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uncertainty building on whether house speaker nancy pelosi will visit taiwan during her visit to asia. we'll have a live report from beijing. plus -- political chaos in iraq as protests in baghdad force sessions of parliament to be suspended. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. >> it's 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky. an area that has already severed through days of heart break and anguish after massive flash floods is waking up this morning to more dreaded news, more heavy rain is on the way. a flood watch is now in effect and that's raising concerns about the ongoing search and rescue operations. at least 25 people have been killed, and that number includes four children, all from the same

family. their aunt telling us they were siblings between 2 and 8 years old. neighbors say the parents tried to hold on to them, but the young children were swept away. >> there was a house there, and this trailer with this family of six, and it just washed them away. >> kentucky's governor says it is not known how many people are still missing, but says the death toll could rise for weeks as bodies are discovered. washed out roads and dozens of destroyed bridges are slowing the efforts and with hundreds of homes destroyed, the misery seems to deepen by the hour. >> it is hard to put into words. just the amount of devastation that we have seen, you know. you're talking about some really, really good people here in eastern kentucky, you know,

don't have a whole lot, and a lot of them have lost everything they have got. >> for some residents of eastern kentucky, the true scale of their own loss is becoming heart breakingly real. cnn's evan morris santoro has that. >> reporter: when the flash flood came to this part of kentucky, locals watched houses, cars, their lives get submerged by water. wondering just what kind of damage would be done. now that those waters have receded, they're getting a chance to see it. a huge swath of destruction across many counties in this area and crews still going out trying to find people who may be trapped in their homes, may have perished when the waters came through. one local here described the impact on this area of these floods. >> thinking about all the devastation that i've seen, all over the county, there are some

things that can't be rebuilt. these people -- the water had got in homes that had never been concerned with water issues. now their homes are gone. where are all these people going to go? where are they going to live? if they don't have a family member they can go to. >> reporter: here, crews are staging from the shopping center parking lot, going out and trying to find people amongst the destruction. people say it is going to be a long time before this place recovers at all. and it is going to need a lot of help to get there. evan mcmorris santoro, cnn, jackson, kentucky. the sheer scale of the devastation is hampering rescue and recovery efforts. cnn spoke to the mayor of hazard, kentucky, he explained the challenges his town was facing. here he is. >> -- city hall, a corner set up

and people came in all day long with pictures, photos of relatives that are missing and, just any kind of -- this is sad to say, but we got a team of coroners here working the three county area with cadaver dogs and such, trying to find people and identify people and, you know, i know they say we got three dead at this time, about the i talked to the county judge and it is over 30 some total for just the three counties. and that's just -- i think that's just the tip of the iceberg, truthfully. >> all right, let's bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam. derek, i'm thinking of the search and rescue efforts and that window of decent weather is closing fast, right? >> yeah, without a doubt. regrettably we have some disturbing information now just new to us here at cnn, we read the latest updates from the weather prediction center, they update about 5:00 a.m. eastern standard time, and they have now

included southeastern kentucky, the area that was hardest hit by the flooding in a moderate risk of flash flooding today through monday morning. that is a level three out of four. some of the wording they used in their description is very strong as well. i'll read it verbatim. they say it is going to become or it is looking likely that a favorable setup for very efficient rainfall is going to take place through today and overnight tonight and into monday morning. so the potential for flash flooding increasing across unfortunately southeastern sections of kentucky. let me show you the flood watches in place, anywhere you see the shading of green, bowling green to hazard, pikeville. these areas really saw the brunt of the heavy rainfall, ranging from 9 to 14 inches last week. now, we can see on the latest radar showers starting to pick up in intensity, and it will continue to do so becoming more numerous and more widespread

through the course of the day. and the potential, i want you to pay attention to this. the potential to see multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms across this area exists. this is a term that meteorologists refer to as training of storms, thunderstorms that move over the same location for several hours at a time. not really giving any relief, and really accumulating the rainfall significantly for this area. remember, there is a lot of mountainous terrain across this region, the appalachians. the water has to go somewhere, it funnels down to the ravines, valleys where the majority of the people reside and we have to look out for this particular area in and around the perry county region, near hazard, jackson, for instance, the areas hit hardest by the flooding, for the potential for 2 to 4 inches with wording from the prediction center, locally higher amounts. so that is certainly a possibility. and compounding the misery here is not only the flooding, but the heat and humidity that will

