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more critical point in the war. plus the pga tour is joining forces with saudi backed liv golf. the just announced partnership has shaken up the sporting world with many from golfers to lawmakers livid that this is moving forward. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are beginning with a major dam breech in ukraine. you can see water gushing through this dam here located in a critical area along the dnipro river. more than a thousand homes have flooded. a ukrainian official says 16,000 people on the river's west bank are in what he is calling a critical zone. russian officials on the other hand are telling residents there is no threat. both sides are blaming each other. ukraine says this was blown up

by russian forces in a panic. the kremlin is calling this deliberate sabotage by ukraine. cnn is learning from u.s. and western officials there are signs ukraine's counteroffensive is finally beginning. bring us up to speed on where things stand. >> reporter: sure. it is important to remember a couple things. this dam actually did sustain some damage in november of last year when the ukrainian counteroffensive succeeded in taking back part of the kherson region and the city of kherson. at that time a russian official went on russian state tv and said it would take a year to get it up and running as per normal. it is important to keep in mind this is what the dam looked like last week. this is a closer loom. this little section of roadway here that was here last week was not here yesterday. if you look at a more granular level at the satellite images it seems like last thursday or

friday is when this damage was sustained. how it happened, why it happened, what impact on the eventual collapse. we don't know. as you mentioned both sides blaming each other. it is important to keep in mind that the dam is here on the russian side. it is holding back an immense amount of water flowing in this direction, four cubic miles of water holding back. miles, not a unit of measurement you see very often. this is roughly the amount of water that is in the great salt lake. these areas down stream from the dam are in huge danger. kherson for instance has 300,000 people. you mentioned 16,000 in the critical zone and actually the head of the hydro electric company in ukraine says that it is going to be more than three yards of water by the time this peaks tomorrow at 5:00 in the

morning. it is not going to peak and go down like normal river flooding but will stay that way for four days. not another eight or ten days until all of the water actually moves through there. complicating things and the reason they can't block this off and stop the water from coming down is because that would need to be done he says from the russian side. obviously that is still under russian occupation. you mentioned both sides are blaming each other. the ukrainians say the russians planted bombs on it. the russians say it was the ukrainians. number one has to do with water in crimea since 2014 has had difficulties with its water. it was only after the full scale invasion they managed to gain access to a canal which made things much easier for them. obviously with the loss of this dam that complicates things. the other reason is the counteroffensive. we've heard so much about it for weeks and weeks, whether it started we don't know right now. but the russians say it has begun and they say it is not

going so well. they say the ukrainians did this to stop the counter to the counteroffensive and stop russian troops moving in the opposite direction. as you mentioned, u.s. and western officials say there has been a significant uptick in attacks and activity in the last 48 hours. whether this the official counteroffensive or the ukrainians testing the russian defenses we don't know. either way it certainly complicates things for the ukrainians. >> they are calling this eco side, correct? >> the ukrainians are calling this ecocide and this is a crime they have tried to prosecute for months and months because every time a chemical plant, every time a fuel storage depot is hit, every time a tank is burned out or a car is left on the side of the road all of this has an impact on the environment.

the ukrainians have tried to document that in hopes of one day sending the bill to russia through the international criminal court. the difficulty with that is that the icc doesn't actually have a mandate to prosecute a crime called ecocide. so there is precedent for some country, kuwait namely, getting a compensation for ecocide in the past but it took decades to happen and it was through a special body set up through the u.n. security council. as we know, russia has veto power over this council. the chances of ukraine getting any compensation for ecocide crimes seem slim at this stage of the game. >> no matter how big the bill is and no doubt it will be very large. thank you for that report walking us through all of that. i want to bring in retired lieutenant general mark hertling for more on this. we heard the president after

this dam breach and this is what he said. >> we're not leaving. we are not leaving. we're going to help ukraine. >> saying the u.s. is going to help ukraine. the white house press secretary also said earlier that the administration hasn't determined if russia was likely behind the attack. they haven't determined if this was even intentional. when you take a look at this, who has the most to gain from this? >> this is tough because both sides have a little bit to gain on this and it is because it affects both the offense and the defense. there are some, from a military perspective, you know, having had to plan for the potential of a dam break in northern iraq,

