making people mad. moving forward is the only option. >> i'm cautiously optimistic. >> that's big for you. >> that's big for me. asterisk pending results of climate change. >> there we go. that's the guy. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, a historic win for the biden administration, senate democrats finally passing landmark legislation they've chased more than a year, details and what it could mean for the upcoming midterms. israeli forces and gaza militants reached a ceasefire. we are live in southern israel to see whether or not it's holding. and the growing outbreak of

monkeypox in the united states has thousands scrambling for vaccines. we look at whether a new strategy is needed. >> live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. >> glad to have you with us. breathing new life into u.s. president joe biden's domestic agenda after the senate passed the democrats climate, healthcare and tax package officially known as the inflation reduction act and as we'll hear the report, it was no easy task to get all democrats on board. >> reporter: democrats are on the verge of a massive victory with less than 100 days before midterm elections. the senate voted on sunday along party lines to approve a sweeping economic package and this vote came after a marathon

voting session that began saturday evening and lasted into the next day. this bill includes a number of key democratic priorities. it includes a historic investment of nearly $370 billion for the climate. it would allow medicare to negotiate drug prices. it would extend expiring obamacare health subsidies and it would impose a 15% corporate minimum tax. now it wasn't always an easy road to get here. at multiple points throughout the negotiations it looked like the talks had broken down entirely and even up until the very last minute it was a lot of work to keep the entire democratic caucus on board. here's what senate majority leader chuck schumer had to say about it. >> it's been a long, tough and winding road. we did it without a single vote to spare. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of

legislation with only 50 votes and a transigent republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. >> reporter: now the bill heads to the house. we are expecting a vote friday. we have already heard from a number of key houses that they are supporting this bill even though the bill does not include some key tax provisions that they previously were demanding. so this is a pretty clear sign that this bill is likely to pass and head to joe biden's desk by the end of this week. >> david gergen is a senior u.s. analyst. i spoke to him earlier about what this means for joe biden. take a listen. >> joe biden has been on a roller coaster the last several months, in fact, for monday of his political life. he's down, up, sharply down and

comes back up. it's very striking to watch and yes, it could be a game changer. i think it's too early to tell for sure. it's important to remember that when big things happen, especially good news happens, sometimes what happens is not a leading indicator. it's a lagging indicator. it takes weeks, if not months sometimes, for changes especially in the economic sphere to work their way through the system so that a president gets credit for it. usually when things are bright for a president economically, it takes three to six months for the president to realize those assets, political assets. so biden has had a terrible, terrible lead-in to this, but he had a terrific run in the last few weeks. some would say it's one of the most important, significant runs since lyndon johnson was president and swept through with so many legislative initiatives, but you've still got high inflation and the country's still not reconciled. the latest poll we have -- it's

too early to get really good polls about responding obviously to what just happened on this bill, but we did have last couple days he was down to 37% approval. that's really, really low. so he's got a lot to come back from, but for the democratic party this is a shot of adrenaline, just what they've been looking for to become more competitive. >> do stay with us. we will have more of that interview with david gergen next hour. a truce between israel and islamic jihad is holding for now in gaza after an escalation in tensions over the weekend. the two sides agreed to a ceasefire two days after israel launched what it called preemptive strikes on islamic jihad targets. before that development on sunday palestinian militants launched rockets toward jerusalem following israeli airstrikes in gaza overnight. israeli officials say a leader of islamic jihad's operations

in southern gaza was killed in an airstrike on a building in rafa close to the border with egypt. he was the second militant commander killed in the israeli operation. palestinian officials say at least 44 militants and civilians have been killed including 15 children. elliott, what is the latest on where things stand with this ceasefire? >> reporter: the ceasefire has held some nine hours since midnight local time. it was meant to go into effect 11:30 local time, but there was still a handful of rockets fired towards israel half past 11 towards midnight, but so far the past nine hours it's held and from israel's perspective it is in a sense mission accomplished. the whole point of this operation it says was to restore calm and security to the communities surrounding the gaza strip. they've taken out the top two

