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until then, i'll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. ♪ all right. the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom," good afternoon, everyone, i'm bianna golodryga. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here's what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in

new york. this is all taking place as president biden's nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on his plate? >> reporter: yeah, no permanent leader at the faa, bianna. that's an issue because there's issue after issue facing the information. go back to earlier this year when a day-wide ground stop at america's airports then the issues at southwest airlines that caused cancellations and delays in the thousands. and now these issues on america's runways, five of them so far this year. they're known as a runway incursion. this latest one happened on monday night in boston where the faa said the jetblue flight 206 was coming into land on boston logan's airport flight when on a cross cross runway 9, a learjet

took off in front of it. that learjet was told to line up and wait for the jet bblue flig and instead took off without clearance. really shows the work that is cut out for the nominee to lead the faa for washington. the issue here, according to senators who grilled him during his confirmation hearing today, is that he just doesn't have much in the way of direct aviation experience. he's led the denver airport. i want you to listen to him now as to how he classifies his experience. >> in running ground transportation units, i was not a train operator either. aviation right now, we cannot think about doing things the old way. and so, i think that a fresh perspective is needed, obviously, safety is number one. >> so, a different approach. bit the rules in aviation are really written in blood. and we've seen these runway incursion incidents have fatal

results. the ntsb says it's not investigating this incident just yet. the faa says it will determine, truly, how close these airplanes came to one another. the latest data from flight ride d radar 24 the plains what separated by 565 feet. just for put that into context, bianna and victor, we're talking two football fields and at the rate they were travels, we're talking only seconds apart. >> pete, we were playing the simulation on loop at the beginning of your report. it's remarkable to see how close it came to calamity there. pete muntean in washington, thank you, cnn's aviation analyst mary schiavo joins you now, marry good to see you, these collisions happening more often, or are we just paying closer attention? >> no, they're actually happening more often, now the federal aviation association, my old office, the office inspector general at the u.s. department

of transportation had been watching runway incursions very carefully over the last 10 to 20 years. because this is one statistic in aviation safety that's on the increase. a lot of other things in afb yags safety have improved dramatically over the last 20 years. but runway incursions have been rising. now to put it in perspective there are about 1700 of these every year on average. it goes up and down over time. and they've been inching upwards in statistics. but for the most serious one, they're called category a. there's less than a dozen of those, approximately, every year. and already in the first two months of 2023, we've had five, and possibly six of these, in just two months. so this is a very alarming statistic. and what's even more alarming is the that the faa has been throwing everything it's got at runway incursions and the statistics still keep going up. so, they have to do something differently.

most likely they'll limit traffic in some of these airports that keep having them. and, by the way, there's a bad call with this, it's official with the faa, they're called hot spots. that's what they're going to have to do. they're going to have to find a way to get the heat off the hot spots. >> so, that's interesting, you say they have to do something. these could be, this category a, as you call them, this could be just consequential human error. but does it suggest that there's some technical deficit? t of traffic? >> no, there's -- it's a combination here. you make a very good point tse , for example, at jfk, there's been construction going on. and boston, boston has a hot spot alert for several of these runways because you have intersecting runways and taxiways. it's curious that the fellow there is coming from denver. because denver was built

specifically when i was inspector general, with long, long par lallel runways and high-speed exits off the runways that don't cross other runways. so the whole idea was to make these runway incursions, and obviously, when they have them -- when you have a collision, i'd like to say category a, collisions without calamity, at best. but when you have a real collision, they're very fatal. so, new airports are built where it is virtually impossible. but because of all of the various -- there's equipment that helps alert the air traffic controllers. there's alarm systems when air -- at some airports, not all, when an airplane is crossing a taxiway and lining up, instead of on a runway. so, there's lots of equipment, but it doesn't seem to be working at some of these hot spots. airports that have taxiways across the runways and literally, it's a disaster waiting to happen. >> it's also good to remind

people as we talk about these disasters waiting to happen that we're far safer on a plane than we are in a car and other modes of transportation. and in talking about these category as. something i learned from you, mary. thank you. let's talk about phil washington, the president's nominee to lead the faa, confirmation hearing today. a ceo at denver airport, you talked about that. not much aviation experience before 2021. does he need that? is he a good fit for the faa? what do you think? >> well, i agree with his statement that they have to do something different and they have to do it -- you know, they have to look for new technologies and they have to do something better and new than what they're doing, ahead of the wrong direction. however, having spent so long in the department of transportation and trying to oversee an audit of the federal aviation administration, the powers that be there, the entrenched bureaucracy, will tend to eat him alive if he's not a pilot.

