i'm george howell. on friday the u.s.ent announced the indictment of 12 russian official, nay allege they hacked into several democratic party servers for the purpose of undermining the candidate then hillary clinton. members of the rescued thai football team, they are thanking the world for supporting them through a terrifying or deal. they are still in hospital. thailand's ministry sed says they are in good enough staip shape to go home thursday. in pakistan, an explosion killed 128 people, wounded 228 others. a suicide pack, at least two other deadly incidents were reported ahead of pakistan's general election that is set in less than two weeks time. in a few hours time, both pro trump and anti-trump rally are set to start in the united kingdom. the u.s. president's visit on friday. at one point police had to close off try fifalgo square. because it almost reached capacity. prime minister teresa may and president trump, the two held a joint news conference friday. mr. trump says he apologized following the comments tha

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i'm george howell. the same meetings in pyongyang to nail down details on the issue of denuclearization, but the difference in how the u.s. and north korea see these talking points, they are striking. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo calls the talks productive saying progress was made. compare that to what we're hearing from north korea, slamming what it called the united states gangster like mindset, it used words like regrettable and worrisome. speaking to reporters a few hours ago in tokyo, pompeo pushed back. >> i am counting on chairman kim to be determined to follow through on the commitment that he made. and so if those requests were gangster-like, the world say gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the u.n. security council about what needs to be achieved. >> our andrew stevens has been trying to keep one these two very different stories. live this hour from seoul, south korea. pompeo making it clear also, sanctions on north korea will remain until denuclearization is complet

. >> and i'm george howell. from cnn world headquarters "newsroom" starts right now. >>> thank you again for joining us. our top story is from california. firefighters hoping they have now reached a turning point in their fight to contain a massive wildfire in northern california. in just a week the so-called carr fire has burned more than 38,000 hectares. that's about 95,000 acres. it has destroyed more than 870 structures. and for the moment it's now 17% contained. but it is still burning everything in its path. even this boat dock. >> wow. at least six people have died so far, including two children and their great grandmother. the widowed great grandfather told our dan simon that he spoke to his family as the fire closed in on them. listen. >> i left and went to town. my wife called me, she said, we can see the fire way over there. you need to come and get me. i said i'm on my way. so i just throwed down everything, took off over there. i got on quartz hill and there's two or three or four lanes of traffic c

i'm george howell. in thile the next few days will be critical. they will try to rescue a youth football team t-12 boys and their coach have been trapped now for two weeks and more rain is expected in the forecast and oxygen in that is running low. despite the situation the boys are trying to stay pos testify. they say they are going to be okay. they're doing all right. they beg their teacher not to give them lots of homework. they say they can't wait to eat their favorite foods. we'll talk about those stories in a home. so it's important to hear from these children in such a difficult, scary situation. first of all tell ussant this window. it's not raining heavily where you are now that's an important feat. >> reporter: that's right, they could be coming in earnest. the governor earlier today said, in fact, if the rain starts, it could flood the water levels lower. the boys might be stuck on a 10 meter beach or even worse. i want to bring you news from a thai navy source, there is a chance this exdistr

i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. welcome to our viewers in the u.s.und the world. this is our top story. the rhetoric escalating just hours ago on twitter. >> late sunday the u.s. president donald trump tweeted this. you'll see it's in all caps there. it says, "to iranian president rouhani. never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have

live from krcnn world headquarts in atlanta, i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> at 3:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast we start with another high profile departure from the trump administration. the head of the epa, the environmental protection agency has resigned under a cloud of controversy. scott pruitt was at the white house on wednesday, the fourth of july, for celebrations there. his resignation comes amid a long list of alleged ethics violations. you see some of them here. it's a long expensive list. pruitt is the subject of at least 14 separate investigations. among the claims, trying to use his position to secure a job and a restaurant franchise for his wife. president trump has been hesitant to take action, instead praising pruitt's deregulation efforts in that agency. on thursday he tweeted this. within the agency scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. in an exclusive investigation cnn has uncovered the latest pruitt scandal. our drew griffon has details for you. >> report

