welcome to all you asking here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. ahead, search and rescue efforts tragically shift in surfside, florida. crews will now focus on recovery. plus president biden faces growing pressure to respond to increasing cyberattacks allegedly from russia. and this -- england makes to

a major football final for the first time in more than half a century. it is now 4:00 a.m. in surfside, florida where authorities have made the decision everyone knew was coming but no one wanted to hear. the search for survivors in that deadly condominium collapse is now in the recovery phase. search crews paused for a moment of silence after the news was announced. 86 people are listed as potentially unaccounted for. >> our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. >> the crowd united in prayer for the victims and their loved ones. leyla santiago has a report.

>> reporter: after 14 tireless days, the search and rescue effort in surfside shifting to a search and recovery effort. a moment of silence held by rescue teams before the transition. >> this decision was not an easy one. as our hearts still hoped to find survivors. but our experience and expertise indicated that waysys was no longer possible. >> reporter: families informed at their daily briefing as bodies are more quickly being discovered now that the debris field has opened up, officials say it is the right time to make the transition. >> this decision was not based on any other reasons except on facts that emerged during the extent of the search and the rescue operation. >> reporter: several survivors of the collapse revisiting the site of the debris today. families being assured the recovery effort will not slow down. >> the only thing that changes

is just the term. resources are still there. the men and women are still there. >> our first responders have truly searched that pile every single day since the collapse as if they are searching for their own loved ones. >> reporter: miami-dade mayor cava advisably shaken as the mission is taking its toll on everybody involved. >> have you seen any indication from any of the bodies that have been recovered so far that any of them survived the initial collapse? >> thorno, we have not. >> reporter: and surfside's mayor is still working to assure its sister building champlain towers north built with the exact same specs is safe. >> they are in there are ground penetrating radar and other tools to continue to assess the structural situation there at that building. >> reporter: the building's collapse has raised questions about whether other seaside residential structures could be

at risk, 40 have already been inspected, only one found with a structural deficiency. >> there will be changes. there will be improvements made. >> reporter: as for the recovery mission, teams continue to work around the clock to bring closure for families. >> as the chief and i have always promised to ensure that all of our loved ones are pulled from the rubble and reunited with their families. >> reporter: leyla santiago, cnn, surfside, florida. now to haiti and the hunt for the president's assassins. the haitian ambassador to the u.s. says police have killed four of the suspected attackers and arrested two others, but the motive for the assassination of jovenel moise remains unclear. he was a tdivisive figure and h likely was killed over his beliefs, values and reforms. >> we can say for certain those

were professional killers. it was a well orchestrated attack against the president. it is not a simple act. it is a killing of the president, head of state. therefore, we will put all necessary resources to make sure that we apprehend them and that is one of the reasons we call on the international partners to work with us and to give us some more expertise and investigation and to help them capture those people. >> so we have audio purportedly from around the time of the killing. cnn can't independently confirm its authenticity. the frames you are about to see are black but the american sounding accent you will hear is from someone who reportedly claimed to be from the u.s. drug enforcement agency. listen to this. >> everybody back up, stand up. >> the u.s. has denied any involvement. melissa bell is tracking developments.

melissa, what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, all eyes will be this morning when the country wakes up on what new elements emerge from their investigation now that they have to of these individuals they say in their custody. the big question of course, what their nationality is. over the course of the last 24 hours, what we've heard from various haitian officials is that they were no doubt mercy naries, spanish speaking and probably information written. all of this yet to be confirmed. they have a couple weeks to find it out since the country essentially has its borders sealed for the investigation and in order to avoid the country plunging into chaos. the assassination brings to an end the turbulent rule of haiti's president jovenel moise. it leaves the impoverished nation in turmoil. for months there have been protests around the country

demanding moise step down but he held on to power while the opposition claimed his continued rule was unconstitutional. his critics argue that according to haiti's constitution, his five year term as president started the day he was elected rather than the day he took office. but moise argued it was a year later that marked the true beginning. both the u.s. and the u.n. assumed his claim to remain in power. but there had been widespread concern when moise failed to hold legislative elections in 2019 leaving the country without a functioning government. and a constitutional referendum postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic still hasn't taken place. moise's presidency was plagued with a number of other problems. u.n. officials say the country has been rocked by an uptick in kidnappings for ransom and wave in criminal violence in recent months fueled by armed gangs. thousands were forced to flee their homes as shootings and

