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that's it for us. thank you for joining. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. i'm phil mattingly. poppy is off this morning. five things to know for this monday, july 3rd. plus in baltimore saying two shooters are on the run right now in baltimore after two people were killed and 28 others were injured in a mass shooting at a block party. most injured are teenagers, some as young as 13. ukrainian president zelenskyy calls putin weak and says his power is crumbling. that's in an exclusive interview from the frontlines with erin burnett. the slow push to recapture territory occupied by russia. new details this morning about donald trump's effort to stay in office after he lost the 2020 election. the former president reported will pressured the then arizona governor to overturn election results, telling him to find fraud that would help him win

the state. trump and his allies tried the same tactics in georgia, michigan and with other officials in arizona. and scorching heat and severe storms have millions of americans on alert this holiday monday. 7,500 flights delayed, nearly 500 cancelled so far today. twitter limits how many tweets users can read in a day and the twitterverse not happy. so why did elon musk do it? "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everyone. >> good morning to you. >> two d.c. people to camp to new york. >> they let us in. they let us in, no passport. >> i desperately want your thoughts on twitter. >> i have some. >> i know you have some. and we'll get to that in a little bit. new overnight, ukraine claims it's gaining ground on its counteroffense. ukrainian forces are advancing near the captured city of

bakhmut. this is new video of a russian tank you can see here being destroyed near that city. russia unleashed another wave of drones on ukraine after striking kyiv for the first time in nearly two weeks over the weekend. in an exclusive sit-down interview with cnn's erin burnett, last weekend's mercenary shows vladimir putin is weak and his grip on power is crumbling. >> mr. president, you recently said that you have dealt -- i'll quote you the way it quoted, with different putins. it's a completely different set of traits and different periods. now of course he faced a rebellion, an attempted coup from yevgeny prigozhin, have you seen any changes in how you think he's acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? >> translator: yes, we see the

reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin's reaction, it's weak. firstly, we see he doesn't control everything. wagner's moving deep into russia and taking certain regions shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn't control the situation in the regions. he doesn't control the security situation. all of us understand that his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that's why it's so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? we understand that putin doesn't control the regional policy, and he doesn't control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he used to have, just got crumbling down. >> do you believe he's fully in charge of the military right now when it comes to your front line and this counteroffensive, do you believe putin is fully in charge of the russian military? >> translator: i don't think he fully controls all the

processes. he gives orders to the commanders. it's understood. they are scared to lose their jobs. but he doesn't understand and doesn't control the middle layer of the russian military, nor the lower rank officers and soldiers. also new overnight, the kremlin claims it foiled car bomb assassination plot against the russian-backed leader of crimea. zelenskyy said the war in ukraine won't be over until crimea is back under ukrainian control. >> translator: we cannot imagine ukraine without crimea and why crimea is under the russian occupation, it means only one thing, war is not over yet. >> to be clear, in victory, in peace, is there any scenario where crimea is not part of ukraine? >> translator: it will not be victory then. >> i know the u.s. cia chief bill burns has come and visited

you regularly, he was here recently. what did you tell him about your plans to take back territory in the counteroffensive? >> translator: to be honest with you, i was surprised to see the information in some media both in the u.s. and ukrainian and european media. my communication with the cia chief should always be behind the scenes. and the media attention because we discuss important things, what ukraine needs and how ukraine is prepared to act, we don't have any secrets from cia because we have good relations and our intelligence services talk with each other. i don't know what were other contacts. i don't really remember which media i read it in. the situation is pretty straight forward. we have good relations with the cia chief and we are talking. i told him about all the important things related to the battlefield which we need. >> and you can watch erin's full interview with ukrainian president zelenskyy wednesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. now you heard president

zelenskyy talking about his secret face to face meeting with the head of the cia. so let's bring in cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this was a fascinating development. it wasn't public when it happened. our jim sciutto and you have been reporting on it. do we have any idea what they talked about during this sitdown? >> reporter: yeah. so we have some sense from u.s. official basically reaffirming that bill burns did make this trip to kyiv, as he has many times before, including as recently as we know of in january. according to this u.s. official, bill burns reiterated the u.s.'s commitment to intelligence sharing with zelenskyy. now, according to zelenskyy himself, he did say he shared information about the battlefield and about ukraine's counteroffensive with burns as well as what ukraine actually needs in order to be successful in that counteroffensive. look, burns has been somewhat of an emissary for the biden administration not only to ukraine but also to russia. and he has been taking full

