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has now been canceled. but what can you tell us about the threat from the 7.0 quake? >> well, there still was certainly damage there. fort bragg crescent city, eureka, maybe even seeing a little bit 20,000 customers now already without power. so something was shaking. i've seen video on social media of of pools sloshing back and forth on land. also, things falling off store shelves. but it was a very large 7.0, and we're still now a very shallow quake. now the difference between a tsunami creating shake and possibly just a regular slip strike, earthquake is will the land on the bottom of the ocean bounce up or go down? and when that happens, you've displaced an awful lot of water that displaced water makes its way onto the shore as that tsunami. so for now, with the tsunami warning being canceled, there are tsunami warnings. they are gone. they were here earlier all the way from oregon, all the way down to san francisco. it was still a big quake.

they're still going to be some some damage here on land, even though the good news is most of the shaking did happen offshore. now we're still going to see some significant shaking with this because there will be aftershocks as the afternoon goes by. we've already had a couple of fives, not as big as a seven, and there's typically about 15 sevens per year worldwide. they're typically just not so close to land that this one was. so tsunami warning is done. there was no indication that a wave was generated. now we saw the pictures earlier in crescent city the helicopter was there and you can see the boats coming back into the harbor. and that's when i knew, i said oh, this is going to get canceled any time now because the boats already know the boaters, the sailors, they already know it's time it's okay for them to come back. and that's what we finally have now, just about three minutes ago, that tsunami warning was canceled. officially. >> yeah. all right, chad, thank you so much for keeping an eye on this. obviously very concerned, but good to know it's been canceled. let's bring in jeffrey park, a

seismologist and professor of earth and planetary sciences at yale university. what are you seeing as you look at what this quake has wrought and what you hear people describing the feeling of it and some of the pictures of damage. >> well what what i'm seeing is kind of well predicted by what we know about the tectonics of the area around eureka california. >> you have at cape mendocino, particularly, is the end of the san andreas fault that travels all the way up california and ends at cape mendocino, where it transitions into the cascadia subduction zone along the coastline so there's a big difference in the kind of motion that occurs that can cause earthquakes in that region and part of that difference is taken up by another fault that goes straight from cape mendocino directly offshore, almost perpendicular to the coastline, that has earthquakes that are like the one that occurred today that that region has had

a large number of these types of earthquakes, both small and large, that occur and do not normally cause a lot of damage on land, although they they show up on our seismometers. but this one was close enough to do some some significant shaking nearby most of the earthquakes on this fault system that's offshore will be strike slip in character that means that the seafloor will actually be moving horizontally and not vertically. a vertical motion of associated with an earthquake offshore in the seafloor would cause a tsunami and any earthquake. certainly, of this size has the risk of having a significant vertical component so if a magnitude seven earthquake occurs offshore that close to the shore, all of the alarms will go up. it's not too surprising that the tsunami was not damaging. there probably will discover in the weeks to come that that that people who are

studying the the, you know, small fluctuations in their tidal gauges will see something that small that they'll identify as the tsunami. but it was not going to be tsunami as a as a damaging force so jeffrey this earthquake was about an hour and 20 minutes ago. >> since then, we understand there have been around a dozen at least a dozen aftershocks that have taken place. there have been several in the past few minutes including a 4.2 magnitude. this is near petrolia california. that's in northern california. how worried are you about these aftershocks that we've seen in its wake? >> well not to the extent that i would worry about another magnitude seven earthquake that would occur very soon. uh although that does sometimes happen. most of the time, an rshock wl be a smaller earthquake. but what happens when you have an earthquake of this size is that it tends to

redistribute stress on all the all the other faults that are in the area. and some of those faults on which the stress gets redistributed will have an increase in stress that will that will induce another earthquake. so some of the earthquake faults could that are in the region very close to where the rupture occurred, but also in some of the other faults that are in maybe even onshore, could have earthquake activity smaller earthquakes, but because they might occur on land, would be more damaging to the buildings that are above them. >> it's so interesting to hear that people will be watching to see if this does redistribute that stress and mean something else here. jeffrey, thank you so much really appreciate your insights yes, thank you. and joining us now on the phone is caroline titus, who is a resident of ferndale california and caroline i saw you online. you were posting as and i know you're a journalist. so and a former publisher of the paper

