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wealth. >> i'm are like signs at the white white house. and this is cnn it is monday, may 27th, one boreal day. >> and right now on cnn this morning, over 100 million americans facing severe weather this whole mortal day after a weekend of violent storms killed at least 18 people the libertarian party should nominate, for president of the united states donald trump heckled and booed at the libertarian convention. is he prepares for the resumption of his hush money trial and more than 2000 people believed to be buried alive by devastating landslide in papua new guinea it is it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington. >> that is a live look at capitol hill on this memorial

day. good morning, everyone. i'm jessica dean in for kasie hunt. it is great to be with and right now, the severe weather threat continues for a lot of america on memorial day, more than 120 million people are at risk of intense storms. much of it now concentrated over the east coast. this after dangerous and deadly storms ripped across four states this weekend killing 18 people in texas, seven people killed, including two young children after a tornado flipped 18 wheelers, brought down trees and power lines and trapped more than 60 people inside what's left of that gas station? >> heading that traditional creation right now for the first time, knowing that i was just here and it's all destroyed is it's mind-blowing i'm still trying to process it. >> it's shocked this everything you had worked so hard for all these years is don in oklahoma officials say two people are dead, 23 others injured, storms, leveled homes and left widespread damage there he's worked so hard or

that room they both work. >> they're both offer this house i can wear the bad for them eight people were killed in arkansas. >> we're a state of emergency remains in place this morning and it's all that remains. look at this of a strip mall that rip through the town of rogers meteorologist derek van dam is tracking all of it. derek, now we wake up on this monday and the storms are headed east yeah, that's right jessica. >> happy memorial day. my heart breaks for the people who were impacted this weekend, just seeing that devastating footage, those are people hamas, people's livelihoods. and of course, we think of those directly impacted. this is just one of the over 1,000 reports of severe weather, several dozen tornadoes that respond through the course of the weekend. and now that threat shifts east it's worth as jessica just mentioned. and this is a large population density under a slight risks that's a level two of five from the storm prediction center including much of i95 corridor, new york, philly,

washington, richmond, all the way to atlanta. and montgomery. there is an immediate severe weather threat that's happening right now as we speak, you can see this line of severe thunderstorms moving through parts of the south and we do have tornado watches that are ongoing through about 6:00 a.m. this morning, most of these are severe thunderstorm warnings. there was a tornado warning that has just been allowed to expire north of birmingham. but remember this is an area that was hit hard by tornado emergencies a couple of weeks ago. so this severe weather threat just seems to just last and last and last and unfortunately, it's going to continue into the day-to-day ending off this long memorial weekend. here's our greatest risk of tornadoes that is across the mid-atlantic. so heads have a plan be sure that you can get into shelter and seek shelter if indeed a tornado warning is issued. so here it is. this a sense friday, i mean, this just covers the map i've never seen anything like this. that's over 1,000 reports, 58 tornadoes since friday that's not to

mention what's happened earlier this month the system has finally going to exit off the east coast tomorrow after the long holiday weekend, not be for producing a lot of rain and the potential for some flash flooding across the northeast. and then we have the potential for more severe weather tomorrow as another storm system starts to develop, there it is into texas, that is our next severe weather. chances for the day tomorrow. but again, our focus today to end off the long holiday weekend along the eastern the seaboard. jessica, such an act of season. >> derek van dam. thanks so much donald trump's signature rallies usually feature of friendly crowd full of his supporters. but this weekend he pitched himself to a different audience. >> and it was a very different scene. >> the libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states only you do that if you want to win, if you want to lose, don't do that keep getting your 3% every four

