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overnight, for every action there's a reaction. 24 hours after ukraine attacked a critical bridge linking the crimean peninsula to russia. calling those strikes retaliation. and more than 65 million americans are under heat alerts today. triple digit temperature records being shattered across arizona, new mexico, and texas. one top climate group says that, quote, heat hell is being felt worldwide. a key hearing in donald trump's classified documents case is set for today in florida. the judge telling prosecutors and defense attorneys to be ready to discuss trial dates. and cnn's jake tapper will interview governor ron desantis this afternoon. it comes as the governor is facing new pressure to shift his 2024 campaign strategy. and your lottery dreams are live for yet another day. there was no winner last night in the power ball drawings. the jackpot has now reached $1 billion. "cnn this morning" starts right

now. i got to admit, i've been struggling with heat hell, but i think it's quite apt. >> it's pretty close to heat hell, especially here in d.c. >> no question about that. that's where we'll start. it's not just d.c., it's across the country, across the world. we begin with a deadly and unrelenting heat wave. right now 65 million people are under heat alerts from florida to california. as phoenix is expected to reach a record-breaking 19th consecutive day of above 110 degrees. dangerously high triple digit records have been scorching miami and el paso. this heat hell is worldwide. that's according to a top uk-based climate advisory group, noting the dangerous heat waves are spreading around the globe in southern europe to china.

meantime, more than 3 million people across the northeast and new england are now under flood watches. excessive rainfall is being forecast from new jersey to maine where streams are already running high after disastrous flooding events last weekend. and then there is canada. and those wild fires blanketing dozens of u.s. cities with smoke and prompting unhealthy air quality alerts for 50 million americans. let's get straight to cnn's derek van dam with the forecast on all fronts. i mean, i think are the locusts next here, derek? what stands out to you with all of these extreme weather events that we're seeing? >> yeah. we really are living this heat hell in realtime. you in d.c., me in atlanta. we've got both the heat and the smoke. and it seems like no one across the continental united states is immune to these climate extremes. our weather map is so busy, so active. there's the heat alerts. you've got one in dallas. atlanta, you've got air quality alert. and burlington, vermont, for

instance, you have a flood watch. so a wide chasm of weather topics to talk about today. this is a live look downtown atlanta. you can barely make out the buildings. but i want to show you this. this is actually georgia tech's football stadium. and i noticed it as i was driving into the headquarters here at cnn center, the street lamps and the lights of the stadium there helping illuminate just how bad the smoke actually is. so, the smoke actually traveled over 2,000 miles to reach us here in atlanta. and you know, you know that you've been prone along the eastern sea board, for to reach us in the southeast is really saying something. the good news is a front will help clear things out by later today. but kind of redistributes it across the eastern sea board. along with this front comes a band of showers and thunderstorms. that's the last thing we want to hear about across the northeast because that's where we have the potential for more flooding, national weather service picking up on that flood watches hoisted across northern new england, including some of the

hardest-hit areas. then the heat dome, we continue to talk about records being shattered over the western u.s. look at this triple digit heat. and in phoenix, well, if you're looking for any kind of relief, phil and abby, you have to head to monday of next week. 114 -- well, you can cut the sarcasm with a knife here just like the smoke in the skies. >> i don't know what 114 degrees means. that's like an unfathomable temperature. >> yeah. >> here we are. >> 100%. >> derek van dam, thank you very much. the first hearing in former president trump's classified documents case is set for today. cnn has learned that the judge in the florida case told prosecutors and the defense to come ready to talk about the trial's timeline. prosecutors say that they want it to start in mid december, but the former president's lawyers are asking to delay even setting a date. cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is here with us. the saga continues. what can we expect from this hearing today? >> this hearing is the big debut

