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our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. >> and just ahead on cnn news "room" -- >> former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thursday for more than five hours. latest numbers show that the u.s. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023. never in a million years did i imagine that as american citizens my parents would be left to fend for themselves in a warzone. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is friday, april 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where it is another first for donald trump. like most of the others, it is not a good one.
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>> never before in more than history has a vice president been compelled to testify about direct conversations with the president he served. that is the situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury. katelyn polantz has the details. >> reporter: former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thursday for more than five tes what happened of a surrounding january 6, all the conversations he directly would have had with donald trump the president at the time at a time when donald trump was pressuring him to overturn the vote, pence refused to do so. pence has spoken about the conversations publicly, he's written about them in his book that he has been on a tour about now. he is talking about the really regularly, but never before has a grand jury and prosecutors gotten pence under oath to
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reveal exactly what he thought, what he felt, and what was said between him and donald trump on those crucial days part of this investigation. so this is a really significant moment in the january 6 criminal investigation being led by special counsel jack smith at the justice department. it is also a momentous moment in history. there has never before been a vice president called to testify under subpoena about the president they served alongside. that didn't happen in watergate, in whitewater, both had very active grand juries. so this is different. it also is a very crucial moment putting mike pence here because the justice department had to fight for this testimony. they went to court over this. donald trump tried to block the testimony. he tried to limit what pence could say about the direct conversations. he lost those court battles. mike pence also went to court to fight on this and did not want to testify under subpoena, but he did get a little bit of
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leeway from the court being able to protect what he was doing when he was the presiding officer on january 6. but today that federal grand jury did hear from mike pence for more than five hours one-on-one, the grand jurists would have been able to ask him questions, would have been able to piece him into a very active investigation that they have heard from many, many witnesses on and now the prosecutors will take that testimony and see how it fits, try and fit it into potential charges as they look toward the future. it will become at least part of the record of what will now be known about january 6 to the justice department and potentially to the public later on. caitlin poekatelyn polantz, cnn washington. and cnn spoke with areva martin and we asked her how crucial pence's testimony is and what might the grand jury learn from him. >> even though mike pence has been on a book tour, even though he's written about what happened
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leading up to january 6 in his book, that is very different than testifying under oath before a grand jury. the grand jury in that proceeding, they get to learn details that i would imagine have not been disclosed in that book. you know, how long were meetings with donald trump, exactly what he said, what mike pence said in response. this is a dramatic turn of events. we know mike pence resisted any efforts to -- that were either trying to get him to give his testimony before a grand jury or before the january 6 committee. so this is a significant development and it shows how the special counsel has been appointed in this case has really been a lot more aggressive in this investigation. the suspect in the pentagon leaks case will remain in jail for now as the judge considers bail. prosecutors called jack teixeria a risk to national security with a history of violent threats.
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>> and he may still have access to top secret documents. oren lieberman reports. >> reporter: tonight jack teixeria in custody after appearing in court for his detention hearing. prosecutors portray the suspected leader as a risk to flee, incapable of the trust he promised to uphold as a member of the air national guard. there is no integrity because there can be none when there is such a profound breach of trust, said pellegrini from the u.s. attorney's office. in a dumpster, authorities found a tablet, laptop and xbox, they had all been smashed. prosecutors say it was a way of stopping them from fully understanding the seriousness and scale of teixeria's conduct. >> the department is looking not only at our intelligence processes and procedures as it relates to security of sensitive information and who has that information and also the process by which we clear and vet individuals for security
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clearances. that work is ongoing. >> reporter: authorities say he had an arrestssenal of weapons feet from his bed. and in a recent online chat uncovered by investigators, teixeria said he would kill an expletive ton of people because it would be calling the weak finded and he wanted to make an assassination van. and he asked another user what type of rifle would be good to conduct a shooting in a crowded urban or suburb environment. attorneys argued that he is not unique in collecting weapons, some people like cars, some people like boats and some people like guns, his attorney said defending his client as the pentagon defended the process that led here. the leaked documents have exposed classified intel including about the war in ukraine. documents have revealed limitations of ukraine's air defenses and manpower while also detailing russia's efforts to
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recruit more troops to plug its military's ranks. valuable info the prosecutors say other countries would covet and authorities warn teixeria may still have more sensitive intelligence hidden away and could still cause extraordinary damage to u.s. national security. the judge didn't rule on whether he would be kept in custody yet, that ruling expected soon. but the judge may have given an indication which way he was leaning when he said he found the prosecution's evidence fairly compelling. oren lieberman, cnn, the pentagon. governor ron desantis who is on an international trip is dismissing concerns over legal action being taken against him. >> the disney company filed suit against desantis accusing him and several other officials of using their political power for political retaliation.
