abortion backlash. new restrictions fail in south carolina and nebraska because some conservatives wouldn't get behind them. are republicans starting to fear

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far abortion bans should go. we saw this moment in nebraska. people moved even to tears after the so-called heartbeat act failed by just one vote. it would ban most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy, when doctors say, women, most of them, aren't even aware they're pregnant. and five women, three of whom are republican joined together to filibuster on the ban on abortion there. cnn's dianne gallagher is with us. the republican who blocked this ban spoke passionately against it. >> reporter: that's right. it is the third time since the dobbs ruling that those five women in the south carolina senate as you said, three of them republicans, have effectively killed a near total abortion ban in that state. republicans outnumbered democrats 2-1 in the south carolina senate, and yesterday it was a 22-21 vote.

just a one-vote margin that blocked a bill that would effectively ban all abortions from the point of conception with very limited exceptions for rape and incest just up to 12 weeks. now each time that they have killed this bill, it has been those five women taking to the floor with impassioned speeches on biology, giving lessons on what it's like to be pregnant, also noting the current climate and potential backlash though that republicans could face if they passed it. >> there is not a single thing that i can do when women such as me are insulted except to make sure that you get an earful, and you need to blame this earful on following that leader siblindly off the cliff for the third time on abortion. i'm sure you would get an earful if you are being honest from your wives, from your children,

from your chandgrandchildren. you cannot tell me that you are not. i know that you are. >> reporter: now it was also just a one-vote margin in nebraska on thursday, an effort to basically ban abortion around the sixth week of pregnancy before a person often knows that they are pregnant. it fell one short vote of breaking a filibuster because two senators abstained and look. the big deal in this one is one of those abstentions was a co-sponsor of the bill, 80-year-old senator merv reap who get, a co-signer of the bill. he sort of changed his mind he said, after looking at things. he presented an amendment to make it a 12-week ban instead of a six-week. that amendment never got a vote so he didn't vote and it didn't pass. >> yeah. he moderated and it was something to witness. dianne gallagher, thank you so much. we're seeing this moderation happening in realtime, boris, in places you might not expect it to happen.

>> south carolina and nebraska not places you would anticipate this kind of debate to get so heated because of their voting record. my next guest is one of those republicans who opposed the legislation in south carolina and this state senator describes herself as quote, pro-life. let's listen to her. >> no matter what the intent is of those people who are preaching, not just speaking to the bill, but really going beyond that, i think, no matter the intent, there are millions of women, millions of women in this state who feel like they have been personally addressed in this legislation. there are mt. of wins who feel like they have not been heard and that's why i'm standing up here this long, and i've never done this before. we have come to an impasse with these abortion bills. we are here again.

i don't like it. we need to do something. >> unfortunately it appears we're having some technical issues with the state senator, so we'll get to that conversation in just a moment. jim? >> we'll be sure to have that in conversation. meanwhile, bracing for serious flooding in the midwest. the siwinter's heavy snows are melting and could cause some of the worst flooding in 20 years. this is davenport, iowa. flooding has swallowed much of the flooding has swallowed much of the riverfront area, and a threat along there will linger. alison chinchar has been covering this, and we're waiting for this here, certainly out west as well. where is it going to go from here, and for how long? >> right. so the hope is that it starts to come back down.

we have a lot of these river gauges that are already at moderate or major flood stage. dozens of them across the upper midwest. we're hoping we can bring those back down in the coming days. one thing that's benefitting us is temperatures at normal. that doesn't allow for the melting to be rapid. even with that said, we have had pretty significant amounts of water here coming into these rivers, creeks, and streams. this is the mississippi river specifically at the davenport gauge hovering at about 20 feet. we'll anticipate this will crest monday or tuesday of next week, just at around 21 1/2 feet. the record sits at 22 1/2 feet. we're not likely to get to the record, but still close enough, and one thing to note too, is this is what alrit already look like, and the water is still going to rise until we get to that crest around monday or tuesday of next week. now another thing too, albeit not a lot, we are anticipating some rain across this region over the weekend, and the concern there is that is certainly not going to help,