i was really lucky that i was a pilot and a lawyer and a prosecutor. but he doesn't have to be. there's no requirement that he is. and there have been successful ones in the past that have not been pilots. but i think he needs a really intensive immersive program where he really studies up. because some of these systems, like the systems we were just talking about, it really does help to be a pilot and have actually experienced them. now, we can survive without them, but he's going to have a steep learning curve. >> all right, mary shechiavo, a melt of experience. >> thank you. happening now, closing arguments underway if the murder trial of alex murdaugh accused of killing his wife and son. today, jurors visited the estate where the murders happened. they spent about 30 minutes touring the property. >> outside of walterboro, south

carolina, jurors could dlin deliberating today? >> reporter: that is the operate of word, victor, could. i can tell you we are in the thick of prosecutor creighton waters' closing arguments right now. he's been speaking about an hour and a half. he's right now speaking about the murders themselves. focusing hard on 8:39 p.m. the last time there was any activity on paul or maggie murdaugh's phones before they locked forever. noting they have no defensive wounds. pointing to alex murdaugh in the courtroom, because it's him, referring to who the killer was. now, up until this point, waters has been going through the background as he's been doing nearly six weeks into the financial crimes that s s that murdaugh was accused of, trying to build forth why this man was accused of murdering his wife and son. explains it's all there, for the jury, who just have to put the

pieces together. >> and that's the situation that was arriving in june of 2021. when he was at the scene, with the victims. minutes before they died and lied to everyone who would listen. >> reporter: now, the state actually opened their opening statements back when the trial began, acknowledging that the majority of their case is circumstantial evidence. so he just spent quite a bit of time at the beginning of his closing arguments talking about what reasonable doubt actually means. something i actually expect the defense talk about quite a bit in their closing arguments. now, the beginning of the day, the jury actually took a trim out to the crime scene to moselle. there was media allowed when they were there. although both defense attorneys and prosecutors were there, as well as judge newman. the jurors were not allowed to speak to anybody. but according to the media pool

that got to tour the facility afterwards, they said they did see jurors sort of standing around the dog kennels where the murders happened. standing in the feed room door, one juror looking up at the door frame. that is where paul murdaugh was murdered. so, we're watching these jurors, according to the pool, sort of go around the property. the media pool described it as feeling almost haunted. noted there was no staining, no blood still there on the property. the grass had kind of grown up. and there was still signs of a family that used to once live there. instead of it now being a murder scene. many people that came out to the trial to watch and try to get inside every day, true crime fans have actually tried to go out there and see themselves. now, victor, bianna, we talked about the fact the defense could be doing its closing arguments. that's all going to depend on the prosecution and how long he takes today. either way, we are in the homestretch here, we're nearing the end of this double murder

trial for alex murdaugh. >> yeah, it was interesting, the court reporter noted when they went out to the estate, just the size and scale of the land there. just to be put in perspective what they were dealing with and why it took so long for responders to get there in the first place. diane gallagher, thank you. joining us is bernarda villalona, thank you for joining us. what we heard from prosecutor creighton waters in the closing arguments, he said this about murdaugh, he said after an exhaustive investigation, there's only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes who also whose guilt conduct after the crimes des betrays him. from what you heard after the trial do you think the prosecution was able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt? >> exactly, we heard the start of the closing arguments because i expect it to be a couple hours. the prosecution has already

emphasized to the jury that the only person who could have done this is alex murdaugh because he had the motive, the means and the opportunity. now, in terms have they proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt. yes, they put forward credible evidence. however, the defense has able to both hold into the prosecution's case. i think it's going to come down to these closing arguments. and just remember, closing arguments are not evidence. the purpose of closing arguments is for the prosecution to point out to the jury how they have proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt. as poeopposed to the defense pointing out to the jury that the prosecution has not prove ten their case beyond a reasonable doubt. and there are multi limb reasonable doubts in this case. we'll have to see at the conclusion of these arguments because there wasn't a concrete case to begin with. >> burden is on the state. the defense doesn't have to say or do anything. but of course they will in the closing arguments. i wonder if you're on the defense team here what do you

