live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," a scorching heat wave grips the western u.s. this holiday weekend. tens of millions of people are under a heat alert are, we'll take you to the cnn weather center for the latest. a reactor at europe's largest nuclear power plant forced to shut down again as heavy shelling rains over the area. we're live in kyiv with the details. as the migrant crisis on the southern border of u.s. worsens,

cnn speaks with asylum seekers in and out of the country. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom," with kim brunhuber. we begin with scenes of utter devastation in northern california, where wildfires have burned through more than 9,000 acres. the mill fire has left hundreds of houses ablaze in the small town of weed. firefighters say they're making progress, but the fire is still only 25% contained and the nearby mountain fire is 5% contained. streets are littered with charred remains of cars and cinder blocks where houses once stood. officials say help is on the way, with fire strike teams ready across the state to respond when necessary. now, those wildfires are being fueled by a blistering and dangerous heat wave that continues its stranglehold

across the western united states this weekend. more than 40 million people are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal for the fifth day in a row electric companies in california are telling customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances. cnn's chris nguyen reports from los angeles. >> reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing in signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. >> our ac at home can only do so much when we're in these triple digits. >> reporter: in glendale, california, residents are seeking refuge at the galleria shopping mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning. >> getting out to the mall and getting out of the house to get some sort of cool relief is nice. >> reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the year, a major concern especially in large cities like los angeles, where dark pavement and buildings can easily absorb heat, bringing little relief overnight. skid row is an urban heat

island, which is why water is crucial. especially when temperatures hit triple digits. >> free water! free water! >> reporter: that's why volunteers with water drop l.a. are checking up on the unhoused and the elderly. >> do you want water? >> yeah, sure. >> reporter: handing out cold water to those who need it. >> we should care about each other, we should love each other and look out for each other. >> reporter: the extreme heat wave also testing california's power grid. in irwindale, southern california edison crews are busy moving transformers and extra equipment throughout the reegen. >> we have all hands on deck ready to respond if there are outages so we can get the power restored as quickly and as safely as possible. >> reporter: many californians bracing for more misery ahead. >> it is insane. it is unbearable to even be home. >> reporter: much of california is seeing triple digits this weekend. state officials once again issuing a flex alert, asking

residents to conserve power between 4:00 and 9:00 p.m., all with the hope of easing stress on the power grid. chris nguyen, cnn, los angeles. all right, let's bring in cnn meteorologist derek van dam. derek, i imagine the heat wave is breaking all kinds of records. >> it is. it is setting all time records for the month of september as well, which is saying something and puts it in the context of how extraordinary this heat wave is. here is a few samples of what we had just in the past 24 hours. look at salt lake city, 103. previous record, 98 grdegrees. the thing that is interesting about salt lake city, we broke the september record, all time record high temperature just yesterday. but it was previously set the day before at 102 degrees. you can tell this is a long-standing heat wave and people are contending with temperatures they haven't seen in a long time. we have the potential to experience over 155 record high

temperatures from today, right through thursday of this week. that's why the national weather service has hoisted these ongoing heat alerts and they include many of the metropolitans from san francisco to los angeles. heat advisories, heat -- extreme heat warnings in place for that particular region. this is a dangerous long-standing heat wave, especially for the vulnerable, especially for the elderly and the extremely young. triple digit heat recorded for many locations, look at sacramento for instance. we should be 91 by monday when we think the peak of this heat wave will crest. we'll be at 113. now the heat is going to build not only from the west, but throughout the central and interer mountain west and the northern plains through the rest of the week. we'll see that heat shift as well across this region. look at billings, montana. wednesday will reach 101, upper 90s for bismarck. more the same for rapid city and casper. once you get this type of heat, the dry conditions, that leads to an elevated fire danger, anywhere you see that shading of orange across the northern

