a critical dam has collapsed in ukraine leading to massive evacuations and prompting fears of large scale devastation. so who is to blame for the collapse? a woman goes to a neighbor's house and gets shot through the door, and now her family demanding to know why no one has been arrested. major news in the sports world. the pga tour is announcing that it is effectively merging with the saudi-backed liv golf and so

why the huge about face? this is cnn "news central." a critical dam in southern ukraine that collapsed this morning was damaged just over a week ago according to a newcnn image from satellite pictures. this attack was on may 28th, but this image from yesterday shows a part of that road is now missing. circled in red, you can see it there that the portion of the curved road is gone. cnn cannot independently verify whether the damage caused collapse or whether it was destroyed in a deliberate attack. ukrainian and russian officials have blamed each other for the destruction, and hundreds of

residents in kherson were forced to evacuate as the water flooded their neighborhood. scott mclane is joining us, and this is telling looking at the satellite images as well. >> yes, you are absolutely right, and the blame game is going on with both the ukrainians and the russians blaming each other for what happen happened, but all the while, it is serious damage. let me give you an idea of to damage, and we are talking about the dnipro river here and this is four cubic miles of water. this is the same water volume of the great salt lake in utah, and it is enormous volume of water, and obviously the dam is here, and we are starting to see as you mentioned some flooding that is happening down stream, and also complicating the things for the rescue workers according to the ukrainian side is that many of the roads are flooded and starting to get washed out, and

so people going in to evacuate pe people. and the ukrainians say that the russians planted bombs on the hydrodam, and the russians say it is carried out by the ukraine yans here near kyiv because they wanted to deprive crimea of water. and crimea is way over here, and what does that mean? crimea has had a water shortage because of this annexation over here. this is when they say that with this canal, things were alleviated and water levels would drop, but they would have water for some time. also of concern is the

zapor zaporizhzhia nuclear plant here, and the airport is also here. >> thank you for the update. john. joining me is retired army brigadier general mark kimmett, and what we want to emphasize is that the dnipro river is the occupying line occupied by the russians and the ukraine proper, and this is all ukraine proper, but the area where ukraine is in control, and this is the dam that was blown up or destroyed to impact the possible ukrainian counter offensive? >> well, it is significant, because we would be up on a wall talking about kherson.

if you cut a line, that is going to intersect the important road between crimea and the donbas and that is going to be across the area, and the most important way to conduct the counteroffensive. so with this blocked off, they can't use that critical avenue of approach, and now the russians can take all of the troops used for the defense in the south, and put them up north to bolster the lines elsewhere. so it is significant. >> now, i don't know, general, if you can see the map that i have here, but i am drawing some xs in the region that you are talking about around kherson here, and you are saying that the russians in theory because it is block and flooded for the ukrainian troops, move the troops up here in this region, and the reason here is to block

a possible counteroffensive from ukraine, with them going to the map of asov yes. he has not been strong everywhere, but if you have taken off the likely avenue of attack, you displace all of the other forces down there and strengthen the lines in those two or three other areas which may be coming in. so, yes, it is significant and i suspect that is what is showing on the maps. >> again, the ukrainians and i will remind people what we are talking about, a nd the river

here, and so assuming that is the case that they planned for the possibility that this region particularly right around here might be flooded, what measures might they take? if they thought that all along, then obviously, the counteroffensive regions would not have included that, and the other attack routes would have included those other regions, and if they weren't using kherson, that is very good, and the fact that the russian forces down there were pinned down are now no longer pinned down, and now moving into other areas. >> general, just to reiterate this fact that we made clear here, this dam is controlled in an area by the russian, and we don't know who is responsible for the destruction, but if in

fact, it was the russians controlling this territory, would a destruction point to strength or weakness by them? >> this is a logical military maneuver, and if you have to attack a 600-mile front, and you have to reduce the options for the ukrainians to attack on a 400-mile front there, that is going to make it a lot more sense. we have the same concerns in world war ii that the germans would do this in the valley which is why our major objective was to stop them from blowing up the dam, and we were successful at doing that, so no, i don't think it is crazy on the part of the russians. it is scorched earth strategy that they are take. and this is quite logical from the military point of view. >> just to reiterate what the

general is talking about, to flood this area here, and prevent the crossing here, it is moving the battlefield over here to this region and making it smaller. thank you, general kimmet for explaining this to us. and major news coming from the golf world. the pga is merging with the saudi-backed liv world. and christine romans is joining us, and this is stunning announcement, and shocking everyone, and seeming to shock everybody. >> yes, it is a blockbuster coming out here, and the headline is "nevermind." how they spoke about the 9/11 families and the murd per of jamal khashoggi, it is out of the window, and the pga tour has womenped out, and gone into

