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i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- millions of americans taking to the skies and the roads this holiday weekend. this as temperatures in some areas could top 100 degrees. we'll have a look at which cities are experiencing delays and scorching heat. plus -- >> i didn't give any false hope. the question was whether or not i would do even more than was requested. >> the economic impact of the supreme court ruling on student loan forgiveness as tens of millions of americans struggle with debt feeling the pinch. and -- [ shots ] another night of unrest across france as we're hours away from the funeral of the teenager who was shot by police. we'll take you live to paris with the latest. we begin this hour with 66

million people in the u.s. starting their holiday weekend under heat alerts. that's one in five people living in this country. temperatures in texas are very slowly beginning to improve, but there are still largeiators of excessive -- large areas of excessive heat warnings across the lower mississippi valley. temperatures will be a few degrees lower center on saturday and again on sunday. while in the west, the heat is just beginning. places like phoenix and las vegas will soar over 110 degrees fahrenheit this weekend. this comes as millions of americans will be traveling. aaa projects over 50 million people will hit the roads. millions more will be taking to the skies. for many the skies will not be friendly. on friday more than 8,000 flights were delayed, and there were over 500 cancelations according to flight aware. there's already been more than 400 delays today, and almost 100 cancelations. one person who didn't have to worry about his flight being canceled -- scotty kirby, the

ceo of united airlines. he's now apologized for taking a private jet from new jersey to denver on wednesday. the same day united canceled 751 flights across the country. here's more. >> reporter: from chicago to california, july 4th travelers remain undaunted after thousands of trips melted down this week. united airlines canceled the most flights of any carrier, 40% of all cancelations. >> it was ridiculous i'm hoping my bag is here. >> reporter: united says it's grateful to its customers who endured a lot of disruptions. many became separated from their checked bags. united now acknowledges its operational issues after the ceo put the blame on faa air traffic controller shortages in new york. united workers who were stranded with passengers across the country are pushing back. >> it is ridiculous to say that this is only the faa.

>> reporter: the good news, says transportation secretary pete buttigieg, is that cancelations are down compared to last year. >> there need to be more resources for air traffic control, but it is important for airlines to create enough cushion and resilience in the system. >> reporter: despite delays, friday stands to set a new post-pandemic record for air travel. the transportation security administration says it will screen 2.82 million passengers nationwide, rivaling an all-time record set in 2019. >> it's going to be big this year. >> reporter: though the majority of travel there holiday will be by car, aaa says in total 50 million people will travel 50 miles or more. the highest in 18 years. a gallon of gas costs less than $1.30 a year ago. one silver lining on the roads -- after struggles in the skies. >> be prepared. expect delays. expect cancelations.

>> reporter: the numbers are already huge at the busiest airport in atlanta. tsa screened a whopping 31,000 people in just five hours on friday morning. but the rush is far from over. the tsa says when it's done it will screen a total of 17.7 million people at airport checkpoints across the country, that includes next week when everybody begins coming home the next big test for airlines. cnn, reagan national airport. the july 4th celebrations may be less enjoyable than usual this year. many parts of the u.s. are facing an extreme and unpleasant mix of weather. cnn's chad myers has the details. really three big stories across the country for your saturday. bad air quality in northeast, big-time heat across the deep south and the west, and the threat of severe weather across the midwest. lightning and thunder if you're out through the midwest for saturday and for sunday. so here's the air quality -- most of the bad stuff is new york, philadelphia, d.c., all

the way to the carolinas. by sunday, most of that gets pushed out into the ocean and away from where people are actually trying to have a party. excessive heat across the deep south with a lot of humidity in the air. and then just plain old heat in the west. temperatures death valley probably 120 degrees. it will feel like that in spots across the east, but it won't be that on the thermometer. in the shade, your thermometer's going to probably be less than 100 -- at least very close. but if you're in the sun, it's going to feel warmer than that. now back out to the west. sacramento, well over 100. death valley in the 120s. vegas, phoenix, all -- all the hottest air we've seen so far this year. many people not accustomed to or really climatized to where we should be this time of year because it just hasn't been that hot in most areas. now here's the lightning and the thunder. and it depend on where you are whether you'll see a thunderstorm or not. there will be lightning in the area across many of these areas.

