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london ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> ukraine's future is in nato. >> putin and its craven lust for land and power unleashes brutal war on ukraine. he was betting nato would break apart. he was betting nato would break. >> hottest temperatures of summer are coming up this weekend and in some places the hottest temperatures ever recorded. >> people's cars got flipped over, windows knocked out. people were screaming. this storm is really bad. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is thursday, june 13th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00

a.m. in helsinki. in the hours ahead, president zelenskyy will be meeting with authoriz nordic leaders and the finish president. and there they offered ukrainian president zelenskyy security guarantees and assurances but still no time line on joining the alliance. nic robertson is following developments and joins me now here in london with the latest. starting with what biden is doing today, he is in helsinki, the session of finland to nato effectively doubles it border with russia and this trip feels like a geopolitical gear shift. >> it really is. look at where he has been. vilnius, an hour half border from russia and nato's border thousand runs from the arctic down to the mediterranean, black

sea technically. what biden is able to do here today obviously at this meeting, he will be meeting with leaders of norway and finland and he sweden who is joining and denmark and iceland as well, all in this nordic group, i think the message -- sub text is hugely clear. he steps out of this nato summit whereas he says he has this unity and it is on the border with russia and presenting this unity in close proximity repeatedly now to putin and moscow saying you thought you'd break us. we have this unity. and look at you. you are cracking. you have a general who it is appeared who popped off about how the war was being fought in ukraine. cracks are appearing. president macron yesterday talked about the fragility of moscow. so i think that there is a lot

of sub text, but then that nato unity is sort of a bit of a birth pill for ukraine because it didn't get quite what it wanted. >> fortifying nato and being at the helm of america while it expands feels like it is going to be an important part of president biden's legacy. you can't help but draw comparisons to his predecessor who of course had a very different approach to nato gounk this will feature as a key issue? >> and i think when we look at the way that president biden is handling the military support for ukraine, he is still sort of holding off on the final signoff on actual f-16s to ukraine. they are getting the training or they will start getting the training. he reluctantly agreed to send tanks, british sent their challengers, germans agreed to

send their leopards on the condition that the united states sends abrams. and you get the impression that the united states is slow and it was -- frustrations by zelenskyy yesterday and biden was saying don't worry and we understand, but what biden is trying to balance is not just the unity of nato, look at the diplomacy going on now with china. his secretary of state is meeting with the top chinese foreign policy official today on the margins of ass o osbeijing there just a few weeks ago. so there is a messaging here to the countries that disapprove of the support that is being given to ukraine and are still sort of supporting russia like china. and the global south. but sort of disapprove of the war as well. and there is a messaging that says we united states are not trying to start another war. we're trying to -- we're not

trying to be the starters of world war 3. so projecting many messages. and if all of these come to fruit by next year . >> and of course his pledge. nick robertson, thank you so much. u.s. secret service is expected to brief about its investigation into a small quantity of cocaine recently found in the white house. the briefing was requested by republican lawmakers who say it raises questions about white house security. the drugs were found july 2 in a busy part of the west wing used by staffers and visitors. so far no one has been identified as the person who may have left it behind. michigan secretary of state

confirms reporting that federal prosecutors interviewed her in march part of the special counsel's ongoing criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. she says over several hours prosecutors looked into, quote, everything. her interview marks yet another recent meeting between investigators and officials from key battleground states that were targeted by former president trump and his allies. she says she and her team have been in near constant communication with officials. >> you say it was several hours. what did you believe is the most important testimony that you gave them? >> that is a great question. i think that it is a connection between what we witnessed, which i've talked openly about for several years now, a real coordinated strategic effort to try to block the counting of votes this our state. the certification of election in

our state but then spread lies that then transformed in to threats, against lies of election officials who were simply doing our job. and there is a lot of evidence that has already been revealed that was presented to the january 6 committee, it is already out there in the public square about all of this. and i think that it is important that that evidence be taken seriously. and i have confidence that it is being taken seriously. and we are willing to go over and over again with the relevant authorities everything that we endured and experienced and witnessed to ensure again where there is evidence of a pernicious and strategic effort to overturn the will of the voters. >> rudy giuliani is also under investigation for his role in efforts to overturn the election. and now new court filings in a defamation case against him show those promoting the election narrative failed to their due diligence.

