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russia. this is a key artery for supplying the kremlin's war in ukraine. plus, russia pulls the plug on a critical grain deal. what that means for food prices and global hunger. plus, brutal heat and catastrophic floods. climate change not just a threat in the future. it's hitting close to home for millions of americans right now. from record-setting temperatures in the west to deadly rising waters in the east. we've got your forecast and the impacts. and this person was a demon. that's how police are describing the man accused of a string of murders on long island in new york. could a so-called flood of evidence that tie the suspect to other cold cases? we're following these major developing stories all coming into right here on cnn news cen central.

a strategic attack on a critical russian bridge. new video into cnn showing heavy damage to the bridge. this is russia's artery that links to occupied crimea. and you can see giant holes, you can see the twisted metal here along a portion of the nearly 12-mile-long span. and there appears to be significant damage to one of the bridge's road bands. two strikes reported by carried out before dawn this morning. a course in ukraine security service telling cnn this was an attack that was a joint operation with ukraine's navy. russia claiming that two people were killed here. and this is a bridge that was built after moscow illegally annexed crimea back in 2015. it's a supply line that is vital for russia, particularly in southern ukraine. in the meantime, the white house is urging russia to immediately reverse court after the kremlin announced that it would terminate its deal that allows ukraine to export its grain.

the biden administration says russia pulling out of the grain deal will worsen food security, it will harm millions of vulnerable people around the world. the impact of the global -- on the global food market could be devastating here. ukraine accounts for 10% of the world's wheat market, 15% of the corn market, 13% of the barley market and it's also a key player in the sunflower oil industry. senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is live for us in odesa, ukraine, in the south. let's start with this attack not too far from you on the bridge. what more are you learning this hour. >> reporter: we have just heard from russian president vladimir putin for the first time since this attack took place. this was a personal project of putin's. it was -- it was something that he wanted, he ordered to be built not long after his illegal

annexation of crimea back in 2014. he was there for the opening. he drove a truck across that bridge. we saw him meeting with senior russian officials. he called this a terrorist attack echoing what we heard today from different ministries. he highlighted the fact that the attack killed two russians. they were parents of a young child. that child has now been orphaned and he did say that this attack by drone did severely damage the bridge. it caused significant damage that temporarily halted both car and train traffic the rail traffic is back up -- the railways are back up and running. i want to show you some new satellite imagery. i think you got it. that we just got in. you can see closely the damage that was done to the roadway on the bridge.

we're learning from the deputy prime minister that that roadway is going to be out of commission for quite some time. no car traffic, truck traffic on that vital bridge until mid-september. it's not going to be fully operational until november. what we know is that they have claimed responsibility which is quite remarkable because they rarely claim responsibility for their most brazen and daring attacks. they say it was a joint operation between their navy and security services. they tweet that had the bridge is asleep again. >> alex marquardt, thank you so much for that. obviously war is just one of many developments with this grain deal that russia has pulled out of. >> it is significant. we're going to discuss that and more with former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william tailor. he's also the vp at the u.s. institute of peace.

always great to see you. let's walk through the why. why is this bridge a target? >> the bridge is mainly a target, the first answer is that exactly what you just described, that is it is the way that the russians are getting military equipment into crimea, and then into southern ukraine. this is clearly a military target. this is a supply line. this is weapons, this is soldiers, ammunition. that's the first reason. the second reason, this is a symbolic connection which is ukrainians hate. they were glad to take this out. >> symbolically very important. let's get into the details of russia pulling out of this grain deal now. russia announcing that this major grain deal is over. it helps to provide foodstuffs from ukraine to much needy nations or nations that are in much need, i should say. antony blinken describing russia as using food as a weapon. do you agree? >> i agree.

