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>> welcome to news room. erdogan secures the historic third term as turkey's president. we'll take a look at what it means for the country's relations for washington and we will show you the dramatic video of the moment a driver and passenger fired at each other while on board the moving bus. >> live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. >> we begin in washington where there is an urgent push for a tentative deal to avoid a default. president biden and kevin mccarthy have cut the deal
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though they are facing pushback. the bill has to clear the senate. mr. biden says he is confident it will make it to his desk. >> the speaker and i made clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house. and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. >> mccarthy has released the text of the 99 page bill which includes raiseing the debt ceiling two years. increasing spending on defense and veteran issues and imposing new work requirements on food assistance programs and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have voiced concerns over the deal. but prospects for passage have improved. many democrats signal they are willing to support the plan. republicans expect the majority of their house members will fall in line. here is some of their reaction
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to the deal so far. >> i'm not willing to vote this country into more debt. i send my daughter to the store, she says dad, i give her ten dollars and she goes down there and she decides she wants to spend 20. then she comes back and said dad, i only spent by 15 so by washington math, she saved $5. but she spent five more dollars than we have. that is washington math. >> when you say conservatives have concerns it is really the most colorful conservatives. many of them didn't vote for it when it was a republican wish list. those votes were never really in play. we get that. but overwhelmingly, republicans in this conference will support the deal. how could they not? it is a fantastic deal. >> and we have details from washington. >> reporter: president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy racing to sell this
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tentative debt ceiling agreement to lawmakers but so far, pushback from hard right conservatives like congressman chip roy of texas and ralph norman of california. they sit on the powerful house rules committee that plays a role in shepherding legislation to final passage. and progressives are pushing back. they say the white house has reason to worry and the decision to make work requirements for stringent for food stamp recipients, she referred to that as unfortunate. so passage is not guaranteed. all of this is unfolding as the june 5th debt ceiling deadline ticks closer. a consequential week ahead in washington. the house will return on tuesday giving leadership a chance to whip its members in person ahead of an expected
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wednesday vote. cnn, washington. >> joining me now is senior political commentator scott jennings. so good to have you with us. cautious optimism all around. but we are not yet out of thed woos. looking at the outline of the deal. if this goes to the floor for a vote, will it get passed? >> i think it is going to pass. i believe you may have some fringe on the right and left that may vote against it. but broad majorities will support it in both chambers. >> now looking at this deal and what we know about it, what do you make of it? >> it is divided government. we have a democrat in the white house, republicans controlling half of congress. you get what you get. democrats think it could have been worse, republicans think it could have been better but ultimately, what happens, the debt ceiling gets increased a couple of years. the world keeps spinning. the average voter won't notice
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much of a difference and a lot of this will get litigated so i really think kevin mccarthy did a nice job of bringing joe biden to the negotiating table and joe biden is telling this to his democrats. not much really changed here. and we didn't go over the edge of a default. so both sides are claiming victory. that is probably true for both of them. >> so everybody is claiming a win win. but this has been a very bruising exercise. >> yeah. maybe. but at the same time, a lot of these debt ceiling negotiations going back more than a decade have gone right to the end of the line. i do think joe biden frankly could have settled this much earlier. he spent several months saying he would not negotiate and accept nothing but a clean increase of the debt ceiling. that obviously turned out not to be true. i think kevin mccarthy showed his political chops geting the house republicans to pass their plan a couple of weeks ago.
