it will be a powerful demonstration of america's unshakeable commitment to our nato allies. >> making a pledge. the u.s. president promises to stand with europe amid growing concern over ukraine. we are live in warsaw this morning. fallout from the controversial prisoner swap. we'll tell you what u.s. lawmakers are saying now. at this ennemann square remembered 25 years since the bloody crack down in beijing. >> if i had a rock i would throw it at you.

stop pissing me off. >> court in disorder. this florida judge though was throwing a few punches. thanks for joining us. you are watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> i'm john vause. we'd like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. 30 minutes from now u.s. president barack obama is expected to hold his first meeting with ukraine's president-elect. >> the u.s. is so far offering financial assistance but no weapons as it battles separatists in eastern ukraine. violence has spiked in a few eastern cities this week. >> mr. obama is pledging money, a lot of it, to nato allies in europe and central europe.

>> we'll increase the number of american personnel, army and air force units continuously rotating through allied countries in central and eastern europe and we will be stepping up our partnerships with friends like ukraine, maldova and georgia as they provide for their own defense. calling on congress to give $1 billion to support this effort which will show america's commitment to our nato allies. >> cnn white house correspondent jim accosta is live in warsaw. how much distance is there between what the ukrainian president wants and what the u.s. president is able to deliver? >> reporter: well, we heard president obama at the news conference yesterday say that he knows the ukrainian president is very interested to hear what the u.s. president can deliver in terms of money, in terms of support from a defense standpoint. he also wants to talk about energy. the ukrainians know very well,

as you know, john, that russia holds a lot of sway over their country when it comes to natural gas and energy imports into the ukraine. the president wants to hear the ukrainian leader, some ideas from him as to how he might be able to expedite that process of shipping liquid natural gas from the united states into eastern europe. that's something that's been talked about a great deal back in the united states as a potential tool to get russia to back down, to hold back on its aggression in that part of the world. the other thing that the president and the president-elect will talk about is security. the president and porchenko will be talking about the separatists in eastern ukraine as to talk about a strategy to get the separatists to stand down. later in the day the president will be delivering remarks at the solidarity movement's 25th anniversary meeting in and then

it's off to poland to deliver remarks at the g-7. vladimir putin will not be there. >> he will be a major topic of conversation no doubt. it does seem though that president obama is at least offering the russian president kind of a diplomatic olive branch here. >> yeah, it was interesting to hear what the president had to say. you know, he repeated some of the same remarks that he's made in the past, that he does not acknowledge the annexation of crimea, that russia needs to communicate to the separatists in eastern ukraine to stand down and continue to pull their forces away from the ukrainian boarder, but he also said there is the potential, and this comes as the president and vladimir putin cross paths later on this week in france for the celebration of the 70th celebration of d day that there might be a chance to repair

relations between russia and the united states. >> i think it's possible for us to try to rebuild some of the trust that's been shattered during this past year, but i think it is fair to say that rebuilding that trust will take quite some time and in the meantime we are going to be prepared for any contingencies that come up if, in fact, mr. putin continues to pursue the strategies that destabilize its neighbors. >> and the diplomacy will be very fascinating to watch, john, later on this week. president obama and vladimir putin will have a chance to cross paths. on thursday both men are scheduled to have a dinner or meeting with french president hollande. this won't be a three-man meal but that francois hollande may have to have dinner with president obama on one side and then have dinner with president

putin perhaps somewhere else. it will be tricky diplomacy for the foreign mip sters on all sides to try to arrange this so it doesn't turn into somewhat of a diplomatic comedy of errors. that will be interesting to watch. because of russia, the former soviet union's role in the allied power's control, vladimir putin will be on hand for the 70th anniversary of d day. this is a big pride. vladimir putin has talked about this and it rallies people in moscow. there's another chance for a quick interaction between presidents obama and putin. >> diplomatic two step. jim accosta joining us live. john, mr. obama has been forced to defend his decision to trade a captured u.s. soldier for five taliban soldiers.

