congressman who helped ouster former house speaker kevin mccarthy could be on the verge of losing his own seat and banning cell phones in the classroom. >> how one of the nation's largest school district aims to curb negative mental health issues for students kate baldwin out today, i'm sarah sided with john berman. this is cnn news central happening now at least one deaths so far as two raging fires burned through, hundreds and hundreds of homes and businesses in new mexico, we are seeing more and more pictures of the damage. >> one fire alone has destroyed 1,400 structures. it is 0% contained thousands have been forced to flee and just seconds, sarah just spoke to one man who did manage to escape you. >> i understand correctly. you just moved into the home in march yeah we just how to mark this. we don't know what's going to happen with our home. and my daughter was car and when i was packing, step up, she thought we were leaving that we've never come back and i said, no, we're not leaving that. we're not given up the house. it shows dangerous right now. we have to we have to in case the fire come, we have to be prepared so hard, right? >> let's get ready to cnn's ed lavandera, who is in the middle of the smoke. there. ed, give us a sense of what you're seeing. it just looks looks terrible while we're on the northern edge of ruidoso, new mexico, a mountain city that is a ghost town at this point, as you look, this is the road that takes you up to the northern edge of town. i'm not even sure how far you can see past that roadblock there. >> and as you look south back into town as well, the same view here, john, where that is these are actually two massive fires surrounding of the city of ruidoso, about 20,000 acres in all been burned, as you mentioned, 1,400 structures according to state officials here that have now been destroyed or damaged because of these fires. and more than 8,000 people have heated the evacuation warnings and you can understand why it's just so with the mountains and the trees, it's very difficult to kind of get a sense of where the fires are moving from, how quickly they're moving. so just a very dangerous situation and that is why as we look around here, there's almost no one left here. we have seen in some places around the city and other parts where yesterday afternoon people were being getting new evacuation orders as fires were moving around through the mountains in the canyons and the values of this area and one person that we spoke with michael scott, who doesn't live too far from where we're standing. we've found he evacuated a late monday night, wasn't able to grab much, but was able to grab his wife their three dogs, and his mother, and raced out of town is the fires raging and this is what he saw we reached a point where it was just a solid blackout. >> i've never seen anything like it, but the thing that kind of startled me more than anything. my trick was being hit with chunks of ash. i could feel them hidden the hood and the gray. it was almost like big gray rain hitting my truck so john, there could be a sliver of good knew that the best and fastest relief from these wildfires could come from the skies later today, weather forecasts showed that it could start raining here after 3:00. >> mountain time and into tomorrow as well. so that hopes to be the fastest relief for the firefighters who are on the ground here and for the thousands of people who call this home, and so many people anxiously awaiting to see if their homes have survived these wildfires. john, some extraordinary images behind you add it's like the cars are driving right out of the abyss, the smoke, and then past you and we see you blinking your eyes there, isn't hard to breathe. >> can you just feel the smoke all around you? >> we've been out here a couple of hours this morning and starting to get you starting to feel the effects of it. it's been able to manage here throughout, throughout the morning, but it does because as we continue to report from out here throughout the diametric kinda get harder and harder, but it's manageable at this point, but you can look back into the distance you get closer to where the fires are. i would imagine it gets it gets worse and more intense. so we'll pay attention to that throughout the day. >> all right. and listen. please take care of yourself. and your crew. thanks so much for being there. i appreciate your work as always, sarah. >> all right, john, it's not fire, but wind and water. that is the real concern in texas a storm bearing down on the coast right now that has the potential to become the first tropical storm of the hurricane season. rosa flores is live in corpus christi for us. rosie, you've been showing this picture just from different places. you are now back in an area that is clearly flooded. there and you know, sir, one of the things that's fascinating about this storm is that is expected to make landfall in mexico and i am hundreds of miles from that location and just take a look around me, the effects being felt here in the texas gulf coast. >> take a look. >> over here to my left. >> what you see is the corpus christi bay. >> normally it's a beautiful beach right now. you can see the waves crashing onto the beach and the water levels rising. now, this is not unique to corpus, the intact entire texas gulf coast is expected to have some sort of coastal flooding. and that's exactly what we're seeing seen here in corpus. now, this street that i'm live on right now, you can see that it is flooded. you can see that the parking meters are her pretty flooded right now from talking to officials, i can tell you that they don't appear very concerned. again, the texas gulf coast is used to hurricanes. let me show you the water levels here right now. you can see that it's about eight inches deep and the water has ebbed and flowed and look around me that you can see that the water level stays pretty level all the way to the end of the street? no. this street meets up to the highway and you can see public works vehicles parked out there. we've seen them driving around. they are prepared to block roads if needed. again, officials telling us that they are preparing for the worst, they always do but sarah, they also tell us that they have high water vehicles, boats, rescue equipment on the ready just in case, but they are not expecting to issue two evacuation orders sara and you're right there near the beach. >> so that's an area that obviously is going to get flooded if the water is