so you don't wait for life. you live it. calling it an historic breakthrough, president trump praises the fda's emergency authorization of a coronavirus treatment but medical experts warn the controversial decision has its flaws. plus, breakout stars and the trumps. republican national convention will feature some new and familiar faces, including appearances from donald trump all four nights. and this -- bayern munich closes out the champions league with another european title. we'll break down the emotional match. live from cnn world

headquarters in atlanta, welcome to you, our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." u.s. president donald trump says it has nothing to do with politics, but one day before the start of the national republican convention, he announced the food and drug administration would issue emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treatment covid-19 patients. even as many question whether there's enough data to support its use. >> today i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that will save countless lives. this is a powerful therapy. that transfuses very, very

strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. it's had an incredible rate of success. today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment. >> mr. trump also says the fda made a, quote, independent determination than convalescent plasma is safe and effective. we hear how the head of the fda describes it. >> he said that the fda has made the independent determination that the treatment is safe and very effective. yet dr. hahn just said it was showing promising efficacy. so which of the two is correct? >> well, i think i'll let dr. hahn answer that question. >> so under our legal authority for emergency use authorization, this is not the same as an approval, but it's an authorization and allows us to expand the access to this. and our data, we know we're going to continue to collect data. we knew that for all our

emergency use authorizations. for example, remdesivir approved on authorized on may 1st, we're still collecting data and will continue to do that with plasma as well. >> cnn's jeremy diamond has more on the announcement from the white house. >> reporter: president donald trump on sunday announcing that the fda has approved an emergency use authorization for a potential coronavirus treatment, and that is convalescent plasma. now, convalescent plasma certainly has been used already in about 70,000 patients here in the united states. and there is some promising data behind it, but certainly randomized, controlled clinical trials have not yet reached a conclusion about this convalescent plasma's efficacy, but nonetheless, the president insisting this is an historic breakthrough. while this certainly may be an incremental improvement, something that will widen the availability of plasma, to call this a breakthrough is simply not the case. the president insisting he was able to overcome what he called a logjam at the fda. >> well, i think there might

have been a holdup, but we broke the logjam over the last week, to be honest. i think that there are people in the fda and actually in your larger department that can see things being held up and wouldn't mind so much. that's my opinion. a very strong opinion. and that's for political reasons. this has nothing to do with politics. this has to do with life and death. >> reporter: those comments followed a tweet that the president issued, in which he made similar accusations against the fda. accusing members of the, quote, unquote, the deep state trying to undermine him by slow-walking approval of the coronavirus vaccine and treatment. we should note there is no evidence to back that up. what's interesting is the president appears to have put some significant political pressure on the fda to grant this emergency use authorization. and the timing, of course, is very notable. the president is set to begin the republican national committee over this coming week, and the president certainly looking for a win. so this appears to be the one

that the president was able to find for himself. but, again, the way that the president described this as a breakthrough, something historic. not the case. jury is still out on convalescent plasma, but there is some promising data behind it. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> the head of the food and drugs administration denies his agency was pressured by the white house. dr. stephen hahn says he's never been asked to make a decision based on politics and that the decisions at the fda are based solely on data, but some are questioning the move. >> this was surprising to a lot of people. just a couple, three days ago on the fda's website itself, it said there was not enough evidence to support an emergency use authorization. that was just, you know, a couple of days ago. it's not clear at all that there was any more data presented. i've gone through their memorandum, decision memorandum, and i don't see any new data being presented, so i know that

coronavirus task force members did not get any new data, so it's really unclear to me what exactly happened here. >> other medical experts are also weighing in, echoing dr. sanjay gupta's findings that there is still not enough data to know how effective convalescent plasma is. one vaccine expert says he believes the white house may have bullied the fda into giving emergency use authorization. >> you have to prove that the plasma made a difference, and all the data so far really haven't done that. and that's why it is that the fda was -- now we get an approval and the question is, are there more data that we haven't seen? if there were more data, you would think they would have presented those data because it only makes their case better. by not presenting those new data, you wonder if there are any new data, and if there aren't, then what just happened is the administration just bullied the fda into approving something that they were uncomfortable about approving. >> and democrat james clyburn, chairman of the house select committee on the coronavirus

