all right. we do have breaking news and history-breaking news as israel is in a turning point in a few critical hours on the ground. >> texas governor greg abbott has a few hours to removing a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the rio grande or face legal action. the report is ahead. and now, a backhoe is being used to search for more evidence in the gilgo beach murders. kate and sara have the day off. i'm john berman in with rahel solomon. this is cnn "news central." we do have breaking news, history-making news actually. in israel, protests have erupted in the streets after the israeli

knesset passed parts of a new bill to dramatically reshaping the power of the courts and dramatically restricting power of the courts. the proponents of the plan say it is turning israel into a dictatorship, but reformists say it is necessary to restore power to the branchs of the government. we go to jerusalem in what is a energetic scene, hadas. >> yes, john. lots of action here, within the minutes of the legislation passing in parliament, 64-0, because the lawmakers walked off of the floor in protest. the crowd reacted in chants of boos and shame. now they are gathered in the stage behind me. we are outside of the supreme court, and that is what this fight is about, and they are trying to encourage the crowd to say they will not give up, and this is the beginning of the war

and telling everybody not to leave the streets, and come out to streets now to show the government that this is not the end, but the beginning of the fight, and what they are seeing from the beginning of this is that it is benjamin netanyahu to lead this massive judicial overhaul to finally pass parliament. it is not necessarily meaning that it going to become law at this step, but it is an important part of the coalition government to push forward this legislation. we have had the first legal challenge against this is filed before the supreme court asking for the injunction to stop this, and this is going to lead to the interesting fight, because this legislation is trying to take away the supreme court's actions by declaring them unreasonable. so they may have to rule on their own power or reasonability and whether they can declare something reasonable or the law says it is unreasonable.

and we will have to wait to see if the court is going to name it reasonable or unreasonable. and meanwhile, the stock market is falling, and the biggest labor union has said that it will shutdown the entire country, and there is a debate right now whether to call for that strike. and now, there are elite air force pilots who have said they will not heed the call to serve if this legislation passes, and the legislation has passed, and so that is a major test for them, if there is a major contest, and if they will be arrested. last night, president joe biden encouraging the israeli leaders to take a step back and close things down, and he was not listened to, and i expect we will see another clash here. >> and the connection is not

great, but we have heard every word you said and hanging on them, because the stakes here are so high for proponents of this bill, because in essence, it is about more than judicial reform, it is about the character of israel. explain that. >> yeah, john, because how the israeli government and parliament is set up, it is different than the united states, and whatever part isan power or check on the government is the supreme court. they say that law is not legal or reasonable, and it cannot pass. that is why so many of the protesters are so worried that it is going to so dramatically going to shake up the makeup of the judiciary, and the power, and not only the power, but other legislation in the pipeline that is going to change the way that the judges are select and the legal advisories can suggest what power they v

and this is the biggest change to the israel's judiciary since the country was founded. >> and the government, what they say is the most conservative or radical, and that is where the concern is. hadas gold, stay safe and keep us posted. rahel? >> john, time is running out this morning for governor greg abbott to avoid legal department from the justice department. they are demanding that he remove a razor floating barrier. the negotiations to end is 2:00 p.m. today. it focus on the 1,000-foot barrier in the rio grande near eagle pass. last night alone, the border officials encountered more than 24,000 immigrants in the area. we go to priscilla thompson. good morning to you.

will the doj be suing texas is the question to you? >> they are on track if texas does not respond this afternoon to say they will remove those floating barriers, and up to this point, governor greg abbott has dug in, and he says it is his right, and he has the sovereignty to do what he is doing at the border. this is a feud ongoing between president biden, and texas governor greg abbott along the handling of the u.s./texas border, and this feud was taken a step further with the u.s. saying that texas does not have the authorization to put up the barriers, and citing a clause in the law, for reasons that you said, humanitarian concerns, and agents and environmental concerns. in a statement to cnn, a white house spokesperson said that governor abbott's dangerou and

unlawful actions are making it more difficult for the cbp to do their jobs and putting the migrants and the border patrol agents to do their jobs. vi talk to people on the ground here at the border and in washington about what is going on, and it did pose a danger to the migrants and the agents on ground. these are agents who have worked well with the state troopers and the state of texas in enforcing the border, but there is now more disparity between the two, and it is causing more challenge for the agents if they are trying to make apprehensions, and reach a group of migrants to the river. so they are sending more here what they are in that legal action happening after 2:00 p.m.

