♪ hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," u.s. justice department released the redacted affidavit behind the unprecedented search of donald trump's florida home. they go so far as to say there's potentially, quote, evidence of obstruction. plus, as unanswered questions swirl around the biden administration new student forgiveness loan, look at disparity of relief for minors. >> ukraine's nuclear plant is

reconnected to the electricity grid. president zelenskyy says the danger isn't over yet. ♪ >> announcer: live, from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuberbrunhuber. we're getting our clearest look yet into the u.s. justice depa department's investigation into classified documents. a redacted version of the after daft the fbi submitted details what federal investigators expected to find, improperly taken classified national security materials as well as evidence of obstruction. in a court filing friday, donald trump's legal team said the redacted affidavit, quote, raises more questions than answers and underscores why a so called special master is needed to review the evidence taken during the search. jessica schneider has more on the key take aways from the

unsealed document. >> reporter: startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. >> the top secret stuff and compartmental can get people killed. it is completely alarming. >> reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes the archives retrieved in january, 2022, contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret and 25 marked top secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise improperly identified. plus, some documents had hcs markings, particularly alarming to intelligence experts. >> hcs stuff basically means there's information in those boxes in the basement of mar-a-lago that pertain to or possibly came from human

sources. they usually get imprisoned or a place like russia or any other authoritarian society they're simply executed. that type of information is incredibly sensitive. >> reporter: the justice department redacting pages of information from the affidavit in order to protect witness information and other key details from the on going criminal investigation into classified material at mar-a-lago. in particular, prosecutors writing in their legal memo to the judge, information in the affidavit could be used to identify many if not all of the witnesses. if witnesses identities are exposed they could be rejected to harassment, intimidation and threats to their physical safety. >> at the end of the day, this is probably a net plus for the government. the judges found that they have excised all information that would compromise sources and methods or the justice department would be concerned about. >> reporter: but left unredacted is an email trump attorney evan cork ran sent in may claiming

trump had the authority to keep the papers at his florida home after he left office, saying trump has absolute authority to declassified documents and presidential actions involving classified documents are not subject to criminal sanction. but doj investigators weren't deterred. there was probable cause to believe additional documents that contained classified ndi or national defense information or that our presidential records currently remain at mar-a-lago and probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction will be found. >> what is a good explanation for why really anybody or certainly former president that group would want this stuff or have this stuff stored in the basement? >> just about half of the 38-page affidavit is redacted. and that's because the justice depa department's criminal investigation is still moving forward. prosecutors have revealed they're looking into violations of the espionage act, concealment of government records, also obstruction. so the next question is, will

anyone ultimately be charged? and if so, who? jessica schneider, cnn, washington. cnn legal analyst areva martin joins us from los angeles. thanks so humuch for being here with us. so much was redacted, so what did we learn here? >> well we learned, kim, that donald trump was both pet ewe lent and dishonest. petulant because he refused to turn over documents that the national archives and the department of justice repeatedly asked him to turn over and dishonest in the sense that he told them in january when he delivered boxes to the national archives that that was all that he had. that he was turning over all of the classified and sensitive documents that he had taken to mar-a-lago and now we know that to be a complete falsehood. even though the affidavit was heavily redacted, names and

other key pieces of information were not made available to the public, there was enough there, kim, to determine that donald trump acted in a way that potentially could cause him to be in a great deal of legal trouble. >> yeah. you know, is that what you're saying that he didn't turn over the stuff when he was asked and so on, that he wasn't truthful. that talks to the mention of unlawful concealment in the first line of this. how significant is that? >> incredibly significant, kim. the whole case that the department of justice based this affidavit on was that he had documents that he was unauthorized to have removed from the white house and that he continued to retain those documents. he was in possession of un -- documents that he was not authorized to have in his possession, documents that should have been nowhere near this private beach front, unsecured property miles away from the white house.