the mosul dam was in our area of operation, you can use this to your advantage, but certainly this is a humanitarian disaster as you just said. an eco terrorism, ecocide or whatever you want to call it. the ukrainian government is quickly trying to conduct humanitarian relief operations. those are going to be difficult. you're talking about delayed defenses on the russian side. the area on the eastern bank of the dnipro river has been flooded. that is where most of the russian defenses were to stop the ukrainian attack. i don't believe the russians saying hey they were going conduct a counterattack. they are incapable of conducting counterattacks. but it stopped the ukrainian forces for at least a short term of using that territory in the southern kherson province to conduct offensive operations. so you can't really say one side has gained or the other side has

gained because it has hurt the ukrainian people so much. it probably has delayed some of the offensive operations of ukraine in the south. but it has also given russia a little bit of a break because they can pull forces out of those defensive positions. i saw films this morning where russian forces were up to their belt buckle in water, so some of them were worn. some were not. i think this was a surprise mostly to both sides to be honest with you. >> u.s. and western officials say they are seeing signs that the counteroffensive is beginning. what are you looking for at this point in the war? >> yeah. well, what i've said a couple times is you'll look for a couple things. first of all everyone is focused on a large, conventional operation. you know, it is d-day today. anniversary, 79th anniversary. everyone thinks this is going to look like thousands of forces hitting the beaches or hitting

the area in one major attack. i personally don't believe it is going to go that way. what i anticipate seeing is a combination of smaller, conventional attacks across the front line. special operations forces conducting operations within the battle space. ukrainian territorials behind the front line of russia, the resistance fighters as we've seen already and the russian volunteer corps fighting inside of russia. this is going to be a multi pronged operation and the ukrainian commander is going to have to coordinate all of those things. i would hesitate to say we'll see one large attack by a massive number of forces. what i think we'll see across the 600-mile frontage is a lot of smaller, conventional operations using different types of equipment in each one of the areas that they're going to use as their main access of advance. general, great to have you

today at this critical point in this war. thank you. >> thanks. back here in the united states, the battle between the conservative house freedom caucus and republican leadership is heating up. let's get to capitol hill and manu raju with the latest. an off camera tiff between the two? >> this is the first backlash we are seeing for the debt limit deal that was cut between speaker mccarthy and the white house last week. remember that was signed into law averting the first ever default on the u.s. debt but that did not go over well with the number of hard line conservatives in the house republican conference some of whom believe it violated the deal mccarthy himself cut with those same members in order to secure the speakership on the 15th ballot back in january. well, today the first retaliation. moments ago a group of the hardliners voted to take down the republican leadership's agenda for this week. they voted against a procedural

effort to bring up two bills they were pushing. those bills had little chance of reaching the president's desk but were part of speaker mccarthy's agenda. typically these procedural votes are approved by the majority party. no one on the majority party votes against it typically. that has changed because of the retaliation from those members. the vote just now was 206 to 220 to essentially scuttle the agenda going forward. i just had a chance to speak with a number of members. they are indicating this threat remains. they may move forward and try to derail more of the leadership's agenda if they believe the speaker does not commit and follow through on some of the promises, largely dealing with the issue of federal spending. they believe the cuts the speaker agreed to with the president did not go far enough. they are demanding he go further in that regard. some of them also are concerned what they believe was retaliation from the leadership against one of their members who

voted against the debt limit deal. they said they did not allow that member to offer an amendment to a separate legislation so they are essentially pushing back because of that so all of this shows the dwigs that exist in mccarthy's narrowly divided house. a handful of members if they decide to vote on a party line bill can derail the leader's carefully crafted agenda. now mccarthy is dealing with a new chapter post debt limit but still divisions in the house and a lot of angst on the right wing of his party who don't like the deal he cut. >> very, very thin margins for mccarthy in the house. manu raju, thank you so much. players are livid. human rights activists are upset. 9/11 families are angry. the pga tour has merged with the saudi backed liv golf league, a league it once demonized. we'll take you behind the scenes of the deal. plus could breast feeding help children score higher on tests?

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santos just moments ago and asked him why keeping the identities of the people secret was so important. take a listen. >> mr. santos, doesn't the public deserve to know who paid for your bail? why won't you tell your constituents who paid $500,000 to keep you out of prison? can you tell us about the $500,000? >> i am not commenting on it. >> why is it so important to protect their identities? >> because it is. >> reporter: santos' attorney has also informed the judge santos would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject the sureties to the attention they would receive from their names becoming public. certainly there is a process here and ultimately we may learn their identities. >> this is a request made by the media. what will you and others be looking for if records are made public? >> reporter: the first thing we'll get are the identities of these people, the individuals who are willing to put their money at stake and their