rockies, dry air has already sparked some fires across northern california. we have been talking about these, the mill fire, you saw the structures damaged, just a f few minutes ago. that's at 25% containment. this mountain fire is at 5% conc con containment. these fires, you can see the smoke starting to degrade the quality of the air across northern california. kim? >> creating another huge problem. cnn meteorologist derek van dam, thanks so much. new launch date could be weeks away or longer after a second failed attempt to send the unmanned artemis i market to the moon. nasa scrubbed saturday's planned launch after crews find a hydrogen leak and weren't able to fix it in time. cnn's kristin fisher looks what the went wrong and what happens next. >> reporter: a second scrub, a second hydrogen leak, but this leak was much bigger than the one that nasa encountered on monday. now, nasa needs to fix it. they have two options. they can fix it on the launchpad

or they can roll the entire rocket all the way back to the vab or the vehicle assembly building. but to do that would take three and a half days. it eats up a ton of time. but regardless of where they make the repairs, as of now, nasa is going to need to roll the rocket back to the vab, regardless, because they are in the middle or about to be in the middle of a safety violation with the range. the range is run by the space force. and so nasa says they're going to try to ask the space force for a waver or an extension, but they just don't know if the space force is going to grant it. those are the two issues. what that means in terms of when nasa can try again is they're not going to make this launch window, which ends on tuesday. that means the next launch attempt for the artemis moon rocket is going to be the end of september at the earliest, but more likely sometime in mid to late october, if not later.

here is nasa's associate administrator jim free speaking at the press conference a few hours after this second scrub was announced. >> we don't go into the tests lightly. we don't just say hey, we think, we hope this is going to work. the confidence to do another launch attempt today was born out of the fact that we understood the hydrogen leaks that we had on monday. those are different than the leak that we had today. and in terms of scale. one was in the same place, but today was a different signature. and we understood the engine issues. we were confident coming into today. but as the minister said, we're not going to launch until we're ready. >> reporter: nasa administrator bill nelson was also at the press conference and he pointed out that the cost of two scrubs is less than the cost of one failure. so to be very clear, nasa is very disappointed about this. but they're also acutely aware that this could have been much worse. this is not the worst case

scenario. that would have been an explosion on the launchpad or shortly after liftoff. while this is a disappointment, and a delay, nasa is confident that at some point its artemis moon rocket, more than a decade in the making, is finally going to get off this launchpad. the question is when. kristin fisher, cnn, at the kennedy space center. dangerous moment in the skies over tupelo, mississippi, on saturday. police have arrested an airport worker they say stole a plane and threatened to crash it. resident recorded these images showing a twin engine plane flying low over homes and farms. the man at the controls reportedly called 911 and threaten ed to crash the plane into a local walmart. but the store and the immediate area were evacuated. after hours in the air, the plane eventually landed in a farmer's field. the suspect is being held on charges of making terrorist threats and grand larceny. for viewers in the united states, we'll have much more on this story coming up on "new day." that starts in less than an

hour. ukrainian students head back to school, but it is no break from the war. have a look. still ahead, emergency drills are the new normal as the academic year gets under way. plus, we're waiting to hear who the uk's conservative party voted for its next leader. the winner will be the country's next prime minister. a live report from london ahead. stay with us. of listerine to your routine. new science shows it gets in between teeth to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline thanan floss. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. listerine. feel the whoa!

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and vitamin c for brightness. i like to use them all! olay. face anything. ukraine's largest nuclear plant has lost its main connection to the power grid again, despite the presence of international inspectors. ukrainian officials say artillery fire hit a working power line out of the zaporizhzhia plant on saturday. after that, one of the two operating nuclear reactors was shut down and emergency procedures were activated, but the other reactor is still delivering a limited amount of electricity through the backup line. they have blamed each other for shelling at the plant. the nuclear watchdog whose inspectors are at the site says the backup line can deliver power into the plant, needed to cool the reactors and prevent

them from melting down. the facility temporarily lost connection to the grid last week as well for first time in its history. ukraine says one person is wounded after russian rocket strike in the east. this was the scene in the city of kramatorsk on saturday. the rockets hit a local market. meanwhile, ukraine says it is pushing ahead with its new offensive in the south. military officials say they have been striking russian targets across the region. indications ukrainian troops have made modest gains on the ground despite russian counterattacks. president zelenskyy says russia is not only a threat to ukraine, but also to europe. here he is. >> translator: russia wants to destroy the normal life of every european, in all countries of our continent. it aims to weaken and intimidate all of europe, every state, where russia cannot achieve this by force of arms, it seeks to do this by force through energy weapons. it is trying to hit europe with poverty and political chaos, are

