>> good morning. we are glad you are with us this hour. only one tank and zero planes. russia's annual victory day prai parade was looking this morning. but vladimir putin remind defiant as his invasion of ukraine struggles. plus, we'll speak to a survivor of the mass shooting at the texas out let mall who tried to save a young girl's life. president biden set to meet with congressional leaders about raising the debt limit but time is running out and the economy is at stake. rick scott will join us lufb. one of 43 senators who wrote that let early. >> this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. new this morning, vladimir putin delivering a defiant speech on victory day as his invasion of ukraine continues to

struggle. >> the annual military parade noticeably scaled down. victory day celebrates the soviet union's triumph over nazi germany and russia usually flexes its military might. this year it was only one tank from world war ii and no flyovers of fighter jets, bombers in his speech, accuse the west of unleashi war agains the russian mother land. it comes days after a mysterious drone attack on the kremlin hours before putin's speech russia launched cruise missiles at ukraine's capital. let's bring in matthew chance to start us out. as someone who covered all things putin and moscow so closely, what was your take? >> well, i think you're right, poppy. definitely much smaller than we have seen in years past.

i think 8,000 troops this year. 12,000 last year, for instance. there was no military flyover. usually that's a spectacular highlight of this kind of victory day parade. there was an intercontinental ballistic missile as the centerpiece of the parade. russia underlining it is still very much a nuclear power as it does every year by sort of parading these, you know, highly destructive weapons through the, you know, over the cobbles of red square. there was just one tank and that was a t-34 which is a tank from the 1940s that fought in the second world war. so none of the most sophisticated weaponry that russia is meant to have. there is a couple reasons for that. very real security concerns. this parade taking place just days after the kremlin -- and this is the in the shadow of the kremlin, remember, the kremlin says drones attacked the domes of the center of the kremlin in what they say was a ukrainian

assassination attempt on president putin. also an upsurge in attacks around the country on various russian installations and some russian cities these victory day parades have been canceled all together. but in some places close to the ukrainian border they did not go ahead because of security concerns. the other issue, the smaller nature of this prayed, does russia have the weapons, the tanks to put on display given its military is closely engaged in ukraine now and preparing for a big ukrainian counteroffensive. >> you would think this would be the year they would want so sort of flex that military might and show off. they zont do that. thank you. the pandemic era boshz policy known adds title 42 is set to expire in two days. u.s. officials, border towns are bracing for an influx of migrants. it won't only be felt there. new york city says it's already struggling to house 60,000

asylum seekers. now amemayor dirk adams announca new program to provide temporary shelter outside the city. we had an executive from one of those communities on this morning to discuss. >> we have to get back to what we were, that shining city on the hill that welcomed people from all over the world. we just got to do it the right way. we got to figure out who these folks are, can we get them work, are they staying here permanently, what's their future. >> paolo sandoval joins us from one of the areas migrants could be sent in orange county, new york. can you give us an idea how prepared these areas outside of new york city are to house migrants? what local residents are thinking right now? >> reporter: the hotel that you see behind me here in rockland is one of the locations that has been picked to offer transportation to some of the

migrants. to be clear for the viewers, if any of the 38,000 asylum seekers want toik taupe the offer, they have to come forward. we will have to -- we don't yet have a clear picture of how many of these asylum seekers will end up in some of these neighboring communities but this caused some conflict, tension between some of the county officials like the one you heard from and certainly the adams administration as we heard from steve new house this morning the county executive saying there is conflicting information. friday they received word they have 30 to 60 people a month and newhouse adding he is getting calls from some of the local hotels saying it could go into four months. what's important and one of the main arguments we are hearing from officials here on the ground is what will these asylum seekers be able to do once they get here in terms of employment perhaps. obviously, new york city is much easier to get around. for some areas where perhaps mass transportation isn't as available as it is back in new

