the u.s. president says he is not looking for war with iran. and although the military was the ready to strike, he says he decided to call it off. we look into that. plus, at u.s. border detention facilities, a dramatic court hearing reveals filthy conditions and children taking care of babies. also ahead this hour, writing to warn. we visit elizabeth warren's campaign headquarters to find out why so many people are writing her directly. we're live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. i'm george howell, the "cnn newsroom" starts now.

at 4:00 a.m., the u.s. president donald trump is explaining his decision to call off strikes against iran but then pull back on that decision. on twitter. on friday morning, he pointed out the shootdown of a u.s. drone saying the u.s. was cocked and loaded to strike three iranian missile sites in retaliation. mr. trump later told nbc he is willing to sit down with iran's leader, but also warned this -- >> i'm not looking for war. and if there is, it will be ob lit race like you've never seen before. but i'm not looking to do that. but you can't have a nuclear weapon. you want to talk good, otherwise you can have a bad economy the next three years. no pre-conditions. >> the commander in chief's decision to attack and then pull

back, it came as different advisers urged far different courses of action. kaitlan collins has this report from the white house. >> i didn't think it was proportionate. >> reporter: president trump explaining his last minute decision to call off his planned strike on iran. >> nothing is green lighted until the end because things change. >> reporter: telling nbc news he stopped the retaliatory attack in the 11th hour after being told 150 people would likely die. >> they said sir, we're ready to go. i said i want to know before you go, how many people will be killed. >> reporter: information the commander in chief would typically get when presented with military options. >> i didn't think that it was proportionate. >> reporter: but the president denied that it was so last minute that planes were already in the air. >> no, but they would have been pretty soon and things would have happened to a point where you wouldn't turn back or couldn't turn back. >> reporter: it is a decision that pits the president against his top advisors.

sources tell cnn secretary of state mike pompeo and national security adviser john bolton both favored striking iran. while outside advisors reminded him of his promise to get the u.s. out of wars, not in them. in the end trump opted for restraint over retaliation. some republicans are against trump's retreat. >> it will send the message that the red line may not be so red. >> reporter: unlikely democrats are praising the move. >> i don't think people should be jumping on the president's throat for wanting to think this through and make sure that neither side miscalculates and we don't inadvertently end up in a war with iran. >> reporter: others said pulling back is a sign of the indecision in the west wing. >> he should not be saying stuff like that publicly because it gives the impression of a level of indecision that i don't think is helpful. >> reporter: the president announcing that the united states had imposed more sanctions against iran thursday night but based on our sourcing, there have been no new sanctions

imposed and none announced by the treasury department. secretary mnuchin did announce that if iran continues, there will be additional countermeasures imposed. but right now no new sanctions have been added. we asked what is behind the false claim, and so far they have not into then back to us. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. iran quickly defended its actions saying the united states, that drone that was shot down in iranian air space, and if the u.s. had carried out the strike against them, it would have triggered a very firm response. on friday, iran displayed what it says is debris from that downed u.s. aircraft. iran also says it sent warnings about the drone which the united states ignored and says it could have hit a manned u.s. aircraft nearby but chose not to.

>> translator: our colleagues at the army units issued warnings four times before we hit the drone. we had no other way but to stop it from advancing into our territory. now the u.s. lost one of the most expensive and advance spy uavs. next to the uav, an american spy airplane with 35 people on board was flying. we could have hit the manned aircraft as well and it was actually our right to shoot down that plane, but we did not do so. >> cnn is live in the region with our sam kiley on the story from the united arab emirates. good to have you with us. given what we've heard from the u.s. president so far about this strike that he says he called off, what is the reaction there throughout the region? >> reporter: well, just in the last few hours, george, the foreign ministry spokesman of iran has put out a statement saying that whatever the

decision-making processes may or may not have been in the white house, and talking generally but rather specifically if you see what i mean, the iranian position is absolutely clear, they will take all defensive measures they can in response to any violation of their territory. so they are not issuing a thumbs up, much less a thank you to donald trump for not launching a military counterstrike, but rather reiteratesing once again that any violation of their territorial integrity theity in the land, sea or in the air could and would be met with a violent response. now, the issue is what next. now, on monday, the u.n. security council is being canned to be convened by the united states, the united states calling for a closed session of the security council to discuss iran on monday. and the regional allies of the

