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donald trump to testify about efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but the federal investigation is pushing toward. more witnesses are scheduled to be interviewed in the coming weeks as anticipation builds over another possible indictment for the former president. chilling new details in the gilgo beach murders, investigators now operating on the theory that rex heuermann murdered the women inside of his home, suggesting that he lured the victims to his house when his family was out of town. vice president kamala harris making a last minute trip to florida today to speak out about the state's new black history standards for school. she says the new mandate is an attempt to gaslight students. and if you've got a double featured lined up this weekend, you're far from alone, barbie versus oppenheimer is shaping up to be the biggest box office battle we've seen in years. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪

i have a confession. i woke up this morning terrified that you were going to come like dressed for either barbie or oppenheimer and i wasn't prepared. >> i'm addressed for neither, but i did make it to friday with you phil, i'm happy about that. >> i thought that was a concern of years. >> i might have a double feature in my future tonight. happy friday to you all. we have a lot of news today. breaking overnight, we'll start in ukraine. russia has attacked the port city of odesa for a fourt night in a row. the intense bombardment has been devastating grain warehouses critical to keeping people fed in developing nations. 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley have now been destroyed. russia had already destroyed 60,000 tons of grain earlier this week and the u.n. says it could have fed more than 270,000 people with that grain. ukraine has been struggling to repel this wave of russian strikes as its air defenses can't cope with the types of missiles that moscow is using

now. >> that happening as the cia director is warning russia could be preparing for a false flag operation in the black sea. >> we see some very concerning signs of the russians considering the kind of false flag operations that, i don't know, we highlighted in the run up to the war as well. in other words, looking at ways in which they might make attacks against shipping in the black sea and trying to blame it on the ukrainians. >> let's get straight to cnn's scott mclean live in london. based on what we're hearing about what's happening on the ground, what is the latest in ukraine? >> reporter: hey, phil, yeah, so yesterday the ukrainians managed to shoot down barely a quarter of incoming missiles on odesa. today there's no indication they've managed to shoot down anything on this strike on what looks to be a grain elevator or some grain silos there. two people were injured. this really illustrates the difficulty that the ukrainians

have been having in dealing with the russian incoming missiles, some of which are designed to sink ships. the local governor there says in this case the two missiles came in at such a low altitude that air defenses didn't even initially pick them up at all, meaning the air raid sirens for the local population didn't even go off until about the same time that that first missile was actually striking its target. the ukrainians say that, look, air defenses in that area are not good enough. they say that the patriot system would do a lot better of a job. the ukrainians have at least two of those systems, more on the way. they say a lot more will be needed to adequately protect the country. in terms of what was hit, you mentioned it already. more than 100 tons of peas and barley. this is a relative drop in the bucket when we're talking about the global market. what is likely to have a bigger impact is ukraine's ability to use the port of odesa, which isn't all that easy considering

that the russians say that civilian ships could be carrying weapons and they are fair game. let's also remember that ukraine makes up 10% or more of the global market for wheat,n, and barley. >> a critical source of supply of food for the rest of the world. scott mclean, thank you. also this morning, florida governor ron desantis, he's expanding his war on woke and taking on bud light directly. he's threatening legal action against an anheuser busch. the instagramer sparked conservative outrage and backlash and sent bud light sales plummeting. >> desantis suggests the beer company breached its agreement. here's what the governor told fox news last night. >> since we do have the shares, we believe that when you take your eye off the ball like that, you're not following your

fiduciary duty to do the best you can for your shareholders, so we're going to be launching an inquiry about bud light and it could be something that leads to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the florida pension fund. >> desantis has become pretty well-known for injecting himself and florida into the middle of america's culture wars. he's been fighting to gain momentum in the presidential race and to close that gap with donald trump. so far it's been pretty challenging for desantis, but despite all of the talk of a pivot, we don't really see that in terms of the message yet. >> certainly not on the messaging. even though he's changed some of his interview venues or platforms having that exclusive with jake tapper earlier, it is very clear this is a target he believes works. the most interesting thing about desantis is he's unlike a lot of people who just use rhetoric on