where it cannot yet use rockets. melissa bell joins us from kyiv. we heard there president zelenskyy saying russia wants to destroy normal life in europe. even in ukraine, you've been reporting on how they're trying their best to adapt and get back to normal life as best they can. >> reporter: that's right, kim. and in the majority of parts of the country, because it is a fifth of ukraine that is now in russian hands, there is that thousand kilometer front line, of course, along which normality is harder to feel. but in much of the country there is this sense at least since the month of march when russian forces were pushed back from the parts of ukraine that it had tried to take beyond the east and the south, so places like just north of kyiv where i'm standing, since they were pushed back at that time there has been a sense in these parts that it is difficult to believe that all of that could be going on in the east and in the south. there are, of course, telltale

signs, military walking around, fighting aged men can't leave the country, a sense in which the economy is at a stand still. but there was for the children of ukraine some sense of a return to normality this week. preparing for the first day of school is always nerve-racking. especially in ukraine, where hannah and max headed back to class on thursday for the first time since the war began. >> translator: the truth is, you never know where the missile will hit. the school or the house. we went to the school several times and examined the bomb shelter. we believe that everything will be fine with our children in terms of safety. >> reporter: it was to a school rebuilt that the children headed. irpin to the north of kyiv was at the heart of the war when it began. now, more than six months later, peace has been restored to this part of the can country. but the threat it might be

shattered is never far. the drill, more troubling for the parents it seems than for the children themselves. >> translator: here in irpin we have not forgotten that the war is going on. every day we see destroyed houses and it is difficult. the smiley children i see today doesn't mean i'm having fun inside. children should not see what we adults are going through, but our hearts are breaking. we're in a lot of pain. >> reporter: for the children, it was a return to life as it should be. ♪ there is a list of games to be played in shelters should the need arise, to give them a sense of normality or at least as much as the war allows. good news, kim, for the

school-aged children of the country. the worst case scenario almost for ukraine is just that. that life should continue as no normal, even as a fifth of the country remains in russian hands. >> let's hope they can. thanks so much, melissa bell, we appreciate that. ukrainian prosecutors have identified a russian war crimes suspect thanks in part to reporting you saw here on cnn. back in may we showed you video of russian troops gunning down two civilians in the outskirts of kyiv. now prosecutors have announced the name of one suspect saying cnn reporting played a key role in their investigation. sara sidner has the story, but we want to warn you, some images in this report are graphic. >> reporter: ukrainian prosecutors say this is the moment an undeniable war crime was carried out by russian soldiers. this video clip obtained by cnn has yet to be seen by the public. it shows russian soldiers firing at something alongside a business they have just overtaken on the outskirts of

kyiv. turns out their target is two unsuspecting and unarmed ukrainian civilians, who they shoot in the back. we first reported on this portion of the video in may, showing the business owner dying where he falls. and the guard initially surviving, but bleeding to death after making it back to his guard shack. both men had both spent the last few minutes speaking calmly with the russian soldiers, who appeared to have let them go. but we now see two of the soldiers return and fire on them. >> translator: my father's name is leonid. >> reporter: the guard's daughter told us then she wanted the world to know her father's name, and what the russians did to him. have you seen the video? >> translator: i can't watch it now. i will save it to the cloud and leave it for my grandchildren and children. they should know about this crime. and always remember who our neighbors are.