business with the saudis and the people who killed kamal khashoggi and the people responsible for 9/11. i am shocked, because as you know, that we have talked about this over the last year, and all of my reporting has been how angry the pga tour, the players jack nicklaus and some of the great names have been at the liv golfers for taking that blood money, and now to see the pga tour basically in bed and going into business with them is truly a huge story. >> what is the motivation behind it then? >> i talked to a source a few moments ago, and a couple of other sources as well, as we are all scrambling to get more information and what sounds like it to me, the powers that be at, men's golf, they were sick and tired of the skabsquabbling and

drama and the masters, i was writing about liv golf taking away from the game of golf, and so they decided to merge. that is the concern. it is taking away too much of the oxygen of the game at a time when tiger woods is basically finished and phil mickelson is done, and tv ratings are never going to be what they have been with tiger, and to lose more fans over the rancor and the bickering of the boy on the liv and what a cave-in by the pga tour, and what a wimp with all of the moral standings, and i don't know if i have seen anything like this in quite some time. >> when we had spoken about this, and i mean, you had been very candid and forthright and

you called it sports washing how you called the saudi regime is using golf to cover up for the human rights record. i guess we can say that some of it is not exactly clear what combining the commercial operations is going to be, and do you have lingering questions about this now? >> yes, i do. i sure do, a laundry listment and someone is going to be come back to somebody like me, and say, separate tours and operating together, and let's go right to the heart of the matter, kate. that is that the pga tour will now be in business with the people who killed and dismembered jamal khashoggi, and in business with the people responsible for 9/11 and part of sports washing, because liv golf

and the saudi investment fund, they are leaping for joy. they are dancing through the streets, because they have won. they, the pga tour has caved to them. and the pga tour is saying what could they have done? the masters the u.s. open and the pga championship and if they had looked to the golfers and said, no, you cannot play here, and something that we have talked about, and i have written about, and if they had taken the stand, and justing sexism and said, no, no masters or u.s. open, i think that liv golf would have caved, and that is what they could have done, but they didn't, and now they have a fiasco on their hands that is very difficult for them to try to explain to journalists like

me and you, and we will be asking questions for many weeks and months going forward. >> if nothing else, it is an important opportunity for everyone to remind them to look at the cas assessment of how high it went of approving and the murder and planning of jamal khashoggi and maybe a good day of reminding everyone of where that came from. sara. from shutting down drag shows and gender affirming care, and legislation introduced thousands of lgbtq bills, and now the largest number of rights have incited outrage. a family of a slain mom has demanded an arrest, but it has

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and those airfields are expected to continue across the u.s. and now, we will go to omar, who is where chris christie is going to hold his announcement, and also, what are you learning about what chris christie's focus is going to be. >> yes, at the one and only st. anslem's college, we are expecting brief remarks and then opening it up to the group that will be there, and what we are looking for the tone to be set, and critically how this time is going to be different from 2016, and of course, the previous bid for the white house, but also, he has not been shy about going

after former president donald trump who is seen as largely the frontrunner in this primary race, but he has also been candid saying that i had to work with this guy before. i'm not somen never trumper who is now looking to unseat him. this is what he said before. >> you are hearing and talking with someone who wanted him to be better and do what is best for the country, and he failed me even worse than he failed you. so, i'm not going to stand around and let this happen. now, if i decide to run, i'll be able to try to do something directly about it. >> now, despite all of that said, i should say polls have shown an uphill battle for the former new jersey governor, and of course, he would join a growing list of the gop

candidates in this primary season, and so he has to do more to standout, butofficially begin as he is expected to announce for president today. >> and omar, debate stage, donald trump and chris christie interesting. >> and first he has to get there, and he needs donors, and so that is going to be interesting. >> true. >> and now, there is a controver surrounding a flood at donald trump's home at mar-a-lago. there was a pool that was drained and it flooded a server in a room. and that is the room they found hundreds of classified documents. and evan perez, you have gotten some information about some of the people involved here.

>> the issue for the prosecutors is to hone in on this idea that there was obstruction, and as you know, that i have been looking at whether some of the workers there at mar-a-lago were moving boxes ahead of a visit by prosecutors to collect some of the documents. we know that they have had subpoenaed surveillance videos that were provided by the trump organization. this was in the early summer before the mar-a-lago search in early august, and came back asking for more surveillance and a preservation order, and we asked for the context, and you don't know, and the investigators don't know if this flood incident by the pool was intentional, a mistake, but there are some suspicions, and that is the reason why they are asking these questions of some

of the witnesses. again, it is not clear whether it was intentional, but we know that at least one person said that the i.t. equipment was not damaged. and so until jack smith tells us otherwise, that what we believe. >> and so, speaking of jack smith, any information of the meeting that took place between doj and the attorneys of donald trump and the investigators looking into the documents? >> well, he turned up at the meeting that the trump team had asked for at the justice department, and they did not get a meeting with the attorney general which is what they had requested, but jack smith did show up as did the top career prosecutor official at the justice department who they had a meeting with. again, they were in there for 90 minutes, and john, they were told, and rather, they were not told if there was an imminent charge or indictment coming for

the former president, and they were told that it is unfair, and the former president is being treated unfairly. >> thank you for you there in washington. a florida woman was shot and killed by her neighbor, also a mother, and how a dispute over the children led to her tragic death. also, the school board in oklahoma, has listed the first charter school to be publicly funded. but isis that constitutional? and d relentlessly work with yu to make them real. ♪