credibility, because the idea of the bond here is if santos jumps bail these individuals would then be on the hook for it. and a reason why the media had asked the judge to unseal this, you know, it is a matter of great public interest. santos is a sitting congressman. he's also said he is running for re-election. who are these individuals backing him? are they lobbyists, donors? are they family members? these are all important questions for the public to know since he is a sitting congressman and potentially running for re-election. >> is this in a way just an in kind donation? thank you for the report. from bitter rivals to playing partners, in a stunning announcement today the pga tour, saddy backed golf league, and dp world golf tour agreed to a blockbuster joint venture. >> the rival golf circuits have been battling this out. we've been covering this. they've been battling it out in court for nearly a year. some of the top players in the world jumped ship to the liv

league for just huge sums of money and the pga tour has retaliated and gens those players with bans. we have the host of cnn's world sport, don redell. i think the thing that is really stunning people here, don, is that it really is this 180-degree change from the pga's stance from when the saudi tour was first announced. >> absolutely. it also came completely out of the blue. it seems as though everybody was blind sided by this today. reporters, golf correspondents who spend their entire time around the players. even the players themselves. many of them read about this on social media this morning and they were absolutely stunned. and to really comprehend what a 180 this is, just listen to what the pga tour commissioner jay monahan said last june less than a year ago when this was kicking off and players were leaving to join the liv tour, defecting and

becoming these rebel players. this is how he cast them and the tour. >> as it relates to the families of 9/11, i have two families close to me that lost loved ones and so my heart goes out to them. i would ask, you know, any player that has left or would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga tour? >> fast forward to the tone today. so very, very different. jay monahan is going to be meeting the players in a players' meeting in about 40 minutes' time. i can only imagine he is going to be receiving some very pointed questions from players who remain loyal to the tour, players who refuse to take the money, players who by the way are part of a player backed tour and a player run tour i'm sorry. none of them seem to know anything about this. >> yeah. he is probably going to get an earful from those players that took a moral stand and were

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big pharma is gearing up for a big fight. merck is suing the federal government over a plan that allows medicare to negotiate the prices of certain drugs. that provision was included in president biden's inflation reduction act. it is designed to help lower the price of certain drugs but the pharmaceutical giant calls it un-constitutional and tantamount to extortion. cnn medical correspondent meg terrelle joins us live. what is merck claiming in this lawsuit? >> reporter: so merck is claiming this law violates two different amendments, the 5th and the 1st. the 5th amendment we think of as the right not to incriminate yourself but what they are focused on here is the government's right to take property for public use. but they have to provide just

compensation for that. merck is claiming that essentially the government through this drug pricing law is trying to get medications at not fair market prices. in terms of the first amendment it is in the agreements in the way this drug pricing negotiation works they say this is compelling them to make statements they don't believe in. they say, quote the inflation reduction act operates through a facade of negotiations and agreements that require manufacturers to convey they agreed to hhs's fair prices. a lot of quotation marks there. they are arguing that this is un-constitutional on both of these counts. >> so, meg, how is the federal government now responding? >> they are gearing up for a potential fight as well. jav becerra the hhs secretary telling us in a statement, quote we'll vigorously defend the government's drug negotiation law which they say is already lowering costs for seniors and people with disabilities. they say the law is on our side. it may not be just merck in this

fight. we heard the maker of a new alzheimer's drug talking today about potentially filing their own suit. the drug industry is going to fight hard here. >> we'll keep an eye on the story. meg tirrell, thanks so much. there is a new study that finds a correlation between how long a baby is breast fed and the child's test scores later in life as a hoosier. jacqueline howard is joining us now to break this down. we should be very clear here. this is obviously a controversial topic. there is a correlation. there is no causation that can be extrapolated from this study because there could be other factors. walk us through this. >> that is exactly right. what the researchers did is looked at data on about 5,000 children in the uk. they looked at how many of those kids were breast fed as infants and then later in the children's lives when they were 16 years old, the researchers looked at their test scores. the researchers did find that

children who were breast fed for up to 12 months or more were linked with a 39% higher likelihood of having high test scores. but with that being said the researchers did account for the mother's socio economic status, they accounted for her cognitive abilities. but they still only found this correlation. they saw that there could have been other factors at play here if the children were breast fed more, maybe had more skin-to-skin contact and so forth. in general, here in the u.s. the cdc recommends that if you are able to breast feed, do that exclusively for a baby's first six months. then while you are introducing food and up to a year you can also continue breast feeding while introducing food. that is what is recommended here. there are health benefits associated with breast feeding but the new study suggests there might be an association between a child's educational a chiefments later in life as