katelyn polantz explains. >> reporter: we're seeing that they were not doing vetting of the basic allegations that they were making that the election was stolen. so the new information we're getting is in a court filing daild tha today that revealed evidence collected in a december text chain where a trump lawyer was texting saying urgent he, potus request, need best examples of election fraud that we've alleged that is super easy to explain. and he says doesn't necessarily have to be proven but does need to be easy to understand. any sort of greatest hits clearing house that anyone has for best examples so the trump team, the lawyers around him were seeking just anything. even if it wasn't based on fact that could help smear or cause people to not believe in the result of the 2020 election. one of the things that rudy giuliani and others were offering up in response to that was a video of two election

workers in georgia that they said showed fraudulent vote counting, but those two women are seeing giuliani for defamation now. and it is their lawsuit where this evidence is coming out. so in that lawsuit now, not only are they sharing that evidence, they are already saying that they should be winning their case even though the case is not at its end and that is because they believe giuliani wasn't responding to their multiple requests for information for the evidence that he had so that they could work on proving their case in court and they are saying that he lost electronic information that he should have had on his cellphones and in communications apps, so they went to this judge with this evidence of these text messages that they collected from others and said we're not getting enough from rudy giuliani, not only should the former mayor of new york face severe sanctions, he should also be forced to pay for our legal fees. so a really difficult situation

for rudy giuliani to be navigating in this lawsuit related to the 2020 election that is also offering us some new details about what happened in trump circles after donald trump was losing. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. a suspected tornado has damaged at least 19 homes in he will beginn, illinois. what you are looking at now certainly looks like a tornado. fierce storms ripped through the state wednesday evening. weather officials say there were five reports of possible tornados and one confirmed tornado about 10 miles from chicago. the airports had to halt flights. thousands of passengers at o'hare were told to shelter in place. no one was reported injured, but a warehouse west of the airport was damaged. in one chicago suburb witnesses say they were shocked to see a tornado as it ripped through their town. >> people were screaming, floods

all over. this storm is really bad. never seen nothing like this. this was really scary. tornado come right out of the sky, was over our car, it was spinning. i seen two guys taking a film and i'm looking up and here it comes down towards our car. i move my car over and it just rolled right over us and just started destroying everything. >> we're seeing sweltering heat in much of the southwestern united states. parts of arizona have hit 110 every day this month. and this weekend is supposed to bring even more record-breaking heat. but the southwest isn't the only part of the u.s. that is trapped under a heat dome. chad myers tells us what to expect. >> i understand the calendar and i know that it is summertime and i know it is supposed to be hot. but it is not supposed to be hot like this, at least not just yet. heat dome over the southwestern part of the united states, heat indices up to 115 degrees in

parts of texas and oklahoma, and heat temperatures, temperatures without the humidity because there won't be very much, into parts of california, even parts of arizona could approach 120 degrees over the weekend, that is where the biggest heat will be. it all kind of comes in from the east, goes back towards the west and then just sits there. this could be a one week long unfortunate heatwave out there and 60 possible records almost daily records here across the southwest, every place is going to see a record. i know we've been over 110 a long time in phoenix and i don't see that changing especially when you are looking at saturday at 119 in the shade. so phoenix, vegas, all the england empire, all those areas out there again blisteringly hot. something else that is going on being a cross parts of miami is that we have this heat index,on being a cross parts of miami is that we have this heat index, 33

days in miami above 100 degrees. and we're not breaking that anytime soon. that will continue to go. and so will the heat into parts of the ocean. we are still going to see temperatures, yes, that is key west at 92, even up toward key largo with the lighthouse there, the buoy out there that is 93 degrees in the afternoon. so, yes, a lot more rainfall coming up toward the northeast as well. some of this could be heavy and even though it is only 2 to 4 e inches in any one spot, none of that has anyplace to soak in. we'll just see another possibility of these rivers and creeks rising again due to the fact there is not a piece of dry land out there to absorb any of it. so where you see that from a albany, saratoga back down into massachusetts, very heavy rainfall coming up through the end of the weekend. one storm after another after another. and that could be the real problem later on this week. new developments now from

hollywood where the screen actors guild has just put out a statement voting to recommend a strike after no deal was reached overnight on a new collective bargaining agreement with major studios and streaming services. this means hollywood would now have a double strike on its hands for the first time in more than 60 years with screen writers and actors participating. we haven't heard from the studios on this yet. the unions are fighting for better pay, residuals, benefits and addressing concerns over artificial intelligence and jos. an entertainment journalist is joining with now with more. thank you so much for being with us today. >> good morning. just an hour ago, s.a.g. actors current television and film contracts have officially expired which means unless s.a.g. votes in the board meeting this morning that it will not go on strike, hollywood is officially shutting down. actors will go on strike.

