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these stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. russian setbacks are mounting and ukraisupport. ukrainian officials say they have begun a successful advance to retake parts of the eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut. here you see the utter devastation that's been left behind from the battle there. at the same time, we are learning that four russian behind from the battle there.gle at the same time, we are learning that four russian aircraft were downed in a single day. that happened inside or over russian territory. these key battlefield developments played out as volodymyr zelenskyy was abroad meeting with leaders of germany, france, italy and the uk. round of military support coming in. you've been watching closely for signs of action, toward progress

on the battlefield. what are you seeing and what more is zelenskyy asking for? >> well, jim, first of all, zelenskyy is asking above all for those f-16s. he's now got british endorsement that they should be given. of course the brits don't have them to give. but they have said that they will begin training fighter pilots in the summer, which it already is in the united kingdom with a view to putting those fighter pilots inside nato-supplied f-16s. of course the u.s. has the majority of them and makes them. at the same time, he got long range drones, attack drones, capable of reaching 200 kilometers. that's very important for him and more air defenses. all of them very illustrative in the context of what's just happened across th illustrativen the context of what's just happened across the border in russia, where these four aircraft, two helicopterat

them. either way they have been confirmed by the president of belarus that it's somewhat concerning as to what's going on there. all of this combined with a bit of on, off, it's soon messaging from zelenskyy. he again said that the ukrainians need a bit more time. every time he says it's soon or gets delayed, he's rattling the cage of the russians. he's saying to the russian soldier, to the fighting man on the front line something terrifying is coming and we're not going to tell you what. it's very much part of the psychological operations there and shaping operations that you've reported on in the past is this psychological game, working away steadily at the mind of the russian soldier. of course nothing will prey on his mind more than the recent successes that the ukrainians have said that they have gained and that's confirmed by russia around bakhmut, with significant advances, jim, in a localized counteroffensive. possible that they may try to

exploit that as a wider military attack when this big offensive gets under way, jim. >> exactly. there's always the possibility it doesn't all happen on one day but over the course of days and in different places at different times. sam kiley, keep yourself anld your team safe there. thanks so much. now to the growing divide over the debt ceiling. sunday white house officials expressed some optimism about progress on raising the nation's borrowing limit and avoiding what experts predownplaying tha sides are far apart. congressional leaders are expected at the white house tomorrow just one day before the president loeaves for the indo-pacific region and a couple of weeks before the u.s. could default on its debt. let's begin with phil mattingly. phil, the president sounded pretty upbeat on sunday about progress. what is the white house saying today? >> reporter: definitely divergent public stances between the two sides of this negotiation. but the fact there's a negotiation is far and away the most important part.

most important part of that element is what's happening behind the scenes. when you talk to white house officials, when you talk to congressional aides, they acknowledge the fact that there has been significant work over the course of several hours, including today, several hours trying to hammer out the contours of an agreement. now, they are also clear that an agreement is not necessarily within reach in the near term. what they're trying to do particularly today is on kind of the top issues that they feel like there's the potential to reconcile differences is set up the most important ones, the most important differences within that context for the leaders to address tomorrow here at the white house. that will be a critical meeting because as you noted the calendar is certainly running short at this point. about two and a half weeks before the potential x date as they call it. the treasury secretary janet yellen laid out. it adds the emphasis of the importance on the negotiations happening behind the scenes at the staff level, driving into that meeting here tomorrow. one thing we're keeping an eye

on, we expect another update from treasury secretary janet yellen to lawmakers about what their calculations are for when a default would actually occur at some point early this week, potentially as soon as today. but the reality is this, regardless of what each side is saying publicly, behind the scenes there does seem to be an acknowledgement a deal is an absolute necessity and for good reason. there's never been a default before and it would be an economic catastrophe so clearly an effort to figure a way out of this. but the pathway to actually reaching that agreement is still pretty far off, brianna. >> and the clock is ticking. not many days on that calendar, phil. i do want to get to lauren fox who is on capitol hill for us with the republican side of this showdown divergent stories coming out of these meetings, lauren. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right, brianna. in part, house speaker kevin mccarthy has fire department underestimated at every turn in this negotiation. he said earlier today that he feels like the white house is just not taking this seriously.

