two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
good evening, i m mehdi hasan. we begin tonight in florida. land of endless sunshine, citrus fruit and senior living. welcome to the villages. the florida retirement community is so big it s the same size as the city of gainesville, florida, just off the interstate. also its biggest waco texas and the village is a big deal politically as well. it s a regular stop on the campaign trail for right-wing republicans. donald trump spoke to supporters there in the final stretch before election day. he signed an executive order on medicare there in 2019. while matt gates and marjorie taylor greene took their traveling gave a gifts act there in 2021. when ron desantis said he was stripping disney of his self governing power in the state when he sought to control higher education and when he briefed people on his coronavirus response in 2020, he did it all from, you guessed it, the villages. if something major and conservative politics is happening in florida, and chances are it s happ
in the senate. they re statewide candidate quality having to do with the l come. that s pretty remarkable to hear from the republican senate leader. not exactly exerting a lot of confidence. let s talk a little bit about those gop candidates, almost all of whom were handpicked by donald trump, and almost all of more floundering. there is, of course, arizona republican oblique masters who was endorsed by trump and he has pushed great replacement conspiracies and claimed that black people are to blame for america s gun violence problem. supery cyst believes, i might add. no surprise that masters is running eight points behind kelly with his opponent pushing racist views, he might be on the path to the smooth reelection. and then there s republican herschel walker down in georgia. herschel walker could barely string a sentence together most times. he has refused to debate democratic senator raphael warnock, and you can understand why when you see his long list of gaps, which
Meanwhile, in pennsylvania, police are now expanding their manhunt for a convicted killer who has been on the run since escaping from prison a week ago. On capitol hill, Senate Republicans are hoping for answers today about minority leader Mitch Mcconnells health after he apparently froze twice in two months. And excessive heat is expected to break records across the country today while we have got our eyes on Tropical Storm lee expected to become a major hurricane in just a couple of days. And we begin this morning with the very latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. The judge overseeing the case will hold a hearing today on motions by codefendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell to separate their positions, their portions of the case, from other defendants. It comes after all 19 defendants in the case pleaded not guilty and waived their arraignments originally scheduled for today. And todays hearing also comes as there are new developments in the fede
Both domestically in getting chinas economy on track as well as internationally as the country tries to navigate a tense geopolitical environment. We are also going to see and he is back with us here on a show business report. Thank you for coming back again for us as we continue to track the story as the World Leaders gather there. We are still waiting for xi jinping to speak but in your expectation and estimation what are you seeing will be a thrust of the speech there. This are you seeing will be a thrust of the speech there. Of the speech there. This is a time of stocktaking of the speech there. This is a time of stocktaking on of the speech there. This is a time of stocktaking on both| time of stock taking on both side. Chinas reassessment of the initiative and countries on the initiative and countries on the Receiving End are getting a little concerned about the strings that seem to come attached with it in the form of the slightly odorous terms of some of the debt and the fact t