did you arrest michael cohen -- >> no, no. >> denials and distractions. president trump trying to create a narrative of his oeb own. the clouds of the russia investigation are getting thicker. plus, lawmakers release the trance cry transcripts from james comey's latest hearing. what he told them in a tense closed door meeting. also hundreds of protesters detained in france as security forces try to contain the anti-government rallies across that nation. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. critics say the u.s. president is a master of deflection. after bombshell court filings that seemingly implicate him in two felonies, it could be argued the president did his best to distract and deny. first up, his chief of staff. mr. trump announced that john kelly would be stepping down from the post by the end of the year. their relationship has steadily deteriorated. still, mr. trump said that kelly did a good job, is a great guy and thanked him for his service. >> john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year. we'll be announcing who will be taking john's place. it may be on an interim basis. i'll be announcing that over the next day or two, but john will be leaving at the end of the year. he's been with me almost two years now between the two

positions. so we're probably going to see him in a little while. >> but even with the special counsel probe focused specifically on the west wing, the president now faces an even bigger challenge, trying to change the story. those court filings allege mr. trump directed cohen to break laws before the election. he denied that and once again claimed there was no collusion with russia. >> on the mueller situation, we're very happy with what we're reading because there was no collusion whatsoever. there never has been. the last thing i want is help from russia on a campaign. you should ask hillary clinton about russia because she financed the fake dossier which i understand they tried to get some information and help from russia. >> my colleague ana cabrera spoke with jack quinn and joseph moreno, a former justice

department investigator, for more perspective on mr. trump's reaction to the court filings. >> jack, trump says he's happy with what he sees in these memos. you've advised a president. if you were trump's attorney, would you be happy with what's in these filings? >> i'd be anything but happy. i think that the filings in both cases should make people in the white house and in the trump legal team exceedingly worried about what's coming next. >> but joseph, is the president right when he says these documents don't prove collusion? >> well, first off, no. these documents don't prove or disprove collusion. it's perhaps a small sigh of relief on the president's defense side that they don't come out and outright lay it out there but i think he's far from out of the weeds here. there's a reason the president keeps going back to this notion of collusion or lack thereof. half the laws in the courtroom. the other is in the court of

public opinion. the president is fighting in the court of public opinion. he's going to keep that bar at collusion and say anything short of that just falls short. the president believes he can probably weather an obstruction case. he believes he can weather a campaign finance case but he knows his support collapses, both congressionally and among the american people if a collusion case is built against him. if they evidence does appear, he may have to pivot. and we'll see where that goes. >> there's been speculation that pivot may include firing robert mueller. but fired fbi director james comey says that even if that does happen, it won't derail the investigations. comey's comments came during a tense hearing with u.s. house lawmakers. laura jarrett reports on the just-released transcript of that hearing. >> reporter: in over six hours of testimony, the former fbi director went over familiar territory about the beginnings of the fbi investigation into

russian interference in the 2016 election saying he bet his life the special counsel robert mueller is handling it the right way and suggesting you'd have to almost fire everyone in the fbi and the justice department to derail the relevant investigations at this point. comey fact-checked the president on this claim he is somehow best friends with robert mueller saying i've never hugged or kissed the man and, quote, i admire the heck out of the man, but i don't know his phone number. i've never gon his house. i don't know his children's names. comey's testimony did not shed new light on whether the president obstructed justice in his firing last year, the testimony from another senior official at the fbi, former general counsel james baker, described how those at the highest level of the fbi were seriously concerned about comey's firing. and comey was also asked to weigh in on bill barr, president trump's pick for the next attorney general. and he said he thinks very highly of him joking that,

quote, i probably just damned him by saying he's a friend of mine, but i respect him and think he's certainly fit to be attorney general. laura jarrett, cnn, washington. >> laura, thank you. we're also learning another senior trump adviser, son-in-law jared kushner, has reportedly taken on a behind the scenes role in damage control in the aftermath of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. this according to "the new york times." the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman has been getting private advice from kushner on how to weather the storm of international outrage as gruesome details about the killing have come to light. the times says the two mennor a first name basis. the saudis deny the crown prince had any role in khashoggi's death, although the cia believes he did. here's my colleague ana cabrera where she spoke with one of the reporters who broke the story on kushner. >> since khashoggi's killing, we report that he's continued these