arsons spread in june. the continued political instability has left haiti's economy in shambles. the covid pandemic contributed to a contraction of nearly 4% of the nation's gdp last year. and a spike in covid cases has prompted a new state of emergency. all of this leading to a humanitarian crisis. according to the world bank, nearly 60% of haitians live below the poverty line. to make matters worse, haiti is prone to natural disasters. the country never fully recovered from the catastrophic 2010 earthquake that killed over 200,000 people. and in 2016, hurricane matthew left hundreds dead and nearly 200,000 displaced. as the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, haiti has a long history of dictatorships and coups. now this assassination leaves

the country's future in doubt. you were quite right to point out just how polarizing jovenel moise had been as a president when he was alive. from the very beginning of his presidency, his tenure was controversial and his decisions were controversial. and a lot of that pressure we saw from the streets of haiti these last few months, protests against his rule, were fueled by rising cost of living prices, fuel prices going up on a population that couldn't afford them. and by a president that had come to power vowing to stamp out corruption and himself found himself imbroembroiled in exact that. >> thanks so much. international outrage over the killing of jovenel moise came swiftly and so did messages of support. president biden said the united states offers condolences to the people of haiti and we stand ready to assist as we continue to work for a safe and secure

haiti. and from the u.n., the second gen secretary-general calls on all haitians to reject all violence. the united nations will continue to stand with the government and people of haiti. more than 4 million people worldwide have now died from covid-19. this latest milestone is a reminder of the devastating human toll of this pandemic. the u.s., brazil and india make up more than a third of that total, and now a number of countries are seeing cases spike largely because of the highly done tacontagious delta variant. >> some countries with high vaccination coverage are now planning to roll on the booster shots in the coming months and are dropping public social measures and relaxing as though

the pandemic is already over. >> i would urge extreme caution in the complete lifting of public health and social measures at this time because there are consequences for that. >> a group of top scientists from around the world say covid-19 almost certainly originated from an animal likely at a wildlife market in china. in their review they say after analyzing the evidence there is nothing to suggest early cases had any connection to a laboratory, instead they point to clear links to animal markets in wuhan. meanwhile the latest forecast from the cdc predict new u.s. cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the virus will stabilize over the next month. new infections have been steadily falling over the past few months, the states with low vaccination rates are still seeing some of the biggest spikes in daily cases and one of those states is missouri. a team of specialists is being deployed to help health care workers there.

missouri reported the second most new infections in the country last week, so many cases some hospitals have started transferring some patients to facilities with better staffing. they blame the spike on low vaccination rates and the delta variant, but some expert had a warning about something else. listen to this. >> what worries me more are the variants yet to come. every time the virus is passed, it has a chance to mutate and it is only a matter of time until we have a variant that the vaccines no longer protect us. still ahead, disturbing new details from the insurrection on capitol hill. we'll share what the fbi learned. and plus tropical storm elsa is not done yet, we're tracking its path up the east coast. is r. ♪

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insurrection. kevin mccarthy is now finalizing a list of house republicans to serve on the january 6 special committee. just last week mccarthy threatened any republican member who agreed to serve on the panel. thousand there is a good chance he will tap trusted trump allies for the job but also mounting pressure for more pragmatic picks. meanwhile cnn is learning new information. an undercover agent infiltrated a so-called bible study group whose leader was part of the january 6 attack, the group planned to build make shift bombs and even discussed seceding from the u.s. tom foreman has more. >> reporter: caught in the middle of the capitol attack there he was according to the fbi with a mask and big ideas. he was part of a bible study group in virginia which talked about making molotov cocktails,

combat training for an unspecified future attack and even secession. >> i think it does show that many of the terrorists and insurrectionists left january 6 believing that it was a victory. >> reporter: according to court records, undercover officers first encountered him during the riot and then the fbi infiltrated his bible group at a private home in february. those reports say that he met undercover agents outside a former prison to discuss testing some bombs there, that he had an ak-47 and five boxes of bomb building material and he wrote a manifesto because if i get into a gunfight with the feds and i don't make it, i want to be able to transfer as much wisdom to my son as possible. authorities say the so-called bible group also discussed surveilling the capitol amid heightened security to find possible weak points, particularly alarming for police officers calling for better

defenses around the capitol. >> i would hope that they would be taking these threats seriously and paying attention. >> reporter: concerns about conspiracy theories and radical right activism taking root in church communities have grown sharply in the past year. >> it is easier for christians who already have that belief system to make that jump over and to believe in that world view. >> reporter: and these latest developments can only deepen worries about such rogue factions. >> i think there is probably more of that than we'd like to think around the country. >> reporter: he has so far only been charged in connection with the january 6 insurrection and he has not entered a plea. cnn reached out to him about these latest reports, he declined to comment and his attorney has also decided to have nothing to say so far. tom foreman, cnn, washington. former u.s. president donald trump has now filed a class

