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♪ former vice president mike pence is jumping into the presidential race, putting him on a direct collision course with his former boss. cpi is on cnn is on the trail ahead of his first campaign in iowa. floodwaters sweep through towns after that major dam collapse. we have new information about how it happened and new questions about who was to blame. >> electric cars may not only be good for then varnment, but new research suggests they could be good for your health, as well. why experts say they could save around 90,000 lives. this is "cnn news central." well. why experts say they could save around 90,000 lives. this is "cnn news central." >> this morning, millions of people are being undered to stay indoors and limit what they have to do outside. all because of, well, this, a

thick haze that is hanging over many american cities caused by smoke from raging canadian wildfires. detroit, new york remain in the top five right now for the world's worst air quality cities. this drone video we will show you, this is from new york this morning where the city's public school schools have canceled outdoor activities. both philadelphia and new york are under what is called code red alerts. go outside and you will feel it. the smoke is coming from quebec where more than 150 active wildfires are currently burning. let's get to. cnn's athena jones and meg terrell join us from new york on this. you've been out all this morning, athena. what are you noticing? >> good morning, kate. well, you know, these wildfires may be taking place hundreds of miles away, but you can

certainly see the impact here. just look out across the hudson river. that's jersey city, new jersey, out there. you can sort of make out the statue of liberty just off the shoreline there, but the concern is about the health and safety of residents here and across the region. new jersey governor phil murphy has put out a warning to individuals who are sensitive and people who have respiratory issues or asthma, heart disease. these are the kind of people that city officials and agencies are worrying about because of the kind of pollutants contained in this wildfire smoke. wildfire smoke has what is known as particularate matter, this is among the tiniest, most dangerous type of pollutant. why? because when you inhale that stuff the particles are so small they can get deep into your lungs, get into your bloodstream and that is why no outdoor activities. ten districts in upstate new

york also canceling all outdoor activities and new york city mayor eric adams soon about all of the precautions and a hope to get a sense of how much longer this is going to last. we understand there will be a front pushing south, that will push more of the smoke south and east in the coming days. so this is not quite over yet. kate? >> that's for sure. athena, thank you for that. stick with me. let's also bring in meg. meg, athena is talking about what this particularate matter is, what it does, but who is most vulnerable in these situations? >> experts tell us it's children, senior citizens, pregnant people and people with current health issues particularly lung and heart disease which makes a lot of sense. those folks need to take particular precautions. the kind of health effects that experts worry about because of wildfire smoke exposure are obviously things like respiratory events and

exacerbations of asthma or copd even if people didn't already have them and cardiovascular risks, as well and heart disease, and specifically for pregnant people and slightly increasing the risk of pre-term birth and a stanford professor suggested that every day of wildfire, smoke exposure increased the rick of 0.49% and something for pregnant people to look out for in addition to just worrying about the immediate effects of wildfire smoke inhalation, kate? >> what's the best plan? obviously, staying indoors is the best of the best. what is the best for everyone who is vulnerable under these circumstances considering this is a multi-day event. >> yeah. absolutely. if you have to be outside the recommendation from the american lung association is pretty simple. william barrett says, quote, if you can see or smell smoke know that you're being exposed.

you can actually tell when you're inhaling this stuff as opposed to something like covid-19 which you obviously can't see. they recommend staying inside whenever possible. if you're going outside don't do any strenuous exercises and this is not the time to do a long run and wear high-quality masks particularly if you're in a vulnerable group, n95 or kn95, that is what experts recommend. i saw people putting them on outside and taking them off when inside. hepa filters are really important and can be helpful and portable air cleaners can be something that helps a lot, too, kate. >> thank you, meg. >> thank you athena for being out for us today. >> no long run, go into the gym. >> exactly. taylor budowich who worked as a spokesman for donald trump arrived in miami and a grand jury in florida is hearing testimony in the documents probe

surrounding the president. we just heard about the second florida grand jury and the first one we heard about was in washington, d.c., all of this comes as we have also learned that trump's former chief of staff, white house chief of staff mark meadows has now testified in the documents case and the investigation into january 6th. he was asked questions about both. with us now, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jennifer rogers. i want to stipulate, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. what we do see is this flurry of activity in the last week and trump's lawyers meeting at the department of justice. the second grand jury hearing witnesses and the news that mark meadows has testified all points to maybe some kind of conclusion here. why? >> well, they're wrapping things up, right? mark meadows is one of the most important or probably the most important witness so you can collect as much information as you can before you speak to him. the doj meeting is usually

