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and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, july 12. 11:00 a.m. in vilnius, lithuania where the second and final day of high stakes talking are now under way. and all eyes are on president volodymyr zelenskyy who will meet with key nato leaders today including president biden. >> a short time ago he arrived where the alliance will be holding the inaugural meeting of the nato ukraine council. zelenskyy has expressed his frustration by the lack of a pathway for membership. >> and we're learning mr. bipartisan and g7 leaders are set to announce new efforts to boost military capabilities. melissa bell is joining us with the latest. so this disagreement how quickly ukraine should be allowed in. and they will have to try to resolve that today. >> reporter: that's right res,

disagreement and frustration on the part of ukrainians on the lack of a clear time table. and the communique has been agreed by nato heads of state and difficult it was to reach agreement even on that essentially. it is being offered, kyiv is, a pathway, a one step rather than two step process towards nato accession and no time table. that was difficult enough to get to as it is. what you will see today is president zelenskyy meeting with a number of key nato allies and partners. even know he is missing with the german leader, and also then going to be meeting later of course the bilateral meeting with president biden. he has already had a number of commitments made from key nato allies including france and germany who pledged extra military aid. the french in the shape of long term weapons it had so far been reluctant to give ukraine. the germans a more than 600

billion euro package of extra military aid, more leopard tanks, but also much needed artillery. this is what president zelenskyy had to say as he arrived for his first meetings of the day with nato leaders. >> on our agenda i think we have three priority he questions. the first one is weapon packages, new weapon packages for supporting our army on the battlefield. and that is one. the second, i think the invitation to nato. and we want to be on the same page with everybody. i understand that we'll have this invitation when security measures will allow. so i want to discuss with our partners august these things. >> reporter: at the heart of the meeting later on with president biden are likely to be those

controversial pledges of cluster munitions. we heard from defense minister that they could prove a game changer in trying to get the counteroffensive through the substantial layers of russian defenses. but it is also another pledge from the g7 that we'll be hearing from later beyond the question of military capabilities, extra military capab capabilities, they will be looking at what is being done to nato light package, which is aimed really at the much longer term integration of ukraine into the western world beyond those military capabilities, they will be making fresh pledges about how they can help the country for instance in the integration process politically and in expanding in its industrial base. so concrete measures that he will be heading home with nonetheless. >> melissa, thank you. >> i do wonder for president zelenskyy, a man so obsessed with legacgreatness, what

does cross his mind when he seats the rock star. people being so excited to see him. elevated to a status he would never have had had the invasion never occurred. north korea has fired what is thought to be another intercontinental ballistic missile. >> japan says it flew for more than 70 minutes before landing in nearby waters. this is as they meet to discuss security issues at the nato summit. >> mark stewart is tracking this live from tokyo. let's talk about the timing of this because it does follow a threat from north korea of retaliation after what they allege was u.s. incursion of their territory via spy planes. so is all of this deliberate. >> reporter: right, none of this is coincidence. let's set the stage by recognizing that broadly speaking north korea likes attention, it thrives to be in

the global spotlight. we have nato meeting, zelenskyy, russia, belarus all dominating the headlines. a launch like this is a way for north korea to stay relevant. just a few days ago, it made threats after a u.s. plane entered what it said was its air space. now what has happened after this launch is causing conversation at this nato meeting in lithuania. from the sidelines we've heard from japan's prime minister condemning this. and then we also heard from japan's chief cabinet secretary based in tokyo who talked about what japan will do next. let's take a listen to that. >> translator: such ballistic missile launches violate security council resolutions and are a serious security issue for our citizens. we have launched a strong protest against north korea through our embassy in beijing.

>> reporter: so it has made an overture to beijing. let's quickly talk about what happened in the last 24 hours here, this missile launch as you mentioned in the air for 74 minutes, that is seen as significant, that timing. it shows that perhaps this missile program is making progress. and finally, this is the type of missile that has the potential to cross the pacific ocean. in this case today, it was launched at an angle at a direction where it would ensure more of a short range flight. but certainly the potential is there and again, it is drawing conversation here in asia and then where you are in europe as part of this nato summit. >> mark stewart live in potokyo thank you. u.s. state of vermont is desperate to dry out after catastrophic floods, but it is bracing for more rain this week. officials say thousands of homes and businesses have flooded and emergency crews performed more than 100 rescue.

