it is peak hurricane season in the atlantic with a storm set to make landfall in the u.s. this week. we will have the latest on hurricane florence. plus, serena williams gets hit with a hefty fine after a dramatic final, but the fine could turn out to be worth it for women in tennis. and too close to call. sweden's election rests on a knife edge as a party with neo-nazi roots splits the vote. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church. this is cnn newsroom.

a dangerous hurricane is on a collision course with the southeastern u.s. coast. hurricane florence is just days away from making landfall and it's projected to become a brutal category 4 storm in that time. several states on the east coast are preparing for the worst with people stocking up on food, water, generators and batteries. this super market in north carolina ran out of nearly everything as people scrambled to stay ahead of the storm. so, let's turn now to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who has been watching this very, very closely. and this is the concern. these, these hurricanes, very unpredictable, but everyone seems to agree pretty much on the general direction here. >> yeah, you know, unfortunately that seems to be the case with florence. environment in the atmosphere is not shifting to allow the system

to shift with it. we think this will be poise today impact areas by the carolinas later in the week. there is an eye trying to form in this feature. frankly this is the last time you'll see a storm as florence, this ragged, this unorganized until after it makes landfall because we believe that strengthening and rapid intensification is likely over the next couple of days. when you take a look, the perspective is such here with the system really going over a very warm bodies of water and crossing the gulf stream where frankly you push up close to 09 degrees fahrenheit, the storm has everything going for it with very little environmental wind shear, very warm waters to work with, and then kind of tapping off with the gulfstream there right before it makes landfall thursday afternoon. at this point it looks to be the most likely scenario. model guidance want to push in towards portions of north carolina. you notice much of this puts parts of south carolina, north carolina even areas around del mar in the risk zone here. the last time we had a major hurricane impact the carolinas was hugo back in 1989. so tens of millions of people

have really gone decades since they've seen a storm of this magnitude approach land. and really what becomes most concerning is the little progression after it makes landfall as that same pattern that essentially causes it to move in towards regions around the eastern area of north carolina, causes it also to stall or slow down. so notice the progression, pretty wide here from wednesday into thursday. very little movement from thursday and then landfall by friday afternoon there. so rainfall amounts can be staggering across the region. some areas several months' worth of rainfall possible, and you work your way inland. condition is in place to produce potentially 15 or more inches of rain. so certainly a dangerous scenario, rosemary, and the storm that has potential to cause significant damage along the coast with additional damage with all of the rain that has in store later this week. >> all right, thank you so much for keeping a very close eye on that. you will continue to do that. many thanks, pedron. >> thank you. >> well, protesters took to the

streets across russia sunday. they are furious about a government plan to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age. police responded to the rallies by cracking down. a monitoring group says more than a thousand people were detained. backers of opposition leader ale ale alexi novalni, and supporters of putin are angry about the pension plan. we turn to matthew chance live from moscow. this is strange for president putin who is used to a high approval rating and a door asi -- adoration from the people. >> you're right, rosemary, this is an unusual situation in russia. while protests themselves aren't

unusual, an election of valni who rose is relatively successful in rallying people on the issue of corruption, particularly across the country. what's different about these protests is it's not just the normal, if you like, opposition figures who criticize the kremlin. but it's people who are traditional core putin supporters as well. this retirement age issue, that's what it's all about, remember, has really cut across the political divide. and that's what's most concerning for the kremlin. you are seeing ordinary russian workers that are coming out onto the streets, voicing their anger against these proposals to move the retirement age for men to 65, from 60. and for women from 55 to 60. the big problem for men, of course, is the average life expectancy in this country is just between 66 and 67. just under 67. and so they fear they won't even

make retirement in many instances. and that's one of the reasons that there is so much anger and despair. but you're right, it's deeply concerning. already vladimir putin has intervened politically and he's appeared in a televised address to soften the blow of the pension reforms. he reduced the age at which women would get a pension, would retire, but he left the male retirement age at the proposed 65. it is every possibility he could intervene again, of course, if these protests gain momentum. but at the moment, i don't think we're at this stage, though a lot of people arrested, a thousand people according to independent military group around the country. we're still not at the level, i don't think, where the actual rule of vladimir putin, his grip on power is being seriously challenged, rosemary. >> right. we'll continue to watch these protests. many thanks to matthew chance joining us live from moscow, just after 10:00 in the morning. appreciate that.

