a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm christina macfarlane in for max foster in london. just ahead -- >> the weather pattern that happened yesterday when this fire grew so large so quickly is happening again today. >> we have almost double the number of days with a heat index over 90 degrees. >> key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing.

>> we got one text message. >> secret service has maintained that they have been fully c comp compliant. >> netflix is being heralded as good news. >> we're seeing the end of the era of infinite content. hello and welcome, it is wednesday, july 20th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 3:00 a.m. in the central u.s. a global heatwave is scorching the northern hemisphere with hundreds of millions of people enjoying record breaking temperatures. and while world leaders debate on what do about climate change, the hot spell is harming public health, buckling infrastructure and fueling deadly wildfires. in the u.s. at least several cities have appointed so-called heat officers to help people

stay safe. right now more than 100 million americans are under extreme weather alerts. and 265 million are facing it is upwards of 90 degrees farenheit which is 32 in celsius. central plain citys in oklahoma and texas are getting the worst of it, they could see 115 degrees. and in many areas people are doing whatever they can to cool down. boston has already declared a heat emergency and in toronto, canada, swimming pool hours are being extended until almost midnight. those who can are cranking up the air conditioning and that is putting enormous strain on some of the power grids. texas set a new record for energy demand on tuesday and yet another is expected today. but further west in arizona, thousands of people lost power due to strong storms and the communities affected were dealing with temperatures of around 108 degrees farenheit. authorities there distributed ice and opened cooling stations, much of the relief to overheated

residents. >> it felt so good. it felt so good. i can't be out in the heat too much because i get really nauseated. and since we've been here, it has been really nice. >> the southwestern u.s. is a hot spot for wildfires. a number of them are already tearing through texas due to the ongoing drought and extreme heat. >> be careful with sparks, be careful with any kind of fire if you are outside. follow burn bans. so that is the biggest thing, help us just lower the number of fires that we have so that we can have the time to recuperate and really handle what is out here. >> now to europe where the high temperatures won't break until mid next week, that is according to the world meteorological organization. but the uk will thankfully calm down in the coming hours after setting an all time record on tuesday of 104 degrees farenheit. that set off a surge of fires in the london area, some spreading to homes.

officials warn that because the ground is tinderbox dry, any spark can lead to flames. meanwhile 21 european countries are under heat alerts that stretch as far east as poland. and in southwest france, wildfires have spread twice the size of paris. tens of hothousands of people he been forced to flee their homes. and in the outskirts of athens, hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain a large wildfire. power has been cut in several areas with hospitals on high alert. meantime in china, at least 31 cities have issued high temperature alerts wednesday, but rain showers in the days ahead could bring some relief to areas in the south. and meteorologists say it won't last long though with temperatures above 95 degrees farenheit to return closer to the weekend. goodness me. and we have reporters around the world covering this historic

heat. bobby netto is in rome, nina dos santos in london. but first let's head to pedram javaheri with the latest temperatures. we're seeing one-third of the u.s. population getting hit by heatwaves right now. >> it is incredible. yeah, one in three people dealing with this sort of heat. and we're not just talking about the extreme heat, it is the humidity factored in across some of the areas because the human body has evolved to fantastically adapt to offset extreme temperatures, extreme heat, where you sweat, it evaporates and you cool off and that is your method of cooling your body down. but when it is humid as it is across texas and into areas of oklahoma as well, of course the sweat just sits on your skin, it doesn't evaporate much, so you can getting very little relief and it becomes a dangerous scenario. in the shade in wichita, a record 115 degrees not factoring in the humidity. besting a record from 2018 of 112 degrees. and oklahoma city into

albuquerque, colorado springs, 100 to 110 degrees. again, here is the coverage map and you will notice the entirety of the state of texas, portions of the state of oklahoma, kansas as well, all dealing with the excessive conditions and the temperatures that are just a little bit of relief here in the 24 hour span, dallas goes from 108 down to 95 degrees and then notice what happens. friday, saturday, sunday, we go right back up above 100, again closing in on that 40 degree celsius mark here. so temps exceeding what is normal for this time of year even moving forward beyond next week. some of that energy will want to shift farther toward the east and yes the northeastern united states of course, most densely populated corner of the united states, also has heat alerts because it will feel above 110 if a new spots. boston, new york city, philadelphia all included here where of course humidity plays a role in these conditions.