drive home in that closing? >> so, the defense, what they've been driving home from opening statements and throughout every witness that has come in to testify is the coward of alex murdaugh. how much he loved his family. loved his family and is not capable of blowing the head off of his very son. and his loved wife of so many years. and with that emphasis, then it cuts down to the motive that the prosecution has been putting forward. yes, he's a liar. yes, he stole a lot of money. yes, he's on drugs, but he's not capable of killing two individuals that he is so close to. also that the lack of evidence in terms of the firearms used in the crime wasn't recovered. you can't really put alex murdaugh definitively right inside of the kennels at the time of death. and also the forensic and how the police and law enforcement handled this crime scene and for the defense, is it one shooter

or two shooters? and those are all things that linger in the minds of the jury. and the prosecution has to make an effort to drive it home that there was one shooter. and that one shooter is alex murdaugh. >> bernarda villalona, thank you so much. and be sure to tune in tonight for cnn prime time "inside the murdaugh murder trial." starts at 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. millions of families are about to lose the food aid boosted during the pandemic. more on that just ahead. and diabetics struggling to pay for insulin may get a break. eli lilly announce they had will cam the price at $35 a month. we'll have details on who qualifies, ahead. doggy-paddle! onlyly pay for what you need. ♪ libertyty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ hi, , i'm jill and i've lost 56 pounds on golo. hi, i'm barry and i've lost 42 pounds. jill and i are a team. if she tells me to do something,

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think tank shows families in the states in the darkest purples will lose as much as $213 a month in food aid. cnn's dave cohen has the story. >> reporter: mitchell rickets stocked up her pittsburgh pantry in february, knowing this month buying food will be much tougher. >> i should be good until april. >> reporter: the 63-year-old is on food stamps, part of her fixed income but she said her monthly s.n.a.p. benefit is going to go from $277 a month to $23. wednesday marked the end of a pandemic relief program, emergency s.n.a.p. benefits passed by congress at the start of covid expired for more than 16 million u.s. households in 32 states and d.c. where they were still in place. on average, s.n.a.p. recipients will lose $98 per month. and some households like rickets' could lose more than $250 as the program returns to

its pre-pandemic levels. >> it is going to be a big impact. we don't believe they have a financial cushion based on everything we know about the household. >> reporter: these benefits kept 4.2 million people out of poverty, lowering child poverty by 14% according to the issue ban institute. inflation much more than food continues to strain americans. >> we're going from 131 to 288. i don't know how that happens. >> reporter: michelle is behind on her surging power bills. she postponed her dog's appointment to save money. >> i'm just pressed on what cuts i'll be making where. i'm sure i'll go to the food bank. >> reporter: in a survey, three quarters of food banks say ending these benefits drive up demand as food costs soar. are you worried about keeping up with demand? >> we are worried about keeping up demand. >> reporter: lisa scales heads the greater pittsburgh food bank was which $2 million over budget

in the second half of last year, before the s.n.a.p. cuts. >> we're expecting to see a dramatic increase in the number we serve each month. >> reporter: like jody sprinkle, a single mom, waiting to find out how much her s.n.a.p. benefits will drop. >> it's going to hurt. one thing, it's going to hurt. >> reporter: one thing, the nonprofits say they may have to ration food or limit selection so there's more to go around. >> if our work can't make the demand that means more and more kids will go to bed hungry. seniors will struggle. >> reporter: now, the government funding package that ended these benefits did create a summer meals program for roughly 30 million children, so that will help families but victor and bianna, there are experts worried about a hunger clip that's going to drive up food insecurity and drive people into poverty. >> a hunger clip. dave cohen with reporting, thank you so much. the fox fallout continues