build once the rain exits the region by the middle to end of next week. this week, rather. so temperatures there will reach the middle 90s with heat indices reaching the upper 90s quite easily. >> more misery upon misery. all right, derek van dam, thanks so much. well, earlier i spoke with zach coddle in whitesburg, kentucky, victim of the flooding there, he's also working to help others. and i asked him to describe the conditions he's facing and the challenges he's dealing with. here he is. >> it's complete devastation. it's just our whole town is -- our entire region has been hit insanely hard. it is something you never would have thought would happen and now in a blink of an eye, everything is gone. >> yeah, and, you know, a lot of the people out there who are waiting to be rescued, the

elderly, you know, patients in hospitals and so on. you've been helping some patients trying to get them to safe ground. tell us about that. >> yes. i've been trying to organize to get cancer patients within my community transportation to the center in lexington, kentucky. that way we can make sure in this time of need people still recognize the prominent danger of cancer in our community and cancer patients still need the attention that they require. >> for more information about how you can help victims of the kentucky flooding, go to cnn.com/impact. after testing negative for covid on four consecutive days, president joe biden tested positive again. >> hey, folks. joe biden here. tested positive this morning.

working from home the next couple of days. and feeling fine. everything's good. but commander and i got a little work to do. >> he had very publicly gone back to work just four days earlier. now the president is back in isolation. cnn white house reporter kevin liptak has more. >> reporter: president biden says he's got no symptoms after testing positive for covid again. the white house doctor says he's doing quite well and he even -- president biden even told some folks on the phone earlier today that he was working out in the white house gym. so medically he certainly seems to be doing fine. but this is a disappointment for president biden after really it seems like he was finished with coronavirus after testing negative last week. the white house said that he tested negative each day since tuesday evening. but he did have a positive test on an antigen test earlier saturday morning. and so the president will be isolating here at the white house. the white house did have to cancel a number of out of town

trips that the president had scheduled, but he does have his dog here to keep him company. it was only four days ago that the president emerged from the white house, really sort of triumphant after testing negative for coronavirus. what the white house says is that they were testing him each day, but he did throw that positive test this morning. what they're real ly attributin it to is paxlovid that he was taking. there are instances of people testing negative and then positive again after taking paxlovid. president biden seems to be in the faction of people for who that seems to be true. the white house downplayed the prospect this could happen over the course of the president's illness, noting how few people it is happening to. but they did say that it could be a possibility. and for that reason, they upped the president's testing cadence, they had him wear a tight-fitting mask around the

white house. now, he will have to go back into isolation, his wife is away from the white house. s she is at their home in delaware. he will be able to leave isolation again when he next tests negative. kevin liptak, cnn, the white house. there is a logical explanation for why president biden was at risk with covid-19 rebound positivity. here is cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. >> the president's paxlovid rebound i think was entirely predictable. older data suggests that maybe paxlovid rebound was a rare event, happening in 1% of people who got paxlovid, but now with ba.5 it is much more frequent than that, maybe somewhere between 20 to 40% of people who take five days of paxlovid will rebound with symptoms and a return of their positivity.

so when the president tested negative this week, many of us thought it was likely he would have rebounded and that's exactly what we're seeing now. the good news is that inimmuno confident person like the president of the united states, even at age 79, with the rebound symptoms, it should be very short lived and not really a threat to his health. >> our thanks to cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner there. new york city has declared a public health emergency due to the growing outbreak of monkeypox. it is the second major american city to do so following san francisco earlier this week. new york's governor says cases in the state account for more than 1 in 4 of the national total. the statement officials say new york city is currently the epicenter of the outbreak and we estimate approximately 150,000 new new yorkers may currently be at risk for monkeypox exposure.