well. >> there were other factors, right, that there were researchers sort of saying, listen. you have this issue of people who can breast feed or have the time. there are people who may especially if looking at people in the u.s. compared to the uk may have maternity leave or extended maternity leave. they may have more money and with that comes a host of other advantages that could also be factors in this. >> that's right. there are so many factors that can play a role in your child's educational achievements later in life. like you said, if a mother does have the flexibility to breast feed, it is likely the child is benefiting from other factors in the family's lives as well. for women who cannot or may not have that ability to breast feed, they should not see this study and feel, you know, like they aren't at that same level, their kids won't be at the same level of achievement. that is definitely not a message we want to get across.

the cdc does say for women who are able to and would like to breast feed, the health benefits that can come with that for a baby, it is associated with lower risk of asthma in a child's life, lower risk of obesity, type 1 diabetes, and then for mothers who breast feed there are possible benefits as well. that is associated with a lower risk for the mother of developing breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. again, i think the message for mothers here is it is best to do what is best for you and of course get the support from family and friends while you are experiencing having a new child in the home. thf >> this is a conversation topic. thank you. boris? coming up, rule number one. when hiring any hitman, don't do it. rule 2 is don't complain about how long they'll take to get the

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a tennessee woman is behind bars charged with hiring a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on a dating site. the knoxville woman befriended the man as a hiebing partner but he ended up marrying someone else. when he told her he was engaged the criminal complaint states the woman said, quote, i hope you both fall off a cliff and

die. cnn's dianne gallagher is here to talk about this story. this complaint is something. >> reporter: it is wild. look, the payments were made using an online forum that is called online killers market. so there was quite a trail left for authorities. they say that melody sasser of knoxville, tennessee began this quest of hers to have the wife of a man she met on match.com killed. she had made it quite apparent to this woman that she wanted her dead but authorities say she went much further, actually paying hitmen to do this. a foreign services agent informed authorities in the united states, saying that she had paid for an order for murder on that online killer's market

through several bitcoin purchases over the span of several months totaling more than $9,700. now, according to the complaint, they say she put the first order in on january 11th, 2023. the description said, quote, it needs to seem random or accident or plant drugs. do not want a long investigation. according to this complaint you then see descriptions of this woman, her photo, what kind of car she drives, where she lives, even the woman uploading data and descriptions that she had obtained from fitness online tracking apps informing the would be killers of when she had been walking alone and what her paths were when she was working at home. she included a photo of the woman and details about the cars. a few months later it appears she became frustrated no action had been taken.

she said on march 22 on something she uploaded to the forum, quote, i have waited for two months and 11 days and the job is not completed. two weeks ago you said it had been worked on and would be done in a week. the job is still not done. does it need to be assigned to someone else? will tobacit be done? what is the delay? when will it be done? obviously impatience it had not happened yet. the online killer marketplace telling her they could assign it to someone else, that they didn't feel it was safe at that point. thankfully, authorities got involved before hand. when they approached the woman who was the target of the online hit they said she immediately asked about sasser and of course they were able to arrest her before anybody was hurt. again, maybe if you don't want to get caught in this you shouldn't use a hitman at any point but using the online killer market might be a hint that you're going to do something nefarious. >> yes, it is laughable if it weren't so serious.

dianne gallagher, thank you for that report. we have some news just in to cnn. former new jersey governor chris christie has made it official and filed to run for president. the republican is expected to formally announce his candidacy tonight at a town hall in new hampshire. we've got cnn's kristen holmes with us. >> reporter: one thing to keep in mind is christie is going to paint himself as the anti-trump candidate and is going to be the first republican to do so as we have seen as more and more republicans have gotten into the race they are hesitant to take on trump directly by name. christie is not. this is going to be his second time running and is a rematch against the former president. the thing to keep in mind here is they used to be pals. christie was in charge of the transition at one point. now they are pretty much enemies and you've heard christie go after trump over and over against his policies and is

uniquely positioned to do so because he knows how to get under trump's skin. he called him a loser over and over again. this is going to be another addition to the growing field. the other thing to watch is just how ugly it gets. we already saw it getting more heated between ron desantis and trump. adding in chris christie who has taken off the gloves and said he is going to go after trump and as i said is uniquely positioned to get under his skin, this is likely to get dirtier and dirtier as we continue. >> he was a huge advocate for the former president, even at different times in office facing all sorts of controversies, christie backed him. now we'll see the gloves come off. kristen holmes, thank you so much for that. coming up royal revelations in a london court today. publishers say they learned the details of an intimate fight between prince harry and ex-girlfriend through a well placed source. we'll tell you who that allegedly is. enjoy what i love e to do.