for judge aileen cannon. we have seen her before in this case. she was the judge that gave donald trump what he wanted when he wanted to slow down the justice department investigation before he was charged and appoint a special master to get access to some of the classified material. she ended up being in a situation where she really had egg on her face as a judge. she was overturned at the appeal. and so, now, now that she has this case, it's going to be progressing to trial. we're going to see her for the first time in court respond to everything that's been going on since the indictment. so the justice department is saying they want the trial to start in december. and then trump's team say they don't want to even put a calendar date yet for a trial. both of those things might not be possible. it might be a situation where aileen cannon has to come in and pick a reasonable date for this to go to trial, even december is a little early, according to a lot of defense lawyers that i've talked to. but, she is going to have to reveal where she feels this case

should be, how quickly it should go and of course those political calendar of next year with trump running for president, where will she land? of course she's a new judge. and when ever you have a new judge, you're always watching what is it like for their courtroom management? what's their style? we don't know that much about her. so to see her manage this case for the first time is really going to be illuminated. >> trump's dance card is full with other cases as well. >> it's fascinating. there's been so much talk from aileen cannon. we haven't heard or seen from her. i'm fascinated with the area of your expertise because one thing always leads to another, whether it's precedent. the elements here that can almost spill over into other casings. we're seeing that in the case of jack teixeira, the former -- the national guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents on discord. his legal team actually brought up the former president in a new court filing. what did they say?

>> yeah. jack teixeira is already being held in jail pending trial. that was a decision the judge previously made. now his lawyers are going to court and say, wait a minute, the justice department is undermining the position they took here because they're not doing the same thing in other national security cases with very similar charges like the case against donald trump. and wault gnaw ta, we don't need to take their passports. we have no belief they're going to be fleeing. we don't think they need to be held pending trial. teixeira's lawyers are saying that's not fair. but defense attorneys do make those sorts of arguments pretty often. and jack teixeira, 21-year-old with net worth of less than $20,000 and clearly potentially could have additional national security secrets that other foreign adversaries might be interested in, justice department's argument with him was he could be recruited. he could be pulled out of the united states given safe housing

somewhere else. that's a lot different than donald trump running for president of the united states. >> it would be hard for him to slip out. >> he's got an interest in sticking around here. >> very recognizable. >> thank you very much for bringing all that to us. well, developing this morning, russia retaliates. ukraine says it shot down a barrage of cruise missiles and drones that russian forces unleashed on the southern port city of odesa. cnn team on the ground witnessed ukrainian air defenses firing up into the sky and a loud explosion that rocked the city. russia is now confirming the strikes were in retaliation for yesterday's attack on its bridge that occupied crimea. another big development this morning, wagner mercenaries have reappeared nearly a month after marching on moscow, the group's whereabouts have been a mystery, but videos are now emerging that appear to show a large convoy of wagner fighters heading to a military base in belarus.

and cnn has analyzed satellite images that show them arriving as well. under a deal with the kremlin, the mercenaries were given sanctuary in belarus in exchange for ending their mutiny. clare sebastian is tracking all of these big developments for us. so, let's start first with the air strikes on odesa. what do we know about what happened there? >> reporter: yes, abby. key development in the last hour or so. the russian ministry of defense has come out and explicitly called this retaliation. they are saying that the target was a facility near odesa that manufactured apparently what they're called uncrude boat. they accused ukraine of using these very uncrude boats, maritime drones to attack the bridge on monday. russia is saying they hit several fuel facilities near odesa and mykolaiv. russia is saying it hit all the targets it intended to hit. it's unclear if that's the case because ukraine on the flip side its air force is saying it shot

down all six cruise missiles launched towards odesa from the black sea and says it shot down most of the three dozen attack drones that were launched at that region. so, you know, two different versions of events. and we are seeing some damage on the ground in odesa. that according to the ukrainian side is from falling debris, which continues to be a major threat. as for going forward, i think, look, it's hard to distinguish russian retaliation from the general course of their aggression. certainly when there was an attack on the bridge back in october, we saw a significant up tick in air strikes targeting ukraine's electricity grid. the kremlin this morning is saying proposals for retaliation are being worked out. they may not be done here. >> clare to the separate issue abby was talking about, where is military forces seems to be over at this point. we saw videos located wagner mercenaries. waldo himself in this construct