there you went through town looking at some of the damage, and it did seem like there were certainly a lot of things knocked off of, of shelves, at least. what was this like? >> well, we're lucky we're very lucky. there wasn't one plate glass window broken on our historic main street, which usually there is with the large earthquakes that can happen up here so apart from just we're all cleaning up a mess now in our houses, which we're used to we're extremely lucky. i don't see any major damage, any major structural damage. i did post some huge antique doors of the victorian inn across the street from us, which is over 130 years old, and those doors came off. one of them came off. its hinges. um but overall, i think we dodged a bullet. >> caroline. we are showing video that you posted on x from from inside your house showing some of the mess that was caused by this earthquake. you say that this is not out of the

norm for you how often does this kind of thing happen well, as your geologist was explaining, we live near the cape triple junction but, um we're a very small rural community, so we're very used to temblors earthquakes and we're very tight knit communities. >> so everybody checks on each other. we have a volunteer fire department that goes out, and right now the sun is shining and businesses are back to normal. just picking up restaurants are open. um, so it's something, you know, it happens. and as i said, we've we really dodged a bullet on this one. consider ourselves lucky. >> a beautiful day in ferndale. it sounds like, as we're getting sort of the primer on the seismic activities that have become normal for you, but you said people were checking in on each other. tell us about that after this quake. >> well, we just live in a very tight knit community. as i said so everybody just, you know, we run outside and then we check on we checked on our elderly

neighbor and then somebody across the street and and people are helping each other clean up and onward and we've just gotten word that some 10,000 customers are without power in humboldt county. >> um, caroline, what have you heard from the authorities? have they been communicative both. when this warning went into effect and has now since been canceled yeah, we have a great warning system. >> we had a transformer blow a couple of houses down from us, and we were out power for, i'm going to say, maybe half an hour. police chief just drove by and gave me the thumbs up, and i gave him the thumbs up so i don't know about the rest of the county. i don't know what's going on. but as far as our little hamlet that's five miles from the pacific ocean, um, we're doing fine. >> you know you have a lot of mess to clean up, though. we can see from the pictures a lot of things that have fallen inside of houses. so, caroline, thank you so much for being with us and for sharing your

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donald trump's newly formed department of government efficiency. doge begins to take shape. also on the hill is pete hegseth, trump's pick to lead the pentagon. the former fox news host has been in and out of meetings all day long, not just today, but yesterday as well, trying to convince republican senators that he is the right person for that job at the pentagon. >> his road to confirmation, though, is being overshadowed by reports of excessive drinking and sexual and personal misconduct. all allegations that hegseth denies. cnn's kristen holmes is live for us in west palm beach, florida, and kristen, despite the controversies, we're hearing that trump remains confident in his pick. how confident well, brianna and alex, i'm not sure if the word confident is 100% accurate. >> i think the better word is that he's sticking by hegseth right now. he has determined that he is going to be by his side. he called him this morning. he offered his support, obviously very different than what we saw when matt gaetz was in the running for attorney general, and he called him and told him he

didn't have the votes in the senate. and then matt gaetz withdrew his name. now, part of that confidence, i'm told, is because none of these senators have been telling donald trump or the teams around him that they are a hard no, that yes, they are hearing these concerns about hegseth, but no one has said that they will adamantly not vote for hegseth, meaning that donald trump and his team still see a pathway to confirmation. now, just a few moments ago, we heard from hegseth, who essentially is vowing to fight and continue to stay in this process. take a listen you fight, you go do tough things in tough places on behalf of your country, and sometimes that changes you a little bit. >> and by the grace of god and my lord and savior, i had an opportunity to to to come on up out of it and do great things with great veterans organizations that fought for vets, that fought for reform at the va and for war fighters, and at the fox news channel to advocate for those very same causes. and i'm proud of what i fought for. i'm not going to back down from them one bit. i will answer all of these senators questions but this

