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our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm max foster in london. bianca nobilo is off for the week. just ahead -- >> i will never fly with united again. >> people have planned vacations for a long time. >> completely disregarding his responsibility to protect secrets. >> i think that disqualifies those people from being president. and i think that i would say the same for any of them who said he should be pardoned. >> halfway to moscow, they will squash you like a bug. >> russia is entering very difficult turbulence. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, june 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. on the east coast where severe storms are causing a travel

meltdown. and wildfire smoke in canada is stretching from the midwest to the northeast bringing poor air quality and reducing visibility. but we start with the travel misery. the federal aviation administration ordered temporary ground stops for flights going to all three major airports in the new york city metro area due to thunderstorms. and more than 1,000 flights delayed or canceled already today. newark international, some passengers are sleeping on cots. passengers stuck waiting for hours this long lines to rebook their plans. >> we've been awake for 24 hours. and now we have two, three days and then we try to get rebooked, but we can't get out until friday. >> rebooking for default is july 2. and some passengers say even if they try to rebook it, it is all

filled. >> so you are sleeping here for now? >> pretty much. >> and data from flight aware shows more than 9,000 flights were impacted on tuesday, down from more than 11,000 flights on monday. united airlines was the most impacted. news 12 new jersey has more from newark international airport. >> yeah, uncertainty and frustration, those are the two major words for passengers here at liberty international airport. and i can tell you the number of passengers waiting to either rebook a flight or get refunded has more than doubled in the last two hours. and follow me this way, this is a family literally resting and sleeping on the floor. they were supposed to leave back home to oakland, california at 5:00 in the morning, but their flight has been canceled.

and they told me they don't know when that they will catch a plane next. so this is what is happening here at newark liberty international airport. many people traveling for different reasons. vacations, meet with the family, for medical purposes. or like this father that you will hear from now, he was supposed to drop off her daughter at a college program in indianapolis. her program begins tomorrow, but she's not going to be making it. >> we were supposed to get her to college. and initially it got postponed for like two minutes, but now they are saying that it is canceled. i have booked a car reservation, everything. i don't know what happens to everything. >> reporter: and yes, newark has been the most impacted airport within the last two days as far as like the number of flights canceled and delayed.

news 12 new jersey. and more than 80 million people from the midwest to the east coast are under air quality alerts as smoke from the canadian wildfires sweeps across the border. chicago and detroit had the worst air quality in the world tuesday. officials in the u.s. are warning of reduced visibility and closing some public spaces. >> this is pretty insane, guys. this is not fog. this is smoke. >> canadian authorities say more than 200 wildfires are burning out of control right now. this was the view from farms in wisconsin on tuesday. the smoke is expected to linger for the next few days. it is canada's worst ever fire season and led to highest emissions on record. and the heatwave in texas is expanding. more than 60 million people are under heat alerts.

a number of texas cities saw highs over 100 degrees including del rio which has set a new record each of the past ten days. the audio recording of donald trump discussing classified documents, he insists that he's done nothing wrong. and that recording is a piece the evidence in the indictment against trump. here is what he told fox news digital on tuesday. >> i had a whole desk full of lots of papers, newspaper articles, copies of stories having do with many, many subjects. and what was said was absolutely fine and very perfectly. we did nothing wrong. >> you are not concerned then with your own vice on those recordings? >> my voice was fine. what did i say wrong? i didn't even see the recording. all i know is i did nothing wrong. we had a lot of papers stacked

up. you could hear ther rustle of te paper. >> and donald trump says he doesn't know if there are any other recordings of him out there and he blames what he calls fake news. trump's former attorney is backing him up. >> well, certainly you can hear the rustling of papers there, but as to what he is specifically holding, the tape in my opinion is unclear. and you can when you hear the sound of his voice, he does seem to be acting with a bit of bravado, playing to the crowd. >> trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal counts including conspiracy. and rudy giuliani has been interviewed as the special counsel investigates efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. paula reid tells us what we're