crisis, had this reaction. i'm troubled by the president's desperate and dangerous pattern of pushing unproven treatments, as he did with hydroxychloroquine, and refusing to allow scientists to determine the appropriate authorizations and recommendations with respect to particular therapies. all right. let's bring in dr. keith neil who has over 30 years controlling infectious diseases. he joins us now from wales. thank you so much for speaking with us. a lot to unpack here. and the key question, of course, is is there any proof this works? >> i've not seen any. and ied it two journals and read 100 papers a week on this sort of subject, and i would have expected any successful trial that is going to hit "the new england journal of medicine" or "lancet" very quickly. >> so what do you think is behind this? why would they seemingly rush this? >> i'm not really sure because i'm not how the legislation

licensing works in the states. it certainly wouldn't happen in this country, although you can have compassionate use. that's mainly use for people with terminal cancer and new drugs that haven't really been even close to being tested. what worries me is you've given the plasma to 70,000 people and it would be easy to get 70,000 controls. and we'd have the answer, does it work? i think one of the big criticisms, particularly that could be made of the chinese, is that no trials were done properly in the initial stages. so we never found out what worked and it showed the recovery trial in the united kingdom to show the benefits of how dangerous hydroxychloroquine was. >> okay. so let's take it from the other side then. the commissioner of the food and drug administration says the treatment was safe and had the potential to be helpful. so with such a deadly disease, even if we don't have solid proof that it works, isn't there mario merit to the argument if it's

not outright dangerous we should try everything? >> i'm not quite sure we can even say it's not outright dangerous. giving a blood product which could transmit infections, although this would be screened out in most cases, and not do any good. we also know that some of the problems with covid-19 are due to an overstimulation of the immune system. and too many antibodies, particularly from those people who were seriously ill -- who made more of it. it might actually be deleterious. we just don't know. >> wow. so, you know, we know that just recently the fda wasn't ready to approve this and then president trump tweeted that the fda is slow-walking a treatment and then, presto, it was approved. it's hard not to be under the impression that the fda has been pressured here. so as a scientist, how do you feel, for instance, that president trump is suggesting that it's the deep state rather than the scientific method

that's delaying potential treatments? >> i think there is always a caution on behalf of the regulators so they don't unleash treatments that are dangerous. i think the best case would be for the fda to actually publish the evidence used to make this decision and other regulatory bodies around the world can use this information to make informed decisions. >> there seems to be a rush to release things. we've seen, you know, russia rush to release a vaccine without full trials. is there a danger here at the u.s. administration might try to approve a vaccine that hasn't been, you know, fully tested before the election and what are the dangers if politics are driving the response here instead of science? >> i think if you listen to -- read what the russian scientists actually have written then putin's licensing of the vaccine was really a political publicity stunt. they openly admit they've only given it to 98 people who have actually shown an antibody response and they had just

started the phase iii trials. that makes it only the sixth vaccine to enter this phase iii trial. i do think the one thing that we do need to know is whether the vaccine actually works. and does any protection. because large swaths of the population, particularly those under 45, are at very low risk of getting covid side effects or serious disease. and giving them an unsafe or useless vaccine would -- entails risks that are not necessary. >> hmm. well, listen, i really appreciate your insight in this as we're trying to understand all of this. thank you very much, dr. keith neil. >> thank you. the u.s. republican national convention is set to kick off just hours from now. the party announced sunday it will not adopt a new platform. it will instead maintain the party's 2016 platform and support president donald trump's

agenda. cnn's ryan nobles is in charlotte, north carolina with a preview of this made-for-tv event. >> reporter: the city of charlotte, north carolina will play an important role in the republican national convention this year. perhaps not the big role they expected to play when they won the bid for the convention more than a year ago, but a lot of the activity taking place here on monday will be very important for president trump's campaign. that's where the delegates will come from around the country, more than 300 of them, and cast their ballots for president trump and mike pence to be the ticket for this year's presidential election. and president trump will actually be here, he and the vice president will thank the delegates for their participation. he'll deliver brief remarks. now, this is not his formal acceptance. that's not going to happen until later in the week on thursday when president trump officially accepts his nomination, and that will happen at the white house. in fact, most of the activity will shift from charlotte to washington almost immediately. many of the speeches that will take place that happen live will originate out of washington, and

that includes speeches from second lady karen pence and melania trump will also deliver her remarks from washington as well. the vice president, mike pence, will travel to baltimore and deliver his remarks from fort mchenry. now, this is something that president trump has a lot riding on. he, of course, a former reality television show star himself. he's told his team that he wants this convention to be bigger and better than what we saw from the democrats last week. he's even brought in some of his former colleagues from "the apprentice" to help produce all of the events that take place this week. a lot riding for president trump. we shouldn't forget that there are two hurricanes that could make their way on to the gulf coast some time during the week of this convention, which could add a further complication to this entire process. ryan nobles, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. >> and you will want to tune in to cnn for coverage of the republican national convention starting monday at 7:00 p.m. eastern here in the u.s. and for our international viewers, that's 12:00 a.m. tuesday in london. 7:00 a.m. tuesday in hong kong.