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are still in the region, which is in the cross hairs of the main russian offensive. he says the goal is to save lives. here he is. >> translator: there is already a governmental decision about obligatory evacuation from donetsk region. everything is being organized. full support, full assistance, both logistical. the only needed decision from the people who have yet not made it for themselves, please follow evacuation. we will help you. we are not russia. we will do everything possible to save the maximum number of human lives and to limit the russian terror. >> in the south, the russian artillery isn't giving the city of mykolaiv a break. it has been taking russian fire almost every day for the past month. but several hours ago, the city saw what was likely its strongest shelling since the beginning of the war, according to its mayor. he also says there was damage and casualties. our reporters are standing by with the latest on those developments.

jason carroll is in kyiv. first, let's go to nic robertson. mykolaiv, where you are, has been pounded by russian shelling as we have been saying. what is the latest there? >> reporter: well, overnight, at about 12:30, 1:00 in the morning you could hear several times cluster munitions going off over the city. there were many other heavy impacts across the city. some of the heaviest seemed to come at 5:00 in the morning and these came sort of four or five missiles at the same time. the biggest of the impacts here, literally rattling the windows on this building here. we have been out to talk to people, we have been out to the site of some of these explosions. one of them was a residential property. we talked to neighbors there, they told us that they heard the expl explosions, come out to see what had happened to their neighbors. one house, the big mansion house took a direct hit. we know from firefighters now the husband and wife, they're

very successful businessman and his wife were hiding in the basement, the firefighters there now say that the couple believed to have died, talking to those eyewitnesses there, those neighbors. one of them said, you know, he didn't know what he was going to do next. he was going to have to fix his roof and his windows. they were blown out. him and another neighbor saying they were going to to have to consider leaving the city or leaving the houses here. they don't feel as safe as they did before. other parts of the city are the people we talked to, saying that they intended to stay. we were talking to people getting water from a water truck today. there is no clean drinking water in the city. it has to be trucked in. people are collecting water there. they were telling us that they intended to stay in the city. but there were a number of different sites around the city, heavy impact. and i climbed into one of the big craters to give you the sense of the size of it. the top of the crater way over

my head, it stretched out on either side several meters across, a very big crater. that is the type of munition that was landing on this city overnight. and as i say, people here are saying from their perspective, this was the heaviest night of shelling and bombing that they have witnessed in this city so far. so people rattled and nervous, but residents, many of them saying they're not going to leave. >> such a vivid portrait of the damage you're giving us there. nic, let's turn to jason now. those calls from president zelenskyy for the evacuation of donetsk, a huge undertaking there, walk us through what is behind it and how it would work. >> there has been fierce fighting in that area of the east in donetsk and in the surrounding areas. this message coming from the president. it is more really about what is to come. and that is frigid temperatures

that will be descending upon the country in the east, come late fall, and come in the winter. there are as you say hundreds of thousands of people who are still there. the president says that there are tens of thousands of children who are there, families and so this evacuation order, this message going to them, saying anyone out there who has family or knows people with family with children now is the time to get out. with so many people that undertaking is going to take time. especially when you consider what the ukrainian government says, what will eventually happen. there will be no heat. there will be no power, no electricity, likely trouble getting access to water. some of the basic necessities that are needed really to survive are in all likelihood not going to be there. this is why this message is going out again now at this point, now is the time to leave, now is the time to get out. as bad as things are now, the thought is that things could possibly get much, much worse. kim? >> all right, great to have both

of you reporting there from ukraine, jason carroll and nic robertson, thank you so much. russian president vladimir putin is in st. petersburg marking his country's navy day as we mentioned. putin has been shown giving a speech and meeting with russian forces. ships, troops and aircraft will be on display as the day goes on and we know cannons are part of the spectacle. have a look. putin used the display of force to send a message about the future of the russian navy. cnn's fred pleitgen is live in moscow. fred, given the context, there was a lot of patriotic bluster. take us through what putin had to say. >> reporter: there certainly was patriotic bluster, if you want to put it that way, and really what vladimir putin did is he praised the strength of the russian navy, he said anybody who tries to encroach on

russia's freedoms and russia's interests will be dealt with, with lightning speed. he also sort of alluded a little bit to the current situation that russia is obviously in with that invasion of ukraine, ongoing, which also sees the russian navy as being a big part of that as well. one of the things he said at the current time that russia is in requires some very decisive decision-making on the part of the russians, decisive actions on the part of the russians, and the way that he phrased that was that he said that russia is going to deploy the hypersonic missile there very soon, a hypersonic missile that the russians tested in may, successfully, and now want to bring it to service as quick as possible. this hypersonic missile technology is really something where the russians believe they have an edge over their adversaries, specifically over the united states. they believe this is not something that for instance missile defense systems could cope with. the russians allegedly have already used hypersonic