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>> reporter: while on this international trip, governor desantis had to answer questions about disney while at a press conference in jerusalem, and he said he's pretty much dismissing the lawsuit, but much of what he said as to why is something that he's repeated in the past saying that disney does not deserve any sort of special privileges despite being one of the most popular employees here in this state. listen. >> i don't think the suit has merit. i think that it is political. they have been treated much different than universal, seaworld and all these other places. and so they are upset because they are actually having to live by the same rules as everybody else. >> the governor is calling it political and so is disney. in this 77 page lawsuit filed in federal court wednesday, disney calls this a targeted campaign of government retaliation and says it is a violation of their first amendment rights. so let's back up to talk about how we even got here. you see this all started with
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what critics have dubbed the don't say gay bill which was a bill that sort of limited how sexual orientation and gender identity can be discussed in florida classrooms. disney spoke out against that and that is when the very public battle ensued. after that, florida passed legislation to strip the company of its special taxing district that gives disney control over things like who repairs the roads. once florida stripped disney of those power, governor ron desantis announced that he would appoint his allies to that board. and the outgoing board struck an agreement with disney to retain control. once desantis' allies got in there, they said huh-uh, no way, this does not have legal standing and they voted to get rid of it. minutes after that vote is when disney filed its lawsuit in federal court asking a federal
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judge to undo what has been done so that they can retain control of that taxing district. so now the legal battle ensues and we will wait to hear from a federal judge. leyla santiago, cnn, miami. the u.s. speaker of the house has joined the list of republicans pushing desantis to end this ongoing feud. kevin mccarthy says desantis needs to negotiate with disney but the florida governor has suggested that he might instead retaliate by building a state prison next to walt disney world in orlando. >> i don't think the idea of building a prison next to a place that you bring your families the best idea. i think it would be much better if you sat down and solved the problem. >> lest we forget of course disney does have its own jail. or at least a holding cell. >> because it was in charge of that area so it needed a holding place. mccarthy is not the only one speaking out.
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several of desantis' potential rivals for the republican nomination have also been critical of his ongoing battle with the company. more than 55 million people in the southern u.s. could be impacted by two storms on friday. this is after days of tornado reports, damaging wind gusts and large hail as well. those images on social were quite something. >> staggering size of the hail. >> thursday officials clocked wind as strong as 76 miles per hour in parts of florida. golf ball-sized hail was also spotted in that state. at least seven tornadoes are reported, officials say one touched down that left downed trees and power lines in its wake. the tornado also destroyed about a dozen homes and damaged 20 others. no injuries were reported. areas along the upper mississippi river could be dealing with flooding issues until the middle of next month. officials warn ongoing snow melt has caused the river to rise
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higher than usual and if more rain falls before the river drops significantly, there could be substantial flooding. davenport, iowa is preparing for the worst. voluntary evacuations are happening in some parts of wisconsin as the river has sent water spilling into some homes and basements. still to come, yet another shaky cease fire in sudan as thousands of people flee the country. but americans are not getting as much help getting out. and plus rescue teams race against time after russian strikes across ukraine. we'll have the latest after residential areas were hit by rock debet fire. and new revelations about tucker carlson's alleged offensive comments towards women.
