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ICE Agent Shoots, Kills 26-Year-Old Colombian Father in Maine; U.S. Strikes Iran for Third Night, Re-Imposing Naval Blockade; Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Wants to See Graham's Toxicology Report to Rule Out Foul Play. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired July 14, 2026 - 07:00   ET

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Major new questions this morning surrounding the ICE shooting of a 26-year-old man in Maine. Homeland Security says the officer feared for public safety, but there were no body cameras, reports that the man killed was not the target of the operation.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: The biggest one-day jump in oil prices now in six years, and the U.S. just hit Iran with a third straight night of strikes. What's going to happen when Trump is set to re-impose the blockade on Iran's ports in just hours?

And there's video of an incredible rescue coming in. Army cadets jump into action to save a man from his sinking car. Sara is out today. I'm Kate Bolduan with John Berman. This is CNN News Central.

BERMAN: All right. We are getting new details this morning about the young man shot and killed by ICE in Maine. He has been identified as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero. According to a neighbor, he was a young father who worked hard to provide for his family.

Now, the events surrounding the shooting, they are unclear this morning, very unclear. A doorbell camera captured part of the gunfire.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (BLEEP). Is that a car?

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BERMAN: So, after the shots were fired, presumably, video showed Guerrero's car going around in circles as officers tried to stop it. Another video showed officers pulling his body out of the car.

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying the officer opened fire, quote, fearing for public safety. Maine Senator Angus King spoke to CNN.

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SEN. ANGUS KING (I-ME): There's a lot of law, John, on police officers shooting at vehicles, and the bottom line is you have to either fear for your own safety or the safety of others. And so far, we haven't seen evidence of that.

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BERMAN: All right, let's get right to CNN's Maria Santana, who is in Biddeford, Maine, this morning with the very latest.

New details emerging, but still, Maria, so many questions.

MARIA SANTANA, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's right, John. And what we do know is that another family in another community has been left reeling today after another deadly ICE shooting one that comes only two weeks after a similar incident in Texas that claimed the life of a Mexican man.

And what we know is that neighbors have identified the victim as 26- year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a young husband and father from Colombia, who, according to immigrants' rights groups here in Maine, was authorized to work in the United States. He had authorization to be in the country.

Now, what we have heard from authorities, from Senator Angus King, is that Guerrero was not the target of the warrant that the ICE agents were trying to execute. And according to witnesses, what they have told us is that around 7:00 A.M., Guerrero was leaving his home. He was on his way to work, was in his car when he was stopped by these ICE agents.

After that, the situation really gets confusing, murky. We don't know what happened, what escalated this situation to the point where the agents opened fire. We don't know whether the shots happened before or after the car started moving.

We did see that video where a white sedan was moving very slowly, and then you see an officer approach the vehicle. He is hanging on to the door. It looks like he's trying to open it or get into the vehicle. Then we see officers in another disturbing video pulling a limp, bloodied body outside of this car, handcuffing the man as he's taken out of the car. And then CNN did obtain video of the agents rendering first aid to the victim.

Here is what one witness told us about what they saw happen. Let's hear it.

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DANIEL BOUCHER, WITNESS: He started coming down the street again, driving. I don't know how. And then the SUV hit him again to try to -- and then that's when he stopped.

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ICE agent got out, tried to open the door and had a difficult time, but eventually opened it and pulled the guy out. His face was bloody, his head was bloody. (END VIDEO CLIP)

SANTANA: And, John, after about 12 hours, DHS did release a statement. They said that ICE was conducting targeted surveillant on the -- surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal. An illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle. ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop. The vehicle attempted to flee the scene, and fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.

And now they were not wearing body cameras, as the senator said, so we do not know what happened leading up to the incident. What we do know is that protests have broken out here in this community. There's a small memorial that's set up right here on the intersection where things happened in honor of the victim. He was a father of a three- year-old. And according to some witnesses, she was at the scene still wearing her pajamas when her father was shot. John?

BERMAN: Oh, no. And you could hear, I think, the emotion in the neighbors' voices describing what they saw there as well, got to be very troubling for the people of that small community.