>> reporter: and now the bucha prosecutors office says with the help of cnn's story, it has finally identified one of his executioners. the suspect's name, nicolae sergovik kervokov. while prosecutors will not reveal exactly how they identified this particular soldier, we have seen one part of the process being used by ukrainian officials, facial recognition technology. really fast. the ministry of digital transformation gets an image, loads it into the program they created, and it scrubs social media looking for a match. once they have a match of a soldier, dead or alive, they try to corroborate it with friends and family on the soldier's social media sites. we have identified about 300 cases, he says. the identification of the latest

suspect for war crimes was months in the making. but it is at least one step towards justice for the families who have had something taken from them they can never get back. the life of someone they loved. sara sidner, cnn, new york. and russia's defense ministry hasn't responded to cnn's request for comment either to sara sidner's story or our reporting back in may. the winner of the british conservator party's leadership will be announced tomorrow. whoever got the most votes will become the country's next prime minister. liz truss and former chancellor rishi sunak. cnn's scott mclean joins us now live from london with the latest. what are we expecting over the next two days? >> remember, this has been only conservative party members. card-carrying conservative party members doing the voting in this

race. so for most normal british people, well, this race is sort of bubbling up in the background, but certainly not necessarily front and center in the headlines for the last month or so. the most interesting part of it was in the first few days when conservative party mps were whittling the field down to two, the foreign secretary liz truss and rishi sunak, the former chancellor. these are not necessarily the two that polls had as the conservative party membership favorites this is part of the criticism of the system that mps don't necessarily represent the conservative party members and conservative party members don't necessarily reflect the wider electorate. in fact, a 20 18 study found that 97% of party members, conservative party members, were white, vast majority male, the vast majority over the age of 55, this represents in total less than half of 1% of the overall uk electorate. it is important to point out that the other major parties

don't really fare all that differently. they're also majority white, also more than 95% white and pretty wealthy as well. now, if you believe the polls, liz truss is very likely to become the prime minister tomorrow. the political talk shows in this country are already talking about her as if she was the favorite. she was asked about that this morning on the bbc and she downplayed the fact that she is expected to become prime minister, but says that nevertheless, she is ready. as for boris johnson, well, the two are going to be flying to scotland, very likely, boris johnson and liz truss will be flying to scotland on tuesday for the queen to officially ask liz truss to form the government, assuming she wins and boris johnson wrote a piece in one of the british newspapers where he's really calling for his party to rally behind whoever wins, saying this is the moment for every conservative to come together and back the new leader wholeheartedly. this is the time to put aside the disagreements of the last few weeks, fascinating though they may have been, and put the

national interests first. as i leave number ten after three tough but often exhilarating years, i know just how big and demanding this job is. i also know that either candidate is more than capable of delivering for the people of this country. and, remember, there are some huge challenges ahead. we're talking about inflation, the rising cost of living, rising energy bills, war being fought in ukraine. the list goes on and on of challenges. the one that has been dominating the headlines in this country is the cost of energy, which may well end up being the defining issue of whoever becomes prime minister tomorrow. liz truss was asked about this today and she says she is under no illusions about just how big of an issue this is. kim? >> absolutely. scott mclean in london, thanks so much. donald trump is lashing out at u.s. president joe biden and the fbi search of mar-a-lago. his controversial remarks at a pennsylvania rally coming up. stay with us. he's a fast talker. a fast walker. thanks, gary.

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we're following developing stories dealing with mass shootings in the u.s. police in charleston, south carolina, say at least six people are wounded following a shooting overnight. it happened just before 1:00 a.m. local time. police responded to reports of gunshots in the downtown area. it found multiple people had been hit. victims are being treated at hospitals with the extent of the injuries are unknown. meanwhile, authorities in norfolk, virginia, are investigating the shooting that left seven people injured. norfolk is just located just outside of virginia beach. police say two sustained life threatening injuries. and this just in to cnn, memphis police say they have

officially charged a man in connection with the abduction of eliza fletcher. this follows word they found the vehicle of interest in the disappearance of the tennessee teacher and detained a man who was in it. police say the 34-year-old fletcher was forced into an suv while she was jogging friday morning. she has not been found. we'll bring you the latest as we learn more. he's an enemy of the state, you want to know the truth. the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him, which is circling around him, do this, do that, joe, you're going to do this, joe, right? >> that was the moment on saturday when the former u.s. president accused the current president of being an enemy of the state. donald trump launched a counterattack in pennsylvania hitting back after president joe biden slammed trump and his maga allies as an extremist threat. trump was in the keystone state campaigning for candidates for governor and the u.s. senate. the state is crucial for this

