slow-moving storm moves north. this morning of "cnn this morning" starts right now. and good morning, everybody. it is happening right now, president biden is in the midst of his meeting with king charles at windsor castle. you saw the meeting just a short while ago. this meeting happening on the eve of a critical summit with nato leaders. just noted, just moments ago. >> the warm embrace there between the two men. the president arrived, inspected the honor guard. it is the first time the king and president biden have met face to face since charles ascended the throne. they are set to discuss climate change and clean energy, and tomorrow, russia's war in ukraine will take center stage when the nato allies meet in lithuania. max foster is live at windsor castle. max, what is the significance of president biden's stopping in england before the nato summit? >> reporter: well, it's an opportunity that american presidents like to take up and be seen amongst all of that

splendor, to be seen on the international stage. in the past, it would have been with the queen, who was this towering figure on the international stage, the longest-serving head of state. now it's king charles, the beginning really of his monarchy and his opportunity to show how he's doing things slightly differently. so as you say, they are going to discuss climate change, they'll have a meeting about that, which in itself is very unusual, because queen elizabeth never really discussed what was going to be discussed in those meetings. charles is handling things differently and wants to work with the key figures who can actually have an impact on climate change. the president of the united states, to discuss that issue. the key thing about this probably from our end is that everything went very smoothly. the two men appear to get on very well. this is all about reiterating the long-term, strong, as the brits would call it, terrible relationship between the u.s. and the uk. the u.s. is by far the most important bilateral partner for the uk in the world. it's really important that we

can solidify that relationship with the u.s. while ritchie sunak is dealing with some prickly issues, really, in that, particularly in how they're handling the war in ukraine. political issues, i mean, you could argue climate has become a political issue, as well, around the world. this is something that charles is not going to let up on. in the past, these moments have been awkward for president trump, for example, getting a bit lost, but charles very much in control of this moment, showing the inspection of the guard, allowing president biden to inspect that guard and it all went pretty smoothly. so now they've gone in for tea and for a discussion about climate. >> max foster, we'll continue checking in with you through the hour. and new this morning, we are now hearing from the kremlin that yevgeny prigozhin met with president vladimir putin after his short-lived mutiny at the end of june. remember that attempted coup. we're told the meeting took place on june 29th, that was five days after the rebellion. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joins us now.

fred, this is a bit of a surprise, right. what can we read from this? >> well, it is, that's to say the least, it's a pit of a surprise. i think it's something that certainly shows that the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin and his fighters are of huge importance to vladimir putin if he was willing to meet with yevgeny prigozhin five days after that mutiny. one of the things we heard from the kremlin today, no one really knew where yevgeny prigozhin was, people thought he might be in belarus, and the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko told us that he was back in russia. so now saying that five days after that mutiny, yevgeny prigozhin and 35 commanders, as the kremlin put it, were inside the kremlin. apparently, vladimir putin gave his own assessment of what they called the special military operation, which is obviously russia's war in ukraine. but then also about the mutiny itself. and then also apparently, this

according to the kremlin, offered his thoughts on possible further deployments. now, the interesting thing about all of this is they said that 35 commanders took part, including yef guinea prigozhin. they did not say whether people from russia's defense ministry took part. one of the things that we knew that yevgeny prigozhin was on his way to moscow to go after the defense minister. so all of this directly in defiance of vladimir putin. now we're learning that yevgeny prigozhin was in fact in the kremlin, and certainly seems to show that despite yevgeny prigozhin has been discredited on state media, the fighters that he commands and controls still seem very important for the kremlin leader. >> no question about that. fred pleitgen, thanks so much.

