Here are the headlines that you need to know right now,
let's start overseas where a business jet on its
way from Moscow to ST Petersburg in Russia crashed
killing 10 people. That's according to the Russian military officials.
Russia's civilian aviation regulator says that the head of the Wagner group,
Yevgeni
Prasin
was on the passenger list of that flight. It's not been confirmed if pro
Gozin was on board. This comes
after a Wagner recruitment video featuring Pro
Gozin was released Monday
in June. Wagner's troops marched on Moscow in an apparent mutiny attempt.
Elsewhere in Russia,
Moscow fired a top general linked to Yevgeny
Proin,
the Russian state news agency
is reporting General Sergei
Sorokin
has been
relieved of his post. He has been head of the country's aerospace forces
now he went missing in June after the Wagners interaction.
There were claims that he'd been detained because of
his ties to the leader of the Wagner group.
Back here in the US record high temperatures are scorching a large portion of the US.
And now according to the National Weather Service,
there are approximately 126 million Americans under a record setting
heat dome 17 states are under excessive heat warnings,
watches and advisories.
Extremely dangerous conditions are expected across much of the Midwest,
the south and the southwest.
This weather is poised to break records that date back to at least 1950.
And earlier this week,
more than 100 new temperature records were set
or tied and the trend is expected to continue
those extreme temperatures.
They claimed the life of a one year old girl in Nebraska.
It prompted the state to tweet this reminder. It's a story.
We report on every summer.
A van driver,
Ryan Williams has been charged with a felony count
of child negligence resulting in death after forgetting the
young girl was still strapped inside when she was
supposed to be taken into a day care facility.
According to the district attorney,
he was responsible for getting those kids inside.
That little girl was in that van between five and six hours
just horrible. The temperature outside reached nearly 100 degrees.
A bond hearing for the drivers expected today. And state officials say
the day care will remain closed while the deaths is investigated.
Tropical storm Franklin made landfall earlier today
on the Caribbean Island of Espanola.
It brought heavy rain to both the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Forecasters are saying this storm could bring up to 16
inches of rain to some parts of the Dominican Republic.
The nation's emergency operations director is urging everyone to either stay
home or go to a shelter as the storm moves through.
The heavy rainfall has caused severe flooding. It cut off multiple communities
and the UN is saying
about 125,000 people on this island are vulnerable to landslides, flash floods.
This storm has also brought down several trees
and Hawaii is facing up to $6 billion in
economic losses following the devastating wildfires in Maui.
According to a new estimate by Moody's RMS,
those losses are expected to include property damage
as well as business interruption across multiple industries.
The risk modeling agency said Tuesday that about 75% of those losses will
be covered by insurance due to the island's high insurance penetration rates.
Construction costs are estimated to be about 44%
more in Hawaii compared to the mainland,
which
means that the rebuilding process will be an expensive one to complete.
And today,
the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a new state law that bans abortions after a
fetal heart activity is detected which is usually about six weeks into a pregnancy.
In a statement, South Carolina's Republican governor said quote,
with this victory,
we protect the lives of countless unborn Children and reaffirm South Carolina's
place as one of the most pro life states in America.
This move from the court.
It comes months after the court actually blocked a similar ban.
One of the justices in that previous ruling,
the court's only woman
retired and was replaced by a man who voted today to uphold the new law.
Another justice on the bench switched his vote siding in favor of the ban
and the second largest school district in Georgia has removed
two books from school libraries for what it calls,
quote, highly inappropriate sexually explicit content.
Cobb County sent a message to some parents in the
district that it was removing the books flamer about a book
who discovers his sexuality as well as me and Earl and the dying girl,
which contains discussions of sex and profanity.
And just a few days ago,
the district school board voted to fire a teacher who
read a book about gender identity to fifth grade students.