hi, welcome to all viewers here in the united states and around the world. thank you so much for joining me. just ahead on cnn -- >> i'm praying this cease-fire will hold. i take benjamin netanyahu when he gives me his word, i take him at his word. he's never broken his word to me. >> it's been a big week of tests for president biden's foreign policy amid a fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas. but can it prevail? and then daily covid vaccinations have plummeted in the u.s.

down 46%. why is there still hesitancy to get the vaccine? i'll ask my guest. and zombie fires are becoming more common as the planet warms, but a new study is giving firefighters a serious advantage. thanks for joining me this hour. it is now 11 a.m. in israel and gaza. the cease-fire that began early friday is entering its second day. it is an uneasy peace, and tensions certainly remain high. friday prayers at the mosque in jerusalem ended with israeli police sweeping through the plaza in an aggressive show of force. the police said they were responding to a riot by palestinians and used stun grenade and rubber bullets to

drive people out. the palestinians report 20 people were hurt. israel opened a key border crossing friday to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. among the shipments was a mobile hospital. the u.n. announced it's sending more than $22 million of aid including food, medical supplies, and covid vaccines. we're joined from jerusalemment good to see you. what's the latest on how the cease-fire is holding? >> reporter: well, i think the biggest headline is that the cease-fire has been holding since it was called over 24 hours ago. and i think that is the most important aspect of all this. there have been no rockets launched from gaza into israel. there have been no israeli military strikes on militant targets within gaza. that is the most important headline out of all of this. however, as we have seen, within the last day, the tensions are still very much alive, a lot of the tensions that potentially helped spark this latest conflict. as you noted, there was the clashes between palestinians and

israeli police at the compound also known as the noble sanctuary, also known as the temple mount. from what we understand, there were hundreds of palestinians who were gathering in the compound, chanting in support of gaza. many of them waving palestinian flags. many also waving the flag of hamas and of the palestinian islamic jihad chanting in support for the cease-fire but also for the campaign that receded it. we understand that at some point the israeli police entered the compound firing stun grenade and rubber built to clear the compound, forcibly removing people including journalists from the compound, trying to clear it away. the israeli police are saying that they were responding to people rioting who were throwing rockets and stones and molotov cocktails at them. it goes to show how many of the tensions that helped sort of spark this entire conflict -- because keep in mind that the militants in gaza fired those rockets into israel just about two weeks ago in response to

tensions in jerusalem. for example, previous clashes we saw at the compound, hamas and the militants portraying themselves as the defenders of jerusalem. why they decided to send the rockets in which helped sort of launch this conflict and what we saw at the al aksa compound, while it doesn't see the cease-fire is broken, it's holding, goes to show that a lot of the underlying issues very much still at play in this situation. robyn? >> despite all of the conflict and continuing tensions, you have found a story of humanity and hope. tell us about it. >> reporter: yes. so i think it's really important that in sometimes like these to remember that people are still human, and there's still goodwill and humanity out there. take a look. rhonda waited nine years for the organ donation that would save her life. an arab christian born in the old city of jerusalem, relying on dialysis as her kidneys

failed. then the call came in the midst of conflict, her life would change forever and become a symbol of hope and co-existence during turbulent times. >> i didn't know who helped me. i said, how can it be? how did i get the kidney? they told me i got a present. it is a kidney that was a present. i said, good. i was moved in a war, a jew gave a kidney to an arab. >> reporter: for a week, this man fought for his life after being badly beaten by a group of young arab israeli men caught up in the wave of violence pitting jews and arab against each other on the streets of israel as israel and hamas traded fire. his brother eulogizing that with

his death he had given life. >> he believed in co-existence. he said it would not happen. he believed if you put your head out everything will be fine, they know you, and the worst thing happened. >> reporter: his body embarking on its final journey, but his legacy living on in others. rhonda's surgeon, a palestinian born in jerusalem, says he and his colleagues treat everyone as human beings. >> translator: we are expecting a difficult time in every place in this country. the period is reflected in everything which is happening around us. >> in his line of work, the sorrow of death leads to new life where he hopes peace will prevail. >> translator: we deal with everyone equally. there is no black, there is no white.