army soldier bowe bergdahl was freed in exchange for the guantanamo bay prisoners who were sent to qatar. a number of top u.s. lawmakers say the obama administration has called to apologize for not notifying them of the prisoner swap with the taliban. >> i strongly believe that we should have been consulted, that the law should have been followed and i very much regret that that was not the case. >> this decision to bring sergeant bergdahl home, and we applaud that he is home, is ill-founded, it is a mistake, and it is putting the lives of american service men and women at risk and that to me is unacceptable to the american people. >> bergdahl is still being treated at a u.s. military hospital in germany. the army was planning to promote

him to staff sergeant soon but now that he is released that is no longer automatic. military officials say any evidence that he was a desserter did not play a role in his rescue. they will not be held under house a rrrest in qatar but the government will watch them closely. all right. want to turn to the weather situation here in the united states, and at least 11 possible tornadoes are reported across the midwestern united states along with heavy rain and large hail. >> this is fairly severe weather. take a look at this video. it looks like they're throwing baseballs but it's actually hail that caused a lot of damage at one car dealership. thousands of vehicles were damaged. >> look at that, iowa, wyoming and kansas also both slammed by the storms. at one point cnn meteorologists say a storm churning through nebraska was more than 16

kilometers technical. meteorologists alexandra steel joins us with more of these storms. they're significant, alexandra. 35 million americans are potentially affected by this? >> absolutely. between yesterday, tonight and today as well. so 35 million americans. really the center of the u.s., but that is all spreading eastward. here's the current radar. the red delineate where the tornado watches are. they have expired. we've seen the whole axis of this move south of chicago. you see that. we're talking about some incredible storms, incredibly potent. certainly the most potent we've seen thus far this year. 11 tornadoes so far predominantly in nebraska. very strong wind as well. the wind 160 kilometer wind gusts and hail. you saw pictures of the baseball size. softball to the sides of a dvd player, that's the hail we've seen with this. here's the picture of the baseball size hail. you can see it being held here.

how does this hail get so big? and why are we seeing tornadoes? well, it all has to do with what's happening within the storm clouds and the height of the storm clouds into the atmosphere. so we have the tornadoes because what we've got, think of a pencil, the rotation, the spinned, the wind sheer. wind sheer is winds come from different atmospheres and the height of these storms is why we're getting such incredible hail. we're seeing down bursts and up bursts and every time they move another layer of ice comes around and gets onto the hail. it gets so big then it falls finally. so huge hail with this massive storms and the height of them really quite dramatic. so through tonight this is kind of the area of concern. again, the hail threat continues. the winds as well as the threat for tornadoes. another front from tornadoes to hurricanes, tropical storm boris here in the eastern pacific it,

too, will bring copious amounts of rain, guys. we say hide from the wind but run from the water. water is the greatest killer with this. we could see 30 inches of rain in some areas of mexico. >> wow. what a dangerous thing. >> looking at it, it's going to be a wild night in the midwest. >> thanks so much. let's check some other stories that we're following this hour. okay. let's explain this. australian researchers have released this audio of an underwater sound which they say could be related to malaysia airlines flight 370 crashing into the water. they admit it's just as likely to be a natural event. there has been no sign of the plane since it disappeared march 8th. a massive explosion triggered a fire at a shell oil plant in the netherlands tuesday night. the ground shook like an earthquake and officials say two people suffered minor burns. no word yet on what caused the

explosion. may was the strongest sales month for general motors in six years. that's despite the recall of nearly 16 million vehicles around the world this year. the most serious recall involves faulty ignition switches. the automaker estimates they were involved in the deaths of 13 people. reuters news agency says it has found 74 fatalities linked to the switches, but gm says it used more precise data to arrive at the lower number. well, still to come here on "cnn newsroom", 25 years until the darkest days in the history of modern china. >> we will go to beijing for the anniversary of the tianamen square crack down. bulldog: [yawning] it's finally morning!

