mercenary rebellion threatened to topple his regime, but it is unclear when this video was shot. we'll take you live to moscow for the latest. >> and the wife and mother of two passengers killed on the "titan" submersible is speaking out. she's revealing the final moments she spent with them before the doomed expedition to see the "titanic" shipwreck. and a record-breaking blowout that caught all of my attention this weekend. the florida gators making history with 24 runs. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts now. but this is where we begin. the kremlin just put out new video of vladimir putin following that mercenary rebellion inside of russia that threatened to tom his regime. it doesn't mention anything that happened over the weekend. no mention of any name. we haven't heard much from putin

after the most dramatic challenge to his 23-year rule. the mercenaries ended their march on moscow when they were about 120 miles away from the city. the revolt appears to be over for now. the fallout, likely just beginning. we don't know where the wagner mercenary group's leader is this morning, after he supposedly struck a deal with the kremlin to stand down and go into exile in belarus. these are the last images we have seen of yevgeny prigozhin, leaving a military headquarters that his troops had seized in southern russia. putin has vowed to punish him for treason. >> this is a look at moscow, a city that was preparing for a siege. the security measures imposed over the weekend are now lifted. meanwhile, ukrainian forces say they're making gains on the battlefield in their counteroffensive as president putin grapples with the fallout from the rebellion at home. matthew chance is live for us in moscow, tracking the latest developments. matthew, what are we hearing from the kremlin at this point? >> oh, i mean, well, everybody

seems to have disappeared at this point. we don't know where yevgeny prigozhin is, he's meant to be in belarus, but the belarusian officials i've spoken with this morning have not confirmed to me whether or not he's turned up. and vladimir putin, who has obviously been at the center of this astonishing few days, this incredible weekend, he hasn't appeared, either. but there has been a pre-recorded message that's been put out, a speech by vladimir putin, addressing the international youth industrial forum, which is taking place in the russian region of tula. and president putin is giving his remarks to that forum in pre-recorded -- in a pre-recorded speech. but nothing from him in terms of where he actually is now. there were concerns he may have -- or suspicions that he may have fled from moscow during the height of this crisis, but the kremlin says he's been working here in his office, in the kremlin itself. in the kremlin compound itself. but, you know, so many questions still about what will come next,

what has been unleashed, as a result of this incredible weekend. and what vladimir putin will do, of course, in the immediate afte aftermath. >> i just wonder what people in russia are saying. that's a big question this morning. as putin's power over them waned at all? >> i think it's almost denial that it has. it was shocking for me and for all of us, and of course, many people in russia to see an armed rebellion taking to the streets of the country, rebels ins taki over an entire city, rostov-on-don in the south of the city, and that couldn't but chip away at the veneer of authority that vladimir putin has. and so as i say, this relief that more bloodshed was avoided. but also, anxiety about what comes next after this incredible

few days. [ chanting: wagner ] >> for the kremlin, these are some of the most disturbing scenes from a weekend of shocking images. [ gunfire ] >> on the streets of a major russian city, rostov-on-don in the south, residents cheered wagner fighters as they withdrew. many russians see them as heroes, not as the traitors the kremlin paints them. and wagner's leader, yevgeny prigozhin has become a celebrity, too. watch as supporters hail down his car, just to shake hands. the kremlin says he's now moving to belarus next door, but it's unclear if this is the last we'll see of him. what is definite, though, is a sense of relief, at least here in the russian capital. it's calm now, but mayhem of the weekend, moscow was on high

alert. military checkpoints on the outskirts of the city. residents bracing for wagner fighters to enter. and for the confrontation that never came. >> it was really uneasy yesterday, says andre. but look, now, people are walking in the streets and it's all good. let's hope it will stay peaceful, he adds. but even here, there's sympathy for prigozhin's unprecedented challenge, his tirades against the conduct of the war in ukraine appears to have struck a popular chord. i think it was an expression of an opinion, says oleg, another resident of moscow, an opinion of a powerful person, who wants some justice and clarity, and believes prigozhin should be listened to. it's widely shared here. but that's not what the kremlin wants to hear. vladimir putin hasn't appeared in public since making his angry pledge on saturday.