years it was boost coming from attendees at the libertarian national convention. trump was heckled multiple times during one of his shortest campaign speeches to date, it is unusual for presumptive republican nominee du even be at the libertarian invention. trump's attendance highlights the campaign's growing concern over third-party candidates and joining us down dc correspondent for the nevada independent, gabby beer and bomb. >> gabby great to have you here this morning. >> good morning. get more on this memorial day first up here we see him walk into this. >> they knew it wasn't going to be the friendliest of crowd, right? >> why do you think he was there? what does it say to you that he went there on saturday? >> i think it shows that the trump campaign is taking third-party candidate seriously, right? i mean, in 2020, we saw the libertarian nominee get about 1% the vote and there were states that he lost by less than a percent. georgia comes to mind, right? so i think it both shows that they seriously want to pursue these libertarian votes. and maybe misunderstood exactly who that audience was, right? it's

been quite awhile since he's been in a room where he had to mix it up and go back and forth we haven't seen that in a very, quite awhile. yeah. >> we also know that there there's really one third-party candidate that they're particularly concerned about that would be robert f. kennedy jr. are they went after each other this weekend and i think we have clips we can listen to with a lockdowns, mask mandates the travel restrictions. president trump presided over the greatest restriction on individual liberties. this country is that run-on rfk junior. i call him junior by the way. he's radical-left. don't think about it don't waste your vote. we need a conservative person with common sense and that was. >> obviously from. when he was with the nra last week and now, neither of them won the libertarians nomination, which is worth noting but do you think this is working in terms of the trump campaign is obviously trying to get the message across to its supporters to stick with him,

not go to rfk jr. do you think that message is landing? >> yeah. i mean, it's hard to say. i think what's so confusing about rfk? your as a candidate is that isi poles where he pulls from biden, you see polls where he pulls from trump when you do that full ballot test, it's really unclear. i think exactly how big of a spoiler he can be and who he will spoil. but given that he's getting up to like 15, 16%, some holes and the margin of error, like i mentioned in some of these states is less than a percent i mean, that's pretty significant. and so i think both campaigns you see, are concerned about the threat he poses, particularly when you look at that libertarian convention. libertarians have real issue with trump in the way he handled covid, you saw kennedy tried to hit on those themes of course, he got something like 19 votes in the first ballot for the libertarian convention. so it doesn't seem like either of them really one over at least in terms of the ballot test on the floor who they were hoping to win over? but yeah, i think that third party vote, both parties, both candidates are looking at that pretty seriously. >> and i think let's let's illustrate that because we have a marquette poll that shows

kind of what you're getting out, which is what we see donald trump with 40%, joe biden, 37%. and then robert 17% is a pretty big pool when you're talking about a very small margin the race will likely we want on the margins in some of these swing states. >> yeah, i mean, the thought that one in five voters would go for a third-party candidate when i think most voters know that he's not going to win the white house, right? that really says something thanks. i think what's important to note writers were still about six months from the election, and i imagine as we get further into the summer and particularly the fall, it'll probably crystallize to some voters that look, it's either gonna be biden or trump the white house. and so what am i doing with my vote here? and i think that was the point tried to make it this convention when he said, if you guys want your 3% referencing gary johnson in 2016, get your 3% but if you want to get rid of biden, i'm the choice so the question is, do they want to get rid of item or do they hate trump just as much i have to ask you while you're here because nevada is going to play such a key role well, how are things shaping up? you, you're

talking to people on the ground there. that's going to be one of the key states that we're watching. what's your sense of again, only being made? what's your sense of where the winds are blowing there right now? >> it's so hard to tell, right? because that new york times pulled that came out that i was talking about, i think had trump like plus 12. yeah. and then bloomberg poll came out the next week at them dead even. >> so it's really hard state to poll. i mean, it's a really transient population. people come and go. people don't answer the phones that are working night shifts, things like that even in the new york times play believed they had senator jacky rosen is running for senate. i believe still winning, which would be i think a level of ticket-splitting that's unheard of so it's hard to say exactly. i think the sense on the ground there is the trump campaign in his winning right now, but it's certainly not being written off. the biden campaign has way more resources invested on the ground, and it might come down to can they out organize what right now appears to be more momentum? some for trial, right? and there's always talk of his the harry reid machines still in effect. it's kicking its ally that's going to be such an interesting one to

