. . rachel: good good morn america. it is 6:00 am here in new york city. that was your national anthem. i m so happy to welcome joey, brian to the couch today. brian: that was live. i wasn t aware it goes from one nation do this. rachel: you are american history. that is why we do that. brian: i don t think that is the reason. what did you think about, the way to open the show. brian: i did not know you did it. i did not know you get real viewer pictures so people mail in different photos. joey: first time i filled in on the show, it wasn t viewer pictures but dogs. then it was cats. somebody complained about cats. rachel: we did all babies, all dogs, and because of pete we did cats. the ratings changed. started the cats. love the photo of the couple picking blueberries in the summer. nothing more american than that. that is what we do ends. brian: that is what we do. nothing more american than picking blueberries. i don t foe what kind of traditions you have in your ho
two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
during the insurrection. what that could mean for the january 6 committee s investigation. and senator joe manchin breeds new life into president biden s domestic agenda. how this latest string of legislative wins could play into the elections as democrats fight to stay in power. plus, someone might be waking up a billionaire this morning. the latest on the jackpot and where things stand right now. we re so glad you re with us this saturday, july 30th. welcome to new day and welcome to one of my finest people, sara sidner. thank you. buenos dias. we re both miami people. i m not a morning person. you have to ramp up the energy for these early hours. sadly we start with sttragedy a catastrophic flooding in kentucky. at least six people are dead including children. the death toll is certain to rise. the governor andy beshear said it s hard to get a fix since cell service is out in many areas. flooding wiped out homes and cell service in eastern kentucky. our chu
around the clock to find families who still may be trapped, some residents losing everything. animals are without people. homes are destroyed. we need as much help, please, i m begging anyone who sees this, help my town, help my people. cnn s joe johns is live for us in hazard, kentucky. and the debris field is tremendous, joe, and we heard the governor there say they continue to look for people because so many remain unaccounted for. what are you finding? reporter: that s right, and they say it s possible this could go on for weeks, not days. so they say a picture is worth a thousand words, fred. and i just wanted to show you where we are. we are in hazard, kentucky. you look behind me here, there s the foundation of a house. believe it or not, before the flood there was a house there, a woman inside told us she started feeling the house moving around 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. she gets out, and then the rushing water essentially d demolishes the house and sends the de
and take advantage of our special offer of no payments for eighteen months. hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka whitfield. rescue operations are under way in eastern kentucky, floodwaters engulfing entire communities following torrential rainfall. there have been deaths from the flooding, including four children. officials say the numbers may rise as many people are missing as of this hour. governor andy beshear saying this earlier today. this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. that count is going to continue to go up. and we don t lose this many people in flooding. this is a real tough one. search and rescue teams are wading through the waters, looking for survivors around the clock. the national guards from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia air lifting hundreds to safety. so far more than 660 air rescues. roads and bridges have been swept away, cutting off access and complicating th