film ed behind the scenes by state television to punish those responsible for what he called an armed mutiny. the biggest challenge to his authority in 23 years of power. but now that challenge has been made, there are growing concerns about what a defensive president putin, stung by the events of this weekend, will do next to stay in power. just to give you an indication of the mood in the country, i've got one of the local newspapers here, there's a little picture of yevgeny prigozhin up in the corner there. the man behind the armed rebellion, it says. the headline here says that prigozhin will go, but the problem remains. it says next to it, russia displays its vulnerability to the world and to itself. and so, you get a good sense

there, that although there's relief, that more bloodshed was avoided, there is a lot of anxiety about what comes next here in russia. >> indeed. the key question. matthew chance, great reporting. thank you. >> joining us now at the table, cnn global affairs analyst, kim dozier, former congressman, adam kinzinger, and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall. steve, i want to start with you. while it was clearly a savvy pr move to evaluate the international youth industrial forum in terms of the photos -- the pictures, the video that was released by the kremlin today, you were shaking your head and kind of chuckling when that was played, when matthew laid that out. i think the big question is what matthew was detailing at the end of his piece. what does putin do now? we've never seen a threat like this or a fracture like this in his 20-plus years of leadership. how does he respond to this? >> well, first, i think what you're seeing, what we saw matthew bring up in terms of the state of people in moscow, what they're saying on the streets,

some of the stuff in the newspapers, this is the initial cleanup mode that putin will get into. he'll basically try to tell everybody, this is all okay, this is all behind us, nobody is going to fall from power. but i think the key thing that putin has to be most concerned about right now is not whether people will rise up in the streets. yes, there was some populist sentiment that was thrown in prigozhin's way over the weekend, but what he's really got to be concerned about are the close advisers to putin, who are also watching him for cracks. and if there is much more weakness, if things get much worse, i've got to think that, you know, people like patrishev are going to say, do we immediate to continue with this guy? will we get another coup next month. >> you were chief of cia russia operations, so you have a unique perspective and vantage point to all of this. why do you think prigozhin turned around so quickly, so close to moscow? >> there are so many questions. and hopefully, this will come out as the weeks go by, but that's a key one.

because look how close he was. you know, does he all of a sudden wake up and say, "what am i doing?" it's almost like he sobered up or something. he must have been confronted with some stuff from putin, from moscow where he basically said, i can no longer do this. it might have been the idea of having to fight his way to moscow through guys like the chechens, who were absolutely crazy, and the first guys putin would have said, get in the way of these people as opposed to -- >> and they were offering support. >> yeah. >> to that point, i think there was an assumption at various points in the weekend where he was operating, prigozhin was operating from power. he was operating through -- with perhaps a level of substantiative power that wasn't necessarily understood beforehand. as the week went on, it seems like that probably wasn't the case. if you looked at the dynamics of what led to this moment, what was happening to wagner group in terms of their contract status. what was happening with other private military groups that had been moving into places where

they were. do you feel lick thke this was emotional response rather than a power play? >> part of it was a power play, because prigozhin was about to have to sign a contract that would put his forces underneath the control of the russian military, but part of it seemed to be this drunk with emotion or drunk response, where he just said, you know, you hit my guys, i'm charging for moscow. and the world got to see that the russian military didn't stand in his way, at least initially. >> why? >> he was seen as having coffee with the commanders and southern command. >> almost welcomed! >> yeah. >> he is a folk hero. and he's a folk hero that moscow allowed, that putin allowed to be constructed that way. the russian every man that every man wants to be. the guy that you want to go drinking with. the guy that goes and hangs out with the crack forces and the front lines and handles some of

