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♪ good morning. and welcome to your new day, i'm boris sanchez. >> good morning, boris. i'm amara walker. new details on the fbi search of former president trump's home. what we are learning from the now unsealed warrant including what was removed from trump's home and the potential crimes they investigated. plus a big win for president biden as congress passes his $750 billion health care and climate bill. the immediate impact you are
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going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we'll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. ♪ welcome to your weekend. it's saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. >> good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i've been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. >> pleasure to be with you, as always. >> thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump's home, according to court documents
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unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, compartmented information. that is one of the highest levels of government classification. now, those documents are only supposed to be viewed at a secure government location. >> notably, the unsealed search warrant also identifies three potential crimes the justice department is investigating. violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of the government records. to be clear, so far no charges have been filed in the investigation. but republicans in congress are demanding more answers from the fbi. >> there are a number of things that they could show us. and i don't want to speculate on what those would be, that would obviously rise to the level of maybe you didn't have any options, but i would be very, very surprised as to what those are considering the breadth of
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what they could have done besides this. >> and in response to the mar-a-lago raid, former president trump claiming that he declassified all the documents seized by the fbi. though there is no evidence of that. let's go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez for more on this. evan, break this all down for us. hi there, evan. >> reporter: hey, amara and boris. good morning. look, i think the former president is trying to make his best defense, which is why are you coming, breaking into my house? which they didn't do, by the way. why are you coming to my house to get information that i had declassified? and what's interesting about what the -- what we find from this document that was released by the federal court yesterday is that -- we know now that they're investigating these three crimes, including the espionage act statute, which by the way, does not make a reference to classified information. it refers to national defense information, which is the same
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thing. but it sort of gives prosecutors the way to get around what donald trump's defense is likely to be, which is this is information that i had the right as president to declassify and i did that. trump is coming up with an even more exotic version of this, saying that just by sending documents from the main part of the white house to the residence, he was declassifying things. and of course we know that's not exactly the way things work. what we know is that the fbi is still going through these documents. these documents were taken to the fbi field office in miami where they have the secure rooms and facilities to be able to go through these things. they're going to do everything, including finger pripting these documents to see who may have handled this. we know they took surveillance video. they subpoenaed surveillance video from mar-a-lago, so they
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know who's had access to this area in the last, you know, in the last few months. and what this investigation is right now is, you know, there might be people beyond the former president who could have legal exposure here because, again, this is -- these are very broad laws that they're looking at. the other thing i want to mention is one of the three statutes that's being looked at here is one it has to do with obstruction. and it is a very broad version of obstruction in the sense that it has to do with impeding any kind of federal investigation. so it's not just this investigation. it could be any other thing that the investigators determined, or they believe, donald trump was or someone else was trying to impede in their work. >> boris and amara? >> evan perez, thanks for the reporting. please stay with us because i want to expand the conversation now and bring in rinado mare
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gnatty, former federal prosecutor and host of podcast. good morning. we're grateful to have you. which of these three federal crimes stands out most to you that trump could potentially be charged with? >> actually the one that evan just mentioned, the obstruction statute. here is why. i think the other two stat schuts that were mentioned in that search warrant are statutes that we expected. in other words, if the former president had taken top secret information and brought it to his residence and kept it there after his presidency, i would expect both of those statutes to be cited. i will say i did not expect an obstruction statute to be included in that list. and what's important about it is i think it could be a potential plus factor here. and what i mean is i think, you know, if all that happened was that the former president took classified information and brought it to his residence and was keeping it there, that that
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mere fact while it certainly could be the basis of charges and i have the feeling if me or evan had nuclear secrets in our basement then we would be charged. i think that the justice department would be potentially less likely to charge in that circumstance. but i think potential obstruction of justice, if you were with holding those documents to impede the government or some investigation, i think that's the sort of thing that might lead the justice department to pursue charges. >> staying with you, renato, the one that caught my eye was the potential of violations of the espionage act. you hear espionage, you think spying. but this isn't necessarily about spying, right? >> absolutely correct. so that's an important thing for our viewers to understand is that the espionage act is a very old and very broad statute. it covers a whole variety of activities that do not encompass what we would ordinarily consider espionage. you can violate the espionage