here's what he told my colleague, hailey talbot. >> i still think we're far apart. it doesn't seem to be that they want it. it seems like they want to look like they're in a meeting but they're not talking anything serious. in the meantime, we just watched the cbo come out and say we're $100 billion further in debt. >> do you -- >> it's more like they want to default than a deal. >> reporter: and there are a few areas that they're really exploring in terms of what is possible in a potential negotiation. of course they know that there is going to be some negotiation over spending, specifically whether or not they are going to be able to agree on some budget cap numbers for the next year to several years. that is still up for negotiation. other areas they're exploring are permitting reform, adding more work requirements to social programs like food stamps and welfare. they are also looking at clawing

back about $60 billion in funding for the covid pandemic that went unused. that is something republicans included in their proposal and something that democrats, including the white house, have shown some openness to negotiating on. but they still have a long ways to go. mccarthy emphasized that he believes a deal needs to be reached at least in principle by next weekend because it's going to take some time in the house and the senate to move this on the floor. brianna. >> and there just is not much time. lauren fox on the hill, thank you. we do have some breaking news. an alleged attacker walked into the virginia office of democratic congressman gerry connolly this morning with a baseball bat. the intruder asked for him but then attacked two staff members. they have been taken to the hospital. we have cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju joining us live on this story. what more can you tell us?

>> reporter: gerry connolly, the congressman from virginia, put out a statement detailing this harrowing attack that occurred in his district office earlier this morning. i'll read you part of this statement he put out. he said this morning an individual entered my district office armed with a baseball bat and asked for me before committing an act of violence against two members of my staff. he goes on to say the individual is in police custody and both members of my team were transferred to the hospital with na non-life threatening emergencies. his focus is ensuring they get the care that they receive. he goes on to thank the city of fairfax for its quick response to this issue. so congressman connelly indicating that two of his staffers were attacked by an individual that came in looking for him and attacked these two staff members with a baseball bat. these two staff members injured, non-life threatening injuries. of course this comes at a time when we're seeing a rise in political violence, threats that are made and also that have been carried out like we saw against the former house speaker, nancy

pelosi, at her house in san francisco last year when an assailant came into that house, attacked her husband, paul pelosi, with a hammer. of course the baseball shooting that occurred in 2017, six people were shot including the house republican whip, steve scalise, who is now the house majority leader. right now we are learning these details about this attack that occurred in gerry connolly's office against two of his staff members. those are pretty much all the details we have at the moment. the city of fairfax indicating that this individual is in police custody. those people who were attacked are being treated, non-life threatening injuries as we're learning more details as the time goes by, we'll report them to you here. >> terrifying. we wish his staffers a speedy recovery. manu, thank you. boris. we want to pivot now to the surge slowdown at the border. the rush of migrants expected when title 42 ended is not

materializing, even though many officials from all levels of government sounded the alarm for months. today u.s. officials confirm they saw about a 50% drop in border crossings over the weekend compared to last week before title 42 expired. the policy was used nearly 3 million times to quickly expel people because of the covid-19 pandemic. let's take you now to the southern border. cnn's rosa flores is live for us in brownsville, texas. rosa, walk us through what you're seeing there and what you're hearing from officials now that this surge does not appear to have materialized, at least not right when title 42 expired. >> reporter: well, let me set the scene for you, boris, because i'm in brownsville, texas. a sign behind me sets the stage, it's the migrant pickup. this is where they are dropped off and normally they take buses here at the brownsville station. exactly what you're describing that officials are saying, that's exactly what nonprofits

are telling us here on the ground, that the number of migrants being dropped off at respite centers along south texas has dropped significantly, about 50% or more. the big question is why. i've been in contact with officials and also community leaders on the mexican side of the border and they tell me that the tough talk by the biden administration is resonating with migrants. he says that the images of migrants being shackled and deported back to their home countries, that is circulating online and in whatsapp groups and they're starting to believe that the border is closed and that there is a five-year ban on re-entry if you enter the country illegally. now, according to these community leaders and officials in mexico, they also say that the national guard in mexico, their presence especially along tijuana, that has also decreased the number of smuggling groups that are in that area, which has also decreased the smuggling overall in that particular area of tijuana, which across the

border is san diego. now, back here in south texas, these organizations are still preparing for the worst. the brownsville superintendent is going to propose later this afternoon to the school board that they should make vacant schools available to the city of brownsville just in case there is an uptick in migrants that are in this area and just in case the city needs to shelter them. but, boris, everyone is still wondering if this uptick is actually going to happen or not. but based on what i'm hearing on the mexican side, it really sounds like migrants, first of all, do not want to come into this country illegally only to be deported. second of all, they are starting to use that cbo app where they can set up an appointment. it just takes a really long time. >> there were reports that it was malfunctioning as well. we'll have to keep an eye on how that situation develops. rosa flores, thanks so much.

