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region tool whole new, very dangerous level, and mark your calendars. >> you will know by tuesday who kamala harris is picking as her running mate. the details on the rollout coming up the federal reserve begins its important two-day meeting today, the big question is there a rate cut finally, on the horizon on kate bolduan with john berman, sara sidner's chicago. today this is cnn new central breaking. >> overnight the top political leader of hamas killed inside iran is feel he needs yeah was the public face of hamas, a key player in peace negotiations over gaza? this could have huge significance force stability in the region, huge, both hamas and iran have promised harsh retaliation. israel has not commented directly, but moments

ago, the defense minister said the nation is quote, prepare for all possibilities. we want to get right to jeremy diamond. he is in haifa in northern israel. jeremy, give us a sense of what happened and the reverberations well, john, i'm joining you from a region that is very much on edge, unclear exactly what will follow, but it is clear that this assassination overnight of his ismail haniah, hamas's political leader is going to reverberate throughout this region, having enormous inflammation implications for the stability of this region. >> iranian state media reporting that it was an airborne guided projectile that killed hamas's political leader while he was staying in the iranian capital. this happened around 2:00 a.m. local time, according to reports. and apparently his bodyguard was also killed, but haniah, of course this was hamas's political leader. he was viewed as having a role in directing

hamas is attacks. and it's it's activities over the course of the last several months and israeli political leaders have made clear for months now that they would strike at any hamas leader that they viewed as responsible for october 7. and now doing so in extraordinary fashion, showing that they were capable of striking haniah even within iran, we should note that israeli officials have neither confirmed nor denied their activity, their involvement in this assassination, which is pretty much standard protocol for them this will also have implications for those ongoing ceasefire negotiations because haniah was one of the key interlocutors with hamas, with the mediators in these ongoing negotiations his departure will certainly reverberate on those talks as well but now of course, we are waiting to see how how iran will respond if iran will respond, or if their response will come instead from hamas or from hezbollah, another iranian proxy in the

region, as we have seen over the course of the last 24 hours, not only was haniah assassinated in tehran but a senior hezbollah commander was also killed in beirut in an israeli strike that. these really military has indeed acknowledged and both of those strikes are certainly putting this region even more on edge than it already was and as we are waiting here in northern israel to see what, if any, response there will be jon, right? >> jeremy diamond in northern israel, in haifa, stand by for us. i want to bring in cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt. now, alex, what has the u.s response been well, john, i think throughout the course of the day, we're going to hear a lot of concern about what may come, what we're hearing so far is just a reaction from the secretary of state, antony blinken, who says that they were not aware of anything ahead of time that there was no us involvement. >> there are always major questions around assassinations like this as to whether israel, if they are indeed involved gay

gave some kind of heads-up to the united states. sometimes they do like before yesterday's attack in lebanon, that jeremy was just referencing. here, if this was indeed israel behind this assassination in tehran it does not appear that us got a heads-up according to the u.s. secretary of state, here's a little bit of what he said earlier today as he's been traveling in asia, take a listen learned over many years never really speculate about that because we simply don't know so he didn't want to speculate about what happened. >> john, this was arguably more provocative than what israel did back in april when they killed a number of irgc members in damascus back then, they didn't give the u.s. a. heads up either. and the reaction then from iran, you'll remember on april 13, was this massive barrage of drones and missiles fired at israel that the u.s. helped defend against along

with other countries. this strike against nea was arguably more provocative. it was in tehran, it was following the inauguration of the new president. this was a special guest for the the iranians. the iranians are going to be furious about this. they can respond a number of ways, not just themselves, but proxies all across the region. and of course, john, that doesn't only implicate israel, it could also have severe consequences for the u.s. of course, which has a military presence. all across the region so now we are seeing threats from the iranians, the irgc promising what they're calling a harsh and a painful response. so jeremy, as he noted, that region very much on edge, washington as well, john and again, one thing is remarkable here, alice, we have all kinds of footage of haniah because he has been the public face of hamas for you there's which is something that a lot of people have noted is odd given that he is connected to this group, the united states deems a terrorist organization traveling at, we'll throughout the region. >> nevertheless, he's been a