advantage of the trust that the president has placed in him and his deep knowledge, of course, of russia, of ukraine to play a really important role here. not only in serving as kind of a diplomatic emissary between the ukrainians, about what they know about the russian plans on the battlefield, for example. just this weekend, bill burns, he was speaking in england and said this is a once in a generation opportunity for the cia in terms of recruitment just because of the level of disaffectment they have seen by the russians with putin's war in ukraine and with his leadership writ large. here is what he said. >> disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the russian leadership. that disaffection creates a once in a generation opportunity for us at cia. we're very much open for business. >> reporter: so the u.s. has been sharing quite a bit of intelligence with the the ukrainians. the ukrainians don't always share as much intel with the u.s. because, of course, of that

big leak that we saw of classified pentagon documents they have been more wary to share intelligence with the u.s. but the u.s. trying to do what it can to give ukraine the information it needs to be successful, phil. >> there's another biden administration official traveling, treasure secretary janet yellen. what's the goal of this trip? >> they have been trying to mentize with the chinese they recognize, of course, these are the two biggest economies in the world. this is something that janet yellen said repeatedly while of course there are trade and other practices by the chinese that the u.s. is concerned about, that there is still a need to keep those lines of communication open. of course we saw the secretary of state travel to chi china in recent months. this is the attempt to rebuild communication with the chinese. importantly, though, military communications are still closed. those military channels that are so important for deconflicting potentially catastrophic

situations in the near china and elsewhere around the world, those remain closed. and so the pentagon as has been been trying to reopen that. trying to get to a place where at least there could be a dialogue between the two countries. >> great reporting, natasha bertrand. thank you so much. right now police in baltimore are searching for at least two shooters who they say opened fire on a block party killing two people and hurting 28. now, most of the injured are teenagers, including two 13-year-olds. new this morning, you can see people sprinting away from the gunfire. this was early yesterday morning. this is surveillance video obtained by our affiliate wjz. investigators say they don't know if the shooters were targeting anybody specific or if this is a random bout of violence, but they're still on the run this hour as we learn the names of the victims who died. 20-year-old kylus and 18-year-old gonzalez.

gloria pez mee know is live in baltimore this morning. gloria, as we mentioned, so many of these victims were between the ages of 13 and 19. what have you learned about the shooting? >> reporter: yeah. young people caught in the cross fire. several teenagers have gathered here for a celebration known as brooklyn day. and it was supposed to be a celebration for this community and the families that live here. but it ended in tragedy. now, it was shortly after midnight when police say that shots rang out, sending hundreds of people that had gathered here running for cover. i spoke to some of those people here yesterday. they told me it was absolute chaos and panic as they ran away from the gunfire running for their lives. now, an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were killed. and dozens more were injured. 28 people injured by gunfire, many of them teenagers, as young as 13 years old.

now, mayor brandon scott was here last night, pleading with this community, asking them to come forward and share any information that they might have that can help find people that were behind saturday night's violence. he was also critical of gun violence saying that this is not just a baltimore problem, that gun violence is affecting every part of the country. >> we are asking again that anyone that knows anything about this mass shooting, and that's what i want to call this, a mass shooting, we want this shooting to be treated just as it happened in rural america. we want everyone to come forward and say, treat this if it's your daughter, your son, your brother, your cousin that was out here shot at this event. >> reporter: now, another important detail that we learned from police yesterday, they say they are looking for multiple individuals behind saturday night's violence. they have not identified or

named the people they're look for just yet. we know they are looking for several people. they say at least two were behind saturday night's shooting. >> gloria, thank you for your reporting. and in our next hour, baltimore mayor brandon scott will join us live. also this morning, defense forces launching a deadly raid inside the west bank as tensions there continue to escalate. and mike pence is responding to a cnn report that donald trump had him call the governor of arizona to try and pressure him into overturning the 2020 election results. er roll lewis and shelby tell cot will join us. and ultra-conforming innersprings, for a beautiful mattress, and d indescribable comfort. for a limited time, save $40400 on select stearns & foster mattresses. oh bookiking.com, ♪ i'm going to somewhere, anywhere. ♪