united states have been interestingly quiet apart from saudi arabia saying once again that they support the american campaign to get iran to moderate its behavior. one of the things in this region that makes people very anxious indeed about iran's behavior over the longer term is not just its efforts that were suspended under the nuclear deal to develop a nuclear program and nuclear weapons program, but also its influence on proxies, hezbollah, south lebanon, of course the houthis in yemen, which gives iran to reach right deep into parts of the middle east where they are not popular, part of the shia/sunni split but also because of the foreign leading policies that very often are activated through these groups. and it is that sort of behavior

that iran could moderate very rapidly to send a signal to some of its rivals in the region that perhaps they do want to come back in from the cold. >> all right. sam kiley with perspective and reporting. thank you. and now more context with the senior consulting research fellow for the middle east at chatham house and joining us this hour from london. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so you heard the reaction there from the region with sam kiley's reporting. what message would you say this sends to iran, what message does it send to adversaries around the world? >> well, i think the message coming from washington is that the president does not wish to engage directly with iran. and they should be interpreting the signalling and the president's lack of military response as an effort of deeither cade

eith escalation. this has been are the soed b ee supported from repeated calls from the president. and from the regional allies, this is of course discerning because they are hoping that the u.s. president is going to defend their interests and defend the red line and they are very worried that an american president might make another deal with the islamic republic. >> so from the big picture perspective though, you have a u.s. president who seemed to be painted into a corner to act on the strike and risk war or not to act and signal to adversaries perhaps the u.s. will blink. so what do you make of the suggestion that president trump took this approach to have is it both ways and come out here row for calling it off? >> well, i think it has in the american political climate. president trump is gearing up for his re-election.

he campaigned last time on drawing down from military involvement in the middle east. and i think he is aware that military engagement with iran could get out of hand. and it is not necessarily in his interests or in the interests of his base to be escalating tensions. he has pursued this maximum pressure campaign in order to get iran back to the negotiating table. the problem is that the strategy plant been successful and thereby we are in this escalating cycle where iran is trying to push the president to give it some concessions before it can come back to that table. >> and the reason the strike was called off, president trump saying that he was told that 150 lives could be lost, just a short time before the strike was to be executed only after the president asked about that mind you. several analysts have indicated it is hard to believe that the president wasn't briefed before the operation. what are your thoughts about that? >> again i think the president

is trying to put himself forward as being the moderate in the room. and playing sort of good cop against his advisers who might be more hawkish. and this is playing to his base, but also playing to tehran and trying to really message with them that i'm trying to deescalate, please be pragmatic and rational here. >> and you're pointing that out, mr. trump indicating several times in fact that he is open to negotiating with iran without pre-conditions. do you get a sense that there is any interest on the part of iran to engage with this president? >> i think that the iranians are really very much backed into a corner. and iran's supreme leader has made it clear a number of times that he is not going to come to the negotiating table with president trump particularly while they are under what they feel is economic warfare. so there does have to be from iran's perspective some sort of compromise, a face-saving

solution, some form of sanctions relief to give iran an off-ramp so that it can justify why it is renegotiating a deal that it was all right maintaini already maintaining compliance to. >> all right. we appreciate your time for us. thank you. tensions over the shot-down drone are creating real night mayors for air travel. the federal aviation administration has banned u.s. flightsoff parts of the persian gulf and the gulf of oman and the united arab emirates is ordering the country's airlines to avoid braoperating in danger areas all together. anna stewart has more on that. >> reporter: an increasing number say they are diverting flights away from the air space. united airlines suspended its service to mumbai on thursday.

the area in question is a narrow strip of air space hugging the iranian coastline over the persian gulf and gulf of oman. and looking at flight data friday, very few airlines could be seen flying over it. only iranian really and guitarry operators. and this adds to the complex nature of aviation. already airlines fly over countries in conflict and country disputes factor in. qatari operator cannot fly over the air space so that leads to costly diversions. and that is the problem for airlines here. diversions can be very expensive, more time in the air means more fuel and other operational costs. of course these airlines just don't know how long tensions between the u.s. and iran will impact flying in the region. anna stewart, cnn, london. and as the pentagon deals with iran, it is about to see some big changes as well. president trump plans to

nominate army secretary mark esper to become the next defense secretary. mr. trump had already tapped esper to be acting defense secretary after patrick shanahan announced his resignation. once officially nominated, esper will have to be confirmed by the u.s. senate. accusation of sexual assault by the president. we'll hear what this author donald trump did and his response. plus a group of doctors and lawyers report on what they have been told about conditions at a migrant detention facility. we'll hear what is going on there. shocking. stay with us. air wick at air wick, we know that, in nature, scent comes in waves - gently and beautifully. air wick essential mist is an expression of nature. voted best innovation in air care, it transforms natural essential oils into a fragrant mist. simply adjust your setting for the perfect balance

