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♪ a critical day for the u.s. economy and maybe for house speaker kevin mccarthy's career. what could be the decisive vote on the controversial deal to raise the debt ceiling is just hours away. florida governor ron desantis taking on donald trump directly for really the first time since becoming a presidential candidate. hitting the campaign trail in iowa and vowing to fight back against the former president. also happening dailtoday, historic meeting on ufos, nasa set to unveil what a nine month long investigation uncovered. this is c"cnn news central." so this really is the day that could make or break the deal to avoid a catastrophic u.s. default. it is also the day that could make or break the speakership of
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kevin mccarthy. the house will vote on the debt ceiling. the rules committee did narrowly vote in favor of advancing the bill to the house floor, but there was severe pushback from some conservatives. the bill now needs a simple majority to pass or 218 if everyone is present today. as it stands right now, republicans control 222 seats in the house, democrats 213. republican leadership had promised the white house about 150 of its members to vote yes which means democrats would have to make up the rest. but the real number to watch might be 111. that is half the republican membership. if the bill does not get a majority of republican votes, some republicans have suggested that they would move to oust house speaker kevin mccarthy. so technically the bill could pass but still get mccarthy in a heap of hot water. the time frame to get the bill signed into law is now extremely tight. treasury department says the u.s. will not be able to pay its
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bills come monday. overnight the congressional budget office estimated that it would save about $1.5 trillion over a decade. let's get right to capitol hill and find out where things stand at 9:02 a.m. lauren fox is there. how do things look right now? >> reporter: well, we are a couple of hours away from the vote this evening. but there is a couple of things to keep an eye on. the first one is a vote that will come to the house floor later this evening in which they are going to be voting on the rule. and the reason that that matters is because typically republicans in the majority would be the ones to get that across the finish line. but there are some questions about whether or not given some of the hard line conservatives concerned about the bill, whether they can pass the rule on their own. i asked the republican whip earlier today and he said that he was confident that they could. but if they can't, democrats may have to jump in.
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then you get to the final vote. both sides of leadership feeling confident that they will get the support that they need. democrats are just huddling now with white house officials, getting any final questions answered as the white house is trying to rally support on their side for this legislation. everyone very optimistic that this bill is going to pass out of the house. but the next question is what happens in the u.s. senate. and while many republicans are very confident that the votes will be there on their side to help democrats get it across the finish line in the senate, the key question remains how long will it take. you have to have some kind every time agreement in order to speed the process up and make that june 5th deadline. how quickly it will all come together in the senate is what we'll be keeping our eyes on next. so house vote tonight, then all eyes turnover to the other side of capitol hill where the senate will have to make their mark. >> lauren fox, keep us posted. thank you.
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and there are many aspects to this bill. one that we haven't had a chance to talk as much about is the impact that the deal has on federal student loans. if passed as it, the agreement would end the pause put in place by president biden on student loan repayments and end it at about august 30th. that is if it is passed as is. that means people would need to start back up with those payments after that and they would also start being charged interest on those loans once again. you will likely remember the moratorium on repayments started back in march of 2020 during the pandemic and it has been extended since by the biden administration. now the house speaker touted this change, this aspect of the deal as a republican victory on sunday. >> the pause stops within 60 days of this being signed. that is another victory because that brings in $5 billion each month to the american public. >> there is that. but in what appears to be a
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compromise, the president's waiver program remains in place and untouched as part of the deal that he struck. this is the program that cancels up to $20,000 in federal student loans for about what comes out to about 43 billion americans, americans that make less than $125,000. about 26 million people have applied for that relief so far. but this is all now in legal limbo because the fate of the waiver program is before the supreme court safer from the debt negotiation. and the supreme court is expected to rule on the matter in the coming weeks. and now to the war in ukraine, cross border strikes along the russian s/ukraine kra border are increasing. and four people were injured in a massive strike according to the governor in that region. in the south two russian oil
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refineries were also targeted by drones and new footage shows a fire that broke out at one of those refineries after the alleged attack. in ukraine five people were killed, more than a dozen injured from shelling and russian controlled luhansk. fred pleitgen is in kyiv for us. what more do we know? >> reporter: it certainly seems to indicate that the russians are under pressure not only in the territories that they occupy on ukrainian soil but also their own territory as well. you'll recall last week there was a cross border rate by some anti-putin russian forces where they went across the border in area, held some territory for a while and then went back. and now you have the cross border shelling that took place where several people were injured there. that happened in a small village that is right by the border with russia, very small place.
