devastating wildfires across the western united states. almost 100 fires burning, scorching nearly 5 million acres and being blamed for at least 28 deaths. plus, on the other side of the country, sally is churning in the gulf of mexico. evacuations are under way as the tropical storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the u.s. coast. also this hour, thousands rally for president trump's reelection in nevada, as he, again, says a covid vaccine will be ready soon despite experts

saying we are still a ways off. live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, welcome, i'm nataiey allen, and you're watching "cnn newsroom." and thank you so much for joining me. our top stories, we're following two developing stories. the record wildfires in the western u.s. and fears of a hurricane in the south. this is one of nearly 100 fires burning up and down the west coast. they have scorched a staggering 4.7 million acres for our international viewers, that's around 2 million hectares, at least 28 people are confirmed dead in these fires, and dozens

of others remain missing. on the other side of the country, the governor of louisiana declaring a state of emergency as tropical storm sally churns in the gulf. sally is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by the time it makes landfall, around the louisiana, mississippi border on tuesday morning. we'll get more on that story in just a few moments. but right now we want to talk about those fires of the one of the states getting hit very hard by the fires is oregon. camilla bernal has our report. >> reporter: the flames here are still out of contro. and at the moment, we're at 0% containment the on top of that, you add the smoke, the very thick, heavy smoke that makes it hard to breathe and hard to see but makes it hard for the firefighters as well. in some instances, they're not able to see the fire line. they're also not able to fight the fires in the air because of the conditions right now.

governor brown telling us that this is really the worst air quality in the world. and she does say that there is still a number of people who are reported to be missing. so that is the big concern at the moment. for the people who live in this area, they're of course so worried about their homes. we spoke to one woman who lives up the road, mrs. brown, and she says she has a camera up in her home, and she's been looking at her came ra day and night. she says she can't sleep. she's thankful because she's one of the only ones who knows her house is okay. but her friends and neighbors already know that when they come back, there will be nothing left. >> it's unreal. you don't really, you can't really fathom what is going on, you know. you think this isn't really happening, but guess we better be prepared. you take what you think, you know, and you just get out. >> reporter: and firefighters say the smoke and air conditions will remain the same for the next couple of days. they say we may get some pockets

of clean air, but for the most part, this smoke is going to stay here in this state. they also say the fires are so massive and so large they will not be put out completely until they begin to see some rain in the fall. so this firefight here is just beginning. reporting in marion county, camilla bernal, cnn. from oregon now california where some of the worst fires ever in state history are burning. cnn's paul vercammen is near los angeles. >> reporter: with this bobcat fire and so many of the fires out west, not too far from suburban neighborhoods, fire will be burning in the canyons. this is a threat. listen to this crackling. so what firefighters are keeping their eyes on is wlofrnlt these flames start to send up sparks and embers and push back up to

the neighborhoods. in los angeles county alone in the huge swath of the foothills you have evacuation warnings because it's difficult for them to get out. the chief of the forest service here telling me usually in a fire like this he would have up to 1500 firefighters battling the fire which has burned around 30,000 acres. i'm paul vercammen. firefighters are battling more than two dozen major fires in california in some places where the flames have now passed, people are beginning to return to check on their homes and their animals. brad thomas is one of those people. he recorded this video here of where his hope once stood. it's gone. the flames had destroyed thousands of homes and structures and businesses in

california alone. brad and his wife kelly are just two of the many people who have lost nearly everything in these fires. and they are with us now. brad and kelly thomas are on the phone. and i want to thank you both for talking with us at such a, just a terrible time in your lives and first of all say i'm so very sorry for what you have lost, and first up, how are you both doing right now? >> we've definitely been better. but morale is high. >> that's wonderful to hear, yeah, go ahead, brad. >> it's been a rough few days, that's for sure. >> i know at first you were staying in a walmart parking lot when you escaped. now you're in the back yard of friends camping, and you're getting support from people. but very to ask you, brad, i know kelly, you got out first, the order to evacuate came on tuesday, but brad, you stayed behind. tell us about that.

