wildfires sparked on friday, as we moved into saturday, thankfully firefighters reported that they started to get a good handle on controlling and containing those wildfires, not affecting too many population centers or threatening too many homes. of course, this is the start of summer, drier temperatures. we are going to be monitoring for a potential fire danger as we get deeper into july and of course, deeper into this heat wave. mike valerio, cnn, valencia, california. let s check in now with cnn s bar bie nadeau live in rome. it seems like europe s heat wave isn t going away anytime soon. no, that s absolutely right. and they just seem to keep upping the predictions and tomorrow, we re expecting it to be up to 41 in rome. on tuesday, 43 in roam. that s coming up from the national weather service here. that would really break records. and it s not just in rome, though. it s all over southern europe.
they had swept through what we now say is modern turkey and were getti ting fairly close to constantnoble itself. when you can see muslims across the water, it s time to find which christians are left to help you. emperor alexi i writes to the bishop in roam. he s asking 200 knights to help defend his city. what he gets is something entirely different. he s in part responding to an appeal from alexis. as the leader of the church, he s trying to improve the spiritual well-being of his