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i doe think biden was expecting him to do that. mccarthy has delivered a checklist of things that most republicans are going to be perfectly happy with. so overall, this thing will come and go. i don't think we will think too much about it the next couple of weeks. >> are we though? taking things to the breaking point, it's quite damaging. >> well look. again, i think these debt ceiling fiascoes, if you want to call them that, have often gone right up to the line several times. especially when you have divided government. i remember back during the trump years when democrats had part of congress and trump was in the white house. you had some back and forth between the two parties. but look, if you are a conservative republican and you are mad about this deal, you need to take a hard look in the mirror and say hey, this is the wages of losing elections. this is the wages of donald trump losing the white house and this is the wages of donald trump's senate candidates loseing in 2022. if you had more republicans in
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office, you wouldn't have to be so disappointed. so the political lesson here, try to win more elections buzz divided government is not getting you what you want. >> how would you explain the position of speaker mccarthy? >> pretty strong. she has performed expectations. a lot of people didn't think he would be a strong speaker when he was elected back in january. but he has time and again overperformed on this one getting the republicans a few weeks ago to pass a debt ceiling plan on the floor of the house that put biden on the back foot. biden never expected them to do that. it brought biden to the negotiating table. so i think mccarthy can claim a real victory here and that he was able to get some concessions out of the white house that joe biden said for months were not on the table. >> a big win for the speaker but he still has to get this over the line. >> i think he will. you'll have over 100 democrats
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vote for this. at least 170 republicans vote for it. it has plenty of votes in the u.s. house and you will get easily over 60 in the u.s. senate. you have leader schumer and leader mcconnell backing it in the senate. i don't expect a lot of drama. >> all right. we'll check in with you about that. scott jennings, thank you very much. good talking to you. >> thank you. and we are still months away from the start of the 2024 u.s. presidential primary season. but the field of republican candidates may soon have another contender. new hampshire governor chris sanunu told cnn sunday he could unveil plans for a presidential bid within a week. he said he has already secured money and family support. but there are still a few factors he is considering before making a final decision. >> the one thing i'm looking at is where can i be most
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effective? i still have a 24/7 job. making sure when it comes to where i want to see the party go. i talk a little differently. i want more candidates to be empowered. can i do that? as a candidate? as someone who is traveling the country? speaking more freely? being a referee of the first in the nation primary. i just want what's best for the party. it's what's best. that's what i'm narrowing down now. there is a pathway to win. >> if he decides to run, he would join a long list of contenders including ron desantis and tim scott. looking to unseat former
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president donald trump as the republican party's standard bear. word leaders are congratulating turkey's erdogan for as unprecedented term as president. with all the votes counted down, he won just over 52% of sunday's vote. defeating opposition leader who received almost 48%. erdogan called for unity in his victory speech and said one of the main priorities would be fighting the country's rampant inflation. scott mcclain joins us with more on this. scott, good to see you. a contentious campaign and a country split almost right down the middle. >> yeah, you are absolutely
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right. look, this is the closest the president has come to losing the presidency in two decades in office. it is also the first time in turkish history the election has gone to a runoff election. it is not surprising considering all of the huge issues in this election that were front and center. there is as you pointed out, the issue of inflation. hitting some 85% really reducing people's buying power. and the government's response to it has been pretty bizarre. to lower inflation rates rather than hike them which has been happening in the rest of the western world. there was also the earthquake in february and plenty of government criticism of the initial response to it. inboth parties were debating what to do with them. given all that, it is surprising that erdogan did as well as he did. but the government has a lot of built in powers to begin with.
