there are things we own as a collective country. >> real quick, you know, at the justice department, giant beautiful murals inside the building. those are all over government buildings. what happens to them? >> and it's interesting. kristin, last word to you. >> i'm watching what's happening with the domestic politics of countries where donald trump is engaged in confrontation. so it's been fascinating to watch in a country like mexico. all of a sudden, the job approval of the president there has risen claudia sheinbaum. i believe it's now like 85% approved. you had the the center left party in canada that had really been suffering as of late, all of a sudden have shot up in the polls as they have a new p.m. it's interesting, in countries like ukraine, greenland, just watching the domestic politics get affected by donald trump's. >> watching that shift in real time. thanks to all of you, and i want to thank you for waking up with us. i'm audie cornish, cnn news central starts right now.

>> breaking overnight. >> president trump's tariff wars. >> go worldwide with. >> sweeping tariffs on all. >> steel and aluminum. >> imports going into effect. as we're getting brand new poll numbers on trump's handling of the economy. >> and the world is. >> standing. >> by for. >> russia to respond after ukraine signs on to a 30 day cease fire proposed by the u.s., and president trump says he could talk to vladimir putin this week. also, we are getting new video in from overnight of the american student who went missing in the dominican republic. now, almost a full week since she was last seen. john is out today. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> breaking overnight. >> stunning retaliation as president trump enacts sweeping new tariffs on steel and aluminum. and in doing so, sets

everyday. >> americans on a. >> collision course for higher prices on a range of goods. the number 25% from any country. which means this morning, all of the anxiety surrounding trump's trade war just kicked up a huge global notch. the swiftest and so far harshest reaction coming from the european union slapping $28 billion worth of tariffs on u.s. goods in direct retaliation. the word reverberating from allies this morning unjustified. how will u.s. markets soon react after back to back yo yo days ended way in the red. investors are on edge as brand new cnn polling now finds americans not happy with trump's economy moves. more on that in a bit. but first, let's go to cnn's alayna treene, who is at the white house this morning. eleanor, we're hearing from world leaders and what they're saying is pretty stark. what are you learning this morning from the white house? >> that's right. >> and just to.

>> reiterate. >> sarah, i mean, we have now seen the president's. >> trade war go global with these. >> 25% tariffs. >> on all imports. >> of steel and aluminum to. >> the united states. >> as you said, the european union hitting back swiftly with $28 billion in tariffs on u.s. goods of their own. but look the white house keeps arguing and really downplaying the impact that we've seen particularly on the stock market. if you look at the last two days, we've really seen any gains that were made up ever since the president had been sworn in or, excuse me, actually won the election last november, essentially erased. now, and also seeing many americans, 401(k)'s go on a sharp decline. now, one thing that did not happen was yesterday. the president warned that he wanted to put 50% of a tariff on canada. aluminum and steel coming into united states. he ended up not doing that. he ended up backing away from that threat, which we have seen him do in the past before. and now we know that his commerce secretary, howard lutnick, as well as a doug burgum dominic

leblanc, the finance minister of canada and the ontario of the premier of ontario, doug ford, are set to meet tomorrow to renegotiate the us-mexico-canada agreement. they said, of course, something that the president did during his first term. but one thing that i found very interesting is what the president said and didn't say when speaking with business leaders yesterday at the business roundtable. he said that he actually anticipates that tariffs could go even higher, despite all of the volatility that we're seeing. take a listen to how he put it. >> look, the higher it goes the more likely it is they're going to build. and ultimately the biggest win is not the tariff. that's a big win. that's a lot of money. but the biggest win is if they move into our country and produce jobs. that's a bigger win than the tariffs themselves. >> now sarah, he is continuing there, obviously, to dig in even further to this tariff strategy. but one thing that we've heard repeatedly now from people on wall street, back on the other end of pennsylvania avenue on

