temperatures ever recorded. it comes as the u.s. breaks dozens of heat records here at home. josh lederman has more on the ground in greece. reporter: tonight, the greek countryside is scorched earth. a dystopian vision of a future ravaged by climate change. in this village west of athens, a sea of charred black and a chemical factory burnt to a crisp. this is all that s left of this home out side of athens after a fire ravaged this village two days ago. residents here n ow picking up the pieces of their lives. this resident lost six dogs, several chickens, and a goat when the flames devoured his family home. how quickly did this go up in flames? in ten minutes. ten minutes. were you scared for your life here? yes. reporter: it s not over, greek authorities say. 52 new fires erupted today as firefighters play whac-a-mole, almost as soon as a fire is contained, the up, and the old fires are reignited. we have been watching for the last hour as firefighting helicopters like thi
happened and was successful. this is in central ukraine. yet another one. we ve seen so many go up in flames in recent weeks. and yes, you re right. according to the ukrainian, they tried to strike targets here in the lviv region as well, but we are told by ukrainian officials, air defense systems kicked in. they knocked two cruise missiles out of the sky. some debris fell. there were some explosions, but we were told that was all resolved relatively harmlessly. but it is again russia showing its capability and its willingness to use its long range cruise missiles to hit key infrastructure all across the country. either just to instill fear and terror or to try and genuinely degrade the ability to resupply, support, fuel, ukraine s defensive efforts. phil, what about mariupol? that s where we understand more
destroyed its roof and iconic spire. yesterday marked the first time in more than 200 years that a christmas service was not held at notre dame. french president emmanuel macron vowed to open the cathedral by 2024 in time for paris to host the olympics. however, restoration work is not likely to begin until 2021 due to efforts to rescue the cathedral s struck turn. john meachem, this past year it was a sickening day watching notre dame go up in flames. this more bad news, that the center, what many believed to be, what i believed to be really the centers of western civilization may still not be well, it may still not be able to be saved.
justified in moving forward without a full vote. katy? matt, i don t know if you watch the simpsons, but you probably do. homer, once in a while, would get mad at bart and strangle him and his head would flop back and forth. i kind of when i think about what the president is doing to the republican party, i see that image in my head. as somebody who worked for mitt romney, as somebody who worked for jeb bush, what s your take? yeah. it seems the communication strategy is a bit of carrots and sticks right now. the sticks are in full display with mitt romney, trying to essentially scare people into not having a sliver of daylight between the president and the rest of the republican party. why does it work so well? because it s effective politically. a long list of folks have gone up the president and seen their political careers kind of go up in flames. but there s also starting of a little bit of carrots, vice president pence go to democratic districts. their philosophy is
scenario, is some big explosion there. they expect that even in the worst-case scenario, the homes that surround the plant won t be damaged. what they do expect, though, is that there will be a lot of fumes. and that those fumes are not good for people. that s why they evacuated the area. they had at least 300 or so people who left and others who stayed. those who have stayed, and we just talked to the assistant fire chief here for harris county, who is in charge of the operation, he said they had to turn off their air conditioning, roll up their windows. i mean, they re taking this very seriously. they say these fumes are not good for you. and that s why, of course, they re evacuating everybody. those who have evacuated, we talked to many of them. they re worried about how long they would have to stay out. you know, is arkema going to pay for their hotel stay. they have a lot of questions. so all of that is not very clear. because we don t know when this is going to happen. whether, y