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new reporting on what those charges could be. a new study may provide some answers about what it's like to die. dr. sanjay gupta joins us to discuss. all these stories and more coming in right here to cnn. ♪ ♪ signaling support. today president biden speaking for the first time since thousands of auto workers walked off the job without a new deal. biden called on the big three auto makers to give their workers a fair share. >> auto companies have seen record profits, including in the last few years because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of the uaw workers. those record profits have not been shared fairly in my view with those workers. the bottom line is auto workers

help create america's middle class. they dideserve a contract that sustains them. >> of uaw's 145,000 members, about 13,000 are on strike right now. this at assembly plants in michigan, ohio and missouri. gabe cohen is on the seen in toledo, ohio. as you speak to workers there, are they in this now? are they in it for the long haul? >> reporter: well, jim, that's what every one of the workers we've spoken with have said. they've been saving money waiting for this moment knowing it was possible they were going to go on strike. you can see behind me hundreds, thousands of these workers -- 1,500 members here are attached to that stellantis factory. they're all here today signing

up for their strike pay. take a look down this line. you can see just the scale of how many workers are being affected by this right now here in toledo. again, they knew this might be coming, but it's no doubt going to be a difficult task living off $100 a day for the foreseeable future. it's unclear at this time how long this could last. we know that right now there are about 15 picketers outside each gate. they're preventing anyone from getting in and out. they're going to be here 24/7 in the upcoming days. i want to bring in one of the workers. this is abby ryan and her daughter journey. you're a single mom. you work at the stellantis factory. what do you do there? >> i'm a production worker. >> first day of strike, signing up for strike pay, how are you feeling? >> overwhelmed, little stressed

out. >> why do you say you're stressed out? >> don't know what's going to happen. don't know what the future will hold for me and my kids. pretty much that and, like i said, i've never been in a strike before. this is all new. >> you told me you were preparing for this moment. why do you believe in the strike? >> because it's been long overdue. stellantis is not being too fair with us as far as pay and, you know, just, like, eliminating jobs and so forth. i think it's time to take a stand against a company that makes a lot of money. >> you said you're a single mom of three, is that right? >> yes. >> have you found it to be difficult to raise three kids by yourself on the income you currently make? >> not necessarily. it all depends. as of right now, since it became

stellantis our hours have been fluctuating. one week we get 40 hours. next week we get 50 hours. sometimes we have to go home due to part shortage. as of right now, not really, but since the cost of gas and groceries and everything else, yes, it's starting to get more and more -- >> it's getting tougher. >> seems like i buy $100 a week in groceries and it's two meals. >> will you be on the picket line? >> yes. >> when? >> sunday is my first day. >> good luck to you. >> reporter: that gives you a sense of what these strikers are in for. we've heard it again and again, people feel they have not been properly compensated and this is what it has come to. >> that $100 you referred to, that's union pay to help bridge the gap between now and when

they go back to work. dave cohen, thank you. ceos for the big three are speaking publicly about what they say are unrealistic demands. here's ford's ceo. >> 40% will put us out of business. we would lose $15 billion. we would have to cut people, close plants. what's the good of that? it's not a sustainable business. there's a fine line here that we won't go past, which is we want everyone to participate in our success. if it prevents us from investing in this transition to evs and future products like the ones we have now like the new f-150, best selling vehicle in the u.s., then everyone's job's at risk if we don't invest. there's a line. the line isn't for us to go bankrupt. it's somewhere in the middle. the only way to resolve that so to negotiate.

>> this morning the ceo of general motors said this. >> he said if ford meet all the demands that the union has that ford would go bankrupt. is that the same for again motors? >> the original demands totaled over $100 million. that's more than we've made and frankly more than double the market cap of the company. we have to have a realistic offer. we want to reward the hard-working men and women of general motors. we think that's what we have on the table. >> is that bankruptcy level demands? >> if you're asking for more than the company made, that's not a good position. >> let's break down these demands with katherine rampell. you have the claims from the

ceos that a 40% pay raise would put them out of business. the president of the uaw says that's a lie. who is right? >> the way to think about this is we're coming off a couple years of really strong demand for cars in the united states. we have had record profits. the pie's got bigger and we have the two sides fighting over how to divide that pie. i'm sympathetic to the workers wanting a bigger slice of the pie. other workers at other companies see their wages go up. the area where i'm a little more sympathetic to the companies -- i don't know about the claim of bankruptcy. where i'm more sympathetic to the companies is we don't know the pie will grow as quickly in the future, particularly since it looks like for some of these companies profits may have peaked. we're in the middle of a big ev

