and china the world's second largest box office has contributed a very, very small amount. according to data, in maine land chin mainland china it made $2.7 billion. and compare take to spiderman, it brought in $20 million. and so people have been haeen s their objections. one wrote that my fairy tale has changed beyond recognition. and chinese state media is egging on the reaction. global times saying that the controversy surrounding the forced inclusion of minorities and classic films is lazy and irresponsible story telling strategy. and disney declined to comment. back to you. >> and kristie lu stout, standing you. thank you for joining me. "cnn this morning" starts right now.

good thursday morning, everyone. so glad phil is here in a very still hazy new york. >> it's a borderline apocalyptic and surreal. it's actually very serious. i you went down the rabbit hole of nasa scientists last night. >> of course you did. >> we have a lot to learn, talk about. for thosen on the west coast, welcome. this is a very, very real and significant issue. >> and climate change. >> we'll get into all of what is happening here in the air in our skies. we have a lot of other news. let's get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 8th. at round of thick smoke set to blanket the northeast and new york today. >> sources tell cnn the justice department has informed donald trump's legal team he is a target in the classified documents investigation. it it's a sign that an indictment could be near.

happening soon, van der sloot will leave his prison in peru. he is facing fraud charges to the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> and mike pence delivering his toughest takedown yet. pence saying that donald trump should, quote, never be president again. and lionel messy is taking his talents to florida. he intends to play for major league soccer milan. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> let's begin here though. because i couldn't believe it when i looked out the window yesterday afternoon. it got a lot worse after we left the show. >> it looked like we were on mars. the most surreal part, everyone in masks again. outdoor activities canceled in

washi washington, d.c. my wife called and made clear. >> is it bad? >> not as bad as here. new york city is the worst polluted cities in the world. d new delhi and places like that. >> a very important reminder of how important it is that we focus on the climate. >> no question. tens of millions facing a day of breathing in thick smoke from the canadian wildfires. these are live pictures this morning. yeste yesterday, as phil head that, is manhattan looking like mars. the bulk of the shift is shifting to washington, d.c., and baltimore. here's a look at some of new

york's iconic landmarks blanketted in this reddish brown. this is not just a health problem. the blinding conditions led to a ground stop at laguardia's airport. big sporting events and broadway shows canceled. others canceled all outdoor activity. take a look at this time lapse of new york city in the skyline turning dark orange in a matter of minutes. in a few hours as waves of smoke continue to pour down from canada. atheen athena jones, our colleague is outside masked up. it got worse since you joined us on the show. what about today? >> it's still at an unhealthy level for sensitive groups.

things could worsen again. it's the same pattern we saw yesterday. the bulk of the smoke that hit new york is expected to shift south to affect baltimore and washington, d.c. >> from new york -- >> very scary. >> just walking down the street and feeling like i'll have an asthma attack. >> to lansing, michigan. >> i noticed a difference with being able to breathe right. >> as far south as raleigh, north carolina, a large area blanketed. from over 400 active wildfires burning in canada as of wednesday afternoon. more than half of them determined to be out of control. according to the canadian inner agency forest fire center. >> last year and this year, the worst wildfire season we've ever had right across the country.

it picked up aggressively this month, largely in quebec. more than nine million acres burned in canada so far this year. 15 times the normal amount. this is the worst air quality we experienced in 20 years. this is hard to breathe right now. >> new york state is making one million masks vablg to the public. >> times like this are scary and can be shocking for new yorkers when you step outside and smell and breathe this air. >> new yorkers being urged to stay indoors as much as possible because particles in wildfire smoke can infiltrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream. too much smoke inhalation is linked to asthma and heart

disease. >> the best protection is avoid being outside until the air clears. >> officials warning the smoke will continue to impact much of the east coast until at least th e weekend. >> with that in mind, while they expect conditions to improve by this weekend, that doesn't mean it won't happen again. as one of our cnn meteorologists put it this is something we could deal with off and out throughout the remainder of the summer. fire season is just beginning in canada. poppy? >> wow. off and on through the remainder of the summer. thank you very much. i know it's not easy conditions being out there for you and your team. we appreciate the reporting. >> we want to drill in a little bit on what athena is saying. we want to bring in eric vandam for the latest forecast.

