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people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. look at this. this is the people who were trapped between these power lines. today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. more than 300 cancelled. here is a look at long lines at reagan national airport. you can barely tell through the maze where the line starts and ends. meteorologist derek van dam is in the weather center. it was just awful yesterday. still more coming today. but yesterday just all across the country people in bad shape. >> yeah. victor, poppy, after yesterday's hurricane-force wind gusts and softball size hail that dropped from the sky, today will feel like a walk in the park, especially for the areas that were hit hardest across the mid atlantic. but the severe weather threat is not over just yet. it's all part of the larger storm system that rocked the eastern sea board yesterday. take a listen. with wind gusts estimated over 75 miles per hour, the impact was immediate.

>> oh my god. holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: in mooresville, north carolina, tyson winter captured this video of a tree snapping in half andaling to a ground near an apartment complex. heavy rain, winds haermed cities and town east of the mississippi river. by monday night, there had been more than 400 reports of strong winds across the region. and more than a million customers were without power across 11 states. in states like north carolina, pennsylvania, georgia and maryland, according to power outage.u.s. monday's severe weather is impacting around 120 million people along the eastern u.s., from downed trees in hartford county, maryland, to widespread damage, to homes and public buildings upstate new york down to alabama, causing a lot of mess and spreading hazards along the way. in washington, d.c., cnn captured this video of a man removing a large branch from a city street.

this photo shows downed power lines littering a roadway in carol county, maryland, after a storm passed through the area. another driver captured the chaos caused by those electric poles in maryland's route 140 in westminster. maryland state police say more than 30 vehicles were stuck in the incident, but no injuries were reported. in many parts, the storm caused extreme low visibility. in downtown philadelphia, a live tower camera showed the magnitude of the weather conditions. in victory gardens, new jersey, several residents displaced after a tree fell on a home, bringing down power lines and crashing cars. according to cnn affiliate wabc, the house was occupied at the time but there were no injuries reported. the storms caused major travel disruptions in the skies on monday. according to data from flight aware, more than 10,000 u.s. flights were impacted by the severe storms on monday. among them, over 8,500 flights

were delayed and more than 1,700 cancelled. all this as new weather threats are expected to develop for tuesday afternoon with risk of severe thunderstorms in several southern states. that's what 600 reports of severe weather looks like. and today's severe weather threat largely coming to an end along the eastern sea board. the only exception near the greater boston area. it's too hot across the deep south. that's where we focus our attention along with the central plains, large hail, damaging winds and can't rule out a tornado for those locations. but for the east coast, we're in clean-up mode for the rest of the day. >> appreciate it. thanks for the reporting. behind the scenes on capitol hill, many house republicans are saying privately that it is a fore gone conclusion that president biden will face an impeachment inquiry this fall, that's according to our manu r raju. evidence is still being gathered. here is what speaker mccarthy

said on fox last night. >> i raised it on this show not long ago that because the actions of the biden administration, with holding information, that that would rise to the level where we would need impeachment inquiry to give the strength of the congress, to get the information that we need to give to the american public and follow through on our constitutional authority. that is exactly what we're doing. that's exactly what we'll continue to do. >> manu raju is live on capitol hill. manu, good morning to you. what are you hearing on the hill about this potential inquiry? >> reporter: yeah. even though speaker mccarthy says they have not made an official decision to launch an impeachment inquiry, the belief among republicans is that i have talked to, that my colleagues also have talked to is that it is almost certain they will go down this route in the fall because of what they believe is a pay to play scheme involving joe biden when vice president with his son hunter biden while -- hunter biden's business

dealings. now they have not been able to corroborate the very provocative claim but able to show some allegations about joe biden's ties with his son. namely about that came out during a private interview last week with hunter biden's business partner showing that joe biden was on the speakerphone some 20 times with hunter biden and his foreign business partners back in the time when joe biden was vice president. now that same business partner devin archer said that no business was actually discussed in those 20 or so interactions. but republicans believe this is all underscores the effort by hunter biden to use his dad's name as leverage to try to score foreign business dealings. republicans say they're going to try to prove that joe biden was influenced in some way while by those actions and may have profited from them. but they have not come up with that evidence yet to -- that would be central to their inquiry. now, what they are saying is they need to launch an impeachment inquiry in order to obtain some of that very critical information that could be difficult to obtain unless

