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>> good to be with you, an unexpected day in court. >> hunter biden's plea deal, what we're talking about, fell apart right before he was set to plead guilty. what comes next for the investigation, and potential charges against the president's son and how will this play into the race for the white house? we will ask the republican governor of new hampshire chris sununu in minutes. the unreported falls we are now learning about with mitch mcconnell. the u.s. women's soccer team fighting back in a 1-1 draw against the netherlands. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ here is where we begin this hour, this morning hunter biden's plea deal in serious jeopardy after it fell apart at the last minute during this really dramatic and unexpected court hearing yesterday in a stunning twist the federal judge

put their deal on hold right as the president's son was getting ready to plead guilty to tax crimes and avoid prosecution on a felony gun charge. the june called this plea agreement unusual and she also questioned if it was even constitutional. she refused to be a rubber stamp, and raised questions about whether the deal gives hunter biden immunity from prosecution from other possible crimes including his business dealings in ukraine and china. >> republicans on capitol hill are pouncing on the judge's decision. just last week the house oversight committee brought in two irs whistle-blowers who worked on the case who testified that hunter biden received in their view preferential treatment. one of the whistle-blowers joined poppy this morning to react to the judge's decision. >> the prosecution rushed this agreement through and mismanaged the situation and he could have gotten off with an easy deal. the judicial system is working. you have someone that is looking at what is happening here and

they're seeing that this is not normal and that we have to treat everyone the same. >> let's turn now to our cnn senior legal analyst elie honig, you were on the air trying to make sense of what was happening in realtime during this hearing yesterday. what happens now? >> poppy, this was not your average plea deal, not your average plea hearing. they went from we have a deal to we don't have a deal to we do have a deal to we don't have a deal. let's talk about what's next. start with what's next. option one is they can try to get together, the judge has given them 30 days. she says get back to me. i need legal briefing. if they can get together on a deal where they agree on everything, they can go in and hunter biden can take a plea deal. >> ostensibly, could still be on two misdemeanors. >> it could be similar to what the deal was supposed to be. they have to iron out the details. if they cannot do that option two is it will be a trial. that is very risky for hunter biden. that will be on the tax charges, on the gun charge, could be on

other things. if he goes to trial there's a real risk if he's convicted of prison time. so hunter biden is going to be very incentivized to get that plea deal back together. >> okay. politics. >> yes. >> capitol hill, republicans, jim jordan and others saying, see, the whistle-blowers were right. the judge actually pointed out none of that was considered in yesterday's hearing. >> there's a big difference between the politics and what actually happened in court yesterday. let's explain actually what did happen in court because this was really about a failure to come to an agreement, not the politics of it. now, here's the easy part. the plan was supposed to be hunter biden was going to plead guilty to the two tax misdemeanors, and then there was going to be a diversion. they were going to essentially throw out the gun charge. that part was easy. so the question was, though, if hunter biden enters this plea deal, what is he going to be covered for in the future? the easy part, the tax, he was not going to be charged for. again, the gun, he's covered for that. but the judge said how about all this other stuff on the periphery around tax and the

gun? can he be charged, for example, if there's a foreign agent registration act, the foreign lobbying violation? hunter biden's team said, yes, he's covered for that. doj said, oh no, he's not. at that point, the judge said you do not have a deal. the judge did not say this was a sweetheart deal. just you do not have a deal. they should have seen this coming. back in june when the news first came out hunter biden's team said it's my understanding, his lawyer said, that the five-year investigation into hunter is resolved, the whole thing's over. doj, though, said it's an ongoing investigation. if you're sensing tension there, there is, and that blew up in court yesterday. >> one of the things that i think is really interesting is the question of where does this go now in terms of the tie between the politics and keeping the politics out of it, out of the court proceedings, and the court proceedings playing into where the politics are going? >> the whistle-blower, special

