peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
and with tourism roaring back to life across europe, italy seeing a two-wheeled invasion that many want curbed. what rome plans to do about the influx of e scooters. well, donald trump lashing out at the january 6th committee hearings, accusing them of doctoring video testimonies that cast him in a very negative light. yet both taped and live witnesses over three hearings have consistently shown trump illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election, culminating of course in the capitol riot. the next hearing on tuesday is expected to include two prominent georgia election officials who were pressured by trump to, quote, find nonexistent votes after he lost. and there are growing questions over the potential role of ginni thomas, wife of clarence thomas. the select committee has requested an interview with her which she has indicated she is willing to do. for the latest on trump s continued defiance and what lies ahead, here is cnn s jessica schneider. never called mike penc
The global ocean temperature has reached a record high in 2023, surpassing the previous record of 2020, and exposing the true state of the climate crisis. https://youtu.be/MyiDoKBDn8A?si=q-VuYaJOxxFCc1KW What you need to know about the extreme' heatwave. According to a report by the State of the Global Ocean Temperature, the ocean temperature was 0.81°C above the…
so we know that this is going on. if you connect the dots between these crises, it s pretty apocalyptic. but also in the ocean, which has absorbed about 90% of the excess heat that we ve generated in the atmosphere, every year for the last six years has been the absolute record global ocean temperature. and it keeps going up, breaking records every year. so that s where most of the heat is stored. and it keeps reradiating into the atmosphere, causing these typhoons and super storms, droughts in one place and floods in another. cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins me now. what are you seeing out there, derek? it s certainly hot where i live. it s hot. but it s important to say that there are parts of our country right now that are actually cool. that s the difference between talking about climate and the weather. i often talk about climate being more like your personality and weather being more like your mood at any given moment.
are plenty of other global climate warning signs. what do you see ahead in this northern hemisphere summer? well, it sort of seems like summer 2022, we re all collectively walking through the gates of hell together. this may be the summer that causes our politicians to wake up and fix this to the extent possible. the entire northern hemisphere has set temperature records on land. there s record breaking drought, wildfires, floods in southeast asia, and this is not just north america. it s europe and asia and southeast asia and india and pakistan as well. so we know that this is going on. if you connect the dots between these crises, it s pretty apock liptic but then also in the ocean which has absorbed about 90% of 24 excess heat we generate in the atmosphere, every year for the last six years there s been absolute record global ocean temperature