two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
records in that realm. now, we have taken actual weather records for something like 100 to 150 years in most cities. talking about the 1,000 year intervals those are estimates but based on solid science. we know, for example, england has never gotten about 104 farenheit and that just happened this week. and temperatures have been taken in england going back 200 years in some spots. so they are happening more often and this is exactly what we expect in a climate being warmed by humans that in particular hot temperatures and extremely heavy short-term rains, those are two really solid connections to climate science and human-caused climate change. and one factor compounding the effect here for the folks on the ground is that our infrastructure is just not designed to handle all of this water. it s something we have seen in most of the huge flooding events here in the u.s. and europe over the last year or so. in the shorter term, how will we have to adapt the infrastructure