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a man is under arrest this morning for crashing a u-haul into barriers right in front of the white house and we are getting chilling new details about what he appeared to have with him. officials say at about 10:00 p.m. the truck drove into security barriers on the north side of lafayette square and 16th street, you can see that is right next to the white house grounds. the secret service says no one was injured in the incident. bomb technicians searched the truck but we are told no explosives were found. what was found, a flag that appears to show a swastika. look at that. also a black backpack and a roll of duct tape. the driver of the truck was arrested on multiple charges, assault with a dangerous weapon, destruction of federal property, trespassing and most ominously, threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member.
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cnn's brian todd is right next to the crash site. brian, i understand there is now a name to go with this suspect. >> reporter: that's right, john. this coming to us from the u.s. park police just moments ago. they have released the name of the suspect, he is identified as -- we believe his name is pronounced sai condula 19 years old from chesterfield, missouri. that information coming to us from the u.s. park police. setting the scene, this is where this occurred, we are 200 yards away from the white house according to witnesses and police, the vehicle pulled up here, there are scuff marks on the curb, oil absorbent sand and other things laid down after oil spilled out of the truck there. it hit this barrier multiple times and there was concern in the minutes immediately following the incident there might be explosives inside the u-haul truck and for that reason that hotel there, the famous hay adams hotel was briefly evacuated but then the fbi
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checked the vehicle and found no explosives inside that vehicle, so people were then allowed back into the hay adams hotel. again, new information on the suspect, identified as 19-year-old sai condula of chesterfield, missouri. what we can also tell you is that police found inside the truck a flag that appeared to have a swastika on it, a black backpack and a roll of duct tape. there was a witness who observed the vehicle hitting this barrier multiple times, alexander garcia, here is what he told the media last night. >> it's a u-haul truck coming on h street and then he tried -- tried to run into the white house. and then he tried the first time and then went to the second time. now it is right over there, right in front of the white house. >> reporter: right. so multiple hits on this barrier according to that witness and according to police. he hit the barrier, backed up and probably hit the barrier a
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second time and the vehicle which was damaged and oil spilled out in this area behind me now. we're hitting rush hour so crowds of people coming past, this is a very busy area, it was likely very busy last night when this happened at about 10:00 p.m. eastern time. still a lot of people on the street here and around pennsylvania avenue around the white house. a scary moment last night at around 10:00 p.m. as you mentioned, john, the charges that the suspect is facing, threatening to kill, harm or kidnap a president, assault with a dangerous weapon, trespassing, destruction of federal property. we do expect charges -- we do expect possibly to see the suspect in court later today. again, to reiterate, you know, the lead here, we have just gotten information the suspect's name sai kandula 19 years old from chesterfield, missouri. >> that is not a small u-haul truck, either. that is a big u-haul truck. i think we are waiting for new information on possible motivation. seeing that swastika flag inside that truck is chilling.
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brian, thank you for your reporting. kate? >> important to see some of the video picked up by affiliate wusa of that swastika flag and other items picked up. let's talk about this with jonathan wackrow a former secret service agent. jonathan, what do you see in this? >> listen, kate, time and time again we know that the white house is a very high-profile symbolic and strategic target for many, but that is why the secret service in their risk assessment rubric place so much emphasis on the physical security structure that surrounds the white house. and i think today it's says to say that the security structure, you know, with stood this type of attack because, why? the secret service anticipates this. these types of attacks have happened before, especially with vehicles, whether it's an errant vehicle, you know, part of a motor vehicle accident or an intentional attack. in the physical structure around
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the white house isn't just around the building, it radiates out in concentric circles. we see the benefit of that security structure today. while close, that truck did not get close enough to cause any type of damage or actually threaten the president's life in that moment. now, the secret service is investigating exactly what their law enforcement partners -- what happened and the motivation of this driver but right now it's safe to say that the security structure around the white house worked, the complex was safe and most importantly the president and the first family were safe. >> and, jonathan, first you have the initial rammings and then when they moved in to collect evidence from within the u-haul we've shown that video from affiliate wusa of among the items that were collected and kind of laid out, call it evidence, is a flag with a swastika on it. when you see that, how does that shift the investigation from there on out?
