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andrea mitchell picks up coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, a landmark deal between russia and north korea. what that could mean for vladimir putin s illegal war in ukraine. kim jong-un s illegal nuclear program. the threat they pose to the rest of the world. donald trump doing damage control in wisconsin, insisting he loves milwaukee and never actually called it a horrible city. are voters going to boy that? israel claiming it s punishing offensive in rafah is coming to an end. that doesn t mean an end to the war in gaza. no progress on negotiations to release the remaining hostages. the american parents of one of the young men kidnapped on october 7th will join me today. good day, everyone. happy juneteenth. we start with that historic partnership between russia and north korea, a bold show of anti-western defiance that s rattling the u.s. and its allies worldwide. this was the scene earlier today. russian president vladimir putin g ....
about 100,000 flights jet around the world every day. flying accounts for 2.5% of all carbon emissions. now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. now there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re close to cracking it. pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission aircraft. but how did we get here? archive: the new machine is called, optimistically, - the flyer. we ve come a long way since the wright brothers first flight in 1903. that day, they lifted the world into a new dimension. then we achieved bigger, faster planes. great, but that s also how we ended up with all these emissions. jet engines burn kerosene, which releases carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases causing climate change. the industry faces an enormous challenge to clean up its act, and that means coming up wi ....
small puff of smoke into a full raging, all consuming fire. norah: why firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes. the fire is moving pretty quickly. it s a difficult situation and it s a rapidly changing situation. norah: the record-breaking heat wave for much of the country. cbs evening news starts now. fast-moving wildfires, record-breaking heat, and a tropical storm threat. good evening. i m norah o donnell and thank you for being with us. and the weather is where we re going to begin tonight because right now, americans are facing extreme conditions from coast-to-coast. 76 million people are suffering under oppressive heat across 24 states, as high temperatures scorch the midwest and northeast. and the worst of the heat is yet to come. down south, parts of texas are under tropical storm warnings. as we track a system in the gulf of mexico that is likely to become the first named storm of the season. and out west, dozens of wildfires are raging, i ....
aviation innovation. this week, lara looks at the elemental solution to cleaning up carbon emissions from aircraft. we travel to the remote faroe islands to look at the latest ways to harness tidal energy. it s sort of like kitesurfing, but on the water. if it moves, it s a controller paul s en route towards more accessible games. if ijust raise my eyebrows, i m making the carjump. and we look at how generative technology could revolutionise the moviegoing experience. it can make approximately 52 quintillion versions of the film. about 100,000 flights jet around the world every day. flying accounts for 2.5% of all carbon emissions. now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. now, there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re close to cracking it. pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emis ....
election-year issue. meanwhile, the ongoing ethics scandal surrounding some of the justices could also be a major factor this fall. recent efforts to hold the justices accountable have largely stalled in congress and this week, senate republicans blocked a democratic sponsored bill that would have required the supreme court to adopt a more binding code of conduct and would have exposed the justices to greater oversight. democratic representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez and jamie raskin also announced that they plan to introduce legislation in the house that would do the same thing. but, republicans will likely prevent that from even getting a vote on the house floor and that is just the political reality right now on capitol hill. that means that the future of the supreme court might very well be another important issue that the voters will be forced to reckon with when they had to the polls in november. for more on this, i am joined by molly jong-fast, special corres ....