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some tragic news to tell you about coming from hawaii. officials there say that nine people were killed friday night, this when a small plane crashed near an airport. the plane was reported there on a skydiving excursion when it crash landed on a fence away from the runway. there were no survivors. the federal aviation administration is investigating what happened and we of course will continue to follow the story and bring you development

as we learn more. another woman has come forward saying that the u.s. president donald trump sexually assaulted her. in this case it is a well-known american journalist and author who says mr. trump attacked her at an upscale new york department store 23 years ago goat. the president has issued a strong denial saying the woman just wants to sell another book. our jason carroll has this. >> reporter: president trump issuing a strong denial against accusations that he forced him on author e. jean carroll at a department store more than 20 years ago. carroll raised the allegations in a just published article tied to the publication of her new book. in an interview friday with nbc news, carroll described the incident. >> i had a run-in with the president in a dressing room inbuin

bergdorf's. i fought. it was shocking. it was against my will. >> reporter: she writes the moment the dressing room door is closed, he lungs at me, pushes me against the wall and puts his mouth against my lips. she continues, i'm so shocked, i shoved him back and start laughing again. he seizes both of my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time and as i become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights. however the president says i've never met this person in my life adding shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves or to sell a book or carry out some sort of political agenda. he continues, no pictures, no surveillance, no video, no reports. no sales attendants around. i would like to thank bergdorf goodman for confirming they have no video footage of any such incident because did never

happened. false being a ghu stations diminish the varity of real assau assault. trump says if anyone has information that the democratic party is working with mrs. carroll, notify us as soon as possible. the world should know what is really going on. it is disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations. despite trump saying they neff met, carroll public be lished a picture showing her chatting with trump during a holiday party in the 1980s. and new york magazine says they reached out to carroll's two friends who corroborated what she did disclose about that attack at the time. trump says the story is made up and, quote, should be sold in the fiction section. he was taped during a 2005 "access hollywood" interview saying he liked to grab women by the private parts adding when you are a star, they let you do it. cnn has reached out to carroll, but she has yet to respond. jason carroll, cnn, new york.

about 24 hours from now, u.s. immigration and customs enforcement better known as i.c.e. is set to start arresting and deporting people who have court ordered removals. family in ten cities are being targeted, about 2,000 people, but leaders of the two cities say they won't cooperate. houston's mayor says, quote, the city does not try to do i.c.e.'s job nor does to try to impede i.c.e. and we will continue to be a city that billeds relationships and not walls. while another mayor says this, the chicago police department will not cooperate or facilitate any i.c.e. enforcement actions. chicago will always be a welcoming city and champion for the rights of our migrant and refugee communities. in the meantime migrants who have come to the united states are reportedly being held in filthy conditions. a group of doctors and lawyers visited border protection facilities, they did not get to inspect them, bullpen they got to interview children there who told them horror stories of

everyone being sick and not having access to soap, not having access to showers. and that led to a court hearing. nick valencia has this report. >> i find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary. >> reporter: a contentious court hearing on the awful conditions in which some child migrants are being held, conditions described by one inspector who this week visited this station as unconscionable, calling it a pervasive health crisis where toddlers are left to fend for themselves. one walking around only in a diaper. another in a filthy onesie. teenagers not fairing any better. older kids are taking care of the babies, adding that there doesn't appear to be child care there. >> it just makes me -- my heart hurt to think about what kind of lasting damage these experiences might have for these kids. >> reporter: but before the ninth circuit court of appeals on tuesday, a justice department

lawyer was put on the spot about those conditions. >> it is within everybody's common understanding that if you don't have a toothbrush, if you don't have soap, if you don't have a blanket, it is not safe and sanitary. wouldn't everybody agree to that? do you agree to that? >> i think that it is -- those are -- there is fair reason to find that those things may be part of safe and sanitary. >> not maybe. are a part before. >> that was nick have a levalen reporting for us there. customs and protections has noticed that it is short term holding facilities are not designed to hold vulnerable populations and it urgently needs additional funding to manage the crisis. it goes on to say that all the allegations of mistreatment are taken seriously and are investigated. mexico and el salvador have launched a new program aimed at slowing the flow of migrants. it provides work and economic stimulus to local communities to