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in april, for instance, turkish state tv gave 34 hours of coverage to president erdogan in just 32 minutes to his opponent. that explains why he said that there were all sorts of black propaganda and slander in his words. his country is in the middest of one of the most unfair political eras. he said that the results despite the loss show that the country the, that the country is wanting some kind of a change. despite the loss. >> we will continue to fight until we have established a real democracy in our country. and we will continue to be the vanguard of the struggle. we will be the first to stand
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up to the problems. >> after the first ballot. president erdogan came within half a percentage point. since then, he has managed to secure the support of one of the right wing parties. this time around, it seemed one of the biggest risks for him was complacency. in the results now, that seems to have not been the case. he recommitted himself to rebuilding after the earthquake. lowering inflation and sending one million syrian refugees back to syria. he called for national unity. listen. >> it is time to unite and unify around our national goals and dreams, leaving aside all discussions and disputes regarding the election period. no one has lost today. all 85 million people have won. >> while he called for national unity, he took a swipe at his
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opponent pointing out that his parties, the number of seats he has in parliament has decreased since the last vote in 2018. in turkey, votes are held every five years so it will be quite a while before turks get another chance to unseat erdogan. >> thanks so much, scott. thank you. and early i spoke with steven a. cook, a senior fellow for middle eastern studies on the council on foreign relations and asked him what erdogan's victory means for his relationship with washington which is at times quite rocky. >> the relationship between the united states and turkey is quite difficult over a variety of issues but mostly having to do with the support that the united states has lent to a kurdish fighting force. on the washington side, it is turkey's purchase of the russian manufactured air defense similar that is designed specifically to shoot
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down nato aircraft. turkey is an important member of nato. the turks have been seeking a reset in the relationship. but what they mean is essentially the united states accepting turkey's view of issues and adjusting accordingly. i don't think the biden administration or congress which has become an important actor is redding to turkish demands. so erdogan will likely respond to his victory by once again perhaps in a more aggressive tone seeking a change in relations with the united states. he has requested f16 fighter planes and a variety of other things. we'll have to see how president biden weighs the importance of keeping turkey in the tent, so to speak, or continuing to have
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these tense relations. >> do you see the biden administration wanting to patch things up for peace sake? >> i will note that president biden has congratulated president erdogan on his victory. despite the fact the opposition insists the vote was railed by fraud. so it does seem that president biden who did stay away from turkey during this long campaign period is willing to continue to have a relationship. that the united states wants to have a strategic relationship with turkey. but they believe much of the problem lies with the leadership. my sense is the white house will take a wait and see attitude beyond the congratulations they transmitted to president erdogan today. >> and you can watch my interview with steven cook in the next hour.
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ukrainian officials report explosions in and around the russian occupied cities of mariupol. they say at least five strikes targeted russian positions in berdiansk on sunday. one official said the explosions in mariupol caused casualties but gave no further details. meanwhile, the ukrainian military says russia launched one of its largest drone attacks yet on sunday. it coincided with kyiv day. the anniversary of the city's founding more than 1500 years ago. kyiv's mayor says more explosions have been reported across the ukrainian capital. the mayor wrote on telegram the air defense is at work. >> reporter: the ukrainians are
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calling this one of the largest attacks since russia started its full on invasion of ukraine. the ukrainian military saying the 59 launched toward its territory, they were able to take out 58. that is a pretty big success rate and it is ever improving the air defense. certainly the bulk of those drones seem to be directed at the kyiv region. the kyiv and surrounding region. and, there was some damage that was caused. two people who were killed. a lot of buildings that were damaged as well. most of that, the authorities say, came from falling debris. and there were drone parts apparently found near a warehouse that had sustained some damage. and pretty dramatic video that came out in the north of ukraine. with border guards there saying they fired into the sky. president zelenskyy of ukraine, he came out and he praised the
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forces that are fighting against those dronesment fighting against missiles as well. the air defense force as he called them. heros in ukraine for keeping so many people on the ground safe. at the same time, the ukrainians pretty angry at the iranians for giving those drones to the russians. in fact, an adviser to ukraine's presidential administration, he came out and he warned the iranians there could be retaliation. cnn, kyiv. >> belarus president is offering nuclear weapons to nations willing to join the so- called union state alliance of russia and belarus. it is not clear how wide he extended the invitation as he did not offer specifics. it came after he said moscow had begun transferring nuclear weapons to belarus. though russian president vladimir putin says russia will
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retain control over them. a shaky cease fire. both sides have completely violated the seven day truce negotiated more than a week ago. there is no agreement to extend the cease fire when it expires. the fighting that erupted in april between sudan's armed forces and the para military rapid support forces has displaced almost 1.4 million people. almost 350,000 of them have fled to neighboring chad, egypt, and ethiopia, the u.n. says there are increasing reports of gender and domestic violence among the displaced, particularly among those who have remained inside sudan. a routine trip on a city bus turned into a violent shoot-
