and russian media reports a car explosion has killed the daughter of an influential russian philosopher and key putin ally. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. a tropical storm warning has been lifted for far southern texas, but rain from that system could spread into oklahoma and louisiana through midweek. strong winds are expected as the storm moves further inland. meanwhile, more than 12 million people across the southwestern and central u.s. are under flood watches. in parts of arizona, new mexico and texas, the risk of flash flooding is high, with these areas expecting heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the day. in new mexico, residents are doing what they can to prepare for the worst. water backs up into our yards and also so far we made almost 50 sandbags. we have some that we made last year, but we re making more to prepare for that rain. an
in the midst of a devastating heat wave. july was the second hottest month in mexico since 1953 when the high temperatures are coming in amid a severe shortage of water. reporter: it had the feel of an outdoor festival or county fair, but this public gathering in northern mexico is a citizens group response to a crisis, a severe drought that has caused extensive water shortages in the state. during a recent day long event, they called water ton, they were collecting bottled water for distribution in neighborhoods where taps have run dry. it is urgent to send truck loads to those communities, this organizer says, adding that their goal was to collect ten metric tons of bottled water for those in need. while this is not the only mexican state facing a severe drought, it is so dry that the
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but first i want to go back to washington. pete williams has some breaking news on the boston marathon case. pete? andrea, the federal grand jury has now returned the next step in the charge against the remaining suspect in the boston marathon case, dzhokhar tsarnaev. this follows on to the original criminal complaint on which he was arrested. he s charged now with killing three people at the boston marathon, maiming or seriously injuring several other people, and shooting and killing the m.i.t. police officer, shawn collier. some of the details in the indictment are new. for example, prosecutors say that as tsarnaev was hiding from the police, bleeding in that boat in the backyard in water ton, massachusetts, he wrote on the inside wall beams of the boat. we ve known that but now we have more details of what you wrote. he wrote, among other things, the u.s. government is killing our innocent civilians.