jim, in terms of bringing those levels back down any time soon. >> all right. so let's move a little south. concerns about severe storms. i could see it on your map there in texas. where is it going to be worse? what should people be bracing for? >> right. so this is going to be a multi-day event system. the focus right now is really across the areas of oklahoma and texas. we don't have the severe storms just yet. that's going to fire up later this afternoon and into the evening. so this is going to be that focal point, basically dallas and shreveport all the way back to the texas/mexico line. main threats here are going to be damaging winds, some isolated tornadoes, and extremely large hail. we're talking tennis-ball sized or even larger. this is multiple events this week. take a look at this hill that was taken from waco, texas this week. we're experiencing areas with large hail, and today we'll see a similar setup. this begins to fill in, and you'll see right there along

eastern texas, and it'll push off into other states like louisiana and eventsly towards arkansas. then by tomorrow, we see the main threat really kind of being right here along the gulf coast region, and pushing over along the atlantic coasts of states like let's say, south carolina, and even into georgia. now the threats themselves are pretty similar. we're still looking at damaging winds and the potential for isolated tornadoes, and even water spouts along the coastline, and also some hail. not quite as large as today, but there will be hail as a threat for tomorrow. another concern as it starts to slow down on the eastern portion of this, we could have a significant amount of rain. some of these areas could pick up 3 to 5 inches of rain through the weekend. >> goodness. we just said good-bye to the snow and here comes the rain. allison chinchar, thank you so much. boar boris, you got your guest? yeyes, we got our guest. penry gustafson opposed this.

it's graed to eat to have you. this is the third time a near abortion ban has been put up for vote in your chamber and i'm wondering what your mentssage i to those republicans not only in south carolina, but across the country who are not in line with popular opinion on this issue. >> well, first of all, thank you for having me today. it's quite an honor to be able to speak on your show nationally about such a polarizing issue. i am pro-life, and i guess the message would be that it's not too late to pass good legislation. the south carolina house has a senate abortion bill. it's a six-week bill. it's good. it's solid, and it'll pass constitutional muster, but this one, h-3776, i don't think it would pass our south carolina

supreme court. that was the number one reason why i opposed it. >> so to be clear, you are in favor of a six-week ban on abortion. is that correct? >> yes, sir. i do not think we have a right to abortion, but -- we may not have a right, but it is the reality, and i've always said it needs to be legal, safe, and rare. really rare, but there's got to be some gray area because life is not simply black and white. i recognize that and over 70% of south carolina recognizes that. most of us feel in our state there should be restrictions. so it's just reach a happy middle or at least a general consensus among the bodies, and the south carolina house will not accept our stance, the senate. so that's what happened for the third time.

>> i'm wondering how much politics influences that reality that you are describing because as we h've seen now not only in your state, but in nebraska, and in the midterm elections and special elections across the country, democrats have made abortion a central issue because they know voters will side with them. how much of this is politics? >> well, i appreciate that question, and i think most people would assume that. however, i'm a different kind of politician. i make my decisions independent of the national news. i try to focus on our state and my district, which is 27 south carolina. i got some good advice from senator tim scott. i asked him once. i said, how -- how do you deal with all the outside noise, and all that, and he told me, i focus on the job. i focus on the job, and i try to do it the best i can do. it was great advice.