they are in that aggressive posture, oversight posture with an impeachment inquiry. leading part of that push is house oversight chairman james comer whose committee held that interview that hunter biden business partner last week and indicated to us over the weekend in kentucky that more interviews were to come as they try to get more bank records to try to corroborate their claims. >> this next week we will release more bank records. we'll do our third bank memo where we show some interesting wire transfers and some suspicious bank activity that i think the american people will have a lot of questions about. >> reporter: now republicans are also telling us that if they don't move forward with an impeachment inquiry in the fall, it will essentially clear joe biden of any potential wrong doing. it could potentially boost him in the -- his run for re-election here. democrats believe this is all an effort to run interference for

donald trump as he faces his own criminal charges and try to hurt joe biden even as they have yet to corroborate their most salacious allegations, the white house and democrats pushing back on all of this. but republicans expect a big fight and a big focus on this issue and potential impeachment inquiry this fall, guys. >> but it puts mccarthy's members in districts that biden won in quite a pickle. does he have the votes to go forward with it? >> reporter: yeah. that is the big question here because mccarthy, as we know, has a very narrow house majority. he can only afford to lose four republican votes on any party line vote. the way it would probably work is it would be a vote to formally open up an impeachment inquiry. that means it would be a first vote that would likely go along party lines. he cannot afford to lose more than four members in that vote. then the investigation. then if they decide to go down that route, it would draft articles of impeachment to try to accuse the president of committing high crimes or misdemeanors in office a very

serious charge. only three other presidents in history have gone -- have faced impeachment, donald trump, of course, was impeached twice by the house. but in talking to some members in those swing districts, guys, they are not 100% there. one is don bacon of nebraska who told me yesterday he wants an investigation first before they go down that route. he's not begging impeachment inquiry, but if they do go down that route, it will put those members in a tough spot. they have primaries to worry about back home which is one reason why some republicans believe ultimately they will impeach the president because once they go down that road, it's hard to pull back. >> yeah. could also be a rallying cry for democrats with the president suffering with some enthusiasm issues from his supporters. >> yeah. >> manu raju on capitol hill. thank you. >> great reporting. just hours from now donald trump is set to hit the campaign trail. he's facing a when i will wind of developments in the multiple criminal cases against him. he will speak today in new hampshire where his defense team -- while his defense team battles with the special counsel jack smith in the election interference case. and this developing overnight, the judge is preparing to

schedule a hearing to decide whether to issue a protective order in that case. special counsel is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence to the public and potentially undermine the case before it even goes to trial. meantime in atlanta, georgia, there are signs indictments could be imminent. the state's lieutenant governor and cnn contributor jeff duncan, we learned he's been subpoenaed to testify to the fulton county grand jury. >> i'm going to certainly keep the details to myself just to protect the integrity of the investigation. but very clear subpoena that was delivered to us late last week. and we will certainly answer the questions that they have before us and answer their call to show up for the grand jury. >> also the judge in the mar-a-lago classified documents case is adding a new wrinkle to this. she is questioning whether it's legal for the justice department to use that out of state grand jury in d.c. for this on going probe of documents.

>> now as the judge in the election interference case weighs a decision, jack smith is still busy pursuing witnesses. cnn has learned that special counsel investigators met with bernie kerik yesterday. kerik is the former disgraced new york city police commissioner close with rudy giuliani and coordinated with him in the weeks and months after the 2020 election. here is what kerik's attorney told cnn about the meeting. >> it was mostly about, you know, all the efforts in between the election and january 6th of what the giuliani team was doing and really just going through all of the efforts that they took at the time to take all the complaints of fraud, see what they could do to chase him down. >> he added that he does not think that giuliani will be indicted. let's go now to cnn senior legal analyst elie honig. lots of big questions about this indictment, including what happens with giuliani and the

other unindicted coconspirators. >> yeah, victor. we learn more information about this case everyday. but three big questions to me persist. first of all, what will happen with the coconspirators? now in this indictment, jack smith identifies not by name but by abbreviations cc coconspirators one through six in the indictment. rudy giuliani, john eastman, sidney poul, kenneth clark and kenneth. the use of this term coconspirators is really significant by prosecutors because you only use that term if you believe you can prove these people were in on the crime and part of it. the big question is will they be charged? we heard that bernie kerik went into the grand jury and questioned about coconspirator one, rudy giuliani. he doesn't think rudy giuliani is going to be charged. i'm going to respectfully disagree with him on that. we will see. one of the big questions, if jack smith does choose to indictment any or all of these coconspirators, does he include