less than a day before the start of the convention, word came that mr. trump will lose a top aide. white house counselor kellyanne conway revealed late sunday that she will leave her post at the end of this month to focus more on her family. she's scheduled to speak at the rnc, but it's unclear whether she will still do so. and her husband and prominent trump critic, george conway, is also leaving his job for the same reason. he announced on twitter sunday that he will quit the anti-trump group the lincoln project. we'll have much more on the republican national convention later in the show. but after the break, we'll be talking to the owner of a winery in california who is facing losses from hundreds of wildfires in the state. plus, two powerful storms are heading toward the u.s. gulf coast. the first could make landfall in just a matter of hours. officials are issuing urgent warnings. >> these storms are not to be taken lightly, especially because there are two of them.

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the u.s. gulf coast is bracing for not one but two powerful storms back-to-back this week. first up is marco, downgraded a short time ago from a hurricane to a tropical storm. it's expected to make landfall along the louisiana coast in the coming hours. and following right behind it is tropical storm laura. laura's forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before heading towards some of the same areas in marco's path. evacuations have been ordered for parts of louisiana. and you can see here in this video the long line of traffic leaving the town of grand isle. the storm killed at least nine people in the caribbean over the weekend. our martin savidge is in new orleans, louisiana with more on the double threat storms barrelling towards the u.s. >> reporter: by themselves each storm would be considered manageable by emergency officials, but combine their impacts and no one's really sure what to expect. locally, officials have said

residents had until nightfall sunday to finish their preparations, saying wherever you are when it gets dark is where you should plan to be for the next 72 hours. for the most part, this should be a shelter in place event, meaning most people will ride out the storm where they live. there are some mandatory evacuations in coastal areas, particularly those prone to flooding areas outside the flood protection system, but there is no evacuation order for the city of new orleans. the real fear is flooding. the storm surge and rains from marco will likely cause some flooding. the problem will be can the waters recede either naturally or be pumped out mechanically before the next storm, laura, brings more flooding potential? the governor is warning there may not be enough time or opportunity between the two storms to carry out significant rescue operations. if people become trapped by high water. officials are warning for the first 72 hours many in the pathinpaths

of these two storms could be on their own. back to you. >> all right. let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us with more. what's the latest. >> yeah, kim, you know, looking at these two storms, of course, a lot of people talking about the dual nature of storms coming in one after another with marco approaching land within the next few hours potentially and raining itself out along the coast there. laura, really, of the two storms is the one meteorologists here, at least at cnn weather, are looking at very carefully because the significance could be far more great here moving forward as far as how expansive and how dangerous a system it could become. here is tropical storm laura. marco, parked just off the coast of the state of louisiana. approaches land here we think sometime in the afternoon or evening hours of monday. could make landfall on monday or possibly skirt the coastline, maybe landfall as late as tuesday. now, there is also a third possibility that it never makes landfall and rains itself out. that's because quite a bit of

sheer against the storm system breaking it apart. what is it has already done is put quite a bit of water in motion. as much as 4 to 6-foot storm surge is possible, right around 2 meters in grand isle in particular where we have mandatory evacuations in place. then you notice what's happening on the heels of this, tropical storm laura. this particular storm has already made impacts across the island of is piano la. this time tomorrow we could be looking at laura into the gulf of mexico. beyond this, we do know conditions are very much conducive for rapid development. so going from a tropical storm to a hurricane even potentially up to a major hurricane, a category 3. forecast models right now put it at a strong category 2 as it approaches land wednesday evening, but the concern is that the conditions are favorable for this to strengthen rather

quickly. we've seen storms in the gulf intensify rather quickly. that is what we're watching for this particular storm later in the week. highlighted are some of the offshore oil platforms. you'll notice both marco and laura forecasts over this particular region. of the 600 platforms about 100 have been evacuated already, kim. certainly a big story developing for lots of people. >> absolutely. lots of possibilities. all of them troubling. meteorologist pedram javaheri, appreciate it. right now california is reporting more than 600 new wildfires in just over a week. scenes like the one you're seeing here are happening across the state. it's caused by a combination of warm and dry weather and some 12,000 lightning strikes since mid-august. these fires have scorched more than 1.3 million acres up and down the state. the governor of california has declared a statewide emergency and the white house has approved a major disaster declaration.

