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viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. max foster is on royal assignment again today. just ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> we were exiting the building when we heard approximately 20 gunshots in rapid succession. a child should be able to walk at their graduation and enjoy the accomplishment. smoke from the wildfires in canada have been pouring into the u.s. causing the worst air quality in the world. i recognize people will call me a hypocrite. pocomplete 180 saying this would be good for golf. he sold out every single one of us. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, june 7th,

9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in richmond, virginia where there was a nightmare for many families. gunfire broke out just after a high school fwradation ceremony tuesday evening. hundreds of people were gathered around taking photos and celebrating. police say two were killed including an 18-year-old graduate and five others were wounded. survivors describe running for their lives. >> just as i got to the back corner, i heard about ten shots fired. and so the people standing in the back of the theater went down the back stairs and theater security locked the back door immediately. >> we're in the process of waiting for my son to come out. behind us probably like maybe about 10 feet off to the back of us we heard like fireworks going off. everybody started running and i pushed her down on to the ground, got down on to the ground, and it was chaos from there. just kept hearing shots. like 8, 9, 10 shots.

>> who the hell would do this on a kids' graduation. there is tons of kids. >> police say they have detained a suspect, a 19-year-old they believe may have known one of the victims. and they seized several guns. several people were also injured in the ensuinge ing chaos. >> we had reports of many more people, people having panic attacks, falling on the ground, screaming. one child was hit by a car. so this was a very chaotic scene but our officers with our partners in very short order started to make sense of the chaos. >> this should not be happening anywhere. anywhere. whether it is in richmond, whether it is in virginia, whether it is in the united states, this should not be happening anywhere. a child should be able to go to their graduation and walk at their graduation and enjoy the accomplishment with their friends and their family.

>> according to a group that tracks gun violence, tuesday's mass shooting was one of at least 279 that have happened in the u.s. so far this year. we'll continue to bring you the latest developments as we get them. new york city's mayor is urging people to limit their time outdoors as smoke from canadian wildfires drifts over large parts of the northern u.s. this was the scene at yankee stadium tuesday night. new york's air quality was among the world's worst on tuesday due to the smoke. it is just one of several states warning of hazardous unhealthy air quality. alerts remain in place for more than 30 million americans. this orange haze was hanging over ottawa. officials say they are tracking hundreds of fires, dry conditions and searing temperatures have ignited an extreme and early start to the summer wildfire season. nasa captured this image from space. you can see on the left side smoke blanketing much of ontario

and moving south and east. jennifer gray has the latest for you. >> reporter: for the last several weeks, these wildfires across canada have been burning out of control and it has been sending a lot of smoke into the u.s. and most recently we've seen a lot of the smoke pushing into the northeast as well as new england. in the midwest as well. and so you can see from the satellite imagery, we're just seeing that thick smoke, heavy haze pushing into these regions. and of course a couple of fires that have broken out in the northeast and new england have added to it, but the bulk of this is from the fires in canada. this is a picture of new york city skyline from midday tuesday, you can buarely see th buildings. we have a thick smoky sky across the northeast and that will continue throughout the day today. it is creating a very poor air quality across the northeast, new england, as well as back into the midwest. and as mentioned, a lot of that is from the fires from alberta

that pushed in, but we're seeing very unhealthy for sensitive groups, especially people that have respiratory issues. they have been urged to stay inside, limit their outdoor activity because of the poor air quality and in factor ct toront new york city ranked for a brief period as some of the worst air quality in the world, they ranked on the top ten list. so we'll continue to see the poor air quality throughout the day today. and in fact we have a cold front that is pushing through and that is going to drive that smoke even farther to the south, it is actually going to reach into the carolinas, that is why portions of north carolina are also under an air quality alert as well. when the front passes through, the winds out of the north will really just keep the smoke coming in. it is not going to push it away by any means. and so here is a near surface smoke forecast. you can see it does slightly

