>> i'll try. i don't have a ton of time. i mean, give the nba. >> some credit for trying to do something different. the reviews are. >> a little bit mixed, but this year's all-star. game in san francisco had a new look. instead of two teams playing the traditional 48 minute game, players split into four squads facing off in a tournament style playoff, and steph curry set the tone early for team shaq. he drained a running three to open the championship game against charles barkley's global stars. and then that shot right there sparked an 11 zero run. later he would connect again, this time from half court. i know it makes it look so easy right. he scored a combined 20 points in both games. he was named the game's mvp for the second time in his 16 year career. and. >> yeah, it's just. >> a. >> celebration of a lot of great things happening in basketball. to be playing with these guys for as long as we have. like, it's obviously our responsibility to come out and put on the show. and i thank them for, you know, helping me do that and our golden state because, you know, a lot of history has happened out here, but the competition and the camaraderie and the legacies that we all create is what it's all about. so i'm i'm happy to

be a part of that celebration. >> and this is pretty cool too. damian lillard, one of the best shooters the nba has ever seen, a loss against him in a shooting contest feels inevitable, but do not tell that to one fan who beat dame with $100,000 on the line. all the fan had to do was make one long range three before lillard could make three of them, and he did that in the mystery beast challenge. what i loved about this, too, is he jumps right into shaq and kenny's arms and into a pile of cash. and dame being a good sport, giving him a cash bath. oh, i know it's fun. >> is actually pretty awesome. >> it was cool. it was really cool. >> all right, carol, thank you very much. brand new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> president trump using a stark example of a more authoritarian language, yet posting he who saves his country does not violate any law. trump testing his power in a new case filed with the supreme court as he

tries to fire the head of an independent ethics agency and at least ten people have been killed in a deadly winter storm that flooded parts of kentucky, tennessee, indiana and virginia. the conditions even more treacherous as potentially record setting cold temperatures are moving into the region, and a growing measles outbreak. hospitals are on high alert in west texas as cases double in just a week. this is an outbreak is officially declared in neighboring new mexico. i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. >> america's top diplomat and. >> top key negotiators are on the ground in saudi arabia today, getting ready for the most critical talks yet since russia launched its war on ukraine. >> the u.s. >> sitting down with russia to potentially talk about bringing an end to the war in ukraine,

though glaringly absent and missing from that conversation, is anyone from ukraine and also anyone from europe? european leaders holding an emergency meeting today in order to coordinate a response to what's happening in saudi arabia without them. and moments ago, ukraine's president zelenskyy had this brand new reaction just in that ukraine perceives any negotiations about ukraine without ukraine as those with no results. cnn's elena train is at the white house for us. we saw secretary of state marco rubio arriving in riyadh just a little while ago. what are you hearing about? about what is going to happen there? >> right. well, as you mentioned, we saw rubio arriving this morning. others arrived yesterday for those high stakes talks tomorrow. i'd note, kate as well, that these talks come almost three years to the day after russia invaded ukraine. now, look, there's a ton of things that are on the table that are going to be discussed here. but in what i'm hearing from my conversations with white

house officials and trump administration officials more broadly, is that this is a starting point. and we kind of heard secretary of state marco rubio say that yesterday that this is, you know, the beginning of what they hope will lead to real negotiations. now, just to give you a sense of who is going to be there on the u.s. side, we know that, as i mentioned, secretary of state marco rubio, we saw him arrive this morning. he will be there, as well as middle east envoy steve witkoff, who more and more is starting to have ukraine fall into his portfolio. and then also national security advisor michael waltz, now from the russia side, we know that russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and presidential aide yuri ushakov will also be there. you know, the counterparts to the u.s. delegation now, as you mentioned, kate, who won't be there, that is ukraine, which has caused a ton of consternation among people, both in kyiv, but also among a lot of the united states top european allies. the president, donald trump, was asked about this directly yesterday, saying, does ukraine have a seat at this table? will they be part of this negotiations? listen to what he