culture war stuff or verbal ticks he's put policy behind it or lawsuits or you look at what's happened in florida in terms of the legislature, and we've been seelg ing more resul of that when it comes to what the school board has been doing putting into place one of the laws that desantis helped shepherd through. new this morning, vice president kamala harris will be responding to those efforts by the school board adding a last minute trip to jacksonville to her ie t itinerary today. one of the requirements for middle school students is to include how slaves developed skilled. harris forcefully condemned that new curriculum on thursday. >> just yesterday in the state of florida they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefitted from slavery. they insult us in an attempt to

gasl gaslight us and we will not stand for it. >> cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us live from the white house. i thought this was fascinating last night. this clearly wasn't a prescheduled trip, at least from the time that we usually expect a vice president or presidential trip. this happened fairly quickly. the decision was made to send the vice president down for the vice president to go down herself. tells about the backdrop here of why this happened. >> and it's also not the first time that this has happened, phil. vice president harris also went to tennessee following controversy that happened in the legislature there. so this is part of the ongoing trips over the course of the summer that the vice president has made to highlight areas where the white house and democrats see republican attacks against what they call the freedoms like abortion and now also education. now, again, this is the first biden administration official to go to florida since those controversial standards were

approved, and it is an opportunity for the vice president to talk about what you heard there in condemning these standards, fiercely kcriticizin them and also what she said earlier this week at that same event calling it revisionist history. these are standards that would teach students how slaves developed skills that could be applied for personal benefits and also touches on massacres and acts of violence perpetrated against and by african americans. this, again, has received fierce criticism, and it is an opportunity for vice president harris to highlight the disagreements the white house has with this and talk with civil rights leaders and parents. >> it's another example of them moving quickly to try to capitalize on something like this. on another topic, this morning the white house is also announcing a new commitment from artificial intelligence companies about the future of this technology. what have they agreed to? >> well, this is really a technology that they are paying very close attention to.

it's just the latest measure that they have taken. so they are going to be meeting and importantly president biden will be meeting with executives of companies you'll recognize. amazon, google, microsoft, meta, all of them to talk about ai, its emergence as a technology, and the voluntary commitments that they will make to make it safer and more trustworthy. now, this is among those measures an opportunity for them to allow outside experts to test systems before releasing to the public and to pave the way for the government to get more involved in the future. of course these are voluntary commitments, but the government has been moving toward executive actions. we could see some of those come later this summer. and again, president biden will be meeting with these top executives later this afternoon. we'll expect to hear more from him on this, but clearly a priority for this white house which has spent a lot of this year focusing on artificial intelligence. >> yeah, much of it behind the scenes now becoming very public. priscilla alvarez, thank you.

happening overnight, the deadline came and went for the former president's team to respond to the target letter from special counsel jack smith. cnn has learned that jack smith's investigation continues. he's lining up witnesses to speak with investigators in the interference probe and one former trump attorney is among them. here's what trump said about a potential indictment last night. >> all of a sudden i hear they want to indict me on this one. why didn't they do it with two years ago? why didn't they do it like when it would have been, you know, timely? but there is no timely. they did it because it's election interference. they did it right in the middle of my campaign. >> with us now is cnn's katelyn pol polantz. so katelyn, what are we to make of the fact that jack smith is still talking to witnesses, he's still scheduling interviews? where does the investigation stand? >> well, abby and phil, it's a great question. where we are right now is that

the investigators are moving fast on a lot of different fronts. that is what appears to be happening here. they're telling donald trump that he's very likely to be indicted sending him that target letter and then also scheduling these witness interviews, the ones that we know of so far is that there is a former trump lawyer who's scheduled to come in next month to sit for an interview, and then also bernie kerik, a man who was very close to rudy giuliani who was working on that effort to gather election frauld and come up with plans after the election for donald trump. the special counsel's office also want documents from him. he's pushed back on a lot of inquiries for records that he has in his possession when congress asked for them, when people in a civil lawsuit asked for them, and so that is a track of the investigation that still exists. now, the thing that when you look at this, it doesn't aull mean that the special counsel's office has one case and one case