in some areas the waters have started to recede. >> but it wouldn't take much rain to flood all over again. this is drain footage of the deluge in montpelier. miguel marquez is on the ground. >> reporter: many communities are still dealing with the immediate effects of flooding, but here in the capital, we're at state and main, the main cross roads, i want to give you a sense of the after effects of this massive flood. the amount of mud everywhere and debris. and sirens, you can listen for a second, multiple alarms have been going off for 24 hours. and the water, the water came up to here, we're about a block, block and a half from the river. the water came up from here, this is a children's clothing store. there is a bookstore next door. everything in these businesses destroyed. from this level on, all the way back. and it will be weeks if not months to recover.

back to you. the blistering heat in the southern u.s. isn't going away anytime soon. heat alerts cover more than 75 million people in more than a dozen states from coast to coast. chad myers has more on that. >> reporter: more scorching heat across the southwestern parts of the united states. and by sunday into monday, really running up the california coast. when you see heat advisories and expressive heat warnings in places that are already supposed to be hot because it is summer, that means that those temperatures are hotter than they should be by 5, 10, or 5 degrees. so you just don't get an excessive heat warning or heat advisory because it is a summer heat. no, it has to be warmer than the summer heat and that is what we're seeing the above normal temperatures running into parts of the southwest and into texas and for that matter all the way down into south florida which has been desperately hot and very humid. here is what you are looking at through sunday.

at least 60 locations across the southwest could see record highs. temperatures again in the one teens. i know no one lives there for the most part, but death valley, 122. and i've heard reports maybe could run at 130, which would be very close to tying or breaking an old record high. look at phoenix, 118 and not even cooling down that much even at night down here alw little closer down into texas. temperatures don't look as hot, but when you realize the amount of humidity in the air, it will feel hot. that is not a dry heat across the south and southeast. a couple showers and thunderstorms rolling through on wednesday afternoon. this is the air you were looking for across mainly missouri, but storms have been lingering across nebraska and cab sati kansas and rolling in to missouri for later tomorrow and for the most part wednesday and also even into thursday. there is more rainfall coming into the northeast, more rain in places that just cannot take

anymore. it is not going to soak in whatsoever. so any indication of these 2 to 4 inch rainfall totals is really bad news especially in these hilly areas. vermont, you have the green and white mountains in new hampshire and maine, you have the hilly areas that the water just runs off down into the valley and that is where all the excessive flooding has occurred the past three or four days from vermont, new hampshire, parts of pennsylvania and new york and more rainfall to come. fbi director christopher wray is headed for the hot seat. sources tell cnn wray will testify before the house judiciary committee today in a general oversight hearing and he is sure to run into a firestorm of questions from republicans. >> and ohio congressman jim jordan is one of wray's fiercest critics. some of the concerns include the fbi investigation into the 2016 trump campaign's alleged ties to russia, whether the fbi has targeted catholics, and whether

the justice department has targeted conservative parents regarding school concerns. we're following three major developments in the investigations against donald trump. first the u.s. department of justice has removed his immunity over the e. jean carroll case, meaning he will now face a s second defamation trial. >> and in the election probe, charges could come in the next few months. and the former president is also gearing up for a battle over his handling of classified documents. trump's defense team suggested it would be impossible to impanel fair juries during the presidential campaign suggesting that they could be looking at substantial delays. >> paula reid is following the january 6 and classified documents investigations, but first to nick valencia in atlanta. >> reporter: one of the two grand juries seated in fulton county will be given the

historic task of deciding whether or not to bring state charges against former president trump as well as some of the biggest names in his orbit. the grand jury that will eventually hear the trump investigation will hear evidence gathered by the special purpose grand jury which worked for many months in gathering evidence for fani willis. willis was given charging recommendations after they subpoenaed about 75 witnesses which included white house aides, trump advisers and officials. willis will now take it to the grand jury in hopes of pursuing an indictment against donald trump and as well as others. not only will they meet twice a week the next two months, but they will be hearing ordinary criminal cases from fulton county, eventually though fani willis will take the evidence gathered during the specific purpose grand jury and present it to the grand jury who will be forced to decide whether or not to pursue a criminal indictment. as well as a time line, we expect to hear one way or

