heat wave is smothering a us humidity, driving the heat index into the triple digits. and this could be just the beginning of a brutally hot summer for americans and a new study suggesting the looming threat of an earthquake and tsunami. and the northwestern us of a size rarely seen on this planet and science contests are warning no one is ready. okay, we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central right now, speaker mike johnson is meeting with former president trump at mar-a-lago. the two liters said to be working out their game plans as trump tries to win back the white house and republicans tried to keep control of the house of representatives this is happening just days after trump held strategy talks with republicans in washington, the former president s first trip to capitol hill since the january 6 attack, we ve seen it and selena train with us now to be a fly on the wall in this meeting, collina exactly
laughter welcome everyone here in this cnn newsroom, i m omar jimenez in washington. we re going to begin this hour with fierce fighting in eastern ukraine as ukrainian troops say they ve successfully countered or they are successfully countering russian advances around the town near kharkiv, right along the russian border, which is turned the town itself into a front line in this war, you can see vovchansk highlighted on the map there. now the extent of the damage is pretty staggering, as you can see, there from ms drone footage over her head, much of the fighting in the last few weeks has reportedly centered around an aggregate plant, which usually produces materials for construction. now it s a combat zone we re ukrainian troops have tried to isolate russian units to cross the border as part of a recent offensive, one ukrainian commander referred to russian troops in the town as surrounded and one of the biggest this shifts on that eastern front is the us permitting ukrain
now basically just what we saw europe why tonight as these results can now, these are projections, but gives you an idea of what s happened is that the far right in many different countries made pretty substantial gains. now, the far right, i have a different set of views when it comes to issues like russia and ukraine, it s difficult to see how they ll function is very unified block. and yet it is expected that their results are so strong in so many countries could mean that they re going to have a bigger impact on the european union. things like immigration policies then they have had in the past. but the biggest news tonight from europe is that in france, the far-right has come out on top with such a resounding victory more than 30% of the vote, then emmanuel macron, the centrist leader of france, has dissolved parliament. and what we ll do is now have parliamentary elections here france that could see if the results go to the far-right as they have at european level, the
joining us see you in a news night with abby phillip starts right now donald trump s pulp fiction, that s tonight on these nine good evening. i m abby phillip flip in new york tonight. donald trump channels tarantino. it s almost like he sees himself as zeke el, the set on all sides by the tyranny of evil men but here s the thing about those enemies. there about as real as the samuel l. jackson character joules when field, meaning not at all. on the other hand, these biblical sounding promises of great revenge against their invisible enemies well, there s a lot to suggest that they could be taken seriously trump just hours ago, ranted about his trial where 12 jurors made him a convicted felon. he called it rigged, and that he made what you can only interpret as a threat to the courts that will decide the validity of his conviction we have to straighten out what s going on. are these sports. we got a rig deal go this whole country and we ve got to do it. and those appellate co
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