live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom". >> everybody's frustrated. it's part of being if gover government. >> u.s. president joe biden makes a bid for patience as he works to bring democrats to an agreement on his infrastructure and budget plans. plus -- >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks

like. >> americans march in the streets, sending a message to politicians and judges about reproductive rights. and what doctors are saying about the pill that could fight co covid. >> the united states divided house of representatives is facing a new deadline. at issue is a popular bipartisan bill to fix america's infrastructure. the 1.2 trillion package needs to pass the house by the end of this month. but a crucial block of progressive democrats say they won't vote for infrastructure until they have a much grander and pricier piece of social legislation in place. and that is no where are near an agreement, with two democratic senators objecting to the cost of that measure. now, despite the infighting, president biden says party unity is closer than some might think. here's what he said on saturday.

>> have you been surprised by how difficult it has been to bring the moderates and progressives together? >> we can bring the moderates and progressives together with two more votes. two. >> reporter: we get the latest now from cnn's arlette saenz at the white house. >> president biden expressed optimism that his economic agenda and infrastructure proposal will make its way through congress. but he also acknowledged the frustration within the democratic party as moderates and progressives have remained at a standoff over these two measures. the president would not set a time frame for when he wants to see these passed, but he did say that he believes it will get done, saying that he thinks there is support for both of those bills. take a listen to the president's assessment of the state of play at this moment. >> everyone's frustrated. it's part of being in government. one of the things i love about you guys, i watched today.

biden vowed he's going to do this. biden commits. biden is going to work like hell to make sure we get both of these passed. >> the president is spending the weekend at his home in wilmington, delaware, where he is making calls to lawmakers. he's also expected to host democrats back at the white house later in the week, as well as travel the country to try to sell his proposal to the american people. and i also asked the president whether he's found it to be surprising, how difficult it's been to bring moderates and progressives together. the president said it would be a lot easier if they had two more votes. that being a reference to senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema. two moderate democrats that the white house has been trying to negotiate on that wider spending package that currently values $3.5 trillion. both of those senators said that is far too high and the president has been urging both sides to compromise and remember that they share these democratic priorities that they're trying to accomplish for the american people. but right now, it's a heavy lift as the president is hoping to get both that bipartisan

infrastructure proposal as well as his larger sweeping economic agenda passed up on capitol hill. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz is a key member of the democratic caucus and the former chair of the democratic national committee. and she spoke earlier with cnn about the difficult but necessary legislative process that was unfolding. >> democrats were elected to make sure that they could pass transformative infrastructure policy as well as family improvement policy. that's why we were given the majority by the american people. why joe biden was elected, why we have majorities in both the house and senate. because americans want folks on medicare to be able to have coverage for hearing, dental, and vision care. they want to make sure they don't have to choose between working and paying for child care. they want to make sure that they can have universal access to

pre-k and real comprehensive health care coverage like we don't have in my state, because republicans have blocked it for years. so we need to do both, and the key thing is, we have support for both. i've been a legislator for a long time. and the legislative process can be messy. they talk about, you know, you don't want to watch sausage being made. that's what's happening here. and one more point where i'll take you back and anyone who was paying attention to the health care reform debate, the affordable health care debate. that was gut wrenching. we had so many disagreement s. the difference here is we agree in nearly all of this. and it's just making sure we take the time to hammer out where we can build the most consensus and pass these two bills and send them to president biden. >> that was house democrat debbie wasserman schultz speaking earlier with cnn. on saturday, the white house issued a statement from the president pleading with americans to get vaccinated. the u.s. leads the world in the number of covid deaths topping