well, the white house is still reeling from the anonymous op-ed that described an administration in chaos and a resistance to president trump's actions. top officials have denied writing it, and some are calling for the author's resignation and possible prosecution. ryan nobles reports on the hunt for who is responsible. >> reporter: it's been a relatively quiet weekend here at the white house, but there's no doubt that the president and his staff are still furiously trying to determine who is the author of this op-ed that was in "the new york times" that claimed there was a person working within the administration that was part of the resistance. the president himself is said to be obsessed with this search and in addition to rooting out who exactly may be behind the op-ed, they are also working to destroy that person's credibility before their identity is ever even revealed. both vice-president mike pence and kellyanne conway, his senior advisor, going on the sunday morning talk shows claiming this person is essentially a traitor, someone that is working to

destroy this administration from within. kellyanne conway taking it even a stipulate further, suggesting that the media may be partially to blame. listen to what she told jake tapper a. >> what does concern me, though, jake apart from what the president and others said, the media talking about facts, transparency, authority, the authoritativeness to this anonymous writer was imbued automatically because of the content. as long as the message is anti-trump it seems, the mess he enjerry lewis has credibility. that should concern everyone. i'm with the vice-president on this. he said the person should resign, if the person truly is an appointee who has taken an oath to the constitution. >> and, of course, the big question going into this week is just what lengths will the white house go to to attempt to try and figure out who this person is. the vice-president suggesting over the weekend that perhaps this person is guilty of some sort of a crime. so does that mean the department of justice gets involved? the president has suggested that attorney general jeff sessions

should look into this. so far the department of justice has said that it won't comment on this situation. ryan nobles, cnn, at the white house. >> and for more on this we are joined by natasha lynn stat, a professor of government at the university of essex. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> so, the trump administration has been thrown into chaos as a result of "the new york times" op-ed in a witch-hunt to find the author. so let's just listen to vice-president mike pence to hear just how far that hunt may go. >> should all top officials take a lie detector test and would you agree to take one? >> i would agree to take it in a heartbeat and would submit to any review the administration wanted to do. >> do you think the administration should do that? >> look, that would be a decision for the president. >> so, how likely is it, do you

think, that the president would subject senior officials within his own administration to lie detector tests? and if he does that, what might it signal and what are the optics there? >> well, i wouldn't be surprised by anything that could happen here. i think this whole op-ed piece has really upset trump to the point where he's just obsessed with finding out who did it. he tends to be a very paranoid individual as is. so he could say we're going to have lie detector tests, maybe other types of loyalty tests to prove -- that the people that surround him have to prove that they are incredibly loyal to him. but he's sort of conflating something here that this is what happens in authoritarian regimes. this is not really supposed to be about loyalty to the regime or the leader. it's supposed to be about loyalty to the country. and so it's kind of not shocking, though, that he is demanding such high level of loyalty and it's probably going to create chaos in the administration as more people are scrambling to prove they are

truly loyal to him. >> this is what senior trump aide kellyanne conway had to say about the op-ed. let's just bring that up. >> what really was the motivation to -- if the motivation is what they state it is in that ridiculous op-ed, they failed miserably. they missed the mark completely. i think the motivation was to sow discord and create chaos and i refuse to be a part of that. >> motivation is a big factor here, isn't it? why, why do you think the author wrote this op-ed? was it to create chaos as kellyanne conway suggests, or was it to assure voters there were adults in the room to stop the president from making some catastrophic mistake? and if that was the motivation, what possible purpose does it serve to reveal it instead of quietly continuing to do that? >> right. i mean, we could speculate about a lot of different things. in the end, whether it was intended or unintended, it has created chaos. i do think that the motivation