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a vigil is planned in hong kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the brutal crackdown in beijing's tianamen square. it's the only place where the massacre can be publicly remembered is some background on the 1989 crackdown. many students called for democratic reform. it was on june 4th after weeks of demonstrations that soldiers and tanks from the people's liberation army opened fire on the crowd. here's our official toll. estimates of the dead range from the hundreds to maybe thousands. china still forbids public discussion about this incident except apparently in hong kong where that vigil will be getting underway in the coming hours. just as it did in 1989 china's government is defending the crackdown as the right thing to do. listen to these comments made on monday by a foreign ministry

spokesperson. >> translator: the chinese government has long ago reached a conclusion about the political turmoil in china and relevant issues at the end of the 1980s. >> china is also stepping up dissident arrests and sense soaring broadcasts from cnn and others. let's go to cnn where our david mckenzie is standing by with more. david, you've seen firsthand just how sensitive this topic is in beijing when police tracked you and your crew while you were shooting an interview on this very story. what happened? >> reporter: well, rosemary, there certainly is a real attempt to whitewash the history here in china by the communist party. there's no mention today of the anniversary in stayed media. all mention of it online behind the great fire wall has been erased. even sites like linked-in, the international site, are sending users warnings who are posting

articles there. even the international sense is cow tauing to them. we went up to the in 1989 thousands of student activists believed they would change china. and during one euphoric summer in tianamen square, many thought they could. then the communist party ordered the crackdown. soldiers mobilized crushing the democracy movement. trilli >> translator: i was there, said this woman. there were guns and shooting. bang, bang, bang, all night it went. there was fighting everywhere. >> translator: there were bullet

holes right in these walls says this witness. it was a night of fear and for many of shame. everyone thought they should not have opened fire, he says. why did they open fire. >> reporter: back then the party defended its crackdown but now those questions are left unanswered and no one is allowed to speak of the massacre. so before long the police track us and shut us down. there was no, well, you can't come here right now he tells me. democracy movement started long before june 4th and this place is where the discussions started and the ideas started forming for the students' protest. does the date june 4th mean anything to you, we ask? what is it, a national holiday, she says?

no. no, i -- many young people in china have never heard of june 4th, but fresh from graduation this student says some do talk about the massacre in private. because you never know who could be listening, she says. have people forgotten history here? >> no. people have not forgotten in history but in china, people are really tolerant. people know things happen. they focus on the future. >> reporter: in a way future looks like this. throngs of tourists flooding on to tianamen square. it seems like the blackout of history is almost complete. because the party wants to make sure that this never happens again. so the question is is june 4th

even relevant to china and chinese. some dissidents i've spoken to say it is because many of those issues that led to the protests 25 years ago are still bubbling under in chinese society though few would be brave to go out and speak about it in the open. there have been many people arrested in recent weeks in china. the chinese government say there's no such thing as a dissident here, only law breakers. rosemary? >> many thanks to david mckenzie live in beijing. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and we have this breaking news. new video released by the taliban claims to show the handover of u.s. arm bring soldier bowe bergdahl on saturday. these are the first pictures that we have seen of bergdahl since his release. at one point he's shown sitting in the back of a white pickup truck surrounded by other men. other taliban soldiers are on the hill.

a u.s. army black hawk helicopter lands and bergdahl is brought to the chopper. cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of this video. it runs 17 minutes long. matthew chance, he's in germany. he joins us on the phone. matthew, as we take a look at these images of bergdahl, the first time we've actually seen him since this prisoner swap was concluded and he was released by the taliban handed over to the united states, is there anything to be gained looking at bergdahl and his condition to learn more about him? >> reporter: it's tough to say. it's the first glimpse we've had of bergdahl since he was handed over to u.s. authorities on saturday, the 30th of may. u.s. officials say this handover took place at about 10:30 a.m. eastern time in eastern afghanistan near the pakistan

border. the taliban said this took place in eastern afghanistan. they also said that at least 18 armed taliban soldiers were present during this handover. indeed, the video also shows a number of taliban armed afghan militants in the frame as well. so, you know, it corroborates that side of the story. in terms of his health and welfare, he looks pretty gaunt. i think we have to go with what the medical officials say here in southern germany say about that, he has certain medical needs. he's in a stable condition but after five years of being in captivity, he has certain medical needs which require hospitalization. part of his treatment, in fact, is to do with the dietary and nutritional needs, somewhat malnourished it seems during his