Maria Santana in Biddeford, Maine, let us know when you find out more. Obviously, details in this are hard to come by. Thank you. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Yes, absolutely more to come there. We're also following some breaking news this morning, Iranian state media reporting explosions in a key port city on the southern coast of Iran. This is as the United States and Iran traded strikes for a third straight night. And at 4:00 P.M. Eastern today, the U.S. military will officially resume or re-impose its blockade of ships going to and from Iran's ports.

President Trump is also standing by his declaration that the U.S. will now become the, quote/unquote, guardian of the strait, and he announced plans to charge commercial shippers 20 percent as a reimbursement for what he describes the United States as providing safety and security along this critical waterway.

CNN's Betsy Klein is at the White House. Betsy, it seems all things are going in one direction, and it's not towards a ceasefire or any of the provisions of that much lauded memorandum of understanding at the moment.

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, precisely. There are no signs of de-escalation for this conflict as the U.S. has launched a third consecutive night of strikes against Iran, Iran responding in kind with retaliatory attacks on Gulf countries. And the root of this issue, this continued issue, is the Strait of Hormuz, that critical oil thoroughfare.

Note, prior to this conflict, there was no entity that had full formal authority over this strait, but Iran has now used this as a key point of leverage, and President Trump announcing yesterday that he was planning to re-impose that blockade on all Iranian ships going to and from Iranian ports. He also says that the U.S. is going to be charging commercial shipping -- shippers a 20 percent fee on the value of their cargo for the security services that he says the U.S. is providing in that waterway.

Now, officials have previously said that this would be difficult to impose. It's not entirely clear how this is going to work. But CENTCOM says that this blockade will begin to take effect just a few hours from now at 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time. President Trump weighing in on all of this in the Oval Office. Listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We're taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the strait, with the Hormuz Strait. And I think in the end we will end up just controlling the whole thing.

We're protecting a very rich portion of the world. We're spending money. And so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for protection.

We'll have it under control very quickly, yes.

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KLEIN: Now, Trump has formally notified Congress that the U.S. military is resuming action against Iran. He says that that action will be limited. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Yes. Also, just worth reiterating that this 20 percent toll, or however he wants to describe it, is directly contradicts the position of, well, basically the free world, his secretary of state, what he's heard, we've heard from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over and over again, and this is where we are now.

It's great to see you, Betsy. Thank you so much. It's going to be a really busy day on this front.

Coming up for us, Republican Senator John Cornyn now saying that he would like to see the toxicology report from the late Senator Lindsey Graham as soon as possible, an effort, he says, to battle against online conspiracy theories around Graham's sudden death.

And also breaking overnight, the pool has been drained again. President Trump says a new round of repair work is beginning on the Reflecting Pool, and we have video of it.

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And the grandfather who survived this terrifying attack, he's speaking out for the first time. What happened after this bison attacked him and threw him ten feet in the air?

We'll be back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) BOLDUAN: So, Senator John Cornyn is now calling for a toxicology report to be released publicly following the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham. Let me play this.

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SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R-TX): Given where he was and the sorts of things he was advocating for, I think we just start to resolve all those questions by seeing what the toxicology reports show.

REPORTER: You're concerned he was poisoned, Lindsey Graham, or as a precaution?

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CORNYN: I'm just saying he needs a toxicology tests to rule out any foul play.

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BOLDUAN: So, the preliminary cause of death from the D.C. medical examiner said that Graham died from an aortic dissection brought on by heart disease. They did say -- the statement from his Senate office did say that a toxicology report was being conducted, but that can, we know, take weeks.

Not clear exactly what Cornyn meant when he said given where he was. We do know, though, that Lindsey Graham had just returned from visiting Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv, and that he has long advocated for tougher sanctions on Russia, which is what Cornyn was likely talking about when he said advocating for.

On the effort to now fill his Senate seat, South Carolina's Governor Henry McMaster has appointed Graham's little sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to temporarily fill the role. She is expected to be sworn in this afternoon. John?

BERMAN: All right. An update this morning on the world's most controversial artificial body of water, most of the water has been drained again from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The president wrote, quote, we drained the beautiful Reflecting Pool today in order to fix the scars and damage that was done by vandals two weeks ago.

Now, a CNN crew shot video of the partially drained pool, and did not notice any obvious signs of long slashes in the recently installed lining, but we could not access the full length of the pool due to the fence that's around much of it.