improve across new york city wednesday morning, gets worse across the carolinas. in fact this area in red is the smoke that we saw from yesterday across the northeast pushing to the south and then because of that cold front, another wave of smoke is going to come into the northeast by late tonight. so it is going to be a little while before we start to get those skies clearing across these regions. but the smoke is here to stay until we have a definite shift in weather patterns. a florida government agency says that three dozen migrants flown to sacramento, california in recent days did so voluntarily. a statement from florida's division of emergency management reads florida's voluntary relocation is precisely that, voluntary. through verbal and written consent, these volunteers indicated that they wanted to go to california. california officials are also looking into whether the flights broke any laws. meanwhile a sheriff in bexar county, texas is recommending criminal charges over earlier

migrant flights to martha's vineyard. mike pence is expected to announce his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election later on today. it comes after he filed official paperwork earlier this week. pence is set to appear at a cnn town hall event this evening as well. so you can hear directly from the former vice president when he speaks with anchor and chief political correspondent dana bash. the town hall will be live from des moines, iowa starting at 8:00 p.m., 9:00 a.m. thursday in hong kong, all happening right here on cnn. pence will join former new jersey governor chris christie who made his own campaign announcement on tuesday in new hampshire. this is christie's sendcond run for the white house. omar jimenez has the details on his big reveal on tuesday. >> reporter: it was a town hall event that lasted more than two full hours. chris christie said those critical words. i intends to seek the republican

nomination for president of the united states. he joins what has been an ever growing gop field trying to break through and be the one to again secure that nomination. over the course of the hours' long event, former governor christie took questions and also making remarks and while there were a lot of laughs, he highlighted the seriousness of the moment he believes the country is in. on the precipice of getting bigger or getting smaller in his words. and he pointed to moments throughout united states history going back to the revolutionary war where he saw leaders on the precipice of making decisions that made the country bigger or made it smaller. and he believes former president trump is one of those people that would make the country smaller. he also in regards to the former president said the rest of the field has treated him like he who must not be named for harry potter enthusiasts like voldmor. take a listen. >> i've seen some of the press

conference of me getting ready to run. and there is this thing like christie doesn't care about winning, he just wants to destroy trump. let me ask you this. how are those two things mutually exclusive? i am going out there to take out donald trump but here is why. i want to win. and i don't want him to win. there is one lane for the republican nomination. and he is in front of it. and if you want to win, you better go right through him. >> reporter: now, up to this point, former president trump has pu polled the heist among the candidate and the same polls show christie needing do a lot of work.among the candidate and the same polls show christie needing do a lot of work. but he says polls are not indicative of who gets the nomination. and that dynamic is one that he intends to capitalize on. he also said if you are looking for the perfect candidate, you should leave the room speaking of himself.

instead, he says that throughout his campaign, the voters will know him and know what he stands for. and it will be something that we look out for as his campaign officially kicks off. omar jimenez, cnn. we're monitoring developments in southern ukraine following the devastating dam collapse in the kherson region. flooding in towns and cities downstream led to evacuations with more than 1400 people now moved to safer ground. a russian appointed mayor has told state media at least seven people are considered missing. and in mykolaiv, bridges have been flooded or destroyed after the dam collapsed. all this as ukraine and russia accuse each other of being responsible for the destruction. clare sebastian is following these developments. and before we get to the information blame game and verification, what is the latest that we know about the damage being caused? >> so day two.