another as early as august. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. >> let's look at both sides of the special counsel investigation. two prosecutors who worked on the january 6 investigation spotted at the federal courthouse tuesday, raising questions about whether arresten dimt c indictment could be filed soon. but cnn has learned that they are still reaching out to witnesses, still gathering evidence. we know it is in the final stage. they have talked to most of the key players. they have been asking repeatedly about some of the same events and items under scrutiny, so it appears that they are close to a charging decision, but what is not clear is whether they would charge everything at once or if they might do it in phases which would explain how they could be near the end but still reaching out to new witnesses. that is just not clear. but what is clear on the other side of the investigation, the mar-a-lago probe, is that the trump team really wants to try

to push it back until after the 2024 election until there is any sort of trial. they do not want to go to trial before the presidential election. and they will do that through trying to push this back. they have every right to litigation some big questions here and they laid out laid monday exactly what they have pose. whether the special counsel even has the authority to file these charges. they will ask whether these documents were really classified. they are also raising concerns about whether they could find an impartial jury before the election. i don't know if they will win on the merits of any of those question, but taking the time to litigate those will have the effect of delaying this and delaying this again. they also say that they have a lot of discovery to go through. we learned in that filing late monday, they have already received nine months of surveillance footage in addition to hundreds of thousands of documents. so while special counsel jack smith would like a, quote, speedy trial, has suggested trying to this in december just

a few months away and that would be quite quick considering the complexity of the case. but the longer you delay it, closer you get to the election and once again, an unprecedented question of whether you can be put on the criminal trial while you are in the thing of a presidential campaign. now, we'll start to get some sense of the person who will be at the center of this all, refereeing these questions, judge aileen cannon. she will hold her first hearing in this case next tuesday. the trump side was successful in getting it delayed just a few days. it was supposed to be this friday, but it will be next tuesday and that will be the first time that we'll see cannon in action in this case and see the extent to which she will allow them to make delays either by a few days or as they would like here, a year and a half. paula reid, cnn, washington. more than half a century after taking part in the grisly mansion family murders, one of the convicted killers is walking free again. we'll have details.

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a convicted killer and former member of manson family is now a free woman. >> leslie van houten was reveerevees released on parole. her attorney says that her client is just relaxing at a transitional living facility where she will remain for a year. she talked about why the patrol board saw fit to let her go despite her admission that she stabbed rosemary 16 times. >> she spent decades trying to figure out the causative factors and she finally was able to explain it to the board and court of appeals satisfaction. and part of that is accepting

full responsibility. and she accepts responsibility for both murders and actually everything that happened when she was a member of the manson cult. she wakes up every day feeling remorse and guilt. and it is genuine and the board found that to be true. >> the now 73-year-old van houten was 19 when she and other followers of manson murdered rosemary. and while van houten has expressed remorse, relatives of the victims are outraged. >> she is a cold blooded killer in one of the most notorious murder rampages in united states history. so with her release now, any other violent criminal or killer whose crimes fall beneath the bar of leslie van houten's very extreme, crimes that also have historical impact, that opens

the door for them. and it is our fear that the floodgates in the california penal system will be unhinged. officials in pennsylvania believe michael burham has not gone far from the prison he need. >> and they also think that he could be receiving help while on the run. brian todd has the latest. >> we are still finding some items that we do believe are connected to him. those lead me to believe that there is still a likelihood that he is here. >> reporter: authorities say michael burham escaped by climbing on to exercise equipment and the rooftop gym, and using bedsheets tied together to repel down from the roof and fled on foot. the sheriff disputing suggestions that he got a big head start. >> literally i would say that burham saw red and blue lights within two minutes of leaving

that jail. they were that close. >> reporter: burham is considered armed and dangerous and wanted in cases involving murder, kidnapping, carjacking and arson. authorities describe him as a self taught survivalist with military experience. >> we've had a number of sightings reported. none of those has panned out. >> reporter: he was last seen wearing and orange and white striped jump suit and crocs. more than 200 are involved in the manhunt. >> i have a strong belief that he is receiving.>> reporter: th campsites they believe are associated with him in surrounding wooded areas. >> that suggests that he escapes the prison, that he go on the run and he knows where he is going to these designated locations in the woods where food or supplies are waiting for him. and they will try to close off that circle if there is help and then make him do something like

