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poppy is off this week. sara sidner is with us after a brief tour in florida to cover the hurricane yesterday. we are going to be covering that again today. neighborhoods have been changed forever by hurricane idalia. it is now a tropical storm off the carolina shores. but officials are already assessing the damage in florida and georgia. we will be talking with fema administrator about the latest on the ground in a moment. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell freezes up in front of reporters again. it is the second time in disturbing scene played out this summer. new reporting now about what mcconnell's been doing behind

the scenes. and the department of health and human services is recommending that the d.e.a. significantly ease restrictions on marijuana. it is currently a schedule 1 drug the same as lsd and heroin. it wouldn't legalize marijuana federally, could it be a step in that direction? we will explore. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. we are going start with what sara was covering yesterday on the ground, hurricane idalia now a tropical storm. idalia cutting a devastating path of destruction across parts of the southeast. it's moving north along the carolina coast, heavy rain, flash floods and tornado threats to the carolinas, georgia -- georgia and the carolinas are seeing serious flooding, special a in the coastal areas. water levels in charleston rising to near record levels. the national hurricane center says the storm surge reached 9 feet in some areas. while it is losing strength, still bringing the heavy rain,

flash flooding and tornado threats through the current path. >> look at this video. this is from goose creek in south carolina. the car went airborne. you see there as a tornado plowed through and flipped it on its side before striking another he vehicle. the driver of that war was taken to the hospital but, amazingly, with minor injuries. assessing the damage idalia left. crystal river is just one of the many communities dealing with the aftermath of the devastating storm surge. one official saying the city was decimated. >> and we want to get right to fema administrator dan criswell on the ground in florida. she is planning to tour the damage from the storm with governor ron desantis later today. administrator, thank you for your time. i know you are very busy. i want to start with what you are seeing right now. recovery started, the assets, state, local and federal are in

play. what are you seeing in terms of scale right now? >> good morning. i got on the round yesterday evening and i was able to get a quick update from my team that's here. what we're hearing right now is that in those coastal communities, especially along the big bend, that there has been a significant amount of damage in there. that's exactly why i'm here, is to be able to get on the ground with the governor, go assess for myself what the impact is and to see what additional resources or funding might be needed to help support the recovery efforts. i am also hearing though that people did heed the warning to evacuate. the primary serves i believe are complete and they expect the secondary serves to be done by friday, which is a great news that people got out of harm's way as the storm surge had the potential to be truly life-threatening. >> let me ask you, ma'am, yesterday you were talking about how big this storm was, the biggest that really the big bend area has seen in more than 100

years. what is the challenge right now? i noticed as i was leaving the state yesterday that there were a lot of electric trucks coming in to try -- coming towards the damaged areas to try to restore power. what are some of the things that are really wreaking havoc at had time? >> yeah, i think the biggest concern right now is always power, right. there is a good percentage of the communities on the coast that are still without power. florida power & light brought in mutual aid resources, 30 to 40,000 linemen were going to come in and support the restoration of the power. we have the army corps of engineers on stand-by to assist in supporting generator installs as needed to make sure we can get power to the critical facilities. so today the focus is to make sure that we've accounted for everybody and there is nobody still stranded in any of these communities and begin to start to restore that power.

the next part will be to start removing the debris, making sure we can have access into the communities. those will be the priorities today. i will meet with the state director and governor shortly after this and get a better idea of what their priorities are and if there is something the federal can do to support those. >> the president has approved an emergency declaration for south carolina. he has been quick to act on those in natural disasters that we have seen over the course of his presidency. there are questions longer term in terms of funding, having the resources you need going forward. the president was asked about it yesterday. this is what he said. p. can you ensure americans the federal government is going to have the emergency funding that they need to get through this hurricane season? >> the answer is, if i can't do that, i am going to point out why. how we not respond?