new york city, notice it just stays there the next seven days. and this is a concern here this long duration setup with excessive temperatures impacting a lot of people across the united states. >> and as you said, that humidity making it all the worse. thanks for now. let's turn to nina in london. we saw record temperatures here in the uk yesterday, truly uncomfortable. but also dangerous in a country that doesn't have the infrastructure to cope. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and what pucinfrastructure has n tested in particular is the fire brigade. london had to contend with a number of wildfires spreading across all corners of the capital. and i'm here in east london about three or four miles away from the center of town, not that far away, where authorities had to contain a huge fire that destroyed 90 acres of scrub land, farmland, two rows of

houses, a number of detached dwellings and 12 stables as well. i was speaking to a local resident who was one of the first people to spot the fire, his son called the authorities, and tim stock, he is a 66-year-old grave digger, told me that he had noticed that there was a compost in his neighbor's garden adjoining his property that spontaneously appeared to have ignited in that 40.3 degree head yesterday afternoon and very quickly he realized that even though this type of thing had happened a few years before, the conditions were different, there was wind, the land was tinderbox dry and even though he and his son rushed out with hose pipes and buckets, realized that they were fighting a losing battle, their homes and their neighbors' homes have been destroyed and he arrived wearing the clothes that he had to evacuate into speak to us here at this site. and as you can see behind me,

the village which is about 300 people strong is about half a mile in that direction behind me, and although the flames have now finally been put out yesterday evening, there is real concern that this has been a big wake-up call for the united kingdom. never before have we seen temperatures in excess of 40 degrees celsius, more than 104 degrees farenheit. and there is investigation on the government and pressure now to try to make sure that authorities are better prepared for heatwaves like these because of the dangerous consequences. >> yeah, i'd say there was a degree of shock yesterday that the temperatures could reach that high. thank you for now. i just want to turn to bobby in rome. bobby, you heard nina saying that we saw fires break out here in the uk yesterday, but on the continent the reality is far worse. >> that's right. we have fires spreading across france and spain, there are fires in the north of italy

right now. and these firefighters are working under incredibly intense conditions. it is very hot here. the record that you hit in the uk is something that we've been seeing on a daily basis here across southern europe. and it is just getting worse. and we're expecting into next week before the temperatures break here causing a lot of distress for a lot of different people especially the vulnerable and elderly who can't seem to get any relief. >> yeah. especially the vulnerable as you say. the elderly. and children as well. barbie, thank you. and thanks for nina and pedram as well. all right. u.s. president biden is expected to announce new actions to tackle climate change in the coming hours while the exact plans aren't yet known, it may be a tall task to get them approved with lawmakers split on the subject. jeff zeleny has more from the white house. >> reporter: president biden traveling to massachusetts on wednesday to make the case that the administration is still

intent on trying to address climate change. this comes in the wake of this dramatic setback in the u.s. senate when west virginia senator joe manchin effectively torpedoed the efforts to address global warming through a sprawling economic package that would tax billions of dollars trying to impose climate change. but the white house is now going to take executive action stopping just short of issuing a national climate emergency but the president will start do that on wednesday. >> the impact of extreme weather are intensifying across the globe including here in the united states. no one is immune from climate change. it is why the president has been rallying the world to take the decisive action needed in this decade to tackle the climate change -- the climate crisis. it is also why the president is committed to taking aggressive action to tackle climate change and made clear if the senate won't act, he will. >> even though the white house says that this is a priority,

the question is what is the credibility of the u.s. around the world on climate change. because of the setback in congress, which is narrowly controlled by democrats, the u.s. simply will not reach its climate goals. global warming is all around a us. we of course can see the extraordinary temperatures here in the u.s. and indeed around europe and the world. the white house is drawing a link between all of that, which is why the president is taking steps to do some executive actions on climate change. the question, will that even scratch the surface of the global crisis. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. new details now on the investigation into the u.s. capitol riot. the secret service says it has not yet recovered any of the missing text messages from the -- that the january 6 committee has requested. but the agency did provide one text exchange to the homeland security inspector general according to a letter to the committee obtained by cnn.