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act and not be spying in the traditional sense, but it does cover the misuse of classified -- basically what's called closely-held information in that statute. it was actually enacted before the classification system. and i expect that that statute to be listed on the search warrant. >> evan, you noted the likelihood that some of these documents may contain information that is sensitive in a national security perspective. will we ever find out exactly what's in these documents that were seized? >> look, you can look at previous cases where people were charged with this statute which is u.s. code 793, and there's a very interesting case of a former nsa employee who was charged with this. you can look through the court documents and you see very cryptic references to describe what these documents are. so the answer is likely, boris, we'll have maybe some hints of what it is, but probably not
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because these are viewed -- these documents that the government believes were taken, you know, were being stored improperly at mar-a-lago are so sensitive, they're tssci, they are things that are classified as special access programs. we know for a fact that at least some of the documents that were taken from the -- from mar-a-lago were in that category. these are again the most closely-guarded secrets. even if you have top secret clearance, you need additional reason to be able to get access to these things. so things like nuclear weapons programs, things like some of our signals intelligence, how we spy on other countries. things like that that are so sensitive that would never be allowed to go to someone's beach house in palm beach, right? so that's one reason why that the government guards these things. it gives you a sense of why they took this very extraordinary step. because this is a thing that has
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been going on over 18 months. the former president has essentially been stone walling. despite the fact that they were claiming that they've been cooperating, it's absolutely clear that the prosecutors believe that is not true. >> renato, what do you make of the arguments from the former president that he declassified this material and that he would have handed it over if only doj had asked for it? >> well, the latter argument i think is verifiably false. the latter argument is problematic for him. i don't think that -- i think that defense won't -- we won't hear that repeated over time because as evan mentioned a moment ago, the government actually went to the former president and his team. they asked for this information. he was served with a subpoena. and obviously they didn't provide all of it because if they did, they would have had -- the government would have had no reason to obtain a search warrant. and when they executed that
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search warrant, they wouldn't have found anything. so i think certainly they did ask for it and they didn't get what they needed. now, as to this declassification thing, i mean, we heard all sorts of fairly fanciful ideas earlier, every time he took something up to the bedroom, it was automatically declassified. it sounds like something you made up. i think it's something a jury would have trouble swallowing as a potential defense, but it's better than some of the other defenses we heard because it's slightly more plausible than the fact it was all done to plant evidence or some of the other stuff. i think part of the issue for him, though, is that for these statutes, the fact that something is technically classified is really not a turning point under these statutes. it's particularly obstruction statute but even for the other statutes, it is a factor, something the jury would consider. and i think it would be important, but i don't know if
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he could get off on some technicality regarding declassification. >> renato, evan, we have to leave the conversation there. appreciate you sharing part of your saturday with us. the democrats' major economic healthcare and climate bill is headed to president biden's desk for his signature after congress passed along party lines yesterday, specifically the house. the $750 billion package represents the largest climate investment in u.s. history. makes big changes to health policy and it also reduces the federal deficit. cnn congressional reporter daniela diaz joining us now. hi there. tell us first how significant this is for democrats. >> reporter: amara, we cannot overstate how significant this is because this is a goal for the democratic party that they've had ever since president joe biden entered the white house. they wanted to see a climate package. they wanted to see a healthcare package, a tax package. they were able to get all of
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these things in this deal that the house passed yesterday. now a little bit about this package. it would reduce the deficit and be paid through new taxes including a 15% minimum tax on large corporations and 1% tax on stock buybacks. also boost the internal revenue services ability to collect taxes. that's how it's being paid for. now, it also gives medicare the power for the first time ever to negotiate the prices on prescription drugs and it extends affordable care act subsidies. publicly the biggest provision of this is that it would -- it's a huge climate deal and would be the biggest climate investment in u.s. history by reducing carbon emissions up to 40% by 2030. of course, climate activists really celebrating this deal. now, of course, president joe biden praising house democrats in a tweet yesterday. every single house democrat supported this legislation. he said the choice we face as americans, whether to protect the already powerful or find the courage to build a future where everybody has a shot.