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[ sirens ] air raid sirens in kyiv just a few hours ago. air defense systems shot down more than a dozen missiles and drones over the capital. the city still took some damage though. there were no reports of civilian casualties. >> the three other cities across ukraine have also been struck with at least 12 people killed and more than a dozen bowounded. this video shows where a highrise building partially collapsed and some residents were pulled from the rubble. >> and obviously air defenses are pretty effective. >> in kyiv, they say 21 out of 23 incoming missiles were shot down according to authorities there. but obviously as you point out, some things get through. it is hard to know in this case what military targets they may have actually been aiming at since we're seeing a lot of these have landed in residential areas. in dnipro for instance we know
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there was a 31-year-old mother and her 2-year-old child killed according to the mayor there, three others injured. in the town a suburb of kyiv, there was fragments from a missile that had been shot down we presume that hit an apartment building, a 13-year-old girl was injured there. but the most dramatic pictures were the ones in a city 125 miles south of kyiv, and nowhere near the frontlines, not used to this destruction from war at least not on a regular basis. and so there ten people have been killed, including a child, more have been injured, hospitalized. the death toll may yet still rise as they pull bodies out from the rubble. there is also one person in critical condition in the hospital. when you look at these pictures, it is pretty difficult to imagine pulling them out alive considering the scale of the
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destruction. it looks like it dropped straight down from the sky and took out every floor on its way down. there have been people pulled out, but most recently they have been pulling out bodies. here is what one resident on the site said. >> translator: my date's classmate lived on the ninth floor of the destroyed apartment block. i don't know. praise god they are alive. it is a great tragedy. >> president zelenskyy has also reacted to this saying in part the russian terror must face a fair response from the ukraine and the world and it will, every such attack, every evil act against our country and people brings the terrorist state closer to failure and punishment. what is also interesting here, the ukrainian air force actually put out brand new pictures showing their newest patriot air defense systems supplied by the west, second one that they say is operational inside of the country. but as we talked about earlier,
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clearly no air defense system is perfect even when you have the most sophisticated air defense system being supplied from the west. >> scott, thank you very much. the war in ukraine is expected to be on the agenda when pope francis meets with hungarian leaders in the coming hours. the pope has just landed in budapest for a three day visit to hungary. he is set to meet with victor or ban and local clergy. the pope's visit is a few weeks after a health scare, so people are looking to see how he looks. the 86-year-old pontiff spent several nights in the hospital for bronchitis. we're getting reports of heavy fire in sudan even though a new cease fire is supposed to be under way. and the white house is urging americans who want to leave the country to do so in the next two days. >> but making it clear that u.s. military won't be air lifting them out even though our nation
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seems to have no issue doing that. we spoke with some desperate to escape. >> never in a million years did i imagine that as american citizens my parents would be left to fend for themselves in a warzone. >> reporter: she describes the harrowing story of her parents, american citizens, trying to make their way out of sudan. after a 12 hour bus drive to port sudan during which her father was head up at gunpoint, they found no support for u.s. citizens. >> no american presence, no american assistance, no signage anywhere to tell them where to go. >> reporter: arriving at the gates of this hotel, they showed their u.s. passports. but received no shelter. >> they told no, no, no, you have to wait. without providing lodging, assistance, food, water. my father is running low on his
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medication that he needs for both his heart condition and his blood pressure. >> reporter: other travelers have descended upon sudan's border with egypt, some finally finding water but others including americans not so lucky. >> the wait time at the border is many days. children are crying. and they are just laying on the ground. it is a desert. >> they are stuck at the border, there is no water, no food. the border is essentially a humanitarian crisis and they are not the only americans who are facing this issue. >> reporter: and an american couple living in california, they are also deeply frustrated by the lack of u.s. government support in these dangerous and complex conditions. as they have tried to assist their parents' escape. >> we contacted them on numerous occasions asking for just bare minimum help, just let us know