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the arizona governor about the election results around the same time. senior national correspondent kristen holmes is live in washington this morning. kristen, what do we know about what those conversations actually entailed? >> reporter: well, let's start with the trump conversation because we knew that trump and ducey spoke. both leaders confirmed that but we didn't know exactly what was said. and we are learning that ducey behind closed doors says that trump was trying to pressure him to find some sort of fraud to overturn the election results in the state of arizona. as we know, he narrowly lost that state by about 11,000 votes. when it comes to the pence conversations, we know now that pence held multiple calls with ducey at the time, but we were told by sources it was not to pressure him, it was to ask him if he had seen any actual indication of voter fraud and if he had to report it appropriately. now, interestingly here, phil, we know that in georgia, this call was recorded. we now know in arizona there's no recording of this call. we also know the special counsel jack smith who is investigating

trump's actions after the 2020 election as well as the january 6th insurrection has not reached out to the former governor doug ducey about this interaction. so, interesting here, of course, we know that trump was putting an enormous amount of pressure on people across the country to try and find fraud to overturn the 2020 election, as we have reported multiple times, there's no indication that there was massive fraud anywhere in the country. >> exactly right. kristen holmes, thank you so much. so we actually have video of one of the calls of then president made to governor ducey, november 2020. ducey was certifying the election results when trump appeared to call him. listen carefully to the ring tone, it's faint. you can make it out. extremely subtle hail to the

chief ring tone playing on ducey's phone. governor ducey did not take that call, but later said he spoke with trump and he did not describe the specifics of the conversation. so to tease this out more, we're going to bring in cnn political commentator and host of "you decide" podcast errol louis and shelby talcott. >> the thing that's interesting about this moment is there's obviously the on going reporting in georgia where there is an investigation. can you start by giving us a sense of how similar this sounds to what the investigators have been looking at there. >> obviously the big difference is there's no recording of the call, but it sounds pretty similar to me right off the bat. and we already know that trump has pressured other officials, so it doesn't necessarily come as a surprise to me that he would have also done this to ducey. >> yeah, but ducey said that

jack smith hasn't reached out to him yet. is that correct? what do you know? >> yeah. i think that's notable and i remember in the reporting that he told a donor that it was notable at all that he was surprised that he hadn't been spoken to yet. i do think that this investigation is ramping up quickly. so if he hasn't been spoken to yet, he likely will be soon, particularly now that this is all public, i would think that this kind of pressures smith even more into speaking with him. >> absolutely now that it's out. you know, the brad raffensperger sort of feast of evidence is something you have to track down every single person who made or heard or understood or interpreted that call. it dun sound like this is even remotely comparable. it may not be as high of a priority, but certainly if jack smith is as thorough as his reputation suggests, sooner or later they will get down. it's not necessarily low-hanging fruit if you don't have an actual recording and if you

don't have somebody in the form of doug ducey willing to testify under oath as to what he was told. that might in fact remaining confidential. >> shelby, you keyed on the first element i picked up on this story which is less that a call happened. again, this happened repeatedly over the course of the weeks after but mostly that ducey talked to a donor according to "washington post" that he hadn't been called yet. but the other thing that sticks out to me is what trump's team responded in the "washington post" story. i want to read it. a spokesman for trump declined to respond about the call with ducey but falsely declared on a statement that, quote the 2020 presidential election was rig and stolen. the spokesman said trump should be credited for, quote, doing the right thing. working to make sure that all the fraud was investigated and dealt with. this is why it sticks out to me. is everyone just numb at this point? everything about that statement is a lie. unequivocal, unambiguous lie based on however many run through the dozens of investigations and court cases. they're tossing that out there the middle of a campaign where

he is the front-runner by 30 plus points. when you talk you're on the trail. when you talk to republican voters, when you talk to primary voters, do they care at all? >> it's interesting because i do think a lot of republican voters believe the 2020 election was stolen and that's why when you hear trump still speak about it, right, it's 2023, he's still talking about it on the campaign trail, it resonates in a way. and even those who don't necessarily think, believe trump's false claims, still believe that there was enough voter fraud that it should be a concern. so it is kind of front and center in a lot of these voter's minds, even the ones who don't necessarily want to vote for trump. >> it's like table stakes, right? just to be in the race at this point is to say at least there was some kind of fraud to be concerned about. i want to bring us to will herd, who is of texas, i think is looking presidential run. and he talked about what it's like right now in the party.