>> it would be remarkable if the message was getting across the border. victims and families of the buffalo supermarket mass shooting have filed a lawsuit against social media companies, accusing them of promoting white supremacist propaganda that helped to radicalize the gunman there. also ahead, the supreme court just sided with a death row inmate who wants to die in a specific way. we'll explain why coming up. later, if you're trying to lose weight, stay away from sugar substitutes. that's according to the world health organization. we'll explain why coming up. you're watching "cnn news central." like your workplace bes and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financialal choices togegether can help you make smarter decisions. voya. wewell planned. well invested. well prprotecte. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you spoor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidate whose resus on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today.

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the families of three victims and the survivor of the mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store last year are now suing several social media companies. they allege meta, snapchat, youtube and discord helped radicalize the then 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed ten people. they say they promoted racist, anti-semitic and white supremist prop propaganda. also named are the shooter's parents, the gun store where he bought the firearm from, a weapons manufacturer and a body

armor supplier. in a statement to cnn, google, which owns youtube, says the platform has invested in technology, teams and policies to identify and remove extremist content. snapchat also issued a statement saying we vet all content before it can reach a large audience which helps protect against the discovery of harmful or dangerous content. an attorney for the victims' families spoke to cnn this morning. >> the video live shooting of our clients getting their -- loved ones getting their brains blown out in this type shooting was shared over 3 million times. >> here with us to discuss this, we have cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams. he's also a former deputy assistant attorney general. elliot, great to have you here. this attorney goes on to say that the social media companies were actually maximizing engagement around this video. because of that, they were

making ad revenue off of it, that that was sort of the whole point of maximizing it. when you think of this as a possibility, is it -- do they have a very good case here? >> it's a novel case, brianna. this has really never been done before. they're saying that it's an improperly designed product. that even if used properly, the design of it was so bad that it actually led to violence. imagine a car with a defective airbag that's designed badly. you would sue the automobile manufacturer even if someone were using it properly. that's the argument they're going down. it's totally new, but this is how litigation works. lawyers try new things out and see what might win. >> it's not like any product, right? >> right. >> something that includes speech, free speech, that obviously you could have someone say, look, this is a first amendment issue, this isn't just like a stroller. >> and it's a bit of a stretch, to be perfectly candid, that you get from a properly used product in which people share pictures of their cats and free speech

and so on, but also might be encouraged to commit acts of violence. they go down this road in the complaint where they say that mass shootings lead to more mass shootings. pardon me, live stream shootings. people that do live stream shootings point back to ones before. the plaintiffs say because of that fact, the product that you have sort of encourages more live stream shootings. >> when you look at the other named defendants here, let's talk about the parents. >> yeah. >> they're saying, hey, he was stockpiling weapons. they knew that he had some mental health issues and they didn't do what they should have done. >> the words to look for here are reasonably foreseeable. for any of these defendants, not just the parents, could it reasonably have been foreseen the person would go on to commit bad acts. number one, he had had a psychiatric assessment. number two, he had said and been on the record about wanting to commit a murder-suicide. number three, he had tortured a cat very violently in a gruesome

way they lay out in the court document there. the parents were on notice that violence might have been coming. so i think there's probably the cleanest case against the parents of all the different defendants here. >> is this a new approach to make this onerous to the gun manufacturer, the body armor supplier. two paren-- to parents, to soci media sites saying you have to think about your place in mass violence or you'll have to pay the costs. >> it's not just by virtue of being a body armor manufacturer, it's that you were on notice in this case because of words that we believe were said to you at the time the individual tried to buy it. they make the argument for each one saying i'm going to modify this gun or i'm going to go shoot people so, therefore, you should be held accountable for that. not just because you're a gun manufacturer by itself. >> elliot, thank you. jim. the supreme court is