learning. >> reporter >> reporter: he was being a body by his lawyer for this sitdown with prosecutors. and we have some idea of what they wanted to talk to him about. we know late last year he was subpoenaed for documents related to payments that he received around the time that he was filing legal challenges on behalf of former president trump trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. that subpoena came when it was still justice department investigation. before special counsel jack smith was appointed. appointed,i doesn't hear anything for over six months. there were questions about whether that meant that he was spoebl a target and not just a potential witness in this investigation. so the fact that he has now sat down with prosecutors, talked to them, presumably answered questions, that is notable. we just got a statement from his spokesman ted goodman who said that the appearance was entirely voluntary and conducted in a

professional manner. from all of our reporting on this side of the special counsel probe looking at efforts to overturn the 2020 election, we always knew this would have a longer time line than the mar-a-lago documents probe because there are more people with potential criminal exposure, more potential crimes. just a broader more diverse array of potential criminal activity. but it does appear that we've seen a flurry of witnesses going before the grand jury and other activity that suggests strongly that the special counsel could be nearing a charging decision. so far he has not brought any charges related to january 6 but appears that could be coming. but it is completely unclear if rudy giuliani or former president trump or anyone at all will definitely be charged. but we've seen an uptick in activity. and to rush a now where president putin is claiming a grip on power. but in ukraine, russian invasion is still very real.

right now rescue teams are working to find victims caught in a deadly missile strike in the eastern city of kramatorsk. at least nine were killed and dozens injured in a blast that hit a crowded downtown area. in his nightly address president zelenskyy noted the attack on civilians comes one year after a similar strike which killed 22 people. many are accusing russia of deliberatity taely targeting th and say they need to be held accountable. this is a him mid frontline advances taking advantage of russia's split focus. meanwhile a report in the "new york times" says a senior russian general may have known in advance about yevgeny prigozhin's plans for aper sayse is trying to learn where the top russian commander may have

helped. the "times" says prigozhin would not have launched his uprising unless he believed others in power would come to his aid. meanwhile vladimir putin is praising russian security forces for stopping a civil war. nick paton walsh reports. >> reporter: president putin's used to conjuring his own reality on state tv. but it was not clear during an array of post rebellion pomp on tuesday who is left buying it. his top brass whose removal it was all about still remarkably there too. as putin surreally thanked land forces for intervening as wagner advanced for saving russia. >> translator: we defended the constitution. you saved our people, our homeland. you stopped a civil war.

>> reporter: and he later told soldiers the russian state, him in effect, had paid a billion dollars to the wagner group as it fought in ukraine over the past year. >> translator: i want everyone to know about this. the maintenance of the entire wagner group was fully provided for by the state. we fully funded this group from the ministry of defense and from the state budget. >> reporter: it was a strange bit to paint prigozhin last seen here in rostov on saturday as a corrupt profite eprofitee. but the new spin is too late as prigozhin tuesday appeared to have fled to belarus. according to its president alexander lukashenko who relished in colorfully describing a contrasting weekend to putin in which he persuaded prigozhin in on phone call to stop his tanks moving.

there was cursing. >> translator: he haveyevgeny pn was in complete euphoria. i said putin will not talk to you due to the situation. he was silent and said but we want justice and we'll go to moscow. i said halfway you will be crushed like a bug. >> reporter: lukashenko said later saturday prigozhin agrees to stop his advance in return for his offer of safety in belarus and added wagner would be useful in bell ra belarus and added wagner would be useful in bell rusian ranks. putin's headache slightly now further away but still pounding. and president zelenskyy has hailed advances in all directions but where a breakthrough is lacking. russian troops targeted outside bakhmut usually don't have phones and may not have learned yet of wagner's revolt. what moral will be left to shatter when they do.