this hour. priscilla is live for us. john? this is just in, ron desantis is revam tpg presidential campaign after two months into the campaign. accor team. his advisers say they are going to reorient his run, and make it a leaner and meaner run. this is days after the finance spending is showing unsustainable levels of spending. we are joined by doug heye, and when a campaign saying we are revamping, and doing this differently, what does it tell you? >> it tells you that they have structural problems that needed a dressing, and then they are ultimately seen in the polls. and you should remember it is early in the process, and ron desantis has been a candidate

for a while, and he has come in overhyped, and seen as the trump slayer, and since trump the has not been slayed, that is a letdown, but we have a long way to go here. and his campaign is still looking at slaying them, and he has some fortunes that are most important, and teams in all 99 counties, and it is going to be important to move forward. >> i have seen the campaigns to revamp or reshift, and john mccain laid off basically everybody, and he was able to win the nomination, but it is usually a sign of the problems and what does this say about ron desantis. >> well, it is saying that what was put together is a massive organization that they thought might get more funding initially than it did, and also a split between the campaign and the

superpac which is true of desantis, and in other pam pain. you know, yesterday was the last stage of the tour de france, and there is one leader and everybody else in the peloton who is racing to win the race. what we have seen in the peloton of the republican race is tim scott, nikki haley and ron desantis, and others who are not really taking donald trump, and not every day all day, and going after him, but vying for who is in second place. i would still rather say that he is doing very good in the states, and disregard the national polling. they should all learn from luke skywalker because he had to eventually face darth vader.

so when we get into the states, this is the primetime opportunity for those candidates to do it. >> we can debate the prudence of luke going after vader, because clearly obi-wan thought it was has trty confrontation. but it worked out in the end. >> too soon. >> and then there is the instance of the campaign and at least the video that was homo phobic or homo erotic of donald trump against the greased up body builders, "the new york times" says it imore of a self-inflicted wound than wa previously known. a desantis campaign aide had

produced it internally, and passed it to post it first to look like it was generated independently, according to a person independently. so if it was someone inside of the campaign who did it, it is an idea that they were supportive of, and what does that tell you about where he is trying to position himself? >> well, first, i want to know more of the story who tried to do something clever or cute or hired by somebody higher up. this is something that you see everyday on twitter or x or whatever we call it at this point, and amateur hour communications. it is seeming that so, but i doubt that ron desantis knew about this specific video, but

it is showing that he is aware of a culture that he should know something about. >> as always, doug heye, thank you. and now, the gilgo murders and what they have found so far. an ohio officer unleashes the dog on a suspect who had his hands up, and ur -- more on the impact of the investigation on the election up ahead.

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in ohio, an investigation is under way after an unarmed black man was attacked by a police dog even after he was surrendering. the naacp of ohio is calling for the officer to be fired. in missouri, eight people were injured after a boat ran aground into a home in the ozarks. it ejected all eight people on board. the driver was cited for boating while intoxicated. president biden honoring emmett till and his mother with a national monument this week. the black teenager's brutally murder sparked the national

civil rights movement. biden is going to make the official designation on what would have been emmett till's 82nd birthday. >> thank you, john. investigators believe that the home of the suspected gilgo beach murder rex heuermann will contain more clues into the murders. this morning, cnn was told that he was stoic in the meeting. we are joined by cnn analyst and investigator john miller. what we are learning is what the investigators are using at his home, the backhoe, the ground penetrating machines, and police dog, and what is that signaling to you? >> they are looking for the ground penetrating radar to see if there is any anomalies

underground, human remains, skeletal remain, disturbances that are shadows down there that are not normal for the terrain, and if they believe that there are bodies down there, they will dig up the entire ground. they can do methane probes to pull up gases to see if there is signs of decomposition or human remain, but they are in a position to leave no stone unturned. >> does the fact that they are digging up the backyard something that led them there or the working theory that they believe that the murders were committed there, and part of the working investigation or did something lead them there? >> the ground penetrating radars, and it is to help them know if you are going to look at

