pact and added support for his war in ukraine. we re going to look at what kim jong own got out of the trip for north korea and a broader impact for both of their adversaries fire and floods. while the east bags and the west coast with wildfires that are torching hundred grids of buildings and forcing thousands of people to flee in texas. problem is water and they tropical storm do to make landfall here in the next 24 hours and remember i m bringing the incomparable willie mays, the iconic baseball player who may have been the greatest to ever play the game. we re following these major developing stories and many more we re all coming in right here to cnn news central we begin this hour with pomp and circumstance in north korea as vladimir putin and kim jong own looked a strengthen their alliance the russian president just wrapped up a rare visit to pyongyang, his first trip there in more than two decades. he was met with a lavish ceremony that included a military parad
He was at 46 . Back in 1992, george h. W. Bush, he was at 43 . Biden below both of those. The last time biden has been at this level, 46 , go to the start of 2023. The last time he was higher than that, you gotta go back to the summer of 2021, his first year as president. So biden has some work to do on that one. Also, troubling for the biden campaign, the erosion of public confidence on a number of critical fronts. We asked voters in this poll about a number of leadership characteristics. There are two only two where biden has the edge over trump. We talk about abortion. We talked about this. Thats a big one. Thats the biggest advantage. Bringing the country together, Biden Performing better than trump. I think the headline here is you add those two numbers together, you are not close to 100
poll shows there may be a crab in the gop s hold on texas. president trump edges out joe biden by just one percentage point. the other top tier candidates trail trump by seven points. so what is it about biden that texas is opening up to? with me to discuss is the d.c. bureau chief, so why is biden performing so well then? i think he s performing well than the other candidates because of name identification. texans know who he is, but at the same time if you look at the next tier seven points is still very clear. she lost to trump by only nine