ivan watson, cnn. >> and ivan watson, our senior international correspondent, joins us now.oint yet. but some important context here. in these remote mountainous areas of pakistan, there are these networks of cable cars that are privately run. and people use them. these school kids use them for the they are daily commutes. they really cut down on travel time. but maintenance is an issue. there were reports that as recently as december of last year another cable car, it's a cable snapped, and there were 12 school kids trapped on board. they were fortunately, successfully rescued. the interim prime minister is has called for an investigation of all the safety inspections. and this is some welcome news for pakistan, which has suffered from economic crisis, political upheaval, and some horrific floods just last year. >> incredible. ivan watson, thank you. we'll be right back. this one wins the series.] struck out with the cheap seats? important things aren't worth compromising. at farmers, we offer both quality insurance and great savings. (crowd cheers) here, take mine. (farmer

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ivan watson reports. >> reporter: a mass evacuation of tens of you thousands of scouts, south korean government packing teens on more than 1,000 buses to flee an approaching typhoon. an escape from this sprawling site of the 25th world scout jamboree. >> it has been pretty bad. like really bad. i don't really know what else to say. >> reporter: speaking to cnn from one of the evacuation buses, these 18-year-old scouts from sweden say that they were disappointed by conditions at the camp. >> why couldn't they just plan this better. and we've been a bit angry because they knew that they didn't have the resources and they still decided to keep going with the camp. >> reporter: what was supposed to be a 12 day event has been troubled from the beginning. >> we were particularly concerned about sanitation and the cleanliness of toilets that were causing severe concerns from a health and safety point of view. >> reporter: leader of the british contingent pulled some 4500 uk scouts and volunteers out this weekend relocating them to hotels in the korean capital. >> it is punishingly hot here.

ivan watson, cnn. >>> thank you, ivan. >>> all right. the coach of the u.s.y stepped down less than two weeks after being knocked out of the world cup. that's tough. andy scholes, though, has the morning's "bleacher report." what can you tell us? >> wasn't much surprise after the u.s. women had their worst showing ever at the world cups. resigning, the coach. only lost five games in regulation over almost four years at the helm but couldn't deliver on the high expectations. the two-time defending world cup champion scored only four goals in their for world cup matches. this was after finishing a disay pointing bronze at the tokyo olympic. now, a new coach needs named quickly with the paris olympics just a year away. >>> tennis. novak djokovic first singles match on u.s. soil didn't last long. the serbian won the first set before his opponent retired early in the second set with a lower back injury. the match lasted only 46 mi minutes. and a tune-up before the u.s. open that starts later this month. djokovic missed last year's tournament because international

cnn's international correspondent ivan watson has covered the war in ukraine and president putin himselfthese flight recorders now, but they're in the hands of russian investigators. what is the latest on the work being done tonight? and will we ever really find out what's on these black boxes? >> reporter: well, that will all be in the hands of the russian authorities to reveal that. yevgeny prigozhin is presumed dead. he was on the flight manifest, as were several of his top lieutenants from the wagner mercenary group. there are already memorials that are sprung up all over russia in honor of this man. the russian president, vice president vladimir putin has come out expressing his condolences to the victims. it's not clear if putin would attend a funeral if it's confirmed prigozhin's body is recovered ton scene. as you pointed out, the pentagon, the british ministry of defense, they think that prigozhin likely died aboard the plane. the pentagon says it has seen no evidence that this could have been caused by a surface-to-air missile bringing down this plane. but cnn has conducted an

ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. >> thanks so much, everybody, for joining me today.

