it was sitting right next to him during the interview and it almost ended up on the floor. luckily it didn't and now we know that he has great reflexes in addition -- >> not just on the court. also very quick hands. also a great guy. >> yes. that as well. he is also our best friend as you can tell. next month he will return to new york to compete in the u.s. open where he won his first major title last year and to no one's surprise he and djokovic are two of the favorites in that tournament. >> we're going to make him come on set with us along with chrissy banks because we are using the set in new york to hang out. >> we will take over. >> we appreciate carlos and his time. appreciate abby. "cnn news central" starts right now. ♪ ukrainian forces target a critical bridge to crimea, now

russia says a key grain deal has been terminated. major new developments on the ground in ukraine. two young children are missing this morning, they were swept up along with their mother in the flash flooding in pennsylvania. the urgent search for these kids now with more bad weather on the way to the northeast. an alabama woman who went missing on the interstate suddenly found. the baffling case all started with a 911 call the woman made saying she saw a toddler walking alone on the interstate, then she disappeared. so what happened? i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." ♪ overnight a daring attack on a key russian asset with huge military and psychological implications. ukraine is claiming responsibility for an operation on the kerch bridge. this is the only direct link

between the crimean peninsula and russia, it is also a critical artery for supplying crimea with civilian goods. russian officials say there is damage to the roadway, railroad tracks that run parallel to the road are still said to be intact. let's get to cnn's senior national security correspondent alex marquardt who is in odesa. this is a very symbolic and strategic target for the ukrainians, alex. >> reporter: it is, john, and when we see brazen attacks like this from the ukrainians we rarely get confirmation or admission that they were behind it, now we are not only having ukraine claiming responsibility but they're trolling the russians at the same time. we heard earlier on telegram from ukraine's security services saying the bridge has gone to sleep again. that is a reference to another attack on the kerch bridge that happened nine months ago. at the time ukraine did not claim responsibility. they are doing that today saying it was a joint effort between the sbu, the security services,

and ukraine's navy. they are not offering any details beyond that, but from the russian side we are told that this strike happened around 3:00 in the morning local time, that sea or surface drones were responsible for this. as you noted, you've got two lanes both car and truck and then railway lines that are run parallel the 12 miles or 19 kilometers across the kerch strait. the railways were relatively untouched, trains kept running but on a delayed schedule but on the car side, the roadway side, significant destruction that will likely take quite some time to fix. this was a personal project of vladimir putin's, this bridge that was put in place in 2018, four years after russia annexed the crimean, cost almost $4 billion to build. not only as you noted very important to get people, food and fuel as well as military

equipment across that kerch strait, but hugely symbolic because, of course, putin considers crimea to be very much a part of russia. how russia responds is the major question. after that last attack in october of 2022 we saw one of the biggest, if not the biggest russian strike all over ukraine since the war began last year, john. >> this bridge as you say very important to vladimir putin himself. alex marquardt, thank you very much. stay safe. kate, this literally hitting putin where it hurts. >> absolutely. related, maybe not related but definitely another huge development out of ukraine in all of this, russia is now terminating the deal to allow ukraine to export grain by sea. the deal was brokered last year by the u.n. in turkey and had allowed ukraine to move its critical grain supplies from its ports through the black sea to the basra strait. before the deal russia blocked any ukrainian shipment and u.s. intelligence found that russian

forces have been deploying mines in the black sea. what this means for ukraine is significant but the impact on the globe is also huge. the european commission says ukraine accounts for 10% of the world's wheat market, 15% of the corn market and 13% of the barley market. it's also a key player in the industry of sunflower oil and manufacturer of sunflower oil. u.n. estimated blocking ukrainian grain could create food insecurity for as many as 47 million people around the world. scott mclean has more on this and is joining us now. what is russia saying about this and why are they pulling out of this deal now? >> reporter: first, this is not entirely unexpected. the ukrainian diplomat said last month she was 99.9% sure the russians were going to not renew this deal and obviously that has turned out to be true. the russians essentially say that the u.n. was not living up to its end of the bargain because in exchange for allowing ukrainian ships packed with grain and other food to leave

port safely, the russians were supposed to get help from the u.n. to actually more easily get their own food and their own fertilizer out to market. now, there are no sanctions at all on russian agricultural products or on fertilizer, anything like that, but as we know there are plenty of sanctions on russian banks and that applies in many cases to the international payment mechanisms as well that make payment for this grain, this food, this fertilizer for russia more complicated. so one of the key demands that russia has had is to be reconnected to some of these international payment mechanisms. the u.n. has offered to connect the agricultural bank in russia to that, those systems, but that's obviously been rejected. the u.n. says it will continue to work on this, but an official also said today that russia's decision is pretty final. in fact, they say they have already removed security guarantees for ships passing through the black sea. this is an area that is mined with explosives.

