good morning. it s saturday, july 30th. i m sara sidner. and i m boris sanchez. do not adjust your screen, that is the sara sidner, joining us this weekend in the cnn newsroom. sara, a pleasure to be with you. thanks, boris. of course. the scene of devastating flooding, 16 people are dead including six kids and authorities warn the death toll is certain to rise. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to assess the exact number of missing or deceased. rushing waters wiped out roads across eastern kentucky, forcing a whole lot of people to evacuate. the storms caught many people by surprise because it happened in the middle of the night. listener to this heartbreaking story out of knots county. four kids are dead because they and their parents were forced to climb to the roof of their home to escape rising floodwater. neighbors say the parents tried to hold onto the little ones but the children were swept away. it s hard to put into words the amount of de
it s going to get worse, and i think that we will be updating it maybe even for weeks to come. we don t lose this many people in a flood, yet, there are still so many people unaccounted for. meteorologist gene norman is in the severe weather center for cnn. gene this is just devastating what has happened in kentucky right now, and as bad as it is at the moment, the flood threat is not over yet, is that correct? that is correct, jim. brand new flood watch is issued as new storms are beginning to percolate in western kentucky and western tennessee, and they re going to be marching eastward throughout the overnight. it s probably going to start raining in a place like hazard where the flooding was really bad. sometimes after midnight tonight. also seeing a bunch of storms firing up along a cold front. that front is going to lift northward. that s going to help these storms develop. new flood watch just issue that does include southern and eastern kentucky until monday morn
spectrum this morning, and keeping you up to date with the very latest. and i ll be looking at the big challenges for a new chancellor. with rishi sunak out, will the prime minister try and spend his way out of the cost of living crisis? also this morning, police in the us have charged a man with seven counts of murder, after a gun attack at an independence day parade near chicago. good morning. it is said to be the biggest women s sporting event in european history. the euros begin at old trafford tonight, with england opening the tournament against austria. good morning. to date are going to be windy in the north. also some rain. further south, some cloud to start. sunny breaks will develop and it will feel pleasantly warm. details later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, july 6. welcome to breakfast. how did you sleep last night? rather better, i suspect, that the man who lives here. it s been a whirlwind 2a hours for the prime minister, who is fighting for po
house now. mj, let s start with this meeting happening right now. it s notable that only allies are joining this call. yeah. that s right. we are about to see president biden turn his attention to this news that absolutely rocked the country last week. of course, the supreme court s decision to overrule roe v. wade. this is a decision that the president himself had referred to as outrageous. what we are about to see moments from now is the president holding a virtual meeting with nine governors across the country. these are governors hailing from states that span the country all the way from the west coast to the east coast. i think we have a list of those governors. if you look there, governors from the states of new york, colorado, illinois. the state of washington. what we expect to see in this meeting is basically a discussion between the president and these governors on what the federal government can do to try to help these individual states as they try to work out wh
the subpoenas for the move comes after the homeland security inspector general told congress the secret service deleted checks after the messages were requested as part of an investigation into the attack. on the flip side, the secret service is pushing back saying the texts were raised during a preplanned system migration before the request from these the director general was received. on friday, committee member jamie responsible to the reporters about his plans to get to the bottom of this back and forth. as of right now, which we know is that there was a representation or seemed to be some contradictory representations about that, so we need to get to the bottom of it. but of those texts are gonna, we are determined to find them. keep in mind, the secret service was in a unique position to witness trump s actions both before and on january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, the secret services text messages could provide insight into the agency s actions