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new video out of north carolina shows a violent shoot- out between a bus driver and a passenger while the bus was moving. both men were injured and the driver has lost his job. cnn's isabel rosales has more. >> reporter: before seeing the video, i want to set the stage a little bit. according to the charlotte area transit system, this argument lasted about two minutes before any shots were fired between
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the driver and a passenger. the argument concerning the passenger wanting to be let off of the bus, the driver refusing to do that saying that it needed to be the next authorized stop within the rout. that is when the passenger, you can see in the video and according to the interim ceo pulled out a gun. that passenger being omari tobias. the driver of the bus seeing the gun, his name is david fuller, pulled out his gun and a shoot-out occurred. before showing you this part, we want to warn you, this video is graphic. [ sound of gunfire ] you can see fuller stopping the bus. and then he starts to approach down the hallway. there's two bystanders inside of a bus that were unharmed. they are trying to exit as well. one moving to the rear of the bus. and then the suspect crawling
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on the floor of the bus. the driver firing a couple of other rounds. both of them were shot. the driver shot in the arm. the suspect shot in the abdomen. and sent to the hospital in stable condition. here is what the interim ceo of cats had to say about this incident. >> i understand everyone's need to protect themselves. i also believe this incident may have been avoided. >> the passenger there faces several charges. police have not indicated whether the driver will also face charges. according to the interim ceo of cats, the driver did not follow deescalation protocols saying it would have been reasonable for him to stop the bus and allow the passenger off in that situation. the bus driver was hired by a third party contractor and they are not allowed per policy to
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have any weapons. that driver was terminated. our cnn affiliate wsoc spoke with the driver's attorney who said he has been working on the bus for 19 years working on that city bus. having a weapon is an indicater of how these drivers feel about their safety. >> anyone in the workplace who is consistently confronted with dangerous scenarios could reasonably be expected to find a way to protect themselves so they can get home safely. >> there are three ways for the drivers to get help if something goes wrong. including a radio to contact other employees and two silent alarms adding this driver did not trigger any of those. is. isabel rosales, cnn, atlanta. authorities in new mexico have charged a man with an open count of murder after gunfire at a motorcycle rally saturday
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left three people dead and five injured. the man charged, jacob david castillo is also in the hospital after the shooting. the police chief had harsh words. >> these gang bangers are lawless. what they are, are gang bangers, choose to have a three- day sleepover in new mexico. and not follow any of our laws and bully people around here, that will not be tolerated for the rest of this weekend. >> it all happened tat red river memorial day motorcycle rally which typically draws nearly 30,000 bikers annually. police said everyone involved has been taken into custody. as tens of thousands of migrants flood into new york, the city is finding a new group of partners to help house them. we will show you who they are and hear why they are stepping up to help.
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as tens of thousands of migrants pour into new york city, officials are looking for places to house them all. one of those places will be a former correctional facility that also served as a place of refuge for migrants more than 100 years ago. and as paolo sandoval tells us, faith based centers are stepping forward to help. >> reporter: just below a bustling brooklyn interstate, this brick building offers shelter in the migrant crisis. >> we have 17 migrants staying with us. each bed is their living space. >> reporter: soni ali helps run the community center which has collectively offered respite to 75 asylum seekers of all faiths as new york struggles to keep up with demands of housing
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nearly 45,000 homeless migrants. this organization helps to shoulder the wait. >> as a muslim it is an obligation to help those who are migrants, travelers, we all decided to take that step. >> reporter: holly was five when her family emigrated to the u.s. from cashmere. >> i can understand what they are feeling when they talk about their families and their children that they have left behind or their wives. i understand that. because i do have family members back home that are not here. and you feel that sense of belonging. i understand that part of their journey and situation. >> reporter: she says her community center is among the faith based organizations who teamed up to help. a local government official says they will announce the program that seek to open to 50
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faith based shelters in july. each offering about 19 beds. the goal is to count on at least 950 additional beds for asylum seekers by the fall. however, institutions will have to meet building codes to house large groups. for ali that means installing fire sprinklers. >> this might take a little longer than we expected. from what i was told, or what i'm aware of is there are two slots. june and september. we were hoping for june, but it doesn't look like it. >> the plan to use some of new york city's houses of worship come as the city and the state are forced to get creative to expand shelter space. >> there are some schools with dorms. some schools not reopening. former correctional facilities which are not ideal. but that is space. if we can change the environment. >> reporter: as new and unusual options emerge, faith based communities are already
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offering sanctuary. >> spiritually, it has been humbleing to hear the stories and know we are making a difference in these individuals' lives. >> reporter: sunday, a spokesperson for new york city confirmed for me there is a plan to use a 10,000 square foot facility in the upper neighborhood of harlem. the facility had been used to house new aarrived jewish migrants. it also had been used previously as a correctional facility. state official telling cnn that it has no cells and they are working it on transforming it into a welcoming space for migrants. asiana airlines is not selling certain seats on some of its planes after a passenger was caught on video opening an aircraft door in midair. the plane landed minutes after the incident friday. and the man was arrested.
