thousands of layoffs coming to the pentagon, the fact that doge is now targeting nonessential workers beyond probationary employees. and so we'll see just exactly how far these cuts go before i let my panel go. what are you watching this week? >> i'm still watching doge because i think, you know, the fact that trump said ellen over the weekend, trump keep going or sorry, trump told ellen. keep going. ratchet it up. i think you're going to see it get even crazier. >> megan. >> i think i'm also watching doge in the military cuts and at dod and seeing how people react to that. people do not like to feel like our national security is at risk, and people like how much money we spend in the military. so i think they'll be really interesting to see. >> similar to that, if you keep plussing up defense spending, it's a lot harder for republicans make an argument on spending. if we keep it the same, it's a lot easier because it hits home for republicans as well. >> and then there is the fact that the remote work deadline is this week, so workers will have to come back into the office. we will see whether, in fact, they actually do that. we'll leave it there. thank you to my panel for joining us. thank you for joining us at home. i'm kayla

tausche. cnn news central starts right now. >> five things or else elon musk demands a list of five accomplishments from all federal employees. but this morning, workers being told by other officials do not obey. >> and in just hours, french. >> president emmanuel macron will be at the white house to meet with president trump. can the two leaders get on the same page when it comes to russia and ukraine, as today marks three years since russia's invasion? >> pope francis in critical condition after showing signs of kidney failure. we have an update on his health. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> and developing this morning to five or not to five millions

of federal employees are facing a dilemma as they wake up on whether to respond to an ultimatum from billionaire elon musk to list five things they accomplished in the last week. by midnight tonight, or risk getting fired. do what? or else that is what they are hearing. but they're also hearing orders from the pentagon, the fbi, the state department, dhs, and the department of energy to ignore musk. do not respond to his demand with one thing, let alone five. not yet at least. so what are they supposed to do? listen to their bosses, or the unelected man who appears to have free reign within the administration? and what does this chaos and contradiction tell us about how decisions are being made? let's get right to cnn's alayna treene at the white house. our officials there clearing up what federal workers are supposed to do. >> got done. >> well, i do actually just want to quickly because we just heard from elon musk again this morning. >> john, responding to some of

the controversy we've been hearing as soon as this email went out, i want to read for you some of what he wrote. he said, quote, those who do not take this email seriously will soon be furthering their career elsewhere. another post to x said those who ignored president trump's executive order to return to work have now received over a month's warning starting this week. those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave. so he is making it very clear where he stands on this. but one thing that's been interesting about this as well is there's also been questions over whether musk actually has the authority to make these types of decisions. the personnel hiring and firing. we've heard white house officials try to argue, you know, he just makes recommendations. he's a special government employee. but then we've heard the president say he's at the helm of doge. so that's kind of playing on in the background here. but part of the reason i bring that up is because we've now heard from five different departments, um, who are pushing back and telling their employees not to respond to that email, all five of whom i should say, these different

departments and agency heads who donald trump hand-selected, that includes the department of justice, um, the fbi, the state department, the pentagon. um, so, you know, it goes on from there. so one thing, though, who is included in this is, um, kash patel, who was, of course, hand-selected by donald trump. he was just sworn in as the director of the fbi on friday. i want to read for you what he told his employees. he said, quote, the fbi, through the office of the director, is in charge of all of our review processes and will conduct reviews in accordance with fbi procedures when and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. for now, please pause any responses. so we are hearing from people again, someone like patel, who is really seen as a fierce trump defender. he is a leader in the maga movement. i mean, not some, you know, career employee who is saying, don't follow through on this. now we're also hearing some skepticism and criticism,

really, from republicans on capitol hill, people, of course, in donald trump's own party. i want you to take a listen to what they said. >> if i could say one thing to elon musk, it's like, please put a dose of compassion in this. these are real people. these are real lives. >> you do not disrespect those who have worked hard, who have done good and honorable public service. >> now, john, what they were saying kind of lines up with what i am hearing from some people in the trump administration as well, which is that they support this idea to try and find the bloat within the federal government to find waste, fraud and abuse. they agree that there needs to be changes and cuts should be made. it's the way in which that it is happening, which is raising concerns and questions. for example, the swift nature of this, the chainsaw approach, without having these broader reviews in place, however, those who are closest to the president, i will say in the white house, in donald trump's inner orbit, they are

