reportedly planned to capture top russian military leaders. back at home, developments in the special counsel probe into former president trump s effort to overturn his 2020 loss. a star witness in georgia s investigation is due to meet with federal prosecutors today. in new york city, the former marine accused in the chokehold death of a homeless subway rider faces a judge today. and are president biden s economic policies working? he s set to deliver what is being called a major speech to try to convince voters of just that. this morning, potentially deadly, catastrophic heat across the country, threatening some 69 million people who are having to deal with those conditions. they re under heat alerts. the national weather service says temperatures today are expected to reach up to 110 degrees in texas. over 112 in louisiana. and a reminder about how dangerous heat like this is. and a medical examiner in webb county, texas, reported nine heat-related deaths in just e
Good morning, everyone. It is monday, july 30th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump spent part of his Weekend Lashing out and questioning the credibility of Robert Muellers ongoing investigation. In a series of tweets yesterday, trump claimed there was no collusion and called muellers probe a witchhunt and an illegal school. He went on to right, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflict Of Interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious Business Relationship. I turned him down to head the fbi one day before appointment as Special Counsel, and comey is his close friend. Also, why is mueller only appointing angry dems, some of whom have worked for crooked hillary, others including himself have worked for obama. And why isnt mueller looking at all of the Criminal Activity and real russian collusion on the
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great. chicago, milwaukee, better during the day today. your air quality from st. louis to indianapolis all through the ohio valley, less than ideal. and we ll continue to watch those air quality monitors and the smoke forecast does take you to the mid-atlantic. it is not the thick stuff we showed pictures of what it looked like in chicago, milwaukee yesterday, some of the worst air quality they ever reported in those cities. it is dispersing, spreading out, so we won t have those issues as intense today. okay, antonia hylton, bill karins, thank you for those updates. this morning, there are multiple new reports giving us a look at what happened behind the scenes during last weekend s armed rebellion in russia. this morning, the wall street journal is out with a major report that yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group, planned to capture russia s military leadership during a trip near ukraine s border. but russia security services discovered the plot two days before the
watch out around washington, d.c., and philadelphia later on. we re going to have pretty big storms rolling through, maybe new york city. you can see the heavy rain from st. louis to indianapolis. in ohio there s a lot of heavy rain. and that will move into the mid-atlantic as we move throughout the day. we may get isolated severe storms, too, baltimore, d.c., fredericksburg, richmond, damaging wind will be the biggest threat. and this just happened a couple of minutes ago. the national hurricane center said we now have tropical storm elsa out in the atlantic. it s a weak storm at this point, but this one could be problematic. it looks like it s going to head through the caribbean. the hurricane center has it getting up to 65-mile-per-hour winds over the weekend. that would be just below hurricane strength. it s going to have land interaction with haiti, cuba. but regardless, it looks to be somewhere near florida by the time we get to late monday or tuesday. what strength is yet to be
winds. 50% chance in the next 48 hours this little area of low pressure becomes a tropical depression. thankfully it s going to head to the north, maybe bring a little bit of rain to the outer banks and then heading out to sea. here we are at 8:00 p.m. this morning. there s the rain in new york. fast forward to the ride home. so you neither it s not that widespread at 8:00 p.m. but that line is right over the top of milwaukee heading for chicago. st. louis it looks like the storms come through maybe 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. here s that line as it approaches new york city, washington, d.c. and philadelphia about 8:00 p.m. wednesday. if you have any flights, that s the time when you could get delayed or even cancelled. still ahead, big news in the business world. syria shells out more than $3 billion to buy one of the most well-known names in online music. plus a major shakeup.