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>> well, listen, you know, items of evidentiary value that are found at the scene are going to lead investigators to the potential motive and intent here. this individual, 19-year-old male, why did he launch this type of attack? you know, investigators are going to key in, was he motivated by some sort of ideological group? in the worst case was he directed to launch this type of attack? it's too early to tell right now. the presence of the -- that flag in itself is not the motive, however, it is going to be a key factor that investigators will focus on moving forward. >> what you see right here, this is the name of the individual that the park police just -- that they just announced was arrested, 19 years old and now charged with several crimes. as brian todd was saying, jonathan, the hay adams hotel was evacuated for a brief period of time over concern of what could have been when they didn't know yet what was in the u-haul.
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what would have happened at the white house at that time? i know you said because of the physical structure the president -- the white house, the president and the first lady, they were not physically under threat because the systems worked, but what would have happened at the white house during this time? >> well, listen, there is a lot of things that go on in that moment. these are dynamic situations that the secret service both the special agents in the uniform division officers that protect the white house, they train for this constantly and they have immediate action drills in terms of, one, quickly assessing the threat, this inbound threat. they have to maintain a 360-degree view of the complex because this could have been a diversionary tactic from the very beginning. they can't just focus all of their attention on this one incident, they have to make sure that the entire complex remains safe throughout the entire duration of the activity. in the white house itself they go into an elevated state of
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readiness, if the situation does escalate it's a multiprong attack. the secret service is very well-prepared to defend the complex. so there's a lot of things going on at once, focusing on the president, the complex and then the public at large and that's why we saw the hay adams being evacuated. >> good to see you, jonathan. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> john? so this morning we are waiting to hear when president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy will speak again. they said they're going to speak every day until a deal is made to avoid a catastrophic default on u.s. debt. this came after what both described as productive meetings yesterday. their designated negotiators met late into the night trying to hammer out details. we are just getting word actually that they are meeting again this morning behind closed doors and we're getting new details about where things stand. the biggest reality is timing. treasury secretary janet yellen says june 1st is the day that the u.s. could default on its debt, that's just nine days away, that's even closer than it looks because if and when a deal
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is made it's got to be written into a bill, once it's written into a bill speaker mccarthy says he will give members at least three days to read it before he puts it to a vote. cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house and lauren fox is jut side the capitol hill club, lauren, where i understand negotiators are back at it right now. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, republicans are gathering this morning, john, to have a discussion about where these negotiations are going on the debt ceiling because, remember, kevin mccarthy has a needle to thread here and that is the fact that he has to both reach a deal that president joe biden can support, but also bring it back to his conference and hold that support as well. you know, the era of losing his speakership looms large as he talks to his members, as he makes sure that they could be on board with anything that he brings back to them. in fact, i talked to a number of republicans this morning who say that they have a lot of trust in
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speaker mccarthy to go ahead and negotiate a deal that actually cuts spending, but that is the key. they want a deal that actually cuts spending and right now they don't have one. white house negotiators and republican negotiators are billions, tens of billions of dollars apart when it comes to those top line spending numbers and agreement to decide how much money to spend in the future. meanwhile, joe biden has some progressives who are also raising the stakes that they could have an opposition to any deal that he cuts with kevin mccarthy. here is what one progressive, representative pramila jayapal told my colleague manu raju yesterday. >> i think there would be a huge backlash from our entire house democratic, you know, caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets, you know, i mean, i think that this is -- it's important that we don't take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over
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the last two years. >> reporter: and you see there that any deal that biden and mccarthy cut, it's going to have to run straight through the middle of their respective caucuses, john, because the reality is that they could lose votes on both the right flank and left flank if they bring back a deal that is going to be in the middle. john? >> just to clarify, lauren, i think i misheard before. it's the republicans meeting with themselves behind you at the capitol hill club, not the negotiators meeting with each other. >> reporter: exactly. >> which is interesting because it could be a circling of the wagons, that could actually pull negotiators apart when they finally get back together. let's go to arlette saenz at the white house. i understand there are memos going around. what's the white house saying this morning? >> reporter: i think that lauren touched on one of the key issues that the white house also sees as a challenge is trying to reach some type of bipartisan compromise when it comes to this budget agreement and that is something that you have heard the president really try to hammer that point over the