food prices or grain prices were already up, futures up 3% on the news. the russians do say that, look, they could go back to this if their conditions are met. on your question about whether or not this has anything to do with the kerch bridge explosion, dmitry peskov was asked about that directly earlier today and said, quote, these are absolutely unrelated events. even before this terrorist attack the position was declared by president putin, and i repeat again, as soon as the part of the black sea agreements concerning russia are fulfilled, russia will immediately return to the implementation of the deal. as you said, turkey was one of the parties that helped broker this deal, president erdogan today said that he may call president putin in advance of their scheduled meeting in august and i should also mention quickly, kate, that ukraine still can get grain out to market it's just more complicated because it has to go by rail and the difficulty is that the gauge on the ukrainian railways is different than the gauge in europe. so it has to get transferred to

another train at the border. kate? >> i mean, it is critical for people around the world and what we're seeing, which is why we know as we can see russia getting in the way could be -- is part of their strategy. good to see you, scott. thank you. sara? a. >> with us now is retired general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander and senior fellow at ucla's burkel center. thank you for coming in. i want to get black sea grain deal, it has been canceled by russia. can you explain the repercussions here because this is a worldwide repercussion, this doesn't just have to do with the region, correct? >> that's right. this is worldwide. it drives up prices, it restricts the volume of grain that's out on the market, it particularly attacks u.n. world food program and it puts some countries in the global south in real jeopardy for real hunger

crisis. they're all dependent on russian and ukrainian grain. russian grain has been moving out, but as we saw ukrainian grain is a significant part of the world's supply and so this is going to have a big impact. >> okay. so food prices, world food prices soaring, food shortages in places like africa and the middle east, those are really big issues that this war has brought forward. i do want to ask you now about the 12-mile bridge that goes over the kerch strait hit by ukraine, it links directly russia to the crimean peninsula. can you give me some pens of how crucial this is for russia and its military? >> well, it is crucial in the sense of being able to have full flow of supplies to russian forces that are defending against the ukrainians. coming through crimea and trying to prevent the ukrainians from coming south from zaporizhzhia,

however, there are alternate routes of supply, the rail line is still open and there are other ways of getting those supplies in from rostov. so this is significant and it is a big symbolic blow for ukraine, but it's not -- it's not decisive. it's not going to cut off all supplies to the russian forces. it's just one more factor. but here is the thing, sara, the ukrainians are building up their ability to strike deep. they are going to produce their own kind of atacms missile to strike into crimea. maybe they did this with drones but the drones are getting more sophisticated and more capable so the ukrainians are not going to want to allow russia to have a sanctuary from which it can strike ukraine and certainly not crimea which they consider part of ukraine, no sanctuary there. so ukrainians are determined to strike deep. this is part of their

counteroffensive and they're not going to relent on this. >> let me ask you about striking deep. there are f-16s that are going to be handed over to the ukrainians but first they have to train for them. twofold question here, how long does the training take and how soon do you see those f-16s making a difference potentially in this war? >> maybe six months at the earliest, probably nine months. they probably won't be fully operational before march, april, may of next year. and here is the thing, we would never have launched a counteroffensive against this kind of a defense without air superiority. we've encouraged the ukrainians to do so and we've dragged our feet on providing mbf-16s and the other air superiority qualities they need. we don't have enough air defense to protect the ground forces on ukraine when they are attacked from attack helicopters and other things. it's just not our way of war.

our way of war is we have air superiority first. the ukrainians don't have air superiority, they don't have the air defense with those ground columns that they need. so we've really -- we've really handicapped their offensive and the sooner we can get those f-16s there the better. i would say this, in addition to the f-16s the ukrainians need the long-range atacms missile. now, the french are supplying the long-range missiles and brits are supplying long-range firm. attack um is a ballistic missile that's guided, very gek testify and should be provided now that the brits and french have broken ground on this. it's clear the russians can't expect a sanctuary deep so let's give the ukrainians what they need to finish this fight more quickly. >> the ukrainians you're saying are handicapped in the air but they have been holding their own so we will see what happens going forward. thank you so much, general wesley clark, appreciate your