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i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. this is our top story. the rhetoric escalating just hours ago on twitter. >> late sunday the u.s. president donald trump tweeted this. you'll see it's in all caps there. it says, "to iranian president rouhani. never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. be cautious," said the u.s. president. >> president trump appears to have been responding to these comments from president rouhani. take a listen. >> translator: mr. trump, don't play with the lion's tail. this would only lead to regret. you will forever regret it. you are not in a position to incite the iranian nation against iran's security and interests. the iranian nation knows its interests and sacrifices to protect them. you are mistaken. >> president trump's top diplomat also took aim

[ding] fla . >>> welcome back to "newsroom," i'm george howell.ddle east an apparent ceasefire is in place after a day of heavy fighting between israel and militant groups. hamas and islamic jihad say though have reached a ceasefire with israel. the israeli prime minister's office has no comment about those reports. following the story, our ian lee is live in jerusalem. ian, can you tell us anything more about this reported ceasefire? >> reporter: well, george, basically that it's hold organize it appears to be holding right now. it's been about nine, ten hours since the last exchange of fire where we saw mortars, rockets, and israel retaliating with these air strikes. but yesterday was the greatest bombing campaign in gaza since the 2014 war with dozens of what mass targets hit according to israeli military. the israeli military also saying that at least 200 rockets and mortars were fired into israel. you had two palestinians killed in gaza, a dozen injured, and then four israelis injured in this exchange. but we are also hearing from the israeli

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i'm george howell at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers before around the states and the world this hour. a thai governor calls it "d" day. he announced just hours ago this high-risk operation to rescue this group of 12 young boys and their coach. it is under way as we speak. a group of thai and international divers started moving m moving into this cave system several hours ago. the rescue may take hours, it could even take days. you see the images of what they're up against. really rugged terrain, wet conditions, and technical dives. also weather. that's a big factor as monsoon clouds continue to move in. let's get the very latest live in thailand. david mckenzie is near the scene and following the story. last hour the rains were coming down pretty hard. has the rain subsided a bit? and certainly this window of time, it's dwid willindling for weather to cooperate? >> reporter: i was just speaking to a specialist diver who is involved in the support of this whole operation and he said the weather is the major factor

i'm george howell. the uk's brexit secretary, david davis, has resigned, marking another stumbling block to britain's efforts to leave the european union. davis said he wasn't willing to be a reluctant conscript into a compromise plan agreed upon friday. the plan would press for a free trade area for goods with the eu and maintain close trade ties. other conservative lawmakers criticized the compromise, saying it offered a brexit in name only. prime minister theresa may faces parliament in the coming hours to actually talk about that plan. also in the united kingdom a british woman has died after being exposed to a nerve agent. police say that the death of dawn sturgess is now bei ing investigated as a murder. her partner, charles rowley, remains in critical condition. he was also exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in march. following this story, our phil black is live from salisbury, england. phil, surely this is adding to the concern of people in that

i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you.arly results show that andres manuel lopez obrador will be the next president of mexico, winning 53% of the vote in sunday's election. the leftist candidate ran an anti-corruption platform. he promises to build strong relationship with the united states and other countries and promises to tackle domestic issues like crime and economic inequality. >>> the eu's breakthrough on mie granlt -- in the migrant crisis, i should say, it hasn't helped the german chancellor angela merkel back home. her interior minister has now threatened to resign over the issue. horse siehoffer and his christian social union party have been pushing for germany to get tougher on immigration. the u.s. president donald trump will likely spend most of the week reviewing candidates to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy. he said he will announce his choice on july 9th. republican senator susan collins says she will not support anyone who opposes abortion rights. >>> the u.s. national security adviser says that