messaging conversations with mohammad bin salman. and some of the advice he's given is unclear but it's our understanding that he has been advising him to settle some of his problems in the region within the kingdom, avoid mistakes that clearly the killing of khashoggi was more than a mistake. but he's trying -- he sees mbs as someone who is the future. and i think an important ally to the united states. >> the reported one on one conversations and text messages between kushner and the crown prince were in apparent disregard of white house protocol. someone from the national security staff is supposed to be included in any communications with foreign heads of state. the white house did not respond to cnn's request for comment but a spokesperson told "the new york times" this. jared has always meticulously followed protocols and guidelines. regarding the relationship with mohammad bin salman and all the other foreign officials with

whom he interacts. the saudis have offered varying and sometimes contradictory accounts of the killing of khashoggi from the day he disappeared inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. they first denied he was even missing. only later did they admit he was dead, supposedly kills by rogue operatives. the white house and u.s. state department say the u.s. has not reached a conclusion on this but last month, the cia assessed khashoggi's murder that it was personally ordered by the crown prince mohammad bin salman. let's get context and perspective on all of this with indijit. live for us in our london bureau. thanks for your time today. >> you're welcome. >> let's start with this news from "the new york times" that jared kushner is privately advising the saudi crown prince in how to weather the storm since khashoggi's murder. we know that mr. trump continues to back mohammad bin salman, despite what we've learned from u.s. intelligence agencies and

the rebuke of lawmakers in the u.s. but again, we're seeing this bond between mr. trump's inner circle and the saudis that seems to put business first over political norms. >> well, yes, we've known this as a pattern of behavior of various trump officials and so on. but it does speak to a bigger picture which is the importance of the saudis in regard to president trump's middle eastern strategy. and i think this kind of a dipping beneath the norms of behavior, diplomatic protocol and so oi think it's a part of that, trying to cement that relationship and help the crown prince to manage the pr of what is so clearly now seem to be his direct hand in the murder of a journalist who was a columnist with "the washington post." and it seems to be that the cia briefing by gina haspel showed very clearly the number of phone calls which were occurring at

that very time between the prince and the consulate in istanbul. this is an attempt to manage that relationship and try not to do damage to that broader strategy in the middle east. that, of course, includes an important role for saudis in the iran nuclear agreement withdrawal. >> it's important to point out that there are differnt narratives coming out of the united states. you have lawmakers who rebuke this. you have the u.s. president who continues to support saudi arabia. but as news like this comes out, this news from "the new york times," what does that do to the image of the united states around the world? >> well, one of the key planks of america's global image from the very beginning, its role as a superpower, was that it stood for a kind of moral authority, moral leadership. freedom, democracy, human rights. there was always challenges to that narrative, but president trump does not even actually give any kind of credence to

that sort of narrative. this suggests that the u.s. is basically a power which plays dirty power politics like any other power in the world history, like an empire and this has effectively undermined america's reputation and authority right across. and that's why we can see, even republican loyalists like lindsey graham saying quite clearly that this crown prince will be prosecuted within 30 minutes in any court of law. so this has a big damaging influence on american reputation and image. >> let's talk about the revolving door at the white house. now we understand the chief of staff john kelly on his way out. the two, mr. trump and kelly, reportedly not even speaking to each other. how big of an impact will this have on the trump white house? >> this further shows us that there is, at the heart of the trump administration, president trump and his chaotic

personality and style. his demand for total loyalty. now general kelly was the secretary of the department of homeland security. he implemented a very large part of the anti-immigrant program on the southern border which president trump wanted. attorney general jeff sessions had done very similarly on the immigration front. unless you're personally loyal to the president, willing to do whatever he wants, he's going to get rid of you. and i think in the midterm elections, this showed that is losing his credibility amongst suburban affluent gop voters. and i think this is going to have the longer term damage electorally. it already has damaged him in the house elections and is going to damage him going forward into 2020. it damages the entire credibility of this white house to be able to run its own affairs in an efficient manner. >> we appreciate your time and perspective. thank you. >> thank you.