alone related to january 6th that they're working on. they could potentially be bringing an indictment against donald trump and then have other pieces fall into place after that or have other inquiries they continue to pursue just like they're doing in the mar-a-lago investigation where they indicted donald trump and his co-defendant and then continued to cut subpoenas and also sent a target letter to another person. >> katelyn, it was kind of a wild day at the court yesterday, which for somebody who doesn't think that the court is all that exciting, me, you on the other hand disagree with that every single day and make clear to me that's not the case. it included special counsel sitting down with will russell, the former trump aide, what do we know about what he was asked and what happened yesterday at court? >> yeah, well, phil it was a busy day yesterday at court. the grand jury was in, and they had work to do. they were not hearing from donald trump as he had the opportunity to go in and talk,

but they did hear from will russell, this personal aide to him. a man who never testified to the congressional committee as far as we know. we have no transcript of his interview there, but the special counsel's office had questions for him at this late stage in this investigation, and questions about interactions he had with donald trump while donald trump was still in office. he was a person that worked for the white house at the end of the administration. those questions were so aggressive that it essentially derailed him answering. his lawyer came in and there was a standoff that made his lawyer late to go to another hearing for another client in the same building. a judge took notice of this and was quite flustered. didn't know what to do. brought the prosecutors in to talk to them. you never see that in court where the special counsel's office is called out of the grand jury to talk to a judge. still a lot of questions around what's going on there exact sk skly. >> that's super interesting. those questions about executive privilege or speak to executive

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the mother of oa u.s. soldir who bolted into north korea on tuesday is talking about her son's disappearance. >> i just want my son back. i just want my son back. get my son home. get my son home. and pray. pray that he comes back. >> now, pentagon officials say that her son, army private travis king, was supposed to be on a flight from south korea to the united states, but instead, he went on a dmz tour and sprinted to the north korean side. natasha bertrand is live at the pentagon this morning. so what are officials saying right now about king's status? >> reporter: well, abby right now his status is listed as absent without leave, awol, essentially he is away without permission from his service from the military. that's really about all they can say at this point about his status. they don't know really his condition at all or whether he's dead. what we have learned from the

administration is that they have not been able, of course, to speak to the north koreans about travis king's status. the u.s. has reached out to the north koreans multiple times to try to get a sense for where exactly he is, where he's being held, and of course the kind of condition that he is in. but as has been the routine throughout the entirety of the biden administration, the north koreans have simply not responded to u.s. outreach. we are learning a little more about what unfolded here, which is that travis king, he was supposed to board that flight from seoul back to the u.s. to fort bliss in texas where he was going to be administratively separated from the u.s. army, removed from the military altogether because of assault charges he had faced in south korea. instead of getting on that plane he went on this tour of the dmz, and at that point he bolted across the demarcation line into north korea. he was detained by north korean guards who then hurried him into a van. so now u.s. officials obviously

trying to figure out what his motivation would be the army secretary said he was likely concerned about the kind of punishment he may have been facing back in the united states. but u.s. officials scratching their heads about what would have made a u.s. citizen cross into one of the most hostile countries on earth, abby. >> it continues to be quite the perplexing story. natasha, thank you. presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. seemed to rewrite history while he was on capitol hill yesterday. >> in my entire life and why i'm under oath, in my entire life, i have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people, the people. >> we're going to have a lot more on this heated hearing and

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reeling robert f. kennedy on capitol hill. he testified at a hearing on censorship, was questioned about his past comments implying jews had more freedom during the holocaust than unvaccinated americans during the pandemic. eva, it was a contentious hearing to say the least. what'd you see? >> yes, indeed, phil, fireworks indeed. democrats tried to shut this down altogether. they wrote a letter to republican leadership in the wake of kennedy's controversial comments asking them to rescind his invitation. they tried to bring the hearing into executive session so it wouldn't play out in this public way all to no avail. let's look at how it all went down. >> reporter: democratic presidential candidate and spreader of vaccine misinformation, robert kennedy jr. invited to testify on capitol hill. >> it's the witnesses' time, do not sensor the witness.