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i was in that region in february of last year when the invasion began. the area is small but very close to the town which is one of russia's main military centers in that region. so certainly this is something that is concerning not just because people were injured in all of that, but also because it is quite close to pretty important military hardware that the russians have. as you pointed out in other areas along that vast long border between russia and ukraine, russians coming under pressure, you had the drone strikes. also that drone attack that the russians were talking about that is a little further to the north, one of the things that happened there, apparently afterwards there was an artillery strike on a traffic circle and ukrainians believe the russians are doing that to stop any ukrainian advance into their territory that could give
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an indication how nervous russian forces are in that area and russian government is as well. one thing that we saw yesterday was that big drone attack that the russians blame on the ukrainians but ukrainians haven't said that they were behind it. but the vibe is that the russians feel that their homeland is now under attack. >> fred pleitgen, thank you. a sharp rebuke this morning from china about a u.s. spy plane flying over the south china sea calling u.s. reconnaissance missions a serious danger to china's national sovereignty and security. this is after the u.s. military says a chinese jet conducted an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver. that moment was caught on camera. we've highlighted the chinese jet flying past the u.s. spy plane. and the u.s. plane also as you watch the video, you will see
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that the u.s. plane shakes a little bit and u.s. officials say that was turbulence caused by this close call. natasha bertran is tracking all this for us. what else are you hearing from u.s. officials about all this now? >> reporter: yeah, u.s. officials are strongly condemning what they have described as a really risky and unnecessarily aggressive move by the chinese to intercept this american spy plane, and rc 135 arrive vet joint reconnaissance aircraft which is an come ducting a mission when the chinese fighter jet cut directly in front of the nose.come ductig a mission when the chinese fighter jet cut directly in front of the nose. it was manned and it caused turbulence from the wake of that chinese fighter jet. so the u.s. is saying this was dangerous and this comes at a time of heightened tensions between the u.s. and china. and this is the second time at least in just a couple months that china has done something
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like this according to indo-pacific command. you see the video of the incident which the department of defense released just yesterday. in december chinese did a similar risky and aggressive move according to the u.s. military, cutting in front of a u.s. reconnaissance plane just roughly 20 feet in front of it, obviously creating risk of a collision between the two aircraft. so the u.s. daifrd saying that the reason why they want to keep the lines of communication open between the chinese and americans is to avoid potentially catastrophic incident here. indo-pacific command released a statement yesterday saying that the united states will continue to fly, sail and operate safely and responsibly wherever international law allows. and the joint force will continue to fly in international air space with due regard for the safety of all vessels and aircraft. and the chinese offer a very different version of events saying the u.s. was interfering in a training course that the
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chinese were conducting in their air space, something that the u.s. obviously does not recognize. the chinese say that they control much of the territory in the south china sea and the u.s. says that it is international waters. this comes in a period of heightened tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of defense tried to set up a meeting with his counterpart in singapore while they are both there for a security forum and the chinese rejected that request. of course this is following former house speaker nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan that the chinese very much condemned as well as chinese spy balloon incident earlier this year. all of this of course the u.s. believes has led the chinese-u.s. relationship to deteriorate. >> thank you for that reporting. pentagon clearly taking this seriously in releasing this video to the public. >> very seriously.
