♪ hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> but i never called mike pence a whimp. i never called him a whimp. >> donald trump is backlashing out at the january 6th hearings and contradicting testimony given under oath. this has the committee struggles lining up key witnesses. ukraine is one step closer to joining the european union. president zelenskyy says it also brings them closer to winning

the war. we're live in kyiv. plus, dangerous heat waves across the u.s. and western europe. we'll go to the cnn weather center on when people can see relief. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. "the new york times" is reporting that the u.s. justice department could begin receiving interview transcripts from the january 6th committee as early as next month. earlier, federal prosecutors believed they would not get them until september and delay some trials of capitol rioters. former u.s. president donald trump remains defiant despite growing mountain of testimony and other evidence against him. he spoke out on friday for the first time since the hearings began calling former vice president mike pence weak now for not blocking the 2020 certification.

several former officials everyone around trump told him repeatedly he lost the election and a scheme to stay in office was illegal. cnn's jessica schneider has more on trump's reaction to the hearings. >> i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be frankly historic. but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike and i say it sadly because i like him, but mike did not have the courage to act. ♪ >> reporter: former president trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the january 6th committee. >> they're con people. they're con artists. >> reporter: trumps attacks come as the committee is gearing up for several more hearings. georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will be at tuesday's hearing with his deputy. >> all i want to do is this, i

just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> reporter: they'll testify about trump's efforts to pressure them to change the results. the committee wants to talk to ginny thomas the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas about her talks with john eastman. he devised the scheme to pressure mike pence to block the 2020 electoral win. >> appears to be regular in form in authentic. >> reporter: something pence ultimately refused to do. >> we have sent ms. thomas a letter asking her to come and talk to the committee. we look forward to her coming. >> you need to follow -- >> reporter: she issued a short response to the committee via the daily caller she can't wait to clear up misconceptions. i look forward to talking to them. eastman denying he ever

discussed election with thomas or clearance thomas. eastman writing we never engaged in such discussions, would not engage in such discussions and did not do so in december 2020 or any time else. while the committee is requesting cooperation from outstanding witnesses, it is so far refused to share full transcripts of all of its interviews with the justice department, but the committee says it will not be an obstacle to justice department prosecutions. >> we are not going to stop what we're doing to share the information that we've gotten so far with the department of justice. we have to do our work. >> reporter: cnn has learned the panel is running into problems securing witnesses for an upcoming hearing about trump's efforts to pressure the justice department to support and promote his false election fraud claims. while jeffrey roenz and richard donoghue, the top two officials at doj in the final weeks of the trump administration are expected to appear, the committee is so far striking out

with sip lowny, the former white house lawyer credited with talking some sense into trump by threatening to resign. sources say he is not expected to join the hearing in person, despite already talking to the committee privately. and "the new york times" is also reporting that the committee could start sharing transcripts of those witness interviews with the justice department as soon as next month. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. earlier we discussed the hearings with former los angeles county prosecutor lonnie kums. she said the testimony so far puts pressure on the justice department to file charges against the major players. >> these committee hearings have really upped the pressure on the department of justice. with every hearing, the evidence has gotten stronger and stronger. i think that people are looking at this and not asking the question, is there evidence to link donald trump to this, they're now saying, why would you not file charges and how many charges are you going to

file? look, this committee laid out at the very beginning they were going to put on evidence that this was a sophisticated plan that he had to try and overturn this election and maintain power. that's exactly what the evidence is showing. i think it's been a very compelling way to present it with the multimedia, with the videos and the witness statements and the live witnesses and that also the committee members coming on here and there explaining exactly what's going on and step by step through the timeline. i think that everyone watching it can say, look, this is very clear that donald trump did commit these charges. georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and state elections head gabe sterling will testify publicly at the next committee hearing set for tuesday. trump pressured them to find extra votes after he lost the election. the panel is still trying to nail down a witness list for thursday's hearing. sources tell cnn it's expected to focus on trump's efforts to use the justice department to

support his election lies. former acting attorney jeffrey rosen and richard donoghue are expected to appear. and cnn will bring you next week's hearings live on tuesday and thursday. our coverage is set to begin both days at 1:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 p.m. in the evening in london. ♪ in ukraine, russia is reportedly deploying more fire power to eastern front lines. ukraine says russia is bringing more reserve forces to the region and russian artillery is pounding areas near severodonetsk, trying to cut it off from surrounding cities. ukraine also says it intercepted two russian missiles near odesa and no one was killed. in kyiv, eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn't guarantee membership, which would be years away, but president zelenskyy says it's still important.

