live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. hi. welcome to cnn wherever you are in the world. i'm robyn curnow. coming up -- from partying in the street to condemnation. the election. protesters have a message

for the president. extreme heat in the west. storms in the east. we'll have the forekcast. great to have you along. washington has acknowledged the next president of iran. they announced the election as fundamental. ne nearly everyone who might have challenged a fight has been disqualified. iranians were denied the right to choose. the conservative chief justice

won. it was the lowest turn out in 14 years. fred pleitgen has more. >> reporter: conservatives celebrating a major victory. a man very close it iran's supreme leader will soon take over as president. with the help of god and the help of isi, we will do a good job this man says. while turnout was historically low, he managed to garner more than 60% of the vote the interior ministry says. he won his landslide victory, they are putting on a show of force, and they're celebrating after the moderates suffered a crushing defeat. while some shops in this market have hung up raisi posters,

other question the election after many candidates were disqualified. before the voting, everyone knew the new president would be raisi this woman adds. all the four candidates are the same. it makes no difference to me. the elections have no effect. >> you will have to lift the sanction. people are very high measure of economic pressure. >> reporter: the transfer of power is already being prepared. raisi has met the outgoing president and said he's focused on the task ahead. i hope i can live up to the trust that the people have placed in me during my term, he said. for many, that means getting the trump era sanctions lifted and reviving the iran nuclear agreement all to jump start the

ailing economy. >> there is a tremendous amount of continuity and very important for policy issues such as the jcpoa are not set by the president alone or the foreign minister. it requires much greater degree of systemic buy in. >> reporter: one thing moderates and conservatives agree on is the struggling economy. now raisi will get his chance to bring it back. international reaction ranges from congratulations to outright condemnation. two of iran's most immediate neighbors offered words of support for the incoming president. turkey's president sent a letter saying he wishes to encourage cooperation. iraq's leader said iraq truly looks forward to strengthening its relations with iran. they want to link the two nations through the historical,

cultural bonds but amnesty international wants him investigated. they say he has presided over a crackdown of human rights. israel is condemning raisi. we have a senior fellow at the atlantic council. she joins us from london. holly, lovely to see you. great to have you on the show. tell us more about who this president is. a hard liner. ultra conservative. what more do we know about him. >> well, robin, he was not a household name until the 2017

presidential election which he ran as a rival candidate to incumbent president rohani. he lost to him with 60 million votes. from there on we saw his ascent in government. what we're really seeing is this proto jay of the supreme leader is being groomed as a supreme leader in waiting once the supreme leader passes. this is part of whkhamenei's legacy. he fits the lineup when you see the clerics. by having him as president, he is one of the branches of government that will be all hard lined led. >> and then with that in mind, domestic poll six, what does that mean internationally for

the iran nuclear deal? >> well, the reality is ibrahim raisi does not have a lot of experience. he backs the nuclear award. we've seen a slow walking of the nuclear talks. this is related to the outcome of the election which of course everyone knew what was going to happen. what it's leading a lot of analysts like myself to believe is they're waiting for raisi to take office and put it under their belt. they want sanctions relief because of the shambles that their economy is in. >> thank you to holly dagres now. in the u.s., opposite sides

of the country are taking hits from two opposite weather patterns. on saturday there were a number of tornadoes that injured at least dozens of people in alabama. in the southwest, it is dry on top of an extreme drought more than 30 million people are under excessive heat warnings or advisories just this weekend. some cities are seeing temperatures near record levels. tyler is at the cnn world weather center. we're certainly getting the worst of climate change on both ends of the spectrum. >> absolutely. the tale of two weather stories. across the west coast, 89% is under a drought. a large majority, a large chunk

of the 89% is under the exceptional drought which is a five out of five. the highest draw the level issued. that's mainly across the corner. when you have a drought, the air is really dry. the ground is extremely dry. that allows the temperatures to heat up higher than normal. death valley got up on saturday to 124 degrees which ties an old record. sacramento got up to 110 which broke an old record of 106 degrees. we're going to hit repeat going into sunday as well. las vegas, nevada, 117 degrees today could get up to 112. when we're close to breaking that all-time high temperature early in the week. conditions will continue to bake out west because of the drought that's worsening. climate change, not only do you get more frequent extreme events