there may be some severe weather -- hail, wind, maybe a tornado or two. but that's going to be up to you to keep your radio on or keep your phone on, make sure alerts are on especially if you're out. there will be rain, we'll take the rain. hopefully not your barparade. the farmers will take this because they need it. the drought continues there. >> and coming up later this hour, we'll speak with an emergency medicine physician about how extreme heat impacts our health and what we made it to do to stay safe during hot summer days. this past week has seen several hugely consequential rulings from the u.s. supreme court. the conservative majority on the court is again prevailing on some of the country's most divisive issues. in a ruling friday, they sided with a colorado woman who didn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples because of her christian beliefs. the majority also blocked president biden's plan to forgive billions in student debt saying only congress had that authority. the day before, the same justices voted to kill

affirmative action in college applications. the longtime practice to aid minority students had been upheld by the court for decades until friday's bombshell decision ended it. president biden lashed out after the ruling on student debt saying the justices misread the constitution. in the wake of that decision, he was asked if he'd offered false hope on debt relief. here he is. >> i didn't give any false hope. want question was whether or not i would do even more than was requested. what i did i thought was appropriate and was able to be done and would get done. i didn't give borrowers false hope. the republicans snatched away the hope that they were given, and it's real. real hope. >> we get more on those momentous court rulings from jessica schneider in washington. >> reporter: the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative

justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer for colorado who refused to create wedding websites for same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a capitol law that prohibits discrimination saying it violated rights. they wrote "the first amendment envisions the u.s. as a place where all can speak and think as they wish, not ads the government demands. colorado cannot deny that promise." >> art is my passion. >> reporter: lori smith who runs 303 creative lost in the lower courts but prevailed before a supreme court that has repeatedly ruled in favor of religious groups in recent years. >> i want to design in a way that's consistent with my faith. but colorado is censoring and compelling my speech and forcing me to create custom artwork, cu custom expression that goes against what i believe. >> reporter: justice sonia sotomayor saying this could lead

to other discrimination. today the court for the first time in its history grandparents a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. a website designer could equally refuse to create a wedding website for an interracial couple, for example. while the majority disputed that notion, colorado's attorney general warned -- >> this case will have the impact that cause considerable mischief undermining the principle that once you open up the doors to the public as a business you have to serve all comers. >> reporter: the supreme court also handing a stinging defeat to the biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan. >> president biden, please keep your promise. >> reporter: in another 6-3 decision, the conservative justices rejecting a program that president biden spoke of in 2022 -- >> i made a commitment to provide student debt relief and i'm honoring that commitment today. >> reporter: it was aimed at delivering up to $20,000 in debt

cancelation to millions of borrowers. chief justice john roberts writing for the conservative majority that biden's administration read a federal law too broadly when trying to enact the program. the economic and political significance of the secretary's action is staggering by any measure, he wrote, adding the $430 billion price tag was just too big to justify action from the secretary of education instead of congress. the question here is not whether something should be done, it is who has the authority to do it. the liberal dissenters claim the majority was making a political decision with justice kagan writing, "the result here is that the court substitutes itself for congress and the executive branch in making national policy about student loan forgiveness." the court's decision means student debt will not be canceled for the 40 million-plus borrowers who might have been banking on it, and they'll need to start repayinging loans beginning october 1st. that's when the pause that was in effect for covid, that's when it ends.

cnn, washington. in france nearly 1,000 people have been detained after a fourth night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy. >> we can hear loud bangs echoed in the streets as people demonstrated despite a ban on large gatherings. france's interior ministry says three officers were injured by gunshots in the suburb of the city. [ shots ] you can see some protesters vented frustrations by throwing fireworks at police. others set objects on fire. french officials are condemning the unrest saying it won't bring justice to the slain teenager. the boy of north african descent was fatally shot during a traffic stop. his funeral is expected to take place in the day ahead. now more from nick r robert