york city those are some of the real concerns that officials have about relocating the number of people because we've talked, phil, about that work authorization issue, well over 60,000 asylum seekers that have been processed by the city in just the last year, the concern is that they don't have those work opportunities. barely have them in new york city. when you bring them out here, that challenges so much greater. guys. >> no question. paolo sandoval. thanks so much. now, investigators are trying to determine what prompted a gunman to open fire on shoppers inside an outlet mall in allen, texas, on saturday. it was an attack that took the lives of these eight people and wounded several others. here's what we know so far. according to a database maintained bit the texas department of public safety the shooter had worked for at least three security companies and had received hours of firearms efficiency training in recent years. a law enforcement source tells cnn he owned multiple weapons purchased legally, including an

ar-15 style rifle use ntd attack. >> we learned that the gunman served in the military but an army spokesperson says he was terminated after three months due to physical or mental health conditions and fishes are looking into whether right-wing extremism played into his motive an app an social media post. saturday's attack more than one of 200 this year much we have had more mass shootings in 2023 than we have had days in the year. let's bring in joshua barnwell, a survive of saturday's shooting, a navy veteran who jumped into action and became a hero after the gunfire erupted. good morning, joshua. >> good morning. >> you know, you have seen a lot in your life, but i wonder if you have seen anything like this. >> no. i mean, two -- in the setting -- in the circumstances, no.

no. i mean, yeah. no. >> are you doing okay? >> normally, i'm -- yeah, normally i'm better at communicating that, but as far as being able to relate on a direct level to what occurred on saturday, uh, no. it's just a completely different circumstance with, you know, completely different scenario. >> please don't apologize. you lived through, witnessed and tried to help save people in an imaginable crisis. so please don't apologize. but if you could just tell us what you did because i understand that you had to tell a mother that her child had been murdered. >> yeah, unfortunately. when i finally came upon the

area there in front of h&m where a good deal of the carnage occurred, i had already had one female that was deceased and when i started to observe the area there was a young child whose condition at that point was unknown and i had a female and another younger female draped upon her, two adult males that were both wounded, and others, including another female that was underneath what i later found out was her husband, who was already deceased. but when i approached to -- the one female victim that was on the ground, you know, her request was for me to work on her, her daughter.

so i began to attempt what i could on her daughter with the cpr, the chest compressions, and the mouth-to-mouth, but on my second run of the chest compressions is when i noticed just the massive amount of blood loss that was coming out from behind her against the pavement and i realized at that point that she was deceased and there was nothing that i could do. i turned around to again try to focus on the mother and she kept asking me, repeatedly, was her daughter okay, was her daughter dead. eventually, i realized i couldn't put it off. she was going to continue and i needed her to focus elsewhere. and so i then had to tell her that her daughter had passed. and but that her other daughter was still there with us and her husband was there and that's

where i wanted her to focus. i wanted her to keep they are strength to survive and stay with me for her husband and her daughter that were still there. >> how do you even tell a mother that her child is dead? >> unfortunately, it's one of these things that we -- you have to do. you have to center yourself and realize that, you know, there are no good options in this scenario at all. so you have to try to find the best justification for somebody to hold on. the best reason for them to continue despite the unbelievable pain of loss and, of course, pain that you are experiencing from your wounds. >> i was watching another interview that you gave the day after the mass shooting and you said that you wanted people to know the depths of the depravity

and that's why it's been so important to you -- >> exactly. >> to explain this in excruciating detail. why do you think it's so important for people to understand as ofst viscerally as you can what you witnessed? >> without feeling that emotion, that pain or whatever emotion that may and i hope occurs in people, there is no way that you are going to even begin to come close to understanding -- i mean, nobody that was not there and witnessed that will never be able to completely get to that depth. but if they can grasp one minute portion of that, then perhaps more people will start to look to find ways where we need to exist in a better way and we need to communicate with each other because we are all human beings and so i'm just hoping that they will be understanding

and emotion to make it more poignant to the public that we're not there and perhaps those who may try to avoid these subjects because they are painful, but that pain needs to be there. if we don't feel that pain, we become desensitized and that's a terrible, terrible place for anybody, any human being to be. >> you are exactly right. joshua, thank you so much for this. but really, for what you did that day for hours on end. you are an american hero. thank you. >> thank you. >> wow. later today, president biden is hosting congressional leaders at the white house as a potential default looms. this after 43 republican senators banded together making clear they will not raise the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts. senator rick scott is one of

