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smoke from devastating wildfires is affecting millions. pope francis is undergoing abdominal surgery at this hour. what we know about the 86-year-old's procedure and as we wait for an update from the vatican. special counsel jack smith has convened a second grand jury to hear testimony over donald trump's handling of classified documents. what prosecutors are now doing in florida. this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ new this morning, former trump aide taylor budowich is in a federal courthouse in miami. jack smith is using a second grand jury there as he is investigating donald trump's handling of classified documents and that investigation appears to be nearing its final stages now. cnn has also learned trump's former chief of staff mark meadows that he testified before a federal grand jury in both

special counsel investigations. cnn's caitlin poantz is in miami. let's start with this new second grand jury right now. what are you hearing about this? >> well, kate, there is activity today, taylor budowich did arrive with his attorney a little bit earlier this morning and they've been inside the federal courthouse apparently in that secret proceeding where the special counsel investigators are asking, we believe, about this possible mishandling of classified records, that particular part of the investigation, that is why taylor budowich is in miami. now there are a lot of questions around this still, and particularly why this isn't happening in washington, d.c., where we saw so much grand jury activity and we do know that taylor budowich, someone who is very close to donald trump, who is an aide is working with a super pac as the former president launches another

campaign for the white house. he's a person, too, that was among the group that talked trump out of saying publicly he had turned over everything to the national archives at a time when they were demanding they return all of the documents from his white house and where he did not return all of the documents from his white house even though 15 boxes were sent back to the archives. we don't have yet any sort of indication of what is happening in the grand jury and it is a sealed proceeding and we are closely watching at least to see how long he's going to be in there. >> yeah, and who is coming and going today might be the only indication of where things are considering the secret proceedings. talk to me now about the former chief of staff to donald trump, mark meadows. he has now testified before the grand jury. do we know exactly which investigation he's testifying about? >> well, our reporting team has been able to confirm that he had been asked about both the investigation into donald trump and the handling of classified

records after the white house as well as january 6th and the 2020 le election. we know that mark meadows of a very central witness as he refused to speak to the house as they investigated what happened on january 6th and during the 2020 election. he was clearly one of the top advisors around donald trump, interested in trying to find a way to maintain the presidency, and we also know that a federal court said he could not decline to answer any questions related to 2020 and his time in the white house because of executive privilege, but we did get a statement from his attorney saying that he had a commitment to tell the truth where he had a legal obligation to do so. kate? >> katelynpolantz. >> you are well versed in what is going on.

we just heard from kately in about a former trump aide, budowich, what do we know? >> he's worked as a spokesman and he may have been present at meetings where trump and his team were talking about perhaps intentionally putting out a false public statement about what documents they had and had not turn over from mar-a-lago. not a crime to lie to the public. i don't recommend it, but it's not a crime. if they make a false public statement, prosecutors can use that to prove that the overall claim was to deceive the public and eventually investigators. very relevant information. ? mark meadows did not go speak to the house. >> right. >> but we now know that he has testified. i'm assuming he actually did not take the fifth and if that is the case, then what exactly did prosecutors have to do to get to this point where he is talking about what's going on? >> so three potential ways this happened. it could be, we have no

reporting to this effect and it is unlikely and sometimes in this scenario it's a cooperation deal. the person pleads guilty to a crime and they hope they get a sentencing reduction and the middle ground which is the most likely, meadows was given immunity saying he took the fifth saying my testimony might be used against me and prosecutors may counter move meaning we're not going to use your testimony against you and as a practical matter we will not be able to prosecute you and now you have to testify. the third scenario which i think is unlikely, he went in there, testifieded and hoped for the best and no good lawyer would allow him to do that. >> we've already seen him refuse for public debates. can we say what a key witness he is, and all of the things he himself witnessed and not just heard about. >> mark meadows is not just in this case, but in all of the cases, he was donald trump's

