despite china s threats. and a pivotal week for president biden s agenda as democrats aim for senate passage of climate and health care legislation, mindful that the midterms are now just 99 days away. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the flood disasters in eastern kentucky right now. the death toll as of now, 35. with hundreds, hundreds of people still missing. evan santoro is on the scene for us. the governor who will join us live in just a few moments, said this is the deadliest and most devastating flood disaster he s seen in his life. reporter: i ll tell you, wolf, we took a tour of some of these damaged areas with the governor over the weekend. and the emotion was so obvious on his face. it is clear when anyone sees the devastation, it is just it is it overcomes you. people in this area of kentucky, there is a mountainous region and people are used to
in the east of the country warning that those who stay behind are at mercy of russia s aggression. and the race to stop the spread of monkeypox as cases and deaths rise around the world, fears that containment will be a massive challenge. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom can kim br brun brunhuber. we begin in eastern kentucky and another day of devastating discoveries and heartbreaking loss. this is the aftermath of horrific flash flooding where at least 25 people are confirmed dead. a local mayor called it just the tip of the iceberg. we ll get an update in the coming hours. floodwaters have washed away roads, destroyed bridges and making ongoing search and rescue efforts for the scores of missing harder. governor beshear says damages could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars and emotional toll is immeasurable. many are still coming to grips with the loss. honestly, there is nothing that anyone can do or say to prepare anyone for something like this
At any other time. The president of the United States forced to pull down a tweet where he shares someone shouting white power. Yes, this is 2020. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im laura jarrett. Im Boris Sanchez in for christine romans. 5 a. M. On the east coast. Always a pleasure to join you, my friend. The human toll of coronavirus is getting harder to fathom by the day. Around the world, half a Million People are dead, 10 million infected globally. Coronavirus spiking virtually everywhere right now. More than 20 of cases in the entire pandemic have come in just the last two weeks. Here in the yUnited States 31 states are seeing rising cases. Only four states sprinkled across the United States are dropping week over week. Almost 126,000 americans have died. Reversing this trend will be a monumental challenge. This is a very, very serious situation and the window is closing for us to take action and get this under control. If we
World opens up to visitors for the First Time Since the pandemic hit. Yes, the Magic Kingdom is open today and we have much more on that straight ahead. But first, heres a broader look at where new infections are up in the u. S. Since last weekend. 29 states reporting a rise in covid19 cases, some of them a very sharp rise. The spike is causing governors to slam the brakes on efforts to get back to normal. In fact, more than half the states are now halting plans to reopen or rolling them back, reverting to earlier guidance and restrictions. Also new today, the New York Times is reporting it has seen an internal cdc document that says the highest risk to spreading the virus will be the full reopening of schools and universities. This is the same week President Trump threatened to cut federal funding to schools if they dont open in the fall. The president ignoring the data and suggesting the surge we are seeing will all be over soon. It flared up in areas where they thought it was ending
A 3 rate, youre going to get more cases than if you test 100,000 people. I think when we started to see more cases, yes, weve been testing more in the last three weeks by far than we have before, but you see that 6 14 to 6 20 the positivity goes up to 9. 6 and then 12 and then we were 14. 8 for the last part of june, beginning of july. Lets get right to randy in palm beach county. This isnt the first time that weve heard this explanation, this line of reasoning from governor desantis. Right, the governor likes to blame the higher Positivity Rates and the greater number of cases on the fact that were doing more testing here in the state of florida, but we have seen Positivity Rates in the high 20s and low 30s this week and he said he would like them to be in the single digits. Certainly a problem here. That didnt stop the governor way back in april from taking a victory lap at the white house, basically saying that reporters were wrong to ever say that florida could be like new york or