the sun is coming up and we're starting to see the true extent of the flooding. we know in some areas water levels are still rising or at least they have stabilized but not expected to fall for another few days. these are live pictures as we understand from kherson city, so you can see that it looks like rescue and evacuation efforts are still ongoing. significant flooding in parts of that city, that is of course the city that ukraine liberated from russia back in november. we know this affects both ukraine controlled territory and russian controlled territory on the opposite side of the river. in terms of the actual damage, we're getting new estimates from the ukrainian government who says this will cost at least a billion to restore, would take five years even if they could get access to the opposite bank which russia occupies. 10,000 hectares of agricultural land likely flooded. and the irrigation systems and zaporizhzhia without a water source. so you can see the agricultural

damage. and head of the hydroelectric company has warned that 400 tons of turbine oil was in the dam. so he is worried that that will have leaked into the water which of course gradually slowly flowing towards the black sea. >> feels uncomfortable to even ask this question, who benefits strategically from what has happened? >> so i think, look, it is hard because there is sort of such a pattern when it comes to russia attacking critical infrastructure and in certain instances in ways that have badly affected areas that are within their control. don't forget russia has occupied partially kherson and illegally annexed those regions. of course speculation was that the design was to thwart ukraine's counteroffensive. if the plan is, and we still don't know what the plan is, but if the plan is to cross the dnipro river and head south to

try to cut russia's territory in half, this will be made even harder by the type of flooding you are seeing around the dnipro river. i think russians are accusing ukraine of doing this to cut off the water supply to crimea, but they say that they still have enough to go there. so it is murky. if you look at the evidence, we can see from independent data that the water levels around the dam and reservoir behind it were at record levels in may. there is evidence from satellite imagery showing us damage to the dam in the days leading up. you can see that bit of the roadway is intact on the dam and then just a few days later it has disappeared. we don't know what caused that, but that will be a part of the investigation going forward. >> and we heard from the british prime minister last night that the intelligence services are looking into it, so it is now a global effort to try to verify and ascertain exactly what happened. clare, thank you so much. air india says it is sending

a flight to pick up passengers stranded in the russia far east. tuesday a flight had to be diverted due to technical issues with one of its engines. the plane thankfully landed safely with 216 passengers and 16 crew on board. u.s. state department says they are likely manners on the flight since it was headed to california. a federal grand jury in southern florida is set to hear from its next witness today in the investigation into donald trump's handling of classified documents. sources first revealed the panel's existence to cnn on tuesday. the another grand jury is already weighing evidence in the documents investigation in washington. the special counsel could file charges in either of those jurisdictions. meanwhile another source says former trump white house chief staff mark meadows has testified before a grand jury investigating his former boss. cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid has that story. >> reporter: former trump white house chief of staff mark

meadows is not just a witness for special counsel jack smith, but he is the witness. why? when it comes to the january 6 investigation, he was at the center of everything. the house exceselect committee looked into the event surrounding january 6 came to the conclusion that all roads led to mark meadows in and around the events on that day and the so-called pressure campaign on officials to try to overturn the results of the election. when it comes into the investigation into the possible mishandling of classified document, meadows appears to be a critical witness there as well. not only would he have been at the white house present when things were being packed up, but recent cnn reporting on a bombshell audio recording where trump talks about having a classified document reveals that that conversation was recorded by meadows' auto biographers. so clearly investigators could have a lot of different questions for meadows in either

investigation but at this point it is unclear if he has spoken to investigators about both probes or just one. but this certainly solves a long swirling question in trump circles. they have been wondering what exactly is going on with meadows. the former president tried to block meadows from being able to testify citing executive privilege. he lost that fight. so it is expected that meadows would testify, but there had been no communication between meadows' attorneys and those for the former president leading to some concern about whether meadows was indeed cooperating with investigators. at this point the fact that the special counsel has spoken to meadows signals that at least the classified document investigation is not only in its final phase but likely wrapping up sometime soon. paula reid, cnn, washington. ahead, an attorney is being accused of being a serial rapist who attacked women in boston. how authorities revived a cold case and tracked him down. plus the pga commissioner announces a new partnership with

saudi backed liv golf and asked for a mulligan on human rights concerns. and historic day in court for prince harry who testified for hours and faced cross-examination in a phone hacking lawsuit. we'll have the latest on the trial.