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the sights and sounds of what we saw just a day ago. the fourth straight weekend of major protests across france, in paris, and the yellow vest movement is still going strong. much of that was quite evident on saturday. more than 130,000 people marched in cities across the country. people demanding that the french president do something about economic inequality. security forces were surely on the ready. more than 89,000 of them were deployed across the country to contain any chaos. even so, cars were burned,

protesters clashed with police in cities including marseille and paris. let's go live to paris. cnn's melissa bell is on the story. what a difference a day makes. businesses there opened. >> that's right. the boards are coming down off the windows on the champs-elysees. the clearup operation. not on the scale of what we saw last sunday after the protests on the saturday, the third saturday of the movement. this, the fourth saturday that the yellow vests were out on the street did prove to be better contained by the authorities. different strategy on the part of the police. greater numbers out on the streets. they appear to have made a difference. and yet, businesses are counting the cost of this, and this really is, george, what is helping to put pressure on the government. because after four weeks of protests, we heard a few figures from france's economy minister. the restaurant business is down.

businesses are down. hotels, as you'd expect, are down, especially in paris. but also the automobile sector has been hit nationally and you heard overall the retail sector is just over a billion dollars down as a result of the several weeks of protests. and that really contributes to what is adding to the pressure for the government, to help find some solutions that will put an end to all of this, george. >> melissa, the government was surely under pressure in how it responded to these protesters, not to be too heavy handed, but, surely, to enforce the law, to keep the peace. what's the takeaway? did police learn from lessons of the past weekend? were they effective? >> i think this has been such an unusual movement in so many ways. after all, these gatherings are not approved. they don't go through the normal channels of a request to demonstrate, an approval to demonstrate. they're not led by a union with whom either the security authorities or government could

have negotiated. they are fairly spontaneous. they've been nationwide, and beyond those four saturdays there's been this on ongoing movement where roads and toll booths blockaded, fuel depots as well. that's had an impact on the french economy. given that largely legal-less nature of this movement, its spontaneity and violence as well. it appears also to be fairly widely supported by the broader french public. all of this have made it extremely difficult for authorities. they've had to adapt themselves each week to the changing circumstances and plans of action by these protesters and for the government the question of whom they should be speaking to, of what they should be offering. what concessions might appeal or appease and one of the difficulties as we look ahead to emmanuel macron's speech to the french nation. tomorrow he's going to address this directly. we believe make some announcements that may go some way to help with the cost of

living specifically. the question is, how will he appease such a diverse group of people, george? >> melissa bell live in paris. melissa, thank you for the reporting. we'll keep in touch with you. moving on to the united kingdom. it's coming down to like that show "deal or no deal," the british prime minister theresa may facing a key vote on tuesday as she tries to get parliament on board to approve her brexit plan. miss may spoke trying to drum up support. she warned if her plan doesn't pass, the uk will be in uncharted waters. let's go to london. is there a sense now this is more about the scale of the defeat rather than whether miss may can actually get the votes? >> if you talk to theresa may or people around her they'll say, no, they think this deal can make it through and they're confident in it. in the fast few days we've had moments that probably aren't helping her plan to get members of parliament on board.