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and this is the type of u.s. reconnaissance craft that was involved in that incident and i can show people roughly where it took place. this is the south china sea which china likes to claim as its own territories but very much international waters. retired general is with us to discuss. explain to us what the u.s. mission is, what the reconnaissance crafts are doing in that region and what do you see as the longer bigger impact of this confrontation? >> the rc 135 rivet is a reconization aircraft. a lot of people call it a spy plane. it has a pilot and about 20 crew members in the pack who are ew warfare experts and military intelligence analysts. they are flying over
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international air space collecting data which they do everywhere in the world to make sure we remain safe. china claims as you said earlier, this is china's national territory. it is not. it is international waters. and for the last several decades, we've been sending ships and aircraft into the international space to make sure they realize that this belongs to the international community. so this rivet joint airplane, which there was the same kind of interference in december, this is the same kind of aircraft british were flying over the black sea last september when russians tried to intercept it as well. there is a difference between interception, flying alongside, making sure an aircraft stays on path, letting them know that you know they are there, and there is another thing when there is this kind of unprofessional behavior. flying in front of an aircraft, causing disruptions in the air space, potentially making the aircraft crash. so that is the difference
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between a professional air force which china is certainly and unprofessional pilots or those who have been told to do something like this. and i think that sent cretary austin's visit to the indo-pacific region is one of the reasons that they did this. >> and i want to shift to ukraine. fred was talking about an incident that took place right at the border between ukraine, russia and belarus. and this extraordinary explosion right on this road that we can see there. ukrainians say the explosion took place right at this three sisters monument which is supposed to commemorate the bond between ukraine, belarus and russia. but ukraine says importantly the russians blew it up because it is on a road that goes up from ukraine into russia and ukraine says russia is concerned that ukraine may use that road to invade. what does that tell you about everything that is going on at the border right now?
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>> both sides are preparing, john. you know, ukraine is preparing for an offensive operation, that is why as we talked last week they are sending different shaping absences which include not only drones that will strike military targets, but the desire to show russia that some of their areas are undefended. if i'm a commander and i know suddenly my enemy force is coming into my area and i don't have troops there, i'll move troops there or disrupt their movement. that is what this is, trying to disrupt some of the movement potentially into this area. same thing in terms of shaping. ukraine is looking to get ready for an offensive operation. russia is quite frankly a little bit nervous about where they are going to do -- what they will execute and the kind of plans that they have. so this is all part of the early chess game in what will eventually be an offensive operation which i believe will be conducted soon. >> the explosions that we're
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seeing, preparation and perhaps nervous involved there. thank you so much for being with us. let's turn now to politics. republican field for 2024 is about to get a bit more crowded. another former trump ally throwing their hat in the ring or preparing to to challenge him. we're talking about former new jersey governor chris christie. omar jimenez is joining us. what are you hearing about chris christie's plans? >> reporter: yeah, so multiple sources have told me that he plans to make this announcement on tuesday in a town hall format in new hampshire. now, this has obviously been a decision he's been mulling for a long time now based on our reporting and from what we understand, again, town hall format. and this is after his allies recently formed a super pac to help support any presidential bid. and that gave an indication that this was actually going to happen, that that ground work
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started to be laid. over recent weeks folks in his camp told me that he had been talking to stakeholders and people that matter to him most to try to make this final step and it does appear that he's gotten to this decision. up to this point he hasn't been shy about saying that donald trump failed the country and he feels that he is the best candidate out of the many announced at this point to take on donald trump directly and then after it, appeal to enough independents to take on president biden. but of course as i mentioned, the gop field has gotten pretty crowded already from of course florida governor ron desantis, nikki haley, tim scott. the list goes on and on. and so there is going to be a lot of work ahead for the former new jersey governor to break through the pack. but they believe if he can get on the debate stage with president trump, that will be a big moment for him to try to
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make inroads and of course widen that appeal and a different result of course than how things ended in 2016. >> and we've definitely seen from chris christie in the past and in very recently he is not shy on taking on donald trump directly. so we'll be seeing that once he makes the announcement for sure. good to see you. so also someone else who has already thrown his hat in the ring, ron desantis. he is campaigning in iowa again today and for really the first time since become being a presidential candidate saying he is ready to fight back against the former president. jessica dean is in iowa. and this is a shift for ron desantis, a noteworthy one. what is he saying? >> reporter: it certainly is. before he got into this race, former president trump was directly attacking him for weeks and weeks leading up to him jumping into the race.