that's what i try to do. frankly, sir, with all due respect, whatever alaska is doing does not affect south carolina at all since the states are determining this per state. so i'm not really affected personally. i really have to go by what my constituents want and what's best for the state, and in line with my own beliefs. >> i certainly respect that. i am curious to get your perspective, though, on one of your state senators, lindsey graham. you noted this is an issue you would like to see decided by the states. he's promoting a nationwide, 15-week ban on abortion. >> yes. >> it's not exactly picking up a lot of steam, not exactly popular. it seems like you disagree with it. >> can you still hear me, sir? >> yeah, of course. i'm wondering if you -- >> do you still have audio? >> are you able to hear me? >> it sounds like you're breaking up, but i'll continue with the answer. >> sure. >> senator graham and others

nationally, i've talked with some of my colleagues, especially my female colleagues, and we think it's a bad idea. if you are going to send the deci decision-making to the states, we need to do that. we need to legislate based on our states. this quasi-federal state government thing, we're getting to an area of problems, problematic for separation of the powers and separation of the different parts of government. so either the federal government is going to do this or not. i say stay out, stay away. we are handling this state by state. >> and state senator, i hope you can still hear me, i'm woshnderg if that applies to your belief of a potential decision on the most commonly used abortion drug in the country. there's a dispute over whether a judge in texas can -- no.

unfortunately the state senator is having issues hearing us. >> i can hear you perfect. >> maybe next time. we'll get your answer on that question as soon as we get a chance. thank you so much, state senator. we do appreciate it. over to you. boris, there are new signs that the fed's inflation fight fed's inflation fight is working. we are going to break this down. what does this mean for americans? >> it's good news for americans. it means that prices are cooling. the personal consumption expenditure data point is something that the fed really likes to look at because it's very detailed, and what we saw is pce rose 0.1% in march. that is what we like to see, but pce on the year up 4.2%, that is still high. so the fed may like what they saw in march, but on the year, they still have some work to do,

and also today we got employers' cost index. this is what employers pay in terms of wages to employees. that was up 1.2% in the first three months of this year. that is up higher than what we saw on the last three months of 2022. that is good news for americans. obviously higher wages is better, but it also fuels inflationary spending. so what the federal reserve is going to be doing is looking at these two data points, and as they go into their meeting next week, that will factor into how they raise interest rates going forward. >> have naes -- vanessa, we're seeing some bank stocks plunge. what's going on here? >> first republic, their stock fell about 50% at one point today, but the stock has been falling over the last several days, down 97% on the year, and this is because earlier this

week, we heard from first republic in their earnings call, and they reported that about 40% of their deposits got pulled out of the bank. that's about $100 billion, and so as we are seeing this stock price continue to fall, there are also reports that the fdic is going to come in and take over the bank just as they did with signature bank and also with svb. the white house also telling cnn that they have no plans to rescue first republic. >> thank you. we have much more on tap, boris. yeah. still ahead, russia strikes. long-range missiles launched, and cnn is on the scene in one city where children are among the dead. plus, army helicopters colliding, killing three soldiers while returning from a training flight in alaska. what went wrong there? and happening now, above the earth, a spacewalk under way at

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a devastating attack in ukraine overnight. russia firing missiles overnight. as we've seen time and again in this conflict, civilians pay the price. the highest casualties were here in uman leveling almost, striking an apartment building, setting it on fire. at least 22 people confirmed dead. the death toll there is expected to rise, and understandably. cnn's nic robertson has been there, and you're seeing the aftermath there. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: yeah, four children are among those 22 people there as well, jim. it has been heartwrenching to

watch because the people standing just behind us are friends and relatives of some of those victims, standing there, trying to find out what's happened to the ones that they love. we've seen the area swarmed by heavy diggers, trying to pull it, the rubble at the base of this nine-story building. dozens upon dozens of firefighters there, there was late afternoon, when they were able to excavate out of the basement area where a lot of people when they hear the sirens that went off in the early hours of this morning when many people are asleep, some people would have likely been sleeping down in that basement already. there are a number of bodies that were recovered from that basement. at least one child. that's a place that a lot of people feel is a safe sanctuary why these old apartment buildings, but higher up on the apartments, the recovery workers are working to get onto those floors even as the light is fading here today. we talked to one lady who said she'd spoken to a woman who

