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testifies on the hill amid a political firestorm there. we are following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. president biden is on his way to helsinki, finland, to close out a trip that has had major global implications. earlier today he had a lengthy one-on-one meeting with the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. he wrapped up the summit with a sweeping speech that touted an alliance that is stronger than ever and reassured ukraine its fate is tied to nato. natasha bertrand is there for us following all of these developments. how was this speech received, natasha? >> reporter: yeah. i think this will be pretty well received by the ukrainians. the overarching theme of it was

unity and support for ukraine for the long haul. he said that he is with ukraine and the u.s. is with ukraine. nato is as long it is a takes. that is something the ukrainians will welcome. president zelenskyy appeared to soften his tone today following many leaders with nato leaders and president biden was not looking to rehash the events of the day when it comes to nato's, ukraine's membership with nato but he did reaffirm that the u.s. will be with ukraine for the long-term here. so one of the things that he really drove home in this speech as well was just how much vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine has back fired. as we saw, nato now has 31 members, soon to be 32, with sweden joining. nato's border with russia has expanded dramatically. something that putin did not want. and the message here that president biden reiterated is that this just shows how important the nato alliance is to the world. its open door policy. the fact that countries want to join nato because of the threat

that russia continues to pose globally. so this will come as a welcome statement for the ukrainians. there was one moment in that speech that was really interesting. that's when biden slipped up and he said there were 33 members of the nato alliance at this point. obviously, ukraine would love that. ukraine has been calling for it to become the 33rd member of the alliance. there are only 31 at this point. soon to be 32 with sweden. the overarching message of biden's speech and his remarks today in vilnius is this message of freedom versus authoritarianism, democracy versus authoritarianism. and the fact that freedom, he believes, will prevail. it was a largely optimistic speech and it was set against the back drop of of course, lithuania under soviet occupation for so long. a very overarching message that was largely optimistic and positive in tone but warning the world, also warning the world

that of course, it's fragile and this is not necessarily something that they can take for credit. here's a bit of what he had to say. >> unfortunately, russia has shown thus far, no interest in the diplomatic outcome. putin still wrongly believes that he can outlast ukraine. he can't believe it is their land, their country and their future, and even after all this time, putin still doubts our station power. he is still making a bad bet that the conviction and the unity among united states and allies and partners will break down. he still doesn't understand our commitment, our views, our freedom is something he can never, ever, ever walk away from. it's who we are. >> reporter: so while there were some disagreements among some allies about how and when ukraine should become a member

of the alliance, broadly they are still united and that's the message that president biden sought to gave today. >> thank you. i want to bring in kyley atwood to talk more about what we saw today. it is interesting. you did see zelenskyy zelenskyy expressing appreciation for everything the west has done. on the other hand, there is some impatience. his people are dying as they fight. and of course, the u.s. and western allies aren't giving all of these arms to ukraine just for charity. >> that's right. and i think at one point he said, we need nato as much as nato needs us. nato needs a strong ukraine to essentially keep russia from coming further into europe. so that is a significant message from him. but we did see a very much appreciative tone from him today. and that was different yesterday. he was going into negotiations. when you go into negotiations, you have to start with

everything you want. and he was pushing very hard to get something more definitive. an actual invite into nato. what he did get, i think it is fair to say that ukraine is closer to joining nato after this summit than they were before it. the reason is because of these long-term security guarantees that he's getting from the individual countries that will span over a long time here. and so reversing that relationship between nato and ukraine doesn't seem to be something that any country is interested in doing. >> he wants these guarantees of a time line. that was what he went in wanting and not getting. but there is also this argument of, it's hard to give a time line. then you set up russia to say, well, fine. we're going to stick it out. and of course, we heard from the white house today very clearly. they don't want to commit to something where immediately, if ukraine is entering nato, now you have to have troops on the ground from the u.s. and their allies. >> exactly right.

and i think it is hard to give a time line. we don't know the time line for the war. so that is the fundamental problem here. there are other steps that ukraine has to take. the ukrainians don't like talking about those very much in public. we heard from president biden. talking about the fact that ukraine still needs to take steps on democracy at home. and other things such as corruption in the government. so there's still work to be done. i think they're very far ahead when it comes to the military relationship with nato. and particularly after these long-term security guarantees that we're seeing come from the g-7 because of what those guarantees include. they include air defense, artillery, long-range weapons, armored vehicles, and intelligence sharing. so when you have so much support in terms of military going into ukraine, it's pretty assured that this isn't going to be reversed and i think it gives credibility to what president

biden said if saying at his final speech that the nato alliance isn't going to be backing away from ukraine any time soon. the fact that they're stepping one more support is credibility to those words. >> a really interesting summit. sometimes these things are not super interesting. they're just some maintenance work. >> there was drama going into it. >> some drama for sure. thank you so much. jim? >> we're joined by former u.s. ambassador to ukraine stephen pfeiffer. thank you for taking the time. >> happy to be here. first as a practical matter, even zelenskyy knew going to vilnius, he wasn't going to get membership in nato. do you look at the package that was offered to him, this pathway going forward, as a substantial step forward?

