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just dangerous right now. we have to we have to in case the fire cone, we have to be prepared. we can't stay here red flags fly on the coast of south texas as a system in the gulf could become the first name storm of this young hurricane season, texans could see up to ten inches of rain and a storm surge of up to three feet is already pushing ashore and pre-summer swelter were also feeling that as well, 80 million people are under heat alerts today as dangerously high temperatures baked the northeast and midwest more than 20 daily records could be broken just today. >> four perspective, consider this national weather service and caribou, maine as issued its first ever excessive heat warning for that area. care of beau could a record of 96 degrees today and the heat index of get this 104 degrees, that's in main. if people in caribou want to escape the heat, they could go to miami where it's about ten degrees cooler. it's a lot of wild weather right now. let's begin with the wildfire. cnn's ed lavandera isn't ruidoso new mexico with the latest the city of ruidoso, new mexico is essentially a ghost town. it feels like at this point, less than 48 hours after this fires, these fires started in this mountainous region of new mexico, more than 8,000 people have evacuated. as i mentioned, there's two different fires that are considered consume so far about 20,000 acres, almost none of it has been contained here at this point. and the visibility because of the smoke from these fires is just really cut down dramatically the smoke is intense. this is a roadway that leaves out to the northern edge of town. this is an area where people were scrapped humbling monday night to get to get out of this area as no one resident described as ash was falling from the sky. and as you look everywhere, you look here, visibility has cut down dramatically, very difficult to breathe, and it really kind of gets into your eyes as well. you can imagine what the firefighters on the front lines are battling. in this canyon is mountainous area fighting these fires are extremely difficult, as i mentioned, about 1,400 structures have been destroyed or lost so far. and these fires, more than 8,000 people have evacuated and one resident says they're lucky to get out alive we've reached a point where it was just a solid blackout. i've never seen anything like it, but the thing that kind of startled me more than anything. my truck was being hit with chunks of ash. i could feel them hidden hood and the gray. it was almost like big gray rain hitting my trend now there is a sliver of good news and there could be some relief on the way and that is weather forecasts are showing that later this afternoon and into thursday as well. >> uh, rain is expected in this area and that would obviously help dramatically for the firefighters on the ground. you're battling these massive wild so fires that have consumed the areas around ria dose. so new mexico, so that relief can't come soon enough because there are thousands of people who've evacuated this area. they've scattered to other communities around here in new mexico and they are desperately awaiting word to find out if their homes have made it through the worst of these wildfire back to you all right. >> are ed lavandera. thank you. joining me now, form our female administrator, craig few gate craig. thanks a lot for joining us. good to talk to you again i mean, what do you think as you're looking into what's happening right now across the country, do you find it worrisome that we're seeing this many weather disasters unfolding and summarize and even officially started yeah, this is one of the things that i think the the federal agencies and a lot of researchers are working on this idea of what they're calling a flash drought. >> we're seeing areas that morgan are really severe drought, but with the high temperatures, low humidities, and then we get when and we're gonna explosive wildfires in areas that traditionally wouldn't be in that condition from california across the southwest as you are reporting on in new mexico. >> but even other parts of the country where these extremely high temperatures, low humidities things dr. very quickly and we'd go for several weeks without rain and we get explosive fire conditions loading that into the extreme rainfall events we're getting. >> it seems are just bouncing around in this country from one extreme weather disaster to another. >> yeah, it's it's like extreme weather whack-a-mole right now, and craig i did want to ask you about female because the females warn that it's disaster relief funds could run out by august at the height of the atlanta hurricane season. what does that mean for disaster response? >> i mean, i can't imagine something like that occurring when a trina hits or something like that well, female will conserve their money to make sure that can respond to the disastrous. >> but what they'll have to look at is rebuilding after disasters, including ones that have already occurred until congress appropriates more funds. so this is one of the key things that female has to watch his, that they're going into a more active hurricane season and existing disasters is conserving their funds to make sure that can respond to the next disaster. that may mean slowing down or stopping the rebuilding from older disasters that have already occurred yeah, i'm craig, you're an expert on all this. i mean, what do you make of these calls on female to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke has major disasters. i mean, you were just talking about these this issue of flash droughts what's your reaction to all that? >> well, if think it's coming down to where a governor can request from the president the assistance. it's demonstrating that these are exceeding local estate capabilities as we're seeing, when you start getting heatwaves in areas where a lot of people don't even have air conditioning what are those impacts? the state needs assistance on. and i think that's some of the stuff that again, we're looking at. what does it mean that we're going to have to provide more assistance to state, local governments. and extreme weather events that historically were managed that the local and state level yeah. >> i mean, when we're talking about caribou, maine getting up into the high 90s. that is that's bizarre. i mean, you've been in this business for such a long time, craig, do you see any other reason than climate change as being a major factor behind all of this? >> now let's climate change. and again, i think the thing that people need to understand is to climate has already changed we're in a phase of having to adapt to these changes and people say, well, extreme weather has always occurred and people agree, except that is occurring at a frequency. we've never seen. and the other thing is, these are always he's being turned record setting events, meaning we have no data of this occurring in the united states since probably the mid 1800s earlier where we have good weather data. >> so this is not something we've experienced before especially the frequency and the fact that we're not getting many breaks between these events yeah. no question about all right. correct. few gate always great to talk to you. >> thanks so much for the expertise. appreciate it thanks. >> yeah. >> all right. taking authoritarian ties to a new level will break down the agreement. queen, vladimir putin and kim jong un next historically the soviet union killed