i think the biggest question across the east coast, when is relief coming? >> yeah. phil, you know, it is all dependent on the wind direction. right? where it's bad for somebody today, it's going to be worse for somebody else tomorrow, depending on exactly that wind direction. so, this morning we are waking as athena noted, some improvement on the visibility. of course, still hazardous air in new york city. look at philadelphia. just over a mile of visibility. more the same for washington, d.c. and, you know what? we already talked about this. this is incredible to note. new york city topping the list of the most polluted major cities across the entire planet right now as of 5:55. we just updated that. so what is this air quality index? this is the epa, the environmental protection agency's way of communicating to you and i the quality of the air that we breathe. it uses the color codes to help convey that message and it also explains to groups how they may be impacted. if we're talking about 200 to

300 aqi index, very unhealthy. look at that hazardous purple color. that is 300 to 500 index. and for a point there on wednesday evening, philadelphia, new york city and trenton all in that hazardous air. can you see the dots, the reporting stations for the aqi index. several purple. several red. bottom line, it is very unhealthy air that we're breathing. it is all thanks to the wildfire smoke to the north. check this out. as we progress this near surface smoke forecast, you can see how it clears from new york city. just as i mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast, it will shift to a different location. the ohio river valley, parts of the great lakes. detroit, cleveland, cincinnati. you've got the potential for more smoke and unhealthy air as the wind pattern shifts ever so slightly. poppy? phil? >> eric vandam, thank you. >> also this morning, new developmentes in one of the many investigations facing former donald trump. the justice department has told

trump legal team he is a target of jack smith's criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents. this is the clearest signal yet that trump is facing a possible indictment. he denied wrongdoing and argues he declassified everything while president. our colleague joins us now. what does this mean? people will wake up. they will hear target letter. they will want to know what does that indicate? >> we haven't been here before. this is a really big moment, certainly, in all of the investigations of the former president. investigators never really got this close to saying they were going to or possibly going to indict the then sitting president. or that he was guilty of some kind of crime. what has happened now in recent weeks is that donald trump has been officially notified he is a

target of a criminal investigation. that was pretty obvious already to the former president given the fact that the fbi got a search warrant, they searched his property at mar-a-lago. in that -- in the search warrant, they described a list of three crimes that they were investigating. so, he has known he is front and center, the only one, obviously, willfully retaining these documents despite the fact that the national archives and the federal government were trying to retrieve this. he has a right to present evidence to say he cannot be charged. he can be asked to go speak to the grand jury to present his side of the story. we don't anticipate the former president is going to do that. again this is a step that the justice department has at their disposal. they don't have to tell people that they are the target of a criminal investigation. but they can do that and it

usually indicates that they're close to bringing charges against that person. >> very clearly seems to be moving in that direction. one question i had. our show team picked up what seemed to be a new defense last night from a former trump attorney when it comes to the documents. i want you to listen to it. >> yeah. >> the fact it has a classification marking on it, if it zshgs doesn't make it automatically some type of contraband. it has to be national defense information, one. two, we're talking about original documents. not a single one of those marked documents are originals. they're all copies. every single one of them. >> all right. i'll bite. i'm admittedly perplexed, not a pra expert, but you are. whether you want to be or not. evan, do you think there is validity to that? >> no. i don't think that what -- i

think what he's trying to do is to try to say that certainly these documents that were brought to mar-a-lago, that, well, they don't matter because they are copies of the originals which, of course, the federal government knows what documents donald trump likely took. they have the originals. in most cases, they have the original originals of the documents. the fact you copied them, doesn't make it not classified. doesn't make it not national security information, right? in fact, it creates and opens new questions. who copied them? did that person have a right to copy sn copy them? those are the questions that are open by this line of defense. they also said that, you know, essentially, he previously said, rather, it doesn't matter whether the documents are classified or not. it is national defense information. he's right about that. that is exactly the crime that -- the crimes that the justice department says that they're investigating right now.

