Symbolic Vote In Venezuela; Iran Sentences U.S. Student To 10 Years In Prison; Trump Expected To Re-certify Iran Nuclear Deal.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGIST: It's Weather Watch time, I'm Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri and look at the soggy set up line up across really the sundered here of the entire continental United States stretches on the parts of Northern Mexico as well with the monsoon of moisture in full swing across this region. In fact some of these areas are on sudern in Central Arizona not only have been drops striking them also fire striking in recent weeks but also have not seen rain fall about four to give months so all of this beneficial rain coming in across these region, who's significant rainfall I should say so. This is all coming in thanks to the monsoon and of course of the Phoenix Metro get much cooler temperature Tucson must be same after some significant flooding in recent days. The extreme to elevated fire risk at least critical in parts of Northern Nevada in place there are multiple fires across this region that have consumed as much as say kicking areas of Manhattan multiplying it by 10 that how much land is been consumed. So certainly, good news as far as getting rain moisture increasing across that region. Los Angeles around 26 degrees it warms up from the upper 20's in New York city to the middle 30's and Washington and Charlotte generally pushed up closer to the middle 30's and upper 30's as well. And here the Windward islands we're watching a potential here for a tropical disturbance to form there's about a 40 percent chance inside the next few days and how about one, two, three, and four disturbances in the works and one in Fernandez sitting our there across parts of the Eastern Pacific over the next several days, any weather photos? We love to see them, use it hash tag CNN Weather.</s>ALLEN: And welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. The opposition in Venezuela is claiming victory in a symbolic and unofficial referendum on President Nicolas Maduro, opposition leader says so far about 98 percent of those voted rejected the President's plan to rewrite the constitution. Earlier I spoke with Journalist Stefano Pozzebon from Caracas.</s>STEFANO POZZEBON, JOURNALIST: About 7.2 million Venezuelans have voted today 6.5 of them roughly inside Venezuela and about 700,000 Venezuelan abroad that's a very huge turnout for the opposition who is claiming victory in these non-bidding referendums against the proposal a constitution of President Nicolas Maduro. What is important is that the day so far has been, has going out a quite peacefully and quite quietly all the seats have been able to record the votes in another quite way and only in a small incident one person was killed by clashes between the two different party, main party the government and the main opposition but again after more than three months of social unrest and more than 90 people were being killed so far in Venezuela, people are still taking the street and today we have learned that about 7.2 million of them we're able to vote, we're able to express their will against his proposal for a new constitution by Nicolas Maduro. And that's why at outcome.</s>ALLEN: Stefano Pozzebon for us there in Venezuela. An American student could spend the next 10 years in an Iranian prison, he was found guilty of spying but U.S. officials accused Iran of making up charges just to detain Americans. This all coming just before a crucial decision on Iran from the Trump administration, here's CNN Elise Labott.</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Iran has convicted an American graduate student on espionage charges and sends him to 10 years in prison. A spokesman for Iran's judiciary said he was arrested and put on trial for gathering information. Now Princeton University confirms that man Xiyue Wang an American, Chinese-American in the University's Department of History, he's a fourth year doctoral candidate studying erosion history and he was arrested in Iran lsat summer doing scholarly research in connection with his PHD dissertation. Now the details of the charges and his trial have not been disclosed of course this is very common in Iran, were four nationals are arrested they often undergo close door trials and are convicted with prison sentences without due process. Now news of the arrest comes as President Trump is expected recertify that Iran is complying with guideline set by that nuclear deal reached two years with President Obama. A deal President Trump on the campaign once promised to tear up, now the Trump administration last certifying Iran was living up to it's commitment under the agreement in April, but the time the President said Iran was quote" Not living up to the spirit of the agreement" and official said the President taking it's queue for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, it was argued that while the deal is imperfect staying in the deal is the best way to verify Iranian from compliance in Iran nuclear activity. Now Iran will continue to get sanctions released spelled out in the deal, but the deal is under reviews for a process being led by the National Security Council and the State Department that review should be completed by the end of the summer. Official said the administration appears to be moving towards a policy of staying in the deal but strengthening implementation and monitoring Iran's nuclear activity while cracking down on Iran's other activity in the region such as its supports for terrorism, it's interference in Yemen and elsewhere and it's human rights violations. Elise Labott, CNN Washington.</s>ALLEN: There's much more news ahead, also the Duchess of Cornwall speaks exclusively with CNN, find out how Camilla is helping victims of domestic violence. We'll be right back.