but the extreme events become more extreme. the temperatures, wildfires and last hurricane season was the most active atlantic hurricane season on record. we're now in a hurricane season yet again. 2021. our third tropical system, our third named storm right here, claudette. the first one to make landfall this year in new orleans. it is sitting over alabama very slowly spreading a lot of rainfall. that's why we have flood watches in the deep south. some areas have picked up 10 inches of rainfall. tornado watch across portions of ala alabama, georgia, the panhandle of florida. as it continues t will weaken. get this, once it reemerges in the atlantic, it could strengthen into a tropical storm. >> we'll continue watching this.

thank you so much, tyler. stick with us because it's certainly concerning what is going on in the u.s. lakes, rivers are going dry. crops are being burned by scorched sun. power plants running out of water to make electricity. all of this is caused by worsening droughts. this is going on around the world. the united nations said it could only be a preview of what's to come with no clear solution in sight. here's michael holmes with the story. >> reporter: it is commonly known as the hottest place on earth. tourists posing for photos in death valley, california. the numbers on the themometer say it all. it's a scorcher. >> we're from michigan so this is extremely hot for us. we have a ton of water in the car, gatorade and we aren't going to do much. >> reporter: an alarming

snapshot of a growing global crisis affecting not only the west but countries around the world. a u.n. official tweeting that drought could be the next pandemic with no vaccine to cure it. the warning not just for poor nations but developed ones, too, with population growth changing rainfall patterns from climate change and over cultivation just some of the factors contributing to drought. without enough water this farmer in jordan says he has no income. >> translator: the problem is that we don't have any water. look at this tow nato. if there was water, it would have been bigger and i could have sold it for a good price. >> reporter: there is a struggle to provide enough power to nearby cities. heavy rain finally started falling last week.

>> translator: i am cut off from noon to 6 p.m. i have no air conditioning, i have no light, i can't even serve coffee. i can't do anything. >> reporter: sometimes the land itself buckles from dry conditions. giant sinkholes increasingly cracking open in turkey tapping into groundwater to irrigate crops. it's the worst drought in history when no typhoons hit the island last year. ominous signs from all over the globe that a world without enough water is not a sustainable one. michael holmes, cnn. still ahead this hour, brazilians turn out to demand the resignation of bolsinaro. 100% increase in cases in

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welcome back. the u.s. hit a positive milestone in coronavirus

administering 300 million vaccine doses in 150 days. the spread of the delta variant could threaten the progress. at least 80 countries have reported cases of the variant. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explains why the variant is causing so much concern. sanjay. >> reporter: we are just 300,000 doses administered. it's not 70% that we wanted. we are probably at functional herd immunity or soon to be there. numbers coming down, hospitalizations, deaths, all of that. the question is about the variants. it's interesting to look around the world at the variants and

see how much of an impact they're making. take a look at the u.k., for example, i think there's a story that's important that you see in the graphic. the end of january it was primarily the alpha or the u.k. variant that was dominant in the u.k. what happened over that time period? the numbers came down but at the same time the delta variant started to enter the scene. that was primarily obviously people who had not been vaccinated. that is the concern here. we know this is a much more transmissible variant. the u.k. or alpha variant was 50% more transmissible. this is 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant. the people who are infected with the delta variant are more likely to be hospitalized. this does appear to be more transparent and serious. that is why there is so much more attention on this if you look at the effectiveness of the

vaccines. take a look, you see the alpha or delta, you get a lot of impact, a lot of protection from these vaccines. that's why the message remains the same to go out there and get vaccinated. it is also worth pointing out as you can slow down the spread of the virus overall through vaccinations for immunity, you're going to be less and less likely to actually develop mutations that are problematic, create variants we continue to care about. no matter how you put it, the message remains the same, go get vaccinated. >> thanks so much for that. meantime, brazil has hit a somber mark and more than half a million people have died of covid there. they've told us it's twice as high as it was six months ago. that's a sign the mortality rate is actually accelerating. thousands of brazilians marched

