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a potentially major blow to the global food market after russia terminates a critical grain deal with ukraine. what that means for food prices. this decision coming just hours after a bridge that's key to transplanting supplies from russia to crimea is attacked. how that could impact the kremlin's war. and congresswoman pramila jayapal in damage control mode after calling israel a, quote, racist state. a comment house democrats are calling unacceptable. we'll be speaking to one of the lawmakers who signed an open letter condemning her remark. . plus, the alabama woman who went missing after reporting a toddler walking on the interstate alone is back home. what police are now saying about

this mystery. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." we're following two major developments in russia's war in ukraine. first, vladimir putin is now claiming that ukraine's strike on a bridge that links russia to occupied crimea is, quote, a terrorist attack. you can see in this video part of the 12-mile-long russian-built bridge was heavily damaged in a predawn attack. this is a vital supply line for the russian war effort. and just hours after the strikes, russia announcing it is terminating its deal allowing ukraine to export grain from its ports. the impact on the global food market could be devastating. cnn's alex marquardt is live in odesa, ukraine. let's start with the bridge attack. this is a bridge that's been

targeted before, and it carries important significance to the russians. >> reporter: yeah, it does. it was hit for the first time last october. back then the ukrainians did not claim responsibility. they certainly have this time. in fact, in a message that was kind of trolling the russians, the ukrainian services tweeted that the bridge is asleep again, a reference to now two attacks that have significantly damaged this vital bridge both in terms of logistics and what it carries to and from crimea but also it is hugely symbolic. this was a personal project of vladimir putin's after he annexed crimea illegally back in 2014. he opened it himself just a couple years later. we did just hear from putin a very short time ago. his first comments since this attack earlier today. he did call it a terrorist attack. he talked about the two russian parents who were killed during this predawn taiwan around 3:00 in the morning, their young child was injured.

and he went on to say that they would be responding, there would be a response, and the defense min ministry, the military, is working on options. ukraine, again, claiming responsibility in a way that we haven't seen before when it comes to brazen attacks. they don't often do that. they said it was a joint operation between their navy and the security services. russia adding more detail saying it was two surface or -- surface or drones on the water that carried out these strikes. and there was -- wd t imagery from the satellite company that shows the extent of the damage. i think we can put it up on the screen. you see there the roadway that ha pririly damaged. there's a dark spot. we believe that is from the blast. this roadway certainly out of commission to cars and trucks. we're told by the deputy defense minister it will be several months before it is fully operational again, at least until september 15th, when the

car traffic can resume. and not in will november 1st when it will be fully operational. both the roadway and the train tracks came to a halt after the blast. the trains are now bag up and running again. boris? >> and alex, do we know if this attack on the kirch bridge had something to do with russia pulling out of its grain deal with ukraine? >> reporter: the russians are saying no, that they're not related. they certainly did happen on a -- this decision by russia certainly did happen on a very significant day. but this was a long time coming. there were rumblings from the russians that they weren't going to renew there deal. there deal's been in place for a year now, brokered by the united nations and turkey, of course, between russia and ukraine so that ukraine could export its grain to the world from here in odesa and other ports that are not under russian control. that was an extraordinarily important deal that was brokered. it allowed ukraine to export all the grain it has to support its economy. according to the united nations,

food prices came down 23%. now russia has pulled out of this deal, and according to a u.n. official, it looks like the decision is pretty final. >> and it could have major impacts for security on the black sea, as well. alex marquardt from odesa, thank you so much. let's talk now about the global impact of russia pulling out of the ukrainian green deal a little bit more. we have senior citizen's anna stewart with us. talk a little bit about who this is going to affect the most. >> reporter: certainly ukraine, given they were able to export some 33 million tons under this deal. that was a huge revenue stream. but really it's hard to say who wouldn't be affected if this deal remains off the table. that's simply because ukraine important role in global food an markets. combined, they represent 30% of the world's exported wheat, 20% of corn, 75% of nflower soil.