prince harry will be back in court soon to finish his testimony in a lawsuit against british tabloids. he faced hours of questioning on tuesday including a cross-examination over phone hacking claims against mirror group newspapers. max foster has the details. >> reporter: prince harry's years' long battle with the tabloid press reaching its most dramatic moment yet as he arrived at london's high court to testify in his landmark trial against mirror group newspapers, mgn. court sketches showing a senior royal in a witness box for the first time in more than 130 years. prince harry's tell all memoir and recent netflix documentary have already detailed so many of the prince's grievances with the press which he partly blames for

his decision to leave the uk and life as a working royal. >> why want history to repeat itself. >> reporter: and while this is the duke of sussex's first time giving evidence, it is just one of several lawsuits filed by him and his wife meghan in which they accuse the british tabloids of breaches of privacy and publishing false stories. the duke's central allegation in this case, the publishers journalists hacked his phone and others in his circle and used other illicit means to gather information about his life between 1996 and 2009. he alleges that about 140 articles published by mgn contained information gathered using unlawful methods. 33 of those articles including stories about his time at school in eaton, his gap year in australia and stories such as these about his first serious relationship with chelsy davy are being considered at the trial. he says that these envinvasions

privilege especially when he was a minor caused him to stress and affected his mental health. speaking in court in a measured and hushed tone, harry accused some british editors and journalists of having blood on their hands for the distress they caused him and he added perhaps inadvertently death in reference to his mother princess diana. he faced forensic and detailed questioning from mgn's lawyer andrew green. green questioned how the articles in theirry's witness statement could have caused him to stress if the duke was unable to specifically recall reading each article when they were published. green also pressed harry on whether the articles contained information that could only have been obtained through illegal means such as phone hacking. harry believes both the uk's press and government are at rock bottom according to his witness statement, but his time in london isn't over yet. he is expected to continue giving evidence on wednesday.

max foster, cnn, london. and nada bashir is joining me from out sside the courthous. what are we expecting to see today? >> reporter: this will be another round of fierce questions for prince harry on the second day of cross-examination. we saw yesterday prince harry facing questions from andrew green going through the articles submitted in the early 1990s to two 11 that he says show tell tale signs of unlawful gathering. they went through 20 of those articles and there are still 30 more to get through. prince harry facing tough questions around the time line, around how he is sure that the information gathered here was gathered through unlawful means. we heard from andrew green and lawyers for presence harry that lot of this is in the realm of speculation. andrew green has been described as a beast in court and prince

harry will have to face another round of cross-examination. but he maintains that he believes many of the information in the articles were gathered through unlawful means as you heard there in max's report and the key allegations are phone hacking, interception of prince harry's voice mails and those around him including other senior members of the royal family and also alleged payments to glean information. and he has spoken very vocally in the course about the impact this had on his life, on his mental health. he spoke about his circle of friends growing smaller and smaller, him suffering paranoia and bouts of depression. and we certainly will hear more details from him today. >> nada bashir, thank you. the u.s. homeland security department has less than a week to decide how to address a request for immigration records for prince harry.

conservative think tank called the heritage foundation is pushing to see those records. the group questions whether officials processed the paperwork correctly since prince harry admitted in his memoir that he has used recreational grounds in the past. that can be grounds to reject the visa immigration. republican congressman george santos has lost an attempt to shield the people who put up his $500,000 bond. a judge has ruled their names must become public and here is how santos responded when asked by cnn why it is important to hide their identities. >> 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? >> you can tell us about the $500,000? >> i'm not commenting on it, manu. >> why is it so important to protect their identities?