capitol hill, people concerned and questioning. is there a grand plan here? what is the president's overarching strategy and people in the room last night who were in that meeting where the president was speaking, told our cnn's jeff zeleny that he didn't offer any new details on that. they said, quote, there was no new clarity or certainty. and so we are entering another day where a lot of people very concerned about what is happening in the markets and not essentially getting the answers from this administration that they were hoping for. >> we know what the markets don't like. they do not like uncertainty. we will see what happens this morning there. alayna treene thank you so much. i really appreciate your reporting from the white house this morning, kate. >> and just this. >> morning. we have a. >> new look. >> on how americans are feeling. about those tariffs. >> about this trade war, and about the president's handling of it all. in his first six weeks of this second term. new cnn polling out just this morning showing that americans are not happy with how president trump is handling the economy right now. and that's even before the major market selloff that we've seen this week. but still, on some key issues, he is

seeing some of his best numbers of his entire career. joining us right now, cnn, washington bureau chief and political director david chalian, thanks for waking up early. david, let's start with the overall approval rating in this moment, where where does it stand for president trump? >> we have. >> president trump in our brand new poll at 45% approval. this is for his handling of his job. overall, 54% disapproval. so upside down, obviously underwater kate. but look at that 45% number over time for donald trump in his entire first term. that was his high water mark that we had in cnn polling. it appeared in eight years ago. march 2017, around this time, in his first time around and towards the end of his presidency, at the beginning of covid, would rally around the president moment in may of 2020. that's when he hit 45%. he left office with a 34% approval rating in 2021. so this 45% that he's at right now, that was his

actual high water mark last time around. >> yeah, i mean it's like underwater but better than better than he's done. the economy of course remains an issue, top of mind and of concern for most americans, likely only getting more top of mind and more of concern. what are americans saying in this poll about how they think the president is handling all of this with a relevant note that this poll was conducted, began and ended before the massive stocks stock market sell off that we've seen this week. >> yes, but not before the chaos we've seen over the last three weeks. exactly. and i think that is reflected in the numbers here. you are right. the economy is issue number one by far for americans, as indicated in this poll. his approval rating on this issue is 44%. trump's disapproval rating, 56% of americans disapprove of his handling of the economy. we've never seen him that far underwater and upside down in terms of approval and disapproval on this issue in his

entire presidential career. look here, it's usually a strong suit for him. you see, we've had him at 44% approval before, but never with 56% disapproval. so that 12 point, you know, -12 point spread, if you will, that's the largest on issue number one for americans we've ever had him in our polling. >> so how are people feeling more broadly then not just about the president, his handling more broadly about the trump administration so far? >> take a look. you noted at the top some of his scores on some issues are the best he's ever had. immigration. he's at majority approval. 51% of americans approve of what donald trump is doing on immigration. he's close to half on managing the federal government and the federal budget. but you see, there's his overall job approval, 45%. we were talking about the economy right there at 44%. health care policy, foreign affairs and tariffs. only 39% approve of the way donald trump is handling tariffs. we also asked, how are things going in the country today? and take a look, kate. 35% say, well, 65%

say badly. but good news for this white house, potentially in january, that 35% number was 29%. so a little bit of an uptick in the last month in in the perception of of people saying how things are going in the country. >> it really is a lot in this poll to consider and a lot of nuance in how americans are feeling about their federal government and how they're interacting with it right now. and trump's handling. be very interesting how president trump himself interprets this, which i'm sure we will see. it's great to see you, david. thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. breaking overnight in the midst of peace talks. new russian airstrikes killed at least 14 people in ukraine as russian foreign minister weighs in on a possible ceasefire deal and scary moments at chicago's o'hare airport this morning after multiple shots were fired outside a terminal. what police say led up to what happened there and an incredible reunion. a cat who was missing for two months after the palisades fire

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>> all right. right now we're watching markets after president trump's trade war enters a new phase. futures right now pointing slightly higher after trump's sweeping 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imported into the united states went into effect overnight. it's a move that could drive up the prices of cars and appliances, cans, medical equipment and more. we're also waiting for a key report on inflation out this morning that will give us a brand new gauge on where our economy is going. cnn's matt egan is joining me now. what does the latest round of tariffs really mean to americans? because you don't feel it immediately. but wall street generally gives you some sense. you do get hit there first. >> that's that's true. i mean. >> look, sarah. >> another day. >> another tariff. >> hike from. >> the president. >> the goal here is. >> to. >> try to level. >> the playing. >> field in global trade. >> the problem. >> though. >> is that some. >> experts are warning it could