agent ziegler, he said publicly and reiterated to you just now that in his view the u.s. attorney was constantly limited. david weiss said, no, he was not, he said he had ultimate authority over this matter. there's three big questions that linger over the politics of this. >> okay. >> why did it take five years? half that time under the trump administration, half that time under biden. bid weiss in fact have full authority? they differ on that. were there investigative avenues cut off? special agent ziegler answered that question with you, he said specifically we wanted to look at the money trail to another biden relative, valerie biden. >> he named in our interview for the first time others in the agency that he says stood in his way in doing that? >> a lot of news made in that interview. >> final question. >> sure. >> who could answer this question? >> there may be a difference of opinion. david weiss said, yes, i did have full unfettered authority.

>> beyond weiss? >> merrick garland. >> who said he did? >> merrick garland has agreed with david weiss. >> thank you, elie honig. and retired district judge, a fellow at the college of commercial arbiters. as we look at how this played out, the judge yesterday was clear she was not going to be a rubber stamp. is it surprising to you how quickly the deal fell apart, and how far apart the two sides were when they came into that courtroom? >> yes, it is surprising to me. they seemed not prepared for a judge who questioned parts of this agreement, which was the right thing to do. i think this judge acted completely appropriately. she did not question the deal itself in terms of two misdemeanors and the recommendation of probation and things like that, which are quite typical. but she wanted to be sure there

was an agreement. she asked good questions, and what she got was answers that the two sides did not have the same view as to what the immunity would be going forward, which elie just spoke about, and that's a very big issue. if there's a prosecution five years from now or two years from now and one side says but i was given immunity, the other side says you were not, that becomes an issue in the next case. that has to be clarified. the other thing that upset her was this diversion program. instead of being prosecuted on the gun charge, the government had agreed that he could go into a diversion for a couple years, and if he behaved and followed the terms of the diversion, there would be no charge. but they said to decide if he violated it, it would come back to her and she would become the fact finder. she said, wait a minute, that shouldn't be my job, that's a prosecutorial decision and you're turning the court into the executive branch and i've got to think about that. so i thought she raised really

important issues, but i think the deal will be salvaged because there was nothing about the deal itself that troubled her other than that they had a different view of what the immunities were and who would be the decider if he failed in the diversion. >> judge, i'm so glad you brought that up. this was when she said i don't even know if this is constitutional and that got a lot of attention, elie, she's talking about a separation of powers issue. can you explain that to people better? the constitutionality question was about that specific part. >> right. so, there's the executive branch of the government, which is what the prosecutor is, the department of justice is in the executive branch. but she is the judicial branch. so our country has three different branches, legislative, judicial and executive. what she was saying is that belongs in the executive branch. so usually when there's a

diversion program, and somebody has to follow certain rules for two years, i think that was the diversion here, i think he couldn't have any alcohol, couldn't use any drugs, obviously no guns, there were terms and conditions. but they didn't want the fact finder to be the executive branch. and the reason i think that the defense team was worried about that is if the next administration was under republican control, if it was president trump, they felt he might not be a fair fact finder, that his justice department would be biased, would be politicized. so they wanted the judge to make that decision. but she was troubled. she said, but that's turning me into a potential prosecutor, and i would be in the executive branch, and i can't, i'm in the judicial branch. she's right about that too. >> she said he didn't want to get -- elie, quickly, the judge said she thinks they'll be able to come to some sort of an agreement. do you, based on your

experience, right, as a former prosecutor, do you see anything in the way here? >> well, look at the incentives here. if hunter biden does not come to a plea agreement he's going to have to go to trial. the risk there is enormous. and from doj's point of view, all you want to do is reach a fair disposition. the fact that they're willing to go this far with hunter biden tells me they are willing to dispose of this case for probation and the diversionary program. i think it's more likely we do see a revised plea agreement that meets with the judge's approval. not certain though, but the inentives are really pushing, especially hunter biden that way to protect himself. >> elie honig, and judge shylan, appreciate you both this morning. more on senator mitch mcconnell, we've learned he's fallen more times this year than previously known, this reporting comes after a scary moment on camera at a news conference yesterday. the 81-year-old republican just suddenly froze midsentence for 23 seconds. here is that moment.

