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A major heat wave in store for the Pacific Northwest and growing Fire Concerns for the droughtstricken southwest. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers. Chad . John, a remarkable heat wave about to occur in the northwest. Also, British Columbia as well. Hundreds of record highs will be broken without a doubt. To the east there will be some severe weather. But this remarkable heat wave across the west is going to happen thursday, friday, saturday, and into sunday and then at the same time were going to get almost 10 inches of rain in parts of missouri. One side across the country to the other. S...

To lose. democrats can't survive unless people learn how to lose elections. if you look at the transfer of power that took place in germany after merkel's years in office, they gave a first bump and that is the end of it. that is a simple process. that is necessary for democracy to survive. if you're in a situation where one party doesn't accept election results and they go after the validity, it encourages further attacks on the democracy. it makes me nervous how democrats respond in the future, if republicans win fair and square. it's bad news. >> the thing is, we have been talking about rep...

At it again. the country re-created itself, and today germany seems to be a stable democracy, and merkel served solidly as chancellor, and the country's policies seems to have shifted in only marginal ways, but behind that calm lies more turbulence. the two parties on the left and right usually got about 90% of the vote. but they got just under 50% in the 2021 federal election. it's called political fragmentation and it's happening across the western world. france's socialist party is a shadow of its former self. spain had to hold four elections in four years to arrive at a workable coalition....

Let me conclude this program about american democracy by looking at germany again. after its hellish descent to tyranny the country recreated itself and today germany appears to be an almost stable democracy. merkel served solidly for 16 years and she's been succeeded by the former finance minister kts another moderate. the country's policies seem to have shifted in marginal ways. but behind that calm lie more turbulent currents. as a scholar notes, for decades germany's two main political parties on the left and right taken together you recally got about 90% of the vote but they just got unde...

Of looking for weaknesses and the lack of a merkel is a weakness. absolutely. there is no doubt in the fact that there is no—one right now on the european landscape with putin's level of experience and his own institutional memory of how he got to this point is a huge liability. and, frankly, it's a challenge for the united states as well. like britain, the us—russian relationship is in tatters and there are very few interlocutors who are dealing on an intensive basis who are dealing with putin's inner circle, that is a real challenge as we head into what could be a very dangerous phase in...