Joining us. The news continues here on cnn state the us and ukrainian defense ministers meet in washington. What kyiv wants out of the biden administration? and a brutal crackdown on women s rights, how the situation is getting worse in afghanistan cnn easily with well, the battle over abortion rights is taking center stage in the u. S. Presidential race. Donald trump is weighing in on the abortion initiative that will be on his home state s ballot in november and kamala harris has issued a strong response to trump s comments. It comes just one day after her sitdown interview with cnn s dana bash. While we start with trump saying he ll vote no on a florida constitutional amendment that would allow abortions in that state after the first six weeks of pregnancy florida law currently bans abortions after six weeks. The amendments will be on the ballot there in november. It s another reversal for trump, who has previously said he s against a sixweek ban. Cnn s steve contorno has more forme
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to go through. and just to give a little bit of context, the field marshal was probably the most powerful man in egypt, now mohamed morsi is the most powerful man in egypt. also comes as president mohamed morsi sacked his head of intelligence. he sacked the head of the republican guard, which oversees security. there was a lot of turnover right now within the security service, within the military. this is all coming as we have this conflict going on in sinai. a lot of people are wondering why he would fire his top military commander while an ongoing operation against militants is happening in the sinai, and why didn t he do this when he had a cabinet reshuffle just a couple weeks ago. so there is a lot of questions people are asking. right now it s safe to say that egypt is in a state of shock as this news comes out. so ian, lots of estions, lots of confusion. and while some reports he s fired them, in others he s asking them to retire, and at the same time morsi may be off
now lawmakers are trying to change that. it s our 10:30 talker. we start this hour with the weather. we are all hoping for a break from this oppressive heat. well, sorry, not today. i hate to see all that red on these maps we re about to show you, but those are the heat warnings. and as you can see, it is going to be pretty bad today. the record triple-digit temperatures are being blamed for at least five deaths. and don t forget about the 350,000 people still without power after storms tore through the atlantic states last week. it has been a week with no power and no air conditioning, but in many of those places, cooling centers have opened up to help try to cool people down. now to afghanistan and a commitment from the united states. secretary of state hillary clinton spelled out the partnership that will take the two countries beyond the planned troop withdrawal in 2014. afghanistan is now designated a major non-nato ally. that means the u.s. will keep up defense, s
emily, this hasn t been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven t been able to operate. reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven t been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to go out in a storm, things can get darker for days. a chevy chase supermarket just outside washington. disaster hit three days after losing power. a refrigerated trailer compressor blew up and with it the family-owned supermarket s back-up plan. we lost everything in the trailer. then everything in the frozen food case here. basically we ve lost everything in the entire store. reporter: it mean