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>> yes, thus far, behind the scenes, iran has not joined up on our side and they won't, but they've been in a back channel basis at least more accepting of the situation than the russians. the russians are really, really dug in. for some reason. i don't understand. it would be interesting for them to begin considering if an islamist extremist group ended up with chemical weapons in chechnya, how they would behave. for some reason, over syria, vladimir putin has decided to square off -- >> if you look at kosovo, we saw the "new york times" said the kosovo intervention is something the united st...

16 people have already died since thursday when triple digit temperatures unleashed the deadly storms leaving millions without power. you see all of these states in yellow? these are the states suffering in ohio, 425,000 customers without power as of 10:00 last night. same story in virginia, same story in maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting, waiting for that electricity to flip back on. there is still really no let up in sight this morning. 20 states under heat advisories and there's a state of emergency in maryland, ohio, west virginia and virginia. athena jo...