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stunning further details from prosecutors about intelligence leak suspect jack teixeira, raising serious questions. namely how some of this fell through the cracks and still got

a top secret security clearance. the justice department says just a few months ago, he wanted to, quote, kill a blank ton of people. allegedly asked a user for tips on carrying out a mass shooting. court documents allege that a pennant with the military staff as you see there was found hanging in the suspect's bedroom. joining us is democratic congressman jim himes. thank you for taking the time today. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> given the failures here and you have been watching this closely and as a member of the intelligence committee, you have been briefed on this, and worntding how this could happen. we have seen breaches particularly in the defense department. did d.o.d. fail not just in this case, a failure here, but in its broader standards and protocols for granting security clearances? >> you know, i think it is not nearly the system it needs to be, and the list of things that we need to do as a congress and

that the d.o.d. and the ic need to tighten up on is very long. some of it is really kind of head-shaking. interestingly enough that this individual had access to the administration, and he was a network administrator and didn't even really need to read the information. he could print it out. i mean, that just boggles the mind that there's obviously technological issue there is. there are culture issues. my understanding is that the leadership of that particular unit has been dismissed, you know, i'm sure there was a lot about not sufficient training, but you raise a really interesting question are we screening people well enough? you take me back to when edward sn no snowden blew up those things. i looked back and said, i would not hire this man, and i think we need to do a much better job at looking at people's background. not just phoning up to see if

somebody may be disloyal, but looking at the data that might raise red flags. >> if there are still open questions, if those standards are still too lax today, should the, d.o.d. pause issuing clearances? because what's to prevent someone else from getting through at this point or do they have to do, in addition to that, a vetting, right? an audit of all the folks who already have clearances. >> yeah. well, as a practical matter, you can't stop issuing clearances, right? you need new people. we constantly have people retiring from the cia and nsa. you can't stop granting clearances. you have to fix the plane while it's flying. some things feel like a no-brainer to me. right now at least the pentagon doesn't look at your publicly available social media. your twitter, facebook, et cetera, and it's publicly available and they don't look at that. i should acknowledge there are a lot of gray areas, right?

you wouldn't be denied a security clearance because you're an ardent republican or ardent democrat or because you have strong political feelings, but if someone you're posting that you would like to clear a whole lot of people at a minimum, that should lead to further conversations, and today it doesn't. >> let me ask you about another issue here because these closed chat groups, this discord group is not like posting to facebook or twitter in that you can't see it publicly, right? we know that the ic has trouble penetrating those closed groups. what's the solution for that? because you can stop posting i want to kill people on social media, but still share it with a dozen friends via gaming platform. >> yeah. so i mean, in that case, you've got some both technical and legal issues, right? so the legal issue, of course, is do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy? if the answer to that question is yes, the government can't go in there without a warrant or without special authority. then you've got a technological. i mean again, i'm pulling my

hair out over the fact that this classified information lived in various chat rooms and i think publicly available for months, right? on the one hand, you say that should never be true. on the other hand, you also don't want a world in which nsa and cia are sending crawlers all over to look for this stuff. both aspects are challenging. >> before i go, it has been intimated, and i have been told in my own conversations that we only know at this point a small percentage of what classified materials teixeira accessed and may have distributed. how much more is out there? >> it's hard to answer that question because you don't know what you don't know. now what i can tell you is, and you can get into classified realms here, is i can tell you that anyone that was accessed and downloaded and certainly printed, if we don't know it today, then we know it soon.

i'm known to be spkeptical abou our technical capabilities. it's a very serious issue, and it's one we're going to push the fbi and the ic to be all over. >> congressman jim himes, we appreciate you joining us today. >> thank you, jim. >> goodness. lots more to know, boris. that's one thing we keep hearing every day on this. >> certainly, jim. so twitter has left the station. north america's largest transportation network is saying so long to the tech company. new york's mta is suspending twitter use for service alerts claiming the reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed. joining us now, cnn media analyst and senior media reporter for axios, sara fisher. great to see you. another day, another public resource off of the platform. >> it's a big deal. the metro transport authority represents people across long island, new york, et cetera. a lot of people will be impacted by this. this handle itself has