when he was told that, he rather than comply with the request, and turn over everything made available to him, he engaged in deception. he continued to make false statements to the department of justice. that's what causes many to believe he may be facing criminal charges himself. >> now, the affidavit said several of the documents also contain what appears to be trump's handwritten notes. one of the questions that occurs is when were those notes made? can we infer anything from that if, for example, they were made after he left office, what would that suggest? >> that's a good question. what we're hearing from a lot of republicans who have come to the aid of donald trump is that he somehow declassified all of these documents. and implicit in their arguments is that because he engaged in this broad scale declassification that the documents somehow belong to him. and we know donald trump had this very distorted notion that government property was his

property. and that he had the complete authority to do whatever he wanted to do with these documents, including handle them in such a negligent and cavalier way in the way we are now learning through this affidavit. we don't know when he made those notations on the documents. what we do know is that surveillance tape was turned over to the department of justice and that they saw people going in and out of the storage facility. they saw boxes of the documents being stuffed into containers. and there was lots of concerns about how safe, if at all, and we know the department of justice thought these documents weren't safe at all, these documents were. and kim, we don't even know if duplicates were made f photo copies were made, if pictures were taken of the documents. if the documents were up loaded on to some kind of computer system. there's still so much more we don't know. but what we did learn today, kim, is that donald trump removed documents from the white house that he was not authorized to do so and he remained in

possession of them almost 18 months after he left the white house. >> yeah. it's incredible. now from donald trump's point of view, his lawyers responded on friday to a judge's request that he elaborate on his request that a court appoint a special master to oversee the review of that evidence. what, if anything, did we learn from that? >> we learned that the legal team that donald trump hired to file that motion is incredibly incompetent. the documents they filed first of all it was the wrong court, before the wrong judge. the documents didn't state a clear cause of action. there were issues with the service of the filing that was made by these attorneys and even this donald trump-appointed judge said, look, demonstrate to me that i even have the legal jurisdiction to make a ruling, to make a determination consistent with what was requested in that motion. so it is very clear that he's having a difficult time finding

competent counsel since he left the white house. >> so many twists and turn in this story with serious implications. really appreciate your analysis, areva martin, thank you so much. >> thank you, kim. u.s. stock markets ended the week in negative territory. that was after investors got a warning about inflation from the federal reserve chairman. the dow jones industrial average closed down more than 1,000 points, some 3%. the s&p 500 also fell more than 3% and the nasdaq closed nearly 4% lower. all three indexes were down about 4% for the week. now friday's speech from fed chair jerome powell clearly weighed heavily on investors. americans are already dealing with higher interest rates and prices for consumer goods. but u.s. president joe boyden is hoping to highlight some positive economic news as he campaigns for democrats in the midterm elections. cnn's phil mattingly has the

story. >> reporter: the economy is looking good so far. the white house hailing a monthly drop in consumer prices. >> a lot of good news in the economy. our focus here is to support households, keep our eye on the ball on inflation and hopefully come out the other side with steady and stable growth. >> reporter: with inflation still at a four decade high and this morning from the fed chair. >> while higher interest rates, slower growth and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. >> reporter: the deceleration presenting a glimmer of optimism for white house officials. buoyed further by a nearly 7 point jump in august consumer sentiment, signs of progress president biden pledged to deliver, capping a whirlwind month of legislative victories. >> we've done all this, but then our critics say inflation. you mean the global inflation caused by the worldwide pandemic and putin's war on ukraine? we're making progress.

