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Here are the headlines. You need to know former President Donald Trump says he has received a letter notifying him that he's a quote target in the justice department's investigation of the January 6 Capitol riots. In a post to his truth social app earlier today, Trump called the letter quote horrifying news and says the department's special counsel, Jack Smith gave him four days to appear before the grand jury that's weighing the evidence. One of Trump's supporters, Marjorie Taylor Green spoke earlier about this very letter. Are they going to arrest President Trump? Trump? Charge him with phony fake charges and then hold him in prison while he is winning the Republican primary while he's going to win the general election in 2024. Is this is this where our country is now because it's an embarrassment on the world stage. If this is the direction America is going in, we are worse than Russia. We are worse than China. Federal prosecutors have not yet said whether they plan to charge Trump in the January 6th probe. Of course, we will follow this very important story and bring you any updates as soon as they come in meantime, Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously rejected former President Trump's bid to try to head off a potential indictment for tampering with the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. In their ruling. The justices said the Trump team had quote, not shown that this case presents one of those extremely rare circumstances in which this court's original jurisdiction should be invoked. End quote. Let's talk about the weather and that extreme heat continues to hit the Southern US. It's led to a record breaking heat wave in Phoenix today. The Arizona City is expected to record its 19th straight day with temperatures reaching above 110 degrees. It's the longest streak ever last night, Phoenix recorded a daily low, a low of 95 degrees. That's its highest overnight low in record history. It's not just affecting the US either in Italy. A second extreme heatwave is expected to hit this week leading to 104 degree days. Average temperatures in southern Italy are typically in the mid 80 s areas in northwest China reached a high of 126 degrees on Sunday. Yesterday. The head of the World Health Organization tweeted quote, the climate crisis is not a warning it's happening. I urge world leaders to act now. Police have released the names and photos of two Children still missing after severe flooding in Pennsylvania over the weekend, the search is still ongoing for two year old Matilda Shields and nine month old Conrad shields, they were swept away during flash flooding in Bucks County on Saturday. Their mother, Katie was confirmed as one of the victims of the deadly floods which claimed the lives of five people. Officials say all five victims died from the drowning fire department. Officials say search efforts for the two Children have now tripled since weather conditions have improved. A US national is being held in North Korea. Reportedly it was a soldier who was facing disciplinary action. That's according to a US defense official who spoke to CNN and says that the military was about to send him back to the US US. Officials told the associated press, the man is private, second class Travis King and that he was just released from South Korean prison on assault charges. United Nations Command said this morning, the person is being held in North Korea after crossing its closely guarded border with South Korea. The person was on a tour of the joint security area that's part of the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries. Private tours are common in this region. According to the UN, the person then crossed the border into North Korea without authorization and is now being held by the North Korean government. UN command says it's working with its contacts in North Korea to resolve this incident. Social media influencer Andrew Tate will remain under house arrest in Romania after a new ruling by a court in the country's capital of Bucharest. Tate is facing charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Tate, his brother and two Romanian women were all arrested in December on these charges but deny the allegations against them. Tate, who is appealing the ruling told reporters yesterday, quote, my brother and I are extremely resilient people in the end justice shall be served. We're feeling like things are going to work out perfectly in the end and until then we're going to follow the judicial process. Each of the four will remain under house arrest for 30 more days while authorities continue to investigate these charges. Today, authorities in New York are continuing their investigation into the so called Gilgo Beach killings. A series of murders dating back more than a decade. They're searching storage units in the area and the items within them for any clues on the deaths. 59 year old Rex Homan has been charged with killing three women. Authorities say they'll be able to prove he's behind the death of 1/4. Our sister network News 12 was on the scene for the latest on this investigation. Police have gone to great lengths to try and conceal exactly what if anything they are finding at this second storage unit behind me here. I mean, there are cars blocking every which angle tarps, you name it. They've done it. This certainly was not the situation when we arrived here early this morning. So we want to show you exactly what the scene has been throughout the morning because again, they've been going through great lengths. You can see in this video officers with state, local police putting up tarps and moving some of their vehicles to conceal what is happening at the sunrise highway location of Omega self storage today. Now, we did get a better look yesterday. What's up on your screen right now is News 12 when they were first on the scene as crews carted away what appeared to be electronics like computers. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office would only say that they're executing search warrants at two storage units. The other one was on route 110. The manager of the facility said they would not who rents out their units. And I mentioned that unit at route 110 we were there all yesterday as well and what we saw being taken out of that unit was a lot of big pieces of wood. Now, these units are about 10 minutes away from Rex Huer men who is the man who has been arrested and charged with several murders in relation to the Gilgo Beach killings. He is currently in jail and on suicide watch in that home where he lives. It's 10 minutes away. That's over in Massapequa Park, Caroline Flynn for that report. Meanwhile, a judge in Iowa has temporarily blocked the state's new six week abortion ban from taking effect the ruling yesterday, just three days after Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed the law grants a temporary injunction until the court can issue a final decision. A local clinic and chapters of the AC Lu and Planned Parenthood brought the challenge. Governor Reynolds is vowing to fight the challenge all the way to the State Supreme Court. The law bans abortions after cardiac activity can be detected in the embryo which can occur before many women even though they're pregnant. A new study shows Alzheimer's disease is most common in the United States, eastern and southeastern regions. This new data out yesterday from the Alzheimer's Association International Conference shows the prevalence of the disease broken down by location. The data shows the highest rate of Alzheimer's are in Miami Dade County, Florida Baltimore and the Bronx in New York. In each of these locations, an estimated one in six seniors have the disease on an overall state level. The highest number with the disease are in Maryland, New York. Then Mississippi researchers hope this information will help public health officials better support millions with the disease and plan for the aging population.