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hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. iam i am samantha simmonds. the heatwave in southern europe is intensifying — with wildfires forcing thousands of people to flee towns and villages. a number of people have already died, and temperatures are predicted to go well above a0 celsius, in parts of spain and portugal. more than 11,000 people have been forced to leave frances south—western gironde region — from where our europe correspondent, jessica park...

rewrite the dictionary. griff jenkins has more in washington, good morning. >> griff: good morning, americans are bracing for nows we are in recession with dropping gdp numbers. the president says he doesnt see that happening? >> president biden: were not going to be in a recession in my view, the employment rate is still one of the lowest in history, the 3.6 area. my hope is we go from rapid growth to steady growths. well see some coming down, god willing, i dont think well see recess...

well, we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trumps mar-a-lago home, and were learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant that was unsealed on friday agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to gathering, losing or destroying u.s. defense information. a property receipt also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents i...

there has been so much angst in the white house about how he should behave, whether he should smile. you know, jose, it is more than updates. to put it mildly, he is walking into a minefield. there are so many ways in which this region simply doesnt agree with the perspective in the u.s. we saw a little bit in israel with the prime minister openly disagreeing with the president over the question of iran and the nuclear deal. they dont agree on russia. they dont agree on china. they see...

world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and im brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. >> good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trumps grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding de...

night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasnt close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesdays primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the states 2020 presiden...

robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trumps efforts to throw arizonas 2020 election into doubt. >> and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in mi...

efforts mainly from the pro-choice viewpoint, and thats generating plenty of television session isments. -- segments. >> you may have seen a bunch of anecdotal stories, were trying to see -- >> women of child-bearing age are getting denied access to medication. the woman who was toll she needed to fill two diapers with blood. >> abortion access post-roe was going to help them connect with american voters? well, instead over the past 24 hours theyve revealed themselves as not just out o...

strained relationship between china and the united states. and on capitol hill, kyrsten sinema is in the spotlight. the arizona senator is staying sigh leapt on whether she will support a major bill for her own party. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, august 3rd. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. were going to begin with that major victory for abortion rights. voters in kansas have rejected an effort to remove the right to the procedu...

up early on "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. relief. excitement. joy. im very proud of our fellow kansans. >> we were telling people in neighboring states that their rights were no longer intact. they had to flee their states to get care. >> the cards were set against us from the start. >> as a husband i do not look forward to trusting the legislature to protect the rights of my wife. >> were avoiding a huge horror that would have come to kansas. >> one of the things ...