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world. i'm paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom," a budget battle brewing on capitol hill. congress set to return tuesday. it will face the potential of a government shutdown if congress can't reach a deal on spending by the end of the month. a major shakeup in kyiv after more than 18 months of war. president zelenskyy announces plans to replace his defense minister. burning man chaos continues. thousands still trapped in the nevada desert after heavy rain turned the festival site into a mud pit. it is back to business this week for the u.s. senate as its august recess comes to an end. now washington is set to become a pressure cooker in the coming weeks as lawmakers attempt to avoid a government shutdown yet again. they only have until october 1st

to come to an agreement. a little shall we say that it will not be easy. members of the u.s. house aren't back until next week, in fact. conservative republican hardliners are already pressuring house speaker kevin mccarthy to stick to strict guidelines on a deal. they don't want to make any concessions, but mccarthy and the white house are seeking a short-term bill that would put at least a band-aid on the problem for now, moving the issue months down the road. the u.s. commerce secretary, meantime, says american business owners are preparing already for the worst. >> they are worried. they are very worried. er i think in some cases frustrated that this is how government operates. you know, what businesses need to be successful is predictability. predictability, some semblance of regular order.

these sorts of disruptions that are mainly driven by politics, it's a challenge for the economy and have the potential to set us back. so i do hope that there will be a speedy resolution. >> cnn's priscilla alvarez now has more details on those negotiations in washington. >> reporter: as congress returns from recess this month, the white house is asking lawmakers to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government running and avoid a government shutdown. they're asking for a boost in funding for key programs that provide assistance to millions of americans. separately, the white house is also asking congress for a supplemental request, that is to provide more funds to fema, which has been responding to very expensive disasters across the country and whose funds are set to run dry by the end of this month, as well as more funding for ukraine. house speaker kevin mccarthy has said the fema funds will be replenished, but there is pushback about those funds being linked to ukraine. also, there is disagreement

within the republican conference about the spending bill. republican hardliners have asked for an impeachment inquiry into biden, action on border security, as well as cutting spending to precovid levels as part of passing any type of spending bill. so that is likely to play out in congress in the weeks to come, but all of this really a sprint to the finish. in september, the fiscal year ends. meantime, president biden is also keeping busy and keeping an eye on his prospective opponents in the024 election. so far, all signs are pointing towards donald trump. a new poll from the all street journal" shows if an election were held today, the current and foer presidents would be evenly matched with votes. the same poll shows broad majorities of republican primary voters believe trump's four indictments are politically motivated and without merit. both "the wall street journal"

and cnn polling show trump holds more than 50% of votes from primary voters, edging out opponents like vivek ramaswamy. he was in new hampshire holding campaign events er the weekend. her republican opponents are set to stump there as well. new hampshire's primary has picked the eventual republican nominee 5 out of 7 times since 1980 without 18 incumbent republican president. age and mental health is getting attention on the campaign trail, including among some republican hopefuls. candidate nikki haley is citing senate republican mitch mcconnell. he is the leader, of course, and she is arguing that there need to be mental competency tests for politicians older than 75. mcconnell has had a couple of recent episodes where he has frozen and seemed dazed, only to recover moments later. he is 81 years old, but his

fellow senator from south carolina says mcconnell is quite capable of deciding his own future. >> mitch is sharp and shrewd. he understands what needs to be done. i'll leave it up to him as to how he wants to discuss that with the american public, but there's no doubt in my mind that he is perfectly capable of continuing on at this stage of the game. >> u.s. president joe biden, meantime, and chinese president xi jinping won't be seeing one another at the g20 summit later this week. mr. biden says he's, quote, disappointed about that. the u.s. president will be traveling to new delhi for the meeting of the world's top 20 economies, but mr. xi, who leads the world's second-largest economy, is apparently not going. president biden says he expects to get to see president xi at some future date. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is overhauling the country's

military leadership, and that is in the middle of a major counteroffensive. volodymyr zelenskyy announcing sunday he's dismissing the defense minister alexei recess nakov, who's served in that role since before russia's invasion. he was appointed in november 2021. in recent months, the president has cracked down on corruption. resnakov hasn't been directly implicated but mr. zelenskyy says it's time to make the change. >> translator: alexi resnakov has been through more than 550 days of full-scale war. i believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole. >> mr. zelenskyy says he's nominating us. stem umarov, a crimean tartar and former lawmaker who currently leads the tree's privatization fund. he's played a role in the black sea grain deal and other wartime