in paris. take us through what happened. >> reporter: yeah, 994 people arrested, more than the previous night. but there were more police out there. there were 45,000 police, 40,000 the previous night. they had stronger, better armored vehicles at their disposal. also there was a ban nationwide on large gatherings. there are buses and trams across the country that were taken off the streets at 9:00 p.m. last night. so all of that done to try to mitigate against this ongoing violence. the violence actually down in relative terms, about 2,500, 2,560 to be precise, fires started. that was less than the priests night. 1,350 vehicles set on fire. significantly less than the previous night. fewer government buildings attacked, fewer police stations

attacked, fewer police officers injured. it paints a picture that perhaps the violence is ebbing, all of the security services were just better prepared. but significantly in paris, the epicenter over past few days of the violence, it wasn't as violent in paris. there were certainly incidents and a lot of shops have been shuttered in some parts of the city. but it was in lyon where the heard the gunshots and marseilles in the south that saw the more extreme level of violence. it's really not clear if the government's message is working to stop the violence, that there's no excuse for it, now no justification for it, or if it's in fact a case of, you know, people just decided not to go out and try to tempt the police because there was more. it's not clear at the moment. >> all right. that of the latest on last night. then today the funeral for the teen who was slain. what are we expecting?

>> reporter: yeah. his body is at a funeral home where we are now. the family want people to be peaceful, pay respects, they're not inviting journalists to cover the funeral. they're asking, in fact, specifically for journalists to stay away. in the troubles over the past few nights, journalists have often been the targets for some of the angry mobs. his body will be there this morning for people to come and pay their respects. he'll go to a mosque in the center of nanterre and will be taken for burial early afternoon. the streets we've been driving around are quiet. we're not seeing a lot of people on the streets at this time either around the mosque or around the funeral home. so at the moment, the situation is very calm. and that's something that the family really wants to see maintained today for dignity and for respect.

>> yeah. that may still happen, but we can also probably expect more protests to happen in the future. so i'm wondering about president macron's response. has there been talk of imposing perhaps a state of emergency? >> reporter: the president's officers talked about that, they spoke about that yesterday. they pointed out historical reference. 2005, the last time there was huge violence like this, it was nine days before the government declared a state of emergency. what the government says it's doing is try to take an escalated response rather than jumping to a state of emergency that put in these other measures like putting more police out, giving them, you know, a more armored vehicles to use. they've taken the buses and trams off the street. what the government is saying, it's too soon to go to a state of emergency. we don't need that now, we don't want to escalate the situation. rather take smaller steps and hope that the violence subsides and people listen to the government message which is quite simply you're destroying

buses, trains, banks, government buildings that are used by you, the people. and certainly that's something we've heard on the streets by people who told us, look, you know, you can't just blame the protesters, the government has issues here with the way that people here are being potentially racially profiled, the way they're being treated. that's a concern. but they also say it doesn't help us to have our buses burned because we use them. so that message has some traction. the president's also told parents to keep their young children off the streets. he said it's the parents' responsibility to keep their kids at home. i think that level of anger and passion that's been expressed on the streets, i'm not sure the president's words are going to ameliorate that, certainly not in the short term. but the government will look at the statistics for last night and be hoping that that's the beginning of a downward trend. >> all right, appreciate the reporting, nic robertson in paris. thank you so much. ukrainian intelligence

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said russia wants his gone, and an already has already been begin to assassinate him. for more, claire sebastian joins us from london. let's start with prigozhin, no surprise his life may be in danger. what's latest on the reported plot to kill him, and do we know any more about his status and whereabouts? r roy. >> reporter: we don't know more, this comes from the head of the intelligence new york stock exchange an interview he said that he doesn't know if russia would be successful in this, he doesn't necessarily think it would be fast. but he says there is an order given to the fsb, the russian state security services, to assassinate prigozhin. the facts around prigozhin are that he has not been seen since video of him showed him leaving the rostov region in russia last weekend just after that rebellion. president lukashenko of belarus says he's in belarus, but we have yet to see evidence that. we know putin has made no secret of the fact that he may not be out of the woods legally despite the charges against wagner over