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their 36th and 32nd consecutive days of 100-plus-degree temperatures. in the northeast tragedy striking, a gut wrenching search to mind a 9-year-old boy and his 2-year-old sister is still happening as we speak in pennsylvania. the children, their mom and grandmother, were all swept away as raging floodwaters began to take over their car. let's go live to southeast bucks county where all of this happened. you can see that there are crews standing there behind danny friedman still on this case. what can you tell us about what they're saying this morning about these missing children? >> reporter: well, sara, a brief press conference just wrapped up in the past few minutes from bucks county officials and the two headlines is that those two children, a 9 month old and a 2-year-old they are still missing at this time, but because of actually the improving weather compared to over the weekend, first responders, they've been able to

actually triple the number of assets they have to actually put to this search, but, again, share ration an incredibly difficult weekend. local officials say this was a mass casualty incident the likes of which we've never seen before. over the weekend there were seven people missing, five have been recovered and then those two that are still unaccounted for, no he is are those two children. and those two children belong to actually one particular family, this was a family of six, they were driving here in bucks county saturday evening, they were up actually from charleston, they were visiting family in the area, they were going to a barbecue, a normal summer activity, when those flash flood warts hit and that family of six included a mom, a dad, a grandmother and three children. well, the dad was able to save one of his children, a 4-year-old son, the grandmother also was washed away but was rescued, was take ton a hospital, however, yesterday we learned that the mother had passed away. her body was discovered in the water behind me and then also now that search continues for those two missing children.

take a listen to what the governor had to say about this just yesterday. >> in short, all hands are on deck from the commonwealth to work together with our local partners. we have our backs and we will be here as long as it takes to make sure bucks county gets back up on its feet. >> reporter: and, share ration just to really emphasize the magnitude of this incident, it happened on the route right behind me, 532, there were also eight people rescued from cars that were swept into the creek along with the five who passed away and then two others from the creek itself were also saved, but now, sara, the resources are really coming in this this press conference we just learned there's air support, k-9s, underwater support as well. again, all efforts to try to find these two children. >> what a horrific story. a mother gone, a father and a 4-year-old saved but the 9 month old and 2-year-old still missing at this hour. we will check back with you and

let us know if you have anything new on this case, thank you danny freeman from bucks county. this morning major disruptions to air travel as a result of the severe storms over the last few days. the airlines scrambling to recover after thousands of flights were canceled and delayed. heavy rain and fog forced all flights to be grounded in new york and boston. let's get to cnn's pete muntean. pete, you know, were things improving at all this morning? >> reporter: i love the graphic that we have the flight aware misery map and it is true to its title, especially after yesterday. considering the fact that 1,700 flights were canceled, there's one big superlative that puts it in the top five for cancellations since memorial day and 9,800 flights were delayed. we have not seen this many delays this summer, 40% of all flights delayed on average an hour and ten minutes flights arriving to their destination. that is a lot of trouble for a

lot of air travelers, especially on a sunday when the numbers are typically pretty big. a lot of folks coming home at the end of the weekend. the worst airports unsurprisingly, and we've seen this over and over again this summer, in new york, jfk, newark, laguardia. those are the real trouble spots and the faa says its short air traffic controllers there, but when this weather rolls through that's when the deck of cards really begins tumbling down. there was also a ground stop yesterday for flights going into boston locagan, also trouble do to d.c. i want you to listen to the united airlines ceo scott kirby, he puts this pretty bluntly. he says that with climate change comes more and more extreme weather events and that means more and more delays and cancellations. united had its own meltdown the last week of june, but he says the word of caution here, no airline is safe. listen.