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officials in that strike the hamas-run health ministry saying at least 35 people were killed in the strike mostly women and children were wounded. >> it came shortly after hamas fired a barrage of rockets at tel aviv for the first time in months. gaza authorities say the camp had been designated by israel as a safe zone welcome call chillar, know, they'll be milled, can be the hamas lovely to have to vanish mogul hoffman hello to see mamma team are dealing sinwar the of job or see mother, you gaza when i'm shooting, when i say about the call, they would have gone dolphin seizing the gamba gali is called not a beshear is in

london this morning with the very latest, not a what are you learning? we are seeing more distressing video emerging from rafah after sunday evenings attack those strikes taking place in an area which was known to be densely populated by civilians. this was the sultan neighborhood of rafah. this was not one of the areas that was issued within evacuation orders by the israeli military the tree, this was supposed to be a safe zone, but clearly that was not the case. now, the israeli military says it was targeting what it describes as a hamas compound, as you mentioned, jessica, they say they killed two hamas officials. but as we have seen, dozens of civilians have also been killed dozens more, according to authorities on the ground, have been severely injured. the health ministry saying there are no hospitals in an offer with the capacity needed to treat the number of casualties from the incident last night. and we have seen horrifying, distressing video, emerging tense, engulfed in flames. of course, this was an area which was housing thousands of palestinians

displaced to the southern city of rafah. we've seen videos emerging of charred bodies, including the bodies of children being pulled from burning. tenth, many of the videos that we have received from our colleagues on the ground are simply two distressing to show on s. so you can imagine the horror on the ground we've heard from the palestinian authority as well as hamas, both not only criticizing and condemning the israeli military's actions, but also criticizing the biden administration for their work facilitating israel's actions in rafah had of course, we have heard from biden the past speaking to cnn saying that he could not support his israeli actions in rafah without the protection all civilians, whether or not this particular incident is a red line for the biden administration that remains to be seen all right. >> not a big share with the latest force from one and thank you so much for that reporting up next, another flight was severe turbulence leaves passengers injured plus the search for survivors after a deadly landslide and papua new

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from bird hot comb i'm someone's are 40 in washington in this is cnn more than 2000 people maybe buried after a massive landslide friday and papua new guinea rescue teams still searching with hopes of finding more survivors, but the highway to the area has been cut off making access extremely difficult. officials say heavy rains and a recent earthquake may have triggered the landslide. cnn's ivan watson is joining us now live from hong kong with more on this. what's happening on the ground there, ivan just to get this landslide happened at the worst possible time is about 3:00 in the morning local time when

this mountain basically collapsed on a network of six rural, remote highland villages cnn's been monitoring it since the initial disaster took place, but it wasn't until three days later that the government of papua new guinea now has put out estimates that more than 2000 people could be buried underneath the rubble, which i think highlights the fact that the scale of the disaster was not entirely clear. >> two people and also how difficult it is to reach this place with the main road being cut off by the initial landslide. take a listen to what one grieving survivor of this disaster had to say emily blunt 18 of my family members buried under the debris and soil that i am standing on. and a lot more family members in the village i cannot count i am the land owner here. thank you to all those who've come to

help us. but i can not retrieve the bodies. so i'm standing here helping leslie so the papua new guinea government has put out a written appeal asking for additional help, even though we had it's disaster management people on the scene really since friday, it still says it needs more help complicating matters to the fact that the terrain is still unstable after this much earth has moved, after it's been made unstable by rainfall, it's in an earthquake prone area. >> they say that it's not safe to bring in rescuers nor to bring in heavy machinery to do the digging that might be necessary. here and an additional factor is that you've had two warring tribes that have been engaged according to aid workers, in deadly violence since the landslide in a village on the road to the disaster area. and that puts an additional risk to the aid convoys trying to reach the area.