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if you are going to help us, then help us. >> reporter: u.s. officials say it is more dangerous to carry out a government-led evacuation from the country right now than to have american citizens join the overland caravans. >> we're in contact with americans who have registered with us in one way or another and very active contact. >> reporter: but dowd paints a different picture. >> the only communication was to somehow make your way to port sudan. because that seemed kind of very vague, and it seems like different people -- different americans are getting different information. >> reporter: and in recent days, many other countries around the world including the uk, india and germany have flown their citizens out of the country. >> i'm just appalled and frankly disgusted that european nations are able to coordinate evacuations of their citizens but somehow americans are left to defend for themselves. >> reporter: secretary of state
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antony blinken says the u.s. believes best way to have enduring capability to get americans out of the country remains on those overland routes even while other countries are flying their citizens out of the country. we also gotten a update from one of the women that we spoke to for this pace, and she told us that one of her family members who is elderly and also an american citizen has passed away after making that treacherous journey to the border to try to get out of the country. kylie atwood, cnn, the state department. let's get the latest now on the state of the ceasefire. david mckenzie is live from johannesburg. david, how fragile is this cease fire? and i just wonder also how i intra intractable this situation is given both sides being diametrically opposed. >> reporter: right now there are truly intractable. and in the last few minutes, the turkish government has confirmed
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that c-130 transport plane flying into an airport north of khartoum was shot on by unknown forces with small arms fire. no one was injured, they were able to land, but it does speak to the danger of using those aerial routes to evacuate citizens. so far with that cease fire though, it has been broken several times, there have been moments of calm that have allowed foreign nationals to get out by air and on the road. but the fundamental issues is exactly as you described, these two sides show no sign of stopping their fighting. and even with them both on paper agreeing to cease fires, they have not been held. this is despite the significance outside pressure from the african-ameri african union, from the east
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african bloc, the prime minister said he spoke to leaders of both groups and you also had secretary blinken meeting with the secretary-general of the united nations antonio guterres, he said that they are trying everything they can to stop this conflict. >> we're working very closely together to deal with the crisis in sudan. hopefully working toward a more enduring ceasefire, cessation of hostilities and helping to put sudan back on the track that it was on to civilian-led government while dealing with i think an increasingly challenging humanitarian situation there. >> reporter: all attempts to get the two leaders to sit face-to-face or even a protracted ceasefire have not succeeded at this point. >> david mckenzie for us in johannesburg, thank you so much. developing story we're following this hour, the u.s. army says three soldiers were killed after two military
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me bring you up-to-date with our top stories. sources tell cnn that former vice president mike pence testified for more than five hours before a federal grand jury on thursday. prosecutors want to know about pence's direct conversations with trump leading up to the riot on january 6, 2021. plus the suspect in the pentagon leaks case will remain in jail for now as a judge considers bail. prosecutors argue that the 21-year-old jack teixeria still poses a threat because of the number of documents he allegedly accessed, a trove of weapons in his room and his alleged history of violent threats. much more ahead on these stories on "early start." and woman suing donald trump for allegedly raping her in a new york department store dressing room in 1996 was back on the stand thursday. trump's attorney pressed e. jean carroll pressed her asking repeatedly why she didn't scream for help. carroll said she was in too much
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panic and that he couldn't beat her up because of it. the former magazine columnist said i'm telling you, he raped me whether i screamed or not. i don't need an excuse for not screaming. trump has repeatedly denied her allegations. we're learning new details about tucker carlson's alleged pattern of making offensive comments. the former fox news host is accused of sexism and massage any by an ex-producer. she is suing fox news for how she was treated. >> reporter: new rely vagss. in a video describing a woman as yummy. >> women were objectified. it was a game, it was a sport. female politicians who came on the show were mocked.