700,000 late friday. each of these flags represents one of those deaths. another way to look at it, roughly 1 in 470 americans has died of covid. but new cases and hospitalizations are now finally d dropping. the number of new deaths is also beginning to decline. and even more encouraging, drugmakers merck and ridgeback says their new antiviral pill cuts the chance of hospitalization and death by 50% for covid patients. so let's go now to honolulu, hawaii, where i'm joined by emergency physician, dr. darah o'carol. thank you so much for joining us here. the world is still digesting the news about the covid treatment p pill. i recognize it's still early days, but from a doctor's perspective, walk us through this. how would it be administered if i were to walk into your hospital with a positive covid

test and complaining of shortness of breath. >> thank you for having me. it's welcome news, something similar to tamiflu that we've had for quite a while for the flu. it's a five-day course. it is early days. it's a press release. we do need to see the concrete data, more data needs to be revealed before we can really throw our confidence into it. but it would be a five-day course and it wouldn't really be for people who are so sick that they need to be admitted to the hospital. it would be for those who are testing positive and hit them early and prevent them from getting sick enough to be in the hospital and prevent mortality and death. it's really hitting them in that kind of antiviral phase, similar to remdesivir, although that's an intravenous drug, very expensive. we're hoping this is going to be cheap and effective and it's very welcome news and we're hoping to have hopefully more

than one of these types of medication in the future. >> so it would rely then on early detection and testing, because if you were, as you said, to present to hospital and it was fairly severe, it would be too late to use this? >> absolutely correct. so you would want to have a robust testing system. i know that's part of the plan and needs to be ramped up as much as possible. if you look in the european union and many member states there are giving many of their citizens rapid tests, two to three to five rapid tests per week, so they can keep an eye on what their infection levels are doing. it's really important, yes, to get notified early in the disease and also that prevents you from spreading it either to your family or friends, coworkers, and rapid testing really needs to be a part of our national strategy. >> absolutely. this is happening in the context of a new milestone in kocovid

deaths we just passed here in the u.s. big picture, what's the latest on what areas and populations are still being hit the most right now. >> absolutely. it continues to be our unvaccinated population. in hawaii, we still have roughly 250,000 persons who have not yet become vaccinated out of a total population of 1.4 million. about half of those are eligible over the age of 12. we're waiting for hopefully really good news for those under 12 that could become vaccinated and become less at risk and less carriers to the community as a whole. so kim, i think you could pick and look towards the vaccination rates of what states have -- and areas of each states have low vaccination rates. we've seen that here in hawaii and nationally and internationally. >> that was emergency fashion dr. darragh o'carroll joining me from hawaii.

the global coronavirus death toll is set to soon reach a new and heartbreaking milestone. around the world, nearly 5 million people have now lost their lives this virus, driven recently by the delta variant and experts say the only real and viable solution to end this pandemic is for enough people to get vaccinated. but convincing people to get vaccinated is difficult with rampant misinformation and skepticism. a colleague spoke about how asia compares to western democracies. >> there's less of this ideal of individual freedom, individual rights. i don't like the government to tell me what to do so ta strongr sense of social responsibility. that the community, the country comes first. and that translates to the reality that in most asian countries, trust in government

is still very, very high. >> abortion rights supporters in the u.s. tried to draw the line, fearing that existing law could be rolled back nearly 50 years. >> up next, the crucial role the supreme court could play as it starts a new term. plus, the u.s. women's soccer legal canceled all their games this weekend amid sexual misconduct allegations by a coach. now the league's commissioner has resigned. we'll have details ahead. stay with us. he itching ...the . the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™. with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. tremfya® is the only medication of its kind also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis.

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abortion rights activists hit the streets across the u.s. saturday with a simple message. [ chanting: my body, my choice ] >> hundreds of u.s. cities saw rallies for abortion justice. the marches come after the state of texas passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law amid fears that more states could follow suit. suzanne malveaux from washington. >> reporter: we're at ground zero of the abortion debate here at supreme court. you can see the officers who are

protecting the building. there are counterprotesters outside, offering prayers as well as psalm for some of those justices. and of course you see the police that are lined up to keep these two groups separate from each other. if you swing around here to east capitol street, this is where the women's march is wrapping up. they were a thousand strong. the main focus around reproductive rights, abortion rights, and a sense of urgency, particularly around the texas law banning abortion after six weeks. the supreme court refusing to weighed in on that and many people in this women's march today making this front and central, this issue. >> i'm dressed up as the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, and i'm here today for everything that women have fought for since 1973, when this law was first passed, giving us the right to choose. and i'm just curious what has changed in this time frame that makes our supreme court justices think that we have changed our mind about that.