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>> look at capitol hill as the sun's starting to come out >> tyranny bill republicans argued the bill and that vote in particular was a purely political shield for vulnerable democrats ahead of november we just, had to witness and other charade political ploy in the part of but chuck schumer as they're trying to obtain fluke recover for their open border policy that is a catastrophe in a clear and present danger to america while democrats claim republicans want to campaign on the border, chaos this is as clear a contrast as has ever been available to the democratic party on the issue of the border, democrats support bipartisan border

security. republicans want the border to be a mess because it's good politics and the president and every democrat running for office should be you talking about that. >> and joining us now is congressional reporter for axial stephen newcomb, steven great to have you here just to give everyone the high points as to how we got here that that bill that they voted on, they'd already voted on once or tried to get through back in february. it was bipartisan legislation with kiersten cinema, chris murphy, and james link for it all negotiating it. it's donald trump in that moment that came down and said, don't vote for this. >> the democrats brought it back and that's what brings us to where we are now. >> so how was the the last week anything but a political move if they knew they didn't have the support. >> but what you saw from both sides there, it's a little bit of truth to both of it, right? i mean, this was an attempt from chuck schumer to sort of turn the tables on the border issue republicans are hammering

democrats across the map. it's a tough senate, senate map as we know this is their number one issue and chuck schumer attempted to sort of give democrats cover. but if you talk to democrats, they'll tell you that we want and you mentioned that it lost some democratic votes, and that's because the democrats, the senate democrats aren't united on this this bill anyway. >> yeah, how divided are they on this issue? >> it's pretty divided. i mean, look, this was a bipartisan compromise that had to do with larger government funding flight this was sort of the carrot for the stick and previous sort of circumstances that they were dealing with in congress. but alex the dea senator, pretty liberal from california, argued that this should not be the democratic party's starting point for negotiations with border security, that this is too conservative. this is two moderate. and if they were to come to the table with purely a political and partisan package,

it should be more progressive and i want to take a look. >> we have some polling from quinnipiac university on the most urgent issue facing america among registered voters. >> immigration is up there. it's in the double-digits, but the economy's not surprising at the top, preserving democracy. steven, i don't have to tell you this. we're now on memorial day. it's kind of the unofficial start to summer. it's also a campania when you're covering the hill. this is when things start to or because now it's time to campaign and be gone for the summer. and no one really, there's not a real incentive to get anything done in an election year at this point, you get that sense being up there. yeah. >> i mean, if you if real quiet, we can hear the sound of like a vulnerable center sitters running down the capitol steps to get to a plane, to get to montana, to get to ohio, to get to arizona. it's all these places, these battlegrounds that are super important, not just for the senate, but in the presidential race. i mean, that is where things are turning and it's also sort of controls the business that is on the floor. what we saw with chuck schumer,

downplay, see last week, right. is actually it colors everything as we sort of brace toward november. >> yeah. >> i want to change gears just a little bit because one big thing that is on the horizon house speaker mike johnson inviting benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, to address a joint session of congress. and it's there's been a lot of chatter around this what have you been hearing and what do you think the response has been like amongst members yeah. >> i mean, the big thing to remember here is that there is sort of significant political cost that could happen if democrats were to have benjamin netanyahu address congress, they all remember 2015, he came to congress and the obama administration criticized the iran deal it was a big deal for democrats. they felt disrespected by that it was sort of, trying to criticize the obama administration and things are way more political and difficult right now,

geopolitically. >> so what would he say if he were in front of congress? he criticized by and what he criticized democrats who've been increasingly isolated by him over the last few months. so all indications are that chuck schumer will sign that invitation and that they will have him in front of congress at some point. but again, there is a significant risk that democrats are taking to have him in congress. >> all right, more to come on that thanks again for being here early on a holiday, of course. >> good to see you we are just a day away from closing arguments in donald trump's criminal hush money trial and the jury could potentially reach a verdict by the end of the week prosecutors will try to weave together weeks of testimony and evidence. >> they say proves trump falsified business records to help us 2016 in presidential campaign regardless of the verdict, there is mixed reaction from democrats on the impact this case will have on trump's reelection chances. >> can you just. give them a boost if he is acquitted? >> no. i don't really think so. i think donald trump's