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now to the latest revelations in the lawsuit against fox news and new calls for accountability. in a letter to fox executives this morning, top democrats are

demanding that anchors be told to stop spreading election misinformation and admit on air that they were wrong for doing it in the past. >> cnn's oliver darcy is here. any response from fox? any of the executives? >> i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for response from fox on this one. they've actually been pretty silent when i've been asking questions over the past 24 hours or so about the issue of accountability because fox news is owned by fox corporation which is a publicly traded company. so, now, there are questions about what the fox board's responsibility is here to make sure that, you know, the company is not getting exposed legally, like the way they have -- because of the way they peddled election lies. now you're seeing this $1.6 billion lawsuit from dominion, you've seen the $2.7 billion lawsuit, there are questions about accountability, why the company is allowed to be legally exposed by this.

i was talked to a renowned harvard law professor yesterday jeff sundinberg, telling me there's a responsibility by shareholders to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen. we have audio of paul ryan.n is. >> okay. >> i have a responsibility to offer my opinion and perspective, i do that, but i don't go on tv and do it. >> right. but do you? >> i do. i do. i offer my perspective and my opinion off. i'll just leave it at that. >> okay, so you have raised that particular -- >> i'll just leave it at that. >> is there a red line with you that you say i cannot be associated with a company because of this? >> i want to see the conservative movement get through this moment. i think fox is a big part of the conservative movement. >> the solution or the problem? >> oh, no, i think it has to be part of the solution if we're

going to solve the problem with conservative movement, because there isn't a bigger platform than this in america. >> i think you're going to continue to seeing question like that, asked to fox board members, particularly paul ryan, given how notable he is. and he doesn't have a great answer right now. when i'm talking to experts in corporate governance, they're saying that he actually does have more respond than he may be letting on there. because, again, his responsibility is to shareholders, not the murdoches, and if he sees wrongdoing, it's not to privately raise it. so the company isn't legally exposed. >> how is the former president reacting to this and revelations with the lawsuit? >> this is pass fate because obviously fox is big hit by the left and democrats but also he's being hit by the right. the former president has been absolutely railing against rupert murdoch in the past 24 hours.

in a tweet earlier today, i'll read part it to you. he said that rupert murdoch and his group of maga-hating globalist rinos should get out of the news business as soon as possible because they're aiding and abetting the destruction of america with fake news. so, very strong words from the former president. this is exactly what fox wanted to avoid, because they don't want him chipping away at their base. so it will be interesting to see how this plays out as well. you know, this is a fight they don't want. >> all right. oliver darcy, you'll be watching it for us. never a dull moment. thank you. >> thank you. well, there's not much congress can agree on these days but china is one of them. i'll speak to a member of a bipartisan committee that held a hearing last night and ask her about the stark warning they issued. ♪ what a perfrfect day! ♪

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some unsettling news from iran now. the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog reports uranium particles found at one enrichment plant shows the country is much closer to producing weapons-grade material. >> it shows iran could produce one bomb's worth of uranium in 12 days. cnn's christiane amanpour spoke with the possibility about a rebrokered iran deal between his country and the u.s. >> translator: our relationship with the iaea is on its correct natural path.

and we have said this to the u.s. side through mediators that we are on the path to reach an accord. but if the iranian parliament adopts a new law then we'll have to bide by the parliamentary act so the wind for accord is still open. but this window will not remain open forever. the u.s. party has been sending us positive messages through diplomatic channels. but in its media remarks they made very deceptive remarks that are totally different. sand i'm really, as iranian foreign minister, sometimes i have serious doubts. i receive a message from the u.s. party emphasizing their commitment to accord. but then in the media, they say we are not at a point of accord. and jcpoa is not a priority on our agenda. which version should we accept? nevertheless, we are still on the path of reaching an accord. >> this, despite relations between the two countries continuing to spiral. well, a bipartisan group of

lawmakers had a stark warning, the chinese communist party is posing a growing threat to our country. >> this is an exist yential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. >> this came during the first house select committee meeting on china last night, as tensions between the two countries flared in the wake of the u.s. shooting down the suspected chinese spy balloon. also of concern, china's potential support of russia on its war on ukraine and the origins of covid. with me is congresswoman haley stevens a member of the house committee on china. congresswoman, thank you for taking the time. clearly, you've got your hands full and issues to discuss in the committee. i want to go back to chairman mike gallagher's opening comments in the vision he laid out as he zrieked as an exist yent struggle between china's ecological, technological and military threat. counter that to what democrats

said. democratic members seem to be more focused on bolstering u.s. technology and investing in technologies of the future. so is the committee on the same page in terms of how they envisioned this investigation and this committee working? >> well, i'm certainly optimistic about our ability to come together on a few key areas and hone in, certainly, there are differences of opinion in approach. there were some members on the midwest in southeastern michigan. we certainly cannot decouple from china, particularly, as it relates to exports and trade and the securitization of the supply chain. so, i think we need to be strategic. and i take this as a wake-up call from our economy. certainly hearing from general mcmaster on the national security considerations under way cannot be underestimated.