yevgeny prigozhin still has not been seen, at least recently. do we have any sense of where he may be at this point? >> we don't. there's obviously been a lot of talk about where he is. first he was said by lukashenko to be in belarus by the belarusian president himself. in terms of actual, physical evidence, images or videos, we have not seen head or tail since those images surfaced of him leaving russia after that aborted mutiny. it is significant we're seeing these images, these satellite images that we managed to analyze shows very large convoys of wagner fighters arriving at that base in belarus. it raises questions about whether or not that could signal a future role for that group in ukraine. >> still a lot of questions. clare sebastian, thank you. and moderate democratic senator joe manchin fueling speculation about a third party run and catching the attention of both the biden and the trump

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virginia democrat and john huntsman a former utah republican governor made their pitch for no labels. a bipartisan group trying to move the nation beyond its partisan gridlock. afterward, they sat down with cnn's kaitlan collins. >> right now people are sick and tired of what they're seeing and upset about all they see is turmoil and halvoc. we can do better than this. and people expect us to do better. this is a good movement. >> reporter: they said americans deserve a third choits. if a rematch emerges next year between biden and trump. >> should the political -- the mainstream political system produce the same results in 24 as it did in' 20, in which case three fourths of the american voters said, no, not again. we want an option. >> reporter: for more than a decade the no labels movement has promoted bipartisanship over extremes. the group which registers as a nonprofit and declines to disclose its donors plans to raise $70 million for a candidate in waiting. on monday night, the group unveiled what it called a common

sense policy book, aiming to find middle ground on controversial issues from abortion rights to guns to immigration. it's a centrist agenda that sounds down right utopian in today's deeply divided washington. >> we're trying to make sure that parties understand you can't stay in extreme left or extreme right. >> reporter: no labels only secured ballot access in arizona, alaska, oregon, utah and colorado aides say. with the goal of reaching 20 states by the end of the year. another threat to biden's re-election bid comes from cornell west the former harvard scholar mounting a green party presidential bid. he, too rejects the label of spoiler. >> i wish they would spend as much time focussing on the plight of poor and working people as they do on the spoiler. i don't like that category. so many of folk who vote third party don't vote at all. >> reporter: third party efforts have shown little promise in modern american history, deep displeasure with trump and biden have shined a brighter light on the prospects this year. mindful of an enthusiasm short

fall facing biden -- >> four more years! >> reporter: democrats are increasingly sounding the alarm. haunted by ross perot's independent bid in 1992. and green party runs from ralph nader in 2000 and jill stine in 2016. manchen yet to say if he intends to seek re-election to the senate next year or run for higher office dismissed such concerns. >> i'm not here running for president tonight. i'm not. i'm here trying to basically save the nation. >> reporter: there was significant interest in this idea, of course, here in new hampshire where the presidential primary process begins. many voters say they are taking a look at this organization. manchin, for his part said he will make a decision by the end of the year. no labels will make a decision next year when they see if there is a trump/biden rematch in the offing. there is no doubt, though, hanging over all of this, even though manchin says he's not a spoiler, some democrats at the white house and supporters of joe biden are not so sure.

phil and abby? >> thank you, jeff zeleny. joining us now our politics reporter, shelbial cot. and national political reporter for axios alex thompson. all right, alex. i loved dick durbin, the number two senator in the democratic caucus refer to joe manchin as america's biggest political tease. which i think is a fair and accurate assessment to some degree. i am so highly skeptical of this anso highly skeptical of paying attention to it. am i wrong? >> i was talking to somebody in joe manchin's camp last night. that person would say you are wrong, that this is serious and, in fact, joe manchin sort of sees this opposition, all this what he would see is hand wringing from democrats as actual more encouragement for him to continue doing what he's doing because they say this is evidence that no labels is actually tapping into something real. they are tapping into what the