negotiations. cnn's melissa bell is in ukraine with more on the ongoing counteroffensive and the latest on the diplomatic front. >> reporter: fierce fighting again on sunday at various points of the ukrainian front line, not just where the counteroffensive has been making progress in the zaporizhzhia region, but also up to the north of that frontline. particularly fierce fighting, we hear in luhansk according to ukrainian authorities who have said there have been a series of strikes on odesa with some damage caused to the port infrastructure. still, 22 of the 25 russian drones that were launched towards the port city were stopped, say ukrainian authorities. the strikes come just a day before a much-anticipated meeting between the russian president, vladimir putin, and the turkish leader, recep tayyiperred erdogan, in the hopes a new grain deal might be reached. the head of the united nations has put together concrete

proposals that will be at the heart of that meeting even as the counteroffensive continues here in ukraine. the world looking to see what progress might be reached. jill dougherty is a former cnn moscow bureau chief and adjungts professor at georgetown university. she joins us now. jill, always great to see you. there were, as you know more than most, whispers in ukraine already that zelenskyy was getting ready to replace his defense minister. he's done it now. what do you make of it? does it have more to do with a competent but plodding counteroffensive? or is this about zelenskyy really trying to say something about corruption and what he thinks he needs to do to stop corruption in his country? >> i do think it's the latter. right now, zelenskyy is embroiled in this counteroffensive against corruption. it's a major move against

corruption in the country. and although resnakov, the current defense minister, was not personally implicated, certainly the department was. so that is really galling to a lot of civilians in ukraine. and so i think bringing in somebody new, and interestingly i think the arrest, actually, of igor kalumoyski is extremely important. he is an oligarch, the richest person in ukraine. he was just arrested on allegations and charges of fraud. so this is a big deal and is something that's very important for zelenskyy to do if they want to join the eu. >> i'm really glad that you point that out. he was, in fact, reported to be quite close to zelenskyy. and i do want to underscore what you said. this is a counteroffensive now

against corruption. i am interested in your opinion about what you think russia will make of this. will they see it as a sign of weakness? >> well, yeah, i was looking, trying to find some type of reaction. i haven't seen a lot of official reaction. of course, there was some trolling, et cetera. but i think they will probably -- and this would be my personal opinion -- will probably take advantage of that and try to say that this is because the military counteroffensive is not working and zelenskyy simply had to change horses in midstream, that type of thing. they'll try to take advantage of that. but again, if you look at what the russian military has been thr through, several heads rolled, people taken out of their jobs, et cetera -- i don't think there's really much comparison. >> no, and given the point in

time that we're in in this war, it's hardly surprising that ukraine might want to change at this point anyway. i want to get to the russian side of things. dmitry medvedev, the former prime minister and president, now head of russia's security council, says they have 280,000 new recruits. obviously there is no way that we can verify these numbers, but what do you think? do you think he's actually managed to do that? >> you know, they have made it harder to get out of the draft, the mobilization. they don't want to call it a full mobilization. that's one of the most important things. because remember what happened with the partial mobilization awhile ago. people fled the country. so what they've been doing is they're making it much more difficult for men to avoid this type of draft. so you're right, there is no way that outsiders can really find out whether it was 280,000. that's really a lot of people.

but the fact that he was out in the far east talking about this, they really need new people to fight this war. and that is another factor that's hurting the russian economy, because there's really a problem with hiring people. there's nobody to hire, in a sense, because many people are at the front right now. it's a major problem for russia. >> yeah, and if you have a spouse at the front, it's more difficult for child care and things like that, leaving fewer people in russia participating in the labor force. another thing this week, the turkish president arrives on russian soil to try and resuscitate a new grain deal. the world needs this deal. they are meeting on russian soil. do you think that means that the outlines of a new grain deal have likely already been agreed upon? or is failure still possible here? >> i think failure is possible, because if you look at the russians, they pulled out in

july. they have been very, very insistent that they are not going to come back to the deal until their interests -- which are exporting their own food and their own fertilizers -- until they can do that, they won't come back. and of course,er errdogan contis to have a good relationship with putin, and perhaps he feels he can convince or create the circumstances where they could announce something. but look at what russia just did. they attacked the ports, facilities on the danube. militarily attacked them. so that is not really a good sign that they are looking to come back. you never know. i mean, it really depends on what they think they can get out of it. and at this point, i would not be very positive. >> yeah, and that's a point there. what can russia extract if it does do that deal? jill dougherty, as always, we