action lawsuit targeting facebook, twitter and youtube after the companies removed his access to the platforms. reminder tech companies aren't legally permitted to run their platforms as they see fit and may ban users. donald trump's former personal attorney is running out of places to practice law. rudy giuliani lost his law license in washington wednesday pending a similar case in new york. that is where a judge suspended his license last month saying he lied to promote trump's conspiracy ies about a stolen election. u.s. representative marjorie taylor greene has made yet another nazi era reference, this time relating to president biden's push to reach unvaccinated people at home amid rising cases of the coronavirus delta variant. just three weeks after apologizing for comparing mask

wearing rules at the u.s. capitol to the holocaust, greene tweeted that people have a choice and, quote, they don't need your medical brown shirts showing up ordering vaccinations. brown shirts of course were the paramilitary group that facilitated hitler's rise to power. while her remarks are unquestionably offensive, they aren't surprising to congressional colleagues. >> after visiting the holocaust museum, after spending time there and coming out saying that i've learned a lot, eve reflref i've reflected on the history and i won't use these references anymore, it is shocking but truly not surprising to see that she is back again using these references. and i think that it is inexcusable her type of language. when some people are hearing words like this from representative greene to indicate that this is somehow

equivalent to the largest genocide in history is completely not helpful in our effort to try to reach as many people and stop the spread of the virus. >> a new restrictive voting bill will be before texas state lawmakers. republicans made a last minute move to add the bill to the agenda after democrats blocked similar legislation in may. the new bill makes it a felony for an election official to send unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, bans drive-thru and 24 hour voting an adding new requirements to voting by mail. republicans in 17 other states have passed restrictive voting bills since losing the presidential race. new warnings are in effect for north carolina and the mid-atlantic states as tropical storm elsa moves up the u.s. east coast. high winds caused a tree to fall on two cars in jacksonville, florida killing one person.

heavy rain is across the state and thousands of customers lost power. meanwhile a suspected tornado has injured several people at the naval submarine base in kings bay, georgia. more now from karen maginnis. >> already during the overnight hours there was a report of a tornado associated with elsa in the vicinity just to the south of charleston, south carolina in a coastal area. we don't have any reports of any injuries, but some damage reported there. there is one fatality in jacksonville and in coastal georgia, ten reports of injuries, most considered minor. right now tropical storm elsa, 45-mile-per-hour winds. doesn't sound like it is very significant, but just wait. this is doing to have legs. it will move up towards the mid-atlantic. eventually on towards the cape region and chesapeake bay area. and then towards the delaware

bay area. eventually into new england. and still could see potential for flooding, even an isolated tornado as some of the bands with this will usher in some gusty winds as well. the flash flood threat all the way from wilmington, north carolina right around myrtle beach, then to richmond, that comes up for thursday going into thursday evening. and then philadelphia, new york city, long island, and eventually towards cape cod and for boston with some gusty winds there, localized flooding, maybe some beach erosion certainly possible. and then we may see an increase in intensity going into friday morning, so be aware of that if you are trying to head home, get away from work. it will be a little treacherous and eventually this becomes post-tropical and moves toward the canadian maritimes. trdrought has reached a new level in california.

forecasters say the state had its driest year on record when its official rainfall year ended on june 30th. during that period california received less than half of the precipitation it usually gets. california and much of the western u.s. are already dealing with a historic trdrought, and e low rainfall could lead to more wildfires thiwhich are already track for a new record. after two major cyberattacks, russians are the suspected culprits and there is growing pressure on president biden to respond. plus resistance groups in myanmar are preparing to fight a military that are equipped and unafraid of brutality. coming up, an st. exclusive rep from their training camp deep in the forest. >> young workers and many who are ss are students who protested the

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cyberattacks ripple through u.s., a message alone would fall far short of what biden has pledged. >> he is meeting with members of the security team to get an update on cyber and we'll see where we go from there, but he reserves the right to take action. >> reporter: biden convening his top security officials wednesday morning in the situation room. the focus, ransomware attacks like those launched from russian based criminal syndicates, including the think latest on record just this past weekend, a critical issue biden sought to set clear red lines against in his one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin last month. >> even if it is a criminal actor, not the federal government, even if it is a wood guy or bad fwal gal in russia, have a responsibility to take action and if you don't take action, we reserve the right to. >> reporter: but the attack potentially providing an early and ominous answer to biden's own open question after the summit. >> are they going to act. we'll find out. >> reporter: coming as top

