hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on c"cnn newsroom." hollywood studios and writers could be nearing the end of a strike that's dragged on for nearly five months. a look at why there may be reason for optimism. plus -- >> funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of congress. and it's time for republicans to start doing the job america elected them to do. >> millions of americans could see their paychecks delayed as a deadline hangs over congress. a look at what a shutdown could mean for the biden administration. also -- >> and liftoff of osiris-rex. >> rock samples more than 4 billion years old are about to

land in utah. i'll speak to a nasa research physicist who's been working on the mission. >> reporter: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom," with kim brunhuber. >> we begin here in the u.s. where after nearly five months of deadlock, there's hope in the ongoing hollywood writer's strike that it could soon come to an end. a source tells cnn that the major film and television studios sent their best and final offer to the striking writers saturday. it comes after four straight days of intense negotiations. both sides will meet again today. now, cnn's parent company, warner brothers discovery is part of the negotiations with the union. the writer's guild of america, which has over 11,000 members has been on strike for nearly five months over wages, worker protections and the use of artificial intelligence. >> you have to win these negotiations in spades. there's no option, there's no backing down, there's no getting less. there's only getting more from

my view. >> cnn's camilla bernal has been following the developments and has more from los angeles. >> this is what writers have been waiting to hear for about five months now. wga negotiators and hollywood studios are in the final phase of negotiations and according to my colleague, oliver darcy, this deal could come by the end of the weekend. the two parties spent saturday negotiating for the fourth consecutive day, and sources telling cnn that while the heads of the four major studios, including warner brothers discovery, cnn's parent company, nbc universal, disney, and netflix were no longer in the room on saturday, they were engaged in this whole process. this strike that has paralyzed the entertainment industry and hassed a major impact when it comes to the economy, some estimates indicate a $5 billion economic impact, and this has affected not just hollywood, but in, many other industries. a lot of the writers that i have

talked to said that they were ready to return to work after a deal was reached between the two parties. but wga members still have to ratify the new contract and furthermore, because the actors are all still on strike, a deal doesn't necessarily mean that all productions will go back to normal. but some in the industry do believe that a deal with the writers could speed up the process for sag-aftra negotiations. overall, it's been a very difficult few months for the industry, but certainly hope is now in the horizon. camilla bernal, cnn, los angeles. >> joining me now is cnn media critic, brian lowry. thanks so much for being here. so what do you make of the fact that there seems to have been substantial progress made here? enough hope that we're close to the end? >> well, by all accounts, cnn's reporting and other outlets, they are very close. they've made progress on most of the key issues, there were reports of basically the lawyers

were in the room today, finalizing some of the key language on some of these points, which can be a little thorny, but i think the expectation is that they're -- you know, if you were putting it in football terms, they would be somewhere down inside the 20 yard line. >> so near the goal line here. but this has dragged on and on. why has it taken so long. you mentioned key issues. what have been the main sticking points here, do you think? >> well, there's several things. i think the writers and the actors were also out. really felt that this was an inflection point for the industry. and there's been a dramatic change in the business with a shift towards streaming. there's been a lot of concern about residuals tied to streaming. work for writers, specifically, in terms of the number of writers employed on these shorter order streaming shows. and also, the kind of -- the really hard-to-peg issue is artificial intelligence.

and what ai could mean and what it could mean to production going forward and i think there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of fear that it will be used to replace people, digitally replace actors, use digitally written pieces. so, there's a lot of issues that needed to be resolved and i think the writers think that they had to dig their heel ms n or they would be doing this again in three years or six years. >> this is about more than just money. you know, an existential battle in a way when you're talking about ai. i'm curious. it's hard to know, but if you think if they do get a settlement on this, it might affect other people in the entertainment industry, or other industries even, based on what happens here? >> well, i think you've seen, you know, one of the things that i think the studios may have misread is there's been this sort of rising labor tide, which goes beyond the entertainment