said. >> do you expect. >> zelenskyy to be involved. in these conversations? >> what will his. >> role be? i do. he will be involved. >> pete muntean on your timing of your meeting with putin in saudi arabia? >> no, there's no time set, but it could be very soon. >> like this this month. >> or it will be soon. we'll see what happens. >> now, that last part there, kate, is obviously so crucial. when will this meeting between president donald trump himself and vladimir putin take place? i am told that how these negotiations go tomorrow in riyadh will really set the table for the timeline, for how quick that could be. >> alayna treene at the white house for us. thank you so much, elena. john. all right. this morning, a winter storm causing major problems for parts of the south and midwest. after leaving ten people dead already. most of those deaths are in kentucky, where some areas saw more than eight inches of rain. officials there are urging people to stay off the roads. the governor says teams carried out more than 1000 rescues in this storm system spawned at least four tornadoes

in alabama. let's get right to cnn's danny freeman, who is in salem, virginia. oh, wow. danny, look at that river behind you. >> yeah, john. you're right. we're in salem, virginia. this is the roanoke river behind me right here. and i just want to illustrate exactly kind of what these parts of virginia experience over the course of the past 24 to 48 hours. this river right here was actually flowing right up over this entire bridge. you can see there are icicles that are remaining on the bridge from where the river once was on there. there was also some damage on there. these john deere tractor over here or machinery that was trying to remove debris through much of the weekend. thankfully, in this part of virginia, the waters have receded, as you can tell, but not a lot of other areas. virginia were as lucky. we learned yesterday afternoon that the governor, glenn youngkin, submitted a request for that expedited major disaster declaration. that was because at one point, over 200,000 people were without power in southwestern virginia.

also, two areas just to the west of us right here suffered catastrophic flooding and historic flooding that hadn't seen before. sarah was speaking with someone in your last hour from the government of virginia, who noted that there are a lot of people who are still in this area also recovering from hurricane helene, that are now getting hit again from this storm over the weekend. but, john, as you noted as well, kentucky taking a lot of the brunt of this storm damage over the course of the weekend, a thousand water rescues in kentucky, nine confirmed deaths at this point. take a listen to how some first responders were dealing with some evacuations back on saturday evening, when the storm was really hitting its peak. >> everybody was taken care of. they have the meds they need, the oxygen, the beds, the warmth. they don't have to worry about food and being scared. they're in a safe place. >> now here's something else i'll note, john, the flooding conditions in parts of eastern kentucky still bad right now.

while waters are receding in some places, like here and other parts of virginia, uh, in kentucky, there are still flooding, and there are still concerns that some rivers may continue to rise over the next day or so. so. urging the public to be cautious. and if you see flooding in any of these areas, do not try to drive through it, because that's what has caused some of the deaths and injuries that they've seen over the course of the weekend. people trying to drive through flooded waters and then ultimately getting swept up in those intense currents. john. >> yes, some of the pictures we've seen out of kentucky just devastating. all right. danny freeman for us in salem, virginia, danny, thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. quid pro quo or no, new york city mayor eric adams under a microscope after the doj dropped a sweeping corruption case against him, setting off a mass resignation of prosecutors. now, trump's border czar and the mayor doing a little damage control, perhaps. and president trump's fight to fire the head of a government ethics watchdog

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saturday night, the justice department sent an appeal to the supreme court just hours after the d.c. circuit appeals court declined to overrule the lower court's decision to block dellinger dismissal. the trump administration called the ruling, quote, an unprecedented assault on its power. joining me now is cnn's senior legal analyst, elie honig. all right. this is supposed to be independent. the president is arguing. what? >> well, so, sara, the president fired the head of the office of special counsel. important to note that is not a prosecutor. that is not like what we got used to with robert mueller or jack smith. this is the head of. >> an independent. >> agency that's supposed to be in charge of whistleblower complaints. now, the problem is that that special counsel argued that. >> under the. >> law establishing the position, he. >> can. >> only be fired for what we call good cause, meaning for misconduct or for poor performance on the job. but trump offered no such cause. he simply said, i'm the president. you're fired. so that's the nature of the dispute. now, up until this point, that firing