was probably to try to convince voters, reassure voters for the upcoming midterm elections that there are adults in the room, that there are adults steering the ship correctly, that all of the positive things that have taken place from the republican standpoint have been due to the people that are surrounding trump, not due to trump himself. and so they are probably trying to communicate to voters, don't not vote for republicans in the midterm elections just because you think that trump is maybe inadequate or not doing a particularly good job. but in terms of what the consequence have been, i mean, it's been just incredibly chaotic in the administration even more so than normal because there is basically a rich hunt going on trying to figure out who possibly wrote this. and we've seen it's really put the administration in a further tail spin. >> yeah, and of course, some trump supporters are even going so far as to suggest who they think is responsible for writing

this op-ed. why would they do that? who do you think wrote the op-ed? >> well, i think it's pretty normal for people to try to figure out who they think did it, that there was someone in the administration that didn't like trump, something along those lines. i mean, based on what happened with the woodward book, it appears to be -- that there are a lot of people in administration that don't think highly of president trump, that think he is incompetent. in terms of who i think wrote it, they have sort of narrowed it down to probably someone in national security. i think the tone of the op-ed shows that it's someone who feels that trump is placing the country in danger in terms of national security. and so i had heard a rumor that it could have been the director of national intelligence dan coats. it could have been another high member of the cabinet. i don't think it is mike pence, even though i think there were some words in there, like lode star to distract or point a finger at him. but my guess is it's someone at

high-level national security position. >> this is the problem, of course. there is going to be all this finger pointing, and that can be very demoralizing, causal sorts of problems in itself. and, of course, the op-ed came a day after parts of bob woodward's book were made public. you made reference to that. this is what the author had to say on cbs "sunday morning." >> you look at the operation of this white house and you have to say, let's hope to god we don't have a crisis. people who work for him are worried that he will sign things or give orders that threaten the national security or the financial security of the country, or the world. >> and, of course, the op-ed and woodward's book do appear to tell similar stories, don't they, of the trump administration?

how likely was it that there was some form of coordination on the part of the op-ed author and how concerned should we all be when we look at some of those quotes from the book and, of course, what was laid out in the op-ed? >> well, "the new york times" seemed to be claiming that this was just something that was released, not a particular time point, but because the op-ed piece was ready to go. so that would indicate they are saying that there isn't any kind of coordination. but it is very interesting that both of these pieces, both the woodward book and the op-ed piece are revealing the same types of things about the trump administration. that people in the administration are doing something that is unheard of. they are going around the president, they are circumventing him to ensure that he doesn't sign papers, that he doesn't make bad decisions. and both of these revelations are just incredibly startling. >> natasha lindstadt, thank you so much for your a nal skpis perspective. we do appreciate it. >> thank you.

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welcome back, everyone. well, north korean leader kim jong-un wants to send a message to the world and the united states. that message? less emphasis on the nuclear threat and more on future prosperity. join celebrations of the country's 70 th anniversary, north korea showed off its might but not its long-range missiles. instead there were messages on the economy and diplomacy. the new theme wasn't lost on u.s. president donald trump who tweeted this. thank you to chairman kim. we will both prove everyone wrong. there is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other. well, our paula hancocks is following the story from seoul and joins us now live. paula, you covered the mass

games in 2013. talk to us about the major differences that you see five years later and how significant is the absence of long-range missiles in that celebration? >> reporter: well, rosemary, certainly from the mass games point of view, it was very different five years ago when i was in pyongyang. it was definitely a military message. at that point, of course, it wasn't the 70th an verizon wirelessery of the founding of the nation like this time around. then it was the end of the korean war, a day which north korea calls victory day as they tell their people they won that war. it was inevitably going to be a much more military-focused event. it was focused on the missile, the nuclear capabilities that north korea was building up that kim jong-un is staking his credibility on at that point. but it was a very different situation from the images you can see from the mass games, the fact that it was focused more on the economy. so, the message has completely changed. and the parade itself, the fact

there were no icbms, these inter-continental ballistic missile north korea says can hit the united states. the fact there were no images or suggestions of the nuclear capabilities of north korea is significant as well. if they had been included, they would have been seen as provocative. the fact they haven't been is certainly going to be shown as another indication that pyongyang is saying that it wants to focus on the economy and has moved beyond this program, which it believes to be in a suitable state to leave it at. but what we are also seeing is in these mass games the fact that the north and south korean leaders meeting, kim jong-un meeting moon jae-in in april, that was beamed on large projectors within this stadium and there was applause when those images were seen of kim jong-un and moon jae-in shaking hands. this was just over a week now before the next meeting between these two leaders. certainly that was a significant moment as well and one that the