>> yes. it zelenskyy will go back to kyiv with three things. commitment from france for cruise missiles. he's going back with more weapons. second, this commitment from the g-7 to provide military support. not just during the fight with russia but after that fight when it settled to help ukraine have a robust modern military that could deter a future russian attack. the third is a little bit less tangible. i think you've seen a mood shift reflected in vilnius. is that nato allies see ukraine's membership as all but inevitable. that is a big change. >> that's an enormous change. vladimir putin does not view ukraine as an independent state. he views it as part of russia. even if he loses in this invasion, that's something he won't give up. that would then put nato allies on the hook to defend ukraine. not just by providing weapons

but to join the war if he were to attack again. that's a remarkable potentiality. >> that's true. but for years, going back to, say, the book rest summit in 2008 where allies said ukraine will be a member. in a not very convincing way. i think there has been over the last 12 to 15 years on the part of many nato allies to give some deference to russian concern about ukraine and nato. it didn't stop the mass inspiration we saw beginning 16 months ago. and i think russia has forfeited any legitimate claim. and you get the sense from looking at the way nato leaders are talking about this. it is a matter of time. >> we should note as we've been speaking, ambassador, and there are the pictures. air force one landing in helsinki, finland. the reason the president is going there, finland is the newest member of nato. i was there on a nato task force

mission. they make the point that finland brings to this alliance a relatively big, highly skilled military, but also, it more than doubles the frontier between nato and russia. now you have sweden joining as well. >> first of all, there is a big geopolitical change with finland in and sweden which i expect in a matter of months. the baltic sea becomes a nato lake. this is a real disaster for russian security and it was caused by the russian decision to invade ukraine. finland and sweden, two countries, long traditions of neutrality, concluded after 20 of 2022 that they were best served within nato. and although you now double that border between russia and finland, they bring a huge reserve force. probably the third largest artillery stock in europe. they have significant capabilities.

they will be contributors to nato security. >> finally, how does putin react to this? he sees nato solidifying again. nato adding a member. that was an express goal of list, to weaken nato, not strengthen it. how does he respond? >> well, i think they understand nato is not about invading russia. the changes that you have seen, go back and look at the last, well, really, since 2014 when russia illegally seized crimea. nato has been taking steps to rearm because there's a concern about russian behavior. vladimir putin and the kremlin can change nato's approach if they begin to show that they're prepared to live in peace with their neighbors, and in particular, abandon this imperial effort to try to reconquer part of ukraine. >> that would be quite a change. thank you so much for joining

us. >> thank you. this hour on cnn news central, we are following a contentious hearing on capitol hill as lawmakers grill fbi director christopher wray. >> people trusted the fbi more when j. edgar hoover was running the fbi. >> it is up over 100%. >> highlights of this testy hearing ahead. why wray said an entirely new department had to be created within the bureau after the mar-a-lago search. plus, today tommy tuberville is further explaining list comments where he failed to further explain his comments about white nationalists. is he changing his tune? and scientists say unprecedented high temperatures off the coast of florida are threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen. we'll talk about the impacts

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the head of the fbi in his fifth hour of questioning on capitol hill and house republicans have been grilling christopher wray all along the way on claims that his agency has been targeting conservatives. they've gone after the fbi's handling of threats to school boards. its handling of a leaked fbi memo relating traditional catholics to domestic extremists and claims that fbi whistleblowers have been retaliated against. a number of democrats have used their time to focus on former president trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents. here's a bit of this. >> director wray, a ballroom, a bathroom, a bedroom. are those appropriate places to store classified confidential information?

>> i don't want to be commenting on the pending case but there are specific rules about where to store classified information and those need to be stored in a secured compartmentalized information facility. in my opinion, ballrooms, bathrooms and bedrooms are not scifs. >> joining me, the executive director for intelligence, also the president of bowav llc. how do you think this has gone so far? it has been full of fireworks. >> i don't think the director anticipated anything but this hearing. from what i've seen, republicans have brought up serious concerns of the handling of a wide range of investigations. and the democrats have brought up some issues such as fisa that they need to reform within the fbi and have gone about doing that. and i don't think anything about this hearing surprised the

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crimes, gangs, counter terrorism, culminating in my career as chief of intelligence. i have personally never seen political bias enter into an investigation. i've reviewed thousands of investigations and briefed on thousands more and never has political bias entered into that. >> of course that's something that you've heard republicans like matt gaetz disagree with. he says the fbi is very unpopular, it has the lowest level of trust. what we also see are some efforts on the part of mainly republicans to the actively lower trust in the fbi. and i wonder what your concerns are about that. and what the effect will be moving forward on investigations and on this process.