has been put on hold by the lower courts. and so now the trump administration is going to the u.s. supreme court and saying, essentially, take that, hold off. i, the president and the head of the executive branch, i therefore, should have the right to fire this individual for good cause or for no cause at all. so fundamentally, sara, this is a conflict between the power of the president as the head of the executive branch and the power of congress, which tried to put limits on the president's ability to fire this particular individual. >> this is the first of these kinds of challenges. we're expecting more, i am assuming. what can you tell us that may be on the way to the supreme court? >> yeah. so there are so many different challenges along the lines of what is the president's power to fire people or to remove staff within the executive branch? and again, we could be seeing a sort of restructuring of the way the courts look at that. traditionally, when congress has passed a law like the one at issue here, the supreme court has said, well, congress does have the ability to regulate the

president to some extent. but what donald trump is arguing, and i think he will get some traction in the courts, is if you're the president, i can do what i want within the executive branch. there certainly are constitutional limits, and there may be other limits, but this is going to be a test of what we call the unitary executive theory, which is a theory that conservatives have long have long signed on to. that basically says the president isn't just the head of the executive branch, he is the executive branch. and his will prevails within the executive branch. no matter what congress says about it. >> okay, so one of the cases that is going to come up or may end up at the supreme court, is that birthright citizenship. trump says the 14th amendment never had anything to do with undocumented immigrants. does it? still today? >> well, we will find that out. so thus far, donald trump's effort to undermine birthright citizenship has been roundly rejected by the court. so birthright citizenship comes from the 14th amendment to the constitution. it says any person born or naturalized inside the united states is automatically a

u.s. citizen. trump is trying to end that. and so far, there have been at least five different legal challenges to trump's action brought in the district courts. we're not yet up at the u.s. supreme. all of them have gone against donald trump. the one that i keep coming back to is there is a reagan appointed district court judge in the state of washington who rejected trump's argument and said it was the worst constitutional argument he had ever heard in 40 years on the bench. so the track record for trump as it heads up to the courts of appeals and ultimately the u.s. supreme court, is not great here. but again, you never know what the u.s. supreme court is going to do. they haven't faced a direct challenge to the birthright citizenship in over 100 years. >> and the last time they did, they said that you should be a citizen if you were born in here according to the constitution. all right. lastly, i want to get your take on a post that donald trump made saying he who saves his country does not violate any law. a quote, by the way, attributed to napoleon. how

would a seasoned lawyer such as yourself respond to that if it was said in court? >> well, just because it starts with he who and sounds all legally doesn't mean it's actually a legal principle. there is a difference between a political slogan and a legal principle. on the one hand, i think the legal problem here is obvious. it starts from the premise that whatever's happening is, quote, saving the country. the other problem with this premise, if were to be made in court, is it's circular. it's self-fulfilling. you say, well, first of all, i am in fact saving the country. therefore, there is no law that can limit me. that's not going to carry any water in any court. so it's a cool tweet, but it's meaningless with respect to any sort of legal argument. >> cool or concerning, depending on which side of the aisle you are on. elie honig, thank you so much. i really appreciate it. tweet sharp. tweet. yes. okay. >> coming up for us, protesters are now demanding that new york city mayor eric adams be removed from office after the justice

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cnn's vatican correspondent christopher lam, who is outside gemelli hospital. what are you learning about this? >> well, this is. >> the second change in treatment that pope francis has undergone since he arrived at the hospital behind me on friday. we're now into the fourth day of the pope's treatment. the vatican saying that this is a polymicrobial infection, which essentially means it's a complex infection with different factors. but the vatican not saying what precisely those are. now, the pope is 88 years old. he has been vulnerable to respiratory infections in the past. he's lost part of his right lung, which was removed when he was a young man, and the vatican saying that on wednesday he will not lead the wednesday general audience, basically for the forthcoming days, the pope is being told to rest and recover in hospital. the pope has been very active in recent days, but

has been suffering clearly from major respiratory problems. he hasn't been able to speak. he hasn't been able to give his addresses or speak for long periods of time. and clearly the doctors are trying different methods to help him overcome this infection. >> yeah, i think there is some vagueness in the language the vatican uses here, which does raise some questions about whether this is a turn in his condition or not. what are they saying about how long he might be in the hospital? >> well, we haven't got a clear timetable from the vatican about how long he will remain in the hospital. it effectively is determined by how well the pope responds to the treatment. initially, when the pope was admitted on friday, the vatican canceled all the pope's events for the following three days. now we learn that the wednesday event has been canceled, too.