will not be a process tried in the media and i will tell you that one of the things that i was told by sources close to hegseth was that donald trump wanted him to fight, and essentially told him that you can hear there in his voice that he is certainly taking that advice seriously. >> now the other thing that i've heard from these sources is that while donald trump is standing by hegseth they acknowledge that that could change at any time. one of the things that could change his support for hegseth would be another onslaught of media reports including more allegations of potential sexual harassment or drinking. so far, they have seen this drip drip, drip of information. donald trump has seen all of these media reports and has decided that he will continue to give his support to hegseth but there are a lot of people around donald trump who believe that he would likely pull that back if there are more allegations or even more serious allegations. remember, one of the things that donald trump's team told hegseth after that report that revealed

that 2017 sexual assault allegation was that they didn't want any more surprises obviously, they have seen the media reports in recent days coming out that just have started to pile on when it comes to these various allegations against hegseth. >> indeed. kristen holmes live for us in west palm beach, florida. thank you for the report. we have cnn's senior political analyst, gloria borger with us now. gloria, he's saying that this will not be a process that is tried in the media, but i wonder if when when trump has gone through the approval process for some of his candidates, which is different than normally, you would go through the discovery process does kind of end up in the media and i wonder how long hegseth can withstand that when you have, for instance, notably someone like senator joni ernst noticeably not committing to support him. >> well, look, i think they didn't go through the fbi in the vetting process. and as kristen has reported, they were surprised by the sexual assault

allegation. and nobody wants that particularly donald trump. they were angered by that. they didn't want that. and now there are these other stories about the veterans organizations and people at fox news seeing him drinking when he shouldn't have been drinking. so these are issues he's going to he's going to have to deal with now. and they're front and center as opposed to what he wants to do with the defense department and what changes he wants to make there. and i think you know, this is the first hurdle that he's really got to get through. and the trump people are worried that he won't, which is why we hear about a plan b and we hear about desantis being ready to go. if he's if he's chosen, which, by the way, is a little confusing for some senators. you heard josh hawley saying, i don't know who donald trump really wants to be secretary of defense. >> and many were looking to joni ernst and that meeting was very important. obviously, the the republican majority is not that huge. ernst, of course,

being a combat veteran, a survivor of sexual assault herself how much do you think her unwillingness to commit to hegseth is a canary in the coal mine? >> well, i think it's very important. i think, you know, what did she say? they had a frank and thorough discussion. you're into diplo speak. you know what that means in diplomatic terms? yeah. read between the lines there. shelley moore capito didn't come out saying, yay! i'm going to. i'm going to support him. i think they're i spoke with one republican senator who really wants to see the fbi report on hegseth. now, hegseth says he welcomes it. so that's good. you got to see the fbi report and senator blumenthal is asking for the records from the veterans organizations to see to see what went on there if there were any discrepancies with the finances. so, you know there's got to be more that's going to be unearthed. so maybe these senators are holding back until they have more

information. and, you know, the trump people are saying and this is a refrain we've heard before, i don't want this being tried in the media. you know this is the media ganging up on him. well, that's all there is right now. but pretty soon there's going to be more information that they can make judgments with. >> does this speak to the trump way of doing things which is to cast people for the narrative that has been constructed or that just is sort of pervasive or out there about them but when you actually scrutinize someone, you find a lot more sometimes than you bargained for. and trump didn't really have a safety net for that in this case. >> no, he didn't just look at matt gaetz it was the same story. matt gaetz he made a snap decision on matt gaetz. somebody close to him said, oh, this would be a good idea. they decided it on a plane ride. he casts people. he wants to look at his cabinet like like the apprentice right. and he cast