>> we're on a path of finishing the nda this week, been good bipartisan cooperation, and a string of -- >> are you good, mitch? >> you okay, mitch? >> mcconnell's fellow senators there asking if he's all right, event cruelly pulling him to the side before he returned to the podium. >> could you address what happened at the start of the press conference, and was it related to your injury from earlier this year where you suffered a concussion? >> i'm fine. >> you're fine, you're fully able to do your job? >> yeah, yeah. >> so this latest incident

raising understandable concerns but we've also around learned that it is not the first time there has been concern. sources telling cnn in february mcconnell tripped and fell in helsinki while getting out of the car on a snowy day, days before he fell in march, that incident happened in d.c. at a hotel when he slammed his head, suffering a concussion and breaking ribs. at a news conference in june he had trouble hearing questions from reporters despite the fact that those next to him could hear clearly. take a look. >> what are your concerns as it relates to a.i.? >> repeat that again. >> on a.i., are you concerned at all about artificial intelligence and what are your concerns related to that? how should congress address it? >> what is my concern about -- >> artificial intelligence. >> about what?

i'm having a hard time hearing your voice, sorry. >> on artificial intelligence. >> a.i.? >> yeah, on a.i. >> well, i think everybody's concerned about a.i. >> earlier this month mcconnell tripped and fell at reagan national airport while he was getting off a plane. and yesterday, as you saw, he abruptly stopped speaking midsentence at the podium. let's get to lauren fox. good morning to you, this is the latest issue for mcconnell as we've outlined. do we have an update how he's doing this morning? >> yeah, poppy, yesterday we asked repeatedly how he was doing and you heard from him directly saying he was fine, he did tell reporters yesterday evening that he got a call from president joe biden who just wanted to check in on him, make sure he was okay, and then he sort of made a quick joke about being sandbagged. of course, alluding to the fact that the president himself tripped a couple of months ago over a sandbag on stage. here's what mcconnell said to reporters leaving his office

last night. >> the president called to check on me. i told him i got sandbagged. >> and one of the most obvious questions after the incident yesterday was whether or not he was seen by a physician. right here on capitol hill we have the attending physician who is available to lawmakers. his office did not answer repeated questions about whether or not he had an opportunity to see a doctor after that incident yesterday. what we know is that he got lightheaded, that he stepped away for a few moments, and then came back to the podium to answer a series of questions on a plethora of topics, including about impeachment and his own health. but as you saw there in the clip from our colleague manu raju who pressed him on what had happened at the beginning of the press conference he just said he was fine. so that's all the information we have right now. but like you noted, there is just concern about whether or not this incident is an isolated one given the fact that we now

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a major republican cate call in iowa tomorrow night, nearly all of the republican presidential candidates, including form president donald trump will converg at the iowa gop's annual lincoln dinner in des moines. candidates get a maximum of ten minutes to talk to the audience. the iowa event comes less than four weeks from the first presidential debat and a new fox business poll from that state shows trump with a commanding lead over the rest of the field, one of the attendees at the dinner will be sizing up the candidates. that is someone who's not going to be a candidate, at least not this time. chris sununu decided against a 2024 presidential bid and will not seek reelection in his state. good morning, thank you, sir, we're glad you're with us. >> good morning. >> what do you want to hear tonight? >> so i think the importance of iowa, first of all they're all going to be there. what i've told all the candidates, my two cents, don't focus on the policy.