key player in the peace negotiations what is the u.s see now as the status of those negotiations? >> he's been the public face. he's been traveling relatively openly. he has been the guy at the table for hamas during the ceasefire negotiations, which up until today looked like they were going relatively well. we'd heard been hearing from us officials that they were as close as they have been in months to a possible deal over the weekend, we saw a new round of meetings in rome that was attended by the cia director bill burns, as well as the head of mossad, david barnea and the qatari prime minister, these talks. if they aren't scuttled altogether, are certainly on ice herniate what's the guide doing the negotiating of course, yahya sinwar, the head of hamas in gaza. he's the ultimate decision-maker but it was hernia who is transmitting those decisions, who is doing the negotiating with their direct counterparts, the egyptians and the qatari's. we have an angry reaction this morning from the qatari prime

minister also at that table who says, how can mediation succeeds when one party assassinates the negotiator on the other side. so this certainly puts a halt to these conversations for now. there is, of course, the possibility that there is so much concern here in washington that there could be an immense amount of pressure put on israel to actually agree to this ceasefire. but, but that remains to be seen. certainly this is not helping those ceasefire negotiations to say the least, john. >> all right. alice walker for us in washington. alex, thank you very much went up for us. >> kamala harris, almost ready to reveal her first major decision as a presidential candidate. her pitch for running mate. she also has a new message and approach to trying to get donald trump to the debate stage, telling him to quote, say it to my face and disgraced r&b singer and convicted sex tropical trafficker. r. kelly is trying to take his case to the supreme court. his lawyers could be leaning on the same argument

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and her running mate that starts tuesday in pencil lanny arizona senator mark kelly is said to be in the short short, short list. this is what he had to say about it all this morning i'm, not going to get into any of that tie. >> i'm going to be focused on making sure that comma is the next president. i'm going to work as hard as i can be traveling across the country tirelessly next week, my plans right now to be in arizona priscilla, alvarez at the white house for us this morning. so what do we know about how this will play out? brazil while the vice president is certainly in the thick of choosing her running mate because again, as you mentioned, that announcement is expected in the coming days. >> what does that look like behind? in the scenes? well, it's reviewing a lot of notebooks with information about each of the vp contenders. preliminary conversations, and also the vice president asking her advisers who would be the best governing partner if she were to win in november. there you

have a photo or photos of the folks on the short list that includes, for example, arizona senator mark kelly, pennsylvania gov printer josh shapiro, and minnesota governor tim walz, now no formal interviews have been conducted yet, but they are expected this week and we expect the announcement to be revealed or the running mate to be revealed by tuesday. there will be a rally then in philadelphia followed by it blitz of travel to battleground states that includes wisconsin, michigan, north carolina, georgia, arizona, and nevada importantly, all of these states minus north carolina, where states that president biden narrowly won in 2020 and states that the campaign wants to keep in play with a blitz like this. and of course, the campaign is taking into consideration who would bet strengthen the vice president's electoral chances in the election by two in their process for choosing a running

mate. now, of course, something that's not on her calendar yet, but that the vice president was needling former president donald trump on yesterday is that september presidential debate? take a listen to what she said to be his running mate. >> sure. seem to have a lot to say about me. and by the way, don't you find some of their stuff? just be plain weird. i do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. because as the saying goes, if you got something so there you have it. the vice president indicating that she very much intends to show up to that presidential debate that i've been previously scheduled in september, but before then she'll have this battleground state blitz with her to be announced, running me a lot going on. >> priscilla alvarez. thank you very much joining us right now to talk about a lot of that's going on, is the democratic

governor of new york, kathy hochul. >> governor hochul, it's good to see you. thank you for coming on so we know that kamala harris, is soon going to be announcing her running mate. do you have a favorite? on that shortlist said another way is there is there a running mate that you think would most help harris win and most help democrats down ballot. >> here's the beautiful part of all this. there is such a wealth of opportunity here. we have great talent on the democratic bench i know a lot of the guy know all they democratic governors were close friends. we communicate all the time. and so i love all of them senator mark kelly, i understand is in the mix to and what an american patriot he is as well. so whoever she picks i'm telling you the republican ticket is going to be shaking in their boots because we have the talent, but also smart, articulate people who are not weird there's a big difference here that we have normal people when that be a nice contrast to, let, let's get to that one second. but one thing that is noteworthy that cannot be

