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kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. >> president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and hes trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. >> we were going to in fact make them pay the pr...

plus, economic silver lining. a rosy job support, gas prices coming off record highs, but the summer travel season marred by delays at the airport due to pandemic staff cuts and pilot shortages. we will as transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the waves of disruption and new spending to improve airports across the country. and senate democrats and make a last push for a party line package to revive the presidents stall domestic agenda. we will bring in leaders from both sides o...

that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nations highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke liv...

group, islamichhad. mr biden called on both sides to observe the truce, brokered by egypt, which ended three days of hostilities, in which 44 palestinians were killed. now on bbc news, faarea masud investigates how the demand for shrimp is destroying land that women have farmed for centuries in bangladesh. along the coastline is riverbeds of rural bangladesh, thousands of fields where rice was once bangladesh, thousands of fields where rice was once grown have been converted into inten...

and at how the pandemic has this cohort of 18—year—olds. also on the programme. the killing of 87 —year—old thomas ohalloran, who was stabbed on his mobility scooter in west london — a man is arrested. another rail strike leaves only one in five trains running — with widespread disruption for passengers. and divers say they struck gold off the isles of scilly when they found the us warship which sank during world war i. and coming up on the bbc news channel. south africa ta...

harris. the president wasting no time taking jabs at trump and his supporters early and often. keep in mind 74 million people voted for donald trump in 2020. so the current president taking the opportunity to bash just about half of american voters. >> president biden: maga forces are determined to take this country backward. they promote authoritarian leaders and fan the flames of political violence. they are a threat to our personal rights. the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law,...

this press conference under way right now with kentucky governor andy beshear talking about the devastating floods. >> 25 fatalities across five counties. that number will continue to grow. and to be refined. remember, we dont have cell service in some areas to please be patient as we get new information or if it changes. we continue to pray for the families that have suffered ununfathomable loss. some have lost almost everyone in their household. rescuers at the kentucky department of...

contemplated an additional mass shooting. theres new word about how his father helped him obtain a gun license he likely should not have had given the red flags in his past. a young man who had attempted suicide and yet his father helped him get a gun license. more on all of it shortly. first, though, because we have the names of all seven peoplekilled, we want to begin with who they were. eduardo uvaldo had just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary. his wife and four daughters we...

kentucky showing some of the damage left behind by historic floods that killed at least 25 people. you can see floodwaters slammed this school bus into a building, just devastated there, wrecked cars and downed trees are everywhere. tomorrow eastern kentucky is expecting several more rounds of rain that could make this flooding worse. electricity is out in many places. state officials say 21 drinking water systems have been damaged by rushing waters. there have been more than 600 water...

>> its going to get worse, and i think that we will be updating it maybe even for weeks to come. we dont 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 ...