here he is. >> translator: ukraine deserves this positive. ukrainian values are european values. ukrainian institutions maintain resilience, even in conditions of war. ukrainian democratic habits have not lost their power, even now. and our awe proech model with the european union is not only positive for us, this is the greatest contribution to the future of europe in many years. >> zelenskyy spoke after british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv, his second since the war began and offered ukraine a major military training program he said would fundamentally change the equation of the war. we begin where salma abdelaziz is monitoring the latest diplomatic developments. before we get to that, tell me about where you are there. >> reporter: right. so kim, we're on the outskirts of the suburbs of kyiv. as you can see, it's a pretty big wooded area here.

right behind me is unexploded ordnances. russian unexploded ordnances that have been collected by ukrainian troops after russian troops of course cleared out of these areas. what they're doing is they're taking these ordnances bit by bit. they're putting them in this hole that they've dug out in the ground and what they're going to eventually do is set them off, set off an explosion to try to get rid of these unexploded ordnances. they've been telling me about some of the munitions they found across the suburbs of kyiv after the russians pulled out. and it's concerning. they said they found 500 kilogram bomb they had to diffuse if you can imagine. there's cluster munitions that have been found. those are also banned under an international treaty. so, this is part of the recovery operation, of course, for the suburbs of kyiv. part of trying to get life back to normal. but the ukrainian interior ministry said it will take an estimated five to ten years to clear all these unexploded ordnances. and the fear is that these were not just found in the areas

where military troops were based. they were found in civilian areas as well and residential homes. the areas can't come back until these areas are cleared bit by bit. very dangerous work these soldiers are doing but absolutely necessary to bringing back life to these areas that were hard hit when russian troops invaded. kim? >> thanks so much, salma abdelaziz. really appreciate it. we're following developments the middle east where israel says it hit hamas targets in gaza in response to a rocket fired into israel. israel's military says it struck a weapons manufacturing site and other hamas military posts. no word on any casualties yet. hamas made no claim of responsibility for firing the rocket that was intercepted over israel. this all comes after the shooting deaths of three palestinian men in the west bank city.

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getting back in the pool in philadelphia to be a life guard. 54 years later. >> i want to do something to feel worthwhile, purpose or something. >> reporter: she found her calling after she heard the philadelphia parks and recreation department wouldn't be able to open all of their 70 pools this summer. they're facing life guard shortages. and so is the rest of the country. one third of the 309,000 public pools nationwide will not open. how many do you think you realistically will be able to open this year? >> we'll have about 80% of the staff we need. so we're hopeful we'll get to about 80% of the pools that we're able to open. >> reporter: it's part of the fierce competition for workers in a red hot summer job market. fueled in part by the lack of foreign workers following covid immigration restrictions. there are 11.4 million unfilled jobs with an unemployment rate of 3.6%. and despite raising wages, a

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critical so parents can work. >> we still have most of our camps a need for more staff to be able to take children off the wait list. >> reporter: as they wait for philadelphia's pools to open by the end of this month, she now sees her role as more than just a life guard. how do you think it's going to be different this time around? >> well, i'm hoping that being a mother and a grandmother, i'm hoping i'm a little wiser now. and that's what i want to bring, just natural, just that warmth. don't test me, though. >> reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn, philadelphia. a third person has died following a shooting in a church near birmingham, alabama, on thursday. authorities say worshippers were holding a small group dinner at a st. steven's episcopal church when 70-year-old attendee pulled out a handgun and started firing. someone stopped him before police could arrive but not before three senior citizens were killed. investigators say they don't know the motive, but the suspect

