Nearly half the regions in greece are on high alert, as the worst wildfires in decades rage across the country. And from the charts to the stage. Pop star lily allen makes her acting debut in the west end. Hello, and welcome to bbc world news. All british nationals in afghanistan are being urged to leave the country, as violence intensifies between government forces and taliban fighters. The militant group has captured its first regional capital in five years, and is making gains in other areas, as western forces withdraw from the country. The united nations special envoy has warned that afghanistan is facing a possible catastrophe. Our world affiars correspondent richard galpin has more. In the heart of the afghan capital, another assassination taliban gunmen opening fire on this car, killing the head of the government s media information centre, dawa khan menapal. They d warned officials would be targeted in response to air strikes by afghan and us forces, the war now increasingly
Outfront tonight it s coming for us, it s a beast. A quote and a chilling warning from a doctor in louisiana, voice raising the alarm about what is now again a growing number of covid cases across the united states. The number of cases is now rising in all 50 states. Look at that map of new cases compared to the prior week. You can see, right, if you re green or, you know, yellow, you know, you re sort of steady or improving. Orange you re bad. Red is terrible. And you see that dark red blanketing all most the entire country and it s not just cases that are up. Hospitalizations are now also on the rise. One state surging is florida. The white house s covid response coordinator jeffrey saying one in five covid cases in the united states are in florida. You can see the spike there from a month ago. Tonight, the state s governor ron desantis is taking a different tax selling campaign merchandise hocmocking dr. Fauc selling hats and shirts that say don t fauci my florida. Telling cruise li
sense. wel welcome, this is early start. i m christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in new york. laura has the day off. we again with a residential building collapse they re miami beach, dozens of rescue units are on the scene. we re heading there right now, this happened just in the past few hours. we know something like 100 units from miami rescue are on the scene there trying to dig through this partial building collapse. if you know miami, this is 88th and collins, the village is called surfside. again, we ll bring you live details as we get them this morning. next 24 hours hugely critical to the biden agenda, senators will heat with the president today after shake hands on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, they are also staring at a fast approaching deadline on police reform. and democrats under pressure to actafter voting rights failed in the senate. daniella diaz is live for us. what are they doing as the clock ticks down? reporter: it is pretty critical that they act
110 degrees in california. This is reel, really important moment in our history. Nationwide juneteenth celebrations kick off across the country. I m pamela brown in washington. You are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. And there is breaking news tonight out of south florida. That is where at least two people were run over by a truck during wilton manner s stonewall pride parade. This is according to the city commissioner there. The commissioner says it seems increasingly probable this was an accident, but we will keep you updated as we get more details on that. And meantime on this saturday night the clearest evidence yet of the spiraling gun violence epidemic in america. More than 280 mass shootings in this country this year alone. The numbers are way up not only from last year but the year before. And before this night is over if this trend continues, 54 people will die in various shootings somewhere in america. A staggering jump so far in 2021 compared with the same time frame o
Leader kevin mccarthy is thinking and why he s against it. In arizona the 2020 recount in air quotes will proceed. All of this underscoring that the future of elections is at stake here. Cnn s daniella diaz live on capitol hill with more. Good morning. Reporter: good morning, christine. Good morning, laura. That s right, the house is going to vote today on this sevenstyle commission to investigate the events leading up to and the day of the insurrection on january 6. It s expected to pass even though republican leaders are openly against this happening. And their conference voting they want their conference to vote against this. But, look, the bigger picture that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is against this, came out against this yesterday morning and said in a closeddoor briefing with his members yesterday that he is against the scope of this investigation, this commission to investigate the insurrection, even though ranking member of the house homeland security john kak co ne