cnn's scott mcclain joins me now.ive us a sense of the situation where you are. >> reporter: hey, michael. so we wanted to show you a bit of a different angle. we are in murano, famous for the glass that you often see in venetian tourist shops. you can see the water has already started to come up a bit. this flooded tuesday when the water hit its peak. this gentleman has a shop. he is expected to pump out the water as it starts to come up. remember, the flooding today, the tide will peak 160 centimeters above sea level, 20 centimeters beyond what they consider extraordinary flooding and not far off what they saw tuesday. john, i will get you to whip around the other way and show you how much they are experiencing already. we drove in this canal, this channel, and it is flooded all up and down the sidewalks here. one of the things that people in venice and people here often have is flooding protection, the flooding doors that you see here that are meant to be water tight to keep water out. they can definitely deal with

let's go to scott mcclain joining us from dresden in germany. easy to see that the rise of the far right here in dresden and across germany is becoming a big problem for mainstream politicians targeting their policies but sometimes even their lives. now the city of dresden has declared this nazi emergency but is it really? watch. >> the city of dresden, germany, is declaring a nazi emergency proving a controversial declaration but the unorthodoxic resolution has a question mark in the title and the party behind it is actually a satirical one that began as a parody on a well-known tv show but now a real life player in german politics. they have -- they have seated in the parliament. richard is not a comedian, a mainstream member of the social democratic party. and voted for the nazi declaration. >> it is not the joke. it is a very, very important issue. and also it is a satiric party could bring very important issues on the table and this party did it and i'm proud that i had the chance to vote for this resolution. >> reporter: he said the city h

>> scott mcclain in venice.nk you very much. >>> finally, "people" magazine says singer john legend is the sexiest man alive. but one rap legend says they got it wrong. snoop dogg posted this photo sopped image of himself on the cover with the sexiest title. the image, which has more than 400,000 likes so far shows the weed-enthusiast with a joint, of course. so did "people" magazine get it wrong? we'll let you decide. my take, a dead heat. those are two suave, talented, fine-looking gentlemen. they both deserve the title. no response from "people" there to snoop's little tweet there. thank you very much for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm nick watt, michael holmes has another hour of news coming right up. . >> three closed door depositions shed new light on donald trump's dealings with ukraine. >> a new front-runner among the democrats in iowa. >>> and protests in hong kong turn violent again. a police officer hit by an arrow. >>> and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we are live in

our scott mcclain reports from london. >> you're going to sell out -- >> out to the united states. >>olute invention. it is completely untrue. >> with the uk election in full swing, there are warnings of an american invasion of the health care system. the labor party of barry gardner and leader jeremy corbyn says america wants to use a long promised post brexit trade deal to force the nhs to pay more for the u.s. drugs it already buys, costing the nhs more to the benefit of the american pharmaceutical countries. president trump believes if other countries pay more for u.s. drugs, it will lower prices for americans who pay vastly more than the british. >> this is wrong. this is unfair. and together we will stop it. i am asking congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global free loading. >> in washington, congress has passed the global fixing free loading act but the president himself has made conflicting statements of whether he would insist the nhs is part of a future trade pact. >> we can quadruple our trade with uk and we can i think really do a big job. >>

. >> scott mcclain, stay dry. appreciate that in venice.rologist derek van dam is here with what we can expect ahead. >> they're about an hour away from their high tide. water levels will ride before it starts to recede for the day. did you know, michael, that venice has the highest concentration of architectural masterpiece t in world. so time will tell how this flooding will have faired on some of those beautiful magnificent structures. so on friday morning, over five feet of flooding and that is considered an exceptional tide event. we know it was the second highest recorded ever. it is the highest in over 50 years. this is a tidal map. pay attention here. you can see the 16th of november, the 17th of november. this is from the city of venice. there's the high tide. this morning, about 11:55 local time, 120 centimeters. sunday morning local time, 130 centimeters. so another round of flooding expected for the weekend. penn what causes it, storm systems moving across the adriatics and the combination of a full moon which increases the tida

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