let's bring in beth saner. i'm kind of mind blown. fred makes the great point, over the course of the last several weeks, you've seen prigozhin kind of completely undercut on russian state media, you saw president putin's statement when he finally started speaking after the immunity, really attacking the idea of it. and the actions that were taken. what do you make of the fact that prigozhin was in -- was meeting with president putin, just five days after the immunity? >> well, you know, i think this shows another step in the kremlin plan to deal with prigozhin in this kind of post-mutiny environment. i think they have three things that are going on right here and we're seeing unfold. one, they're trying to change the narrative and discrediting prigozhin and getting leverage over this still-popular figure is the first part of this plan. the second part is to wrest control over as much of wagner as they can, because wagner is extremely important. so they took over, for example,

the internet, the disinformation arm, the ira that still promotes disinformation worldwide. the syria campaign. and the third is what we saw, i think, in this meeting with putin. and that is to figure out how do we rebrand and reshape wagner elements, the ones that we still need, says putin, the ones that we can't yet get rid of, or maybe never can, because they're so important. so i think that's what we're seeing here unfold. >> all right, colonel layton, i want to bring you in to get your thoughts on what this says about putin, that he would meet with prigozhin, mere days after the attempted coup. >> to me it seems like this is a sense of his weakness. we're getting a sense that he's looking at things that he needs to change in order to maintain his power. it's also a situation, i think

where prigozhin either has something on putin, or he's got enough leverage where we can actually control some of not only the narrative, but also what putin does next. think about what they have, for example, in africa. you've got the wagner group all over africa, in syria. that's a huge arm of russian foreign policy that's sitting right there. and if that is somehow stopped or doesn't work as well as it once did, that creates a real problem for the kremlin. and putin can't afford to have that problem, in addition to the problems that he has in ukraine right now. >> keep your friends close, your enemies closer, right? >> exactly. >> and beth, that brings me to my next question. our ben wedeman called this a little bit of a soap opera. if you're u.s. intelligence at this point in time, how are you kind of watching, analyzing what's been happening and trying to draw some conclusions about what this may say about next steps for president putin and russia? >> well, you break it down into the things that matter to u.s.

interests. and i think about this kind of in concentric rings. the first part of it is, how does this affect putin. and i think that while it shows some weakness in terms of the symbiotic relationship, it doesn't necessarily threaten putin in the near-term. so i think that, you know, he actually is fairly in control at home in the wake of this. but as you move out these concentric rings to the ukraine war, and really to relationships, china, the relationship with china and how allies think about it, and this foreign policy security arm in africa, wagner. these things start to weaken, as the ripples kind of go out on these concentric rings. as an intel officer, you break these down and you start figuring out, you know, what are the leverage points, to not only understand it, but to take advantage of it. >> beth saner, thank you so much.

colonel layton, stick around. lots more to discuss. for more now on president biden's trip overseas, let's bring back sally bedell smith, cnn contributor, staff writer for the new yorker, and biden biographer, evan osnos, and national politics reporter for "the new york times", astead herndon. so as we speak, king charles and president biden, they are meeting, what are you looking for out of this meeting, sally bedell smith, what do you think is different about this meeting than the late queen's meeting with former u.s. presidents? >> the queen's last meeting with president biden was 45 minutes of pleasantries. she asked him what he thought of xi and putin, but we don't know what he said and we don't know what she said. in this instance, it is the first time that as a monarch, there has been a specific agenda. prince charles is very

experienced with this back in 2007, for example, he started a rain forest initiative. and he had conferences bringing together businesses, philanthropies. he got commitments from governments, $250 million from sweden and other scandinavian countries to put money into south america to prevent them from cutting down trees. so, you know, in the past, he has focused on very specific actions. that is what he is doing today. he and joe biden are asking financial institutions, big businesses, a lot of businesses now have esg. they are very much on the page of trying to mitigate climate change. and so i think we're going to have these people meeting with john kerry and with grant aps,

the environmental minister for the uk. and so what we're looking a is an initiative by prince charles and something that he's very, very good at, and st been backed by the government. when he was the prince of wales, he did things that were sometimes contrary to the government, but this is very much in sync with what ritchie sunak's government is trying to do. >> evan, i want to spin forward to the nato meeting in a second, which is obviously of huge consequence, but sometimes in our business, we try desperately to draw parallels. and sometimes we fail miserably at that. you're a big-time magazine writer and book writer, so you never fail. >> give me time. >> everything that sally is describing, i find so fascinating, of two individuals who throughout the course of their career were sometimes dismissed, sometimes scoffed at,