traders i started to run two kgb cause come behind us. i didn't know what to do. >> secrets and spies. a nuclear game sunday at ten on cnn. >> you have pro massaging bone, easier to grip the massage and the power of two max strength pain relievers works he makes it less new i see how pro massaging boehm right now, you get a free foot locker of weight just by entered foot login to app and get one free. just scan the qr code and enter promo code fifo go. it only worked 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jong un rolled out the red carpet for vladimir putin welcoming the russian autocrat for his first visit to the country in more than two decades, the hero's welcome included a lavish ceremony complete with a ride in an open limo check out the size of that red carpet, the two liters sign what they called a strategic breakthrough partnership treaty, deepening a staunch anti west alliance that washington is closely watching joining me now cnn global affairs analyst and former trump defense secretary, mark esper. >> he also served was on the board as a strategic advisor for a handful of aerospace and defense related companies secretary esper, good to see you as always what do you think about this? i mean, obviously when we see the pictures, it's alarming to see vladimir putin, kim jong un, in a giant limo going down a red carpet and so on. but what do you make of this? mutual defense pact if either country's attack, what does that mean? i mean, does that mean that the north koreans will come to the defense of russia if ukraine were to attack, right? i mean, what, what does all that mean? >> good questions, jim. may i'm first of all, this is important for a number of reasons. first of all, there's the theater of putin traveling to pyongyang to meet with kim jong un. it's the first time he's done it in 24 years it may signal a sense of desperation in many ways, with regard to the tactical needs he has on the ukrainian battlefield when it comes to arms and ammunition. and we know that north korea has provided 250,000 plus metric tons of ammunition to rush everything from artillery shells, two ballistic missiles, and so i think on one hand, it reflects moscow's continuing need to sustain the fight in ukraine. >> and then of course, there's the strategic matter that you just mentioned. >> today. they signed this strategic partnership agreement. it's unclear right now exactly what it calls for beyond the words, providing military assistance one another what we'll probably find out in due course is does it harken back to the 1961 mutual defense treaty that they had, and that went away with the end of the cold war. and that one is acting more like you know, you, they would, russia would come to north korea's military assistance with intervene if attack that was replaced by a french agreement in two house and so it's unclear how far back toward the cold war era agreement this new one goes yeah, and secretary esper, i mean, i guess it could be tempting to say, okay. >> is this sort of a new axis of evil, alaa, george w bush but at the same time, you see putin sending worships to havana. he does this trip to north korea. there's, there's a little bit of a smell of desperation there, is there not yeah. >> that says i was just mentioning there isn't there is a sense of desperation. i mean, he he he has increased his country's economy to 7% of gdp being spent on defense i would argue it's a war economy, something that we in the west are not doing to keep up with the fight in ukraine, but, but you're right, he's he's conducting a lot of demonstrations and exhibitions around the world that visit to cuba with the russian navy and other things to signal that russia is on the world stage. but at the same time, his economy is struggling. and of course he goes next to vietnam. these two visits come just on the hills of an important g7 meeting last week in europe, which he's been excluded from in terms of the g8 and other bodies and of course there was the peace summit in switzerland for ukraine. so you could see that this block is forming up the bloc led by china russia comes in number two and linares, iran and north korea and then venezuela and molly and others. but you can see this block, this axis forming up on the other side the autocracies of the world as i call them all right, very interesting are secretary mark esper. >> thanks. as always, really appreciate thank you, jim all right. in the meantime, new signs of dustup between the white house and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i want to go straight to cnn's arlette saenz, who was in delaware, where the president is today. arlette, what's going? going on here? the administration not happy about some recent comments from netanyahu what can you tell us yeah, jim, there is mounting frustration for biden administration officials towards israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu after yesterday at of video here just that the us was withholding military aid for his country. >> that is something that the white house publicly pushed back on yesterday. say they have no idea what netanyahu was talking about there. and we are learning that officials have also relayed their frustration directly to the private minister himself cnn has learned that almost augustine, who has been traveling in the region, met with netanyahu yesterday and in that meeting, he told netanyahu that his comments were unproductive and more importantly, a completely untrue the us ambassador to israel, jack lew, also a reagents reiterated similar comments saying that what netanyahu said was incorrect. and another senior administration official told cnn these comments were perplexing and wrong. now, it's unclear what exactly netanyahu was talking about with these comments in early may, the administration had put a pause on the shipment of heavy bombs for israel as there were concerns about their possible ground operations can into rapa. but yesterday, secretary of state antony blinken said that that is still under review and that there has been no change as otherwise, take a listen to what he had to say we as you know are continuing to review one shipment that president biden has talked about. >> with regard to 2000 pound bombs because of our concerns about their use in a densely populated area. like rafah that remains other under review but everything else is moving as it normally would move. we generally do not know what he's talking about. we just don't now one official said that the us postponed a high level meeting to discuss around with israel. >> in part due to these comments, while others have pushed back saying that there were simply some scheduling conflicts, but this clearly comes at a very tense time. is there have been frustrations from the administration towards israel on a number of fronts as their concern them not just about the war in gaza, but potentially this conflict widen it out even more all right, arlette saenz, thanks for that. >> and join me now and cnn's fareed zakaria to respond to all this fareed, i want to get your reaction to what we just heard from arlette what do you think of netanyahu putting out videos and saying things and then the white house saying we have no idea what he's talking about it's shocking, but it's not entirely surprising. >> bibi netanyahu is playing a partisan political game that is more about his survival than about anything else. remember, this is a guy who did this once before when obama tried to 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