better results to debate night in america begins june 27. >> good seven hello and a warm welcome to our viewers, joining us in the united states and around the world. >> i'm anna coren sitting in for max foster just to hate extreme weather in the us with fires, floods, mudslides, and a tropical storm will tell you when there will be a break from the record, breaking heat plus us president joe biden and donald trump will meet face to face. just one week from today for the first presidential debate. will show you how the two candidates are preparing for the event and russian president vladimir putin touches down in vietnam just hours after signing a mutual defense pact with north korea it's those thursday, june 20th, 4:00 p.m. here in hong kong, 3:00 a.m. on the southern gulf coast of texas, where more than 2 million people are under a tornado watch, right now due to tropical storm alberto the national hurricane center says, alberto has been strengthening and will continue to bring heavy rains, coastal flooding, and gusty winds along the coast of texas and northeastern mexico through the day. today, we'll flash flood warnings are also up in some areas storm surge combined with the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded and mudslides are also possible, especially in higher terrain across northeast mexico. the center of the storm is about 120 miles east southeast of tampico, mexico and is expected to make landfall near there in the coming hours. >> the winds of knocked out power to more than 10,000 customers in texas. >> that's according to power outage.us and texas governor greg abbott has issued a disaster declaration for 51 counties impacted by the tropical storm will meantime, extreme heat is still posing a threat to other parts of the us cnn meteorologist chad myers has the latest forecast it sure would be nice to get some of those rains here from parts of texas into new mexico where the fires are. and yes, we will see a few scattered showers here but really more we're going to get will be the wind. we're going to see wins 20 to 25 miles per hour in areas where the fires are now the wind is from an opposite direction that could put firefighters some danger, but also could push the fires back onto areas that have already burned. but you never like to see 20 to 30 mile per hour winds over a fire zone. i'd like to see some wind here in the east, maybe blowing this heat away for a change, or at least giving you a wind chill factor, which certainly won't be the case. again, we're talking about heat index about 260 million people or more going to see temperatures above 90 over the next few days, maybe not every day, but certainly you will there's where the heat will be for today, a little bit farther toward the west tomorrow. and really just expanding toward even dc by the weekend where temperatures will be almost 100 degrees and that's not heat index, that's thermometer. we still have these excessive heat warnings and watches all the way across the us where we're just now seeing just long duration days, whereas day after day, over 90 degrees, over 95 degrees in some spots, even new york city today, all the way to 90 92. and if you are not in the wind or if you are in the sunshine or between buildings with the concrete, it will feel warmer than that without a doubt, today's heat index in syracuse, a lovely 99 this afternoon, and 99 not with heat index, but with the air temperature for dc saturday and for sunday, lot of folks gonna be doing things out and about in dc make sure you try to stay cool. there are lots of water for you. the pets, the kids and even the plants, because they're going a little bit of water, please have a great day. >> jevons thank you. will parts of new mexico are enduring multiple weather-related disasters. water rescues are underway in the mountain village of ruidoso off to flash floods caused by heavy rains on wednesday, will those storms are appearing alongside deadly wildfires in the area 11 sarah spoke with residents 43 evacuated as the flames drew closer michael scott escaped rio dosa, new mexico just in time through thick smoke and an orange glow as a massive wildfire consumed his mountain neighborhood my trick was being hit with chunks of ash. >> it was almost like big gray rain hitting my trend. >> scott and his wife and his mother were able to make it out with a few belongings and they're three dogs. we met them at a motel 50 miles away where all they can do is nurse the shock that everything they own might be lost the not-knowing is a numbing feeling. he says is incredibly helpless feeling where there's literally nothing you can do. it really is and for the past 24 hours, we've been in this little motel and i think well, we don't have anything left. now, where did we go? >> to massive fires around ruidoso are burning across 20,000 acres emergency officials say the wildfires have destroyed 1,400 homes and structures we reach some of those neighborhoods and saw the charred remains of dozens of homes, even found dear making their way through the scarred hillsides yeah, i can see the fire right outside this window. kurt delgado evacuated his home to the edge of town where he set up his puppy to love food truck and started feeding firefighters and emergency crews from the window of your food truck? >> yeah. you can see the smoke and the canyon where your houses? yeah. morehouse is literally right there where that smoke is delgado says he'll stay here as long as he can my parents are that airstream might there were ready to go. >> we're going to do what we can to just stay vigilant about 8,000 people have evacuated the rio dso areas. it's monday, the mountain village is an eerie smoke-filled ghost town. there are a few people left though, like jordan route, i imagine a moment like this is pretty nerve-wracking yeah. >> yeah, i thought i didn't think it was going to come this close to us. next you happen so fast. >> our conversation was interrupted by police urging residents to evacuate immediately. we managed to find our way into michael scott's neighborhood in ruidoso. many of the homes were burned to the ground. but somehow michael's home is still standing. slice of good news, surrounded by devastation and sadness we were able to show michael scott a picture of his home. he said he had tears of joy seeing that his home was still intact, but he and thousands of others are still not in the clear. these wildfires continued to burn, but the good news is, is that weather forecasters say reign, which has already fallen a little bit on wednesday, is expected to continue into thursday. and the hope is that that will give firefighters the relief they need to get these wildfires under control. i'd love indira cnn, ruidoso, new mexico like al ced, my has reported a little earlier high temperatures are set to continue across the us through the weekend. >> it comes after more than a dozen daily high temperature records were either broken or tidal wednesday in the northeast some new england states will see a brief reprieve from the heat. thanks to a cold front sweeping it on friday, but others are busy thinking of ways to stay cool mykey and hide crazy, overwhelming, but it is what it is. >> staying cool this is a process this week, i think eating a lot of ice cream, taking lots of showers and being grateful for air conditioning, we are so blessed to have it stake hydrated, and be well out there let me putin is spending the de in vietnam in a bid to boost