>> well, i felt it was more important to try to save my house than try to remove my belongings. and my best friend stayed with me, and, you know, we stayed till the end. we stayed, dowsing my house with water trailer load after water trailer load, shooting the water into my house. to try to save it, with sprinklers going on top of my house. and, you know, we stayed till the last minute until we saw about a 60-foot wall of fire, of orange, just coming upon us. and as far as to the left and right as can you look, till it started just heating your face. that's when we left. and we made it down the street. the firefighters had pulled out of our area, and they said berry creek has been compromised of the you kno

the, you know, we wanted to hang out a little longer. the propane tanks started to blow up. two dogs were still at my neighbor's house. two of my friends rode back into the fire to rescue those dogs, and they did. we made it out, and then we became stuck. we got cut off, and we had to ride it out, kind of hopscotching around from the flames and dodging, you know, where the fire was all night, with the fire department because we were all stuck together. >> i can't -- go ahead. >> it was the most insane thing i've ever seen, i imagine it was what war is like. with propane tanks blowing every few seconds and just literally a wall of death coming upon you, you know, of the orange flames. and, you know, it's just unreal, it's unreal. >> we see here the video of the

constant flames and cannot imagine what people go through, like the two of you trying to get out of that. thank goodness you got out of there alive, and i know you had lots of animals as well, and i hope that they're okay. i'm sure you're worried about them. and kelly, i was reading that, is this correct, that your insurance had just been canceled before this fire? >> yes, well, when we paid off our house, it was no longer, what is that called, honey, where -- >> in california, as soon as you pay off your home loan, if you don't have a very wide road in a rural area that's consider add high-fire risk zone, they drop you as soon as your home loan is, you know, you've paid off your house. and that was us. we had some neighbors that

encroached the road. and the road was not up to the insurance company's standards. and yes, we were dropped. we had a very good policy. and unfortunately, it was gone. with that. and we were uninsurable. and we lost everything. i own a by-the-hour tractor business. i lost my excavator. you've seen the video, my bobcat survived. but i lost my excavator, other key things to my business. we lost our house, our food truck business. we just got a food truck paid off, and we were about to open that business for our community, which has no food that you can come and buy, you know. >> mm-hm. >> and we literally lost everything in a matter of a few hours. >> just unbelievable. i cannot fathom that, and i

looked this up before i saw that i was going to be interviewing you, and the area you live is just so beautiful. >> it was. >> stunning. >> yeah. >> it was very beautiful. >> so i want to ask kelly. i know you're probably just so thankful to be alive, but can you go back to this area? would you feel confident rebuilding again if you're able to? >> absolutely. i love our home. and i'm anxious to get back. it's probably not going to look very pretty for a few years, but, you know, it will grow back. just like we'll all rebuild. >> all right, are you fearful, though, with the wildfires that we're seeing in california and the longer burning seasons that are happening and the heat that it's going to happen again? >> not, not anytime in the next, you know, say, ten years. we're pretty scorched up there. so it's kind of hard for a

wildfire to hit us like it did again. at least, it's going to take some time. >> i'd like to touch on that one. our animals did make it, due to a very good clearing on me and my friend's part. we created a four-acre pasture for our animals. and they made it because of the clearing we did for them and all our animals did survive. you know, as far as berry creek, you know, this fire, it started in the lightning complex that hit sometime in mid august, and, you know, the fire, the berry fire's been burning since around august 17th. nothing was done to save our community. no fire lines were put in. and i understand that all of california had lightning fires, and, you know, all of california's burning.

but nothing was done. they let this fire burn, and they let it burn and burn because it was in rural force. but nothing was done to save our community. >> that's got to hurt even more. >> yes, it does. until the last minute. the fire alert went off at, i believe, somewhere, it was afternoon. right after 12:00, you know, p.m. and i had the morning i had went up to my property that's in upper berry creek, and i had looked at the smoke coming. i used google maps and cal fire maps to figure out where the fire line was. and dropped a pin on my property and drug their measuring, measuring tape device to the fire line that cal fire showed on their map, and it was 8.9

miles away. >> oh, my goodness. >> so there was no warning for -- i knew the fire was going to get us about three hours before the first warning went out. >> well, you got out du-- >> it was .9 miles. >> we're so glad that you're okay and your animals are okay. i'm reading here, i love it that you're animal lovers. six dogs, a bird, a zebra and some cats. i'm glad they're all okay. we'll be thinking of you and your neighbors as well. brad thomas,ica kelly thomas, w wish you all the best. >> thank you, natalie. >> so hard to fathom what people are going through. now we want to turn to another situation on the other side of this country. residents of the u.s. gulf coast are bracing for the impact of