>> i'm not going to support donald trump. i recognize the impact that it has on my ability to get access to the debate stage. but i can't lie. >> so, he's talking about the fact that to even get on the debate stage, you have to say that you will support whoever the nominee is. errol, can you talk a little bit about what that means in this particular race, which is defined by being for or against trump. >> donald trump set the table who will be in favor of him. having a remote shot at the nomination is that you have to support trump and his version of what happened in 2020, well, he's going to hold on to his lead to say the least and will probably end up being the nominee. will hurd doesn't want to play that game. good for him for saying that, for recognizing what so many of the other candidates don't seem to recognize if you play that game on those terms, you cannot win. you're not going to take donald

trump's base away from him. if he defines the race as whether or not you support me, you're not going to win that race either. >> but it's the only way to get on the debate stage, what does that mean? seems that the party is structuring such it would make it hard for someone to operate outside it. >> donald trump is acting like a de facto incumbent. look, on the democratic side, look at what president biden has done, the way they rearranged the campaign -- the primary schedule, the fact that there are really no opportunities for any significant opposition to get on to a debate stage with him, donald trump is trying to do his version of that. now, the fact that there are so many candidates suggest that people think that either he's going to go away or the base is going to suddenly desert him. i don't know if they're being realistic about that, that's why he has a 30 point lead at this point. >> shelby -- >> pledge. >> you think people can get away without signing it? >> i guess i wonder if nobody

signs it, are they not going to have debates? >> that's the funny part, too. it might have been chris christie, i'll sign it, but i don't mean it. it's not binding. >> i don't know how you enforce it. >> i feel like i ask you this every time you're here and apologize for the repetition but i think it's important because i know you're plugged in, what are the odds trump is actually on a debate stage? >> i don't think they're very high. his argument and his team's argument is essentially why would i give everyone else the time, right? i'm ahead by so much. and it is in a sense legitimate argument. >> it's a very savvy political move. >> why would he bother. i don't see him doing it. i see him potentially actually -- there's been some rumors about this, hosting his own event. >> okay. shelby talcott and errol louis, thank you for being with us. tensions are calming somewhat in france after the police killing of a teen sparked a fiery protest. we'll take you there for updates live. ♪

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♪ welcome back. police in france detained at

least 157 people overnight after a much calmer night of protests. violent demonstration, of course, erupted last week following the police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. about 45,000 security forces are still deployed across the country. french president emmanuel macron is meeting with top officials today to discuss the next steps. i want to go to cnn's nic robertson live from just outside paris. nic, the question i watched throughout the course of the last couple days is does last night and the easing of tensions at least slightly suggest that a turning point is coming? >> reporter: yeah, it kind of does. look at the metric of fires which i think over the past few days has been a good metric of how big this whole protest is, how many people involved. 350 fires reported. last night 871, the night before, 2,500 the night before that, 3,900 almost the night before that. so this trajectory has been coming down. city halls, this is one of them, 99 of them, have been attacked

and vandalized. the interior minister said they will spend $22 million on replacing the cctv cameras around the city halls. this city hall protesters as a tactic couldn't get in over the weekend. attacked the mayor's office. his wife was attacked trying to escape with two young children. they called for protests, demonstrations outside mayor's offices. this is a small gathering here today. more protests or more gatherings like this have been called for to show support for the mayors. that's really central to what the government is saying. they're saying, look, we're going to keep up with this heavy police presence which seems to be a big part of keeping control of the situation. and we're appealing and saying, you're damaging your own community. it's interesting because just yesterday, that young 17-year-old was shot last week killed by the police, his grandmother came out, made a very similar appeal.

>> translator: i blame the policemen who killed my grandson. i'm the grandmother. i blame the policemen who killed my grandson. that's all i want. the police, they are here fortunately, they are here and the people who are breaking things, i tell them, stop. stop. they use nahel's death as a pretext. now they must stop. >> reporter: so she is calling for it to stop. she's saying, look, your mothers are using the buses you're burning. your mothers are using the town halls that you're trying to attack. they use the services of mayor's. so stop. it does seem it's a downward trajectory from here and i think from what we've heard from people around here today, they really want to see the end of the violence. >> nic, can i ask, having watched this over the course of the last five or six days, there are very clear, if not perfect, correlation, analog to what we have seen in the united states, dynamics, elements what you're hearing from the grandmother,