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what is interesting to track, he was in iowa for the first time as an official presidential candidate, last night was his launch event here. and inside that room with supporters in a church with evangelical voter, he did not mention president trump by name. he stuck to his accomplishments as florida governor, he talked about his vision, what he would do if he was elected president. once he got with the president and we were asking him questions about it, that is when we really heard him taking on the former president directly and going right at him. and this is a theme. when he is with voters and talking to them, that he can do it more indirectly. when talking to the press, he tends to go after the former president more directly and it is allowing him to thread that needle, a delicate balance. because remember a lot of these voters may have previously voted for president trump here in iowa and he is trying to convince them that he is the person to take the republican party moving forward. and we caught up with a couple
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voters after the event. here is what they thought. >> well, i voted for trump on the last one and i thought he did a lot of things. but it was constant criticism. and i just feel like maybe another person in there can work across the lines. i'm very impressed with desantis. i am. his character. it is his character, that's what it is. >> i think that he would be a great contender for trump. i think he is more appealing honestly for me and my age group and my generation. >> reporter: last night we also started to see kind of the contours of the back and forth between trump and desantis emerging with desantis really saying directly that he believes the former president has moved left on a lot of issues and that desantis is really holding the line and is where he has been and will continue to be. and we'll see him traveling all across the state of iowa today.
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it is a state he himself has said is very central to his campaign and will be incredibly important in the months to come in the run-up to this primary election. he will then go to new hampshire, south carolina, to other additional early states. but underscoring the importance of iowa, on saturday he will be right back here, he will have an event with senator joni ernst. >> great to hear from voters again. jessica, thank you so much. witnesses are back on the stand today in the death penalty trial of the man accused of the deadliest attack on jews in the u.s. ahead, what we are learning about the massacre at the tree of life synagogue. and another u.s. state is legalizing recreational marijuana. we'll tell you where that is happening. . and former first lady rosalynn carter has dementia, what we know about her condition, still ahead. hiring l. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people
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welcome back. jury selection begins this morning for the former school resource officer accused of failing to act when a gunman killed 17 people at a parkland florida high school in 2018. scot peterson charged with seven counts of child neglect after four students were shot to death, three others injured on the third floor. peterson was armed but stayed outside the building and did not confront the gunman. the former broward county sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty and said he didn't know where the shots were coming from. recreational marijuana use will soon be legal in minnesota for people age 21 and up. the governor signed the law yesterday and it allows the adults to possess up to 2 ounces in public, 2 pounds at home starting august 1. and expunges nonviolent cannabis convictions in the state. minnesota now the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana. and al pacino is having a
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baby. his rep confirmed the news to multiple outlets including "people" and e!. this would be his fourth child. he has twins that are 22 and a 33-year-old daughter. testimony resumes this morning in the federal death penalty trial of the man accused of killing 11 people inside a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. jurors heard audio made by one victim minutes before she was killed. 84-year-old bernice simon said we're being attacked, i'm scared to death. her husband was also killed. on the stand rabbi myers recounted hearing the gunshots and said i expected to die. danny freeman is outside the court in pittsburgh for us this morning. danny, what are you expecting to see today? >> reporter: well, john, we're expecting the trial to continue with more witnesses taking the stand and potentially hearing
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more of those calls that were so visceral and so emotional that we heard yesterday. and i'll talk more about that in a second. but i want to go back and remind folks what yesterday was all about. because yesterday really set the stage for what is going to be a we weeks' long trial here in pittsburgh. prosecutors came right out of the gate to establish primarily one thing, not just that robert bowers was the one who opened fire and killed 11 jewish worshippers back in 2018 in that synagogue, but also that he did so specifically because they were jewish and he did so in a horrifically violent way. and we actually learned a lot more details about just how violent and just how intentional these shootings were back then in that october morning. prosecutor said that robert bowers went through the synagogue basically room by room and methodically hunting jewish worshippers. and at the end of that shooting, s.w.a.t. team members came in, they got no a shoot-out with
