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the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," a final push in the peach state with just two days to go until georgia's u.s. senate runoff, the candidates are pulling out all the stops to win over voters. the agony of defeat. the u.s. men's team is out of the world cup after a disappointing loss to the netherlands. we'll have details and a look at who has the pitch in the hours ahead. plus, the world's largest active volcano has become the biggest tourist attraction, but it could become a nightmare for another reason. well, it's been a long final stretch, but now we're just two days away from the last vote of the 2022 midterms. tuesday is election day in georgia's u.s. senate run
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adjustment state aides say nearly 2 miltion voters have cast earl ballots. the rest will choose on tuesday between raphael warnock and herschel walker. a poll gave warnock a narrow edge over warnock, just larger than the margin of error. a larger victory would grant democrats a larger majority in the senate, giving a legislative boost making future nominees easier. we have this report. >> reporter: well, we are approaching the end of overtime here in the georgia senate runoff election as both candidates are making their final pitches to voters. senator raphael warnock with a busy saturday, which is pretty much in line with the way his schedule has remained throughout this four-week runoff period. he spejt the morning talking to unions, and he did another rally at a different part of the state and then returned to atlanta for
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an aapi victory run full of surrogates, politicians and entertainers and a fellow senator who was originally elected back in january of 2021 in yet another runoff race. now, look. warnock has a busy schedule on sunday as well. his opponent, challenger republican herschel walker had a much more relaxed saturday, this is also in line with his campaign strategy during the runoff period. he didn't hold any public events per se or anything open to the press, but he did have a tailgate before the s.e.c. championship game. walker, of course, a star on the football field for the university of georgia. he won the heisman trophy and national championship back in the '780s, and so he took plenty of selfies and shook hands with supporters there at that tailgate before the game, but he didn't talk to the media. that's something that's pretty
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much been a trend for him throughout his campaign on this runoff period. again, a much more relaxed schedule. he has one event scheduled on sunday. both candidates trying to reach those voters that did not cast some of the 1.85 million ballots during the early voting period. they note that there are still voters out there, and they need to convince them to come out on tuesday. dianne gallagher, cnn. back to you. and georgia's runoff between democratic senator raphael warnock and republican herschel walker is now two days away, and cnn's central koonch is expected to start at 4:00 p.m. on tuesday. former president donald trump is calling for nothing less than the, quote, termination of the american constitution so he can be reinstated into power on his truth social platform. trump accused big tech of working closely with democrats. posts came after an email showed
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how twitter posted. twitter aparentally worried that the story could have been the result of a russian hacking operation, but trump had this take, boasting, quote, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allies for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the constitution. well, the white house responded swiftly saying, quote, attacking the constitution and attacking all that it stands for is a a anathema to the soul of our nation. the world cup round of 16 is underway right now in qatar, and saturday was a good day if you root for argentina and the netherlands, but not so much if you back the u.s. or australia's soccer roots.
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? buenos aries, fans of argentina were ecstatic as you can see after the game with australia. it was a great match for lionel messi. he passed others in world cup goals for argentina. messi has nine for second most all time. after the match, he shrugged it off. here he is. >> translator: no, not really. it was a tough match. it was a tough day. we had too little time to rest. we were tired. we recovered well. it was a physical game. we're happy for this victory and to take another small step. >> and in the day's otherup match cup dreams are over. dutch fans had plenty to celebrate. so here's your viewing guide for
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today. defending chaps france are favored as they take on poland. england faces senegal, the team that last reached the quarterfinals 20 years ago. england is favored in that clash. a half a world away from the world cup but very much hanging over it for many fends, pele is letting his fans know he's feeling strong and hopeful as he's received treatment. he's been hospitalized since tuesday with a respiratory illness plus ongoing monitoring of his cancer treatment. doctors say his condition is stable. everyone is rooting for the 82-year-old pele to recover. >> he's a great symbol for the world cup. he won it in 1970. i think for all brazilians, it's like a great generation of soccer players, not only pele but the whole team.