>> reporter: and right as the white house hits gas on biden's campaign effort. biden unveiling a fiery and aggressive new approach in maryland. >> in 2020 you and 81 million americans voted to save our democracy. that's why donald trump isn't just a former president, he is a defeated former president. >> reporter: after 19 months beset by crises and own covid precautions a true campaign style rally and clear effort to harness early signs of democratic electoral energy. sparked by the supreme court's decision to strike down roe versus wade. >> the court in its opinion used the phrase that women have a right to vote and change this. well, guess what, maga republicans don't have a clue about the power of women. let me tell you something, they are about to find out. >> reporter: but biden also laying out the stakes in dire

terms at reception before that rally, pointing to the, quote, entire philosophy underpinning former president donald trump's political power as, quote, like semifascism, but the rally included only a single mention of biden's latest seismic policy decision on student loans. >> thanks to our historic deficit reduction, we can afford to cancel $10,000 in student debt and $20,000, if you're on a pell grant. for tens of millions of americans, making under 125,000. this is a game changer. >> reporter: as officials continue to grapple with political backlash and continued questions over the cost. >> look, this will need help. this will not cause inflation, number one. number two, it will generate economic growth. >> reporter: white house officials are keenly aware that a day, a week, even a month of positive data does not necessarily turn things around. there's a very long and potentially bumpy road ahead when it comes to the four decade

high price increases. they only need to watched chairman jerome powell's remarks in jackson hole and watch the market reactions to those remarks. the chairman make very clear the fed is going to continue to be aggressive on rate increases and the market reacting down more than 1,000 points the sharpest drop since may. long road ahead, the white house officials acknowledge but are certainly optimistic about what they have seen recently. the images are nothing less than horrific at the site of a russian strike at a railway station in ukraine. and rescue workers now say their work in the train cars ripped apart by the russian artillery is done. plus -- >> we tried to keep away from them because it was scary. they walked around with machine guns and who knows what they could do. at night they would get drunk, shoot in the air. people were scared. >> ukrainians tell us about their life under russian occupation near the zaporizhzhia

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♪ well, ukraine's president could have led to potential radiation disaster appears to have been averted at the nation's largest nuclear facility. the zaporizhzhia plant is back on line and reconnected to the power grid. it lost connection on friday after fires damaged a key power line. president zelenskyy warned the situation will be back to square one if the plant is disconnected again. here he is. >> translator: i want to emphasize that the situation remains very risky and dangerous. any repeat of yesterday's event, that is, any disconnection of the plant from the grid, any actions by russia that could trigger the shutdown of the reactors will again put the plant one step away from disaster. >> meanwhile, russia says it's doing everything necessary to allow inspectors from the international atomic energy agency to go to zaporizhzhia. the agency wants to determine the situation at the plant which is occupied by russia.

now, why was that disconnection from the grid such a big deal? having an external power source is a must for nuclear plants, which need it to cool their reactors and prevent a meltdown. sam kylie reports from zaporizhzhia, other safety concerns didn't go away. >> reporter: after a 24-hour period in which the future of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant literally looked in possible doubt, there is now a sense of relief, but its problems are not over because it remains on a front line. ukraine's biggest nuclear power plant is making history that no one wants to read. its six reactors are the first ever to have fallen into enemy hands and the first to have the main power source for their cooling systems caught during combat and first to triggered the emergency cooling system, to avoid a meltdown and radio active disaster because of war.

>> translator: if the diesel generators hadn't turned on, if the automation our staff on the plant had not reacted after the blackout, we would be forced to overcome the consequences of a radiation accident. >> reporter: it's only source of main line electricity from government held territory was cut, the government here says by russian shelling. russia captured the plant in march and has been using it as an artillery fire base for a month. it's been hitting civilian towns west across the dnipro river. civilians fleeing to the town closest to the plant in fear of war and of a radio active disaster brought on by it. russian troops, they said, were ill disciplined and dangerous. >> translator: we tried to keep away from them because it was scary. they walked around with machine guns and who knows what they could do. at night they would get drunk, shoot in the air. people were scared. >> reporter: the power to cool the systems was restored yesterday. and the reactors eventually