something we would often hear. can you contextualize this moment on this particular issue and in france and why it got to this point and what happens next? >> reporter: yeah. last big sort of demonstrations, violence across the country, that in the moment officials are calling unprecedented was 2005. there is pent-up frustrations in the poorer neighborhoods. this is -- you could call it one of those neighborhoods. it's not as poor as some like where nahel lived but where people feel disadvantaged, ethnic minorities, people from arabic backgrounds, north african backgrounds feel racially profiled and targeted by the police and to a degree we have seen that on the streets, the young people being swept up by the police and frisked on the streets were typically people who appeared to be of north african or arabic dissent. the government pushes back and says that's not the issue. it's young people. their parents should take better

control. the president promised to sort of look deeply into this issue over the coming months. it's being treated as a security situation right now. but, as you say, the underlying issues are deep and come back to that feeling of being racially profiled, racially disadvantaged. the police taking a tougher hand with them. and that has been building up and it came to a head over the past few days. >> nic robertson live for us in paris. thank you so much. now there are new tensions the middle east this morning. egypt joins palestinian authority president in condemning the latest round of israeli air strikes in the west bank. at least seven people were killed, nearly two dozen others were injured. israeli military spokesman claims the strikes are an effort to target terrorist infrastructure with roots to iran. now the strikes are centered on an area of a refugee camp. the israeli military calls that area the hornet's nest where dozens of shooting attacks

against israel have originated. we're going to take you live to jerusalem next hour. ahead, what's behind elon musk's move to limit the amount of tweets you can read on twitter? you have all the answers probably. >> yeah. >> sara fisher will explain all of it coming up next.

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♪ slow your scroll? elon musk said over the weekend twitter will limit at least temporarily the number of posts you can read. he claims it's an effort to address extreme levels of data scraping. so verified accounts, limited to

10,000 posts per day. unverified accounts 1,000 per day. this was revealed after thousands of users complained they were unable or had trouble accessing the site. many reported getting messages they had exceeded their rate limit. so, what is behind this latest turmoil for the company? cnn's senior media analyst sara fisher joins us, also senior media reporter at axios. sara, what gives? what now with him. >> reporter: there's always something, audi, right? >> yes. >> i think this is a response to the rise of a lot of big a.i. platforms that are starting to scrape big social media platforms for data to help train their algorithms. you saw reddit said they would start charging developers for some of that back end access. they got a lot of pushback from their community. it seems like elon musk is trying to do something similar, but the difference, audi, this is going to have a huge impact on the everyday user's

experience with twitter. people tweeting frustration about twitter that they weren't able to get to their weather updates, critical news and information because they were being limited to the number of posts that they were able to view. now, loan musk has not said how long he's going to implement this temporary crackdown. it will be frustrating for advertisers, they're reliant on the usage in order to fulfill their ad campaigns, make sure they have enough people watching and reading tweets in order to insert their ads between them. >> theoretically reliant for them on business. one quick fact check, what's this about him maybe not paying his bills. can you talk about what's going on there? >> reporter: there have been so many reports whether it's been vendors or licensing or leases, if you will, that twitter struggled to pay its bills. that's because twitter is really struggling with profitability right now. to be honest, twitter always struggled with profitability even before elon musk took over. but the difference is they are not a publicly traded company. they do not need to be

transparent about their finances what money they're bringing in and what money they're spending. seems like the company is in this chaotic spot where it's trying to stay afloat, but it's not necessarily doing it in most transparent way. we keep getting reports not also just about not paying bills but they're still in litigation about former employees paying out severances, et cetera. expect twitter to be in the financial chaos until maybe they can turn the platform around. i'm still skeptical, audie. they put in a new chief executive, this continues to be chaos as i cover this platform. >> sara, stay with us. i want to bring shelby and errol back in. you're so jealous you didn't read this on. that's podcast worthy. i'm fascinated by the business story, less on the myopic, people being angry about their tweets not being available and all that type of stuff, but from a business perspective, they bring in big-time executive

that's supposed to juice up their advertising. elon musk is elon musk. how does this end? >> well, it's not going to be pretty. at this point the estimate is that under elon musk the company has lost two thirds of its value. paid $44 billion worth of it, worth something like 15 billion. that's not good. >> not good. >> the number is supposed to go in the other direction. the fact that advertisers and important users like the national weather service and others are saying this may not be for us. the algorithm is still sort of promotes and favors, you know, kind of anger and division and outrage, making it a much less pleasant user experience for everybody who is left on it. and then this idea that you're going to get out of it by paying eight bucks, which has just been roundly rejected. they have very, very few subscribers, even among their daily users. as a business, it's just -- just seems to be falling apart. now, it's got a lot of sort of

