i'm bianca nobilo.f you're just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories at this hour. at least 80 million people are under heat alerts across the u.s. with temperatures in some states like arizona and california to head well into the triple digits. and in the u.s. northeast severe weather has caused major flight delays and cancellations. more than 11,000 flights into and out of the u.s. were impacted on sunday. so far today, more than 800 flights have been cancelled or delayed. >>> and we're getting a first full financial look at the 2024 presidential race as candidates file campaign finance reports. it shows president joe biden is taking camign frugality to a new level. the president announced he's raced $17 million with the democratic national committee between april and june. but biden's campaign is a bare bones operation. they spent more than $1 million in the second quarter of this year. by contrast, former president barack obama's campaign spent nearly $11 million in a compara

i'm bianca nobilo. and you're back. >> i'm max foster. just hahead on "cnn newsroom" - >> issue an invitation for ukraine to join nato when allies agree and conditions are met. >>> and continuing to provide the ukrainian military what they need to fight and win and repel the unprovoked russian invasion. >>> make no mistake, devastation and flooding we're experiencing across vermont is historic and catastrophic. >> it is not just water sitting in the roads. it is a rapidly flowing river. >>> the senator from alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong. >> white supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country. >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, july 12. 11:00 a.m. in vilnius, lithuania where the second and final day of high stakes talking are now under way. and all eyes are on president volodymyr zelenskyy who will meet with key nato leaders today including president biden. >> a short time ago he arrived where the alliance will be holding the inaugural meeting of

i'm bianca nobilo.t joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories at this hour. more than 30 million people are under heat alerts across the u.s., southwest texas and florida. temperatures in states like arizona are again expects to reach 110 degrees fahrenheit or 43 degrees celsius. and u.s. president joe biden will meet with the british prime minister rishi sunak in the next hour. that comes amid the meeting on tuesday where the war in ukraine will be, of course, be top of the agenda. >>> a u.s. marine is taken into custody for questioning after a missing 14-year-old was did was found in the barracks at california's camp pendleton. the girl who was reported missing by her grandmother was found located june 28th. cnn has the latest inquiry. >> we no that a marine was taken into custody after a 14-year-old girl was found at the barracks at camp pendleton. this happened on june 28th, cording to a statement from the marine corps. i'm going to read part of that statement where they say this

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pr i'm bianca nobilo. >> and i'm max foster. just ahead -- >> a 40-year-old male opened fire shooting as many as 50 shots on this block. >> unfortunately you have six victims here. but it could have been more. >>> we only have launched the comprehensive action against terrorist strongholds. >> it is a crucial part of the strategy of trying to show not omg only his people that he is still in control. >> and the concern is that russia and china will try to make this an anti west bloc. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is tuesday, july 4th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in philadelphia where investigators are searching for a motive. >> five people are dead after a gunman opened fire along several blocks of the southwest side. two children are also in the hospital with injuries. and wpvi has the latest from the scene. >> reporter: two children ages 2 and 13 luckily in table condition but they were also shot here at the scene. behind me, you can see it is still clearly active. there

i'm bianca nobilo. >> welcome back. >> did you miss me? >> yes, of course.'m max foster joining you live from london, just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >>> the threats themselves remain the same, still talking damaging winds and hail to be the main threat. >> super busy, super packed. tensions are high. >> i knew how it was going to be. there was going to be long lines. >> we want everyone to come forward and say treat this as if it was your door, your son, your brother, your cousin that was out here shot at this event. >> this is insanity, this cannot, cannot be the society that we are expected to live in. >> to remove the safe haven mentality that was in the minds of militants. a very extensive operation, much bigger than the ones we've seen in the past and is still ongoing. ♪ >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >>> this monday, july 3rd, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where millions of americans are under severe weather threats heading into the independence day holiday. >> from mississipp

i'm bianca nobilo. >> and i'm max foster. just ahead -- >> on what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual r wreaked havoc. >> the man who did this will face multiple counts of murder. >> this is a significant victory for the states that are suing the biden administration. >> a federal reserve judge has just blocked the biden administration from meeting with the heads of social media companies. >> there is no place we'd rather be than in iowa. >> each generation has to step up and be a custodian of freedom. i think it is our generation's time to do that. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, july 5. 4:00 a.m. in philadelphia where the suspect who police believe shot and killed five people at random will appear in court and face multiple murder charges in the coming hours. >> police have yet to reveal a motive, but believe the suspect referred to with they/them pronouns acted alone with monday's shooting. >> the suspect while

i'm bianca nobilo. max foster has the day off. just ahead -- >> how they plead poverty that they are losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions to their ceos. it is disgusting. >>> woulputin has already lost war. he has a real problem. how does he move from here, what does he do. >> you should be leery of extreme heat like this for extended days. >> very worried that number of people will die in this heatwave. heat is a silent killer. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, july 14, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 1:00 a.m. in hollywood where tv and movie production is pretty much shut down. sag-aftra representing 160,000 actors is now on strike. in the coming hours members are expected to picket in front of major studios and streaming services. they join screen writers who have been on strike since may. this is the first time in six decades that both are on strike at the same time. this came during the premier of the "oppenheimer" film in london. the actors walke