everyone is equal in the medical attention they receive. >> reporter: for rhonda, a new lease on life and plans to gal's family to thank them again in person and to carry on a message -- >> translator: we should live together. we should have peace. we should be happy. >> reporter: one thing that i took away from the time i spent at the hospital and especially with the impressive surgeon, he's not only the importance of becoming an organ donor and how it can change so many lives, but at the end of the day everybody is a health careinge -- a human being on the inside. >> thanks for that. live in jerusalem. so the u.s. president says the most recent round of violence has not changed his commitment to israel. on friday, joe biden told reporters that he trusts israel's prime minister and believes his policy of quiet diplomacy helped to broker the current cease-fire. take a listen. >> one of the reasons why we were able to get the cease-fire

in 11 days, they didn't do what other people have done. i don't talk about what i tell people in private. i don't talk about what we negotiate in private. but i can assure you, though, that the last time, it took 56 days and six months to get a cease-fire. i'm praying this cease-fire will hold. i take benjamin netanyahu when he gives me his word, i take him at his word. he's never broken his word to me. >> mr. biden made the remarks at a joint news conference with his south korean counterpart. the two leaders unveiled a new vaccine partnership to ramp up manufacturing and global supply. they also discussed the shared concern over north korea. they say they are willing to engage diplomatically with the kingdom. >> we have an opportunity to spend some private time with him as well as with our delegations. this is only the second person -- >> persevere and make participates. two of us agreed to furthery enforce our combined defense posture and reaffirmed

commitment to a transition of wartime operation of control. >> paula hancocks now live from seoul with more on that. what are the headlines for you out of this? hi, paula. >> reporter: hi, robyn. obviously north korea was going to be the top agenda, and it didn't disappoint. as you say, the fact is the u.s. president, joe biden, has pointed out once again that he is open to diplomacy which would have certainly been music to the ears of the south korean president, moon jae-in, who's staked his legacy on engagement with north korea which up until this point has not achieved a huge amount. he did say that he was still open to diplomatic overtures but with the end game of the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. so certainly it would have been welcome for mr. biden and also the fact that president biden was hopeful that they could build on what had already been

done with those summits. so that the singapore agreement, for example, between the north korean leader, kim jong-un, and the previous u.s. president, donald trump, saying that they will build on what has already been agreed upon. but certainly there was no indication of how they would try to move in forward because any overtures that the u.s. has been making toward north korea at this point have been rejected. pyongyang has said they are not at this point willing to negotiate or to talk with the united states despite the fact that the biden administration has tried to get into contact with them. he did also mention the other top issue on the agenda which was the covid-19 pandemic and this partnership that the u.s. and south korea will be creating to try and make sure that they can scale up the amount of vaccine production in the world. we also heard from u.s. president biden that he was going to vaccinate 550,000 south korean troops that do work

alongside and closely with american troops who are based here in south korea. that, again, would have been a welcome announcement given the fact that south korea's vaccination program is slow. there's just over 3% of the population that has been completely vaccinated at this point. president moon has said he wants to ramp up the vaccination program, but he is finding what other heads of state are finding -- that there is an extremely tight supply globally of the vaccine. so certainly it would have been welcome that the u.s. was going to help in some way. robyn? >> thanks for the update. thank you very much. just ahead on cnn, economies across europe are ready for tourist money to come back. as one country welcomes travelers from britain, another says not so fast. plus, warnings that vaccine refusal could keep the u.s. from winning the war on covid, especially in rural areas. we'll discuss. wet dishes? residue? spots? it's not your dishwasher's fault.