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we're all very sad about what's going on right now, and we hope that it turns out that he comes back. but unfortunately we don't know. and for my generation that came after pele because i didn't see pele playing and all the players that followed, he was actually a role model and a leader for soccer. >> with us live from berlin is sports writer and co-host of a podcast. thank you so much for being with us. moussa, let me start there. so much concern about his condition as he's suffering from cancer. i was just looking at a highlight video. this isn't new, but it really brought home how so many of the modern moves that the players made, he was doing them before anyone. you can't overstate his importance as an innovator on the pitch, but also his importance as an icon of world
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football. >> that's absolutely. pele was a genius, and he dominated as well from an early arj, which in its own respect as well was incredible. he won at the time when much of the world was still segregated, black players and black people. >> it's a great point. he's been such a good ambassador for the game across the planet. >> absolutely. an incredible figure, a friend of mohauhammad ali and a friendo everyone reveres. >> so many have sent their well wishes for pele. let's turn to the competition itself from yesterday. the heartbreaker, outclassed and outcoached one could say on the netherlands. should the americans feel disappointed they crashed out here, encouraged that this th young team might have something potential to do in four years on home soil?
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>> the netherlands are such a strong site. exciting for the u.s. most of all is the midfield which is really speck tackler. >> yeah, absolutely. it's been a tournament for underdogs. englanders have to be wary here. what can you expect and can senegal pull off a shot here? >> i think they can. england have to be vigilent because senegal have done really well to adapt to the loss of their superstar. if they don't move quickly and with patience, they'll be in big trouble. senegal, very, very dangerous. just looking at the
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tournament, a record seven teams in the top 20 of the world rankings including germany where you are right now crashed out at the group stage. it helped make this a thrilling tournament on the pitch, but why is that, do you think? >> it's cyclical. the belgian team was grrkts at their peak. if you don't take your chance early, you win late. the teams weathered very, very big storms in the front of the games and came back strong. if you don't finish with intensity in this sport, in this tournament, then you're in big trouble. >> i know listening to you you often speak about the intersection of sport and social justice, so i want to get your perspective on this. before the world cup, even during the world group games we were talking almost as much about politics and social issues as we were soccer. are you surprised or even disappointed how much that has receded to the background as the
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tournament has progressed? >> no, i think it's completely natural. what's been really impressive, i think, in the early stages is how much they've got done. if you look at the gains they've made, it was much over the issues. congratulations to the act activists. i fully expected it to be this way. >> do you think it will lead to concrete change more so than just awareness? >> we've seen change already over the labor laws. i think fundamentally the activists can assist us on that. >> finally on a much more trivial note, all eyes are on the big stars, bach bay, messi, but the world cup is for the lesser known players who sort of flash and earn big moves to a big european club, let's say. what players do you think the big clubs have their eyes on this tournament so far?
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>> i've got to give a shout-out to fernandez. the job he's done, slotting him with so much maturity and responsibility has been phenomenal. good luck to him. he's one of the great world cup stars to come. >> lastly before you go, who's going to win it all. >> i pick brazil to start with that. i double down on brazil. >> a good shout. so full of talent there. we'll see what happens. thank you so much for your take on all this. musa okwon ga in berlin vchlt a great one. president biden looks at why major powers didn't go big enough. and there's a crackdown on the west. that meansns lgbtq. we'll have an update statatemen
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we're getting reports of new russian strikes in ukraine. artillery and rocket fire hit
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overnight. homes and power lines were damaged, but we haven't heard of reports of casualties. meanwhile -- president volodymyr zelenskyy says his troops are holding the line in the face of russia's attack in the east. social video suggests russians have made some progress earlier this week, but also took heavy casualties. ukrainians are also expected to see a lull in fighting across the board during the winter. that's an assessment of the u.s. intelligence agencies. when ukraine gets warmer, they may have some advantage. here she is. >> once you get past the winter, the sort of question is what will the counteroffensive look like potentially in the spring in march and in that area, and we expect that, frankly, both militaries are going to be in a situation where they're going to be looking to try to refit, resupply, in a sense
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reconstitute so that they're kind of prepared for that counter offensive, but we actually have a fair amount of skepticism whether or not the russians will be, in fact, prepared to do that. >> volodymyr zelenskyy said the u.s. didn't go far enough in the cap on russian oil. zelenskyy said russia will still be making a lot of money for its war crest and criticized them for not making it lower. here he is. >> translator: the discussion on price caps, that's on limiting the price of the export of oil is limited. unfortunately without big decisions as you wouldn't call it a big decision to set such a limit for russian prices which is quite comfortable for the budget in the terrorist state. russia has already cost huge losses to all countries of the world by deliberately destabilizing the energy market.