never thought that they would necessarily get to the place that they always seemed destined to go or at least in their minds were destined to go. now they're here at this moment, describe that dynamic? >> i think you're absolutely right, phil. these are two gentlemen of a certain age who have spent a long time thinking about what they would do when they found themselves at the top of the mountain. getting the job that they've always wanted. here they find themselves in king charles' case at the age of 74, president biden is 80. and they come to it with a sense that they have some wisdom to impart, but also a little chip on their shoulder a bit about the fact that it took as long as it did to get there. but the meaningful fact is, you have a president biden who believes that climate is one of the issues on which he made an impact over the course of the last couple of years. they talk about the inflation reduction act being part of his legacy. and of course, king charles has been talking about climate for five decades. so they have a meeting of the minds on substance, but as you say, also on life experience. >> yeah. and of course, this trip comes ahead of the big nato summit in

lithuania. the president will be traveling there shortly after his meeting with king charles. and i'm wondering, astead, if you could just set the table for us. the main, the big issues that president biden will have to tackle with allies at this nato summit. >> i think that that is really what he's starting here in england. he's meeting with the prime ministers to get everyone on the same page. and what we hear from the white house is that they're going try to shore up the relationship, make sure there's still a willingness to support. you know, there was the investment into the ammunition recently that was controversial. i think the white house the going to try to make sure that them and europe are on the same page. i was in munich at the security conference earlier this year and there was a real sense, a palpable sense that this is an important year to really turn the page on the war in ukraine. if they're at the same poison next year at this point, if they think that the support in their own countries may have have to shift. i think the u.s. will have to push on the kind of offensive right now and try to make sure

that them and europe are on the same page right now, because the political picture looks a little murkier come next year. i think that's why you're seeing the investment in ammunition right now, and that's why you're seeing the white house use this uk meeting as the kind of first step to make sure that they have a europe that's on the same page, going into what's going to be a very sequential year, especially before an election. the white house is thinking about this next year, as way to -- as a key moment for the war, because they don't want there to be a push back domestically on the amount of investment they're doing over in europe. so they're going to hope that this year really turns the page on the war, so that they're able to make a political pitch come in 2024. >> everyone, we appreciate your time. stay with us, many of you. pamela and i have about a hundred more question for each of you on all of these things. >> can never get to all of them. >> we'll definitely be getting back to you. also this morning, parts of new york recovering from a once in a thousand year flood event. we'll bring you the latest on the damage.

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rainfall. this was the scene in highland falls, new york, where a woman was reportedly swept away by raging floodwaters and drowned while trying to evacuate her home with her dog. this powerful storm is now bearing down on new england as it slowly pushes north. polo sandoval is live for us on the ground in rockland county, new york. polo, you're near one of the hardest-hit areas. what have you seen throughout the course of the morning? >> reporter: well, finally, a bit of a break in the cloud here, phil. but overnight, some truly stunning pictures and videos that have emerged from not just here, but neighboring orange county, which we can't really take you there to because of the road block you see here over my shoulder. i'm in touch with orange county officials who tell me overnight, it really was just a completely chaotic situation with swift water rescues happening, parts of roads being essentially swept away. and so today, they are basically reassessing the situation. one of the hardest hit areas that you mentioned there, the town of highlands, where orange county officials tell me, unfortunately, one woman, a young woman who was in the process of evacuating her home

with her pet lost her footing in floodwaters, swept away into a ravine and sadly did not survive yesterday. there is perhaps a glimmer of hope here saying, as officials saying all the rest of the residents seem to be accounted for, so orange county officials do not expect the need for any further rescues, though we will certainly have to see throughout the course of the day. the huge issue right now for a majority of folks here, and all you have to do is look behind me is travel trouble. this interstate parkway, you see, traffic backed up for as far as the eye with see. officials will continue to keep that blocked off until we can determine it's actually safe to travel through the hudson river valley, which is a very short drive from new york city. that's the extent of the impact, as some 25 million americans are still under some form of flood alerts. this time, though, new york of new york state. phil? >> all right, polo, keep us posted. thanks so much. well, new details this morning about the deadly mass