the committee wants test messages from january 5 and january 6 of last year. but the secret service says that the agency went through a phone migration at the time. so any record employees didn't save were likely lost. much to the dismay of the committee members. >> in their letter, they gave no indication that they secured the phones in question and done forensic work with them, that is something that we want to know. yes obviously this doesn't look good and so, you know, coincidences can happen, but, you know, we really need to get to the bottom of this and get a lot more information than we have currently. and again, i mean, we don't want to overthink this. january 16th, they were told to preserve everything and within a week or two, they allowed it to be destroyed. so that is very problematic. >> despite the missing texts,

the secret service did provide thousands of documents and other records to the committee tuesday in response for last week's subpoena. the agency says it will continue to work with the committee's investigators. meanwhile day two of former trump adviser steve bannon's contempt of congress trial wrapped up tuesday with opening statements and the first witness testimony. ryan nobles has the details. >> reporter: steve bannon's trial is under way, the former trump adviser is facing a criminal contempt of congress charge for his defiance of a subpoena issued by the january 6 select committee. and bannon has tried every which way to either prevent the trial from happening at all or at least delaying it and the judge in the case just not buying it and as a result the trial is off and running. opening statements took place on tuesday and the government laying out a very specific case, that steve bannon was asked to hand over documents and sit for a deposition with the january 6 select committee and he refused

to do so and he did not have the legal ability to refuse to do so. now, bannon is trying to say this is all about politics, that the committee is not with enough equal representation between republicans and democrats and this is just an effort to try to taint the former president donald trump. it will be interesting to see which way the jury goes, but it is clear that the trial will happen despite bannon's best efforts to prevent it from happening. after the trial, he went after the house select committee bennie thompson saying that thompson should have been there at the trial on that day and that he and his attorneys should have the right to cross-examine him. now, as for the january 6 select committee, they want to know where the text messages are, they are just imploring the secret service to explain what happened to a batch of text messages on january 5 and january 6 that the dhs inspector general claims were deleted during a device management program. now, secret service is trying to figure out whether or not these texts every existed. they are not even sure that the

agency ever uses text messages to communicate about their movements and the work that they are doing. regardless, the committee has said that they will continue to push for answers, it is part of why they issued a subpoena for a broad range of documents. and now the national archives are getting involved. they have asked the secret service to explain why these text messages no longer exist. they have given them 30 days to comply. this is a serious request by the national sar couarchives, it ist the law to destroy federal records. if they are not satisfied with the response, they could handle the matter over to the department of justice. ryan noble cnn, on which i will. xw capitol hill. >> and be sure to catch the hearing here on cnn thursday, 8:00 a.m. in new york and 1:00 a.m. in london. and in georgia, prosecutors are looking in to donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election say 16, quote, fake kre

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are up almost 10% from last year. and this as the race to select britain's next prime minister is now in full swing with a fifth round of voting planned in the coming hours. right now three hits are vying to succeed boris johnson. rishi sunak is leading the pack followed by penny mordaunt and liz truss. and they will keep voting until there are just two candidates left. about 200,000 people will vote for mr. johnson's successor as party leader. and by default prime minister. and more than a dozen democratic members of congress were among the group of demonstrators arrested outside the u.s. supreme court tuesday. they were protesting the recent decision overturning roe v. wade which had protected abortion rights at the federal level. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez was among those arrested. police say lawmakers were

blocking the street. also arrested was congresswoman cory bush, she tweeted that she and her colleagues put their, quote, bodies on the line because we will leave no stone unturned in our fight for justice. she added off our bodies. and 47 republicans joined all democrats to back the respect for marriage act. the final vote was 267-157. meanwhile the gop support was notable, more than thre three-quarters of house republicans oppose the measure. and u.s. strupreme court's decision has raised fears that the court's conservative majority could target same-sex marriage and lgbtq rights. sri lanka's parliament has just elected former prime minister ranil wickremesinghe as