they are huge when it comes to the fertilizer market, as well. that touches on all fuel commodities. when we look at ukraine specifically, their exports, well over half go to developing countries. so there will be a direct impact those nations, developing nations, when it comes to their food supplies if this remains the case. but really we're looking at food prices potentially going back to where we saw them before that deal was reached last august. food prices since then have come down by some 20%. so that's the big concern. we saw grain prices rising today around the world. they have come down a little bit. i wonder at this stage whether there is some hope of a negotiation. >> can that deal be resurrected if there is some hope of a negotiation? >> reporter: well, it's just a really interesting position we've seen today because clearly we had the u.n. secretary general saying that he was hugely disappointed. he had written, he says, proposals to president putin finding solutions because russia feels this deal really wasn't

helping them enough, he says, according to russia, the sanctions meant that essentially they weren't able to export food and fertilizer as agreed. the u.n. say they've come up with proposals and clearly those haven't been accepted by president putin. so both, two sides seem to be on fairly solid ground at this stage. but looking at those wheat prices, you have to question whether something is going on in the background. >> all right. we'll keep tracking this, obviously impacting a lot of people. thank you. boris? just a few days before israel's president is set to address congress, some top republican presidential candidates are taking part in the christians united for israel conference today. florida governor ron desantis spoke just a short time ago. mike pence and nikki haley are up tonight, but noticeably one person is absent -- donald trump, the frontrunner. cnn's kristen holmes is there across the potomac. what did you hear from ron

desantis? >> reporter: he outlined a foreign policy agenda for if he were to become president for israel, for the middle east. he touted his faith, and he aligned himself with some pro-israel trump administration policies. take a listen. >> it just shows you how the foreign policy elite in this town always miss the mark because for decades they said middle east peace goes through the israeli-palestinian-arab conflict. you have never have peace in the middle east unless you, quote, solve that problem. i think the abraham accord showed just the opposite. >> reporter: and as you noted, there are several candidates here, 2024 hopefuls, mike pence, nikki haley, in an effort to woo evangelical voters. when i spoke to campaign advisers, they believe there is a sect of evangelical voters who is looking for an alternative to

former president donald trump who right now is the frontrunner. he has been dominating in the polls. as you mentioned, trump is not here today because he's not invited. he was invited in years past, so it is significant. also significant because it comes after trump skipping another evangelical conference in iowa on last friday. they said there was a scheduling conflict, but i talked to a number of his advisers who said he's not going to do these big group gatherings, the quote/unquote campaign cattle calls. it's leaving a lot of evangelical voters that i've spoken to concerned or even feeling snubbed that he's not reaching out it them. i want to be clear, trump is wildly popular among evangelicals. we heard one speaker mentioned his name, got a huge round of applause. but they do believe, this is again campaign advisers for these others candidates, that there might be an opening within this group of critical voters, particularly for a republican primary, who are looking for something different. that's what we're going to talk to these voters about today. we'll keep you posted on where

their heads are after they hear the speakers. >> thanks for keeping an eye that for us. in the meantime, a top progressive democrat's comments about israel have prompted backlash from colleagues in her own party. here is what house progressive caucus chair pramila jayapal said on sunday as she was addressing pro-palestinian demonstrators. >> we have been fighting to make it clear that israel is a racist state, that the palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy. >> the next day, jayapal apologized and tried to clarify her comment. she said, quote, i do not believe the idea of israel as a nation is racist. she added that the netanyahu government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies, that was her quote there. a group of jewish democrats in the house have penned a draft letter condemning her remarks, quote, we will never allow

anti-zionist voices that embolden anti-semitism to hijack the democratic party and country. we are joined by one of the co-authors of the draft, democratic congressman jared moskowitz of florida. congressman, thank you so much for being with us today. are her clarification and the apology there sufficient for you? >> thanks for having me. yeah, listen, i'm appreciative of the chairwoman clarified and apologized because obviously the statement was outrageous. to say an entire nation is racist, which gets to the foundation of israel, listen, i think it's totally fair to criticize politicians, to criticize policies, right, we do that in our own country, with our allies sometimes. to say an entire country is racist which gets to the foundation -- listen, it's why house leadership led by hakeem jeffries put out a statement israel is not a racist country. and i'm appreciative that she