nearly five years in captivity with afghan militants and so that's the real focus. the medical effort at the moment along with his psychological state. a great deal of focus being put on sergeant bergdahl's reintegration into society. >> matthew, it's interesting. we've been looking at the video as you've been describing bergdahl's condition and a member of the taliban is holding what looks to be a white flag. it does seem for all intents and purposes like an old-fashioned prisoner exchange that would have happened in any conflict. they bring the prisoner out. he's then taken on a helicopter which is what we're looking at right now. we have been able to confirm that this is, in fact, authentic. it does appear to be the case. what has happened here, matthew, is that the taliban has e-mailed this video, these images out to a number of news organizations and i'm just curious, what do

they hope to achieve by doing that? >> reporter: i think from a taliban pr this is a major coup. they've secured their most highly sought after captives from guantanamo bay. they see this as a public relations picture. i think that's why they've been so up front in putting this exchange to see that, you know, this was a deal that was done with the united states. in terms -- i think bowe bergdahl from here on in, one of the things that's going to be, you know, addressed during his period perhaps here in germany, what the circumstances were of his capture. it's already been established by american officials that he apparently left his station in afghanistan back in 2009 deliberately and of his own

accord. what we don't know yet are the circumstances of how he fell into the hands of the afghan militants. one of the things the investigators are going to be doing now is talking to bowe bergdahl and seeing what his half of the story was so they can establish whether he left his post, what his side of the story and what action, if any, should be taken against him. >> okay. matthew, thank you for that. if you are just joining us, we have this breaking news. this video, images released by the taliban minutes ago showing the moment when bowe bergdahl, the american soldier held for almost five years by the taliban in afghanistan, was handed over to u.s. forces. this happened on saturday. in exchange for bergdahl's freedom, five senior taliban officials were released from guantanamo bay. they were handed over to officials in qatar where they will stay for at least -- for a year, rather, under the

supervision of the qatar government. there is a lot of criticism about this prisoner exchange, about the deal that was done by the obama administration. there will be many questions about this still to come in the days and weeks ahead. we will take a short break here right now on "cnn newsroom." a lot more when we come back. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news.

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and welcome back to "cnn newsroom" just past 3:30 on a wednesday morning on the east coast of the united states. hello, i'm john vause. >> and i'm rosemary church. we want to also welcome back our viewers around the united states and all around the world and check the headlines for you this hour. want to update you on the breaking news. a new video released by the taliban claims to show the handover of u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl on saturday. these are the first pictures of bergdahl that we've seen since

his release. bergdahl is seen surrounded by armed men and a number of other taliban fighters on a nearby hill. cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of the 17-minute video. u.s. president barack obama and ukrainian president-elect are meeting this hour in warsaw, poland. mr. obama will announce support for the government in poland. yesterday mr. obama placed $1 billion to boost security in europe. at least 11 possible tornadoes are reported across the midwestern united states along with heavy rain and large hail. look at that. this was the scene in nebraska as baseball size hail fell tuesday afternoon. a local car dealership says more than 4,000 cars were badly damaged. president obama will head to brussels

remember last summer's g-8? who could forget? no repeat this year. putin's off the guest list. uninvited over disputes caused by his backing of separatist rebels in this year's country, ukraine. >> reporter: this summer it was planned for russia and sochi, home of the 2014 winter olympics to be hosted by putin. not so now. the venue is brussels, a g-8 minus one. a g-7. so what can we expect? more ukraine. obama wants his g-7 allies to be ready to amp up economic sanctions on russia if putin amps up his interference in

ukraine and a plan b for european energy supplies. help break their dependence on russian gas follows up on a g-7 energy ministers meeting last month in rome and russia's recent gas deal with china. iran, too, will be on the agenda. keeping europeans united behind obama's strategy of talks and sanctions. then there is syria. u.s. and europe hope putin would be part of the solution for peace. after ukraine, not so much. but despite being frozen out of the g 7, barely is it over and putin's back on the international guest list. on the beaches of norman did i the 70th d day anniversary, he'll be just feet from obama commemorating europe's bloodiest war as tensions between the two cloud europe's horizons.