industry. but you're seeing it with the autoworkers, now. but the media sector has been undergoing a fairly significant and radical changes for years. you've seen it in newspapers, now you've seen it reaching into movies and television. and just the way that programming the getting delivered, the way that movies are getting delivered has changed. and the real fear of the people who make them and work on them is that they're being left behind. that the technology is changing and they're not keeping up in terms of cashing and sharing in it. and of course the studios are -- their business has taken a hit also. they're undergoing changes, too. so it's not, you know w, everyo has reason to be a little bit nervous and antsy about what the future holds, and i think this deal will be welcomed by everyone in the industry in terms of getting back to work. but i don't know that it necessarily solves some of these bigger issues that are going to play out over the next several years. >> absolutely. in the meantime, the effect of the -- the effects of this, my

friends in the industry, many of them are at the breaking point here. how are folks in the industry coping now that this has dragged on for so long? >> well, it's been very tough. because, again, this doesn't just affect writers and actors. this affects morebelow-the-line people that work on the crews, it affects all the people that serve in these productions. and we're talking billions of dollars in that. what the writers have seen is that actually with the compensation shrinking and with shorter orders on shows and a lot of them struggling to make the kind of living they used to make when they were working on network shows that would order, you know, 22 episodes of law and order, and now they're doing a six or an eight-episode show for netflix and they're not making enough to sustain them for a year, is that the strike actually, they were

sacrificing -- but they weren't sfi sacrificing at the level they might have been 10 or 15 years ago. >> let's hope this is resolved sooner rather than later. brian lowry, thanks so much for speaking with us. appreciate it. president biden says he'll travel to michigan on tuesday to walk a picket line with members of the united auto workers union. we're now in the tenth day of the autoworkers strike against ford, general motors, and stellantis. but even as the union president says talks with ford appear to be showing signs of progress, the strike is spreading to more gm and stellantis facilities. and that meentans the striking workers are having to get resourceful to make ends meet. cnn's gabe cohen has that. >> reporter: april's morning ritual hasn't changed. >> get your toothbrush. >> reporter: but provide ifor hr three boys -- >> getting down to the bare minimum here. >> reporter: -- just became much

more difficult. zp >> i have to check my percent ev bank account every day. hopefully we get back to work. >> with her flplant now on stri, april has to figure out way to live on her union-provided strike pay, just 500 a week, roughly half of what she's used to. >> it's not much when you have three kids. >> definitely no. >> you're really tightening the belt right now. >> yes, yes, every dollar, every cent is accounted for, whether it goes for food, electric, gas, rent, it's ketchup and hot dogs, instead of having ketchup, hot dogs, and applesauce. it's like one less thing on the plate. >> reporter: close to 5,800 toledo autoworkers are striking and many face a similar financial strain. >> going to be out there, as long as i need to. >> it's already squeezing neighborhood businesses like zinger's bar and grill, located near the plant.

factory workers typically drop in for lunch or after their shifts. >> how much is business down? >> it's down probably about a good like 65 to 70%. >> violet wagner has been bartender here for more than 30 years. >> i'm just praying that they come to some type of gragreemen and it gets better. if not, i may have to look for other employment as well. >> reporter: beyond these picketers, toledo is home to a network of auto suppliers that are starting to feel the impact of the strike. with thousands already losing work, local government officials estimate a month-long strike could cost the toledo area economy about 36 to $50 million. >> this is toledo, it's a union city, we have a great city of supporting our workforce. >> reporter: county commissioner pete gurkin shows his solidarity, having worked at this factory for 30 years. >> when these workers voted to go out, they knew that.