i agree. there's no reason for the russians to block off the supply of grain from ukraine to the rest of the world. in particularly to africa is other nations that need this -- need the grain. the russians have blockaded the ukrainian ports, in particularly the part of odesa where you were just reporting from. blocking those ships and threatening those ships, even though odesa is not controlled by the russians, even though the russian navy should not be in that area, even though that's international waters between odesa all the way out to turkey, they are threatening any of these things. so it's very difficult for shippers to move -- to use that land area. >> well, russia has said that by withdrawing from this pact, it is not going to have any guarantees for safety in the black sea. how might that impact the broader conflict? >> that's exactly the threat that the russians are making. that's exactly the threat that the russians are making.

they can't guarantee which means they could attack those grain ships. and insurers and grain ship operators are not going to be willing to move their ships in that area. this is a way that the russians are trying to pressure the ukrainians. they're obviously failing. they have used different areas, different ways to try to pressure them, different ways to try the united states, the europeans, the africans and so far it's not worked. >> russia argues that its own demands for its side of the deal are not being met. is there a way to get the kremlin back to the table? >> there is a way. and the u.n. and the turks have been instrumental in trying to broker that. the ukrainians don't deal directly with the russians on this. the turks and the u.n. work with the russians and they work with the ukrainians. so it's up to the russians to agree to the proposals that the tu turks and the u.n. have made. >> president erdogan was set to

meet with vladimir putin. we'll see what the results are. always great to see you. >> thank you. life-threatening weather conditions on both sides of the country today. in the northeast, there's a d deluge for flash flooding and a sermg for a 2-year-old girl and her 9 month old brother. their mother has been killed. flash flooding killed four other people and as that same region braces for more rain in the coming days, other parts of the nation are suffering from extremely high temperatures. 80 million people in 12 states that are under excessive heat warnings. phoenix has broken 110 degrees 17 days in a row now. so we're going to get the latest on that. first, let's get the latest on this search for survivors in pennsylvania. danny freeman is live for us in bucks county. this is just terrible to hear about this story. what are officials saying?

>> reporter: yeah, truly a terrible story, especially for this tight-knit small community here in bucks county. we're in upper makefield township. we're a little bit away from where the bulk of this tragedy happened. but the one thing that we're hearing from first responders now is that they have been able to triple the number of assets that they have on the ground and in the air to make sure they find these two children who are still missing. just to recap, we're talking about saturday night, that's when this flash flooding happened. we're also talking primarily about one family of six. they were visiting from charleston, south carolina, they came up, there was a mother, a father, three children, and a grandmother. well, the father and the 4-year-old boy were able to escape. the grandmother also able to escape some of the most intense flooding that they experienced. but then we learned yesterday on sunday afternoon that the mother in this family was killed. at this point, we're still

looking for a 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister. a hard story with five dead here after flooding this weekend. brianna? >> thank you for the latest on that. we'll continue to monitor that search. i want to get more on these record-breaking temperatures in the southwest which is where rafael romo is. he's in las vegas. i guess the question is, this really comes down to tourists listening to warnings, to be safe, to stay inside when they need to. are they listening? >> reporter: yeah, for the most part they are. a lot of shopping, a lot of going to the casinos, trying to stay out of the heat. let me tell you, officially, the temperatures here in las vegas is a little over 100 degrees. but that temperatures is taken at a weather station at an airport in the shade and a few feet off the ground. take a look at our thermometer. this is not necessarily the most

accurate ter mom ter in the world, but it gives you an idea of what happens when you leave anything in the sun here. it went past the highest park of 120 degrees. look at that. the local office of the national weather service took some surface readings yesterday and found out that concrete in the sun can get as hot as almost 144 degrees while asphalt was even worse. the reading was 157.9 degrees. so surfaces can be very dangerous for everybody. especially children and pets. we spent some time in the hoover dam area where we spoke with a couple of tourists about how this heat feels like. >> feels like you're actually on fire. >> after you're out here for awhile and we've -- i just slammed about two bottles of water at lunch. this is definitely like touching surfaces. i'm not used to burning myself on concrete. >> it's harder to breathe