i'd like to bring in now the owner of la borgata winery and distillery. thank you so much for joining us. i know it must be difficult given how much you've lost. for viewers, take us through what you're seeing behind you there. where exactly are you? >> right now, i'm in front of what was our winery. we had built this about 15 years ago. my dad and i built the whole thing here. moving out to california to -- to follow our dream. and build the winery. you can see the tasting room behind us and some holing tanks. you can also see the forklift and a whole bunch of bottles. and it's just -- i had to watch it burn down. and we had no warning.

so it's pretty rough for me and my whole family. >> oh, my gosh, i can imagine how heartbreaking that must be to see that all just erupt into flames. i know from covering the fires in paradise and elsewhere in california, often you just have moments to decide whether to stay or make a run for it. take us through exactly what happened. >> well, i was staying in a town that's very close to vacaville in vallejo because i needed to work early the next morning. so my sister called me and she said there's a mandatory evacuation. and this was at, like, 12:00 at night. and so i hopped in the car and i had to drive in the back way down over the hills to get over here. and when i left that day, i mean, the fire was so far away.

it was in napa. and it was probably, like, 20 miles away. and so from 5:00 in the evening until, like, midnight, it must have traveled that far and the wind just picked and up it pushed it over the hills. and when i came down from the hill down looking towards our property, i could just see, like, the flames were everywhere. it looked like armageddon from the north to the south. you can see it all over the hills coming in in different veins. it was terrifying. and so when i got here, you know, we loaded up our cats that we had and we just grabbed what we could out of the house that was important to us. mostly like keepsakes and things like that. and i hooked up my tool trailer to my pickup truck and everyone

had left. and i said, i -- i had to leave my chickens and my goats behind, which was -- it was very trying for me because i raised those goats since they were little. and they were here. and i had them to eat down the grass behind and around our property. to protect it from fires. and so i had to say good-bye. and as i did, one of my cats that took off came running up to me. so i grabbed her, i put her in my truck, and we drove out, and the last thing that i saw was just up behind the hills behind our house, the flames coming in and you could hear the trees exploding. and, i mean, it's a very, very

terrifying thing because the embers were flying up and over and just landing all over the place. and it was like -- they called it a firestorm. and i can attest to that -- that is probably the scariest thing because the fire could be completely surround us -- could completely surround you and luckily, luckily in this whole thing, we got here the next day. we were able to come back up to the property. and the fire had gone completely around our house but it wiped out the vineyard, it wiped out our tool shed, and it then came around and burned the distillery and the winery. >> wow.

>> so only the house is left standing. but miraculously, the goats were all here and the area that they had eaten down had protected the house. so i, you know, i just am so appreciative of them. i was so happy to see them. and then all of the chickens. and so -- and one of our other lost cats that was there was -- i was so happy about that. i think the hardest thing for me is that i lost sentimental stuff, you know? my dad and i built this together. and there's so many things, like his press that he brought from italy. the stained glass that he, you know, put into the winery. the -- all of just the pictures that were in there of different things. and those are the sentimental

things. because everything else can be replaced, but all of the stuff that we put into it was -- >> well, you have your house. you have your lives. where there's life, there's hope. we wish you the very best as you try to rebuild and carry on, as so many in california have had to do over the decades through these fires. thank you so much for speaking with us. >> i really appreciate your time. my friends lisa set up a gofundme. and i'm -- the insurance can pay so much, but i think for everyone, all of the farmers, all of the people that live up here been they all need help right now. and we're doing what we can to help other people also. so just keep them in mind, too. >> mm-hmm. well, we've seen the community already rally in these circumstances. so we can expect that to happen again in this case. thank you again for speaking to

us. we appreciate it. well, u.s. democrats took center stage last week. now it's president donald trump's turn to formalize his party's nomination. what to expect at the republican national convention straight ahead. it's pretty inspiring the way families

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where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? >> a litany of questionable statements from u.s. president donald trump about unproven medical treatments for covid-19. on sunday, mr. trump hailed the decision to authorize a treatment that shows promise but it still unproven, the use of convalescent plasma. the announcement came less than a day before the republican national convention begins. some elements of the event are still being worked out. mr. trump says he wants to send a positive message. >> what's the overall message? >> i think it's positive. >> why should people vote for you? >> i think the overall is going to be a very positive, as antetokounmpoed to a dark, a very, very positive message. and positive on the economy. we're going to have a great year next year. people find it hard to believe. you've seen the numbers.