visited the church occasionally and is believed to have act aid loan. among the horrified community members, former u.s. senator doug jones who says this attack should serve as a wakeup call for lawmakers. here he is. >> birmingham community area is known as the city of churches. there's a church everywhere. we have such affinity for our faith and houses of worship, regardless of your religion, something happens there, you expect that to be the safest place you can be. goes to show that no community is immune from this kind of gun violence that we see playing out across the country. no one is immune. >> but in the weeks following the mass shootings in buffalo and uvalde, there's still no gun reform deal in washington. senate negotiators are stuck on how to structure federal funding for state red flag laws and how to close the so-called boyfriend loophole that refers to the fact that laws ban the purchase of guns by people convicted of domestic violence against

someone they're married to, live with or have a child with, but not if the victim is a dating partner. well, this sunday, colombians will head to the polls once again in a runoff election to pick their next president. they'll choose between a former gorilla fighter and self proclaimed king of tictok. now in colombia, presidents only serve for one four-year term, make it impossible for colombia's current president to seek a second term. now some of the key issues dominating the election are the country's economy, which like many in latin america has been battered by the covid-19 pandemic, income inequality, corruption and rapidly degrading security situation made worse by criminal drug gangs. colombia is setting sights on being a major player in the green energy market, but with energy prices soaring, colombia's revenue from oil and

gas nearly doubled and as it reports it's sure to factor into sunday's election. >> reporter: deep in the bush lands of northeastern colombia, something of a gold rush is taking place. its prospects are not minerals but energy. clean power to lead the country's transition towards a sustainable future. the desert swept by sea breeze every hour of the day, offers optimal condition for wind turbines and investors are jumping in. this park is made up of 15 towers and should start producing power soon, at least a dozen more are on the way. the target is to increase renewable production 100 fold. >> colombia has invested millions over the last four years to try to become a leader in clean energy production in south america. but that was, of course, before the price of fossil fuel spiked up due to the war in ukraine. as a consequence of the conflict in europe and the energy crunch

that has followed, colombia's oil and experts are up nearly double. while phasing out fossil fuel doesn't seem so inevitable anymore, the president reanythinged on a campaign pledge by allowing the first exploration license for fracking in march. this weekend, the choice between renewables and fossil fuels will play out at the ballot. left wing candidate is leading the polls on decisively anti-drilling campaign. >> translator: there are three poisons. tugliest is coal taken out of our caribbean coast then it's oil and the third one is cocaine. >> reporter: his opponent has other plans. >> translator: our transition plan renewable energies cannot take less than ten years. we must do it step by step. >> reporter: the war in ukraine has already had an impact here. not far from the turbines is the

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♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom." boris johnson is back home after an unannounced trip to ukraine on friday. he offered ukraine a major

military training program that he said would fundamentally change the equation of the war. when he returned, johnson warned it was vital to resist the risk of ukraine fatigue as the war grinds on. here he is. >> the feeling the pressure caused by ukrainian war, the increase in energy prices, when ukraine fatigue is setting in, very important to show that we're with them for the long haul and we're giving them that strategic resilience that they need. >> three u.s. military volunteers have gone missing in ukraine. new videos appear to show two of them, the footage showed up on pro-russian social media and news outlets. now, it doesn't make clear who is holding the two men and the kremlin still claims it knows nothing about them. now cnn isn't showing the videos because the two men are clearly under duress, but in an exclusive interview sam kylie is finding out more about how they

went missing. >> reporter: these two american fighters have their hands bound behind them. they're dressed in uniforms not their own and may well have been captured by the very russians they have been fighting. this as far as it goes is good news for the comrade who lost saw a t-72 tank open fire on his two friends. >> does that give you any kind of cause for hope? >> absolutely. absolutely. i wish i could say with 100% certainty that it's not a fake, but i'm -- i have a lot of hope that it's them. >> a former u.s. servicemen he was in the same battle as alex and andy when they went missing in action. he fears russian reprisals in ukraine and beyond and want his identity and voice hidden. he uses the code name pip. but for the first time on tv, he described what happened on june 9th about 20 miles northeast of kharkiv. >> the team was sent out on a