and we need to be is wide open with what we are facing with regard to this competition. but if you hear mr. mcmaster, he's talking about competition as a way to de-escalate. we don't need to keep ratcheteting up the rhetoric and that's the tone i'm trying to set on the committee. >> you mentioned mcmaster, obviously, he had worked on the trump administration. and we heard from matt pottinger who also worked in the trump administration. both sending dire warnings yesterday. pottinger saying the u.s. was hoodwinked by china. and both men suggest whether it's economically or academically, private companies, public companies, in this country, that they've dropped the ball in terms of standing their ground against china. i'm curious, what do you make of their warnings? and what are you going to do about it? >> well, this is certainly a really unique moment for us as federal lawmakers to set the tone. because you know that private industry is going to chase the

dollar or open markets are being exploited. i certainly heard general mcmaster say, hey, we're going to have peace through strength. we want to have economic strength as well as national security strength. and we're certainly not negotiating from a place of strength when china is producing 85% of the electric vehicle batteries when we're leading automation with the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed along with the inflation reduction act. it's our manufacturers that i see every single day doing these things. but certainly, mr. pottinger, also, he shed light on a very specific lens of the conflict. and i think that that was teased out a little bit. and it's not a conflict, it's a competition. but certainly, areas where maybe there is some friction. so, how do we take the rhetoric down? how do we promote peace through strength? it's through investing in our industrial base.

>> and, matt pottinger was one of the first to sound the alarm when it comes to covid that was i believe in late 2019 and early 2020 when the pandemic was just in its early days. there's questions now, again, about the origins of the pandemic and covid, begin what will we heard now from the d.o.e. just this week expressing with low confidence that they believe the virus originated in a lab. i want to play to you sound, though from the fbi director, who they concluded over a year ago, with moderate confidence, they also believe that it began in a lab. >> the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. the chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its. best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. >> so, two intel agencies believe that this began in a

lab, while four others do not. at this point, will your committee be asking for more conclusive analysis from the dni which, of course, oversees all of the intel agencies? >> well, there's certainly a lot of overlap with the other select committee, bipartisan select committee in the congress, that is focused on coronavirus very specifically. not only its origins, but, obviously, a response to the pandemic. and i want to take this back to trust. because we need to be operating on a global playing field, level playing field, through trust. and certainly, there's been many instances where we haven't had that level of trust with the ccp. if it's with regard to currency manipulation, trade, tariffs, why does it cost so much for us to sell our trucks into their country, versus what is happening with the tariffs on the back end here in our country. so, those are economic

interests. but this is specific to a national security interest. and it also circles around trust. we need to achieve better trust. and it's got to be through strengthening our own channels here in our federal government, we've heard from the alliance of manufacturing yesterday. and one of the witnesses who talked about those investments and those needs. so, it's a confluence of factors. >> congresswoman, keep us posted in all of the developments with your committee. we appreciate your time. >> yep. kobe bryant's widow has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with l.a. county over the photograph it's taken in the aftermath of the fatal helicopter crash. details, next. s taken in thehe aftermath of the fatal helicopter crarash. details, next. s taken in the aftermath of the fatal helicopter crash. details, next. s taken in the aftermath of thehe fatal helicopter crash. details, next. s taken in the aftermath of the fatal helicopter crash. details, next.