they all said we're not going to have a "v." the way we're going, we're going to have a super "v" and we haven't even gotten the additional stimulus that the democrats should have approved and they probably will because i think they probably have a lot of political pressure. no, i think it's going to be very, very positive. >> meanwhile, a new cbs/u gov. poll finds him trailing joe biden by a ten-point margin. we're joined now by richard john somebody, lecturer in american politics and author of "the end of the second reconstruction selena obama, trump, and the crisis of civil rights." thank you very much for joining us. >> good morning. >> as the poll we just mentioned suggests, you know, for trump, ground to make up and republicans are hoping the convention will give them a boost. can we, you know, we're going to expect lots of trump -- trump appearing almost every night, i guess, or every night. lots of trumps speaking. does that suggest it's not

really about a platform or issues, it's about him? what are we expecting to see and hear? >> yeah, i mean, trump is -- trump is underwater at the moment. he's got to really land it this week. i think. you know, the election is getting closer and closer. and for all of the talk from republicans about polls tightening and so on, they haven't really tightened nearly enough. and the first mail-in ballots go out in north carolina in two weeks' time, so the clock is ticking. i think the republican party is -- is the party of trump. i mean, that's not a unique phenomena. the democratic party under obama very much became him party. it's what we call executive-centered partisanship. the president as party leader is a very important force, but, yeah, the recent announcement that the republicans are unlikely to even write a party platform this year, you know, with all of the issues is -- it shows you how focused, laser-focused this party is not

so much on any particular given policy agenda as as much as it is the leadership of donald trump. they're staking pretty much everything on that. >> among those speaking, the couple who wielded guns at black lives matter protesters. you study race and politics. does it feel to you as though race is driving this election, perhaps even more so than in 2008? >> well, i think -- i think race is always a very significant background factor in american politics. and that runs right through american history. i think it's more visible in a sense for -- particularly for white voters this time, and i think that president trump, you know, the key demographic that he is -- one of the key demographics that he's suffering with at the moment are white, suburban women. he won the white female vote last time in spite of people's expectations that women would vote for hillary clinton, white women would vote for hillary clinton, but this time it looks

like he's in trouble. so that suburban couple with the guns, for example, or that couple with the guns,s for, i suppose in some ways they're meant to be emblematic of a certain fear among a segment of white suburb yeah aboia about c safety. president trump is going to make the appeal vote for me and i will keep you safe from the nefarious forces that always has a racial undertone to it. >> we're going to hear the phrase democrats want to destroy our suburbs. they've already been saying that a lot. so now republicans are pointing the finger at democrats, saying that their election strategy basically boils down to orange man bad. we know that negative partisanship, which is, you know, the fact that voters dislike of the opposition party has grown in leaps and bounds in the u.s. so how much will that fuel the

republicans' convention and the election going forward, do you think? >> yeah, i mean, first thing i should say is i think that's a slight mischaracterization of the democrats' strategy. i thanksgiving the negative partisanship is very strong. but, actually, i think it's playing less -- the democrats are relying less on it this year than they were four years ago, in the sense that joe biden is actually a more popular candidate than hillary clinton was by quite some measure. so he's got a kind of positive aspect to him. i think what the republicans, therefore, are going to try to do is try to run up negative sentiments about joe biden. at the moment, joe biden is not seen as a -- as a frightening figure in a way where hillary clinton for some voters represented some kind of dangerous change in their way of life. joe biden doesn't give off that signal. but i think that what they want to try to do over the next week is to really make biden a frightening choice for though voters who aren't so happy with how president trump has handled

things recently. but are tempted by joe biden. if they can sort of say voting for joe biden brings behind it all this baggage at the far-left. he's the trojan horse of the far-left and so on. that's the message i think they're going to try to hammer home against the democrats this week. >> it will be a fascinating week for sure. thank you so much for your analysis. richard johnson, appreciate it. >> thank you. in a break from longstanding tradition, a source tells us that the u.s. secretary of state will make a speech to the republican national convention this week. and mike pompeo will do so in a recorded message from jerusalem. he arrive in israel a short time ago as he kicks off a tour of the middle east and africa. oren liebermann is in jerusalem for us. oren, pompeo delivering that speech -- well, we've lost him. perhaps we can speak to him a