chief of staff over the last ten months, he was there for the election, january 6th and the last day. we know because he produced these texts when he was partially cooperating with congress that he received hundreds of texts on january 6th as the attack was happening, from his own family saying they have to do something. we know meadows was having one-on-one meetings with donald trump as this was all unfolding and prosecutors would ask about that and trump's infamous phone call from brad raffensperger, i need you to find 1,780 votes and he was involved in the packaging and packing up and moving out of the white house and he was the liaison. he touches every strand here. >> all of the strands that prosecutors will be looking at at this point in time. ellie honig, thank you very

much. he is everywhere. thank you very much, appreciate it. >> right now, pope francis is back in a hospital in rome where he's currently undergoing abdominal surgery. according to the vatican, he has been placed under general anesthesia to fix an abdominal hernia, barbie nadal is in rome where he is being cared for. we are awaiting from the hospital on the pope's condition. what are you hearing from the vatican? >> there are a couple of things to take aware, this wasn't emergency surgery per se. he had an appointment at the hospital and this is a hospital where popes have gone for many, many decades for primary care. he had an appointment yesterday that lasted about an hour and he attended his weekly audience in st. peter's square, a full crowd and he came by private crowd and didn't come by ambulance. this is going to take care of

a -- and they've canceled his audiences through the end of june and not for august and he's going to portugal for world youth day and in the end of august he's going to mongolia, and if this surgery goes well and the vatican assured us they believe it will, of course, any 86-year-old person in fragile health, he is confined to a wheelchair most of the time. he's had long bronchitis, he was in this hospital in march and any person this age going under anesthesia, going under the knife we have to worry about. we are waiting and hoping that everything goes well for the 86-year-old pontiff. kate? >> until we stand by for an update from the vatican and hopefully we'll hear more from you today and we'll cut back to you. barbie, thank you very much john? >> this morning a code red air quality alert for the northeast

all because of smoke from wildfires in canada that has spread into the united states and affecting as far south as south carolina. we have a map to show you. every dot represents an area where there is a code red alert that has local health departments urging people to stay inside just in because of the air quality issues, washington, d.c. public schools have announced outdoor activities have been canceled today. we have a live look at what things look like in detroit. not as bad in detroit there, but they are feeling the impact there, as well, and in new york city, a much worse situation. look at that. i have to tell you from walking outside the last few days, you can't help but feel it. athena jones here in new york, you can see and feel the effects. why don't you give us the latest, athena. >> jon, i can tell you, we just got an update from the city, from the mayor of new york eric adams and other city officials

saying the advisory here, the air quality health advisory is going to be extended into midnight, at least midnight tonight and city officials are expecting this to be a multiple-day event. this thick smoke is expected to dissipate and expected to come back tomorrow afternoon into the evening and these are from more than a hundred wildfires that are burning up in quebec hundreds of miles away, but still having a huge impact here. we've been noticing people out and about. some of them jogging or walking their dogs wearing masks and others caring about the day as though there's no issue. we caught up with one man. take a listen to what he had to say. ? for years, we've been wearing masks indoors and taking them outdoors, i've been living in new york for the past 35 years and i've never experienced

anything like this. >> so we saw one cautious man and a woman to australia, we are going to go on a sightseeing smoke, and this is the worst air quality we've seen since the 1960s. these are charges that you do not want to be topping in the cities in the world and this alsos can down that they haven't seen an uptick in emergency officials yet and asthma, cardiovascular people and also vulnerable people, the very old, the very young and pregnant women are people who should take extra precautions and stay out of this smoke. why is that? wildfires carry a particularly dangerous kind of pollutant, a tiny particularate matter that can enter the lungs, enter the blood stream and cause all sorts of health problems. john? >> it's not good. i've lived in the northeast my entire life, athena, and i have