mission on the 9th. shea showed up in the area of operations and full scale russian armored assault was under way. a hasty defense was set up, two anti-tank teams were set up. alex and andy fired rpg at bmp coming through the woods and destroyed it. t 72 turned and fired upon them, drove a few more meters forward and hit the anti-tank mine our ukrainian officer had placed. we suspect they were knocked out by either the t 72 tank shooting at them or blast of the mine. >> reporter: so far russian officials denied any knowledge of the missing americans. two britons both with uk were recently sentenced to charge of being mersonries in the so-called court that calls itself the donetsk people's republic. they were long standing members of the ukrainian armed forces. wayne had served alongside pip and since april. >> as far as i'm aware, we're paid if not the same exactly the

same as ukrainian soldier who is on the front and money is certainly not my motivation for being here. i know it's not andy's and not alex's either. >> reporter: ukraine has been appealing for heavy weapons and also recruited large numbers the details kept secret of foreign volunteers into its international legion. so what advice would you give finally for anybody thinking of wanting to join the legion? >> oh, wow. well, if you have no military background, if you don't have any combat experience, if you expect to come here with air support, intense helicopter support, then stay home because that is not the case. it is the russian army. they have massive amounts of artillery. they have massive amounts of armor. and the ukrainians are giving it their damnest. >> did you make the right call? >> i'll admit to questioning it once in a while, but i think, yes. >> reporter: for those captured by russia, that answer may no longer be quite so positive. sam kylie, cnn, in kharkiv.

and the mother of one of the americans missing is speaking out after the release of the video that appears to show her son. she appeared on cnn earlier to give her reaction. here she is. >> looking at it, the person moves like alex does. he gestures like alex does. and i recognized alex's voice. it's very distinct. it's rich. it's deep. it's a baritone voice that we laughed and told him he needed to be a broadcaster of some kind. so, i feel 99.9% sure that it's alex, but we're waiting for the state department to confirm it. i have every confidence that the u.s. government is trying to get alex and andy. we've spoken to many people. we've been in touch with senator richard shelby's office, check in daily with us. we check our representative

terry's office checks in with us everyday. the state department keeps us informed all through the day. i have every confidence in that. as coach saban tells the crimson tide fans, trust the process. that's what we're doing. >> and she says her son went to ukraine to train soldiers because he felt that if vladimir putin wasn't stopped there, russia could eventually end up attacking america. well, the u.s. is making its support for ukraine clear in response to a speech in which vladimir putin vowed to press on with his invasion. the u.s. says it will stand with ukraine for, quote, as long as it takes. fred pleitgen reports the russian president also used his peach to air multiple grievances against the west. >> reporter: as russia continues its invasion of ukraine, president vladimir putin laid out his plans to counter u.s.-led sanctions.

putin making clear russia will not back down from what they call the special military operation. all goals of the military operation will be accomplished, he said. putin also claiming russia was forced to invade because the u.s. was bringing ukraine into its orbit. russia's decision to conduct a special military operation was forced, he said. difficult, of course, but forced and necessary. putin then threatening the u.s. moment as the world's top power is coming to an end. when they won the cold war, the u.s. declared themselves god's own representatives on earth, he says. people who have no responsibilities, only interests. they have declared those interests sacred. the u.s. and its allies reject any notion of fueling the conflict in ukraine and have hit moscow with massive economic sanctions. but putin says the measures

aren't working. the calculation was clear to crush the russian economy with a swoop, he says. obviously it didn't work. the u.s. accuses russia of worsening world hunger by blockading ukrainian ports and causing a massive spike in gas prices. putin again blaming the west. even higher prices threatening famine in the poorest countries and this will be entirely on the conscience of the u.s. administration and the euro bureaucracy, he said. as western companies pull out of russia in droves, moscow is trying to reorient its energy, a top russian senator saying he believes russia's invasion of ukraine prevented a larger war with nato, even as russia's own losses mount. >> we are all aware about the losses. which take place now. but i'm absolutely sure that we have managed to prevent a huge war, probably a third world war.