bring charisma and personality, show leadership at a different level. they've got to start kind of flairing out if you will and getting people excited about what might be possible as opposed to just another candidate that isn't donald trump. so i think that's the opportunity they have here, get people excited. they're going to be on a stage, not on a debate stage, per se, but on a stage and it's the first time we'll see them all back to back. it's pretty exciting. >> you've also said, though, you want candidates who are, quote, willing to swing and take the punch at beating trump. we've seen one do that, that's chris christie. does that mean he's got your endorsement coming? >> no, look, i love chris, by the way, i think they're all -- i think a lot of them are probably waiting for the debate stage. i really do. will they be as hard as governor christie has been? governor christie has been full force. i love the show. i think he's doing a great job. all of them should be there. they've got to start separating themselves without a doubt. and, look, look what's happening to donald trump's numbers right here in new hampshire.

he's at 37%. that means 63% of the most hard core voting base of republicans don't want that guy. huge opportunity. trump is very, very beatable. but we have to find the candidate that's going to surge. >> that's what i was going to say huge opportunity unless you have too many people running against him and then he does it again. i just think it's thinking this growing course, the op-ed by mitt romney this week saying if there's no viable path pull out by february 26th. chris christie telling me on this show earlier this week he agrees. john thune is echoing that, if you want somebody to be anti-trump, get out of the race. you said they need to do that earlier, other republican candidates then what mitt romney is calling for. >> well, a little bit. it definitely needs to be before super tuesday. that's what they're talking about. given that iowa and new hampshire, i think you're going to see three or four candidates not get through the second debate and they'll drop out. >> haven't you said november or

december. >> i did, two or three more, polls are sitting in single digits. before iowa, my guess you're going to see five people in the race, something like that. after new hampshire you've got to get it down to one on one. >> who should stick around, who should those five be? >> whoever's got it. >> come on, give me -- give me a few names. >> it's really on personality. it's on leadership and personality. i'm not saying these guys have to have a danceoff on stage and figure it out, although that would be good. >> you can answer my question. >> that would be good. >> candidly, you're not running again, who has the personality? >> i have to be -- personality, look, raum swamy gets excited on stage. he's got to get more to it. the newer candidates. bergumm, the pence, haley, tim scott, been in the race a while.

great individuals with amazing records, they've got to bring personality. there's opportunity to do that but we haven't seen a ton of it yet. there's three or four months where we'll narrow it down. you'll have people surge and implode on the debate stage. it will be a drama. that's the drama we want to see. we're tired of the donald trump drama. donald trump's not a real republican. >> you want drama. >> see them go back and forth. >> headline, chris sununu wants drama. >> the right drama to find the right candidate. >> the extraordinary thing that happened in the federal courthouse in delaware yesterday and the hunter biden plea deal falls apart, your republican colleagues in congress are pouncing on it. conflating what the whistle-blowers have said, that's not what was at issue. but here's a sampling of what they said. >> it collapsed because it was a sweetheart deal from a family that's been protected. hunter biden being the main character. >> hunter biden is getting a sweetheart deal that no other american who wasn't rich and had

a father as the president would ever get, ever. >> if you believe the whistle-blowers, and what they're saying, no, this was a sweetheart deal, it was corrupt, in terms of how it was handled. >> you know, you have said you're not going to get elected president by bashing the hunter biden deal. do you still feel that way? >> well, look, i've said very clearly, anytime a politician or a politician's family has the word deal next to them, that's a problem, that's a huge problem. i don't think this is the only thing, but i'm going to tell you, i don't think joe biden is the nominee in '24. this is just -- >> you don't? who? >> one of the many drops in the bucket. >> no, i don't. >> who is? >> i think he's going to go through the primary process, collect all the delegates and i think you're going to see a wild convention where he and his people start steering the delegates somewhere else, i really believe that sincerely, a health thing, the hunter biden thing, they're doing everything to make sure he doesn't have to testify and sit there in court and open all this other stuff,

the whole book gets opened up if that process happens. look, i don't know whether it's a grand scheme. not a conspiracy theoryist by in means, i don't think trump or biden are on that ticket. >> politico article was fascinating. sununu's exit spells the end of a whole breed of republican governor. do you agree? >> no, no, look, there's a lot of great governors in the wings. i appreciate that -- that's very flattering honored to be put in that context. there's a lot of great governors in the wings in purplish states, in arizona, i think there's opportunity, whether it's in kentucky and louisiana this year are going to be great pickups for the republican party on the governor side. >> governor sununu, thanks for your time. >> you bet. so governor sununu wants better drama. but he may be wishing for some on the democratic side. this just in, gas prices,