nick paton walsh, cnn, kyiv. for more, clare sebastian is with me in london. we'll talk about the latest attacks in kramatorsk in a moment, but first mystery about the existing wagner fighters whether or not they are signing up with russian military or heading somewhere else. >> if we assume that lukashenko is correct and prigozhin is now in belarus, the question is we didn't know how many of the troops. he says very few have accepted the offer to sign up with the russian ministry of defense. some are still this ukraine. but will they then go to on belarus is the big question. lukashenko denied that they are building camps there for wagner but that they could have abandoned land there if they want. so is this wagner 2.0, a unit of the russian military or

belarusian. so it is not so much who they are affiliated with but how many return to the battlefield. take a listen to the foreign minister. >> if wagner falls into pieces but part of it will move to the regular -- will become part of the regular russian army and end up on the frontline fighting in exactly as the same way as they did being a part of wagner, then the change will not be that visible. but if something deeper and more damaging will happen to them and some -- for example some of the vete veterans with excellent fighting record will decide to retire entirely, yes, that helps. >> so a few wagner fighters return, the elite forces, then that helps ukraine. i think the key thing to understand here is that wherever they end up, this is a band of

not only battle hardened fight he ers but also very serious criminals who were taken out to prison. >> and we saw a restaurant being attacked by a russian missile. do you think any of this is linked to what we saw in terms of insurgency? >> i think it is key to remember that wagner was instrumental in the land war that russia fought. any success largely could be notched up to wagner. but russia can still fight the air war. and they can do that without wagner. so this was adding to the very bleak list of mass casualty events for civilians in ukraine. nine people now killed including a 17-year-old girl, two twin 14-year-old sisters in the restaurant. and kramatorsk is only about an

hour from bakhmut. so it is an important area where you find a lot of military, journalists. and they did frequent this pizza restaurant. so we don't know if that was the specific target or not. they are still looking through the rubble to get a full picture of what the destruction is here. and zelenskyy extremely angry, wanting to investigate this among other things as a potential war crime. >> clare, thank you. u.s. stocked rallied tuesday after the cpi rose to more than 109. up from 102 in may. that means americans remain confident about the state of the economy despite multiple interest rate hikes by the federal reserve. bank of america ceo said it could take until 2025 for the fed to hit the 2% inflation target. it is nearly 4.5%. and here is a look at the u.s. futures as we await the opening bell. a bit of a mixed picture there, but the dow looking slightly up. still ahead, tensions flare in a paris suburb after a teen

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the death of a teen driver is being investigated in france after shots were fired during a traffic stop. it sparked clashes between young people and the police on tuesday. the 17-year-old reportedly refused to comply with a stop order. the paris police chief says about 350 police and paramilitary officers have been mobilized. and 24 people were detained. video of the incident has emerged showing two police officers beside the car before the driver pulls away and, a warning, some viewers may find the video disturbing.

police say the car then crashed . one of the police officers is currently in custody for culpable homicide. five more people have been charged in connection with a human smuggling operation that left 53 migrants dead last year. all five are in custody and accused of managing the operation that stuck them in the back of a truck in sweltering heat. they were being transported to san antonio. a former u.s. marine who held a black man in a deadly chokehold is due to appear in a manhattan court today. criminal charges against daniel penny will be un sese sseal at arraignment. he was recorded restraining

neely on a subway train. and in a 6-3 ruling, the supreme court rejected a theory that would have restricted power of state courts over their legislatures when it comes to federal redistricting and elections. jessica sthicheider can explain. >> reporter: the supreme court rejecting a theory. justices were warned during arguments in december that if the court adopted the independent state legislature theory, it could create election days on. >> blast radius would sow elections chaos forcing a confusing two track system with one set of rules for federal elections and another for state ones. >> reporter: but chief justice john roberts upheld the authority of state courts to overrule election maps, laws and rules put into effect by state lawmakers. backers of former president trump pushed the ckconflicting

theory after the 2020 election claiming that because the elections clause of the u.s. constitution says that the legislature controls the times, places and manner of holding elections, state courts had no th authority. but now the high court rejected had argument spelling out how courts throughout the history have been final arbiters and writing that the elections clause does not unless late state legislatures from the ordinary exercise state you additional review. >> we beat back the biggest threat our democracy has ever faced. >> reporter: and voting rights advocates praised the decision with former president barack obama weighing in writing this ruling is a resounding rejection of the far right theory that has been peddled by election deniers seeking to undermine or address democracy. the decision stems from a voting map dispute in north carolina

