good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. i m feeling good. i m feeling good. here s what we re watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private american citizens as the crisis intensifies. a team of cnn reporters will have the latest showdown takes shape and washington house speaker mccarthy scrambles to unite his party on a debt ceiling plan. can you get the votes to avoid a financial crisis and will president biden and mccarthy be able to see i to ii before time runs out, plus a wake up call. a new study reveals an alarming number of teams admit to abusing 80 hd medications. what s behind the rise and what you can do to protect yo
straight week protesting benjamin netanyahu s proposed changes to the law. the funeral of one of the last black raf veterans of the second world war is to be moved to a bigger venue because so many people wanted to attend. the governor of mississippi has declared a state of emergency after tornadoes ripped through the us state. at least 25 people were killed. the authorities say the storm left a trail of damage for more than 150 kilometres. president biden has called the storms heartbreaking and vowed federal support. one of the worst affected towns is rolling fork where entire neighbourhoods were flattened to rubble. our north america correspondent david willis reports. this is all that remains of the mississippi town of rolling fork. heavy vehicles were picked up and tossed around like toys after the twister touched down, all but wiping this tight knit community off the map. we ve got a new scan coming on as we speak. the storm struck at night, the warnings too late for
on going fighting outside. a senior u.s. defense official calling russia s actions the height of irresponsibility. as cnn first reported, new satellite images contradict russian claims that ukraine has been systematically shelling the area around the plant. both sides are accusing each other of endangering the facility. cnn sam kiley is there. where do things stand right there? reporter: they stand as a very, very dangerous moment. that is something that the international community, the russians and ukrainians are agreeing on. they disagree who to blame with demands from the ukrainians and international community to demilitarize europe s biggest nuclear power station that has when at full capacity six reactors functioning at the moment it has less than that and there is no question either that the russians are using it as a fire base to attack civilian and possibly other targets in government held territory on the other side. that is exactly what we found when we visited a
he left town in disgrace following the capitol riot and his election loss. he will be speaking to a group of conservatives and we re told that he plans to focus his speech on law and order. trump returns to washington amid a widening probe by the justice department into the capitol insurrection that now includes testimony from high ranking officials in his administration. mark short, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence says that he testified under subpoena before a grand jury a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. short s former boss also in d.c. today. pence delivered a speech and appeared to distance himself from the former president. so i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. i truly do believe that elections are about the future. and that it s absolutely essential at a time when so many americans are hurting, so many families are struggling, tha
historic flooding in texas. not seen in decades. the u.s. markets finishing sharply lower for the second day in a row on more concerns about the health of the u.s. economy. can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession, and my answer to that question is i don t know. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. this tuesday, august 23, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january 6 investigation. we ve learned the u.s. justice department has issued a new subpoena to the national archives for more documents related to its probe of the capitol riots. it is a possible sign the department is ramping up its investigation into the role former u.s. president donald trump and his staff may have played in the events leading up to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t prod