>> because it is. >> santos was released on bond nearly a month ago after his indictment on wire fraud and money laundering charges. he has pleaded guilty to 13 federal count -- not guilty to 13 federal counts. in boston authorities say a 15 year manhunt for a serial rapist is over, the accused is now a new jersey attorney and detectives say they tracked him town by using dna. jason carroll has the story. >> reporter: matthew nilo, an attorney by trade, in a massachusetts court defending himself against allegations he is a serial rapist. >> how do you plead? >> not guilty. >> reporter: he appeared stunned at times as prosecutors laid out their case alleging that about 15 years ago, he raped three women and tried to rape a fourth. prosecutors say that the attacks occurred in boston's historic

charleston neighborhood. the victims they say between 23 and 44 years old at the time. the prosecutor detailing how she says nilo trapped some of his victims. >> quonce outside, he said shutp or he'd kill her. he flashed a small knife. and he drove to terminal street where he ordered the victim out of the car, knocked her to the ground and raped her. >> reporter: and nilo now 35 faces three counts of aggravated rape, who counts of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape and one count of indecent assault and battery. >> investigators never stopped analyzing evidence, collecting information and running down leads in order to bring dangerous offenderses to justice. >> reporter: prosecutors say the investigation went cold for over a decade until last year when investigators were able to link dna from the crimes to a genealogy database and zero in

on nilo who had since moved from boston and was living in new jersey. they put him under surveillance and got the dna sample that they needed to make an arrest. >> fbi agents were able to obtain various utensils and drinking glasses they watch the defendant use at a corporate event. >> reporter: he was arrested at this apartment building last week. and we tried to speak to his fiance who lives here at the building, but we were escorted off the property and told by the building's management that we were not allowed to speak with her. nilo's attorney says his client maintains his innocence and may fight how investigators obtained evidence in the case. >> it seems that they obtained dna evidence without ever obtaining a search warrant. if that turns out to be true, that is an issue that will be pursued vigorously. >> reporter: legal experts say publicly accessible genealogy databases have become an effective source for

investigators to link dna from crime scenes to individuals. law enforcement officials in boston say without it, the arrest of nilo may not ever have happened. jason carroll, cnn, new york. and we'll be right back. almost... just another word for not as good as mine. the queen sleep number c2 smart bed is now only $899 save $200. plus, 48-month financncing on all beds. shop now only at sleep number. (dr. aaron king) if you have diabetes,

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is in rome for us. how concerned should the faithful be about the pontiff's condition right now? >> reporter: i would say in the range of green, yellow and red, this is probably a yellow light. pope francis went to the hospital yesterday, an unannounced visit. at the time we all thought it was just a routine checkup. you will remember in late march he was hospitalized for four days for an acute case of bronchitis. but it turns out that instead this was a diagnostic procedure related to a hernia condition from which the pope is suffering which the vatican said this morning is causing aggravating, painful and worsening symptoms. so his medical team decided that abdominal surgery is necessary. they insist that this is a relatively minor procedure and the expectation is that the pope will be in the hospital for a few days and make a full

recovery. but on the other hand, this is an 86-year-old man and as the saying goes there is no such thing as a minor surgery. so some degree of concern is warranted. how much, only time will tell. >> how are the responsibilities of his holiness delegated in situations like this to ensure that he can get the proper care and rest and focuses on that? >> reporter: his responsibilities really aren't delegated. the catholic church is not like the united states where there is a vice president who can step in if the president is incapacitated. there really is nobody who can exercise the pope's authority in the full sense. of course the cardinal secretary of state at the vatican is sort of the head of government and routine machinery of the vatican will continue clank ing along. but if he could be incapacitated

for a long time, that could create a crisis of government. but we're not there yet. the indication here is that the pope will undergo a general anesthesia this afternoon, but is expected to come out of it fairly quickly. during his recovery is expected to have full positsession of hi mental faculties. so we're not at that point where the question should be asked who really is in charge. but the possibility is there. we may get there one day. >> john allen live in rome, thank you so much. we'll be sure to give you up dates as we receive them. now a surprising new alliance in the world of golf. jay monahan has announced a partnership with its rival liv golf. monahan was harshly critical of liv when it was launched citing saudi arabia's human rights record and families of neenl victims are speaking out against the commissioner. >> outraged, disappointed,