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oh. >> that video which we showed you yesterday morning not long after it had happened, the dramatic crane collapse here in new york city. we can update it for you this morning. we were covering it live here "cnn this morning," 12 people were injured, three firefighters, all of those injuries non-life threatening. we have obtained another video which shows how construction workers were reacting during that collapse. take a look. >> the crane's dropping. >> oh, my god, the crane fell.

oh. >> go, come on. >> let's go. >> should we get out? i don't know, is it going to keep falling? >> let's go. >> fire officials say the fire erupted while the crane operator was lifting about 16 tons of concrete. the operator noticed the fire in the crane's engine, tried to extinguish it but was overwhelmed by the flames. did manage to escape safely. an inspection by the fire department shows the crane and impacted buildings were structurally stable after the collapse. the commissioner of the new york fire department is here with us, laura kavanagh. any further information on what caused that fire? >> so, the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and we're working closely with the department of buildings to determine what the cause was and pr

prevent anything like that from happening in the future. i have to say as the video you just showed, you saw how close of a call this was. it's sort of a miracle there wasn't more injuries to construction workers or our members. thanks to the quick action by everybody involved including our members, we're very lucky there were no injuries and this is just an example of how complex, you know, emergency response in a growing and modern city where you've got a fire 50 stories up we're putting out from the building next door the same time you have a collapse and you have patients being treated in the street by ems. really incredible work. >> it is incredible work. i think so many people breathing that sigh of relief with you that it was only, not to they're not important, only 12 people who were injured, and that they were all non-life threatening. we look at that, too, in a city like new york, these cranes are everywhere. you see them all the time walking down the street, certainly in this area where that happened. "the new york times" reporting this morning that the company that owns the crane has actually

been involved in a number of high-profile accidents, one in 2008 resulting in a death of two construction workers. how concerned should new yorkers be this morning as they are walking amongst these cranes? >> so, you know, absolutely the city is investigating this, and anybody who has any liability or any fault here will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. i think the city of new york has a lot of construction, as you mentioned, as new yorkers are all very conscious of it. but, you know, most of that is done safely. but we, you know, have to make sure that we are constantly on top of this new construction and the challenges that it confronts for us. so we'll definitely be working with our partners in government to make sure that each and every one of these sites is up to code and operating safely. >> really quickly for you, i know we have another topic. do you have a sense of when that investigation will be complete in terms of the cause of the fire? >> we don't yet but certainly we'll keep you apprised and be in touch as soon as we know.

>> you're in maryland as folks can see, because you are set to testify today, and you're testifying to the consumer protection safety commission specifically about the risk of fires from e-bikes and e-scooters. lithium batteries, you say, are the second leading cause of fire deaths in new york city after electrical fires, what's going on here to make them explode like that out of the blue? >> yeah, it is really scary, and these really are explosions. that's exactly the right word. they don't catch on fire the way we traditionally see in most fires. these are in people's homes. they have a ticking time bomb. we're talking to the federal government. we've passed lots of laws locally, and lots of enforcement, but unregulated devices keep flooding into the country and the city. it really requires federal intervention to ensure that all of these devices are up to the same standards that frankly a lot of other devices that we have in our homes, like our phones, are regulated, and you