tropical storm sally. it's expected to become a hurricane by monday evening and make landfall along the mississippi-louisiana coast. >> reporter: this is sally, a record-breaking storm taking aim at the gulf coast. the city of new orleans is getting ready. >> everyone needs to take this very seriously. >> reporter: and for good reason. the state is still recovering from hurricane laura. new orleans is still helping out about 12,000 evacuees from that storm all while trying to get ready for another storm heading their way. john bel edwards has declared a state of emergency and is asking people to make sure they check their emergency supply kits. sally is the 18th-named storm on record. the last time we saw the 18th storm this early was the same year hurricane katrina hit in

2005. >> i am issuing a mandatory evacuation order for residents outside of our levee protection system. >> sally is expected to get stronger over the weekend, making landfall on the gulf coast early next week. meteorologist alison chinchara says the real concern is how much this storm is expected to slow down. >> notice that cone on the backside begins to get rather large. once it gets close to the coastline it's anticipated to slow incredibly. >> reporter: and when it does, it could dump more than a foot of rain along the gulf coast. i'm brit conway reporting. let's get more now on the storm and the deadly western wildfires from derrick van daek busy day for you u it loo. it looks like not just louisiana and mississippi but could go

into florida. >> it will be felt in many locations of the gulf states. your interview a minute ago, talking about the potential hurricane impacts gets me thinking about our warming planet and the connections to extreme weather events like our wildfire seasons getting extended, starting earlier, the acreage being burned is increasing over the western u.s. in terms of hurricanes, we're seeing stronger storms get even stronger and heavy rain events becoming more frequent with tropical systems just like this. this is tropical storm sally, and it formed very quickly, just off the southwestern portions of florida within the past 12-18 hours. so there wasn't really a lot of indication that this system would develop, but here it is. we've got warm, tropical waters over the gulf of mexico and hurricane watches in place for southeastern louisiana, the coastal areas of alabama and mississippi, with tropical storm watches, tending across the big bend of florida.

here's the official forecast track from the national hurricane center. we're expecting an update to this at 5:00 a.m. iron tieaster local. it's projected to be a category 1 hurricane. the hurricane center is projecting this to slow down in forward speed. of course that has all kinds of ramifications on the amount of rain we would see with the system and the potential storm impacts. you're looking at one computer model's extrapolation of what could potentially happen. you can see the center ever the sto storm, making landfall near the new orleans region. that's where the greatest storm surge potential is. two to four feet along the alabama and mississippi border, with lesser extents of storm surge across the big bend, but with a slowing system we have

the potential to be measuring, get this, raufl, ninfall not ins but in feet over the next few days. we also have had, this is hurricane paulette i should say across the central atlantic. why am i showing this? because it has the potential to bring impacts to bermuda. category 1, maybe a low 2. i have to switch gears and talk about the wildfires. the air quality is degrade. you recognize this land mark in seattle. this is the space needle. that is a satellite image taken from a year ago. this is the satellite image taken from yesterday. that's what it should look like this time of year. this is what it looks like blanketed in smoke. now we can see the areas in the city locations that are just being ravaged by this loi

quality of air, and satellite maejs tell it all. we're comparing it to what would be beijing for instance. and the national hurricane center has poor air quality alerts across the western u.s. still elevated fire children today, something we have to monitor closely, natalie? all right, now we want to tell you about another story developing in southern california. police are searching for a gunman who brazenly shot two los angeles county sheriff's department officers. it happened in the city of compton, about 16 miles south of l.a. saturday night, outside a train station. >> suspect apreachproached them behind. he walked along the passenger side of the car.

he acted as if he was going to walk past the car, turned around, raised a pistol and struck the deputies. the suspect fled on foot, northbound from the shooting scene and out of view. >> now i want to show you video of that shooting. it is disturbing, that appears to be from a surveillance camera. you can see the man approach the car and fire. both officers were hit several times. they've had surgery. they are both in critical condition. one is a 31-year-old mother. the other is 24. u.s. president donald trump, who has been running for reelection on a law and order platform, reposted the video on twitter warning, quote, animals that must be hit hard. the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, but that's not stopping the president from acting as if the danger is