and we will see hollywood's first double strike in almost six decades. i just want to take a second to think about the 160,000 s.a.g. actor union members who are going on strike joining the 11,500 writers who have been striking the past three months. this is going to be so impactful and it is going to take years for the industry and for our world to recuperate. we're not just talking about weakening the ecosystem of hollywood. the impact will be felt in industries all across, we're talking restaurants, hotels, transportation, hospitality, just to give you an idea so far the writer's strike the past through months in california has cost the state approximately 30 mil million. so this is really unfortunate, but i do think a strike is

imminent. >> and do we know which areas in terms of the demands from the writers and actors that there is most resistance to from the studios? >> absolutely. the actors and writers have similar demand in the fact that they simply want higher compensation and some updated terms and conditions, that that can guarantee them job stability especially in the age of technology when ai is on the rise and they definitely want shorter exclusivity terms that prevents them from working on different jobs. and they want wages that they can live off of. that can account for the rise in the cost of living in the past few years. >> thank you so much for joining us and bringing us the latest from los angeles. >> thank you. the fbi director faced off wednesday against hostile republicans on capitol hill from the donald trump documents case

to hunter biden, christopher wray had a rough rigde. and the u.s. secretary of state set to met with a top chinese official. the contentious topics likely to rise. and we'll hear from passengers after experiencing what they describe as pettrifyig turbulence.

it was a rough day for christopher way. he faced a firestorm of criticism as he tried to defend the fbi against republican lawmakers. and sara murray says republicans were blasting a republican appointed by republican donald trump. >> thank you, good morning. >> reporter: chrispulling no pu in the sloppy retention of classified documents. >> 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 scif. and in my experience, ball rooms, bathrooms and bedrooms are not scifs. >> reporter: and insisting in the wake of hunter biden's plea deal on tax charges that the bureau is not protecting the biden family. >> are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. >> you won't answer the -- hold on, you won't answer the question about whether or not -- >> reporter: and he disavowed some of the john durham probe which documented missteps. >> i consider the conduct described in the durham report as totally unacceptable and unrepresentative of what i see from the fbi every day and must never be allowed to happen again. >> reporter: wray however stood by the search at trump's mar-a-lago estate. >> i would not call it a raid, i'd call it the execution of a

lawful search warrant. >> reporter: and defended the fbi's rank and file amid a wave of threats in the wake of that search. >> we did stand up a whole dedicated unit to focus on threats to fbi individuals, fbi employees and fbi facilities because of the uptick that we saw over that time period. >> reporter: wray facing off against some of his toughest congressional critics on the house judiciary committee where republicans have threatened to slash the bureau's budget and accused fbi leadership of political bias. >> people trusted the fbi more when j. edgar hoover was running the place. >> respectfully in your home state of florida, the number of people applying to come work for us and twdevote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> we're deeply proud of them and they deserve better than you. >> reporter: all as democrats took shot at their gop colleagues. >> we're here today because maga republicans will do anything to protect donald trump their savior no matter how unfounded

or dangerous it may be to do so. >> reporter: democrats also needling judiciary jim jordan for once defying a subpoena in the house january 6 investigation. >> quite rich to me that you are hearing all these allegations from somebody who won't even respond to a lawful subpoena. >> reporter: republicans on this committee and particularly the chair jim jordan have made a big deal of their belief that the leadership of the fbi is somehow biased against conservatives. and chris wray was asked about this during the hearing. he said it is insane to him the notion that he would be biased against conservatives given his personal background. and he is a registered republican and he was appointed into this position by donald trump, a former republican president. sara murray, cnn, washington. the u.s. secretary of state is scheduled to meet with china's top foreign policy chief in the hours ahead. they are both in jakarta with foreign ministers from the association of southeast asian nations and will be holding