celebrating this. and they also argue that the criticism that they are hearing, including from republicans, is just further reason for why they should be doing this. >> meanwhile, if you are a federal worker, you're just left with confusion about what you're supposed to do by midnight tonight. alayna treene, thank you very much for that, kate. >> also, today, president trump is going to be meeting with g-7 leaders virtually amid big new questions about security, the security of europe and the survival of ukraine. as today marks three years since russia's invasion, president trump is also set to host french president emmanuel macron at the white house today, a meeting macron has said he will try to use to convince donald trump that the u.s. and european interests are aligned, despite what donald trump continues to say, other european leaders are in kyiv right now. ukraine's president zelenskyy spoke at length yesterday, even signaling he is ready to resign if it brings peace to his country or brings nato membership. cnn's nick paton walsh is in kyiv. following all of this, i have to say nick zelenskyy's answer to

your question about his relationship with president trump is was one of the more revealing. >> yeah, and it's increasingly key, i think, to ukraine's survival, whether zelenskyy can indeed mend that relationship with president donald trump. his point was that it's about the nations having a strong alliance. but noticeably here today as we enter into the fourth year of the war, we have 13 world leaders in kyiv, many joining virtually as well, who've taken a days long train journey just to be here and show solidarity. but we lack senior u.s. officials, you would think, who would be at the forefront of a show of solidarity like this. instead, we have the uk prime minister, keir starmer, suggesting over a virtual link that they are willing the united kingdom to contribute boots on the ground to a peacekeeping force if the u.s. provides a backstop, if indeed the conditions are in place. so much talk happening here about the urgent need to shore up european security, not just ukraine's,

because of doubts over whether the trump administration stands in all of this. but it is ultimately, as i say, the rare earth minerals deal, which a ukrainian senior official suggested may be edging towards some kind of resolution that's at the forefront, and also to the relationship between donald trump and zelenskyy. here's what zelenskyy had to say when i asked him about that. do you think you can mend your relationship with president trump? and secondly, have the american side spelt out to you what happens if you don't come to an agreement over this rare earth minerals deal? in terms of what it means for u.s. aid. >> as i said, we want a successful agreement. and if we will understand each other with partners, i hope that it will be. we will sign this. the first agreement my relationship with president trump. it's never was in such. best way.

>> nervous laughter there. really though. but that's i think, a recognition of the horrific week where their relationship was frankly in freefall for a while. maybe that was part of a negotiation process. but zelenskyy, when he spoke about the rare earth minerals deal in that press conference, sounded very far away from terms being agreed. and it does, i think, increasingly raise fears if there will be that much continued u.s. assistance if that deal is not somehow completed. that's hanging over the fourth anniversary here, an utterly shocking development, frankly, that european security is now also in question. >> huh? nick, so glad you're there. thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. more fallout over mass firings. why cia insiders think the layoffs could put some of the nation's most classified secrets at risk. plus, how attorneys for sean combs are now trying to get the case against him thrown out completely. and a-rod sinks a half court shot to

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disgruntled former employees who might be more willing to share what they know with foreign entities. cnn's katie willis has been looking into this now very concerning. you reporting that there has already been a potential breach that may have exposed employees who were working undercover. what can you tell us? >> so, sarah, earlier this month, the cia sent this really extraordinary email to the white house. they were trying to be responsive to the demands in one of president trump's executive orders about cutting the size of the federal government. and they sent over a list of names of probationary employees who'd been with the cia for two years or less just by their first name and their last initial. but they sent it over an unclassified email server. the idea was to identify potential employees who might be able to be cut. but in fact, what current and former cia officials who we spoke to in the course of reporting this story said what they actually did was potentially expose that information to the hackers of