experts in both governments recently met on the issue according to white house officials and agreed upon dialogue from the today knee ha geneva summit. and just a few week ago it led biden to slap sanctions on the country, but the latest attacks even in the wake of those sanctions laying bare the stakes for biden's next move as his red lines from just last month continue to echo. >> i put it out to him we have significant cyber capability. and he knows it. he doesn't know exactly what it is, but it is significant. and if in fabt they violate the basic thunderstorms, we will respond. he knows. >> reporter: several white house officials i've spoken to made clear they didn't expect president putin and the russian criminal syndicates to just go cold turkey. there was some expectation that

there would be more cyberattacks both on the ransomware side and potentially the state sponsored side as well. the real question now as there is an ongoing dialog is what is the president going to do, what does he feel like has been crossed from a red line perspective if anything at all and if it has been crossed, will he respond with some type of cyber response. those are the opening questions that are outstanding. but one thing to keep in mind, at this point the u.s. still hasn't attributed either of those attacks to russia. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. fighting in afghanistan continues to intensify as the taliban push for territorial gains in the north. on wednesday, taliban forces invaded the capital of the north w western province and they are claiming the city is safe despite gunfire in the back

background. further east, special forces taliban fighters reached the gates of the city. most districts are already under taliban control in that province. a fire that prbroke out aft abai is now under control. it happened inside a container ship on a ship docked at the port. witnesses say the explosion jolted buildings as far as 9 miles away. social media posts showed a huge fireball that could be seen over the port in the distance. a senior government official says the ship owned by a company in the comoros islands was carrying cleaning products. a human rights official is calling for tougher economic sanctions on myanmar to try to force the junta from power and

wants the international community to target the oil and gas sector to halt revenue to the military. meanwhile resistance groups are making their own plans. they are training for a civil war. sam kiley traveled deep into the jungle to get a firsthand exclusive look at the raini training camp. tell us more about what you learned. >> well, i think the first thing to take away is what we kind of knew going in, which is that in myanmar once called burma, the nation is enduring a very severe blood letting, particularly at the hands of the military. you'll recall they took power in february this year, there was peaceful demonstrations against the seizure of power and ending of the democracy. and that has led though to many, many young people particularly students i discovered at this training camp moving from being peaceful protestors to wanting

to take up arms against the central development army. this is what we found, kim. a grueling journey through jungle eventually revealing this -- a rebel base in myanmar. camp victoria, a major headquarters in a nationwide uprising against the country's mil mil mil military junta. some 200 have come seeking the military skills that they want. their villages, young worker, many of whom are students who protested the coup and now believe that they must take up arms against it. sad, very sad, they kill many people of our country.

that this can give me the power to fight the military junta. >> reporter: these recruits are on day three of their training. they only get 45 days training. that includes drill, assault courses and above all weapons training before they will be thrown back into the fight. rebel leaders though more blood will flow. >> there are more than 15,000 already and still coming. and still organizing, mobile losing. and so that is what we are doing for them.mobilelosing. and so that is what we are doing for them. >> so it really is a civil war.

>> leading to a civil war. we see the urban guerilla attack, but within months it will transform into a conventional civil war. >> reporter: wednesday fighting with the grforces mean that it crossing the lines. >> this young man told me was blown up by an ied that was trying to plant as part of the defensive perimeter around this camp and some of the villages threatened by the government army. >> reporter: already refugees are on the move leaving the villages for hillside camps. this woman told me that women, children and elders fled their village when they heard the sounds of fighting. many men stayed behind, but

everyone fears the military for its brutality. the national front says that it has trained 3,000 people at camp victoria. those who have graduated have been immediately deployed. most of their weapons are bird hunting homemade shotguns stored with an open fire to keep the damp off. they believe that this is a just fight, but they are sort of weapons and rushed through training and it will take more than righteousness and shotguns to topple a military regime. and as the conflict continues, the numbers of dead will rise to a level when eventually people may start to lose count. now, of course the death toll is rising. that may be a grim prognosis for myanmar, but there are really serious concerns that as the

military regime continues to act brutally in response to the civilian population, so these armed groups will grow, some of them -- and there was no evidence of this -- but others to have a record for raising funds through means such as drug s smuggling. and so it may mutate into an absolutely failed state. >> outstanding reporting there, sam, raising some really troubling questions. sam kiley, thank you so much. former south african president jacob zuma is now in custody. police say he handed himself over late wednesday just before a midnight deadline when authorities would have arrested him. he was sentenced for 15 months in prison for contempt of court. he denies the allegations and