south korean government has welcomed, saying they're happy to see that this was one of the images. >> yes, we shall see if it all stays on track. our paula hancocks reporting live in seoul, south korea, which is nearly 4:30 in the afternoon. we appreciate that. well, the chief executive of u.s. multi-media giant cbs has resigned. les moonves is facing multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, which he denies. our cnn's brian stelter reports. the departure of moonves is one of the most significant moments yet of the me too movement. >> reporter: there has not been one like this. les moonves is the first 500 fortune ceo to leave his post in the year of me too. it's a remarkable turn of events when the first allegations came out, he vowed to fight on. back then in late july when ronan farrow's reporting came out, the cbs board basically

stood by moonves. he wasn't suspended. he was not forced to step down. instead, two law firms were hired to investigate the allegations. and all of this was going on amid a corporate tug-of-war between moonves and the controlling shareholder of cbs shari redstone. now fast forward six weeks. farrow heard from more women, more accusers who were concerned that cbs was not taking action, was not holding moonves accountable. farrow published a new story on sunday morning on the new yorker website. just within a few hours, moonves was out. now, the caveat here, the complication is that the negotiations for him to leave were already underway at that point, but it seems clear that the new harassment allegations which also included allegations of assault, which were even more disturbing than the first set of allegations, all of that a major factor in this sunday night announcement. moonves is one of the most powerful men in tv, one of the highest paid executives in the media business. so this is leaving a lot of

aftershocks. there are going to be developments for days to come, including about how much moonves is going to be paid on the way out the door. normally he would have been paid well over $100 million if he had just been forced out one day. but because of the allegations against him, it's going to be a much more complicated and legal conversation. now, moonves has admit today some mistakes in his past, but he denies ever abusing his power and he denies what he calls the appalling accusations of assault, of force i believe sib detailed in the new yorker sunday. all of this happening at a time of dramatic change in the broadcast business, and now cbs moves into a new era without moonves in charge of the company. much more to come on this, but it is a climatic moment in the me too movement. brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> serena williams is fighting back against what she says is sexism and double standards in the tennis world. the u.s. open has fined which

will jams $17,000 for three code violations during the women's singles final on saturday. the umpire issued warnings and docked points against williams for receiving illegal coaching, smashing her racket, and calling him a thief. williams later called the rulings unfair and argued that men do and say far worse on the court without punishment. williams lost the title match to japan's naomi osaka. well, on the men's side, novak djokovic collected his third u.s. open crown sunday with a win in straight sets over argentina's juan martin del potro. it gave him his 14th grand slam title overall. that puts him in a tie with american pete sampras trailing only his two contemporaries and

greatest rivals roger federer and rafael nadal. the u.s. is weeks away from critical midterm elections and with scathing accounts of white house dysfunction in the headlines. we will look at the potential for a power shift in congress. back with that in just a moment.

welcome back, everyone. i'm rosemary church. let's update you now on the main stories we've been following this hour. people along the u.s. east coast are stocking up on emergency supplies ahead of hurricane florence. the storm is expected to grow to a powerful category 4 before it makes landfall. if it stays on its current

track, that will be on thursday or friday. more than a thousand people were detained in russia sunday amid nationwide protests against pension reform. that's according to a monitoring group. images appear to show a child and a pensioner being grabbed by police. many russians, even backers of president vladimir putin are upset about plans to raise the retirement age. police in paris have arrested a man they say stabbed seven people. four are critically injured according to local media. bystanders started chasing the man, throwing game balls at him. he then reportedly threw an iron bar back at them. officers eventually caught up with him. one official tells cnn this does not appear to be terror related. while the white house works to quash reports of chaos in the trump administration, both republicans and democrats are gearing up for november's midterm elections.

