region coming down on just friday alone. it kind of speaks to the amount of rain that has been in place. you ll notice the drought situation here has been certainly expansive, and that s improving with the rainfall in place. michael, the good news here is that moisture is going to shift towards the north and maybe give firefighters a little bit of an upperhand going into this weekend. i m sure they ll gratefully accept it. and to learn more about the climate crisis go to cnn.com/climate for our full coverage. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i m michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. my colleague isa soares with more after the break.
in the line of fire, this is part of the defense. crews thinning trees to create a fuel break. the bigger the fire, the more trees they have to remove. it s the new reality of fighting mega fires in the american west. i hope it s not our future, and maybe it s just a cyclical event, and things will calm back down. but it doesn t look great. reporter: lucy kafanov, cnn, lakeview, oregon. you can help the victims of the western wildfires and their families. head over to cnn.com/impact. you will find links there to charitable organizations verified by cnn. again, cnn.com/impact. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i m michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. my colleague, alison kosik picks it up with more cnn newsroom after the break. it s a simple fact:
special forces when the fighting erupted. a senior afghan officer was also killed. now, siddiqui had been a photojournalist for reuters since 2010. you can see these images here he shot just days before he was killed on friday. in a statement on his killing, reuters says it is urgently seeking more information and working with authorities in the region. thanks for your company, spending part of your day with me. i m michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. do stick around. kim brunhuber will be here with more cnn newsroom in just a moment. is what lenders actually look at? it s not. so let me ask, do you really know your credit? do you know how to improve it? how to protect it? don t worry. that s why there s extracredit. don t settle for a free credit app. get the most comprehensive credit solution ever created.
himself with fellow crew members, but he said he is not racing bezos. whether i go a few days before him or a few days after him, honestly it doesn t it doesn t matter to either of us. what we want to do is do something extraordinary, and we re both doing something extraordinary coincidentally in the same month and opening up space hopefully for thousands of people in the years to come. branson and bezos are developing commercial space flights for tourists. thanks for spending part of your day with me. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. i will be back with more cnn newsroom in just a moment.
i just cry. she kept telling me it s going to be okay. i m like, no, i got to go back to work. i got to go back to work. reporter: for him, the riot is hardly in the rear view. the motion is not agreed to. reporter: the failure of a bill to establish a commission to investigate the causes of the insurrection left him devastated but gave him a reason to speak out. it hurts me that the country that i love, that i came in, that i have sacrificed so much, don t care about us. they don t. reporter: sergeant gonell came forward on the day the january 6th commission bill failed. he came forward on his own, not on behalf of the department. he said he just couldn t stay silent anymore. whitney wild, cnn, washington. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i m michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. do stay with us.