this was not a naive audience. and dlclever enough and resourceful enough. >> reporter: they're now building a food pantry, piling up donations for any struggling workers. >> i signed up for instacart. >> reporter: some like erika mitchell feel the knee to lineup temporary jobs until the strike drags. >> i want to find something out to do to cover surprises. with kids, you never know what happens. >> when i got in the jeep, it was like yes, finally, i can finally give my kids the same opportunity. >> like many of these workers, april says she's prepared to weather this short-term pain, hopeful an agreement can be reached soon. >> it's only temporary. we're going to get back to work. i try to keep that positive mind s. mindset, as much as i can. >> and other communities can soon feel those same impacts, if the union does, in fact, expand this strike, as the union president sean fein has said

they could do in the coming days. cnn, toledo, ohio. now to the u.s. capitol, where the deadline for funding the government looms ever closer, as chaos reins among house republicans. current spending measures expire at midnight on september 30th, giving lawmakers just a few days to get a bill signed and passed by the president. on friday, the office of management and budget formally notified federal agencies that they should review their shutdown plans. house speaker kevin mccarthy tried to find an agreement among his fractious caucus on friday, but later admitte t ted that ma hardliners were unmoved. even if hay do pass, they're dead on arrival in the senate and won't avert a shutdown. president biden slammed house republicans saturday evening in a congressional black hawks awards dinner. here he is. >> members of the u.s. military are going to have to continue to work and not get paid. the government shutdown could

impact everything from food safety to cancer research to head start programs for children. funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of congress. and it's time for republicans to start doing the job america elected them to do. >> cnn white house reporter priscilla alvarez has more on what the federal government is doing to prepare for a potential disruption. >> the biden administration is preparing for a potential government shutdown next week if a short-term funding bill is not passed in the coming days. now, on friday, the office of management and budget formally initiated the process, essentially telling federal agencies to dust off their plans in the event of a government shutdown. that includes, for example, how many employees would be furloughed, how many would be considered essential, and would have to work without pay, as well as what activities and services may be disrupted. now, there are some services that will continue, be it federal law enforcement activities, border protection, or air traffic control, but the white house making clear over the course of the last week that

it is incumbent upon republicans to get these bills passed. now, we heard from republicans on saturday, who tried to lay out a path forward and also project some confidence, saying that the majority of their conference does not want to see a government shutdown happen, but the reality is that they just don't have enough votes. and for those bills that they do have enough votes, those are dead on arrival in the senate. so all of this raising the question that there's about -- about whether there will be a government shutdown a week from now. priscilla alvarez, cnn, the white house. >> embattled u.s. senator robert menendez of new jersey is now facing calls to resign from within the senate itself. fellow democratic senator john fetterman of pennsylvania became the first senator of either party to say that menendez should step down following his indictment on corruption charges. other democratic lawmakers and officials have also called for his resignation. the justice department named menendez, his wife, and three

other people in friday's indictment and all denying any wrong wrongdoing. the senator faced similar charges in 2015, but that case was dropped after a mistrial. he allegedly accepted gold bars and nearly half a million in cash in exchange for his political influence. earlier, cnn spoke with political lawyer, john conway. here he is. >> it's just stunning. the allegations in this indictment -- it's just raw corruption. it's classic kind of new jersey kind of corruption, but, you know, with a foreign policy overlay. i mean, the man apparently was selling secret information about, you know, about -- of the governments to representatives of the egyptian government. and that's not a good thing for the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. and it's just stunning. the gold bars and the cash and the jacket in his closet.

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so, let's talk there. what more are we learning about those attacks. >> we are still waiting for more details from the regional officials following this drone attack. we have, of course, seen similar attacks in the past over the summer. and of course, it is important to underscore that typically, ukraine does not acknowledge or admit responsibility for any such attacks on russian territory. but according to regional officials, an administrative building was struck by it in the early hours of this morning, causing some damage to the roof of the building, but it's unclear if any casualties or injuries as a result of this latest drone strike. but this follows a seerries of armed forces on ukrainian territory over the weekend. we have seen dozens of areal attacks, air strikes, rocket attacks targeting ukrainian positions, causing significant damage to civilian infrastructure across a range of areas. in fact, in the last 24 hours, in the zaporizhzhia region,