never witnessed anything like this. i can't remember going through anything like this before. please stay safe. >> with us now is cnn meteorologist derek van dam. derek, why don't you give us a sense of what we're seeing and how long we're going to see it for? >> john, you heard athena talk about how this impacts asthmatic. today is not the day that you want to leave your inhaler or pump at home because it can literally save your life. it's been creating beautiful sunris sunrises and sunsets and when this settles to the earth and we start to breathe that toxic, toxic air which people describe to me in social media, as people say it is almost acrid and you can taste it. today is the global running day and the organization that runs that says that this is not the day to do that. not to recognize this day. you want to pick another day to recognize global running day because the air quality is the

so bad and head's up, new york city. this kind of milky shade to the cloud cover on the visible satellite loop, if you thought yesterday's air quality was bad, it's about to get worse. we expect the impacts of this to go downhill significantly in the minutes and hours to come as the next round or next wave of smoke from the fires in quebec start to settle further and further south into the hudson valley. look at this. we've had numerous reds and purples indicating very unhealthy air and everybody wants to know when is it going to clear up? unfortunately, we have to get worse before we get better. this is a very stagnant weather pattern all driven by the upper-level winds called the jet stream. it's called an omega block, prevents weather patterns from shifting from the usual weather patterns northeast of the u.s. it's just want taking place any time soon and you can see the near surface smoke forecast and more is expected to drift into new york, maybe abating slightly and it will pick back up toward the end of the workweek. >> wow.

we could be dealing with this all week. >> all right. derek van dam, appreciate it. thank you very much. that stinks. literally, it does stink. >> it's affecting my throat. i have a scratchy throat and i was blaming yelling at you -- stop taking my lines! i think it has to do with -- i don't know, everything around us. >> the environment. >> blame the environment and john berman. coming up for us, former vice president mike pence is running. the first time in modern history the former vice president is running against his former boss. political quiz, who is the one prior? we are at pence's first official campaign event in iowa. we'll bring it to you. plus, a suspect has now been charged after the shooting at a high school graduation ceremony. two people were killed in that including an 18-year-old graduate. we'll bring you that update. also this for us, anxiety impacting more and more kids and young adults, but fewer of them are getting the help that they

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deputy claims he did not know where the shooting was coming from and he pled not guilty to charges. >> anxiety among young people is getting worse in the united states and while cases are up they are not getting the therapy, these children, that they need. the best approach for the severe cases of anxiety is the combination of therapy and medication. to start that process, experts say the first step is recognizing behavioral changes in children. former house speaker nancy pelosi threw the first pitch at on tuesday and kind of of a strike. she made it all of the way to the glove which is not easy. >> unless the glove's enormous. >> the glove was big. >> the mascot was dressed in a rainbow jersey as the pride event, the longest running in major league baseball. >> she did better than many, many male politicians we have seen when it comes to this. >> i've done roughly like six pieces of how bad first pitches

can be from celebrities and most of them are much worse than that. >> moving on. let's talk more about politics, though. it's a big week for republican politics. this morning former vice president mike pence is officially launching his presidential campaign with a new video and he's about to make his first presidential campaign event and about to kick it off in iowa and north dakota governor doug burgum has filed paperwork to run and he's set to kick it off in fargo. eva mckent is following in iowa. what are you learning about pence's strategy in iowa. we know he thinks iowa is probably the beginning, middle and end for survival for him early in this primary. >> well, the goal to make it the continuation at least for the pence campaign is to get to every single county here in the state. we've heard this from other presidential campaigns before,

but we're hearing it very loudly from the pence campaign. go to all 99 counties and get into living rooms and get into diners and get into every pizza parlor we can and the reason why is they believe that mike pence being from indiana with his conservative credentials as well as his history and his long service in government and his christian faith that that is what will sell him to iowans, handshake by handshake. he is going to recall a conservatism that harkens back to ronald reagan. it's something bwe saw in that announcement video and he mentions ronald reagan twice, but never the name donald trump. take a listen. >> we're better than this. we can turn this country around. different times call for different leadership. today our party and our country need a leader that will appeal as lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature.

