secretary of state and presidential envoy john kerry from windsor in a moment. this as we get more breaking news. the kremlin confirming putin met with prigozhin after that attempted revolt in russia. what we are learning about that meeting in moments. also ahead, extreme weather. absolutely wild and dangerous flooding turning deadly in new york. cars swept away. roads washed out. homes flooded, leaving people with nowhere to go. and new warnings that this storm system isn t done yet. later, massive manhunt for an escaped inmate with survivalist skills. how will police catch him? breaking news out of the uk this morning, where joe biden just wrapped his meeting with king charles following a sit down with british prime minister rishi sunak. and later this hour, he departs the uk for lithuania for a nato summit with the war in ukraine on their agenda. joining us now, josh letterman in london, and kelly is in ukraine. josh, what are we learning out of biden s two meetings
conditions on the battlefield somehow, try and convince them that this additional money could help change the trajectory of the war because it is true that ukraine remains bogged down in this counteroffensive that has not necessarily changed the battle lines so far. and so he will be at the white house meeting with president biden. he will also be on capitol hill. he ll address a meeting of all senators in person. and he will also meet with the republican house speaker mike johnson. but you re already hearing some republican pushback to this visit. the conservative senator j.d. vance from ohio said that zelenskyy will come to washington and demand that congress care more about his border than our own. and it is this issue of the border that does seem to be stalling these talks. because remember, republicans are trying to use the ukraine aid as leverage to secure tighter restrictions on migration into the united states. president biden has said that he is open to significant c
among 35 leaders of that wagner group, that private mercenary group that he owns. they met for three hours, and he said that putin gave a assessment of the wagner group s performance on the battlefield and also discussed what happened on june 23rd, the tay that prigozhin launched that mutiny against russia s military leadership that lasted less than 24 hours. so he said that putin listened to the wagner commanders and suggested variants of their future use in command. he also said that prigozhin offered putin his full support. that s an intriguing comment, consideringen a few days before this meeting, prigozhin was engaged in open revolt against putin s government. so prigozhin has been skating in his criticism of russia s top military brass.
gunpoint in broad daylight. investigators believe a mexican cartel mistook them for haitian drug smugglers. cnn is learning their identities from family members. latavia washington mcgee, shaeed woodard, zindell brown and their friend eric were traveling together so one could undergo a medical procedure. dianne gallagher is live in lake city, florida, home to one of the kidnapped americans. what can you tell us this morning? reporter: poppy, this is a tight group of friends. at least three of the four grew up here in the lake city, south carolina, area. they were traveling down to mexico we are told so one of the friends, la tavia, they call he tay, could have the medical procedure. she never showed up for her doctor s appointment. then the fbi told her she had been kidnapped and she was in
states is so grave that really dire measures may be e seasonial. chicago, denver, los angeles. we re not just talking about missiles in the ocean at this point. but i would say the question whether or not president trump understands that the economic sanctions won t do the trick. he seems to be trying to speak to china say, you should cut them off economically, it s on you to deal with north korea, and at the end of the tay, as we ve been talking about, it s not about economic sanctions necessarily. this is where general kelly comes into play and i think gives a lot of people confidence. we interviewed leon panetta last week and he said there s crisis that could bubble over any minute and having someone with foreign policy experience, a marine, who s trained to think and act globally, could be helpful if you give him the opportunity to lead. we of been hearing that for months and the president himself said early on, i defer to my generals. and do you remember where the generals w