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course of the past few days. look, white house negotiators feel that they have been flexible in their discussions with republicans. you have also heard from top democrats up on capitol hill like hakeem jeffries the minority leader in the house who said that the white house has offered some type of compromise when it comes to spending levels by agreeing or suggesting they should be frozen at current year levels. that's something the democrats don't want to see happen but something that the white house has put forth in order to try to get some bipartisan support, draws of bipartisan support for an agreement. really this is all coming at an incredibly critical moment. you have this ticking time -- this ticking clock really when it comes to having to push this agreement through congress, it would take some time as that likely june 1st date is quickly approaching as treasury secretary janet yellen has reaffirmed. what you have heard from the
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white house and heard from republicans is that there is a real sense of urgency in this moment. yesterday the president said that the conversations with mccarthy have been productive, but beyond that the white house has been very tight-lipped about the state of negotiations, what they have -- are putting on the table or taking off the table at this moment, but it's really coming as the u.s. is potentially staring down economic catastrophe as that early june deadline is very quickly approaching. >> not much time left. not at all. arlette saenz at the white house, lauren fox on capitol hill, we will let you both get back to working your sources. keep us posted what you hear about all these gatherings, thank you. kate? coming up for us e. jean carroll is going back at donald trump. he already owes her $5 million after losing a defamation lawsuit that she brought. the new damages she's now seeking after what trump said at the cnn town hall. plus, a surfer thought a crab was pinching her foot, it turned out to be a shark. how that 15-year-old escaped a
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prince harry just lost a big legal challenge in london. a judge rejected his claim that the british government overstepped its authority when it forbid him from paying for his own police protection when he is in the united kingdom. to put that more clearly, he wanted to pay for police officers for himself and his family. he can't. harry lost his government-provided security when he stepped down as a working royal in 2020. a new jersey teenager is recovering from injuries to his leg and foot after she was bitten by a shark. the 15-year-old says she was surfing off stone harbor on the jersey shore when something grabbed her leg.
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>> i thought it was just a crab pinching my foot but it felt bigger than that i realized and my whole foot was like in its mouth. i was shaking my foot as hard as i could, it was hard, it was like really heavy. >> even with her injuries maggie was able to paddle back to land to get help. she received six stitches and is expected to make a full recovery. kate, as you know, this terrifies me, nothing scares me more other than confrontation and abandonment, and sharks. >> i will say, of course, we are in the shark's territory. i am a shark lover. this is where our relationship comes to a crossroads, john. >> they have big teeth. this morning new cnn reporting on the investigation into the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. sources say special counsel jack smith has dozens of detailed notes taken by donald trump's attorney evan corcoran. those sources say some of the notes show that the former president asked if he could push back against the justice department's subpoena to recover the classified records.
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cnn's katelyn polantz has his reporting and is joining us now. how much detail is in these notes? >> kate, it's a lot and that's what the new reporting here is. we knew the justice department really wanted to get access to these notes. they believed that they would show donald trump potentially committing a crime in his conversations -- or wanting to advance a crime as he was talking to evan corcoran and now we know that these notes, they number into the dozens of pages, there are multiple sets of them. they range in a very crucial time period from the moment that the just sent that subpoena to the trump org to hand over all classified documents in donald trump's possession, and they catalog evan corcoran's direct conversations with donald trump, his client, the whole way up to when the justice department comes visiting in june to collect 38 classified records that evan corcoran found and believed there was nothing else left at mar-a-lago, even though there were many other hundreds of classified records there.
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so these notes, our sources -- we have a team of reporters who have been talking to people about them and one source told us they were overly detailed, another source said that trump's legal team was actually surprised the amount of detail here, and so we don't have much more inkling of exactly what would factor into the potential obstruction investigation. we know that donald trump was pushing back in these conversations and it says that in the notes, that he -- how to respond to the subpoena. he didn't necessarily want to. but this is the sort of thing the justice department really wanted to nail down in their investigation and they're going to at least get the level of detail that they were hoping to. whether or not that adds up to a case or a chargeable crime, that remains to be seen, but it's still a big thing that they got these. >> great reporting as always. i find it fascinating that anyone would describe -- definitely probably not hearing it -- wouldn't hear it from the special counsel who is not talking, that any record that they get is overly detailed.