covered a lot of ground, really appreciate it. >> sure. south africa's president is trying to put to rest allegations that his country supplied arms to russia. now he says an independent panel has found no evidence that weapons were loaded onto this russian cargo ship last december. the u.s. ambassador to south africa made the claim earlier this year saying he would bet his life on it. ramaphosa says the ship imported military equipment for south african forces that was ordered in 2018. the burning man festival has turned into a muddy mess this year. thousands still stranded after heavy rain. some are trying to make the most of it. we'll have details ahead. helping businesses both large and small, communities and the people who live and work there

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to spread into the great lakes, mid-atlantic, and yes, the northeast during this week. monsoonal rains threat ton bring flooding to nevada, utah, idaho, and oregon. showers and thunderstorms are in store for the high plains. and the weather's still wreaking havoc on the popular burning man festival. that's supposed to be under way in a remote area in nevada. we're learning the organizers now plan to delay the main event. they say the burning of a large wooden effigy -- that's the burning man -- will actually happen monday night instead of sunday. thousands showed up to the annual event, but nonstop rain in the black rock desert delivered an unusual mix of mud, causing festivalgoers to become trapped and unable to leave. authorities are investigating the death of at least one person at that festival. cnn's camila bernal has more. >> reporter: it is still light,

it is still messy for thousands stranded here in black rock city. where we are right now is the main entrance and exit point to the festival, so thousands are expected to exit here on monday. we saw many, many cars trying to get out because this is the entrance of the area. here behind me is where people are getting stuck in mud. let me show you what that mud, that cakey mud, looks like. this is what a lot of people are walking hours in. and you're seeing it in their shoes, they are covered in mud what is you're seeing. it makes it impossible for not just bikes but also for cars and rvs. this rv, they told me they were stuck here for hours, trying to get out of the mud. so it is difficult to get out, and the concern, of course, is for people who did not bring enough supplies -- food, water -- and need to get out. here's one person that i talked to who told me she just needed to get out today.

>> it's quite expansive. probably three hours of slogging to walk just from my camp to the road. and i did get a little bit of a hitchhike in, too, in the back of someone's truck. but yeah, it's just really thick, dense mud. so wherever it's wet, it's just heavy and sticky. it's a real sloppy mess out there. most everything's turned off, but there's still some people partying. >> reporter: everybody that i've talked to has remained extremely positive, telling me they're making the best out of a very difficult situation, saying they're still having fun, that they've enjoyed this festival. unfortunately, though, authorities did report one death. they said a body was found in the playa. they did not give any details as to what happened. and organizers here are continuing to tell people to be safe. they're getting prepared to get thousands of people out of here. so they're telling them this is going to be a long process, the exodus, as they call it.

in taiwan, no deaths reported but more than 40 people were hurt after typhoon haikui hit the island. as it approached taiwan some 7,000 people rushed to flee their homes. the island's electricity provider is still working to restore power to tens of thousands of customers. more than 200 flights canceled or delayed and officials suspended the school and workdays in several counties and cities. a little boy lost returns home after 42 years. coming up, we'll show you the incredible reunion with his chilean mother and explain how he and so many others disappeared.

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42 years of sorrow. a mother who was told her son died at childbirth got a stunning phone call telling her he is actually alive. rafael romo tells us many babies were stolen there in the '70s

and '80s, and this reunion is heart breakingly only one of a few. >> welcome, yoo! >> when i arrived in chile, i felt like a lost puzzle piece, a piece lost for 42 years. >> reporter: it's a birthday party that had to wait for more than four decades. >> they stole 42 years. but they will not steal 43. ♪ >> reporter: jimmy leopard titan is celebrating with a family he never knew he had. >> i am blessed in the fact that i have a loving family. on both sides of the equator. >> reporter: his story begins in 1981 in baldivia, southern chile. >> my mother, my ma, she gave birth to me one month premature. they told her, oh, he looks jaundiced, he looks yellow, we need to put him in an incubator.