potential. it's got a lot of residual affection. it's got a lot of users. >> that's a key political tool, we have 2024 coming up. do campaigns still think they'll be using twitter? >> i think the big thing is if it was just this change, it would be a huge change, but given how much elon musk already changed the platform, i know personally i feel like the platform is a little less reliable now in terms of me finding verified news that has been fact checked and is legitimate. and so, i think in that sense it's a little bit less of a priority for campaigns. donald trump is still not on the platform, for example. i do think pre-elon musk he would have more of a reason to join it. >> sara, with the time we have left, from a business perspective, do -- when you talk to both people inside the company but also analysts outside, there is a pathway that exists here to kind of get them out of this just constant state of tumult and seeming collapse

followed by resuscitation followed by some new strategy that i can't figure out? >> reporter: there is a pathway. one of the things that your going to hear internally a lot is that linda brings assurance to the talent inside. still some people who are great salespeople, great engineers that want guidance and direction and assurance that things aren't going to change that much. they're hoping that linda will bring some consistency. but from the outside world, the perspective of the marketers and advertisers, i spent a good week with them at a big advertising festival overseas. twitter is still the most relevant public square for discourse. meta trying to build out a rival. you have small budding rivals like blue sky. but at the end of the day, twitter is still the biggest public square in the world. if elon musk can figure this out, there's a product case to be made for it being relevant. i'm not quite sure quite frankly if he'll be able to do it and keep linda at his side and she

doesn't get too frustrated and just leave. >> yeah. fascinating to watch it all play out. sara, thank you for the great reporting. e r errol, shelby, you get to keep hanging out. >> bring them coffees. >> we can do that. american pie burgers and all of the fourth of july staples, they're cheaper this year. we'll explain why coming up next. ♪ right now get a free footlong at subway. like the subway series menu.

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>> right. we're excited for our fourth of july cookouts. phil said he's buying for everybody. >> wait, what? i did not. no. >> party of ten that's going to cost us about 68 bucks this year. so that's cheaper than last year, down 3%. but it's still more expensive than it was in 2021, up 14%. so, we see inflation starting to slow down, but we're still paying much more than we were a couple years ago. >> all right. so i'm walking through giant to buy mass items for the entire team since now you volunteered me to do that. what am i going to save money on? what am i not? >> all right, phil. so beef prices, burgers are up about 4%. >> okay. >> you definitely want to stay away from hamburger buns, up 17% from a year ago. chicken could be a good option down about 9%. and then stock up on lemonade, down 16% from a year ago. so, beef a little costlier, chicken down, stock up on the lemonade.

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pillars of the fury 325 dubbed by the park as one of the tallest and longest rides in north, yet you can see it right there. i'm not an expert on these things. seems not great. this particular roller coaster has a drop between 300 and 399 feet and reaches up to 95 miles per hour. the ride will remain closed until inspections and repairs are made. >> yeah. yeah. yea they caught it. pass for me. >> huge crack. good job seeing that. are you a roller coaster person? >> i'm not now after that. >> cedar point is the best place in the history of america. >> i like wooden roller coasters. >> do you want to talk about ohio. >> you're an ohio person. >> yeah. >> very dismissive how you framed that. >> it means we're going to talk about ohio a lot. >> best roller coaster park in the world unquestionably. i don't appreciate that dismissive attitudes towards ohio. i hate the red sox, too. >> oh, no. >> sorry.

we're stuck together for another couple hours. >> when does the next show start? >> cnn will continue right now. ♪ this is about people who cowardly decide to come to a celebration and shoot it up. >> police say it was shortly after midnight that gunshots rang out. we spoke to people here who said they ran for cover. >> we do know more than one person was shooting. >> this is insanity. this cannot be the society that we are expected to live in. ♪ >> we saw the most air passengers not only since covid but we think ever. >> severe weather affecting much of the country. flash flooding in chicago today, leaving several cars under water. >> very early. only to be told that our flight was delayed. >> zero problems whatsoever. i got lucky. donald trump pressured arizona governor doug ducey in a phone call after the 2020 election.