people and pete hegseth, he felt looked the part was a veteran who had served honorably and and he liked that part about him. and he likes hegseth and there may be a lot to like about hegseth but in their own vetting they clearly missed a bunch of stuff and that becomes very problematic donald trump came in saying, or after the election has said that, that he has a mandate from these senators are clearly showing that they're not going to be pushovers. >> what do you make of their their job? it is their job but i think there was some expectation that perhaps they might roll over and do what trump wants to do, but they're showing that that's not what they're going to do. >> there are some republicans who are saying our job is advise and consent. that's what we're here for. if we can't do that we shouldn't be in the united states senate there are others like tuberville, who told manu raju, you know, it's up to trump to vet them, and we ought to just approve all of

his nominees. i don't think that's the way a lot of republicans think. there may be some who obviously presidents have a right to appoint whomever they like, but the senate's job is to say, wait a minute, we have to give our consent to this. and so i think there are enough of them. you know, you only need three right to vote no. and and so i think there are enough of them there that have questions and, you know that's the question is when is one person going to come out and say, i cannot support pete hegseth and they haven't heard that yet? i think if they hear that, they're going to wonder whether that's going to begin to snowballing. and that hasn't happened, man, to be a fly on the wall of some of these private calls that might be happening about that very question trump hasn't been doing the private well, that's a very good point. >> we don't see him out there publicly talking about that yet. gloria thank you so much. really appreciate it. and still

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found near the crime scene, but the print is smudged, which could make it harder to identify the suspect. in the meantime, officials now say that they have a person of interest. these new images that you're looking at were taken at a hostel before the shooting. employees there saying that a guest wearing a jacket and mask, identical to the gunman's had been staying at the hostel with two other people. let's get straight to cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. so, john, what do you make of these images and how much will they play into how quickly law enforcement can find the suspect well, i think it may be a giant difference alex, because what you see here is not just a man with a mask and a hood, but you get a picture of his face and it is not really the kind of thing that if you passed him on the street yesterday, or if you were in that starbucks where he bought a bottle of water and two powerbars that you would say, wow, i recognize that guy. >> but if you work with him if

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health provider. maybe unitedhealth maybe all health providers or insurance companies. but he was trying to send a message because, you know, if you're going to be writing on a bullet and you know that's that's not a lot of space to be writing on he went to a lot of trouble to do that. and that means he's trying to tell us something. >> yeah. taking the time is certainly very deliberate so, john, we now have this variety of imagery. we also have this new evidence, we believe, of this smudged fingerprint found on the water bottle. of course, there are questions about fingerprints that are in databases, dna possibly. what could investigators get from that well, the smudged print could give them a partial but they have to have something to compare it to. >> they have a print off the phone that they found, but they're not entirely certain that that phone belonged to the

gunman. but of course, if they get a suspect and that suspect's prints match what they found on the phone, that will certainly get them a lot further towards that conclusion. you know, we learn a lot looking at these clues. if you go back to those pictures, you know, if you see him before the murder or during the murder, he is wearing that same appearing to have that same coat with a gray backpack. but if you look at him here in the hotel, you see the strap on his shoulder. he's got a black backpack now in the earlier photos where he has the gray backpack, police are able to track him on that e-bike. going into central park. they catch him coming out of central park on another camera. there's the gray backpack, and that backpack is gone at that point. so it appears he goes into the park on a bike wearing that backpack. you're looking at right now. he comes out of the park with no backpack. it suggests strongly that he discarded that backpack in the park. now, yesterday they got a

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edge of aleppo, and by the evening they were all they basically controlled almost the entirety of the city. and with hama, they've been sort of slowly surrounding it up until this morning. and yet again, they were able to take this city of more than a million people, a city where back in 1982, bashar al-assad's father, his forces slaughtered somewhere between 10 and 25,000 people in a previous uprising against the regime in damascus. so what we're seeing is the regime really isn't putting up able to put up much of a fight. they do occasionally launch airstrikes along with the russian air force against rebel targets but by and large they are losing ground very, very quickly. and their old allies really aren't rushing rushing to their help today for instance, dmitri peskov, the