economic ties after his trip to north korea or dignitaries welcome the russian leader at her noise presidential palace a short time ago, mr. putin is trying to dispel the perception that he's increasingly isolated by western sanctions over the war in ukraine. >> he's already met with the vietnamese, is president, and we'll speak with the prime minister and communist party chief in the hours ahead. the russian leader has expressed his will willingness to help vietnam with its nuclear power program and increase tourism between the two countries. >> well, let's bring in cnes beijing bureau chief steven jiang. steven explained to us the importance of putin's trip to hanoi. >> and i guess how it differs from his stopover in p on yank knowing very well that russia and vietnam she had these very deep and long relationship yeah, this stop in hanoi, of course, as part of russia's effort and putin's effort to show to the us and its western allies that russia still has friends on the global stage and for hanoi, of course, russia has remained it's number one arms supplier. >> and that is an important role that russia obviously wants to maintain because hanoi has been trying to diversify its sources of weaponry, especially following russia's invasion of ukraine. but the two sides are still very much tied up on this from, and there also maintaining a very strong ties economically especially in the oil and gas field with their joint venture in vietnam's biggest oil field, for example, generating millions of dollars for both sides. and politically, of course, hanoi has been very adapting playing the straddling game, trying to maintaining and improving ties with all the major powers that really have been trying to hanoi. and not only with moscow, but also with beijing and washington. and that seemed to be quite a successful strategy so far. and putin, of course, as you have seen then all these visuals that both in hanoi and pyongyang really enjoying this the status of being welcomed and received as a head of state, even as he increasingly become a pariah in the eyes of the west and that kind of upgrade a relationship with both had no and pyongyang it's definitely a messaging to the western world as well from where i am standing, china has not said much about these developments. there also, the obviously watching very closely, but i think they are secure and confident enough about their relationship with russia and north korea. and understanding that their role is indispensable well in propping a both economies, obviously they've been providing north korea with an economic lifeline for decades, but increasingly they're doing so with the russian economy as well, helping moscow dodge severe western sanctions by a rapidly expanding economic and trade relationship with moscow. and that's why they are very much confident that these newly assigned agreement between pyongyang and moscow, they're not going to affect a china's row and china's position and china's relationship with both moscow and pyongyang. anna it's even john joining us from beijing. we appreciate the update. thank you israel and hezbollah, a trading you threats of wool, the militant group's leader is warning cyprus against opening its airports and bases to israeli forces. >> after israel warned given all-out war the iranian backed group is also vowing to hold nothing back against israel. >> it all fours imposed on lebanon. the resistance will fight without restraints, without rules and without limits and then i do. >> the enemy knows very well that we have prepared ourselves for the worst and most difficult days the enemy knows very well what awaits it. >> and that is why it was deterred for nine months israel and hezbollah have been trading cross-border attacks since october 7. but the strikes have ramped up in recent weeks and israel is threatening to destroy hezbollah up to the group released this drone footage purportedly showing military and civilian sites in northern israel or meantime, tensions between the the us and israel are spilling out into public view. we're learning that a us envoy called out benjamin netanyahu during a private meeting following public comments by the israeli prime minister, who glenn the us, is withholding weapons and ammunitions to israel cnn's mj lee reports from washington those comments from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, where he accused the us of holding back weapons and ammunitions from israel, really not sitting well with us officials. >> a one senior official telling me that they were perplexing and simply wrong what cnn is learning is that us officials actually privately conveyed that sentiment to prime minister netanyahu in a meeting us envoy almost hochstein been told the prime minister that those comments were unproductive and completely untrue. and meanwhile, us ambassador to israel, jack lew said in that same meeting, basically sort walked through all of the arms that are being provided to israel and have been delivered to israel basically to make the point that he believes the ambassador is wrong. and what we've seen us officials do, it's publicly emphasize that there's only one shipment of arms that the us is currently so the holding and that is the shipment that president biden has talked about publicly. now, there is an israeli delegation that is currently in washington to have a series of meetings with their american counterparts. and we're told that a meeting that was slated for thursday appears to have been postponed, though one official said that that was actually a reaction to prime minister netanyahu's comments in that video, other officials told cnn that it was it was actually just a scheduling matter. but either way, we're of course, continuing to see those tensions between us and israeli officials continuing to mount as this war goes on, mj lee cnn at the white house the us has re-anchored. >> it's temporary pier to the coast of gaza, according to two us officials, the pier was dismantled earlier this month for the second time in anticipation of rough seas and weather conditions the us began building the pier in april and started using it to deliver food and medical supplies in may or since then, the deputy pentagon press secretary says, well then 3,500 metric tons of aid has been delivered from the pier what tensions are growing in the south china sea as china takes its maritime 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happened near the contested spratly islands from all let's turn to our ivan watson here with his here in hong kong. >> and i've a new, of course, of witness these skirmishes up close firsthand, but this incident certainly appears to be far more aggressive short, this definitely looks like an escalation. yes, i've been on board a philippine coast guard ship. i've witnessed how chinese coast guard ships and maritime militia that they will swarm and surround and bloc and harass and intimidate. but what's different here in the footage that has been released by the filipino armed forces is these are smaller boats china coast guard, what appear to be either philippine marines and or nevi and the confrontation involves a injuries the philippine armed forces, they say that several of their sailors were injured. one lost a finger they have shown video of the chinese personnel in uniform waving an ax and other clubs and knives. they've accused them of basically an act of piracy and of taking 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