put out that clarification. >> have you spoken to her about this? >> i have not yet spoken to her. i'm sure i will get the chance when i see her on the floor when we have votes this evening. >> as you said, it's one thing to criticize a policy. when you look at netanyahu's policies, do you think that they are in the best interests of u.s. national security? >> well, listen, you know, israel is our number-one ally in that region. and they're one of our number one along with probably the uk as far as intelligence sharing. so israel's an indispensable ally. look, there are people in the coalition government that i fundamentally disagree with, and there are statements they have made in the coalition government, members of that government, that i find outrageous. so that's what i'm saying. i think it's fair to criticize leaders, i think it's fair to criticize policies, but again, to go back and say an entire state, the whole country, is racist i think is outrageous. and that's why i'm glad that

she's clarified those comments. >> yeah. certainly, and she's making that distinction there. when you took office in january, you said you were going wait and see how these policies played out. obviously there were some folks who are raising questions about how things were going, how they were going to go. now what are you thinking as you look at some of these policies? >> well, listen, i'm for a two-state solution. i think that's important. obviously defending the state of israel is extremely important, not just to me personally but to the united states congress and to the united states people. but obviously i'm for a two-state solution. i think that's person. i think the american people and the u.s. government led by president biden have made it clear that we're for a two-state solution. as far as the judicial reforms going on there, i still think we need to see where all of that lands. lord knows, look what's going on with the judiciary in our country. we got mitch mcconnell stealing senate seats, we got supreme court justices taking away rights for women that have existed for 50 years. we've got supreme court justices hanging out with people on their

boats and trips and planes who have cases in front of them. so i think it's totally fair for us to be asking these questions about an ally of the judiciary, but also it's fair we be asking the same questions of our own judiciary. i think that's what the american people expect us to do. we obviously send tremendous foreign aid to our allies. that gives us the ability to ask those questions. >> you were on the oversight committee, and there are two irs whistleblowers who say an investigation into hunter biden was slow walked and they will testify on wednesday. do you have concerns about something -- of course, your republican colleagues have zeroed in on, this whatsapp text message where hunter biden is invoking his father while he is looking for a commitment, you know, raising the question of if he was looking for a payment from a chinese business partner. >> first of all, my republican colleagues in oversight which have turned the committee into a

circus, their first whistleblower turns out to be a chinese foreign agent, someone working with the iranian regime and selling illegal chinese weapons to the libyans. so that obviously questions the entire investigation process that they're willing to stoop to that level. additionally, they're working with this guy now at the irs. in the last administration, republicans said that all these whistleblowers were part of the deep state. and we shouldn't listen to a word they say. so gary shipley, the guy they've called from the irs, was he a member of the deep state? not paying deep state dues? why do we believe anything he says? by the way, the prosecutor, david weiss, apointed by donald trump who's been leading that investigation has questioned some of the things that gary shipley has said. this is all in an efforts to own hunter biden, you know, look, obviously he's someone who struggled with certain things in his life. he lost his brother at a young age, lost his mom -- >> let me ask you about that -- yes, he lofst his sister, mom,

brothers, had a substance abuse issue. no doubt about this. people with substance abuse problems obviously do things that people without them do not. he could have been lying in this text message. that's entirely possible. yes, republicans stand to gain politically and have certainly seized on this issue. all of those things you were correct about. but this text message -- i mean, isn't it also important to get to the bottom of this, especially when you have so many democrats who are concerned about president trump's adult children and his son-in-law who were using their positions for financial gain? are they upholding that same standard now on this? >> trump's children were in the administration, number one. >> true. >> number two, trump's son-in-law, also in the administration, in the administration, rieghts right -- >> to be clear, some of them were, some of them were not. in this case at the time, you're welcome, hunter biden's father was not in the administration, but he would later go on to be president. these are obviously -- someone with a political future. i mean, and hthis is a real tex

mes message. is this important to get to the bottom of? >> as you pointed out we have a text message -- look, there's a prosecutor that's been looking at issues like this for five years. so if hunter biden violated the law, just like we saw about donald trump, no one is above the law. then obviously the prosecutor needs to bring charges just like they did on the tax issue and on the gun issue. you know, that being said, we don't know if joe biden was sitting next to hunter. that's the bipolar thing that my colleagues do. they come out and say hunter biden, you know, he does drugs and does this and that, and then they find a text and want to treat it like it came down from mount sinai on a tablet from moses. we have no idea what this pan-- what this means. they're trying to pump up trump's numbers in the polls by going after the biden family, trying to turn them into the sopranos. it's a complete joke. it's not the same as what went