the mutiny having been dropped. he hinted at potential future investigations into the financial dealings of prigozhin's company. we know that russia has a track record, of course, of somewhat extra judicial killings of opponents to the kremlin. people much less disruptive, frankly, than prigozhin himself. we have no evidence as such that this plot to assassinate him by the fsb actually exists. the head of the military intelligence says that he doesn't expect wagner to reconstitute as some kind of fighting force in ukraine which is, of course, good news for that country. >> then ukraine and the u.s. both trying to manage expectex expectations around the offensive. what's the latest? >> reporter: this is a very difficult ongoing full in multiple areas. we know there was a setback that ukraine apparently suffered this morning, this coming only from the russian side. the russians head of the kherson region saying the ukrainian bridge head on the eastern bank

of the dnipro river which is by the bridge, you're about to see it there, in the region northeast of kherson city, that they eliminated that bridge head. a small number of ukrainian troops are crossed into russian-held territory. we haven't got that yet from the ukrainian side. analysts suggest they're trying to hold russian forces in the region to prevent more going to zaporizhzhia where of course we've seen i think the biggest concentration of fighting so far in this counteroffensive. the russian attempt -- ukrainian attempt to try to cut that land bridge that russia has between the donbas region and russian territory to crimea. this fits with the picture that we got from the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley. listen to his assessment of the counteroffensive. >> it's going slower than people had predicted. doesn't surprise me at all. i had said that this offensive, which is going, by the way, it is advancing steadily, it's going to be very difficult. it's going to be very long, and

it's going to be very, very bloody. no one should have any illusions about any of that. >> reporter: not particularly helpful to ukraine's efforts in the eastern and south as having to beef up their northern defenses, saying that they're doing that because of an uptick in shelling and separately the military told people to evacuate their homes in the northeast region near the border with russia because of the uptick in shelling there. kim? >> all right, thank you so much for the updates. claire sebastian in london. as we mentioned, russian troops have reportedly been put on the defensive around bakhmut. ukraine says it's been slowly gaining ground north and south of the city. as ben wedeman reports, the advances are taking a toll on ukrainian soldiers. we want to warn you, some scenes in his report are disturbing. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: the doctors and nurses here have done this time and time again. treating the wounded fresh from

the front, assuring the soldiers that despite the pain, they'll be all right. near the battles around bakhmut, this field hospital known as a stabilization point, is where the wounded are hastily bandaged up by combat medics get a first proper treatment by a full medical team. these soldiers were advancing on bakhmut when they came under intense russian artillery fire. the stabilization point has so far on this day received more than 50 troops from the front, suffering from shrapnel, from artillery, and concussions. the ukrainian military doesn't issue data on casualties. a recent poll conducted here found that almost 80% of ukrainians have close relatives or friends who have injured or killed as a result of the full-scale russian invasion. andrea, a vascular surgeon, is surprised there aren't even more

wounded. even during this counteroffensive, he says, we have lower casualties than we expected. once the wounds have been cleaned and bandages applied, the soldiers will be moved to better equipped hospitals elsewhere. valentina was studying biotechnology in kyiv when the war began on 294th of february last year -- 24th of february last year. "by february 26th i started working as a nurse," she says, "and worked in evacuations, clinics, and now at this stabilization point." edward is still in shock, but his injury isn't serious. "i'm okay," he says, "but it burns a lot. i think it was a piece of shrapnel, something flew by me like this. i got lucky. it went right past me." not everyone here was that lucky. cnn, outside bakhmut. the u.s. supreme court struck down affirmative action

on college campuses, now the conservative majority has blocked the president's plan to forgive student loans. we'll have those details when we come back. and brazil's bolsonaro lost the last election by a razor thin margin. he's going to have to wait for a while to retake the presidency while brazil's highest court is barring him from running for office. stay with us.

welcome back to all of you watching here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." want to get to one of our top stories, two highly controversial supreme court

rulings on friday. the final day of the court's term. the 6-3 majority ruled a website designer in colorado could legally deny her services to same-sex couples because of her christian beliefs. it's widely seen as a major setback for gay and minority rights. also by a 6-3 vote, president biden's ambitious plan to wipe out hundreds of billions in student loan debt was struck down as unconstitutional. now the ruling on student debt is a sharp blow to millions of americans who had been counting on it. cnn's brian todd has more on the expected fallout. >> reporter: cody runs a crisis center helping people with student loan debt. he himself has about $30,000 in outstanding debt from his student loan. his reaction to the supreme court's ruling blocking the biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan -- >> i'm absolutely devastated. the way that many others, millions of people across the country are. >> reporter: there are nearly 44 million student loan borrowers in the u.s. who according to wells fargo will soon have to