just yesterday, one of her cabinet secretaries, amber rudd, was the first cabine secretary to admit that there could be potentially a plan b that there could be another referendum, that maybe they could do a different style of brexit, a norway-plus which a lot of hard brexiteers would not be in favor because it would keep the uk in this customs union and in the economic area. that's probably not what theresa may wants to hear from one of her cabinet ministers ahead of this vote where she's trying to tell people it's this deal or chaos and uncertainty and all the bad things that could happen with having a hard brexit or no brexit at all. and also on saturday, we had this report from the house of commons, the committee on exiting the european union, and they pretty much blasted theresa may's exit plan. they said it fails to offer sufficient clairty or certainty on the future of the united kingdom. they called on the government to release the immigration report ahead of the vote. however, things change here and

can change quite quickly. at least a day ahead of this vote. it's on tuesday evening. still a possibility the new amendment could be introduced that gives members of parliament a little more of a say over parts of this deal. that could still happen and maybe, maybe that could help theresa may get just enough of those votes over the lines to get this deal. >> miss may also trying to get fellow mps on board by saying if they don't go along with this, they could lose their position of power. could even see a change of leadership. >> right. and that is -- you might think, okay, change of power no big deal. that's not nearly as bad as brexit. for a lot of these members, they fear a labor leader like jeremy corbyn in power almost more than they fear theresa may's brexit deal. that's the situation she's trying to present to them. that's what she said to the mail on sunday. if you don't vote for this deal, we'll have chaos. probably another leadership vote, another election and then

you might gettier iejeremy corb. which would you rather have? that's sort of the deal she's presenting to parliament. >> thanks for the reporting. brex sit is giving the brus british something to chew on. >> reporter: for britain's sandwich lover owners, 4 million sandwiches a year, fresh sandwiches ready to go. now an alarm is ringing. sandwich shop owners coming to grips with a new reality. the cost of a future brexit. >> everything is going to be taxed, and at the end of the day, we're going to pay for that. we'll make less profit. customers going to pay more for a sandwich and it's not good for all of us. >> reporter: uncertainty now rattling both the sandwich industry and perhaps a way of life. sandwich lovers may, for the first time, begin thinking the

unthinkable. >> we're used to, in this country, to having very fresh products in our hand. and products like lettuce don't have a long shelf life. and it doesn't take very much for them to be messed up by being delayed at ports and things. >> reporter: wholesalers are facing their own season of discontent. >> this certainly won't be as easy as it is now. there will be barriers, borders, extra paperwork, possibly extra costs. >> reporter: britain imports 80% of its tomatoes when out of season. mostly from spain and the netherlands arriving in record time. lettuce, 40% imported, mostly from spain, delivered fresh daily. britain produces almost enough cheddar cheese for its needs. most imports coming from the eu because of low tariffs creating a booming business for cheese lovers like patricia.

her store boasting 283 varieties of cheese. after brexit, cheese from the eu could become exotic and very expensive. now she wrestles with her passion and the need to be pragmatic. >> so i love everything i'm bringing in, and i love everything i get from england, too. if i have to cut it down a bit, i'll have to cut it down a bit. >> reporter: anxiety among retailers mirrors the political debate. a family run business depending on british ingredients for four generations isn't so worried about a brexit storm. >> it won't really affect us, brexit, at all. it's not something we're worried about. >> reporter: but as expected with british resolve, there's no appetite for too much fuss. >> i'll do what i have to do to keep on having my sandwich. that's for sure. >> reporter: there are those who are in fighting mode when it comes to defending the brexit sandwich. >> i think british farmers will rise to the occasion. european friends will still want

to trade with us. we'll still get our tomatoes from italy and spain. >> the french, dutch and spanish ain't going to want their stuff sitting on the docks on the other side too long so they'll still keep sending them, and we'll still keep having sandwiches. >> the face of so much uncertainty, british spirit is resolu resolute. let's keep calm and enjoy your sandwich. aaron mclaughlin, cnn, london. still ahead -- the u.s. president is looking for chief of staff number three now that the current occupant of that position is out the door soon. details ahead. plus, a trump golf club is under scrutiny after two women claim they were hired there, even though they were undocumented migrants. what they're telling cnn. stay with us. is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom live from atlanta. i'm george howell with the headlines. this hour, in new zealand, police believe they have found the body of a missing british backpacker. grace millain was last seen in the city of auckland. a man seen with her that night is expected to be charged with her death. the french president emmanuel macron is said to not be doing enough to tackle economic inequality in that nation. in paris, some protesters clashed with police and were met with teargas and rubber bullets. beijing is furious over the