character is clear to the world. >> i think the new york cases, if anything, may have backfired against those who thought that would be the salvation. but i don't think the new york cases our exactly what democrats were hoping they would broad centrist middle of the american people, i think understand what he did why it is so a porn. >> i'm already deeply disturbed that donald trump had succeeded in slow-walking one or more of those cases so of course that's the political side of it. let's talk about the legal side joining us to discuss that cnn legal analyst, joey jackson, joe, and good morning to you. we are now looking at these closing arguments set to begin tomorrow. i lay out what you are expecting to hear from both sides as they try to land the plane here in the jessica, good morning to you. so prosecutors will certainly give a compelling timeline as to why the president, former president is guilty. and here's what they'll say. and then i'll

pivot to the defense. >> i think prosecutors will say, listen, the bottom line here is that you had a president by when came to the access hollywood tape, who really was having a campaign that was in a tailspin as a result of that tailspin, you had another story that could potentially be damaging, right? >> as we look there at the hush money trial and what's no court and closing arguments, et cetera. but what they'll say is on the heels of that, he could not afford another scandal as a result of that enter stormy daniels and that deal, we know that he met. that is the president in addition to mr. cohen, his fixer, they of course had a relationship with mr. pecker that they would catch and kill stories that relationship became a parent as it related to trying to get the stormy daniels deal done. what deal is that? the deal to hush europe and the deal to direct his fixer, michael cohen to do so. he had full knowledge of that. and what is what tells you that? because you also had the issue concerning karen mcdougal. she was a playboy

model therein. mr. trump was fully aware of that deal. there's an audio tape which would suggest he was aware of that deal. and how likely would it be that he's aware of a catch catch-and-kill deal concerning a payoff of karen mcdougal that happened earlier. but yet comment to stormy daniels, he has no idea nonsense. prosecutors will say he had every idea. and why did he try to cover it up and fix the books because he wanted to boost his election prospects and doing so, it was a campaign violation as a result that he's guilty. and by the way, defense cells you not to believe michael cohen, you know, what, you don't have to. there's so much corroboration as to michael cohen from every other witness that you don't need to put your trust and reliance upon him, you need to put your trust and reliance upon your common sense and all common sense will indicate that trump knew was aware was engaged in this false vacation, a conspiracy and cover-up. he's guilty. >> the fence will stand up, jessica and say nonsense. the reality is, is that we've heard about no other crime which is required in order to

find him guilty. there was no other crime that was referenced during the trial in order to get there. that's what you need. we know michael cohen's a lot here. we know that he lied to congress. we know that he lied to his associates. we know he liked the banks, we know he liked to his wife and he's also lying to you. he is the only one that defense will say that puts mr. trump directly involved in anything relating to falsifications of business records, he acted on his own accord. he went row. he did what he did president knew nothing about this. the president is not guilty. and so those will be the competing narratives as it relates in brief, warm of course, they will go jessica three hours apiece. i'm going to minutes apiece. >> i think the essence of the argument will be that you'll see the prosecution saying, forget about relying upon michael cohen, reliable on your common sense and good judgment in determining that the president former president is guilty, and the defense, of course, highlighting michael cohen saying he's a trump hater, his every motivation to lie about the president. >> he's the only direct line

which was established. these falsifications, you can't believe him. he's not guilty. and of course the defense will go first. and then the prosecution will go last because they have the burden of proof right? >> right. right. and so we they've had kind of this, this week long stretch on those two of being outside of the courtroom with the holiday and everything. does that give anybody a leg up the prosecution or the defense or is it pretty even there? >> so i think it's pretty even in his while say that and now normally an ending a trial, the ending of trials very important. i think it was a dud as it related to bringing in robert costello being the last witness that the defense really called the defense called them really to rebut michael cohen how to robot him? saying that is robert costello was the legal advisor to michael cohen, spent a lot of time with him and there are indications in that relationship that michael cohen said two things. number one, i have nothing on donald trump in number two, i acted on my own. they probably