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u.s. president donald trump's latest campaign rally is certain to alarm medical experts. despite the threat from coronavirus, huge crowds packed together in nevada saturday night. the flouting of covid-19 guidelines comes as the president is being criticized for down playing the pandemic. our boris sanchez is there in nevada. >> reporter: largely a return to form four president trump in nevada on saturday night. the president speaking to a huge crowd of supporters at a rally in a way that we haven't seen since march in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. the crowd rushing to fill the venue. at one point, grabbing chairs that had been separated, part of social distancing guidelines and rearranging them as they wished. a massive, sizable crowd. the president noticing and apparently getting angry at the media for what he says is an underreporting of the number of supporters that were here. keep in mind, the venue had to

change for this event. it was originally going to be held at the reno-tahoe airport, but that was scrapped, because there's a mandates in the state of nevada, banning gatherings of 50 people or more. the president saying that the campaign got around that by effectively calling this a political protest. a peaceful protest. >> they can have riots, and they can have all sorts of things, and that's okay. you can burn up the house. that's okay, you know? you call this, we call this a protest, because if you docall a protest, you're allowed to have it. so if anybody asks you outside, this is called a friendly protest, okay? it's true. >> reporter: the president railing against democrats, repeatedly going after joe biden, insulting his intelligence, his cognitive abilities as well. the president also trying to make the case that he is the person to lead the country through an economic rebound because of the crushing shutdown as a result of the coronavirus

pandemic. the president saying that the country is turn beiing the corn despite what we've heard from a number of health experts within his own administration. president trump, again, returning to form, speaking candidly to his supporters, and they ate it up. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in minden, nevada. in washington, a federal official tells cnn, a trump appoint tee pushed to change reports by the centers for disease control tracking the coronavirus response. the official says the cdc believed the appointee, a communications worker with the department of health and human services did not want the reports to contradict the president. mr. trump admits down playing the pandemic. the department wants to make sure science-based data and not, quote, ulterior, deep-state

motives, end quote drives the statement. the phase three trials were put on hold a few days ago after a volunteer got an unexplained illness. cnn's scott mcclain is in london right now following this, and talk about the scope of this trial so we can appreciate how big it is. we know that one person fell ill, but it's now moving forward. are yo >> yeah, you're right. this trial is massive. we're talking about 50,000 people who have gotten the vaccine or the placebo. excuse me, 18,000 have gotten the vaccine or placebo. the goal is to put it in 50,000. the person who had the unexplained illness was from the uk but the trial was paused around the world. so the independent review board

which looks at unexplained illness, adverse reactions to the vaccine has given the go-ahead for the trial to continue, and so has the uk's health regulator. but in order to continue in other countries, the company, astrazeneca, needs to get the permission of the health administrator in each country they are operating in, and there are a lot of them. we know that earlier this week the director of the national institutes of health in the u.s. had told the senate, a senate committee, that it was a spinal cord problem, quote-unquote, but the company the same day denied that it was a condition called transverse mil transverse mylitis, and that there would be no definitive diagnosis until there are more tests. but generally, when a trial has to be put on hold, the first thing they have to do is figure out whether the person had the

vaccine or placebo, and if it was the vaccine they obviously have to figure out whether it was a coincidence or something caused by the vaccine. the company came out and said there was another pause in july because of an undiagnosed case of multiple sclerosis that they deemed to not be related to the vaccine in any way. and one other thing, the ceo of the company said he believes there could still be a vaccine by the end of the year, despite this setback. >> all right, we'll wait and see. that is promising, and everyone's waiting to see when that will happen. thanks so much, scott, for that latest report. scott mcclain for us. a familiar sight is back in france. coming up, we are live in paris, for the return of the yellow vest protests. mucinex cold & flu all-in-one. fights... oh no. no-no-no. did you really need the caps lock? mucinex cold and flu all-in-one.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom." they're not all wearing yellow, but the yellow vest protests are back in france. and, as can you see, clashes with police, well, they're back, too. the demonstrators marched again through paris on saturday, after a covid-19 hiatus. police used tear gas and detained hundreds of people for questioning. the protests started in 2018 over a plan to hike fuel prices, but they have expanded in their scope. for the latest, cnn's melissa bell is live in paris for us. and melissa, hello to you. why now? what is it that brought people back on the streets?