backfire. >> because steel. >> and aluminum. are critical inputs, right? they are. used to make everything from medical devices and cans, appliances, infrastructure, power lines, and the big one. >> cars. >> remember cars? they have hundreds of. they have they have a lot of steel and aluminum in them. right. and car prices, they're. already basically at record highs. >> so it's hard to see. >> how making key input more expensive with this 25% tariff is going to help things here. some experts are warning that, yes, this could backfire on not just consumers, but also on workers. i talked to ken smetters. he's a professor at wharton where the president went to school, and he said, this is not going to help manufacturing. it will hurt manufacturing. even alcoa, one of the biggest aluminum makers in the united states, has warned that these tariffs could kill 100,000 american jobs. there's also the risk that it ignites a global trade war. the u.s. imports a lot of steel and aluminum each year, a lot of it from canada, but also mexico, china, the uae,

brazil, south korea. now these countries have to decide how are they going to respond? the european union, not wasting any time here. they immediately announced retaliatory tariffs on items that are made in america, including we've seen bourbon, peanut butter, jeans, boats, motorbikes, all of them. $28 billion of u.s. goods face retaliatory tariffs. now the eu tariffs they don't kick in until next month. so that leaves some time for some negotiation of course. but if they do kick in, this could hurt u.s. workers in these sectors because the stuff that they make just got more expensive. >> you know, trump has been saying, look, there is pain and there is going to be a disruption that's going to happen. but eventually this is going to be good. the question is how long americans will be able to shoulder this pain. we will have to wait and see. and we are waiting for the markets right now. things looking slightly up, but nothing like what happened with the downturn yesterday.

>> slightly up. after some days of really steep losses. >> all right. thank you so much. we'll wait for the bell to ring. kate. >> and as the president's sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum will likely be adding even more pressure on what's been a weak of u.s. stocks plunging, the wall street journal's editorial board continues to call out president trump. in a way, really that only the wall street journal can. writing this, in part, the trouble with trade wars is that once they begin, they can quickly escalate and get out of control. all the more so when politicians are nearing an election campaign, as canada now is, or when mr. trump behaves as if his manhood is implicated because a foreign nation won't take his nasty border taxes lying down. we said from the beginning that this north american trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind. that's from the wall street journal. joining us right now is democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. there's that side of it, senator, but then you have the iron and the iron and steel industry, aluminum steel

industry in the united states. and they like what they're seeing here. a trade group calls these tariffs very effective. the head of american iron and steel institute saying that things would be without those tariffs much worse for the industry. so what say you about where things stand today with this trade war. >> this trade. >> war threatens not. >> only a global. trade conflict. >> but also. an immediate. >> recession for. >> the united states, higher prices for consumers, not just on cars, but on gasoline and energy. for example, the imports of. canadian electricity, which are about 11% of the northeast supply and prices of groceries, food, milk, eggs will likely rise and the imminence of a recession may be less painful for the billionaires and for the secretary of commerce, who says it's no big thing, but it will

affect average, everyday americans. so the pain is going to be felt nationwide, and it's avoidable. the last time we tried one of these major trade wars, i think under president mckinley, it proved to be a disaster. and he concluded it was a mistake. >> well, the president was asked about the immediate impacts at we've seen, which is this massive sell off we've seen in u.s. stocks and continued fears about a recession. given how he's answered the questions around it. and i want to play for you what president trump said yesterday. >> do you and your tariff policies right now bear any responsibility for the turmoil we're seeing this week? >> biden gave us a horrible economy. he gave us horrible inflation. and i think the market was going to go very, very bad. >> when does this become the trump economy? he is just six weeks in. can he argue this still is not his to own? >> the economy under joe biden

was chugging along pretty well. and what donald trump is doing now is potentially going to disrupt disastrously, a success story for america. and that's why business executives are expressing alarm. the wall street journal is calling it the dumbest thing they've seen. and why he's doing it is really a mystery. he should be building on this economy, not trying to undermine and destroy it with these self-destructive tariffs, which are not only undermine american economic power, but also militarily. and, of course, our standing in the world, because nobody can figure out where we're going from here and the back and forth tariffs one day withdrawn or delayed the next creates an uncertainty which itself undermines the economy. >> let me ask you about the funding fight now. now it's sitting before you all in the senate whether or not to pass