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bowers and eventually bowers sur trendered. one s.w.a.t. officer asked why did you do this and bowers replied according to prosecutors because all jews need to do, jews are killing our kids. and we also heard from the defense yesterday as well, they made their opening statements and the defense frankly is not disputing any of the facts. they are not saying that bowers did not kill these people. the defense attorney calling his action s inexcusable, but the defense will try to ask the jury to consider if in their words his irrational motives and misguided intent ultimately fit with the 63 federal felony charges that bowers is facing. now, you spoke earlier about the 911 calls. that was really the moment that shifted the tone for this trial as i said earlier. bernice simon, we heard her 911 call from inside the chapel, 84 years old, she was in the sun go
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synagogue holding her husband who had already died trying to guide first responders where she was. and she was incredibly brave but also you hear gunshots and then a silence because she had been killed. so it will be another harrowing day we expect here in what will be a challenging and difficult trial ahead. john. >> what difficult memories, what an awful moment in this country's history. danny freeman, keep us posted. coming up for us, five people are still unaccounted for after the apartment building collapse in davenport, iowa. we have the latest on the continued search efforts, that is ahead. and a gas station owner charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old boy. details on that next. why mess with the sweet onion teriyaki, chuck? man, this aint messin', it's perfectin'! with marinated chicken and double cheese. sweet and savory... ...kinda like you and me, chuck. bye, p peyton. try the refreshed favorites at subway today.y. back when i had a working circulatory system, you had to give your right arm to find great talent.
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welcome back. some of our top stories this hour -- house of representatives expected to vote today on the long awaited and hard-fought debt limit deal. republican leaders believe that they have a majority of their members on board. and they are also clear that they will need democrats to push this over the line. and even then, it still needs to go through the senate of course. the country is now five days away from potentially defaulting on its debt. more on that ahead. also this morning, republican presidential candidate ron desantis is on the trail in iowa at his first official campaign event just outside des moines last night, he told reporters that he will counterpunch against any attacks coming from donald trump which a noteworthy shift who has long touted his close relationship
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with trump to his political advantage. and this morning officials in iowa are trying to decide whether they can keep searching for survivors at the site of that partially collapsed apartment building. what remains of the building officials say is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. but right now there are also still five people unaccounted for and at least two of them are believed to be inside. adrienne broaddus has been following this story for us. we know there were plans to demolish what is left of the building but that has been put on hold. where do things stand now? >> reporter: yesterday crews went back inside and conducted another search. they explored portions of the building that were safe, but they didn't discover any signs of human survivors. they did find people's pets. this is difficult. some families are angry. for example, mike collier said hours before the collapse he heard from his cousin and then his cousin didn't show up to the
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family gathering. >> y'all want to tear down the building and you know you got five people still unaccounted for. help me understand that. >> as much as we want to, we want to get everybody out and we want to do it right now. i apologize that i get upset. but there is a lot of things that we have to factor. so understand it is not that we don't want to do this, it is the fact that we have to do it in a safe manner. >> reporter: pain on both sides. everyone viewing the situation from a different lens. however officials are still trying to determine if it is even possible do any additional searches. they say the building could
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believes is part of north korea's failed space launch. earlier this morning north korea tried to launch a military reconnaissance satellite but it crashed into the sea due to what state media caused engine issues. the failure was due to a rushed launch and changed delight path. north korea plans to attempt a second launch soon. also protests in brazil are heating up, riot police fired tear gas and waternons at i believe doublindigenous groups. and this is eefr a bill that would limit ancestral lands. and secretary of state antony blinken is in sweden pushing to support the membership to nato. yesterday he spoke with his turkish counterpart. and turkey has been a hold outstanding this sweden's way after doing pretty of the same with regard to finland's nato membership, turkey eventually
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supported finland joining the alliance in march. blinken hopes to have the whole matter solved by mid-july. so in just a few minutes a nasa task force will hold a meeting on ufos or as it calls them uaps, unidentified anomalous phenomena. a group of experts spent nine months studying data and will discuss their findings. tom foreman is joining us. are we alone? >> reporter: well, and i aren't. i don't know about other people. a lot of people don't have a lot of friends. but this space thing, you know, what are they going to say. they will say we found things that we can't explain and that we want to look into more. that is what my guess is. for a long time the government wouldn't say anything at all and then the military finally said yeah, there are things out there that we're not quite sure what it is, defense people looked at some of the images as well. things captured by pilots and started saying that maybe there is something strange about this.