start making payments averaging $210 to $314 a month. under president biden's plan, millions of eligible borrowers of federal loans could have gotten up to $20,000 of their debt wiped out. but the president's plan never actually went into effect. it was caught up in the courts. now that it won't go into effect, borrowers will be affected by another separate plan that had been in effect but which is now ending. that's the pause in required student loan repayments that had been in effect since march of 2020 to help people financially strapped by the covid-19 pandemic. >> there are a lot of people who would have had to start repaying their student debt no matter what. now on top of that you have people who thought that their balances had been completely wiped out and they'd never have to pay another interest payment again, will actually maybe be surprised to find that this fall they, too, owe payments. >> reporter: for federal loan borrowers who had those payments paused during the pandemic, they'll be due again starting in october.

on friday, president biden in the wake of the supreme court ruling announced steps he'll take to try to bring relief to borrowers. >> to compromise, waive, oh release loans, we're creating a temperature ranger 12--- temporary 12-month on-ramp repayment program. now, this is not the same as a student loan pause. if you miss payments, this onramp temporarily removes the threat of default or having your credit harmed. >> reporter: cnn analyst katherine rampel says borrowers should not expect those ideas to be a great plan b. >> if those were on a strong legal foundation, i think he probably would have done them already. >> reporter: the economy could take a hit now that millions will have to start paying down student loans again. it will mean less spending on cars, vacations, appliances. for many, burdens on longer term plans could return. >> when you have student loan debt that you can't cover, it often results in people delaying

getting married, delaying having children, delaying buying a home, delaying being able to save for retirement. >> reporter: the advice that financial analysts have now for student loan borrowers, save your money. contact your loan servicer to figure out the easiest way to start your payments again. and see if you qualify for other programs that can help lessen that debt like the public service loan forgiveness program for people like teachers, police officers, and social workers, and check out income-driven repayment plans. brian todd, cnn, washington. now to a damning report on the chaotic end to america's longest war. the pull-out from afghanistan, saying shortcomings contributed to the takeover and frenzied evacuation scenes. kylie atwood reports. >> reporter: the report paints a flawed picture of both the biden administration and the trump administration's ability to prepare for the withdrawal from afghanistan. saying that in both

administrations there was insufficient senior-level consideration of worst case scenarios and how quickly those might follow. and also gets into specifics surrounding processes that weren't effectively put in place to deal with withdrawal as it was actually unfolding. for example, saying that the n noncombatant evacuation operation which the department of defense stood up didn't have a lead at the state department to coordinate with them, and there wasn't a single person on the seventh floor here at the state department which is where the secretary of state sits, coordinating on this crisis scenario. it also paints a pictures of the challenges that this presented for the afghans on the ground because there weren't decisions made in advance about where those afghans that the u.s. was going to help evacuate from the country were actually going to go. now this is a long-anticipated report. the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan almost two years

ago. the report was done more than a year ago. there was a classified version of it shared with congress a few months ago. but just now we have received this unclassified version. and there's some criticism, some questions about the administration trying to bury this story which is a dark mark on their foreign policy record. senior state department official wouldn't discuss questions related to the process of when this was released. kylie atwood, cnn, the state department. former brazilian president jair balsonaro will have to abandon any plans he may have had for a 2026 electoral comeback. the country's highest electoral court has banned him from running for political office for the next eight years. five out of seven judges found bolsonaro guilty of abusing his power and misusing public media during the election campaign. it stemmed from a meeting he had with foreign ambassadors last july where he was accused of

spreading false information about brazil's electoral system. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: i'm not guilty. i didn't commit any crime in meeting with ambassadors. now they accuse me and want to strip me of my political rights on an accusation of abuse of political power. people can't get to understand. >> as the temperatures soar this summer, what you need to do to avoid heats-related health issues. we'll have details coming up after the break. please stay with us. (wheezing) asthma isn't pretty. it's the moment when you realize that a good day... is about to become a bad one. but then, i remembed that the world because y helpkeep my asthma symptoms under control.