i've got to steal a car, i have to break into a house and get food or a weapon or keys to a car. they have to force him out of the woods. >> reporter: this is burham's send time ocond time on the run. in may he kidnapped an elderly couple, made them drive him to south carolina and drove off. authorities say avoid engagement. >> you have to make sure the windows are locked, all the doors are locked. >> reporter: state officials have increased reward for information leading to the capture of michael burham to $19,500. but at the same time, the lieutenant colonel from the pennsylvania state police is warning g g giving help to burham or contemplating it saying that we'll prosecute you for that. brian todd, cnn, warren, pennsylvania. a former russian submarine commander shot to death while jogging monday may have been targeted according to russian

media. >> clare sebastian is joining us live to discuss this. like many of the dramatic russian killings, this has all the hallmarks of a crime drama and there has been an arrest. >> yes, what we're hearing is that tuesday evening they managed to arrest someone. we have not verified this video, but this is the arrest video reported will i. it was toposted by the russian investigative committee. you see the alleged suspect himself eventually. we cannot independently verify this video, but the russian investigative committee are naming this man as born in 1959. and the plot thickens. we still don't know really why this guy was targeted. russian media say he may have been track order a public

pro profile. it shows that he regularly ran through this park. so that is a possibility. but why he was targeted, he seems to be a local bureaucrat perhaps involved in military recruitment so the question is around when he was a submarine commander. we understand from his family that he was at one point based in crimea with the black sea fleeters. and his family telling russian media family that he filed for dismissal from the military in december 2021 and eventually released in august 2022. don't . but the interesting part is just how much detail the ukrainian defense intelligence went into this. they named the weapon used, they say that he was running at 6:00 a.m., no witnesses. they are the ones who have given the most detail so far.

they accused of being behind this by certain russian military bloggers. but as of now we really don't know why this man was targeted or the identity of the suspect. >> so curious. ukrainian retribution, state sanctioned by russia or something personal. we just don't know. thank you so much. and still ahead, a u.s. senate republican is reversing his comments on white nationalists after refusing to denounce them. >> and deadly flooding and m mudslides being made more intense due to climate change. details on the way.

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welcome back. i'm bianca nobilo. >> and i'm max foster. these are the top stories this hour. president biden and president zelenskyy are expected to meet in the coming hours during the final day at the nato summit in lithuania. mr. zelenskyy says his aim is to get more aid to ukraine and discuss his country's path to membership. and north korea has fired what is thought to be another intercontinental ballistic missile missile, japan says it flew more than 17 minutes before

landing in nearby waters. u.s. senate republican tommy tuberville of alabama finally condemned white nationalists after previously refusing to denounce them as racists. >> my opinion of a white nationalist, if somebody wants to call them that, to me it is an american. it is an american. i'm totally against racism. if democrats want to say white nationalists are repeal and repl replace -- racists, i'm against that. racism is bad. >> do you believe that white nationalists are racist? >> if that is what a racist is, yes, thank you. >> the senator claimed monday that equating white nationalists with racists was an opinion. the opinion sparked backlash monday. the republican senator is also under mounting pressure to stop blocking hundreds of senior military nominations. or renen liebermann explains.

>> reporter: senator tuberville has given no indication that his one man blockade on more than 200 senior nominations in the u.s. department of defense will end anytime soon. he told not only cnn but others as well the past several days that this hold will remain in place and he sees no impact from it on national security or on u.s. military readiness. and this is key because on tuesday, general charles q. brown who is the u.s. nominee for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a top u.s. military officer, had his confirmation hearing and he was asked repeatedly about the effects this hold has on the military. he made it clear it has a very important and significant effect across the military, not only on stopping promotions and stagnating that process of moving officers up into position, but it also creates uncertainty for families of

military officers who had to make tough decisions for example leaving jobs, moving kids out of school districts. so it has a tremendous impact on the military and the families that make military life possible. brown also says that at a critical time when it comes to recruiting and retention, it has an effect on long term retention as well. here is brown in the hearing. >> our more junior officers look up and say if that is the challenge i'm going to have to deal with in the future, i'll balance between my family and serving in a senior position and we'll losetal lept talent. >> reporter: normally this is done in a process known as unanimous consent and tuberville insists that chuck schumer can bring these to the senate floor one at a time, but schumer does not want to do that that. first it would play out over weeks if not months and democrats don't want to