ukrainian officials have confirmed that at least one person has been killed as a result of russian artillery fire. meanwhile in kherson, another individual reportedly killed as a result of russian shelling. kim? >> all right. and turning to the counter offensive, any progress there? >> well, that counteroffensive is suddenly still moving on. we are seeing some positive indications. on saturday, we learned from ukrainian officials that the defenses were successful in 14 out of 15 attempted drone attacks by russian forces. these have, of course, become quite the regular occurrence. these are iranranian-made attac drones, which we have seen frequently over the summer. but we are seeing some indications of progress on the front lines, as well. ukrainian defense officials saying their units are holding ground, holding their positions across several key front line regions. we've seen over the weekend,

russian attacks repelled in lehman and ma riddenka and in bakhmut, a reported russian advance was thwarted according to ukrainian officials by their own units. meanwhile, ukraine's air force has said that it has successfully carried out and conducted eight air strikes against russian positions and assets they deemed critical to russia's armed forces in ukrainian territory. and of course, we did hear earlier in the week from a ukrainian official saying that that counteroffensive will continue to push ahead, even if the winter months. of course, we did see the ukrainian armed forces facing some difficulty last winter, but according to these officials, ukraine's biggest breakthrough is yet to come. kim? >> appreciate the updates. g nadia bashir in london, thanks so much. russia's foreign minister unleashed a flurry of unfounded accusations in his speech on saturday. the forum was the u.n. general assembly. secretary lavrov spelling out russia's take on the war in

ukraine, how he led that ukraine is led by a racist regime propped up by the west, that the u.s. or britain don't want the war end to, and that russia recognizes ukraine's sovereignty, despite invading that country and trying to annex parts of it. lavrov was asked later when he would consider the u.s. to be at war with russia and here's his answer. >> so you can call this whatever you want to call this, but they are directly at war with us. we call this a hybrid war, but that doesn't change the reality. >> but lavrov didn't stop there. he also shot down ukraine's peace proposal and railed a against a u.n.-brokered grain deal. richard roth was at the united. >> on a wind-swept, rainy day in new york city, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov swept through the hallways of the u.n., speaking in the u.n. general assembly and in the media at a press conference. he had strong words against washington and nato allies regarding how that side of the

equation is handling the conflict in ukraine. he called ukrainian peace proposals completely unfeasible opinion and commented on the black sea grain deal initiative, which russia withdrew from months ago. he asked, has russia officially withdrawn from that deal? >> we are working with those who respect themselves and who will never betray their national interests because someone from washington has told them to. we know how american diplomats travel around the world and prohibit meetings with our diplomats and with representatives of russia in general. i'll say the following. the u.s. is a superpower. that's clear to everyone, but to run around like this, threatening everyone, only then to show one's obsession with domineering, well, it's simply embarrassing for a great nation to act this way. >> reporter: lavrov was asked

why he didn't attend security council meeting on ukraine, where he would have seen president zelenskyy. he said has seen him before, he knows he's going to say, he had 33 other meetings. he described zelenskyy has looking grim. richard roth, cnn, united nations. and in a phone call saturday with armenia's prime minister, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken said that the u.s. has deep concern for the plight of ethnic armenians. there are growing fears that the population will be displaced now that azerbaijan has reasserted control over the contested region. hundreds of resident s who fled tuesday's military operation are stranded out in the open at the local airport, speaking for the u.n. general assembly on saturday, armenia's foreign minister said the situation inside is zpdesperate. >> as i speak today, 30% of the population displaced.

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." mexico says it has a plan to ease the migrant surge at its border with the u.s. officials say they'll implement a series of measures in the cities that border el paso and eagle pass, texas, as well as san diego, california, and that includes a plan to deport migrants were seeking ing entryo the u.s. and to premvent migrans from using its railway system into the border. el paso, texas, says it's reached a breaking point. the city has opened an overflow shelter for the unprecedented surge in rivals. this as the governor in texas is planning to send more buses to transport the migrants to other cities.