they carried me out of there before she could hold me, before she could name me. they carried me out, then they came back and told her that i had died. >> reporter: titan says it was all a scheme to make money out of unsuspecting foreign families looking to adopt children, especially americans who had no idea what was going on. >> your adoptive family in the united states had no idea that you had been stolen as a baby? >> they never believed for one second they were buying a child. they never would have done that. >> reporter: during the dictatorship of general augusto pinochet in the 1970s and '80s, babies were funneled to adoption agencies, some from the upper classes taken or given up to protect reputations of their mothers, some from the lower classes where children were simply stolen. chilean authorities say many priests, nuns, doctors, nurses, and others conspired to carry out illegal adoptions. authorities told us the number of stolen babies could be in the

thousands. but the investigation into the adoptions has languished over the years, and some of the hospitals where the children were born have shut down as we found out over the years. >> for many women in this country, what this hospital in ruins means is a place where their children were stolen. a place that became a nightmare for them. they were looking for a place where they would deliver a healthy baby. instead, they left empty-handed. >> reporter: constance, the founder of los bucamos, says after jimmy titan got in touch, she recommended a dna test. when a match came back, she says she knew the next step was making a phone call to a woman who had believed for decades her son had died shortly after being born. "she couldn't believe it," she said, "she thought it was a joke in poor taste because she had been told her premature baby boy

had died." >> she didn't know about me because i was taken from her at birth. and she was told that i was dead. and that when she asked for my body, they told her they had disposed of it. so we've never held each other, we've never hugged. today i'm going to get to do that for the first time. >> reporter: after several agonizing months, jimmy was finally able to travel to chile. to give maria gonzales, his biological mother, the hug that had to wait for 42 years. what would you like the world to know about what happened to you? what do you want people to know about your case? >> i want them to know that there's tens of thousands of children like me. we tell our story, we do these interviews because we tell these

stories until every child is found. >> reporter: how do you get back the time lost? you can't, he says. in the end, he added, the wisdom about what happened came from one of his daughters who told him, if a bad thing hadn't happened, she wouldn't be here, and thanks to that her father now has not one but two families who love him deeply. rafael romo, cnn, santiago, chile. in the day ahead, the leader of gavon's military coup is set to be sworn in as the transitional president. it comes a week after they seized power from president alibongo. the coup ended the political dynasty which had been in power over 50 years. it marked the eighth military takeover in west and central africa in three years. israel's prime minister,

benjamin netanyahu, is vowing to take strong steps following the riot saturday among eritrean migrants in tel aviv that he called a special ministers meeting sunday to create a plan to deal with the migrants involved and said he wants to deport them. >> translator: this is rioting. it is bloodshed. it is savageness that we cannot accept. therefore, the first thing that i'm going to do is wish a recovery to the policemen who were injured in the effort to restore order. we are seeking strong steps against the rioters, including the immediate expulsion of those who took part. >> that riot erupted during an a eritrean independence celebration when government supporters clashed with its opponents. authorities say at least 114 were hurt, including 49 police officers. in south africa, seven victims of that horrible apartment fire in johannesburg have now been laid to rest.

they were buried sunday in a cemetery south of pretoria. the fire thursday killed over 70 and left dozens more injured. it highlighted a housing crisis in a city that has a very large gap between rich and poor. it happened in a five-story building that had once been a courthouse but was illegally used to house migrants. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. world leaders, scientists, and environmental activists are convening in nairobi to address the urgent consequences of climate change. the three-day africa climate summit '23 will explore solutions to the particular impacts climate change is having and will havonhat continent. participants are putti particular focus on ought and other weather-related developments. the changing climate's escalating impact on migration and ways to fund climate mitigation initiatives in countries saddled with debt. still to come, pope francis'

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pope francis is on his way home from mongolia a day after celebrating mass in a country with a catholic community of only about 1,500 people. it was the first-ever trip there by a pontiff, and during mass, he urged catholics in neighboring china to be, quote, good citizens and good christians. a rare instance of the holy father publicly addressing the issue of religion in china. cnn's michael holmes has the details. >> reporter: a gathering of the faithful in one of the smallest and most remote communities of catholics in the world. on sunday, pope francis celebrated mass in mongolia, a country with a population of around 3 million people but only about 1,500 are catholics and