normalize this behave from tuberville and make it normal to block senior military nominations. so the hold continues. and it is an open question of how long this will keep going. meanwhile the department of defense and the pentagon in back channel conversations not only with tuberville's office but with the senate armed services committee is also trying to mount a public awareness campaign putting out the human effects on military officers and their familieses to try to create more pressure on tuberville to see if that shifts his position on the hold. in the end, one defense official tells cnn the senate realizes this is a problem not only a problem for the senators but republicans in particular to try to move along and find some sort of progress or some pressure on tuberville that will try to get him to change his position. or en lieberman, cnn, at the pentagon. florida an the june consumer price index will be released in a few hours time. economists expect a 3.1% in

consumer prices for the year ending in june. that could be a cooldown from the 4% annual increase in may. and tomorrow we'll have data from june's producer price index report. these inflation readings are expected to give more insight into the federal reserve's plan when it dos to interest rates. ahead of that, we're keeping an eye on the u.s. stock futures. they are all in positive territory. tuesday the dow jumped more than 300 points ahead of the key inflation data. nasdaq and s&p 500 also closing the day in positive territory. u.s. regulators are ordering bank of america to pay more than a quarter billion dollars in fees and customer payouts for allegedly hurting customers with fake accounts and illegal junk fees. federal authorities say that bank of america wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double dipped on fees and illegally opened new accounts without customer consent. google is the latest tech

giant to be sued over artificial intelligence. a lawsuit filed tuesday claims google violated copyright laws amongst other things in order to train and develop its ai products. the complaint alleges that google has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet to train its ai models and tools. of asia is dealing with extreme southern weather. in northern india, there were mudslides leaving more than 40 people dead. >> and in southwest japan, at least eight have been killed amid the rainfall and flooding. >> and in china they are grappling with excessive heat with major cities facing what could be one of their hottest summers on record. >> anna coren is live for us in hong kong. really extraordinary conditions. >> reporter: yeah, and people are saying this is a direct link

to climate change. that is what the scientists and experts are saying. let's start in japan where we're seeing unusually heavy rain that has caused extensive flooding and landslides. homes have been washed away, electricity cut off. this is being described by the japan meteorols the heaviest rain ever on the island, eight people are dead, four missing. it is prone to deadly landslides because of the mountainous terrain. and rescue and recovery operations are under way. more rains and storms are forecast for the island and southwestern japan. and if we look to china, it is experiencing very dangerous heat. temperatures are in the mid-30s, they are expected to climb even hire. possibly reaching 40 degrees in parts of southern china later this week.

the china energy investment corporation, a coal fired power generated company, says the volume of power generate order monday reached an historic high with energy loads continuing to rise in southern and eastern china. and i want to show you some footage of zookeepers trying to keep their animals cool in northern china by giving them blocks of ice to hug and lick. and then there is, you know, floods in india. we're seeing heavy rainfall that has caused flash floods and landslides. death toll stands at 31. more than 2,000 have been evacuated. government said relief efforts are under way. >> okay. anna, thank you. california has shelled out tens of billions of dollars to reduce homelessness rng, but wh doesn't appear to be workiking

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california is coughing up billions to fight homelessness, but over the past few years, the unhoused population actually grew. >> and california is adding more homeless people every year, more than any other state. nick watt has the story. >> reporter: $17.5 billion, that is what california spent fighting homsn the past four years. and at the same time, the homeless population grew by a third. >> it would be worse without these interventions. but that is not what people want to hear. >> reporter: $17.5 billion in theory, the state could have just paid the rent for every unhoused person in you'll four years. >> it is reductive. perhaps that would work for me because i don't have significant behavioral health challenges. >> reporter: and the reductive

math did leave maybe $3 billion for other mental health and services, but even if the state just offered to pay the rent, there aren't enough affordable houses to go around. >> where am i supposed to go? >> reporter: and this doctor commissioned to find out who is homeless and why. and in the hope her data might fine tune the state's response. her survey has busted some myths. myth number one, most homeless people don't want a home. not true. participants overwhelmingly wanted permanent housing. take daniel and his disabled son. >> yes, we'd take it. yes. i'm his father and we need it. >> reporter: myth number two, many homeless people here aren't from california. therefore the state owes them nothing. >> nine out of ten people lost their stable housing here. these are californians. we have to create the housing

for all californians. >> reporter: there is a state plan to build 2.5 billion administer homes by 2030, a million among them must be affordable. but when it comes to housing, zoning is ultimately down to local government. >> we have communities in this state that are refusing to build low income housing because they say it is all just rapist and child molesters. so that is the dynamic we're facing. >> reporter: past two or three years the state they say has built 13,500 affordable housing units. baby steps. christina smith just moved in to one after five years on the street. >> i thought it was fake. i'm sorry. until they gave me the keys. and then i was like this is real. you don't believe it after a while. >> reporter: now to the why. why do so many californians become homeless. >> even when we did have a job and we tried to look for housing, it was impossible.