transitions. there are startups eating their lunch right now. tesla makes ten times as many evs as gm. the question is how do these companies remain competitive given the set of demands from the workers, which are just not about wages. there are other things that are costly. i think the workers deserve a raise. if you're talking about paying workers even if plants are shut down, which is one of the demands, i think it would be difficult for these companies to maintain the level of market share they have today. >> there was also a statement from the ceo of ford, gjim farley, that sounded like a threat. he talked about offshoring some of these plants. how realistic is that? >> cars are big heavy things. they're easier to make closer to the customer. even foreign companies have set up plants here in the united states. that doesn't mean that parts can't be offshored or near

shored. there's a lot of trade that goes over the border with mexico as well as canada. i don't think that's out of the question. i do think, you know, these companies are worried about how they will fare in this transition given -- i mentioned tesla. there are a lot of others in the united states and china and vietnam that are trying to grab this market share that don't have the same legacy structure with unions. it's not just about the companies will move abroad. it's can they reclaim more of this customer base. >> technology disrupting this industry as it is so many others. how is this going to impact the broader economy? we heard it could cost $5.6 billion if the strike goes for ten days. is that accurate? >> there's a range of estimates. it depends what happens with

other companies throughout the supply chain. there's a lot of companies that sell to the auto industry. the auto industry also have dealers that depend on them, people that service cars. at the very least we could expect some pain locally where these plants are. depending on how long the strike goes on and whether the union decides to expand it. right now it's pretty surgically targeted. that could be much more disruptive and cause more economic pain, not just where the plants are in places like michigan, but throughout the country. >> appreciate the perspective. we're learning that hunter biden could face more federal charges. special counsel david weiss has a one-month window to decide whether or not he'll file tax charges against him in california or washington, d.c. david weiss has hinted he may do

that. all this coming off hunter biden was indicted on felony gun charges. kyra senell joins us with more. what do we know about the new charges? >> reporter: hunter biden has been under investigation for several years on whether he paid his taxes on time. david weiss has said that they may seek to bring charges after a plea deal where hunter biden would have pled guilty to two tax misdemeanors. they could bring the charges in wash washington, d.c. or california. the statute of limitations would expire next month. that starts the clock on how quickly we may see some additional movement here, possibly other tax charges. they said they may bring them. don't know if they will, but

it's something right around the corner, particularly on the heels of the indictment yesterday where hunter biden was charged with three felonies, two of them for falsifying an atf form that said he was not using drugs or addicted to drugs at the time he bought the gun in o october of 2018 and providing that form to the dealer, as well as the charge of possession of the gun while he was addicted to or using an illegal drug. those are all serious crimes. the combination of the two, the gun charge on the table and the possibility of tax charges, that's a big reversal from where we were when it looked like there wasn't going to be a gun charge. now hunter biden's attorney abby lowell was on erin burnett last night saying he can only speculate as to what the reason is. take a listen. >> you have to ask what changed. what changed you talked about.

it is the folks like chairman c comer and the maga crazies who have been pressuring the u.s. attorney to do something. guess what? they succeeded. >> now lowell said they'll fight these charges on the facts and try to enforce that deal they had where hunter biden avoided prosecution. he also says that some of these charges may be unconstitutional given recent rulings by federal courts, including the supreme court. breonna, what we have here is the president's son is facing charges and he could be on trial during his father's re-election campaign? >> kyra, thank you so much. jim? former president trump says he would testify in his classified documents case. we'll look back at what history tells us about the likelihood he

would follow through on that promise. plus, they were accused of plotting to kidnap the governor of michigan. the jury's verdict. later, the action is taking after a cnn report on the coast guard's handling of a secret years-long investigation into sexual misconduct. that's ahead on "cnn news central."