angry, disgusted that monahan could now sell the pga to the kingdom of saudi arabia. they are a bunch of cowards. they have destroyed the pga tour. it was dead as it was known before today. it is like i said testdespicabl words i can't use on tv, but he really is the lowest scum of the earth at this moment. >> quite a few golfers left the pga tour last year to join liv with its huge prize money and no cut events. and those who stayed loyal want answers. brian todd reports. >> reporter: a mega business deal that surprised everyone but the tightest power circles in the sport of golf. the u.s. based pga tour announces that it will partner with the rival tour it has been trying to fight off for a year, saudi backed liv golf. >> just how fast and how stark the 180 happened is definitely shocking and the fact that nobody knew this was coming. >> reporter: last year liv golf succeeded in luring away top pga

players like phil mickelson, bryson dechambeau and dustin johnson. it reportedly offered tiger woods between $700 million and $800 million to join which woods turned down. the pga tour fought tooth and nail to stem liv golf's momentum, engaging in legal disputes with the saudi tour. what change some had. >> money won out. saudis had way more money than the pga tour. the pga tour i guess came to the conclusion that they couldn't continue to fight the fight. they didn't have the resources. >> reporter: and now one of america's most iconic sports entities teams up with a tour backed by a well fund chaired by bin salma known as mbment is, the crown prince of saudi arabia, who approved the operation which led to the murder and dismemberment of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi in 2018 which bin salman has denied. >> basically the headline is never mind. everything that we talked about, outrage of the pga tour, how

they spoke about the 9/11 families and their concern about the murder of jamal khashoggi, that is all out the window. the pga tour has wimped out, let's just say it what it is. >> reporter: a year ago jay monahan told cbs this about the saudi golf tour -- >> as it relates to the families of 9/11, i have two families that are close to me that lost loved ones. and so my heart goes out to them. and i would ask, you know, any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga tour. >> reporter: this is what monahan says now about the merger to cnbc. >> we've recognized that together we can have a far greater impact on this game than we can working apart. >> reporter: analysts say the new deal gives the saudis power they haven't had before in the world of sports. >> they are leaping for joy. they are dancing through the streets. because they have won. >> reporter: and it is not just

golf where the saudis have shelled out massive sums of money for high profile events and stars, what critics call sports washing. they have invested huge sums of money in formula 1 racing, have lured tennis big names, have paid soccer's biggest stars hundreds of millions of dollars to compete there, and even staged wrestle mmania events. brian todd, cnn, washington. secretary of state antony blinken met with saudi crown opinions mohammed bin salman and the meeting lasted more than an hour and the two discussed a range of regional and bilateral issues. the meeting is the latest step towards the two countries. nic robertson is here with more. president biden pledged to make saudi arabia a pariah. relations certainly on the face of about seem strained still but changes are happening. what will be achieved in these

meetings? >> blinken sat for three days which is have a ordinary to actually stop in one country for that long. and i think that that tells you about the amount that he wants to achieve there and the fact that in many ways saudi arabia and crown prince are positioning themselves as the key diplomatic interlocu interlocutor. whether the help that saudi gave the united states in helping get citizens out of sudan over the recent months, or -- there is a lot still to do. obviously blinken would love to convince the crown prince to bring down the price of oil by not reducing their output by a million barrels a day which is what was agreed at the latest opec+ meeting which potentially and intellectually puts gas up in the united states and helps fund russia's war in ukraine. there is a normalization with israel that the united states would like saudi to get on board

with more. and then there is what saudi wants and that old paradigm of security for oil that perhaps, you know, president biden had originally seen as paradigm of the relationship between saudi and the united states has shifted. and so his words that he will make saudi into a pariah no longer can hold in the current environment where saudi arabia is diplomatically getting much closer to china, is looking to others in the united states to be regional allies and brokers. and so i think that in that context so much has changed. and blinken's length of his visit there and what he will achieve with it with the meetings on isis as well, all of that speaks to those issues. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. still ahead, goldman sachs lowered odds of the u.s. recession. why they say the financial outlook is getting better.

