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the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, including these four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old and swept away when strong flood waters ripped them from their parents. the governor says they will, quote, be finding bodies for we weeks. certainly the deadliest and most devastating of my lifetime. we can now confirm we have lost 30 kentuckians to this flooding and that is going to grow. we know about additional bodies beyond these 30 con ....
giving either false hope or faulty information. and it s not just kentucky dealing with extreme weather, either. the super charged mckinney fire exploded over the weekend in northern california, scorching over 55,000 acres. authorities say it s zero percent contained. firefighters reported finding the bodies of two people in a vehicle burned in the path of the wildfire. evacuations continue today. let s start in kentucky. our reporter is live for us. evan, what are you seeing and hearing from people there? reporter: kate, the flood waters are starting to recede, the ones that came in last week. but we re worried there might be more coming in. this gives aus ch us a chanceo talk about how dang rerous thes floods are. where i m standing is a creek that goes along the highway. i want to show you just what happened here when those flood waters came through. over there, that collection of plywood and slats, there s some toys a t the top of that, that was a house. the fl ....