foreign intelligence services. and the concern here is that this doesn't just possibly make it impossible for an individual officer who was supposed to go into an undercover job and say, beijing to no longer go because their identity may have been exposed, but it also risks exposing the role itself. lots of cia jobs are publicly noticed as state department jobs in embassies all around the world. and if a foreign government is able to learn that a particular state department job is actually a cia job, then it potentially risks all of the people who have been known to meet with past occupants of that role, so they might have exposed assets that the cia works with, potentially even endangering them. so what we know now from our reporting is that the cia is conducting a formal damage assessment of the potential harm caused to counter the potential counterintelligence risk caused by this. one email sent from the cia to the white house. this really underscores kind of the

depth of concern that i think you are hearing from current and former officials inside the agency that the kind of move fast and break things approach that president trump has taken to trying to slim down the federal government may carry some pretty unique counterintelligence risks at an agency like the cia that is used to dealing with almost exclusively classified information and some of the government's most sensitive secrets. sarah. >> all right. katie, thank you so much. over to you, kate. speaking of breaking things, yikes. yikes. >> at all times. a quick look at markets this morning and so far. take a look. futures are pointing north. the dow and s&p and nasdaq all in the green. this is after all three major indices finished last week. lower. investors are looking ahead to some key earnings reports this week including tech giant nvidia. this will be nvidia's first earnings report since that chinese a.i. model deepfake sent shockwaves

rippling across the globe for matching the matching. the performance of chatgpt, but saying they did it for the fraction of the cost. let us see, john. >> well, sarah, just saying you break stuff. >> i think that's what i was reading and i'm still processing, so give me a second. >> wow. it's early. >> i know what happened. >> quote the trump administration is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled partisan henchmen, and that quotes from a republican this morning after president trump announced right wing podcaster dan bongino as the fbi's deputy director. and this morning, we're getting new information about the condition of pope francis in critical condition, as the vatican says, he is now showing signs of kidney failure. >> this cnn business update is brought to you by etrade from morgan stanley. trade commission free today with no account minimums. >> power trades award winning

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>> damn. >> just. it was good, sara. tickets were distributed to first responders and those who have been displaced by the fires. justin bieber said afterwards, you know, when we all come together, good things can happen. and that's what the sports world has done. they've raised millions of dollars. nba, wnba, nfl, mlb. nwsl they're all coming together to help those who have been affected. >> it is a good thing. i just have a question for you this morning as kate runs in six inch heels to get to her place. um, i needed to ask you about what your nickname is because i love the bucket's nickname, and i was trying to come up with one for you. i was like, would it be like, koi catches everything? but i was like, no linebacker. no, that doesn't work. so you got any you can tell us about? because it sounds like you have some, but you just too embarrassed to say. >> i got a nickname. >> in my. oh, okay. i want to hear that my. playing days. >> obviously it's mr. clean. >> obviously mr. clean, but i

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quote, there's nothing to concede because this race isn't over. he also called the fbi, quote, irredeemably corrupt and a rotten orchard, claiming he has been, quote, abusing its power in eroding americans trust for decades. loosely quoting here, he basically said the 2016 and 2020 election were were rigged by the fbi. this morning, politico noted that former general counsel to marco rubio, greg nunziata, who is a republican, wrote, quote, bongino is what you get when republican senators fail to do their jobs and say no to patel. the trump administration is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled partisan henchmen. it's unacceptable. and conservatives need to say so. with us now is the executive committee chair for the new york state democratic committee, christine quinn, and former republican strategist and pollster lee carter. christine quinn, does dan bongino make us safer? >> it doesn't sound that way. i mean, that is a really hands on position. you want somebody who knows the ins and outs. and yes, he's had law enforcement

experience and we thank him for his work. but we seem to just be stacking the halls of government with people who are press secretaries or communications directors and not, in fact, people who know the ins and the outs of the job. and this is not a position where you want someone to learn on the job. this is a position where you want somebody who is going to be helping the director every single day, who's going to hit the ground running. >> i mean, christine said, it's a job. you want someone with experience. clearly they don't. i mean, demonstrably, they do not want someone with experience there. >> i mean, that seems to be the case. the truth is, he's a provocateur. >> he's somebody. >> who wants. >> to shake things up. >> and i think that's what the president has said that he wants to do across the board. and so it's an interesting pick. i'm not sure. >> it's one that a lot of people are going to be excited about, except it is sort of consistent with this idea that donald trump is out there, not necessarily to make the popular picks, but the ones that demonstrate he's out there to make a whole lot of change. >> does it help the fbi do its job?

