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capital. it has been nearly a week now since thousands of residents in jackson, mississippi have been able to have clean tap water. a major water treatment plan began failing last monday after it was damaged by flading, but when will people there finally have clean water to flush their toilets or brush their teeth or take a shower? fema is now saying it's too early to know. >> where we are focused right now from fema is being able to make sure we can provide and support the mississippi emergency management agency with bringing in safe drinking water, bottled water, supporting their o...

won't come until tomorrow. these conditions making the already dangerous fight against two raging wildfires in northern california all the more peril yous. more than 10,000 acres scorched and still growing. governor gavin newsom is declaring a state of emergency. hundreds evacuated as flames race closer to homes and structures. our chris winn and cnn meteorologist tom sare here to walk us through it all. you have in santa monica, and that's where we in the west go to cool down. how hot is it there now? >> hey, sara, temperatures are approaching 100 degrees. simply put, people here ar...

russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nation's power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnn's melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. >> reporter: there's been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the fact it may be now in ukrainian hands and also on the russian side, with some talk of the retrea...

obtained by cnn suggest otherwise. cnn's sam kiley has more on a potential diplomatic breakthrough in an attempt to avoid a nuclear disaster. here's more from sam. >> yes, it could be seen as some kind of diplomatic breakthrough that the russian president has endorsed the idea that the international atomic energy authority, the body responsible for inindividuallating, if you like, nuclear power stations around the world, should be allowed to go to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and check it out, and install and reinstall the monitoring systems. the fact of the matter, though,...

it certainly goes further than a lot of republicans would like it to go. but there is no doubt this bill is going to save thousands of lives. >> ahead not next 15 minutes i'll speak with the democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a voice that worked on the deal and one of president biden's top allies. and relief at the pump, that's president biden's goal this afternoon, asking congress to pass a three month federal gas tax holiday, but it's already facing stiff resistance from democrats and republicans. why is that? we'll break it down coming up. and this hour on the hill, r...