good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, july 30th. i m erika hill. i m amara walker. thank you for being with us this morning. here s what we are watching for you. a developing story out of haiti. an american woman and her child have been kidnapped. what we know about the case and the efforts to rescue them. severe storms rip through parts of the northeast on saturday. as you can see, uprooting trees, knocking out power, grounding flights. a closer look at the damage left behind and what you can expect today. terrifying moments for a family as they are pulled over at gunpoint by police in texas and it turns out it was all a mistake. a mixup of one letter on a license plate. president biden signs an historic order removing prosecution of military sexual assaults from the chain of command. what does this chain actually mean? and why advocates say it is a move in the right direction. russia says ukraine targeted moscow with more drone attacks tod
welcome to the best day of the week. good morning. it is saturday, july 29th. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. thanks for spending part of your morning with us. this is what we re watching. this is unreal. day, night, never seen anything like it. millions across the country are waking up to another day of davisly high temperatures, but we re finally seeing signs of relief. britley ritz standing by with when we re finally starting to cool off. if we elect donald trump, we areal l willingly giving joe bi four more years in the white house and america can t handle that. new charges against him during a gop dinner in iowa. we ll break down the latest legal troubles trump is facing and what we know about the newnew involved. and the woman facing charging. and record heat not just impacting cities. marine biologists say it s causing big problems for our oceans as well. we ll explain coming up. we start this hour with that heatwave that s been baking the natio
as much for her fearlessness as she was for her music. sinead o connor died at the age of 56. and the u.s. claws their way b back to tie the netherlands. up next, portugal. cnn this morning starts right now. here is where we begin this hour. we have new cnn reporting this morning on senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, he has fallen more times this year than previously known. this report comes as the 81-year-old republican insists he is fine after he froze mid-sunshine yesterday for 23 seconds. we re on a path to finishing the nda this week. there s been good bipartisan cooperation and a string of are you good, mitch? you okay, mitch? anything else you want to say? mcconnell s fellow senators, you heard him there checking on him asking if he was all right. he it eventually return to the podium. could you address what happened at the start of the press conference, and was it related to your injury from earlier this year where you suffered a concussion?
expected o to speak on expanding access to mental health care. we re also closely watching the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. and we re just learning the grand jury hearing evidence in jack smith s election interference probe has not met so far today. why is that? it s been exactly one week since the former president announced he was a target in the investigation, but he s not letting that threat of a potential indictment keep him from the campaign trail where he is right now and where he s headed. we ll fill you in. we ve got news on an interview between former doj official richard donohue and prosecutors from jack smith s office. you might remember donohue s testimony last year where he described donald trump s push to declare the organization as corrupt. what donohue may have told the jack smith. and this. nbc news confirmed former nypd commissioner bernie kerik turned over thousands of documents to smith s office on sunday. how soon his attorney says he s expect
right now. this is after the parliament just passed part of a controversial new bill that dramatically reshapes the power of the courts. we have already seen large crowds of people on the streets, opponents of the plan call it a coup. they say it threatens to turn israel into a dictatorship. let s get right out to cnn s hadas gold she is in jerusalem. walk us through what this bill does and also what comes next. reporter: hey, guys. sorry you can t see me, there are some protesters here it s affecting our live signal. what has happened just now is that this legislation passed 64-0. what that means is all the opposition lawmakers left parliament in protest when this bill came up to vote. now, what this means technically is the bill that passed says that the supreme court now cannot stop government actions it deems unreasonable. these protesters they believe that that is the beginning of the end of an independent judiciary. they believe that this will give the government unfe