and good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don t have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted
the impossible situation in syria getting worse by the hour after the airstrike on targets. regime of bashar assad in syria is warning of a surprise response to what it called israeli aggression. as you recall, the israeli warplanes on wednesday bombed targets just outside the capital city of damascus, syria. a u.s. official says it was a strike on a convoy that was headed for lib non, which they say could have been an attempted transfer weapons to hezbollah. group that the united states government consider aster rorrist organization. theoretically, missileles would give hezbollah ability to shoot down israeli jets and helicopters and drones. syria on the other hand claims the israelis hit some kind of military research lab. so far the israelis haven t said a thing as is par for the course. i m ran is in the mix here. syria and iran are close allies. last week, they said any