nic robertson, cnn, brussels, belgium. fierce lightning is reported in the city of slovyensk of the ukraine. >> several deaths since the assault was launched monday. rebels claimed to have shot down a military helicopter last week killing 14 government troops. >> ukraine has stepped up its defense in eastern ukraine. moscow denies claims by kiev that it's fueling the violence by allowing fighters into the ukraine to side with the rebels. meantime, ukraine's government is denying an airstrike caused destruction at a building held by pro russian separatists in luhansk. >> but the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. diana magnay went to the scene of the attack. >> reporter: a bloody aftermath in the heart of luhansk. five women killed, three men officials say. not fighters necessarily, more

pa passers by. no chance against the sudden and powerful onslaught. this was the moment of impact. separatists blame the ukrainian air force. the kiev government saying instead that a rebel missile had misfired. a munitions expert with cnn in luhansk says damage to the tops of the trees in the square next to the building strongly indicate fire through the air. the ukrainians indicate this had nothing to do with a military aircraft which was circling overhead from the time of the attack but from what we can tell, this looks like very heavy cannon fire from an aircraft scraping through this square. you can see there are a dozen or so creases like this coming straight through this square and up the building. if this ws an attempt by the ukrainian air force to hit the separatist headquarters here, then it was a very accurate

strike. the prime minister of the self-declared people's republic of luhansk say they hope it springs them into action. we appeal to russia to send us peace keepers. i think after the whole world sees what happens in the center of our town, they'll send them quicker. the ukrainians said the plane was one of several lending support to a border guard base on the outskirts of town which had come under attack. tuesday when we visited there was an eerie quiet. border guards in charge of patrolling hundreds of miles of ukraine's border with russia hiding inside their bullet sprayed base. pro russian sympathizers who say they're locals loitering just around the corner cradling brand-new weapons. they call this an antiterror operation but that's wrong says oleg. he won't give us his last name. when they use the air force

against innocent people, that's wrong. locals dividing themselves between friend and foe. in this deeply contested land. diana magnay, cnn, luhansk, ukraine. we'll take a short break right now but coming up, the former u.s. ambassador to syria resigned his post in frustration. >> i was no longer in a position where i felt i could defend the american policy. we have been unable to address either the root causes of the conflict and we have a growing extremism threat. >> after the break what he says the u.s. is doing wrong in syria.

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welcome back. results are now back in after last week's presidential election in egypt. >> abdel fattah el sisi appears to be the winner. he says everyone will have to help stabilize the country. >> people in tahrir square looked on. el sisi will take the oath of office on sunday. >> in syria, no doubt about who will win this presidential election. >> the incumbent bashar al assad is expected to declare victory over two little known

challengers. they say it's impossible to hold fair elections amid the civil war. >> reporter: bloody election day in syria. barrel bombs raining down from syrian government war planes, even as voters tried to cast their balance rots. -- ballots. and yet despite the bloody arithmetic of syria's three-year-old civil war, 150,000 people killed, 3 million refugees, syrian president bashar al assad is almost guaranteed a resounding victory in an election widely viewed as a sham. in a stunning criticism of the white house years after president obama said assad's days were numbered, the former u.s. ambassador to syria told christiana amanpour the u.s. shares the blame. >> i was no longer in a position where i felt i could defend the american policy. we have been unable to address either the root causes of the

conflict in terms of the fighting on the ground and the violence on the ground and we have a growing extremism threat and there really is nothing we can point to that's been very successful in our policy. >> reporter: syria's collapse now directly threatens the u.s., a country a haven for terrorists planning attacks against the american homeland. >> this is not rocket science. in a place where there is no government control, terrorist groups can infiltrate in and set up places where they can operate freely, and we warned this would happen in syria and it has. >> reporter: today the state department acknowledged the administration's deep frustration. >> the president was clear in his speech last week, we've all been clear, that we're frustrated by the situation in syria. you heard the president at west point say we're going to increase our support to the modern opposition because we know more needs to be done. no one working on this issue can

