looking over seas for a moment, at least 15 people are dead after gunman attacked people in a hotel last night. authorities say the gunman stormed the hyatt hotel after setting off car bombs. you can hear some of the explosions in the video. the hotel is popular with government and officials. the death toll is likely to continue to rise as somali security forces are battling the gunmen for control of the area around the hotel. the al qaeda linked terror group al shabob is active in the area and claimed responsibility for the attack. looking state side now, vanessa bryant, the widow of basketball legend kobe bryant gave emotional testimony in court yesterday as part of her lawsuit against los angeles county. at times, breaking down in tears on the witness stand. bryant says she suffers panic
northern hemisphere this week. in new zealand, hundreds of homes evacuated and nelson declaring a state of emergency after four days of torrential ra rain. so we check outside and then we saw the property damage. reporter: in south america, the grass lands on raging fire on the river delta in central argentina. lives lost destroyed and more damage on the horizon after a week of extreme weather across the planet. melissa bell, cnn. now state side the national hurricane center has issued a tropical storm warning for parts of south texas and mexico s eastern coast as a potential tropical cyclone approaches. plus, nearly 10 million people across the southwest are under flood watches as prolific
offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today.
head to saudi arabia with a list of goals in hand, with energy security topping the list. officials say they should be looking state side instead. we think texas is a lot closer than saudi arabia and president biden does not need to be travelling halfway around the world to search for solutions for the energy crisis when the solution is here at home. senator marsha blackburn will weigh in. peter doocy is in jerusalem travelling with the president. are the israelis satisfied with the president s approach to iran? peter: all the talk about diplomacy and the new iran nuclear deal might not stop iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon. words will not stop it, mr. president. diplomacy will not stop them.
just announced today in washington state. officials say the man recently travelled to a country where other cases have been reported. cases are confirmed in 15 countries. in an interview with the associated press, sex rave parties may have contributed to the spread in europe. but the cdc says moks is not a sexually transmitted disease. so, why is it spreading? and how do we avoid contracting it? let s get some insight from the person leading the white house pandemic office responsible for coordinating the monkeypox response, dr. raj . i m glad you re here, doctor. i have to tell when you look at the pictures of monkeypox and see the cases being confirmed state side, coming out of the pandemic and in the middle of it, and we re showing this picture again, how contagious and infectious is it? and could people possibly get it here? well, thank you, laura, for