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today i proudly watched as house democrats chose families over special interest. really remarkable because usually in the house we do see sometimes one or two more moderate house democrats vote against legislation in the hopes to keep their seat. yesterday we saw every house democrat support this bill and every republican vote against this bill. and, of course, progressives celebrating this deal as well. congressional progressive caucus chairwoman pramila jayapal telling cnn yesterday this is a huge climate deal and really celebrating that fact. take a listen. >> to me, this is such -- this is the kind of moment that you live for in congress frankly. you know, something that is going to deliver real change where we can say to young people, you're going to have a planet because we are going to cut carbon emissions 40% by 2030. it's really -- it feels fantastic. >> reporter: amara, what we're going to see in the next couple weeks, in the next couple of
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months before the to 22 midterms are these democrats campaigning on this deal, on this legislation. of course, president joe biden expected to sign it this next week. once it's signed it goes into law. a lot of these provisions we will see in immediate effect -- implemented. amara? >> thank you for that, daniela diaz. award-winning author salman rushdie attacked on stage at a book event yesterday. he's been targeted for 30 years. and yesterday an attacker struck. the latest on his condition next. plus, water samples in new york revealing the polio virus may be circulating there. why health officials fear it could be more widespread than originally thought. "new day" is back in just a few minutes. ♪
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it was a frightening scene. officials say the 75-year-old rushdie was stabbed once in the neck and once in the abdomen. his agents say he could lose an eye and a suspect is in custody. cnn's polo sandoval is outside the hospital where rushdie was taken in erie, pennsylvania. hey, polo, what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, officials yesterday, amara and boris, announced that celebrated author is recovering at this hospital in erie, pennsylvania. just about 40 miles away from where the attack happened yesterday morning. the entire global community, the white house, all condemning yesterday's attack and praying for rushdie's quick recovery. however, his agent telling "the new york times" yesterday the news on his client's condition is not good. not only, as you mentioned, that he faces the possibility of losing an eye, suffered extensive nerve and liver damage and this morning he is breathing with the help of a ventilator, according to what the agent told "the new york times." a motive certainly still a very
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big question here for investigators as they serve search warrants at a property associated with the suspect in new jersey. it is certainly not lost on the investigators that rushdie spent decades really with those looming death threats after the publication of the satanic verses 30 some years ago. investigators certainly looking at that after iranian leadership basically issued that religious decree calling for the 75-year-old's death, one that was reaffirmed as recent as 2017. i want you to hear directly from rushdie, as he reflected on living with that constant threat, constantly looking over his shoulder but at the same time embracing living his life in the relative safety of living in a western country. this is a portion of that interview in 2019 with cnn. >> i mean, it may have been an unpleasant decade, but it was the right fight.
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i was fighting for the things that i most believe in against things that i most dislike, which are bigotry and fanaticism and censorship and so on. so, yeah, i came out of it in a way clearer. >> reporter: at that event yesterday, that lecture event, there was a new york state trooper as well as a sheriff's deputy that quickly sprang into action. the suspect that was quickly apprehended identified by authorities as 24-year-old matar, investigators spending all day yesterday looking into a residence linked to him, also going through electronic devices in a backpack that was recovered at the scene, trying to find out if rushdie's previous writings, potentially inspired this attack. charges against matar, those are pending this morning. back to you. >> polo sandoval, thank you. health officials in new york city say that polio is likely spreading after finding samples
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of the virus in waste water. the discovery comes after one person in upstate new york was recently diagnosed with polio. a case the cdc is calling just the very tip of the iceberg. >> while 90% of people who contract polio will exhibit no symptoms, the virus can cause meningitis that then leads to paralysis. new york's major is surging unvaccinated residents to get the polio shot. his city is facing a trio of dangerous diseases. >> we are dealing with a trifecta, covid is still very much here. polio, we have identified polio in our sewage. and we're still dealing with the monkeypox crisis. we're coordinating, and we're addressing the threats as they come before us. and we're prepared to deal with them and with the assistance of the washington, d.c. >> the monkeypox outbreak in new york and other cities is forcing
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federal officials to authorize a plan intended to stretch the vaccine supply. it would allow healthcare workers to use a lower dose of the vaccine administered in a different way. >> but that strategy is raising concern with the vaccine's manufacturer. cnn's jacqueline howard breaks this down for us. >> reporter: boris and amara, first, here is a breakdown of the nation's monkeypox vaccine strategy. the fda has authorized administering the monkeypox vaccine using a technique called intrader mall injection. now some vaccines can be administered into the muscle or they can be administered into the fatty layer below the skin, subcutaneous injection, that's the way the monkeypox vaccine has been injected during the outbreak. but with the new fda authorization, the vaccine now also can be administered in between the skin layers or