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35,000 attending the south beach food and wine festival this weekend. in missouri, up to 40,000 fans are expected to flood downtown s st. louis for the games last night and the knicks will host 15,000 fans intors on sunday for the first round of nba playoffs. with vaccination rates declining in recent weeks, health officials are pulling out all the stops in an effort to try and convince vaccine holdouts to get their shots, as erica hill now reports. >> reporter: from free drinks to free money -- >> if you needed one more good reason than just go out and get vaccinated for your chance to win a share of this $2 million. >> reporter: states are pulling out all the stops to get more shots in arms. the white house hooking up with several dating apps. >> people who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match. we have finally found the one thing that makes us all more

att attractive -- a vaccination. >> reporter: more than 160 million people in the u.s. now have at least one shot. the average daily pace of vaccinations is dropping fast -- down nearly 50% since last month's peak. >> we need to do whatever we can to give people a safe incentive to get vaccinated. >> reporter: the south sparking new concerns. these eight states among the ten where less than half the population has received at least one dose. >> last summer right around june/july, we saw a big surge of cases. why in the south? it's hot, hard to spend time outside. people cluster indoors. if we have large numbers of unvaccinated people in those states, we may well see a surge in those states. >> reporter: one bright spot -- >> take a deep breath -- >> reporter: 12 to 15-year-olds account for nearly 25% of new vaccinations nationwide in the past week. >> this is their shot to being

teenagers. and by rolling up their sleeves, they actually have protect their parents, their teachers, their classmates, and their communities. >> reporter: average daily cases under 30,000, the lowest level in nearly a year. at one of the bay area's largest hospitals, no covid patients for the first time in 14 months. >> i did have tears in my eyes. it feels like a milestone. >> reporter: another milestone coming this sunday when 15,000 fans will pack madison square garden for game one of the nba playoffs. >> this is what we've been waiting for, new york. >> reporter: d.c. lifting most capacity limits today. rhode island dropping its remaining covid restrictions a week early thanks to vaccinations. as americans adjust to yet another new normal. as some states push to remove masks in schools, new cdc data shows covid cases are lower in elementary schools where teachers, staff, and students mask up.

increased ventilation also helped to keep new case numbers lower. in new york, erica hill, cnn. >> thanks for that. joining me now is heidi larson, director of vaccine confidence project at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. thank you so much for joining us. so why are people not taking something that is free, widely available if you hear in the u.s. for example, and also can stop them getting sick or save their lives? >> well, it seems like an obvious thing to do for those who are just based on reason i suppose, but some of it is that we started with the most willing, the most vulnerable. so the uptick was higher. when you think back to the beginning of the year, we were in the thick of a second major wave in the u.s. the vaccine supply was limited, and we were reaching out to the

most vulnerable population. the willing always come first. so we could have predicted that it would slow down a bit at this point because we're getting into younger populations who feel less at risk. the pandemic or the outbreak at least in the u.s. is waning, so you don't feel the threat to the same degree. so you do need different exceptional measures. i've heard a whole spectrum of incentives. but i think we do need more tailored local efforts. i've heard a number of local studies, for instance in the new york metropolitan area, city university of new york has done some fantastic work understanding the dynamics, and what was interesting there, they saw that over 65 there was almost no difference in the willingness across all races and economies, but as you get younger and younger, it changes. and a lot of them said i'd be

happy to go if it were given at my doctor's office. or the pharmacy or something i'm more familiar with. so i think we need to start listening to the preferences of some of these populations. what's going to influence younger people, their peers, some of the influencing channels. so i think it's -- it's going to be more work, but i think we're all in it together. and it's very clear that certainly from our experience with childhood pneumonia vaccine, the incredible value it has to elderly populations. so it will make a difference for everyone if we can get these different groups vaccinated. >> and so if you're in the u.s., does it matter, does it actually encourage people if you're offering free money or, you know, good pickup rate your dating -- your dating app, free drinks? does that provide a decent enough incentive?

