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
missiles and sank, which was a huge deal for the ukrainians. there was also a russian landing craft, which got destroyed in the port of berdyansk and the battle for snake island which the ukrainians decided for themselves, a russian ship being sank as that was going on. so certain things that, you know, weren t mentioned a lot today, but you did see a big show of force as is customary on the part of vladimir putin on the part of the russian navy and obviously saying the russian navy very important to russia s defense and russia s military doctrine, kim. interesting. thanks, great to get that update from you. fred pleitgen in moscow, appreciate it. in iraq, sessions of parliament are suspended until further notice after thousands of protesters stormed the capital s green zone twice in a week. protesters loyal to muqtada al sadr are angry that one of his