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they will also discuss a separate process for budget and appropriations. that's regular order. that is the way that we are supposed to be doing this, having a negotiation on budget, not connecting it to the debt. >> i wouldn't call it a debt ceiling negotiation. i would call it a conversation between the four leaders and the president. >> white house officials say president biden is determined to hold the line on raising the debt limit with no conditions later today. but time is quickly running out before the government has its first default in history. the economy inching closer to

that disaster. over the weekend 43 senate republicans signed a letter saying they would not left the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts. one of those senators is florida republican rick scott and he joins us now. senator, the semantic debate over negotiations and what constitutes what doesn't really matter. what does matter, though, i think is the specifics of your letter, which i want to be very clear was a really big moment in this process that we're playing out making very clear to the white house and democrats that there is no kind of back doorway through the senate to try to make a deal. but i am interested. you say you will not vote to raise the debt ceiling without any substantive spending and budget reforms. how do you define that? that's pretty important in terms of getting republican support. >> sure. well, first off, americans are very concerned about inflation and they are very concerned about their retirement. both of those things are caused by massive government debt and

massive government spending, a government that cannot live within its means. every family has to live within their means. our government has decided they don't have to live within their means. i want to have a path, it's not going to happen i know in a day, but a path to fiscal sanity, which means a path to a balanced budget. i did it as governor of florida. i want to get rid of wasteful spending. americans are sick and tired of watching their government waste money. and i like what the house did. they have a provision that i believe in, is that able-bodied americans are to get back to work. we have got to build our economy again, get our -- you know, everybody back to work and have fiscal sanity. that's what i believe in. and i think that's exactly what we come together with. republicans and democrats we, ought to be saying the same thing. we want to -- we want to responsibly raise the diehl, we want people working, stop waste and have a path to fiscal

sanity. i think it's basic. >> i think the question is as you make clear what you are proposing couldn't get in one day. we have three and a half weeks before the dead lin the treasur department is eying right now. i understand your personal positions on that. they won't get the votes. so what's the answer here? where from where you are -- is there anything you could support short of the house bill or short of the pretty dramatic fiscal priorities you are laying out? >> well, i think what the house put out is very logical, all right? it was well thought out. it makes sense. i think first off why doesn't chuck schumer bring it to the floor and let us vote on it and have unlimited amendments and see if we can dock up with something better? why doesn't joe biden come out with what he would do. he has known for months, has no proposal. so, you know, look, there is a lot of things we can do.

there might be other, better ideas. i think we have got to understand, we have a fiscal problem in this country. it's causing inflation. it's hurting our families. people worried about their retirements. >> why use this moment, this -- defaulting could bring instead of doing that through a budget and spending process? >> well, as you know, congress doesn't pass budgets. it's a nice thought. >> the appropriations -- >> we don't even have budget conversations. we don't even -- we don't do it. i mean that's -- it's a joke to think about a budget in congress right now. they don't do it. by the way, we've got $31.5 trillion of the death. the interest expense is skyrocketing. where to we stop? where do we say that this really responsible thing is to balance our budget? when you think about a person

and they run their credit card up to the max, that's not a responsible person. your government is not acting responsibly when it can't live within its means. how do we live within our means and provide the services we care about. >> to be fair, this is just paying off the credit card that's already -- these are expenses that have already been incurred. i think that's the rub between having the debate now versus on spending process. i have one more question and i want to move on to a couple other things. speaker kevin mccarthy, mcconnell made clear this is a house republican and white house negotiation that needs to have. are you krft that speaker mccarthy can strike a deal to get this across the finish line in. >>? >> i have conversa. everybody is relevant in this. it's got to pass the house. it's got to pass the senate. joe biden has to sign at the

table. last week we had a press conference with, i think, 22 republicans saying we believe in what kevin mccarthy is trying to do. brings fiscal sanity, gets people back to work, stops reckless spending. that makes sense to us. americans are scared of inflation and worried about their retirement. we have got to show up. republicans and democrats, do something that's responsible here. >> i want to switch topics briefly. we have seen the tragedy from the shootings, mass shootings repeatedly the last couple of weeks but we have the sheriff on earlier today who made clear that you were such a leader in the wake of the marmarjory ston shooting in terms of the gun -- that you put in place. one was raising the age for the purchases of long guns and rifles from 18 to 21. texas surprisingly started moving in that direction. why don't you think that works at the federal level?