but it looks to everyone covering this closely that the pope is going to be staying in hospital for what the vatican say is an adequate amount of time. that looks like several days at this point, but no clear timetable being given. >> all right, well, keep us posted as to what you learn. as we said, new information, albeit a bit vague in some places. sarah. >> all right. thank you john. president trump's border czar trying to clean up speculation that he did a dirty deal with the mayor of new york. mayor adams saw his corruption case suddenly drop by the doj, leading to more than a half dozen doj prosecutors quitting in protest. since then, the new york mayor doing several interviews, sitting beside border czar tom homan saying there was no quid pro quo to let the case go. but eyebrows raised when homan said this. >> if he. >> doesn't come through. >> i'll be back. >> in new york. >> city and we won't be sitting on a couch.

>> i'll be. >> in his office. >> up. >> up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to? that was a joke. and if you play the tape further, he laughs, immediate response i will hold you accountable to i'll hold ice accountable. get what they did done. i'm telling you, i need you to come through on your promise. he. you promise me that i need to come through on mine. >> joining us now to discuss former new york mayor bill de blasio. thank you so much for being here. what you just heard from tom homan, he talks about them doing. he doesn't say deal. the plan, i mean, is this a deal that they have made from what you've been listening to? >> look, it doesn't look good for sure. >> and i. >> think. >> it was. >> a. huge mistake for the mayor to go on that show with tom homan, who is a figure who is reviled by many here in new york city. >> we're the ultimate city of immigrants. >> and here's a man who is extremely disrespectful to immigrants, treats them all like they're criminals, even though the vast majority are law abiding. so that was a mistake to begin with. this situation is a mess. sarah, obviously. >> uh. >> but what i'm concerned about at the same time is, you know, a

quid pro quo is a very different matter than a policy decision, whether i agree with him or not. i often don't. eric adams has said he wants to do something different about immigration than some of the rest of us had done previously. that has to be seen in its own light. but right now, it's incumbent upon eric adams to set this record straight. and he has basically, in my view, he has this week to do it. his entire political career, his time as mayor, everything comes down to this week. he has to convince the people of new york city right now that he will take on donald trump. when donald trump does something that hurts new york city. i don't mind if he agrees with trump on a particular matter, or has to curry favor to get funding. that happens all the time in politics. but if trump is doing something that hurts new york city, the people in new york city have to believe eric adams will have their back. >> what did you think of the corruption case on its face from. >> i thought it was a weak case, honestly. >> you thought it was weak? yeah. when you hear, though, from prosecutors who led the case, one of them saying about the decision to drop it. um, no system of ordered liberty can

allow the government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. is there something dirty going on here? these these prosecutors, by the way, many of them clerked for conservative judges, many of them considered conservative voices. >> sa'ar, from my point of view, everything that's happened at the justice department is dirty right now. the justice department is being politicized, weaponized in a way we haven't seen since the watergate years. so it's deeply troubling. look, these folks had a chance at the justice department to say these are weak charges. we choose not to pursue them. we have other cases we think are more important. that would have been fine. president trump could have pardoned him. i don't love the way he's using the pardon, obviously, but he could have done that. i think it was very cynical and inappropriate for the justice department to act the way they did. it put adams in this situation now. but now the onus is on adams to prove them wrong. so far, he bluntly has not done a good enough job doing that. he has a chance now

to fix that. >> do you do you really think he has a chance to fix that? just judging from some of the comments that he has made and some of the things he has said, and sort of appearing on fox and friends in a in a place where this is a very heavily democratic city. >> he has a chance to fix it, because history always tells us there's a chance to turn things around. people have to see resolve from him. and if he doesn't do it really quickly, events are going to overtake him. and the unfortunate reality is we have in this city right now a series of choices before us. we have an election for mayor in four months, democratic primary, which is decisive. if it's not going to be eric adams at this point, it looks like it's going to be andrew cuomo, a man charged with numerous acts of sexual harassment, among other things. i mean, this is a very sad reality for new york city right now. so when i say he has one chance to fix it, it's almost like a prayer that something gets better in this city. and the mayor shows that leadership to help us get out of this mess.

