york. you get up to 8 inches in some of these communities. that s a summer s worth of rain that they got in a single day, no surprise we are talking about major flooding when you look at some of those issues. now, all of that rain has now settled up in the vermont area where folks as we speak so far today have seen anywhere from 4 inches to 6 inches of rain. those are the areas where the rain is continuing to fall. hardest hit areas yesterday now clearing off and that rain has lifted further to the north. upstate new york seeing very heavy rain. northern vermont, new hampshire. areas where this rain is still falling as we speak. flooding likely still going to be an issue as we watch this entire system drift off further to the north. we are still under an extreme flood threat across the entire state of vermont. all the way through today. taking you into tomorrow morning. and that s how long it s going to take for this big rain system to eventually move its way out of this regi
leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering
congressional subpoena to appear and testify under oath before the january 6th committee. that revelation, the crescendo to a day filled with stunning developments. the committee sharing new evidence from the secret service illustrating the knowledge and the threat that existed going into january 6th, as well as the advanced planning from the trump orbit to declare victory on election day. and this morning, in a cnn exclusive, new never before seen footage of a rare moment of bipartisan effort to push forward on january 6th. we ll hear the pivotal phone calls between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and then vice president mike pence on that day. our team is following all of the latest developments surrounding this investigation. the overnight subpoena to donald trump just one of the major advances that the committee put forward. so let s begin with cnn political correspondent sara murray. walk us through the big takeaways from the hearing yesterday because there were quit
my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has claime
Story for so long. I cannot imagine what her mom, her family has been thinking no. They suspected for a very long time. It is just unbelievable, abby. Thank you. Closure for them. What kind of closure. Unbelievable. We will see you here tomorrow. Well there is new video of the moment before the deadly explosion at a hospital in gaza. President biden is about to make a significant oval office address. What is next . Tonight im laura coates live. President biden spent about seven hours in the Israeli Voice on, today and tomorrow he will formally address the nation from the oval office. Now we have no idea right now what he will say, but it is hollow ground for what we call it the leader of the free world. President s give speeches all the time, of course you see 1000 of them. But they dont often from the oval office. In fact, it is increasingly rare. Actually here from the oval office, here is the gravitas involved. The decision to send troops to little rock to enforce school desegregati