good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, july 309. i m amara walker. i m erica hill in for victor blackwell. so nice to be with you this morning. what a treat, erica. a lot to get to on this sunday, including as we are watching the severe storms which ripped through parts of the northeast on saturday, uprooting trees, knocking out power, grounding flights. we will take a closer look at the damage left behind and what you can expect today. following a developing story out of haiti. an american woman and her child have been kidnapped. what we know about the case and the efforts to rescue them. former president trump rallying supporters in pennsylvania last night once again attacking the special counsel as he faces the threat of another indictment. plus, what former vice president mike pence is saying about his chances of making that first gop primary debate. you ti think we saw what we feared, this is the moving front of severe leaching.
said doesn t exist. plus, dramatic new video from the front lines where ukraine says it is making gains tonight as we are seeing just how far putin will go to keep his friends in his corner. and cnn is taking you underwater to see firsthand the full-blown emergency along florida s coast as the only living coral reef in the continental u.s. is now dying because of blistering ocean temperatures. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump caught lying as the former president faces major new charges in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. cnn is learning tonight that one particular document about iran war plans, the document that trump openly discussed on tape, was, ultimately, returned to the national archives by the former president s team. that is significant because it s a document that trump has denied is even real or that he ever showed them off to anyone on tape. i want to play cnn s exclusive audio of t
i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, when it comes to u.s. weather the good news says there s little relief in sight for the country. the latest on heat alerts from coast-to-coast. republican candidates, including donald trump, gather in iowa. sew how one found out the hard way what happens when you target the former president. and the other side of the debate in israel. we ll hear from those who say they support at least some of president benjamin netanyahu s controversial judicial reforms. and we begin this hour with more than 100 million people still right across the united states waking up to those heat alerts in the hours ahead. that s nearly one in three people in this country from southern california right up to the northwest and new england. but remarkable improvement from the 150 million affected yesterday. but then there s phoenix, where temperatures are expected to stay above 110 degrees right through the weekend. the scorching temperatures in the mid
ance to hello and welcome. to have you as joining us here in the united states and around the world. i m indicating k good to have you with us just ahead opening statements begin in a few hours in donald trump s historic hush money trial. we now know who the first witness will likely be plus us aid package for ukraine is expected to clear the senate after passing in the house. for the ukrainian president worries time is not on their sayyed, they need weapons now and today is earth day de the support environmental protection efforts and raise awareness. cnn speaks with a young up and coming meteorologist about what climate crisis could mean for her generation life from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade we adjust hours away from opening statements in the first ever criminal trial of a former us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts because alleged role in a hush-money scheme to conceal an affair with adult film style stormy daniels tr