1.3 million followers and when people want to go on twitter and find out if there's a subway delay, a crash, if people could be hurt, they want to know this is a tool and a resource. what the mta is saying because twitter is charging for back end access to plug in their api which is kind of like a technical term for being able to share data -- >> right. >> -- they no longer can service these alerts and afford it. they're not going to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to send these alerts. >> could this spell bigger problems for twitter? >> they're not the only ones who have done this. air france has also said they will not be sending alerts. national weather services around the country have said it's harder to send alerts when it comes to tornadoes and natural disasters. twitter will no longer be an authoratative place. to me, that will make the platform less useful. >> it appears that elon musk is paying for some celebrities to get verified. maybe public resources that people use, maybe that's a good

idea. i don't know. i'm just saying. >> it's interesting he is not -- he was not going to charge organizations like mta. now he's giving it to them somewhat for free, but you can still pay for it as an organization. what he's not paying for is their access to twitter's back end data, and that's what they need to send the alerts. in fact, if you are mta, verification matters, but what matters more is being able to physically alert people if there's a problem and elon musk has not indicated any willingness to pay for that. >> sara fischer, thank you. coming up, how the nba honoreh -- nfl honored three football players killed in a shooting. and the spacewalk under way at the international space station. why this one is making history. ] proactive notifications from fidelity keep you tuned in all day long. so when something happens that could affect youour portfoli, you can act quicklkly. that's decision n tech, only from fidelity.

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now to some of the other headlines we are watching this hour. after nearly a decade and multiple emmy awards, james corden bid farewell to "the late late show." he gave a heartfelt parting message to americans to look past our differences and instead, quote, look for the light. also, an emotional moment to kick off the 2023 nfl draft. the national football league honored the lives of the three university of virginia football players who were killed in a shooting during a class field trip. you may remember back in november, the nfl commissioner roger goodell welcomed the families of dethe three playersn

stage for a tribute celebrating the legacies of these athletes. and a group of middle schoolers in warren, michigan, watch this. the driver there fell unconscious. that prompted one student to jump into action. you can see there, he took the wheel. carter middle school honored dylan reeves during a press conference on thursday. they called his actions and they're right, quote, an extraordinary act of courage and maturity. reeves was able to bring the bus all the way to a full stop. no students were injured. the driver's doing okay. he does remain in the hospital for examination. really good for him. all right. so this is a live look at an historic spacewalk that is happening right now 220 miles above earth. can you believe this? steven bowen of nasa upgrading the power system on the international space station. for the u.s. astronaut, this is

his eighth spacewalk, but for the united arab emirates, he is the first arab astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. they have been at this for more than four hours at this point. they have about two more hours to go before they're expected to finish. my next guest wrote the book "floating in darkness." exactly what you see happening here, based on his experience in space as a nasa astronaut, we are colonel ron garren. he participated in several space spacewalks at the international space station. thank you for taking the time to be with us, sir. i read about this mission, and it almost sounds a little bit like doing home maintenance while floating, and wearing winter mittens that make everything a lot more clumsy. so dispel me of that notion and tell me what we are seeing here. >> no. that's pretty accurate. that's pretty accurate. you have to realize that they're

both in self-contained spaceships, right? it's very bulky. they are floating. they also are traveling at five miles a second. so it's really amazing that we have two humans out in the vacuum of space. this is the 261st spacewalk that is for maintenance and construction of the international space station. although we've done it a lot of times, it's always exciting. >> you've done a number of these yourself, but i wonder if you can kind of look back to your first one. i imagine you can't fully know what to expect until you're doing it. so put yourself for us if you will in their boots or shoes because this is momentous on his first one. tell us what it's like. >> it is. my first spacewalk was also on my first space mission, and so everything is new, and, you know, i think as humans we experience everything in the context of what we have experienced in the past. when you go out the hatch on a