reconnected to the ukrainian grid on friday, supplying up to a fifth of the country's electricity. but key fears that russia may cut power to its cooling system again, as part of the alleged plan to steal its output. and that would risk a meltdown. zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is only 20 miles from where i'm standing. if there was a disaster there, radioactive material would be carried into the sun and into europe. international demands that russia removes its forces from the plant and allow nuclear inspectors in are increasingly strident. and in ukraine, nuclear decontamination drills are just another part of war. now the plans of the international atomic energy authority to visit the zaporizhzhia power plant have moved up. they're saying they may be able to get there in a matter of days. that's much quicker than had beens a tis pate md ch they have to get to a location on the

front line. and there are no indications at all from the russians they will agree to any kind of demilitarization of this power plant. if that doesn't happen, it's hard to see if these safety issues, problems will go away even in the longer term. sam kylie, cnn, in zaporizhzhia. ukrainian officials say rescue operations are over after a russian strike on a rail station. ukraine says russia hit a civilian target, killing at least 25 people. russia claims the attack killed 200 ukrainian military members. meanwhile, russia has blocked the final draft of a nuclear disarmament agreement negotiated at the united nations. diplomats say moscow requested last-minute treaties. the move came after the u.s. and dozens of countries issued a statement warning of the nuclear threat posed by russia's takeover of ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

for more on all developments in ukraine, nad a bashir joins us from london. what more can you tell us about the train station? >> reporter: look, as you laid out, kim, we have heard from ukrainian officials that rescue operation has concluded as of friday after tragic few days since that incident on wednesday. but as you said, the russian federation continues to maintain the strike was targeting ukrainian servicemen. they say they striked 200 ukrainian servicemen and 10 equipment units. that stands in contrast to what we have been hearing from ukrainian officials who say that there were no soldiers present at the scene and that at least 25 civilians were killed in the attack. now, they described this as a targeted, terrorist incident. this isn't the first time they have denied allegations of targeting civilian infrastructure. we heard from the united nations

expressing their condemnation calling on both parties to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law to avoid the striking of and targeting of civilian infrastructure. this comes as we see the u.n. visit special coordinator for ukraine, denise brown, she is on her way to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground and the work of humanitarian aid organizations operating in ukraine. she has expressed her condemnation of the attack. but also stressed that there needs to be a complete commitment to those obligations by both parties. but of course, as we continue to see those attacks ramping up, there is real concern as to whether or not russia will continue with this targeting of civilian infrastructure. it is becoming increasingly difficult to verify the facts on the ground. >> positive developments about the amount of grain that's been

exported from ukraine, which could be literally life saving for many people around the world. >> absolutely. it is life saving for those nations most dependent on ukraine's grain exports. we have seen a real milestone being hit, some 1 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods being exported from ukraine's southern black sea ports over the last month. since that black sea grain initiative deal was signed in istanbul by turkey, the united nations and delegations from russia and ukraine and of course yesterday we also heard from that joint coordination center which was established in istanbul outlining that a new maritime corridor has been opened in the black sea, allowing for the passage of grain and other agricultural goods to pass through safely through a corridor that is expected to shorten the transit time of those exports. so there are some positive developments there. there is real hope, at least on the turkish part, that this deal, the success of this initiative could lay the ground

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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." there is still plenty of unanswered questions of president biden's newly-announced student loan forgiveness plan, like when borrowers will start to see that relief and how the country plans to pay for it. cnn's brian todd is taking a closer look at the details. >> reporter: vanessa russell recently told cnn she is saddled with $48,000 of student loan debt. >> i can't afford my expenses. i can't afford my groceries. i can't afford my transptation, my rent. and still try to put money aside for student debt. >> it'one of the largest contributors to household debt

and can haunt many students throughout their lives. >> reporter: vanessa russell likes president biden's new plan where borrowers can have $20,000 of their student loans wiped out if they make less than $25,000 a year or married couples or heads of households making less than 250,000. $20,000 of student loans can be forgiven for those who received pell grants, given to students from low and middle income families. the president is also planning to extend the pause on all student loan payments. a moratorium put in place during the pandemic until january. >> i'm really excited. it's going to cut my loan almost in half. >> reporter: others are critical. >> other people have other types of debt and those aren't being forgiven. it's tough to swallow. >> i don't think it's enough to come out and say they're forgiving 10 to $20,000. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: what if you took out a loan but couldn't finish college? >> this broad base loan forgiveness will cover people who took out debt but didn't have the degree.

