and catastrophic wildfires, a climate state of emergency in the united states. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin in ukraine, where there is more fallout from thursday s brutal attack on a detention facility in russian held territory in the east. on sunday, the u.s. ambassador to you range said russia must be held accountable for the attack, and dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians were killed in the strike, kyiv says, moscow claims russia ukraine is responsible, and they are waiting for access to the site, ukraine says russian forces unleashed a barrage of schelling on the southern city of nikolaev, 2 does seven reported, killed while sheltering in their basement. the ukrainian president condemning the strikes in his nightly address. take a listen. ukrainians, in the region, the most brutal schelling during the entire period of the full-scale war, dozens of missiles and rockets, the occupiers and residential build
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
spoke to a small group at an outdoor event in massachusetts. you see here he shook some hands with people after the speech, exchanged a few words. the first lady, she tested negative this morning. she attended events with the president and the first lady of ukraine earlier this week. mrs. biden spoke to reporters about the president s condition. watch. i talked to him just a few minutes ago. he s doing fine. he s feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i m keeping masked. cnn white house correspondent mj lee is with us now. so, mj, what s the latest? reporter: any minute now, we should be seeing white house press secretary karen jean-pierre and the white house covid coordinator, dr. ashish jha give us an update. you showed the tweet from the president earlier saying that he is doing great. we know, of course, that he tested positive for covid this morning, so let me just walk you through a timeline
treatment. the prime time hearing tonight before the american people, the 187 minutes at the white house. rioters were attacking the capitol, the committee planning to lay out what the president did not do. they call it a dereliction of duty. and will the american people tonight see outtakes of the president s videotaped message on january 7th? what the former president allegedly wanted to say instid. john carl with new reporting here. and then the hearing on abc right here a short time from now, 8:00 p.m. eastern/5:00 p.m. pacific. and now scorching heat from the south and into the northeast. fueling powerful storms in the northeast late today. and now the severe thunderstorm watch into tonight along the east coast, several major cities possible including the new york city area. and then rob marciano timing it out. flames from train as it was on a bridge. terrified passengers climbing through the windows. one woman the bridge. reporting on the climb as crisis here. lake me