shooting in philadelphia over the fourth of july weekend. officials say the suspect actually shot and killed one victim nearly two days before going on a rampage throughout neighborhood, killing four more people. police say the attack was, quote, obviously planned, and that the suspect had been displaying abnormal behavior for quite a while. gun violence has killed more than 22,000 people in the united states this year loop. according to the gun violence archive. now some lawmakers and advocates are pushing hard for more red flag laws, which could help keep guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people. but some states that already have those laws in place are struggling to use them. i sat down with a mother who is now mourning, because of the trouble enforcing the law. >> reporter: vanessa's nightmare began last spring in her albuquerque home. >> he was molesting my daughter. >> reporter: she learned her live-in boyfriend had been

sexually assaulting her 16-year-old daughter alexia for years. she called the sheriff's department. >> we're going to try to get an emergency restraining order. >> reporter: on the body kam video, you can hear alexia telling deputies about an argument. >> he was telling me that i had been acting like i had an attitude towards him. i couldn't keep it in, and i said, it's because you sexually assaulted me! and then he got out of his car and he admitted what he did, and told me it was wrong. >> reporter: weeks later, wallen spotted alexia's car at a shopping center. he shot and killed her and her cousin, mario salgado and then turned the gun on himself. it was mother's day. >> no parent wants to lose a child. no parent wants to see their child gone before them. honestly, i wish he would have took me and let her live. >> reporter: vanessa says she had told law enforcement that wallen owned guns. the restraining order she filed against him lists two firearms. >> and i literally opened up the

drawer that had the guns in it and showed the officer. >> and did the officer say anything about whether those guns could be taken away? >> no. >> reporter: these two were in inseparable. >> reporter: what vanessa didn't know then is that new mexico passed a red flag law, which allows firearms to be temporarily taken away from those deemed dangerous to themselves or others. deputies escorted wallen as he retrieved his weapons from the home, along with his belongings. >> i said i was concerned that he possibly might commit suicide. >> so you told law enforcement that you were worried he would commit suicide? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: that alone should have allowed vanessa or the police to file what's called an extreme risk firearm protection order or gun restraining order, but she was never told of that option. >> i just wish i would have known, to i would have had the right path to protect my daughter and my nephew. >> the system failed on all

faceted. >> reporter: sheriff john allen wasn't in office last year when the murders happened, but he says there was breakdown in the process. >> she did convey that he could harm himself. that seems to be an example of when guns should be taken away, under this law, right? >> correct. >> so was it a mistake they weren't? >> i don't think it was communicated correctly. the information wasn't relayed to the district attorney's office enough. and that could be from our detectives, that could be from family, that could be from witnesses, that could be from victims. >> reporter: what happened to the salgado family is a key example of how difficult it can be to implement these life-saving laws in some states. records obtained by cnn show new mexico's red flag law has only been used about 30 times since it took effect in 2020. as a comparison, florida's similar law has been utilized more than 11,000 times since it was enacted in 2018. >> it's difficult for people to understand how to enforce the law. education and training hasn't gone around the state like it

should have. >> reporter: of the 21 states that have red flag laws on the books, new mexico is by far the most gun violent. it's a blue state that is mostly rural, yet it has the third highest gun mortality rate per capita in the u.s. >> reporter: even with that violence, new mexico sheriffs petitioned against the passage of the law and created second-amendment sanctuary counties, where it wouldn't be enforced. a judge wastes every decision, but because red flaug flag laws relatively new, it tends to be new information. >> it's not law enforcement filing in a vacuum. there is a judge looking at the facts of the case and making a determination based on that. >> reporter: studies show that red flag laws can work to diffuse potential violence. the key is making sure people know about them. >> i just want to have a voice for my kids and i want this story to be told. and hopefully it will save another mother that's going