russia's toughest fights. so to take on that guy. that makes putin seem like he's one of the dark-suited people who, you know, the bribe takers, the people that everyone in russia is jealous of. that send their kids outside the country, so they don't get drafted. that get the expensive holidays. you know, in that equation, if you're putin, you don't want to be seen as with the rich guys, as opposed to with this populist hero. >> so we've just got new sound in from nato secretary general, ll yens stoltenberg speaking from lithuania. let's get your reaction. >> your weakness of the russian machine and demonstrates how difficult and dangerous it is for president putin to be reliant? that has actually turned against him. and it also demonstrates that it is hard to predict exactly what

will now happen in the next days and weeks. but we should not make the mistakes that we are underestimating the russians. >> let me first off say, he's been a great nato leader. he's been out there, probably one of the more hawkish, or i guess kind of clear-spoken nato leaders. he has a very important job, bringing the coalition together, and he's correct. the interesting thing from this weekend, as we had talked about, where was the russian army, i think this exposed what we've basically already known and we've seen in this war is, the russian army is really not that good. the russian army may not have quite the forces to muster that we thought they did. keep in mind, very terrible infrastructure across russia. russia's very big, you want to move forces anywhere, it takes forever, kadiravs, they can be out of tough, but their called the tiktok brigade for a reason,

they stay out of the fight and take pictures of themselves. so i think the thing that came out of this, if we continue to support the ukrainian military and we get out of this idea that we have to give vladimir putin an off-ramp, we have to give him honor, and we just say, look, we have to have a victory for ukraine. we don't need ukraine invading russia, of course. nobody is even talking about that. ukraine isn't even talking about that. we need ukraine to win this war. it may be much easier to win than we think. certainly it is winnable. and frankly, that's how we stop this continued vladimir putin fear and this continued fear of russia, is to have them actually lose in ukraine. >> just from a tactical standpoint, also, they were 120 miles away. prigozhin's forces were 120 miles away from moscow. could they have gotten the chechens hopscotched ahead of them in time to keep fighting from breaking out on moscow's outskirts, audible to those inside. one of the things that, of course, as steve can explain to

us in detail, the centers of russian political power are the populated areas, the big cities. if this happens in the hinterland, rostov-on-don, well, you can keep that off of the front pages for the most part, but if there was fighting on the outskirts of moscow, that would damage putin irrevocably in the eyes of all of his people. >> we have to go, but one quick thing before we let you go because of your expertise, is yevgeny prigozhin still around in three or four weeks? >> that's a great question. obviously, he's got to be handled very delicately. and we don't even know where he is today, as far as we can tell. i think, eventually, though, certainly, i think at least for the time being, he's left the political season. will he actually leave the physical realm, will he slip on ice or something like that, there's a good chance. >> fascinating developments across the board, geopolitically and domestically. and yevgeny prigozhin, guys, thanks so much. obviously, one of the questions, what will putin do next after the revolt in russia.

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as the world continues to analyze what happened in russia over the weekend, it's worth taking a step back to 1991, leading up to former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev's final days in office. this was larry king on cnn. take a listen. >> the incredible sudden turn of events, a struggle for the very soul of the soviet union unfolding in moscow right now. gorbachev and glasnost are out, a new wave of civil warring is in, and a coup engineered by

communist hardliners has been deposed of power and his one-time rival, boris yeltsin may be the only home for a democratic future. >> soviet hardliners held gorbachev captive for two days, but the coup attempt backfired and people took to the streets of moscow. this iconic image of soon-to-be boris yeltsin was taken of him talking to crowds in moscow atop a tank. this signaled the end of the soviet union, which dissolved later this year. our next guest was the russian foreign minister in this time and continued in on this role under boris yeltsin. joining me now is andre kosnarev. thank you for joining me. i want to start with the idea of what your read is on right now of why this fight spilled over into the public and took such a dramatic turn over the weekend. >> there is very little