them, add them into the existing indictment against donald trump or does he bring a separate indictment? if it's my decision i'm doing it separate. if you add them into the donald trump indictment, you're setting the stage for this thing to be pushed back and delayed. we know that's a continuing strategy of donald trump and his team to get it pushed back past the election. so what do these coconspirators be charged, cooperate? we have to watch and see. >> another mystery involves a person closest to the former president. >> yes. international man of mystery, mark meadows. >> where has he been? >> who knows. where is mark meadows. former chief of staff to donald trump. he was by donald trump's side literally in the weeks and days leading up to january 6th, on january 6th and after. let's start with what we know for sure about mark meadows. forget about the speculation for a moment. he has testified in the grand jury. if you look through the indictment, there are few, not many, but a few references to mark meadows. doesn't say his name but says chief of staff. in one instance, he's told by people in georgia there's no evidence of fraud here.

in another instance, meadows relays that back to donald trump, hey, our investigation here is not finding fraud. that's not a problem for mark meadows. if anything, maybe that's good for mark meadows. however, there's another section of the indictment where mark meadows says, quote, we just need to have someone coordinating the electors for states. that refers to the fake elector scheme. that's going to be a problem for mark meadmeadows. will he flip? what will become of him? will he remain a witness in some capacity or slide out of this. >> of course the question you referenced earlier, when. the timing of it all. >> it's all about when. there will be a court appearance on august 28th in front of the judge. she likely will set a trial date. 2024, this is all important, the election is in november. there's no realistic way we'll have a trial this close to the election. we can safely write off october and september. we have the hush money case scheduled to start in march. you can bet that will carry through april. the mar-a-lago case scheduled to start in may. you can bet that will carry

through july. trump's team said this case will take nine months to try. if you cut it in half, there's not a four-month opportunity here to do it. now these can move. let's 's keep in mind trial da are fluid. a lot of moving parts. >> thank you for helping us understand it. let's talk about all this cnn senior political analyst and anchor john avlon is back with us and shelby talcott. welcome to the table, shelby. what do you make of what we just went through in terms of all these head winds and the justice department's argument that really trump should be very limited in his speech. they pointed to what trump has put out there about mike pence. they actually pointed to the five interviews john lauro his lawyer did on the sunday morning shows as part of this. >> yeah. i don't think it's surprising the doj does not want this tried in the court of public opinion. they don't want the material that they give for discovery to be just widely given to the public as it's not what it's intended to do. but i also think it's really

important whatever -- however this decision ends up is really important for trump's team because that's exactly what trump's team wants to do. you have seen every speech that trump has done. he brings in the legal stuff. and his team will tell you, all of this is intertwined. the legal stuff, the campaign. it is all one in the same. so trump's team really wants to fight hard to keep being able to effectively say whatever they want regarding all of this. >> they're asking for a middle ground in terms of what their client should be able to say. >> yeah. but i think the middle ground that they're asking for is quite broad. and that's why the doj is pushing back on it. i mean, lawyers would probably know better, but that's just my read on the situation. >> so the cleverness of trump's team response is we propose that you keep sensitive information, not from us, but that we're not allowed to talk about only sensitive information. trump's team said we'll let you doj, tell us what you consider

sensitive information. we may challenge that. but they're really sort of punting the ball in a way that i think is smart back to doj. you tell us what's sensitive and we'll agree there could be limits on our ability to talk about that particular evidence. >> is he even going to follow the rule if it comes? if he starts riffing about the anger that he has about the special counsel and the cases up on the stage, is this expect something trump would abide by? >> why would anyone think he would abide by that. >> i set you up. >> this is the problem. this is the issue. put out a statement, you go after me, i go after you. there's a clear pattern of threats and intimidation being cored to donald trump's communication style that bleeds over into the legal avenues. we saw play out on january 6th itself in the attempt to intimidate people not to certify the election. you have to get real and take this off the dusty shelf and deal with the real world implications which is what we're dealing with a democracy. >> the polls are open in ohio. let's talk about this.