missed in when we put up the screen of the shortlist, if you will, all of them, most of them, all of them are white men. most of them are democratic governors you are a very prominent, very well-known, and respected democratic governor yourself, does it bother you that they're all white men? >> no, no, not at all. not at all because i don't want to look at gender here. i really don't think it's fair because we have a lot of talented women governors. i text them all the time. the man are very talented. so that's the, that's the beauty of what we have here is that we have a lot of talents. so i'm not going to take offense that she doesn't pick a woman or a person. you know? from some particular state at all. whoever she picks, it's going to be a dynamic duel. no doubt about it. and the energy that you see already out there for vice president harris that'll be amplified when you have a new voice out there showing a positive vision for the future, but also taking the hits that they need to take. on the other side. i mean, they can't get away with the crazy talk that

talk saying right now. and another partner for her on the campaign trail is going to be powerful. so, so it's got to be funded so who she picks, i want to use the word fun again, when you see kamala harris on the trail she looked so generally happy. >> there's this evidence about her or there's this everyday people talk about the energy. >> energy is powerful, but there's a joyfulness and that has been missing in our american politics for a long time. you look at donald trump and j.d. vance kind of take it down, right? i mean they don't bring joy and happiness to the process and she seemed so confident she's out there is talent storage. he's being herself and people as they get to know her day after day after day, she's gonna be winning more and more people over to her side and ensuring that he's victorious. november. so this is an amazing process. >> let's talk about getting weird right now, because you politico noted in a headline and i and i and i watched it yesterday, you were at an event and you jumped on the political put, you jumped on the weird

trend and we just i just heard you say it. again. thomas friedman of the new york times, he said this about this trend amongst democrats craddock officials, especially i can't think of a sillier more playground, more foolish, more counterproductive political tanf for democrats to seize on then calling trump and his supporters weird why do you think this is effective? do you think this round of name-calling has reached its expiration date? >> i didn't call his supporters weird. i think it's pretty clear that the two candidates are very weird by our standards. and so everybody can have their opinion, but there is no shortage of words that are coming out of their mouths attacking democrats. it's a more playful way of saying things we don't have the say they're dark and they're dangerous and they're scary. i didn't know that space. there's this weird mean that's just a statement of fact. i mean, we've never seen anything of their likes in american history, especially j.d vance, mean, who talks about childless cat ladies, i mean is there any other way to describe that other than weird so that's i'm just calling

out the way i see it. and i think my friend tim walz of minnesota started it and tim and i are good friends in congress together and it's good enough for tim. i said, you know what, he's right about that. >> they're weird let me ask you about something else. i saw elise stefanik, a prominent republican congresswoman from new york. she said something at the convention, at the republican convention in milwaukee when that caught my ear, let me play this for you. >> that president donald j. trump will be the first republican in a generation who new york state i see you i see your reaction right there. that was days before joe biden dropped out. you say the chances of that are 00 and zero? donald trump will not win new york state kamala harris and her running mate will win new york state and something out that's going to happen in new york state we're going to take back the house of representatives. >> this is important and this is something i know you're working on because i wanted to

talk to you about this because this when you look at the races and you look at what has happened in new york in terms of congressional races since the midterm in 2022 democrats lost for new york house seats leading republicans to seize that small majority in the house, splitting the congress it's not a battleground state as we've just, as we've just noted, when you talk about a presidential, but is new york the battleground in the fight over the balance of power in who that whoever the next president is going to be is going to have to be working with no, the presidential question is not. >> i'm saying just the balance of power in congress. >> new york, there are a lot of races in question it was 2022 was tough for democrats in terms of house races, how critical is new york in terms of what's going to happen in very critical new york and california california has a few battleground race because we want to pick up at all again, seats that have been won by joe biden before, held by a republican. now, those are we consider the more likely pickups know. i don't want to