try to prevent people from moving north. michael holmes traveled to the border to show us what it is like for those living there, though trying to make that trip. >> reporter: mexican troops patrol the border with guatemala to intercept migrants as donald trump promises mass deportations from the u.s. and yet here in the town of tapachula, the human faces behind the politics. entire families sleeping on the streets. you've been here on the street for a week? >> nine days straight 37. >> reporter: when is your appointment to get your papers? >> july 15. i'll be on the street because i have no choice. no money to pay a room. >> reporter: he says he lived, worked and paid taxes in the u.s. for four years before being deported back to honduras. gang, extortion and violence in

his homeland sees him and his wife and daughter making the trek north again. >> people tell you i going to kill you if you don't do that. so why. i'd rather sleeping on the street and to change my situation, my life, you know. >> reporter: the migrants we meet here want the world to know they are not numbers, that they have names and lives that have been turned upside down. that they didn't want to leave their homes. it was that or risk death. >> translator: i feel bad. i feel shattered it know how our country is. i never thought that my country would ever be this way. i cry because of the situation that we're living here. >> reporter: we meet three generations of the gonzalez-trejo family, the youngest just five months old, all sleeping on the streets in the heat and the afternoon downpours for nearly a week. their next immigration appointment, a month away. >> translator: if we can go to

the united states, that would be good. but i don't know if they will give us the visa to continue or not. >> reporter: her husband was murdered by the gangs. when her son-in-law refused to pay those same gangs, they fired shots shots for a living. we left our country not because we wanted to he says, but because the situation is critical. extortion, gangs, and any moment there is death. so we fled. and this was the final straw, a note on the family's front door saying leave within 24 hours or you all die. and so here they are on a sidewalk in a mexican town not knowing where they will end up, but knowing they can't go back. >> translator: i want help for my family. i don't want to be abandoned. >> reporter: michael hoemlmes, cnn, mexico. >> many are asking the question if the u.s. does go to war with

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terrorism speaking friday of a approving strikes on thursday and then calling off those attacks. the president plans to nominate mark esper to be the secretary of defense, the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is stepping done after media results of domestic violence in his family. the president had already tapped esper to temporarily do the job when shanahan leaves on sunday. in the coming hours, final lists for uk prime minister are set to take part in the first of many campaign events across the united kingdom. boris johnson and jeremy hunt will address fellow tories and they will try to win votes. the winner is expected to be announced in late july. in hong kong, police have condemned protesters from keeping emergency workers from responding. demonstrators surrounded police headquarters to protest a proposed bill that would allow extradition to mainland china. police say they have been tolerant, but will now act on any illegal activity.

returning now to our top story, president trump's decision to call off an attack on iran, it begs the question what would a full-fledged war look like with iran. cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson has this. >> reporter: the last time the u.s. went to war in the mideast, iraq 2003, this is what it looked like. shock and awe. the dictator felled in weeks followed by years of terrorist insurgency. the war with iran won't be the same. it risks spreading to the whole region and fast. here is why. iran will fight an asymmetric war, use its network of regional proxies to target the u.s. and its allies far from iran. shia militia could target u.s.

forces. hezbollah and lebanoniles on is. militias in syria could target u.s. forces there. houthi rebels in yemen could target u.s. and saudi forces in saudi and the uae. even in ag, iran has loyal fighters who could attack u.s. troops there. the u.s. would suddenly be threatened on many fronts far from iran. iran would also use its conventional forces currently close to 1 million service personnel to target u.s. allies and bases in the region. its navy would likely shut down vital oil shipping routes in the strait of hormuz, cutting world from one-fifth of its energy supplies. and iran may very possibly fire missiles the emirati and saudi cities as well as israel too. not to mention attack u.s.

military bases in cuttqatar, sa the uae and even afghanistan. turning off this war would not be fast. iran is not small. nearly 2 1/2 times the size of texas. remember, jimmy carter's ill fated 1980 helicopter mission to rescue the 52 u.s. hostages in tehran. it has mountains and desert. searingly hot in the summer, subzero in the winter. by every conventional metric, the u.s. will outgun iran along with its allies, it should have the upper hand. but its achilles heel will have a cost to the economy and that is what iran is counting on.

nic robertson, cnn, london. house speaker nancy pelosi said she was not given a heads-up that any attack was in the works. but is happy that the u.s. president ultimately decided against it. the top democrat says the united states must be clear what its interests are and she urged everyone to take a deep breath. >> what is our objective? what are our interests, how do we define them. not as broadly as i've been hearing some define them in terms of other countries. what are our interests, how do we define our interests, how do we gauge our ale lilies and tak action which do not inflame the situation. deescalate, deescalate, deescalate. take a deep breath and deescalate. >> mr. trump's decision also drew mixed reaction from members of his own party, like republican senator lindsey graham.