a person who is burying bodies at one low case, it could be another location, and so it could be down south where he has a property, and upstate where he has hunting cabins, so we are really at the beginning of the case and not the end. >> the sheriff said it is a multi generational search. i wanted to ask you about the interview, because he said that the suspect was stoic and he was also comfortable in his cell. is that something that fits profile? >> and in the interview, do you have any questions for us, and you understand what you are charged with and he said "is this in the news" and not that i didn't do this and he slept very well on the first night, and someone who is resigned to the fate. if you are looking at where they

are in the case, they are literally drowning in clues. they did the house in a systemic way, basement first, first floor, and second floor, and so what they have to do is to go through the attic, and move to the garage, and then assess what part of the ground to dig in if at all and so on. >> john, tell me more. what are you hearing from your law enforcement sources about what this is next, and beyond the attic, and that sort of thing. >> a lot, and not just fanning out, and the inventory inside of the house is clues. so a number of that is going to the county medical examiner, and they will search for victim dna and not just the four victims that they believe are tied to him, including the three that they are tied with, but there were six other victims buried on the dna and is there property cod tohem.

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welcome back. overnight, russia targeted ukraine's grain supply on the danube river, and there were hours' long attacks on where the grain is stored and coming as close to the nato territory since the war started. and this is just as russia pulled out of a deal that allowed ukraine too transport their grain to market. what is the latest there? >> well, one of the outfalls is the price of wheat sold in the chicago market in september, the price of wheat for sale then has jumped six percentage points,

and so this is the level of the international concern, and the concern as well that the port that was hit was on the danube river. one side of the danube river is ukraine, and the river itself is 400 meters wide, and the other side of the river is romania, and romania is a nato nation, and if the drones had missed the intended target, and landed a few meters beyond it, that would have been a russian strike on nato territory, and that they would have been intensifying the attacks on silos, and that would have housed grain and another silo with other agricultural products, but significantly think of the danube in this way.

the danube river is one of the principle ways that ukraine is using to get the grain out of the country when russia has been blocking the black sea, and been able to push the grain out of that route through international markets, and russia has stopped that and stopping the black sea route, and that is why the prices are up, and concern. >> let me ask you about the luka lukashenko. >> and so what is this going to do to affect the talks they were going to have? >> well, the talks are weeks apart, and obviously, putin is

putting the nukes inside of bell r bell -- bell a then, thewagner fighters have s, that they want to attack in the west, but it is language from both of the leaders here that this is the propaganda that they want to push, and it may or may not bear any reality at all. >> and there is no indication that lukashenko is taking the wagner fighters seriously. and now, there is news from

the washington post that reports that mark meadows who was chief of the staff of donald trump at the time, writes to his son attorney blake meadows had been obg possible fraud and found that only a handful of dead voters' names, and far short of the votes that trump would have needed to win the election. cnn legal analyst elliott is with us. why would he joke about that lack of the facts there? >> he could not be joking about

them being baseless unless he knew that they were base less. so it would be clear what the people like mark meadows would have been thinking they were true. >> so it goes to intent. >> and humor as you know well, out of context can be hard to convey to other people, abts -- about what the people who read it thought it meant to be, and so, it is so difficult to be what the posts out of context don't make a lot of sense. so you have to convince the jury, this proof can be pren

beyond a reasonable doubt. >> and this one had blinking red lights around it. people in trump's circle see this as a retreat for a few as he has reduced his appearances on tv or on the campaign trail. >> well, he should make the trump team nervous, because when running the investigation, there are two witnesses. one, people who heard or saw something firsthand, and spoken out of the target of the investigation or saw him and so those who view the person who

could be a valuable witness and i would not look into whether someone chooses a tweet or not or going on jimmy kimmel or not, and so he could be a witness based on any number of federal charges. >> would they have to get him any immunity or potentially, and not too far out ahead here, but plea agreement if mark med dose had a legal exposure. >> if he had legal and now he might not and the prosecutors may not be looking at him in the evidence that he has or the fact that he might have committed crimes, then it is in his

interest to charge him with a crime down the road. >> we have no knowledge if he committed a crime or any type of crime by mark meadows? >> all of the staffers are incredibly consequential. cassidy hubbarth, and she testified as to the ing thats that president said. and some of the state officials that the president interacted or had correspoence with, brad raf fenberger, and it was for you >> it is the president's voice giving testimony. and so folks like that, and

