To try to prepare and potentially record high temperatures and humidity expected to smother the midwest this week the heat so dangerous. Some schools are being forced to close just days into the new year. Im sara sider with john berman, kate bolduan is out. Cnns new central starts right now this morning. Cnn is reporting on the debate about donald trump. But Kamala Harris boils down to one simple question why, why did donald trump just tell voters once again that he may not . Show up to a debate. He already agreed to listen to trumps latest if he shouldnt say this, because if theres a debate it would be nice to surprise her with that one so is he skipping or is he bluffing because the new reporting from cnns Alayna Treene this morning as Donald Trumps team recognizes, they do need to have a debate with harris, Alayna Treene joins us. Now with the very latest you are talking to the folks around him saying, yeah we know we need to have this debate so what is happening with him sort of co
that has already suffered a lot. this town has no doctors because they have already fled. this is a place where they have tried to push forward in the counteroffensive, but it is an area where they are having difficulty. so, it is compounding disaster for the folks there. sara? over to the u.k. where president biden wrapped up the time in the u.k., and he is heading to lithuania for the critical nato summit, and ukraine is going to be a big part of the discussion there, and the path toward membership in nato is still unclear. also, new york city, police have made an arrest after a string of random shootings, and what we are learning about the attacks, and if the investigators know what the motive is behind them. also, the senate majority
interesting thing that took place of what the kremlin said about the meeting with putin and prigozhin, and the kremlin was asked if anyone of the defense ministry was there at that meeting, and the kremlin did not confirm nor deny it, but we know that one of the things that kicked off the mutiny by yevgeny prigozhin is that he was saying severe things about the defense minister himself sergei shoigan, and that he was starving the forces. and so there is big things going on on the kremlin and the apparatus of the russians. sara. it is interesting that prigozhin said that he was not revolting against the kremlin, but he did not like the way that the russian general was treating
and so you told us that when you were home and looked out, what did it look like? well, honestly, when it started to go around the house, i was sitting out there on the road in my car. reporter: you saw picnic tables? yes, i saw picnic tables and these logs floating into my home. reporter: and so new york city was asking folks be prepared. i was ready, and i had a bag of clothes to be ready. reporter: and fortunately you were injured? once it is halfway up to my porch, that is when i go up the road. reporter: and the most important question s how are you? tired, but hanging. thank you, cindy. we did get conformation of at least one fatality that took place north of here in orange county, and young woman, sara, trying to escape, and she lost
where the car were backed up. what is happening there now? you called it a river, sara, but that is a babbling brook, and this is going to tell you what you need to know as many of the waterways at are capacity and the waters have receded in rockland county, but neighboring orange county. i can show you one of the resident s houses here and richard who has called that place home for decades said that the water has just made it into their basement, and so it is going to be easy to get that cleaned up. i wanted you to hear from the property owner who is kind enough to show us around. sidney, as you are telling me and the viewers why this is so diff different from what you have told us. maintenance of the brook.