this stopgap that the house just approved is the big question. to avoid a government shutdown. you said yesterday, senator, that you were going to wait to see what the house sends over before you decide how to vote. they have sent it over. how are you going to vote? >> what this house has sent over is a horrible continuing resolution. it's a stopgap for six months, which means we have no budget for this year, just a continuation of the spending that exists right now. but it's not a clean cr because it reduces the amount of that spending by $13 billion for nonmilitary purposes. i support the additional military spending, but it cedes unwarranted, broad, unbridled discretion to the president and a kind of slush fund. the alternative could be to shut down the government. so it's a very difficult choice. i'm going to be talking to my colleagues about where we go from here, and we're going to try to do

what's best at. >> this point. >> it's a binary choice. at this point, it's a binary choice, it seems. so where are you this morning? where are you leaning? >> i'm leaning against, but frankly, that's just a judgment at this hour. we're going to be meeting later today to decide what is best for the country. and you're right. the house of representatives has gone home, leaving us with virtually no possibility to amend this bill. i think what we should try to do is a short term, 30 day extension of the current spending so we can negotiate a real budget, not kick the can down the road for a full six months, determine priorities and maintain control in the congress over the power of the purse, which constitutionally is ours. we shouldn't be giving it away to the president. >> what you want and what you've got are two very different things. it seems right now, in terms of your choices on this. before i let you go, i do want

to ask you, though, about you are the top democrat on the veterans affairs committee and at the va. the secretary has basically just confirmed that their target is to cut tens of thousands of jobs. the target is to cut 80,000 jobs from that department. and in response to that, you've you've announced that you're a new bill. and as part of it, you're as part of the bill, it would require reinstating all fired veterans and more with full back pay and benefits. do you have republican support for this? does senator thune give any indication he's going to give this a pathway to move forward? >> talking to my republican colleagues, i am very, very hopeful about republican support because among veterans in the united states, including the veterans service organizations like the veterans of foreign wars and the american legion, there is strong opposition to these shocking, cruel, callous cuts. we're talking about 80,000 jobs on the chopping

block when there are already vacancies for 36,000 positions, including doctors, 2500 of them, nurses, 16,000. and now they want to fire more of them even as they are trying to recruit them. it makes no sense and it is a betrayal to our veterans who are heroes, who have earned and deserve veterans health care. the pack act benefits when they are exposed to toxic chemicals, other kinds of disability compensation. the va is in crisis. it is imploding right now because of the cuts, freezes and firings that the va secretary collins has done at the behest. let's be clear. at the behest of elon musk and donald trump, they are trying to save more revenue so they can finance the tax cuts, which go to the ultra wealthy. and it's

on the backs of our veterans. i think veterans should be loud and vociferous and vehement in opposing these measures. and my bill for putting veterans first act would put back to work all of the veterans who have been fired in all of the agencies of government, along with all of the va employees who are so important to health care, providing the surgery and the diagnoses and the cancer screenings that are so important. and the service to veterans in disability benefits. and it would provide performance standards. so they can't just fire people because they think they don't like them or they don't need them. there have to be performance based standards tailored to the individual and appeals process for all of these veterans and military spouses, survivors and veteran caregivers. we should care about them to. >> paint a very grim picture of what things look like and could be looking like soon at the va. senator blumenthal, thank you

for your time, sarah. >> all right. thank you. kate. new this morning. authorities say newly released surveillance video shows missing college student sudiksha konanki moments before she vanished while on spring break in the dominican republic. in the video, konanki is seen walking with a group of friends in the early morning hours. last thursday, a law enforcement official tells cnn a young man who stayed behind at the beach with konanki that morning is not considered a suspect at this point, and they clarify he did not give significant inconsistencies in his account to police. cnn's jessica hasson is in punta cana with the very latest on this. this this video gives you a sense of what she was doing and sort of where she was. but we still don't know anything about where she is now. what can you tell us? the latest is there in punta cana. >> well. >> sarah.