the former president and possibly violating. and, so, the fact that things are copies, really just makes them new documents that the government wants to retrieve. if you go into a meeting with donald trump and he says things that are classified, and you take notes, that document suddenly becomes a record that needs to be returned to the national archives. guys? >> yeah. fascinating and so important, evan. thank you. >> true. >> joining us now to discuss, jennifer rogers, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor. you noted that this suggests prosecutors are close to a charging decision. again, to poppy's point, for people reading the front page of the newspaper this morning and see charge letter and see what seems to be a methodical progression in this investigation, what should they be thinking about what's coming next? >> i think we're at the end, phil. i think we know now why the monday meeting was triggered

between donald trump's defense team and doj. they likely got this target letter and said we want to talk you to. that's probably why that meeting happened. >> so they can give their side of things. this target letter can likely cause that. >> i think that's right. these are things that happen at the end when the investigation is wrapping up, doj will send this target letter, give the person an opportunity to appear in th in the grand jury if they wish to. give a pitch why they shouldn't be indicted and it's all wrapped up. time to go to the grand jury. >> it is rare that someone won't be indicted following a target letter? it is. usually they have their mind made up at the time the investigation is wrapping up. maybe they see something that caused them to rethichlt but for the most part, by the time they collected all that evidence, they know what they want to do. >> that's a big deal. every once in a while is not

great odds for the former president here then. >> for sure. i think we'll see an indictment soon. >> there is separation from the attorney general. the attorney general still has oversight of what is happening at this point in time. take us behind the scenes at doj. what are the conversations going on right now given there is no precedent for this and what the attorney general, what jack smith special counsel may be thinking through at the moment. >> we haven't gotten much insight into what is happening inside of doj. he'll have to keep the attorney general, you know, generally apprised of what is happening. we don't know how often they've been meeting. how details these meetings are as far as the information going to the attorney general. i suspect that merrick guard land appointed jack smith in the first place so that he wouldn't really have to be involved in the day today, of course. so jack smith and his team are working to put this together. when they feel like they're at a point where they have made their internal decision as a team, of course, they will will relay

that to merrick garland and his folks and talk it through. but i would be very surprised if merrick gar sland is going to overturn the decision. >> one development we learned this week is there is a second grand jury. and it's in south florida in miami. "the washington post" reporting yesterday on this was really interesting, that many of the indictments if, they're multiple, a lot is going to stem from florida. rather than washington, d.c. >> yeah. that was a big surprise. everything has been happening in d.c. you know, it could be that they are planning to indict one, two, or a few people down in florida for kind of more minor level actions strog do with the obstruction piece, you know, people who were moving documents, for example, or the surveillance tapes, that sort of thing and just paeeling those off. that is really where most of the conduct occurred here and the documents were possess ford so long. hidden, you know, certainly the basis of the obstruction is down

there. they may have decided that the whole thing should be in florida. we just don't know that yet. >> can i ask -- i asked devin about. this i'm fascinated that a copy of a classified document, i'm not totally pulling the thread together. it still seems classified information. evan laid out and knocked down to some degree what former president trump's attorney detailed in terms of that defense. what's your read? >> if that's going to be the in courtroom defense as opposed to the magical declassification things that we've heard from trump outside of the courtroom -- >> i did it with my mind. it's photo copied so it's okay. >> if that stt is the legal def in the courtroom, that is not going to fly. there are statutes that prohibit having and disseminating national defense information. that doesn't have to be in a document. that is just information. right? there are statutes that talk about classified information