>> i'm dressed up as lady justice and i believe that it stands for the fact that justice should be blind. it should be without bias. and there's religious bias in the supreme court. extreme religious bias. the thinlgs going on in texas drove me here today. >> reporter: the supreme court will be back in session on monday. they are not taking up this texas law, but they are taking up a mississippi law, banning abortion after 15 weeks. so this is an issue that voters say will be front and center, particularly, they believe, a ruling could come down regarding that particular case mid-next year, right around the time of the midterm elections and so full focus on this issue. suzanne malveaux, with cnn, in washington. >> jessica levenson is a professor of law at loyola law school and joins me now from los angeles and host of the podcast, "passing judgment."

thank you so much for being with us. hundreds of marches around the country support coming in from around the world. what message do you think yesterday's event sent? >> i think they sent a message that there are a lot of people who care deeply about this issue. more so than just posting on facebook or twitter about how much they care, but actually leaving their homes and literally taking it to the streets. but the real question will be, can people channel this energy they put into a communal event, which is a cathartic and bonding event, can they channel that into pushing for changes in legislation, changes in the legal system? that's always the question when you see these big marches. >> so when it comes to changes, the texas law is facing a few legal challenges on different fronts and it's the vigilante justice element of this law that made it all the more horrific

and dangerous for many opponents and it's that aspect that might actually be part of its undoing. so bring us up to speed. >> there was a hearing late last week in a texas district court and the department of justice has actually sued texas and trying to say to a court, stop this law, do not let it continue to go into effect. and the arguments were really interesting, because you have the department of justice s saying, we have case law in this country. we have roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey and we have this texas law that bans abortions after six weeks. you can't say these two things are consistent. and then we have texas arguing something completely different, which you mentioned this vigilante aspect of the law. you have texas saying, the department of justice, you don't belong here and shouldn't be suing us because this law allows

any private individual to sue another private individual who helps or tries to help a woman obtaining an abortion. so we have these two completely different tracks of arguments. we don't know what the judge is going to say in that case. as we know, he said there are other cases pending, where there is a doctor who published an op-ed and he said, i violated that law. basically, come and get me. and that case is also working its way up now, the system and it will be interesting to see which one, if either, reaches the supreme court. >> we'll be following all of those cases. jessica levenson, great to get your perspective. appreciate it. >> thank you. the world of women's sport in the united states is once again rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct. paul reilly was the head coach of the north carolina courage and the national women's soccer legal. he's now accused of sexual misconduct towards players. cnn's coy wire has the latest.

>> there is anger and a growing call for answers following allegations of sexual misconduct by one of the national women's soccer league's most successful coaches. paul reilly fired by the north carolina courage on wednesday after an investigative report by the athletic. players alleged that over a period of years, reilly used his power and influence to sexually harass players, even coercing one of them into having sex with him. reilly denied the accusations in the report. late friday night, the legal released a one-sentence statement about commissioner lisa baird, saying she resigned and the league accepted. earlier friday, the nwsl, in collaboration with the player's union, called off all matches scheduled this weekend based on, quote, the gravity of the events of the last week. now, the players' union in a statement said, quote, words cannot qualitily capture our anger, pain, sadness and disappointment. we refuse to be silent any longer. our commitment as players is to

speak truth to power. we will no longer be complicit in a culture of silence that has enabled abuse and exploitation in our league and our sport, unquote. u.s. soccer announced it will conduct an independent investigation of the allegations. the organization not only governs soccer in the country, it also supports the nwsl financially. and until this season, managed league operations. >> and soccer's world governing body, fifa, says it's also starting an investigation into the case. the group says when it comes to misconduct in football, we would like to reiterate that fifa's position is clear. anyone found guilty of misconduct and abuse in football shall be brought to justice, sanctioned, and removed from the game. coming up, a showdown in the skies has tensions soaring between china and indtaiwan. we'll go live to taipei for the largest chinese incursion so far. plus, first of its kind images from the first planet. we'll hear from the flight-controlled team leader for the mission to mercury.