take anything for granted or leave it to chance. a year ago, i started raising money into the state democratic party, building the organization, opening up campaign headquarters we now have 35 campaign offices in small rural communities. because the battleground for the house representatives goes from long island up to the rural parts of the hudson valley. and there's one district over in syracuse where i went to school and i know that area like the back of my hand i know it's a play here, so i've invested enormous amounts of my time and energy will have over 100 people hired from the state party in addition to what d triple c does and others, we had 24,000 door knocks this weekend alone in those seats debt never happens there's never been a governor in new york state that took so seriously the title of leader of the state party. do you were you project getting to getting pickups? are republic upset this time? yes. how many i want all six. >> i want all six, i think three minimum. and that's

that'll be enough. but i feel very confident we have strong candidates as time around means somehow the i won't get over d triple c vetting process, but we had george santos get elected. now we have a democrat in that seat. so that was a pickup already this year when tom suozzi was elected in a special election that we helped him with so we're already have one in the win column. >> you've got a lot of work ahead of you, governor. thank you for coming. i really appreciate your time. it's good to see thank you very much all right. coming up for us, the federal reserve kicks off its critical two-day policy meeting today. are they ready to say rate cut, yet we will we will find out and gen x icon lisa loeb needs your help, apparently to track down one of her beloved guitars to show you that was his eighth i shall not seek and i will not accept the

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we're going to be combing through the fed's statement, even seemingly trivial changes in the fed statement can move markets by hundreds of billions of dollars. and then the fed chair jerome powell will be taking questions at 2:30 eastern and he could also drop some hints about what the fed's going to do next. i like how you build expectations here. the most important day in the last two years, well done on that. all right. so obviously all economists are watching, but what does this mean for all of us consumers? yes, it would be a really big deal because it would mean borrowers would finally get a break. >> so if you're in the market for a mortgage, it would mean rates would go down a bit. or if you already own and you want to get a home equity loan, it would be cheaper to do that if you're in the market to get a car and you need to finance it it's student debt. if you're trying to pay off credit card debt right now and you've got record high rates this would help now, it's not going to be cheap to borrow, but this would be a step in the right direction in the first of more rate cuts to come remember, the fed had to spike interest rates two years ago. look at this

multi decade highs after years of really, really low rates. and now they've been on hold. they've been on hold for a year. now. we know we knew that the fed could conquer inflation, right? i mean, paul volcker showed that in the 1980s that if you raise rates high enough, you're gonna get inflation under control. the question was could they do this without wrecking the jobs market? and the stunning thing is that it does look like they'd been able to do that. the unemployment rate has gone up, but it's still relatively low. and so if the fed is able to finally cut rates, it would be a sign that they think that inflation has finally been defeated that the race almost taller than us at this point, most, they might start to go down. maddie, thank you so much for that. >> new polls justin show, if vice president harris can turn what appears to be some momentum into actual votes and budget airlines, spirits set to start offering business class seats are as they are called him, a big front seat hen to

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reaction just in over the killing of ismail haniah, the top political leader of hamas overnight in iran. >> both iran and hamas squarely blame israel for this just moments ago, syria wade in the entire region in teetering feels like it's teetering on the brink. cnn, chief international security correspondent nick paton, walsh, with us watching this very closely. this situation is so tense. nick yeah, absolutely. >> syria calling this a violation of international law and despicable act on their state. media are essentially the government voice. there joining, condemnation in region. i think that is deeply concerned about where this potentially leads, but to some degree not an entirely surprising move by israel and they'd always said they would pursue hamas is leadership wherever they ended up being. i don't think anyone really expected something like this to occur in northern terrain. and the real questions being quite how this killing was indeed carried out. an explosion at

2:00 in the morning, a guided projectile, according to iranian state media behind this, but minimal damage as far as the early report suggests, so, good intelligence, good targeting, it seems on behalf of the israelis who have not said anything public to claim responsibility he for this. but interestingly enough, we've been hearing some iranian government officials pointing finger towards the united states. has israel's ally for essentially assisting and enabling them to do this. but clear indications from us secretary of state antony blinken saying that the u.s. was not aware, and not involved in this particular incident? now, bear in mind that in itself is pretty extraordinary if indeed proves to be the case, the u.s had no full knowledge are warning of israelis taking out a key hamas negotiator, part of the negotiating team for a deal which the u.s. had invested vast amounts of political capital. cia director bill burns flying here and they're trying to get some traction to negotiation here. if indeed