missiles. the kinjal, which is air launched, in the invasion of ukraine, and the sircon is set to be deployed on a frigate, one of russia's most modern frigates and apparently has stealth technology as well. so that's the part of what happened today, during this parade, obviously a lot of ships on display, a lot of pomp, a lot of music, a lot of people out in the crowd as well. one of the things we didn't here very much of or not at all was russia's, what they call the special military operation in ukraine, which obviously is also seeing the russian navy playing a big role in that as well, launching missiles for instance, caliber cruise missiles at ukrainian territory. the russians have taken a lot of naval losses, and that's something that, of course, we have been reporting about. for instance, the flagship of the black sea fleet, the moskva destroyer, was hit by ukrainian

missiles and sank, which was a huge deal for the ukrainians. there was also a russian landing craft, which got destroyed in the port of berdyansk and the battle for snake island which the ukrainians decided for themselves, a russian ship being sank as that was going on. so certain things that, you know, weren't mentioned a lot today, but you did see a big show of force as is customary on the part of vladimir putin on the part of the russian navy and obviously saying the russian navy very important to russia's defense and russia's military doctrine, kim. >> interesting. thanks, great to get that update from you. fred pleitgen in moscow, appreciate it. in iraq, sessions of parliament are suspended until further notice after thousands of protesters stormed the capital's green zone twice in a week. protesters loyal to muqtada al sadr are angry that one of his

rivals has been nominated as prime minister. those protesters still occupying the parliament building. iraq has been gripped by political uncertainty for months. nana bashir is following the latest developments from istanbul. there are calls for de-escalation and peaceful dialogue. any sign that anyone is listening? >> reporter: look, as you mentioned, we are still seeing protesters occupying the parliament building. we have seen two massive demonstrations in less than a week, protesters breaching the green zone, storming the parliament building, many of them loyalists to muqtada al sadr as you mentioned, and a lot of them have grievances over the political stagnation we have seen over the last few months. and muqtada al sadr, his faction came out in top in october elections, but falling short of the absolute majority. but for the last nine months he has been unable to form a government. now, on monday, we have seen a

nomination of his rival and in response to that, these massive protests. we have heard repeated calls for a de-escalation of tensions, for the leaders of the various political factions within iraq's parliament to come together to reach some sort of resolution. at this stage, those protests are still ongoing. we heard from the iraqi prime minister yesterday, he urged for peace in the green zone. take a listen. >> the political blocks must sit down, negotiate and reach an understanding for the sake of iraq and the iraqis. a thousand days of quiet dialogue are better than a moment in which a drop of iraqi blood is shed. >> reporter: there is real concern around whether or not these protests could escalate and cause further turmoil in baghdad. we saw already more than 100 protesters injured yesterday at this stage. it doesn't seem to be escalating

as much as we saw yesterday, but it is still early in the day and there are still concerns around that. we heard from the u.n. secretary-general urging peace, urging for a de-escalation of violence and tensions in the city. but, of course, there is that onus on the political faction to take part in discussions and dialogue. that has been called upon them by the riraqi prime minister an the iraqi president. they are expecting to gather leaders of the political factions within iraq's parliament over the coming days. when that will happen is still unclear. but they have urged all political leaders to take part in these discussions to reach some sort of resolution. what we have seen in the last few months, an absolute political deadlock in trying to form a government. of course, people have grievances over who will take that position as prime minister, but also around the current situation in iraq when it comes to the economy and social life there. we heard from people speaking to cnn teams on the ground, talking about the high unemployment rate, the rising food prices,

people are really struggling there and there is a real sense of frustration around the government's inability to really get its act together and stabilize the political outlook for iraq. kim? >> all right, thanks so much, nada bashir, appreciate it. when we come back, just what kentucky doesn't need, more heavy rain in the forecast. and crews are making progress against a large wildfire burning near california's famed yosemite national park. but other fires in the state are getting worse. we'll hear from firefighters on the scene coming up. stay with us. talker. a fast walker. thanks, gary. and for unexpected heartburn... frank is a fan of pepcid. it worksks in minutes. nexixium 24 hour and prilosec otc can take one to four days to fully work. pepcid. ststrong relief for fans of fast. before treating your chronic migraine— 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more you're not the only one with questions about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic graine before they even start—with out 10 minutes of treatment