now less than two months away, they are being viewed as a pivotal referendum on president trump's leadership. tom foreman explains how much is at stake. >> reporter: presidents are elected every four years in this country and halfway through each term comes the midterm elections. what that means is in the u.s. house of representatives, all 435 seats are up for grabs, and about a third of the 100 seats in the u.s. senate are, too. right now the republicans are in charge of both chambers, and there are a lot of complicated equations about how the democrats might be able to take back control in one or boeingth them. but here's all you ream i need to know. on the house side if the democrats can flip 23 seats in their favor, they would take charge. and on the senate side, if they could net two more seats, they would be in charge there, too. but the democrats are defending so many of their own on that

side, the math seems pretty challenging. mid terms are seen as referendums on the president, and this one has been particularly polarizing. so watch for potential flips in areas where democrats are up in arms, where republicans have weak majorities and importantly where independents are frustrated with the white house. with enough seats flipped, big changes could come. start with legislation on the house side. republican hopes for new immigration laws or trade deals or welfare reform, or social security reform, or even new tax laws could all come to a stop dependent on democratic support to get them going again. and if by chance the democrats could flip the senate, that could play havoc with the administration's plans for stacking the judiciary. right now the trump administration has been marching conservative justices on to benches across this country, but for the supreme court on down

that's correct could come that could come to a screeching halt unless they were willing to make them more moderate voices democrats could support. of course the president could have much bigger problems if the democrats seize either chamber. they could reinvigorate all sorts of investigations into him and his cabinet. subpoenaing witnesses, compelling testimony into allegations of election meddling and of conflicts of interest and possible misuse of tax money, sexual improprieties. controversial policies and so much more. they may not be able to prove anything. just like they might not have the bigger question of impeachment and prove anything there and get a conviction. but they can make it very humiliating and time consuming for the president. and these elections could determine whether any or all of that comes to pass. >> our tom foreman reporting there. another story we're watching closely, a right wing party with neo-nazi roots is set to become a bigger political force in

sweden, one of the world's most liberal countries. the anti-migrant sweden democrats did not manage to become sweden's second largest party, but they secured their best results ever. the far-right party could also end up being the king maker as the two centrist coalitions are separated by less than half a percentage point. and our senior international correspondent atika shubert joins us live from stockholm with more on this. atika, while the outcome of this election too close to call at this point, what's behind sweden's surge in support for the far-right? and what impact will that right wing party have on who takes power? >> reporter: well, what's clear is that the sweden democrats have really split the vote. i mean, this is what swedes are waking up to this morning. the headline says dead heat, has the prime minister and his would-be rival here.

and what this shows is that it's really been tough for the prime minister. this is what the other half of the story is, the loss of the social democrats' votes. that's what this headline says. voters punish the prime minister. is he going to be able to keep on the government. the key really is with that sweden democrats' vote. what they did was during the campaign, they really appealed to the concern of swedish voters, that the welfare state they're so proud of, that has been so generous to swedes and immigrants alike is under threat. we went to the second largest city and we watched him campaign. he's -- the leader of the swedish democrats is a charismatic speaker and he talked about taking back control of the country. talked about surge in crime rates in urban areas, particularly in immigrant neighborhoods. and his overwhelming message was, no more immigrants to sweden. so he really tapped into a fear. and it did get him about 18% of

the vote. but the other flip side of the story is that nearly 80% of the r of swedish voters didn't want the democrats. what they can't decide on is who should be leading their way of the country and it's not clear that the current prime minister is going to be able to hang onto that. >> so how is this likely to play out? what are the possible scenarios here? >> reporter: well, the reality is it is too close to call, so we're going to have to wait until wednesday when the official vote count is in and that's when we'll finally be able to see a break down of exactly who gets what seats, which parties get what. now, there's probably already some back door negotiations happening right now, but the key is going to be with the prime minister. he's been called upon to resign. he has refused last night. he said he would remain as prime minister and he was confident of forming a new government, but it's not clear he has the votes at this point. >> many thanks to our atika shubert joining us live from