>> let me tell you yesterday, authorities ramped up that search. more than 300 agents, specialist tactical units and aquatic search teams have been deployed in the search for the 20 year old university of pittsburgh student. sudiksha konanki, who was last seen, like you said last thursday, according to the dominican national police, that search perimeter in the water has been expanded after conducting modeling studies. authorities said tuesday, as the search for that young woman by land and air continues. you mentioned that surveillance video from the hotel that that could be the last time konanki was seen on march 6th, according to law enforcement source. and that timeline shows us that at 4:15 a.m., konanki is last seen entering the beach at this hotel. at the hotel riu republica in punta cana and at around 455, that group that was accompanying her is seen leaving the beach, and konanki is believed to have stayed behind with that young man. about four

hours later, that same young man is seen leaving the beach. it wasn't until about 4 p.m. on march 6th that konanki was reported missing by her friends, and according to a law enforcement source, konanki solong cover up was found on a lounge chair at that beach with no signs of violence. that young man like you mentioned, who was last seen with konanki, is not in custody and is not considered a suspect. according to the national police spokesman, the fbi, which joined the investigation just this monday, has once again questioned several people regarding the case. in addition to conducting new interviews, as they are also carefully looking and reviewing that hotel security camera footage. the young man we were told by authorities, is in a hotel room under police surveillance. while this investigation continues.

although he is not, he is not officially detained, according to that source close to the investigation. the investigation is ongoing, with officials exploring all possible leads. >> yeah, there is just there are so many questions as to what happened to her, and they have not been able to find her. her family, obviously in a panic over all of this. jessica husband, thank you so much. live there from punta cana for us. okay. >> so a new space mission is underway to discover the origins of the universe. easy peasy. right. and president trump turns the white house into a tesla showroom in a wild show of support for elon musk. >> i love tesla. >> which one did. >> you buy? >> wait. >> mr. president, when did. >> you buy? >> which car are you going to buy? >> the one i like is that one. >> and how does this work? >> i want that same. >> color.

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thank you so much for being here. let me first ask you, this is avoiding a trade war even feasible at this point? >> yeah, i think so. i mean, we're at the early stages. the president has put forward a lot of proposals for tariffs. and if you know, if he follows through, that will do a lot of damage in recessions, even possible. but at this point, he's only implemented a very small part of what he has talked about. and if this is the end of the story and he figures out a way to step back and cool things off, then yeah, the economy is very resilient. you know, sarah, we came into the year with a very strong economy, creating lots of jobs, unemployment is very low. it's been at 4% for more than three years, which is, you know, hard to find a time in history when that's been the case. so we had a lot of things going for us. so it should be able to digest a lot of storms. but. but if the president continues to

pursue the trade war. yeah, that will do a lot of damage to the recession. but it's not over yet. we could still avoid it. >> it's interesting to say how we came into the year with a strong economy and a growing economy, because trump says he was handed a terrible economy from president biden, and he said his moves with these tariffs and other things are going to cause a huge boom in the country. historically speaking. and economically speaking. how does that happen? >> yeah, i you know, i'm not a fan of broad based tariffs. i mean, we've got a lot of experience over the over the decades, over the centuries with tariffs. and you know, they they don't work. they rate their attacks, you know on consumers. you and i are going to have to pay more for everything that that is imported into the country. if the president does follow through on on all the tariffs that he's talking about. so it's a tax in the form of higher prices, higher inflation.

it's it hurts businesses that, you know, rely on imported product as well. i mean, they're making all kinds of things from airplanes to, to machinery to you name it. and that requires imported product. you know, it invites retaliation. we see we see that today the europeans announced that they're putting tariffs on american products because of the tariffs we've imposed on them. that cost american jobs. and perhaps the most pernicious thing. and the thing that's happened already, even though the tariffs have not even been put into place to any significant degree, is, as you pointed out, the uncertainty. you know, businesses just don't know what to do with all this. you and i, as consumers, don't know what to do with all of this. on again, off again. which products, which countries over what period of time. and it's doing a lot of damage. you can see it in the stock market. the stock market's down eight, nine, 10% from where it was just a couple three weeks ago. so you add it all up. it i just don't see the benefit here. i don't see the end game.

>> could these tariffs that donald trump is putting in place cause the united states to go into a recession. >> sure. >> yeah. i mean, it depends on how aggressively they're pursued. i think if all of the tariffs that have been talked about are actually implemented and, you know, we're talking about the so-called reciprocal tariffs, these are broad based tariffs against lots of different countries across lots of different products. if all of that is implemented and maintained, you know, if it's, you know, on a day off tomorrow, that's one thing. but if it's on today and it's on tomorrow and the day after and the day after that, then yeah, i think the prospects for recession are quite high later in the year. you know, the economy is strong. it came into the year doing very well, but it can't digest the kind of tariffs that we're talking about here. so yeah, i think the recession odds are are uncomfortably high. sarah and are rising.