talks on the sidelines. china also expected to meet with the russian foreign minister too. anna coren is covering this live from hong kong. we've seen more meetings ramp up between officials from the u.s. and china over recent weeks. last being of course janet yellen's visit. and they seem to have a marginal net positive impact, trying to keep talking to each other. is the hope that it will meeting will keep pushing things in the right direction? >> there is hope and you are right, there is momentum, but there are plenty of issues and grievances as you know between the u.s. and china. but in just over two hours, antony blinken will meet with him on the sidelines of the summit. sergey lavrov will also meet with huang. huang was not supposed to attend this summit. the chinese foreign minister was scheduled to be there.

however he is ill. blinken and wa this. g met in beijing last month. blinken was there, first visit by u.s. secretary of state in five years with the aim to reset relations and communication. we know that things are at an all-time low between the u.s. and china. janet yellen was there last week. john kerry heading there this weekend. and while there has been a frail of hope around this kipdiplomat activity, the plan to clear the way for talks between biden and xi jinping, but chinese hackers have breached some government agencies particularly the state department, and that is causing concern. microsoft and the white house have both confirmed the hack was a spying campaign aimed at sensitive information. and even then adding to the tension, nato this week issued a strongly worded communique saying that china challenged its interests, security and values,

with its ambitious and coercive policies. beijing responded angrily saying it opposed any attempts by the military alliance to expand its footprint into the asia pacific region. so when you look at the landscape, yes, there is a great deal of hope that there is this flurry of diplomatic activity between the u.s. and china, there are also all these issues which have yet to be resolved. so no doubt wang and blinken will have a lot to discuss. >> a in an anna coren, thank y. senior russian general in ukraine says he was suddenly fired after accusing moscow's defense ministry leadership of betraying his troops by not providing sufficient support. the latest example of strive among russian forces. clare sebastian is joining us. tell us what happened and what we can extrapolate from this in terms of the health of the russian defense military

complex. >> yeah, so i think coming so soon of a per after the wagner after months of prigozhin accusing top brass of incompetence and not providing enough equipment, this speaks to these problems persisting essentially, and also potentially to the idea of a sort of cracking down on dissents, perhaps purging even of the russian military that we know from reports has likely been happening in the wake of that rebellion. so this is the commander of the 58th army, he was in command of troops really on one of the most crucial areas of the frontline in zaporizhzhia, he put out an audio message we believe published by a russian mp, member of putin's party, himself with the military background, and in this, he really lays it on thick, lashes out even at ru. take a listen. >> translator: i had no right to

lie. therefore, i outlined all the problematic issues that exist in the army in terms of combat work and support. i lled a spade a spade. i drew attention to the most imrtant tragedy of modern warfare. absence of artillery reconnaissance stations and mass deaths and injuries of our brothers from enemy artillery. >> pretty jarring to hear mass deaths from a russian commander. he says an order was presented to the minister of defense who signed it and he was relieved of his post. he essentially then accusing them of this being a sort of treasonness act of essentially sabotaging themselves by removing him at such a critical moment. but it is extraordinary because we have not heard this level of dissent from such a high level official in the russian army. and this is in the same week where we saw another top commander in zaporizhzhia killed

according to ukrainian sources. so two generals on that southern front in a week. >> clare, thank you. north korea is hailing its latest missile test as little longest one it has ever flown. state media reports that the meghanm&m intercontinental ballistic missile flew for 74 minutes. it is unclear if it could actually deliver nuclear pay load. kim jung-un personally guided the launch. up next on the program, u.s. inflation slows for a 12th straight month. a look at the numbers and what they could mean for the fed's interest rate hikes. plus an alleged kidnapper in miami is behind bars after a little girl fought him off when he tried to abduct her.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with the top stories. president biden is in helsinki

will he will soon arrive at the presidential palace to meet with nordic leaders and welcome finland into nato. and screen actors guild has voted to recommend a strike after talks with major studios and streaming services failed. some 160,000 actors are expected to hit the picket lines joining writers in hollywood asking to better pay and benefits. u.s. stocks soared wednesday after new inflation data gave investors hope that there could soon be an end to interest rate hikes. june's consumer price index showed annual inflation in the u.s. slowed with the figure marking a sharp cooldown from the same time last year. matt egan has details from new york for you. >> reporter: inflation continues to chill out in a big way in the united states. and that is great news, great for consumers, for central bankers, and also for a white house trying desperately to

