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for the world. much more on that on cnn "news central" ahead. we will see you tomorrow. an unexpected slowdown at the border, but will it last? dhs says it's too early to know. that's not stopping immigration politics, though, from heating up once again. hours ago a new bus of migrants arrived at the vice president's residence. four russian aircraft down inside russian territory. what this tells us about what the ukrainians can do now and in a much discussed spring offensive. the travel forecast is in, more than 42 million americans will be on the move this memorial day. are the roads and airlines ready? these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn "news central."

so this morning there's a surprising quiet at the southern border as federal officials report a dramatic drop in border crossings, which is the opposite of what so many had predicted would happen after title 42 ended. they warned it would be chaotic for a while, remember? well, instead this was the scene in el paso over the weekend, no lines, no crowds, no chaos. just before the policy lifted border encounters were topping 10,000 each day, that is now down to just over 4,000. still, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. border facilities and shelters are already struggling to keep up with the record number of people coming through. in the midst of this the political posturing continues, of course. last night texas governor greg abbott sent another bus of migrants to be dropped off outside of the vice president's residence in washington, d.c. cnn's polo sandoval is live in

el paso, cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house. arlette, what are you hearing from the administration right now as everyone is trying to figure out what really is going on at the border now? >> reporter: well, kate, president biden said that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he himself had warned that things could be chaotic down there for quite some time. this comes after president homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas noted that there has about a drop in the number of border encounters since the lifting of title 42. if you take a look at the numbers from saturday there are 4,200 border encounters, friday that figure was at 6,300 compared to just before title 42 lifted when they were seeing about daily encounters around 10,000. but ultimately the administration is crediting their plans and the messaging that they've sent to migrants as part of the reason that they've seen these lower border encounter numbers. take a listen to what secretary mayorkas had to say yesterday.

>> we have communicated very clearly a vitally important message to the individuals who are thinking of arriving at our southern border. there is a lawful, safe and orderly way to arrive in the united states that is through the pathways that president biden has expanded in an unprecedented way and then there is a consequence if one does not use those lawful pathways. >> reporter: now, the administration has faced political criticism from democrats and republicans who have said that they've been insufficiently prepared for the lifting of title 42. the white house and administration has pushed back on that is correct saying they have put these plans and protocols into place. the white house and administration is also facing legal challenges since the lifting of title 42. chief among those is a federal judge down in texas which blocked their plan to release migrants from cbp facilities without set court dates.

that is something that is currently on pause, the justice department is planning to appeal that. that is one of the tools that they would be using to try to ease overcrowding and capacity concerns at these facilities. so that is just one of the many legal challenges that is playing out as the white house and administration is grappling with the lifting of title 42. for now they are breathing a sigh of relief as those border encounters have gone down. >> good to see. thank you for that perspective from the white house. let's go to the border where polo sandoval who is in el paso for us this morning. polo, what's the reality there today? >> reporter: so, kate, much of the migrant presence at least here in the border city of el paso has to do with those who surrendered to federal authorities in the days leading up to the expiration of title 42. they are many of the folks who are currently filling the shelters that are at capacity and in many cases as you will see behind me are basically spilling on to the streets of el paso. i can't show you these pictures without extremely important context. the number of people that we saw

sleep just outside of a shelter under these white red cross blankets it is dramatically lower when you compare it to the number of people that are colleagues ed lavandera and rosa flores witnessed a week ago when we did see the record number of apprehensions nearing 10,000 a day along the border. those numbers have significantly decreased. i show you these pictures because it goes to the other side of this story which is the shelters, certainly the dhs processing facilities, they are either at or near capacity. i spoke to one shelter official this morning says they still have to turn away some of the families that show up at their doorstep, however, this 50% decrease that the dhs secretary spoke about over the weekend it certainly is going to offer an opportunity for dhs officials and city authorities alike an opportunity to sort of get their head back above water, to try to keep up with the demand to process individuals and then for the ngos, for the nonprofits to be able to provide those services for these asylum