>> here's why i ask whether he has a chance to fix it. when you look at what happened surrounding him, never mind the case being dropped by the trump administration. and by the way, the deputy attorney general has said it wasn't dropped on the merits of the case. it was dropped because he wouldn't be able if he was doing this and being in court, wouldn't be able to go through with with donald trump's initiatives on immigration. so it wasn't about the merits of the case. but when you look at what happened surrounding mayor adams, you had and i have to read this because there are so many. you had so many people resign. a whole bunch of aides. but the first deputy mayor resigned, the school chancellor design, the deputy mayor for public safety design, the chief counsel design, the police commissioner design, the health commissioner resigned. that leaves the city with a whole lot of. well, know right. oversight, no management of certain things because they are looking at this case and going, we don't want anything to do with it. what does that tell you about his leadership? >> it's deeply troubling. it's deeply troubling. and the fact

is and it's fascinating and painful to watch something like this, because that simple act of going on, fox and friends, that alone or having the meeting with honan poison this situation, that was his mistake. uh, again, he is the elected mayor of new york city. we should be doing everything by elections. one of the other things. >> shouldn't he be working with the president is a question. >> well, in general, any mayor should work with a president. try and get the best out of that relationship for the people we serve. but the fact is, elections are what matter here. uh, one of the things justice department has actually said for generations is they should not interfere with elections. so there is an important grain of truth in saying resolve cases before you get too close to election resolve. one way or another, you bring them and act on them or drop them. but the bottom line is, yes, this is a profound crisis. if he doesn't do something different right now, it's obviously the end of the line. but that's bad for new york city on a whole 'nother level, because then look at the ramifications, look at the likely next leader and what happens. and we get plunged into a new era of scandal. this is not something that should be

happening in the biggest city in this country, the greatest city in the world, in my view. here we are. i'm just praying he can give people some reason to believe again. if he can't, then events will overtake him. >> well, you run. >> i'm my time is. i was honored to serve for eight years. my time is done. >> all right, bill de blasio, thank you so much. appreciate it. okay. >> president trump is now telling ice agents to step up their game, saying the agency isn't arresting migrants fast enough. now, the white house border czar is blaming the country's mayors. so what is in a name? a lot, if you ask mexico's president now saying that she is willing to sue google over the gulf of mexico, gulf of america, switch on google maps. >> got one more. >> antoine with usps ground advantage. just like you're with us every step of the way. cool.

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did. outpace those during the biden administration, some 900 compared to the last year with the biden administration, which was around 300, they are starting to fall short of that now, ranging around 600 arrests a day. now, i have been told by sources that there have been tense calls between the white house and ice. amid all of this frustration, and two senior officials at ice have been reassigned. now, tom homan told cnn's dana bash yesterday that he applauded the work they've done so far. but more has to be done. take a listen. >> ice is doing a great job. i'm not happy with the numbers because we got a lot of criminals to find. so what we're talking about right now are increasing the number of teams, increase the targeting, the the division of ice that creates the target list of, you know, finding who these people are, their criminal history is. and we're most likely to find him. we got to increase the targeting production. >> so you hear there increase the targeting production. here's why that's important.

before targeting, lists were already done to essentially know who they were going after, after and where they were. but those take time. and so that is part of the reason that sources say the number of arrests have dropped over the last couple weeks. so they're tom homan saying that part of the operational change moving forward is doing more on that production side, while also putting more teams across the country. but at the end of the day, john, it is difficult for ice to come up with the results that the white house is looking for because they have been so strapped for resources for so long, and because this is just a completely different enforcement posture from the last four years. >> all right. priscilla alvarez, for us, explaining the numbers. appreciate it. sara. >> all right. immigrants are facing fear and uncertainty as the trump administration targets their communities, including people living in the united states. legally, migrants with temporary protected status, for example, incoming refugees and the organizations who support them are all concerned and trying to figure out what their future holds. cnn's isabel