. >> i'm george howell. from cnn world headquarters, "newsroom" starts right now. >>> we begin in northern california, thank you for joining us. more lives have been lost from that fast moving wildfire. it has killed at least five people including two children and their great grandmother. president trump declared an emergency in california to allow federal assistance. >> police in that area say they haven't seen anything like this before. the fire so devastating, many people had to evacuate, even prompting a local tv station to pull the plug for safety. >> right now we're being evacuated. that's where we are kind of closing out right now. we are going to leave the station because it is now unsafe to be here. >> you can't believe this is happening in your community. >> that house is my whole life. there is just one thing that is in that house that is not replaceable to me and it sounds silly, but it is a car i had since i was 17. it was my first car. if it gets destroyed, there is no replacing that. >> we did

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. here are the top storstoriys.fire in california killed five people this is one of many wildfires. this one has destroyed nearly 84,000 acres, that's about 33,000 hectares and it is only 5% contained. 38,000 people have had to flee their homes and police say sadly that looting has been reported in some evacuated neighborhoods. >> unbelievable. >>> we now know at least 14 people are confirmed dead and more than 160 people are injured, this after a strong earthquake struck an indonesian island east of bali, not far from a volcano. the magnitude 6.4 tremor damaged more than a thousand homes, but no tsunami advisories have been issued. >> monsoon rains are triggering daily floods in northern india. at least 60 people have died there, dozens injured since heavy rainfall, lightning and flooding began on thursday. >>> egypt's highest islamic authority is set to consider whether 75 people should be sentenced to death. an egyptian court is seeking the death penalty or their involvement in a 2013 demonstration to support the

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> at 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast we start with the breaking news. you've seen countless times these people running into dangerous situations risking their lives, digging through rubble to save civilians in the syrian conflict. now we know that israel and jordan have come to the rescue of the white helmets. >> this group of 800 syrian civilians, including members of the volunteer rescue group have been evacuated now, we are told, to jordan. israel says its military completed this effort at the request of the u.s. and european countries. >> let's get the latest live in jerusalem. oren lieberman on the story this hour. and oren, these civilians in the white helmets are now safely out of syria. are we hearing any news, any reaction to this breaking news we're following? >> reporter: we absolutely are. and as you said there are was an international effort to arrange this operation. an incredibly sensitive operation

i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" start right now. >>> at 4:00 a.m., the trump administration scrambling to follow u.s. court orders to reunite some 3,000 migrant children with their families. the deadline was friday. the u.s. government was supposed to have made sure that every separated parent had a way to contact their child. a government attorney says she believes she met that goal, but says an upcoming deadline for tuesday, well, that will be trickier. that is when officials must reunify. every child under the age of five. by then, and july 26th, every family must be reunited. u.s. officials say they need more time. miguel marquez explains. >> reporter: this woman is 39 from guatemala. she may be the first separated parent to get out of detention after going through a normal immigration process after president trump signed an executive order ending the separation of families as part of his zero-tolerance policy. i can't stand being apart from my son, she says. just give me my son. she hasn't seen h

i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen, we are wide aweek. wide awake. >> stay awoke. >> stay awoke. >> "newsroom," we think, starts right now. >> 5:01 on the east coast the top story the u.s. president, before he took office, we now know his former attorney secretly recorded his client discussing a playmate to a former playboy model. >> karen mcdougall said she had ap affair with mr. trump in 2006. he denies that. the recording was made with michael cohen about two months before the election. >> it was one of the many times the fbi seized earlier, when mr. trump found out about the tapes, he said, quote, i can't believe michael will do this to me. jessica snyder explains what we know so far. >> reporter: michael cohen secretly recorded multiple conversations and those tapes are now in the hands of federal investigators. two months before the election, cohen reported a conversation with a payment with karen mcdougall. mcdougall claims she had a nearly year-long affair with the president right after melania gave birth to baron in 2006. >> i wa

i'm george howell. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. at 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast a historic summit ahead of him, the u.s. president leaves his golf resort in scotland in the coming hours planning to meet with russia's vladimir putin in helsinki, and he will have a busy time ahead. on monday morning he meets with the finnish president, then he and mr. putin will spend the day in talks together. they talks fold by a joint appearance before the news media. he returns to the united states monday night. hanging over his head, over his summit, new evidence of russian meddling in the 2016 election. mr. trump says that he will bring the issue up, raise the issue with the russian leader, but his latest tweet seems to blame his predecessor, barack obama for, as he says, not dealing with it at the time. following the story is phil black life from turnberry. tell us more about the president's time looking ahead towards helsinki. >> reporter: george, since president trump arrived here in scotland on friday night he has been relatively quiet and seen very little as h

