nearly 5 million are still under flood warnings. still dangerous conditions in a lot of places. at the same time, we re moving into a recovery mode and a cleanup mode. the recovery process for this is going to take months. we now know that at least eight tornados hit multiple states. new jersey was hit with its strongest tornado in 30 years. in louisiana and mississippi where 13 people were killed, hundreds of thousands of others still face fuel shortages, power outages, and sweltering temperatures. the heat index in parts of louisiana will top 105 degrees today. let s start there. cnn s adrian broads is in new orleans, adrian, you re up first. you ve been talking to people and bringing us their stories, desperate for gas and food and some comfort, electricity. describe what you re hearing that they want to hear, what
which was what was the motivation for withholding the aid to ukraine? obviously the white house niepow in cleanup mode but in large part the damage done. we have mulvaney s words on camera admitting to one of the allegations central to the probe. no one forced him to say anything. that s the thing making no sense. let s see what comes interest the white house. more today, manu. cnn caught up with speaker pelosi asking about this. what did she say. that s right. she told our colleague ted barrett what mulvaney said was a quote confession. she said this administration has been making lawlessness in her words a quote virtue. sharply criticizing that. she also said they would not stand for the president holding the g-7 summit in doral. now other democrats also weighed on mulvaney s comments. mulvaney after initial comments, house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff said he made a bad situation worse.
syria to permit the turkish government to invade at the border has so taken up all the oxygen, and you know that members of congress are back from a two-week recess and really spent the day lambasting the administration for its response. now they re in sort of a wagon-circling cleanup mode where lindsey graham is leading the effort, the senator from south carolina. it s all hands on deck. he is not the chairman of the armed services committee. he is not the chairman of the foreign relations committee, but is telling everyone that they should come around to support whatever trump is doing, that president erdogan is underestimated. both the senator and the president and you know pence as you mentioned is leaving to also go and clean this up overseas. so they continue to talk about that and hope that that continues to sort of be the headline and, you know, they re rushing to the less cue, and they re going to try to keep trump on one position. he often changes his mind.
cleanup mode. treasure secretary mnuchin insisting what the president meant there is he was having second thoughts about not being tough enough with tariffs. more on that in a little bit. and the u.s. and japan have announced they have reach and agreement on trade. president trump telling reporter, quote, this is a tremendous deal for the united states. it s a really tremendous deal for our farmers. let s go right to our nbc news white house reporter shannon pettypiece on the ground in france very close to biarritz. let s get straight to what happened with the iranian foreign minister. did we get that right? is that the read-out right now on the ground? so what we know so far is we were told by senior administration official that the president did have a heads up on this, but we don t know how long. possibly as far back as yesterday. we do know that the president and emmanuel macron had a 90-minute lunch. it s possible it came up in there, but we haven t been able to nail that down.
there were thousands in the streets overnight. puerto rico, san juan, watch. so these demonstrators demanding the governor resign. the second mass demonstration this week. jeff paul is live in the capital city of san juan to bring us an update. after a chaotic night that lasted into the early hours of morning san juan is now in cleanup mode and what we re seeing all over town. graffiti sprayed on the walls and broken windows, tens of thousands of people packed into the streets to try to send a message to the governor they want him to resign. for the most part there weren t many issues and tens of thousands of protestors were very peaceful. that all changed when police