my god. how can we not respond to these needs? and so i'm confident, even though there is a lot of talk from some of our friends up on the hill about the cost, we got to do it. this is the updatnited states o america. >> administrator, we go through this every single year at this point where there is questions about emergency supplemental funding, what will or won't get through, a lot of teeth gnashing and then it gets down. the president was not unequivocal there. he alluded to a possibility that it wouldn't get done. where is your head at on that, and how much do you think you may need? >> yeah, so the disaster relief fund, we have been monitoring the health of that for several months now, and we have been projecting a deficit within our disaster relief fund, the primary fund that supports the response and recovery to these events, and we have been projecting that deficit to come sometime in september. so today is monday, i believe,

or maybe it was tuesday we recognized the need to go into immediate needs funding. that means that we are going to prioritize the remaining funding in the disaster relief fund to go to life-threatening activities. >> this is a practice we have use in the past. we have used it eight times, the last time in 2017, and to make sure that we have all funding available to support the life-threatening activities. i want to emphasize the work on recovery doesn't stop. it delays the obligations until the drf replenished or the next fiscal year. >> also insurance companies have stopped writing insurance policies for homes in florida. there are a dozen insurance companies. so without that, without the help of fema in a disaster, which we are seeing more and more, it really puts people in a really bad place. >> that's why we have seen the preparation leading in and the response coming out of and the

focus of the biden administration. we appreciate your time. thank you. this is just in to cnn. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is working behind the scenes to reasure allies and donors he can still to do his job ever after he appeared to freeze once again during a press conference yesterday. >> senator, you are up for election in three short years. what are your thoughts? >> sorry. i had a hard time hearing you. >> what are your thoughts on running for re-election in 2026? >> my thoughts about what? >> running for re-election in 2026. >> oh. >> did you hear the question, senator? running for re-election in 2026. all right. sorry, y'all. we are going to need a minute.

>> okay. >> well, that's hard to watch. all right. mcconnell's health has drawn increased attention since his fall in february. since then he had two more falls and difficulty hearing reporters' questions. he also suffered a freezing episode while speaking to reporters at the capitol last month. his office says he feels fine but is going to consult a physician. i seem to remember that same thing said the last time that he froze up there. they said it's a prudential measure that he goes to see a physician. melanie, there really is a big question here as to whether senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will actually run for re-election. what are you hearing? >> it's clear that mcconnell and his team recognize that this is a ballooning political problem

for the republican leader. in fact, they have taken steps behind the scenes to try to tamp down speculation about his political future. we are told mcconnell has been calling up some of his allies to reassure them about his fitness to lead. to donors, as well. he made it you a point to attend a fundraiser last night for congressman jim banks running for senate. and people with him yesterday have said he was totally fine and totally sharp yesterday, even after that scary freezing moment. take a listen to what scott jennings, a long-time mcconnell confidant told you guys. >> he came home to louisville. i was with him with jim banks, who is running for senate in indiana. he met with a group, answered questions, worked the crowd and was on top of it, sharp and fully in command of, you know, all the politics and issues of the day. so i should also tell you, i was with him two days ago and

watched him give a long speech to a lunch crowd and then answer several questions from that crowd in the midst of another long day. throughout august he kept up a robust schedule. >> of course, that is really encouraging news to hear, but at the same time, we still don't know what caused these episodes. his office has still not said what the issue was, even though he was supposed to seek a doctor yesterday. they have been reluctant to share details about his health. questions about his future and his fitness to serve likely going to intensify, especially as the senate returns after the august recess next week. >> so much concern tied to the uncertainty of what is going on here. scott walking through his personal experience was helpful in illuminating. also yesterday where scott was with leader mcconnell was at a fundraiser for a senate candidate, a top-tier candidate in indiana which underscores his grip and role inside the

conference he leads. is there any sense closer than his re-election, he is going to have to run for leader again if he stays around, that republicans inside the senate republican conference would think about moving with somebody different? >> yeah, well, as of right now, republicans are standing by mcconnell. he previously said that he intends to serve out the rest of his term as gop leader to the end of next year. republicans are supporting him in doing that. i think it's a different question about whether he runs for leader again and whether he would have the support to do so. remember, the last time he ran for leader he actually faced his biggest challenge yet as leader. he has drown the ire of trump world also. so i think there are a lot of questions about whether he would run again. >> it's really interesting. we will be watching to see how this develops. rudy giuliani stares down criminal charges in the georgia election interference case, he lost a defamation lawsuit from two election workers in that state mentioned in the