>> now pence, per the campaign, believes they have extraordinarily high name recognition. that people know the name mike pence, what they don't know and what the republicans here in iowa may not remember is that he was the governor of iowa -- of indiana, and he does have those decades being such a conservative member of congress, kate. that is the message that they're going to sell and they believe they can do it here in iowa. >> we'll see it on full display very, very soon and tonight, it's great to see you, kyung. thank you. let's go to north dakota where eva mckent is standing by. eva, governor burgum could be taking the stage any minute now. what are you hearing about his strategy and what he will lay out here? >> well, in governor burgum, you have a conservative two-term governor who will argue that the economy, energy approxpolicy, nl security those are the most pressing issue facing americans and not these cultural battles and he'll also distinguish himself as a business leader in

the field prior to becoming governor in 2016. he will tell you that he -- that he bet on the farm. he invested early in a software company that ultimately was sold to microsoft for a billion dollars and though he's not inclined to fight these cultural battles, he is firmly conservative signing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. in addition to curtailing transgender rights, he's not going to take on his republican opponents. that is not his style. take a listen to his message. >> anger, yelling, infighting, that's not going to cut it anymore. let's get things done. in north dakota, we listen with respect and we talk things out. that's how we can get america back on track.

>>. >> governor burgum will argue he was underestimated in the past when he ran for governor. many people in this state, his home state, did not think he would ultimately win. now the task ahead for him is to introduce himself to people outside of this state and he'll travel to iowa and new hampshire after this announcement to do just that this week, kate. >> this early in the primary, never good to underestimate anybody and count anybody out at this point. it's great to see you, eva. thank you very much. a programming night to all of you. tonight dana bash will moderated a cnn town hall with mike pence. that is tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. sara? >> u.s. officials are reporting signs of increased fighting over the last 48 hours in ukraine. why they think this could mean the long-awaited counter offensive may have started. plus hundreds of protesters clashed outside a california school board meeting over teaching about gender and six

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poroshenko told cnn the counter offensive will start within hours and it happened about an hour ago on the show. cnn can't independently confirm that with officials. u.s. and western officials are seeing signs that the counter offensive is actually under way.

one senior nato official noted a substantial increase in fighting on the eastern front in the past 48 hours. cnn's natasha bertrand is joining us now. what exactly are they seeing that indicates that finally this offensive has begun? >> sara, they're seeing a lot of increased activity that is essentially out of the ordinary for what has been happening over the last several months including as you mentioned that intensified fighting over the last 48 hours and what they are seeing essentially is ukraine continuing to probe more actively russian defenses and try to figure out where there are gaps where they can punch through and essentially create momentum so that larger forces within the ukrainian military can move in and take more territory and they're seeing activity in the southeastern zaporizhzhia region between kherson and the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that seems new and they're seeing increased ukrainian activity south of the city of donetsk in eastern

ukraine that appears to be a new ox f offensive and the bottom line that we are hearing from ukraine officials and u.s. officials that it is not going to be something that is announced. it will be a series of subtle attacks to punch through various russian defensive positions in a way that will then allow them to move forward en masse. so what we are hearing now from the ukrainian deputy defense minister, actually is that this will be a counter offensive that will be taking place at multiple points across the front lines. so not just one big moving in in one location, but a series of several different attacks using artillery strikes and ground attacks and the ukrainians will do to test the balance. ch mark milley, he believes the ukrainians are prepared and here

is what he told cnn this week. >> the ukrainians are well prepared and around the world have provided training and ammunition and advice, intelligence, et cetera. >> president zelenskyy is tempering expectations for the counter offensive saying that essentially they need fighter jets in order to really make substantial progress here. that is something, of course, that they are not going to get from western countries for at least several months, sara. >> all right. natasha bertrand, thank you for all your reporting. john? this morning police have identified a suspect who opened fire in a graduation in virginia. the 19-year-old was charged with secondary murder and arraigned earlier today. thor is money he just let out and hundreds of people were out when the shooting began. an 18-year-old who had just received his diploma and his stepfather. >> is nothing sacred any longer? is nothing sacred any longer? this should not be happening