>> texas governor greg abbott is railing against the biden administration saying border communities are overwhelmed and overrun by the large number of migrants arriving there and calling the situation a crisis. governor abbott announced that he had directed the texas division of emergency management to deploy additional buses to the border cities of eagle pass and el paso. the purpose is transporting immigrants to what abbott calls a self-declared sanctuary cities, which are municipalities mostly run by democrats. in a statement, abbott said texas has bused nearly 12,000 migrants to our nation's capital, nearly 15,000 to new york and an additional 8,700 to chicago. in a statement, abbott said until president biden upholds its constitutional duty to secure america's southern border, texas will continue to deploy as many buses as needed to relieve the strain caused by the surge of illegal crossings. meanwhile, the biden administration has announced several steps being taken to address the situation, including

the deployment of 800 active duty military sppersonnel, addi capacity to border facilities and continuing to conduct deportation flights. the problem goes beyond the migrants who have already made it to the u.s. southern border. take a look at how these migrants are traveling through mexico on cargo trains, using bed sheets as tents to protect themselves from the sun during the long trip north. they may also be tens of thousands of others on their way north. on tuesday, federal mex, the largest railway operator suspended service of several northbound train lines after reporting half a dozen injuries and deaths of migrants. we reached out to the government of panama, a central america country that serves as transit appoint for many immigrants coming from south america and many parts of the world. during the month of august, nearly 82,000 migrant cross through their territory. so far this month, more than

55,000 have done the same. so far this year, nearly 400,000 migrants have traveled through panmanian territory. rafael romo, cnn, atlanta. more than 15 million people in the u.s. are under a threat of severe weather today. the greatest risk is from southwest arkansas through texas with north and central texas in the bull's-eye. high winds and hail are the greatest threats, but a few isolated tornadoes can't be ruled out. now, there were more than 100 reports of severe weather saturday with hail up to 3 inches in diameter. trees down and reports of tornado miss minnesota and south dakota. and ophelia is now a post-tropical cyclone, but still bringing heavy rain to mid-atlantic states. it made landfall in north carolina early saturday as a strong tropical storm, inundating waterways with up to 4 feet of storm surge. the coast guard rescued five people, including three kids from an anchored sailboat friday evening, after the conditions became too dangerous sty aboard.

across mid-atlantic coastal areas, thousands lost power as high winds downed power lines and trees. ophelia is expected to dump more heavy rain as it moves northeast throughout day today. cnn's polo sandoval has more from new jersey, where concerns have been going downhill. >> reporter: ophelia will continue to impact millions of americans, specifically throughout parts of the northeast into sunday, as the remnants of this storm will continue to affect states like new york, potentially up to maine, according to meteorologists, and even here in the state of new jersey, where on saturday we saw businesses up and down that iconic border walk actually shutter and close their doors payoff the storm if in fact, officials had actually closed off access to the beach section, hoping to deter any individuals from actually accessing some of the coastline here. in fact, if you look off in the distance, you can see some of those windwood waves and what it really looked like on saturday here, as authorities do continue, to expect these

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in the coming hours, a sample of 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid is expected to be delivered to earth. have a look here. this animation shows a nasa spacecraft called osiris-rex which is carrying rocks and dust collected from the asteroid. the capsule that will separate from the capsule is expected to enter earth's atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. it's due to touchdown in the utah desert sunday just before

11:00 a.m. eastern time. a nasa research physicist who has been working on the osiris-rex mission for 13 years joins us now from salt lake city. thank you so much for being here with us. listen, we're making a big deal about maybe, you know, a cup of rock and dust. why are you so excited about this? >> yeah, well, it's a very special cup or so. we hope as much as 14 ounces coming back to us on earth in a couple of hours. and it's exciting because like you mentioned, this is leftover material from the formation of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. and we believe it's asteroids like these, it was bodies like these that came together and formed particularly the terrestrial planets, of which earth is one. once we get this material in our hands, it will be like holding the building blocks of the early earth. and it will give us an idea

about how earth came to be, how it is. because of the particular nature of the asteroid we went to, it can also give us some insight into the theory it was bodies like these that seeded early earth with organic material from which life was eventually created. it's a super exciting time for us on the project and we're really looking forward to getting our hands on those samples. >> you're not going to find life, but you'll find sort of how life got a foothold here on earth. a lot of nail-biting so far. at one point i during the collection, you collected too much material and then just ended up sort of watching part of the cargo just float away. >> that's correct, we grabbed our sample, backed away, took some images and it was a good news/bad news situation.