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shea. >> cnn's keatelyn polantz joins us now. what was striking was just how unsparing the opinion was and the action it actually took. what did you see? >> yeah, it is extremely unsparing. the judge is saying to rudy giuliani that there are consequences for how he has responded to this lawsuit by not providing the evidence requested and that he is now conceding that he made defamatory statements about these women in georgia trying to accuse them of swapping ballots lor interferin with the vote counting which was not true. so he is losing the facts of the lawsuit, essentially. it's not going any further than that. the judge ruled against him. now, what happens next is a determination of how much money rudy giuliani will owe. this is how the lawyer for ruby freeman and shea moss summed it up last night with kaitlan collins here on cnn. here's what his assessment of

what giuliani is going to be -- going to trial on and potentially could have to pay. >> our expectation is that we will be able to providence of millions of dollars in compensatory damages before you get to punitive damages. we expect it to be a significant damages case that we will present to the jury and we have confident in our ability to document and demonstrate it. >> tens of millions? >> yep. you heard me correctly. >> so what that lawyer is talking about is compensatory damages. that's to make ruby freeman and shea moss whole. the judge also in this case is saying, yes, rudy giuliani will be looked -- they will have to determine how much he has to pay for the defamation, emotional distress he inflicted upon these women with his words after the 2020 election and then punitive damages, punishment for giuliani to deter other people from doing something like this, something

that could amount to a staggering finding. we don't know what that finding will be yet because there will be a trial over how much rudy giuliani will have to pay now he lost the facts of this case. that trial takes place later next year or -- later this year, excuse me, or the beginning of next year. >> it's a trial everyone should be watching. great reporting as always. thank you. >> our panel, shelby tall cot, cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig, and national political reporter for associated press michelle price. thank you all for being here. i want to start with this to remind people what was said and why this suit came forward. first of all, after rudy giuliani said this, people came after these two women threatening their lives. listen. >> ruby freeman and shea freeman moss and one other gentleman surreptitiously passing around as if there are vials of heroin or cocaine.

i mean, it's obvious to anyone who is a criminal investigator or prosecutor everybody they are ingauged in illegal activity again that day. a week ago, they are still walking around georgia lying. they should have been questioned already. their places of work, their homes should have been searched. >> it turns out they were not lying. he was lying. and admitted that he did not tell the truth. what the hell has happened to rudy giuliani? >> that i cannot answer. the man has had such a remarkable downward spiral. it's really horrifying to see. he was once a respected prosecutor. now here he is lying about these women, destroying their lives, and now being held accountable. i think it's interesting what the judge did here. the judge's ruling was, i'm done with you. this is what we call a default judgment. the judge said you have violated the rules, the evidence, the procedures so badly, i'm calling

it. it's over. if in a football game a referee said you committed so many penalties, cheated so bad, i am calling, it's over, you forfeit, you lose. that's rare. it goes to rudy giuliani's loss of all ethics, of all moral compass, of anything he may have learned as a lawyer, he was once a very good lawyer, and now he is long gone. >> you know, katelyn polantz put it great last hour. words have consequences. and i think why that matters and why it is so important, one, for this to be moving the way it is, and also for people to remember these two women, to remember their public testimony and to remember that people like giuliani but also the former president and the kind of famous infamous georgia call with brad raffensperger talks about them specifically to election officials and similarly demeaning and false ways. you can dismiss any number of things. things seem amorphous.

this is real. this humanity. these are people. do you think that resonates with people? or does it get lost? >> the january 6th committee, their testimony, outside of everything that happened on january 6th, this was one of those really moving parts of that testimony, you know. shea moss talked about trump supporters showed up at her grandmother's house and forced their way into the home. their names were out there used by rudy giuliani and president trump on the internet. as far as accountability, how far rudy giuliani's come, there is a question about whether he has the money to pay anything here. i mean, donald trump is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for him at his golf club, i think a week from tonight, you know. he is not paying his legal bills, but offering to show up and make remarks on his behalf. >> they are not just victims in this case. they are heroes. they didn't ask for this. it's one thing if rudy giuliani

or donald trump goes after someone who puts themselves in the public eye, someone who runs for office, someone who goes on tv like us, that's fine. because they were private citizens. to be accused of being outright criminals is outrageous and now rudy is facing consequences. >> let's not tip-toe around this. the racially loaded terminology -- >> drug dealer -- >> it's not like they can act like -- like everyone knows what you are trying to say. you are talking to every campaign all the time right now. i think it's interesting in terms of where the trump campaign is, the legal apparatus now. michelle mentioned the fundraiser the former president is going to hold. giuliani is involved in so many pieces and they can cross-cut with testimony, with stipulations. >> that's the takeaway i have with the giuliani situation is what he says in one wcase, when you are involved in multiple