that is classified. stam stamped with the word classified. then there are things they require them to keep. that has original documents in it. national archives want that. it belongs to the government. that thing, sure, if they made a copy of it and kept it, that's not going to be a violation. but classified information is classified. even if there are ten document that's are all the same, that all say classified, they're all classified. you can't have any of them. national defense information. same thing. there is no defense here to anything that the special counsel is considering charging. so, i think that which they finally do get into the courtroom, that is not what we're going to hear from them. >> this is a history of people who have had classified information for whatever reason were charged and the classified information was copies or photos. >> i was thinking about that case against jack teixeira. >> you may make ten copies. some stay at the cia, one goes

to the white house. all classified. >> absolutely. thank you. appreciate it. house speaker kevin mccarthy facing revolt from a group of his own party. hard line house republicans are grinding his agenda to a halt after his debt limit deal with president biden, plus this. donald trump is convicted of a crime and you're elected president, would you pardon him? >> i don't want to speak about hypotheticals. >> we'll break down the big takeaways from the cnn town hall with mike pence as he runs for president and challenges his ex-president, donald trump. needs. at se she picks only t the perks she wants and saves on every one! all with an incredible new iphone. act now and get iphone 14 prpro on us when you switch. it's s your verizon. up at 2:00am again?? tonight, try pure zzzs all night. unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer.

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this morning, mike pence is the first vice president to directly challenge the president who picked him as a running mate. hours after launching had his campaign. he participated in a cnn town hall. he tried to cast himself as an experienced and traditional conservative while hitting former president trump over immigration, putin and his actions prior to the capitol insurrection. we are live in des moines, iowa with more. appropriately, wishing the vice president happy birthday there. he made at announcement on that day. what is the reaction been from the people in des moines? >> well, we can tell you is that it's really something that the people, the voters here, the republican party, has got to

square. a difficult dance that mike pennsylvania is having to make. you really saw it on display at the cnn town hall. a man who was once trump's deputy taking him on in a party that has been reshaped by donald trump. >> reporter: former vice president mike pence launching his campaign for president in iowa, taking questions and shaking hands with voters at a cnn town hall on his 64th birthday. >> it's one for the books. >> reporter: right out of the gate, pence is disputing former donald trump's claims he could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. >> i felt that he was -- he was asking me to choose between him and the constitution. i chose the constitution. and i always will. president trump was wrong then. he's wrong now. >> reporter: the relationship between trump and pence fell apart on january 6th, when rioters stormed the capitol calling for pence's execution. >> bring out pence!

>> reporter: trump says he would considered pardoning some of the rioters. pence disagrees. >> i have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers and vandalized our capitol. >> reporter: pence had this to say about a dozen number of classified documents he found at his residence in indiana in january. >> i immediately informed the department of justice and i'm grateful after our full cooperation that they concluded that it was an innocent mistake. >> reporter: but stopped short of saying trump should be indicted by the special counsel for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. >> this kind of action by the department of justice, i think would only fuel further division in the country. let me also say, i think it would also send a terrible message to the wider world. >> reporter: the former vice president also differentiated himself from trump on foreign policy. >> when putin rolled into

ukraine, the former president called him a genius. i know the difference between a genius and a war criminal. and i know who needs to win in the war in ukraine. and it's the people fighting for their freedom. >> reporter: pence also signalling to conservative voters that he is their candidate. >> i strongly support state legislation including as we did in indiana that bans all gender transition chemical or surgical procedures for kids under the age of 18. [ applause ] >> reporter: pence joins a growing field for the republican nomination including north dakota governor and former new jersey governor chris christie launched another bid for the white house. making the corner stone of his campaign rebuking trump. trump in response posted this video mocking christie after the announcement. >> just renewed in my own mind what a child he is.