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." the philippines is one step closer to raising its minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16. the bill is now heading to the president's desk, after passing the senate this week. cnn's paul hancocks takes a look at the impact the legislation could have for the philippines' most vulnerable. >> reporter: learning how to play again after their childhood was stolen from them.

trafficked and abused girls start to heal here at the foundation north of manila, a shelter that protects some of the philippines' most vulne vulnerable. a 15-year-old we will call ana lisa was brought here by authorities this year. a therapist tells us she was sexuallily abused by a family friend when she was 17 a7 and a acquaintance when she was 13. she was then sold by her mother to a man in his 20s who ana lisa thought loved her. they're usually prone, the therapist says. they didn't know their father, so they think the love offered to them by people they meet can fulfill the lo lacking in their lives. annalisa says she is always wanted to be a flight attendant. since coming here, she now wants to be a psychotherapist. >> i want to help the children here, just as the staff and psychotherapists have helped me. i want to tell them that just

like me, they shouldn't be scared to report it if they know that someone is doing something wrong to them. >> reporter: the government moved one step closer to help ing girls like annalisa by raising the age of sexual consent from 12 to 16. >> everything i do in this office has something to do with my children and a better future for them. i think every parent would want that as a motivation for a better life. >> reporter: it's a 90-year-old law that activists have been right to change since in 1980s, saying it protects predators as they can claim that victims consented and children as young as 12 could be coerced or threatened into silence. the child right's network says the first bill was filed in

2007, but failed, as did subsequent efforts. >> so we consulted with the victims, with the victims' parents. this ises a how the campaign was compared differently compared to the earlier versions of the bill. this time, we really engage the public. >> reporter: a public she says for the most part had no idea the current age of consent was so low. for shelters like this, they are calling for the bill to become law as quickly as possible. >> right now we are 50 girls. we provide them therapy to them, send them to school, and empower them so they will bring their abusers to justice. every year, an average 15 children achieve conviction. >> reporter: there is a belief the number of convictions would rise with the age of consent and a hope that the number of abuses could start to fall. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. >> voters in the philippines are facing an election next year.

news that president roberto duterte will retire from politics is fueling speculation about who might take his place. media reports are focusing on his daughter, sarah duterte, the popular mayor of duhwang city. so what do you think is driving his decision? >> this was a big surprise reversal. duterte is barred from seeking a second presidential term. but just last month, he said he would run for vice president in the upcoming election. and that plan of his was widely criticized as a move for him to maintain his political power and circumvent any potential legal action at home or abroad. but then on saturday in a surprise move, his longtime aide submitted papers declaring that he and not due teterte would se the vice presidency.

take a listen to what duterte had to say. >> so an obedience to the will of the people who placed me in the presidency many years ago, i will now say to my countrymen that i will follow your wishes and today i announce my retirement from politics. >> experts say that duterte is realizing that the tide is turning against him. this controversial strongman has seen his high approval rating slip during the pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout. now that he has announced his retirement, this essentially leaves the race for the presidency wide open. there's been a lot of speculation focused on the opportunity this leaves for his daughter to run, sarah duterte carpio, who is a popular mayor of one of the philippines' largest cities. manny pacquiao has also announced that he's intending to

run. analysts have also pointed out that it is critical for duterte to have a loyal successor in order to insulate him from any potential legal action. duterte has presided over this brutal so-called war on drugs that has left thousands dead. last month, the international criminal court authorized a full investigation called the so-called war on drugs a, quote, widespread and systemic attack against the civilian population. but it is still possible, kim, that duterte can maintain influence if his daughter or a lows close ally wins top positions in the election. and it's also important to note that last-minute changes here are still possible. he is known to make u-turns, for instance. back in 2015, then mayor duterte had said that he would retire from public life for good. but at the last minute, he entered the presidential race and won by a wide margin. kim? >> yeah, plenty of intrigue there to follow. selina wang in tokyo, thanks so much.