>> i'm not censoring the witnessing. >> in a testy hearing on censorship with kennedy telling the committee his views are protected speech. >> the first amendment was not written for easy speech. it was written for the speech that nobody likes you for. i was censored, not just by the democratic administration. i was censored by the trump administration. >> reporter: democrats accused republican leadership of giving kennedy's dangerous rhetoric a platform in congress. >> that's not just supporting free speech. they have co-signed on idiotic, bigoted messaging. it's a conscious choice. >> reporter: regarding kennedy's blatant lies where he said -- >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune are chinese. >> now kennedy recently claims.

>> i'm under oath, in my entire life i have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic. i have spent my life fighting, my professional career fighting for israel. >> reporter: but the ceo of the american jewish committee called his prior remarks deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous. kennedy repeatedly claimed he didn't say things that are, in fact, on camera. >> i've never tiss-- any vaccin have never told the public avoid vaccination. >> but kennedy has attacked safe vaccines, including the covid-19 vaccine and promoted false claims like childhood vaccines can lead to autism and that hiv was caused by vaccine research. even saying this on a 2021 podcast. >> i seen somebody on a hiking

trail carrying a little baby. >> another key driver for the gop-led hearing is to call out what they deem was social media censorship of a damning hunter biden story. >> this was illegal governor censorship to prop up joe biden on the eve of the election. >> democrats argue misinformation is the larger threat. >> they want to force social media companies to promote conspiracy theories because they think that's the only way their candidate can win the 2024 election. now, despite some of kennedy's outlandish claims, he still does enjoy some support. in the latest quinnipiac poll he's among 14% among democrats and likely democratic voters. still, it's going to be quite difficult for him as he takes on president biden in the democratic primary, phil. >> let's bring in cnn's senior

legal analyst elie honig and national political reporter for "associated press," michelle price. republicans seem hell bent on elevating rfk jr. that seems the takeaway from this hearing, not just because of the censorship accusations, but just politically. that 14% that eva was talking about, a lot of is name recognit a lot of that is nostalgia among demoats for the kennedy name, but this is someone who has this long history of outlandish, dangerous, uninformed statements, and he's being elevated by republicans because he might hurt biden. >> yeah, it's unclear what political benefit there is to fw giving him this platform. the entire hearing purpose of this hearing was to examine censorship on these tech platforms. his message sfis getting out there. at the end of the ta the hearing

did not examine what the tech policies were. it was an examination of rfk's comments. >> the interesting thing about the hearing itself, we knew it was going to be a political food fight, that was kind of a given to some degree, and i think democrats have made clear they didn't rfk up there to begin with, but if he's going to be there, they were going to attack him based on his past statements. but do you feel like this has a tangible impact on the democratic primary to the extent it is a thing that exists at this point? >> i mean, it's unclear. it's still early to see are those poll numbers going to change. he has a very famous last name. especially in new hampshire, there's a lot of prom siximity wons. his comments speak for himself. he has a long history of offensive comments here. it's unclear how this could help mr. kennedy to have his own comments shown so publicly. >> i don't know how he's become

this sort of martyr for censorship. here's a guy who's in national media all the time. he has millions and millions of views on various social media sites. he just testified in congress. i think he's mischaracterizing what censorship is. the government has not shut him down. to the contrary, our congress just gave him a platform, and i think -- look, i believe very pr broadly in the first amendment. i think the solution is some of what we saw yesterday, men and women in congress pushing back, eva's package i think exposed some of the mistruths. they say the remedy for bad speech is more speech, and i think that's how this is playing out. >> we talked a little bit this week, there was another hearing where some of the irs whistle-blowers in hunter biden n investigation. one of those whistle-blowers sat down with jake tapper. he talked about the reason he decided to go public, and made clear this isn't about the president. it's about the investigation itself, and this is what he said about the investigation. take a listen.