arrest of a top chinese tech executive that took place in canada. china's foreign ministry summoned the canadian ambassador to denounce the detention as extremely vicious. mung is the chief financial officer of the tech giant huawei. she faces extradition to the united states for an alleged scheme to evade u.s. sanctions against iran. a bail hearing is set for monday in vancouver. "the new york times" reports president trump's son-in-law jared kushner has been privately communicating with the saudi crown prince after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. he reportedly has been telling mohammad bin salman how to, quote, weather the storm caused by the killing. now to the revolving door at the trump white house, it keeps on spinning with another vacancy coming at the end of the year. the u.s. president announced his chief of staff john kelly will be leaving his post. general kelly has been the white house chief of staff since july

2017. he was previously president trump's secretary of homeland security. kelly was a four-star marine general who commanded the u.s. southern command before joining the trump administration. during his time at the white house, he saw his fair share of controversy as our ryan nobles looks back at his tenure. >> reporter: john kelly, the former marine corps general, was expected to bring a military-style sense of order to the white house. >> as chief of staff. >> that's right. >> reporter: kelly quickly reined in access to the prrkts tried to control who could call trump directly and played a big role in staffing. as evidence of his quick disposal of former communications director anthony scaramucc. coming scaramucci is still sore over. >> he's hurt the president. and he has hissy fits. >> reporter: kelly was forced to confront a series of controversial moves by president trump that left the white house

reeling. in the wake of the racially charged riots in charlottesville, kelly was photographed in the background of trump tower looking dour as trump spoke. >> i think there's blame on both sides, and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. >> reporter: kelly urged the president to offer a more forceful condemnation of the white supremacists involved but trump did not take the advice. the relationship really started to unravel during the public relations disaster surrounding former staff secretary rob porter. porter was accused of abuse by two ex-wives. kelly initially defend him. the president personally blamed his chief of staff for the fallout. the president reportedly sang kelly's praises on twitter and pushed back on reports he was unhappy with his work. >> he's doing a great job. he will be here in my opinion, for the entire seven remaining years. >> reporter: behind the scenes it was a different story. and bob woodward's book "fear"

he quotes kelly as describing trump as an idiot and we're in crazy town. this is the worst job i've ever had. kelly later called that quote bs and trump said publicly he believed him. their public pronouncements aside, the tension inside the west wing was obvious. kelly recently got into a heated shouting match with national security adviser john bolton and now that it may be finally the end of his tenure, kelly and the president are no longer speaking. for kelly, leaving this job may actually come as a welcome relief. >> the last thing i wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of homeland security. but i did something wrong and god punished me, i guess, for that. >> reporter: ryan nobles, cnn, washington. >> ryan, thank you. president trump opened his campaign on the issue of immigration. touting a zero tolerance policy against illegal immigration since day one. he says defending america's borders from undocumented

migrants is one of his top priorities. but a story first reported by "the new york times" says that managers at a trump golf club knowingly hired undocumented immigrants. two women came forward this week saying they worked there as housekeepers despite being undocumented at the time. cnn's paolo sandoval spoke with them. here's what they told him. >> reporter: sandra diaz and victorino morales are the first to speak out publicly about their experience working at a donald trump golf resort as undocumented women. as first reported by "the new york times" thursday, both were hired as housekeepers at the trump national golf club in bedminster, new jersey. morales was hired in 2013. diaz says she worked there from 2010 through 2013 and has since become a legal, permanent resident of the u.s. both claim managers employed by the trump organization knowingly hired them as undocumented

workers. diaz tells me her decision to go public was made, in part, because of what she calls a high level of hypocrisy. the president launches such hard-line immigration rhetoric, says diaz, yet his organization is doing the complete opposite. morales, diaz's former colleague, says she has additional reasons for speaking out. the undocumented guatemalan says she was subjected to demeaning verbal assaults. the housekeeping manager became more aggressive toward the employees recalls morales. she describes being threatened with deportation repeatedly. there are also allegations of illegal hiring practices. diaz claims managers at the property went as far as to arrange for fraudulent documents to keep them employed. morales tells me she was taken to an off-site location after