>> that remains to be seen. >> wow. that's a resounding non-answer, which is interesting. look, i think that's the feeling that you're getting from people on both sides of the aisle this morning. but we'll see at this point. it does draw into question the priorities there. and i do want to talk about priorities, because we just looked at truth social. what what president trump has been posting on his social media site the last ten. he talked about apple, which is investing in the country. he posted a compliment from bill o'reilly. stuff about elon musk saying that msnbc is bad people. the german election where he said conservatives won. i'm not sure he knows the party that his people wanted didn't do as well as they thought. michael wolff's new book, dan bongino, he posted a couple times on dan bongino and the joy reid firing. none of those are about inflation. >> or eggs. >> nor are those about eggs or the economy. and i wonder, just as a question of how much he's focused on things, if this is beginning to have an impact. >> it is beginning to have an impact. in fact, when you look at his polling on how he's doing on the economy, he's doing worse now than he ever did in the

first term. the number one thing that he was popular for in his first term was the economy. 49% of people said that he did a good job. right now, he's only at 44% approval on the economy. and that's going down because he hasn't focused as much as he would have on other things. but he has been focusing on some things that are getting a lot of attention. a lot of people are giving him credit for his role on immigration and what's happening there. a lot of people are saying this role on government efficiency is something that is a good thing. not everybody. we can talk about that too. but there's a lot that he has been doing that is popular, and i'm sure that people are going to start demanding pretty soon that he focuses on it. >> even even the things that may be popular. it's a choice, though, not to talk about the economy as much or inflation at all. and what he does talk about the economy. it's tariffs, which are arguably inflationary. >> absolutely. and look, as a democrat, i can say that president trump won because he focused on the economy in a far clearer, more tangible way than we democrats did. and you've kind of, in doing that, made a promise to the american people

that you're going to deliver on inflation. you're going to take the price of eggs down, you're going to make a work for a day, bring more home in your paycheck. but what we've seen is no real focus on tangible things like that. and with all of these firings, a lot of hardworking americans who probably voted for him at real risk of losing their jobs, jobs that delivered for other americans, it's not the kind of economic focus that people thought they were going to get. >> it is interesting. and again, it's a choice because whether or not people support what elon musk is doing, whether or not people support the dei stuff, does it relate to you and what problems you have at home? and the egg prices have become almost a cliche, but but egg prices? does it relate to those things? does donald trump need to try to connect what elon musk is doing more to people's everyday problems? >> i think he does. the one thing that he has done, he promised to do when he talked about the economy, every single time he said, i'm going to, you know, get the economy back and running. the first thing i'm going to do is open up energy.

and 6 in 10 americans right now are excited about what donald trump is doing about energy. and i think they think that's going to translate to prices down the road. so i think he has a little bit of a window here that people are going to give him the benefit of doubt. he has earned some some stripes. i mean, people say, you know, he is known for his role in the economy. and so i think he's got some runway, not a lot, but he's got some runway right now. and i think he can point to that. and people are going to say, i'll give you i'll give you a little bit of a. >> so how do democrats talk about it? >> we should be talking about it very directly. we should stop saying constitutional crisis because nobody knows what that means. we should point out that the economy has not gotten better since trump took office. and we should remind americans that their neighbors are showing up in force at town hall meetings in a way we really haven't seen since the tea party revolution, making it clear to their elected officials they are not happy with how things are going. i agree presidents usually have a runway, but these big turnouts of very angry americans are going to make that runway a lot

