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
by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. these strikes are not only a bid to derail reforms that are critical to the network s future and designed to inflict damage at the worst possible time. iam in i am in the devon constituency which has been conservative for 100 years. we will hear for the labour candidate where it may not be so certain that it will stay that way. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. good afternoon. borisjohnson s ethics adviser, who resigned last night, has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position. in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures, understood to be on a trade issue, which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code. lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting
and people came in all day long with pictures, photos of relatives that are missing and, just any kind of this is sad to say, but we got a team of coroners here working the three county area with cadaver dogs and such, trying to find people and identify people and, you know, i know they say we got three dead at this time, about the i talked to the county judge and it is over 30 some total for just the three counties. and that s just i think that s just the tip of the iceberg, truthfully. all right, let s bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam. derek, i m thinking of the search and rescue efforts and that window of decent weather is closing fast, right? yeah, without a doubt. regrettably we have some disturbing information now just new to us here at cnn, we read the latest updates from the weather prediction center, they update about 5:00 a.m. eastern standard time, and they have now
we were in wakefield yesterday shaun ley is in devon for us today. it s looking gorgeous! it is. it is gorgeous. it s looking gorgeous! it is. it is gorgeous. its it s looking gorgeous! it is. it is gorgeous, its glorious - it s looking gorgeous! it is. it is gorgeous, its glorious devon, l it s looking gorgeous! it is. it is l gorgeous, its glorious devon, i m biased. i m here in devon because of course a by election. a constituency the conservatives held in 2019 with a majority of 25,000, it s almost borisjohnson s back yard because he was born on exmoor, but this has been tory for 100 years. the lib dems say they are closing fast, but it was labour that finished his second, so what s going on? in a moment we will hear from the candidate but first my colleague spent the day in tiverton and
through, but also realising that the window to get out, even with the required permit, is closing fast, and so what other options are there if they want to flee afghanistan? the councilfor at risk academics are trying to get some people out of afghanistan. we can speak now to their executive director, stephen wordsworth. tell is a little bit about your organisation, why academics in situations like this are at risk. we were situations like this are at risk. - were founded in 1933 in response to the rise of the nazis. it was to bring academics and scientists here to the uk to ensure that the skills and the knowledge that they had with not be lost and could still be used by all. that is still what we are doing. it is a rescue mission. we get people away from where there is extreme danger. these are the