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here, what are the restrictions that will be lifted more likely. we're talking about lifting any caps on the thumb of people who can meet both outdoors and indoors, we're talking about the fact that face coverings will no longer be a legal requirement, they will be a matter of public choice, including apparently on public transport and in enclosed spaces. we're talking about the fact that limits on social distancing will also be lifted. and become a matter of personal choice. so more than 100 doctors and scientists have signed a letter saying that this risks causing millions of infections, this is an unethical experiment being conducted by the british government, that it risks causing a generation beset by chronic health problems due to covid, and that it will create fertile drowned for the emergence of a vaccine resistant variant. so they say the government

shouldn't lift all remaining covid restrictions until everybody -- well, all adults and adolescents in this cover have been offered a vaccine. we're very, very far from that and from herd immunity even though two-thirds of adults are now fully vaccinated. the political opposition also dead against the lifting of restrictions. here is labour leader starmer. >> the prime minister let the delta or we can call it the johnson variant into the country. let's be clear, let's be clear why the number of cases will surge so quickly because he is taking all protections off in one go. that is reckless. >> reporter: the country reported 30,000 new infections yesterday, that could be 50,000 by the time restrictions are lifted. and according to the government's own projections, could be 100,000 by the end of

the month. certainly during the summer. hospitalizations and deaths are up 40%. the one big unknown is that even though restrictions are lifted, remember the government's philosophy is that it now becomes a matter of public choice what you do and how you live with this variant. so it doesn't mean that everybody will necessarily take off their face coverings or stop social distancing. and i think that is a big unknown, how much people continue to follow the health rules that we know work and we know protects against infection could determine where the story goes, kim. >> yeah, and if the u.s. is any guide, we know people will be very quick to abandon those. cyril vanier, thank you so much. all right. breaking news coming this to cnn, japan's prime minister moments ago announced that the government has declared a state of emergency in tokyo for the

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back to our breaking news from tokyo. japan's prime minister moments ago announced that the government has declared a state of emergency over the spread of covid-19. and he says it will last until august 22. will ripley is standing by for us in tokyo right now. so was this expected and tell us what this means for the olympic games. >> reporter: it was. we -- it was certainly dreaded. this state of emergency essentially kills the idea that there can be local spectators attending events at olympic venues here in tokyo. this is something that seemed to

be kind of unavoidable given the recent surge in cases that they have been seeing here in japan and particularly in tokyo the last 18 days or so. you've had numbers that are some of the highest they have seen in quite some time at a time when thousands of athletes and trainers and journalists will be arriving here in the japanese capital ahead of the olympic ceremonies on july 23rd. adding spectators to the mix as japan is now grappling with yet another outbreak inside its capital is deemed by the japanese to be too risky of a proposition at a time that they pledged to hold a safe olympic games. so as a result, only special guests are expected to be allowed to attend the events live here. everybody else will have to watch them either online or on television. which means that the scores of people who sometimes paid over $1,000 u.s. dollars for tickets will have to find out when they will get a refund and the

japanese people who paid billions in tax dollars promised a tourism boone, th are now fin themselves the unwilling hosts for a game that will be unlike any other held before. more expensive, more complicated and without crowds watching events live with the exception of a handful of vips. so certainly not the kind of development that organizers were hoping for. the ioc president has landed and is isolating in his hotel for the next few days. but this is the reality of life during a pandemic and trying to hold a global event at a time that you have new more contagious var krabtiants emergd spreading very quickly. >> appreciate you giving us this update. will ripley in tokyo.

well, this was london's piccadilly circus as football fans turned out to celebrate england's euro 2020 victory. the three lions are heading to the tournament final against italy after a 2-1 win over denmark. close to 65,000 fans parked wembley stadium to watch the match. patrick snell has the highlights. a victory celebration 55 years in the making, england's mens national football team finally through to their first major competition final since 1966, beating denmark in wednesday's euro 2020 semi final in london with a score at 1-all. harry cain seeing his penalty save. and they will face italy in sunday's final at wembley. and at wimbledon, two women semifinals on the slate for today as roger federer now coming to terms with a very

painful defeat. he was beaten in straight sets by the young polish player. and meantime there will be a semifinal clash with novak djokovic. and in the u.s., the lightning celebrating back to back stanley cup titles after beating the canadiens to seal the series. they are first to repeat as ch champions since the penguins. back to you. thousands of health care and essential workers were honored on the streets of new york wednesday. ♪ the city threw a ticker tape parade for the hometown heros who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic.

it was led by the nurse who became the first person in the u.s. to receive a covid vaccine. while new york city was one of the first covid epicenters in the u.s., it now reports its lowest rate of infections since tracking began. great to see them honored there. and that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom," i'm kim brunhuber. "early start" is next.

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