something that happens at the end of the investigation. they're putting up obstruction of justice witnesses which is the concern after the documents piece and all of that suggests that they're wrapping up and close to making a decisions. >> florida. explain what the florida grand jury might mean. >> there are witnesses that are down there and they want to put in because it's easier. it's about venue. prosecutors have to charge in a district where at least some of the criminal conduct occurred. most of that here is in florida, right? that's where the documents were found, that's where the obstruction happened and also probably in d.c. where the documents were taken from, but it may be that prosecutors have decided that florida is the right place to charge this because most of the conduct happened there or that they're actually going to charge a piece of it in florida and perhaps one or two people that were involve in the obstruction at mar-a-lago and perhaps they would split it and charge the whole obstruction case there in d.c. we don't know, but that's one of

the things. >> mark meadows, former chief of staff, just so people know obviously was a central figure around the events of january 6th and the congressional investigation used text messages that mark meadows had received and sent in that time and also a figure in the classified documents probe. he was the chief of staff at the end of the administration and it was people helping him write his autobiography that have the tape of donald trump discussing classified documents, perhaps seems acknowledging possession of them and knowledge that he wasn't supposed to have them at that point. so how important would his testimony be? >> oh, it's crucial. it's absolutely critical on the january 6th side and it's important in the documents investigation, too. he was one of the people who trump had appointed to be the liaison with the national archives, for example. he would have seen the packing up of information and mar-a-lago. for a whole host of reasons they

would have wanted to talk to him. >> there are people who well over a year who have suggested that maybe, mark meadows has criminal liability and what's the likelihood that he would testify before a grand jury without some kind of a deal, some kind of immunity? >> well, if he actually answered the questions there's no possibility that he didn't have protection. he's not a moron, he has a good, capable and experienced lawyer and either that means prosecutors just gave him immunity in exchange for his testimony or i think this is less likely, but a cooperation agreement where he actually would agree to plead guilty and testify in exchange for a lighter sentence down the road. >> of course, the third possibility first is he could have gone in and took the fifth to every question, but why would prosecutors do that, necessarily? >> well, if he did that, then they would turn around and force one of the other two options and they would give him immunity or force him to go back or if they could persuade him if they were

ready to charge him and maybe they could get him to take a cooperation agreement. >> grand jury in florida and grand jury in washington, d. krc, we don't know if there would be an indictment, but if there were to be an indictment, would it happen to one or both places? >> we won't find out until someone is arrested and the indictment is unsealed. i think it's likely they'll bring the whole thing in one place. it doesn't make sense logistically to break it up unless they had one or two players in florida, but they could legally, and i suspect they'll do it all together and as know is as the first person in that indictment is arrested and it will all be unsealed and we will all know. >> jennifer rodgers, a lot of information and a lot of going on. thank you very much. it's official, former vice president mike pence is running for president. he joined an already crowded field hoping to unseat donald trump as who was currently the

republican front-runner. pence who turned 64 today kicked off his presidential bid with a campaign video slamming president biden. >> we can turn this country around and different times call for different leadership. today our party and our country need to appeal to the better angels of our nature and it would be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that's not how i was raised. that's why today, before god and my family, i'm announcing i'm running for president of the united states. >> kyung lau is joining us from iowa. donald trump is the clear front-runner. what are you expecting to hear from former vice president pence today? >> well, the message that the former vice president pence will be taking here at this rally and then again at the cnn town hall and then going through all of the living rooms and the town halls here in iowa is delivering

a message of conservatism, of religious principles and getting back to the roots of sort of the ronald reagan republicanism, that the pence campaign has since abandoned among the new right and that the person who should return the republican party to those strong, conservative values is mike pence. you know, the former vice president under donald trump who pushed this new right. it is his vice president who will now face him here in iowa who wants to return to a previous version of republicanism. the vice president is someone mere who the campaign says is known. he's well known. 100% name i.d., they contend, but what they say is not known is the depth of his experience, the strength of his religious upbringing and his conservative values and his length of time in government whether that may be a conservative member of congress or a chief executive and

government of indiana and that is something that will work in the handshakes and the one-on-one campaigning with iowans and that will work with the former governor of indiana, talking to him about how he would run the entire country and try to bring the republicans back. the problem, though, will be whether this party actually wants to hear it from the former vice president. sarah? >> a lot of questions, kyung lah, back on the trail. >> beyond mike pence, the 2024 republican field continues to expand. an hour ago, mark burgum decided to file to run. last night, former new jersey governor chris christie, he launched his campaign, very quickly taking on directly donald trump, a man once considered his friend. now listen to him. >> beware of the leader in this country who you have handed