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interder mally. they can involve smaller doses than what's used with subcutaneous or intramuscular injections. so with the monkeypox vaccine, the fda says a fifth of a dose can be administered intrademilly. there are concerns about this especially since intradermal injections need to be used with care. >> it requires real thoughtfulness with respect to the technical issues around it, the safety issues around it, the feasibility, the training and staffing needed to dose the vaccine reliably, the storage condition, all the supply chain management issues around it. so, those are all real things which we're wrestling with as we speak and trying to figure out the best way to potentially roll
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this out. >> reporter: doctor was speaking with the washington post in that clip and we heard him say that new york is really wrestling with this. but in the meantime, on the federal level, the fda stands by their strategy as a way to make the most of the nation's vaccine supply at this time. amara, boris, back to you. >> thank you so much. it seems that prices are starting to go down. especially at gas stations across the country. still ahead, other signs indicating that inflation may have peaked. ♪
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so the good news is that inflation may have peaked. recent data shows that consumer and producer prices are falling, but we're still paying more for groceries right now. the cost of eggs, flour, chicken and milk, you can see that they are significantly higher than
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just a year ago. and yesterday we got a report from the university of michigan that shows consumers for the second month in a row are a bit more confident about prices. but to be clear, confidence remains near record lows. so, what is all this say about the state of the u.s. economy and where it's going? that's what i want to know. for that i'm joined now by the u.s. chief economist at s&p global. good morning to you, beth. thank you so much for joining us. let's start with consumer confidence. what's the take away from friday's report? >> i think people are responding to base ically a bit lower pric at the gas pump, which takes out a huge chunk of their disposable income and feeling more optimistic about what's going to be going down the road. i suspect expectations also dropped a little bit as well as most likely what their inflation expectation is. that's key. if people start to believe that inflation will be lower a few years from now, that means
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they're going to feel optimistic about what to expect in their pocketbook later on. >> just to be specific, the average gas price is just under $4, 3.99. prices are falling. they are still much higher than last year. is that a good sign regarding inflation in general? is it going to continue on this downward trend? what's the forecast? >> well, there's a catch to this. it's good that prices are falling down. we see it in gasoline prices and as you had mentioned, it's still $1.50 above where it was before the pandemic. so, it's still incredibly high, but it's good it's going in the right direction. other kmocommodities are fallins well. also a positive. people are cutting back. reducing their errands, taking vacations locally rather than taking a trip across the united states. this is all good but it also slows the economy. so with these lower prices means
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an economy that's weakening as well. >> and for the family sitting at home watching us right now, they want to know when are the prices of food, right, groceries, milk and eggs, when is that going to go down? >> it's taking some time. and the only downside pressure that we're seeing on inflation is because people are starting to change their habits, reduce the kind of food they're buying. but, a lot of these price -- a lot of these price pressures are coming from abroad with the russia/ukraine conflict, for example. when will that end? when will supply chains open up is a big question. we do have some improvement elsewhere, for example. china is starting to soften in terms of supply chain disruptions. but if that doesn't change any time soon, unfortunately those price -- those high prices will probably stay with us for a bit longer than we had hoped. >> i'm curious to know your thoughts on the inflation reduction act that president biden has indicated he will be signing soon. look, it's $750 billion in s
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spending when it comes to climate change and healthcare costs as well, but that's a lot of spending, right? overall, do you see this bringing down inflation and when? >> i would say that it's a help, but it's -- i don't see it as a near-term help. when i looked at infrastructure work, infrastructure projects, usually what happens is it's not -- it happens, but it happens after the crisis is over. i'm hoping that's not the case this time, but again i'm a little bit skeptical on what we'll be seeing. the positive, of course, is addressing climate change, also addressing those health costs that people are facing will be a big benefit for those people's pocketbooks, but it is still something that may not happen near term, probably medium to later term story. >> got it. that makes sense. >> lastly for those that are potentially in the market to buy a home or just watching mortgage rates, which are rising again above 5% this week. this time last year it was just
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at 2.87%. so if you were able to lock in those rates from a while back, you're obviously quite lucky. but, there's also been a lot of criticism against the feds, right, for i guess perhaps moving too slowly to raise rates. what is your thought on the housing market and if home prices will ever go down? >> well, what goes up usually comes down. i guess i can say that positive piece of news, butly have the negative as an economist. we always have the other hand. we did a piece on housing affordability and what we found is with higher prices earlier on, extremely high prices, higher than i believe record highs in some cases, what we saw was that people could afford them because their monthly payments were low. now we're seeing that a lot of people are squeezed out of the market because of those high prices, meaning those monthly payments have gone up. we see that now 60% of
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households are -- 60% of households all the way up to the average household, median household income, is now squeezed out of the market. and that's a concern. that also means that with the band drying up, prices will also start to fall as well. >> okay. i guess the key here is cautiously hopeful. beth ann bovino, thank you very much. >> thank you. so former president donald trump made a lot of claims about the fbi's search of mar-a-lago. up next, we're going to run those through a fact check. stay with us.