senior commanders of islamic jihad in the gaza strip. they've attacked tunnels, rocket launchers, workshops and other targets and at the same time despite more than 1,100 rockets being fired towards israel by islamic jihad, there was no major damage and no casualties on the israeli side. that said from islamic jihad's perspective, they can point to the fact they were able to launch these rockets, that they were able to send people scurrying to bomb shelters in tel aviv. i had to go into my own bomb shelter in tel aviv the first time yesterday evening, for example. their rockets were reaching towards jerusalem as well and although their two senior commanders are no longer standing, islamic jihad as an organization lives to fight another day and i don't think that anyone is under any illusions that that day will at some point come, perhaps not only with islamic jihad, but with a much larger, much more powerful hamas which, of course, runs the gaza strip. never mind even the other main iranian proxy hezbollah on the

other side of the lebanese border, rosemary. >> elliott, many thanks. u.s. president joe biden is praising the ceasefire. in a statement he called the deaths in gaza a tragedy whether they were the result of israeli strikes or islamic jihad rockets that reportedly fell inside gaza. he added, "my administration supports a timely and thorough investigation into all of these reports and we also call on all parties to fully implement the ceasefire." to insure fuel and humanitarian supplies are flowing into gaza as the fighting subsides. the former head of the u.s. food and drug administration says the cdc needs to expand its definition of monkeypox so more people can get tested for the virus. speaking with cbs on sunday, dr. scott gottlieb noted the virus had clearly expanded outside the most at-risk groups

and said the time for more testing is now. >> i think if we're going to contain this and make sure it doesn't spread more broadly in the population, we need to test more broadly. we have the capacity to do it. cdc has the capacity to do about 80,000 tests a week. they're doing about 8,000. they can broaden substantially by expanding the indication definition. i recommend more doctors be looking for this infection in the community. >> more than 28,000 monkeypox infections have been reported worldwide and about 7,500 of those are in the united states. new york has seen the most cases in the country with almost 1,900 reported so far. for more i'm joined by ann ramoine, proffer of epidemiology at ucla. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> i'll get to testing in a moment, but i wanted to go to this.

due to limited monkeypox vaccine supplies, health officials are deciding whether to allow a new monkeypox vaccination strategy to go ahead which would inject just one-fifth of the current dose into the skin instead of a full dose into underlying fat in order to stretch current vaccine supplies, but there are, of course, concerns this approach has not been sufficiently studied and not enough healthcare workers know exactly how to do this. so what's your reaction to this plan, to stretch supplies without compromising efficacy? >> rosemary, i think this is a really good idea. we know how to do this. we've done this before for other vaccines. we've done this for yellow fever. we've done this in the past for flu vaccines, for a variety of different vaccines and figured out how to use fractional doses using smaller doses that can still stimulate the immune response to elicit the kind of protection you need. being able to give this dose

intradermally instead of subcutaneously will likely give a stronger immune response and you'll be able to make the doses smaller. of course, this needs to be tested and actually works well. so this will have to go through some hoops, but if this does work for this vaccine, it will be an excellent way to be able to stretch a very limited supply of vaccine. >> professor, why weren't enough bulk vaccine stocks for monkeypox processed into vials and how long might it take to get enough vaccine supplies to all those in need? >> well, i think that the issue is that we have two vaccines that are available. in the a camp 2,000 vaccine the live vaccine has a lot of side effects that are difficult to be able to manage when trying to mass administer a vaccine. this jynneos vaccine is much

more easily tolerated, but the problem is it's a two-dose vaccine. so in order to get the adequate immune response, it really needs a lot more. why we are not ahead of the game, i can't answer that question, but here we are. we need to be moving as quickly as we can to get as many doses out there. there are a lot of people who are at risk right now. the sooner we can get people vaccinated, the better off we'll be. >> right now the monkeypox outbreak is almost entirely limited to men who have sex with men, although five cases involving children have been reported and that's why former fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb says the cdc needs to broaden its case definition for monkeypox testing in more segments of the u.s. population and test more. do you agree with him on that? >> i definitely agree with scott gottlieb. i think that the issue here is we just don't have enough situational awareness to know how many people actually are

infected with monkeypox. yes, it's absolutely true that right now we're seeing the vast majority of cases are sexual networks of men who have sex with men, but all these communities are overlapping. there's certainly more cases out there and we will see more cases spilling over into other communities just as we see more cases occurring. how do we actually learn who's at risk? we need to test. so therefore, the more testing is available, the better it is. dr. gottlieb is correct. we need to expand the clinical case definition so that more people get tested. clinicians actually think to test people when they see an atypical case of a rash illness and the sooner we do this, the better we'll be because we're really going to understand what the true burden of infection is here. >> many thanks for joining us, as always. >> my pleasure.