without the moisture in the air. it's hard to breathe. it makes things difficult. >> reporter: and the local office of the national weather service here in las vegas is reminding people that the heat is the number one weather-related killer in this part of the country. back to you. >> a good reminder. you go inside to the casino, rafael. that is your assignment here between live shots. rafael romo, thank you so much. heat isn't the only factor that is keeping millions of americans indoors. there is smoke. we see it here in washington, d.c. it is coming from these canadian wildfires once again hovering over new york, chicago, detroit and pittsburgh and a number of other cities. paula newton has the latest on this. >> reporter: this is the canadian wildfire season that just won't quit. it started early and will likely end later. there have been wildfires

burning in canada literally from one end of the country to the other. and while there has been some rain, it has done very little to dampen these large incredible record-breaking fires. think about it, 10 million hectares. that's 25 million acres, a land area the size of ohio has already burned and the season is little more than halfway done. even if it does rain, it is little more than a drop in an empty bucket. it is for that reason that many tell me this is more than one country can handle. there are in fact firefighters here from all over the world and americans firefighters are here. i want you to listen to the incident commander here from america's southwest talking about why many people in north america will continue to get air quality alerts for some time to come. listen. do you expect to be back more frequently in the next few years

given what you're seeing? >> absolutely. i expect that not only will we be back in canada, but folks from canada will be back in the u.s. we assist australia. another one of your prime partners that we share resources with. same thing is happening in australia. so this wildfire crisis is not a canada situation. it's not just a u.s. situation. it is a global crisis that we're dealing with. >> reporter: and, remember, here there aren't just fires burning in eastern canada. in western canada as well. the canada government called in for more resources from the canada military this weekend. there have been sadly two deaths among firefighters trying to cope with these blazes. and at this point officials say that this may not end until the first snowfall in canada. again, it will be unlike any wildfire season ever seen. paula newton, cnn, québec. >> thank you.

boris? >> between the floods, the heat and the wildfires, it cannot be ignored that this is starting to feel like the new normal. bill weir joins us now. what are scientists and climatologists saying about all of these broken records? >> well, in the words of one marine scientist, this is bonkers. this is a world where they're used to seeing records broken by a half a degree, not five degrees which is the case down around the florida bay there. it has the temperature of a hot tub which is hugely stressful on all the sea life, the people who depend on that industry as well as just a livable ecosystem down there. but it's too warm for tropical fish in florida. it's too warm for trout in the streams of montana. it's too warm for millions of species that are literally moving to try to escape this heat. not the least of which, you

know, humanity now. vegas hit that record today. portland hit it last summer when that big heat dome settled on the pacific northwest. these freakish occurrences are happening around odd spots around the globe. now we're starting to see how long the things can last. now that el nino is here, the last couple of years, we were benefitting from a natural sort of air-conditioning called a la nina. and it's only going to get hotter the more of the fossil fuels we burn. solving it is hugely complicated. john kerry just touched down in china to talk about climate negotiations there. and he does so at a time when that country records a record 127 degree farenheit temperature. >> and, bill, you hit the point of china. this could also have huge

national security implications as well. there was an ominous headline from the cia, the associate military affairs director says that climate change supercharges almost every other global threat. so what is at risk? >> as you say, life as we know it. every part of it is touched in some way. escaping rising seas near the coast, droughts, you can see the ripple effects going forward. and it's not cooling off. that's the main message is, we can control how hot it gets but what is already here is here. >> significant moment in human history. bill weir, thank you so much. it is a big week in the classified documents case against donald trump. the first major court hearing is set for tomorrow, as trump's legal team attempts to delay the trial for months.