leadership to who has never made a mistake, who has never done anything wrong, who when something goes wrong it's always someone else's fault and who has never lost. >> joining me right now republican strategist and cnn political commentator alice stewart and he's served as communications director for more than one presidential campaign. it's good to see you, alice. let's talk first about mike pence. i have some questionses about christie, but i want to ask you about mike pence and he's rolling out his campaign today and he goes directly in his launch video and he goes directly at joe biden, but he does not mention donald trump at all. the video, i don't think includes an image of donald trump when he's launching his campaign video. what do you make of that choice right out of the gate. >> clearly the campaign recognizes the fact that there is no daylight between pence and trump for four years throughout this administration until the

very end when the vice president stood up and said he was not going to take orders from trump about not certifying the election. another strategy with that is the goal of any republican challenger to trump is to keep his base onboard. those maga republicans, the solid core trump supporters need to be moved into another camp and by pence not making direct shots at the former president, he's making a play to those supporters which is key, but i would imagine that tonight at the town hall and as he makes his case across iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, he's going to have no choice, but to show contrast and point out what he sees as the short comings of the former president in order for him to show contrast with the voters. >> alice, what you are laying out is a bit of a dilemma that pence has. it's those who don't support donald trump could see him as trump's loyal vice president and those who support donald trump

can see mike pence as the person who turned on trump on january 6th and after ward. so what is his lane? >> his lane is for a lot of the disaffected republicans and the independents and quite frankly, kate, a lot of republicans that i speak with in iowa that are evangelicals. they're ready to turn the page on donald trump. they supported what he was able to accomplish specifically with the supreme court, but they do not like the tone and tenor in which he carried them out and they're looking who represents the policies of trump, but without the dump stester fire a their eyes are open and they're ready to listen to someone that can lower the temperature much more in the environment and look more to the future of what they can do for the country as opposed to past grievances of the candidate. >> now let's talk about chris christie in this context. he announced he's running

yesterday. you said you were excited to see him get into this race. why? >> a couple of things. he'll have a challenge out of the gate because he was supportive of donald trump at the beginning. he helped fuel his campaign in 2016. now he is pouring fire on the campaign without a doubt and teflon down is about to meet kamikaze chris who said he is not a paid assassin and he is clearly giving himself carte blanche to go full speed ahead of donald trump. what do you think of that choice? >> look. someone has to do this. someone has to go right directly at donald trump in order to make it through the primary and into president biden. chris christie says he's not a paid assassin. he is going to go after donald trump. he clearly, in his message last night, he said that donald trump is a loser. he has said in the past, he is a puppet of putin and the takeaway line that we will hear over and over from chris christie is that

donald trump a loner who is self-absorbed, self-serving mirror hog who is not a leader and he will continue to make that case as he goes through the campaign trail and "the wall street journal" made an excellent point, while christie may have a self-guided missile right to donald trump, it could be unguided and take down ron desantis at the same time which could create a lane for chris christie. he is going to hold nothing back. he is a well-spoken, former governor who doesn't hold back any punches and he is unapologetic and he is clearly doing anything he can. if nothing else, he wants to take out donald trump, ideally christie would win and become the nominee. >> and we shall see together. great to see you, alice. thank you so much. a reminder to all of you, chris christie will be joining cnn's jake tapper live on the lead today at 4:00 p.m. eastern. tonight dana bash will be

moderating a cnn republican presidential town hall with former vice president mike pence. that begins tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> it really is all happening right here on cnn. >> can we go back very briefly. remember when we couldn't wait to see donald trump and chris christie. he helped. >> i'm not sure they'll be on a debate stage and we are awaiting for an update on the vatican on the help of pope francis. the 86-year-old pontiff is having abdominal surgery. prince harry breaks down on the witness stand as he faces questioning. the buffalo bills for the first time since his cardiac arrest in january. and where they c came from. and what my ancestry is. and what my hopes and dreams for them are.