anywhere. a child should be able to go to their graduation and walk out of their graduation and enjoy the accomplishment with their friends and their family. >> cnn's brian todd is in richmond, virginia, with the latest for us. brian, a graduation is supposed to be one of the happiest days in someone's life. >> it sure is, john. it certainly did not turn out that way yesterday and it was quite the opposite and chaos ensued and violent chaos ensued just outside the theater where the graduation occurred and we do have critical new information just received from the police chief and the mayor at this news conference behind us at police headquarters and you mentioned the ages of the victims and we have the names of the victims, shawn jackson, 18 years old and lorenzo smith. lorenzo smith is jackson's stepfather. a 9-year-old girl who was struck by a car and injured, and fortunately not life-threatening

injuries and the 9-year-old girl was also related to that same family. a horrible, horrible day for that family and the suspect identified as 19-year-old amare pollard and we did ask pointed questions to the chief about a possible motive. he did say that these two people, the victim and the suspect were known to each other. we pressed the chief on the motive. here's what he had to say about that. >> we believe that the two individuals shawn jackson and amare pollard knew each other. this is a mass shooting, but we don't believe it was what is typically referred to as an active shooter. this was targeted at one individual. this was a dispute that we are hearing took place over the course of just over a year. >> so a dispute over the course of a year and the suspect according to police actually attended the graduation watching someone else graduate and then came out according to police and

committed the shooting. the suspect was arraigned on two charges of second-degree murder this morning, john? >> how horrible. brian todd, keep us posted. thank you for your reporting. >> just horable is right, john. let's turn to this. two people were arrested outside a school board meeting in southern california over a fight that broke out over differences about the glendale unified school district's lgbtq policies. hundreds protested at the meeting before clashing with the smaller group, that's according to police. listen to this. >> if it was really about just acceptance and tolerance the conversation would be you love your fellow student no matter what. period. why do kids have to know what two mommies are? >> at this age the only thing that they're teaching is that gay people exist so that's true. >> cnn's natasha chen has more details on this for us. she's joining us now.

natasha, what all happened here? what led up to this? >> kate, this is not the first clash to happen in the l.a. area within the past week. it just got a bit out of hand there as you're seeing from the video. police said it was mostly peaceful except for a small group of people whose behavior they deemed became unsafe. they arrested at least three people on various charges including unlawful use of pepper spray and obstructing police in the course of their duties and they said that their efforts to de-escalate failed so after 6:00 p.m. they ordered the crowd to disperse. at that point the school board meeting was going on and the board unanimously voted to pass the resolution to recognize june as lgbtq+ pride month which is certainly not the first year they've done that. the district says there's a lot of misinformation out there about what is taught to elementary students and to be clear, the schools have been

following california state law that's been in place for more than a decade which requires including the representation, the fair representation of diverse populations when teaching history or social studies and that includes people in the lgbtq+ communities. here is the superintendent explaining. >> the biggest piece of misinformation is at the elementary level we teach anything other than what means -- what inclusivity entails, that we have families that come in all different shapes based on the state framework, based on the guidelines from our state. >> and last friday, let's show you video from north hollywood where there was also a protest and counterprotesters outside an elementary school there after a pride assembly was held and apparently a book called the great big book of families was read to the kids at the same time as last night's protest,

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cnn's chairman and ceo chris licht is leaving the company. he took over the post just over one year ago. cnn's oliver darcy is joining us. what are you learning about this? >> that's right, kate. chris licht, the embattled chairman and ceo of cnn whose tenure is marked by a series of severe missteps. he will be departing the company effective immediately and that's according to chief executive david zaslov. he says he has implemented three seasoned executives to take hold of the company in the interim. those executives include amy intellis, virginia mosley and eric shirling and they'll lead among newly installed chief operating officer david levy.

this caps a tumultuous year for cnn that has seen shrinking profits, programming steps and low employee morale. david zaslov is hoping this can right the ship and get everything back, and it will not happen overnight and it will take some time and they're hoping they can right the ship and get back to the news. cnn has been breaking a lot of news lately and they want that to be the focus of the organization. >> all of those people you listed we know very well here at cnn. oliver, thank you very much for the reporting. >> john? >> rory mcilroy lashes out this morning. his new reaction to the effective merger of the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf. >> prince harry, close to tears and the details of his dramatic testimony inside a london courtroom. and now, i'm checking my fico® score. i got a new credit card, and i'm even finding ways to saveve.