chief spokesman for the kremlin asked about the situation in syria. he said that moscow is monitoring events in syria and it remains in constant dialog with damascus and, in his words, will decide on military aid depending on how the situation evolves that doesn't really ring of urgency at a time when damascus desperately needs help, as this rebel advance continues at a pace no one ever expected. brianna. >> yeah, we'll keep an eye on it. it is something to watch. ben wedeman, thank you so much for the report alex. >> thanks, brianna. and new today, cnn has reporting about a meeting between top ukrainian officials as well as vice president-elect jd vance and trump's pick for national security advisor, congressman mike wallace. now, the war in ukraine is one of several critical international conflicts that the incoming trump administration is going

to be inheriting and the president elect, donald trump, has said that he would put an end to the war in ukraine on day one. state department reporter jennifer hansler joins me now. so, jennifer, what do we know about how much the end of this war, russia's war in ukraine was discussed in this meeting. >> well, alex, i'm told that was not really the aim of yesterday's meeting. zelenskyy's top adviser andriy yermak and the deputy defense minister more wanted to start to build rapport, build a connection with waltz and vance. i'm told that they discussed more of their assessment of where things stand in the war, and they just wanted to form those relationships as we are looking at the start of this administration this meeting lasted more than an hour. it was here in washington d.c., and the two were able to present to the trump administration officials where they see the battlefield standing right now and where they expect it to stand on january 20th, when trump takes office. i'm told that the ukrainians felt pleased with how the meeting went. they walked away thinking that they

had accomplished their goals of presenting this assessment this objective assessment, as they saw it, as well as getting to form those relationships. and i'm told that waltz and vance were in more of a listening mode in this conversation. now, alex, it's notable that they did not meet with the pick for ukraine envoy keith kellogg however, kellogg has traveled to ukraine. he has met yermak before, so there wasn't a need for this sort of introductory meeting yesterday with kellogg. they more wanted to talk to these other top trump incoming officials, vance and waltz. >> yeah, there is certainly a lot of concern among ukrainians who don't want to be forced into painful negotiations with the russians before they're ready. jennifer hansler at the state department thank you very much. still ahead, a gen x mental health crisis. a new study shows that an entire generation could have higher rates of depression, anxiety and more, all because of leaded gasoline exposure. stay with us

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scientists knew it was going to be above average because of global warming, because of sort of planet cooking pollution in the atmosphere, and because it was an el nino year, a natural warming variability. but that jump was too high to to account for both of those. so the new science now out today suggests it may be clouds. it may be the loss of earth's albedo effect that is the reflection of sunlight back into space. if you put a same sized snowball, two snowballs together, you roll one in dirt. the dirty one will melt faster because it it absorbs more of that sunlight. that is happening to earth as the poles melt, as glaciers melt, as winter ice goes away, the earth is now absorbing a lot more energy there. but the clouds. clouds are a natural sunscreen, and the low level, bright, low level clouds seem to be disappearing in the last ten years. and as a result, the planet warming up faster than science. even predicted. >> so what do we know about why there is this decline in low lying clouds? is it sort of like a cyclical thing that's

happening it could be a combination of things. >> it could be a nod of a combination, could be natural ocean variations that are happening. it could be the loss of actual shipping pollution. new regulations took a lot of sulfur dioxide out of smokestacks, which is bad for human health near the ground, but was actually good for the albedo effect. it's why some are arguing we should intentionally spray sulfur or salt water high in the atmosphere to buy humanity some more time, or the worst possibility is that it just could be global warming that low lying bright clouds they love like a cool, moist environment as those go away, so do the clouds, which means a feedback loop of more heat absorbed by the earth. right now but it is one of those things, brianna, that scientists will admit. they're still figuring out clouds how they will behave. they're so complicated, so complex but this new study gives one more reason to worry. >> yeah, maybe not a cycle.