shouldn't have done that. that is a defense. they did. and i think they suffered for it. however, proceed eating that you had a dud for the prosecutors and that was michael cohen being caught in what i believe to be a significant lie and that he said that he was speaking to the president about the deal and by the way, it was 96 second phone call. and by the way, in the lead up to that phone call, he was talking about a 14 year-old who was harassing him, that he needed the secret service the hell. and so as a result of that, the defense really caught him flat-footed. that is michael cohen saying, wait, you call to speak to the president. you called his body man because you knew the president would be with them. but lead up to that phone call, you sent numerous texts about a 14-year-old, say nothing about stormy daniels but you want the jury to believe the call was about alerting the president to stormy daniels. >> why do i say that? in response to your question? because they will pause on both sides. and as a result of that, what i think is that it's pretty even with respect to what the layoff this week really who had benefits. so that's why the closing

arguments. what where speaking about are going to be so important. jessica, because they're an opportunity to remind the jury for both sides what's relevant, what's not what the law should say and how should apply to this case and how if the prosecution he's guilty. half-year to defense nothing to see here. wasting everybody's time. go home, not guilty. those will be the competing there tomorrow. >> all right. we shall see it all unfold. joey jackson, thanks so much. good to see you just ahead. >> a new potential front runner in the scrum to beat donald trump's running mate plus the dallas mavericks. one wins in the finals. >> we've got bleacher report ahead. russia is we're trying to spy on us. we were spying on them i'm sorry, frank this is a war that secret, war, secrets and spice, a nuclear game. premier sunday at ten on cnn ga, the advanced form of dry age-related macular

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onstage of the libertarian party's convention over the weekend. >> vice presidential hopeful tim scott was quick to come to the former president's defense wausau wave of red hats at the libertarian convention, donald trump's popularity continues to increase now, a new potential candidate for trump's running mate is emerging the new york times reporting republican senator tom cotton of arkansas has risen to the top of trump's vp shortlist. >> cottons says he's yet to hear from the trump campaign the president in the campaign is not reached out to me i suspect only donald trump knows who is really on his shortlist when we do talk we talk about what it's going to take to win this election in november 2, elect president trump to another term in the white house and elect a republican congress. >> trump is expected to make his decision ultimately in july, joining me now republican strategist, rena shaw, rena, it's always great to have you

here worth noting that tom cotton was one of the first republicans in a sea of republicans that ran for president this year to say, i'm not running for president, which i thought was interesting. and now to see him bubble up this way. but watching thoroughly as we look at a potential vp for trump, who do you think that might be? and what is the significance or insignificance of their role? >> well, cotton is in that column of not running for president, but certainly opened a vp. and this past week, of course, nikki haley told us she's also certainly open to be so we've got our column of people that to me or milk toast picks and cotton is at the top of that list also with rubio and vance when you're looking at guys like cotton and holly who sit in the senate and holly of course, isn't in this mix. you're looking at a younger white male from an area in which trump wants to show his strength got the strength there, but he's got to make a real serious determination with this vp pick because it's so important given the debates.

now, he's opened debating. trump is. so of course his vp pick will debate and they will debate kamala harris. and i think again, going back to nikki haley, that was what made her say. i'm going to vote for trump. that was her indirect signal to trump world to say, i'm open to being your vp because you know, her calculation, her major calculation. and if you're in her brain, you know, this is she thinks she'll wipe the floor with kamala harris. she did so well in those debates last fall, drew all that attention from the mid-atlantic powerhouses, whether it was money or power. and now she thinks she can do it again for trump. and she also thinks she'll out last trump so this is what we're looking at. i don't think it'll be a male. i think it will be a female because he knows he has to win women back. and if it's not a female, then what about black men another demo, right there targeting right now and there you've got scott and carson is willing thing coconspirators and anything that seems centers got is willing to try anything he will. >> he had a very hard time saying he would even accept