he praised the move even though earlier he had called for aggressive action. this is what glraham said on thursday hours before the reversal was reported. listen. >> all i can tell you, if you are not willing to stand up to aggression, you will get hurt. this is an enemy of mankind and if you are not willing to take this any o this enemy on, you will regret it. >> friday in a tweet he said i appreciate president trump's desire to be measured and thoughtful when it comes to iranian provocations. what will the world's response be if iran follows through you on their threat to restart nuclear enrichment? i hope the united states will make this a red line. let's talk more about it now with inderjeet parmar, professor of international politics at city university joining us from our london bureau. good to have you. >> good to be here. >> so speaking of red lines here, you will remember mr.

trump criticized his predecessor prom for n barack obama for not following through with his red line in syria and now the president has for his restraint from some who say that he did act in the right way, he had restraint, but he also has criticism from those who say that he blinked. what are your thoughts? >> well, i think to phrase it in that way is almost to kind of goad president trump into taking an action which would be reckless in the extreme. what you we actually have can be summarized as part ---at least a part of the hallmark of the trump's presidency. there is indecision, unpredictability and lots of division. when we look within the white house itself, there are forces which are much more hawkish and i think president trump has shown uncharacteristically a little bit more restraint than john bolton and mike pompeo and others for example. but what we have is division and

that is replicated right through the congress as well. within the republican party as well as obviously between the democrats. and on the iran question in particular, the democratic party of course was the government which was the architect of the iran nuclear agreement. so we have a kind of lethal mix of geopolitics and calculations on that front as well as party political calculations at home. >> so the secretary of state mike pompeo, president's national security adviser john bolton, and vice president pence, they all pushed for the strike to your point. but there was also a fox news host who the president has been watching recently, you can tell that from twitter, who warned against attacking iran. do you think the president's decision in this very delicate matter could have been guided here by a cable tv host? >> well, i suspect that the cable tv host would be a kind of proxy for a broader analysis of the position that the united

states is in. particularly president trump. we'll recall that president trump -- candidate trump campaigned on ending endless wars that liberals had started around the world, that there wasn't going to be meddling in the middle east and he didn't want american soldiers to be dying and killing far away. and a large part of his electorate also is behind that kind of idea as well as a broader electorate within the united states as well. there isn't really an appetite nationally speaking and even within party politics broadly for a new war in the middle east. so as we approach 2020, we know president trump does not take his eye off the next election. as we approach 2020, he is taking a big party political calculation here too. that is his large part of his base does not want to be ebb gauged in this particular war, yet he is in this position that he has put position in, he fabricated the iran nuclear agreement, now he wants them to

re-enter that agreement and he is in a real mess and that is largely a bit of his own making and i think that it will count heavily against him if the democrats play their cards right going into the next election. >> so the president has signaled that he is open to engaging with iran. do you think there is any interest among iranians to engage with this president or is the plan to keep up the pressure and to effectively wait him out? >> well, i think that there has to be an appetite in the end for a negotiation. neither side actually truly i think wants to go to war. for all the reasons that your correspondent said. i would add to his reasons that the fact that china is much more heavily engaged in the middle east, including in iran through its cultural diplomatic and other ties, as is russia. so what we are talking about here is not just iran versus the united states and its allies, but iran and some of its allies

being drawn in as well. so we have a powder keg in the middle east and i think both sides have to come to the table. but the problem is that president trump is indecisive, he is unpredictable and his administration is divided. he's already violated -- or withdrawn from an agreement which was already working and now he wants iran to go back to that agreement and abide by it. i don't think iran can really truly trust this particular president, but i would say last 40 years of american presidents have been fairly unreliable on that front too. so i think that they will be prepared for confrontation and this crisis will simmer long and i suspect in the longer run with the plans that he's announced for more troops in that area, i think that there will be a w bolstering of american forces. it may simmer for a while, but it seems to be setting itself up for kind of long term

continuation. >> inderjeet parmar, we appreciate your time and perspective. thank you. americans are opening up to one of the democratic presidential candidates and they are sending her a lot of mail you see there. a lot of letters. we'll see what they have to say next. stay with us. or suffer excess mucus? try mucinex 12 hour. the bio layer tablet immediately releases to thin and loosen excess mucus. and lasts for 12 hours. mucinex 12 hour.

