after a costumed character appeared to snub two little black girls. mother s response right here on cnn as the park called the incident a misunderstanding. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our earth matters series. half of humanity is in a climate danger zone. that is the message today from the very top of the united nations and the record temperatures many of you are feeling right now are just a symptom, multiple heat waves across the globe are creating a series of crises just look at this video from london. a row of houses on fire. officials say because of the heat. the london fire brigade says they have never seen weather related incidents, quote, on this scale before. in spain, in france, in italy, wildfires spreading rapidly. the flames on top of an extreme drought in italy, destroying crops, which could cut off a source of food this fall. in major cities, travel disrupted. trains and flights canceled over and over, due to the heat and causing a glob
hello, and welcome to bbc news. a sudden heatwave that has triggered foreign spies across europe has no signs of easing up. and you temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives, possibly hundreds, and our correspondent bethany bell has this report from malaga. fire crackles. wildfires are raging in spain after days of intense heat. firefighters battled the flames in extremadura in the west of the country. in the south near malaga, a popular tourist area, at least 3000 people have been evacuated from their homes. when we arrived, a new fire had just broken out in the woods. helicopter whirrs. 0verhead, helicopters carrying water returned again and again to try to put out the flames. fires keep breaking out in these hills, and it is a real struggle for the firefighters to try stop the blazes. the air is full of thick smoke which stings your eyes and makes you want to cough, and it s very hot. 0n the road we met sharon from england. s