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>> new this morning, a measles outbreak in west texas has now reached at least 48 cases and appears to be spreading quickly. that's double what it was just a few days ago. all of the cases are in people, mostly children, who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccine status is not known. several cases are now also reported in nearby new mexico. let's get right to cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell. the measles vaccine is very effective for people who take it. >> yeah, john, it is. and that seems to be what potentially is going on here in texas. and as you said, we've got these 48 cases in texas. but now also we have three confirmed cases in new mexico right across the border there in that neighboring lea county. i talked with new mexico's health department over the weekend. they said they still have several test results pending. and so we may see more cases mount up in new mexico today. and we're, of course, keeping a close eye on texas as well. of those 48 cases now texas, 13 patients have been

hospitalized. and as you said, all of the cases are either unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccine status. this also is affecting children, predominantly at the age distribution shows that 13 of the cases are in children ages four and under, and 29 of them are in people who are between the ages of five and 17. and so there is concern, of course, that we are going to see more cases. they are trying to vaccinate folks. we heard from new mexico that in just the two days between thursday and saturday, they got about 400 people in the state vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella. john. >> it is so contagious. measles is what are some of the contributing factors here to the spread? >> just as you said, how contagious it is. i mean, if you think about this, if somebody is in the room with measles and they're breathing out, they leave the room for the next two hours, that virus can hang in the air and potentially infect somebody else, especially if they are unvaccinated. that's how contagious it is. but as you said, this vaccine is incredibly effective. if you look at this

graph from the cdc, you can see measles cases start to plummet after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and we declared measles eliminated in 2000. but we are starting to see some numbers creeping down in terms of especially children who are getting vaccinated against mmr and particularly in gaines county, the center of this outbreak. in texas, we see an exemption rate for kindergartners of 18%, john. and that is, of course, one of the big concerns about why we're seeing this outbreak. >> yes, angie always talks about what you need like 90 to 95% vaccination rate to keep measles away. that is nowhere near where they need to be. meg tirrell, thanks so much for being with us, kate. and joining us right now is doctor george benjamin. he is the executive director of the american public health association, a leading public health organization. doctor, thanks for your time. you have that measles outbreak in texas. we're hearing it's the state's worst in nearly 30 years, all because of as we look as meg was reporting on low vaccination

rates there. add to that you have moves among state health officials, like in louisiana, moving to pull back in promoting vaccination programs. what is the impact of just these two things together? what are you hearing from your members right now? >> you know, a lot of great concern. >> about what's happening in louisiana. >> you know, um, the health department is supposed to be the trusted communicator for your community, for all things health. and they pulled back on that. they're not giving people the information that they really need, um, to protect themselves. and then, of course, they've said they're not going to do mass vaccinations. and the problem with that is, of course, is the health department, as you saw with the measles outbreak, is the provider of last resort, and it's the only entity that has a legal responsibility to contain these kinds of infectious outbreaks. >> yeah, this this memo, kind of the directive coming from the surgeon general in louisiana, it basically would immediately stop

the state from using media campaigns and health fairs, as you're talking about, to promote and even distribute vaccines that have, i mean, that have long been proven safe and effective, if more leaders, public health leaders and more states continue with this, what can public health experts like yourself and others do to kind of fill this void? >> you know, the problem is this is public health malpractice. if they continue to do this, this is absolutely against the core principles in which public health was founded. um, and what will happen is we'll have more people that will get sick and more people die. and for us, it means that we're going to have to rev up our efforts to properly communicate the risks for people all over the country, and particularly targeting those states like louisiana, um, which are not, you know, holding up their end of the bargain. and, you know, the real problem with louisiana, if you rank all the 50 states in terms of overall

health. louisiana is at the absolute bottom. they cannot afford to, you know, stand back on something that they can actually do to improve the health of the people that live in louisiana. >> how much of this do you think has to do with the position and posture that president trump and now his health and human services secretary, robert f. kennedy jr., have taken toward public health and toward the benefits of vaccines. >> you know, real concern, there is a very live and active anti-vaccine community out there. some people who are absolutely against vaccines and some people who are vaccine skeptics. and the concern we have now is that the trump administration, now at its head, of course, has someone who i believe is anti-vaccine. everything he said and done. and we know that actually mr. kennedy was in louisiana talking with the governor. um, he knows the current secretary of health, and they have been, um,