look at the situation on the ground. look at today. the photos, disgusting photos of president assad voting acting like this is a re-election. nobody working on it is happy. >> reporter: in a defiant protest, residents of aleppo dropped mock votes in a make shift ballot box to withdraw the citizenship of president assad. too often though this has been assad's response to his detractors. infrared surveillance video obtained exclusively by cnn shows government bombardment of a syrian village raining fire from the sky, just one more attack to a seemingly endless war. >> and as jim reports, there is a disconnect between the raging civil war and the government's propaganda there. >> yes. look at this image from the first lady's official facebook page perhaps capturing how surreal that it is, that it's a smiling bashar al assad posing

for a selfie at a polling station. we should say especially in damascus assad should have his supporters. without them he wouldn't be able to withstand everything he has. >> the voting is only taking place in the government areas. all right. still ahead here on "cnn newsroom", managing unruly behavior in the skies. >> they're hurting me. i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> pilots say disruptive passengers can pose a risk. tell you how authorities are now taking action. also, handle with care. a new report says if you get a stomach virus, blame a restaurant worker.

and updating now on our breaking news. there is a new video released by the taliban claiming to show the handover of bowe bergdahl handed

over on saturday. >> these are the first pictures of bergdahl we've seen since his release. bergdahl is seen in a white pickup truck surrounded by a number of men and other taliban fighters on a nearby hill. he's handed over to u.s. forces in a black hawk helicopter. cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of the 17-minute video. >> certainly seems pretty authentic. >> it does, doesn't it? >> yes. new report from the u.s. centers of disease control says the food industry can try harder to stop food poisoning. >> yeah. the report says 20 million people fall sick every year due to the neurovirus or the stomach bug. the cdc says infected food workers are mostly to blame. almost one in five food services staff go to work while they think many are in fear of their jobs. >> sick workers are responsible for 70% of neurovirus outbreaks,

many are nonfood born. it's also common in long-term care facilities including nursing homes and hospices. flying is pretty stressful, but sometimes there are passengers who travel not very well at all. >> some say that could be dangerous for everyone on board. aviation correspondent rene marsh reports on how authorities plan to manage unruliness in the skies. >> please help me! please help me! >> reporter: disruptive passengers in the air. >> ow. >> reporter: in 2013, 8,000 cases of unruly flyers. some serenading, others, shall we say, overserved. but they're not just a nuisance. pilots say they can pose a risk. >> a disruptive passenger, you want to keep it from becoming dangerous. you want to really nip it in the bud early on and the crew member -- the cockpit always has the alternative available to

them to divert if necessary to the closest, nearest suitable airport. >> reporter: the international air transport association meeting in qatar now wants governments to play a bigger role in taming unruly passengers. the industry group supports a u.n. organization's call for increased airline training to prevent or manage disruptions. concessi concessionaires asking airport bars to watch for drunk passengers and showing the consequences of unruly behavior. >> all of a sudden we heard a woman scream in the back. >> reporter: the scares range from passengers trying to open doors in flight. >> he was going to do bad things to the plane in flight. it was scary. >> reporter: to attacks on passengers. mental problems. >> i'm dead. i'm dead. i'm dead. >> reporter: and frustration with rules. >> he would not extinguish his

cigarette and became belligerent. >> reporter: todd lemacher saw several disruptive passengers each year. >> a customer who was essentially delusional. nothing nefarious. had tried to storm the cockpit. >> reporter: shortly after 911 he had to stop a passenger trying to break down the cockpit door. >> that's the point we did restrain her to her seat gently so she couldn't get up, couldn't be harmful to herself or another customer. >> reporter: crew members are trained how to deal with out of control passengers. >> i can't breathe! >> reporter: ayata believes rules need to be standardized across airlines and governments. while it's worth noting although the industry group is calling for specific steps to be taken to tackle the problem, there is no guarantee this will be adopted by airlines as a standard. rene marsh, cnn, washington. >> i like it when they gaffer