allowing a condemn ed inmate in alabama to die by nitrogen gas. the justices leaving in place a lower court's decision that deferred to the inmate's wishes to die by nitrogen gas instead of lethal injection. kenneth smith's execution was cancelled after the state could not properly set an iv line. this has been an issue with problems with lethal injection. did this lead to the supreme court's reasoning? >> that's what contributed to the inmate's decision here. over the past several months, alabama has had a number of these botched lethal injection executions. so that's what led to kenneth smith petitioning to get the method of his execution changed from lethal injection to nitrogen gas. and the supreme court, they ultimately actually did not step into this dispute and that's what left the lower court opinion in place, allowing him to change his method of execution. there were two discents, one

from justice thomas and justice alito saying that the lower court was wrong to allow this change in execution but that not affecting anything. the supreme court is still letting this move forward. >> justice thomas and alito is a familiar pair. >> it is. >> objecting to not conservative enough decisions here. >> exactly. and the circumstances surrounding this particular case are very interesting. so this is kenneth smith. it was a 1988 murder-for-hire. he was paid $1,000 to work with an accomplice to murder a man's wife. they ultimately succeeded in the murder. he was convicted. his execution was supposed to go forward in november. interestingly, there were a flurry of last-minute appeals, including to the supreme court. they allowed the execution to move forward. but state officials say because of the lag in time, they weren't able to find a vein to insert the intravenous line to administer this lethal injection before the death warrant

expired. ultimately it didn't move forward. there was at least one other execution with a similar issue in months past. alabama actually put executions on hold while they did a review. they have since resumed. but this case is interesting, jim, because it may allow some of the 100 plus death row inmates in alabama to maybe petition to change their method of execution because it was obviously successful for this particular case. >> there have also been cases about the supply of the drugs themselves. jessica schneider, thanks so much. boris. anyone who's had a child recently knows that the cost of child care is up there with the cost of a mortgage. and apparently it's hitting working moms the hardest. we have details on those numbers. also ahead, an incredible story of a teenager who used a sling shot to fend off a kidnapper who grabbed his younger sister. that's right, a slingshot. details on that when we come back. - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - are you a certified financial planner™?? - i'm a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committed to acting in your r best intere.

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for many parents, the cost of child care is one of the biggest expenses each month. think about it, you pay for a day care, diapers, food. the list goes on and on. now those big costs are having a major impact on working moms trying to keep their families afloat. natasha chen joins us now live with more. natasha, you spoke with several parents who said that the cost of child care was making them reconsider their place in the workforce. >> reporter: yeah, boris. one woman told me that her

partner makes just a few dollars more per hour than the nanny makes. they both decided to keep working, though, because she said the job comes with more benefits than just the pay itself. but other families are doing the math and some parents, especially moms, are deciding to stay home and save money. child care costs have risen 26% in the last decade and post-pandemic there are fewer providers so it's not that easy to find openings. >> let's pick out a book. >> reporter: she says a nanny used to cost $15 an hour when her first daughter was born five years ago. now with her new baby, it's at least $25 an hour. >> it lights the moon. >> reporter: the u.s. department of labor says the median cost of child care can range from more than $5,000 a year in small counties up to more than 17,000 a year in very large counties. that can mean near ly a fifth o the median income per child.

>> at first i couldn't believe it but when you go to the store and see a loaf of bread is $7, it makes sense. >> reporter: dwight is lucky, she receives child care subsidies from her employer. even so, she'll have used it all midyear due to high costs. nearly 16,000 providers permanently shut down their facilities during the pandemic, according to a report from child care aware of america. then the so-called great resignation of workers quitting for better paying jobs coupled with soaring inflation pushed up the price child care providers need to charge. >> we wouldn't be able to pay $15 an hour and know that they can afford a place to live. >> reporter: the cost of operating is up at sander ling waldorf school in california where they offer tuition assistance to eligible families. >> i'm going to show you the tricky ones. >> but actually what we're find is the gap is too big and actually we're losing families because of it. >> reporter: decreasing child care costs by 10% could result

