Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore. 1am in london and 8pm in the evening at the United Nations in new york where a urgent meeting of the Security Council has been requested, and which is expected to take place later on monday. Its been called by the United States, japan and south korea in response to north koreas latest missile test. The official news agency in pyongyang says the military successfully launched a new type of medium range Ballistic Missile on sunday. The launch was widely criticised in the region and beyond. In washington, the white house said the us will reinforce vital pacific alliances to deter what they called the increasing hostility from north korea. Our tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. The launch was almost certainly timed so that north koreas dictator, kim jong un, could crash a Weekend Party taking place on the other side of the world. President donald trump and japans Prime Minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend gol
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. To learn more about this family or if you want to help, i have tweetedute link to their gofund me page. Its only 5 contained. Its already claimed the lives of five people. Theyre being fuelled by high winds. More than 3400 Fire Personnel are battling wild fires with more than 300 engines and 17 helicopters. But just 5 containment right now. I want to bring in meteorologist in our cnn weather center. What does Mother Nature have in store . Theres no break in site unfortunately from the very destructive conditions that weve been dealing with. I want to point them out to you. First all of the big area of High Pressure thats been baking the west, even as far north as portland and seattle, theyve been Setting Records and will penetrate that big dome of heat. There are big storms firing off
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The latest news from around the world. The latest news from around the world. Facing, not just the temperatures, the Daytime Temperatures in the redding area are in excess of 105 and closer to 110 degrees. And it that is taxing to the firefighters. Let alone the heat that the fire generates and all that plays into the fire behavior and i talked to many veteran firefighters in the wildland arena and heard almost verbatim from every one of them that the fire behave yoior that they witnessed and experienced on thursday evening into friday morning, they had never seen before. And these are Men And Women that have many, many years of experience and training under their belts. Climate change is making an impact. I was reading hear since 2012 there has not been a month without a Wildfire Burning in the state and the governor has called this a new normal. This is a completely different situation that anyone is trained
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A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. It. Thank you. Poll numbers show declining public support for the Mueller Investigation, some people questioning will the issue carry democrats in the midterms or will the booming economy push republicans across the line . We have the managing editor with the Weekly Standard with us now. Kelly, lets look at the numbers. I just told you about the mueller probe, and it seems like thats losing some steam in terms of support from the public. But if you look at some recent report here in terms of the job Approval Ratings, particularly in the midwest, look at what weve got. In michigan, where president actually won in the general election, 54 disapproval. Only 30 plus Approval Ratings here in michigan, minnesota, wisconsin. With that said, if the economy is good, if its solid, is President Trump good . Is he solid as well . I mean, i hesitate to say anything definit
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Passed. A little better prioritization of spending. I certainly dont like playing shutdown politics. And how damaging would that be for republicans ahead of the november races . I dont think it would be helpful, so lets try and avoid it. Reporter now, fred, sources close to so mume of my cnn colleagues on capitol hill have heard from people close to the republican leadership. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell had a meeting with President Trump earlier this week telling him that Appropriation Bills were moving forward smoothly in a bipartisan fashion. They told him they didnt want anything to distract or derail potentially the Supreme Court nomination of brett kavanaugh. A Government Shutdown certainly would. Sources indicated the president was receptive to their message, but obviously on twitter he is threatening one yet again, fred. All right, Boris Sanchez in new jersey. Thank you so