protesters in brazil are demanding that president jair bolsonaro be impeached. >> scenes like this played out across brazil on saturday. balls bolsonaro is under fire from his handling of the pandemic. these protests are about more than just covid. left-wing parties and labor unions are among those rallying against the president. he's being blamed for a poor economy, surging inflation, and high unemployment ahead of next year's elections. china is keeping quiet after taiwan reported the largest incursion by the chinese air force for the second day in a roy. the self-governing island says more than three dozen military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone on both friday and saturday so let's bring in will ripley live from taipei. how worried should we be about the saber rattling here?

>> it's certainly new for beijing to set its own record of 38 war planes in a single day on friday and then break it record on saturday. it makes you wonder what's happening today. i want to bring up a list for you of what has been in the skies near taiwan, just over the last two days, friday, saturday. you had more than six dozen planes in total. 68 fighter jets, four nuclear-capable bombers, three anti-submarine aircraft and two early warning aircraft. all of these planes flying into taiwan's self-declared air defense zone. they didn't fly over the island or within 12 nautical miles of the coastline, but flew in that buffer zone that is still a place that will raise alarm. and the taiwanese air force will scramble its aircraft, it will deploy its air defense missile systems and send out radio warnings to these planes. this is exactly what they send out here.

>> beijing not giving any official comment about this. they keep it pretty ambiguous. chinese state media hinting this might have something to do not necessarily with the action of taiwan, but with the movement of u.s. aircraft carriers in this region in the south china sea. the flight path also interesting, that it was in the extreme southwest of taiwan's air defense identification zone, right near a very important strategic island, an atoll, if you will, a tiny strip of land that kind of sits right at the gateway to the taiwan strait, that makes it important for taiwan security. taiwan as occupied it for more than 70 years. there's an airstrip there, a small base, a small temple. you have military troops who are station there had and some scientific researchers who have members of the coast guard.

there's a lot of coral reefs in the area. a lot of important ecological systems, but there is a military presence. and by flying these military assets very close to that island, beijing is sending a message that they could, "a," take that small piece of taiwanese territory almost immediately. there wouldn't even be a fight to put up. because they would just be so overwhelmed. but the bigger, of course, question is, if beijing were to do that, then what could happen next? is the island of taiwan, the main island, under some sort of a threat? most analysts say, certainly not anytime soon, but this kind of stepped up intimidation makes a lot of people wonder, kim, where things are headed. >> let's hope it doesn't escalate and become more volatile. will ripley in taipei, thanks so much. an historic mission to the planet closest to the fun. when we return, a view of mercury like you've never seen before. please do stay with us. is olay better than your clean beauty? olay has 99% pure niacinamide. it's derm-tested.

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a spacecraft is spending back its first fly-by pictures of mercury, giving us a remarkable view to have the planet closest to the sun. the mission is being conducted by the european space agency and japan's aerospace exploration agency and you can see some of those first images here taken from about 600 miles away. like our moon, mercury's surface is pockmarked with craters and at least one of them is more than 150 miles across. and what a trip it's been so far. since its launch in 2018, the spacecraft has flown by venus twice. the aim is for the probes to move slowly enough to take up a stable orbit around mercury, hopefully by the end of 2025. i would like bring in the leader of the flight control team and joins me now from germany. thanks so much for being here with us. i want to just start with the first pictures you're getting back.