voters will decide whether they can still amend the state constitution with just a simple majority. that's the way it's been since fillmore's presidency. buthrepublican state house wants to changthat by requiring amendments to get 60% of the vote. instead 50% plus one of the vote. why now? one reason is acss to abortion. that's one. it's not on the ballot today, but it will be in november. and raising ththreshold will make it harder to pass an abortion rights amendment. still some republicans say this is about protecting the state from special interests. but, if you think summertime special election in an off year with no candidates on the ballot would have a low voter turnout, look at these lines. more than half million ohioans have cast early ballots. john, i give this back to you. this is about not just the special interest but abortion. your view on what we're watching

in ohio. >> this is about direct democracy. this is about representative democracy. this is about majoritarian democracy. let's take a step back. in the redistricting system that the republicans overrode, there was a ballot initiative passed just a few years ago enshrined redistricting system that was utterly ignored. basically a partisan power grab. that's also what played out with with regard to this six week abortion ban. and this is an attempt to change the rules the middle of the game by republicans in order to stave off an attempt to enshrine abortion rights in reaction to that bill passage. the larger backdrop is there's an attempt to overturn majoritarian democracy by partisan special interests. that's why this demands national attention today. >> you know, john, yeah. for a long time leading up to this, what john brings up direct democracy, what dobbs did overturning roe versus wade was say states. it's up to state. and people in states took action through direct democracy.

and what this ballot initiative does, right, it makes it a lot -- it's not just a simple majority vote change to 60%. it's also a change in how they can gather the votes on the ballot and the fact that they have to do it not in half the counties but in all 88 of them. it's a significant hurdle to make changes to the state constitution. >> yeah, certainly. i'll also note just more broadly as we're ramping up with 2024, the abortion issue in particular is hugely important. not just for democrats but for republicans. and we have seen republicans really struggle on their messaging with the abortion issue for that exact reason because the country is so split on things. and there was overturn of dobbs. and now there's the question is well what do we do now? republicans have not really figured out an easy solution that makes majority of the country happy. so they're really struggling any time they get asked on this issue. >> you know, we knew this was going to be the post dobbs reality. here we are a year and change

out from it. but it hasn't quite played out exactly as we expected. i think the standing presumption was all the red states are going to say -- take away abortion rights. >> they haven't all. >> they haven't, exactly. that's the point. >> but because of -- >> because of what we're talking about here, people have said not so fast. we're not sure we're in on this. and that's one of the virtues of direct democracy. >> but the attempt to change those standards, to roll back direct democracy and majoritarian rule is a direct insult to the alleged the states will figure it out for themselves impulse that dogz opened the door to. it is an attempt to rig and push back direct democracy and majoritarian democracy. >> the states will figure it out but we may change the rules. >> you change the rules that's not the states figuring it out on even playing field. >> we'll watch ho very closely and tell you what happens. new cnn reporting also reveals that ukraine's western allies are receiving increasingly sobering updates on ukraine's counteroffensive. have you seen this video? it's all over social media, this

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as first responders arrived to help people. there's new reporting on ukraine's counteroffensive, western officials tell jim sciutto they're concerned the assessment of the battle to regain territory is increasingly sobering. illinois congressman mike quigley returnedrom meetings in europe with u.s. commanders training ukrainian forces told cnn, quote, our briefings are sobering. we're reminded of the challenges they face. this is the most difficult time of the war. joining us now, retired army major mike lyons. do you agree with quigley's assessment. he was meeting with the people who are training the ukrainians. >> so it's two months to the day since the counteroffensive started. they've gained maybe ten square miles or so. not a lot. but, you know, attacking frontal fortifications, re-enforced by mine fields without air superiority, not a lot of times in history you can show that's been successful. i think we set the expectation high for what the ukraine military can do. but they're not fighting a

combined arms fight. they're not fighting a counteroffensive the way that historically shown has been successful. not their fault. but they're doing the best they can. so i'm glad to see we have some sober reality with with regard to the situation there. >> abrams tanks will be there in the fall. so that will be obviously helpful. but as jim's reporting, it's not about hardware. it's not about weapon support. so how much can that help? >> you know, the abrams tanks are going to get there at a time when the rainy season is going to start. and the way tanks are deployed effectively is when their used for shock effect. if you're russia, you're seeing where those tanks are going to go. that's exactly where the offensive priority will be at that time. what you'll do is you'll move troops to counterbalance them. 30 tanks showing up, not that much of a difference maker. huge logistical tooth to tail ratio that goes with those tanks. will they make a difference? they'll allow more ukrainian crews to survive. but those tanks still don't have any more capability to go