>> reporter: but not every borrower with take advantage of this. >> it also won't benefit people who have private student loans. this is only offered to people who have federal loans. >> reporter: that's the bulk of borrowers, experts say. but critics are calling this plan unfair. a slap in the face to people who saved for college, who worked doggedly to pay off their loans or who went into the military or another field because they couldn't take on student debt. some argue that american taxpayers will be footing the bill for a benefit for people who don't need it. >> not everybody that has student debt is rich, disproportionately student debt is held by people that have advanced degrees and pretty good income. they can bear it a lot more than everyday americans that are seeing the cost of their gasoline and clothing go up. >> reporter: and there's still the issue of skyrocketing tuitions. the total cost of going to college now averages over $35,000 a year, closer to $55,000 a year at a private university, according to the education data initiative.

>> i'm not sure that it is going to help the root cause, which is college costs too much. >> reporter: and michelle singletary worries this new loan forgiveness program won't make colleges rethink their tuition hikes. she worries it will be the opposite. this program becomes popular, more people will rush to take out loans and colleges will continue to charge whatever they want. brian todd, cnn, washington. advocates for student debt cancellation argue loan forgiveness would help narrow the racial wealth gap because black students are more likely to take on student debt, borrow larger amounts and take longer paying them off than their white peers. but a model from the urban institute finds that under president biden's plan 62% of the cancelled student loan dollars will go to white boar rorers and 25% to black borrowers. this as the brooks institution on average black college graduates owe more than $52 thourksz in student debt

compared to white college graduates owe 28,000. the average asian borrower owes 25,000 and hispanic borrowers average 30,000 in student debt. despite the disparity, president of the naacp told cnn he commends president biden for taking steps to help some of those most in need. listen to this. >> he's done a targeted approach, identifying individuals who of pell grant is recipients, the most neediest of our societies and put a means test on top of it, something we oppose but it makes sense because now we're talking about teachers. we're talking about federal employees. we're talking about state and municipal employees. individuals who make sure our economy grow, maintain the necessary services for our citizens and who really make democracy work. >> nina turner, former ohio state senator joins me from

cleveland, ohio, also the cochair of bernie sanders 2020 presidential campaign. thank you so much for being here with us. so we just ran through some of the disparities between white students and black students. why is there such a big gap? >> well, the gap is structural in nature. it comes from decades and decades of public policy. and as difficult and sad as the notion that public policy in this country has been set up in a way to disadvantage particularly african-americans but other people of color, the working class, the silver lining is that that structural inequity can be changed. and it should be changed. the whole notion and -- listen, the $10,000 worth of forgiveness that president biden just recently announced is a great start. but it is not the end. it's the floor, it's not the ceiling. and even as we know, i mean, the stats that you just displayed, the average debt for african-americans, particularly african-american women, $52,000,

the average white student between 8 and $12,000, that $10,000 hardly meets the need. so it is structural in nature. and it needs to be changed. >> so, this is a small step but it is a step nonetheless. how far will this new program help, do you think? >> it helps somewhat. it's means tested. that means that you're leaving a whole bunch of people out. and it should be canceling student debt for all so that nobody is left out so that no one feels as though they did not get the relief that they deserve. it is hurting working clas and working poor. we know many students who start college don't even finish. so when you have people like the gop using the working class, the truck driver, the farmer, assuming that a truck driver and a farmer did not go to college, a lot of those people go to college, a lot of their children go to college. why, because they're trying to obtain the american dream. and that is being doused because this debt is so -- you just

