the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir
1,200 years. much of the country, though, is scorching. more than 240 million people will face 90-degree temperatures or higher for the next week. and they ve felt those blistering conditions in atlanta today at this juneteenth celebration. the thermometers there blasting into triple-digit territory. meanwhile, severe storms in north carolina knocking out power for a huge part of the state. nearly 70,000 customers are still without electricity right now, and that s just one of seven states dealing with major outages tonight. and nowhere are the signs of the climate crisis more obvious right now than yellowstone national park. and along the yellowstone river. tonight, there is good news for the first time in days in that part of the country, the south portion of the park will reopen on wednesday on a limited basis. the runoff only added to the unflooded disaster, unprecedented rain causing severe damage to roads, water systems, and more. let s check in with cnn meteorologist g
because we don t have the water to do it. there s this assumption it s always going to be there until it s not there. these two american fighters may well have been captured by the very russians they ve been fighting. we suspect they were knocked out by either the t72 shooting at them or the mine. he had this gnawing on his heart and burden to serve the people however he can. i just want to see him back safely. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the evening off. and you are in the cnn newsroom. there are now three americans missing in ukraine after they joined fighters there to battle ininvading russian army. they re the loved ones of these missing men, the anxiety, the fear, the worry is intense. for the biden administration it s a troubling situation as