>> well, first off, i believe in the second amendment. i believe we should not be restricting access to guns for law-abiding americans. i think what we have to do is look at everything we do like what we did after the parkland shooting, i brought mental health counselors together, educators together, law enforcement together and said what can we do? one thing was we put law enforcement in all of our public schools. i have a bill that i hope everybody, republicans and democrats support nationally and it's called the school guardian act. it would basically say we are going to put a trained law enforcement officer in every school, public and private, in the country. we have the funding at the federal level. we don't need the 87,000 more irs agents. i think every mom and dad with would say i would rather have a law enforcement officer as a deterrent in my school rather than another irs agent. we have the riri sources. i hope everybody comes onboard and we can get that -- >> quickly we, don't have much time left, on the question of the age, it was a sweeping

proposal, raise the age from 18 to 21, florida republican majorities are moving to undo that at this point in time. governor desantis calling it unconstitutional. do you feel like that can be done at a federal level? do you feel like the florida republicans are doing the wrong thing working to undo it now, your work from 2018? >> so i support what we did and it's kept our schools safe. knock on wood. hope that continues. every state can make that decision for what fits in their state. right now what i'm trying to do, i know something that really worked in our state, i want to get that done nationally and get a law enforcement in every school in the country. >> republican senator rick scott of florida, thank you for your time, sir. >> nice seeing you. bye-bye. >> important conversation, phil. thank you. this thursday the covid-19 emergency in this country in the u.s. officially ends. dr. sanjay gupta has a fascinating essay on it and he is here to explain what does

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the tests, the vaccines from the very beginning when cnn first started calling this a pandemic. >> there are criteria that are somewhat defying to call something a pandemic. let me say that this terminology that we are going to start using now isn't so much to cause panic but rather to really cause a focus on preparedness. >> dr. googlgupta has guided us it all. good morning. i'm calling you dr. gupta this morning. that's what you have been for us. you made us feel -- you helped us understand something so scary for so many people. this morning your essay is so great because you are talking about our country as your patient again. so where are we? >> i think for some people this is going to seem very arbitrary and accelerated that the emergency part of this pandemic is coming to an end. for other people, they will say, hey look, months ago, maybe a

year ago i was sort of through this. so it's pretty divided in terms of how people think about this. as you mentioned, the w.h.o. already ended their public health emergency of international concern. the cdc director in this country is stepping down june 30th. and thursday the united states is going to end the emergency as well. the way that it's worked is that there has been emergencies that lasted 90 days and they have been sort of renewed 13 times. so that last renewal ended may 11. at that point it's expected not to be renewed again. that's where we are. i will tell you, as you mentioned, poppy, you know, i sort of thought metaphorically of the country as my patient. i felt like it was the best way to think about this. i really meant it. if you look at how the patient is doing now and sort of look at the patient chart, if you will, the last three years and a few months, i can show you sort of where cases are now. in the beginning, when the pandemic was declared, it was --

there were just a few cases. now you can see the cases have trickled down. you saw some big surges in the middle there. that's when the patient was unstable, ended up in the icu, needed all sorts of care. 77,000 cases still a week, to give you some idea. hospitalizations, again, you're looking at the last three years and few months of this pandemic and what has happened. the numbers are trending in the right direction, about 1,200 people in the hospital right now, and then, finally, deaths. again, when we declared this a pandemic there hadn't been any deaths in the united states yet. but the trend line was very concerning. you could see that almost straight up line in the beginning and then the various surges and now there is about 1,100 people who are dying every week still from covid. so you get an idea there. by the way, if you do the math on this, 1,100 people a week, that's about 54, 55,000 a year that would die if those numbers stay the same, which is

