advanced cyber security, it's ultimate speed for ultimate business. and it's all from comcast business. and this is cnn welcome everyone. you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm omar jimenez in washington. we're going to start this our breaking news out of southern california. the post fire has already burned over 12,000 acres in los angeles county, and it only started yesterday. hundreds of firefighters are battling to keep the blaze and check, but officials say the fire for is just 2% contained at this point with powerful wind gusts in the forecast camila bernal is on the scene and gorman, california. camille, i know you've been out and about over the course of the day. what are you seeing there right now hey omar. >> so right now what we're seeing is crews trying to prevent those blames from getting closer into the areas where we are now. so what you're seeing here behind me is actually a back burn. and so we've been with this crew for awhile now, what they're telling us is that they're trying to keep those flames away from this area, so they're purposely starting these fires here and then calling on the helicopters to then come and put them out. it is around the clock work because of the fact that the fire itself is spreading so quickly and some of the reasons behind that is one, the high temperatures to the low humidity and the wind, there's huge concern about the wins because throughout the day at the national weather service saying that the wind gusts could be 45, 55 miles an hour. and the huge concern is for the overnight hours because they say the wind gusts could be 60 to 70 miles per hour. so again, it is difficult work for these firefighters who are here. i want you to listen to what the forest service it is saying about all of this this is a relatively fast moving fire. >> it's lined up with the topography and the noralyn wind. so it's making a pretty good run. it's got relatively light flashy fuels available to it, which causes more rapid rate of spread so yeah, it's something that's keeping us on our toes so you're also seeing the heavy machinery here again around the clock work. >> there's already about 1,200 people that have been told to evacuate from their homes and many others are under evacuation can warnings. so officials here just telling people to be ready to go at a moment's notice because you never know just how quickly and where this fire could spread. so they're trying to contain it. but as you mentioned, omar containment is still really low at 2%. so when i was talking to the cruise here, what they said was we really hope that we can get some improvement in terms of those containment numbers, but they just don't know what's going to happen overnight with those very high wind gusts. so they are concerned about what's going to happen over the next couple of hours or and camila before we go just because there is so much going on behind you, can you can you just give us a sense since you've been there? really the whole day at this point, what exactly are the crews doing behind you? i know you said there were some back burn efforts, but just give us a sense of what exactly is happening right now behind you yeah. >> so it's actually incredible to see the water drops because of the fact that there is a lake nearby. you're seeing. so many water drops, you know, i've been to many fires and this is probably one of the fires where i've seen the most because it's helicopter after helicopter doing these water drops. and as i mentioned, just here behind me, what you're seeing, the flames is a backwards so they burn it on purpose, right? they use some of the gas and just material that quickly creates a fire and then they put it out because once they create that line, the fire will not move into this area. because if you look over here, there's a lot of green in this area, so they're trying to keep it away from here in order to do that, they keep those fire lines over on this side so that that fire does not continue to spread to areas that could go up in flames. so you'd are really bad it out. here's a water jar. now what they told me they were doing was trying what the graph in this area because once you wet it, you have less of a chance of a going up in flames. and so again, they're just trying to keep the area that's not been burgess from being burned and it is obviously around the clock work for them. i to active scene that's part of why fire officials are concerned about the wind because that takes some of those was embers pass some of those fire lines that they're clearly working so hard to build camila bernal really appreciate it. thank you all right. >> meanwhile, the 2024 presidential campaign is kicking into high gear. were just 11 days. it's right there. if you need any further proof until the first presidential debate held right here on cnn last night in los angeles president joe biden and former president barack obama went to a really glitzy fundraiser packed with a-list hollywood celebrities. and in discussion moderated by jimmy kimmel, president biden talked about how dangerous he thinks a second trump presidency could be. now the biden campaign says the event raised 30 million, which is the most successful single day then in the democratic party's history cnn correspondent priscilla alvarez joins us now. so priscilla, i mean, biden had some pretty sharp criticisms of trump, which again maybe was to be expected, but also of the supreme court as well. >> yeah, he underscored the stakes of the election again, as he's done before, but he focused it specifically on the supreme court, essentially saying but over the next four years, there could be openings on the supreme court and posing the question as to what happens if donald trump isn't a second term when that's the case, and if he puts more conservative justices on the court given the decisions that we've already seen so far, take a lesson. >> look. >> the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today after the decision that overrule roe v. wade, the dobbs decision, you had clarence thomas talking about the fact that there. are gonna be other things we should reconsider, including in vitro fertilization, including contraception, including