in the streets across the country to protest bolsinaro's handling of the pandemic. we have more on that. >> reporter: on saturday brazil became the second country in the world after the united states to cross the grim threshold of 500,000 plus covid deaths. there are over 82,000 new cases and 2301 new deaths. they're over 17 million cases. as brazil marked these milestones, thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand the impeachment of the president over his handling of the pandemic. major brazilian cities all were

guaranteed to a large scale and peaceful demonstrations as indeed the country's capitol and bolsinaro addressed the covid-19 deaths at an event saturday. his communication director did so on social media attacking the government's critic for not focusing on the millions of vaccine doses delivered, he said, by the government, and even cheer. for cnn, this is an opportunity. here's a look at the trend lines in terms of coronavirus death. as you can see from this map here, the u.s. just crossed 600,000 souls. india is approaching 400,000.

just devastating numbers. we're also seeing worrying trends out of africa in many case as well. some countries like libya and sierra leone have gone up more than 100%. he says positive cases aren't always detected. >> the brutal impact is we have left vast areas of the population unprotected in a context where health systems are already weak. >> he's the director of policy.

i'm so glad you're joining us. i do have a lot of questions. i want to get your reaction to the w.h.o. reaction there raising the alarm. how concerned are you? >> good day, robyn. good day to all of the viewers. i'm deeply, deeply concerned. when one looks at the situation globally there are about 20 vaccinations per 100 people in the world. in africa it's 10 fold less. we have just over 2 vaccinations per 100 people living on the continent. vaccination rates are really way, way too low. the challenge in africa is many countries are all willing and raring to go to give vaccinations but there are no doses available. the big problem has been that most countries in africa have

depended on co vax. it was getting its main supply from india. they are redirecting it to india itself. it's a huge challenge in africa. >> how much of a backlog do you think there is? >> well, we've got a lot of catching up to do. there's a need to get the vaccines into the continent so at least 20% of the population can be vaccinated in 20 months. roughly one out of four countries, about 14 in africa, already in the third wave. so the sooner vaccines can arrive, the better. i was very pleased the g7 has made that commitment and several companies making commitments to make vaccines available but a lot more needs to be done. >> let's talk about where you

are now. this should have one of the most developed and helpful situation. how worrying is the situation in south africa? >> south africa went through a pretty bad patch in the second wave. that happened at the end of the november with a new variant. that went through the country and the second wave was much worse than the country. most of the country hasn't recovered and we've spent the last three months at low transmission. the situation has changed. cases have been rising in three or four of nine provinces. johannesburg and trattoria are,

cases have been rising rapidly. as of today the cases, the moving average of cases is high j higher in the third wave than it's ever been in the first and second waves. >> speaking to me a little bit earlier. thank you so much for that. the coach of uganda's olympic team tested positive after arriving in japan. he's not showing any symptoms. certainly the latest hurdle in the pandemic of the delayed 2020 games. on saturday they canceled all public viewing. some of the venues will be used as vaccination site instead. the japanese government has been criticized for moving forward with the games even though they're in a fourth wave. next up on "newsroom," gun

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welcome back to all of our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is 31 minutes past the hour. i am robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me. last year's mass protests

prompted many u.s. cities to look for ways to reform. amidst the recent surge in gun violence, it could affect them keeping the u.s. safe. here's josh campbell. >> after a year of scrutiny over controversial police use of force incidents, some cities are starting to limit what officers can do. this as several major u.s. cities are starting to see a surge in violent crime. in chicago following the police pursuit and shooting of 13-year-old adam toledo, it means officers can only pursue a suspect who committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime not based solely on a person's response to police presence. in parts of philadelphia as part of a three-month pilot program, police have rules about quality of life violence. urinating in public, panhandling or smoking marijuana.