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deal to cut spending is getting a positive review from goldman sachs. the bank lowered its probability for u.s. recession in the next year from 35% to 25%. goldman sachs also credits reduced stress on the banking sector, but it is also predicting another quarter point interest rate hike next month from the federal reserve. martha stewart is on a so-called rampage to get americans back to the office. in an interview with footwear news magazine, stewart slammed the hybrid work model calling it ineffective. she says that look at the success of france where their stupid, you know, all for -- blah, blah, blah. that is not a very 24r50i6ing country. should america go down the drain because people don't want to go back to work? average office okay peace is

st occupancy is still about 48% of pre-pandemic levels. uns of hundreds of thousands of workers are voting whether to strike. what could it mean going forward. >> reporter: voting is under way for 340,000 u.p.s. workers on whether to authorize a strike if their union, the international brotherhood of teamsters, and u.p.s. cannot come up with a new contract by august 1. the strike authorization is expected to pass and is common during these types of negotiations. it does not mean a strike is in-evident him. and the two sides are continuing to negotiate this week. now, voting is happening in person both at local union halls and at the gates of u.p.s. facilities and results will be announced june 16. a nationwide unless s.p.s. strid be the largest in history. the union represents more than

half of u.s. total and global employee base which includes drivers and package sorters. millions rely on unit.p.s. on tr deliveries. and at the heart of the negotiations for the union is improved pay and benefits and better working conditions. including adding air conditioning in the panel trucks used for u.p.s. deliveries which the union says poses a health risk for drivers. the two sides have been negotiating since april and u.p.s. has said that they are committed to coming up with an agreement before that august 1st deadline. bianca. ford is recalling more than 125,000 suvs and trucks because their engines could leak fluids and catch fire. all the vehicles are some form of hybrid version and because they are hybrid ford warns owners could continue driving even after the engine has failed making the situation yet more dangerous. ford still working on solutions to repair the issue.

in the meantime, if drivers hear unusual noises, smell smoke or lose power, they are being advised to immediately find somewhere safe to pull over and shut off the vehicle. the u.s. consumer products safety commission is urging parents and caregivers to stop using a certain pillow for infants, this is after two more infants deed after a mass recall was issued in 2021. the agency says that the lounges pose a risk of suffocation if the infant rolled or moved. it is also urging facebook marketplace and other online retailers to remove the recalled products that could continue to appear for sale on those websites. still ahead, just when you thought the airlines couldn't cram anymore seats into coach, a young designer has found a way. and if you are claustrophobic, you might want to look away.

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you are looking at pictures here in london where prince harry has just arrived for a second day of testimony in a lawsuit against british tabloids. this is him getting out of his vehicle. he faced hours of questioning on tuesday including a cross-examination over phone hacking claims against mirror

group newspapers which went on for hours. some highlights now from major league baseball. first to cincinnati where the los angeles dodgers were already leading when freddy freeman went deep to right field for his fifth career grand slam. dodgers up 8-3. but reds scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth with the rookie providing the walk-off hit. final score rest reds 9, dodger. and atlanta rallied in the sixth inning to tie the game when orlando bounced a single off the governor tolove to driv go-ahead run. and starbucks is going full steal ahead with its controversial line of olive oil infused coffee drinks. now people will be able to buy

the tricks in several u.s. cities. the drink initially debuted in the u.s. in march to somewhat negative reviews and some customers reported digestion problems. a young designer is now doubling down on his idea for double-decker airline seats. the concept from the 23-year-old would have some passengers sitting directly below others. his prototype went viral. some are intrigued and some hate it. he says the lower seats offer more leg room and recline more than today's seats and upper ones are more pay spacious over. he says airlines are interested. harrison ford is adding another blockbuster franchise to his remarkable career. tuesday an actor shared this photo hanging out on the set of their new marvel movie.

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welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. horror at a high school graduation ceremony in richmond, virginia tuesday evening. a gunman opening fire in a city park