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there were debates about who they would rather sleep with. c word all the time. >> reporter: this comes as abby grossberg has accused carlson in a lawsuit of pervasive sexism and misogyny. >> there were literally pictures this big of nancy pelosi in a bathing suit in europe plastered all over. >> reporter: grossberg claiming carlson encouraged a work culture that subjugates women based on viral sexist stereotypes where women were subjected to crude terms out in the open like discussing which female gusts were fabl-able. no woman whether a politician or female staffer was safe from suddenly becoming the target of sexist demeaning comments such as being called the c word. that offensive slur also appearing in a text revealed in dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox showing tucker calling then trump lawyer sydney
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powell that c word. gretchen carlson who in 2016 went public with sexual harassment claims against then network head roger ailes saying -- >> fox made a big point of saying that they had changed their culture. the abbey grossberg lawsuit and her claims apparently prove that is not the case. >> reporter: meantime a long trail of past comments made both during and before he became an anchor at fox paints a similar picture with carlson repeatedly disparaging women. carlson saying of supreme court justice elena kagan -- >> i feel unattractive become. you look at hilly and you know if she could castrate you, she would. >> reporter: and saying of tulsi gabbert -- >> i don't know what it is about, but according to every website, she's the prettiest member of congress. >> reporter: and referring to kamala harris as --
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>> the ex-girlfriend of monday t monday tell williams. >> reporter: and states of feminism -- >> nothing is more dangerous to society. >> reporter: and tucker carlson has not gotten back to cnn in response to the allegations. and we did not receive response on his lawyer on the newly uncovered video of carlson obtained by the "new york times." fox news has denied the allegations that abby grossberg has made in her lawsuit. sunlen serfaty, cnn, washington. and four men who escaped from a jail in mississippi last year has been captured in texas. officials say that i he was taken into custody in spring valley, texas after being spotted there on sunday. >> wednesday mississippi police confirmed the body of escapee dylan harrington was found in a burned out house after stand out with police. they believe harrington killed a pastor and stole his truck. meanwhile the manhunt continues for the other two inmates who
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escaped last saturday casey grayson and cory harrison. new trading day gets under way in the u.s. in just over five hours time and here is where things are looking right now. and european markets are up and running and also not a particularly positive picture, a bit more mixed. and here is how asia faired today. all looking up. wall street is celebrating its best day since january. the dow gained 525 points thanks to a slew of strong earnings reports. investors were also encouraged by new data that showed resilient consumer spending in the first quarter and the dow gained more than 1.5%. the nasdaq finished 2.5% higher. first quarter was not so good for the gross domestic product. economy grew at a much slower pace than economists expected.
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rahel solomon explains. >> world's largest economy still growing, but slowing. the latest numbers show that the u.s. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023. for context economists were expecting a figure twice that or at about 2%. 1.1% is also lower than the previous two quarters. the report from the bureau of economic analysis shows a still remarkable u.s. consumer who despite inflation and higher interest rates continued to spend on both goods and services, even durable goods. items like appliances or electronics which tend to be a bit expensive, that came in stronger than what we've seen in years. we also saw increases in net exports and government spending at the federal, state and local levels. but business spending, that is slowing. we saw a steep decline in private inventory. so this includes all types of inventory from wholesale to retail, also manufacturing. and while this report suggests a
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slowing economy, it is how and where the economy is slowing that could give us a sense of what is ahead. mark zandi from moody's telling me thursday usually it is the consumer that pulls back and the businesses respond. this go round the thing that feels a little uncomfortable is if we go into a recession, it will probably be businesses pulling back and forcing consumers to follow. and in other words, businesses pull back, stop hiring, layoff workers and thus spark a recession. all eyes now on the federal reserve, it meets for its next policy meeting next week. and zandi expects another rate hike but they have enough evidence to a slowdown so it could mean an end to the rate hiking cycle. still ahead, south korea's president addresses the u.s. congress warning that the countries must present a united front against threats from north korea. and after 20 years in the u.s., a giant panda is back at
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south korea's president delivered a passionate speech to the u.s. congress on thursday. yoon suk-yeol was welcomed with enthusiastic applause as he marked 70 years of south korea's alliance with the u.s. >> it gives north korea a threatening piece with its n nuclear program. mr. yoon referenced former u.s. president ronald reagan. >> to deter this reckless behavior, the alliance must