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they want as much detail as they can get their hands on when it comes to them investigating. thank you so much. more new legal developments. in just a few hours donald trump is set to appear remotely via video before a manhattan judge holiday out what he can and cannot say publicly about his ongoing criminal hush money payments. we are also learning -- that case, i should say. we are also learning about a major new development involving e. jean carroll who just won a $5 million civil defamation and battery suit against trump. carroll is asking a judge in a separate defamation case to let her seek more money after trump insulted her during the cnn town hall. it's actually the same judge there. cnn's kara scannell is outside a courthouse in new york city. kara, you are there where trump is going to appear remotely via video to find out about the criminal case. let's start with that. what's going to happen today? >> reporter: john, the judge is going to explain to the former
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president who will appear on a video screen what the rules of the road are in this hush money case. the judge impose add protective order earlier this month and the judge just made it clear this is not a bag gag order, he's saying the former president can defend himself, knows he's going to be out campaigning, but he's going to make clear to the former president what he can and cannot do and that includes the materials trump's team receives as documents, the judge is going to tell trump that he cannot put any of this on social media. there's also restrictions about trump's reviewing of certain materials, some things he can only look at in his attorney's office and he can't transcribe anything or make any copies. now, this hearing is because the prosecutors wanted it. they said that trump has an extensive history of making inflammatory statements on social media so they wanted the judge to address the former president directly to make sure he knew what he could do, what is covered under this protective order and also what the consequences are if he violates it. we may also learn when this trial is going to take place,
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the judge asked both sides to come together and pick a date in february or march of this year. that's another development we may get more clarity on today, john. >> i sort of made it more complicated than i needed to when i explained what's going on with e. jean carroll, but bottom line is based on what she saw trump say at the cnn town hall, she's now asking a judge for more money. explain. >> reporter: yeah, so remember the jury had returned that verdict finding in favor of carroll that trump had sexually abused her and defamed her when he said he did not know who she was, he was not her time and that she made up the whole story. 24 hours later trump was on the cnn town hall and repeated many of those same statements. carroll's attorney are saying to the judge, okay, we just won this one lawsuit and that lawsuit that went to trial had to do with statements that trump made after he left the presidency, but they had also fired an initial lawsuit about statements trump made in 2019 that has been held up in court
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because trump was president at the time. they're saying to the judge he still has to rule on where that case is going to go. they're saying can you let us reopen this lawsuit so we can put forward the statements that trump made at the town hall and on social media so that the jury can consider that for punitive daniels because the purposes of punitive damages is to punish someone held liable. >> potential repercussions for what he continues to do. kara scannell in new york, thanks for being with us. a new and important warning from the u.s. surgeon general. parents, beware of, quote, profound risk of harm that your kids face from social media. the surgeon general's advice now and why he's raising alarm. and a disturbing scene at the u.s. southern border. video released showing a 4-year-old being essentially tossed over a border wall. the latest on what u.s. border officials say happened and how that child is doing now. we will be babbling. we will be back. ill be babbling. we will be back. be babbling. we will be back. abbling. we w will be back. . we will be back. we will be back.
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we can help with that, too. with global secure networking from comcast business. it's not just possible. it's happening. welcome back to cnn n"news cen central", our top story this hour, a man is in custody after crashing a u-haul into a barrier at the white house multiple times. officials say this is what happened on the north side of lafayette square at 16th street. that part is directly across -- that park is directly across from the white house. during a search of that truck officials found a flag that appears to show a swastika. they also found a backpack and duct tape among other items. the man was arrested on several charges including threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on
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a president, vice president or family member. much more to come on this. so this morning tiktok is taking montana to court. the company filed a federal lawsuit over montana's new law that would ban the chinese-owned app. tiktok says among other things the move violates the u.s. constitution, including the first amendment. starting in 2024 the law would impose a fine of $10,000 per day on tiktok or app stores that make it available to personal devices within that state. supporters are worried that the chinese government could use the app for spying purposes. legal and technology experts say there are challenges for montana or any state to enforce such a ban, even if the law is allowed to stand, the way the internet functions it makes it impossible to keep tiktok out of the hands of users. so this morning a new warning from the surgeon general that social media creates a, quote, profound risk of harm for children. those stark words come in a 25-page advisory that examines the mental health impact of social media. cnn medical correspondent meg
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terrell is with us now. profound risk of harm, those are pretty stark words. >> yeah, they really are and this report details the concerns that the surgeon general has been talking about over mental health for kids and their use of social media. he said basically parents are looking for answers here and there is not enough data to say this is safe for kids. it's scary when you think about the ubiquity of social media, 95% of kids age 13 to 17 say they use social media. 1 is the minimum age to get on many of these platforms, the study says that 40% of kids down to age 8 are using social media. so while they do say there are some benefits like creating communities, particularly for marginalized kids, they point to a lot more potential risks like anxiety and depression. kids not getting enough sleep, experiencing abuse or harassment online and, of course, low self-esteem where we have seen a lot of cities as well. they are calling on si makers to step up and particularly for the
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tech companies to share more data about what they're saying. >> what do the tech companies think about this? >> we haven't heard from them a lot this morning but they have already said they've made moves to try to provide more guidance to families about what to do here. so creating guides for parents, saying that there's controls for kids, things like that, but the pressure is continuing to mount. >> there are some controls for kids. look, i'm a parent i know you can't do certain things with the apps but you can't do anything. >> the surgeon general has young kids himself, he said they're delaying use until their kids go into middle school or actually high school. he said more broadly creating a family plan, trying to have tech-free zones particularly around dinnertime or when kids are supposed to sleep and modeling social media good behavior ourselves, putting our phones down and using them the right way. >> that makes a huge difference. meg tyrrell, thank you for that. we should note that the surgeon general will be on cnn tonight with erin burnett at 7:00 p.m.