polls show. america does not want a biden/trump rematch. and so i think he is the biggest political tease, but i also think that with more attention, the more serious he becomes. i couldn't help but notice, a small thing, but you notice he was styling his hair a little differently. using more product, parting the hair a little bit. >> full disclosure, this is like my favorite thing from last night and this morning because i have been chuckling about this fact for the better part. and i saw it in your notes this morning. thank you. i'm not the only crazy person here because it's true. the hair style is different. and we, as reporters, are naturally reading all the tea leaves. what does it mean, alex thompson, there's product in joe manchin's hair? >> i asked his person. i was -- yeah. it was a little bit different. manchin's hair has been weirdly a bit part of his political personality. he ran ads about how his wife cut his hair in re-election bid. i don't know what's going on. >> split screen. these are the important things we'll dig into. i loved it. it's a weird --

>> i had noticed that, but it is different. that's true. now i'll be reading the tea leaves. maybe he's trying to, i don't know, parted to the left or to the right? i don't know. so shelby, look, the argument -- and they get asked this pretty much every time they talk about no labels. aren't you just going to take away, especially if you don't want trump to be the president, take away from the democrat. there is polling to suggest that people who don't like both parties are more likely if they're given a choice of the two to vote for the democrat. so, how concerned are both parties right now? do you sense more concern on the left or right? >> i think there's definitely more concern on the left, but i will say that trump's campaign is keeping an eye on everything. they say they keep an eye on this, on what biden is doing, on what tim scott is doing, you know, and what every candidate is doing. but at this point, i do think based on that polling that trump's team is viewing this potentially as an opportunity because a lot of people believe

that if joe manchin were to run, he would take more votes away from joe biden. now,ly tell you joe manchin does not think that. he believes that he can take votes away from donald trump. and he also believes there's a very narrow way for him to win through some of these red states. i think his point of view is that that is something that people are not picking up on or don't see. and that's his angle. he's definitely keeping the door open. >> not just the red states but these rust belt states he won in 2016, the margin was basically jill stine's vote. >> uh-huh. >> so there's evidence for that. >> no. what drives the concern but also jeff zeleny made a great point to me the other day, democrats at least inside biden's team are more concerned about cornell west as somebody who can siphon away. shelby, you had tons of great reporting on the desantis campaign and where they stand in the midst of an overhaul. we have the interview with jake tapper tonight which is shift in

media strategy. there was something that was in one of your stories from a big donor from desantis that i wanted to read off to you. view.s an interesting contrary it's from dan eberhart said the campaign is smart to adapt. desantis's campaign is ahead of the curve and making the tough choices that will enable them to win in the early primary states and beyond. and i feel like that isn't necessarily considered as a possibility at this point, right? you start this spiral as a candidate in campaign and everybody writes you off. you're dead. that becomes the narrative that sticks, but maybe they learn from scott walker's implosion. he was on with dana yesterday and the parallels certainly on the surface are there. do you think that they have figured out a way to quickly shift and adapt and put themselves back into play here? >> i think it's a little bit too soon to tell. but i will say that donors are very split. you have the dan eberhart's of desantis campaign, who are die hard desantis donors who will stick with him for a very long time. then you have a group who are

very skeptical and growing more skeptical. and this shakeup placated some but worried others more. i think there's an opportunity for him to take the john mccain -- the mccain-type situation where, you know, he fires his campaign manager or he shakes things up a little bit more aggressively and he ends up doing a lot better. >> yeah. come back story, plausible? >> definitely plausible. part of this shift in media strategy is part of this. i don't think you can overstate how much his approach to mainstream media has changed from just two months ago. and this jake tapper interview this afternoon is just the latest instance of it. and republicans are all going to be tuning in. some will be popping some popcorn, too. >> it's really interesting because he is internally his team has been very split over whether to do mainstream interviews like the jake tapper interview. so it's extremely notable that he's doing it this afternoon. >> and also, you know, praising jake. you love jake.