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in new zealand, survivors of the christchurch mosque shootings have shared harrowing stories during the gunman's trial. it was the first day of a four-day sentencing hearing for brenton tarrant. he faces life in prison. tarrant stands convicted over the shootings in march last year which killed 51 people. the mass murderer targeted the al-nur mosque and lynwood islamic center. he pleaded guilty to murder and terror charges. as a result of his actions, most semiautomatic weapons are banned in new zealand. let's bring in senior correspondent i've watson in hong kong.

addressing the gunman. you've been following this for us. what can you tell us? >> well, you have to remember back to march 15th of last year. it was, as some new zealanders described it to me later, like new zealand's own 9/11. the deadliest terror attack in the country's modern history. with 51 people killed and dozens more, some of them terribly wounded. so the chief suspect here, brenton tarrant, has confessed to the 51 murders, to committing an act of terror, and attempted murders as well. and in this first hearing, day of hearings, the crown prosecutors laid out a whole narrative here of evidence indicating that tarrant had been planning this attack for a year and a half running up to it. that he had been flying a drone over the al-nur mosque in christchurch.

that he -- beforehand. that he had been studying the islamic calender to find days when there would be more potential victims in the mosques. and that he confessed to police after he was captured that he was on his way to a third mosque and that he planned to kill more people and he had wished to set fire, to burn these mochsques dn to the ground. he was a self-avowed white supremacist. in addition to the evidence that was laid out, some of the scores of victims and relatives of victims are getting a chance to make their own statements. take a listen to what one grieving mother of a slain man had to say directly to the man who confessed to killing her son. >> i decided to forgive you, mr. tarrant, because i don't have

hate, i don't have revenge, and in our muslim faith we say. [ speaking foreign language ] . it means that if we are able to forgive, forgive. i forgive you. >> now, eyewitnesss say that tarrant was pretty emotionless throughout the first day of hearings, but in response to that message of forgiveness from the mother of a man he killed, possibly at pointblank range, she -- he put his hand to his face and appeared to rub his eye at one moment. don't know what was going through this man's head at that time. another testimony, though, called for the death sentence against brenton tarrant. that does not exist in the new zealand penal code. his maximum sentence that he

could face mandatory is a life sentence. a judge could decide to remove any chance of parole. kim? >> all right. thank you very much, ivan watson, in hong kong. we appreciate it. well, we're following a breaking story in wisconsin. protests have erupted in the city of kenosha after a police officer shot a black man. the governor tweeted that jacob blake was shot in the back multiple times in broad daylight. a graphic video purported to be of the shooting shows at least two officers following blake with guns drawn as he walks from the passenger side of a vehicle to the driver's side. now, cnn isn't going to show the video right now, but it's purported to show an officer pointing his gun as he holds on to the man's shirt and at least seven gunshots are heard before the victim goes limp. the governor said he doesn't have all the details yet, but he says what we know for certain is

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well, bayern munich have won it all. fans of the german team are celebrating after they won against paris in the champions league final. now the top european football competition. the circumstances were, of course, unique this year with no fans allowed to celebrate with the players due to the coronavirus pandemic. cnn world sport contributor darren lewis joins us. darren, i watched it. it wasn't a classic given the low scoring game, but i thought the quality on display made it compelling. bayern so dominant this year. psg, the wait continues. break it down for us. >> well, i tend to agree, kim, not the display of shock and awe that we've seen from bayern munich in the earlier rounds including, of course, that seismic 8-2 victory of barcelona in the quarterfinals. but, you know, this was a performance of ruthless

efficiency. to win this sixth european cup and only their first since 2013. they've also made it only the first time in 35 major european games that the celebrated front line from psg of neymar, mbappe, failed to score. this has been the climax, kim, of a campaign with so many subplots for bayern munich. for example, the match scored with the wonderful header in the 59th minute, he's had an injury-interrupted campaign, and he actually started the match as something of a surprise because many people expected the influential croatian winger perisic to start ahead of him. he started and more than justified his conclusion. then, you know, you have the bayern munich coach, the 55-year-old, he started the season as an interim coach. he was only put into the role as

the main man after the former bayern coach was sacked in november. he'd fallen out with his players. they weren't doing well enough in the german domestic league, and yet he's now added the champions league to the bundesliga and is on a run, kim, of 21 successive matches. the young germany winger who was told four years ago by the british coach that he wasn't good enough for the second tier side west brom. he is now the king of the world, as are bayern. psg would love to do but bayern celebrating this morning. >> absolutely. all right, well thank you so much, darren lewis in london. appreciate it. and that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber and i'll be back in just a moment with more news. do stick with us. hike!

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