carley: carley shimkus, president biden absent from the campaign trail this election season. and the white house schedule focusing on official business. this is likely the reason why. just 40% in a recent gallup poll. todd: now kevin corke live in washington with more, kevin, good morning to you. always great to be with you, guys. let me just quote a seasonally appropriate film that actually debuted about 38 years ago. who are you going to call? not ghostbusters but in this case democrats you are going to call barack obama. that is right. when you need political closure to rally the base and raise money make the closing argument, you ve got it. by the way, that is precisely what the president is expected to do with stops planned for nevada and wisconsin and michigan. as you pointed out, carley, georgia. and stacey abrams and raphael warnock and others in the hopes of helping the democrats avoid a rib wave in less than two weeks. joe biden and kamala harris also hitting
we begin with a blistering and dangerous heat wave and a stranglehold across the western united states. millions of people are sweltering this weekend. more than 40 million are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal. for the fifth day in a wroe, electric companies in california are asking customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances in order to save electricity during the late afternoon and evening hours. cnn s chris winn reports from los angeles. reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. our ac at home can only do so much when we re in these triple digits. reporter: in glendale, california, residents are seeking refuge at the galleria shopping mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning. getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool release is nice. reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the yea
the damage of documents recovered from former president trump the property, sharing new details what its filter teams found in the materials. begin this hour with a major new development in russia s war on ukraine. senior u.s. officials tell cnn that ukrainian forces are now launching a significant counteroffensive. go right to cnn jim sciutto who broke the story. what s the latest from the plan from ukraine and how do we expect it to play out? reporter: the latest, the much anticipated counteroffensive, ukrainian officials hinted at some time. saying they have confidence they can carry it out, has now begun. u.s. officials began to see signs of shaping, as you mentioned, shaping means basically preparing the battlefield for a wider offensive. in this case, it means artillery, rocket, air strikes on things like weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition dumps, et cetera. to then allow a combination of ground and air forces to move in and attempt, at least, to regain
artemis mission was postponed. basically there was an engine malfunction. artemis one is the first in a series of missions that would return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. the launch team discovered a bleed in one of the rocket s four engines. cnn s space correspondent joins us. explain more of what happened and then what happens next. reporter: yeah, so, victor, essentially we all thought that this was an engine issue. what we learned during the press conference, the first post-scrub press conference that just wrapped up, is that nasa officials believe it s not so much an engine issue. the primary culprit was an issue with the cooling system that cools that particular engine, engine number three. they ve got to get that engine to the right temperature before liftoff because sthey don t wan the liquid hydrogen and oxygen to shock the system. it seems to be that is where the biggest problem was. they are troubleshooting now. another problem we learned ab
funeral were finally unveiled on saturday with her service at westminster abbey now set for september the 19th which is eight days from now. queen elizabeth died peacefully on thursday at her country estate in scotland at the age of 96. she was the only monarch most have ever known. her death has left many people deeply shaken. in just a few hours her casket is expected to leave balmoral castle in scotland on what will be the first leg of a final german back to london where she will lie in state at westminster hall until the funeral. cnn s nate robinson is in edinboro in scotland with all the details of what we can expect over the coming weeks. reporter: at approximately 10 a.m. local time on sunday the queen s body will be driven in a hearse slowly a six hour journey beginning in balmoral castle passing through the villages of bakery and at the city of aberdeen. then it will pass along the streets here in edinboro past the castle to the palace of holyroodhouse, the monarch