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this morning the mother of four is dead and the family is grieving after she was shot by her neighbor in florida. ms. owen was shot by her neighbor after an altercation voing kids. now growing calls for the neighbor's arrest. carlos flores is joining with us the rest. bring us up to speed on the rest. >> the marin county office is looking at whether the shooting was in self-defense, but it is an argument that the family says is not possible. a.j. owens was killed in ocala florida. they say that owens knocked on the door of a neighbor who the family says is white, and minutes earlier had an issue with the childrens playing outside.

the victim's family said that the woman had harassed them and calling them racial slurs and the n-word, and owen said that her daughter wanted to know why the woman kept an ipad that the children left behind and why the woman threw a pair of skates at them. this is more on what the victim's mother said. >> she knocked on susan's door. a closed locked door. the door never opened. my daughter, my grandchildren's mother was shot and killed. with her 9-year-old son standing next to her. she had no weapon and she posed no imminent threat to anyone. >> authorities have not made an

arrest yet because of the florida's stand your ground law, and they are going to have to rule deadly force or not, and the sheriff's deputies have responded to incidents involving both of these families several times now since 2021. they put that number of calls at between six to eight. >> all right. carlos suarez keep us posted. kate? >> the country's first publicly funded charter school is approved, and this charter school in oklahoma is required $28 million in taxpayer funding in the first five years, but the oklahoma attorney general is calling this funding unconstitutional. and ed lavandera is back with us, and how did this charter school get approval? >> before this vote, you would

be hard pressed to know that anybody knew that there was a oklahoma statewide virtual charter school board. the members of the board voted 3-2 yesterday to approve the application for the saint isabel order of seville to be run by the archdiocese of tulsa and oklahoma city, and it would be opened by the fall of 2024, and the initial enrollment would be 500 students. and yesterday, the application was approved to be opening, and first charter school using taxpayer money anywhere in the country, kate. >> how do you sum up the reaction to this, and clearly a lot of people are talking, and the attorney general is speaking out about it, and what happens n

now? >> obviously, this is sparking intense dialogue, and the archdiocese is elated by the decision of the board, and the support of the governor of oklahoma who says that it is a win for religious liberty and education freedom in giving the parents school choice and the support of the superintendent of education as well, but there is a great deal of opposition to this. ironically coming from another republican in state government the attorney general in oklahoma who described this as essentially unconstitutional, and he is extremely disappointed that the board members violated their oath of office to fund religious schools with tax dollars and there is another advocacy group of separation of church and state, and see this as a violation of the separation of the church and state and

schools cannot become sundayle schools. obviously there will be much more on this one. >> yes, sounds like it. sara. $115 million is going to be spent to support infrastructure in jackson, mississippi, and this is coming after months of heavy rains resulted in major water shortages and unsafe drinking water for the city, but the city's problems go back many years, and boil advisories are commonplace for many cities and residents. michael reghr is now coming on the show to help us to understand what can go on the money list to help to us solve this problem? >> thank you, sara, for having

me this morning. we are excited to make this announcement, and the president worked hard with congress to secure $600,000 in appropriations specifically fork -- for jackson. we are announcing the first round of $115 million to go through to plug up system of the holes in the system to make sure that the pressure is going to stay at a certain rate. there is a lot of work, and investments that will have to go through the coming months and year, by it is a city with black residents, and they have missed deadline after deadline when it comes to installing pipes, and how do you know in is the money is going to go to where it needs to go before the next disaster

and the people suffer more? >> well, a court order and process that is overseen by the court, and we have everyone from state and federal authorities that are overseeing, and these areas invested in the priority areas, to ensure that number one, that we get everyone safe, affordable, and drinking water and continue to give them safe drinking water as we restore the integrity of the system. it is a process to take years, but people should not question the integrity of the drinking water, and those are the types of the investments that we are continuing to make and announcing today. >> i want to switch gears, because we have new reporting out of palestine, ohio, where there was that derailment, and more than 1 million pounds of chemicals leaked into the air,

and the water and of that town, and the cleanup is still going on, and how much longer will this need to go before it is cleaned can up? >> well, sara, i have been to east palestine as many times as i have been to jackson, mississippi, and like jackson, east palestine, the citizens there are facing a situation where, you know, they feel like their environment and their local surroundings are uncertain. we have been there since day one, and moving expedited pace, and over 21 tons of waste has been removed from that area, and it is our job and expectations to restore that community back to normalcy as soon as possible. >> is there any time frame that you can give us. are we talking about weeks more,