comparison, actually, with 1991. because that was about political future. political choice of russia. and the people went out -- we were in the so-called white house. we were surroundeddy tanks, because we were also surrounded by crowd of people, who wanted political choice. and the political change for democracy, for future, for better relationship with the west and so on. this time, it's totally devoid of any political agenda. it's fighting for prey, for easy prey. that's one thing we learned. and there is a kind of male

there, but there are others who want and will want, if it is not prigozhin, then there will be others who want to have better piece of pie and be the alpha one. so that's lesson number one. they are all on the same agenda. the agenda of the war, the agenda of money and power. no political, ideological differences between them. and they will continue the war as long as the west tolerates, actually, that. and does not give a ukraine the most powerful weapons to shorten the war. >> can i ask you, though. you made a point to my colleague, christiane amanpour over the weekend, that this is actually no different than what we've seen throughout the course, to some degree of putin's time in power, of the in-fighting, the battles that go on underneath.

what's different now is the information time we're in. the fact that people are seeing it spill into public view. do you think that changes how this particular fight ends, as opposed to the others that just seem to be underneath everything? >> not much. putin and kremlin -- the kremlin has full control of the propaganda and of the narrative on every, actually, available, except internet, media, and internet is only for mostly for young people and it's difficult, also, to penetrate and to get some news from abroad or opposing news, because they have trolls and other ways to control the internet information, too. so, the russian people have very simple and very little idea what

is happening. and this is political state. it is not -- it does not mean that they are mighty state, but they are police state, which is able to control public. so public politics are not so important there. and that's the mistake the west makes mostly, when they think that putin has deadlines that putin has doto count with some kind of -- he's only threatened business his wolf pack. the contenders, but that would not change much, even if he's overturned. and also, what we saw these days, in moscow, is that the only red line for either of them, for putin, is his personal survival. nothing matters for him. he was prepared to see the

military in moscow, and he probably went some place else. so for him, the red line is not defeat in ukraine. for him, the red line is his personal power and personal survival. >> last one, we only have a few seconds left. what do you think happens to yevgeny prigozhin? >> i don't know, and to tell you, frankly, i don't care. i understand that it's a show and people are fascinated with that, but it doesn't matter, actually. who is prigozhin? prigozhin is a clown, a political clown. and a, you know, aer eer erserv putin. >> is putin weaker now because of what we saw? >> yeah, he just wanted to survive the ministry of defense probably took an upper hand

inside the kremlin fight, and they demanded that he kind of surrendered. he did not and he tried his best to use his military force, but, again, like anyone else there, he's very opportunistic and he does not want to risk his life. that's important. that's also his red line. no like, you know, loyalty to his troops or loyalty to russia or to whatever. his only loyalty is his personal survival. >> andre, we really appreciate the perspective and the experience, sir. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> fascinating to hear from him given his history there. we'll continue to follow the latest developments in russia. of coursing with also news here in the united states. nearly 40 million people are

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deadly. texas could see heat indices exceeding 150 degrees. officials are scrambling as the unprecedented heat is putting strain on the state's power grid. rosa flores is with us. you were with us last week talking about this excessive heat and it just continues. >> and we're expecting more of it all this week. triple digits here in the state of texas, but let me start here in houston, because the highs today are expected at 101, with a heat index between 108 and 115. that's the feels-like temperature. that includes and factors in the humidity. that's why it feels so oppressive here in houston. but houston is not alone. take a look across the state. cities like dallas, ft. worth, san antonio, austin, corpus christi, also in the triple digits, all week long. corpus christi with a heat index of 116. now all of this has prompted cities across the state to open cooling centers. like the one that you see behind

