Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, and I'm Amna Navas on the NewsHour tonight, the effects

of this year's extreme weather persist, a severe storm's last-south Eastern Europe

and Maui marks one month since the start of its disastrous wildfires.

We speak with the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during her trip to Chad as concerns

grow over another potential genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

They ran because they were afraid. They ran because they saw their neighbors, their friends,

their family members killed in front of their eyes.

And to Negez President tightens his grip on power by jailing rivals while the economy falters

and citizens flee in increasing numbers.

Welcome to the NewsHour. The death toll has reached 18 tonight, and severe storms raging

across southeastern Europe.

Central Greece has been especially hard hit with some areas getting a year's worth of rain

in 12 hours. Entire villages were cut off today with water six feet deep in some places,

and rescuers brought more stranded people to safety. Many of them stunned by the disaster.

We've never experienced anything like this before in all these years.

Even old people we spoke with told us they've never seen this before.

There's so much water.

Elsewhere drone footage in southern Brazil showed widespread destruction from a storm this week

that claimed at least 39 lives. Authorities say high winds and flooding rain affected more than

80 cities. U.S. forecasters are warning that Hurricane Lee could become the first category five

storm of the Atlantic season. It grew today to category four with winds of 130 miles an hour.

The projected track would skirt the northeast Caribbean this weekend.

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