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a batch of donald trump's twitter dms are in the hands of the special counsel. court filings show the social media company handed over at least 32 of the former president's direct messages after getting what was a secret search warrant earlier this year. those messages were south in the federal election probe of trump. one of the four indictments now facing the former president. kristen holmes is here now. why these messages? >> we don't know right now. we know they turned over the 32 messages. we're not sure how they play into the investigation. when we look at this indictment, there's no reference to these direct messages. one thing to keep in mind is

what a prominent role twitter played in all this. when trump was trying to overturn the 2020 election results he did much of it on twitter, promoting these cons conspiracy theories. we're trying to figure out what's in these messages. that's where twitter was. the other thing about the unsealing of the documents, we learn how secret and the steps they took to make sure trump didn't know about this. remember, twitter wanted to tell trump these existed in case they wanted to appeal it or say there was executive privilege. they were barred from doing so. >> do we know if they were messages to or from him? >> we don't know. >> the other case the former president is facing is his alleged mishandling of classified documents. he made some public comments on that case yesterday. >> he absolutely did. he talked about wanting to testify. he said that it was not true, that he had directed anyone to

release the footage and he would testify to that fact. >> a new charge suggests you asked a staffer to delete security camera footage. did you do that? >> it's false. it's false. let me tell you -- >> would you testify to that under oath? >> i would. it's fake. the tapes weren't deleted, and they were my tapes. i could have fought them. i don't have to give them the tapes i don't think. i think i would have won in court. when they asked for the tapes, i said sure. they're my tapes. i could have fought them. >> it's a very familiar argument. they're my tapes. keep in mind, there were multiple federal subpoenas to get these tapes. donald trump didn't willingly hand them over. talking about him wanting to testify, this is something we heard before. i have seen no indication that he will testify, that his lawyers will allow him to testify in this case.

>> kristen holmes, thank you. that's why breonna is going to look into what the former president has done when he made similar promises in the past. >> that's right. former president trump tells kristen welker he would testify under oath that he didn't direct one of his employees to delete security footage at mar-a-lago. the question is will he make good on that promise? he's failed to in other cases. take the e. jean carroll case. trump indicated through his lawyer he wanted to testify, but in the end he never took the stand. he did have to go under oath when her lawyers deposed him and the sworn testimony raised questions about his truthfulness. >> the only difference between me and other people is i'm honest. she's not my type. i would not under any circumstances have any interest in you. >> that was trump saying that e.

jean carroll wasn't his type, even though in that very same deposition he mistook this photo of e. jean carroll from the time in question for someone who was very much his type, his wife at the time of the incident, marla maples. >> i don't even know who the woman -- let's see. i don't know who. that's marla. >> you say marla is in this photo? >> that's marla, yeah, my wife. >> which woman are you pointing to? >> the person you just pointed to is e. jean carroll. >> oh. who is that? >> this past may a jury looked at that and other evidence and found trump liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll and for defaming her by saying she made it up. then there's the january 6th select committee. the panel subpoenaed trump for a deposition. he reportedly told aides he wanted to testify as long as he

could do it live. later he sued to fight it. the committee ultimately dropped the issue saying they ran out of time. during special counsel robert mueller's russia election interference investigation trump said, quote, he would love to testify. he never did. he submitted written answers. trump often does not testify. we've seen that, even when he says he will. there are depositions that he cannot get out of as we've also seen. he finds ways to get out of answering questions while in them. in august of last year trump invoked his fifth amendment rights nearly 450 times when he was probed about his business practices. >> i decline to answer the question. >> i decline to answer the question. >> same answer. >> same answer. >> same answer. >> same answer.

>> same answer. >> james has accused trump of inflating his net worth by billions of dollars. trump denies these claims. he took the fifth, his right, but it is a right that he himself once said only a mobster or guilty people use. boris? there are new developments and a twist in the final trial over a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. a jury acquitted these three men of all charges. nine of them were convicted. the plot's ring leader was sentenced to 16 years in prison. while today's verdict is not what michigan's attorney general hoped for, she said the case succeeded in sending a clear message. acts of domestic terrorism will not be tolerated. brynn gingrass is here with

more. >> reporter: we're talking about three men. now the charges they were facing was one count of providing material support for a terrorist act. they were facing up to 20 years in prison. this was a case that played out in front of a jury for more than who weeks. they were quite emotional when the jury acquitted them of those charges. going back to 2020, you probably might remember there was this plot to kidnap michigan's governor gretchen whitmer. these men played on the lower level as to what part they played in executing that plot of those 14 people you just described. this group of militia, this was an anti-government militia that recruited each other through social media, would train together and then were actually trying to execute this plot of

kidnapping the governor. according to the government, these three men were actually supposedly doing surveillance on the governor's vacation home there in michigan. of course, now a jury saying they really didn't have much part in that plot, even though people that were with that plot were convicted. 14 people were brought on charges and most of them were convicted and found guilty by juries. these three men were very emotional in court today once the jury made that decision, boris. >> jim? a hearing for three former officers accused of beating tyre nichols to death. and the steps the congress is taking after a cnn report on sexual harassment in t the u.s. coast guard. that's's up next.