me here in the city of houston. now, this gives a little reprieve to individuals who don't have access to air-conditioning during the day. it gives them a few hours where they can come into these centers and cool off. all of this, of course, tests the power grid here in the state of texas, which is unique, because it's not connected to the rest of the country. ercot, the operator of the electric grid issuing a weather watch that doesn't expire until friday. so it goes through friday. i talked to the expert who predict ed the grid failure bac in 2021, here in the state of texas, and he says based on what he's looking at now, the power grid is expected to hold this week, given these triple-digit temperatures. but he says that texas is not out of the woods. >> texans have not spent enough money to build new generation, really, over the last 20 years. and with the growing population, the growing economy, it really has been just a matter of time

before we get tapped out on days when we really, desperately need the electricity. >> reporter: now, poppy, to his point about so many people moving to the state of texas, and you know, the state of texas pats itself on the back, because everybody wants to move to texas, but you've got to think about it this way. all of these individuals that are moving to texas, they don't pack their infrastructure. they don't pack their power grid, they don't pack their schools, they don't pack their roads. it's up to texas to invest in these individuals. and that's the point from this expert, is that texas needs to do more to fortify and also to make sure that the power grid is resilient for all of those people that are moving to texas. >> absolutely. for safety, especially in temperatures like this. rosa flores, thank you. all right, former house speaker nancy pelosi, she of 18 terms in congress, calling for term limits for supreme court justices. plus, spineless. that's what a prominent

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former speaker nancy pelosi putting supreme court justice samuel alito and clarence thomas on blast after the court's credibility has been called into question. pelosi was interviewed by former white house press secretary jen psaki following news reports that revealed alito and thomas received lavish gifts and luxurious trips that they failed to disclose. here's what she said. >> it's shameful how thomas, justice thomas and justice alito have been so cavalier about their violations of what would be expected of a justice of the supreme court. the president formed a commission. they did not recommend expansion of the court. that shouldn't be the end of it. but there certainly should be term limits. and if nothing else, there should be some ethical rules that would be followed. >> now, sake also pointed out that a recent quinnipiac poll found that just 30% of voters

approved the court to that pelosi represented in congress, which has an even lower approval rating responded, that seems high. a stunning repudiation of the republican party my a lifelong republican. former federal judge, michael ludig is blasting his party for support or former president trump. here's what he writes in "the new york times." quote, the republicans' spineless support for the past two years convinced mr. trump of his political immortality, giving him the assurance that he could purloin some of the country's most sensitive national security secrets upon leaving the white house and preposterously insist that they were his to do with as he wished, all without facing political consequences. ludig also testified last summer very prominently in the january 6th hearings. adam kinzinger back with us, obviously, a key part of those hearings and that investigation. he joins us. also senior contributor to axios, margaret talev.

thank you very much for being here. i've been wanting to talk to you about all this all morning. because i admire ludig throughout all of this willingness to speak out, speak against the party that is so critical and so core to him, because of what he has seen. the fact that he wrote this in "the times," in this moment, what did you make of it? >> it's huge. judge ludi g is -- i've gotten o know him since the hearings. he's a very honorable man, he's very pained by what the party has become. this is a party, we grew up thinking it was committed to the rule of law, it's all about america. and it's turned into this american-first nationalism. the rule of law so far as it can be used to our advantage. so i thought it was a scathing, in a very good way, editorial. and it's putting into focus the fact that as republicans, and particularly as current members of congress or any office that takes an oath to the constitution of the united states, i mean, if you in the

quiet of your room looking in the mirror can say to yourself that you don't think that donald trump is violating the oath, you don't think supporting him is violating the oath, then more power to you. but i think the vast majority of these people know that this is destructive for democracy. and judge ludig, wlho is about s conservative as it comes, about as much of a judicial conservative as it comes, is willing to put that all on the line. >> margaret, i think one of the fascinating elements, to be frank, over the last six years, but certainly over the last couple of weeks and months, when you talk to a lot of republicans, behind the scenes, they will acknowledge what judge ludig said in his op-ed, what congressman kinzinger said publicly now and while he was still in congress, but they don't come out and say it publicly. do you believe that that holds and that is what leads the former president to once again be the republican nominee? >> well, phil, it's a really important question, because i think at the beginning of donald trump's presidency or even in the lead up to that first