can't keep up. i heard stories of people paying on this debt over and over and over again and they can't catch up because the interest rates. people owe more -- a lot of people owe more because of the interest rates than when they -- than what they borrowed. the structure in this country needs to be changened and can be changed. >> let me jump in because you talked about the republican's response to this. there are plenty of folks out there, not just republicans who said listen, i paid off my student loans. why should these guys get a freeby and perhaps cynically just before midterms. mitch mcconnell called this a slap in the face for every family sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt and also the argument that you sort of talked about, people who actually didn't go to college there. they're now paying their taxes for student loans they never got. so what do you say to that? >> taxes are not going up over this. so it is a straight up lie for the republicans to be out there talking about tax dollars are

going up. that's number one. number two, this us versus them is the problem. in the united states of america, we pay for k through 12 education. so for example my son is no longer in high school. but guess what, my property taxes still go to pay for the education of somebody else's child. why? because it is indeed a public good. so we need a total paradigm shift in this country to go from pre-k to college as a public good, as a social right. and lastly, senator mitch mcconnell, i didn't hear all of this bravado when it came to the ppprelieved. i didn't hear the bravado when it came to the trump tax cuts went overwhelming to the wealthiest people of this country to the tune of $1.9 trillion. we have an opportunity to give relief to 45 million people and their family and their closest friends. why wouldn't we make that kind

of investment? so that divide and conquer tactic the gop is using, i'm hoping that the american people is not -- will not buy into it. because it's not us versus them. we are them. and it is all of us. >> so you say, you know, this doesn't go far enough. you've been calling for all student debt to be cancelled here. but many democrats say, you know, one time debt cancellation doesn't solve the underlying problem which is what you've been saying as well. what do you think concretely can be done realistically to address that? >> and the people saying that are absolutely right. it's a combination of things. multiple things can be true at the same time. who i will we cancel student debt, we must change the system by which people pay for higher education in this country. so part of that is making public colleges and universities tuition free so that we, the next generation, is not faced with this suffocating debt. that is, in fact, the answer.

both of those things at the same time will give so much relief. because our economy is 70% consumer economy in the united states of america, given that relief will trigger people to have more disposable income which will feed into the economy and which will lift businesses in this country. it could -- it will also close the racial wealth gap, kim, in a way that has not been done in this country ever. we have a stagnant, a -- we have a severe racial wealth gap, the black/white racial wealth gap is severe in the united states of america. canceling that student detd, all of it, not just $10,000, will go a long way in shrinking that wealth gap. looking at a remedy that has a class component and cast component. in other words, a working class component and also a race component to it. especially for the african-american community. >> yeah. it's such a huge issue, but

we'll have to leaf itve it ther. thank you for your insights. >> thanks for having me, kim. >> no shortage of extreme weather lately. mississippi included where officials are urging jackson residents to get ready for more flooding. derek? well, with all the rain that the gulf coast states got this week, that water has to go somewhere. the potential for flooding exists through the weekend and into early next week with additional rainfall in the forecast. plus, monitoring tropical activity across the atlantic basin. i'll highlight these in detail coming up after the break. stick around. easy-to-use tools, and paper trading to h help sharpen your skills, you can stay on totop of the market from wherever you are.

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powerful storms ripped through parts of western massachusetts friday, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds in a town of east hampton, strong gusts knocked down multiple

trees and power lines. authorities say there were no reports of injuries. the risk for severe weather continues for other parts of new england including boston and bridgeport, connecticut. mississippi officials are urging some jackson residents to get ready to leave ahead of more heavy rain and flooding. national weather service says the pearl river which runs through the heart of jackson is expected to crest at 36 feet tuesday, well above flood stage. jackson's mayor says those in flood-prone areas should be ready to evacuate within 48 hours. go now to cnn meteorologist derek van dam. plenty of worries there in mississippi. what are you seeing? >> well, all that water that fell this week, kim, it has to go somewhere. it's making its way from the local tributaries, the local streams into the larger river, like the pearl river that goes through the heart of jackson. and unfortunately that water is going to crest as it accumulates all the watter from the surrounding areas. that's where we're going to

