it s going to get worse, and i think that we will be updating it maybe even for weeks to come. we don t lose this many people in a flood, yet, there are still so many people unaccounted for. meteorologist gene norman is in the severe weather center for cnn. gene this is just devastating what has happened in kentucky right now, and as bad as it is at the moment, the flood threat is not over yet, is that correct? that is correct, jim. brand new flood watch is issued as new storms are beginning to percolate in western kentucky and western tennessee, and they re going to be marching eastward throughout the overnight. it s probably going to start raining in a place like hazard where the flooding was really bad. sometimes after midnight tonight. also seeing a bunch of storms firing up along a cold front. that front is going to lift northward. that s going to help these storms develop. new flood watch just issue that does include southern and eastern kentucky until monday morn
he took us out one at a time. just incredible. cnn s evan mcmorris-santoro is in hazard, kentucky. tell us what you re hearing and seeing from folks there. it s just heartbreaking. reporter: well, jim, this is the staging area in breathet county right near jackson where people are trying to get out there and do those rescues that you re talking about and do those efforts to find out what happened that you ve been talking about. we have some fresh drone footage in, we have the cnn drone out here flying around, and you can see the waters have receded, but leaving behind all that damage. now, what that s meant for this rescue effort is people can now get out on the ground and start looking around, and i have some news, some sad news that i just got from the sheriff here, john holland. he told me three bodies have been found just today from those searches, and he expects that there will be more as the day goes on. it s just a very harrowing situation, and there s a lot more t
police tackled the gunman, you can see there, described as a man in his 40s, state broadcaster nhk quotes police who say he used a homemade gun. we will be live in tokyo in just a moment. we are also keeping a close watch this hour on what s happening in washington. former white house counsel pat cipollone expected on capitol hill for closed door testimony today. he ll speak with the january 6th select committee. again, watching that closely as well as the latest jobs report, just out a short time ago, which shows the economy added 327,000 jobs in the month of june. the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%. a lot going on this morning as you can see. but we do want to begin with this breaking news out of japan, the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. blake essig is in tokyo this morning. what more do we know about this suspect and also what is the reaction throughout the country. reporter: hey, you know, jim, erica, i apologize, i cannot hear you righ
violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
the request to unseal the warrant before any charges are brought really marks a significant and notable step outside of doj norms. now trump s legal team has until 3:00 today to formally respond in court and make clear if they have any objections to unsealing that. we re also learning stunning details about why the fbi may have been looking for these documents so urgently. according to the washington post, federal agents sought classified documents related to nuclear weapons. that s right. the new york times reports officials expressed concerns that allowing those highly sensitive documents to stay at mar-a-lago could leave them vulnerable to access by foreign adversaries and then there is the abc news reporting overnight that the information the fbi sought was so sensitive, authorities felt it had to be taken back immediately. the mind runs wild here. for me, what on earth was the motivation for taking this kind of data from the white house to an unsecured area like ma