through mine fields or do other things. without the air superiority, i this will still remain a stalemate. >> real question about what ukraine will need from the u.s. in terms of additional funding, additional weapons, et cetera. >> right. >> and the u.s. public sentiment on it is changing. there is really striking reality in the new cnn p what it shows is majority of americans disapprove of another support packagfor ukraine. 45% approve it. should congress supply more funding to ukraine? 55% oppose it. >> this is what vladimir putin wants this land he has illegally seized. we're now into next spring and our presidential election running. who knows what the politicians will say. this is really what, you know, where the money will come from. the ukraine government needs a commitment from nato, from the united states saying we're all in for however long it takes.

that doesn't jive with our political cycle here. the united states leads the way the economic and military packages. that's what putin is hoping that will happen that we'll lose interest. >> you're saying if the u.s. fails to authorize, we know allies will follow? >> i'm not sure the western allies have the capability and capacity to make the difference that ukraine will need in order to sustain itself. they need patriot missiles. they need things that only come from the united states and u.s. defense contractor. you can't crank that machine up quick enough to get. look at the tanks. took us eight months to get 31 tanks to ukraine. they need 400 if they want to have any kind of offense. >> we learned overnight a detail about new textbooks in russia. >> yeah. >> that will address the invasion of ukraine as the addition of new regions to the russian federation. just kind of a light brush ignoring not even using the special military operation language that they've used on the global scale.

what's your reaction to that? >> they're betting that this is going to end with a new border that russia will take that land that they have. they had that land that they controlled since 2014 mostly in crimea and the donbas region. now they control that eastern portion dnipro river. it puts a little problem with ukraine joining nato. we can't bring a country into nato that has a border conflict. so this is one way that putin will potentially keep nato from ukraine by saying this will always be a border squirmish here and part of the plan. >> nice to have you at the table. we usually get you in washington or at the wall. thank you for being with us. former vice president and republican presidential candidate mike pence will be on the debate stage. he's met the donor threshold. that's according to his campaign. our next guest just got one step closer to joining him on that

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♪ new this morning, mike pence will be on the debate stage two weeks from tomorrow. the former vice president's campaign says it hit the 40,000 unique donor threshold to qualify for the first republican presidential debate. pence, who already met the polling criteria will join the seven other candidates who appeared to qualify. for those who have not, the time is running out. miami mayor frances suarez says he hit the donor threshold and puts him a step closer to making

it on the stage. suarez who announced his white house bid in june has gotten creative to attract donors, offering $20 gift cards in exchange for donations of his little as $1. also raffling tickets to see lionel messi play for inter miami and accepting donations in bitcoin. miami mayor frances suarez joins us now. good to have you on this morning, mr. mayor. you at 1% in an iowa poll. looks like you got the additional state poll. how do you get to at least 1% to be on that stage on the 23rd? >> well, it's moments like this and opportunities like that give me an opportunity to showcase my record in miami and my vision for the country. in miami, i follow three simple rules for prosperity. we grew last year 14%. kept taxes low. kept people safe last year. lowest per capita homicide rate

since 1964. this year we're 37% below that number. that is very different from what's happening in other cities across america. and then we leaned into innovation. we have the lowest unemployment in america. the highest wage growth and the highest tech job growth. that's a recipe for american prosperity. and my vision for the future of this country is to get the deficit under control, fix immigration once and for all and focus on the rising threat of china as an economic and national security threat. that is the challenge of our generation. and we need a president that's ready on day one that has the background and has the ideas on how to chart a path forward into this uncertain future. >> so, if the message gets to you on stage, why the gimmicks? you're not the only candidate who is doing it. you're not the first to do it. but the purpose of the threshold from the rnc or the thresholds is to determine that there's some modicum of support for a candidate to be on that stage. the polling to get the 40,000