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supporters. m sdwrchlt l mj lee visited her campaign headquarters to find out what people are writing. >> most consuming part is opening the mail. >> reporter: for molly dorse pierce, this is how she spends her mornings. she is tasked with opening the dozens of letters that arrive here at the senator's campaign head quarters in boston. >> they listed out campaign finance reform, automatic voter registration, protecting and saving the environment. >> reporter: many handwritten on pages ripped out of notebooks or ha handmade postcards. sometimes no more than a few words. and they mostly he said up end wall. >> health care, environment, the basic issues that is what i'm thinking about. you can feel the economic anxiety that they are having. a lot of people who say i'm on a fixed income, so this is all i

can give, but i really believe in you. >> reporter: the policy-driven candidate has been rising in the polls catching up to her progressive rival bernie sanders. these letters offering a glimpse of warren's decisions and ideas that appear to resonate both. numerous notes like one agreeing with her call for impeachment proceedings against president trump in april. others putting pen to paper after she released a major student loan debt forgiveness plan. >> i'm writing to share my student loan story with you. so much i'd like to say, but since i just got paid and sent off my $806 payment for my student l student lob-- >> reporter: but sometimes a letter that has nothing to do with politics. >> this is a birth announcement and it says child named after

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everybody though mondn thou have started to fall, a water crisis remains for many in india. derek van dam is here to tell us more. >> this is another story that we're seeing play out of mankind versus nature. takes population that continues to increase in india. that is putting a stress on the infrastructure there that is aging and quite frankly isn't appropriate for this amount of people. and when you have that and lack of appropriate rainfall, that will lead to all kinds of problems. drying up of reservoirs. take a look at the satellite images. it is astonishing to sea what is happening on the east coast of india. reservoirs, wells are drying up, the deterioration of water quality is occurring. and it is only forecast to get worse.

even though we have seen rain. this is one of the reservoirs and you see just how barren it is, very little water remains in the eastern state there. and what is really happening? because we want to get to the details. the water shortage that is occurring is quite frankly because there are too many people putting stresses on the water table. we continue to see this drop in the water table, more people that call that particular area home, more people start to dig their holes, their bore holes into the ground to extract more water. from 2002 to 2016, we have seen an average of 10 to 25 millimeters of drop, almost an inch per year on average. and of course you have to dig deeper and deeper and unfortunately the water runs out. current population is 1.3 billion, but by 2030, it could be over 1.5 billion. and according to one study, by

2020, 21 cities could run out of ground water we talked about. by 2030, 40% of the population of india will have no access to fresh water for drinking. we're not talking about generations from now, we're talking about within the next decade. so we're coming off of several monsoon season of below average rainfall, so that only exacerbates the problem. you can imagine when we don't see the reservoirs replenished with the usual seasonal rainfall, we have issues not to mention the population stridents going on. you can see the 2019 monsoon for india as a whole is well below average, we are talking about the current numbers about 41.5% below average rainfall so far this season. we do have several months to go with the rainfall and there is some good news here. they have received 29 millimeters of rain late this week and we're seeing signs that the rainfall is picking up specifically along the west coast of the sub continent. of the day the monsoon onset was

about a week late. it will eventually move further north through the season. and this area gets bulk of its rainfall at the end of the monsoon season which is more into october and november. so we'll look forward to that. >> serious situation though. thanks. we end this hour with the british pop music icon sir elton john, he has received the legion of honor award from french president macron. he presented to the singer and aids activist in private before elton john addressed the crowd at the presidential palace. >> like music the fight against aids has been my passion for many, many years. and like music, this fight reminds me every day of the extraordinary power of the human spirit. and the things that bind us are stronger than those that divide us. it is its magical human spirit i

will carry with me as a proud member of the legion honor. >> the things that bind us are stronger than those that divide. a good message. thanks for being with us. another hour of "newsroom" right after the break. stay with us. so we did what we had to do. until we tried finish quantum. finish quantum's three chambers scrub, degrease and shine to get our dishes truly finished. it's not clean until it's finished! we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. everyone could use a little romance...

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the u.s. president donald trump scraps a military strike on iran minutes before it was meant to happen. saying he doesn't want to go to war. plus, millions of undocumented immigrants are unthreat of deportation, as the trump administration prepares to ramp up raids across several u.s. cities. also ahead this hour, nearly 50 years after humans first stepped foot on t