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counsel's team has asked the judge to move things along. in a new filing, they say the defense never responded to their proposed rules for sharing classified records. i want to bring in former federal prosecutor elliot williams to talk a little bit more about this. what are we expecting to see tomorrow? >> tomorrow is a relatively straightforward status conference -- or pardon me, would be a relatively straightforward status conference if this were not the former president of the united states on trial. let's go through who some of the key players are. obviously you have walt nauta who is one of the defendants. judge eileen cannon will be overseeing the matter. she took some heat. there are going to be a lot of eyes on her tomorrow, at all points through this hearing, because of a prior ruling a few months ago that really got picked apart by the public and an appeals court that seemed to

be sort of just a pretty gross mishandling of the law. jack smith overseeing the whole thing. >> everything is supposed to be submitted today, right? so they can proceed. after that, how long does it take for the security clearance process to wrap up and what happens if there's some kind of hiccup for one or both of the attorneys. >> the two attorneys you talked about, one is based in d.c., one is based in florida. those are walt nauta's attorneys. there were a lot of delays that slowed the thing down. now the clearance process, really what they're looking for is, are you fit to handle classified information? usually it takes a few months. but you can expedite one such thing. mine took a few months, but i was never -- >> you were low priority. >> i was low priority. even as a senior justice department official. what they're looking for are things like are you subject to being bribed for the information

you have? and some things that weigh on that are your personal finances, do you gamble? do you have serious debts? they will ask a lot of questions you for information like that. do you have foreign ties? i have a sister who was born in jamaica and i had to answer a bunch of questions about that on my background checks. and, of course, criminal records. i don't believe any of these attorneys have those. if you got one, it's going to get in the way of your background check. that could slow things down a little bit. most importantly, though, this case can go ahead if one attorney is cleared, what the judge would do is say for the time being, one person, the one cleared attorney, can start receiving evidence from the prosecutors, right? if you were walt nauta, you would kick and scream saying that makes no sense. my attorneys can't talk to each other and prep for my trial. >> exactly. but how would you do that if you have an attorney that can't deal with the documents that are at

the center of the case? >> it would be temporary at least to start and given some of the delays that they've been responsible for, for taking their time filing, you know, the judge could maybe grant such a motion. but we'll see what she does with that. >> talk about the time line here. what we've seen from the lawyers from trump and nauta, they want to delay this thing. >> they do. and they asked for an indefinite delay for the trial. jack smith and his team, they blasted trump's team in a filing last week saying an indefinite continuance is unnecessary, will inject additional delay into this case, it's contrary to the public interest. that's not going to happen. you know, i think the judge will set a trial date. what they're all looking for, judge cannon set the trial for a couple weeks.

that ain't happening. the special counsel asked for december 11th. that's pretty ambitious and the former president has said postpone it indefinitely. that's not happening either. this would fall to the judge to decide when this case is going to go to trial. >> do we really need to do this? do we really need -- >> real quick, the rule is for his protection as a defendant to go to trial quickly. >> good point. elliot williams, thank you so much for taking us through all of this. boris? >> still to come, police say they received a flood of evidence after the arrest of a new york man suspected of being a serial killer. we'll tell you how they tracked him down. taiwan's president expected to travel through the united states next month. a move that china is calling an ambush visit. we'll explain why in a moment. stay with us. berattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends t these services for everyone who lives here.

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investigators say they are sorting through what they call a flood of evidence in the gilgo beach murder investigation. and that's after the arrest of rex heuermann. police say they can prove three murders and he's a key surface in a fourth. they are searching a storage

unit near his home. investigators said they collected a trove of evidence including more than 200 firearms found stashed in a vault behind a locked metal basement door. let's get into this with brynn gingras. what more can you tell us about the items that officials found in his home? >> reporter: we just saw two investigators leaving the home behind me of rex heuermann with two of those big guns, likely putting them into evidence. but they are pulling a number of things from this home and it was a basement in the floor of this home behind a locked door that investigators say they found an arsenal of weapons. i want you to hear more from the police commissioner. >> over 200 guns. he had an arsenal in his -- in a vault that he had downstairs. it was concerning regarding the guns being registered or legal or not, that's something that we're still taking a look at.