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the airline now says it is suspending sales of some emergency exit seats on several of its aircraft. as a safety precaution. a possible break flu in sustainable injury. a danish company says it has cracked an issue with the blades turbines like these. the blades are incinerated and end up in a landfill when they reach the end of their lifetime because they are made with materials like fiberglass that are extremely difficult to break down. now the danish company vista says it has discovered chemical technology that could eventually be used to recycle the old blades into new ones. one experts says it could be a game changer. thanks so much for joining us, for international viewers, world sports is up next. for our viewers in the united states and canada, i'll be right back with more cnn newsroom.
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as the fate of a key abortion medication hang ins the balance in u.s., young people are expected to face some difficult decisions. a woman had a life threatening miscarriage when she only took one of two pills meant to be taken together. >> reporter: melissa novak and stuart day met 15 years ago. >> we kissed new year and we have not been separate since. >> reporter: they married, moved to atlanta, and earlier this year they were thrilled when melissa got pregnant. they had an ultrasound at eight week. >> we were excited and go see the heartbeat. >> but when you showed up for the ultrasound, was there a heartbeat? >> no. there was not. >> reporter: melissa was having an early miscarriage which is very common. but what happened next was not. and melissa nearly died. to help a woman miscarry safely, it is saturday practice
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for obstetrician to offer these two drugs together. mifepristone and mizeprostel. the combination is approved to end a pregnancy. her miscarriage was at the end of march just a a judge was considering whether to block access to mifepristone nationwide. her doctor mentioned that lawsuit and prescribed her only mizeprostel. that drug is less effective when used on its own. nine days later, she dropped a fever. >> my fever was really came on hard and strong. then suddenly, i had incredible back pain. i was having trouble standing. >> reporter: she had a septic incomplete abortion. >> when she is laying in the hospital shaking with 100 some odd degree fever, there is nothing i can do about it so that feeling of helplessness, especially when it is somebody
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you love so much, we didn't know if she was going to live or die. >> reporter: the mifepristone lawsuit is still winding its way through the legal system toward the supreme court. depending upon how judges rule, americans could lose access to the drug nationwide. in a statement to cnn, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, an antiabortion obstetrician says there has been standard of care for decades. in fact, mizeprostel is not approved on its own for miscarriage. >> any of us that care for women with miscarriages are really concerned. more women are going to have unnecessary surgeries. more women are going to have complications and we will nod be providing the best care. >> reporter: after four days in the hospital and emergency surgery, melissa recovered and she and stuart are ready to try for another baby. they are telling their story
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because they are worried about what might happen to others in a similar situation. in a special session at their annual meeting this week, the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists advised their members mifepristone is still available in all 50 states. but if the plaintiffs succeed, it won't be. >> the fact that nonmedical professionals are able to dictate medical care to my wife or anyone is absurd. >> reporter: under georgia law, melissa could have been offered mifepristone but obstetricians say it is a little bit like the fog of war. day-to-day, it can be unclear of what they are allowed to do to care for their patients and if they get it wrong, they could go to prison. authorities want to know why venice's grant canal is
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looking green. they are investigating. it was first spotted near the famed realto bridge was slowly spread and officials have taken water samples and are hoping surveillance video will offer some clues. no environmental group has taken responsible for the change in color. lithium is set to be extracted from under california's salton sea. cnn's mike valerio explains how the new lithium rush could save the dying sea. >> reporter: it looks like a shimmering sea that was once called a miracle in the desert. >> the salton rivera is the place for you to take charge of your future. >> reporter: a hollywood hide away three hours from los