boost the president's poll numbers. what a difference a year makes. at this point last summer, american hes ws were getting cr by 9.1% inflation, the worst in more than four decades. today that metric now stands at just 3%. the smallest annual increase in prices in more than two years. yes, that is still a bit too hot. it is above what economists consider healthy, but it is also a massive improvement. we've now had a full year of cooling inflation. one of the biggest drivers lately is gas prices. if you recall last june gas prices hit record highs in the united states. the national average surged past $5 a gallon. but this june inflation report shows that gas prices have actually now plunged by almost 27% from a year ago. of course none of this means that inflation is totally cured. we've seen rental and housing costs still go up rapidly.

so are prices at restaurants and to a lesser extent grocery stores. but still there has been real progress here no doubt. and the white house took a victory lap with president biden responding to the june inflation report by saying, quote, that is bine bine onlyi iconly bidenomics in. but so far this has come without the long feared collapse in the jobs market. the federal reserve has spiked interest rates to put the inflation fire out and yet unemployment remains surprisingly low and hiring remains very strong. this latest inflation report likely will not teetdeter the f from raising interest rates later this month, but the latest data, it could give the fed room to wrap up its inflation fight before belong. >> matt there for us. four people injured when a

flight hit severe turbulence over florida wednesday. the airlines says it happened while the flight from asheville, north carolina was on approach to st. petersburg. the plane managed to land and taxi to the gate under its own power. but passengers describe the experience as something straight out of a sci-fi movie. >> more than halfway through descending, and all of a sudden we heard a small turbulence, and stewardess beside us fell to the ground. and then we hit a major turbulence and she was literally like matrix, watched her go up in thore air and land straight down. police say a 6-year-old's bravely probably saved her life when a man tried to abduct her outside her home. the girl had been playing with other children outside their

apartment building when a stranger suddenly grabbed her and tried to carry her away. she bit him so hard he let her go. security video showed the suspect walking around the girl's neighborhood. police tracked him down and arrested him two days later. the girl and her mother spoke to reporters about this frightening incident. >> when he came and grabbed you, did you scream? >> yes. >> and then what did you do? >> beat at him. >> and then what? >> he slapped me and threw me on the floor. >> i told her don't talk to stra strangers. >> and police say the 32-year-old suspect admitted that it was him on the surveillance video. he is being held without bail on charges of kidnapping and child abuse. pennsylvania police tell cnn they have had, quote, a number of sightings of an escaped inmate on the run for nearly a week. but while they say that only some may be accurate, they are also working on other angels of

the case. danny freeman reports. >> reporter: six days into the investigation and manhunt for michael charles burham and we're still learning new information about this prison escape. we learned wednesday from pennsylvania state police they have long believed that burham has been getting some sort of help either from inside the prison or from outside of the prison. today we learned police confirming that they are interviewing possible accomplices to this escape. second thing we learned, i asked police if they had any confirmed sightings of burham so far, and police said of a number of reported sightings we believe that many are indeed accurate and that is why police say they still believe burham is in the larger northwest pennsylvania area. and they say they believe a drone may have been present during the time of the escape last thursday. take a listen to what one of the lieutenant colonels said specifically about the new piece of evidence. >> i'm not a big believer of

coincidences, but what i will tell you is just prior to the escape, there was a drone flying in that area. could be that there is a perfectly innocent and reasonable explanation, but it could have been tied to his escape. >> reporter: what you are looking at now is the county building including the court, admin offices and the county jail. and this alcove is actually the spot where burham is accused of rappelling down a rope made of bedsheets into these bushes an through the neighboring properties. a county commissioner says the whole escape took less than a minute. danny freeman, cnn, warren, pennsylvania. coming up after heavy rains drenched northern india, homes are flooding, rivers are overflowing and people are having to escape with what little they can carry. okay. i'll work on that. the queen n sleep number 360 2 smart bed is now only $899. shop n now only at sleep numbe.