>> it appeared to me based on what i experienced that the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly ham strung, limited and marginalized by doj official as well as other u.s. attorneys. i still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation. i'm not here about hunter biden. i'm here about the pbigger picture of all of this. i blew the whistle because i saw inappropriate things being done throughout this investigation. i brought facts. i brought things that had happened as i recalled them to congress. >> the u.s. attorney, david weiss has made clear that he believed he had the ultimate authority. those are very specific and very damaging claims that have been made under oath. >> yeah, i think both of the whistle-blowers who we've seen here. i don't question their motive, and i think they're to be taken seriously. i think some of the things they're saying are a concern to

me. some are not. this question over what was the scope of david weiss, the u.s. attorney's authority. david weiss and merrick garland have said he was given a blank check. he could have gone wherever he wanted. david weiss was a trump employee. merrick garland has been an absolute truth teller and straight shooter. i think the most interesting allegation that does need to be looked into is that this claim that certain avenues of investigation were cut off. as a prosecutor you're supposed to take your leads wherever they go. follow them wherever they may go. and if it's the case that somebody said let's not look there. let's not push too strongly on that, then we need to know that and i think the whistle-blowers need to be heard on that. >> tdo you think this ends with garland or the u.s. attorney here coming forward publicly and explaining what happens? >> it sounds like after hunter biden is supposed to be in court next week to appear on these misdemeanor tax charges he's facing, then the u.s. attorney

is free to appear in congress, and it sounds like it's likely he will be there to answer some of these questions. >> it seems inevitable to some degree and necessary. >> perhaps worthwhile. this is different than an investigation into a former current president, there's a loft public interest in it so i suspect we'll hear something in the future. thank you both very much. more on the news breaking vo overnight, russia continuing its attacks on ukraine's southern ports destroying tons of grain. we're going to take you live to ukraine. stay with us. every time i dried it! only takes a minute.e. look at that! the heavy y duty cloths are extra thick, for amazing trap & lock. even for his hair. wow. and for dust, i love my heavy duty duster. the fluffy fibers trap dust on contact, up high and all around without having to lift a thing. i'm so hooked. you'll love swiffer. or your money back! my relationship with my credit cards wasn't good. i got into debt in college,

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welcome back. these are some words you should probably listen to. cia director bill burns warning that russia could be preparing for a false flag operation in the black sea. take a listen. >> we see some very concerning signs of the russians considering the kind of false flag operations that, you know, we highlighted in the run up to the war as well. in other words, looking at ways in which, you know, they might make attacks against shipping and the black sea and then blaming it or trying to blame it on the ukrainians. >> overnight, russia targeted a grain warehouse in ukraine's odesa region. a military official says two people were hurt, more than 100 tons of peas and barley were destroyed. this is the fourth night of strikes on ukraine's main port city and it coincides with

russia's decision to pull out of a critical deal that allowed for the safe export of ukrainian grain to nations that desperately need it. according to the national security councili agricultural infrastructure and 60,000 tons of grain have been destroyed in these attacks. cnn's alex marquardt is in kyiv, and we're joined by retired admiral steve briggs. you've been in odesa for three nights of attacks. what actually happened last night? when did they come? >> reporter: yeah, phil, wite jt got back to kyiv. western in odesa during this incredible barrage of russian strikes. we were up all night waiting to see if russia woul carry out a fourth night of these attacks. now it seems they have. this came in the dawn hours. we did hear some warnings while we were in odesa that russia was indeed attacking again. we were in the city. we could not hear those strikes. now we have learned that there

were at least seven missiles that attacked an area southwest of odesa, still in the odesa region targeting different types of infrastructure including food infrastructure. so this speaks to the argument that we've heard from ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and other ukrainian officials that russia is weaponizing hunger. now, according to ukraine, russia used seven different types of cruise missiles to attack grain warehouses southwest of the city. they destroyed 100 tons of peas, 20 tons of barley. this comes after those three nights of very intense strikes using both drones and missiles to go after the grain infrastructure, to go after the ports in odesa and elsewhere. this just speaks to the incredible rising tension in the black sea region. russia has justified its attacks saying that they are responding to that attack on the kurj bridge that took place on monday

by ukraine. it is clear that they are going after the food infrastructure. and of course, phil, this comes after russia did pull out of that grain deal on monday. now, it's not just on land that we are seeing this zptension an seeing these strikes. in the black sea you have russia and ukraine warning each other that they could go after each other's ships, and now this ominous warning from the cics a dr -- cia director, saying russia could carry out an attack on ships using this excuse that they believe that any ship going towards ukraine could be carrying military cargo. that is the excuse that bill burns and the white house are now saying russia could use. at the same time, ukraine is also saying that they will assume that russian ships heading to russian ports in the black sea could also be kcarryig mil