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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." let's return to our top story, there is more heavy rain in the forecast for already devastated kentucky. the weather prediction center has issued a three out of four moderate risk for excessive rainfall across the southeastern part of the state today. historic flooding from earlier in the week killed at least 25 people and one local mayor says that's the tip of the iceberg. raging floodwaters wiped out countless homes, roads and bridges. the governor says the damage could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars and the infrastructure could take years to rebuild. we're also hearing stories of courage. this 17-year-old spent hours on the roof of her neighbor's home escaping the danger with her dog. just one example of hundreds of people who are now having to dry out and figure out what to do now that floodwaters ripped apart their lives.

>> i don't know what we're going to do, we don't have no place to live now or anything. >> the water got about up to there. we had about this much more room before we got flooded. and i have never seen it that, you know, that high. we came out of the house and it was so swift that even a jet ski was hard for him to handle and he took us out one at a time. >> a couple who survived the floods spoke earlier to cnn's pamela brown, showing her the damage. david gillespie and his wife holly were in lost creek, one of the worst hit areas. have a look. >> you can kind of see over here, over the memorial bridge, you can see some of the garbage that is still over here. and you can actually see how high the water has come. it has really just come up an incredible height, all the way over the bridge, and even enough to bring a lot of -- whoops,

sorry about that. bumping into people here, a lot of garbage has come up. there is even some framework from homes, a lot of garbage, a lot of personal belongings. the more you go down the river, the more things that you see. incredible devastation and it is really sad to see, but like i said, a lot of community members have really come together and been very helpful. >> and the gillespies have been helping deliver supplies and rescuing people by boat. and in addition to helping people, they say they're also bringing supplies for animals. catastrophic flooding isn't just happening here in the u.s., according to iran's red crescent society. the death toll has risen to 59 and 30 people are missing in tehran and three other province according to iranian officials.

from the air they surveyed damage caused by days of floods that affected 400 towns and villages. rescue operations are ongoing. in pakistan, rain may finally be letting up in areas hit by massive flooding, but the monsoon deluge has already taken a toll, killing at least 384 people. now, here you see a town in northern pakistan, inundated by floods on saturday. but it doesn'idn't stop the str vendors working in ankle deal water. the majority of rain over the next few days is expected to be in the central and eastern parts of the country. california's governor declared a state of emergency for some of the northern most parts of the state as multiple wildfires prompt evacuations. meanwhile, in central california, the oak fire threatening the famed yosemite national park is now more than 50% contained. crews have largely managed to halt its spread. the oak fire has destroyed more than 100 homes so far. cnn's bill weir is there.

>> reporter: it actually started around here. >> it started over this ridge over here. >> reporter: okay. >> and in the first 24 hours, this fire grew 10,000 acres. >> reporter: put that in perspective, that's crazy fast. >> that's crazy fast. the oak fire is the biggest fire in california. and because fire season winds haven't really started blowing yet, there are almost 4,000 firefighters here from all corners of the state. they managed to keep flames out of yosemite national park, but not the smoke. and they say they won't fully contain this blaze for weeks. so what makes this oak fire especially scary is it devastated a lot of land very fast and the winds aren't howling like they would be. >> that's correct. we're in extreme conditions, but things can always get worse. >> reporter: and any ecologist will tell you a healthy forest needs fire to rejuvenate itself. but since world war ii, smoky the bear has been preaching fire

suppression. across much of california, all this fire has been loading up over the decades. a fire drought really, just in time for the old-fashioned drought. a 22-year megadrought. this combination now making californians rethink everything they know about property values and insurance markets and defensible spaces. >> in the course of my career, i've seen the biggest fire happen year after year after year. it is impressive. >> reporter: no offense, you don't look like a grizzled veteran. it is not the years, it is the fires. >> the fires, yes. >> to that fact, the fires have been happening within the last 10, 15 years. go back to 2003 and all of a sudden something happened. >> reporter: i wonder about folks who live in amazing spots like this. a great find in the '70s when a fire like this was once in a lifetime. now it is once every couple of years. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: do you see it changing the psychology of folks