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angeles where sinatra and the rat pack played. now after decades of drought and farm run off raising the salinity, it is surrounded by dust and decay. >> the hope is that the chronic unemployment and poverty down here can be alleviated by the development of lithium valley. >> reporter: this gurgling and sputtering from underground gases. >> these structures are called mud volcanos. >> reporter: deep underneath us where two tectonic plates are pushing past each other, magma heats ground water. and within that salty water called brine, minerals dissolve including the valuable metal lithium. >> this is the gold right here. >> reporter: solid lithium is essential for vehicle
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batteries. most production is in china but the salton sea region could provide enough lithium to move the u.s. to lithium independence. >> our intention is to be in construction this year and be in operation in 2025. >> reporter: eric is ceo of energy source minerals. one of three companies planning to draw lithium from the underground hot brine. >> this is where the separation begins. >> yes. this is where the high pressure fluids coming up into our high pressure separator. >> reporter: boiling brine already fuels 11 power plants. the brine steam spins the turbines creating clean energy. the plan now is to extract dissolved lithium from that same brine. >> we developed a technology that is incredibly efficient in extracting lithium from brine. >> one of the hopes is it could
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bring back vitality to the salton sea. people who live in and around the area hope with more money in the economy, at least a fraction of the salton sea can be restored to its former glory. it is hoped a lithium boom leads to a boom of customers and a tax revenue for a better future. my grandchildren will grow up here. he tells us. i hope they will have good services and a good quality of life. that is, if lithium leads to a second miracle in the desert. one for our time. and for the road ahead. i'm mike valerio reporting. the environmental group green peace is using art to highlight the connection between fossil fuel and plastic
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pollution. they unveiled this sculpture in paris saturday. it represents an oil derrick churning out an endless supply chain of plastic bottles. it is called the perpetual plastic machine. >> it is an installation trying to highlight the connection between fossil fuel production and plastic production. plastic pa lutes during its entire life cycle. this idea that plastic cans be recycled infinitely is only kind of half true. because every single year, we produce 300 million tons of plastic. >> the installation was unveiled ahead of the u.n. conference in paris where delegates will try to come up with a legally binding pact to eliminate plastic waste. a belarusian tennis player is defending the ukrainian opponent who refused to shake her hand. it happens at the end of this
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match at the french open. costuka refused to meet sebelenka at the net. instead going straight to the umpire. and back to her seat. well, sebelenka who is the second ranked women's tennis player in the world spoke to reporters after the match. >> i understand why they are not shaking hands with us. i can imagine if they are going to shake hands with us and then what is going to happen to them from ukrainian side. i understand that. and i understand that this is not kind of personally. you know? i said it many times. nobody in the world supports the world. nobody. how can we support the war? normal people will never support it.
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>> well kasuka is from kyiv and she said at january's australian open she would not shake hands with anyone russian or belarusian opponent with war raging in her country. crashes, fires, and a tire launched into the parking lot. this year's indianapolis 500 had a host of dramatic events including a first time winner. three different crashes in the last 16 laps stopped the race momentarily. one driver lost a tire which flew over the fence and into the parking lot damaging one car. this marks the first indy 500 win for joseph newgarden who seem seemed to enjoy the traditional winner bottle of milk in victory lane. queen could be in the running for a historic sale of their music.
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>> a source tells cnn universal music group will be acquiring queen's catalog. the deal could pass a billion dollars making it the highest valued catalog on record. that record is currently held by bruce springstein's catalog sold for $500 million. thank you very much for watching. i'll be back with more cnn news room after this short break. he? ♪ are there ananimals living underwater? ♪ is the ocean warm? yeah, it c can be very warm. ♪ you were made to remember some days forever. we were made to help you find the best way there. ♪
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