actors on strike. members of the screen actors guild are walking the picket lines after talks fell through. what is at stake? billions of dollars. as republican presidential candidates head to iowa, the governor is about to sign a six-week abortion ban. all of this and more on cnn news central. hollywood pressing pause. 160,000 actors taking part in a history-making strike that will effectively freeze all film and television production in the u.s., and some fear the shutdowns could stretch through the summer or even the end of the year. the studios and unions are feuding over protections from artificial intelligence and how to accurately compensate in the era of streaming. natasha, where are the union members telling you? there s a lot of concern and high people are excited and motivated, yet they re also seeing their colleagues, who are writers, who have been on this very same picket line for more than 70 days. there s also that feeling of apprehension, how long will
defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with extreme heat gripping much of the world and the u.s., right now more than 85 million americans are under heat alerts from florida to california. in the west, a suffocating heat dome is intensifying, leading to record-breaking hot temperatures in so many areas. phoenix topped 110 degrees for the 15th consecutive day on friday, and it s forecast to continue that streak through at least wednesday. and this is a live earth cam shot of disown na, arizona. it s beautiful but temperatures are already over 100 degrees and a high of 106 is expected later on today. meanwhile, death valley, california, already one of the hottest places on earth, could see temperatures reach a scorching 130 degrees this weekend. cnn s mike valerio is in silence y valencia, california. mike romo is in california. reporter: we started out at about 5:00 in the morning, it was 86 degrees, and the last hour we crossed the 100 degree threshold. as soon as that happe
fine. a lot of you will say, neil, don t talk. anyway, we ve got more on what s happening on the price front, where are that that s all going down for the time being, but the real trouble for much of the country and up to a third of all americans is this heat wave that s gripping a good part of the country. fox weather s robert ray in galveston, texas, where it s particularly hot. welcome, my friend. reporter: neil, good good morning to you. happy weekend, happy saturday. galveston island just off of houston, the gulf of mexico. and look at that, neil, this big seawall, 20-foot seawall, jetting down. it was created after the 1900 hurricane that still killed more people in america than any other natural disaster. it is scorching here this morning. temps expected to be in the mid if 90s, dripping as i speak right now. gulf of mexico temperatures above average, and that is concerning, definitely, as our tropical storm season is about to heat up in august and into september. in
candidates ready to take it on. we can t wait for that one. south carolina senator tim scott is here. former texas congressman will hurd is here. one is a lock for the debate. the other is getting close. guess who else is stopping by? none other than the chairman of the president s council of economic advisers. republicans might be pounding inflation these days, but jared burnstein has a question for them. what inflation? what a show. it begins right now. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. get ready for a lot of this. yeah, even in the case of iowa, we re still a half a year away from all of this, all of these boxes, so little time to get to that. to rich edson on why you would never know this thing is still half a year away. rich? neil, feels like caucus time. it s about 50 degrees warmer now. several of the republican presidential candidates are in iowa over the next few days. florida governor ron desantis is scheduled to campaign across seven iowa