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stun ning video of india where a bridge under construction collapsed into. this happened in one of the poorest states. this is the second time it's crumbled in over a year. they have ordered an investigation, but they haven't said publicly what caused the first collapse. cnn has not confirmed any reports of injuries yet. prince harry wrapped up testimony today in a privacy case against a british cab can tabloid. he said it's taken a lot to appear in court. he accuses the newspaper of publishing at least 33 articles

with information obtained by hacking his phone or other illegal means. some bad news for drivers. the energy department is predicting that oil and gas prices will rise next year because of saudi arabia's decision to slash oil production and an agreement to extend its output cuts. the department boost ed its forecast for oil prices by 14.5% for the third quarter of 2024 and now it expects gas prices to average $3.38 a gallon. that's up by 7.3%. so this morning, we are getting new reaction from golfers following the shocking announcement that the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf tour will merge. we're hearing from the likes of mega stars including rory mcilroy, who have been severely critical of liv throughout the year. liv golf is bankroll ed by saud

arabia. saudi arabia linked to the death of jamal khashoggi, an editorial writer. the situation surrounding september 11th. the family members of 9/11 victims have called this merger shocking and deeply offensive. sara spoke to one of the family members earlier this morning. >> we thought that the pga was built on integrity. we thought the pga had morals. we thought they had ethics. for 12 months, they had just trashed the kingdom's name. then they turn around and do this deal. it feels like a gut punch. >> cnn world sport anchor don riddell joins us now. there are a lot of golfers on the pga tour who stuck their necks out criticizing liv golf over the last year. rory mcilroy is one of them. now we're hearing from some of these golfers for the first time. >> you and i spoke about this this time yesterday.

a lot of the golfers were themselves learning about all of this, given that the pga tour is a tour run by the players. they were all blind sided by this. including one of the leading figures, rory mcilroy. he's been the most outspoken and the moral compass of golf, the conscious of professional golf. he was the guy we really wanted to her from ahad of the canadian open. this is what he had to say. >> i still hate liv. i hope it goes away. i fully expect that it does. it's hard for me to not sit up here and feel like a sack official lamb and feel like i put myself out there and this is what happens. again, removing myself from the situation, i see how this is brt for the game of golf. there's no denying that. >> just to expand on one of the things he said there. he thinks liv will go away. he sees that liv and pif, which

is the saudi arabia public investment fund, he sees those as two different things. he accepts the public investment fund are now financially involved in all of golf. but he thinks that that's not the same as liv. so maybe liv and the format, the unusual ground breaking format will go away. he thinks the players that took the money shouldn't be allowed back in the tour and doesn't think they will be. yesterday we were hearing there will be a pathway extended to those players to try to reapply for their tour cards after this season. but that's interesting from rory mcilroy. >> the strength of his words there, continuing to say i hate luv golf like he did, that he felt like a sack official lamb. he wasn't mincing words. what did he say about taking money from the saudis? >> he said he's come to terms with it. he's come to terms with the fact that there's money in professional sport.

you can't necessarily choose where it comes from. some of the liv golfers might say, well, these pga tour golfers going to have to explain why they are getting paid by saudi money, whatever you want to call it. he says, look, there's nothing we can do about it. >> don riddell, i did not see this day coming. thank you for being with us. thank you all so much for joining us. this is "cnn news central." "inside politics" is up next. i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uh... i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. here i'll take that. -everyone: woooo! ensure max protein with 30 grs of protein,

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