seekers while in border cities temporarily. i spoke to some of these individuals a little while ago, kate, one of them in particular he's getting ready to get on a bus and head over to denver in the next day or two. in the meantime he's waiting on the sidewalk because a friend of his is still in detention, hasn't been processed and released yesterday. so that's why we're still seeing people, a limited number of people on the streets, but many, many more inside of shelters. these are folks that are caught in a sort of limbo. they've been processed by federal authorities, they want to make it to washington, to philadelphia, to denver, certainly new york, but they don't know when that's going to happen. >> polo, great to have you there. have the perspective on the ground. we will speak to the mayor of denver later about what that means there. really appreciate it. john? happening now ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is meeting with leaders across europe hoping to bolster support ahead of this highly anticipated spring offensive. zelenskyy met with the british prime minister rishi sunak this morning following meetings with

the leaders of germany, france and italy. this follows a remarkable 24 hours that might have seen the downing of four russian aircraft in one single day. now, it happened inside russia, in russian territory, right here in the brie ons k region. this is ukraine, this is russia. the details are murky, but one russian media outlet said that there were four different aircraft involved, this is what we're looking at here, two russian jets, the su-34 and the su-35 and two russian military helicopters, the mi-8. with us now is cnn military analyst, retired army general james spider marks. general, thanks so much for being with us. we have video that might show one of these helicopters being shot down, it really is remarkable imagery. if, in fact, spider, four aircraft in one day in one region what would that tell you? how significant? >> well, it's very significant,

john. again, thank you for having me today. what that tells you is the ukrainian forces clearly have a very robust now increasingly sophisticated air defense capability, ground launch capability to go after and across the russian border. so to go after russian targets and across into russian air space. that's very significant. if the ukrainians want to be able to achieve this level of operational success on the ground, again, bear in mind what we've seen to date is incredible creative tactical successes by the ukrainians. if you want to increase that, tie those tactical successes together, force the russian's hand, force them back, you have to strike deep into russia, you have to go after military targets, not civilian targets, not villages, go after those areas that are now currently in sanctuary and put those military russian forces under the fire of ukrainian forces. this is a great example. >> i just want people to get one

more look at this in case they haven't seen t again, this is video that purports to show one of these helicopters apparently being struck inside brionsk. you were talking about these strikes happening inside russian territory. we have a map here of some of the sites where there have apparently been strikes on russian holdings. now, spider, there was also a report this weekend from the "washington post" that intelligence from months ago was suggesting that ukrainian president zelenskyy he wanted to target even deeper inside russia, even maybe take some russian territory on the ground. how is this -- these strikes, how is this different from what the "washington post" said zelenskyy might have been asking for months ago? >> so let's see if we can square these two. if as you've described on the map those strikes are going after military targets, fair game, makes perfect sense, keeps the russian forces off balance, which is exactly what you want to do. if, in fact, any of these

strikes are going after civilian targets or there could be some collateral damage or there could be the pushing of ukrainian forces on the ground into russia, that's -- that's a form of escalation that's not essential at this point. what zelenskyy and his forces need to be able to do as described is to decrease the number of russian forces that can assemble, refit and be pushed across the border into ukraine. if you can do that and disrupt that you've taken the initiative out of the hands of russian forces. >> so, again, we continue to hear about this fighting that's been going on for 11 months now in the eastern city of bakhmut and the ukrainians are claiming some success at taking back small amounts, small amounts of territory. spider, is this the spring offensive or when will we see the spring offensive in president zelenskyy says it's coming soon. >> yeah, i think what we're seeing right now, this is the

beginning stage of a larger offensive. we must hope. we have to assume. and that the key thing in my mind is let's stop talking if we are the ukrainians, let's stop talking about the spring offensive, let's get about the business of the spring offensive. and it's not a shot from the canon, it's not like a bunch of forces are suddenly going to surge and have these great sweeping motions in the vicinity of bakhmut or elsewhere. what you're seeing right now are the initial phases. that's where you strip the enemy's ability to see you, you strip his eyes away, you then conduct your own reconnaissance, you feel your way to where the advantage can be and then you load up with fires, amass your forces and begin a penetration. that's how it has to take place. so that is not an immediate kind of a launch. that is a very gradual, a very aggressive and a smart use of intelligence to achieve that type of success. >> retired general james spider marks, always a pleasure to see

