for july 24th. russia claims drone strikes hit two nonresidential buildings in moscow. no one was hurt. ukraine s intelligence agency says it carried out the drone attack. a critical day in israel. the country is set to vote on the first part of an overhaul that would limit the supreme court s power to put a check on the government s actions. the historic heat wave in the u.s. will not quit. more than 35 million americans waking up to heat advisories and nearly every corner of the country will face above normal temps. today is the deadline for the justice department and the agree to meet their demands. if not, the doj is vowing to take legal action. bye-bye birdie. the bird has disappeared from the tech social platform. we ll get into it. cnn this morning starts right now. this just into cnn, a ukrainian defense intelligence official is now claiming responsibility for the drone attack on moscow overnight. an official with the agency who was not authorized to speak p
to rhodes. these are pictures from one village in rhodes where houses have been destroyed. three hotels there have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. this is the damage at one hotel in the town of kiotari. here you can see cars, buildings and vegetation, all burnt out, going right up to the edge of the sea. and some fires are still burning these pictures have come into us from the turkish ministry of agriculture, taken from one of their planes which is helping to fight the fires. many people spent the night in temporary accommodation like this after being evacuated from hotels others have been forced to gather in public buildings like halls and schools. and this tonight from corfu where an evacuation order has been issued as a blaze is taking hold. i ve been speaking to olga kefalogianni greece s minister for tourism. it is only a small area of the whole island that has been affected. so overall, the island is operating as normal. well, of
party from a third trump nomination. and the latest on the alleged gilgo beach killer, meet the woman who says she went on a date with him and survived. good evening, we begin with new information about special counsel jack smith s keen interest in a 2020 oval office meeting that has not been previously reported on. the meeting took place in february of 2020. in attendance were the former president, senior u.s. officials and white house staff. sources tell cnn that smith is focused on comments the former president made during this meeting about the state of u.s. election security and how those private remarks may differ from the baseless lies he may spread about election fraud in the coming weeks. one hurdle smith has to overcome in any potential indictment of the former president in attempts to overturn the election is whether he can prove the former president actually knew he lost. it s been eight days sinces president was informed he was a target in the investigation. ou
i think it is a very dangerous thing to talk about. okay. because we have a tremendous ly passionate group of voters. much more passion than they had in 2020, more than 2016. i think it would be very dangerous. yeah, there s been no deterrence put in place. well, that s not entirely accurate. there have been some deterrents put in place. look, what you just said, donald trump s last words about it is dangerous to go down this route. yeah, it could happen again because you have a group of individuals, like you have an audience for him and for what happened on january 6th. so, yeah, i believe it can happen again. that s capitol police officer harry dunn who defended the capitol during the january 6th insurrection reacting to donald trump s veiled threat about another january 6th style attack. the former president spent yesterday rage posting on social media amid new reporting on how his legal troubles are draining resources from his 2024 presidential campaign. we re g