through the same thing that i'm going through. >> i want to thank vanessa for sharing her story with us. the courage to sit down and share, given the death of her daughter and nephew. and experts say red flag laws are legally sound, because they're based on domestic violence laws. a recent study shows red flag laws temporarily disarmed 660 multiple states in people that had threatened to harm people. if experts say if even one law is saved, the laws are worth enforcing. a u.s. marine is taken into custody after a missing 14-year-old girl was found at a marine corps base in camp pendleton in california. the sheriff's department says the girl's grandmother reported her missing last month. she was found at the base two weeks later. camilla bernal joins us live from camp pendleton. what else have you learned about what actually happened here? >> reporter: hey, phil, so we're

learning that the marine was taken into custody for questioning. that's after that 14-year-old girl was found here, at the barracks on base. that happened on june 28th. and it's according to the marine corps, they released a statement, and i want to read part of it, because whatre saying here is that thisommand takes this matter and all allegations very seriously. the incident is under investigation and we will continue to cooperate with ncis and appropriate authorities. now, the ncis is the naval criminal educative service, and they declined to comment citing respect for the investigative process. but the san diego county sheriff's office did release sort of a timeline of what had happened here. they said the 14-year-old's grandmother went to authorities and reported the girl missing on june 13th, but she told deputies that her granddaughter had actually ran away from home on june 9th. that's when authorities then put her name on multiple missing

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here in washington, d.c. nick, let me start with you. the white house has been downplaying some uneasiness we've heard from allies about the decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. here's what national security adviser jake sullivan had to say. >> we have heard nothing from people saying this casts doubt on our commitment, this casts doubt on coalition unity, or this casts doubt on our belief that the united states is playing a vital and positive role as leader of this coalition in ukraine. >> the context, of course, being that more than a hundred countries including the uk are signatories to a ban on using cluster munitions. i guess the question is, does this create any real friction for the alliance heading into this nato summit, or is the national security adviser correct? >> yeah, it's interesting, isn't it, because just last year, the uk was actually held the rotating presidency of that convention. it does -- it is a little awkward in some ways, and i think we got a sense of that over the weekend, when ritchie

sunak put out that press release saying that, you know, the uk is a signatory and these are the reasons why, and this is what we're not going to do, and this is why we don't do it as part of that convention. his press spokesman this afternoon, after meeting with president biden said, actually, ritchie sunak, in the format of that tea in the garden, said the back of number ten here did raise the issue, did say that he put forward, as he obliged to do, per the convention, to discourage the use of cluster munitions. so it does seem that this did come up for a conversation. but i think the tag line to what the press secretary said at the end of that was they understand, the british understand that this was a tough decision for president biden. so i don't think this is going to break any bridges. there's certainly the obligation on the british prime minister to do this. he was always going to be questioned about it. it was one of the first questions to his press secretary following the meeting. and he raised it.

so i think, it does tell you, it's an issue, but not a massive one. >> and i'm going to bring in max. you've been there at windsor castle following everything with this meeting between president biden, king charles, and we know that they are discussing climate change. that is a centerpiece of the agenda today. but do we expect any concrete, tangible steps to come out of this meeting on -- as it relates to climate change, max? >> well, it's possible, isn't it? it's interesting that king charles getting a lot more time with president biden than ritchie sunak did. they have a huge, shared s d interest in the climate. possibly some level of ukraine, as well, because king charles has voiced his sport for ukraine in the conflict against russia. but i think it will be kept very superficial. much more detail on climate, and they've got this meeting with a group of philanthropists and finance experts, trying to deal with climate change in the

developing world and emerging markets. so they're going to brief charles and president biden on the conclusions of their meeting. so they will have some suggestions for change. so there could be something concrete that comes out of that. you can imagine one of the pioneers in climate change, king charles and the president of the united states, if they supported some changes there, that could be quite significant, actually. we're also going to probably get some images of king charles showing president biden some american artifacts from the royal collection. so they're having quite an afternoon of it here in windsor, and you have that big, red carpet moment as well, where president biden was invited to inspect the guard of honor. so some pomp and pageantry to go with this royal event. >> you know, astead, we've been talking earlier how these are two men of a certain age, who have followed certain career trajectories, though very different on many levels. the issue of age is one that hangs over everything that president biden does, as the oldest president in history, both this morning and tomorrow