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the start of a holiday weekend here in the u.s., and it's going to be a scorcher -- 66 million americans are under heat alerts. temperatures in the south are starting to cool ever so slightly, but you may not notice, and things are just starting to heat up out west with temperatures expected to top 110 degrees in places like phoenix and las vegas. the mayor of san antonio's worried about how bad things

might get as the mercury rises. here he is. >> it's pretty brutal heat wave that we're going through, and it's -- it hasn't let up for the last couple of weeks. it's gone into danger territory. so we have launched our beat the heat campaign and making sure that people know the resources available if they need to get into a cool place, libraries and community centers, senior centers, are all open and encouraging folks obviously to be advised about the signs of heat-related illness this is a dangerous sort of heat wave. with the humidity mixed in there's not any relief in the evening periods, as well. joining me is dr. durani, an emergency medicine physician. thank you so much for being here with us. i should say, i mean, you are in houston, texas, which has been, you know, racked with all of this heat. what have you been seeing in your ers over this heat wave? >> yeah, absolutely.

it's -- feels like it's the hottest summer of my life. i just worked a shift in the er, and er and talking that we admitted so many people for dehydration illnesses more so than any other summer from personal experience. we're seeing everything from lots of kids who play out in the sun to having sunburns, and that's on the more minor end of things to, you know, even younger folks in the 25 to 30 age range that may be working outside or playing outside, and they get dehydrated, feel light headed, need iv fluids. and most of the folks that we have been admitting is, you know, you get mild dehydration and then that can kind of turn into severe dehydration, heatstroke, that kind of spectrum. and those tend to be folks that are elderly, next have lots of co-morbid conditions. and what happens is when you get dehydrated to a certain point, your organs start to shut down. that include the kidneys, you get muscle breakdown, and you can potentially get delirious and confused. so those are the folks that we're admitting to the hospitals

and seeing lots of that in houston. >> yeah, and then unfortunately there's been at least 13 deaths, as well, due to the heat. you know, part of the problem is the heat during the day. it can go as high as 115 degrees or something -- but also the night temperatures can be as high as 80 degrees or 28 celsius. what impact does that have on the body's ability to recover? >> absolutely. you know, as much as we think that we drink enough water to make up for the water losses we have throughout the day, it's heartbreaking to keep up with that, especially if you're out or if you're homeless or may not have air conditioning. and you know, when you have co-morbid conditions on top of that like heart failure, copd, coronary artery disease, diabetes, your threshold to get sicker is much lower. and so what happens is you don't get the chance to recover through -- in taking fluid. at night it's still hot. unfortunately there's a huge

homeless population in houston that may be sleeping outside. and they at night do not get the relief that they may have in past years. and so that kind of lowers that threshold for these at-risk populations. and unfortunately a lot of them end up in the ers. a lot end up in hospitals. a as you mentioned, in extreme situations you can die. >> texas is generally hot this time of year. how unusual is what you're seeing? you said this feels like the hottest summer you've ever seen. >> yeah. and usually it comes in waves. you'll have three or four days of really hot temperatures, and then it will kind of cool down, then hot again. this time it seeps like it's not letting up. you can tell people to not work outside, not play out for a certain amount of time. but it is the summer, kids are going to go out and play. people who work outside have to work. and unfortunately, you're going to see more and more of this illn illnesses. the thing i tell patient is if you can avoid being outside, avoid it. hydrate even if you're not thirsty. drink tons of fluids.

when you start to feel tluhirst you're already behind the eight ball. wear loose-fitting clothing. try to be in the shade, each five minutes in the shade versus five minutes in direct sunlight can be a huge benefit and save energy and whatnot. then for those that do have c co-morbidity -- co-morbid conditions, check on them. this is a dangerous and important thing to do when can take care of others. >> final what he we're seeing in texas in terms. the heat that's spreading to other parts of the country this week, as well. it's not just a texas story. and long term, experts say this type of thing is going to become more and more common because of climate change. what more needs to be done -- you talked about what people individually can be. what more can be done on the city and state level to protect folks from this extreme heat going forward? >> yeah, so you know, big picture you can look at the middle east or australia, places have that been warm for ages.