basically a really bad flu season. we could do better, but that's where we are right now and ththat seems what the country is willing to tolerate. >> sanjay, i am going to call you because you became a part of our family and everybody else's family, we relied on you the last three years. what kind of changes should we except on a personal level with the end of the emergency? there are tangible repercussions here? >> yeah, there are a lot of people who are watching right now and are worried. i have people in my own family because of their pre-existing conditions, their age, they are worried. the tangible things, phil, free testing and free therapeutics, treatments, will no longer be free. you may be able to get those through your insurance companies. the maps that we have been showing where community spread, where the virus is spreading in communities at any given time, those weather maps, won't be easy to access anymore because that data won't be shared. vaccines will still be available

and they will still be free. yet you have to figure out how to get those. going back to saying so much of the country moved on, when you look at the up-to-date percentage of people of vaccines, you are under 20% of the country is up to date on their vaccines. by the way, with flu, it's around half the country every year that actually will get a flu shot. so they are not very -- there is not a lot of will to get the vaccines but they will still be available. >> of course, the question is should people still wear masks? what things can they do to protect themselves? i think should is not the right word. i still see people wearing masks and i respect that and it's their decision. what are things that people should change on thursday, or not? >> first of all, with regard to masks, there are people who are still vulnerable. if you are going to wear a mask, wear a well fitting high quality mask. those work. a couple things quick lilt. i think there are a couple of

lessons here. the united states got hit particularly hard by this pandemic. there is all sorts of reasons for that. one of the big ones is we were not very healthy going into this pandemic. we knew that age was a big risk factor, but also pre-existing conditions. and you can look loot at some of these pre-existing conditions, you know, things, obesity puts you at much higher risk, underlying kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, those types of things increased the risk significantly. wealth does not buy health. got to keep that in mind. we need to get healthy as a nat nation. a quick inspirational note is that if you have immunity against this virus, if you have access to antivirals like paxlovid, there is no reason anyone should die of this disease any more. we have the technology to

prevent that from happening. >> to be able to say that, it took three careers, but to be able to say that is really important. sanjay, thank you for all of it. >> you got it. thank you. >> from all of us. you should read sanjay's essay. it's on cnn.com. >> it's a great piece. coming up, cnn's david culver joins us from mexico. >> that's right, phil. with thousands, tens of thousands of migrants trying to go that direction, towards the u.s. you can see hundreds camped out right now. that's only a small portion. number that we're seeing in this border town. coming up, i want to show you the journey that a lot of these folks went through. it shows you the desperation and determination to get to the u.s. and it gives us a clue as to what we can see in a few days as title 42 is expected to come down.

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title 42 expires thursday. the policy allows the u.s. to expel migrants without giving them an asylum hearing. the source says that the feds estimate hundreds of thousands more migrants are making their way to the border from further south. now, cnn's david crulver is liv on ciudad juarez. you talked to the migrants who made this a dangerous trek north. what are you learning? >> reporter: incredibly dangerous for many of them. there is a build-up. this is one portion. let us push in a little bit. you can see that's actually the u.s. side of the border. tech clirks on u.s. soil in texas, but not quite on the other side of the border wall. so they are waiting to be processed here. several hundred have been camped out, some hours, some days, some weeks. little by little they start that processing. just to get to that side of the river, which is not that far in

of itself, a treacherous trek. >> at the u.s. southern border the struggle is constant. illegal crossings like this one really tough to watch. having already clogged through the barbed wire, this young woman frustrated, exhausted, trying to help the other, trapped in a web of sharp metal at the texas border. from above you might think they are the only two crossing this day, but the clothes dangling on the miles and miles of fencing say otherwise. for many migrants fleeing countries like venezuela, nicaragua, cuba and others, ciudad juarez necks is the final stop before claiming asylum in the u.s. can they wait in places like this? you see the sidewalk full of an encampment, tents. we have seen thousands flooding the streets. this # 2-year-old, her husband