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♪ welcome back. a check of some of the top stories we are following. in arlington, virginia, at least 14 people were injured friday after a vehicle crashed into a pub causing a building to burst into flames. according to police, eight people were taken to area hospitals, four of whom were critically injured and another six were treated ed at the sce and released. johnson & johnson announced it is going to stop using talc in its baby powder. it is at the center of tens of thousands of lawsuits filed by women who have developed ovarian cancer after using regular talcum powder. johnson & johnson says it remains confident in the safety
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of its product. so former president donald trump and his allies turned to a familiar defense strategy after the fbi searched his florida home, confiscating 11 sets of classified documents. >> yeah. trump has sought to discredit the fbi's actions and what they found using a slew of falsehoods, claiming everything from evidence being planted to arguing his predecessor did the exact same thing and neither of which have any basis in fact. cnn's daniel joining us now. it's so important have you fact checking all this. you have a new piece out today where you kind of divide what we have heard from trump and his allies into two categories. and one of which is those baseless conspiracy theories. talk to us about that. >> reporter: there are so many different conspiracy theories from trump and his allies at once. so trump has in his familiar just asking questions kind of style suggested that the fbi could have, as you said, planted evidence. his lawyers have been even more
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explicit in floating that idea. kentucky senator rand paul said the fbi is probably planting evidence, so did a host on fox. senator marco rubio of kentucky promoted a different conspiracy theory. he was saying he doesn't think the fbi was looking for documents at all. they wanted to get into trump's house and look for whatever they could find. then we had people like a right wing host on the media outlet real america's voice who basically delivered a qanon-style conspiracy theory saying this raid was designed to thwart trump from exposing these satanic, disgusting criminals in government. none of this has any basis in fact whatsoever, but all these people keep saying it. >> daniel, your piece also explores how trump uses what aboutisms to try to defend himself, often invoking his 2016 rival hillary clinton and her emails. there really isn't a comparison for what happened here, right? >> there is not. and so, what aboutism, for people who aren't familiar with
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the term, is just saying what about this, what about that. it's usually what about democrats. the big what aboutism this time is what about barack obama? so trump and some of his allies started saying barack obama took 30 million or 33 million documents after his presidency to chicago. trump said much of them, many of them were classified. that compelled the national archives and record administration to come out with a statement completely debunking this. they said they the national archives maintain exclusive, legal and physical custody of all of those obama presidential records. they are the ones who took 30 million records to the chicago area to their own facility in the chicago area and said that that was not classified information. that they took the classified documents and sent them to another facility in the washington area, again, their own facility. so this obama thing was completely made , but it still became one of trump's main talking points. guys, i think that tells you something important. >> indeed. daniel dale, thank you for the fact checking.
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>> when ever i hear of what about this, what about that, i think of my whiny kids fighting and saying, well what about lucas? he did the same thing. thanks, guys. appreciate it. well, londoners can't wash their cars right now due to the current heat wave in england. up next, we'll look at the extreme weather patterns hitting europe this summer. ♪ not just structures and skyscrapers, but teams who make it all popossible. after all... we wouldn't be where we arare today without them. so we made suree that like these buildings... their futures may also stanand the test of time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you're making all the difference out there kid. next big american. pressu, pressure? pressure, pressure. so where do you think this pressure's coming fr? everyone. i'm just here for the mints.