aren't seeing these issues with those devices anymore. so we really want to make sure not only that consumers know if they already have this device how dangerous it is so they can assess whether or not they want t to have that in their home and make sure the devices in the future are safe and they're regulated, and people don't have to worry about them bursting into flames. >> yes or no, you said if they want to decide whether to have them in their homes, would you advise somebody to keep an e-bike or an e-scooter in their apartment or garage? >> i would advise them to keep it outside if they do have one in their homes. i'd advise them to take a look at it and see whether it's ul certified. if it's not required for livelihood, i would caution people, until these are fully regulated, not to keep one in their home. >> commissioner laura kavanagh, appreciate your time this morning, thank you. >> of course, thank you so much. >> that was really helpful information. new this morning, we have learned that wagner's leader

yevgeny prozhin is in russia, the same city as vladimir putin, he was spotted meeting with an african dignitary on the sidelines of the russia africa summit. the first time prigozhin has been seen inside of russia since he led the armed mutiny. he had only been seen in public on july 19th when he seemingly was inside belarus. this morning, secretary of state antony blinken joining the voices of international condemnation after an apparent military coupe in niger. officers claimed to have taken over the country, the president, a key partner of the u.s. in fighting insurgency, the election two years ago was historic for the central african nation. niger's african american has called the soldier's actions an attempted coup, he spoke to the president who has not been harmed, the pentagon says there are about 800 u.s. troops stationed in niger. president biden about to meet with mayors at the

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how much did the economy grow in the second quarter? we know now. christinrons here. >> no slowdown, picking steam in the second quarter. 2.9% economic growth, stronger than the first quarter. economists have been expecting 1.8%. this is overshooting what they had been expecting, it's driven by a lot of things, business investment, housing investment, but also consumer spending. >> beyonce. >> the barbie movie again. >> it's all barbie. >> when people want to do something or buy something, they're still doing it, consumer finances are still better than they were before the pandemic, although they have been drawing down their savings from those pandemic years. this is another strong number.

>> way to keep bringing the consistent good news. appreciate you. also, though, gas prices, i mean, i've noticed they've started to go up a little bit. you say part of that may also be related to ts incessant heat. >> there's a couple things happening, well below last year, last year this time we were hitting record highs, $4.30 last year, today $3.71. jumping overnight. some jumps have been pretty big. the incessant heat means the refineries are going offline for maintenance, can't run full throttle when it's 115 with the heat index, people can't work when it's so hot. the other reason is russia backed out of this grain deal. you had a rise in all kinds of commodity prices, corn, wheat, barley. all these prices have been going up and sometimes you tend to see commodities move together. but mostly this heat thing has some of these refineries either slowing down or offline for

maintenance. that means they're not processing as much gasoline. >> jeez. another reason. >> i know. >> to get it in check when it comes to climate change. >> interesting paradigm. >> totally, and how connected it all is. >> it's all connected. speaking of this brutal heat wave which continues to smother the united states. we have new developments this morning. we're now looking at 150 million americans under heat alerts today, that's like 45% of the u.s. population. also, an emergency alert has been dlared for the nation's largest power grid in terms of that impact, we're talking about electricity for 65 million people across 13 states and washington, d.c. also new this morning, we've learned president biden is set to meet with the mayors of phoenix and san antonio to talk about soaring temperatures, and also to announce new measures to protect workers from the ex-trextreme temperatures. the threat is very real. in numa county, arizona, this

worker lost consciousness while working and later died. neighboring maricopa county says 25 people so far have died as a result of this heat, and that county of course includes phoenix. temperatures in phoenix reaching 118 degrees yesterday. meteorologist eric van damme is leave in key biscayne, florida today, starting with you in the nation's capital. >> reporter: erica, right now it is starting to heat up here in washington. it feels close to 90 degrees at the moment, but bear in mind we have had cloud coverage, a little bit of a breeze all morning. that number is going to rise quickly and it's going to rise dramatically in the hours ahead. today or tomorrow here in washington, we could hit 100 degrees. for the first time in seven years. and with the humidity, it's going to feel a lot worse than that. we're talking about a heat index close to 110 degrees today, tomorrow, even into saturday,