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stand united with determination. as president reagan once said, there is a price we will not pay. there is a point beyond which they must not advance. we must make his words clear to north korea. >> south korean president went on to condemn russia's war on ukraine and vowed to help kyiv as other democratic countries helped seoul during the korean war. and of course he is famous for singing "american pie." after a 20 year loan, the giant panda ya ya is back in shanghai. she had been living at the memphis szoo. >> she came as a symbol of a positive relationship between china and the united states. but as will ripley explains, her return to china now has become symbolic of how far the
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relationship has fallen. >> reporter: in china a hero's welcome for ya ya the panda at the end of a 16 hour flight from memphis to shanghai. crowds gathered outside the airport trying to catch just a glimpse of ya ya's crate. her first moments back on chinese soil. she will intend the next month in quarantine at the shanghai zoo where a media feeding frenzy is in full swing. >> many have been watching closely and looking forward to ya ya's return. >> reporter: and thageriatric pa is famous for all the wrong reasons. pictures of ya ya sparked pandemonium, a social media frenzy fueled by false claims. rampant rumors denied by the zoo of panda abuse and nugt in the
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u.s. outrage amp will i filed by anti-american sentiment. bring ya ya home became a rallying cry for millions of chinese. the panda's picture splattered on billboards from beijing to the big apple. it is true ya ya was young and fluffy when she arrived at the memphis zoo 20 years ago. on a long term multimillion-dollar lease from china. u.s. and chinese scientists say she has a genetic condition affecting her skin and fur. a condition that worsens with old age. no impact on her quality of life, just her looks. they even issued a joint statement saying the fact is ya ya had excellent care. but facts don't always matter in a world full of fake news. anti-american panda propaganda is filling the feeds of chinese social media users. no mention of the healthy pandas at two other american zoos, but plenty of pictures of an active
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and playful panda in russia. a panda chinese state media prizes for improving bilateral ties. ya ya's saga will end where it began. the beijing zoo where she will live out her final years. she just might be the world's most politicized pan take, a beloved bear that brought the u.s. and china closer. now being used to divide. will ripley, cnn, taipei. >> she seems pretty happy when you look at the pictures. >> yeah, chomping on some bamboo. which incidentally pandas spend 16 hours a day doing. >> do they? okay. we're just over two weeks until a critical election, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan canceled several campaign events for health reasons on tuesday. he abruptly ended an interview in the middle of a question returning later to say that he has a serious stomach flu. several public events were scrapped so he could rest. >> mr. erdogan did appear by
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call now 800-710-0020. brittney griner says she will never play basketball overseas again unless it is for team usa at the olympics. she spoke with the immedia for first time since being detained in russia. griner became emotional while speaking about her experience and how she survived. >> i'm no stranger to hard times, so -- you cried and you made me cry. just digging deep, honestly. you're going to be faced with
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adversities throughout your life. this was a pretty big one. but i just kind of relied on my hard work, getting through it. i know this sounds so small, but, you know, dying in practice and just hard workouts, you find a way to just grind it out. just put your head down and just keep going. just keep moving forward. you know, you can never stand still and that was my thing. just never be still. never get too focused on the now and just looking forward to what is to come. >> she's writing a memoir about her time in tee tensidetention . celtics beat the hawks 128-120 in a game on the road in atlanta. atlanta didn't go down without a fight though. trae young led the hawks with 30 points. celtics win the series four
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games to two and they will host game one of the eastern conference semifinals against the philadelphia 76ers on monday. for the second time in less than a month, there is a new highest paid player in the nfl. baltimore ravens have reportedly agreed to a new five year contract with quarterback lamar jackson worth $260 million. unreal. >> that is $10 million more than the last one i think. >> quarter of a billion basically. jackson was the league's most valuable player in 2019, but he had requested a trade in march. the philadelphia eagles agreed to a $255 million quarterback with jalen hurts earlier this month. >> and you were asking if my smoothie was expensive. >> not something that he has to worry about, is it. incredible. but then that is the business. if you call someone pele in portuguese, you must be on top of your flattery game. >> the name of the football legend has been added to the
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portuguese dictionary meaning something out of the ordinary just like pele himself. he is considered one of the best players of all-time and he passed away in december. >> what would bianca mean in the dictionary? >> i was going to call you pele as a wonderful gesture, but too british for that. here is a reminder that students, schools and livestock don't mix. a group of illinois high school seniors brought animals to campus as a prank, but a cow escaped. >> let's see it then. it got loose in a nearby neighborhood. andherds? police had to corral the beast turning the area into a real life rodeo. >> and we walked over to see if there really was a cow. >> and what did you see?
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