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rule it out. perry unsuccessfully sought the republican nomination in 2012 and 2016. sara? this morning the families of three of the black victims targeted and killed in the mass shooting at a buffalo, new york, grocery store last may are suing several social media companies. it is the first of its kind wrongful death lawsuit. the suit alleges platforms like meta, snapchat, discord and youtube helped radicalize the teenage gunman who shot and killed ten people that day, all of them black. it says the social media sites promoted racist, anti-semitic and white supremacist propaganda. here is omar jimenez joining us now. can you give us a sense of the arguments the attorneys for the families stated into think alleged the social media companies contributed to the radicalization of the shooter that shot and killed ten in buffalo a year ago today.

saying the shooter wasn't raised by a racist family, as far as we know did not have any previous interactions with black people but it said the sloot shooter acknowledged the material caused his radicalization, provided the training, equipment and expertise to plan and implement the massacre of may 14th, 2022. but it's not just that, it's also about how this live stream because that's what this shooter did in the initial stages of it, about how it spread from first on twitch to then for chant to reddick to, meta or facebook. the lawsuit alleges the platforms earned ad revenue for posting and amplifying this content. they are trying to hold some of these companies accountable. >> it's really interesting because it's a first of its kind and you can see this sort of happening again if there is another incident and there have been other incidents like this. let me ask you about what the companies, though, are saying. these are a lot of companies

that have huge platforms. >> of course. huge platforms and a lot of content to try to keep track of. in some all of them are basically saying we have in invested in technology to help identify and remove extremist posts particularly when it comes to violence. those are companies like meta, facebook, youtube, you name t but snapchat in particular said we deliberately designed snapchat differently from traditional social media platforms and don't allow unvetted content to go viral or be algorithmically promoted, instead we vet all content before it can reach a large audience which helps prevent the discover of harmful and dangerous content. the algorithm is the may trucks of this lawsuit. was the algorithm that the shooter was trapped in, so to speak, basically pushing him to -- >> feeding him. >> feeding whatever dark thought he had until it became something that was front of mind and of course it's a first of its kind.

>> it's really interesting, omar. thank you. i know you will be following this and we will come back to you as it progresses. appreciate it. next hour we will speak to an attorney representing those families in the case. kate? it was an emotional weekend at the university of idaho, hundreds of students celebrated their graduation and honored the lives of four of their fellow students, kaylee goncalves, ethan chapin, xana kernodle and madison mogen were remembered for their strength and inn sfrags and all were awarded post humorous degrees and certificates. gary tuchman joins us from moscow, idaho. what was it like there this weekend? >> reporter: it was a cascade of emotions, kate. it was a wonderful and appropriate decision by the university of idaho to honor all four of these students, two were seniors, they should have been

on the ground at the football stadium getting their degrees with 1,500 fellow students. they were not. so what was done was those two seniors were awarded posthumous bachelors degrees, they weren't honorary degrees, they were actual degrees they earned. one of the degrees went to the family of maddy mogen, maddy would have been 22 years old a week from thursday, her family tells us when she was a little girl she loved to sing and dance and loved animals, but as the years went on she developed a love for business. she was in the business school here, majoring in marketing, wanted to be an entrepreneur, she graduated cum laude, her mother, mother's husband and father accepted her diploma. >> by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the board of regents of the university of idaho, i hereby confer respond madison mae mogen posthumous degree earned in testimony whereof her family will receive the diploma of the university of idaho.

