Put one on the calendar for trump to stand trial in georgia, and its this second request, but by all means be a boolean move from fani willis considering what weve been talking about for the last two months, weve been talking about allegations of an improper romantic relationship that willis had with her special prosecutor. What sources close to her even acknowledged was a major distraction in this case. But now that willis has at least been told she could remain on the case by judge mcafee. She thinks its time now to push him to put a trial date on the calendar and we could see that come in the coming weeks. Now, look, that doesnt discount the challenges that you still going to face mcafee obviously, was really critical of williss credibility, really criticizing her for her actions that almost got her disqualified from case. And also the threat of his qualification still looms it was over willis and Appeals Court is going to decide whether or not it wants to review mcafee is order tha
portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
as the candidates to be the uk s next prime minister prepare to go head to head. welcome to the programme. we start with the extreme heat across europe. it s facing its worst drought in a long time. we ll look at that in a moment. but first the high temperatures are also causing big wildfires. let s go to france. there s a huge wildfire near bordeaux, in the south western region of gironde. this is what it looks like at night. thousands of hectares have been burnt. 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area, and several homes are destroyed. it s spreading so fast because it s so dry. this is the scene in the day. you can see a plane dropping chemicals used to slow the fire down. more than a thousand fire fighters are there trying to control it. let s hear from one of them. translation: for l the moment, the fire is progressing in every direction. if i may say, the wind is not steady for the moment. it will rise in the course of the day. we are told that the wind will
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and all around the world, it is monday, july 4th, and the independence day celebrations kicking off early in some cities. this is video from milwaukee s waterfront where thousands gathered to catch a spectacular fireworks show, just beautiful there. the mood was not so festive at america s airports, though, flights canceled, passengers stranded. if you are flying holiday weekend chances are you are not having a happy 4th and feeling anything but independent because you were at the mercy of overwhelmed airlines. more than 1,500 flights were canceled from friday through sunday and saturday was the worst, 653 flights were axed. the airlines are also blaming the weather, thunderstorms in the northeast delaying thousands of flights and adding to the chaos the highest travel demand we ve seen since the start of the pandemic and, of course, rampant staffing shortages. let s take you now to one of the busiest airports in the world, atlanta s
good morning and welcome to your new day. i m kristin fisher. good morning, kristin. i m boris sanchez. the city of akron, ohio, is on edge, because later today police are going to release body cam footage showing the shooting death of jayland walker after his encounter with officers. we re going to show you what we know about the case, and we re going to hear from someone close to the family. and air travel is surging to prepandemic levels this weekend, but with that comes headaches for airlines and passengers. where we could see travel issues today and what airlines are doing to stave off future pilot shortages. plus, some democratic attorney general candidates in crucial battleground states say they will not enforce abortion bans if they re elected to office this november. we re going to be joined live by one of them. and fourth of july fizzle? why the skies over some cities will remain dark this independence day. it is sunday, july 3rd. thank you for waking up