on in the trump administration with jared kushner taking -- >> as we look at the text, entirely possible that joe biden was not sitting there as hunter biden is alleging. he alleges that he was in the text, entirely possible he wasn't, to your point there, raising some ethical considerations certainly at the least here. but i do, congressman, want to thank you so much. this is obviously going to be a day of some drama on wednesday. and obviously a lot going on with israel, as well, this week. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> boris? flooding and extreme heat are not just plaguing the united states. it's hitting the entire globe. in fact, dozens have lost their lives after torrential rain hit south korea. a nightmare scenario that unfolded for many of them when we come back. and in europe, a second major heatwave in a week sparking fears of a major wildfire outbreak. we have a report for rome next.

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u.s. climate envoy john kerry is in china as the two biggest polluters try to fix fractured ties. he's meeting with his counterparts to discuss what more can be done to she down climate change and bring -- slow down climate change and bring down rising temperatures. on the same day he arrived, china broke its all-time heat record clocking in at 126 degrees. cnn has more live from hong kong. >> reporter: this face-to-face meeting is important. it's about resuming their joint working group on candlelight cooperation been cop 28 at the end of november. kerry said it was imperative that china and the u.s. make real progress in the next four months. kerry also said in the next three days we hope we can begin taking big steps that will send a signal to the world about the

serious purpose of china and the u.s. to address a common risk, threat, challenge to all of humanity created by humans themselves. kerry will meet with other chinese officials over the next few days, possibly even chinese leader xi jinping. kerry and xi met when he was u.s. secretary of state under president obama. experts believe that meeting would send an important signal of beijing's compliment to tackling global warming. cnn, hong kong. the extreme heat that's gripping much of southern europe and the mediterranean is forecast to intensify by midweek, and meteorologists are expecting more temperature records to be broken and more power grids to be under threat. cnn has more from rome. >> reporter: you know, you would never guess by the sheer number of tourists here at the trevi fountain in central rome just

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secretary of state antony blinken wants to light a fire under senate lawmakers, namely republican senators. moments ago he urged the senate to end a month' long hold on dozens of state department nominees. a total of 38 ambassador nominations are awaiting confirmation. keep in mind, some have been on hold for over a year. for the first time ever, there could be no confirmed ambassadors in egypt, israel, jordan, and lebanon by summer's end. cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood is standing by at the state department. blinken said the holds are hurting national security. >> reporter: exactly. so what he told reporters today is that he sent a letter to all u.s. senators urging them to move swiftly on these nominees for critical ambassador posts

and critical top state department official posts that had been held up, as you said, some for months, some over a year. in total more than 60 nominees from the state department that are on ice when it comes to congressional approval, their process to move them through and get them out into the field. and the secretary of state called this unnecessary, he said as you mentioned that it is undernining national security and -- undermining national security and this is hurting americans traveling abroad, hurting american tourists, and benefiting american adversaries. it is senator rand paul who has a blanket hold on all of these nominees because he is demanding more information about u.s. government-funded covid-19 research from the state department. and so that's why the secretary of state said that this hold on these nominees is not actually about their credentials at all. listen to what he told reporters just now -- >> no one is questioning the

qualifications of these career diplomats. they're being blocked from leverage on other unrelated issues. it's irresponsible, and it's doing harm to our national security. >> reporter: and so what the secretary of state is asking congress to do is move swiftly. he said that the state department has worked extensively with the office of senator rand paul, but that obviously has not sufficed yet department and to the u.s. government. and so he is now urging all senators to try and get on board so that they can get these nominees through and onto their posts. of course, we should note that senate is going into recess in august. there's not much time before they're out for about five weeks. boris? >> timing is an important point here. kylie atwood at the state department. thank you so much. brianna? coming this fall, something we will welcome which is dropping temperatures, something we most definitely will not which is rising costs. that is when many government protections and programs are ending and millions of americans could be feeling the pain on

this one. we have tom fme foreman here to explain. testimony us what programs are set to expire? >> reporter: there may be nothing in the news today that could affect you and your community more than this news. this is fallout of the pandemic still. look at all these programs that are now going to end this fall. student loan payments are going to restart, pandemic-era funding for childcare expenses, massive expense for many people. those are going to end. work requirements for food stamps will restart, and states continue to remove people from medicaid rolls who are no longer eligible. this is the bashwash of saying we're past the pandemic, many things are changed, the white house has many plans to try to offset some of this. but nonetheless, the changes are coming. could affect a lot of people. >> as people are looking to not see that help with childcare, there are a lot of providers who are actually going to be increasing the costs. so there's -- like a double high edged sword there. how much could all of this impact the health of the economy? >> that is a great question.