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eastern. kate? this morning new video showing the moment a 4-year-old child was dropped over a border barrier in san diego, california. here we're going to show you, we're going to put it up full so make sure you can see it and we're spotlighting it there. you can see a child pushed over the wall, hanging on for a moment and fulg to the ground. another child tries to help them up, then another individual climbs over and picks the child up. let's go to cnn's rosa flores. we're hearing more from border officials here. what more are you hearing about what happened? >> reporter: you know, kate that is correct video is very dramatic but it doesn't tell a full story because there is no audio, it's surveillance voochlt what we've learned from customs and border protection is that the border agents and the san diego fire department responded to help this child, this 4-year-old boy. they came under fire from the mexican side. so much so that u.s. customs and border protection air and
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marines operation responded via helicopter to provide cover while these first responders were trying to render aid to this child. now, we don't have a lot of details about this 4-year-old other than from a tweet, the border patrol chief saying that the child is okay, but of course we've asked about the condition of the child and also the location of the child to see if there are any updates, there are no updates at this point, kate, but we know they continue to help with the help of mexico because the gunfire was coming from the mexican side. >> that is a wild part of this. there's so much to this than just the surveillance video that we're seeing. overall, though, rosa, i wanted to ask you the reports have been recently that migrant encounters at the southern border have dropped significantly. are those numbers still down? what are you learning about this? >> reporter: you know, they are. the latest that we've learned is from a treat twoo et from the border patrol chief raul ortiz.
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he just tweeted that border encounters are at about 3,000. kate, that's about a 70% drop from the 10,000 migrant encounters that they were seeing in the lead up to the end of title 42. now, of course, the big question is why. why are these numbers still dropping? what i'm hearing from sources and contacts, there's a few things. first, that the mexican law enforcement has upped enforcement in mexico, they're returning migrants deeper into mexico. i'm also hearing that migrants are still waiting on the mexican side. a lot of them waiting for that cbp 1 app to get an opportunity to go into a port of entry. and also that there is a spread on social media of the legal consequences of crossing the border. kate, you and i have discussed this. that includes a five-year bar of re-entry into the country. so the big take away here, kate, is will we see more of these cases of more extreme risks taken by migrants. >> that is an important
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minister feared for his safety in russia and that he called the war in ukraine a, quote, fascist invasion. he was returning from a business trip to cuba at the time of his death. unicef says more than 1.9 million children are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition in ethiopia, kenya and somalia, the u.n. agency says it is an unprecedented large-scale crisis of hunger unfolding before our eyes and also claims that the climate crisis is making the situation worse as these areas have suffered one of the worst droughts in 40 years. now, millions of people in mexico are keeping a wary eye to the sky because of this, they may be forced to evacuate as the country's most dangerous active volcano roars back to life once again. the volcano which is in the central part of the country has been spewing ash over several nearby towns since last week and the ash has caused flight delays in mexico city and caused authorities to close schools in dozens of towns. about 25 million people live in a 60-mile radius of the volcano.
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john? new this morning, 12 airports across the country are getting a major bump in federal funding. the faa is awarding $100 million to a dozen airports that have projects aimed at curbing runway incursions. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is with us. what's this money going to do, pete? >> reporter: runway incursions, john, known as near misses on or near the runway and this is a huge issue according to the faa and the national transportation safety board which is holding a round table on this very subject right this moment. the national transportation safety board says with regulators and labor unions and industry that they must get to the core theme of this issue because this has been a huge problem since the start of this year. six runway incursions involving commercial airliners at major airports under investigation in 2022, jfk, burbank, austin, boston, honolulu and sarasota.