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it's a weak position. >> for more will ripley joins us from kyiv. first, will, what can you tell us about these overnight strikes? >> reporter: well, unfortunately this is just a reality of daily life for people living in this part of southern ukraine. you have the constant barrage of russian artillery and rockets raining down at all hours of the day. so in this case, it happened during the overnight hours. here in ukraine, they believe this is terrorism. they believe the russians are trying to frighten people and basicicly have those who have chosen to stay in their homes, that there is no place or time where they will be safe, and so as evidenced by these pictures of the new damage overnight, these are not military installations that are being targeted by these russian attacks. these are homes that are being hit. people's lives torn apart by hearing the sound of an incoming
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artillery. you know, the air raid sirens go off, and people have become so accustomed to this over the last nine months of this war, it's a question of whether or not they always immediately run to the shelter as they're supposed to do every time there's an attack. in this case as bad as the damage s we're told nobody was hurt, nobody was killed, but that's a different outcome if people happen to be inside these structures that are hit. it's very -- it's very random. people have no idea if there's shelling happens nearby. it's clearly luck of the draw, if you will, whether they're going to be hit. there's no way to know for sure where the rockets or artillery shells will land. the people essentially have to constantly live in a state of if not fear, certainly uncertainty about whether or not they're going to be hit, kim. >> and a frequent target of russian strikes has been the
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power. bring us up to speed on the latest there. >> reporter: the biggest concern in kyiv is the russians are kind of biding their time, preparing for another massive attack like the one we saw last week on wednesday when the russians fired more than 70 rockets and missiles. even though ukraine shot down some of them, they hit 20 targets. they're in the process of trying to get the power grid back online. but the expectation is once they've rebuilt a bit more, the power comes on a bit more, the russians will launch another major attack, perhaps bigger than before. ukrainians are vowing that's not going to happen. they have missile defenses in place. they've been asking the united states and even germany to help send in more defense units to
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defend the onslaught from russia. in the meantime people are learning how to live with less power. just last night we were walking around kyiv. there was one side the lights were off, the other side t lights were on. the businesses with the lights off were simply as busy as always. they flip on a small generator, bring out candles, and people go on with their life as if they're not noticing what's happening around the world. of course, they are noticing, but they're doing their best to put it aside and continue to live life as normal here. in other places, it's much more difficult. here in kyiv, it's about 70% of their normal electrical capacity right now. people are without power for several hours per day. but others outside the capital are living without for three or four hours a day. they're expected to plunge even lower in the weeks ahead. that's why ukrainians are hoping
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for a decision soon. we're talking days or weeks if not months in decisions from the u.s. and other countries as well. >> the challenge worsens as you say. will ripley, thank you so much. russia says vladimir putin will visit an occupied part of ukraine, but still an open question as to when. state media report the kremlin saying he'll go to the donetsk -- donbas region. they're illegal under international law. meanwhile russia is boosting its military ties with belarus. the two countries are also discussing joint military training. belarus allowed its territory to be used by russian troops at the start of moscow's invasion of ukraine. and russia is one step away from formally expanding its ban on what the government calls lgbtq
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propaganda. the upper house of parliament passed it on wednesday. now it just needs vladimir putin's signature. as fred pleitgen reports, the kremlin is framing the move as part of a larger battle with the west. >> reporter: for years being gay has been extremely tough in russia. now it's about to get even harder after russia parliament passed what it calls the lgbtq propaganda law, claiming in part it's a defense against u.s. influence. >> translator: i cannot put it any other way. the united states of america has become the global center of this sodomy. let them live there. do not touch us. >> reporter: anti-gay tirades are often covered in the special military operation in ukraine on tv, making war out to be part of a larger battle of russia against the west and its alleged moral decay.