it could affect your economy personally, whoever you are, a great deal, but if you look at what mark zandi from moody's analytics, he basically said that this can affect individual people in their own way, ending these sources of income and support will be a financial blow to lower income americans and be a headwind to overall economic growth. but really important here, it won't blow hard enough to push the overall economy into recession. he went on to talk about the fed handling interest rates, how they have to walk a knife edge to move forward. depending who you are, big impact. in terms of the overall committee, they think right now maybe not. >> lower income americans getting hit here. we're also getting a glimpse into folks who have a cushion, right, who have some savings. what are we seeing? >> and this is why we're not sure where this will land. look, right now, from 2019 to 2023 before the pandemic to today, people have 10% to 15%

more in their savings, median cash balances. that was much higher, but it's still higher than it was. and very importantly, right now, earnings have just started outpacing inflation. so we're really on this knife edge with all this in terms of what it will still mean to our economy, what it might mean to you personally. but watch all these numbers, keep an eye on it because this is what's going to come to your pocketbook in a way that news sometimes doesn't. but this time really does. >> yeah. you will start feeling this, a lot of folks will. thank you for taking us through that. boris? the alabama woman who went missing after calling 911 about a child walking alone on the interstate is now back home. some unanswered questions in the case. what we know about her disappearance. and a passenger had to grab the controls of a small plane crash landing it on martha's vineyard. details ahead.

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now to some of the other headlines that we are watching this hour. writers are urging artificial intelligence cultures to stop using their work without permission. thousands of authors including romance novelist norah roberts and margaret atwood signed a letter to incumbents such as meta, microsoft, and ibm, arguing that embedding their writings in a.i. systems threatens to damage their profession. and they're calling on them to obtain consents, credits, and fairly compensate writers for the use of copyrighted material in training a.i. also, china's foreign minister has vanished. vanished from public view. he was last seen three weeks ago

on june 25th, and the prolonged absence now driving intense speculation during a busy period of diplomatic activity in beijing. today a chinese foreign ministry spokesman said she had, quote, no information to provide. and sir elton john testifying in court today as a defense witness in the sex offense trial against actor kevin spacey. according to press association reports, he appeared via video link. he was asked to speak about spacey's presence at a fundraising event at the singer's home in england. he's accused of aggressively grabbing a man driving him to the event, which the actor denies. spacey is facing 12 sexual offense charges by four different men. he denies all of the allegations. boris? a mystery in alabama. police are trying to piece together what happened to a woman who returned home after van issuing for two days. this is 25-year-old carlee russell. she disappeared thursday after

she called 911 to report that she saw a toddler walking alone on the side of the highway. according to officials, she stopped and then phoned a family member who lost contact with her during that call. when officers arrived at the scene, they found her car and some of her belongings, but there was no sign of russell or a child. cnn's ryan young has been following this story for us. so ryan, what more have police learned about what happened here? >> reporter: yeah, there's so much about there story that we still don't know just yet. what we know and the good news part of this is that she is home, and she is safe right now. hoover police, we've been calling them all day, we know they want to sort of give her some time with her family and then apparently they will interview her at some point. like you talked about, the phone call came in around 9:30. she called 911 to say she saw a toddler. at some point when police arrived on interstate 459, they found that car and found her cell phone there. then from that point on, there is no details about where she

may have been. and of course on saturday, she showed up at the family home. and the family is so relieved that she's home. in fact, her parents released this sta, "we are so grateful to all of you and acts of kindness, generosity, and compassion you have shown. our baby is safe. thank you, father god." and boris, we should stress here if you think about all the people who helped, not only the police department but family members and the community, they were all out there looking for this young lady. right now we don't have the details about where she was for those hours when people were desperate sleerchi i-- desperaty searching for her. >> keep us posted on the latest. thank you so much. another big step could be coming in the fight against alzheimer's disease. a drug to slow its progression may be approved. we'll have details ahead.