shorter for this administration. >> all right. christine quinn, lee carter, great to see you both. thank you so much. thank you sarah. >> all right. is pope francis remains in critical condition at a rome hospital where he is sleeping and resting, according to the vatican. the vatican says blood tests show the pope has signs of mild kidney failure, but is, quote, currently under control right now. cnn's barbie. latza naidoo joins us now from rome. what is the latest on the pope's condition? a lot of people concerned at what they're hearing. >> yeah. you know, i mean, we've heard every day just sort of a decline in his in his condition here. he came into this hospital behind me on february 14th with a respiratory infection. by wednesday of last week, he had diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs. one of those lungs he's missing half of due to a previous surgery he had when he was a young man. then saturday morning, he has a critical respiratory crisis, is how it was described yesterday. we found out he had blood transfusions and this slight

kidney failure, which they say is under control. but of course, all of this is terribly worrying. he's 88 years old. he has mobility problems and he has a history of health issues. in the last couple of years. now, tonight in saint peter's square at 9 p.m. local time, they'll be holding a very solemn rosary service with the cardinals and clerics who are here in rome to pray for him, uh, hoping that he gets better. um, you know, we are told at the same time as this clinical picture looks very complicated, that he's alert, that he's still taking care of the business of the church, that he's moving forward and working with his collaborators. but all the eyes right now are on these bulletins that come from the vatican. we're expecting one in about four hours time. and what what news that will bring is really what everybody's thinking about. sarah. >> yeah. and certainly because of his past issues with his lungs, as soon as people heard pneumonia, that there was great concern. and now you're seeing him in critical condition, but people are hoping he pulls out. thank you so much. really appreciate it. barbie nadeau there live for us in rome. all right. over to you, kate. >> thank you. so for the first

time in this new trump administration, pieces of his administration are really pushing back elon musk's demand that all federal employees justify their jobs in five bullet points or else is facing pushback from within some of trump's own agency heads are telling their employees to not respond, including leaders at hhs, an agency that's already been hit very hard by mass layoffs. more than 700 people at the cdc fired more than 700 people at the fda, fired more than 1100 people at nih, also fired all at the hands of the trump administration. and facing a brutal seasonal flu, a seasonal flu season, serious measles outbreaks, and the ongoing bird flu outbreak. the usda has actually been left scrambling itself to rescind some of the firings. now trying to get back on the job. experts central to the nation's efforts to contain the bird flu crisis. joining us right now is the man who most recently was leading the fda, former fda commissioner

doctor robert califf. doctor, it's good to see you. thank you so much for coming in. one public health expert warned that the staff cuts that i just laid out in kind of broad strokes could have deadly consequences. so far at the fda, as i mentioned, it's north of 700. what does that look like at the fda? you just departed? >> well, kate, it's good to be with you, but this is a really serious issue that we're dealing with. the fda regulates 20% of the economy, including the vital drugs, devices, safety of food. and this is a fast moving set of industries that we're regulating with a lot of new science. so this across the board cut of employees that have just been there for less than two years or had been promoted within the last two years, is really not a very good way to do this, because you're getting rid of the people who are just hired to take care of our most vital areas of risk. you know, i'll

just give an example that's concerning me today. last night, i got an email from a parent of a child with a rare disease. day was supposed to be thursday and friday. a joint meeting. this is an area where, because of gene editing, these children who had no hope of surviving now have hope. but it's very dependent on the fda, the nih, and the industries working together to solve the problems. because this is not child's play. when you edit the genome of a human being, most of the time it doesn't work and things go wrong. so you have to have a system in place to take care of it. so here these parents are asking me to come speak to them, even though i'm no longer in the job, because no one from fda or nih can be there. just one example. >> one. but one example is a family story. and that just shows that is just a small piece of what so, so, so many more

people could be facing. i mean, do you think there are 700 positions that can be cut from fda and not have a negative impact. >> today even? >> well, i'm certainly willing to engage in the discussion with anyone. but my experience, you know, i've worked in biotech, biotech. i worked at alphabet for a while. academic medical centers, health care systems. the fda is stretched to the limit. every segment of fda is authorized by congress to deal with an issue, which is a public health importance to the american people. so i don't see 700 across the board as being in any way a reasonable approach to this problem. it reminds me of startups in silicon valley where i worked. uh, that's a whole different situation, though. when things go through the laps here, people can be killed or hurt very seriously. so no, i don't i don't see 700 jobs. but, you know, let's before doing things, let's have a plan