what needs to be done to get people to actually pick up and do this? >> well, i think it depends who you are. for some people, the dating app wouldn't make a difference. for other people, the lottery ticket or the beer wouldn't matter, but for somebody else, you know, that might be enough to push them over the hesitancy. it depends where people are on their -- as you can call it the spectrum of -- how hesitant are they. maybe they're just a little bit hesitant and, you know, that little extra nudge is going to help. but there are -- for people who have deeper seated distrust or anxiety, i don't think incentives like these are going to make the difference. >> and what happen about -- america, what about shaming? does that help? >> shaming i don't think is helpful personally. you know, some of the

populations that are resistant, percent of the reason they have distrust is that they have histories of shame and stigma and discrimination. so i don't think contributing to that kind of sentiment is productive or helpful. i do think if you frame it rather than shaming into, you know, we're all in this together and make it a more cooperative, helpful angle, that certainly won't hurt. yeah, it's -- it's different approaches that are going to be needed. >> heidi larson, thank you very much for joining us and giving us your expertise. appreciate it. have a good day. >> thanks very much. spain is rolling out the red carpet for british and japanese travelers starting monday. visitors from those countries will be able to enter spain without health controls. but british travelers will sit have to quarantine for ten days when they return home to the uk. now, germany on the other hand

will require travelers from the u.k. to quarantine for two weeks upon entering the country. that begins midnight saturday night. german officials designated britain and northern ireland a various rvariant regibecause of the cases in india. i want to bring in cyril from london. what can you tell us about this? >> reporter: there is movement on the europe travel news front because the summer months are arriving, vaccination rates are high, very high in the uk, really picking up in europe. people want to travel again and go back to normal. who is going to be allowed to travel and under what conditions? you mentioned that spain and germany are taking very, very different approaches to uk travelers. and i think that reflects the level of -- of some degree of confusion that remains in europe over how this is going to happen. so for spain, the priority has been boosting their tourism economy. so they are getting out ahead of

most european countries and have said uk travelers can go there without a covid test, no raxz, it's like the -- vaccit's like virus never happened. greece has reopened borders to uk travelers who are vaccinated. they have competition from portugal so the economy and tourism industry is their priority going forward. germany is taking an ultra-cautious approach saying a variant of concern has been identified in the uk, which it has, that's true, and therefore any travellers coming from the uk to germany need to quarantine for no less than two weeks. you know the differences between spain and germany? one has a trouble economy that is very important, those summer months are crucial. germany, face it not exactly the first place that most uk

holi holiday-goers would want to go. they have less to lose by closing doors to british travelers. this is one point in case, how you deal with british travelers. i think this reflects the fact that even though european countries have agreed to a common travel policy, we're already seeing it starting to fray before it's even come into force, robyn. >> cyril from london, thank you. the aerial warfare between hamas and israel has stopped for now, and reactions are mixed to the new cease-fire. you'll hear why some israelis are disappointed by the agreement, plus an african-american man dies after an encounter with the police in the u.s. two years later, horrific video shows what actually played out in the final moments of his life. we have that, too.

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welcome back to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it's 29 minutes past the hour. i'm robyn curnow live here in atlanta. you are watching cnn, of course. so the newly minted cease-fire between israel and hamas appears to be holding. this is day two of the fragile peace. desperately needed humanitarian aid began rolling into gaza friday after israel opened a border crossing. the u.n. says it is sending more than $22 million of food, medical supplies, and covid vaccines to the people of gaza. but deep animosities remain and are easily provoked. we saw this again on friday at the mosque in jerusalem. as nic robertson now has the details. nic? >> reporter: islam's third holiest site, a flash point

again between palestinians and israeli police. the violence testing a fragile cease-fire between hamas and the israeli government. conflicting accounts. police say protesters threw rocks and molotov cocktails first. palestinians say police attacked them with rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades. as they celebrated the gains of hamas' 11-day conflict with israel. on israel's beaches hit by hamas rockets just days ago, calm but no fanfare for their leaders, and disappointment over the cease-fire agreement. >> they have to go inside with the tanks, with everything, to finish one time and finish with the hamas that get out from gaza. >> reporter: what do you think about the cease-fire? >> shame. >> reporter: why? >> it's never going to end. it's never going to end.