cases -- not giuliani. trump has four, five depending on which ones we're counting. but when you say one thing in one case, it could end up affecting your other cases. and so these defendants who are involved in multiple cases have to be very careful about what they say, how they defend themselves, the evidence they produce because, as we're seeing, it could come back to affect them down the line in, you know, unrelated cases that are only, you know, conceptionally related. >> which is part of the reason meadows taking the stand was so interesting the other day. >> the attacks on miss moss and miss freeman are part of the fulton county d.a.'s case also. >> several other people are indicted for targeting them as well. >> yeah. >> so i want to move on to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, what we saw yesterday, which is really, really disturbing. there is of course a political component.

ther i want you to see what the lexington herald leader put in its editorial. very blunt. one of the most important politicians in the country and certainly one of the most important politicians to the state of kentucky needs to tell his constituents what is going on with his health and whether it truly impairs his ability to serve them. that is the newspaper from his home state. what do you make of this? i'm going to start here with you. what do you make of this, michelle, when you hear something like that from his home state, home paper? >> i mean, it shows his staff and senator mcconnell, they need to even some questions about this. they have really not explained what's going on here. the first incident, i think they said he is dehydrated. now they say he will go to a doctor. there are huge political implications not just in kentucky, you know, if he doesn't run again -- i think this freeze happened during a question about will he run for re-election. but there are people like representative james comer, who

serves in kentucky, might be somebody who would want to run if that seat becomes available. that could very much change the power dynamic there. but it comes at a time when we see republicans raising the issue of joe biden's age. they tie to make illusions to his mental competency. >> you do not hear them going after mcconnell the same way they go after biden, who hasn't had these spells in public eye. >> right. >> so that's harder for them to make that argument when you have these very public freeze-ups for mcconnell. >> yeah, they will still make the argument. >> and a lot of republicans don't like mitch mcconnell. he a kind of central power figure within the party and within the chamber. thanks, guys. appreciate it. tropical storm idalia is moving off the coast ofu.s. it left flooding and devastation in several states. we will talk to the pasco county fire chief about the rescues he and his team have been making the last 24 hours. that's next. stay with us.

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he will give another idalia update 9:15 this morning. florida continues to recover. idalia is a tropical storm, moving through parts of the country. we will bring that to you as soon as he takes the podium. that comes as that destructive storm continues to move offshore through the carolinas. idalia hitting the carolinas overnight leaving hundreds of thousands of residents in the dark across the region. the powerful category 3 hurricane hit florida and left historic storm surges down the coast. 6,000 people were inundated with water. some homes in flames amidst the floodwaters. pasco county fire-rescue carried out 85 rescues, 150 people from 9 days old to 90 years old. joining us is the keechief of t pasco county fire and rescue, tony perez. you are still busy as the rec

recover continues. what have you seen now that the storm has moved away? >> good morning. huhtala having us here on cnn. right now as we start to transition into the second phase of this operation, we're going to have crews out there, we will do another assessment and just to see if there is anything we can do on our end. yesterday afternoon, roughly about 3:00 we demobilized all of our assets and we handed the operation over to the sheriff's department and they worked in conjunction with the local electric company to start getting the power back on. they were doing routine exterior inspections of the homes that were damaged to ensure that it was going to be osafe to be abl to turn the power back on. right now we would do our second phase this morning and we will have a much better understanding of where we need to go as far as from the fire-rescue aspect of it. >> chief, can you give us a sense of what it was like being there? i know that you and your staff have to be there.

you are the emergency responders, the first ones often out the door. can you give us an idea of what you went through as the storm passed over? >> yes. so, first, i will always give credit to the men and women of pasco county fire-rescue. they worked throughout the night, throughout the day and they would not stop working until everyone was accounted for. so this operation started roughly about 1:00 wednesday morning. there were two areas that we were really focusing on due to flooding. so we had units staged with boats ready to respond in case of emergency. about 3:30, we received, started to receive some calls of some people, starting to receive the floodwaters, and were calling for help. we had to use dispatch into those areas to start doing rescue missions. but right around 6:00 a.m. is when it really started to intensify.