we saw we had a lot of material that was collected, but we had collected so much, that some of it had wedged -- some of the smaller gate that were supposed to close to help keep the material into what we call the sample head. so we had to kind of throw out our plans. we had planned on very carefully studying what we had, figuring out the exact mass of the material that we had collected, and that was supposed to take place over the period of a little more than a week. once we got those first images down, we realized, boy, it was good news/bad news. we got a lot of material, but it's starting to leak out into space. so we threw out our plans and went the dril l of, let's get this stuff safely stowed and did that in less than two days. it was a trying time for the team. >> i can only imagine. now that capsule will just have to survive temperatures twice as hot as lava and slam into the earth. what makes you nervous now? what can still go wrong?

>> we just had our go/no go meeting about an hour and a half ago and everything is looking really good for that. everybody gave a thumb's up. everybody was told to go to their console, so there will be one more polling of the team here shortly and we're looking at all of the kconditions to mae sure that atmospheric reentry will go well. if everything the still looking good, we'll give the command. and then it's all just in the hands of the design we did, you know, more than seven years ago now. and hopefully it all will work and we'll have our samples s shortly before 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >> let's say it arrives safely, everything goes well. how you open and it examine it, make sure it doesn't get contaminated and you don't lose any of that microscopic material? >> we're hoping that we won't actually see anything for a few days. it will get collected.

the sample return capsule will hopefully land in tact. that's the plan. and then it will be carried via helicopter to a stamging stagin the test range, which is where the samples are landing. and we want to get our actual eyes, hopefully, we won't get our eyes on the samples until they actually get flown to houston to the johnson space center where we archive all of our apollo material. that's where the moon rocks are held, including some samples from another asteroid that the japanese space agency has lent pup us. so hope apply we won't see any samples ourselves for the next couple of days. the whole thing will go under a dry nitrogen purge to make sure it doesn't get contaminated and eventually it will get opened up in a lab under very controlled conditions at johnson space center. >> it's like christmas coming, and you can't open your presents until new year's. it must be frustrating. all right, so listen, it's not

just -- the wonder here junst what you're delivering, it's asirius/rex. that's not the end for that mission. it just keeps going, right? it's dropping this off and it goes on. what's it next stop? >> if everything goes well this morning, then the spacecraft will execute a divert burn, which will keep it from colliding with the earth, because right now, we're on an intercept course with earth. but if everything goes well, we're going to command a divert burn. that will send us back into orbit around the sun, and the mission then -- osiris-rex will come to an end, we'll get a new name called osiris-apex, because we'll fly to another near-earth th asteroid and go rendezvous with that asteroid. unfortunately, we can only collect one sample, because we've already done that, but we'll be studying its activity

as it comes close to af a flyby earth, you'll be able to see this particular asteroid in the sky. another legacy of this asirius-rex will be this asirius-apex mission. >> just unbelievable the science involved in this and all of the precision. the clock is counting down. we wish you the best of luck in getting all of that material back to earth safely. nasa physicist brent boss, thank you so much for speaking with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. and we'll be right back. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools and paper trading to help sharpen your s skills, you u can stay on top of the market from wherever you are. e*trade from morgan stanley.

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it had to happen, some of the shine is off. oregon dominated the game from start-to-finish saturday, handing coach prime his first loss of the year. and oregon was out to prove a point. the office scored five touchdowns in the first half, wheel the duck's defense shut down the high-powered offense until the game was well in hand, final score, 42-6. here's coach sanders following his first loss at colorado.