>> irregular operation events will be more likely to occur as the climate warms, more heat in the atmosphere, thermodynamics 101, we are going to have more thunderstorms. >> reporter: thermodynamics 101, hot air rises, especially in the afternoon, creates more thunderstorms which we are looking at again today according to the faa we could see ground stops in new york, in boston, in central and south florida. so far so good, though, john, only about 300 cancellations nationwide, about 1,300 delays. let's see if the airlines can really stick the landing here again today. >> look, fingers crossed. they need some time to get people, you know, to unwreck the situation as it were from this weekend. pete muntean, thank you very much. i have a feeling you were searching for a word other than unwreck. >> absolutely. >> you landed on a good one but also we can now decide -- we can now say with certainty that the weather is not completely horrendous in terms of travel disruption if pete muntean is

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democratic congresswoman and chair of the progressive caucus pramila jayapal is walking back her words this morning. here is what started it all, at a net roots conference this weekend. listen. >> we have been fighting to make it clear that israel is a racist state, that the palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy. >> jayapal was responding to pro-palestinian protests who showed up at the event on saturday. by sunday jayapal was trying to clean it up saying this in part, words do matter and so -- and so it is important that i clarify my statement. i do not believe the idea of israel as a nation is racist. the controversy comes days before the israeli president is scheduled to address a joint meeting of congress and some progressives have already said that they will be skipping that. joining me right now to talk

about this is democratic congress want bad schneider from ill illinois. thank you for coming in. the congresswoman was trying to clear up and clean up what she said on saturday. is that cleanup and clarification enough for you? >> i think -- and i spoke to her several times yesterday -- i think she understands that she misspoke. israel is not a racist state. she doesn't believe it is. she has said that. i expect she will clarify that even more. at the same time we have had leadership of the democratic party chime in and make clear that as a party we support israel, israel is our strongest ally in the world, certainly the middle east, one of our strongest in the world and the relationship is ironclad. >> you've signed on to a le letter -- we can describe it as a group of democratic members, jewish members, more moderate members signed on a letter speaking out about her remarks. at the end of the letter, the

letter that i have seen, it reads this, just to read it for everyone, congressman, we will never allow anti-zionist voice toss hijack the democratic party and country. is that what you see congresswoman jayapal doing with these remarks? do her comments work to hijack the democratic party? >> no, i think as we crafted the letter what we were saying was the groups on both sides of the political spectrum who are trying to create wedges and divide -- in this case divide the democratic party, the folks you heard chanting making it impossible for janu to speak on saturday, they have a clear intent to try to create a wedge and bring the democratic party to the fact that it doesn't reflect the u.s./israel relationship or where the democratic party is supporting the relationship. we have broad bipartisan support for israel not just in the

democratic party and across congress. >> the israeli president is coming to washington he will be speaking to congress on wednesday. ahead of that some fellow democrats, some progressives have said they are going to be boycotting the speech over their objections to moves being made by the netanyahu government. is that the right move? do you see that as the right approach to register their objections? >> no, i see it as exactly the wrong approach. look, the president has been outspoken in trying to address the issues israel faces as well as trying to find compromise across parties in israel on the judicial reform, advocating looking for pathways to reach out and create a platform to restart negotiations with the palestinians, looking for a partner with the palestinians. simple fact is there is no partner on the palestinian side to try to begin to have conversations. but what we're seeing around the region is the abraham accords are taking hold, israel is developing close relations with countries around the region and

my hope is the palestinians will find it within their leadership to join the talks and join the progress being made in the entire region. >> this trip by herzog also indicates the fact that netanyahu has not received an invitation to the white house. why do you think he has not received an invite? do you see that as a problem in sending a bad message in terms of the relationship with the netanyahu government and one of america's closest allies in israel? >> look, i'm excited to see president herzog coming to washington, he will be with the president tomorrow and will speak to a joint session of congress on wednesday and i expect the vast majority of members will be present in the chamber to celebrate president herzog's speech as well as 75 years of israel's existence and a close u.s.-israel relationship. i have no doubt that prime minister netanyahu will be here

speaking to the president and speaking to the american people as well. >> i want to turn gears real quick because in new hampshire today no labels the group and senator joe manchin will be holding an event fueling speculation of a possible third-party presidential run. joe lieberman one of the founder members of no labels was on this weekend saying a one thing -- they do not want to be spoilers. they are not in this to be spoilers is how he put it. you have now joined a group along with the former democratic house leader dick gebhardt to counter this effort. why do you see this as such a problem as a democrat? >> well, one of the things i said and i said this in my conversations with mr. gebhardt is these are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, a second trump presidency i see as a threat not just to the country but to the entire american experiment. we need to create unity to make sure that trump cannot and will not be the next president of the united states. this is not a specific criticism

of no labels alone, i think any third-party candidate history has shown that third-party candidates have a very difficult time gaining support and current polling reflects that a third-party candidate not only can't win the presidency but is going to hurt the incumbent president far more than it would damage the former president. >> let's see what happens with this. it's good to have you on, congressman, thank you for your time. sara? the judge who will oversee the documents trial against donald trump holds her first hearing and the first decision she will make might be the biggest of the entire case. also how police used a pizza crust to track down a suspected serial killer. ah, these bills are crazy. she