but you wouldn't have heard that from ron desantis just a couple of months ago as they were trying to criticize most of the media that's not named fox news and folks on the right. >> yeah. everybody in politics will be watching jake on cnn 4:00 p.m. tune in. that's a tease is what they call it in the business, i believe. thank you, guys. stay with us. don't forget, as i just noted that exclusive with the florida governor and gop candidate ron desantis joins jake tapper one on one on the campaign trail and hear how he plans on taking on trump. interview 4:00 p.m. eastern today. new details on the suspect in the gilgo beach murders. the one question he asked when he was booked into jail. and how his wife and his daughter reacted to the charges. that's ahead. charging something like a hundred bucks a window when o other guys were charging four to five-hundred bucks. he just didn't wanna do that. he was proud of the price he was charging. ♪ my dad instilled in me, always put the people before the money. be proud of offering a good product at a fair price.

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♪ this morning we're learning more about the suspected serial killer in the gilgo beach murders. a source familiar with the case tells cnn rex heuermann asked law enforcement one question as they processed him in jail, is it in the news? investigators in new york say they're pouring over a flood of evidence including a vault in his basement holding hundreds of

guns. cnn's jean casarez is live in new york this morning. what's been striking, this is still an on going investigation. what sense do we have of the new evidence they've been gathering from heuermann's house? >> reporter: absolutely this is continuing. they will continue for a long time. we learned that heuermann is now on suicide watch at the suffolk county sheriff's department is telling us that initially he was not but the medical staff determined through their assessment of him that he should be put on that suicide watch. as that continues at the sheriff's department and in the jail, the prosecution is going forward with their evidence on murder charges for three victims. but the police department law enforcement in all aspects continuing that investigation. they have executed and continue to execute many search warrants for the residents, the office, also a storage unit. but at the residence, they're

looking for anything out of place. anything that could be potential evidence related to the charges. and we are told that they found a doll at the residence. not in the children's rooms but in another location in the house and that was a red flag to them. we believe they took that in to evidence. and also they were expecting to find some guns but they found 200 to 300 guns, according to a source telling cnn at heuermann's home. and what they found were pistols, revolvers and semiautomatic rifles. they found them in a walled off vault behind a locked metal door in the basement. and obviously they collected all of those guns. they knew 92 of them were registered with the state of new york. but not 200 to 300 of them. >> and heuermann's wife and daughter, we haven't heard a ton about them, but what do we know about their reaction to his

arrest and these charges? >> reporter: well, this is what we need to remember. this is a married man. we know he was an architect. big firm right on fifth avenue in midtown new york city, but he had a family at home that he was living with. and the suffolk county deputy police commissioner spoke out on that. listen to what he said. >> what i'm being told is we initially informed them about their husband, their father, they were shocked. they were disgusted. they were embarrassed. so if you ask me, i don't believe that they knew about this double life that mr. heuermann was living. >> we have seen many instances where someone who is charged as a serial killer has a family at home that they knew nothing about it. but the police are saying we have many more questions, many more interviews to do with family and friends. and this investigation, they want to go from 2010 when those

11 set of remains between 2010, 2011 were found. everything he did, every moment of everyday until last thursday when he was arrested because they're looking to see anything else that he may be ultimately believed to be charged with. >> so much more to learn here on this case, jean casarez, thank you very much. >> thank you. happening overnight, the ukrainian city of odesa coming under drone and missile attack just a day after ukraine hit and damaged russia's crimean bridge. we're live on the ground. stay with us.