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it is a huge issue for the industry, so much so that the faa held this emergency safety summit back in march. it's been trying to really tackle this issue not only through that but also through an independent review board and now announcing this $100 million bump in grant money to airports that have some of these issues baked into the design of the airport, be it taxiways too close to runways, places where pilots can't see around corners very well, also upgrading lighting, things like technology at airports. the whole point of the round table is to try to get at the core here and make it so that this is simply not talk. listen. >> it appears we don't e. don't have that sound bite but one thing to point out here, john, is that the only issue that goes beyond this is that this is really about the safety of
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flights because of the shortage of air traffic controllers. that is another huge problem here and the department of transportation, secretary buttigieg, just said that there is a shortage of 3,000 controllers and she says that that is a safety issue because many times controllers have really caught these runway incursions in the act from turning into catastrophe and that issue at jfk the controller there when a delta light was lining up for take yuf and an american airlines flight was crossing the runway they received an alert in the control tower and stopped disaster from happening she tells me. >> pete, i'm with you, runway incursions that phrase sanitizes it, near misses much better. they're bad. >> they are. >> it's a good thing they are focusing on this right now. thanks for your reporting. also at this hour wrongfully detained "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich is expected to appear at a hearing in russia. the american journalist was arrested in march as you will remember on allegations of spying. the biden administration and evan's family quite frankly are
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adamant the charges are unfounded. cnn's kylie atwood is with me with more on this. the case is before a russian judge today. what is expected to happen? >> what this is focused on is, as you said, extending his pretrial detention. interestingly enough about a year ago this time we were at this same spot with brittney griner's trial going through, you know, what are the loops that the -- these americans were wrongfully detained have to go through in the russian legal process. but this comes on the heels of evan gershkovich being denied consular access, that's access by u.s. diplomats in the country twice over the course of the last few weeks and also just about a month ago his appeal to serve this pre tile detention time at home on house arrest was rejected by the court and so that's why he has been in jail. what we're watching for today is to see what kind of access journalists are given to this court trial. we don't know if there will be journalists allowed inside. last time cameras were allowed inside, with he could see him, see him speaking and see him
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actually understanding the russian saying he didn't need translation because he's fluent in russian. the other thing we will be watching for is if they allow the u.s. diplomats to be in court. we know they will try to show up but there hasn't been obviously much of a great relationship between russia and these diplomats in recent weeks and there is a lot of tension there. u.s. officials pushing to have access to evan gershkovich. and then you have paul whelan the other american wrongfully detained in russia he spoke earlier this week on the phone with cnn and he said he's confident that u.s. officials are pushing for his release but he is really asking them to push along more quickly because he wants a deal to secure his release and of course evan gershkovich's release as well. >> until he has these consular visits, i mean, there's no good sign really until he starts having at least this very minimal thing -- >> basic requirements. >> obligation if you are being held that they have left to do. good to see you. thanks for being here. is a 20-year reign about to
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it could be the end of an era. after 20 years in the nba, lebron james hinting that maybe possibly he could leave the game for good. he mentioned this after his team was swept is out of the western conference finals by the denver nuggets. >> we will see what happens going forward. i don't know. i don't know. i have a lot to think about to be honest. i have a lot to think about to be honest. me personally going forward with the game of basketball, and i have a lot to think about. >> ooh, i have a lot to think about. i don't know. cnn's coy wire is with us now, and decipher that for us. >> yeah, i mean, that would put a lot of pressure on you as an
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organization, wouldn't it, if you have roster decisions coming up, and look, lebron still has it, and he just put up 40 points in the western conference finals at 38 years old, john, and a lot of 38-year-olds get winded taking the groceries back to the house. he is unreal. it is important to remember that two weeks ago, lebron said that his goal is still to play with his son bronny who committed to play at usc. he is exhausted. mentally and physically. he didn't come off of the court last night, and he played all 48 minutes and he said afterwards that it is not fun for him, and he does not get a kick out of not making it for the finals, and he has won it four times and been to the finals 10 times and that is more than 38 teams. so despite putting up a stellar season statistically, and more than all of the hall of famers, and so, you could hear how exhausted he is.
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and now for if denver nuggets, they are going to the finals for the first time. and for nicola jokic, he breaks the great wilt chamberlain's triple-doubles in the post-season for the first time. and aaron gordon would say that denial is not just the river in egypt, and den vver denying any comeback effort, and the nuggets are going to be getting the win over the eastern conference finals and the heat can sweep john berman's celtics tonight with a win and the tip-off is 8:30 on the sister channel tnt. >> grim. that is all i can say. it is looking grim. coy wire, thank you very much, and lebron james is so good, and we would all enjoy seeing him play longer. kate? >> so when it is coming to the celtics, you are saying that there is still a chance?
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