nearly all of them came to see the pontiff. >> translator: i'm so happy that pope francis visited mongolia. i got emotional when i attended mass. i think it furthered my spirit. i'm very, very thankful. >> reporter: vatican watchers say this trip to mongolia wasn't just about spreading the church's message to a country where no pope has visited before. it was also strategic and a chance to ease tensions twentieth two of mongolia's neighbors, china and russia. relations between the vatican and moscow have deteriorated since the invasion of ukraine, and there have been tensions with beijing over its treatment of religious minorities and a controversial agreement to jointly appoint bishops in china. but on saturday, in words thought to be directed at china and russia, the pope said the church is not a threat to governments and secular institutions. and during mass, he made yet

another overture by sending greetings to his chinese followers. >> translator: to the people, i wish the best and to go ahead, always make progress. the chinese catholics, i ask that you be good christians and good citizens. >> reporter: some small groups of worshippers traveled from china for the service, which was more of a low-key affair than other papal trips that can draw over 1 million people. but this woman who came from hong kong said it was worth the journey. how did it feel? >> really amazing. yeah, because he is my papa. and today i joined the mass, i feel very amazing. >> reporter: the pope leaves mongolia, no doubt encouraging the catholic base there. whether he made any headway with mongolia's neighbors remains to be seen. a young ukrainian girl is showing the world her resilience

and strength. 12-year-old gianna, wearing a pink shirt, lost both her legs last year when russian forces shelled a railway station. as you can see, she's not only walking, she's now running in races. anna ran 70 meters of the "live unbroken" half marathon. she told the lviv city council her goal was to encourage other children who lost limbs in the war to show them they can run again. we say to you, mission accomplished, mission accomplished. i want to thank you for joining us. i'm paula newton. our international viewers, "world sport" is next. for viewers in the united states and canada, i'll be back with more "cnn newsroom" after a short break. from big cities, to small towns,

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understand a highly mutated coronavirus variant b.a.286. it's made an evolutionary leap similar to the one the original open criterion variant made almost two years ago. the open criterion wave caused infections and hospitalizations to spike to their highest points in the pandemic in the united states. one scientist says is b.a.286 variant is not, quote, the second comine ing of omicron. preliminary results in china find the variant appears less infectious than previous viruses. a swedish study is finding that our antibodies do appear to be powerless against it. covid cases are again on the rise in the united states. this late summer spike has led to an increase in hospitalizations nationwide. and while federal data suggest that current cases have stayed below earlier peaks, some

question that data because it isn't being recorded in quite the same way. cnn's chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta is plains. >> it's hard to say whether or not we're in a new covid wave right now. certainly there's been a lot of anecdotal reports. people more likely to know somebody who might have covid or may have had covid themselves. but admittedly, this is hard to validate. because there's just not as much testing being done overall, and a lot of the testing happening is happening at home and not reported. it's hard to get those numbers. one of the things that we paid attention to throughout the pandemic is hospitalizations and hospitalizations have gone up a bit, take a look. about 15,000 more hospitalizations this past week as compared to the week before that. so the numbers are trending in that direction, but at the same time, it's about half overall of what it was at this time last year. so you get the idea, it's

difficult to sort of read into this too much. another metric we pay attention to is how much virus is in wastewater. this is sort of a general look, a sort of broad look at how much virus is out there. and we see that the numbers have gone up again over the last several months. higher than it's been in some time now. does that translate to more cases? does that translate to more severe illness or hospitalizations? we don't know yet. but think of these sort of as early warning systems. when it comes to this weekend, i want you to take a look at this map. and this is a good-looking map. it's mostly green, which means these are areas where the cdc says there's not as much hospital surge or hospital increases. but there are a few places of yellow and even a couple of places of orange. pay attention to this like you would pay attention to a weather map. right now there's not a recommendation for masking in general. on a personal note, i visited my parents, they're in their 80s. i masked on the way down there.

i tested ahead of time. to make sure that i wasn't going to potentially get them sick. if they do get covid, as someone said to me, it could be one of the worst viral illnesses of their life. we're doing everything to try and avoid that. also, isolation. if you do test positive, start with the first day after you develop symptoms, you should be in isolation for five days after that. you don't need to test to get out of isolation, but there is a recommendation to wear a mask for a few days after that as well. finally, about the new booster, this is one of the most common questions we get as well. there's going to be a cdc advisory meeting on september 12th. that is the point where this booster may be recommended broadly for the population. we'll see what happens. i put together this grid for the upcoming shots so people could have some idea of what's happening here. get the flu shot before halloween. that's a general rule.