the country 's new president, likely to anger sir lankans who view him as part of the political elite who destroyed the economy. will ripley is joining us live from colombo. and sir lankans wanted reform, a change from the old establishment, but that is not what they have got today. >> reporter: they have as their president-elect a six time prime minister who specializes in economic recovery he says. that is what he told me a few days ago. he talked how he was brought in some 20 odd years ago as prime minister to turn around the collapsed sir lankan economy at that time. so he is very confident in his credentials an apparently so are the majority of members of parliament who voted overwhelmingly for ranil wickremesinghe to finish out the 2 1/2 years left in the term of the former president gotabaya rajapaksa. i have to tell you, even though protest organizers have been

warning of anarchy in the streets if this were to happen, that is not what we're seeing. [ inaudible ]. >> oh, unfortunately, we have lost will's audio there. but we will attempt to get back to it as soon as we can. that is a shame. will reporting there on the new president. still more ahead on "cnn newsroom," including this -- >> we need to focus on the democratic senators and i've been saying that forever because a 50/50 senate sucks. >> u.s. democrats are furious with joe manchin after he sinks climate action on congress. and plus high temperatures in the u.s. spark wild fires in some states. we'll go to the cnn weather center to see if there is any relief in sight. . then we found shipstation. now we're shipping out orders 5 times faster

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm christina mcfar plan. l let me bring you up-to-date. millions of people are facing scorching record-breaking temperatures. here in the uk, hottest day on record sparked fires across london and in the u.s., more than 100 million americans are under heat alerts. states like texas and oklahoma are expected to see temperatures up to 115 degrees farenheit. the scorching heat is fueling wildfires across the southwest u.s. pedram javaheri is joining me from cnn weather center. and pedram, these wide fires are

a real concern. on you widespread are they at the moment? >> across the western united states, big time fire concerns still in place here. you take a look at this about l three-fourths of the western united states dealing with drought conditions and 30% is extreme or worse. and monsoon naal moisture has b present, but the conditions have been dry for so long, some 85 large active fires are taking shape across the western half of the united states, spanning at least 13 states. and when you take a look at the numbers, this amount of land that has been consumed from these 85 large fires, it is pretty staggering. over 3 million acres have already been consumed. keep in mind the year to date average, the ten year average for fires for the first say seven months of the year are about 2.2 million acres of land being consumed. these 85 large fires alone at this hour have consumed over 3 million, 2.2 million is what is average for the entire first 456

of the we're. over 3 is what has occurred. again, it is not just isolated to just the western united states. work your way towards alaska where 58 large active fires currently having consumed over 2.5 million acres of land. and this sort of a coverage continues at the same time as we have excessive heat of course over a large area of the united states. temperatures as warm as 110 degrees, 115 degrees what it feels like around parts of texas and this sort of trend is what you expect of course a couple times a year, but we've had multiple bount bouts of excessit and it expands over a wide reaching area. and you look at the numbers, they are impressive by themselves, but the afternoon temperature is one thing and then you factor in the heat index in memphis for example, it will feel close to 113 degrees while in the shade it is at 98 degrees without the humidity. so again, shows you how humid the atmosphere is across the region, how impressive these

conditions will be over the next several days. >> that humidity, that independent with also making things so much worse. pe pedram, thank you. pressure is building on u.s. president biden to announce some kind of action on climate change. the white house says that he will likely announce new members during a speech in massachusetts today. this after a key senator from his own party torpedoed biden's efforts in congress. and manu raju reports that democrats are furious with joe manchin. >> either me make it clear -- >> reporter: democrats are fed up with joe manchin. >> hard to think of someone who has been more effective at undermining a president of his own party than senator manchin. >> it is not fair to string people along for a year and not come to a conclusion. it is not an appropriate way to negotiate.

>> a 50/50 senate sucks. so that it. >> reporter: biden initially wanted a $3.5 trillion bill to expand the social safety net. >> the agendas in these bills is what 81 million americans voted for. >> reporter: for months manchin and the president negotiated, with manchin even secretly proposing to senate majority leader chuck schumer he would only agree to a bill about half its size. after the white house came down to $1.75 trillion, manchin derailed the effort by saying that he was filled with budget gimmicks. >> it is a no. >> reporter: but schumer quietly in talks with manchin on a scaled back plan and after believing that they were close to a $350 billion climate and energy deal along with tax hikes to pay for it, manchin indicated that he favored a narrower bill focused on prescription drug prices and health care subsidies. how do you respond to the criticism from your colleagues that you strung them along for an entire year and at the end of the day you pulled the plug?

