Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke, and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for thatjust began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, itsjust one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. So if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed in the evacuation would
Mission, texas. Whats the story where you are there now . John, good afternoon to you. Our viewers might remember the day before title 42 ended back in may, dhs Secretary Mayorkas held a Press Conference at the white house where he promised there would be stiffer consequences for anybody caught crossing the border illegally after the end of title 42. What he had to say back then. I want to be very clear. Our borders are not open. People who cross our border unlawfully and without a legal basis to remain will be promptly processed and removed. Will be promptly removed, he said at the time. Well, that is not reality what we are seeing on the ground here in the Rio Grande Valley, we see mass releases of migrants taking place from the federal government. Our Team Shooting this video, Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley here in the mcallen area, we watched bus load of bus load dropped off, mostly family units, once they get to the charity they will be helped with travel, and dates in th
Rematch is about to take center stage. And that critical Battleground State any moment now, biden is expected to land in atlanta he will be appearing at a Campaign Event in the next few hours and his presumptive, republican rival donald trump is holding a rally in rome. Thats North Atlantic and georgia is a key swing state that biden won in 2020 by less than a percentage point. And it is the only swing state among primary contests happening on tuesday you have Team Coverage of these dueling Campaign Events. Steve contorno is with the Trump Campaign, but lets begin with priscilla alvarez. She is live in atlanta where biden is holding that Campaign Event and just a few hours from now, priscilla set the stage for us on what we can expect from the president well, we can expect him to build off his momentum from the State Of The Union. We got a preview of what that looked like yesterday when he was in pennsylvania where he used forceful language should go after former President Donald Trump
Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
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