morning and the morning after that, but he was actually asked about this by fareed zakaria in the exclusive interview that fareed had. i want you to take a listen to it. >> i think we're at an inflection point. i think the world is changing and i think i -- there is one thing that comes with age, if you've been honest about it your whole life, and that is some wisdom. i think we're on the cusp of being able to make significant positive changes in the world. really, honest-to-god do. >> this is something that his advisers have kind of made clear behind the scenes, right? this is a double-edged sword, yes. age is an issue, but experience matters, as well. and there's probably no blplace he's demonstrated that experience matters more so than on the world stage. what's your read on that? >> absolutely. when i was looking at those images from london and thinking about him going to lithuania for the summer, i was thinking about how this experience gives biden the unique ability to thread a very tough needle on this issue.

and you've had universal praise from him from the democrats and i think some republicans who have acknowledged that this is kind of a role that maybe only biden could do. and so, i think as we head into the election, when age certainly to your point will be a concern, this is what the white house is going to try to pitch. that this is the positive of that age. that he has the experience and that he has been able to show that particularly on this issue. the question is whether voters are valuing that in the same type of way. you know, when we were talking to people about how they feel about biden, there's no -- there wasn't dissatisfaction with his actions as president, it was a kind of implicit feeling that they felt like he was supposed to be a privilege to the next generation and maybe that, in running for re-election, that he's kind of breaking that promise. that has nothing to do with the facts or the substance of his actions, and i think that that's what you're really going to see as the tension for the next year. there's a real benefit to experiences, that they can specifically point to on something like russia's war, but there's also going on the question of whether voters are valuing that in the same way that the white house or diplomatic communities are, who have given him kind of universal

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it's one of the best bargains you can get. that's even as the price of the average goods have risen by 31%. i know this because i recently flew to bermuda, and the fares this year were cheaper than the fares were last year. you could go bermuda last year round trip for $400. the airline ticket fares are one of the best bargains around at this particular point. >> i think i have tov verify that. >> high flhighfalutin vacation, harry. >> yeah. >> remember last year we ran all of those stories about all of those near-collisions. but look, in january of february to this year, there were five of them that the faa graded at least a significant potential for an accident. but guess what's happened over the last few months. from march to may, look at this, zero. it turns out that as we're getting out of the covid era and we're getting more and more passengers, more and more

flights, the airlines are adjusting and the fact is, those friendly skies are becoming even friendlier, they're becoming safer, considerably safer than they were at the beginning of the year. >> you mentioned the covid err. how is the airline industry doing overall after problems during covid? >> yeah, so, look, airline passengers, right? we're back, baby! we're back! that's exactly what i would say. airline passengers through july 6th, look at this, 426 million. that's way up from where we were in 2020, when it was just 182 million. and we are back to that pre-covid level baseline when it was $426 million. so we're matching it perfectly, so there are a lot of people like me. perhaps they're not going to bermuda. maybe they're going to a domestic location, i don't know, like huntsville, alabama, where i can visit my dear aunt clara. >> trying to balance yourself out there. bermuda, huntsville, alabama. nice try, harry. nice try. but i just got back from california, not to throw that in, because california's great.

but it was -- the airports were packed. i'm not surprised to see those numbers. >> i'm not surprised, but i feel like harry is trying to challenge pete muntean, the aviation correspondents space. and no shot, man. you don't have the hair. you've got good hair, but you don't have pete muntean hair. >> that is a key criteria for covering airlines. >> i'm nowhere near as good looking as pete, but he thankfully allows me to play in his space from time to time. >> all right, hair yu. great see you. >> it's the influencer-back ed energy drink that's flying off the shelves. >> the fastest growing sports drink in history. >> so do your kids drink this? apparently this is really popular amongst kids and now some lawmakers are calling on the fda to investigate it. we're going to tell you why, up next.