in up to 2.5% more mothers in the workforce, according to the u.s. department of commerce. >> the child care programs started to close down left and right. these working parents, especially moms, were sidelined. they don't get included in the unemployment numbers. >> reporter: a platform for finding child care and administering child care benefits says their partnerships with companies offering subsidies shot up 500% last year. in april, president biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to try and lower the cost and expand access to child care for their workers and the recent c.h.i.p.s. act tries to draw semiconductor business to the u.s. by letting them qualify for over $150 million of federal funding only if they have a plan for employee access to child care. >> we absolutely have to do something. >> reporter: a college prepares students for semiconductor jobs but saw a drop in female student enrollment since the start of the pandemic. >> i suspect that a lot of them

discovered that by staying at home, they were saving an awful lot of money. >> reporter: so the college is partnering with tutris 2 and got a grant to offer child care subsidies this morning. adriana gonzalez is an alum. >> i'm a single mom. >> reporter: she was paying for after school care for her son when she first enrolled. >> even for the boys and girls club it was $50 and now it's 230. i couldn't study. i was thinking about my eviction notice. >> reporter: now she makes more money as an engineering technician and can breathe a little easier. the hope is that future students can benefit from a little child care assistance. but even the best subsidies can only take parents so far. >> how do you make the rest of the year work? >> we just are going to be cutting back. >> reporter: she says she's also worried about those child care workers, telling me we're all just trying to survive here. the department of labor says that child care worker wages are

relatively low, below the living wage in most states, and yet families can't afford more so the department of labor report recommends that the government invest more in quality affordable care, boris. >> a delicate balance for a lot of families. thanks so much for that report. jim. so millions of americans turn to sugar-free products when they're looking to drop a few pounds. we all do, i've done it. but a new review by the world health organization found that sugar substitutes found in many diet sodas and food you see do not actually help weight loss. elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, explain why, and my next question is, because i might have a diet soda just off camera here, is real sugar better for you then? or should you just not have either sugar or sugar substitutes? >> so, jim, i think less sugar in general is better. more natural food, certainly fruits -- sugar from fruits is a better alternative.

but it is interesting, jim. i think many people are like you. they said let's try these fake sweeteners and maybe that will help me lose weight. the world health organization did an exhaustive review of study after study after study. they found not only didn't it help people not lose weight but it increased the risk for certain problems. for example, it increased the risk for cardiovascular disease. they said, gee -- and for diabetes. they said, gee, people should be staying away from those products. they go by many different brand names. you can see here what the increased risk would be. there is one exception and this is important. if you already have diabetes, there are reasons where you might want to try these fake sweeteners rather than sugar. if you don't have diabetes, the world health organization says there's no reason to be using these artificial sweeteners and there might be many reasons to not be using them. jim. >> folks have said that. you hear when people talk about, hey, diet soda is not so good for you so here is the w.h.o.

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we're getting new details on a breaking story we've been tracking out of virginia this afternoon. an attacker who's a constituent a in gerry connolly's district enters his office and caused serious damage. he entered the office and attacked two aides with a metal

bat. one senior aide was hit in the head. the attacker also hit an intern who, listen to this, was on her first day on the job. he hit her in the side with that bat. connelly says the man was filled with out of control rage. now, the congressman was not in the building at the time but says that it took police about five minutes to respond. of course we'll stay on top of this and bring you the very latest details. jim. >> just an alarming story. an elderly u.s. citizen was just sentenced to life in prison in china on spying charges. the 78-year-old american initially detained in 2021. key details of his arrest coming to light. this comes at a time when relations between beijing and washington are at their lowest point in decades. ivan watson is in hong kong with the details. >> reporter: the first public acknowledgement that a 78-year-old american citizen was

in chinese custody came on monday. in a statement from a court in a chinese city announcing that he has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of espionage. the statement went on to say that he is also a permanent resident of hong kong. that he had had the equivalent of around $71,000 of personal property confiscated and he had been detained for more than two years. first picked up by chinese authorities in april of 2021. cnn has reached out to the u.s. embassy in beijing. it says it will not comment further about his case for privacy considerations, going on to state that the u.s. department of state has no greatgreat er priority than the safety and security of u.s. citizens overseas. a top official in the hong kong government has confirmed that they knew about the case since 2021, but would not add any