we have once in a while to tell them we're here. they can't do what afteever the want. we don't leave. we don't leave. >> reporter: for now the cease-fire holding. and prime minister benjamin netanyahu defending his decision with his own political future in question. >> translator: just as i promised, we harmed most of hamas' capabilities, far beyond what their commanders imagined. a huge crush that changed the rules of the game. >> reporter: israeli troops, guns covered, artillery shells packed, already lining up to leave the fields around gaza. and inside gaza, where cease-fire celebrations went late into the night, frustrations, too. >> translator: this truce is for everyone but us. this truce is for people who are comfortable, who are sitting in their homes, who do not have martyrs, who do not have

destruction. >> reporter: more than 240 palestinians dead according to hamas health officials. tens of thousands without homes according to the u.n. still, a victory according to hamas leaders. >> translator today we consider this battle is a quantum leap in the history of the conflict with the enemy. >> reporter: likely these troops will be out of here pretty soon. and likely this year, next year, and a few years' time they'll be back. the cease-fire is little more than that, and confidence here seems low that politicians either side of the divide have what it takes to tackle the region's real issue -- land rights. nic robertson, cnn, close to the gaza border, israel. >> thanks for that. so cnn has obtained new video of a deadly encounter between a black man and police officers in the u.s. state of louisiana. ronald green's family says they were told he died in a car crash

during a police chase two years ago. the footage obtained by cnn shows a completely different and horrifying story. we warn you, the video is disturbing to watch. the case is now under a federal civil rights investigation involving the fbi, the department of justice, and the attorney general's office. here's ryan young with the details. r ryan? >> reporter: newly obtained video by cnn shows haunting images of ronald green's last moments while in custody of louisiana state police in may of 2019. >> why'd you run -- all you did was speed a little bit and run a red light. >> reporter: the video appears to show a supervising officer arriving on scene, engaging with responding officers while green remains cuffed on the ground facedown. >> yeah, yeah -- >> reporter: after an early video shows him being beaten and tased, police claiming green had resisted arrest after attempting to pull him over. >> don't you turn over. you lay -- lay on your belly.

lay your belly. >> yes, sir. okay, okay. [ bleep ] >> yes, sir. >> reporter: we hear green in distress as he continued to be restrained by officers. >> i was going to sit him up but didn't want him spitting blood. >> reporter: minutes after the supervisor engages with officers, medical aid is rendered by emergency personnel on site for the first time. green appears to be unresponsive. >> it took three of them to take him down. you need consider that. >> reporter: the car visible in the new body footage shows green's vehicle had sustained damage. lee merit, attorney for the family, says the state police response was outrageous. >> this was a supervisor who showed up, he didn't even acknowledge ronaldo the ground. >> reporter: green's family said they were originally told the cause of death was a car crash. >> this was a coverup. my son was purposely killed.

he was murdered. >> reporter: officials said louisiana state police were investigating the death as a criminal matter the same night of the incident. two officers involved in the incident were reprimanded for their actions, a third officer died in a single car crash last year. an autopsy report obtained by cnn lists the cause of death as cocaine-induced agitated delirium complicated by motor vehicle collision, physical struggle, inflicted head injury, and restraint. no written incident reports were provided to the medical examiner despite requests. no medical record were provided, neither was detailed information about the car crash. >> they were left in the dark. they were stonewalled by -- by the state police which, again, is another policy that shows how systemic this is. >> reporter: the report also states that lacerations on green's head were inconsistent with the motor vehicle collision injury and most consistent with multiple impacts from a blunt object. >> i'm sorry -- i'm sorry. >> we do know that video has

been released from all the body cams, so we'll be able to go through that piece by piece. this is what the family's been asking for -- transparency. it's been two years since their loved one lost their life, and still there's a lot of questions about how this investigation will move forward. ryan young, cnn, atlanta. so straight ahead on cnn, taiwan's plea for help. the island is scrambling to find covid vaccines as it faces its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. in the philippines, an unexpected consequence to the pandemic. what fishermen and farmers are doing to curb a hunger crisis made worse by restrictions and lockdowns.