the rules? police should ask them to stop or move on. all of this comes on the heels of dante wright and george floyd. they never would have happened if the officers had not been on the scene in the first place. >> if we talk about police and violence workers, to a hammer everything is a nail. we don't always need a hammer. >> law enforcement advocates see it differently. >> when there's no consequence, people are going to break the law. that's the reality. >> reporter: they worry it could surge. >> now more than ever crime is skyrocketing across the country. law abiding citizens are expecting police to do their job. >> reporter: removing a badge and gun from certain calls could lead to more outcomes. >> we have the individuals on stand by and law enforcement

officers are not far to handle scenarios where they have not been trained. >> reporter: but some policing experts warn that could back fire if not handled properly. >> how much confidence do you have in the department of children and family services that they're train wrecks in kinds of ways. >> reporter: until cities find solutions and fund them, police leaders say they'll have to continue to fill the gap. >> as much as an emergency room doctor is called upon, you may not get the best emergency room doctor with special needs but you'll get someone who can do the best they can. >> josh campbell, cnn. >> thanks so much for that. in atlanta they're pushing away to become their own city. a recent surge in crime has reignited the issue.

breaking away will cause more divide. >> people are complaining and fearful and anxious everywhere. we're down hundreds and hundreds of police. we're having a big debate over what does law and order mean. a lot of things hang in the balance. >> in a lot of georgia and elsewhere, gun sales are on the rise especially among black women. as major cities deal with a spike in crime, americans are taking matters into their own hands to keep their families safe. ryan young visits a gun range in georgia to find out more. >> my eyes and ears. >> it's a little intimidating.

>> reporter: these black women practicing how to fire a gun, some of them for the very first time. >> i needed to learn how, when, how tos and dos and don'ts. >> what's it like to be out here with all of the black women? >> it's beautiful. for me, it's a feeling of self-empowerment. >> reporter: and a desire for training to protect themselves and their families. >> i feel like in this country, this climate, if you don't know how to take care of yourself, you're at a disadvantage. >> reporter: gun sales are driving a majority of increase according to the national shooting sports foundation. the number of black buyers increased 58% last year compared to 2019. more than any other group. >> i think for the most part we're getting them for self-defense. >> reporter: phillip smith is president of the national

african-american gun association. they have seen dramatic increase. >> i'm talking to black doctors, nurses, lawyers, biochemists. every walk of life. saying, hey, phil, we had conversations about getting guns. >> reporter: he says they've seen more interest from women specifically. >> black women and men have stepped up. they are joining in droves. >> reporter: some of the people who have never shot before. you can see them getting that one-on-one training before aiming their gun at the target. >> reporter: while the latest spike among black buyers may be driven by the pandemic, uptick in crime, it's not necessarily new. >> guns have always been in our history. it's just not told. >> reporter: carrying a gun for protection can become a factor. it's also on the minds of black gun owners. >> when you have a gun and

you're a black gun owner, you have a different set of rules. >> reporter: orlando castillo was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. he had a permit to carry. >> we don't want to turn around and say, you know what, we don't have our guns. that's the worst because we are getting shot. you have a right to the second amendment. our ancestors died for that. >> reporter: on the range they want to shift what gun owners look like. are you hoping to change the look of black gun owners? >> i do. i don't see why we can't exercise our second amendment rights. if everyone else can, why can't we? >> reporter: being concerned on

what was going on during the pandemic and it seems like crime is on the rise, they want to be able to protect themselves and their families. ryan young, cnn, covington, georgia. coming up here at cnn, people in north korea tell us they've experienced drastic food shortages and rising prices. why it's likely to get worse. that is next. experience you can see,your hn smell, and feel. it's air care, redefined. air wick essential mist. connect to nature.

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korea. his first visit in 1988 towards the end of a devastating famine, the situation was worse than up to any country he worked in. the actual number is unknown. dr. kim says he sent 1.6 million bags of fertilizer and 1 million of corn seeds and corn to pyongyang. that ended abruptly when they shut the borders in 2020. >> because of covid i cannot visit. because of covid, to even satisfy, i am going to guarantee they do not accept my ideas. the food situation is getting intense according to kcna.

youth groups have been recruited to help in the rice pattys. the recurring issue of food insecurity. united nations estimates they will have more than 2 months free. it predicts a harsh, lean period. >> normally north korea imports from china in large quantities when the price is low. with the covid restrictions, movement is low. the price of flour and sugar have risen. even locally raced prices, the humanitarian aide to cross the border. in april kim jong-un called for an arduous march.