further information about this. it's important to note that the chinese government has been expanding its definition of espionage, adding an amendment to law just last month that would add for its definition of this possession of any documents or data, materials or items related to national security and interests, including cyberattacks against state or infrastructure as being considered espionage. now, just last week the u.s. national security advisor jake sullivan met face-to-face with his chinese counterpart for hours of talks in vienna. they discussed a whole host of issues, but also sullivan raised concern about the fate of three americans believed to be wrongfully detained in china. there was no mention about this

additional american citizen, who's just been sentenced to life in prison. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. now to some of the other headlines that we are watching this hour. johnson & johnson's covid-19 vaccine is no longer available in the u.s. the cdc says all doses expired last week and providers have been told to dispose of any leftovers. the j&j covid shot was the first t to be administered in the u.s. about 19 million people received it. and the most expensive private jewelry collection to appear at auction just fetched $196 million. the controversial gems from the late austrian billionaire heidi horton went under the hammer despite concerns from jewish groups about the source of her wealth. her first husband was a german businessman who bought jewish businesses sold under duress during the nazi era. and a 13-year-old michigan boy is being praised for saving

his little sister from a would be kidnapper. officials say he used a slingshot to stop a 17-year-old who invaded the family's backyard where the 8-year-old was playing. the big brother heard her screams and fired the slingshot from his bedroom window hitting the teen in the head and the chest. he fled the yard and was eventually caught by police. which prompted a conversation at my house, perhaps we should teach our children to use a slingshot. a florida scientist has broken the record for time spent living underwater. we'll speak to that scientist who hasn't moved out or up to land, next. stay with us. ♪ to help yoyou see untapped possibilities and relentlessly work with you to m make them real. ♪

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he calls himself dr. deep sea. that's what we'll call him, too. diving explorer and medical researcher joseph dituri just broke the record of living under water. today is day 76 of living in the undersea lodge in key largo, florida. part of his research is what living 22 feet under water does to the body. he join us from his under water lab. how are you feeling, doctor? what do you think this does to the human body? >> i am so good. personally, i'm very honored to be on your show. thank you so much. so what do i think it does to the human body? we had an old hypothesis that we would get better sleep and increase or decrease our inflammatory markers in our body and the first round of blood tests came back and said yeah, that's absolutely true. we decreased every inflammatory marker in my body and my sleep

has been so much better. about 60% deep in rem sleep so we're very excited about that. >> that's significant. >> what are the factors that you think are contributing to that to things that you don't have under water or that you don't have under water this we experience and maybe stress us out a little bit at surface -- at surface? >> right. well, it's the second consequences that come from being in a hyper, meaning more than baric environment right now and this is a hyperbaric temp temperature right now and this is how i treat ptsd and we knew the inflammatory markers would go down because that's hyperbaric medicine and i'm at 25 pounds per square inch which is why i treat tbi and ptsd, so -- >> we're watching some of your daily routine, but take us through what it is like throughout the day to live under water as you do?

>> easy. so i usually wake up between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. only because i'm an early riser. always have been. i'm a new yorker, i've always gotten up early and it's my mom's fault. blame her. i take a cup of coffee and science does not happen without coffee and we're doing ekgs, eegs, blood samples, urine, saliva and all of that stuff on a daily basis and i'm trying to find out what happens in an extreme environment which is very much akin to space travel. so if we'll be stuck in that tube for 200 days to get to mars, this is just a preliminary experiment to figure out what happens when you're stuck in a tube under water for a hundred days and half the time we need a couple of more times on this, so -- >> what other reasons? if this could be a test case for what it is to travel to mars, what are the other reasons that you need this research and this experience? >> oh, the one thing that was a totally intended consequence is

the stem outreach to kids. we are so excited about that. we've reached over 2500 kids person to person over zoom calls with people in landlocked states, and kids out there that are thinking about careers in science, technology, engineering and math and we're talking to them about preserving, protecting and rejuvenating the marine environment. 60% to 70% of the oxygen comes from the world's oceans and we need to have those kids start taking better care than we did, unfortunately, better care for the ocean so it can give the life-sustaining oxygen that we absolutely need. plus, science is cool. maybe i'm not quite so cool, but science can be very cool and you can do it in a fun environment like in the water. >> science is cool. 60% rem sleep is cool, too. i'll tell you that, dr. dituri. it is wonderful to have you from your undersea lab in key largo, florida. thank you for joining us. >> absolutely a pleasure. thank you for having me. >> thank you, sir.

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