and have the arguments and discussions and involve the congress, which after all, uh, put the fda budget in place. i'd also point out that half the fda budget is user fees from the regulated industries who have agreed to pay for this because they need competent reviewers to make sure that the products that they're producing are safe and effective, and that the inspections that are going on all over the world in global supply chains are good inspections by people who know what they're doing. just think about the things that you use every day, or if you have a relative who's on a medication. imagine that we're not able to get the inspections done all around the world in a reasonable period of time. this is serious stuff. >> broadly speaking, as there are becoming examples of the robert f. kennedy jr., who's now the head of hhs, him taking actions like postponing

indefinitely acip meetings that were supposed to happen today, talking about wanting to wanting to tackle as a priority, investigating the childhood vaccine schedule. things are happening. it's the rhetoric is being put into action. broadly speaking, though, for the elon musks, the rfk jr.'s, the people who think that the federal government is bloated and rife with waste, what do you want them to understand about just the fda, the agency that you ran when it comes to this? >> well, i can speak, you know, obviously, most concretely about the fda, although the whole federal government i know has similar issues. i think, you know, imagine that, uh, rfk now, uh, encounters an outbreak of salmonella in lettuce. if there's not somebody there who actually knows how farms work and how the regulations work and how to get the recalls done, uh, this is going to be catastrophic

with people either dead or disabled because of this problem. h5n1 is a huge risk right now. the bird flu, um, and the center for veterinary medicine was gutted in this, which people don't think about often. that's part of fda. also. and it's interesting, americans care a lot about their pets and the food that they eat. but of course, with cattle and chickens, you've been talking about the price of eggs today. that's not some happenstance. that's because birds are dying from bird flu. at the same time, the people that work on this at the fda are being downsized. this makes no sense. and of course, we're all concerned about the measles outbreak and the risk to children's children of not being vaccinated in this time. and i'm really worried that the promises made in the confirmation hearing are already not being kept. i would hope that we hold people accountable. and finally, i'd say when you look at mr. musk and his team, the fda deals with a lot of

confidential information, uh, protecting individuals who are subjects in human clinical trials. really, experiments done to evaluate drugs and devices and the trade secrets of companies. we're really proud at fda that we've managed those trade secrets incredibly well under assault every day from china and others trying to get into our information systems. it doesn't sound to me like the conflicts of interest are being handled at all across the board. so i'm really worried about the corruption of people who have vested interests in outcomes like mr. musk's companies, um, invading the regulatory system and commandeering it. this is something that just shouldn't be allowed. >> um. >> doctor robert califf, former fda commissioner, thank you for coming in. john. >> all right. apple just announced plans to invest half $1 trillion expanding u.s. facilities. how the move could

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with racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution. he has pleaded not guilty and is set to go on trial in may. kara scannell is here. his lawyers have been very busy. right. filing a lot of things. what's the basis for this? >> so the basis for this is that they're saying that to. get search warrants to search all these premises, including his icloud. >> accounts. >> multiple cell phones. combs himself when they approached. >> him at. >> an airport one. >> day, his homes. >> in los angeles and miami and the hotel room where. >> he was arrested. >> they say to. >> get those warrants that. >> they did not reveal enough material to the judge, so they actually hid some information and they actually write in their filing, the government hid evidence undermining these witnesses credibility and presented misleading and selective accounts. we are not dealing here with a mission of a few ancillary facts. this is a case of systematic deception. so when these affidavits were sworn out, they're saying they didn't provide some of the exculpatory material or what they think is

exculpatory about, you know, related to these charges. holmes is accused of drugging and coercing women, including a former longtime girlfriend, of engaging in sex with male prostitutes. their defense so far has that has played out in all of these motions that you mentioned has been that this was a consensual relationship, a consensual sex act. so they're trying to say that the judge didn't have all that material. and so that's why all of this evidence should be suppressed. it is a long shot. i mean, if they were successful, some of the evidence that they got here were dozens of recordings of the so-called freak offs. also, more than a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricant, including firearms and drugs, all relating to the charges in the case. but as you said, they have been filing motion after motion, trying to suppress evidence, trying to get charges thrown out. certainly an aggressive legal defense by combs's team. and we're getting now in the home stretch as we get closer to this trial date. >> it's a good point. i think that's what we are seeing here. an aggressive legal defense. we'll see what's next. great reporting. thank you very much,