>> reporter: there were two ceremonies, one in the morning, one in the afternoon depending on what school or college you were in. in the afternoon ceremony a diploma was given to the family of 21-year-old kaylee goncalves, she got a bachelor's degree in general studies. the two underclassman who were killed, xana kernodle and ethan chapin received certificates which recognized the credits on the path to their bachelor's degree, xana's was marketing, ethan was sports and management. there was another one given, guadalupe ruiz was killed in a car accident, she received a bachelor's degree in criminology. we spent time with the mogen family, her parents and grandparents, it was really hard for them to be at the ceremony this weekend, seeing the students on the football field and not their girl, but i can tell you that they were very

appreciative for what the university did and they were so very proud. kate? >> i can only imagine kind of the range of emotion that these families and all of the students and all of the staff at the university of idaho are feeling on a weekend like this. it's good to see you, gary. thank you. john? former president trump canceled an appearance in iowa this weekend but former govern ron desantis was there with a warning to his fellow republicans. and we have important new information before you hit the road for memorial day weekend, the type of forecast we have not seen in years. goodnight! and bethany... [guhhnnaaaghh] identical twins. both struggle with cpap for their sleep apnea. but stephanie got inspire. an implanted device that works inside the body to help her sleep. unlike her sister. there's more than one way to treat your sleep apnea. if you struggle with cpap, look into getting inspire. inspire. sleep apnea innovation.

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new this morning, aaa has released travel predictions for memorial day weekend. it expects 42.3 million americans to travel 50 miles or more from home. u.s. airports are likely to be busier than they were in 2019. that was of course before the pandemic. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is counting the cars at this moment at an overpass in washington, d.c. pete, there are a lot of people who are going to travel and i suppose that's good news. >> reporter: it's very good news, john. you know, memorial day only two weeks from today, but the real rush begins on thursday on the roads according to aaa. only ten days out. make your plans now if you've not already. the big thing here aaa says is that this is really foreshadowing a huge summer for travel, especially on the roads.

the vast majority of people will drive 50 miles or more, 37 million of that 42 million people expected to travel during the aaa holiday travel period over memorial day. the good news is that gas price right side down pretty significantly compared to where we were back just this time last year. $3.54 is the average price for a gallon of regular, compared to a year ago when it was $4.47. we've gone down nearly a dollar a gallon. the worst times to travel, and this is the thing you should really listen to, 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. on friday before memorial day, then coming home, 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. on monday, memorial day itself. the real thing here, and you can really tweak your schedule, if you have the ability to work from home aaa says if you come home on tuesday that might be better, even stretch your trip into wednesday, that might be even better because that is when

the traffic really subsides on 395, 95, you know the hot spots on the east coast. it's going to be really bad aaa says in some cases the traffic could be double than what you normally see. so a two-hour commute would be a four-hour commute over the memorial day long weekend. the real thing that is driving the big rise in travel here and the numbers, air travel up 11%. aaa forecasts compared to 2019. so that is a huge difference. we may see numbers, new records set in the pandemic era, maybe numbers even higher than what we saw before the pandemic when travel was huge. a lot of things driving that right now, john. really international travel is a big growth period that we will see in the summer travel, holiday travel period. so so many people are waiting to get out and they are really undaunted as the pandemic subsides, john. >> memorial day weekend i'm not coming back until wednesday and

my note to the bosses is going to be because pete muntean told me. >> reporter: take note. >> pete, thank you. great to see you. that was a lot of information there. sara? former president donald trump taking shots at ron desantis saying the florida governor has no personality or political skills. the attacks are beginning. trump's comments come from a new interview with the messenger days after severe weather forced him to call off a rally in iowa. and while it rained on trump's parade, desantis was able to capitalize on that moment, reportedly organizing a last-minute event close to where trump was set to take place. so errol louis is joining us, a political anchor for spectrum news and a cnn political commentator. all right. a few things seemed to go well for desantis in iowa this weekend, mostly that trump wasn't there because of bad weather. did you see a man, though, that could successfully challenge donald trump? >> well, yes. this looked like somebody who was going to take advantage of the political opening that he got, which you have to remember