>> i think we have to step back and look at the breadth of responsibility of the fbi. gangs, violent crimes, counter intelligence, counter terrorism, cyber crimes, white collar crimes. it is a massive responsibility. there have been 6,000 violent felons taken offer the street this year already. 91 gangs dismantled. and just today in the previous hour reporting in your network, talking about a increwer breach to the government. all of this involves the fbi. so any threat to this dismanning the fbi or defunding would limit that ability for the fbi to go forward with these serious threats. >> josh, great to have you. this is quite the hearing we're watching on capitol hill today with the fbi director christopher wray. republican pressure is mounting on tommy tuberville to

drop his block of more than 250 military promotions and counting. the hold is to protest a defense department policy that pays for travel if a service member seeks an abortion out of state because it is banned in that state, or restricted in other ways. tuberville said the senate should vote on the rule. >> take the policy. go back to the way it was. send us the bill and let everyone vote on it. it's that simple. but it is not a one-way street. let's work it out. let's let the american people. their representative vote on what they're trying to do with this bill that they changed with a memo. >> reporter: is there any middle ground between your position -- >> no middle ground. the middle ground is, move it back and let's vote on it. >> lauren, he's getting pushback from the pentagon, from military

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authorities ever just posted new flood watches in new england including parts of vermont where active rescues are still underway. also, in other parts of the u.s., forecasters warning a new dangerous heat wave could break more temperature records. also threaten power grids. meteorologist chad meyers joins me now. let's begin with the heat warnings. you and i have been speaking so frequently. bizarre intense weather patterns across the board.

i know weather is not climate. but are these connected to climate change? when you see this collection of events. >> i don't know how you get to some of the numbers we'll see this weekend without some adding heat from climate change. of course, sure, is it going to be hot? would it have been hot? yes. i think we're probably in the hotter because of category. so here's the heat dome across the southwest. we'll talk about flooding in the northeast and we'll talk about some absolutely ridiculous water temperatures in the gulf of mexico and the florida straits. heat dome, it builds in. we dome have heat watches and advisories when it is a normal temperature. we're talking 10 to 20 degrees above where you should be this time of year. and the heat really, really peaks sunday and monday for sacramento, oakland, all the way through the inland empire. 60 possible records just here between now and through the end of the week. here are some of the stats

though. i think you have to look at this. phoenix has had 12 consecutive days over 110. 12 over 110 in the shade. and look at the next seven. no help there. still above 110. hot all across the southwest. but that hot weather sneaks up into central california as well. we know about the flooding here across parts of the northeast. unfortunately, more rain is on the way. and typically, one to three or four inches wouldn't really affect this area. but there is no place for this water to soak in. it will all absolutely run off again. the waters are coming down in many areas on these rivers. with two to four more inches over the weekend, that could change. now we look at miami. miami is talking about heat index. not the 110 in phoenix but the heat index in the shade has been over 100 degrees 33 days in a row. and what has that caused? excessive heat in the ocean.

the ocean heat content is unbelievable. i have friends that are crab fishermen in the bay. the water is 93, 94 degrees. they don't know where the crabs will go or if they've even live. >> and that warm water generates the storms. you know this better than me. something else to watch for. chad, always good to have you help explain it all to us. >> let's talk more about the warming oceans. it has created one of the most severe coral bleaching events florida has ever seen. bleaching can have devastating effects to the entire marine ecosystem. just monday, buoys off the coast of florida have measured hot water temperatures. you saw 93? we're talking about near 97 degrees here. my next guest saw the bleaching firsthand while diving off the coast of the northern florida keys. the research and monitoring

coordinator for mission iconic reefs, a division of noaa. take us through what you saw. give us a description of what you saw and what it should have looked like but did not. >> thank you so much for having me speak about this important topic today. so right now we are anticipating pretty severe bleaching that could start to really crop up several weeks to a month plus from now. right now the waters are anomalously high this time of year so we are starting to see those hallmark tell-tale signs of bleaching where the corals start to lose their color. they go from vibrant browns and greens to looking like they are bleaching out. soon again we do anticipate seeing stark white corals even deep down the coast. >> so when they are bleached like that, are they dead? are they dying?