he's a baby. whenever you want to criticize him, i mean, in any way, that's the way he responds. >> and we were sitting in and above the audience during the cnn town hall with mike pence. really got a sense of the reaction as some of those toughest lines against donald trump were delivered. and something to just note, poppy, those were not his strongest, biggest applause lines. we also saw that in his kickoff rally in iowa. that the crowd, some of them, stood up, applauding. others didn't applaud at all and remained seated. so that really underscores the challenge ahead for the former vice president. >> it says it all, i think, for sure. how much do you run on who you are and what you stand for and how much you run against your former boss? thank you very much. >> so, ahead in our 7:00 a.m. eastern hour, we'll be joined by

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specifically. >> there's numerous different things that they're frustrated about. so, we'll listen to them. we'll solve this. just like every time we go through, we have a small majority. there is a little chaos going on. but the focus i always keep is right in front of the windshield of the american public. we'll work to solve the american public's problems. >> so, you are usually there trying to figure out what they all want and how they can all get along. what's going on? why does this matter so much? >> this is going to be a 30-minute segment on congressional procedure. that is tv gold. this is what everybody wants. but the procedure is what matters. obviously, kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the house, is coming off a major victory to be able to get more than two-thirds of the conference to support that debt ceiling agreement. however, he infuriated some republicans, the hard-line right republicans. the 15 votes it took kevin mccarthy to become speaker who,

a, believe that promise that's were made, not written down, but made during that -- hand shake promises. >> they were broken by the agreement that he reached with president biden. and there is also some other issues about a single piece of legislation and a republican and what commitments remain. >> yes. >> here's why this matters. believe it or not, there are rules in the united states house of representatives. doesn't seem that way sometimes. one of those rules is to govern florida to set the framework to actually vote on legislation. you have to vote on the rule first. it doesn't seem to make any sense. trust me, it happens. the rules are considered pro forma. the party in power always supports the rule and that sets the framework. if people want to vote on the underlying legislation, that's fine. majorities don't lose rule votes. >> they just did. for the first time since 2002. so for procedural in other words, this is a huge moment. what it really is about a dozen conservatives showing that they have in a very slim majority

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worst air quality in the world. this orange haze blanketed the city wednesday. look at this time lapse from the world trade center. it shows how conditions worsened over a matter of hours. schools suspended. outdoor activities, yankees and other pro sports teams postponed games. air travel also disrupted. some hospitals reporting an increase in respiratory issues. cnn's danny freeman is live outside philadelphia. danny, you've been on this story. >> it looks pretty bad. look across the delaware at what is normally a very beautiful philadelphia skyline. you can really see nothing over my right shoulder right now. vaguely, you should be able to see city hall, the congress build. nothing. and, of course, the ben franklin bridge. conditions overnight into this morning at the hazardous level. at the moment the city is in that code red status right now.

that means, you know, outdoor events, they're expected to be limited. masks recommended for everyone. we've been closing our doors and windows just to try to keep that smoke and smokey smell out of our homes. the philadelphia school district put out a press release saying classes are still on. they're expecting the level to be downgraded to a code orange. that means that students will still be primarily inside. windows shut at schools. they're hoping that as the day goes on the smoke will dissipate. i had a chance to speak with pennsylvania governor josh schapiro yesterday about this air quality issue. he said the worst was expected overnight into this morning. take a listen to his advice for pennsylvanians. >> we want to encourage people just to be safe. i'll give you a pretty simple example. i was getting ready to go out for a run this morning. rather than going outside and doing that, i don't have asthma or any other issues like that, i worked out in the house. so, just want to kind of encourage people to be vigilant. if you do have acute health