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vanessa bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement to settle a lawsuit with los angeles county. she filed it after the helicopter crash that killed her husband, lakers star kobe bryant, their daughter, gianna, and accept others. >> the lawsuit claimed that sheriffs and fire department workers took graphic photos of the victim which they later shared with other county workers. natasha chen now with more. tell us about the settlement. >> reporter: yeah. this includes a $15 million award that a federal jury already gave vanessa bryant last august, and that's after we sat through this 11-day emotional trial where we heard graphic details about these photos taken and deputies, first responder sharing them. one person sharing them at a bar. another person over a video game. another person airdropping them.

so this settles that amount as well as state claims of invasion of privacy. those claims were not heard in court. here's the statement from the l.a. county attorney, this $28.85 million settlement includes the verdict awarded by the federal judge in august of 2022, and further resolves all outstanding issues related to pending legal claims in state court, future claims by the bryant children, and other costs. proceeds from the settlement, i'm told by bryant's attorney, will go to the mamba association. she said she fought for her husband, daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect. we hope her victory at trial and this settle. will put an end to this practice. she did have a co-plaintiff in this, chris chester lost his wife and daughter in the same crash. he also settled with the county last year for close to $20

million. they said this is groundbreaking in that is set a legal precedent that just because you wear a badge does not mean you can fair victim photos with others who are not related to the investigation including other first responders. he pointed out a much more recent case. tyre nichols in memphis. we know from internal police documents that one of the officers took a couple photos of the injured nichols and shared them with at least five people. so if you're another law enforcement agency in this country, you might want to look at this case and see that you could be liable for similar behavior. >> important lesson here. natasha chen, thanks so much. a new report shows a disturbing trend -- colon cancer is on the rise among adults under the age of 55. what people can do to minimize the risk. that's just ahead. maybe it's perfecting that special place that you want to keep in the family... ...or passssing down the family business...

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promising news today for the more than 37 million americans living with diabetes. drugmaker eli lilly announced price cuts to lower the cost on common forms. insulin. for many it will cop out-of-pocket costs at $35 a month. >> we have more. insulin prices have skyrocketed in recent years. how big of a price cut is this? >> reporter: victor, this is a substantial price cut. if you look at insulin prices nationally from around 2002 to 2013, they tripled and just the horrifying stories of so many americans who had to ration their insulin. diabetics who couldn't take the insulin that they needed to take

because the prices were so high. let's take a look at what lilly did. for its most popular form of insulin, they said, look, the current list price which is a price that nobody pays but sort of a gauge, the current list price is $82 per vial, the new list price will be $25 per vial. and so that will mean about $35 per month for people with insurance, and they say they're also going to be sort of moving toward giving that same price to people who actually need the help. those are people who don't have insurance. >> real significant cut. in other more disturbing news, there's news about the rate of colorectal cancer on the rise among young people especially. >> reporter: this is so surprising. i think that doctors who treat colon cancer, if you had asked them years ago how often do you see someone under 55, you know, show up at your office with advanced colon cancer they would say that hardly ever happens. but now they're finding that that's just not true.

they're seeing more and more young people show up with colon cancer and with advanced colon cancer. so whe you look at a proportion of colon cancer cases under the age of 55, it was. then in 2019 it was 20%. that is a huge jump during a ly. doctors say they don't know why there's this jump. they think one reason could be diet. but really they're not sure. but they want young people to be aware of this and to make sure that you get all the screenings that you're supposed to get. >> an important health headline there. elizabeth cohen, thank you. well, this story brings a whole new meaning to the term bone chilling. one of our writers is so proud right now. so proud. police in peru arrested a 26-year-old man who had a mummy in a cooler. you get it -- bone chilling -- a cooler that looks like was used for meal deliveries. the ancient remains could be anywhere from 600 to 800 years

old. >> officials say they came upon three men drinking in a deserted park saturday. one of them had this mummy. so he told authorities that he called the mummy juanita and considers juanita to be his spiritual girlfriend and that it sleeps next to him quite regularly. now experts, though -- why this is that significant -- say it was a male, prompting one of them to point out it's not a juanita, it's a juan. so either way this mummy is now with peru's ministry of culture. for anyone planning on traveling, perhaps you can visit juan or juanita. >> a spiritual girlfriend. >> yeah. >> that's what i had in high school before i came out. just my spiritual girlfriend. >> 300-year-old, 600-year-old mummy? >> all right. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. what else did you do in high school? if you go on line and search how to buy meth, the u.s