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ukraine is accusing russia of nuclear terror after explosions shook europe's largest nuclear power plant for a second day in a row. ukraine says russian shells damaged three radiation detectors at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. it came just a day after an attack that prompted warnings of a nuclear disaster from the u.n.'s watchdog. russia blames ukraine for the strikes. concerns about the plant have been growing since russian forces seized it in march and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is urging a stronger

response from allies. >> there is no such nation in the world that could feel safe when a terrorist state fired at a nuclear plant. god forbid, something irreparable happens and no one will stop the wind that will spread the radioactive contamination. therefore, a principled response of the international community to these russian attacks on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in europe, is needed now. >> mr. zelenskyy also warned that future negotiations with russia could be in jeopardy if officials in occupied areas hold referendums on joining russia. last month u.s. officials warned russia could be planning sham votes to annex occupied territory inner which in kherson, zaporizhzhia. what is the latest on the new strikes in the nuclear power

plant in zaporizhzhia? >> reporter: the u.n. has watchdog, the iaea director general, says he would like to get immediate access as soon as possible so they can see and have an understanding of what's happening, but it seems to be an unrealistic expectation at the moment while the country is in the middle of war while russia appears to have put heavy armaments very close to some of the most potentially dangerous elements of that nuclear power plant, spent fuel rods where some of those impacts happened over the weekend. ukraine on one side of the river, russian forces dug in at that power plant and it's going to be a point of contention. it's certainly a place where russia can try to seek to avoid being ousted out of because of the danger shelling at them. ukraine is accusing russia of damaging the plant through shelling, russia with a counter

accusation. i don't think there's a quick resolution going to come there. further east here in the donetsk region here in kramatorsk the sirens are going off. in the distance we can hear a number of loud impacts. that's absolutely normal for here and about 40, 50 minutes drive away we went into the forest there to see the very front lines where the ukrainian forces are holding out against russia trying to follow up with an on-the-ground advance behind these missile barrages that are coming in here. deep in the woods at ukraine's eastern front troops dig in. trenches here are life savers. >> we are here where fighting's fierce. we took our portion of shelling here and some of our comrades were injured.

>> reporter: the faces of the troops here tell a story that words cannot. this is tough duty. five days at the front, ten days resting here nearby. they joke about living like hobbits underground away from the shelling. when ukrainian officials talk about the himars rocket system and the m777 artillery helping hold their line, these are the lines they're talking about and these are the soldiers with the hard fight to make sure it does hold. he says, "we hold the line. it's humid. it rains. shells hit us all the time, but we hold the defense. there is no other way." of course, the shelling gets on your mind he tells me. his buddy adding but you get used to it, both set on victory they say. to get to the very front line

we crossed fields littered with russian rockets. all these trees here they're telling us were taken out by shelling. conditions here, very spartan. the russians less than a mile away, days here when troops can't leave their bunkers. russia outguns them five times. this is where the next phase of the war will be won or lost, in trenches like this that stretch for hundreds of miles, troops like this holding the line against the possible russian advance. we manage the officer says. we've come here to stop the enemy. we just take it, sit it out and keep on fighting." an incoming shell punctuates his thought. more weapons, more armor he says and it could be us advancing. it feels very much like the trench warfare that we heard

about in world war i and world war ii, people sitting it out. in this case the line's far enough apart that they can't easily shoot at each other with automatic rifles, but the shelling along those front lines is very intense and what you get here in cities like this and other towns outlying from here is just this sort of barrage. it will come, you know, at any moment through the day. there will be a barrage of heavy fire. it will stop. it will pick up somewhere else and this just sort of perceives russia's effort to push forward and incrementally, very, very slowly they're managing to do that, but as we saw at those lines, they can sit tight, hunker down and hope that they can hold on till they get more and better weapons from their allies.