being hired away from the club. she says it was there that she was provided with a bogus social security card and identification. the woman's attorney says they are prepared to provide proof to authorities if an investigation into the trump organization's hiring practices is launched. >> absolutely. we have documentary evidence. we have the testimony of workers. we have the fraudulent documents. all of this could be provided to federal authorities and/or state authorities. both of my clients are willing to cooperate with federal and state authorities. >> reporter: in response to the claims, trump organization spokeswoman amanda miller said in a statement, we have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices. if any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately. no public criminal or civil actions have been filed against the trump organization regarding the allegations from morales,

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creating dangerous conditions for millions of people in parts of the southern, central united states. our meteorologist karen maginnis is here with the details on it. >> about 14.5 million people are going to be burying up under gusty winds, ice, snow. it is going to be so treacherous out there and this, as we lead up to a big shopping season. people out and about trying to get from one point to another. but it's going to be very dangerous. want to show you what's happened in lubbock, texas. this is phenomenal. they don't see snowfall totals like this. only six times since 1911 have they seen double-digit snowfall totals. all in all, they saw about 10.5 inches of snow or 27 centimeters of snowfall for our international viewers. and we're watching this tri-state area. tennessee, north carolina and virginia. where you see that pink. that's where we have winter storm warnings. we're looking at substantial

snowfall. so with the snowfall, going to be heavy on power lines, telephone lines. we're looking at heavy snowfall and ice on trees as well. so trees, power lines will come down. and they are estimating that maybe in excess of 500,000 people could be without power. a 14.5 million people kind november a four-state area, georgia, carolinas and tennessee, but also into virginia as well. a very complex weather system as an area of low pressure checks right along the deep south. lots of sold air diving to the south on the ridge of a high pressure system. so that cold air diving south and right where the two of those mix, that's what we're looking at the messiest weather. and pretty much in an area from interstate 81 through asheville and roanoke. interstate 40 which kind of bisects the state. and from right around charlotte all the way up to richmond, virginia, we could see

substantial snowfall totals here. i'm sure a lot of kids are wondering where can we see the snowfall. the snowfall will be pretty but getting there is going to be so dangerous. about a half a million people might be without power. and we're closing in on that. we're just under 200,000 people all the way from alabama into georgia, as well as into north carolina and south carolina. north carolina, if you remember, back in september, they had hurricane florence. and now we've got this early winter storm system. >> all right. certainly something they'll have to prepare for. thank you. ♪ 1.5 degrees. if the earth's temperature rises any more than that, the global results could be disastrous. nations are coming together in poland working to keep global warming under two degrees but

experts warn that may not be enough. at 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the effects of climate change grow more rapidly. cnn is exploring the consequences of past inaction and what comes next if warming doesn't stop at that critical threshold. one natural wonder of the world has already been damaged. scientists in australia are trying new techniques to try to save the great barrier reef. ivan watson takes us there. >> reporter: an underwater snowstorm. that's how a veteran marine biologist describes the annual event when the coral on the great barrier reef begins to spawn. >> the coral spawning is always magical and that was great to see all these bundles coming off these corals. >> reporter: this year scientists are on the scene scooping coral spawn. it's an experimental effort to save this natural wonder of the world from the ravages of

climate change. a pilot breeding project aimed at increasing the fertility of coral. >> the baby corals are going into big floating lava pools on the reef system. it's really exciting that we can go from these ideas of capturing coral spawn at small scale and starting to scale it up to much larger areas, many more pools and millions of larvae being developed. >> reporter: the great barrier reef is a sprawling marine habitat larger than italy, but it's in trouble. in the summer of 2016, vast amounts of coral suddenly started bleaching, turning bone white. >> what we saw in 2016 and 2017, the marine heat waves that led to coral bleaching and the death of coral was like nothing we've ever seen before. >> reporter: scientists estimate the record warm temperatures killed more than half the coral in the great barrier reef in just two years.