they've done a good job of city design. really at the city level, especially for older cities, kind of encouraging our leaders to make decisions in designer cities and to have green spaces, painting a color scheme, doing things of that nature. also treating heat emergencies as just that -- emergencies. if they're category-five hurricanes hitting houston, people are evacuating. we need treat this with the same level of seriousness. so having the resources in hospitals, having cooling centers around cities and making sure that the resources are there, and then a particular focus on those that are at high risk. so the elderly, those that may be impoverished, those that may not be near a cooling center, and not forgetting those individuals, getting them resources. and there's some cities in the united states that do that really, really well. and unfortunately, there are some that don't or ignore the issue altogether. so it's going to not get cooler, unfortunately, it's going to get hotter through our lifetimes. it is something that every city

and state has to have as a priority. >> yeah, treating it seriously and not just as inconvenient as you say. because it can be life let ittening. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. still ahead, the nba's free agency is now open, and one key player is looking for a new home. andy scholes joins me next to look at which teams are making the trade. here he is. known for lessons that matter. known for lessons that matter. known for being a frfree spiri. no one wants to bebe known for cancer,, but a treatment can be. keytruda is known to treat cancer, fda-approved for r 16 types of cancer. one of those cancers is advanced nonsquamous, non-small cell lung cancer, where keytruda is approved to be used with certain chemotherapies as your first treatment if you do not have an abnormal "egfr" or "alk" gene. keytruda can cause your immune system to attack healthy parts of your body during or after treatment.

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the 2023 nba free agency negotiating period is finally open to a flurry of deals. cnn sports anchor andy scholes joins us now. so who's staying, who's going? >> a lot of guys staying put. re-signing with their correct teams. the biggest guy on the move finding a new home was fred van vleet heading to the rockets on a three-year deal worth $130 million. you have to remember, he was undrafted out of wichita state just seven years ago. he worked his way to becoming an all-star in 2022. he's going to get more than $40 million a year. van bleet the first undrafted

player ever to get a max deal. after making the nba in 2016 he tweeted, "bet on yourself." and he again re-tweeted that after the rockets news saying, again, bet on yourself. kyrie irving staying in dallas on a three-year deal worth $126 million. the mavs traded for him last season. didn't work as planned with the team missing the playoffs, but they'll look to build around him and luke don chick. and the trio will be staying together, draymond green has inched a four-year $100 million extension. he played his entire career with the warriors winning four titles alongside steph curry and clay thompson. to baseball where there's just no stopping angels superstar shohei ohtani. the phenom blasting a 493-feet home run last means against the diamondbacks for his major league leading 30th home run of the season.

ohtani 15 homers in the month of june alone. this was the longest home run in baseball this season and the longest of ohtani's career. unfortunately for ohtani, didn't get much help from the rest of his teammates. the angels went on to lose that game by a final 6-2. the women's world cup kicks off in less than three weeks in australia and new zealand with the united states looking to win a third straight championship. the tournament is already being billed as the grandest ever and fifa, soccer's governing body, is hoping it will allow the captains of 32 teams to wear a variety of anti-discrimination armbands. eight causes are going to be on display including gender equalities, inclusion, and peace. in is a turnaround from the men's 2022 world cup in qatar where captains were threatened with yellow cards for wearing the "one love" armband with rainbow colors. with the women's world cup around the corner, the excitement continues to build. it's going to be cool especially in that part of the world. >> absolutely. yeah. going to be something to watch. thank you so much. appreciate it. all right.

for the first time ever, astronomers have a new portrait of our galaxy using particles of matter instead of energy. the so-called ghost particles are tiny high-energy cosmic part particles. they pass through stars, planets, and entire galaxies without changing their structure. an observatory in antarctica showcased the now perspective of the milky way. scientists detected the ghost particles with a telescope embedded in ice. the research was published in the journal "science." and nasa has alwaysed the most powerful telescope ever built to give us an astonishing new look at saturn. for the first time it's taken a picture with a near infrared camera on the james webb tele telescope. its icy rings shine bright. the detailed image was to discover moons around saturn and piece together a complete view of the plannent's system. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom."

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