unique donors, if a donor gives you a dollar to get a $20 gift card, that doesn't say anything about their support for you. it's just that they're smart enough to take up a 20 to 1 return on investment. >> yeah. no, i understand. and i think, look, i was a late entry into the race. i've only been in the race for about 60 days. i'm probably one of the least known of the top eight or nine candidates that are running. so certainly giving this criteria which has never been imposed before and understanding of how important it is as you've indicated to make it to the debate stage because you're going to be 1 of 9 with, obviously not equal time, but a great opportunity to articulate the message that i just articulated on your show, it's incredibly critical to a campaign to have that opportunity, particularly to a candidate who is not as well known as some of the other candidates. we have obviously had to do what we had to do to get to that

threshold. and we're going to continue to do what we need to do to get to that debate stage over the next couple of weeks. >> governor ron desantis has acknowledged now in his words, of course, former president donald trump lost the 2020 election. do you agree that he lost -- i'll add this, free and fair 2020 presidential election? >> yeah. i've been on the record on this issue before, i believe, that the election was decided properly. i do -- i never saw enough evidence of any particular state to convince me, at least, that any of the challenges had merit. but you know, obviously the former president has the right to challenge the elections, as others have challenged the elections. the one thing it's pretty clear to me is that he believed that the election was not validly contested. >> so you don't believe that he knew that he lost the election?

>> oh, i think he's been very consistent about his beliefs. i've never heard him -- sometimes i wondered, you know, why he stuck to it so much. but it's been clear to me that he's been consistent in his belief that the election was stolen despite whatever advice he may have been given from people that were close to him that were advising him otherwise. he obviously had a cad reof people advising him one way. part of the challenge in the indictment is proving that he actually knew that the election was not legitimately decided. >> let me ask you about some of the cnn's reporting manu raju reporting that house republicans say privately that it's a fore gone conclusion that this fall they will begin an impeachment inquiry against president biden. do you support that? >> look, i think there's a tremendous amount of frustration on the part of republicans where they've seen, you know, sort of the justice department in their

minds being weaponized as a political tool. i think this is sort of a reaction to that. you know, i wish we wouldn't be talking about impeachments of either the current president or the former president when he was president. i wanted to be focussed on -- >> but we are talking about impeachment. i'll go back to the question because we're low on time. do you support impeachment inquiry against the president? >> listen, you're the moderator. you get to ask the questions but i get to answer the questions. for me, as i travel the country, what people are talking about is not impeachments. people are talking about the fact that they're starting school and inflation is out of control. and it's making it harder for them to be able to make ends meet. they're talking about the fact that 300 people die on average everyday from fentanyl overdoses. they're talking about the fact that homelessness and crime is rampant in their cities. those are the issues that people are talking about. so obviously you get to ask the questions that you want. but i get to also answer them the way that i want. focussing on the things that i want to focus on with the limited time i have. so, respectfully, that's what i

like to focus on. >> okay. mayor francis suarez, i asked the question. i didn't get an answer but i thank you for your time. >> thank you as well. >> really interesting. i thought one thing that struck me is he said i'm one of the least known of the candidates. >> sure. >> so far. which is what mitt romney has been arguing, like some of the republicans whose road doesn't look as strong are going to need to think about whether they say. we'll see if he makes the debate stage. >> chris isununu says everybody gets in. when do you get out? huge brawl at a riverside dock in montgomery, alabama, very much split between racial lines. you see all these white men attacking this black man who was working on the dock. what sparked this? and where the investigation is now. d special offers. like a free 5g phone. plus, swswitch, keep your numbe, and get up to $300 off.

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♪ well, later today officials in montgomery, alabama, will hold a news conference following a brawl that broke out on a waterfront dock. this happened saturday night when a black dock worker was trying to get a pontoon boat moved. so the city's river boat could dock. this is the fight that ensued when one of those white boaters assaulted the employee. ryan young has the details. >> reporter: an altercation on an montgomery, alabama boat dock over the weekend between a group of white boaters and black employee escalated into a massive brawl that resulted in multiple arrest warrants. montgomery mayor steven reed is calling for justice to be served for attacking a man who was

doing his job. >> it's unfortunate incident. and it's something that we're investigating right now. we'll continue to go through that process before we take any additional steps. >> reporter: it all began when the black employee was trying to clear the dock space where the riverside cruise, the harriettii normally docks. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed space to dock. >> just doing his job. and for some reason they didn't like it. they didn't want to move the boat. and he decided to get physical with him. >> reporter: you can see in the video the black employee on the dock arguing with one of the men from the pontoon boat and then another shirtless white man charging at the employee and hitting him in the face. soon after that, you can see several others join in on the attack of the dock employee. in some of the video, which has gone viral, with millions of views, people on the boat can be heard yelling for someone to go help the employee. >> they won't! >> reporter: at one point, you