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♪ cnn cameras capturing explosions in the ukrainian port city of odesa overnight. the attack comes just a day after ukraine hit and damaged

russia's crimean bridge. a ukrainian official says that naval drones carried out that strike. thviolence playing out as russia formally announced that it will noonger allow ukraine to export grain by way of the black sea. the united nations condemned that move, warning that this could cause food prices to rise and worsen global hunger. now, joining us now from kyiv is a correspondent for the financial times christopher miller. he is the author of a new book, the war came to us. life and death in ukraine, which is out right now. chris, thank you for joining us. you've spent so much time in ukraine. you're there right now. i wonder, what is your view of this counteroffensive? how it is going and how that strike that we were just talking about on the crimean bridge plays into it. >> right. so we heard president volodymyr zelenskyy admit in recent days that the counteroffensive isn't going exactly according to plan. and ukrainian soldiers on the front line who i visited just

last week were telling me that they've been forced to even change tactics after their original plan a had faltered some. they're running into these extremely dense russian defensive lines and fortifications that include anti-tank trenches and mine fields. these mine fields are really slowing the ukrainian advance, specifically in the south where they're trying to cut through or breakthrough rather this extremely dense russian front line to get to this strategic city in hopes of cutting what is known as the land bridge that russia uses to supply its forces in the southern part of ukraine. that strike on the crimea bridge that we saw was part of ukraine's strategy to cut off these logistics because the other way that the russians are getting military material and personnel into southern ukraine is over this bridge from russia into occupied crimea. and then up through mainland

ukraine to the battlefields there. >> chris, what was striking to me in reading your book, particularly as i followed you as a reporter a day by daybreinnews, great context all that, but your book was part memoir, part giving people a history of how this kind of all came to be. very visceral moment for you personally, including the day of the invasion. but it also -- you met -- you knew zelenskyy before he was president. you've watched the evolution of him as both a president and i think as a leader in the country. at this moment in time, how has he changed during the course of you knowing him, of you interacting with him? >> yeah. i mean, i think that's one of the most remarkable story lines in this war is the transformation of volodymyr zelenskyy from a stand-up comic and comedic actor to president and now a war-time president. he was extremely popular when he came in as president. ukrainians like change here.

there's only one president in the history of modern ukraine that's won a second election. you know, he was brought in to shake things up and was elected with more than 73% of the vote. but by the time of russia's full scale invasion of february of 2022, that popularity really had fallen quite a lot. he was struggling politically. and this war has really turned him into a hero. as not only a political leader but as commander in chief. he's really earned the respect of ukrainians. and i think also ukraine's western allies. >> yeah. i mean, zelenskyy really seems to be leaning into what could be his role as almost historical figure in this broader struggle for, you know, the global order. and to that end, on this question of how this all ends. crimea and what russia did initially in its first invasion of ukraine is part of this picture. do you think that this war ends

with a fully unified ukraine? or will there have to be concessions? >> that is certainly what ukraine is hoping for and what this counteroffensive is meant for is to recapture all of russian-occupied territory and to bring all of ukraine back into kyiv's fold. but they are having those difficulties that i mentioned earlier. and certainly right now one of the big topics of discussions is negotiations and at what point ukraine would be willing to sit down, if not with russia directly, which i think is a difficult thing to imagine, then through mediators to discuss a solution to this. but president zelenskyy is going to have a very difficult time negotiating any lasting peace or anything resembling a cease fire when a lot of the ukrainian public who have lost loved ones and family members, they have been displaced, their cities have been raised to the ground, they don't want peace

negotiations with russia, at least those that would involve russia keeping some of the occupied territories in zaporizhzhia, kherson and especially crimea. all of those are ukrainian territory obviously. and the goal here is to get all of them back. and ukrainians have said and polls here show that they are willing to -- even at the risk of escalation -- continue fighting until they're able to take back as much territory as they can, in not all of it. >> it's the will of the ukrainian people that's gotten the war to this point when many people thought it woulenin a couple days or weeks. >> including just about all the western leaders. christopher miller, the book is called "the war came to us:life and death" well written recitation of the last 15, 20 years. it's just an excellent book. and a breakthrough in the battle against alzheimer's disease. the new drug that could be

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