where initially they struck down a man drawn by republicans who then appealed to the u.s. supreme court saying that their state court had no right to step in. but while the case was ongoing, the partisan balance changed and they ruled in late april that state courts have no role to play when it comes to policing election maps. >> so we know our general assembly is about to pass a bunch of ugly gerrymandered maps to make it hard on voters. >> reporter: and the north carolina attorney general warns that the supreme court decision might not mean the end for state legislatures trying to meddle in federal elections. >> people want to grab more power and we see that with state legislatures across the country. >> reporter: chief justice john roberts did write that although state courts can overrule state legislatures, they don't have free reign. and that could leave the door open to future litigation lawsuits as we move into the

2024 election cycle. and students in new york city will be learning more than reading, writing and arithmetic this fall. mayor adams says public schoolchildren will be required to do to to five minutes of mindful breathing practices at school. he says the program is intended to help increase students' physical and mental health. head of the city's health department says the breathing exercises will benefit young people and teach them healthy coping skills. and new tools on instagram and messenger will give parents more control over how teens use the app. one will show how much time they spend, and they are testing a feature that will block specific images. new tolls are rolling out today in the u.s., uk and australia. coming up, a top official is

asking whether donald trump is the strongest candidate in the presidential race. and still ahead, actor kevin spacey's trial begins in london, he is facing numerous sexual assault charges. the latest on his case in a live report next. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.

welcome back. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with our top stories. a travel nightmare once again playing out right before the fourth of july holiday weekend. more than 1,000 flights have been delayed or canceled in or out of the u.s. today. and hundreds of passengers are being left stranded at airports across the northeast due to

severe weather. plus donald trump's former attorney rudy giuliani has given an interview to u.s. federal investigators. it is part of the special counsel's investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. this as the race for the next president is under way. candidates are attacking one another already. and u.s. president donald trump is currently leading in opinion polls with ron desantis trailing behind. kristen holmes tells us the state of the race. >> reporter: former president trump the current xgop frontrunner at a luncheon of republican women. >> thanks to all the republican women of the great state of new hampshire. >> reporter: and attacking his chief rival governor desantis. >> somebody said how come you only attack him. i said because he's in second

place. but soon he won't be in second place so i'll be attacking somebody else. >> reporter: and desantis taking a direct approach. >> so the question is, and i remember these rallieses in 2016, it was exciting. drain the swamp. i also remember lock her up, lock her up, right? and two weeks after the election, oh, forget i ever said that. no, no, no. if i tell you i'm going to do something, i'm not just saying it for an election. >> reporter: as he seeks to make inroads in the first primary state, desantis urging voters to look forward, not backwards. and declining to criticize the former president when asked. >> some people think that trump's actions on january 6 and beyond violated the key principles of america and the constitution set forth by our founding fathers. do you believe that trump violated the peaceful transfer of power? >> here is what i know.

if this election is about biden's failures and our vision for the future, we are going to win. if it is about relitigating things that happened two, three years ago, we're going to lose. >> reporter: desantis taking questions from the audience, tradition of the primary process after not doing so in his first swing through the state. >> what will your administration do to protect second amendment rights? >> great questions. >> reporter: and trump criticized desantis for drawing attention away from the luncheon with trump, but some members objected to the statement. >> he is holding an event right now to compete with us. >> reporter: as the republican primary heats up, kevin mccarthy not saying whether he believes trump is the strongest today for the party to nominate in 2024. >> can trump beat biden? he can. it makes it complicated if he

has all this stuff overhanging -- >> it makes it complicated and also helps him. the question is he the strongest to win the election. i don't know that answer. >> reporter: and those comments sparking outrage who believes that the former president helps claim the speaker ship. just after the interview on cnbc, mccarthy appearing to play cleanup talking to a conservative news outlet saying that trump was stronger now than he was in 2016 and implying that the media was just trying to drive a wedge between the speaker and the former president. of course mccarthy in his own words saying that he didn't know if trump was the strongest candidate in 2024. kristen holmes, cnn, concord, new hampshire. the trial of actor kevin spacey on sexual assault charges is set to begin today here in london. the 63-year-old is facing a dozen charges including several counts of shultexual assault.