All right, new comments this morning from a 65-year-old grandfather tossed in the air by a bison at Yellowstone National Park. That video is everywhere. Carl McDaniel, first of all, he's talking, which is great, says he was taking photos of the animal with his 13-year-old grandson when a truck drove by and blew its horn. That apparently set the bison off, McDaniel said, and it ran right at them.

Now, CNN spoke to a different witness. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MIKE MACLEOD, PHOTOGRAPHER: I started running over there. I stopped filming, ran over there, and a bunch of other campers ran with me, and we hazed the bison away. He ran off, and then the victim was on his side. He was complaining of really severe pain in his leg, and the first thing he asked is, how is my grandson?

Once he hit the grandfather and the grandfather was laying motions, motionless on the ground he was looking for some other threat. And what I was worried about is that he wasn't going to find any other threat there, so he was going to go back to the victim and really do him in.

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BERMAN: That was one angry bison there in that video.

Now, McDaniel, the man tossed, broke his leg in four places, suffered several bruises. He says he's going to have to undergo physical therapy, but that the injuries were not as catastrophic as they could have been.

All right, this is not a happy morning topic. Explosive diarrhea afflicting more than 3,000 people, and that number is growing, the tiny parasite that's causing really big problems.

And a New Jersey man lucky to be alive after his car explodes. He was inside that car.

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BOLDUAN: Officials in Michigan now suspect lettuce or salad greens may be the source of an outbreak that has sickened more than 3,000 people in Michigan and Ohio. The parasite behind this is called cyclospora. The infection's transmitted through food and water contaminated with feces, and it causes some very unpleasant symptoms. Dozens of people have been hospitalized in connection to this.

Let's go to CNN's Jacqueline Howard. She's been tracking this outbreak. And what's the very latest you're learning?

JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER: Kate, the latest is this is a big development that health officials in Michigan are zeroing in on lettuce and salad greens. They do say, though, that their investigation continues, so they can't rule out other items, and they haven't yet identified a specific supplier or grower that may be tied to these cases.

But this has been an ongoing situation, so zeroing in on a possible cause is huge. And the reason why it has been difficult to identify a cause here is because with cyclospora infections, it can take anywhere from two days to two weeks for symptoms to develop, and health officials say they are bracing themselves for possibly more symptoms to emerge or more cases to emerge as time goes on because of that.

And we do know outside of the outbreak happening in Michigan and Ohio, there are cases in more than half of states. 31 states total across the country have reported cyclospora cases. But the outbreak in Michigan currently has only been tied to cases in Michigan and Ohio, so that is the largest cluster of cases that we're seeing.

And the symptoms that are associated with this infection, primarily watery diarrhea, that's the most common, sometimes explosive diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal symptoms as well. And with some of these symptoms, it can lead to dehydration, which has led to dozens of people being hospitalized with this as well. Kate?

So, again, health officials are keeping a close eye on what's happening specifically in Michigan at this moment.

BOLDUAN: Right. And while they still are trying to pinpoint the source of the infection, the source of the contamination, what is the best advice to mitigate your risk? I mean, just avoid all lettuce and all leafy greens? I mean, what are you hearing from officials here?

HOWARD: Well, officials in Michigan have said to reduce your risk, purchase whole heads of lettuce. And when you do, remove the outer layers and then thoroughly wash the inner layers.

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And also, Kate, even though it's summertime, it is -- you know, you can reduce your risk by cooking your food. So, it is helpful to prioritize cooking greens if you can.

And with cyclospora infections, they can be treated with a combination antibiotic, so there is a treatment out there. But, again, this is a miserable illness, so you really want to avoid getting sick in the first place. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Yes. Those stories have been miserable seems to be a good description for what people are suffering through with this, and hopefully they get down to the source of this very, very quickly. It's been going on for quite some time.

Thank you so much, Jacqueline, tracking that for us.

So, we're also tracking this. The federal judge's scathing rebuke of the settlement between President Trump and the IRS, saying that the president tried to manipulate the judicial process with his lawsuit. Ahead, the sanctions the attorneys involved in the case are now facing.

And it really was an incredible rescue. After a car plunges into the sea, the very qualified rescuers who just happened to be nearby.

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