spacewalk, there's no prior context to compare this experience to. it is a brand-new experience, and my first spacewalk, it almost didn't feel real. it was almost as if i was watching it unfold in front of me as if it was on a video, but obviously it was very real, and after awhile, after you do a few of them, starts to sink in, the real magnitude of that experience. >> i also want to mention you got to the international space station on a russian rocket. we heard here in the last few days from nasa's administrator, bill nelson, that he does expect that russia/u.s. space cooperation is going to continue through 2030 when the iss is supposed to be decommissioned. what does that mean to you that the cooperation in space exploration is continuing between the u.s. and russia even as we see this war in ukraine playing out?

>> right. i think this is a really important point, and the point is that we have built a foundation that we can potentially jump off from, a foundation of things we agree upon in space exploration that we can potentially now use to address the things we don't agree on like the war in ukraine. despite everything that has happened and everything that is happening in ukraine, there still remains cooperation in space. albeit that cooperation is very fragile, but i think it really drives the point home that when we find the low-hanging fruit, when we find those points of comm comm commo commonality, those things we agree on, we need to double down on those, and keep the doors of dialogue open. we need to keep talking, and the worst thing we can do in any crisis and situation is to stop talking to each other, close those lines of communication, and stop working together. i think it's really, really important that we see this as a shining example of international cooperation, and, you know, we're going to get past this

present crisis, and we're going to learn from it, hopefully mature from it, hopefully evolve past this because it's obviously a very, very horrible thing that's happening, but i think this is a shining light amidst that terrible situation. >> yeah. let's certainly hope. look, colonel, thank you so much. there are so few people who have been in this position to tell us about what it's like to go through a spacewalk, especially in this historic one. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> boris? coming up, the ai doc will see you now. does chatgpt have better bedside manners than your doctors? what studies are talking about the role of artificial intelligence in medicine when we come back. together we provide s to support immune, muscle, bone, and heart health. yaaay! woo hoo! enensure with 25 vitamins and minerals and ensure complete with 3 30 grams of protein. ♪

thanks, doc, but i'm going with the chat bot. that's essentially the conclusion of a new study comparing how people responded to medical advice from chat gpt versus real life doctors. in some cases 100% of those asked preferred the bot. cnn's health reporter joins us now live with more on this. what kind of medical advice are people getting from chat gpt? >> reporter: we're talking about just every day medical advice. the type of questions that people tend to ask online.

one example in the study, what happens if i accidentally splash bleach in my eye? another question had to do with what's the risk of dying if i accidentally swallow and ingest a toothpick? in response to the toothpick question, boris, we should have both responses up on the screen. one came from a doctor. one came from chat gpt. i want to see if you can guess which response came from the chat bot. one response starts out by saying if you've surpassed 2 to 6 hours, chances are they've passed into your intestines which means it can't be retrieved easily. the other response to the toothpick question starts out as saying, it's natural to be concerned if you have ingested a foreign object, but in this case it's highly unlikely that the toothpick you swallowed will cause you any serious harm. okay. which do you think was the chat bot? >> the second one reads like it was written by a computer so i'll go with that longer answer.

>> it's natural to be concerned? >> yeah. >> yeah. that was the chat bot. you're right. it is interesting. you passed the test. but it is interesting that the chat bot response was a lot longer. like you pointed out, and it tended to have a little more empathy, which started out saying t.'s natural to be concerned, or i understand, i'm sorry you might feel this way where as the doctors were more succinct and to the point. this study shows a.i. might be able to be used as a tool to help guide doctors in communications with patients. >> well, that is much kinder bed side manner than the first response, which was kind of like, yeah. we may not be able to get that toothpick. you might be screwed. thank you so much for the reporting. briana? >> i'll take the chat bot in that case. there are many states nationwide considering bills to further restrict abortion access and gender affirming care and one state is taking the opposite

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