after prime minister benjamin netanyahu's visit to washington, he unilaterally decided to take out hani without even telling the united states before that suggests a pretty significant rupture. you might say in that relationship. and to the u.s. keen to focus on the need for the ceasefire here. remember, that was a ceasefire that will be negotiated by hernia. and now so his replacement and i'm pretty sure to say is a few days, months, weeks in which those negotiations will be paused they'll have to pick up knowing full well that their predecessor was assassinated by the very people then negotiating with. so a lot on edge here. but important to remember iran's options are relatively limited, so they could always use hezbollah, but to the north of israel in lebanon, but they've been reluctant to do that over the past months. and so the question ultimately now is, what do we see as an iranian response? how do they effectively save face here? and we see a conflagration like people have been fearing for nearly the year now. >> john, right? nick paton walsh for us monitoring things very closely. >> nick, please keep us posted

kate. we're getting a fret some fresh data and on how vice president kamala harris, her entrance as the expected democratic nominee for president is changing potentially the turnout math is elections. cnn's harry enten has much more on this 2020 harris saw record turnout? yes. what are you looking at in terms of what this election could look like? >> yes. so you know, if we were to go back and i want to sort of create a timeline here to give you an understanding of just how much the entrance of kamala harris into this race yes. >> as well as the post-rnc bump for donald trump has changed the potential turnout. matt, we were looking at a much potentially much lower turnout. this go around in 2024 than 2020. so this is almost certain to vote in the election. you look post-debate 2024. look at that. it was just 55% of registered voters is actually the same as it was pre-debate, 55% it was significantly lower than it was in 2020 during the summer when it was 60%. but look at where we are. now. we are now at 62% after the rnc, after kamala harris gets into

this race. and that is actually a higher number than what we saw during the summer of 2020 when it was 60%. so at this particular point, as you look at the math right now, if we are trusting what voters are saying, it's actually possible, we'll see higher turnout them. what we saw on 2020, which is what you pointed out was record turnout. so quite the shift here. it's not just enthusiasm, it's actually people saying that they're going to go out and almost certainly vote if you believe what voters are i mean, if we doubt that this is all not going to work well, you know, it's all funny money anyway why, why, why is it? wow, you know, throughout this entire cycle, we've been pointing out that there were a ton of voters who dislike both biden and donald trump, pre rnc, right? 20% in the new york times polling, 20% in ipsos poll. and look at where we are today. look how dramatically these numbers have dropped. look at this new york times down to 8% who say they disliked harris

and trump. how about ipsos? the same pattern? 7%. this is very different. now than what we saw prior. it looks a lot more like 2020 when it was just 3% who dislike both major party major party candidates and very much unlike what we saw in 2016 when he was 18% in the exit polls, which looked a lot more like what we saw earlier in the year. so the fact is voters are much more app to at least it's like one of the candidates. and i think that's part of the reason why voters are much more likely to turn out because if good dislike both major party candidates why actually turn out and vote? >> but that was what rfk junior was counting on, that we're i guess on some level, that was what he was counting on. in fact, that was his core group of voters, right? >> those who dislike both joe biden and donald trump. so what's happened to him? kim, now, look at this. he was at 15% in december. he was at 10% post-debate. he has dropped all the way down to 5%. the fact that harris and he is not happening, he is not happy about it. he is not happy about the fact that can't, that the voters actually do like one of the major party candidates

really is devastating his campaign. he might not even reach 5%. i wouldn't be surprised if he ended up with two or 3%, not exactly a strong showing for someone who entered the race with some possibilities. >> it's good to see you, nice to see you. thank you. john. >> all right. with this now, is congressman mike quigley, a democrat from illinois? congressman. thanks so much for being with us. you spoke in your mind quite a bit. the last month or so and at times, i think received a lot of heat for it, but i'm going to count on you to speak your mind again this morning because most people we asked about who vice president kamala harris should pick as her running mate. they say, oh, she'll make the right choice. whoever she picks will be great. we have such a deep bench. >> you though. >> i've been reading this morning, have suggested he may be think josh shapiro of pennsylvania would be the best pick. why now? >> well, let me say i violated my own rule of speculation and such things. >> i'm for the home home court bench, jb pritzker, who's because he led eleanor through such difficult the times. and he really knows how to campaign