we received multiple 911 calls of people asking for help and to be rescued, and that's when the operation really started to evolve and get more tense. so our command staffed here at headquarters transitioned up to those two locations and we were able to establish a unified command with pasco county sheriff's office to help facilitate these rescues. there were a total of 85 rescue missions that you stated, but we ended up recovering 150 or helping remove 150 families out of that location. so we were truly, truly there to provide a service, but it was, you know, the flooding, all the water, it was disappointing and sad to see some of the people's belongings, the homes were destroyed due to this storm, and it wasn't even a category 4. we did not receive a direct hit. we received a lot of flooding and it could have been a lot

worse, but thank god we were able to do our job and help the citizens and the community of pasco county. >> you know, chief, i understand you are still in the early stages. do you have a sense of how long it's going to take for kind of full recovery normalcy in the community? >> we don't know. not until we get out there today and we do a good thorough assessment, now that we are not in a rescue operation. we will be able to kind of really, really get detailed and really get in depth to what needs to be done. i will have a much better idea, along with the staff, after this morning. >> chief perez, thank you and thank you to all the men and women there of the pasco county fire and rescue. i am sure all of those 150 families, their family members, are really, really thankful that you were there and that you took care of them. even after everybody was told to evacuate, you know, you have to do your job and you did it. thank you so much, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you for having us. thank you. now just ahead, it is a big

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this is new overnight. a devastating fire in south africa. 73 people were killed after that fire ripped through a building in johannesburg. the fire is out and emergency services are conducting recovery operations. officials say it took place in a, quote, hijacked building. that is what they call a building overtaken by hundreds who are homeless. >> a senior u.s. health official is calling on the drug enforcement administration to ease restrictions on marijuana. a health and human services official sent a letter to the d.e.a. asking them to reclassify it as a lower risk substance. right now marijuana is a schedule i controlled substance, a classification used only for the most dangerous substances.

cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joining us this morning. what else do you know about this request to the d.e.a.? >> well, first of all, any drug that has a potential for abuse can be scheduled and it's one of five categories. schedule i through schedule v. let me show you here what schedule i means. >> this is where cannabis is placed. basically, no current accepted medicinal use and high potential for abuse. other examples would be heroin, lsd, and ecstasy. what we know in october of last year, the white house basically asked hhs to review cannabis and see, look, where does this fit in? are there accepted medical uses? should it be rescheduled? hhs has basically sent a letter to the d.e.a., as you pointed out, rachel levine, the assistant secretary at hhs sent a letter to the d.e.a. saying,

hey, look into rescheduling this. to specifically schedule iii. schedule iii basically saying there is currently accepted medical use and there is less potential for abuse in substances in schedules i or ii. the examples, more scheduled along the lines of tylenol with codeine, ketamine and anabolic steroids. that's basically what the letter says. this is something that's gone back and forth for a long time. a lot of people say, look, how do you place cannabis, something that has, you know, increased evidence of medicinal use into the same category as lsd. and i think that's kind of what's driving this. >> first of all, this is a bureaucratic process that we're seeing that's both politically and policy intentional. what happens if the d.e.a. actually does this? >> well, you know, there is several things. as a schedule i substance,

that's not a legal thing necessarily, but it makes it very difficult for people who are trying to use cannabis for medicine as a medicine to get hold of it. there is still this very uneven legal evolution. several states have allowed it medicinally but it's still schedule i at the federal lovell. it's confusing. you want more evidence of its medicinal benefit, but at the same time, because it is schedule i, it is tough to get the cannabis and actually study it in a way that that's beneficial and provides that evidence. one of the only farms for a long time in the united states was actually in the middle of ole miss, the college campus. it was the federally funded sort of source of cannabis for all research for a long time in this country. it's challenging to get the data you want if you only have one source. there are more sources now, but that's the biggest thing, i think, medically. you want to do the research to provide the evidence. you need the evidence to reschedule. you can see the challenges