really, no relief for people here in washington, d.c. until sunday, and so as part of this, as part of the proactive measures to try to mitigate the impacts, the mayor here has declared this hot weather emergency, and they're taking several steps. they're extending hours for things like spray parks and swimming pools, they've launched, activated their cooling centers, and they're also adding five public buses that they have rented as mobile cooling centers, that they're going to be placing around the district, really designed to help some of the most vulnerable people in washington, people who are living on the street, seniors, lower-income families who might not have access to air-conditioning. we saw yesterday they are already taking proactive, making proactive welfare checks, going around handing out waters, ice, and trying to get information to people as to how to stay safe. take a listen, here's what emergency management, their message was to people across the

district. >> we're very concerned, and those health risks, mitigating them, are paramount. we want people to stay hydrated and to make sure if people don't need to be outside doing strenuous activities, that they're not. want you to check in on your neighbors. this is an unprecedented event. this is something that you should not take lightly. >> and the cost to cool your home this summer is expected to be up 12% roughly because of largely because of this heat wave. we're talking about record prices, erica, so, again, it's not just people who don't have access to air who might be using cooling centers. it's people who might be struggling to make ends meet and they can't afford to blast air-conditioning in their home for three straight days. >> for sure. and, too, the specific reason you're in florida, and it's not because of how hot it is on land, it's because of how hot the water is, and the damage to the ocean. >> yeah, from heat waves on land

to heat waves in our oceans, we are here in biscayne key, key biscayne, i should say, as a follow-up on this ecological disaster, the dying of our coral reefs, so paramount in protecting the natural barrier from storm surge and hurricanes, but they also provide billions of dollars in tourism for people and the state as well. now, unfortunately they continue to bleach and die because of the abnormally warm water temperatures. the coral restoration foundation found 100% coral mortality in some of the coral reefs in the southern florida keys. 90% of excess greenhouse warmth is actually absorbed within our oceans, and it was ever so apparent this week with our water temperatures skyrocketing to near global record temperatures. we had a reading of 101 degrees

in manatee bay earlier this week, that's since cooled off because we've had rain. that's a real problem because that allows for a complete shutdown of our ecological, fragile ecosystems, corals, fish behaviors, and sharks as well, they're searching for cooler water. it's incredible what this warmth really does to the planet. >> derek van dam, gabe cohen, appreciate it, thank you both. grand jury hearing evidence from the special counsel's probe into alleged efforts by former president trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election, they're now meeting again at a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. cnn reporters just saw jurors and a prosecutor working for special counsel jack smith enter the courthouse this morning. that grand jury normally meets on tuesdays and thursdays, but they haven't been seen inside the federal courthouse since last week. big game last night for the u.s. women's national soccer team, ending in a tie with the netherlands. so, how is the team's popularity being felt across the country?

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answering in the 62nd minute to tie the game. so that draw leaves the u.s. in first place in their group, still the favorite to lift the trophy for the third time. harry enten is here. this was a hart fought tie for the women. julie told us earlier she hasn't seen the best out of them yet it's coming and they are still the favorites. >> they are still the favorites. so this morning's number is four. that's how many u.s. women's world cup titles there have been since they started play back in 1991. they do better than the men, that's why i love watching the women, they won. the men haven't won anything since 1930. in terms of the odds for this year, the u.s. is the favorite, their chance of winning is 29%. spain is close behind at 22. germany at 13%. so the favorite but still a better chance somebody else might win. >> women's soccer popularity around the world. look at the fans. but how does it stack up against

others. >> u.s. average viewership. 17 million tuned in to the 2019 world cup finals. that beat the 12 million nba finals and the 2022 mlb world series at 12 million. and one other nugget i want to point out. how much a big deal the success of women's soccer has been for girls playing the game. since 1991, look at the growth, up 227% all sports for girls 71%. soccer has seen growth and the women's success has been a large part of that. >> they have great role models to look up to. a california fedex driver turned good samaritan rescuing a man from a fiery car wreck. the car burst into flames after veering off the road. when john nathan saw it he jump

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