okay, now i will have to see this. cnn s jeanne moos shows us how this city slicker handled the barnyard assignment. if watching the news oh, god. sometimes makes you want to gag, imagine what it s like to actually gag while doing the news, at least the weather yes, the air is very fresh here this morning. i can t confirm. my goodness me. look at that all right, i m gagging here the barnyard smells good mingled with it starting around on me. i m not sure how i feel. tim davies does a weather segment for nine networks today show in australia. he often does gags, but this was a natural gagging live. [laughter]
multimillion-dollar mansions overlooking the pacific ocean are engulfed in flames. fire broke out and quickly grew in size, 200 acres, 80 hectares were burning with no containment. more coming up in weather segment. u.s. senate failed to advance a democrat led bill to protect access to abortion nationwide. two dozen progressives from the house loudly marched to the senate, making sure their voices were heard. my decision. my body. my decision. but didn t help, women s health protection act failed 49-51 vote amid strong republican resistance.
some dangerous storms that are heading toward the midwest and the northeast, bringing the potential for flash flooding and damaging winds. let s check in now with cnn meteorologist tom sadar were the forecast. what are you watching here? this is going to be an extremely dangerous event, level 4 out of 5. it s called derecho. this is going to be a place to watch. more on that in just a moment. this weather segment brought to you by carvana. the new way to buy a car. look who will be impacted here. the last time we had a severe derecho event, august 2020, south dakota to ohio, winds over 100 miles per hour, left in its wake $11 billion in damage. that s right, 11 billion. that s going to be a scary place today. 40 million americans from border to border will have heat and humidity levels making it feel like it s 100 to 110. joining the rest of the western u.s. and the sweltering heat. but i have good news, we ll end the month of july and begin august on a cooler note. only for that are
pay for the wall, that s what i said. i didn t say they were going to write me a check for 10 billion. but it s military funds paid for by the american taxpayers. the campaign promise was mexico is going to pay for the wall, not the military. let s switch gears for a moment, bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins for a weekly edition of who s hotter. getting our pence reas ready you love to pay attention to the whole weather segment, so in a minute 30, you ll be ready. remember about ten days ago we were talking about how crazy warm like anchorage, alaska was. it s no surprise there s a lot of wildfires burning in alaska right now, and some as large as, you know, 100,000 football fields. alaska is a big place. they get fires this time of year. because it has been so hot and so dry, there s an increased number of fires, and northern portions of canada. the larger wildfire season because they are warming
dates back to the 1880s where slightly lesser amounts came down and not just for nashville. you kind of pick out any observation point in the southern u.s. these are surplus amounts of rainfall above what is considered average for this time of year. since the beginning of december. notice cities such as atlanta, birmingham, tallahassee, nashville, have picked up as much as eight inches to almost about a foot of additional rainfall than what is expected. if you think it s been soggy in the south it has been the case. and then back toward the west, george, here comes another system coming in into the northwest and eventually it will end up right where we began this weather segment, around the midwest and even the south with additional wintry weather. oh, boy. pedram javaheri, thank you. thanks, george. up next on newsroom, israel looks to make history, sending a tiny privately funded spacecraft on a mission to the moon.