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. welcome back, everyone. we are tracking developments in the western pacific where chinese military drills have continued for a fifth day near taiwan. beijing rolled out the drills thursday after promising taipei would pay a price for hosting u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi. she made the visit despite warnings from mainland china which considers the self- governing island part of its territory. taiwan's foreign minister says he's concerned but not afraid. he spoke to cnn's will ripley a short time ago. >> china has always been threatening taiwan for years and it's getting more serious in the last few years and it's always been that way, whether speaker pelosi visit taiwan or not.

the chinese military threat against taiwan has always been there and that is the fact that we need to deal with. >> let's bring in cnn's blake essig in taipei. what are you learning more about china's military drills near taiwan? >> reporter: just a few hours ago we learned the people's liberation army continues to conduct these military drills in the air and at sea around taiwan according to video posted on social media by chinese military. now the military in their post also stated that today's drills are focused on anti-submarine warfare and more naval action. during the first four days of military exercises taiwan's defense ministry says china simulated an attack against the main island of taiwan involving cyberattacks, a large number of fighter jets and warships operating daily around taiwan with many entering taiwan's air

defense identification zone and some crossing the taiwan strait median line. beijing also launched a dozen ballistic missiles, some flying over taiwan the first time ever and several landing in japan's exclusive economic zone. according to military experts, one of the key take-aways from the past several days is china demonstrated that a blockade of taiwan doesn't necessarily require constant naval presence offshore and stopping shipping and air traffic can be blocked by the threat of missiles. while china's live fire military exercises continue now a fifth day it is worth noting there's been a big difference between how the international community has reacted to these drills compared to how people here in taiwan are reacting. while some experts internationally are viewing this as a dress rehearsal for a potential war, many people here in taiwan, rosemary, are just

continuing with life as normal. they've been dealing with about seven decades plus of constant threat from china. so this is just almost business as usual for them. >> interesting. blake, while the drills are not over yet, what is expected to happen next? >> reporter: rosemary, it's impossible to know exactly what chinese leader xi jinping will do next. in the past he's made it clear reunification with taiwan must be fulfilled. so yeah, there's an expectation that china could take even more provocative action moving forward, but it's more likely that what's happening right now, that china will seize upon this moment to permanently change the status quo around taiwan and that seems to be what's happening according to chinese state media. from now on china will conduct regular military drills east of taiwan, the taiwan strait median line, which is closer to taiwan than china and,

rosemary, although we don't know what beijing will do next, it is fair to say things likely won't go back to normal even after these drills are over and these heightened tensions start to die down. it seems that that could be the new normal moving forward between taiwan and china on the taiwan strait. >> many thanks to our blake essig joining us live from taipei. we'll be back in just a moment.

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francia marquez, became the first afro colombian to hold executive powers. mr. petro won the election in june on an ambitious agenda to tackle colombia's social and economic inequality. now in office the leftist president is aiming to revitalize the country and put a stop to rising violence. we have more now from bogota. >> reporter: the swearing ceremony sunday was delayed several minutes because the new president, gustavo petro, had demanded that the sworers of south america's independence was brought to him on stage for a new beginning for his country, a sign things might be different from now on. >> gustavo petro says he's on a mission to transform colombia. >> today starts our second opportunity it. is time for change. >> reporter: the new president will be tackling tough challenges six years after a historic treaty promised to

bring peace to this country, its implementation elusive. hundreds of social leaders have been assassinated, some of them former fighters who abandoned arms struggle as part of that treaty like the husband of rose marina hidalgo. he fought in the jungle and was part of farc now a politician, part of the party the rebels founded after putting down their weapons. she urges the new president, himself a former rebel, to do more to reduce political violence and protect former fighters. >> i've been into campaigns, the first one in 2019. they killed my husband. now and this is the first time i'm saying it my brother has disappeared. he vanished in february a few weeks before the election and to this date we know nothing of him. >> reporter: the attacks come

from criminal groups who oppose the peace deal and intend to scare her away from political activity. last year the colombian army arrested a rebel who reneged an agreement and returned to arms struggle saying he was the mastermind behind the plot to kill her husband. they is a civilian anti- corruption lawyer as defense minister, but the new president said halting the war on drugs is key to ending violence. colombia is one of the largest narcotics producer in the world and has faced a campaign financed in part by the united states to little effect. friday a bill was presented to congress to legalize recreational marijuana. the bill's supporters says it's a possible new step towards ending the war on drugs. >> prohibitionism has been a resounding defeat. there are more drugs around now than when pablo escobar was alive, more consumers, more