stockholm where it is nearly 9:40 in the morning. thank you so much. with just over six months until brexit, britain's former foreign secretary boris johnson, is giving some strong indications that he wants prime minister theresa may's job. in the tabloid newspaper, the mail on sunday, johnson blasted mrs. may's handling of brexit negotiations. he writes, the prime minister has, quote, wrapped a suicide vest around the british constitution and handed the detonator to the european union's chief brexit negotiator michelle. some of johnson's backers reportedly are working to trigger a no confidence vote against mrs. may in parliament. well, a ground offensive still hasn't kicked off in syria's idlib province. that's according to a government official. the area is the country's last major opposition strong hold. the official says government and russian war planes are targeted

al qaeda linked fighters with surgical strikes, but at home the rescue groups says a toddler was among 27 people killed since tuesday. and for more, cnn is in the capital damascus. he joins us live now. fred, what more are you learning about what's happening on the ground there in idlib province? >> reporter: yeah, that's certainly what everybody here in syria is looking algt rigt righ rosemary. things we've seen over the week, apparently there have been a lot of airstrikes that have gone on in the southern fringe of idlib province. it is unclear whether that is in preparation for some sort of ground offensive that might happen or whether there are other reasons. for instance, what that syrian official told us, that they are conducting airstrikes there against some of the hard line islamist groups. we have seen over the course, i would say since that summit took place between the iranians, the turks and the russians, that there has been a big expansion of those airstrikes, especially

in the southern area of idlib province. it really seems as though that area is the one that is being pounded. you just mentioned some of the opposition groups and white helmets as well are saying some of these strikes have been hitting some civilian facilities including hospitals as well. so far we haven't gotten any comment from the russians or the syrians about that, but certainly we do see that the expansion of airstrikes has been continued since friday. there were more airstrikes going on friday than sunday. it was expanded even more than that. whether or not that is a prelude to that or other reasons for that, something we're going to have to wait and see. it is something that concerns people here in syria and concerns the international community as well, rosemary. >> fred, these airstrikes come a day after russia, iran and turkey failed to agree on a cease-fire the cease-fire at their summit in tehran. what is the next move here? >> reporter: yeah, that's when the airstrikes started

escalating. you're absolutely right. there were airstrikes on idlib province before that as well but you saw an uptick in those air strikes over the weekend, especially on saturday is when they started getting a lot more than they had been before. whether or not that means that perhaps the summit in tehran was something that might have failed, whether leaders could not come to agreement, that is up in the air. hoifr, the fact that syrian officials are telling us that so far the ground offensive, the real offensive on idlib province has not started, that certainly seems to indicate negotiations are going on between the sides. the powers backing either side, the turks on one side and the russians on the other side, between the syrian government and possibly some of the rebel organizations as well. so we're going to wait and see what comes out of that. it certainly seems as though there are still talks going on on the ground. at the same time the syrian government very much gearing up and ready to start an offensive any time, rosemary. >> all right. many thanks to our fred platt

kin bringing us a live report from the syrian capital damascus where it is nearly 10:45 in the morning. again, many thanks. a police shooting of an african-american man in dallas is renewing the conversation on the use of deadly force. after a public outcry, this police officer has been arrested and charged. she was off-duty when she entered her neighbor's apartment where she allegedly shot and killed 26-year-old botham jean. authorities say the officer maintains she entered the victim's apartment in the mistaken belief it was her own and shot him because she thought he was an intruder. the officer has been released after posting a bond of $300,000. well, coming up after this short break, one of china's rich est and most successful business leaders calls it a day. we will take a look at what jack ma might do next. we're back in just a moment.

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welcome back, everyone. well, the co-founder and executive chairman of the chinese e-commerce giant ali baba is stepping down. jack ma will step down one year from now and be replaced by current ceo daniel zhang. matt rivers looks at how far ma has come and where he might go from here. >> reporter: jack ma, one of china's rich est men, a giant in tech, a man who has stood side by side with presidents, loves kung fu nafls, always has, he said they teach valuable lessons. >> whatever you want to be, a great people, a great company, you have to work very hard. you have to suffer a lot of, you know, terrible things before you be a hero.