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this morning, a popular energy drink is under scrutiny. prime is the beverage brand founded by youtube stars logan paul and ksi. prime energy is especially popular with kids, even though there is a warning label that says it is not recommended for anyone under age 18. senator chuck schumer is calling on the fda to investigate the drink over its high caffeine and the way it markets itself. >> a lot of parents may have never heard of it, but their kids have, because prime is engaged in a vast advertising campaign aimed at kids, even though kids aren't supposed to drink a drink with this much caffeine. >> cnn reached out to the fda and prime for comment on its energy drink. not yet received a response. we should note the company also makes a prime hydrate beverage which does not include caffeine. joining is cnn medical correspondent meg terrell and business and politics correspondent vanessa yurkevich.

their saying kids shouldn't drink the amount of caffeine in prime. how much caffeine does this drink have and how much is safe for kids to consume? >> this drink has about 200 milligrams of caffeine in a 12-ounce can. to try to put that into some context, that'abt two bottles of red bull, smaller bottles, 8.4 ounces in a red bull can or about six cans of coke. so, that's in one of these cans. and, according to the american academy of pediatrics, kids shouldn't have any caffeine. some pediatricians say for kids who are 12 and older, maybe up to 100 milligrams per day, that's a soda or two. for adults, the fda says about 400 milligrams per day generally doesn't affect people, but for kids, the warnings are this can affect their sleep, can cause dehydration, higher blood pressure, anxiety, and there are concerns about too much caffeine's impact on their development, in terms of neurological development and cardiovascular systems, guys. >> you see chuck schumer really taking aim at the marketing here. on that note, how is prime

cornering the market and getting the attention of kids? >> well, prime really exploded on social media, on tiktok alone they have 3.4 million followers. 42 million likes. this is also driven in part by logan paul, the co-founder who has millions of followers himself. he does a lot of the advertising for the brand. but it is important to note that this is the energy drink side of the brand. there is also the sports drink side, but the energy market is huge. and in 2022 alone, sales were at about $58 billion. billion dollars. is year we're going to see about $62 billion globally. and projected in the next four years, $83 billion. and most of those sales are happening right here in north america. another way that this brand has gotten sort of their face on the map is they're sponsorinspts teams. they're sponsoring the l.a. doers. they're sponsoring arsenal, the soccer club barcelona, also base

sports group which is a sponsorship group for youth sports. they are in good company. you have adidas also sponsoring arsenal. you have nike and coca-cola sponsoring barcelona. so, clearly they are trying to make a play and get their name out there and it seems to be working, guys. >> yeah, it is not subtle. i'm slightly confused how you consume the drink, because all the promos have them pouring it on their heads. but i do think on a serious note, some of the prime products say it is, quote, not recommended for children under 18. if you're the fda and you're -- you do actually take a look at this, is that enough? it depends i think from the fda perspective from what i'm hearing from experts this morning on whether they're hearing about instances of actual harm coming from this. i was talking with former fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb, he pointed out when he was in the role, he issued public health advisories around things like this. that's just to let people know about the situation, basically put out a warning and some information so that parents know about this. that is sort of a softer way of

getting at the issue than actually taking any kind of enforcement action, which i'm hearing from experts is a much harder thing for the fda to do here. but really it is -- is this actually causing harm, and the marketing, the nature of it is that specifically bringing more children into the product. >> yeah, it is becoming quite the status symbol among children, right, to have these drinks in hand. it is no longer the shoes or whatever, you know, kids. it is about the drink. this is really a fascinating conversation. thank you so much, meg, vanessa, we appreciate it. well, a historic first for professional baseball. two college teammates take spots one and two in the major league baseball draft. >> nate paulski. for a limited time, save $400 on select stearns & foster mattresses.

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picks, both going one and three, which happened in 2011, and in 1978. best part about this story, dylan crews, could have been a first round pick out of high school, decided not to go professional, decided to go to lsu, became the national player of the year, won a national championship, now number two overall pick, bet on himself. bet on himself. >> so you know a thing or two about baseball? maybe because you were a baseball star in college. >> played. star -- if any of my college teammates saw you say i was a star in college, they would say, no, you weren't, no, you weren't. we're keeping a close eye on the president's trip to windsor castle, meeting with king charles at this hour. "cnn news central" picks up coverage right now. from staging revolt to sitting in his office. th