, heart pounding body cam. footage of those critical and terrifying minutes. officers rushing toward the gunfire, and now the killer s family is speaking up about what they call his mental health challenges. officials say the smoke pouring into the skies over indiana is definitely toxic. we are live on the scene of this huge recycling plant fire. thousands have been told to evacuate these stories and more all coming in to cnn news, central. there is an emergency unfolding in eastern indiana. happening now toxic smoke billowing into the air over the city of richmond, this as fire crews are making progress. they have contained the fire to the plant itself, but they are still battling that plant at the fire still very much burning, as it has been for the last day. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and officials say it could be days before the danger clears. omar jimenez is live for us on the scene, omar you ve been there now for some time described the situa
in the spirit of penance to honor an apology to the countries indigenous people. live, from cnn center, cnn newsroom was rosemary church. is good to have you with us. we begin with the blistering temperatures of the northern summer. record-breaking heat waves sweep across china, europe, and the united states. millions of americans are still under heat alert across parts of the u.s.. monday, three cities in the northeast sarr record-breaking high temperatures, and in the next 24 hours, we could see the same happening in the pacific northwest. in europe, the scorching heat is helping to fuel wildfires in some areas. this was the scene on the greek island of as crews battled a fire raging near a popular tourist destination. it is one of several wildfires burning across the country. in london, there were crews battling weather-related fires. all three are under control. another fire was also reported, southwest of the capital. millions of people are also dealing with swelteri
smoke over all of you. is this something that you can smell? i mean, what are you and people saying are experiencing. you can definitely smell it in the air. if it s not a chemical type of smell, it is the smoke itself. yeah 14 acres worth of fire chief said that if it s 14 acres of plastics, 13.5 acres have actually burned and that half may just be the spot where those crews are actually standing to take care. try to take care of some of these flames that you talked about. one of the more important part is that they do feel like it s contained at this point, so at this point, they don t feel like there s a risk to surrounding homes as far as flames go or anything like that. so that is good news, but we also talked to a resident that lived basically at the epicenter of where this was happening at the heart of all these all of this black smoke, and she said that when she got the evacuation order, she didn t hesitate. she ran. she got out of there. even
that s about half a mile down that way, where we have 12 acres worth of learning grassland on a sunday afternoon. it took firefighters several hours to try to extinguish the flames and they only managed to get the blaze under control a few hours away. among the country roads, behind where our cameraman is sending, you ll see the fire trucks in case anything reignites. to the west of london and surrey, we saw grassland ablaze . also, south of the capital and other parts of the outside areas. why is this happening? even if the temperatures are coming down it s relatively windy. they are advising people to be vigilant and not use barbecues or throw any and extent was flames or cigarettes on the ground because they say it s tinderbox dry and the spectrum
stunning landscape. we know reserves here, 25 acres worth have taken on tar. 8300 acres or 3300 hectares of water has a sheen and oil still encompassing it. it s larger than the city of santa monica. take a look at the images again. it s 130,000 gallons have spilled. about 3,000 gallons have recovered so far. well over 95% of it still remains in place. go in for a closer look, about 9 miles, 15 kilometers off shore of the southern california coast line. this is where you find the particular rig, name is elly. want tho show you the polygon that highlights the rigs. the second one there is elly. that s where we think the leak