>> i never strung anybody along. i was the first one to raise the a alarm on inflation. i'm worried about the person who can't feed their family. so i'm sorry if they don't care about that, i do. >> reporter: manchin who lives on a 65-foot boat while in des has ben criticized as he has been fitted from nearly $1 million from campaign donations from the oil and gas industry, he has financial holdings between $1 million and $5 million in a coal business he founded. but he says that has nothing to do with his positions. you say personal ties to the coal industry -- >> you know what, everyone has a job, everyone has made a living or tried to make a living, provide for their family. if they want to criticize that and looking for some reason, the bottom line is inflation. >> reporter: the reality, manchin is a rare democrat from a state that donald trump carried by nearly 40 points. but manchin only winning re-election in 2018 by just three. the former west virginia university football player and

ex-governor, manchin won his first race in 2010 after vowing to shoot down his party's climate change bill. >> i'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. because it is bad for west virginia. >> reporter: moderates say he is reining in the party extremes and helping brokering the gun violence bill that biden signed in to law. are you happy with the position he is taking? >> i'm happy that he moderates many a times. >> he is with us 70%, 85% of the time. no agrees with everybody 100% of the time. >> reporter: and he along with senator krysten sinema has refused to change filibuster rules, he is a gop darling. will you support him if he ran in 2024? >> absolutely. >> reporter: how helpful has he been to the republicans in the 50/50 senate? >> i think that he has been helpful to the country. >> reporter: some say he should just change parties. you keep hearing republicans say he should just join our

conference. what do you say to that? >> see you later. >> reporter: still a question about exactly what joe manchin will ultimately agree on, but he has indicated that he will indeed support that narrower focus on prescription drug prices, letting medicare negotiate the price answer as well as extending health care subsidy for two years. so there is optimism from democrats that they can get that across the finish line. but of course that ultimately is up to joe manchin about whether he will get behind that plan and whether they can keep all 50 democrats together and get this out of the senate in the coming days. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. and wall street rebounded in a big way on tuesday with investors cheering strong earnings reports from netflix and others. and betting that may be just may be the markets have found their bottom. dow jumped over 750 points and the nasdaq was up over 3%. and right now, at least, it looks like that rally could

continue early in today's trading. judge fast tracking the twitter lawsuit against elon musk. they will square off in october. and meantime netflix announced a second quarter loss of nearly a million subscribers but investors are cheering. alexandra field has more on the twitter case in a minute, but first to brian tell testelter w latest on netflix. >> netflix lost 970,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2022 but that is heralded oas good news because netflix has predicted that it would lose about 2 million subscribers in the second quarter. it lost only about half as many so that is being cheered as good news. some investors are buying up the stock in after hours trading as a result of this earnings report. and all eyes in the media world have been on netflix's earnings

because as goes netflix, often goes the streaming sector as a whole. other companies like disney will be reporting irnings in the days and weeks to come and there is a lot of focus right now among investors on the performance of these streaming platforms and future of streaming video. we know netflix is taking some steps to diversify to try to bring in sub skrishscribers in different ways. it talked about experiments around pass word sharing, trying to crack down on it in some countries in order to entice more households to pay for the service. the company is also working on an ad supported version of netflix that would cost less. trying to gain more subscribers that way. the company says that in the third quarter of the year, it expects to gain about 1 million subscribers, that is not as many as some analysts had been hoping but it does seem still to be somewhat good news for the company following a dramatic correction in the stock price earlier this year. netflix of course the giant in the streaming business turning

out so many shows, so many movies and that is going to continue although the company is looking to cut costs in some ways. most of the declines of subscribers are coming from the united states, from canada, parts of europe. the company continues to grow quickly in asia. it is a global platform and wants to continue to grow that way. it is interesting to see how the company is trying to evolve in a much more competitive streaming environment. back to you. round one in the court battle between twitter and elon musk goes to the social media giant with a judge in delaware agreeing to a motion filed by the company to expedite a trial, now scheduled to last five days in october. during that trial, it will be decided whether or not the court will compel musk to fork over $44 billion in a deal to take over twitter or if he will have to pay a $1 billion breakup fee. twitter's attorneys arguing that the richest man on the planet