is a very important skill. you know, if you get a lucky break you have to take advantage of that and ron desantis did, rearrange his schedule, he got to meet with a lot of statewide republican leaders in the very conservative northwest portion of the state. so he was sinking his roots where they most need to be exploited. you have to keep in mind, sara, in 2016 donald trump lost iowa in the republican caucuses, it was ted cruz who came in first and trump, in fact, was tied with marco rubio. so these are voters, as we say, every four years that are very used to being catered to and so ron desantis, i think, is doing some of what they expect there and he may see political benefits from it. >> it was interesting because desantis made a veiled attack on donald trump but it wasn't for forceful, it wasn't all that direct. in the meantime donald trump has come after him with both ads and guns blazing doing those personal attacks that he is known for. so why is desantis being so

careful at this point? >> you have to be careful. donald trump is the unquestioned leader of the republican party, he is extremely popular, he likes to take any advantage to what he calls counterpunching which is really just going on an attack and as we've already seen he doesn't even wait for the attack, he's going after him anyway. if you want to annoy the republican base, going after donald trump or appearing to disrespect him or turn your back on him is a pretty good way to do that. i think all of the candidates are really treading very, very carefully and ron desantis has to try to figure out if trumpism can exist without donald trump, if he can sort of take the base away from the person who crafted that base. it's a very tricky, very difficult political assignment. >> it sounds like what you're saying is that the ignoring of donald trump is the way he's going now, but that may have to change, especially if there is a debate. >> that's right. that's right. and also we've seen this -- again, we've seen this movie before. donald trump will amp up the personal nature of the attacks, the cutting nature of the

attacks. he will start attacking family members of his opponents. we've seen him do this before. to the point where you have to respond. when someone calls your wife ugly or something like that or says your father was involved in the jfk assassination, something so outrageous that you have to on the national stage respond, ron desantis is going to, you know, sort of duck and dodge, but the moment of truth is going to arrive if he does declare for president. >> what does it tell you, though, that donald trump is already attacking him? there are ads, i've seen them, attacking desantis from one of trump's super pacs, those are happening now but he hasn't even declared. what does that tell you about how donald trump feels about desantis. >> we interview a lot of people, we look at the polls. one of your best indicators of who is closing in on donald trump is who he attacks. he hasn't said a word about some of the other candidates, he is no the going after asa hutchinson, he is not talking very much about mike pence unless asked in an interview and that's because he doesn't think of them as his immediate

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a ceasefire appears to be holding in the entrenched battle between israel and palestinian islamic jihad after five days of israeli air strikes on gaza and four days of rocket fire at israel. cnn's ben wedeman and his team got a firsthand look at the damage left behind in gaza where dozes are now homeless. 35 were killed in the fighting, one but one killed was palestinian. a court in eastern china hassan tensed a 78-year-old u.s. citizen to life in prison on spying charges. he also was a hong kong permanent resident, he was detained in april 2021. authorities have not provided details on the charges or the court process that led to his conviction. and new video out of sudan shows thick plumes of smoke

rising from a hospital in the capital khartoum. it is not clear how many people have been hurt or possibly killed. the paramilitary rapid support forces are accusing their rival the sudanese army saying they hit the building with air strikes causing significant damage. the two military factions have been fighting for control of the country for a month now, so far the army has not yet responded to the accusations. kate? turkey's hotly contested presidential election is headed to a runoff. nearly all of the ballots have been counted and no candidate has reached the 50% threshold required to win outright. state run news reports that president erdogan leads the group with just over 49.4% of the vote, while kemal kilicdaroglu has just under 45%. cnn's gentjomana karachi is trag ought of this here. it is being very closely watched

by the united states and other nato allies. >> reporter: of course it is, kate, being watched by the whole world really. i mean, this is a country, is a nato ally that has been very important for so many countries, including the united states, many have seen president erdogan as this unpredictable ally but everyone in the lead up to this election has been quiet, not really commenting publicly on how they wanted to see this election play out, but of course as you mentioned, this is soo important. this is so consequential for this country. people here telling us that this election is not just about the next five years, kate, this is about the future direction of their country and right now, as you mentioned, we have heard from the country's supreme electoral board saying that they are headed towards a runoff because neither of the candidates have achieved that 50 plus one required to one the presidency. you have president erdogan, he