prosecutors say the incidents occurred between 2001 and 2013. he has denied any wrongdoing. salma abdelaziz is joining me here with more. i mean, this is -- people are quite gripped by this because it seemed to have gone on for such a long time but he denies everything. >> he denies everything and he has already shown up in court. i believe that we have the images of him walking into the court today. he showed up if you can believe it two hours early. these images were taken just before 9:00 a.m. the trial has yet on to start. it will start at 10:30 local time. he is absolutely keen he says to prove his innocence, reclaim his reputation and his career. kevin spacey has throughout maintained that none of the charges are true, they are fabricated and that they have cost him his very important, very award winning, very successful anktsing i ing acti career. he is facing 12 charges of

sexual assault. they include indecent assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent. they take place these incidents allegedly between 2001 and 2013. >> when he was artistic director here. >> exactly. so why is he facing these charges here in london? he was the artistic director of the old vick theater between 2004 and 2015. so in those years he had a prominent role in london. he considered london to be his home. and four separate men say that he took advantage of his position that again as artistic director of the old vick. there were separate battery charges in the united states that he was dismissed of last year, found innocent of last year. so i guess he is emboldened by that. he was speaking to a german publication a few weeks ago claiming that hollywood was

willing to hire him, but they were too scared to put forward someone like kevin spacey who is facing these charges. this trial will take four weeks. we're not going to have any results today. but it is an opportunity again for kevin spacey and his lawyers to present again what he says is proof of his innocence and for the crown prosecution here in london to present why the allegations have come forward. >> salma, thank you. u.s. justice department reports multiple failures by prison officials gave jeffrey epstein the opportunity to take his own life. epstein died at new york city's metropolitan correctional center 35 days after his arrest on charges of sex trafficking minors. investigators blame the jail for not having guards check on epstein that night allowing him extra bed linens which he used to hang himself and failing to assign him a cell mate after he was placed on suicide watch. but investigators say they found no evidence of any criminal activity linked to epstein's

death. julian sands is confirmed dead after going missing while hiking in the mountains in southern florida in january. he was 65 years old. weather conditions had hindered search efforts following his disappearance, but officials renounced a new push to locate him earlier this month and last week human remains were found in the area. just ahead, malaria is back in the united states for the first time in two decades. we'll explain why and what measures you can take to protect yourself from infection. and israeli prime minister may be planning to visit the ukrainian capital. how a possible trip could mend ve strained relations between the two countrtries, next. they have waffles! and splendid pools. cannonballll! book direct at choicehototels.c.

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doesn't include their stores and inventory. the troubled retailer filed for bankruptcy protection in april after struggling for years with dwindling sales. ford is expected to announce layoffs in u.s. and canada as it shifts focus to electric vehicles. the automaker says in march it will lose $3 billion on sales of electric vehicles this year. but it still expects to meet its profit target of $9 billion to $11 billion. and cdc is warning doctors about a possible resurgence of malaria. and elizabeth cohen reports. >> reporter: max, these are the first locally acquired cases of malaria in 20 years. in other words the people who got sick hpt traveled outside of the yuntsunited states, they go by a mosquito in the united states. this is in florida and texas. when it happened 20 years ago,

just eight cases. the state of florida and they managed to spray and do other things so that they didn't have any more than eight cases. while florida and texas have a lot of experience in spraying for mosquitos. so if you have certain symptoms like a fever, for example, chills, headache, body aches, feeling generally unwell, you can go to the doctor and say hey, could this be malaria. chances are it is not, but you can tell the doctor i've heard that there is malaria in the united states, is it possible that this is malaria. also if you get treated quickly enough, there are anti-malaria drugs that work quite well. and let's talk about prevention for a minute. here is what people should be doing, they should be wearing repel land, wearing long sleeves and pantses and remove standing water. mosquitos love that, so get rid of it so there are fewer places to breed. >> thank you, elizabeth. and now top international stories we're following, four