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days after federal indictments came down against them, three former officers accused of beating tyre nichols have a hearing right now. they're seeking their own trials. tennessee prosecutors are planning to have one trial for all five former members. in the federal case all the defendants have pleaded not guilty to deprivation of civil rights, witness tampering and other offenses. nick valencia has the latest. what are you learning now? >> reporter: these officers are

saying they're being charged for the actions of other officers, their lack of action they feel they're trumped up charges basically. these officers are all seeking to severe their cases from their former colleagues. here's what thadrias bean is saying, the only way for a fair trial is to separate these defendants. his attorney has maintained since he started representing him is his client never struck tyre nichols. these former officers were part of the since disbanded scorpion unit that specialized in street

crime. they were so infamous that the district attorney's office investigated hundreds of cases brought by them and dismissed dozens of them. these defendants are facing witness tampering, obstruction of justice and civil rights allegations. if the judge decides to grant the motions, we could be looking at four state trials. there's a lot of moving parts here legally. we're following it all. we'll see what the judge decides. the district attorney has been adamant he wants to keep them altogether. jim? >> nick, thanks. breonna? a new senate investigation just launched into the coast guard academy is happening because of a series of explosive

stories by cnn's pamela brown. she's with us live on this. amazing reporting you've done that continues to make a difference. tell us what's happening. >> it's been a team effort. we're seeing a fallout here. now the subcommittee is making this investigation public. as you noted, breonna, cnn first reported a coast guard investigation that substantiated dozens of rapes at the coast guard academy was kept secret for years. it found that some of the accused moved into top roles at the coast guard or retired with full benefits. victims were discouraged from pursuing the allegations and they still had to go to class and work with the person who allegedly assaulted them. some victims dropped out of the academy. the assault and investigation was never reported to congress

or made public until cnn started asking questions. now you have the senate looking for answers. in a letter sent to the head of the coast guard, senator b blumenthal said officials must be held accountable. he said this was the most shameful incident of coverup of sexual assault he has ever seen in the military. the letter is asking for a slew of documents from the coast guard, including information on every sexual assault allegation from 2006 to present. >> this is just one of the investigations, right? >> it is. there's been a hearing on capitol hill. there's a call for an ig investigation. we've been trying to confirm whether that's been launched. we haven't gotten any firm answers on that. the coast guard announced its

own inquire in july. the commandant of the coast guard has apologized to victims and their families. >> what are the victims saying about this? >> we've spoke to so many men and women who were assaulted. they all tell similar stories. there's a pattern of them being discouraged from reporting their assaults, being told their careers would end if they came forward. most are still dealing with the trauma. they're just looking for justice to be served. >> this is a career path wear they're trying to attract people and it's like 1 in 4 people qualify to be in the armed forces. they need people. when you deal with people like this, you're not bringing them in. >> the irony is they wanted to keep this hidden because they didn't want to hurt the reputation of the academy.

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6.8 earthquake violently shook the country of morocco leaving families and communities shatters. the death toll continues to rise, topping 3,000 now. families are desperately searching for missing loved ones amid miles of rubble. we have our reporter on the ground with their harrowing

stories. >> reporter: it took days for the winding mountain roads leading to this town to be cleared. debris from the earthquake making it almost impossible for aid workers to reach this small town. it has become a hub for humanitarian aid. a team of doctors has arrived from casablanca. some of these people have lost their entire families. children tell us their parents or siblings have died. this doctor tells me sometimes the emotional trauma they face is worse than their physical injuries. in this town, the crumbling remains of life before the earthquake are a constant reminder of all that has been lost. homes, livelihoods and loved ones all gone in an instant.