issues, be really mindful of your time out side and hopefully will this will pass very soon. >> now, phil, you said last night the yankees game was canceled. here in philadelphia, phillies versus the tigers, that was postponed to tonight as well. everyone hoping that we can play ball this evening. but only if this weather improves. phil? >> danny, great reporting as always. thank you. let's bring in dan westervelt, a climate change scientist is he is an adviser to the state department. good morning. you are not stunned. why? >> well, i think with increasing climate change and increasing warming, we can expect more and more of the kind of wildfires to continue. so, while i think that the phenomenon happening here in new york is a little surprising, overall this wildfire contribution to air quality in the u.s. is something that we'll see more of in the future. >> we heard of one of our colleagues say earlier this hour this -- derrick vandam, this

could happen much more this summer. should we buckle up? >> the point is we're very early in the fire season. it goes to september. there could be more of these this year but i wouldn't go that far. >> one of the fascinating things, it's convergence of the wildfires and the weather, low pressure systems that i don't understand. but i understand there are several pieces of this. but this is something that happens fairly regularly out west. this is something i've seen in traveling with president biden. he's gone out to several disaster areas. it's easy to say this is climate change. why? tell me why this is. >> that's a great question, thank you. >> there's a couple of factors. global warming leads to symptoms that make wildfires worse. and the symptoms include things like hotter temperatures, drier conditions. worsening drought. changing precipitation patterns. all of these things lead to increased wildfires and

frequency and the amount of area burned which is just fuel for more of the air quality issues. >> can this be reversed? the best we can do is lower our exposure to what is being done out -- what is out there. so, this is why people are warned to stay inside and wear masks and things like that. in terms of climate, it's not too late to act on climate change. yes this could be slowed. >> on the actual tangible fact of this, right now if, you're in a city and walking around, yesterday, i was outside staring up. and thankful to an individual, a new yorker that said, bro, go inside. that is good advice. but should you be wearing masks right now? what is happening to a person walking outside or their children walking outside right now? >> yeah. waking up today, we are seeing pretty much similar levels of air pollution as we saw yesterday. it was really bad. we're in the unhealthy range for all adults.

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now to a cnn exclusive. a woman in iowa trapped under her collapsed add apartment building for hours so she did not hesitate when first responders said they needed to amputate her leg on site. she is speaking out for the first time since that building collapsed two weeks ago. >> she and her wife are suing the city of davenport and the building's owner. they're accusing them of negligence citing a city inspection that was not up to code. >> reporter: you don't see yourself as a victim? >> no. i'm a survivor. i fought my way, like hell, to get through that day. >> reporter: what were you doing that day when all of a sudden, i mean, everything changed? >> it was a normal day for us. it was like a crack in the window. and then it continued within the

same minutes. we saw another one i'm like, maybe something is a little -- i'm a little nervous. i got a little nervous. i said something's wrong. >> we both were at the door. we each had a cat in our hands and i reached to grab the door. >> like imagine hearing a building getting torn down. that's how it sounded when it just -- everything just fell. everything just fell. and i fell. >> reporter: while help got to the scene quickly, they couldn't get peach out for at least six hours. what were you thinking when all of a sudden, i mean, hours were going by and you still were trapped? >> i have to make it. for her especially. i have to survive this. i have to be able to tell this story. i got these metal pipes of water, gallons of water is just

pouring on me. i'm just soaking wet with metal pieces everywhere. and i was taking pieces of the floor, anything i could find around me, like, covering my head so i didn't drown. i'm just like how could i be trapped under so much? they were digging me out for hours and hours and hours. to the point where they had to cut my foot on the scene. >> her doctor says he amputated her leg on the scene. >> there was nothing to think about. i wanted to live. i didn't want to be trapped. i didn't want to be -- i dn the want more debris to fall on me. it was already hard enough to be honest. i didn't want the fire fighters to have to be trapped or beaten down or bruised with anything. like, i wanted everyone to make it out of there alive. and with no hesitation. amputate what you have to do.