tape them to the seat. >> when you're flying with your friends. >> pretty much. apparently when they divert those flights it can cost up to $200,000 to a flight. >> it's pretty annoying to everyone else on board. this is interesting, too. a florida judge and a public defender could lose their jobs over a courtroom argument that got out of hand. >> they say an attorney was being disrespectful to a judge. this is what happened. >> if i had a rock i would throw it at you. >> stop pissing me off. i'll take care of it. i don't need your help. >> i'm a public defender. i have a right to be here. >> i said sit down. if you want to fight, let's go out back and i'll just [ bleep ]. >> let's go. >> you want to [ bleep ] me. >> okay. we'll leave it to your imagination there. if you couldn't tell what happened, the attorney and judge actually stepped into the hallway where the judge punched

the attorney in the head. a sheriff's deputy had to break it up. >> the attorney did not return to the courtroom. the judge, however, was greeted by a round of applause. >> both pretty out of line. >> grow up. >> all right. absolutely. let's check the weather. tropical storm is pounding mexico with flooding rain. >> okay. so where is it headed? how much rain will there be? alexandra steel has all the answers on that, hey, alex. >> this is the second tropical storm of the season in the eastern pacific. it is boris. they said hide from the wind but run from the water. water is the biggest killer, believe it or not, not the wind with tropical storms and hurricanes. this one is a perfect example of that. here comes all the moisture and there are tropical storm warnings from celina cruise all the way to the quatemala border. it's going to be a dump of rain.

winds will extend, tropical force winds, about 90 miles from the center. really how much rain is really the deal. 20 inches potentially, even up to 30 inches of rain in the highest elevations with this. so certainly all eyes on this as this moves north into the gulf of mexico. also been watching a lot of rain, too, flash flooding here in the united states. a big deal. we've seen tornadoes, hail the size of golf balls, of soft balls, and even the size of a dvd. 11 reports of tornadoes thus far with the storm system through today into tonight. it will move forward and bring some severe weather overnight and into tomorrow. strong wind and incredible amount of wind. 160 kilometer per hour wind gusts. the strongest we've seen thus far. again, incredibly strong hail. it is all moving to the eastern seaboard as we get to tonight, overnight and here is where we will see it tomorrow morning as well. it's moving in through indiana and illinois. not out of the woods with this

one. >> okay. >> absolutely. thanks so much. want to move to sweden? >> absolutely. >> how would you like to work just six hours a day? >> officials in one swedish town are trying it out, this six-hour workday idea this summer. they're hoping to prove that a shorter day actually leads to more efficient and very, very happy employees. it could spread across the country if it works. >> worth trying out, don't you think? some critics are concerned because it would mean a big reduction in annual working hours, of course. a six-hour workday adds up to 1300 work hours per year. here's how that compares to other parts of the world. employees in mexico work the most, more than 2200 hours a year on average. people spend the fewest hours of work in the netherlands. another place to go where many work four day weeks. how about that? >> sounds very nice. >> okay. worth trying it out. finally, this is not what they mean by taking the plunge, but things did get off to a wet

start at a wedding in the u.s. state of minnesota. >> oh. >> oh, my god! oh, my god. oh, my god. apparently all docks are not the best place to take wedding pictures as dan and jackie anderson found out along with their party. >> no one was hurt and apparently the wedding was just delayed by maybe ten minutes. >> there you go. >> there she is. >> there was a similar one not long ago. >> happens a lot. too many people in the wedding party. >> note to self -- >> too much wedding cake. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm john vause. "early start" is up next for our viewers in the united states. for everyone else, stay with us "cnn news center is next." is ne. . .

breaking news this morning. dramatic, new video, cameras capturing the first moments of freedom for sergeant bowe bergdahl. these images released by the taliban in a prisoner swap. we're breaking down the new video, the mysterious, new details on how bergdahl was captured in the first place and the growing backlash to how president obama handled the controversial deal. live, team coverage of this breaking story begins right now. good morning. welcome to "early start," everyone. i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. great to see you. it's wednesday, june 4th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. we do begin with this video just in to cnn. it is really incredible to look