listened. you know, they're listening to him in some of the things that he said. and so this is the one of the things we feared. um, if mr. kennedy became health secretary, that his past would catch up with him. the things that he said. and we're really concerned about him and some of the other nominees that they have, um, that are coming into the department who are tragically vaccine skeptics. >> at the very same time, even just talking about the department, you have the our latest reporting is about 1200 people that are going to be fired across the department of health and human services, cdc, nih, fda impacted among those fired is almost an entire class of the cdc's epidemic intelligence service, which is these are the disease detectives that are sent out and deployed to investigate new threats to stop an epidemic, or worse, from taking hold. what do you think the real impact is of cuts like that? >> el-sisi. >> well, we know this is a decapitation. um, that was, um,

poorly designed, poorly thought through. um, and the implications will be that we will have more people and more people dying, get sick and not just, you know, at the federal level, many of those people that are losing their jobs were actually assigned to our state and local communities. so the capacity to contain outbreaks like this will be diminished, not just from the federal level, but also, you know, the folks that live in our own communities right next door. >> um, doctor benjamin, thank you so much for coming in. and thanks for your work, sarah. >> all right. a terrible scenario now leading to a third death after a fire exploded in a wyoming highway tunnel friday. fire erupted after a massive pileup involving 26 vehicles inside that tunnel. now, three are dead. at least five people seriously hurt. the ntsb has joined the investigation into that crash. and in brookline, massachusetts, stunning video captured by a doorbell camera

shows the moment a building collapse. no injuries reported because the building was under construction and no workers were inside at the time of that collapse. yikes. now the cause of the investigation of the collapse obviously still under investigation. authorities, though evacuating nearby buildings as a precaution and colombian superstar shakira has been hospitalized with an abdominal condition, forcing her to cancel her sunday concert in lima, peru. in a statement on social media, she says she hopes to recover soon and that her team is working on a new date. the grammy winner is currently touring latin america. she started last week in brazil. peru was her second stop, and she's still scheduled to perform in canada and the u.s. starting in may. okay. >> so mexico's president claudia sheinbaum is making clear that she is not giving up without a fight, a fight over the name of that body of water west of florida, south of louisiana, east of mexico. president trump declared a switch from the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america

in that executive order that we've talked so much about. and now mexico's leader is saying she is willing to sue tech giant google over all of this. cnn's valerie leon is in mexico city with much more on this. what are what is the latest what are you hearing? >> kate? the mexican government is analyzing the legal implications of this situation. the office of the legal counsel of the presidency is exploring whether a civil lawsuit against google is viable under mexican and international law. and with this, mexico has found support from some international institutions, including the encyclopedia britannica, which has reaffirmed that it will continue using gulf of mexico as the correct designation. and the controversy between the mexican government and google escalated when shane bond publicly said that her administration is considering this civil lawsuit

against the tech company for the rebranding of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america and the designation of gulf of mexico to gulf of america in its maps. application was considered a move that mexico argues it's not only historically inaccurate, but legally incorrect, but the situation escalated after google replied to the mexican government's letter explaining that its naming policy is not dictated by a single governmental source. instead, it considers various references and regional naming conventions. however, this response did not satisfy shane mount tai administration, as the mexican government insists that the gulf of mexico is the only correct and historically recognized name. the situation became more controversial when it was discovered that google maps had already implemented the name change for u.s. based users, and

in response, google opted for a compromise displaying both names. gulf of america in parentheses for users outside the united states. so this is part of what mexican president said, and we're expecting to have her presser. and this she will talk about more details on how the mexican government is going to respond to google. kate. >> let let us see what avenues they see in terms of the legal front here. thank you so much. and a new hour of cnn news central starts now. we are standing by for an emergency meeting of european leaders on the future of ukraine. as u.s. officials arrive for direct talks with russia. without ukraine. president zelenskyy says no deal behind ukraine's back. the department of education is now warning all schools, from