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voluntarily. california officials are looking into whether the flights broke any laws program texas is recommending -- >> we are awaiting an update from the vatican after pope francis was admitted to a hospital in rome after undergoing abdominal francis. he was placed under general anesthesia to fix a hernia. he is expected to be in the hospital for several days. we are in rome outside of the hospital where the pope has had the surgery. any update at this point? >> we do know that the surgery has begun. that's according to the vatican, but we haven't heard any co confirmation that it's finished or how it went. it's important to note that even though he's 86 this is not an

emergency surgery forry is, yesterday for about an hour for the appointment and then he attended his open-air mass and his general audience and he drove himself or he was driven, i should say, to the hospital to be admitted. he didn't come in an ambulance and this is something to take care of discomfort he was having. a lot of this is because he has a very busy summer ahead. he's planning to go to portugal for the world youth day in august and planning to go to mongolia at the end of august. this surgery, the vatican tells us, they expect him to fully recover so he can get back out on his feet and fully recover. anyone over the age of 80, he's 86, there are risks involved and the vatican believes he will come through just fine. we'll update you when we have information, sara. >> anyone of that age goes under the knife it can be very scary sometimes just because of the

anesthesia. at this point in time you don't have major updates, but the surgery is under way. appreciate it, barbie. >> kate? >> coming up for us, making the switch to electric vehicles could be a lifesaver. a new study saying the u.s. would prevent thousand of premature deaths and save millions of medical costs by switching to zero emissions vehicles and it's happening after the major dam breach in southern ukraine. ukraine's former president will be joining us to discuss what the massive floods mean for the war effort. we'll be right back.

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this morning russia's president vladimir putin called the dam collapse in southern ukraine, a quote, unquote, barbaric act. both ukraine and russia continue blaming each other for destroying the dam. it has create yet another dangerous and deadly emergency in ukraine. rescue operations are continuing right now in the kherson region. more than 15,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes when ukrainian-controlled portions of the region flooded. one ukrainian officer told cnn exclusively his troops witnessed russian soldiers being swept up by rising waters on the eastern bank of the river. he said many russian troops were killed or wounded in the chaos

after the breach. joining me now for some perspective on this and the very latest from ukraine is the former president of ukraine, petro poroshenko. thank you for coming in. the images of the dam breach are startling. thousands of people continue to be at risk as we speak. from your perspective, what does this particular disaster mean for the ukrainian people and how does it impact the war effort? >> there are no words how to explain how painful, how dangerous, how catastrophic it is for all ukraine. ukraine live now with this catastrophe, and i just want to tell you that this is not only a man made catastrophe. this is one man made catastrophe organized by putin, and i see your words, ukraine blame russia. russia blame ukraine -- no. russia is exactly like nazis

germany who blamed poland for aggression. i just want to deliver you the message, please do not trust putin and do not trust russia. this is our soil. this is our people. this is our style of life and everything which we're talking about starting from the animals that were killed in the zoo and finishing with dozens of ukrainians and with this situation, this is completely unacceptable. we are hit in the heart and this is the biggest man made catastrophe in the 21st century. this is comparable with the chernobyl nuclear power station catastrophe and with that situation we -- everybody do our best now to support the people

in kherson region. we just want to organize the convoy, humanitarian and send it to kherson with a fresh motor pump, with a generator, the distillization for the water and we do it within a few hours and send it to kherson, the same like we sent it to the armed forces of ukraine to support the launch and counter offensive operation and behind me, and this is the artillery truck which was bought by my charity organization with my own money and send it now to the south to the brigade which is now in the process for finishing preparation for the counter offensive operation. >> mr. president, how does this -- how does this dam breach complicate the counter offensive?

>> i just want to deliver you the message from our commander in chief. one of the version is that the dam catastrophe was made by russia just to stop our country's advancement operation and the message from the general which i know very well, which i appoint him in the armed forces when i created it in 2014, he is a very professional general, and he said this is do not stop ukraine and this is definitely do not be harmful for attacking of ukrainian troops to free from russian occupation. >> you do not see this complicating the dam breach, what it's done to the land down the river from that dam -- dam breach, you do not think this would complicate a counter offensive?

>> this is complicated. this has created a catastrophe for the victims, for the civilians, but not for the ukrainian troops. this is nothing, please believe, nothing can stop ukrainian troops. ukrainian armed forces. why? because we are united. united with ukrainian people, united with our partners from united states and from all over the world and that start to be possible because of the enormous assistance of our partners including the united states with the personal area, with the tank coalition and the air coalition and i am confident that they can prepare for the counter offensive and nothing can stop

us. seriously, this is not the way how ukraine can advance through the dam in our country. we do not give russia a tiny chance to know where they should wait, ukrainian troops and the offensive will start within hours, and i confirm that this is exactly our plan. >> you say the counter offensive will begin within hours? >> within hours, not days, but hours. >> president poroshenko, thank you very much for coming on. cnn will continue reporting out the exact source of what caused the breach of this dam. we understand your point, though, that ukraine would be nowhere in these circumstances, though had russia not invaded now ov a year ago. president poroshenko, thank you very much for coming on. you heard it here. sara? >> all right. a new study claims that a move to electric cars is not only good for the environment.