and 4-year-old little girl camped out for three months already. >> translator: she says they are going to cross. she doesn't want to do it illegally. she wants to do it the right way. >> you don't know when? >> reporter: in recent weeks, the u.s. government rolled out an updated app allowing migrants north of mexico city to register digitally for a limit of number of interview spots with asylum officers. no one we've talked to has been able to secure an appointment yet. not sure she'll ever get one. she lost her phone in a fire a few weeks back, but she and others tell me they have come too far to turn around. her young daughter carries the marks to prove it. >> she says she has some burns still on her face from the sun from being on top of the train. >> reporter: the journey to juarez from southern mexico is

hundreds of miles. so many ride the rails north on top of freight trains. we caught up with one just as it was arriving in juarez. migrants ride on top here. many of them made the journey on this train alone for more than eight hours. >> he said there were 12 hours on the train. he said it was so cold, everything felt like ice. his whole family here, he says they are going to stay a night, get cleaned up and prepare to cross into the u.s. >> reporter: but leonardo's mom is terrified to climb down. her loved ones at first encouraging, then telling her, let's go. part of the train journey north for some is on what's called the beast, or the train of death.

a ride dangerous and deadly and often controlled by cartels. hours makes this treacherous trek is scarring, but imagine case days onboard. >> she says that they were four days on this train. she says horrible. really cold. says four kids, his wife, four and a half days on the train. he says it's for the american dream and they are going to try to cross today. >> reporter: another 25 miles under the hot sun to the border from here. precious cargo carried on shoulders and in hand. most end up where we started, at the barbed wire. the added barrier rolled out in recent months bit texas national guard.

it does not stop the crossings. it does slow them a bit. the young woman uses her jacket to create a gap while the other tosses through it bottles of water and a backpack. their only belongings. a quick hug and they hurry along, likely to turn themselves into u.s. officials. more will follow. so it's been heartbreaking, quite frankly, to watch this play out, and to see on the other side you have folks who are on the barbed wire outside of the fencing yelling to us, asking for food, asking for water. it is a rather desperate humanitarian crisis that you see even just in this one portion, and that's replicated along miles and miles of the border here. we should also note, though, it's overwhelming for the u.s. officials trying to process them. we see them at all hours coming to this portion of the wall and to begin that processing of the asylum seekers. it's to the highest ranks, as we know, expecting later today a

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i have so many questions. what's the number? >> this morning's number is 31. why? school districts with four-day weeks it's up 31% from 2019 to now 850 nationwide. the vast majority are still going to school five days a week but we're seeing an increasing number that are going to school four days a week. why? why a four-day school week? it's cheaper, it's easier to retain teachers as you were hinting at, poppy, especially in rural areas. rural area parents actually like it. but here is what's going on now. you know, it was a rural phenomenon, now it's starting to spread into some suburban areas. so four-day school weeks in 2023-2024 moving to suburban areas in houston, kansas city and phoenix. so it was rural, now it's starting to spread its wings a little bit. >> here is my question, i a assume rural parents like it or some not to generalize everybody but kids work at home, work on farms, work with their industry. that's not the case in houston or kansas city or phoenix. how as a parent -- i mean, my

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got into football his answer, quote, a lawnsman. that's what i do. mowing a lawn is one of the great feelings i have in life. he says it helps me clear his mind and think of new plays, feel good about what he accomplishes, neither makes money or saves money. then harbaugh going deep and nostalgic with this reflection, it makes me sad sometimes when i drive around ann arbor and it used to be kids mowing the lawns, i was out that kid out mowing lawns earning money, now it's a truck and crew at every house. if you weren't a super important celebrity tv anchor news woman, what would you be doing? >> i'm going to answer that question but i do know someone who loves mowing lawns and he is sitting to my left. >> i don't want to be like jim harbaugh, but i agree, it's fulfilling. >> you do. >> stop it. >> what would i be? my husband and i played this game at a lunch this weekend, julia child. i love to cook, she lived in paris and she had a great marriage. all important things in life. >> can i come back tomorrow? >>