across morocco's devastated mountains there are countless stories of tragedy. few people have been untouched by death. there are towns like this one cut off for days. amid the stories of destruction, there are remarkable stories of survival. [ speaking in a non-english language ] this man is the head nurse here. he rushed to the local mid wife's residence with a glimmer of hope, only to find a building collapsed. >> this is where he found the midwife. >> yes. >> he began digging and pulling her out. >> yes. >> reporter: alone and in the dark he played the nurse, a colleague he considers to be like a sister, would survive. [ speaking in a non-english language ] she begged me not to leave her, he says. i promised i wouldn't leave her

alone. the nurse did survive and though shaken and with no clinic to operate in. [ speaking in a non-english language ] he tells me, she delivered two healthy babies the next morning. this town, like all those affected in the earthquake, will never forget the tragedy of september 8th. the death toll has climbed to nearly 3,000 people. while there's been an outpouring of support from the moroccan people and the international community, the road to recovery for this country will be long. cnn, morocco. >> that for your reporting. to some of the others headlines. the biden administration is imposing new sanctions on more than two dozen iranian individuals and entity, all tied to the violent crack down on protesters following the death

of mahsa amini. hundreds of protesters were killed in the unrest. supreme court justice jackson gave a speech in birmingham, alabama today. that church is widely known and is commemorating 60 years since white supremacists carried out a bombing there that killed four young black girls. the extreme drought conditions causing massive jams in the panama canal may extend into next year. some ships are waiting as long as 14 days to get through. economists say if the trend continues, you can expect major price hikes and delays as we get closer to the holiday season.

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one of the most profound questions that humankind has always struggled with, is what goes through our minds in the moments before we die? a new study looks at what people encounter in a near death experience. in fact, one person told researchers "i thought i heard my grandma, who has passed, saying you need to go back." another explained that they went directly to a place of light.

it was calm and immediate. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is here with more. this is really fascinating research. what did researchers say they found, and how did they even go about conducting this study? >> yeah. it really is an interesting story and an interesting study. it's fascinating. we have to be careful not to draw too many conclusions from this, because it is early research. but i agree, boris, these near death experiences, what exactly is happening in the brain, can you measure that somehow? two quick points, i think one of the questions they were trying to answer is, are there these hidden reservoirs of consciousness that might exist in the brain? and during the dying process, when someone is in cardiac arrest or no longer getting enough blood flow to the brain, does something happen to the brain? does it become disinhibited in some ways, which allows people to have some of the experiences

you just mentioned or to have that flash of their whole life in front of their eyes as they go through the dying process? perhaps. but they wanted to figure this out by going into rooms where people were actually in cardiac arrest, difficult study to perform as you might imagine. there was some 567 people that they were able to go into those rooms, put the electrodes on the scalp and measure brain activity during that process. the people, 53, so about 10% roughly survived the cardiac arrest. 11 said that they had recollection of what was happening during cpr of chest compressions and things like that. and six people had these near death experiences like you mentioned. what was fascinating, boris, again, you don't expect there to be any electrical activity when blood flow has stopped to the brain. what they found is they were getting these electrical activities, all these different types of activity, up to an hour

after the cardiac arrest. so not only was there electrical activity, but it was persistent for some time, boris. >> so dr. gupta, would you say that that is a way to measure consciousness? is that what they were able to do? >> i wish that they could say that, but i think that if you look at that study carefully, there really wasn't a direct correlation. for example, there were these people that had the spikes of the electrical activity that did not have any evidence of being conscious at that time. so i don't think there's a correlation at this point. but i think the significance is, first of all, it starts to shed some light on what is happening during these near death experiences. and sarm m parnia, he's been studying this for decades and validated many of these near death experiences in many interesting ways. but the second point, i'm a brain surgeon, boris. we talk about brain death all the time. what exactly does that mean?

if you're still getting electrical activity of some sort, even an hour after cardiac arrest, what does that mean? for now it doesn't change anything. i don't think protocols will change based on this with declaring brain death, but we are starting to image and see the brain in ways we have not seen before, and understanding more about what is happening when someone is near death. >> yeah. it raises even more questions that are perhaps very difficult to answer. more research likely in the future. dr. sanjay gupta, great to get your expertise and perspective. thanks so much. jim? right now, an unprecedented autoworker's strike is underway. we'll check in live with a union member next on "cnn news central." here... now, you can find the game easasy. my barbecue is saved! access nfl sunday ticket on us, get a $400 reward card. my barbecue is ruined. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease.

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