do what you have to do to get me out of here. >> what do you think when you look down? >> that room. >> reporter: on the scene, a red dress marks where their apartment once stood. an apartment build ing where das before the inspectors noticed a brick surface separated from an interior wall and appeared to fall imminently according to a letter addressed to whom it may concern from a engineer dated may 24th. >> you know how they knew about it? they were told. time and time again. >> reporter: it's why peach and alexis berry are suing, alleging the warning signs were known much earlier than a few days prior. >> the family wants the owners of the building, the engineers, contractors, held responsible for this tragic and 100% preventable event. >> reporter: but not everything can be recovered in a courtroom. >> when i close my eyes, i was just -- i heard the cracking again. i heard the falling and dropping again.

it's going to happen again. like, am i safe in the bulling i'm in? >> reporter: what did this take from you? >> i don't think it really took anything from me. because you can't take my peace. you can't take my hope. you can't take my power. this is just another stepping stone to my story. >> her attitude and strength are just incredible. doctor told me he had to amputate her leg on site because it was a life and death decision. she started to become unresponsive after being trapped under there for so long. now, a spokesperson for an owner of the building told me that their hearts go out to everyone displaced. of course, those who are killed as they try to wrap their head around the building issues and the city said they couldn't comment on pending litigation. but this is now the second lawsuit to be filed against people that are tied to this building and, of course, at least for peach, she feels like this is not going to slow her down. >> yeah.

just amazing perspective she has. omar, thank you so much for that reporting. >> right now, here's a live look at washington, d.c. the air quality is currently labelled very unhealthy. 75 million people across parts of the u.s. are under air quality alerts because of that smoke from canadian wildfires. our brian todd is live in washington. >> phil, if people in the d.c. area thought it was bad yesterday, they need to brace themselves. it is worse this morning and it's getting worse later on today. what is the code air quality alert mean? what are officials warning people? we'll pel yotell you about that ahead.

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>> denver nuggets taking the lead in the nba finals with a big win over the miami heat last night on miami's home court. the nuggets just two games away from clinching the first ever

nba championship. per uche sual, jokic led them i scoring. they took a 20 point lead at one point from 20-year-old rookie christian brawn. miami clawed back to a nine point deficit. never really able to close the gap. final score, 109-94. nuggets now up 2-1 in the series. after the game, miami's star and leading scorer looked ahead to game four. >> i felt we were going to come out with more energy and effort. that's correctible. that is on us as a group. >> should listen to jimmy butler. tomorrow night, set to face off again for game four in miami. poppy, i got jokic's name right. >> we're progressing.

the greatest soccer player of all time, is this true? >> yes. >> goat. fact checked. all time he is taking talents so south florida. lionel messi said he is to join the intermiami of the mls. the 35-year-old led argentina to that world cup victory in december. er in forget that match. it's not clear yet when messi will debut for intermiami. demand for tickets already skyrocketing. the get in price for the team's game on july 21st went from $29 on tuesday to $477 on the secondary market after messi's announcement. how many -- the math, what is the math on that? >> it's a lot. >> more dollars added to it. it makes sense. he's amazing. he is once in a lifetime. he's not washed out or just ending his career in the mls like foreign guys often do. he is still the best in the world. we should do the next hour on the show just highlights of messi. >> yeah, because there's no other news going on. >> there's a ton of news going on. >> that's why "cnn this morning" continues right now.

new york city had the worst air quality of any major city in the world. much. >> the worst air quality over 20 years. >> felt like being on mars and smelled like income a sauna. >> you could feel it in the back of your throat. you could taste it here as well. >> this is the result of a climate crisis and a connected world. >> former president donald trump has been informed he is the target of a federal investigation. >> this could mean the special counsel's investigation is moving closer to a possible indictment. >> jack smith seems to be moving at a fast time line. he understands the political pressures. >> it's not just people around that person. it's that person themselves. >> indicting former president of the united states sends a terrible message to the world. >> how does he separate himself from the man that was his president -- >> i know the difference between a genius and war criminal. i know who has to win. >> if it doesn't happen in iowa, it's not going to happen anywhere. >> when you remember, what were you doing that day when all of a