military cargo. they said that those russian ships could be treated like the black sea flagship that was sunk by ukraine very famously last april. phil, abby. >> we actually have that sound from bill buns rns that you wer just talking achb. i'm going to play it. colonel anderson, i want you to respond to it on the other side. >> what it resurrected was some deeper questions, which, again, you know, you've seen circulate within the russian elites since the war in ukraine began, since putin's war in ukraine began, asking questions about putin's judgment, about his relative detachment from events and about his indecisiveness. >> so colonel anderson, putin is in a weakened position obviously and is feeling incredibly threatened by what ukraine has done when it comes to the kerch

bridge, how do you see this playing out? >> clearly he's desperate. i think the waultlls are closin in. he's greatly embarrassed by the prigozhin mutiny, he's trying to distract the russian people, let them focus on fattacking ukrain and specifically their infrastructure that supports movement and shipment of fgrain. he's trying to do that, trying to distract world attention. if you think about it, he really only has a couple of levers in which he can pull to motivate the international community, he's got his nuclear weapons arsenal. he's got oil, and now he's attacking food. he's trying to make it painful for the ukrainians, just another page out of his play book. we've seen this before. what we need to do is get more air defense artillery assets down there in odesa and mykolaiv. right now the only patriots are

in the kyiv area. rightfully they prioritize their capital, but we've got -- we the united states has a lot of patriots that are available and i'd also recommend that we send sea ram, counter rocket artillery is and mortar systems used with great effect in iraq and afghanistan. they not only can attack incoming missiles, but they can also attack the low flying drones that are such a problem and the ukrainians have been struggling to try to defend. >> general anderson, apologize for mistitling you there, but my apologies. >> i do want to ask, alex and the team have done a great job not just reporting on the ground but also reporting on the cluster munitions, the decision to send them, alex has been talking to commanders that confirmed that first. your sense from your experience on what effect these will have now that they're being utilized? >> well, i will tell you that they're very effective, and i think that we're trying to do is

trying to use them as a bridging strategy until they can get more ammunition over there quite frankly. they know that using cluster munitions has a lot of attendant problems. the dud rate is about 2.3%. now, russians are using cluster munitions, their dud rate is 40%, but that speaks to the manufacturing capability of the united states and nato. nevertheless, they're going to have a residual problem, an enduring problem of cleaning up a battlefield. they know that there's going to be cluster munitions out there that can potentially harm the civilian population. my understanding is the ukrainians are targeting unpopulated areas and using them, but i think that this is a bridging strategy just to get them until they can get more ammunition. i'd also commend the biden administration for living up to the deal. they said they'd get cluster munitions within a week to the ukrainians and they did that. >> alex, you were saying? >> yeah, i think there really is a debate over how effective

these munitions can be, and the u.s. is certainly waiting to see. i did speak with a general last week who was in charge of much of the southern front and they will have a radical impact. you'll speak to some analysts who say you have to find the right target for cluster munitions to be effective, larger groupings of soldiers, of weaponry and machinery and that kind of thing. this is for the u.s. a bridging strategy. it's filling a gap where there is a shortage of the more standard artillery rounds. right now this is very much an artillery fight. >> alex marquardt, retired army brigadier general steve anderson, thanks, guys. >> thank you. we have new reporting on the fwi gilgo beach murders, why investigators believe the victims may have been killed inside the suspect's home while the family was out of town. 27 years later, are investigators finally closing in on tupac's killer. what officials just took from a witness's homeme coming u. you can geget your credit card recommendations,