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a gay rights activist in moscow says he feels singled out. >> translator: this is the information noise that we're becoming victims of. we're being used as scapegoats to attract attention and redirect the hatred that supports putin and the war. >> reporter: russian president vladimir putin often portrays himself as the savior of traditional family values even comparing lgbtq to devil worshipping. >> translator: such the total denial of a human being. suppression of freedom begins to look like a perverted religion, outright satanism. >> reporter: the new law bans praise of what the government considers non-traditional sexual relationships or otherwise suggesting those relationships are, quote, normal. but lgbtq activists who fled the country says the law will
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essentially make it illegal to be openly gay in russia. >> translator: the only text i can now show publicly according to the law in social in my social network, on the street, in a newspaper, or in a movie is gays are outlawed, gays are bad, and lesbians should be in jail. >> reporter: not a single russian legislator voted against the bill. punishment includes fines of up to thousands of dollars. foreigners could be jailed for up to 15 days and be deported. there's a fear the lawyers might soon be targeted as well with significant lines per legal entities. >> reporter: there are fears among lawyers if they defend at rallies, this may be turned against them in the future. >> reporter: but activists and
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lawyers fear that even more of lgbtq's community will come to conclusion that their only way to live openly will be to flee the country. all right. still ahead t political scandal ramps up as the president refuses to step down. we'll have a live report from johannesburg. pleasese stay with us. s. well, almost perfect. my place is too small, your place is too o far. selling them means repairs,, listings, cleanings. what's the market even like? this c could take like... forever. or, more like days. skip the hassles and sell directly to opendoor. done. yes. oh, yes. get your free offer at opendoor.com
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i'm kim brunhuber. democrat adam gray conceded on friday night. this gives republicans a slim house majority with 222 seats. we'll start the new congress with one fewer seat. now the last undecided senate race should be resolved in the coming days. georgia voters will go to the polls tuesday in the runoff election. raphael warnock faces changer herschel walker. both candidates are making their final pitches to voters. nearly 2 million people in georgia have already cast ballots. not surprisingly both parties are already looking ahead to 2024. now, democrats are proposing major changes with the nomination calendar. we've got details from arlette
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saenz at the white house. >> reporter: president biden has proposed upending the calendar the democrats use, removing iowa from the top spot and replacing it with south carolina. the rules panel at the democratic national committee approved the president's proposal, which now needs to be voted on by the broader committee early next year. president biden's argument for making these changes is he wants to see a more diverse slate of states have an early say in the nominating contest. iowa and new hampshire are the two that have typically gone first, and they have more predominantly white populations, but now president biden wants to see south carolina move to the very start of the calendar. it would then be followed by nevada and new hampshire on the same day and then add in georgia, which has become a battle ground state in recent years followed by michigan to represent the midwest. now, there are some steep challenges to actually getting these dates enacted. each state sets their own
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primary dates and has their own process for doing so. iowa and new hampshire have it enshrined in their law that they go first in these nominating contests. there's also a challenge in that republicans plan on holding their contests in the same order, but president biden is hoping the democratic national committee will be able to push through these changes heading into 2024. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. after days of speculation, south africa's president won't resign. that's according to his spokesperson. there's been an intense pressure for him to quit. we go to david mckenzie who joins us live from johannesburg. david, bring us up to speed on how we got here. >> well, he's being accused of this panel of working against