it is also good for our health. the american lung association says that if everyone were to switch to zero emissions vehicles here in the united states, the nation would see nearly 90,000 premature deaths by 2050. cnn's bill weir is joining us now. how did the american lung association actually come up with the 90,000 people number? >> well, sara, while we focus on the heat trapping pollutions, carbon dioxide and natural gas and they study the stuff that gets into our bodies and our lungs and they look at the emission standards of the current fleet if we were to electrify in the united states by 2025 and it is a stunning thing, just by eliminating the kind of pollution that comes out of tail pipes and dirty fuel power plants would save over 80,000 lives, almost 90,000 lives and it would prevent 2.2 million asthma attacks by

2050. it would save almost len million lost work days overall and save the economy close to a trillion dollars in health savings and just getting off of fossil fuels and the health benefits would pay for the cost of transitioning and this doesn't take into account the impact of wildfire smoke and it is the product of a heating planet in new york city and we just hit an air quality index of 351, anything over 350 is code red for everybody so there's that concern and this looks at just cleaning up the fleet, the vehicles of the united states, but there is a long way to go, sara. less than 5% of cars sold are electric these days. it's about to uncork. there's huge pent-up demand and the inflation reduction act and it affects communities of color disproportionately around the country and the american lung

association saying this is unjust. our choice of fuels the only affects everybody, but it affects communities of color around power plants. >> thank you so much, bill weir, for that update. john? revenge and retaliation, how kevin mccarthy's own party is getting back at him for the debt deal. are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. ahhh! icy hot pro starts working instantly. with two max-strength pain relievers, so you can rise from pain like a pro.

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cut a whole wide range of deals ranging from spending cuts and how to run the chamber. these members say that the deal that raised the national debt limit did not comply with that accord and now are pushing back. >> he has to abide by the agreements that he made at the beginning of this congress when he was elected speaker he made promises. we want him to abide by those promises. >> what did he violate specifically? >> one of the things is he would appropriate to the 2022 numbers. >> there's no decision over a motion to vacate the chair. no decision about rules votes, but the problem that has been precipitated entirely by the speaker's approach to the debt ceiling package is going to have to be dealt with. >> now that one comment from dan bishop there that there's not been a decision yet on the motion to vacate meaning calling for a vote, seeking kevin mccarthy's ouster.

that was one of the deals to become speaker, allowing a single member to do just that, but they are holding up his legislative agenda and it is unclear how that's going to get resolved, john and they're expecting votes in the house in the afternoon and those could be in flux, too, as the standoff is not yet ending. >> it could be a painful day for the speaker, manu raju, thank you. kate? >> emotions were running high in court in a london courtroom today. prince harry's cross-examination wraps in his case against british tabloids. the question that caused him to choke up. that's next. into, but at the end of the day, you u know you have a team behid you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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prince harry got emotional this morning while testifying for the second day about the role the press has played in his life. the duke of sussex is alleging that his phone was hacked by the uk's mirror group so they could get information about his personal life. one example he pointed to today was a photo of him dropping off a former girlfriend which he said was suspicious because where exactly this photo was taken. royal correspondent max foster is joining us now. what else did you hear from his testimony today? i know you've been watching it closely. >> yeah. there's a theme here and this is that harry is talking about all of these stories. he grew up with these types of stories, the tabloid techniques to get those stories and he said i was suspicious about where that story came from. i think it came from hacking or some sort of illegal means and then you would have the lawyer for the mirror group saying that's just speculation, isn't? because actually this story could have come from this source which wasn't illegal.

so that was the sort of process they're going through. harry did almost choke up at one point toward the end of his cross-examination and that part of it is over now. he said for the whole of my life the press miss ldmisled me and r mr. green, the lawyer to suggest on speculating, i'm not sure what to say about that. it's a much bigger battle. he feels there was so much wrong about the way the tabloids were behaving, he wants to address that. he wants to reform that. ultimately, if he doesn't win this case, sara, he would have highlighted many of the tactics the tabloid media have been known for using and perhaps he can reform it that way by highlighting it, but it's been a difficult time for him and now they're currently speaking to reporters accused of using hacked information. >> all right. max foster, i know you'll be watching every second and appreciate your reporting on this. new concern over the health

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