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cnn has obtained a search warrant naming dwayne davis as a target of monday's search. property records show that the home belongs to his wife and the rap icon was gunned down in 1996 near the las vegas strip. he says he saw it all happen but police never charged or arrested anyone for that murder. chloe melas is with us. this is so interesting that this has come up again after all these years. what do we know about what they were looking for in this serge? >> i think the question on everyone's minds right now and on the minds of the family of tupac shakur, the brother of tupac is what took so long? 27 years later and dwayne keith davis's wife's home, a search warrant taking place this week. they took five computers, laptops, ipads, tablets, usb

hard drives, journals, even a magazine, a vibe magazine that had tupac on the cover. now, what is so interesting about this is that dwayne keith davis has been open in the press, in the media, even writing a book -- >> repeatedly. >> saying he witnessed the shooting that night in 1996. we have a little bit of an interview that he did with bet many years ago. take a listen. >> you said the shots came from the back? big dre, orlando. >> who shot tupac? >> it came from the streets, it came from the backseat, bro. >> so remember, tupac shakur was driving in a car with record label executive suge knight in las vegas after they had just seen a boxing match, and that's when that white cadillac pulled up in front of them and shots were fired out of the back. dwayne keith davis has always

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the top ranked u.s. women's national soccer team is set to make its world cup dayebut in n zealand tonight against vietnam. the team is going for its third straight world cup title. the cup is still very much up

for grabs. superstars alex morgan and megan rapinoe are returning to the field this year, and it will be rapinoe's fourth and final world cup. she announced plans to retire at the end of the major league soccer season. the team is sporting 14 rookies. team usa takes the field against vietnam tonight at 9:00 p.m. >> so excited. >> it's kind of like the end of an era for megan rapinoe. >> it absolutely is. >> it's going to be an awesome game. >> this game isn't going to be awesome because the u.s. is going to win by like 30. which is awesome to some degree. argentinian legend lionel messi is set to play his first match with inter milan. he'll do it in front of a sellout crowd. carlos, south florida is very clearly ready for messi. >> reporter: that's exactly

right, abby and phil. inter miami has gone from the worst league in major league soccer to the center of the eyes of the sporting world, the moment, the hype, the anticipation, it's all finally here and fans from across the world are ready for messi. at inter miami's stradium and training facility fans have camped outside for days to try and get a glimpse of lionel messi. his first practice with the team wasn't open to the public and drew journalists from all over the world. the anticipation drawing more police and security at the sta stadium. >> i always wanted to see him, me and my little brother. that's why i'm here. >> reporter: signs of excitement are all over miami, from murals of messi to billboards with his image, welcoming messi not only

to south florida, but to major league soccer. the average ticket for inter miami's first mitch with messi is $423, up over 1000% since june when messi announced he was coming to the u.s. the average listed price for inter miami's entire season increased 700% and fans are traveling nearly 600 miles on average to see messi make his debut an expert on branding and marketing florida international university business professor says the global brand that is messi super charges the team and the league's growth. >> in terms of sales, they have been growing. in terms of followers, in terms of engagement, in terms of jerseys worn, in terms of fans. that's great. but in terms of community, have you ever sold entirely, completely the stadium? >> reporter: according to apex marketing group, messi's trip to

publix netted the company millions in free publicity after photos and videos of him shopping went viral on social media. >> they've done about the value to date as of this morning about 6.5 million in viral equivalent brand value that we've been able to measure. that's across forms of tv, radio, all social media. >> reporter: of course messi stands to make tens of millions of dollars off his contract. part of the attention when we get to tonight's match is whether messi is going to start tonight or come off the bench as a substitute. the 36-year-old, he's only been in town for about a week. he's only had one practice with the team, and he still has to get to know his new teammates. the anticipation, the hype, everyone is ready to go and it should be an exciting and an historic night. abby and phil.

>> you know, carlos, the day will come when i will say inter miami instead of inter milan when i talk about this team. today was not that day. big day, big night for you guys down there, thanks, buddy. >> messi doesn't have to worry about all the publicity. he's used to that. but "cnn this morning" continues right now. investigates think the suspected gilgo beach serial killer may have committed the murd murders in his own home. >> now that we have dna we can compare it to other crime scenes. >> in each instance of those three cases his family was out of town and that he would have control. >> special counsel has been scheduling additional witness interviews with people they've never spoken with before. they are absolutely worried about the fact that no one else has received a target letter. >> always have an ongoing investigation. >> are we now closer to finding