kate. >> some other headlines we're watching this morning. the coast guard is searching for a missing person still after a boat capsized off of staten island yesterday. at least three people have died. two others remain hospitalized from it. and police said one of those hospitalized is in critical condition. officials say they received calls of a boat taking on water just after noon sunday. an investigation is now underway for how this tragedy occurred. and a listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplemental shakes has been linked to at least 11 deaths and dozens of illnesses across 21 states. this is just what we were talking about. the fears with the former fda commissioner. the fda says that the shakes were sold under the sysco, imperial and lion's ready care brand names. they were supplied from a facility in fort wayne, indiana. the shakes were sent to hospitals and long term care facilities. sysco says it has recalled the shakes, alerted customers and stopped buying other products from that same

indiana plant. and former major league baseball star a-rod alex rodriguez nailed a half court shot to win $10,000 for one very lucky bucknell university student. watch this. >> peter goelz gerry connolly. o. >> ou the contest, sponsored by the school's mobile ticketing platform, has been going on all season with no student winners yet. so this time around. time around a-rod stepped in and took that unbelievable shot. >> to a yankee fan. we got him $10,000. he told me what he's going to do with it. what are you going to do with the money to help out parents? there you go. that is beautiful thing. tuition. parents are welcome. it should be yankee fans who might have been. >> he's like, i'll say that at least until i get the check. bucknell went on to win the game against army. sarah.

>> wait for the check, young man, very smart. >> claire. and then, you know, whatever it is, whatever it is, it's all for tuition. >> pay for college. sweet, sweet, sweet. >> necessary. considering how expensive college education is. >> correct. all right. thank you. kate. all right. the screen actors guild struck a serious tone with tributes to the l.a. firefighters and jane fonda not shying away from being political after she was honored with a lifetime achievement award. >> workers power. >> is being attacked, and community is being weakened. make no mistake, empathy is not weak or weak. and by the way, woke just means you give a about other people. >> cnn's lisa respers, france. joining us now. uh, jane fonda is known for this, so that should have been no surprise. give us some sense of who did actually take home some of the big prizes in the moments that stood out to you? >> yeah.

>> you know, you're right. there is no. >> surprise with that. >> but there was some light. moments. also. >> you know, the host, kristen bell, she kicked off the show with a very fun. take on. >> her hit frozen. >> she took one of the songs, do you want to build a snowman? and she turned it into, do you want to be an actor? let's take a listen. >> do you want. >> to be an. >> actor? >> do you really want. >> to be an actor? >> so you. >> want to be an actor. >> it can be a. bumpy ride. >> sometimes you question your ability. there's no stability. >> put aside your pride. but everybody started somewhere. as we hone our craft. >> we go. >> through what we go through. >> yes. so incredibly charming. as you can see, the audience was loving it because they were showing some of their first time on screen, some of those stars. it really was a celebration of

acting. so some of the winners included conclave for best ensemble. there was a lovely moment where isabella rossellini offered, you know her best to the pope, because the movie is about selecting a pope, and the pope, as we know, is ill. demi moore winning for leading female actor. she's been killing the game, pun intended, with her horror sci fi. the substance timothee chalamet won for leading male actor for his role is bob dylan in a complete unknown. people have been absolutely adoring him. he's been the darling of award season. and then on the tv side, shogun took home three awards, including best drama ensemble. and to the shock and thrill of selena gomez, her show only murders in the building won for best comedy ensemble. she could not believe it, so she was. it was such a great moment for her. >> i love that show. it's so much fun. lisa respers, france i wish i had more time to chat with you, but we'll chat offline as usual. thank you so much. appreciate you. >> thank you. you too. >> take care. all right. a new hour of cnn news central