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this is a great start. this is a holiday. something that we all should come out and celebrate. >> it's a weekend holiday here in the united states and around the country. people are marking the first national observance of juneteenth as a scheduled holiday. juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery and the day in 1865 when former slaves in galveston, texas, were told slaves were free. president biden signed the bill into law on thursday as you can see here. he gave the first pen to 94-year-old opal lee. the grandmother of juneteenth. she helped make the day a federal holiday. reports from washington. >> it's a juneteenth celebration in the nation's capitol. an official national holiday. this is the holiday and the

official day it's happening, june 19, 1865. they were told they were emancipated two years after the emancipation proclamation. this is the celebration. earlier we were at black lives matter plaza. iconic locations for civil rights and social justice. many people i talk to say this is a celebration. we saw t-shirts saying freeish meaning so much more work to do when it comes to voting rights, housing rights, economic parity and fighting against police brutality. this day an acknowledgment of black achievement and black resi resilience. take a listen. >> we're coming together and putting caution on display. we're getting our community more politically engaged and motivated to participation.

just like this, black lives matter plaza. what has that changed for us? not much. we don't have justice around the world and country. it is cool to know this is a space of belonging. juneteenth is the same thing. >> juneteenth, something we celebrate to being black and something we use to embrace ourselves and our culture. just have fun and choose joy no matter what. >> as you can hear the go go music in the background, really from here in washington, d.c., a celebration but also a message to many people i talked to to washington -- official washington, political washington that lawmakers must work from the ground up to change the laws and make sure indeed there is progress to make sure african-americans are truly free

in this country. suzanne malveaux. the modern day kkk was founded and where controversy over remembering the civil war looms large to this day. robin savidge has the story. >> reporter: 80-year-old gloria brown remembers when hundreds of men in white robes would descend on her town each summer. >> as a little girl, they look like a white ghost. there were black ghosts and white ghosts. >> reporter: crosses would burn on the nearby mountain top. brown's father reassured her one day things would be different. >> he said, but that will change. >> reporter: he was right. this weekend stone mountain, georgia, birth place holds its

first juneteenth scelebration. we'll have vendors, food, then we'll end the night with fireworks. >> reporter: deputy mayor is excited to show off how much is different in the village of roughly 6300, now 78% black. >> it is our hope people will see us for who we are today and recognize things have changed. we may not be perfect but we're not who we used to be. >> the celebration is without controversy. the largest confederation mountain side, it is working on the three-acre mountain side homage. to many, it's a giant reminder

of old jim crow south and the village has nothing to do with it. >> you have no say as to what goes on, what the park does? >> we have no say. zero say. >> reporter: the controversy was sparked with the stone mountain park, they requested a booth at the village's juneteenth festival to pass out flyers about the park. the village said no, it was politics. >> they wanted a day of no politics. >> reporter: this is not the first time they've been caught up in anger. leftist antiracist groups came to town in a tense face-off over race, and they accompany stone

mountain park. >> if i had my way, it would be blasted. >> reporter: johnson spearheaded the way to make juneteenth to be celebrating for everyone. we celebrate the fourth of july. it's also important to celebrate juneteenth for the freedoms of black people in this country. >> reporter: gloria brown's father wasn't the only one to predict a different day. so didn't another man in 1963. in his famous "i have a dream" speech martin luther king said in part let freedom ring. >> let freedom ring from the shores of california but not only that, let freedom ring from

stone mountain of georgia. this weekend that will seem shallower than ever even as they celebrate in the shadow of the confe confederacy. new york city has unveiled a new statue of george floyd just in time for juneteenth. this is a 6 foot sculpture. floyd's brother terence unveiled the statue and local media report will be on display for several weeks before moving to union square in manhattan. thank you for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. you can join me and follow me on twitter and instagram. i'm robyn curnow. see you again same time, same place tomorrow. enjoy, the news continues.