can see a young man who has jumped off the boat, swimming ashore to help the man who is being attacked. >> the boat got closer. the guys and the crew members and everybody got off and that's when it happened. that's the reason why when they got off the boat, they came right to that smaller boat. >> reporter: and that's when more fighting ensues. turning into an all-out brawl that included several people getting hit over the head with the folding chair. soon after, officers started trying to take control, handcuffing people in the fight. >> you know, they were the antagonist of the whole situation. arrest them because unfortunately when things happen, people of color are the first to be put in handcuffs. >> reporter: many questions remain about the melee that appeared to be very much split across racial lines. >> we are fully engaged and doing all of our due diligence to find out exactly what took place. >> yeah. one thing we know the city officials are asking -- actually asking anybody who had video to give it over to the police department. look, the way this was very

clear, they felt like this man was attacked while he was doing his job. they want to see something done. of course today 2:00 news conference hopefully we learn more about what police have been able to investigate and find out. but this is really a shock wave through the internet when it comes to this story. people want answers and they want them pretty quickly especially because they do believe this was racially motivated. >> ryan young, everyone is talking about it. we appreciate the reporting. keep us posted on where this investigation goes. so new study links air pollution to the rise of resistance to antibiotics. dr. sanjay gupta is here with a live report. plus, thousands of public city workers striking in los angeles today. we'll tell you what they're calling for. we'll take you live there. ♪ at the counter or on the go, sasave 20% with thehe lowest transaction fees and keep more of what you make. starart saving today at godaddy.com

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infection issues diseases more dangerous dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. good morning. so, people may not necessarily -- by people, i mean me. >> and me. >> okay. may not understand the link between these two. so, explain them. >> so far, this is a correlation study. there is no direct cause and effect here. but it's a strong correlation. as you see places in the world where you have more air pollution, you also find more anti-my koeb result resistance. s pollution goes goes up, it goes down. they saw this in some 166 countries around the world. so now the deeper investigation begins. what cexactly is going on? a couple theories. when we talk about particles, these are less than 2.5 microns in size. to give you an idea, human hair is 50 to 70 microns in size.

one theory is that the particles are in the air, can get in your lungs and bloodstream. they may carry some bacteria around, making them more -- making people more susceptible and increasing resistance. it could be that there is more infections as a result of those bacteria going around. more people than using antibiotics and that increasing resistance to those antibiotics. don't know for sure. but it is a strong correlation. these two seemingly unlinked things. >> how long has this been a problem? >> yeah, you know, this is interesting, poppy. people think about antibiotics. when was penicillin even discovered? you know, it was not even 100 years ago, right? so there was antibiotics before that in 1909. penicillin discovered in 1928. first used in 1942 because it had to go through all these trials. within five years, you had antibiotic resistance to penicillin. some evidence of it. so it can happen very quickly.

right now there is a 18 resistant bacteria or fun guy considered urgent. so it's a pretty significant number they are keeping an eye on. typically, it's cue to overuse of antib. or the pathogens become smart, a figure out how to evade it. we also overuse in farm animals and there is often poor infection control in parts of the world. these can all these to antibiotic resistance. this air pollution link, that's a new one. >> so, sangay, if there is more to this correlation relationship, the researchers are right and it's more causal and they can confirm that, how big of an impact does that have? >> yeah. so, you know, i got to tell you, you know, victor, even before the pandemic, i used to put antimicrobial resistance on top of my list of things to keepn

eye on. if you go to 2019 and say, what was thimpact at that point, 1.27 million deaths responsible for, associated with 5 million deaths. people more vulnerable, they develop an infection, their body can't clear it and a there is not a good bath do it. that's what we are dealing with in 2019. the potentiaoo, if you fast forward, going 2050, is 840,000 additional deaths. i want to be careful. these are projections based on what we are seeing. so you can't read completely into the numbers. but clear i, antibiotic resistance is a problem and there are all sorts of things that could make it a bigger problem in the future. >> yeah. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you very much. >> you got it. 50 people rescued from vehicles trapped by downed power lines in maryland. severe storms have pummeled the east coast. we will tell you how it's impacting travel this morning no and polls are open in ohio.

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