Global National: July 11, 2023 | US northeast slammed by "catastrophic" flooding

In tonight's top story: More than 11 million Americans are under flood watches after a summer's worth of rain fell on Monday in parts of the northeastern U.S., with raging floodwaters shutting down roads and trapping people inside their homes. Jackson Proskow looks at the weather-induced destruction in hard-hit Vermont, a state once considered a climate refuge.

British Columbia's wildfire season is flaring up, with more than 300 active fires burning throughout the province. As Neetu Garcha explains, on top of evacuations and alerts, severe drought has the government asking residents to cut back on their water usage.

At the crucial NATO summit in Lithuania, world leaders have agreed to only grant membership to Ukraine when it fulfills certain conditions. David Akin explains from Vilnius what the requirements are, what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling "absurd" and the help the alliance is offering in the meantime.

The average life expectancy for an Indigenous person in Alberta has dropped by eight years due to the opioid crisis, according to the province's health authority. Heather Yourex-West explains why this happened, what needs to change to reverse the trend and how governments can't agree on a solution.

Plus, small and nestled in a spot about an hour's drive west of Toronto, Crawford Lake has been selected by a panel of scientists to represent a new chapter in Earth's history: the Anthropocene epoch. Jeff Semple explains what the small body of water reveals about how much humans have profoundly altered the planet and why it matters.

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