>> reporter: well, this is, as you say, a movement that will be two years old when we get to the month of november. what we've seen over the course of the last year, natalie, it really lost some of the momentum it had in the beginning and had caused such difficulty to french authorities as they tried to contain it. we had regularly in the first year, big demonstrations every saturday that rocked the french capital and really caused a great deal of damage. for so many months they've been unable to demonstrate because of the covid-19 lockdowns. people are back to school, and people get back on the street to demonstrate the unions after the summer break. this was the first big call to arms once again for the yellow vests. so an important test to see with the covid restrictions and after all this time whether they would manage to get any of that momentum back. really disappointing for the yellow vests. 8,500 turned out nationwide, in paris, 2,500.

that is pretty small compared to the massive demonstrations i was tali telling you about moments ago. the police were taking no chances. they deployed up to 5,000 police men in paris. they were determined not to let the two demonstrations that had been allowed in paris get any your ne yourwhere near that famous avenue. you saw also on some of those pictures very violent scenes at some points. tear gas was used to push them back, and the yellow vetss made their displeasure known. fairly violent schemes. the yellow vests will be quite disappointed, natalie. >> melissa bell following from paris. police in greece clashed with protesters.

for the fourth straight day, migrants have been protesting along the new road where a new camp is expected to be built. a massive fire earlier this week destroyed the old migrant camp in lesbos, the largest camp in greece. and speaking of migrant reports, a new report from the international red cross says migrants and refugees are the least protected and most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. a spokesperson says the coronavirus has been catastrophic for migrants. they partially attribute that to the fact that migrants are disproportionately affected by border closures. they have a higher risk of detention and little access to basic health services. joining me from geneva, switzerland to talk more about it is the secretary-general of the international federation of the red cross. thanks so much for coming on, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk about the

situation, a record number of refugees exist in camps around the world. hows to this pandemic threaten their already-marginalized lives? >> as you mentioned in the introduction, they are disproportionately affected. they live in very crowded conditions. in many places they don't have proper legal status. of course the access to health care facilities are minimal. and, you know, they always have to live in fear at this time. that absolutely creates a condition for the covid-19 virus to spread. as you can see, they cannot maintain physical distancing. the hand washing facilities are not available. this is very, very difficult. in this very overcrowded condition, it's extremely difficult for these migrants and the population to access basic

care. if they're not protected, as you see the virus spreads so fast. if they are not protected we will not be able to protect everyone else. it's so important that the people living in these conditions are given access to health care and provided basic legal access, basic legal provision. otherwise, you know, their conditions will continue to remain terrible. >> what do you know about the spread of covid-19 throughout refugee camps? can you provide us an example of a region or country where people are living that have seen a large number of cases? >> yeah, you know, we just did a quick study in turkey. as you know, they're hosting millions of refugees from syria and many other countries. and what we found was, of course, they have been part of the population, and the country has been affected in quite big manner, but the main thing what

we found was, the effect on them is disproportionately high. almost 70% have lost their basic source of income. if they lose 70% of their basic income, of course that makes it even more difficult. we have seen in bangladesh where we have almost a million people living in a very crowded condition with a very poor hygienic condition. we have also seen the covid spreading there. and it's very difficult for the local health authorities, and the government and organizations like ourselves to provide support in this very, very congested environment, and of course they are living in, you just saw the clip from greece for example. the camp was gutted by fire was meant to host 3,000 people. there were 13,000 people living there, and 4,000 of them were children, and 400 of them were unaccompanied children. and we can find examples, base

sh baseically every one in the world. of course, because the political environment and the challenges, they cannot return back. so basically, aveneverywhere in world we find these people are most affected but least protected. >> are countries doing their part to help support your effort? >> i think, you know, we have been getting a huge support to our covid-19 pandemic, you know, globally, we have launched an appeal of around 3.2 billion to work in 192 countries. so generally, we have been getting very good support, i must say, financially, but there are many of these pockets of vulnerabilities like the migrants, like the refugees. i believe the governments have to do much more than they have been doing at the moment. despite the stigma that can

happen to these populations. i think the governments have to step up their efforts. like the situation in greece, i think there has to be a much stronger, and relieve the burden. >> it's important that they get the help they need. >> absolutely. >> thank you. secretary-general of the international federation of the red cross. thank you so much for what you're doing. >> thank you for having me, natalie. >> sure thing. for the second time in less than a month. israel and a gulf arab state have agreed to normalize relations. how did it happen? what does it mean? we'll have a live report from jerusalem just ahead here. eliminate odor cret instead of just masking it. and is made with three times more odor fighters. with secret, odor is one less thing to worry about. secret.