the explain to us what we're see seeing. >> it's exciting to see this first picture. so you can see an assortment of the surface features that are typical of this planet, from lava plaeps, events and hollows. >> so what exactly are they? >> hollows are part of the surface where volatile material is actually taken away from the planet. we do not really completely understand this mechanism yet. it would be one of the objectives when we arrive. >> take us through this. this is just the beginning, right? once the probes are in orbit around mercury, what are you expecting to get then? >> bepe columbo is a mission like other before us. mercury has not been visited

very much so far by man-made probes. there have been two american missions before us, so we have a battery of instruments to study the environment and remote surface instruments. and such other scientific topics. so this is what we will dedicate our work to when arrive. >> so getting all of that data is one challenge. i mean, getting the probes there at all to even where you are now, so close to the sun, with the heat and the huge gravitational pull of the sun to contend with, it's a monumental feat of engineering. talk me through the challenges you had here? >> yes, it's a high point of decades of hard work by scientists and engineers to make it happen and the spacecraft is now plunging towards the sun.

fulliby was at a distance of 56 million kilometers from the sun. but we'll reach our lowest point in just a few weeks from now. the spacecraft can really feel the heat. it's about a third of what we can feel here on the earth many terms of distance, but in terms of heat, it would be about ten times. so the spacecraft is especially designed for this challenge and we're about to see the effects of this now as we speak. >> so take us ahead a couple of years when those probes are actually orbiting mercury itself. the least-explored of the inner planets. the only rocky planet orbiting the sun that has a magnetic field, aside from the earth, of course. take us through exactly what you're hoping to learn from this. >> well, it's very important to study mercury as one of the

links in understanding how our solar system has been built. but also in the study of the topics that could support the emergence of life. by understanding mercury, we'll understand more about how planets are born, how they evolve, what are the conditions for the emergence of life and we'll learn more about our own w world, as well. >> it's an amazing technical achievement so far. we wish you both the best of luck in the years to come. thank you so much. >> thank you for your interest. the british prime minister isn't ruling out further relaxing visa restrictions for truck drivers to help lift the nation. one retail group says more than a quarter of its fuel stations remain dry with the fuel supplies coming far too slowly.

cnn's an snna stewart has the latest from london. >> reporter: the fuel crisis is now in its second week. the situation appears to be easing, that's what we're hearing from the uk government and industry leaders. but this recovery appears to be patchy. >> we've spoken to sites in wales and northern ireland and they say it's a very improved situation. but london and the southeast have been impacted, especially at some of the bp sites, the shell sights around london. however, both companies are actively working the situation and we hope we can get some fuel back into the system in coming days. >> reporter: in london, we're still seeing long queues outside fuel stations and those are the ones that still have fuel. many are actually empty. the problem here isn't a fuel shortage in the uk. there's plenty of it, it's just not where it needs to be. and that's due to a lack of truck drivers. this is a result of the pandemic, but also very much exacerbated by brexit, which saw a mass you can sexodus of europ workers. on monday, 200 personnel will be

taking to the roads, getting fuel from refineries and platforms to where it needs to be. the uk government is also issuing 5,000 temporary work visas for foreign truck drivers. this may help their short-term to medium-term problem here. but the worry is, it doesn't really address the longer term issue. it's not just a shortage of truck drivers. there are lots of labor short anim ages in the uk. so as hopefully this fuel crisis does come to an end in the coming days, the worry is there could be another crisis around the corner. anna stewart, cnn, london. >> coming up on "cnn newsroom," the climate crisis is wreaking havoc on australia's great barrier reef. now a new innovation may help curb that. we'll have details after the break. stay with us. program is easier. josh: the personalized recipes are really great. alisia: the program does feel really easy with all the app features. it's the reason i'm down 91 pounds. ww. weight loss that works, wellness that works. lose weight or your money back. hurry, offer ends october 4th.