but any time somebody has that type of arsenal, we have some concerns. >> reporter: we know that none of the victims that he's been charged with the murders of were gunshot wound victims. the police commissioner said it's concerning, they're trying to answer why he had so many guns. in addition to the home that has investigators have been at since last week, taking evidence out of, they are also searching a nearby storage facility. we've learned from sources that one of the things that they're trying to sort of pinpoint is, did heuermann have any souvenirs as they call it, did he keep any items that belonged to the victims and that's going to be a part of their investigative process. >> thank you so much for that update. let's discuss further with john miller. he's cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. john, how hard is it to get into the mind of someone that's capable of committing these sorts of crimes? >> well, in this case it's not

as hard as it used to be. the digital footprint of rex heuermann has been a virtual road map for authorities as very much like alleged serial killers we've seen in the past. the son of sam who went on a rampage killing people in the 1970s in new york city was a quiet postal worker by day who used to walk people to their cars because they were afraid of the killer which was him. ted bundy had a series of respectable jobs. here you have a man who owns and runs a manhattan architectural firm that deals with regulators and government officials, wears a suit and tie to work, gets on the train and has been operating for more than a decade as a cold, cruel, calculating serial killer. >> it's interesting that you mention the note about david berkowitz walking people to

their car. allegedly, this suspect asked a woman in a networking group if she had heard about the murders he's now accused of committing. >> you know, boris, with these offenders and each one is individual, but you learn as you go in the study of them, there is this need to reassert, reaffirm their power, whether that is taking souvenirs and keepsakes from the victims that they can go back and use to relive those murders in their own minds or in this case, where the killer called relatives of the victims and told them that he was the killer and how he killed them and why he killed them which is why where brynn is at the search site and particularly in that storage area, they're looking for any clues or things that he would have kept from the victims. >> it is possible we will get more news as investigators pick up evidence.

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now to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour. country singer jason aldean says

he's feeling better after ending a concert in connecticut over the weekend. video shows him struggling to make it through a strong before he's seen running off the stage. the 46-year-old says he thinks he suffered a combination of dehydration and heat exhaustion after playing golf all day. she stopped short of saying it was a heatstroke adding i don't think it was quite that serious. he said he received two ivs and going on with his concert tour. in spain, environmental activists spray painted a su superyacht in an act of protest. they're standing in front of the $300 million vessel holding a banner that says you consume. others suffer. the activists sprayed red and black paint on the yacht. multiple news sites say the superyacht belongs to a

billionaire heiress of walmart. and former employees of twitter say they've not received severance pay from twitter. they've not received a dime or heard from the company. twitter and musk now face multiple lawsuits where plaintiffs are claiming the company has failed to pay what they're owed. brianna? china is calling it an ambush visit. taiwan's vice president expected to make a stop in the u.s. next month. the transit stop is coming as the biden administration is working to improve diplomacy with china and the white house is bracing for possible blowback from china about this at a critical moment when tension is already sky-high. kylie atwood is at the state department on this. tell us what the biden administration is saying about

this so-called transit stop in the u.s. >> yeah, well they're saying that this will be a private visit by taiwan's vice president especially making the argument that this isn't a unique visit for the vice president of taiwan. a senior administration official talking to reporters last night saying that these transits of senior officials are unofficial in keeping with our u.s. one china policy. we've had ten vice presidential transits in the last ten years. all have occurred without incident. and that word "transit," the reason that the u.s. government uses the word transit for these trips to the united states by taiwan officials is because the u.s. and taiwan don't have formal diplomatic relations. so the vice president of taiwan will actually be coming to the united states on his way to paraguay. he will be running for the presidency. the elections are next year.