election results, which is someone who covered him on my hill was very out of line with where you doesn't jibe with who centers goddess is a person he's, he's willing to again defend the indefensible because he sees it clear opening for him here. and that is senders got to a t. he wants his values pushed out further and we get it. you want to promulgate your evangelical values. that's fine. but that's not going to sit well with the rest of the american electorate and trump world knows that they're going to try to figure it out. where did they go? go get their most vulnerable people? it's certainly not at the libertarian convention, by the way a screen, place for him to show up. >> and we talked for that a little bit earlier in the show just before i let you go, is we look at the hush money trial coming to its conclusion. if he is ultimately convicted, does that change the game in terms of a vp pick because conviction has been kind of a thing for some voters. all if he's a convict maybe i waffled some of these independent voters, not people that are with trump, no matter what. >> well, the politics here is

deep, so you've got to sit with me for a second. the appearance at the libertarian convention asking them when he hadn't even submitted nominating papers to nominate him tells you just how desperate he is, tells you that he thinks that conviction in battles him so badly with the republican party that he's out there figuring out what other path he can get to the presidency it is so bizarre and i want viewers to know this for a presumptive nominee of one party to show up at another parties convention. again, tells you trump is scared about the results in court this week. >> interesting. all right, we're gonna show great to see. we're going to see a little bit later as well. so stick around. let's turn to sports now, the dallas mavericks are now just one went away from the nba finals after a dominant win over the minnesota timberwolves. and he scholz has this morning's bleacher report. good morning, andy. yeah. good morning, jessica. so all three games, the western conference finals have been good ones, but the maths, they've won all three hey, thanks to luka doncic and kyrie irving, patrick mahomes, and travis kelce. they were sitting courtside for this one anthony

edwards was trying his best in game three to get the t-wolves way to check him out here flying through the air for the incredible slam. and the third and had 26 in this one. but with the game close and the final minutes, luka and kyrie just taken over maps up to here, luca, the turnaround fall away jumper. it's good. then moments later, kyrie, the step back over karl, anthony towns, both luka and kyrie is gone 33 points and luka putting an exclamation point on it that's one with the ally that daniel gap or and maps outscore that tables 14, the three in the final five minutes, they wouldn't want 16 2107 in an hour wind away from the finals i'm going to focus game by game. if we don't win next one, we got to where next one. so it's got to stay focused, play the same. we know they have anthony edwards so he's gonna be again, the tough game. but we got to play the same way after a four hour rain delay, the indianapolis 500 came down to a sprint on the final lab and check that out. >> josef newgarden passing pato

o'ward on turn three to take the victory newgarden becomes the first backed back. when are the indy 500 since helio castroneves is 22 years ago and he's just the sixth to do it after cross the finish line. watch what he does is 33 year-old, he's going to climb out of his car, go through the fence and into the stands and celebrate with some of the 125,000 fans in attendance at the greatest spectacle in racing unbelievable. i going to love this crowd. i can always go in the crowd. we went here. i'm always doing that i'll. just honestly that wore me out more than the race fund with the band. i brutal baseball news for the braves yesterday, reigning national league mvp ron with who knew junior, it's going to miss the rest of the season after tearing his acl and the first winning against the pirates, akuna was trying to steal third when it happened and he just went down the brave star. he tours acl and his other knee during the 2021 season atlanta went on to win

the world series after that happened all right. violate the tarp monster claiming another victim during a rain delay during the reds dodgers game in cincinnati. so a member of the grounds crew trapped they were covering the infield and you could see or they're trying to crawl her way out as you did get out of there, jessica added off got it. dies hug though there. >> i'd tell you what that would be. one of my worst fears if i was on the grounds crew because i'm quite claustrophobic and i would not would have begun to one so yeah, that does not look fine. all right. yeah. ics. thanks, andy. we appreciate it. >> kept me up next portion of the stomach really, i mean, this is my community, 120 million americans facing dangerous weather today after a weekend of deadly storms took at least 18 lives, plus 12 people injured in yet another case of severe turbulence on a passenger jet dealing years

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