died and three are missing after a land slide hit southwest china tuesday. state media say the land slides were triggered by sudden rainstorms and flash flooding. nearly 1,000 have been evacuated and hundreds of search and rescue workers deployed. local meteorological department says 21 counties could see heavy rain and landslides today. in egypt, at least five people have died including a child and four others are injured after a 14 story building collapsed this alexandria. prosecutors have issued an order to detain two people in connection with the collapse. a lawmaker tells state media there are dozens of old uninhabited building at risk of crumbling. and ukrainian officials expected an inside rebellion against moscow but didn't know when it would happen. and erin burnett sat down for an exclusive interview with the foreign minister who says

prigozhin may have been the first but won't be the last to defy the russian president. >> has the rebellion in russia as you've seen over just these past few days, and i know it is still the fog and chaos of it, but it is that changed anything on the frontlines? i spoke to a drone operator, ukrainian drone operator, and he was saying on saturday they felt a palpable panic from the russian, but then it subsequently returned to what he said would be quote/unquote normal. in term of that behavior. >> if the mutiny had lasted for 48 hours more, i'm pretty certain we would have felt a demoralizing impact on the russian forces fighting in the south and east of ukraine. unfortunately prigozhin gave up too quickly. so there was no time for this

demoralizing effect to penetrate russian trenches. but nevertheless, this was not the factor that our forces were counting on. it was like a force majeure. so it doesn't change anything in our plans as we continue our counteroffensive. >> and he admits vladimir putin still has one card up his sleeve and is that the nuclear weapons. he warns again they don't want to play with moscow. >> in the context of putin's situation right now, do you think that his decision to use nuclear forces in some way is a real possibility? >> frankly, i believe that the fear of nuclear weapons is the last argument putin has in his pocket. i think that it is nothing more

than a fear game. because putin loves life too much. >> even if his power is threatened. >> and people around him love life even more. of course we cannot forecast future developments. but the west will make a big mis mistake if it decides to play the nuclear fear game with putin. >> thank you to erin for that interview. israeli prime minister reportedly in the early stages of planning a visit for kyiv pl relations between easy really and ukraine have been strained with ukraine accusing israel of taking a neutral stance on the invasion.hadas gold is joining from jerusalem. explain the background here. >> reporter: yeah, i spoke with the ukrainian ambassador to

israel yesterday who confirmed that they are in early plans, discussions, for benjamin netanyahu to visit kyiv. it would be of course his first visit to the ukrainian capital since the russian invasion of ukraine began. and it comes during a tense time between ukraine and israel relations. there has always been a tension in that relationship because of israel's position on the war. now, israel has expressed support for ukraine, voted in their favor in the united nations, but they haven't gone so far as to provide defensive equipment to ukraine. they often cite their own security concerns because of russia's presence in syria on their northern border. but the tension came into full front a few days ago when the ukrainian embassy in israel issued really a scathing statement saying in reality the so-called neutrality of israel's government is considered a clear pro-russian position. the embassy cited recent

diplomatic negotiations between russia and israel about russia's presence in jerusalem. and they also cited statements made by netanyahu in an interview in which he said israel had held back sending weapons to ukraine because they are afraid that the weapons could somehow fall into the hands of the iranians or syrians and be used against israel saying that he had asserted such a scenario had happened had we now find on our border, so we have to be very careful. the ambassador actually took great offense to the statements saying that he wants to hear an explanation from the israelis about why netanyahu made those statements. and he said that he won't get it because the israeli foreign ministry summoned the ukrainian ambassador for talks next week. but when i asked the ambassador about that, he sort of chuckled and said clearly they are not in a rush because they are summoning me for next week and the statement was made a few

days ago and he thinks by then the tensions should calm. but he did say that visit will go on a. long way to repairing decisions. but they say no decision has been made yet. but the ambassador said that netanyahu has been waiting for an invitation to the white house for some time and the ambassador believes that the fastest way to that invitation is through kyiv. >> hadas gold, thank you. and coming up, found in the ruins appearing to depict what may be an ancestor of the italian pizza. more on that discovery next. meet the portable blender wewe can barely keep in stock. blendjet 2 gives you ice-crushing, big blender

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