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some major new developments to share with you in the treatment of alzheimer's. a second drug to slow the disease's progression could be approved this year. alzheimer's erodes memory and thinking, eventually leaving a person unable to perform basic tasks. let's bring in cnn's meg terrell. what can you tell us about this drug? >> it's made by eli lilly and they said that they had finished their submission to the fda for full traditional approval and they expect a decision by the end of the year. and they also presented fuller phase three trial results at the international conference in amsterdam today. what they show is that this

medicine, like the one that we just saw get full approval a couple weeks ago, can slow the progress aggression of alzheimer's disease by 35% for this drug in this trial. what that translates to is four to seven months benefit for people taking the drug compared to placebo. but this does come with some side effects which we see for all kinds of drugs in the class, including swelling in the brain and brain bleeds. that happened for more than 20% for people who are taking the medicine and there were three deaths in the trial associated with the drug. and so if this becomes available at the end of the year, similarly to the other one, it will have to be a conversation between patients and doctors between the risks and benefits. people are excited that we're finally seeing progress here. >> definitely so many people affected by alzheimer's. there's new data about the geography of its spread. more people in the east and

southeast being affected. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, this is the first time we're seeing county level estimates for the prevalence of alzheimer's and that's important because you have to be able to make budgeting decisions, planning, allocation as populations get older. what we're seeing is that there are counties in the east and southeast and specifically miami-dade county, baltimore and bronx county where we're seeing the highest esmates of prevalence for people over 65 with alzheimer's. where the highest proportion of people who are elderly and also people who are black and hispanic live. we've seen higher prevalence in those groups versus others. important information for planning going forward. >> thank you so much for the update. brianna? >> now to a scary plane emergency over martha's vineyard, massachusetts. a pilot of a small plain suffering a medical emergency as the aircraft neared the airport on the island and a passenger then jumped in, took over the

controls, made a crash landing with no landing gear. both the pilot and the passenger survived. we have pete muntean joining us now. really unbelievable. thank goodness they both survived. this could have gone a very different way. what happened here? >> the passenger deserves so much credit here. a 68-year-old woman on board. and the 79-year-old pilot, she saved both of their lives in this crash landing. there's the video at the martha's vineyard airport. it's a single engine. hot little airport. $2 million. goes about 300 miles per hour. the ntsb is investigating what went wrong here, how this pilot had a medical emergency and what the nature of the medical emergency was. we're able to see from the flight aware track that the plane went around once and then flew around the airport two more times and then ended up like this. although, pretty good, they say any landing you can walk away

from, not so bad. just sheared off one of the wings. mostly in one piece. that was pretty good. you can see the track here, though, how they circled the airport after they came from white plains in new york. only about an hour long flight. the investigators will want to know exactly what the nature of this medical emergency was and how this ended up in this way. this is the type of the airport. straightforward to fly if you're trained to do it. the big question is, how much flying experience did this passenger have? was she regularly with this person on board this airplane? we've seen instances where passengers have swooped in to try to land an airplane when there's been some other medical emergency on board. it's not totally unheard of. the company that makes these now, they make these with an automatic landing system for just this case. the company named garman builds an auto land system. you press a button, finds the nearest airport, finds the

runway and brings in a landing. that's an option on top of the 2, 2 1/2 million dollars price tag. >> if you knew where the button was to press? >> you have to know where this button is to press. the plane came in with the landing gear up. you would have to know where it was. we don't know a lot of details here because we've not been able to listen to the audio. it's not available there. did they try to get someone in the tower to try to talk this person down or were they not in contact and came in to land and went for it. so, we'll see here, there's a lot of big questions here. all in all, pretty good. she deserves a ton of credit for making a good landing. >> let's hope a speedy recovery for both of them. thank you for that. boris? >> the kremlin is calling it a terrorist attack after ukraine unleashed attacks on a critical bridge connecting russia to crimea. we have more on the fallout when we come back. this is spring semester at over 13,000 us school districts,

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