the next insurrection hearing as a top committee member tests positive for covid. ultimatum from the families in uvalde to school officials. that is what we are watching at this hour. thank you very much for being here. i m kate baldwin. the stream heat affecting people around the world. the united kingdom recorded its highest temperature mp surpassing 104 degrees and temperatures are reaching triple digits across europe. the heat fueling wildfires from france, spain, portportugal. some cities in texas in the united states will see temperatures above 100 degrees the next ten days. we have multiple reporters covering all of this for us. let s begin with nina in london. how is london handling this? reporter: it s really sweltering. remember, this is a city that is more used to complaining about rainy cold summers and they have never seen anything like it. the mercury topping 40.2 de degredegrees and it might be as high as 42 celsius later on in the day. i m outside of kings
one person who will not be in the room? yeah, that s committee chairman congressman bennie thompson. he s announced that he has covid. it s not clear if the chairman will appear virtually, but he says that his covid diagnosis will not disrupt the committee s plan. members say this eighth hearing will focus on the 187 minutes the former president trump failed to intervene as his supporters marched on the capitol, swarmed the halls of congress, and did this, took over the building there. also today, a jury has now been seated in the trial of trump s chief strategist, steve bannon. bannon is facing two criminal counts for failing to comply with subpoenas from the house january 6th committee. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so, what is the committee hoping to learn from these witnesses, matthew pottinger and sara matthews? reporter: victor and alisyn, they re firsthand witnesses to what was happening inside the white house on janu
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
i won t comment on the grand jury investigation. liz cheney loses her job in a landslide. her next fight? urging midterm voters to reject you know who. i hope you do whatever it takes to donald trump out of the office. are you thinking about it? are you thinking about running for president? it ah, that s a decision i m going to make in the coming months, savannah. i won t make any announcements in morning. it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. liz cheney is on the losing end of this. she s on the losing end because she stands up to donald trump and because she calls out his lies. her loss. you see how big it was, is a giant win for the former president. cheney one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. her defeat means eight of the ten will not be in congress in january. she insists her fight is just beginning. this is just wyoming. zoom out. it underscores her challenge. the pink on the map, those a