it's spiritual. think out of box. you have to think out of box to win. >> reporter: and win he has. it's been 19 years since he cofounded alibaba and the company that began in the hung jo china apartment has grown into one of the largest internet companies in the world. in 2014 alibaba's $25 billion ipo was then the largest in u.s. history. and financial, the company's finance subsidiary has invested billions of dollars in companies around the globe. alibaba's e-commerce sites have fundamentally changed the way hundreds of millions of people shop in china and its mobile payment platform revolutionized how people pay for what they buy. all the while, ma has arguably become the most public face of china's tech boom, a charismatic, often inspiring figure for ordinary people, nicknamed papa ma on chinese internet. ma has faced his share of criticism, of course, critics his company merely copied ebay

and thrived only because the communist party wanted it to. china's protectionist party made sure it had no competition making the rise not only easier but in some ways inevitable. there is some truth there, but no matter the view, the facts remain. alibaba is a juggernaut and its leader is routinely mentioned in the same sentence in other deities of tech, like jobs, gates. ma says life is about more than a job. >> can you imagine yourself sitting back relaxing? >> no. i have education, environment and going around the meeting the entrepreneurs. there are a lot of things. life is so fun. never, ever focus on one thing. we come to this world, not to work, we come to this world to enjoy life. this is what i believe. >> reporter: ma has said he wants to focus more on philanthropy.

the former english teacher has always focused on improving education in china. and as for his company, widely considered to have a deep management pool, he told cnn in 2016 that whenever he does step down, it will be in good hands. >> tomorrow is more difficult. the day after tomorrow is beautiful, but most people die tomorrow evening. so we have to realize that good things can never be achieved easily. life is not about only about alibaba. i have run my first row, first 100 meters. i should give this to the next generation. >> reporter: matt rivers, cnn, beijing. >> ahead of an emotional 9/11 anniversary, a missing piece of the new york city subway is finally restored. we'll have the details for you after this short break. plus, a sobering thought for fans of australian wine. how a drought is impacting both the quantity and quality of the country's grape harvest. we're back with that in just a

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40 chimes representing 40 fallen people ring out at a new 9/11 memorial in pennsylvania. the 93-foot tower of voices was unveiled sunday. the chimes honor the passengers and crew who died when the high-jacked flight 93 crashed in pennsylvania. also in time for this year's anniversary, new york city has restored a subway station that's been closed since the 2001 terror attacks. the new cortland street station is decorated with words of freedom and inspiration. reopened just ahead of the 17th anniversary of 9/11. one of the worst droughts in recent memory is having a big impact on australia's wine industry. but for some wine lovers, the glass is still half full, because while the wine yields will be smaller, they will also be sweeter.

lynda kinkade has the story. >> reporter: the price of that glass of red might get a bit harder to swallow if you're a fan of australian wine. the worst drought in the last time is impacting wineries in new south wales, victoria, and south australia. and without proper rainfall, it will be a smaller harvest. well, that's bad for quantity. it's great for quality. the fruit that survives will be packed with flavor. >> we totally reliant on weather and climate here. so, yeah, the dryer years we have less yield, increased quality. >> reporter: weather experts say much of the soil in the eastern wine region is considered dry or very dry. if the withering conditions could continue, it could get p tipsy. >> in the last five or ten years, the less fruit that's going to be out there this year, it will force them to pay a higher price.

>> reporter: in the meantime grape growers are irrigating the fields to compensate for the lack of rain. some hoping mother nature will soon serve up a drink of her own. >> there's a great sign that an inch from the sky is like 12 inches from the hose. and that's a very true statement. so if we can get proper rain, that would be perfect. >> reporter: winemakers on the west coast have had better luck and less dry conditions which should help the country's overall yield. but for the vintners it's sour and sweet. as the grapes that make it to bottle will be worth storing in the cellar. >> you have to make a bit more, brings your cost down a fraction. it costs more when you have to balance it out. >> reporter: lynda kinkade, cnn. >> and thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. remember to connect with me any time on twitter at rosemary cnn. love to hear from you. early start is next for our

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white house on the offensive. aides slamming the anonymous senior official who wrote "the new york times" op-ed and bri t bracing for the bob woodward book releases tomorrow. and watching hurricane florence when it makes landfall this week. and cbs's long time chief executive is out amid new