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the afghan government and taliban will reportedly discuss a cease-fire during peace talks on sunday. the u.s. secretary of state attended the opening ceremony for those talks on saturday in

doha. the taliban are demanding that u.s. troops leave the country, but an afghan official tells turkish media that certain security conditions will have to be met for that to happen. and now, another major development in the middle east. the announcement that israel and the tiny gulf nation of bahrain will form a new partnership. this is the second time in less than a month that an arab gulf state has agreed to establish full, diplomatic relations with israel. israel and the united arab emirates are set to sign their historic dial on tuesday in washington. but there are plenty of detractors to these new agreements. let's bring in oren liebermann in jerusalem to get more perspective on what's behind them and what led up to them, oren. >> reporter: and that will be a four-way meeting on tuesday. it will be the u.s. and israel as well as the united arab emirates and bahrain joining in

with this announcement less than a month after the israel-uae agreement. a big development for president trump and for benjamin netanyahu. both bahrain and the united arab emirates are key allies of the u.s. in the region and part of an anti-iran sunni group. both looking to cash in on benefitting from economy and military and it brings them closer to the white house and trump administration or in two months, if it's not a trump administration to a biden administration. so a win-win both for the uae. the palestinians were furious about the move, calling it a betrayal of the palestinian cause. so what moves do they have? it doesn't look like they have that much leverage.

meanwhile, president trump said the palestinians are welcome to get along. of course it would have to be in the trump administration's vision for peace or it seems the white house is more than happy to sideline them, natalie? >> as you say, they'll be finalizing the uae arrangement in washington. we'll be watching for that. oren liebermann in jerusalem, thank you. we'll be right back.

we have a new term for you, and it's called she-session. it's happening during this pandemic pointing out that the hardest hit when it comes to layoffs have been women. one reason why many have lost their jobs in the united kingdom is because they're moms. they're now taking to the streets and becoming a political force as we show you. >> reporter: with every passing day of the pandemic, new problems are thrown at mothers. the latest for this london community, the closure of a key bridge, which cuts off access to the local school and vital transport links. michelle coulter says she was

forced to turn down work so she can spend hours getting her daughters to and from school. it felt like the last straw. >> i'm not political. i'm just absolutely outraged at what this country is turning into. they can do better, people can do better than this. >> reporter: are you the only mom that's feeling this way? >> no, i'm constantly contacted by groups of mothers who have had enough. through coronavirus it's been women, mothers, who have taken it all. >> reporter: julia llewellyn smith who organized this protest says many are mad at so much more than broken bridges. she calls them rage mum. >> a rage mum is a mum like me who has responsibility for the children, and over the last year we have felt betrayed in every way by our government. no one is supporting us, and we're sick and tired. >> reporter: rage mum is a term

used by patty murray, mothers turning their anger into activism. frustrated and fed up, after months of lockdown, home schooling and balancing work, after worrying about a pandemic, these mothers aren't just angry, they're a political force. as of may, british moms were one and a half times more likely than fathers to have lost their jobs or quit due to the pandemic, according to a british think tank. and among those furloughed, 65% say lack of child care was the reason. >> we're in charge of everything. we are sisters across the atlantic. and we are angry on both sides. >> reporter: it's not a movement. but the sentiment is growing. >> it does seem like there's a tipping point, and women are getting angry. mothers are getting angry, and not frightened to speak up and

make their voices heard. >> reporter: and with an ongoing pandemic and an economic crisis, there's a lot to shout about. cnn, london. thank you for watching this hour, i'm natalie allen, i'll be right back with another hour, our top stories, right after this. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements... neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory... focus... accuracy... learning and concentration. try it today with our money-back guarantee!

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