investigative details on how they tracked him down after more than a decade. here are tonight s headlines. the suspect linked to the so-called gilgo beach murders by burner phones and dna evidence from a pizza crust. rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. norah: record-breaking heat. dangerous temperatures for more than 100 million americans, posing risks from blackouts to wildfires. an unusually wet winter prompted a huge growth of vegetation, which has now turned into hot, dry brush, the perfect fuel for fires. norah: plus, the northeast braces for more severe storms. today marks the first full day of hollywood actors going on strike. this is the first time since 1960 that actors and screenwriters have been on strike at the same time. they are very concerned about ai and its invasion of their likeness. norah: the battle for bakhmut. we are on the front lines with ukrainian soldiers. [explosion] this is what it has come to along the f
evacuations after relentless rain overwhelms the northeast and new england. a major landslide destroys homes, forcing residents to flee. i ve never seen anything like this ever in my career. the creaking, the cracking, the crumbling, they are going to fall. president biden met with british prime minister along with king charles, the president is now going to take part in the nato summit. norah: with president biden saying ukraine needs to wait till after the war to join nato. with medics treating civilians. near the front lines, but not on the front lines. this is an attack on a civilian area. norah: dangerous prisoners on the run. the manhunt for two murder suspects. it s a little unnerving knowing he could be somewhere in the woods. norah: disgraced olympic doctor larry nassar stabbed ten times in the neck, back, and chest in prison. while serving up to 175 years for sexually abusing american gymnasts. we need to focus heavily on the ethi
taiwan, despite these warnings we have been discussing from beijing. the biden administration showed support for her decision. we want to make sure that when she travels overseas, she can do so safely and securely. we ll make sure of that. there s no reason for the chinese rhetoric. there s no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy. our will ripley is in taipei, the capital taipei, taiwan, this morning. and will, i wonder, we ve heard, as we discussed, rhetoric like this, inflammatory rhetoric often from china as it regards taiwan. they amped it up, but i wonder what taiwan is feeling about this visit, particularly from such a high level? reporter: well, there s certainly a difference probably what they re feeling at the president s office versus what we would be observing evidence folks, this is pretty universal, don t care much about it. they re not following it
several hours. you can see it on screen. you can see the unpredictable path, very unsettling for local authorities in the area. the suspect was taken into custody some five hours later. nadia romero has been tracking this all day for us. also with us is cnn transportation analyst mary sciavo. what are we learning about the suspect and how all of this came to an end? and thank goodness it did, nadia. reporter: thank goodness it came to the end it did, jim. that s what we re hearing from the mayor of tupelo. saying he was woken up early this morning by police and fire and he said usually when he gets those calls it s always something bad so he feared the worst, that this pilot would go through with his initial threat, the threat he made was he was going to take that stolen aircraft and crash it into a walmart there in tupelo. that s when authorities evacuated the walmart, they blocked off the streets nearby just awaiting that threat to play out. we know it did not. we know th
possibly break a 90-year-old record set in 1933. they re not the only ones in total. nearly two dozen cities in the northeast will likely see daily record high temperatures. we re also getting a better sense of how dangerous these weather conditions are. at least one person has died in new york from heat exposure. governor kathy hochul has now issued the first set of interim recommendations as part of a comprehensive extreme heat action plan. many residents say they re doing anything possible to try to stay cool. buying drinks at mcdonald s to sit in the store for a little bit of time to be in the ac. that s really it. i don t like going outside in this heat. i stay inside. beach. coney island. boardwalk, then jump in the water to cool off. cnn s polo sandoval is in new york with more on the impact this scorching heat is having. reporter: good morning to you. today will bring another challenge for new yorkers to try to find any way to keep cool. that s especially