now has a case of buyer's remorse and that he decided to back out of the deal after twitter's stock prices tumbled as part of the market's downturn. musk has said that he is pulling the plug on the deal because of a lack of information shared by twitter concerning the number of fake accounts and bots on the platform. his attorneys argue that the trial shouldn't start before 2023 in order to give them more time to investigate those accounts. twitter says that s.e.c. filings show the estimated number of fake users to be about 5%, but they also say that this is not relevant to the case. that the issue of bots and fake accounts were never part of the agreement reached with musk back in april. they say any delay in resolving the case will only create further uncertainty for shareholders and that can cause irreparable harm for the company. alexandra field, cnn.

amazon is suing the administrators of more than 10,000 facebook groups accused of putting fake reviews for products on amazon's marketplace in about half a dozen countries. they allegedly recruited people to write the high school leading reviews in exchange for cash or free items. amazon said facebook's parent company meta has removed more than 5,000 fake reviews groups from its platform since 2020. it is all smiles and handshakes for the leaders of russia and turkey following their meeting in iran. crucially there may have been progress in a deal to allow ukrainian grain exports currently under russian naval blockade. those details and more when we return. ug? or returned from war, dreaeaming of the possibilities ahead. ♪ where e your dad waited for his dad to come home from the factory. is this where they gathered on their front steps, with fats domino on the breeze...

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new warning from the u.s. about russia's intentions in ukraine. tuesday the white house said

that russia will likely attempt to further annex parts of ukraine repeating the playbook it used in crimea in 2014. meanwhile ukrainian shelling has reportedly caused major damage to a critical bridge in the russian occupied kherson region. ukraine used long range rockets provided by the west to arrest get the bridge for a second day in a row. according to the british defense ministry, the bridge is one of just two crossing points over the river making it a critical supply route for russian forces. impact of the war is leading to hunger across the globe. and vladimir putin could help end the crisis today by ending this war, but instead he is in talks with turkey as ankara looks to play mediator. mr. putin thanked turkish president recep tayyip erdogan for his efforts to negotiate between russia and ukraine. this as kyiv accuses moscow of

blocking the shipment of more than 20 million tons of grain. leaders of russia, turkey and iran are also touting their cooperation particularly on security matters following the summit and iran's oil ministry has announced a deal with russian gas giant gas pump for a $40 billion investment. for more, i'm joined in studio here with clare sebastian. what evidence are they referring to with the investigations? >> this comes from skron kirby w, he says that they have intelligence which has been recently sort of downgraded so they were able to declassify it that shows that russia is planning various aspects of what he calls and an nextation playbook. it is not implausible.

we've seen evidence that they are already start doing this. if you look at kherson, officials have said that they were planning to hold a referendum on joining russia. and already started planning or even started already issuing russian passports, trying to adopt the ruble. in other cities we've seen pro-russian mayors installed. so this annexation play book looks like it is already under way. and in terms of the referendum, we couldn't know -- u.s. intelligence doesn't know when. they say not only donetsk and also kherson that they will look to annex. >> and threatening stronger retaliation because it is a violation of the u.n. charter. and two that summit that is happening in iran, there were hopes that it would lead to some movement of ukrainian grain which is still stuck obviously in the black sea. what do we know about what came out of those talks?

>> it is distscant on detail. putin thanked erdogan, he says there is movement in the right direction. but still -- there are still big hurdles. he says russia is willing to open up the exports of grain. there are no sanctions that cover that, but they have had trouble exporting because of sanctions on banks and sort of people's worries about future sanctions. and so it looks like russia nlts with as to get something out of any potential deal. we may see another meeting this week it looks likely that they are moving toward some kind of deal on a sort of safe maritime c corridor. but as it stands, there are clearly big hurdles that remain. >> and timing involved because that grain is due to expire in the black sea. clare, thank you for the update. still ahead, a search for justice following the botched police response to the deadly school shooting in uvalde, texas. details are coming on that after

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welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, july 20th, i'm kristin fisher in for christine romans. first on cnn this morning, would not one text exchange about january 6, that is all the secret service has been able to provide in response to a request for a month's worth of records from 24 secret service agents and officials. cnn obtaining a letter from the homeland security inspector general to the january 6 committee, and it shows that