all these things reproductive freedoms has been a galvanizing issue for the biden campaign. >> it's one that they have fanned out across the country to remind voters first that that is also at stake if donald trump were to take a second term. so that was part of what he was leaning into their in that clip. now, if he was next to former president barack obama, who also talked about the values of candidates and that, that should also be considered by voters when they go to the polls. but as you mentioned, it was also a way to get more money and they raked in more than 30 minutes million they set a record and that is a type of momentum that they're going to want to keep that cash advantage going into the next few months. yeah. because certainly not everything you need, but definitely helps. of course, in the campaigning process. so alvarez, thank you obviously, a lot to talk about here. >> joining me now is democratic strategists and co-founder of lift our voices. julie virgin ski and julie i just want to start with you because i've also got scott jennings here. i want to start with you saying, what do you make of biden talking about the makeup of the supreme court? >> smart strategy, look the most galvanizing issue of the last two years has been roe versus wade, got democrats to the polls in 2022 in ways that i think nobody predicted and it hasn't ended. you see what's the effect of that has been all across the country with women being denied their right to choose and their right to their bodily autonomy. and now we have people saying they want to go further if people like clarence thomas potentially putting things like ivf, which is certainly not a liberal issue in play. things like other aspects to reproductive freedom i'm like access to contraception, which is just something that i think we've all taken for granted over the last generation or two. if not longer. and so it's something that i think people are starting to understand is real. this is not fearmongering, this is not the scare tactics that i think for very long time democrats might have put out there since the fall of roe are since before the fall of roe. now that row has fallen, everything else is on the table and voters are starting to take that very, very seriously and we're also joined by scott jennings, cnn senior political commentator and former special assistant to president george w bush, don't want to cut your intro short there. >> now look based on a picking up on a little bit of what julie just said. overturning of roe v. wade did have a pretty enthusiastic effect on the voting base in the midterms. the first, the first test, election tests after that do you expect that to be just as strong a propelling force here? and if you're republican, how do you fight back against that? yeah, i do actually, i think democrats have successfully used it. it's motivating for some voters. it's motivating for their donors. and so i'm not surprised to see them using it. i do think it is fear fearmongering. i do think it is a scare tactic for democrats to argue that contraception and ivf are on the table when no republican is running on that, i mean, donald trump himself supports ivf. donald trump self has said he supports access to contraception and his position on abortion is kind of the old reagan position i'll leave it to the states and i believe in the three exceptions, rape, incest, and life of the mother. that's a pretty moderate center, right? moderate type position. and i don't think it's going to scare too many people, but it is the best ground on which democrats can fight. because if you look at the other issues in the election it should inflation, immigration national security. biden is struggling and all those areas. so it's smart for them to try to shift the conversation to abortion and it's smart for trump to try to keep the conversation over those other targets where he's got an advantage and julie to bring you back in here, one of the things that as you mentioned, some of those some of those issues is that there's been all this talk about biden's age, about his cognitive abilities. that has been ramping over the course of this election. i mean, trump though last night, also 78-years-old, challenged bite into a cognitive test, but also got his white house doctors named wrong while doing it. take a listen i think he should take a cognitive tests like i did. i took a cognitive test nih dot rotting dr. ronny johnson. does everyone know ronnie johnson, congressmen from taxes he was the white house doctor and he said i was the healthiest president he feels in history. so i liked him very much. >> so obviously talking about cars been ronny jackson now. but the point in this, julie is that one can democrats make the case that trump is too old for office? or is this cognitive ability age argument just really a trap for both sides at this point we are running against a convicted felon we are running against somebody who is so unhinged that there is not enough time in this segment are probably for the next 24 hours and check up everything that he said that his shattered every single norm we've seen in this country? >> and so ultimately democrats e to focus on that look, nobody's to fight on donald trump's ground here. nobody needs to cede anything to him every time he opens his mouth, he proves himself unfit for office. this is not he's absolutely right because unlike any president, we've ever had in at least a modern history, and certainly probably america cricket history altogether. and democrats need to keep pointing that out. i will say actually to scott's previous point, looks got you. and i both know that republicans just killed and ivf bill on the hill last week, we know that senators like lindsey graham want to propose a national abortion ban, which we all know donald trump will sign. so i don't think democrats are fearmongering and we have people like supreme court justice this is like clarence thomas saying altogether that they want to revisit these issues. so this is not fear mongering whatsoever. republicans need to be taken, taken at their word i believe it when they say they want to get rid of ivf, i believe they say they speak the truth when they saving want to get