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prince harry on the stand today to take a stand against british tabloids suing the uk publisher of "the daily mirror alleging the news group hacked phones and used other illegal means to get his private information. harry testified in london for hours and is going to be back tomorrow doing what has rarely been done by royalty before. in fact the last time that a senior royal gave evidence in court was 130 some years ago. today harry said tabloid articles that were the result of phone hacks damaged his relationships. he blamed one for planting, quote, seeds of distrust between him and his brother prince william.

we have cnn's anchor and royal correspondent max foster with the latest on this from london. max, what more did harry reveal today? >> reporter: well, it is a lot of what we've heard before so the basic allegation that the british tabloid newspapers had used illegal methods to get information about him from him and people in his circle. phone hacking specifically m this case. making up false stories basically and how it absolutely had a huge impact on his upbringing right back to the age of 12 when a lot of these stories started when he was at eaton college. the same time it was a cross examination. that was what was extraordinary about this. we haven't seen a senior royal in a cross examination situation for more than a hundred years. very unusual to see him. i was able to watch the court case virtually. very unusual to see him under that type of pressure and going through all these different stories harry cited and suggested basically they didn't come from phone hacking but from other sources either within the

palace for example or for example a story about chelsea davy his previous girlfriend, who said, it was said, had a big argument with harry after a party one night, that infamous party where he wore a nazi uniform. there was apparently an argument about harry flirting with another girl. that was done through phone hacking according to harry's sigh but the mirror group said it came from chelsea's uncle, so all of the specific allegations harry has been making in what was a very long day for him and >> would it it would be easy to cast doubt. and i want to bring in kate williamss in to the conversation. i think that we should say it is not without precedent that royals' phones have been hacked. and in this case we're talking about things that happened in the past. but kate's phone, williams phone, harry's phone, they have

been hacked numerous times. what about the british tabloid, are they still out of control? >> you are absolutely right. phones have been hacked. and they were hacked of both royals and celebrities and also of murder victims. you did get voice mails and this is what they were illegally hacking into using sort of quite tube yus agents or agencies to do it. and it was as you say out of control. and they are very much tabloid press very much saying, no, we get it legitimately through sources and tips. and this is what the case as max was saying hinges on. are the stories gained through phone hacking, the voice mail, or are they gained through tips. and certainly prince harry as also been saying that his mother's phone was completely hacked. and the story he talked about

his girl former girlfriend who she rang him 12 times, this is what the pain cepaper said, and any friend know that. they would have had to access the call logs. an end that he heard weird sounds on his phone that suggests that it was being hacked. so certainly it knows that it was happening in the past. and harry says that it happened to him and what a terrible effect it had on him. and certainly the british tabloid would often say that in control but many people of note will say that they are out of control and what is printed is gained through illegal methods and was done before. >> and what we're hearing in this case is such a big theme in his memoir "spare." he talks at one point about there being a gps tracker on chelsea's car that was discovered. but that book "spare" his memoir

is actually used in this case by the defendant against him. tell us how. sorry, max is no longer with us. kate, can you answer that? they are trying to use his words against him. >> yes, they are saying here that it could have -- he is contradicting himself and questions that you said in the book or not. as max mentioned, last royal to be in the witness box was over 100 years ago. and he got involved in a scandal about a game of cards happening in a private house in which people were accusing someone else of cheating. and he had to appear as a witness to this and he was really handled with kid gloves. they gave him a very short cross-examination, just 20 minutes. they didn't want to ask him too many questions. this is not what we're seeing today. this is gloves off. and they are goingoff everything

with a fine tooth comb and what they are trying to is suggest that really he is not a reliable witness. and they did try today to say that you didn't write your witness statement, did you. it was 55 pages. and harry said that i gave all the zoom calls to the lawyers and lawyers wrote it up. i mean, really that is in terms of this kind of the court case, that is what the judge would expect. and that is quite common. so really what we'll see is a lot of tough questioning of harry over and over again and they want to imply that he is not a reliable witness and we know that phone hacking has gone on in the past. we know that. and so they will imply that he is not a reliable witness. so it is a battle. >> and he may not be a reliable witness. but he has been a reliable paycheck for them for years and years. kate williams, thank you so much. boris. all right. look, nobody gives a shot about

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