maybe. unfortunately, a downward spiral. bill weir. thank you so much. we appreciate the report and the explanation. >> alex scientists say that americans of a certain age are facing a dangerous health threat, all because of something that they've been exposed to over decades. new research suggesting a link between lead in gasoline and mental health disorders. they found that exposure to car exhaust, which contained lead up to the 1990s, caused more than 150 million excess diagnoses including anxiety, depression and adhd. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell joins us now with more. so, meg, this is quite disturbing. obviously, leaded gasoline very common for for for decades. what more are you learning yeah. >> so this was a study that looked at the potential impacts jordan neely essentially modeling of what's known about blood lead levels of people throughout the last 75 years and what's known about the connections between those lead levels and mental health disorders. >> we know that there's

connections between lead and lower iq and things like that. so lead was added to gasoline in the united states between 1923 and 1996, when it was banned and it began being phased out even before that, as we realized some of the health issues around this. and so this study looked at those levels of lead in people's blood over the years and what they find by this modeling is that there are an estimated 151 million additional mental health disorders that were because of childhood exposure to lead in gasoline exhaust and this, as you noted, is things like anxiety and depression, adhd, but also milder things that could have had impacts as well. that just kind of makes life a little bit harder to live, making you more neurotic, less able to focus on tasks and things like that. and because of the lead levels associated with gasoline being the highest really around the 60s and the 70s, they say the generation that would be most affected by this is those people born between 1965 and 1980 are

essentially generation x. and so this is a troubling finding. and of course, it's very backwards looking. but they say what it shows is that perhaps the impacts of lead are even smaller than we had even realized up to this point. >> and now lead has been removed from gasoline. but the problem hasn't gone away, has it? >> no, there are many sources of lead still that are in people's homes and in the environment. so toxicologists and people who treat children in particular really warn about these things. there are in water pipes. those is supposed to be taken out of those in 1986. but if you live in a house that's older than that, you could have lead pipes. there are paints in older homes that as of 1978, that was supposed to change. but of course, we know in older homes you can still have lead paint contaminated soil, food sources. so that's why pediatricians recommend that kids get tested for their blood lead levels at age one and two, so that you can try to mitigate these things if they are in your environment.

>> so is there anything that can be done for the people of this age? is there any cure for the lead poisoning reversing these effects for somebody who's born back in 1965 to 1980, that's not something that this study goes into. >> i have actually been looking to see. are there ways that can mitigate the effects of lead on the brain? that's an early stage of research, but i think probably the takeaways from a study like this are what kinds of services, what kinds of awareness do we need to have about the impacts of this kind of thing on people in these generations, so we can sort of better understand how they may have been affected? >> yeah, really disturbing and sad meg tirrell, thank you so much for for sharing that reporting with us. and stay with cnn. we'll be right back sunday on cnn. >> it's a night that's good for the soul. join anderson cooper and laura coates for cnn heroes, an all star tribute. >> thank you guys. >> meet the honorees and celebrate their life changing achievements. they're ordinary people doing extraordinary

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with jake tapper next on cnn and we have this just in anthem blue cross blue shield says it will not move forward with a widely criticized policy change that would have limited the amount of time that it paid for anesthesia to be used in surgeries in states including connecticut, new york and missouri, the company said. >> to be clear it never was and never will be. the policy of anthem blue cross blue shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services. the proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia, consistent with well-established clinical guidelines. the american society of anesthesiologists had previously criticized the policy and called for its immediate reversal, actually calling it egregious. >> you can see why that would have been tremendously worrying to a lot of people. uh, on a lighter subject words and especially names are not always names, as they appear.

according to babbel these are the top mispronounced names of the year. no surprise kamala harris making an appearance on this list, also taking top spots chappell, roan and zendaya. and this actor in most irish variations the g would be silent, but a hard g for actor barry keoghan. >> i think you got that right. also, some swedish words made it into the lexicon in the list snooze, which is a smokeless tobacco and flygskam a movement that aims to discourage people from flying and topping the charts of music and mispronunciation espresso. it's not espresso, even though it makes you feel that way. not for music not for coffee. i think espresso is the vibe you hear a lot of espresso. >> i admit i would have said zendaya. >> i did too, for the longest time, and it's still difficult for me. >> that just shows my age. but anyway most of you out there probably would get keeler and marc o'mara wrong as well. so you know we're in the clear. >> that's rit