rid of contraception, take them at their word, because when somebody shows you who they are, believe them well i want you pick. >> there's not a single there's not a single republican saying, i want to get rid of ivf, or i want to get rid of contraception. these bills are put on the floor. these bills are put on the floor by democrats to conjure up non-existent issues there show votes. donald trump is the leader of the party. he's, he's are presidential candidate he was the first one to come out and say, my policy as the head of this party is going to be we strongly support ivf. so again, it's support that may leak out and other factions of the republican fraction division, no one can point me to a single republican who is running along this. there is not one in the country in the senate and the congress, donald trump. the point has trump's are candidate for president. he says the policy his policy is very clear. julie, i heard you wanted to get in there where you're saying yeah. >> scott, come on, donald trump's policies have never been clear on his life. he goes from day-to-day. he has no serious policy sees that he has ever talked about all he does is go with the flow and the flow right now. so there's a bill on the floor that republicans refused to support. they could have shown support for ivf. they didn't. and if you think it was such a show vote, why not just vote for it as a matter of principle to say, yes, we believe in ivf, we believe that people who want to have children through in vitro fertilization should be able to do that but they didn't because the reason they don't participate in is because they don't feel like they have to participate in the shenanigans of a political party that's run by a president with a 38% approval rating. >> that's why now, again, why don't you just say as a matter of principle, you support ivf. >> what's harm in doing that? why not weigh them together? >> hey, there these votes are not real issues. i mean, no one is threatening ivf, no one is threatening contraception and to try to scare your political party into billy, i get a look if i were in your shoes, i would do the same thing. biden's it 38. he is historically unpopular. inflation in the cost living is going if i were in your shoes, i would be pulling out everything and throw it against the wall two and that's all that it is spaghetti against the wall. >> all right. i got to leave it there right now. but what you're seeing right now is a preview of a lot of the issues that are going to be central over the course of this election. and central in shameless plug the debate. 20 seventh so scott jennings is really appreciate, julie, really appreciate both of you being here. we'll bring it back and we'll continue this conversation all right. >> we're also following more news as well, including israel announcing what they call a tactical pause along a southern gaza route to allow aid in. but says it won't let up in fighting in a around rafah. we're going to take you live to israel next, and she's only been a pro for a few months, but wnba star caitlin clark has already taken a few lumps, including this flagrant foul against her today, we're in discuss what happened today, but also the implications around the discussions in the league der and cnn newsroom, stay with us the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher the president and the former president, one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana bash, the cnn presidential debate thursday, june 27th at nine live on cnn and streaming i'm back there are giant so much god. >> they are the men and women building or daibes next generation submarines they are giants and what they do because they work in a place where they can grow, where they can learn the skills to build careers as powerful as the beast. >> they four we built two because it takes one to build one in the next 30 seconds, 250 couples will need to make room for it. >> nurseries 26 people will go all this family will get two bathrooms and finally, one vacation or we'll say, yeah i'm going to live here that as a euphoria subsides, the realisation hits. >> i could house don't worry, just sell and buy in one move when you start with open door. wow. oh yes start with an all cash offer at open door.com have heart failure with unresolved symptoms it may be time to see the bigger picture part failure and seemingly unrelated symptoms like carpal tunnel syndrome shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat could be something more serious called attr, cme, are rare under diagnose disease that worsens over time sound like you call your cardiologist and ask about attr san marco from roger two we there yet so many ways to save life ready while it happy that's 365 by whole foods market oh, no what if we don't get down in time to get a birthday gift for zoe. don't panic with etsy. we can find the perfect gift and send her a preview right away i love thank sky that's a relief. >> it sure is great to know and some things coming don't panic, drift easy with etsy three body serie a city client uses city's financial expertise to help drive its growth and keep its supply chain moving. >> some more pet parents can get everything they need, right when they need it keeping more pets and families happy with the love of moving our clients forward for the love of progress kinda riva support your brain health. mary janet, hey eddie, know fraser, franck. franck, bread. how are you? 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good. today that you've been following there has been ongoing fighting, whether this fighting is more significant or less intense than it has been in previous days. >> we'll see as we get a better sense of how this looks. the idf has been pushing in rafah, moving northwest along the border. there, essentially cutting off the rafah border between egypt and gaza. it also announced today, as you point out, this tactical pause, as they called it from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. along a very specific route from the kerem shalom border crossing, where israel says there are thousand trucks waiting to go in in through moving northwest towards the european hospital in khan younis, t