cnn travelled to australia last june to look at a government effort to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into projects to help save one of the country's largest tourist attractions. with temperatures milder in early 2018, there were signs of recovery. >> but we did see little ones coming back. at the tips of some of the dead coral, these little spots of color, right? >> they'll grow again, as long as -- >> reporter: with the australian summer fast approach, meteorologists are issuing ominous warnings. a heat wave in the nearby state of queensland has already contributed to raging bush fires with the climate's warming trend continuing. scientists have revised their previous target. they say it's crucial to keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels instead of 2 degrees in order to avoid looming planetary disaster.

scientists fear marine heat waves will likely follow. >> when we think about forecasting the weather for the great barrier reef, the climate of the entire planet and the great barrier reef has already changed, and it is still changing. so it's getting harder for scientists to be confident about predictions of the future. we're entering into unchartered territory. almost every year is warmer than usual and, in fact, that's becoming the new normal. >> reporter: that's why professor peter harrison's breeding project targets heat resistant coral. these coral have survived the last two bleaching events. they are the most tolerant and we need to be capturing the spawn from. they are trying to overcome the problems of heating sea temperatures. >> reporter: it's an effort to save a marine habitat but given the scale of the challenge, for now, it's just a drop in the ocean. ivan watson, cnn. >> pretty cool thing happened

just steps from the cnn center. the long wait is over for atlanta sports fans. the excitement there for the first time in more than two decades. they get to celebrate a championship victory. we'll recap the mls title game. stay with us. over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly. be quick to talk to your teen's doctor about a meningitis b vaccine.

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a-t-l! >> all of that excitement just steps from the cnn center. there was a game at mercedes-benz stadium that everybody was watching. they beat the portland timbers and ended the city of atlanta's 23-year title drought. >> in 1998, the chicago fire won the mls cup in their very first season. atlanta unite individual now done it in just their second season and here in the home team's locker room, one very big party is just getting started. >> it's incredible.

i mean, what a night here tonight. you can't say enough about it. the support that we get is incredible. it's such an awesome place to play. the facilities, the staff, the fans. you know, everything is just top notch and hopefully it's taking mls to the next level. because it's great for the league, and we're enjoying it. >> i think when you leave england, you're not sure what you're going to step into. you come over here and see the attendance and the crowd, you knew it was going to be something special. we were unfortunate last year getting knocked out quite early. but it's worked out well and it's been an incredible journey. hopefully this is the first of many more to come. >> miguel has done so much for us. he gets us out of so much trouble. he puts the other team on the -- on their heels and joseph is the guy that finishes it off. you saw tonight it's a half

chance. he dribbles around the goalkeeper and finishes it off. they've done that over and over for two years. this is a culmination of all of that. >> this is up there. not every day you get to win a title, a championship. to be a part of this is truly special. >> these are the celebrations and what a send-off for the club's head coach who has confirmed he's leaving the club at the end of the current season. and you can see why the celebrations are huge. this is also the city's first championship since 1995. in a very happy home dressing room, i'm patrick snell. >> something atlanta surely needed after the super bowl that, let's just say, didn't happen. it was a major week of headlines coming out of the special counsel robert mueller's investigation. and as you'd expect, the comedy sketch show "saturday night live" here in the u.s. jumped on it with a big assist from robert de niro. take a look. >> there's something in my closet. >> yeah, bud.

that's just the cheap steel dad uses to build his towers. look, buddy, nothing in the closet. >> mr. mueller, people say you're the worst thing to ever happen to my dad. >> no, eric, getting elected president was the worst thing that ever happened to your dad. >> "saturday night live" there. thank you for being with us for "cnn newsroom." >> i'm george howell. for our viewers in the united states, "new day" is next. for our viewers around the world, "erin burnet outfront" is ahead. thank you for watching cnn, the world's news leader.

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