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. >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >>> it's monday, july1st. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in miami, florida, where little known employee donald trump will appear in federal court in the coming hours as part of the criminal legislation which heavies mishandling. carlos de oliveira is a property manager here. he's charged with making false statements to the fbi when asked about the removal of boxes at the florida resort. he's also about krufd by trump aide walt nauta of trying to delete footage. here's what trump said on saturday. >> biggest complaint that i get is that the republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it. any republican that doesn't act on democrat fraud should be immediately primaried and get out. out. >> on social media on sunday, trump denied that security footage from mar-a-lago was deleted but that's not the claim. trump is accused of an attempt to delete the footage. meanwhile, sources tell cnn that trump is creating a fund to help create his legal bills this after a public action committe

. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is thursday, july 20, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the justice department is investigating how donald trump and his allies tried to over turn the 2020 presidential election. later today, a grand jury in that investigation is expected to meet possibly to vote to br unprecedented third criminal indictment ainst trump. facing charges to three laws includmperg with a wiess. and trump is preparing to fight this in court. he's added a new criminal defense attorney to his legal team. kristen holmes has more. >> reporter: i spent the day on the phone talking to trump's lawyers and all told me that they were trying to figure out if there was any sort of evidence or witnesses that they didn't know about in this case particularly that would boost up jack smith's case. a lot has to do with the target letter and the potential charges. i'm told that it was much more clear that jack smith had a much bigger case he was trying to prosecute against the former president than what dtrump's tem had be

. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, july 21. 9:00 a.m. here in london and 11:00 a.m. in odesa, ukraine where the region has come under russian fire for a fourth night in a row. ukraine says russian missiles hit grain infrastructure overnight destroying more than 100 tons of food. it all happened after this -- [ sirens ] air raid sirens went off in the city of odesa but later the residents were given all clear. the u.s. says its customs munitions supply to ukraine have been used in battle. they are already having an impact on the battlefield. scott mclean is joining me. so a fourth night of bombing in odesa and now evidence really that the air defenses in the port city are becoming unable to cope with the bombardment and the type of missiles being fired on the city. >> that's right, no indication that there will be a quieter night, that any missiles were shot down early this morning. and even yesterday morning. case in point, 19 missiles were fired at odesa, only 15 shot down -- sorry, only 5 shot down. so only a little bette

. >> and i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" is up next right here. see you tomorrow. >>> welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with breaking news. the president of belarus revealing where wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin is right now. alexander lukashenko telling matthew chance at a news conference that the leader of the mercenary group is actually in st. petersburg,

. >> live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, july 7, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting about special counsel jack smith's investigation into donald trump and the 2020 election. our sources are telling us that smith and his team havsignaled a continued interest? what was one of the most chaotic meetings to ever happen in the oval office, it happened december 18 of 2020, six weeks after trump lost the election. attorney sydney powell, former national security adviser michael flynn and others floated some desperate ideas to keep trump in power. they tald about having the military seize voting machines, declaring martial law and appointing powell as a special prosecutor for investigating alleged election fraud. a number of witnesses testified to the january 6 congressional committee about the meeting. >> i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. i don't think that any of these people were providing the president with good advice. >> i mean, at times there were people shouting at each other, thr

. >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, july 28, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. at mar-a-lago, florida where former president trump is facing new federal charges in the classified documents indictment. the special counsel says that trump asked mar-a-lago employees to delete security camera footage to keep it away from a grand jury. prose prosecutors say that maintenance worker lied to the fbi when he said that he didn't help move boxes around the florida resort. prosecutors also added a charge against trump for willfully retaining a top secret document detailing plans for a military attack on iran. they say he showed it to bying on griefers at his golf club in 2021. >> this was the defense department and him. we looked at something. this was him, this wasn't done by me, this was him. and all sorts of stuff. pages long. isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is highly confidential. >> more now from paula reid in washington. >> reporter: new charges and a new co-defendant for former president trump