election of his, that may have been true. but now you're just seeing that the core of the gop base is constituted really differently. so i think what is judge ludig trying to accomplish here? it is not to change the hearts and minds of the passes of the new base of the republican party, it's to influence the gop primary. it is to take those institutionalist republicans who were kind of attracted to the party for the reagan and bush years, and to say, it's not your republican party anymore. it's to shape the primary or if donald trump were to be the nominee again, to shape the general election. >> congressman kinzinger, while we have you, i want to ask you about something else that is really interesting and it follows on what we've been talking about in terms of what happened in russia this weekend. and that is, what happens now with the war on ukraine? and phil brought up earlier the question of asking congress for more -- the republican-led house for more money.

is that going to be challenging? are they going to get the money? you think the biden administration could to do something a little bit different that could really help. what? >> i think the biden administration needs to do a better job laying out to the american public, first off, the reason for supporting ukraine, but talk about what is made up in this aid package. i think there's a lot of perception, and i dealt with it talking about foreign aid as a congressman. there's a lot of perception that we're writing a giant check, giving it to ukraine and saying, good luck. the reason is, a lot of that money is a value we assess to equipment that we're dwgetting ready to rotate out of our stocks. it's a value to assess that equipment. some of it is a value on putting troops on europe. we have a cost on that, as well. and some of it is money that we give to ukraine to spend on american weaponry, as they need to -- made by americans, you know. and so they need to do a better job of explaining that this $100-some-billion, really isn't quite that, because again,

here's some old stocks of weapons that we have, including h h hy-mars, we're giving them to them, but we have to put a value on that, and that's where some of that money comes from. >> i want to ask you about the sound we played from speaker former pelosi going after the justice of the supreme court. it has become a very hot-button political issue. there's no question about that on both sides of the aisle. it has been that way for several years now. when you hear pelosi say things like "term limits," say things like, the approval rating is probably much lower than where it is, what's your view where the court sits in terms of an institution right now? >> i think the court is an extremely weak constitution. every institution in america has declined in terms of peoples trust, but the supreme court, historically, is supposed to tra transcend all of that. and you can imagine the trouble with term limits is, you can argue that it would make things better. it might completely further politicize the supreme court. every institution in america is

weakened right now. the supreme court was supposed to be one of the those institutions like the military or, you know, the church, that binds people together when everything else unravels. when you don't have that, it just shows you how polarized, how really deeply polarized the country is, and how difficult it is to pull americans together about broad ideas of right and wrong, just gist, you know, everything from russia to civil rights back at home. >> it's notable, because it's the key thing that the chief justice, john roberts said since he came on the court, that he didn't want, was a perception of a politicized court. remember, famously, this is not a trump -- these are not trump justices, these are not obama justices. and now that's what's most americans think of it. thank you, congressman kinzinger. we appreciate it. well, hit after hit after hit. i know poppy was watching. the florida gators making history at the college world series. >> 2-2 and florida's got 24 runs

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the nation's largest school district right here in new york city will attend their last day of school for the year. it comes after city officials said more than half of students in third through eighth grade cannot read at proficient levels. so in response the district is getting ready to overhaul the school's reading programs starting next year. our national correspondent athena jones who covers education so well and so importantly for this program and i really appreciate it, you got in the schools with the kids, with the teachers. >> yeah, so this is a real concern. we reported earlier this year that just one in three fourth graders nationwide was at or above proficiency in reading, and as you just mentioned, in new york city the numbers are much worse with more than half of third through eighth graders not proficient.