there. >> you know, my colleague here, phil, likes to -- i know you are wondering where i'm going with this. i know you are. it's good. keep you on your toes. >> okay. >> i likes to get in the weeds when it comes to these things. so sorry. [ laughter ] >> sorry, couldn't help it. but i do like to get in the weeds of issues. i want to ask you about de-scheduling versus rescheduling. what exactly does thatnine? health officials could have asked them to say de-schedule this, correct? >> they could. absolutely. and this is a common debate as well. i have been reporting on this more than a decade. here is the thing. in order to de-schedule it, you basically have to say there is no potential for abuse here. and i think that's going to be a high bar. i think most people would agree who study this it shouldn't be a schedule i, but the idea has no potential for abuse is probably a high bar. one thing that is interesting, if you look at alcohol and tobacco, and go back to schedule

i, no accepted medicinal benefit, high potential for abuse, those are substances you can see being on there more so than cannabis. >> yeah. you can count on one hand the number of reporters who have done as much reporting on this issue than dr. sanjay gupta, still putting out docs on the issue. appreciate your expertise. i apologize for the bad puns. there is a palpable sense of pride emanating from sara sidner for that pun. sanjay, very sorry. >> thank you, sanjay. >> you got it. amazon's ceo warning workers to get onboard with the company's return to office plan or their days may be numbered. harry enten is here, hopefully, not dancing yet, with this morning's number. >> all right. we were dancing because of this. the sky a little bit brighter last night because of a blue super moon. look at that. that's real! it doesn't look real.

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were made after insider first reported it. they're pressuring u.s. office to return to the office at least three days a week. that brings us to senior data reporter who comes to work every day. >> he's in the office six days a week. >> i thought it was seven. >> harry enten is here. what is this morning's number? >> this morning's number is, minus .2% that's the average quarterly growth and labor productivity since the beginning of 2021. it's down, we've seen a decrease, that's tied for the lowest in the last 75 years. and what's fascinating about this, though, if you ask workers

whether or not remote work affects their productivity, in fact, a plurality say it helps and 42% say no impact, 9% say it hurts. but i think the head of amazon is looking at labor productivity is down we have to get people back in the office but the people working saying no it helps or has no impact at all. so we have the cross current there. >> i'm in the 9% category but i have four young children at home. the people that were like this is the new thing, how many people are doing remote work right now? >> this does not include hybrid. very few are remote work only. in 2019, 4%. jumped up to 54% but we've seen it decrease. now it is 15% who are remote work only and the majority of people are at work full-time, nearly 60% are at work

full-time. but, of course, the remote work only differs across industries. if you're a blue collar worker, very few percentage are remote work only versus those in finance and biz services. >> it makes sense you can use your computer at these jobs and other jobs need your manual labor to get it done. i'm in the camp of i'm not choosing because i'm going to ob upset whoever. >> harry enten, really fascinating as always. >> thank you. we want to show you the sea of red in nebraska. that's not a football game that's 90,000 people university of nebraska there to see the women's volleyball team. the record broken next. imagine calling shotgun and losing to this thing, this

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♪ they're why we walk. ♪ we walk in the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's because we're getting closer to beating this disease. join us. this story is so cool, the university of nebraska is wild about women's volleyball and never more evident than wednesday night. look at the sea of red, 92,003 fans on hand that's a new record for any women's sporting event. >> i was thinking this morning, there's only three things that

shutdown the university of nebraska. one, snowstorms. two, covid. and three, nebraska volleyball in the stadium! >> amazing. >> and the team didn't disappoint the home crowd, five time national champions they're good. fourth win in a row. shout out to jeff zeleny, resident nebraska alum. >> i forgot about that, good for him. i have to mention that i played volleyball for the florida gators in 1992. we were the first team to make it to the final four. come on, bring it. now we can stop talking about me and move on. you know that tlc "no scrubs" lyric, hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride. >> why did you have to

lyric, so disappointed. >> wow, that was shade. >> this video shows a live bull riding shot begun in norfolk wednesday. this was no pick up truck, this is a sedan. that is a tough car. surprisingly the bull fit in there, i don't know how that's possible. police did pull the driver over, he was given a warning and told, take that animal back home, sir. this is the end. sorry. also shout out to jeff zeleny, our nebraska resident. i love that story, it's not a stuffed animal, it's amazing. i love it but we're going to toss it to cnn "news central" because they have a lot of news. see you tomorrow. >> see you. ♪