. >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, july 19, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where donald trump's legal troubles are piling up. the former u.s. president says he's been informed by the special counsel that he is a target of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it is a sign that trump could soon see a third indictment. and that does not include the fulton county probe into attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in georgia. here is how trump responded to the news at a town hall tuesday nice. >> i got the letter on sunday night, think of it. i don't think that they have ever sent a letter on sunday night. and they are in a rush because it is interference with the election. it is election interference. never been done like this in the history of our country and it is a disgrace. what is happening to our country, whether it is the borders or elections or kinds of things like this where the doj has become a weapon for the democrats. an absolute weapon. and it seems that ev

. >>> live from london, this is cnn newsroom with maxes s fosted bianca nobilo. >>> it is thursday, july 27. in wilmington, a u.s. judge has left hunter biden in legal limbo. he is facing two federal tax charges. he was hoping to finalize a plea deal that would have kept him out of prison but the judge wasn't convinced. now they have to try to salvage the agreement. sara murray has the story. >> reporter: after a ftumultuou day in federal court, hunter biden left with no plea deal after a federal judge said she was not ready to accept it. he arrived at the court prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and strike a deal to avoid a felony gun charge. after a five year justice department probe that hunter biden once predicted unscathed. >> i'm 100% certain that at the end of the investigation, that i will be cleared of any wrongdoing. >> reporter: instead jarthe jud said she wanted to know if it was over and they couldn't agree. so the deal was derailed and eventually hunter biden's team agreed that he was not shielded from further charges. and the deal seemed for a moment b

. >>> live from london, this is c"cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, july 26. 9:00 a.m. in london. 1:00 a.m. in los angeles where bronny james is now in stable condition after suffering a cardiac arrest on monday. he will undergo tests in the days ahead to find out what actually caused it. the 18-year-old basketball car is incoming freshman at the university of southern california and was practicing there when the incident occurred. james was first admitted to intensive care but later transferred out on tuesday. medical experts say a sudden cardiac arrest for a young athlete is rare but not unheard of. >> tends to happen more in men than women, in athletes competing at a higher level. basketball is one of those sports where you tend to see sudden cardiac arrests more. and more minutes that you are playing, higher likelihood of it happening. this is rare, so no one is suggesting that you tailor the number of minutes and things like that. built on that is things like hydration and other things causing the work to bring this on. it may have been an under

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. >> live thfrom london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >>> it is tuesday, july 18, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in new york. and we begin with extreme weather in the united states. 65 million people under heat alerts from florida to california as far north as kansas, plus millions more under flood watches. forecasters warn record high temperatures will continue the next few days as a heat dome scorches the southwest. and that intense heat is spreading as far east as mississippi. the same heat dome is bringing the threat of more flooding further north. heavy rain is expected today from st. louis to nashville and 3 million people are under flood watches in new york and new england. phoenix, arizona is ground zero for the heatwave toppi p ping 1r 18 consecutive degrees. there are cooling centers and a mobile unit is delivering hats and sunscreen. >> some people get to the point where they are no longer sweating, they are lightheaded, dizzy, feeling poorly. and some people even have temperatures, we've had someone up to 110 degrees which is not oftentimeses v

. >>> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is tuesday, july 25, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where any day now the grand jury in the 2020 election interference investigation is expected to decide whether to indict donald trump for a third time. jurors are set to reconvene today as we have new reporting on the special counsel's investigation. multiple sources tell cnn that jack smith is looking at a february 2020 oval office meeting where trump praised election security protections and bragged about his administration's work in expanding the use of paper ballots and was so encouraged that he suggested the fbi and the department of homeland security should hold a press conference. it is a stark contrast to months later when he started saying this -- >> this will be a rigged election. >> this election will be the most rigged election in history. >> because the only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. >> it is a rigged election. >> sources say the special counsel also wants to know if trump retaliate

with max foster and bianca nobilo. >>> hello and welcome. it's monday, july 24th, 9:00 a.m.ere in london. 1:00 a.m. on the u.s. west coast, where a record heat wave that has tortured americans for more than a month threatens to extend into august. millions of people are under a combination of heat advisories and excessive heat warnings from coast to coast. by the middle of the week, high temperatures are set to expand to the majority of the country. health and weather experts are warning everyone to stay indoors if possible especially in cities and states like texas and arizona push higher into triple digits. despite the motivation to beat the heat, the mayor of phoenix says this year has been tough on her city. >> the heat has been unrelenting in our community. we have nobody innovative. and that is the phoenix way. we build for extreme temperatures in the summer so that we've made infrastructure investments that help us get out of these challenges. but this summer has set some tough records. >> well, cnn meteorologist chad myers has more on what's in store for the u.s. but