this makes this a bit of a unique visit. we should note that when you talk to u.s. officials, they do acknowledge privately that china is probably going to respond even though they say they expect this visit to happen without there to be any kind of incident from the chinese. the chinese usually respond quite angrily when taiwan officials come to the united states and there are military drills that they carry out in response. we saw that when the president of taiwan visited the united states earlier this year for one of the unofficial transits. there are three days of military exercises that china carried out around taiwan. >> we'll be looking for that. kylie atwood, thank you. boris? >> it is finally official. the world's best soccer player is now an inter miami player. how lionel messi's arrival is already giving a big boost to the u.s. and florida's economy .

the g.o.a.t. is now officially calling south florida home. major league soccer's inter formally invited lionel messi to thousands during a rainy celebration last night. it comes just the day after he officially ink ed a deal throug

the 2025 season. despite the payout the secretary of-time world player of the year is just like us, he's a florida man now. fans spotting messi getting groceries at publix. the first match could come as soon as this friday. and we'll get to how much those tickets are going for in a moment. joining us is soccer podcaster and commenter for mls season pass chris whittlingham. i tried to list his accomplishments, and he's won everything. talk about his greatness. is he really the g.o.a.t.? >> i think so. you can have a well roped debate about -- reason ed gate about pail-- pele. putting it together and also not

even just listing off the bona fides as you mentioned but also the watching of a player who i think has completely mastered this game at every level, i think messi is the greatest player who ever lived. there are reasonable debates othe otherwise. you combine the accolades, style of play, joy of watching him, think he's the greatest. and he's coming to major league soccer. >> what does it mean for mls? for we've heard talk about soccer being the next big pro sport in the united states. is this a turning point? >> i think it can be. i think everything in this sport here in the u.s. are steps forward. i think people are waiting for sort of a boom moment where it comes the biggest league in the world. i think major league soccer is fighting up against quite a lot particularly from a financial standpoint. if you look at the competitive environment in the premier league, even now with the saudi pro league coming in and spending a ton of money on

players, it's going to be hard for major league soccer to compete on that level. everything steps forward. if you go back to when david beckham joined the league in 2007 the league had 12 teams. now they have 29. there's been an enormous amount of growth in stadiums and the quality of play and the quality of the american player and the quality of the american player that also goes abroad and plays in major european leagues. on a more consistent basis on a level that has never happened before. everything is a step forward. i think what people are hoping with lionel messi joining inter miami is it is a bigger step forward than all of the other ones. sort of the impact remains to be seen of what the traveling tour will be like when he plays in new york and l.a., which he will in the last few games of the regular season. you have to imagine that this super charges him and begins a conversation of how does this sport which will host next summer, when hosts the world cup, the club and international variety in 2025 and 2026, take advantage of this moment and use it to have it be a launching pad

for the sport in this country. >> ticket prices have launched. some going for $110,000, according to a search on ticket reselling site vivid seats. does this ultimately help the league, does it shut fans out, and what should we expect to see from messi on friday? >> i think the unveiling event that inter miami did on sunday night was a sort of nod to the fact that, yeah, these tickets are going to be more expensive. i'll be curious sort of as we get into home games, number two, three, four, five, and six, if that level of market sustains itself. there are still going to be plenty of people who want to see him for the first time. i imagine it will be more accessible. away from home it gets dodgy. if you think he's going to play in new york at red bull arena, that's a 25,000-seat arena. a city full of people that want to be seen at an inter miami game or want to go a lionel messi inter miami game. i imagine the away games will

hold like that. he's going to be here for 2.5 years. i think people will have a chance to see him for less than $1,000 apiece. >> chris, a fancy lad. thank you for joining us. >> cnc field trip. i'm pitching that. higher food prices, as well, and more global hunger. this is what we're talking about when we're talking about the consequences of russia pulling out of this u.n.-brokered green deal that could be felt around the world. a new warning of how the move by the kremlin could push those on the brink of starvation over the edge. just sold the car to carvana. what? all i had to do was answer a a couple questions and got a real offer in seconds. then, they just picked up the car and paid me right on the spot. sell your car at carvana dot com today. meet the team all using chase to keep up with their finances. smart bankers. coenient tools. bo. one bank with t power of both.

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