i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. and you're watching "cnn newsroom." >>> at 3:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, president donald trump has a busy week ahead of him. >> on monday he's expected to take questions from reporters in a joint news conference with the visiting prime minister of italy. mr. trump will likely be asked about his latest twitter rant against the special counsel, robert mueller. the president now claiming mueller has multiple conflicts of interest in the russia investigation. >> in addition to that, there are still questions about the tapes the president's former attorney just released as well as mr. trump's threat to shut down the government to get funding for his border wall that he said mexico would pay for but in fact he means the taxpayers will pay for. >> cnn's boris sanchez is traveling with the president, or he was in new jersey. he has more on mr. trump's twitter tirade. that's hard to say. >> reporter: cnn has reached out to the white house to get clarity on specifically what president trump was referencing when he mentioned business conflict

i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. good to have you back. >> "newsroom" starts right now. and our top story, before donald trump became president, his former attorney secretly recorded him talking about a payment to a former playboy model. mcd one of many items th seized from cohen. when mr. trump found out about the tape, he said, quote, i can't believe michael would do this to me. >> and all this of course comes as a welcome distraction for the president following backlash from his controversial summit with the russian leader last week. this story however, it is still unfolding with more details likely to come out. jessica schneider explains what we know so far. >> reporter: michael cohen secretly recorded multiple conversations with donald trump sources tell cnn. and those tapes are now in the hands of federal investigators. two months before the election, cohen recorded a conversation with donald trump about a payment to mcdug al who claims she had a nearly year long affair with the president right after melania ga

for "cnn newsroom" i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta.ws coverage continues on the rescue operation taking place in thailand right now. "early start" is next for viewers in the united states and around the world. my colleague max foster is on deck live in london with the continuation of "cnn newsroom." you're watching cnn, the world's news leader. . . . >>> breaking news out of thailand. rescue crews making that dangerous trip back through the cave where eight boys have been stuck for more than two weeks. we're live at the scene. >>> i'm getting close to making a final decision. >> a primetime announcement from the east room as president trump changes the courts for decades to come. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo insisting talk with the u.s. andi north korea are still on track as pyongyang accuses

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i'm natalie alzplen and i'm george howell. >> first breaking news out of syria, volunteers from the white helmets rescue group have been evacuated into jordan by israel. they're among a group of 800 civilians pulled from the conflict. israel said that its military completed the humanitarian effort at the request of the u.s. and european countries. white helmets are volunteers. >>> a woman is dead, one man in custody, this after a standoff in a l.a. grocery store. the woman store employee died during the gunman's fight with police at that trader joe's store that you see right there. the suspect eventually surrendered. police say he also shot his grandmother and another woman before escaping to the store. >>> top diplomats from the u.s. and russia spoke on the phone saturday. russian foreign ministry and mike pompeo discussed the ax normalizing relations. lavrov object to the arrest of this woman, mariia butina on what he called fabricated charges. >>> with few exceptions, the white house has been carouselly quiet about details of the summit between presidents trump and putin, but moscow ha

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i'm george howell at cnn headquarters here in atlanta. >>> a local governor calls this "d" day, a highs ago, and right now thai and international divers are racing against the clock. they're trying to beat the weather there with more rain clouds moving in and the dropping oxygen level

. >> and i'm george howell. welcome here to viewers in the united states and around the world.hours ago on twitter. >> late sunday u.s. president donald trump tweeted this in all caps. "to iranian president rouhani. never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death.

i'm george howell at cnn world hblths in atlanta.tinues to go as smoothly as we saw on sunday. the rescue efforts still set to resume soon. the four boys saved from the cave were rushed to a hospital by ambulance and by