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sudan's neighbors are making

a new push to try to end the devastating conflict in that country. an international conference just got under way in egypt to discuss ways of putting the fighting to an end. the con frekconflict has displa than 3 million people with many fleeing across sudan's borders. many refugees have lost family members and are wounded themselves. officials warn about widespread sexual violence targeting women and girls. for more, we're going to stephanie busari. so egypt is hosting a summit essentially of sudan's neighbors to try to look at ways to end the 12 week conflict. what avenues are being explored? >> reporter: so bianca, absolutely horrific details coming out of sudan this morning from the u.n.'s human rights office saying that they discovered a mass grave of around 87 people in the darfur

region and they believe these people were killed by militia according to information that the u.n. has received. and that they were buried in a mass grave. now, the context of this is absolutely horrifying because you will remember that 20 years ago darfur went through a genocide that killed around 300,000 people and displaced millions. and history seems to be repeating itself with the same militia group at the time that has evolved in to the rapid support force which is led by wochbtd ge one of the generals. so the world seems to be watching powerlessly as this situation repeats itself. and the main arab communities have been targeted once again in this deadly conflict. and egypt is holding a summit on

sudan this morning in cairo with some of the neighbors including chad, libya, other countries severely affected. many sudanese have flooded into these countries. chad in particular is at breaking point, one of the poorest countries in the world having to receive hundreds of thousands of people into their country. and they are at breaking point. so this summit is coming at a very crucial time. >> absolutely. we can only hope that some constructive progress is made. stephanie busari, thank you. in northern india, at least 67 people have died from flash floods and landslides in the past week. and rising floodwaters are driving people from their homes in a panic. officials believe at least 30,000 people have been evacuated after the water levels of one of the biggest rivers hit the highest ever level.

>> reporter: landslides and flash floods were triggered. her in delhi, they are monitor the river that overflowed over the weekend. >> translator: if your homes are in low lying areas, please vacate them. >> reporter: i'm standing on a bridge by the banks of the river that has crossed the danger level mark on monday. and wednesday it has surpassed the heist level it has ever been at in over four decades. what i can show you from here is people being evacuated from the banks. you see a cart with two people navigating through the high levels of water, bringing their belongings back to the banks of this river. there is total panic and chaos here. hundreds are being evacuated at this point and the worry is that

all the belongings cannot be brought with them here to safer ground. around me, you can sk can see b stoves, people walking away from the low lying areas. >> translator: my fields are down by the river. the floods have destroyed all our venlg onlies. we've lost everything. >> reporter: about 50 meters from the river, hundreds have moved under this flyover. this is home for the next few days with very little to go back to. >> translator: there was no help from the delhi government. we waded through waste water to save our lives. we've never seen this river rise so high. >> reporter: according to the delhi government, it is not just the incessant rainfall, it is

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to wimbledon now where the cinderella run by christopher eubanks has come to an end. he lost in five sets to the world number three medvedev in the quarter finals. this was eubanks' first time in the main draw at wimbledon and he went on to make his first major quarter final appears. he said his run at wimbledon had been a whirl wind of emotions. tears flowing at the espydad out to a standing ovation and then went on to present awards for the first responders who helped save his life. he went into cardiac arrest during a game it january after a helmet hit him in the chest. the team's head athletic trainer thanked him for, quote, staying alive. the all-time leading scorer says he wants to score a few

more pnts. lebron james announced that he is suiting up for the lakers for his 21st season. he hinted at a possible retirement last may but he has also said that he hopes one day to play with his son, bronny, who would be eligible for the draft next year. and now to the stories in the spotlight. british actor emily blunt is taking some time off from her busy career to spend time with her family. she revealed the news during an interview on "table for two." she said she doesn't want to miss pivotal moments with her two daughters with john i c krasi c kras krasinski. nasa unveiled this new image of the cosmos wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the james webb space telescope. takes a colorful swirling mass

of dust and gas where new stars are being born. it is about 390 light years away making it the closest to earth. and finally this hour, grab yourself a rabbit's foot or whatever you need for good luck because the u.s. powerball has gotten even bigger. we're talking now about an estimated $875 million at stake. no one's hit it since the april 19th, that is 36 consecutive drawings without a big winner. that does it here. i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" is next. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow.

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