i speculated that if if that wasn't the case and they were going to pick someone from a swing state, pennsylvania is the one state you absolutely need to win and democratic math. >> but i'm going to be with i'm going to stay with my friend jb pritzker. >> you have maintained your membership card as a chicagoan? that aside though, because pritzker doesn't appear to be on the shortlist of shortlist here. but that aside, you say pennsylvania is essential. why? and what would shapiro do for you there? >> he's popular east to west and i think that's absolutely critical. i will say it's it's early and we give way too much credence to who the vice presidential nominee is. i think they can do more harm than good and frankly speaking on the republican side i think their choice has borne out to be a big mistake. the fact that trump has to defend him on a regular basis means that there's a problem. these underwater on polling. >> he's got to extreme values

and statements on things like choice and climate change so if trump was the smartest candidate, he would have picked someone to appeal to that middle. >> i just put it in context let's remember, it's early trump won by 30 states. the total of 78,000 votes in 2016 in 2020, president and by biden won in three states by less than 50,000 votes these swing voters, these persuadable voters. i don't think we're going to change their minds till after november i mean, after labor day. >> yeah. you can't after november. it's probably too late, but after labor day, i get what you're saying right there. congressman, you were one of the first and loudest sitting members of congress to call on president biden to exit the race criticized by some senior democrats for that. >> now, now that it's happened

how do you feel, how surprised are you by how things have unfolded? >> and i do sense, i don't know trepidation or sort of a sense of being measured in cautious. now from you no i'll say this relieved the comprehension was a very difficult decision politically from an even an emotional point of you, because i respect president biden so much as always, he put the country first and made the right decision and the fact is i was being told that this would create chaos and would have absurd notions of 1968 convention in chicago, an open convention that hasn't happened. >> vice president had several tasks, which i think she carried out, unite the party ignite the base, reverse the polling 200 million in that first week, 58,050, 8,000 new

volunteers. and the first 24 hours. >> and you're seeing the polling trans go in the opposite direction. >> so mission accomplished. i'm relieved. now the word begins so obviously foreign policy will be an issue in this campaign. >> and former president trump in an interview with fox, was attacking the vice president with comments that i think there were people they found them offensive. listen to what he said they look at her and they say we can't believe we got so lucky. they're going to walk all over. and i don't want to say as to why. but a lot of people understand it so he was saying that foreign leaders are going to think they can walk all over her. i don't want to say why, but people understand it. what do you think he means by that? >> yeah the dog whistles and code words and phrases are out in full force you know, it took

a know from what's been reported. >> a lecture in the in the republican republican caucus to tell people to stop talking about race and gender so much to their members. but, you know, you can't hold back trump on such things. >> the fact of matter is foreign leaders are looking at this race. >> and they're seeing that our voters have a clear choice and the fate of democracy that's not hyperbole. and our country. and for the rest of the world, many of them feel is hanging on this race where's nato guideline of keyed on what we do in ukraine and eastern europe so this is the race of our lifetime on national and foreign policy i think trump is right. foreign leaders are looking at this, but i think they're looking at the opposite direction. they see a strong leader of the vice president was reaffirmed her support for nato and ukraine and israel with all the concerns that go with that. and

they see him as sort of extremist and that going to be certain with anybody outside our own country carson mike quigley. >> thanks so much for being with soaring. always appreciate talking to you. >> thank you. >> alright. this morning, singer r. kelly asking the supreme court to throw out his sex crime convictions, why he says he was wrongfully problem that's the key ubi on the edge, moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn, offering 20% off any, any size, 20%, i'll say, it's fine to say 20%. >> i've soft a foreign to eat your love, 20% off so the point is any, any size 20% off its subway, who don't let that ship

