Covid Testers News Today

is "cnn newsroom," with kim brun brunhuber. >> we begin with breaking news out of moscow. russia is confirming for first time that it did strike the ukrainian port of odesa. the russian foreign ministry now says it hit military targets in the port with precision missiles, but these strikes came one day after ukraine and russia signed an agreement in istanbul, which would allow ukraine to resume grain exports through its ports. now, turkey said moscow initially denied it had anything to...

right now more than 85 million americans are under excessive heat warnings and advisories and in the northeast, the heat forced organizers of the boston triathalon to postpone the event. new york citys triathalon will go forward as scheduled tomorrow but there will be changes to ensure safety of participants. cnnsdoval is in new york with more on how the city is trying to keep people cool. >> reporter: you may say it is july, it is supposed to be hot. but meteorologists are saying by t...

There have been growing reports of covid workers collapsing on the job due to heat stroke. in the suffocating temperatures, they wore full head to toe hazmat suits. some covid testers have even gotten creative, by hugging giant ice cubes and taping ice to their suits. and residents aacross the country, young, old and sick, are all required to wait in long lines for regular covid tests, even in this scorching weather. selina wang, cnn, beijing. and now to iran where flash flooding has killed at...

The traditional lunar calendar is called the day of great heat. this heat wave has been ferocious. last week dozens of cities logged record highs, some reaching more than 110 degrees. this is all part of the global trend of more extreme weather driven by climate change. not just heat but also flooding is hitting china. flooding in recent months has displaced millions of people and destroyed vast fields of crops. all of this puts more pressure on an economy already battered by covid lockdowns. th...