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♪ just in this morning, rescue efforts are still under way in mexico as dive teams are attempting to reach ten miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine. on friday, divers worked to clear debris inside the mine shaft after multiple attempts to reach the miners the day before failed. the miners have been trapped for ten days now after accidentally breaching an abandoned tunnel that flooded the mine.
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were able to es coupe but rescuers have been unable to contact the ten still inside. a 22-year-old man is dead and 17 others injured, three of them seriously after a stage collapsed at a spanish music festival near valencia, spain. officials say the collapse was caused by a strong gust of wind. spain's national weather service says wind gusts were up to 50 miles per hour with temperatures reaching as high as a blistering 104 degrees. this morning, the festival management announced the festival has been suspended. there is new video this morning of the taliban violently breaking up a rare women's protest in kabul. watch this. that is gunfire breaking out after more than 50 women gathered outside the education ministry building chanting food, work and freedom. the protest comes almost one
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year after the taliban seized control of kabul. since then the group has significantly rolled back women's rights, requiring them to cover their faces in public, and banning girls from attending secondary school. on that note, we have a quick programming note to share with you. it's been nearly one year since the united states withdrew from afghanistan. tomorrow fareed zakaria is going to take a look back in a gps special. sitting down with the former afghan president ash raf afghani to ask him why he left his country during that turbulent time. the fall of kabul airs tomorrow right here on cnn at 10:00 a.m. parts of western europe are dealing with record heat and drought. just yesterday, ireland experienced its hottest day ever for the month of august, hitting 89 degrees. >> cnn salma abdelaziz has more on the extreme weather conditions affecting parts of europe. >> reporter: 5,000 hectares,
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more than 12,000 football fields burnt in a single night. temperatures inside the fire zone in this community in france reached 1,000 degrees celsius, according to the local fire department. enough to bend steel. >> translator: we are still in the phase of trying to contain the fire. our mission is to direct it where we want, where there is fewer vegetation where the layout allows our vehicles to position themselves best in the most efficient manner. >> reporter: scorching temperatures and months of dry weather is causing dangerous conditions across europe. eu chief ursala vonder lay yen tweeted help is coming part of the civil protection mechanism. following an emergency plea from paris on thursday, the eu sent four fire fighting planes to the southwest where emergency services battled wild fires for
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six consecutive nights. re-enforcements from romania started to arrive friday morning. >> we are firefighters and we have to help people around the world. >> reporter: in the uk, the london fire brigade remains on high alert and describes the city as tinderbox dry. water companies have introduced bans given the drought conditions, stopping people from watering their gardens, washing cars or cleaning windows. even the river has dried up further downstream than ever before. >> this is the climate crisis in action that i am stood in about that deep, 15 kilometers into it. i should be a lot wetter than i am right now. >> reporter: germany's river rhine exceptionally low, threatening further disruption on germany's most important inland water way, used for transporting chemicals and grain, it is crucial for the movement of coal, which is in higher demand as germany races to fill storage facilities ahead
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of next winter. meteorologists say the current wave of extreme temperatures sweeping europe is associated with a robust dome of high atmospheric pressure, not only does that dome bring hot air into the region, it also suppresses storms and clouds, trapping the heat and preventing it from rising. scientists say that every heat wave the world experiences today has been made hotter because of human-induced climate change. sa salma abdelaziz, cnn, london. that's frightening. on the next episode of "patagonia:life on the edge of the world" cnn shows how this new series was made behind the scenes. >> by the time the storm passes, the crew have just one day left before they have to return to port. >> it's usually tricky, not this tricky. this has been like spectacularly difficult. >> thomas gets some exciting
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news. whales have been spotted only two hours away. ♪ >> we got some whales. >> nice. ♪ >> a big blue and a small blue. >> "patagonia" airs tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. hey, thank you so much for being with us this morning. amara and i will be back just an hour from now. >> yes, we will. smerconish is next. we'll see you soon. every year we try to exercise e more, to be more social, to just relax.
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alternative facts. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. never in the field of search warrants has so much been assumed by so many, though known only to so few. monday's search of mar-a-lago began a when i will wind week of pargs and speculation. if you thought the public release of warrant and inventory would end all the mystery and allow the emergence of one truth, you are mistaken. yesterday "the wall street journal" was the first to detail what was retrieved. 11 sets of

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