people traveling on trains as flames roared near the tracks. in france the fires forced at least 37,000 people to evacuate. in uk today was the hottest day ever. 104 degrees fahrenheit. the heat is triggering fires around london now as well. back here in the u.s. 60 million people will experience triple digit temperatures in the next week. there is no bigger story right now, no issue affecting more people, billions of people. the u.n. secretary-general says half of humanity is in the climate danger zone. and he had this warning. we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. it is in our hands. we have team coverage all across the globe. let s start with nina. london fire officials are facing major strains. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, that s right. we ve seen the specter of those wildfires that are raging across southern europe, ana, hit here on the fringes of the britishcal tal three miles away from where i am. there was a wildfire burning and ther
the victims on scene tell cnn about the horrifying moments that followed. there were several people who were obviously deceased. there was a gentleman who i believe, i ve heard since has succumbed. he had a gunshot to his abdomen. we started an i ve. i went across the street. there was another woman with a gunshot to her chest. she was deceased. the people who were gone were blown up by that gunfire. blown up? blown up. blown up. the horrific scene of some of the bodies is unspeakable for the average person. those are wartime injuries. those are what are seen in victims of war. not victims at a parade. the highland park mayor says she expects charges later today against the suspect as investigators work to uncover more about him and what led to this deadly day. some of those details, a disturbing digital trail and a legally bought firearm. josh campbell was at the press conference and join us now. josh, tell us what stood out to you from all the new information we jus
more on all of that later this hour. but first the critical decision set to drop soon from the federal reserve. and cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is here with us. walk us through what is to come in the next hour or so and why it really matters. so the expectation is that chairman powell will raise rates about three quurs of a percent. that is not one to one in terms of borrowing costs. we won t see borrowing costs raise 75 basis points. but it does influence all of the categories. so costs will continue to go up. and i want our viewers to enter understand what this really means for them, for their wallets. and i know you ve pulled a few examples. yeah, i ve been working the phones. let s start with credit cards. we ve already seen credit card rates accelerate quite rapidly this year. and right now the average rate is about 17.5%. according to bank rate, if you are holding a $5,000 balance which is the national average, you have a current ampt pr of 17.25%, if
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
learned trump s inner circle told him the fraud claims were false. within the committee, a significant public split over whether to send a criminal referral to the doj, and so that s where we want to begin today with democratic congresswoman of virginia who is on the select committee. she s joining us now. thank you so much for taking the time, congresswoman. the chairman says that a criminal referral is not going to happen. i know you and other committee members say that s not been decided. why isn t everyone on the same page? well, what i d say is it s correct that this hasn t been decided. we haven t got ton that point yet as far as the committee making a formal decision. the chairman says it s not going to happen. he went that far. well, we are continuing to have discussions within the committee, and i would say that this is something that is a very important topic for us to decide and decide as a whole committee, and we will make that decision and that announcement