ivan watson, thank you. joining me now, bill taylor, who served as u.s.dministrations. ambassador, does someone who threaten's putin's power ever die unintentionally in russia? >> i don't think so, caitlan. i think president putin felt challenged. he thought humiliated. it was described well when prigozhin mounted the mutiny, that was a direct threat to putin. it was a direct challenge. just before the mutiny, prigozhin said, this whole war against ukraine was a lie, that putin have been lied to, the generals were incompetent, that there were no in kyiv. there were no threat to russia from ukraine. these are all the stories that putin had told the russian people on why they were invading ukraine. and that was a challenge to him. you are right. that is exactly what he had to do. >> when you hear dmitry peskov denying that russia had anything to do with this, what is your reaction to that? we were talking earlier about the point that if this did happen and putin didn't know about it, it would similarly reveal a concern about his grip on power and what that

ivan watson, cnn. >>> finally tonight, i want to thank the national academy of television arts and sciencesward when the news emmys are presented next month. this is a testament to the hard work and dedication of so many talented journalists whom i've worked with during my 3 y3 year at cnn. i'm so grateful to them and the academy for this honor. thanks so much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> "outfront" next, trump's inner circle starts to surrender. trump lawyer john eastman, who is one of th

for more on this i want to bring in senior cnn international correspondent and russia expert ivan watson safety analyst and former faa inspector david susie. ivan, there has been so much going on today. what is russia agsaying now abo prigozhin and this crash? >> russian state media is reporting this. this is a top story. it says that there is a private jet and it was flying from moscow to st. petersburg and it crashed sometime after 6:00 p.m. local time. that's a little bit less than 11 hours ago in the tver region. the russian authorities published a list of some of the ten passengers onboard. there were three crew, seven passengers. and they include the boss of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, and some of his top lieutenants, including dmitry utkin, who founded the mercenary group as well as one of his top lieutenants, also sanctioned by the u.s. government by the treasury department. now, the russian officials say that they have launched a criminal investigation into this crash trying to determine the cause of it. meantime, we are seeing that some of the telegram groups

ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. >> thanks so much, everybody, for joining me today. the whole story with anderson cooper starts right now. >>> welcome to the whole story. in d december of 2010, four bods were found along a quarter mile stretch of gilgo beach on the south shore of long island, new york. all four victims were young women in their 20s who advertised sex work on craigslist. they were all bound at the feet or ankles. it was a shocking discovery and it was just the beginning. over the next year, seven more sets of human remains were found in the kra. m most of them women. so was this the work of a serial killer? that's the question investigators have been asking until they got a new lead. they now have a suspect, someone who say was living a double life as a husband and father. over the next hour, we'll piece together how exactly police were able to identify the suspect and how the killer was able to get away with it for so long. >> state police. >> there's somebody after me. >> what's your name? >> shannon gilbert. >> where are you? >> i'm on long island.

ivan watson is "outfront." >> reporter: a rare moment of defiance in china.n the city of baxo. the sign says give me back my home. the flood was caused by water discharge, not by heavy rainfall. at some point, men with police shields disperse the crowd. the incident took place after deadly floods caused by the heaviest rains to hit northeastern china in 140 years. a typhoon that killed dozens of people in and around the chinese beijing forcing the evacuation of more than a million people from their homes. over the last two weeks, these three provinces all saw dramatic flooding, but we're learning that some communities weren't just damaged by a natural disaster. the small city of bajo, where the protest took place was deliberately flooded by authorities following a government disaster plan aimed at protecting bigger cities like beijing and tianjin. at 2:00 a.m. on august 1, authorities activated a flood control plan, releasing water from dams into flood storage and detention zones. they then had to evacuate more than 800,000 people living in those zones, which

ivan watson, cnn. >>> finally tonight, i want to thank the national academy of television arts and sciences for honoring me with a lifetime achievement award when the news emmys are presented next month. this is a testament to the hard work and dedication of so many talented journalists whom i've worked with during my 3 y3 year at cnn. i'm so grateful to them and the academy for this honor. thanks so much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> "outfront" next, trump's inner circle starts to surrender. trump lawyer john eastman, who is one of the architects behind the former president's efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election, arrested in georgia today. his attorney will join us live. >>> as we are learning new details about rudy giuliani's legal trouble as head of his arrest. >>> plus, breaking news, a trump employee at mar-a-lago is changing his story about erasing videos now that his attorney is no longer being paid for by trump's allies, according to a new court document. now the special couns