what happens? what's the domino effect of that? >> so once a coral starts to experience the heat stress driven by the high water temperatures we're seeing now, corals can start to lose their symbolic algae for their tissue that provides most of their food. we start to see the peeling, the color loss. if conditions don't improve within a week or so, that coral can certainly end up dying. when we have many corals throughout the reef that are bleaching and dying, there's a domino effect where all the organisms that depend on healthy coral reefs will see effect as well. >> so what are the effects? what are the effects to other marine life? and how much time does it take to rebound? >> that's a great question. so corals, the ones we do see

bleaching are the ones that make up the structural framework. all the habitats, the nooks and crannies. if they die, they'll start to disintegrate. we lose the physical habitat that more than 25% of all the world's marine species depend on coral habitat at some point in time. this recovery period is really dependent on if environmental conditions improve or if there are other stressors like hurricanes that can come through and cause further physical damage. but mission iconic reefs, the program that i'm a part of, is working on a 20-year long restoration effort with climate change in mind to physically restore these reefs in the face of climate change using corals that we hope to be more resilient. >> that you hope will be more resilient. we see the effects. we see some of the pictures that you've shared with us.

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now to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour. a key inflation gauge is showing that prices fell sharply in june. it is down to 3% which is a sharp cooldown from last year when surging energy costs helped inflation spike to 9%. the progress might not be enough to deter the federal reserve from raising rates when it meets later this month. today is the first full day of freedom for convicted killer and former charles manson former leslie van houten. she was released yesterday on parole after 53 years in a california prison. van houten was 19 when she joined the manson family cult. she took part in the stabbings of super market executive leno labianca and list wife rosemary in their home in 1971. incredibly gruesome crimes.

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impact. the interesting thing is it is not just unpopular but even in the state of iowa based on recent polling. >> yeah. it's interesting and it is a wild card for the november 2024 elections. these restrictions go well beyond where the rhetoric of many in the antiabortion movement, they call themselves the pro-life movement, were saying in terms having some restrictions. these are close to all-out bans, although the iowa bill has more exceptions than other legislation we've seen on the state level, including in florida. what is interesting is, of course, a lot of political experts, jim, say they expect this legislation to have a huge impact when it comes to battleground states. pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. the real question is, what kind of effect will it have in places like iowa? we saw, for instance, in kansas,

the way that that referendum changed, attempted to change abortion law to completely ban it, essentially, in kansas. the voting did not go that way. ultimately, as you know, people, when polled on the subject, the public in general even in republican leaning states, do not support this kind of restriction. we're going to talk to former republican congressman will herd. he supports a 15-week ban. we'll ask what happens if he gets elected president and a republican congress gives him a ban like the one iowa is about to sign into law. >> yeah. and the president will be in iowa. jake tapper in his home town of philly. thank you so much. the web space telescope capturing invaluable images. yet another one like this of our solar system and beyond.

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nasa is celebrating a landmark anniversary today by sharing a rare treat with planet earth. a never before seen image from space. this is, quote, the nearest star forming region to earth also known as a star birth and it happened 390 light years away. this all thanks to the pioneering james web telescope

sending images like these back for exactly one year now. we have cnn's tom foreman joining us now. good gift giver nasa is with this awesome photo. >> this is a star nursery. there are 50 stars captured in this ilage. this is the moment they're coming into being, all these giant gas jets out here associated with them forming. some even have little disks around showing they can form solar systems around them. you mentioned 390 light years away so that's pretty far. but it's the closest one to our earth anyway. that's why we got such good pictures buzz there's nothing in between here and there to block it, and it contains about 50 stars similar to our sun. and that's important because you look the discs forming planets may be something a bit like us.

>> let's put up the big photo. what do you think it looks like? the big picture. guys, can we get the big picture? what do you think it looks like? >> i'd say a congressional hearing. >> a hot mess, is that what you mean? >> i think it looks like an octopus. they've had so many great images. we've had a picture of what we call a proto star, a star just beginning to form. a fiery hourglass there. again, we're watching the very early moments of a star forming out there which tells us a lot. remember they're shooting mainly in the infrared range, so it gives you different readings than you would if it was just an optical image out there. we have better images of jupiter and some of these you can see the rings around jupiter a

little bit, and neptune as well the farkest planet in our solar system, we've had new images of neptune. i think this is just the beginning. we're going to see more and more. >> i love it, jupiter is like finally they get my good side. they sent a good photographer. jim? >> i love those photo. not sure how you're going to feel about this. would you try burger king's new sandwich? we're going to tell you what's on it and perhaps more concerning what is not on it. wh, quality eye examam start at just $79.95. book an exam today at americasbest.com. ♪ ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote col reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in rl time. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk.

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