>> reporter: rent is too high because housing supply is too low and many who fall into homelessness say it is really not by much. >> one of the surprising things was how optimistic people were that relatively small amounts of money would have prevented their homelessness. for a lot of them, that $300 to $500 a month would do the trick. >> reporter: but bigger picture, longer term -- >> at the end of the day if we want to truly solve homelessness in america, we need to build more housing. that starts with us. >> reporter: this is they say a problem decades in the making. at fault, politicians of every stripe. and they say it will not be a quick fix. but at least the governor here is now focusing on the issue, spending money, thinking differently. they are overhauling the entire mental health provision in the state. but california says that they also need more federal money. end of the day, advocates and the unhoused people say stop

just throwing so much money at this, actually think a bit more about how to spend that money effectively. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. members of the screen actors xw guild could join writers on the picket lines as soon as tonight if they are unable to reach an agreement. s.a.g. won't extended the deadline. >> and the contract expired july 1 and comes at a time when studios are pinching pennies while performers are fighting for better and more fair compensation. if a strike goes through, it would be the first actors strike in more than 40 years in hollywood. still to come, pga tour officials defend their plans to merge with liv golf, a deal some call a betrayal. dance to your faves in the spa-like bathroom. ( ♪ ) or enjoy local craft beerss

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controversial deal with the saudi backed liv golf. they told u.s. senators tuesday that they had no choice but to merge in order for the tour to survive. democratic lawmakers slammed the deal as a betrayal of american values. >> today is about sports. it is also about hypocrisy, how vast sums of money can induce individuals and institutions to be tray their own values and supporters. or perhaps reveal a lack of values from the beginning. it is about other sports and institutions that could fall prey if their leaders let it be all about the money. in major league baseball, it was a towering home run, a come from behind win and the end of an all-star game losing streak. colorado rockies catcher diaz swinging as pinch hitter in the eighth rocketed the ball over the left field fence on tuesday night. it gave the national league a 3-2 victory over the american

league making it the nl's first all-star game victory since 2012. and stories in the spotlight, barbie is back. >> she left? we talk about it a lot. >> we do. and you're living it. barbie is getting an official green light from the philippines. >> there had been concern that the new film which showed the so-called 9 dash line marking territorial claims in the south china sea, but the movie review board found that it instead shows a map of the make believe journey of barbie land to the real world. >> i haven't seen you talk about geopoliticses with such imagery before. >> thank you so much. i like when we bring geopolitics to barbie. and also from warner

brothers, first trailer for the new wonka movie was released. >> you are the funny little man who has been following me. >> i'm a respectable size. allow me to refresh your memory. >> oh, i don't think i want to hear that. >> too late. i've got to dance now. >> it is a prequel showing a young waonka setting off on a quest to break up the chocolate world. >> and it will include sinking a oig and dancing. >> it hits theaters in december. is there such a thing as too much cheese? burger king customers in thailand are finding out after the fast food chain launched a new item causing a stir.

those brave enough will find two buns sandwiching 20 slices of cheese. >> and burger king had to confirm its existence saying this is no joke, this is for real. and i think we've done our job filling you in on all the most important stories. >> it is literally just cheese. thanks for joining us. i'm max foster. >> and i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" with rahel solomon is up next. he snores like an angry rhino. you've never heard an angry rhino. baby i hear one every night... every night. okay. i'll work on that. the queen sleep p number 360 2 smart bed is now only $899. shop now onlnly at sleep numbe.

we moved out of the city so our little sophie could appreciate nature. but then he got us t-mobile home internet. i was just trying to improve our signal, so some of the trees had to go. i might've taken it a step too far. (chainsaw revs) (tree crashes) (chainsaw continues) (daughter screams) let's pretend for a second that you didn't let down your entire family. what would that reality look like? well i guess i would've gotten us xfinity...

and we'd have a better view. do you need mulch? what, we have a ton of mulch. right now on "early start," a frustrated president zelenskyy about to meet face-to-face