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down this morning. answers to your burning questions about covid and a summer surge cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta is on call and joins us now, sanjay, we asked for people to submit their questions. they did. the first one comes from catherine for calories for knew who says, when will the new covid vaccine be available? and will it be a combination shot with the flu are separate and will they rollout in september together yeah. >> so a couple of questions are first of all, the new shots are expected in the fall. we don't know exactly when yet, but sometime this fall, you'll expect a new covid shots. they're going to target you get what is known as the jn.1 variant, which by the way, john is a descendant of omicron. remember that, right now, we know that the sort of dominant circulating virus is kp.3. again, all these variant names, kp.3 is part of the lineage of jn.1. so omicron, jn.1 kp.3, the new shots should be able to cover the predominantly

circulating variants. it's not a combination shot, it's interesting because there have been some trials looking at combining the flu shot and the covid shot. some positive results came out on that last month, but doesn't look like that's going to be available this fall you. can get both at the same time and you should this fall when they come out. >> yeah. that's what to shoulders of four go in and get what it each shoulder. the next question comes from bob, from oklahoma city, when i was asked to be prescribed paxlovid, i was told because i'm taking a statin paxlovid is not appropriate. why would that be? he, sergeant yeah. >> this is really interesting. first of all, paxlovid people may remember it as an anti-viral medication. it's approved for adults. it has emergency use authorization for people 12 and older. typically, if you're high risk and you get covid paxlovid, may be a good option. so here's, here's what's interesting about this the way paxlovid works as an antiviral is it essentially blocks an enzyme that allows

the virus to replicate that's why you want to take it early. you don't want to let those viral numbers get high and then start giving the antiviral. you want to stop replication early. that same enzyme that is blocked may also let some of these statin drugs not get broken down. so the statin drugs essentially linger much longer if you are taking paxlovid that's the concern. i hope that makes sense so specifically what they say is when it comes to simvastatin and lovastatin, that's azo core. and alto prayer you should stop taking those medications at least 12 hours before you take the paxlovid do not take those medications while you're taking the paxlovid and don't start taking them again until five days after the paxlovid has done. again, it's just basic because you can get really high doses of those statin drugs. and he may get side effects with that. that's the real concern here. >> and again, i mean, it's just a reminder that anytime you want to get prescribed to do drug, you make sure you tell your doctor what you're taking already because the

combinations obviously it could be such a problem. our last question comes from debbie, who says after eight days i tested negative and was feeling much better for three days then i started to feel sick again with the same symptoms, took a covid test and again, i was sick for five days with covid. is that considered a relapse or why didn't i get it again yeah. >> it's interesting and, you know, people have talked about relapse versus rebound and could it be attached to paxlovid? sometimes you're viral levels will come down and then the virus will start to replicate two to the point where you test positive and you might have symptoms again. one thing i want to just mention when it comes to the idea of rebound over, i'll take a look at the graph on the left. those are people who had no rebound, which is the vast majority of people know rebound was actually little bit higher in the paxlovid group meaning the placebo group actually had less rebound. i'm sorry, had more rebound than the paxlovid group. so just just to keep that in the back of the mind, they can happen whether or not

you're taking the medication. in fact, on the right side of the screen, you can see that it was slightly higher the rebound with the packs of a group at 1.2% versus 0.5%. so it's not common. what she is describing. it does happen. and in part, it's because you're virus levels get low. and then for whatever reason, they may start to replicate again dr. sanjay gupta, this is so helpful i think for people as they see a little bit of an uptick in cases really appreciate your time as always a disgrace to singer r kelly is asking the supreme court now to overturn his federal sex crimes convictions his attorney arguing that he was wrongfully retroactively prosecuted. >> cnn's elizabeth wagmeister is following this one for us, what is this all about? elizabeth? >> so this came as a surprise to many people when this petition was filed, but r. kelly is attorney, says that

this should all be barred by the statute of limitations. now, let me take you through this right now. r. kelly is serving a lengthy sentence in a prison in north carolina. now, back in 2022 he was charged and convicted for child pornography and enticing a minor and he was sentenced to 20 years. now, when he was sentenced to 20 years he had already been convicted to 30 years for other crimes in new york, will now his attorney is saying that this should all be barred by the statute of limitations and let me tell you why. back in 2003, there was a new law that was passed by congress. it's called the protect act. and what this does is it essentially eliminates the statute of limitations for sex crimes involving myers will now r. kelly's attorney is saying that since this conduct of that r. kelly committed happened in the 90s, that was before 2003 when the protect act was passed. so she is saying that you should not be able to