year's midterms where trump appears to be looking ahead to 2024. for more on the rally, here is cnn's kristen holmes. >> reporter: for president donald trump in pennsylvania for two of his hand-picked k ed candidates. his speech sounded much more like a 2024 presidential stump speech. for over two hours focusing mostly on his accomplishments in office and airing his grievances on everything from hillary clinton to the fbi. he also responded to that search of his mar-a-lago home in length. take a listen. >> the biden administration invaded the home of their chief political opponent, who is absolutely destroying him and everyone else in the polls, i hate to say it. our opponents have badly miscalculated this egregious abuse of the laws going to produce a backlash, the likes of

which nobody has ever seen before. >> reporter: trump's appearance comes days after we saw president joe biden in the state. it goes to show you how critical this state has become in 2022. particularly when you look at that open senate seat that belongs to retiring republican pat toomey. democrats have said they believe that this is one of their only opportunities to pick up a seat as they cling on, hoping to keep that majority. >> former republican congressman from pennsylvania says trump isn't doing any favors to his party with rallies like that. charlie dent, who is now a cnn political commentator, spoke with me earlier. here he is. >> it seems, kim, that the country is hopelessly polarized, you know. president trump is up in wilkes-barre tonight as you indicated, up there criticizing the fbi. i have to be honest with you, any member of congress absconded with classified material i can

assure you that somebody from the fbi is showing up at their homes and demanding they return that information. so i am not so sure that the former president trump did anyone any good with that speech tonight. just by showing up in pennsylvania, he's making the election much more about himself and, of course, most republican candidates don't want anything to do with donald trump in this general election. they want this to be about joe biden and the democrats, but to the extent that trump inserts himself into this conversation, he's giving the democrats a major gift right now. that's what we're witnessing in pennsylvania. mehmet oz and doug mastriano were there. but mehmet oz i don't think wants to be anywhere near donald trump in this fall election. it doesn't do him any good. he has to win swing voters and it is hard to do that when trump is playing and pandering to the base. >> so you talked about the importance of donald trump maybe acting as an anchor for these

candidates. let's talk about joe biden. he's given several speeches in the state, he's expected back there on monday. is he an important factor here with his sagging poll numbers, could he drag down the democratic candidates? >> well, sure. absolutely. in fact, that's what a midterm election is supposed to be about. the president who is in power and his party. in this case, joe biden, the democrats. you want the election to be a referendum on them, on joe biden and the democrats. and i think really the key factor in this upcoming midterm election will be joe biden's approval rating. it has ticked up a little bit recently. still not very good. better than donald trump's ratings, but, yes, ordinarily by historic standards democrats should face some real problems in this midterm. but there have been some mitigating factors, the decision on abortion, the january 6th hearings, the search of donald

trump's home down at mar-a-lago and his absconding with classified material, all these things to the extent that donald trump is out on the stump, you know, again, i don't think that's helping, plus, of course, many -- too many extreme candidates and some swing states like doug mastriano in pennsylvania, we had others in other states, you know who have gotten through the primary process, and who do -- who are just either unelectable or certainly deficient in so many ways. so the democrats, you know, should be in a much more defensive position than they are. but these -- i wouldn't bet against history. i still suspect republicans will win the house. but not by the type of majority they were talking about a few months ago. republicans in the senate are facing an even bigger challenge given some of the candidates who have been nominated this cycle. >> coming up, thousands of migrants arriving daily at the mexican border for their chance of a new life in the u.s. find out what is driving the recent surge. stay with us.

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a gruesome discovery at america's southern border. nine migrants found dead along the rio grande. u.s. border officials say six bodies were found thursday on the u.s. side of the border and three on the mexican side. the grim find came while agents on both sides of the border were rounding up dozens of migrants trying to enter the u.s. near eagle pass, texas. texas spent millions of dollars to send thousands of migrants to faraway cities in other states, many cross the border after long and dangerous journeys and are willing to accept the free bus rides without knowing what's at the other end. cnn's polo sandoval has the latest. >> reporter: the texas dsivisio of emergency management, tasked with carrying out greg abbott's migrant bus program, confirming for cnn that since the start of the program they have spent roughly $12.7 million in state

