you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the intense scrutiny of the federal grand jury investigating donald trump and 2020 election interference. anticipation about the panel s next move running high right now as trump has acknowledged he may be indicted again, and he may be indicted soon. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is working the story for us. the federal grand jury was expected to meet today. where do things stand tonight? we did not see them. our casey gannon, who spends a lot of time in the court and that courthouse, was there today. and they typically show up on tuesdays and thursdays. and today, we did not see them. so the question remains, when is this going to happen? the former president was notified, as you pointed out, just over a week ago that an indictment could be coming. and so everything indicates that is still the case. that the former president is likely to be indicted by the special counsel. it s just a matter of when.
Report from the scientists, haven t you, and it is always difficult to link these events with human emissions, if i can call it that, but they are saying it wouldn t be possible without the climate change caused by humans. reporter: exactly. this report put together by something called the world weather attribution initiative. basically a group of scientists who are looking at historical data and comparing it to what has been happening this last few weeks in europe and all around the world, these heatwaves that have taken place and they say basically that the world should be repaired if nothing change insist terms of the human induced climate change, thatto say the amount of greenhouse gases being mped into the atmosphere, if no expect these kind of extreme weather events once every 15 years in north america, once
I guess the question is what can we do now if anything to reverse some of this damage? well, let me put it this way, erica, if we don t stop burning fossil fuels rapidly, our summer of heat hell will be considered a cool summer in the future. now, scientists for decades have been able to attribute weather events like coastal flooding, heavy rain events as well as these extreme heat events to climate change. but now the world weather attribution initiative, the report we re talking about has the ability to compare our current climate, which is 1.2 degrees celsius above post industrial averages to that of the past. what it s finding is the role of climate change is absolutely overwhelming. take, for instance, the current heat wave this month of july across north america with man-made climate change and actually 2 degrees sels rouse warmer than what it would be without these heat-trapping gases that we release into the atmosphere and they re becoming
reporter: but it is not just europe that is feeling the heat. dozens people have been killed as a result of wiermd wildfires across 16 provinces in the country. more than 8,000 firefighters are working to contain the spread of the fires. but across the border in t tannizia, residents do whatever they could to stop the blaze from scorching more land. parts of north africa and the mediterranean has exceeded 104 degrees farenheit over the last week. temperatures which according to experts would have been virtually impossible without human induced climate change. in a new report, the world weather attribution initiative said extreme heat events are expected to worsen and in both severity and frequency unless the world strapped burning tos ill fuels. one lead researcher even warning
The research from the world weather attribution initiative, an international team of climate scientists, concluded that extreme rainfall events are now up to nine times more likely to happen than in the late 1800s. today sees the opening ceremony of the tokyo 2020 paralympics, with sporting action due to kick off tomorrow. just as with the olympics, the event was delayed a year due to coronavirus. the paralympics feature athletes with disabilities competing in 539 events, across 22 different sports. 0ur correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from tokyo. the atmosphere here is very similar to the way it was with the opening of the olympics a month ago, except that the coronavirus situation has become much more serious in the intervening period, and so, this mixed emotions that people feel here about holding these games has, if you like, become even deeper. you can see from people tweeting from within the athletes village,