is currently in the lead but he doesn't have that 50% so they will be headed towards that second round of voting on the 28th of may. what we have had here, kate, is you have two different visions for the country that were presented to turkish voters and they have to decide which one that they were going for. you had supporters of president erdogan who say that they wanted to continue on this path that he has put his country on, they list his achievements over the past few years of making this, they say, a great power on the global stage and they wanted to continue on that path. you've got the other side, the opposition, really this moment that we haven't seen before here where you have these diverse, different opposition parties that have come together for the first time and they are this united coalition presenting one candidate with the promise of change. and they were hoping that they would be able to unseat

president erdogan, and right now the opposition and the president all saying they are ready to head to this runoff. the opposition still trying to keep this very optimistic outlook saying that they are still hopeful, they still believe that they could -- that they can still win, but i can tell you there's a lot of disappointment with that promise of change, the promise of turning this country back to a democracy which many people voted for, that so far doesn't have i peer to have the lead in this case. >> good to see you. thank you so much. john, headed to a runoff. talk being an election that has a huge impact all around the world. potentially important news just in on the debt ceiling. president biden is expected to meet with congressional leaders tomorrow on this issue as the june 1st deadline to avoid a potential debt default is looming. so the president tried to project optimism that a deal was within reach, but just moments ago we heard from republican house speaker kevin mccarthy.

cnn's lauren fox is with us now on capitol hill. lauren, what did the speaker have to say as optimistic as the president? >> reporter: yeah, definitely not. this morning our colleagues haley talbot and manu raju caught up with house speaker kevin mccarthy as he was headed to his office and he did not project the kind of optimism that you heard from the president and his team over the weekend. instead, this is what mccarthy said about the state of the negotiations. >> i still think we're far apart. doesn't seem to be what they wanted, just seems like they want to look like they are in a meeting but they are not talking anything serious. in the meantime we just watch the cvo come out saying we are $100 billion further in debt. seems more like they want to default than a deal. >> reporter: and you hear him there, he said to him it seems like the white house wants a default, not a deal.

that certainly splits the screen now between the optimism from the white house and what his team is now saying. you know, the meeting tomorrow is another high stakes meeting of the principals and, you know, over the weekend staff said that they were making some slow progress, but it sounds like this meeting tomorrow is going to be even more important to see whether or not they can overcome some of the hurdles that they found themselves in over and over again in those closed door meetings. john, there's a couple things to keep an eye out here. house speaker kevin mccarthy did emphasize once again this morning that he thinks that they need to have a deal in principal or a framework for a deal by this weekend and that is because he believes it's going to take some time to get this through the senate and to get this through the house of representatives. we should also note there is not much time when the senate and house are scheduled to both be here in washington. that's not to say that both chambers can't be called back to make sure that this happens. we are expected to get more

guidance this week from the treasury secretary on when that important x date is, that means when the country will reach it's borrowing limit on the debt ceiling, but obviously a lot of moving parts here and you're hearing just now from the house speaker things are not looking good from his perspective. john? >> lauren, on ton of that if people can see the map right here, on top of that president biden leaves on wednesday or is scheduled to leave on wednesday for international travels. so talk about deadlines. a lot of moving parts here and so much that needs to get done and that tone from speaker mccarthy, that was news, and very different from the white house projecting over the last several days. lauren fox on capitol hill, thank you. sara? ahead on cnn "news central," north carolina's governor vetoes a controversial bill that would ban a works after 12 weeks, but the fight is not over. and the nba's morant is side lined again, the grizzly's guard is accused of flashing a gun on video. how much this latest incident

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memphis grizzlies' star ja morant is in trouble once again. he is in trouble again. you remember in march the nba suspended him for ate games and in a social media event where morant was holding a gun and he was suspended for eight games and now there appears to be another event, and what are you hearing about this, coy wire? >> yes, there is still information gathering, but the grizzlies are deferring to the league. chandler parsons who is teammates with him says that he tweeted that morant should not be allowed the play at all next

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