production despite thousands of deaths. the only way to guarantee peace to this country is regulation, not just of marijuana, but of all drugs. >> to regulate the consumption of hard drugs like cocaine, colombia would have to renegotiate international treaties, but for a country that is constantly associated with narcotics, some experts say even legalizing marijuana could be a first move in changing colombia's image. >> i've been in business for a number of decades now and when somebody learns that i'm from colombia, you always get that oh, that weird look about the war on drugs, for that to turn into actually a source of pride, yeah, i want to go to colombia because i want to experience the plant there. >> reporter: the economy and mounting inflation represent another test for the new president. gustavo petro is asking his fellow colombians to be patient before his reforms come into effect, but he's adamant that

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albuquerque, new mexico, is on edge after the recent killings of four muslim men across the city and police say the murders may be linked. officials are increasing police presence at mosques and they are calling on the public to help locate a vehicle of interest. cnn's camila bernal has more. >> reporter: authorities now have a very strong lead. they say they're looking for a specific car, a dark silver

sedan, four doors, tinted windows. they believe it could be a volkswagen either jetta or passat and they're asking the public for help in finding this car or the person that was driving or owns this car because what authorities are trying to do is connect the dots between these four different cases. they say there are some similarities in terms of where these men were killed and how they were killed. authorities say at least three of them were ambushed and then shot dead. we'll start with the latest incident. we know naim hussein was a muslim man killed from south asia late friday night just before midnight. we also know muhammad hussain, 27 years old from pakistan worked for the city of hispaniola, the mayor describing him as a brilliant public servant. he said he was soft spoken and kind and quick to laugh. he was killed on august 1st in

southeast albuquerque, but so was aftab hussein killed in the same area. he went to the same mosque, but he was killed july 26th. now authorities are also going back to november 2021 to try to figure out if the killing of mohammad ahmadi is also related because he's also a muslim man from afghanistan. he was killed outside of the business that he ran with his brother, the governor of new mexico saying there will be justice. here's what she said. >> i am incredibly angry about this situation. every new mexican should stand up against this kind of hatred. it has no place in this city and it has no place in our state. >> reporter: and the mayor of albuquerque also saying that his community is traumatized explaining how there are parents who are afraid to take their children to school. members of the community who are scared to go out to the

grocery store or to get a meal. they are providing services, but really what they're promising is to find the person responsible. u.s. customs and border patrol says hundreds of migrants are in custody after landing on or near florida's coast this weekend. in one incident more than 300 migrants from haiti were rescued after their boat was grounded off the florida keys. officials tweeted these images showing that some had jumped from the vessel. in another incident the coast guard intercepted and took into custody at least 150 cuban migrants who reached land. officials said they were still processing the migrants sunday. some asylum seekers are caught in the middle between tensions of texas and new york over immigration. dozens of migrants arrived in new york city by bus this past

weekend after texas' governor designated new york as a dropoff location for migrants as part of his response to u.s. border policies. new york city's mayor claimed some migrants are being forced onto buses. cnn asked texas governor greg abbott for comment and awaits response. cnn's polo sandoval has more. >> reporter: leaders in new york city saying that they are approaching this recent busing of migrant families from the nation's southern border here to the northeast as an opportunity to send a message to the world and also to republican texas governor greg abbott about how these families should be treated and not as what abbott's critics have described as pawns in a political stunt that's been ongoing since april when the governor announced that he would be offering some of these migrants that have been processed and released at the border an opportunity to get on a bus and then get a ride to cities like washington, d.c. and now most recently in new york. some images taken from over the

weekend show some of these recent arrivals. these potential ongoing busing of migrants will certainly add more strain to the homeless shelter system in new york city that is already trying to keep up with demand. mayor eric adams saying that some 14 migrants arrived on sunday. that added to at least 50 who arrived on the first bus on friday. they are added to roughly 4,000 asylum seekers that the city has worked to find a home for since may. mayor eric adams saying on sunday morning that the city certainly welcoming to these asylum seekers, but saying that abbott's approach is not just cruel but also uncoordinated. >> it's really important that the governor of texas is coordinated. they're not letting us know what time the buses are leaving. they're not letting us know what the needs of the people on the bus. they're not giving us any information. so we're unable to really provide the service to people en route. we would like to get that