in these wild places? >> takes a special person to come live out here and we just hope that if you do decide to live out here, that you learn how to prepare yourself, prepare your property, get -- prepared emergency escape plan and create some defensible space as you see here. this person did a great job at clearing out some combustible vegetation and brush away from his fire. >> these guys will take all the help they can get in doing this job. especially when it is 97 degrees outside here as well. they have got a couple dozen helicopters, over 300 fire engines, a bunch of water tankers in all of that. ultimately it comes down to sometimes how much yard work they have to do around the house that hasn't been properly hardened against fire. and, again, this is just the beginning of the fire season now. the deadliest months are in the fall, out west, after a couple more dry hot months. and this is a mutual aid state. you put out my fire, i'll help put out yours, at a certain

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a possible but unconfirmed u.s. congressional trip to taiwan is creating tension between beijing and washington. house speaker nancy pelosi is leading a delegation of representatives to japan, south korea, malaysia and singapore this week. in a statement released in the last few hours, pelosi's office says the trip will focus on security, economic partnership and democratic governance in the indo-pacific. there is no mention of a stop in

taiwan. but the possibility has created friction between the u.s. and china in recent days. selina wang is in beijing and joins us now live. more saber rattling from beijing, but from pelosi, still no mention of taiwan on her itinerary. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: yeah, kim, important to note, though, that even though taiwan was not on the official itinerary, that doesn't mean that she won't go. this actually could denote if she goes to taiwan, it is not an official trip, so it essentially means they do not see taiwan on the same level as the other independent countries that were listed. so some experts say that might be able to simmer u.s./china tensions. still, we're seeing escalating anger and threats coming from china. officials have threatened powerful action if house speaker pelosi ends up going to taiwan. and china's military, kim, has been sending signals at a press conference on sunday, an official said that chinese military warplanes flying around taiwan would enhance its

abilities in a potential conflict. the background here is that in recent weeks there have been nearly daily incursions of chinese fighter jets into taiwan's self-declared air defense zone, all of that putting pressure on taiwan before this latest point of friction. state media reporting on a military drill this weekend in china's province, directly across the sea from taiwan. beijing basically sees a visit to taiwan by one of america's most powerful politicians as tacitly supporting taiwan independence, which is a clear red line for beijing. and during chinese leader xi jinping and u.s. president joe biden's more than two-hour call on thursday, xi warned biden that, quote, those who played with fire will perish by it. but all of these threats from beijing have been vague and some experts say that is by design because they say, look, this is all just strong language, china doesn't actually want conflict to escalate any more than the u.s. does. but on the other hand, there is

concern that this trip, potential trip, would be humiliating for xi jinping, we're months away from a key political meeting when he's expected to seek an unprecedented third term, and at this moment, he needs to look strong. even though most believe that china would not take direct hostile action, there is concern that with all the military assets in the region there could be a miscalculation or accident that spirals into a real conflict. kim? >> all right, we will be tracking the trip and we won't be alone, i'm sure. selina wang in beijing, thanks so much. appreciate it. one of the last living navajo code talkers has died. the navajo nation reports world war ii veteran samuel sandoval passed away on saturday. he and other code talkers were crucial in the allied defeat of japan by using a code based on their language to pass secret messages. sandoval was at battles like guadalcanal, guam and okinawa and close to 100 years old.

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and out throughout saturday, even trying to see if lightning could strike twice here. take a listen to illinois lottery officials, explaining how much this gas station gets. >> that lucky retailer will receive half a million dollars in the selling bonus for selling the winning ticket. as far as the winner is concerned, we have not heard from the winner yet. we don't know whether they even know they won a prize. i encourage everybody to check your ticket. >> reporter: now technically this person has 12 months to come forward. or 60 days if they want to choose the $780 million cash option. so, the clock is ticking. but the jackpot winner wasn't the only winner. there were 26 at least million dollar winners across the united states from california to louisiana to new york. and six of those had two times multipliers on, which means they basically paid $1 extra on the front end for that chance and then got a million dollars on

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