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the the constitution. it's a bizarre scandal where there was a robbery at his private wildlife farm where several hundred thousand dollars in cash was stolen. that money was stuffed inside a leather sofa, sort of an unusual place to put that large amount of money. they say ram aphosa could face impeachment proceedings. he's going to resist calls to resign. he's going to try to set that aside in court saying it's deeply flawed. kim? >> what will the president do next? >> well, the one option is as i said torsion file it in the courts. they will take it to see whether they can persuade a judge to set aside those findings from an
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independent panel. that might be tricky. what might be easier or at least more winnable for ramaphosa is to go the political route. there are a series of meetings in the coming hours and days of the afc, african national con congress. he has deep support from the anc. he will hope that the department doesn't take up impeachment proceedings. that's happening on tuesday. it certainly isn't over yet. ramaphosa who came into office will certainly be somewhat overshadowed by these allegations. he says he's completely innocent. kim? >> all right. we'll keep an eye on that story as it develops. cnn's david mckenzie, thank you so much. this business tycoon who appears to be gaining influence in russian politics. we'll have a klisser look at
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kremlin ally oligarch deniers group was behind the bloody packages that were sent to 17 embassies across europe. they received either letter bombs, fake letter bombs or animal parts like cows. they say, quote, they would never engage in such stupid packages. meanwhile president biden is considering them as a foreign terrorist organization. they're often described as russian president vladimir putin's off the books troops. mercenaries had a key role in
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victories in mary opal and kherson. they've been accused of war crimes not only in ukraine but parts of africa and syria. he's so close to the kremlin he's known as putin ice chef as the conflict in ukraine drags on. b there are signs he's gang in moscow. we're joined now from moscow. thanks so much for being here with us. i want to ask you how influential was yevgeny prigozhin before the war in ukraine? >> he wasn't so influential. he was kind oeuf an outsourcer for putin and he was a very useful figure, but putin also rejected any chance that prigozhin could participate in a political process.
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this is a person who's working on his private projects and even a private initiative, not more. >> how has that changed since the war? >> it looks like prigozhin is a man of war. putin is in need of him. he's a very useful figure. generally speaking, he's kind of a supplier of the court of his majesty autocrats. he's very efficient in that very sense. but here is one more important thing. putin needs him to keep everyone scared and in tune. everyone understands this just
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as everyone understands putin needs these types of people right now. so that starts the question of whether prigozhin could be a real political figure in the future, whether he can establish his own let's say movement or party. whether he will have this part of -- right of violence on the state side. i think for the moment putin can control him, and prigozhin is not an idiot. hit's testing all the time, but he understands that there are red lines for putin. >> but you've written he is behaving like a parallel government. what do you mean by that? >> it means he contributes something for -- for coping with this war. again, he's very useful for
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putin in that sense. he's creating his own army, which is recruited by putin, and he criticizes freely, different bodies, governmental bodies. he's in a conflict with a very influential figure, the men at the center of putin. so in that sense he appears frequently. he can be a public physician, which was typical recently. but, again, i think there are some borders, redlines for him in the future. >> so you wouldn't say he's become a rival for putin yet s that right? >> no. he can't be. he can disappear in that case.
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you know, there are different figures who disappeared during this war. they can disappear overnight. >> i want to ask you finally his influence extended yons russia, beyond the battlefield. he also reportedly operates three companies that have been accused of election interference here in the u.s. and when he was asked about that, i want to quote him here. he said, gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere, and we will interfere precisely, surgically, and in our own way as we know how. so how big of a threat is he to the u.s.? >> i think he's a threat.