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has been inoculated, and the island is asking for help. it comes as taiwan is facing its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. more than 320 new infections were reported on saturday. will ripley joins me live from taipei with more. hi, will. >> reporter: hey, robyn. it's hard to believe in the developed world you have a country that has ordered tens of millions of doses, yet only 700,000 have arrived. and less than 1% of the population is vaccinated as they face their worst breakout of covid since the pandemic began. this is an island of 23 million people that had eliminated local cases for 250 days. life was normal just about a week ago. let me show you what has happened just in the last week. i arrived about a week ago myself. the numbers last friday, 1,290 total cases. 164 cases local. today, nearly 3,900 total cases.

look at that -- a 16-fold increase in the number of local cases, now 2,701. also two new deaths confirmed to, a total of 17 deaths so far this pandemic. these are still numbers that are small, that are the envy of many countries around the world, but as those countries which saw huge waves and are starting to open up, taiwan is shutting back down. there's even been talk that if these case numbers continue and if the number of cases that are untraceable, the percentage of cases rises above 50%, right now it's about 25%, they may have to do for the first time in the pandemic a lockdown here in taiwan. so it shows how a place that has enjoyed a normal quality of life, well that life can quickly, quickly change. now there's this back and forth between the mainland and taiwan over vaccines. the mainland has said they have tens of millions of extra doses. they say they'd be happy to send them over to taiwan. but taiwan calls those offers disingenuous, they say china is trying to force its vaccines on this island which actually has

laws in place preventing the use of china-made vaccines for human consumption, something that beijing calls purely political and putting lives at stake. taiwan says at the same time that china's making offers to help send their vaccines, they say they're also standing in the way of them getting what they call more reliable foreign vaccines. the numbers speak for themselves. they've had discussions with manufacturers such as biontech that fell apart in february due to what taiwan called political pressure, low that's not been confirm -- although that that's not been confirmed. politics playing a role in this, not a good thing when you have a vulnerable population with no immunity and need to get shots in arms. taiwan is raising its hand for some of the vaccine doses that president biden has said will go out internationally. we don't know if taiwan will receive any of those. in the coming months, they're looking to locally manufacture vaccines. they have two local manufacturers in stage-two trials and are hoping to get

taiwan-produced vaccines in arms by late july. seems like a long time. the case levels at this level now can get much bigger quickly, and they want to prevent that in taiwan. >> thanks for the update. thanks. in the philippines, repeated covid lockdowns and travel restrictions have hit man illa's poorest neighborhoods the hardest. jobs and food are scarce, and the government can't provide much help. now, free community kitchens are popping up. farmers and fishermen donating what they can to help those most in need. >> reporter: with her youngest just 3 years old, mona lisa vito has nine children and no way to feed them. since the pandemic hit the philippines, repeated lockdowns have left millions like mona lisa unable to work or to eat. >> translator: we don't have anything for my children's food, for daily expenses.

sometimes at night we don't have anything to eat. we can only wait for the next day. >> reporter: her husband used to work in construction, and mona lisa used to peel sacks of garlic to get by. even that work has dried up. funding internet access for online learning has also added another expense and a hard choice. >> translator: if we can't put in the money, they can't go to class. i would rather spend that money so the children can have breakfast. >> reporter: the family lives in one of manila's poorest neighborhoods which houses nearly 60,000 people living cheek by jowl. and mona lisa, like many of her neighbors, now rely on community kitchens. volunteers prepare cabbage, pumpkin, and rice at dawn. food donated by farmers, fishermen, and anyone who can afford it to give to those who need it most. >> translator: i am grateful. our rice and vegetables are free.

my children are no longer hungry. >> reporter: and there is visible desperation from the recipients as there's never enough to go around. hundreds of these kitchens have popped up to address the growing hunger crisis in this impoverished nation of 100 million people. to fill in the huge gaps left by the government. poor households did receive some cash handouts and food supplies, but not nearly enough to survive on. >> translator: we have no choice but to organize something like this. i hope the government will learn this is a call to action to them, and we hope that the right amount of resources will finally reach those who really need it. >> reporter: as the hunger crisis bites, officials are looking to covid-19 vaccines as a way out. with rollout delays and huge vaccine hesitancy, they face an uphill battle. a survey in march showed only 16% of philfilipinos would be willing to get vaccinated.

more than 60% said they would refuse one. retired seamstress letty zanbroana is one of them. discuss might being in a vulnerable age group and suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. >> translator: it is really because of the side effects that i don't want to get vaccinated. because i keep hearing this news on tv like some have blood clots in their brains. >> reporter: the president himself received the chinese vaccine before halting its rollout after he was criticized for taking a vaccine that hadn't been approved by the country's national drug regulator. back in besecco, mona lisa returns home after receiving her donation. a small amount of food she needs to stretch a very long way. for many of these families, the fear of coronavirus will never compare to the threat of hunger. cnn, hong kong. you're watching cnn. we'll be right back.