months more or days more? >> our goal is by the end of the summer to have the ma jo jor ti of the work completed if not fully finished, but we are not leaving until the job and adds we continue what the community is asking us to do, we won't leave any stones unturned until we finish the job. >> michael regan, thank you for joining us, and giving us that update. prince harry is under cross-examination inside of a london courtroom, and the unexpected tough questions he is facing. leverage. [w[whispering] -frothy markets. psst. vivirtual real estate is a loc. ♪ cold hard cash ♪ j.p. morgan wealth management knows the worlrld is full of financial noise. i'm looking at your asset mix and plan. you are right on track.

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we are going to show you live pictures of london where prince harry has cameras and journalists of all over the world are waiting to see if prince harry is going to be leaving a courtroom. moments ago, he just wrapped testifying in the huge legal fight in a major uk newspaper publisher. he was grilled about his recollection that were accused of routinely hacking his phone, and it is very rare for a senior royal to testify in court, and much less face such tough questioning on the stand. you can see everyone standing by outside, and while we are keeping an eye on that picture, you can see max foster who is following all of this. max, what is the latest? >> well, you know, he didn't have to go through this, and he chose to go through the

cross-examination as part of the wider effort to reform the british press, and that why he is there. and grueling day, and another day of it tomorrow, and what he did was to hand in 33 calls that he believed were hacked or the information was attained illegally, and then under cross-examination, the mirror group has gone under each article questioning if they were really coming from hacking. so, for example, one article was in the public domain, and all of the information from that, and the palace was briefing stories which harry did not know about, and it did not necessarily come from hacking, and that is all from cross-examination, and speaking to the wider point, and piers morgan saying that he and his band of journalists wigging into his family's affairs made

him physically sick. and he says they are complicit into his mother's death because of allowing this to happen. so that is why he is here in london doing what he could, but he didn't do well in that he was not aware of all of the details, and the barrister was able to undermine him. >> and so, just underscore how unusual it is for a royal to be put on the stand and question it. >> i was able to watch it all remotely, and so i was in court watching it all, and to see a senior royal like that, they don't get grilled like that and surrounded by yes people. so that is interesting. princess anne was in court and her dog was accused to biting someone and you have to go back to over 100 years for a high

profile case. and he has not been taken to court, but this is his case to be cross-examined, but if you are watching it televised, you wo would be quite gripped by it. >> as everyone is seeing him stop and leave court, what are the odds of him to stop and talk to the cameras? >> possibly zero. at the end, he doesn't do any of the doorsteps or news interviews anymore, and he does what he can do, and he won't give the press anything consider ing surroundings of this case. >> thank you. and now, the ice could

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scientists are sounding the alarm this morning. they say the sea ice that blankets much of the arctic could disappear during summertime much sooner than was predicted. scientists warn an arctic with no summer sea ice would send dire ripple effects around the world. bill we're is with us. how important is this ice? and when are we talking in terms of when it's gone? >> it's hugely important. one scientist liken it is to an

if things could get worse. and we're talking about ice free summers ten years sooner. by the 2030s or so. and the more we see, the more the planet warms, the better instruments get. the more we're seeing vastly underestimate the pace of climate change. and you can see on the charts, now it's looking like it went down by 12.5% per decade. and this is hugely important because of what's known as the albeto reflect, the reflection off the white ice in the summertime deflects the sun's energy away from earth. the ocean absorbs it. which brings more heat into the ecosystems. >> it's all happening much earlier than expected. why? what are we doing? what is being done that's making it move so quickly.

>> the unchecked heat trapping pollution that's going up by the gig ton, we have known this is the main driver of this. but we what we didn't understand are the complexity of the climate system. the differences between high stratospheric particulates and clouds and how they act to mask global warming or stop or accelerate it. all these things, ocean currents and how they change under these changes is all coming much clearer now. and it's adding up to the climate crisis is accelerating faster than predicted for a long time. it should be a warning to the leaders out there to buckle up for what's already built in and try to stop it. every tenth of a degree is a difference between entire ecosystems living or dying. >> thank you so much. >> we usually end on a high note, but there's nothing else

to say. >> i would say the high note is this. bill says that a lot of the reports are doom and gloom, but there is progress. people just need to do more. >> maybe it's just me. maybe i'm just the doom and gloom. >> then we're all done because you're the most optimistic person i know. >> thank you so much for joining us. "inside politics" is up next. it's not too late to show summmmer's who's boss. and wayfair's got just what you need. they have all the top grills and gear. with smoking fast shipping. you'll feel like a big deal. yes! so get outdoorsy for way less at wayfair.

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