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happening now, protests have erupted up in israel after a knesset part of the bill that reshapes power of the court, and reshapes power of the country and the proponents says it is places too much power in the current government of benjamin netanyahu. in south korea, the conversations have begun with north korea is and the soldier who passed into the demilitarized zone, and they say that king's welfare is the primary concern. in greece, wildfires are devastating the country, and thousands of tourists and residents are forced to flee. 20,000 people are scrambling to get off. rahel? >> john, the twitter bird has flown the coop.

elon musk says that the bird is going to be replaced by an x. we bring in anchor of early start, christine roman. and we know that t the twitter s had some revenue problems, and what do we know? >> he said that we will bid adieu to twitter birds. and so we know that it is going to be moving on the something next for elon musk. and it is interesting, because some companies would kill for something iconic, but he is moves away from all of the branding. and he is having a big drop in

revenue since he took the company over. and he says that $3 billion revenue is down substantially, from 5.1 billion a couple of years earlier. >> incredible. and what is significance of x with elon musk? >> he has spacex and he has named one of the children x, and so there is an x there. and if you go x.com, it is going to take you the twitter, and you can see tweet and twitter on the site, and see if there are more graphics changes in the days ahead. >> christine, do we know how long this plan has been in the work, because the elephant in the room is meta's threads, and it is gaining popularity, and this is a rebranding that has been in the works for a long time? >> well, elon musk, you never know how long he has been thinking about it, and he is

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this morning, tens of millions of americans are struggling to stay cool with no end in sight to this unrelenting heat wave. over the last 35 days, over 5,000 records broken or tied in the u.s. these are not the records that you want to break either. our cnn meteorologist derek van dam is with us. derek, it is awful. it keeps going. >> yeah. records for all of the wrong reasons, right. 150 additional heat records can be added to that 5,000, too, by the way, john. it is incredible to see what has happened in phoenix for instance. the heat is so intense that it is literally baking the asphalt and the pavement there, and when people come into contact with it, it is second and third degree burns. we will talk about what has happened in vegas, and they have broken the consecutive streak, and 10 consecutive days of

temperatures in 10 degrees in phary fahrenheit or higher, and we must say they are going to only go to 108. wow, what a cooldown. and so we can see that in the foreseeable future, phoenix 24 days with a streak of 110. and six consecutive days above 115 which is coming to an end today, too. but look at, this jumping up and down about the records, because we are continue to smash historic record books, and putting it in perspective, 35 million americans, and that is a number of american, but looking at the americans who have not had the heat yet, and places like the midwest, and the southern plain, and the east coast where you are located, john, look at the mercury climb.

92 by thursday in new york city, and the triple-digit by the end of the week in st. louis, and the heat is going to continue the build past that into august, and you can see that temperature outlook through summer. >> no thanks to the heat coming this way, derek. what about the oceans, and they are like steam baths in the last few weeks. >> yeah, i was actually in miami a week ago, and i felt that air that you can wear. we like to say that. drink the air, because it is muggy that is so thick. and it is like the ocean temperatures, and we are jumping up and down like off of the charts high, and near global temperature high and in the florida peninsula, and some of the buoys, and granted it is shallow water that is reaching 97 degrees in some instances, but this is a coral reef that is

thriving in the ocean temperatures of low to mid-80s, and if not, they are bleached and they can die. this is noaa's coral reef watch that has been occurring across the caribbean, and that is where scientists are fearing it is going to happen next. >> and that warm ocean can mean bad things for hurricane season. thank you, derek. rahel? >> drone strikes continue in ukraine as odesa is bombarded. we are there with the latest. showdown in texas as the president and the governor square off against a barbed wire barrier at the border. the doj is ready to sue, but texas is not backing down.

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russian attacks inching closer to nato territory as they target a river depot right along the river. >> and greg abbott must commit to removing a barrier aimed at deterring migrants or be sued just ahead. kate and sara are off today. i'm john berman with rahel solomon. this is cnn "news central."

all right. new this morning, ukraine says that the russians have launched new attacks on locations that could really change the shape of the conflict there right across the river from romania which is of course a nato country. also this morning, ukraine says that it is behind a drone attack in moscow that blew out the windows on the top of a skyscraper. those attacks come after ukrainian volodymyr zelenskyy vowed retaliation of relentless strikes of russian force, and those are the pictures that you are looking at, and the ones in odessa including ones to the historic cathedral there. m alex marquardt reports from the scene. >> the russian president said