funds to offer these bus rides to migrant families to cities including washington, d.c., new york and most recently chicago, illinois. now, typically these migrants after they're released from federal custody it is up to them to pay for their own bus or plane tickets as they head to the destination to continue with their asylum proceedings. however, since april, governor abbott has been offering these migrants free rides to those who volunteer to accept the offer. governor abbott releasing a statement responding to this reporting showing the $12.7 million in texas taxpayer spending, saying that until president biden and congress do their jobs and secure the southern border, texas will continue utilizing every strategy to address this border crisis and protect texas. we should note not long after that statement was issued, at least two buses from texas

pulled into chicago transporting about 95 migrants and the texas governor made clear that he's considering other blue cities in terms of potentially sending migrant buses their way as well. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. the biden administration says it is trying to deal with the unprecedented influx of migrants at the u.s. southern border, but as cnn's rosa flores reports, the problem is only growing. >> reporter: little francine has been in pain for weeks. his dad has no money for doctors after the family fled haiti with nearly nothing six years ago. a lot of violence, earthquakes, for your family you left. they have been living at this

migrant shelter in mexico for about a month. pastor hector silva runs the shelter and says in 25 years, he's never seen this many migrants. thousands arriving every week. he drives us to the second shelter he opened a few months ago. and estimates about 12,800 migrants, mostly haitians, are currently waiting in reynosa. he can house nearly 6,000. the rest are living on the streets. >> it is very difficult to stand at the gate and see the man with a child and say i'm sorry, i cannot help you. >> reporter: the question is why, why are so many people flocking here and why now? instagram and for you? facebook. facebook, facebook? >> reporter: many say word has spread including on social media

that migrants who come here can enter the u.s. legally if they wait their turn. silva says there is some truth to it. the legal way to do it. >> the legal way. >> reporter: we checked. from may to july, at the six ports of entry, more than 28,000 title 42 exceptions were made, which allows migrants to go to these international bridges and seek asylum. this is notable because until recently, exceptions to title 42 were rare. title 42 is the trump era pandemic public health rule that immigration agents have used nearly 2.2 million times since 2020 to swiftly expel migrants to mexico. and per court order, the biden administration must keep it in place. forcing asylum seekers to cross into the u.s. illegally, advocates say. the family wants to cross legally, that's why they're here after a grueling journey. they traveled through ten

countries to get to mexico. the pastor shows us how it works. anticipation builds as he puts migrants on a list by arrival date. the parents arrived in early august, and don't make the cut on this day. after months of waiting, and paper work, the pastor buses these migrants to the reynosa international bridge where they walk up to immigration and in most cases ask for asylum. on this day, he says he bused more than 200. this removes the human smuggler. this is them going to the port of entry and in some cases asking for asylum. >> there is many people on the list and then it has got to be legal. >> reporter: legal, but still broken. more than 40% of the more than 28,000 exceptions to title 42 have happened here, at the reynosa hidalgo international

bridge. silva has this message for migrants. >> do not come to the border. the do not come to reynosa. >> reporter: the family is already here, risking it all. what is your american dream? he says he wants to work for a better life. and so are thousands of others waiting for their chance at the american dream. rosa flores, cnn, reynosa, mexico. hundreds of protesters took to the streets of mexico city on saturday, angered by the leadership of president andres manuel lopez obrador and struggling economy. they say he's not doing enough to stop armed criminal groups that plagued mexico for decades. drug-related gang violence in mexico has impacted millions, leaving more than 100,000 people missing and an untold number dead. u.s. special envoy to the horn of africa is expected to

travel to the region today and visit ethiopia in the coming days. the trip comes amid renewed clashes among ethiopian forces and tigrayan fighters. they're set to meet with government and civil society leaders to urge an end to the fighting and peace talks. we have the latest on the conflict. >> reporter: at this makeshift aid center in northern tigray has become a daily task for these women. this video was captured in june and july, the catholic missionary who runs the small center says the situation has become even more dire since then. the missionary says hundreds arrive daily as early as 3:00 a.m. children in tow, desperately seeking food aid. but every day is the same. only small amounts are available here. the united nations says the civil war in ethiopia's northern