that is why new york city is changing the way children are taught to read and they're using a new curricula starting next year and they're providing extra help for some of the most vulnerable students. >> reporter: at brooklyn gardens elementary school in east new york, kids who are falling behind in reading get extra help. >> can you tell me, jayden? >> sh. >> sh, what sound does s make? oh, you already put them together. >> reporter: like 6-year-old jayden jacobs. >> jayden's word is cup. >> cup? >> uh-huh. >> c-u-p. >> reporter: the first grader began the school year reading at a kindergarten level then they launched a high level tutoring project. three times a week jayden meets in a small group with a tutor from brain trust, a company that relies on the science of reading, using evidence-based methods like teaching kids to sound out word and letter

combinations. >> i would like you to right the word "wish." >> done. >> reporter: his reading scores have risen some 60% and he's now at grade level. >> i like reading because -- because that's my thing. i like reading comic books, regular books and hard books, but not -- have a lot of words. probably when i'm 13 i could read those big books. >> reporter: with new skills has come new confidence. >> his excitement for school is phenomenal. he loves to come to school. as he's reading he's able to decode words, right, and i'm like how did you know that? he says, oh, i know. he will say, mommy, i can do that. i learned this in school. >> reporter: city officials say 51% of new york elementary students are not reading proficiently and the problem is worse for children of color with 63% of latino students and 64%

of black students not proficient. so new york city public schools are changing the way reading is taught across the city. ditching less effective methods like guessing words based on the context of a sentence. >> this is the beginning of something new. >> reporter: in the most significant overhaul since the early 2000s the nyc reads program will standardize instruction, requiring schools to choose one of three approved curricula. the goal to ensure that every child is on grade level no later than third grade. >> reading is everything. literacy is everything and it's not just reading, it's writing, it's also language development. >> reporter: it's a massive undertaking for the nation's largest school system with over a million students across more than 1,800 schools. about half the city's 32 districts will begin the new curricula this fall, the other half in fall 2024, but brooklyn gardens has gotten a head start. it began implementing one of the new reading curricula just before the pandemic. that's because this majority black and latino school is in a

district deemed in need of improvement. many students' families are struggling economically, nearly 30% live in temporary housing and the school qualifies for federal funding to help with interventions like tutoring so the most vulnerable children don't fall further behind. >> because a lot of our students are not on grade level we have a curriculum that supports students in reading and writing, every single student who is a part of this program made progress. >> reporter: one of brain trust's founders says more cities and states should follow new york's lead on overhauling reading instruction and providing extra support to students who need it. >> the important aspect right now is to recognize what does work and double down. so a lot of states are moving towards the science of reading, but not fast enough. >> i think when the biggest district in the country focuses on the science of reading and correlates that to the data and the results of literacy, that is a north star for every other city to take notice. >> so this is really important

work, important changes that are happening and this is amid more concerning news about learning loss due to the pandemic. we learned from the nation's report card just last week it found that between this school year and the 2019-2020 school year student test scores fell in reading by four points, that is on top of a seven-point decline over the last decade. u.s. education secretary miguel cardona has called this learning loss the devastating impact of the pandemic and the administration says it's going to take years of effort and investment to fix this, to catch all these kids up and it's so important. >> i'm so glad you are staying on this reporting. bring us more as you have it. thank you. it was encouraging to see. all right. your morning moment. >> my idea. >> the college world series between florida and lsu will come to a winner take all game tonight after last night's beat down at the hands of florida batters. following a heartbreaking loss in extra innings the gators

rewrote the entire omaha record book in a 24-4 blowout evening the series to one game apiece, the most runs ever scored in a college world series games, also the most hits with 23, six were home runs the biggest coming from ty evans with that grand slam in the third innings. it's the first time that's ever happened in the finals and the gators never really looked back after that. 20 run margin of victory, tied for the second largest at the event. with a win tonight florida can win their first national title since 2017. lsu has a chance to claim the school's seventh title since 2009. >> you almost made it, right? >> your thoughts? >> didn't you -- >> we lost in the super regionals. >> i don't even know -- when he told congressman kinzinger he lost in the super regionals congressman kinzinger said that just means you didn't go. >> he is not wrong. >> congrats to florida. >> we have to go. >> cnn "news central" is next.

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