believe i m the best qualified to govern and i think i m the best qualified to win in a high-stakes press conference, president biden unapologetic in his decision just jin to seek a second term. the question did it change any minds among anxious democrats nervous about his decision to run for reelection holding tonight because for me, the answer that is i just don t see that trajectory. i don t see the numbers and texas where beryl hit as a hurricane on monday more than 1 million people are still without electricity trinity, all those people without power there, houston temperatures backup feeling around 100 live, from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us around the world. i m max foster. it s friday, july the 12th, 9:00 a.m. here in london 4:00 a.m. in washington where the white house is praising joe biden s nato press conference as a success, even as more democratic lawmakers call on him to end his campaign, mr. bide
more from texas, in a moment. but first, what s being called an historic weather event. more than 16 million people now under a flash-flood watch in the northeast as the remnants of hurricane ida bring record-breaking rainfall to new york city and newark. tonight, warnings were issued for neighborhoods in the bronx and across new york state and new jersey and pennsylvania. more than 240,000 homes are without electricity. the governor of new york is declaring a state of emergency, amid reports of widespread flash flooding. and new york city is now under its first-ever flash-flood emergency. the rising waters have effectively shut down the city s subway. here s new york s mayor, bill de blasio. i m very, very worried about what s happening out on the roads. i want to urge everyone, get in quickly. do not stay out on the roads. it s dangerous. we re seeing a kind of rainfall we almost never see. this kind of speed with which the rain has come. everyone s got to get to safety
northeast with record rainfall, flash flooding and tornadoes. the first ever flash flood emergency was issued for new york city. it has now been downgraded to a flash flood watch. but the city s subway system is flooded with most lines effectively shut down. a ban is now in place for all non-emergency travel in the city for the next few hours. new york governor kathy hochul says right now the situation remains dire. we ve engaged our utilities. first of all, we were actually preparing for the hurricane henri last two weeks ago. so we were already having the assets in place. so we re not inexperienced in this. but it is always quite shocking when you literally see the streets of new york looking like the river s flowing and people just in shock over what s going on. especially the images of what s happening in the subways. so these are dangerous situations. we want to make sure people stay away from them. so we can take all the precautions in advance. and we did deploy a
plus, if you haven t seen these pictures, you want to. and underwater volcano near tonga has ree resulted for the third time in four days, those pictures captured by satellite. a massive eruption over the weekend sparked tsunami advisories across the u.s. west coast. and in china, major changes now to the winter olympics, which are less than three weeks away. amid coronavirus concerns tickets will not be sold to the general public but distributed by authorities instead. the country s zero covid policy has meant stringent restrictions, new lockdowns, beijing reporting its first case according to its numbers of the highly transmissible omicron variant just this past saturday. we begin first with the winter storm wreaking havoc across the eastern united states this morning. cnn s dianne gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina. polo sandoval is live from pittsburgh. we begin with polo. it s a tough mix, right, because you have the snow, it melts, turns to ice. tell us what
that s in fort worth suburb of colleyville it called for a convict a convicted radical islamic terrorist who is vowed to kill americans she s known as lady al qaeda to be released from a nearby prison. president biden called that stand off an act of terror investigators now trying to figure out if the suspect was inspired by the global campaign from some to try to free here among some americans who support that and whether he had any help. arthel: we have fox team coverage mike tobin is with more on the convict known as lady al qaeda who may have inspired this. first spring is outside the synagogue in colleyville, texas, dan. brooks arthel we are learning more about the suspect we are learning the key information from the fbi with it now appears he acted alone the threat is over. he may have been inspired by others for the person in jail at 20 miles and react alone yesterday but we arty just travel to the u.s. from england initially stayed in a homeless shelter about the gun