tigray region left more than 90% of the region in urgent need of assistance. in march, a fragile humanitarian truce finally allowed aid to start flowing in. but with little fuel to distribute supplies, the united nations says what has arrived still hasn't translated into increased humanitarian assistance. our colleagues are telling us the humanitarian situation in northern ethiopia continues to be alarming. much of the aid has been stuck in the capital, far from the areas where it is needed the most. but fighting flared again last week, raising new concerns about aid distribution. >> we, of course, renew our call on the parties to the conflict to immediately facilitate the resumption of rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian workers and supplies into all of northern ethiopia in accordance with international humanitarian law. >> reporter: one 38-year-old single mother of five told cnn

that her kids are now weak and prone to illness without regular meals. still, they join this queue early, hoping for whatever nourishment they can get. on days there isn't enough, they skip school to beg door to door or scavenge for greens. the head of the world international organization calls it the worst disaster. >> i can tell you that the humanitarian crisis in tigray is more than ukraine. without any exaggeration. and i say it many months ago, maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people in tigray. >> reporter: the government lashed out in response, calling his comments unethical. ever wonder why sharks seem to show up at your favorite city beach? the surprising answer to that question in just a moment. stay with us. ♪

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history has been returned to italy after decades in storage in los angeles. depicting the mythical figure of medusa, it has been caught up into 16 pieces and packed in special crates for its return trip home. a lawyer representing an anonymous client contacted the fbi to report the mosaic. they contacted italian police. it is not clear how the client obtained the mosaic, but the fbi says the mosaic belongs to the people of rome. once restored, it will be put on public display. just imagine your terror, you're swimming and you spot a shark in the water. researcheres say the sharks aren't there looking for you. it turns out sharks like the waters near big city beaches. cnn's lynda kinkade has the story. >> reporter: every year millions crowd the white sandy beaches of florida's southern coast to sunbathe and take dips in the cool atlantic. and just below the surface, a diversity of shark species. sharks have been around for over

450 million years. but have only experienced large urban areas for a few hundred years. scientists at the university of miami wanted to find out if sharks are attracted to or repelled by big cities. >> what we were trying to do is track the sharks to see if they would be avoiding areas really close to the city that were polluted, lots of boat traffic, lots of, you know, human disturbance. and we really thought they would. >> reporter: using acoustic technology, researchers monitored the movements of bull sharks, nurse sharks and great hammerhead sharks off the coast of miami for several years. >> essentially what we did is we placed these transmitters, small tags on the sharks, about the size of a aa battery, and they would emit an ultrasonic sound. >> reporter: the sound included a code that identifies each shark. they then placed listening

stations all around the waters of south florida. >> when a shark swims within the few hundred feet of one of those listening stations, it can detect that transmitter and hears it and it will record that that i.d., that shark swam by that location. so it logs the date and time. >> reporter: they were surprised by the results. sharks do like big cities. >> these sharks were cruising up and down the coastline in areas that there are people that bathe in the ocean. i think though this might make you a bit nervous, to me it proves the point that sharks, you know, really don't want to bite people. and that in fact sharks really tolerate people and tend to avoid them. >> reporter: scientists don't know why for sure, but they believe as the world's coastlines rapidly urbanize, sharks and other sea life may be adapting to the change. also, they may be attracted by people fishing and aquariums and fisheries dumping fish parts into the waters. an uncomfortable finding for

many breachgoers, but not necessarily a cause for alarm. >> humans are not on the menu when it comes to sharks. >> reporter: lynda kinkade, cnn. all right, before we go, if you have a two-headed tortoise, of course you give it a double happy birthday wish. well, have a look at this. janice here named for the two-faced roman god, janice turns 25 this weekend at a museum in geneva, switzerland. he dines on organic salads, gets daily massages, and bathes in green tea. he lives better than i do. his right head apparently is curious and awake. while the left one is passive and greedy. museum plans to give janice a birthday party and surprise present. all of us here at cnn sincerely wish janice a happy birthday. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "new day" is next here in america. for international viewers, stay with us for "connecting africa." not flossing well?

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