>> reporter: and vladimir putin says the operation in ukraine will continue until russia feels it has achieved its aims. fred pleitgen cnn, st. petersburg, russia. ukraine says it will fight decision to move next year's song contest out of the embattled country and to the uk. ukraine's orchestra won the song fest last month while the uk's sam rider placed second. now, usually the winning country gets to stage the next euro vision but the broadcasters who run the competition say the war makes staging it in ukraine unfeasible. ukraine's culture minister says his nation wasn't consult and will appeal the decision because holding the contest is a powerful symbol of support. some of the world's most vulnerable people are facing unprecedented food insecurity because of drought and food supply shortages driven by the war in ukraine. we have a warning from aid agencies after the break. stay with us. mach,

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>> from really bad to far worse, that's one way to describe the global food shortage caused by russia's war on ukraine. warehouses have been destroyed and more than 20 tons of grain have been stuck in ukraine. ukrainian official said friday his country is working on alternatives. >> we are using alternative routes with the help of our friends and partners, namely romania, poland and baltic states. we found two routes. we established two routes which help us export this agriculture commodities. >> ukraine is the world's fifth largest exporter of grain and fourth largest seller of corn. the global food system was already strained before the war but the head of the u.s. top development agency told cnn's anderson cooper that will only

get worse. >> it was bad before putin launched this brutal invasion and now that he is weaponizing food, that he is holding back what's going to amount to about 50 million tons of grains, really 50 million tons when there are people who are stafbing in sub is a hair ran africa and beyond, it will get a lot worse. you now are already seeing really dire effects in countries like somalia, kenya, ethiopia. you have 7 million kids in somalia who are acutely malnourished at this moment in time. you have unicef predicting what is going to be explosion in child deaths at this rate. again, when you combine climate change, four consecutive seasons of drought and then putin willfully, intentionally denying the ability of the ukrainians to get these grains out, it's a perfect storm of terribleness. in 2020 africa bought

billions of dollars worth of agricultural products from russia and ukraine. the head of the u.n. food program said if exports don't resume in his words millions will die. joining me now is a senior policy fellow at the center for global development. he joins me now from washington, d.c. thanks so much for being here with us. so we just laid out the essentials of the impact of the war on food security. and if the threat of starvation for millions isn't enough, there's another associated threat how this food crisis might then sort of spiral and spark political crises, similar to say the arab springs. so how big of a concern is that? not just maybe sparking new conflicts but enflaming on going ones. >> again, thanks for having me, kim. i think this is a risk. we've seen similar things happen in sri lanka and peru and there's a possibility this might

happen. i think usually what we're concerned about is that in most countries the most direct presence of the state in the lives of people is usually some sort of subsidies, subsidies for food and fuel. and when the prices of food go up, the food of grains as might happen because of the war in ukraine, it makes it really, really hard for the subsidies to become very expensive for the state and in instances where there's social safety nets and social safety programs are cut, it can enflame social tensions within countries and definitely lead to social unrest, especially in cities. >> yeah. so where are you -- what concerns you more? there might be counties like nigeria, moos m beak. >> for nigeria not as much food

but fuel because the government provides fuel subsidies. there's a concern there. for egypt because the egyptian government provides food subsidies but also in places like moos m beak and angola, very high standard of -- high cost of living and those are places where you're concerned that further increases might enflame existing social tensions in those areas. in the horn of africa, of course, we've seen four failed rains and project to see a fifth failed one. crops have failed. people are facing starvation. there's a risk it might enflame existing tensions. >> many who might be looking at this from the outside, might be surprised that many african governments have processed neutrality or sat on the fence with russia. many didn't condemn the invasion in the u.n.

they didn't support the vote to remove russia from the human rights council and so on. with so much at stake, why have many african governments seemed increasingly reluctant to put pressure on russia? >> well, yeah. i think there are a number of reasons why that is so. first, it's that from the european side, from the american side, there are claims that the crisis we have seen in food prices and in fuel prices are precipitated by the russian invasion. russia is pushing a counternarrative that is the sanctions leading to this and if the sanctions were lifted this would change. so those two narratives are happening there. the second thing is that african governments, most african governments for the militaries depend on the russians and chinese to supply them arms. as much as is possible they're going to try to retain those relationships. that's feeding into that. and thirdly, i think, you know, across the continent, too, there is -- russia is seen as