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spring as tom sater explains. >> reporter: this is what scientists are calling a zombie fire. wildfires that survive the winter snow and spark back up in the spring. a phenomenon that adds to the complexity of climate change. a new study found that although this appears to be a small problem now, it could become worse over time. so-called zombie fires or over-wintering fires happen in high-latitude environments including alaska and canada's northwest territories where the earth is warming faster than almost anywhere else. although most wildfires happen within a single year, these fires smolder year round deep into the carbon-river soil. >> most of the emissions from these fires do not come from the trees which is an image that the general public has from a forest fire. but in that by iome, 90% of emissions on average comes from the soils.

>> reporter: for the first time, scientists have been able to determine how many over-wintering fires there are and how to find them. the researchers use data from firefighters and came one an algorithm to locate these fires. scientists estimate that between 2002 and 2018 an average of about 1% of wildfires in alaska and northwest canada were due to these over-wintering fires. in 2008, one zombie fire was responsible for destroying 38% of the burned area. although the overall numbers of these types of fires is small, the researchers say they're increasingly likely because of climate change. warmer temperatures lead to dryer conditions and longer fire seasons. >> these fires like to burn more extensively in an area. they build also deeper into the -- what is critical to facilitate the conditions for smoldering throughout winter.

those are conditions that we know facilitate over wintering, and we know that -- they have been increasing. >> reporter: authors of the study say that being able to pinpoint where these zombie fires are is the key to helping firefighters anticipate flare-ups and allocate their resources. zombie fires are just one of the many effects of climate change. but as this study shows, scientists are trying their hardest to mitigate the damage. cnn, atlanta. and u.s. weather officials are predicting an above-average atlantic hurricane season this year. the season officially starts on june the 1st, but they are already two systems of concern. and in just the past few minutes, we have our first named storm of the season. i want to go straight to derek van dam. hi. what is the name, and how concerned are you that we're seeing this early development there? >> yeah, the beauty of live television literally within the past five minutes, the 5:00 a.m.

national hurricane center update has come in. we now have subtropical storm anna, and that happen is located just to the north and east of bermuda. it's called subtropical because it doesn't rely on warm ocean waters per se to fuel its development. but that's the -- the details there. but really what's most important and what i want you to take in is that this is the first named tropical system of the atlantic hurricane season which we do predict according to all scientist and meteorologists that study this to be a very active season. you can see ana, the first name on this atlantic hurricane season list. it joins the ranks of a dubious risk. seven seasons in a row where tropical systems have developed before the official season, it usually lasts to november 30th, peaking in the middle to first half of september. this storm system will bring tropical storm-force winds in and around bermuda today.

they have tropical storm watches in effect. that means winds in excess of 35 -- 39 miles per hour are possible before it slowly meanders to the northeast. then the secondary disturbance really running out of time from becoming tropical in characteristic. therefore, the national hurricane center not expected to name this system as it enters the gulf coast right along the texas coastline here within the next 12 hours or so. even less than that. but the problem here is that it's bringing in a copious amount of rain in an area that's still saturated from the past week's rainfall. so flash flooding a possibility in and around houston. all the way to new orleans. so we will monitor these areas very closely here going forward. robyn? >> okay. thanks for that, derek van dam. that wraps this hour of cnn. i'm robyn curnow. you can follow me on twitter and on instagram at robyncurnowcnn. i will be back in a moment.

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♪ hi. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks so much for joining me this thundershower. i'm robyn curnow. we will get the latest from the cease-fire. we will hear from a victim targeted and newly released police videos document the brutal