the covid shot, again, in september. if you've had covid recently or you've had a shot recently, you can probably wait several months before you get this updated shot. then some information there about rsv as well. especially for people over 60. have a great weekend, be safe, be kind to each other, take care. >> great advice. the manhunt for a convicted killer who escaped from a pennsylvania prison last week has entered its fifth day. police believe they've narrowed the search for danilo kavalkante. he escaped after being sentenced to life without parole for killing his ex-girlfriend. searchers are focusing on an area within about two miles or a little more than three kilometers of that prison. cavalcante was spotted on surveillance camera close to the prison after midnight friday. police say they responded to more than 100 tips, including

reports that he broke into homes in that area. a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture. the new york police department is deploying a fleet of high-tech drones during the labor day holiday weekend to monitor complaints about large gatherings. this tactic is being denounced by civil liberties advocates who say drone surveillance can easily be misused to exploit and discriminate, putting citizens' privacy at risk. according to the american civil liberties union, police departments right across the country have been scaling up their use of drones with at least 1,400 departments already using the technology to respond to domestic incidents and noise complaints. a prominent doctor in louisiana says he's planning to take his family and leave the state after the republican-led legislature there passed a series of controversial bills targeting the lgbtq+ community. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell reports from new orleans.

>> yeah, i mean, this is what we call our wall of love. >> reporter: when jake and tom moved back to new orleans, the city where they met and fell in love, they planned to raise their two kids and retire here. >> we built this house, honestly, to live here forever. >> reporter: a pediatric cardiologist, jake returned to be medical director of the pediatric heart transplant program at oshner health. what do you love about being here? >> i feel like i really make a difference here. and before i came, any complex patients were having to be sent out of state for heart transplants. i felt like the kids of louisiana deserved to stay in louisiana. >> reporter: but now jake and his family are leaving the state after a set of bills passed the legislature this summer that they say make them feel unwelcome. >> the part that really solidified it for us was when we were watching the senate

education committee here about the "don't say gay" bill. >> -- prohibits teacher-led discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades k-12 -- >> if our kids went to public school and they were made fun of because they had two dads, a teacher would not have been able to step in and make a learning experience about different types of families. >> reporter: hb-466 and another bill which sought to require permission from parents for school employees to use certain names or pronouns for students were vetoed by louisiana's governor in june. a third bill banning gender-affirming medical care for most minors overcame the governor's veto and is expected to take effect in january. >> i'm really sad to leave. but i feel like i don't really have a choice. but the way that the political landscape in louisiana is going, it's pretty clear that these

laws are going to pass eventually. >> reporter: jake's departure doesn't just mean one fewer specialist like him here in new orleans. he says it leaves just two heart transplant cardiologists for the whole state of louisiana. >> there is going to be a hole left when i leave. >> how much is that weighing on you? >> by far the hardest part of this decision was thinking about my patients. >> reporter: they're moving to long island, new york, where jake will start a heart transplant program and the family will start a new life. >> we teach our children about kindness, about celebrating differences. and we hope that they recognize this as us doing something so that they can live in an area where they can be free, they can be kind, they can celebrate our differences, our different type of family. >> reporter: meg tirrell, cnn,

new orleans. as fans mourn the death of music legend jimmy buffett, we're learning more about the health battles he faced. buffett died friday after a four-year battle with merckal cell cancer, a rare form of skin cancer. buffett continued to perform during treatment for the disease. tributes have been pouring in, as you can imagine. on sunday, hundreds of fans gathered in his former hometown of key west, florida, to honor his life and career. ♪ wasting away again in margaritaville ♪ ♪ salt salt salt ♪ >> they are certainly celebrating in there, decked out in colorful costumes, carrying signs and pictures. the crowd marched down the city's main drag in a second

line parade. a celebratory tradition with roots in another city buffett had deep ties to, new orleans, louisiana. four crew members from the international space station splashed down off the coast of jacksonville, florida. that was just in the last few hours. they returned aboard a spacex crew dragon capsule, delayed because of the hurricane. two nasa astronauts, an astronaut from the united arab emirates, and a russian cosmonaut were helped out of the capsule. they had been aboard the space station since march, and we should add that is one of the only areas of cooperation between the united states and russia as they continue to cooperation in that space program. racing driver max verstappen has won the italian grand prix. the dutchman has broken the record for consecutive formula 1 wins with ten in a row. the 25-year-old, yes, only 25,

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