start to see the localized flash -- localized flooding in and around the jackson area this week. now, you can see the amount of rain we've had since sunday. incredible amounts. in fact, some areas from louisiana to mississippi reported over 10 inches, even locally higher than that. and we still have our flood warnings, kind of following along parallel with the local river ways across central mississippi. and i'm going to take you to a river gauge, this is the pearl river at jackson, downtown jackson, the capitol of mississippi and we're currently at 34.25 feet. right? it's going to go up as we continue to receive the water from the local tributaries. and the forecast crest is expected to happen monday night into tuesday morning at 36 feet. that puts it above major flood stage and officials believe that's enough to bring water up to at least the base of some of the businesses and homes that reside across that area. now, there currently isn't any rain in the outlook right now, at least for the next few hours.

we start to get the daytime heating from the sun, we'll see the popup showers and thunderstorms form once again. and the problem here is that sometimes these afternoon summertime thunderstorms meander and tick over the same area for a long period of time and could pick up easily another one to two inches of rain. weather prediction center has marginal risk of flash flooding today with the additional precipitation that would fall. we don't want that to happen because the ground is saturated and we still have the run-off from the local rivers. here is the forecast accumulation for that area. i want to give you update on what's happening in the tropics. some formidable tropical waves moving across the central atlantic ocean, 30% chance of development. this is what we need to monitor closely. concerned with this as it has the potential to move due west. then we have another one across the caribbean could bring tropical mischief to the western gulf of mexico for the end of next week. kim? >> lots to keep our eyes on for the weekend. derek van dam, thanks so much. now to pakistan, severe

rains and floods killed more than 900 people, affecting at least 33 million and left thousands homeless. pakistan's minister for climate change called the floods unprecedented and worst humanitarian disaster of this decade. pakistan says it is sending in the army to assist with relief and rescue operations. pakistan armed forces say the troops are helping people find shelter and offering medical assistance to those affected by the floods. u.s. space exploration takes another giant leap on a new mission to fly to the moon and beyond. we'll have a report after the break. stay with us. real meals. real good. all of knorr's high quality pasta and rice sides are now made with no artificial flavors or preservatives. knorr. taste for good.

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one of its own rockets designed to carry astronauts into space. it's been 11 years since the last space shuttle launch, 50 years since the last launch of the apollo program, but now apollo's mythological twin sister artemis is at the launch pad at the kennedy space center just days away from make its first flight. part of the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon is because this time around they want to leave a lot more than just flags and footprints. here is nasa administrator, bill nelson. >> 50 years ago we went to the moon for a day, a few hours, three days max. now we're going back to the moon to stay, to live, to learn, to build. >> reporter: and when he says build, he is referring to building lunar bases on the moon. part of the reason nasa and the united states want to do that is because china has plans to do that too.

but first the artemis will launch monday morning, if all goes according to plan, the roblgt will separate from the capsule and the capsule will then head to the moon on its own. it will orbit the moon for about two and a half weeks. at times getting within just 60 miles from the surface then lit return to earth, test out the all important heat shield before splashing down in the pacific ocean. and the reason that heat shield is so important is because it's designed to protect astronauts who will be inside that capsule hopefully on future flights. so if all goes well, those first astronauts will be on artemis 2 in 2024 and will orbit the moon and the big one, artemis 3, when nasa intends to return american astronauts to the moon but this time they want to land the first woman and the first person of color. kristen fisher, cnn, washington. all right.

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♪ good morning. and welcome to your "new day." i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara. i'm boris sanchez. former president trump again calling for a special master to intervene after a judge unseals documents about the search of his mar-a-lago home. the latest in this legal battle and what we're learning about the classified government secrets. stocks plummet after fed chair jerome powell promises, quote, a forceful and rapid action to tame inflation. why he is warning of