>> a good old-fashioned butt kicking. no excuses, no nothing. their coaches did a heck of a job preparing their team. obviously, we didn't. one thing i can say, honestly and candidly, you better get me right now. this is the worst we're going to be. you better get me right now. the woman who could go down in history as one of the greatest female athletes of all time has one more international soccer match to play before retirement. on saturday, megan rapinoe was asked about some of the highlights of her 17-year career. she mentioned her team's advocacy for lgbtq rights and racial justice. >> i'm incredibly proud of everything we've done on the feel. we've been a really special generation of players. but i think it says a lot about us that everything on field, i feel like kind of pales in comparisons to what we've achieved off the field.

>> and rapinoe's farewell international match will be later today in chicago. well, it was an action-packed saturday at the rugby world cup in france. matches like the one between ireland and south africa garnered fan's attention. that was built like a boxing heavyweight title fight and delivered on the hype. cnn's patrick snell reports. >> well, saturday's play at the rugby world cup, headlined by a showdown at the stade de france has top-ranked ireland looking at their first-ever world coup title against south africa. what a thrilling contest this would be. it would be mac hanson with the first try of the match for ireland, this just past the half-hour mark in this game. 7-3 ireland at that point. but the world champions so often don't know the meaning of the world defeat, and this would be kolbe who goes over to get his country right back into it, on 51 minutes. 8-7 in favor of south africa.

johnny sexton penalty on 59 minutes, making it 10-8 in favor of the irish and they would hold on to seal a very famous victory. 13-8 in the end. it's their 16th straight test victory and a very big statement of the intent again, with ireland. elsewhere, saturday, england thrashing chili, 71 points to nothing with one man making all the headlines in this one. take a bow. the young english winger who runs in five tries for the 2003 winner. they made 12 changes from the starting lineup against japan, scoring 11 up answered drives, including those five i mentioned from the youngster. that feat in itself equally an dp england record, playing at their first-ever world cup. a special weekend for that young man right there. a thrilling conclusion to the portugal georgia match, which

ended 18 points a piece, with a great chance to win this one. when nuna has this last-minute penalty. angle is not good for him. it's a good effort. the tensions were mounting. comes so close, but ultimately, the kit was not quite good enough. heartbreak for him. it would have been portugal's first-ever world cup victory. meantime, we can tell you the french captain widely r regarded as one of the best players in the world has undergone surgery on the facial fraction he sustained over the host nation's win against nah min namibia on friday. and also a most likely quarter final clash against irelandover south africa in mid-october. sustaining the injury at the start, in a head-to-head clash,

whose initial yellow guard was upgraded to a red. france says he will remain part of their world-cup squad. dupont himself taking to "x" on saturday saying he's hit, but not sunk, adding the show must go on. of course, we wish him all very best in his recovery at this time. and with that, ui'll send it right back to you. just about a week left in major league baseball's regularen and the colorado rockies aren't going to the playoffs so as part of an annual tradition, they sent their rookies ute to get coffee for the vets. the players dutifully picked up some 25 coffees and doughnuts and on the bake chicago's wrigley field, they got a little distracted by a cute little puppy. who can blame them and paused for a photo with a bride and groom, making the couple's big day even more special. all right. before we go, festivalgoers in plains, georgia, received an unexpected surprise on saturday. the sight of a black suv carrying former u.s. president jimmy carter and first lady

rosalind carter at the annual peanut festival. carter was a well-known peanut farmer in plains before entering politics. the carter center noted that the former president who has been in hospice care since february turns 99 next sunday. that wraps this hour of cnn mus newsroom. i'm kim brunhuber. for viewers in north america, "cnn this morning" is next. for the rest of the world, it's "start-up trail." ♪ oh what a good time we will have ♪ ♪ you can make it happen ♪ ♪ yeah ohoh ♪ now, try new dietary supplements from voltaren for healthy joints.

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