>> we are going to leave it there with that depressing statement from you. mark zandi. thank you so much. maybe one day we will talk and things will feel a little less depressing and confusing. i really appreciate you coming on this morning. all right, kate. >> so panic and confusion as chicago's o'hare airport early this morning, multiple shots were fired outside of a terminal there. and police say they were called in to respond to a fight that was breaking out between several people on the street. 25 year old man was shot twice, is said to be in stable condition. detectives are interviewing a second person and one woman who is asleep feet away from where one woman was asleep, feet away from where a bullet cracked the terminal glass. she says she is just grateful to be alive. >> honestly, these dollar tree earplugs work really well because i have no clue how i did not hear this. and when i woke up and seen all the cops, i was terrified. so i honestly, this might have saved my life. >> can you imagine? oh my god.

also this morning, the department of education has announced plans to cut half of its workforce. according to a senior agency official. 1300 employees are being notified they will receive severance pay based on their length of service. now, the education secretary, linda mcmahon. she confirmed yesterday that these firings are just the first step in changes to come. what are their plans to eventually completely shut down the agency, which president trump has vowed to do, formally eliminating the department, though, does should require an act of congress. >> one petition. >> first off, of. top of that. go. go! punch spherex and punch. >> on their way. >> you are looking at the spacex falcon nine rocket lifting off overnight with two nasa missions on board. nasa's newest space telescope, spherex, will spend

two years orbiting the earth collecting data on galaxies and more than 100 million stars to help us better understand the evolution of the universe. the second mission, called punch, will focus on the sun's impact on the solar system. nasa is hoping this will help more accurately predict the effects of space weather on earth. fascinating. a heartwarming reunion in southern california. 82 year old katherine keefer thought that she had lost her cat, aggie, in the palisades fire. until this. >> do you want to hold. >> her? okay. are you kidding? >> oh. >> i'm so. >> happy to see. >> you. >> hi, baby. >> oh, we'll take all the. >> time you guys need. >> okay. >> okay. thanks. lexi. oh. hi, aggie. >> you can imagine how much that means to someone who's lost everything. aggie was found near the owner's home, surviving in

the ashes, and she is now getting some special care. and she's definitely getting some tlc from her owner. and then she'll go home to katherine. pretty amazing. so let's turn to this scariness. new data showing that arctic sea ice hit its lowest level ever recorded in february. and it comes as we know, president trump has vowed to and is gutting federally funded science agencies and pulling the united states further and further away from global climate change programs. cnn's bill weir has the details on this. what's the latest? what are you learning with this this new data? >> well, it's. >> a stark reminder that while trump trumps and. >> doge doge. >> is the. >> ice. >> is melting. >> and the. >> planet is overheating. >> let me just start with air temperatures. this is looking down at the north pole from the top. this is greenland, where the united states, canada is over here, 36 degrees above normal. last month, fahrenheit 36 degrees above normal 20°c. so it is scorching hot. >> at the top of the earth as. >> we're talking. like fractions of degrees. >> no.

>> no, 36°f. above normal in february in the arctic. and so as a result of that, the. >> ice. >> the land ice on greenland, for example, sheds hundreds of billions of tons a year, enough ice to cover manhattan in ice two feet high or two miles high. wow. imagine two miles thick of ice over manhattan. that's how much is just coming off the land. but what we're talking about is the sea ice, the floating ice. and this is when it's at its highest, as there's there's so much ice built up. and as it comes down, it melts. the extent right now is millions of square miles below what is normal right here. and so we're headed towards ice free summers in the arctic by 2050. and as this happens, the age of the ice disappears. as you can see, this is five year ice. the darkest stuff here at the bottom. i don't know how i just drew on there. >> the five year. >> ice on the bottom, the first, you know, the young ice at the top there. but as we get to 2020 here, anything that's older than a couple of years doesn't exist. >> no. >> yeah. so it could be ice free by by 2050 as we talk about. but this has huge implications for