inheriter of existing residual goodwill from the soviet union. because of that, african government -- i don't think for most government it is sort of a support for the russians as it is sort of a cautious approach to this crisis and seeing something that is european crisis as something that's happening on the european continent. so there's a mix of reasons why african countries will refrain or be disinclined to vote against russia and would choose to abstain. >> it's obviously a huge challenge and there's no one solution for an entire continent, but are there any steps that can be taken now that might help? >> i think so. i think so. so the european union has suggested a $500 million plus program to assist africans dealing with the rise in food prices. i think that's a very good step. the u.n. organizations like the world food program have been

calling for donations. their program in sudan was stopped because of lack of funding. the program in somalia is only 15% financed. so those programs providing assistance to them so they can be able to provide food for people that are facing starvation would help. i think they're addressing the debt issue. lots of african countries facing significant high interest payments on debt are making it difficult for them to borrow and keep the social programs going. so addressing the debt issue would be -- i don't think there's a single silver bullet. it's a suite of interventions that will be able to help to mitigate the crisis. so those are things that external actors and international community can do. >> yeah. such a complex problem. really appreciate your expertise gyude moore. >> pleasure being with you. thank you. a dangerous heat wave is affecting much of the u.s. this

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devastated parts of montana is keeping yellow stone national park closed at least through the weekend. according to the u.s. geological survey, it's a one in 500-year event. heavy rains and rapid snow melt caused rirs to demolish bridges and sweep away entire sections of roadway, more than 10,000 visitors were forced out of the park. a dangerous heat wave is impacting much of the u.s. authorities in the tennessee valley announced a new june record for electricity demand was set on thursday. officials say the same trend is being seen across dozens of states. it's also an international problem. parts of western europe are sweltering under record temperatures. in france, two locations reached all-time highs on friday. several other places saw records for june. heat is forecast to peak across much of the country in the coming days including paris which could see the hottest june day yet. in england, level three health warning has been in place since wednesday for london and other

areas because of the heat. spain is also suffering under extremely high temperatures. its experiencing its worst heat wave in more than four decades. cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us now. a really serious problem for people not just here but across the world. >> yeah. baking across two continents right now as we speak, kim. so we'll get to the united states first because the heat dome that is building over the central u.s. will be reminiscent of what happened just a week ago. it is going to build across the nation's midsection. then it will move gradually east ward, settle into the southeast, places like atlanta, nashville into memphis, st. louis, all the way to minneapolis, st. paul. this is an area that doesn't typically see the hot weather like this, but they're currently under excessive heat watches for the early parts of next week. we have roughly about 25 million americans under some sort of heat alert. look at this, we have the potential to shatter or tie over

100 record high temperatures. and the problem here is not just the heat during the day but it's also the heat at nighttime. when your temperature doesn't drop below 80 degrees in your house overnight or outdoors for that matter, you've got serious problems because you cannot cool your body enough adequately when it anticipates to be able to do so. so that's a real issue for vulnerable people to excessive heat. temperatures are going to flirt with the triple digits into places like chicago. actually this just updated. so 100 degrees. that's the official forecast for tuesday in the windy city. more of the same in atlanta. 101 by wednesday. and it's not just in north america as kim was just talking about. in france, they had two all-time records set within the country on friday. that means two separate locations had never been that hot ever before. there were also nine records for the month of june set in the country of france. so that just shows you how much heat has been baking not only in north america but also into

europe. good news is they have one more hot day ahead of them then the mercury in the thermometer is going to start to tumble behind it. the cooler weather settling in and finally getting a bit of relief from the excessive heat plaguing that area. but these were the four temperatures that shattered june records across france. really impressive numbers when you calculate that from celsius to fahrenheit, we're talking about 104 degrees fahrenheit. that was their high temperatures. it one just france, it was also across spain and into portugal. so, really excessive heat. that's a problem. and putting quite the demand on our electrical supply system here across north america as well. kim? >> yeah. still a while before it breaks here and can't come soon enough. derek van dam, thanks so much. appreciate it. well, that wraps this hour of cnn "newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "new day" is next. ♪

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