pushed up. but it's incredible. this storm is so far away and you're getting that kind of an effect, even where you are. rosa flores. thank you for showing that they are in corpus christi hey, appreciate it. >> all right. let's get right to meteorologist elisa rafah. you've got a whole lot to watch today yeah, we are very busy. >> i wanted to point out why we're finding these effects so far away from the center of the storm. and because it's so disorganized and lop-sided, which is why it doesn't have a name. alberto yet the hurricane hunters need to find that at center of circulation and it's just tough to do that right now, doesn't mean though that you're not getting some of that heavy rain already on the coast there of corpus christi down towards brownsville. we've had some gossip job are 30 miles per hour, so far, storm surge already observed as we just saw, rosa flores is wiv shot where you've got the storms or directing he up to two to three feet along the coast from galveston. so as this thing continues to move inland, you can see where you have the tropical storm warnings going up into texas, the classic example of impacts outside of the cone, right? like i said, the storm is wide, it's got a water moisture with it so that will continue to sling on some of the showers and thunderstorms is as we go through the day today and into tomorrow and could dump some heavy rain. we're looking at some widespread four to six inch totals of rain possible, some up to ten inches possible plus we're also watching the heat. 82% of the lower 48. >> that's a 260 million people will have temperatures above at 90 degrees these as we go through the next couple of days in an area that's not quite as used to extreme heat. >> i mean, we're talking about the midwest and new england more than an hundred and 50 temperature records, both daytime highs and overnight lows can fall exactly especially today, 96 degrees would be the hottest temperature ever in caribou, maine and we could hit that today. parts of the state have their excessive heat warnings for the first time ever through truly unprecedented in an area that just doesn't get as much extreme heat drawn. >> 96 and caribou, maine. all right. lisa rafah, thanks so much for that. >> only a few hundred votes separating the candidates as the counting continues this morning, one of the most conservative members of congress loses. see just because he off donald trump believes 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advertising alone. some of that money spent by mccarthy's allies who spent millions and revenge campaign joining us. now, cnn political commentator karen, funny, and former white house spokesperson for president george w bush. >> pete. pete, i'm going to start with you. that virginia results super close. there are of course, a lot of votes left account, but is this surprising that an incumbent who is over conservative part of the freedom caucus is >> in a primary like this, but that's exactly what you had. it's not just about donald trump campaigning for bob goods opponent in this race. it's the fact that kevin mccarthy was campaigning against bob good. it's the fact that marjorie taylor greene was campaigning against bob good. it's the fact that a lot of bob goods colleagues in the house of representatives, who he has gone after in their own primaries. we're going after him in his primary. so it was coming back to him. he forgot that magno world is not like a parking garage within and out privileges. once you're in, you can't go out and come back again without paying a price i'm curious what you, what you think the messages though, if if he ultimately wins what does that message to donald trump and mega well the messages don't cross donald trump, but sorry, go ahead, karen oh, i was just gonna say i mean, i think it says that if you spend a lot of money and you have maga world on your side. you can beat someone who again on the face of it, as you said, there at the opening, this is someone who we would have expected to win but it does look for trump. he's trying to send a message that if you cross me, this is what's going to count. i'm coming for you and that's something if you think about it, it's very consistent with what he continues to say across the board it talks about the revenge that he wants to seek. should he be reelected to the white house congress reacted to this new policy that would keep the spouses who are undocumented immigrants give them a chance to become a legal immigrant here of the united states this action balances that out. >> it says that border protection is important but that the spouses of us citizens and their children that have been here for over ten years also deserve to work so i think all these are both him trying to have as thank you. >> eat it too in the one sense, saying he's going to shut the border down. but another sentence, reassurance progressive, that he's still going to be sensitive to let people in we care. >> what do you think that biden's calculation is when he announced this plan? >> well, sure. why he gets important frehse, remember a couple of things. number one, the president actually introduced legislation on comprehensive immigration reform. first day in office. and unfortunately, the republicans walked away from what would have been one of the most consequential and far-reaching pieces of legislation that we've seen in a very long time. the president was motivated by two things. number one, the need to do something at the border, and if the to solve the problem. and if republicans aren't going to join him, what can you do by executive action that's why you saw him announce those actions a couple of weeks ago about the border and at that time he said, we are going to do some other measures to make sure that our system is humane. and by that, this is exactly what this measure is meant to do to say, let's keep families together, because previously someone wouldn't have had to leave the country and then tried to come back and to be with their family, with their spouse and and their children. this is going to affect about 500,000 families in this country and this is the right kind of approach. and polling shows us this is actually what the american people want. they want immigration reform, but they want humane immigration reform. >> it's interesting because we haven't heard until now, but this is sort of close to that a peep about daca and you have all these children who were 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