunderstorms have been largely on the eastern half of the country. this is a 12 hour radar loop and you see the explosion of thunderstorms every single afternoon and evening. expect to see something similar again today. early this morning you see those storms die down they pick up in the afternoon and evening hours but
weapons of death also tonight, michael cohen joins me to talk about what weaponization of government really looks like. as jim jordan plays make believe on the issue in an embarrassing field hearing of the once respected house judiciary committee. plus, justice clarence thomas is promising to fix his financial irregularities as a whole new set of questions come to light and we begin tonight with more young americans fighting for their lives at this country s massacre epidemic rages on following a spate otmass shootings less than three weeks since the children of nashville were buried, this is a feeling of an accelerating gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it. the fear, the violence, they can feel unstoppable, even all consuming at times and it isn t just because of america s indifference to gun violence it feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence. a veneration and devotion that has turned america into the most heav
this is cnn tonight. we re gonna keep the conversation going every night from ten to midnight and we ve got a lot of smart folks here to do just that with us tonight. you know, you as viewers actually can be a part of the program as well. you can join us, give us your tweets, your comments. actually have you on the air at times as well. and i ask direct questions which i shudder to think of that as well. what could focus possibly. we ll try that, we ll be here with our panelists from across the political spectrum through the midterm elections and there s a lot to get through on that front now. let s start with hypocrisy or abortion, or hypocrisy and abortion since they certainly go in canada. so call pro-life republican seem to have gotten their vehement anti abortion pro family stats when it comes to their candidate for georgia senate herschel walker. as you know, walker literally paid for his ex girlfriend to have an abortion. she s provided various pieces of evidence
conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly can t afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact we ve had so much transparency we haven t been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seizing what they have. are they going to allow the c-span cameramen and women to continue to show what s going on the floor of the people s house? first of all, you ve had too much coffee. where is your energy coming from? i m just taking these people at their word. big finish, jake. look, i just want to say one thing that i would like in the rules package thought that i get a vote. i want the c-span cameras to stay. america does. just this way. i salute c-span this week. it s been sp
they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st