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tomorrow a significant hearing in donald trump's classified documents case. trump's legal team, though, has yet to finish applying for security clearances. the former president's lawyers promised a judge last week that they would wrap up all the necessary steps by today. the clearances are needed of course to view the sensitive documents that are central to this case. tomorrow's hearing is focused on how classified information will be handled during the entirety of the trial. joining us now is cnn's katelyn polantz. the judge set a deadline of thursday for the lawyers to complete this task. what's going on? >> well, the lawyers did tell the judge that they are essentially on track to start looking at classified material. they've submitted pretty much all the forms that they need to submit to get some sort of level of security clearance to start

looking at classified information. the only thing that has left to be done is that one of the trump attorneys, chris kise based in florida still has to submit fingerprints to get that process moving, but all of this is in service of the this hearing, share ration that is lined up for tomorrow in this case. pretty important hearing on a couple of months. it's the first time that the defense team and special counsel's office will be before judge aileen cannon, the federal judge that will oversea this case to trial. there's been a lot of arguments on both sides about when the trial should take place, could it take place at the end of this year or should it be postponed essentially indefinitely even after the presidential election. there is quite a possibility judge canon would want to address that timing. we're also going to get a taste of how much the classified material in this case could potentially drag things out. how it's going to be working. how many classified documents actually are there that both trump's legal team and walt

nauta his co-defendant his legal team will have to work through in order to prepare for trial, or is the justice department fully prepared to really open the books to them or that there just aren't a lot of classified documents at issue as part of this case. a lot of questions, especially about that, how classified documents are going to be han handled. that should be addressed in court tomorrow. >> normally these are really mundane parts just before a trial, but this one is particularly significant and we will be watching. thank you so much, katelyn polantz, appreciate it. with us now former federal prosecutor and host of the "it's complicated" podcast renato mariotti. nothing mundane about the timing of this trial. the timing could be everything here. so in terms of that, what will you been watching for tomorrow from judge aileen cannon? >> so i think the number one thing i'm going to be watching

for, john, is whether or not she's eager to decide that issue now. in other words, if she wants to take the motions -- the motion that's been made and make a ruling today on the trial date, in this particular hearing versus saying, hey, i don't have enough information, i want to put this off and see whether i get more information. the latter approach is more cautious, that's what most judges would do. if she makes a decision at this hearing regarding the trial date, i think it's going to be a positive one for donald trump. >> you think if she decides tomorrow it would be to delay the trial until after the election? >> i think that's right. she could say, for example, do something that puts it off, in other words, saying i will set a preliminary trial, you know, date next year for now, but i will reconsider it later. that to me is her just saying i'm going to punt on the issue. but if she's eager to consider the full issue at that hearing, i think it's going to be a bad

time for the government which is why the government is doing everything possible to make it hard for her to make that decision at this point. >> what can the government actually do, though? >> it's an interesting question, john, because i think they're doing everything they can, in fact, they're going above and beyond what the government typically would do in a case like this. for example, they're going through the documents and pulling out the ones they are are the most important and flagging those for the defense. i think the problem is going to be that the defense is likely going to make arguments in this hearing that they need additional classified documents that aren't, you know -- aren't contemplated by the government. that they think additional things are relevant. they're going to disagree with what the government suggests are the most relevant documents in the case. so, you know, it's always -- it's a system that allows for the defense to delay, gives a lot of tools for the defense to delay and that's why jack smith

and his team are working, you know, overtime to try to make that as difficult as possible. >> why do classified documents cases provide so many complicating factors? what makes them so complicated? >> one reason is because some of the discovery issues regarding classified documents, you know, they actually, for example, have to balance the usual rights that the defendant has. usually the folk news a criminal trial is getting the evidence to the defendant, allowing the defendant to, you know, examine that evidence at trial, present that evidence to the public. there's actually a right to a public trial in our constitution, but in classified documents of course there is a countervailing interest. there is an interest in the united states government in keeping this stuff secret and making sure that the public doesn't know everything in the documents. so in a typical case everything would go towards disclosure and towards the defense, here there's a balancing act and you