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climate activists marched through the streets of milan, italy, on saturday. they're calling on other nations to live up to long-standing promises to spend 100 billion a year to help developing countries transition to clean energy. activists say they need to do

that and much more. >> i'm here, because in these days, the world leaders have met to discuss to face the climate crisis, but i'm not listening to us young people and to us people in general. who want to be listened. >> queen elizabeth is echoing that activist message to listen to the concerns of young people. the queen will attend the upcoming cop-26 climate change conference in glasgow. she spoke about as she opened the new session of the world's parliament. >> dwriz of the world on the united kingdom and scotland in particular as leaders come together to address the challenges of climate change. there is a key row for the scottish parliament. as with all parliaments, to help create a better, healthier future for us all. and to engage with the people

they represent, especially our young people. australia is fighting back against the devastating effects of climate change with a process called cloud brightening that hopes to protect the great barrier reef. >> reporter: about 100 kilometers off the coast of australia right above the great barrier reef, researchers are spraying fine mists of seawater into the air. they're using a process called cloud brightening to protect endangered reefs from rising temperatures in sunlight that causes irreversible coral bleaching. the premise of the project is simple. the water droplets from the mist evaporate leaving tiny salt crystals that drift up towards the sky. water vapor condenses around those crystals, brightening existing clouds, which block the damaging solar energy from damaging the reefs. the project initiated last year

had its second trial in march. >> if we do it over an extended period of time from a few weeks to a couple of months when the corals are experiencing a marine heat wave, we can start to lower the water temperature over the reef. and the light in the presence of the hot water that causes the coral to bleach. so by reducing a small amount of light, about 6% or so of the average light over the summer, we can reduce about 50 to 60% of the bleaching stress on the corals >> reporter: the research team use a boat floating just bo the coral reefs. scientists use censor sensors a to drones to monitor the nn nanodroplets. the results exceeded their expectations. despite the promising results, some environmental groups fear the project may detract from global efforts to limit greenhouse emissions. but harrison says his focus is on the reefs, not global

geoengineering and tackling climate change is key. >> if we don't have strong action on climate change, then cloud brightening can only help for a little while. eventually, the effect that you can get from the clouds, it's limited and it just becomes overwhelmed by climate change after a couple of decades. >> liynda kinkade, cnn. from one natural disaster to another, a new drone captured footage inside hurricane sam as it barrels across the atlantic. it navigated through 50-foot waves and 120-mile-per-hour winds to capture stunning footage. now, this has never been done before. it gives us a completely new view of a hurricane. data from this drone and others like it could help predict how and when the hurricanes strengthen. well, paparazzi beware. a camera operator in australia's crockadilius park lost his equipment when a crocodile snapped at the low-flying drone. staff members what found like

the reptile's new chew toy two weeks later. luckily, the memory card was still in twact. the drone operator said he picked the wrong croc wrong day. >> all the crocs were really skittish, but there was one in particular that was holing its ground and really eyeballing that drone. and i thought, great, i'll use this fellow. he's in a stationary spot. i can get some decent shots of him. i lined the drone up and moved over the top of him, and as i was doing that, i looked up towards the lagoon and saw a crocodile vertical out of the water and heard the great clamping noise of a crocodile's jaws coming together. and looked down at my controller and sure enough, it was blank screen and no connection. and i thought, oh, wow, that was a brand-new drone. this is going to be a really hard one to explain. >> a lesson learned from a croc who was definitely not ready for

its close-up. a georgia student presented one of the most epic absence notes ever for missing cool. just watch this. >> miss rosco, this is lin-manuel miranda. i am sorry he can't in your history class right now, but he's with me. we'll go over bill of rights and anything you may be covering right now. we cover a lot of it in about two and a half hours of "hamilton." but we'll go over it in specifics now, so this is not lost time. thank you. >> the "hamilton" creator was the guest of honor at a fund-raiser organized by the mother of the 16-year-old luke stevens. luke's history teacher said she was thrilled to learn that he really did skip her class to spend time with the broadway star. beats any of the excuses i ever cooked up. thank you for joining me on "cnn newsroom." "new day" is next for viewers in america, for the rest of the world, it's bond 25.

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