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so what is different, you say what is that thing, is it performing in some way that we don't understand. and if so, where did it come from. is it some kind of a test vehicle from another country, is it from space, is it some aerial phen phenomenon. and unidentified an onymous phenomenon, and also ufo. so they have had this group in place, this is the first peek at nasa's look at this. this is the difference. military has looked at this before, they continue doing what they are doing. this is the first time nasa has jumped in on this. they have a 16 member committee which they put together that has been looking at this, they are coming out with their initial findings before they put out an actual report. >> people are very interested in this and i think the significance here is it is being discussed now openly even if we may not get definitive answers.
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>> yeah, that's right. although i must say that everybody who has looked at it so far in all the different agencies, nasa included, has predicated it all by saying we don't really see evidence that this is coming from some extra ter extra ter recential source. and the military has had hundreds of these reports and many ultimately said this was a weather balloon or some kind of, you know, flock of birds. something that showed up in a way that it shouldn't have. in one case just plastic bags flying around. i think they will say twsdrltta, which will be things that we still don't really like to talk about. >> very catchy. tom foreman, thank you. >> that is a good acronym for you. north korea's attempt to launch a spy satellite didn't go as planned. what intelligence experts are saying about the failed mission, when we come back.
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dementia according to a statement from the family. they say that she continues to live -- she continues to live happily at home with her husband enjoying spring and planes and visits with loved ones. joining us for more on this is dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, she is 95 years old. how surprising is this diagnosis? >> well, you know, age is obviously a huge risk factor. we know that she's been generally very healthy. she's been this huge advocate, as you know, kate, for mental health overall, but age is a risk factor. if you look at people over the age of 65, that's when you see a sharper uptick especially when it comes to alzheimer's disease, alzheimer's dementia. we don't know specifically what type of dementia she's been diagnosed with and then as you go from 75 to 84 the numbers go up even more. she's 95, as you mentioned and she's in the category where you have the highest percentage of people who will have
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alzheimer's-type dementia. age is the biggest risk factor and there are other risk factors, as well, including family history, previous traumatic brain injury, race, ethnicity and those can be risk factors, as well. so not a huge surprise. we, again, we heard she was in the hospital in 2019, but have not heard anything about a potential dementia diagnosis before yesterday, so it seems to have -- not a surprise, necessarily, but more sudden than i think a lot of people expected. >> that's a great way of putting it. also, it is a reminder of how so many americans and so many families face the challenges of dealing with dementia these days. talk us through the symptoms associated with dementia and when people know that it's something much more significant than forgetfulness. >> yeah. it's a really important question. i think it's probably one of the most common questions we get because there are people who
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develop more natural, expected, age-related memory challenges a bit. it's not pre-ordained at all that that happens, but how do you know when it's turning into interesting like dementia? for example, when you talk about forgetting something. if you forget the name of an acquaintance, that's probably something that happens to everybody from time to time, that's normal, but if you forget the name of a family member, a close family member, that would be suspicious for dementia. i always say if someone forgets where their car keys are, that's n normal. if they forget what their car keys are for, that's probably dementia. if anyone is thinking about this in their own family, have the symptoms started to interfere with their activities of daily living? just how they conduct their lives. if it's gotten to that point, that becomes increasingly suspicious for dementia. >> so much when it comes to dementia is the support system
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around whomever is suffering from it, and we know, of course, the former first lady is surrounded by her loving family. what -- what is helpful to know for the rest of us who have someone who is suffering from dementia, how we can best help them? >> i think before the diagnosis even, to make sure there's not something else that's going on here, and i'm sure with mrs. carter, that's been done. the doctors have really targeted that and figured out that this is, in fact, dementia and there are other things with dementia and that is hearing loss. it's not that they're other toeting things, they didn't hear it in the first place. there are other things that mimic the symptoms of dementia, as well and there have been medications that have been approved. there haven't been any medications for over a decade and now you have a couple that have been approved and that's
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