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they lost their shape. because of that prigozhin has an opportunity to be a public figure, and he can say something like this. it wasn't allowable even a year ago. now it is kind of a normal -- near normal, let's say. so he can work in this field -- one of his fields. he also has his fabric of trolls, and it is more or less efficient. in that sense it could be a threat to the united states, but i don't -- i can't say that we must exaggerate this influence. >> all right. certainly a fascinating figure, this growing influence in stature. really appreciate your insights into all of this, and
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look at these tremendous pictures here. there are new concerns as the volcano in hawaii continues to spew lava. molten lava has crept closer to two miles to a major highway but the speed has slowed down. if the lava crosses the highway, it could be a, quote, tremendous inconvenience. meanwhile the spectacle of the glowing heated lava is so captivating, it's an irresistible draw for many people on the big island as cnn's david culver reports. >> reporter: about 2 1/2 miles from where we're standing, you can barely see under the capitol hill cloud cover that's moved in, the edge of the lava flow. you can see going up in the air not smoke but acidic gases. that's what's of concern. it can be very toxic. and officials have been advising
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folks, particularly those with respiratory issues to be mindful of that. still they want people to come out and enjoy a spectacular site. rare here. it's been 30 years since manna loa has erupted. to take it in, it's spectacular, but it's also one they want folks to keep a safe distance from. le it's flowing at 25 feet per hour, according to the governor here, and it's making its way in this draucz. destruction. what's on the other side, the highway. they don't want that logistical nightmare. before that, they're saying,
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come on out. they're letting people park along this side street here that's been turned into a one-way roadway so people can safely pull over. people are pulling over and taking in the sites. they're bringing offerings, leis, flowers, one woman, rosemary. while some are taking pictures especially in the middle of the night where it's stunning and you have that glow up into the sky, people are also just wanting to be here in the midst of the stillness of it all. there's a mutual respect as well. turn off your car lights and take it in together in a more impactful way and people are doing that collectively and engying it. overall it's still a potentially dangerous situation, potentially very destructive. they saw that back in 2018. so it's one they're monitoring closely and updating daily.
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davl culver, cnn, hawaii. derek van dim ham has the weather. how is it impacting. >> vog which david mentioned a moment ago is volcanic smog. it's the substance being spewed into the atmosphere via the fissures in the ground. why this is important is the sulfur die ox it reacts with the oxygen in the air, sunlight even, and it's a very, very small molecule. it's less than 2.5 microns. it's significantly smaller than the diameter of a human hair. the ability to breathe that deep within our chest cavity and it becomes an irritant with those
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with res pier spoir problem, that puts the elderly and extremely young vulnerable to this. in terms of the wind a & where it's takinging the vog or volca smog, we'll be watching this in the days to come. the easterly winds, the trade winds, means cold air is closely approaching. there's the hawaiian island t big island. as it changes the direction of the wind, we'll see more of a population area being impacted or at least potentially impacted by this vog. so something to watch in the days to come. current air quality index all good across the main island. the other concern, of course, is the flow, the very slow flow of this lava as it advances closer and closer to the main thoroughfare, the saddle highway that trance sects, basically goes across the entire width of
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the island. it's now about 2.4 miles away from intersection the highways. so we still have some time. it will give plenty of forewarning as that occurs. when the volcano initially erupted about a week ago, we saw three or four different fissures that developed right along the northeast rift. most of them have slowed down significantly. it's that third fissure that continues to move ever so slowly toward the highway there moving at only 40 feet per hour, which now is actually slower. yesterday i talked about. this it's slower than the average pace of a snail. we can't even say it's at a snail's pace any longer. but it's incredible to see it advance as it kind of creeps along and it finds its own level as it works its way out, spreading out in all directions. now, the current radar here, no major concerns. but as that cold front comes in,
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changes the dynamics, creates more showery activity, we're going to keep a close eye on the vog and the potential outcomes from that as well. kim? >> derek, i love that you've researched the pace of a snail. that's the kind of thundershower rowness i expect from you. >> 0.034 miles an hour. check it out. >> derek van dam. that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back in just a moment with more nurs. to sleep and wake up ready to go. how could you? wake up to a new you. with mucinex nightshshift, it's not cold and flu season. it's always comeback season.n. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shipstation. now we'rshipping out orders 5 times faster and we're saving a ton. go to shipstation.com /tv and get 2 mohs free. i haveoderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
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