information. only around 14 got off. some of them thought they were going to another location or they were forced on that bus. >> reporter: mayor adams among other city officials will say these recent arrivals have shared with them stories about feeling forced to take up the abbott administration's offer to get on these buses and get that ride to the northeast. cnn has reached out to governor abbott's office sunday and we're waiting to hear back. expecting more buses to arrive in new york city, officials here announced they will set up a stand alone facility to provide some of these asylum seekers with things like shelter and food. for some of those migrants whose plans were not meant to take them to new york city, they are offering offering assistance to go to other parts of the country. in italy pedestrians were surprised by a new addition to a popular walkway. a statue of a sleeping refugee has been set up in central

rome. onlookers stopped to admire the sculpture and took pictures with it. the statue is a reminder of a hot button topic in italy. immigration is a key issue in the country's up in coming election in september. data from italy's interior ministry says more than 42,000 migrants have landed in italy this year compared to more than 30,000 last year. we are monitoring volcanic activity in iceland. these nighttime images are incredible. adventurous tourists getting close to fiery streams of lava and molten rock, the volcano located about 20 miles from iceland's capital. government officials say a fissure broke up wednesday after several days of intense seismic activity. they say the fissure is relatively small but warn of dangerous gases and fast moving lava flows. extreme summer weather is raging around the united states

from floods to wildfires and even deadly lightning strikes. scientists say climate change is making all of this the new normal. cnn's tom foreman has details. >> reporter: in a flash the summer's wild weather struck again, lightning hitting just across from the white house critically injuring four people. >> it was like a huge bomb. >> and i'm not exaggerating. it came this close to us and we were going whoa! >> reporter: three of those who fell have now died including donna and james mueller, grandparents from wisconsin celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary. >> oh, no. >> look, look at that [ bleep ]. >> oh, no! >> reporter: coast to coast and many places in between the weather keeps raging causing floods in some places, wildfires in others and soaring temperatures for tens of millions. >> it was a pretty intense lightning storm. i just happened to peek outside after the rain stopped and

noticed the water had gotten up to the bottom of the step. >> reporter: the heat has not spared even some places where floods have roared and threats of more rain hang over much of the midwest including kentucky where thousands lost their homes to high water and dozens have perished. >> so everybody be weather aware. the ground is already really saturated. >> reporter: amid all that an updated prediction from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and colorado state university. despite a slow start, this atlantic hurricane season will likely produce an above-average number of storms. federal authorities say they are pleased at how they've been able to respond to all these disasters so far, but they note if the number and severity keep growing, and with climate change, it might. >> if these extreme weather conditions are becoming the new

normal, we are going to have to rethink where and how we live. what are you seeing? >> it gets pretty complicated when you look at the frequency in which these events are happening. 2022 alone you look at the multimillion dollars disasters across the u.s., from 1980 through 2021, on average about 7.7 per year, so roughly eight disasters occurring. so far in the u.s. we've had nine occur and the kentucky disaster would make this ten and, of course, we've had no tropical systems yet as well. it speaks just how busy it's been in the world of weather in particular around portions of the united states. i want to show you the southwest right now because flood alerts in place with even some flood warnings around portions of the phoenix metro and points just north of phoenix there. we've had quite a bit of monsoonal rainfall, a lot of this rainfall beneficial, some of it leading to some localized flooding. the drought monitor across the states of arizona and new

mexico were sitting at almost 100% being underneath droughts, but the beneficial rains we've seen we've brought that number down to 90% across the state of arizona and additional rainfall is expected across this region with the next couple weeks once again bringing more rains around areas of the western united states. now portions of the midwest there are flooding alerts in place, seen pretty significant rainfall across parts of wisconsin, minnesota and iowa. rainfall amounts in the past 24 hours, 6 plus inches in some of these communities. so we know significant flooding once again a concern across areas of the united states that have seen plenty of rain in recent weeks. >> it's unbelievable, isn't it? many thanks bringing us up to date on that. thank you for joining us. i'm rosemary church. i will be back with more news from all around the world after a short break. do stay with us.

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