can expect in a case like this there to be pretty intense discussions about what information the defense really needs, how that's going to be produced and what time that's going to be produced and in what manner. is that going to be in a scif in the miami courthouse and will that slow things down, things of that nature. >> we learned from the "new york times" that a low-level trump organization employee received a target letter in the mar-a-lago documents case, perhaps pertaining to alleged perjury in the investigation. what i found interesting here was that someone did receive a target letter. we know donald trump received a target letter in the mar-a-lago documents case. can you extrapolate that over to the january 6th investigation, which is also being overseen by jack smith? does that mean that if there were to be charges there we would also see target letters first? >> that's -- wow, that's a really great question. i will say i never sent a target

letter when i was a federal prosecutor without proceeding to indictment. i would expect there may be another indictment coming in that case. yeah, regarding january 6th, i think that is a reasonable expectation at the very least he might send a target letter, for example, to trump himself. i will say jack smith has proceeded in an extraordinarily aggressive fashion and i think we're seeing that in both the mar-a-lago and the january 6th case. >> renato mariotti, thank you for joining you go this morning. it wasn't just a great question, it was, wow, that's a really great question. >> we clearly have worked together for too long. >> really great question. >> i was just waiting for that moment. a really great question. thank you, john. >> thank you. coming up for us, a mystery in alabama that has become more mysterious. a woman who was missing for two days after reporting a toddler seen walking alone on the interstate. that woman is now home. why that is only spurring more questions is coming up.

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investigators say they are pouring through new evidence now after a man arrested suspected of being a serial killer. police arrested rex heuermann in connection with three women from over a decade ago, and investigators say he is a prime suspect in the murder of a fourth. so what are you learning more this morning, brinn? >> well, we saw the investigators a short time ago putting on the tyvex suits and going into the home of rex heuermann, and we have found that inside of the home, there was a locked door of a room where they found a cache of guns. this is what the commissioner said about that finding. >> so over 200 guns. he had an arsenal in the vault downstairs. so it is concerning regarding

the guns being registered or legal or not, and this is something that we are taking a look at. any time somebody has that type of arsenal, we have some concerns. >> now, remember, initially, we were told that is 92 guns that we were thinking that rex heuermann had in his possession, and it is way more from semiautomatic rifles to assault weapons, and so they will hone in on why he had that many weapons. inside of the home, we are told from sources they are looking for souvenirs that maybe he kept after some of the killings, and any personal belongs that possibly belonged to the victims that went under the radar of those living in the house. they will compare it phrenically and also to talk to the victim's families to find out if it is something important to the investigation. another thing to point out that we have learned from the

investigation is that there is a storage area not far from the investigation, and that with the six murder charges of the women killed a fourth one is likely to be linked to heuermann in the coming weeks or days, and the district attorney would not give a precise time line there, but the point is that this investigation is far from over, kate. >> absolutely. the more places they are going, the more obviously, the more information they are covering, and so much more the go through as they are describing, bryn. sara? >> police work and new technology helped to solve that case, and now police are trying to find out what happened in a baffling case. an alabama woman disappeared and then appeared back on foot. this is where it is strange. the case started with a 911 case by carlitha carlee russell who

said that there was a toddler on the highway, and she stopped to help, but when authorities arrived, there was no sign of a toddler or russell. what more are you learning? >> well, the positive is that she is returned safe and sound, and there an evaluation at the hospital, and the police will be talking to her about where she has been in the past few days, but so much about this case after the nation got behind this and trying to find this young lady and what happened to the toddler on the side of the road. her parents did release a statement that in part reads "we are so grateful to each of you for the acts of kindness, generosity and compassion that you have shown. our baby is safe. thank you, father god. we want to ask for privacy at this time to ask us to love on

our daughter." you can understand why they would want to feel that way. after looking at the investigators and talking to them at the hoover police department, they will go through the video they have been looking to before, but they will talk to the young lady to find out what happened. it was thursday when the 911 call came, and no toddler has been found and no idea where she has been, and still a lot of questions to be answered but the good news is that she is safe. >> it is rare to find somebody who is missing, and this is the best part of the story is that at least she has been found. ryan young, thank you for the reporting. john? >> a deal critical to the food supply is terminated by russia as they target a key bridge in ukraine. key developments. so does this pro. i just love a grand slam..... ham. and if we proffer it, we know you'll p proffer it to. i knew he'd love that sandwich.h.

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