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Man Sues OpenAI, Claims ChatGPT Health Advice Led to Near-Fatal Crisis; 3 Dead, Several Injured After Shooting at Seattle Food Festival; Waltz, Pause in Strikes on Iran is Giving Diplomacy Some Space; Temperatures Soar in France, Spain as Crews Battle Uncontrolled Wildfires; Opening Statements Begin in Trial of Mom Accused of Killing 3 Kids. Aired 8-8:30a ET

Aired July 27, 2026 - 08:00   ET

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CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: And this is leading up to this doctor's discovery he had multiple blood clots in his lungs. At one point, ChatGPT told him that his brain must learn, quote, " can feel dizzy and still be safe."He encouraged his wife not to tell -- it encouraged him not to tell his wife exactly what was going on.

Ultimately, June 13th of 2025, Scott experienced this pulmonary embolism that he said nearly killed him and is going to require months of recovery. Even after that emergency, ChatGPT recommended that he not follow his human doctor's recommendations. So he is now suing OpenAI for negligence, for product liability, and also for invasion of privacy because he uploaded so much personal health information in these back and forth with the chatbot.

He is seeking undisclosed financial damages. But Sara, I mean, OpenAI in many cases is sort of defending their product here.

In a statement, a company spokesperson said, "Every day, hundreds of millions of people search the internet for health information. We believe AI can make that experience better by helping them find clearer answers, organize their questions, and prepare for conversations with medical professionals, especially in a world where not everyone has equal access to quality care. But," they said, "ChatGPT is not a doctor and should never be used as a substitute for medical care, diagnosis, or treatment."

They also said that their terms of service say that you should not be using for medical diagnosis. But you can see how this is confusing for people when ChatGPT is giving such specific advice.

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely. And using the fact that he is a religious man to try and convince him, it seems a little bit diabolical on the one hand. On the other hand, he's the one uploading all of his stuff into ChatGPT.

So the algorithm is looking at everything it can and then giving him advice it thinks he needs. It's clearly not the advice that was good.

DUFFY: An important word of warning that people should not only rely on chatbots for medical information.

SIDNER: Absolutely. Clare Duffy, thank you so much. Great reporting from you.

A new hour of CNN NEWS CENTRAL starts right now.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, breaking this morning, a manhunt underway for a suspect connected to a fatal mass shooting overnight in Seattle at a hugely popular tourist destination.

Fires tearing through the countryside and now threatening cities, prompting evacuation, the likes of which some areas have never seen.

And then wearable artificial intelligence. They say it is coming. And the question this morning, does it come in my size?

I'm John Berman with Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner. This is CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, let's get to the breaking news this morning. The search is on for a second suspect after a deadly mass shooting in Seattle yesterday. Gunfire broke out in the middle of a popular food festival.

It's an annual three day event that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors. And there's new video of the chaotic moments of it playing out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shooting.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shooting. Oh (BLEEP)!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, right here.

Get down, get down, get down. Yes, just get down.

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BOLDUAN: Authorities say that three people were killed, four others were injured, including a two year old child. We have radio calls now from emergency responders. Listen to this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anyone have a small child tourniquet size?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) a tourniquet?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For a small child.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Small child arm tourniquet.

(END VIDEO CLIP) BOLDUAN: We've also -- take a look at this video. People were seen huddling and hiding inside the Space Needles gift shop to try to find safety as all this was happening. And I'll play for you now what we also heard from eyewitnesses.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, there was a lot of chaos. You know, my brother actually got pushed, you know, and he fell. He's pretty bruised up right now, but he's OK.

None of my friends got injured, thankfully. And it was such a surreal experience.

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BOLDUAN: Police believe two people were shooting at each other at the festival and that festival goers were caught in the crossfire. Also say one person is in custody. Another is at large.

They are searching for that person right now as we speak. Joining me right now, CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem for more on this. Juliette, what are your big questions right now?

JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Yes, I mean, first of all, we'll start with the manhunt because that's important. It is clear or it became clear overnight that the Seattle police understood that this mass shooting was between people or people who were probably targeting each other. The crowd ended up just being sort of bystanders and victims.

And they need to find this guy. This manhunt probably will not take that long.

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They've got so many videos of what was happening. We've seen some of them, eyewitnesses, videos from cameras, possibly videos at the festival. That will be number one simply because there are murder -- there's a murderer on the loose, but also obviously for the city to be able to move on to the extent one can after a tragedy like this.

BOLDUAN: Yes, that's a great point. I want to play just for everyone a little bit more from one eyewitness and what they say they experienced. Let me play this.

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JUSTICE BEITZEL, WITNESS: (APPLAUSE)I heard the gunshots. There were about six or seven multiple gunshots. And then it almost sounded like an automatic going off.

And all of a sudden, I just saw a sea of people running towards us. There were people hiding behind the food vendors' tents and people hiding behind trees, leaving their items behind. And the park pretty much cleared out as soon as possible. (END VIDEO CLIP)

BOLDUAN: So they're still looking for one person. We're talking about this. Same time, police say they don't believe that there's an ongoing danger to the public.

That's sometimes hard for people to hold those two thoughts in their mind at once when they've got someone on the loose still. So that suggests what to you?

KAYYEM: They have some sense of motive between these two people, whether it's coming from friends. I mean, this investigation has been going on overnight that there was some altercation. They may have eyewitnesses there from yesterday who are telling them these two people were fighting. Each of them pulled out a gun.

But I think just the eyewitness that you just played here just shows the challenge, if not impossibility, of securing these events. We have all been to these food festivals, to these jazz festivals, whatever it is, that are un-ticketed.

And that's the challenge, because when something is un-ticketed, they tend not to have what we would call interior security, unlike, say, a football game or a FIFA game. So the city opens up. It's helping small business owners, small restaurant owners.

People come in. They decide last minute, let's go by there. They're passing by.

You cannot have the security that you would have, say, at a larger facility. But the challenge, of course, is that it just leaves these events, these festivals that are happening every weekend during the summer, much more vulnerable in some ways than a ticketed event.

BOLDUAN: Yes, I mean, this was scary to think about for anyone. I was at a festival this weekend with my kids and had me thinking about this and how wonderful it is you can just happen upon it and walk in and out of it. But it gets to this exact issue, which is the balance between securing something, keeping people secure, and locking it down so much that it's then limiting to the entire point of it, which is to be welcoming.

It's a horrible reality we live in right now. Juliet, thank you very much -- Sara.

SIDNER: All right. Thank you, Kate. This morning, global oil prices are falling sharply as U.S. and Iran have so far paused strikes for the third day in a row. No strikes from either side after nearly two straight weeks of nightly bombing. And this comes as U.S. officials, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, are warning about the dwindling supply of U.S. air defense munitions. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations also weighing in, saying President Trump is giving diplomatic effort a chance.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MIKE WALTZ, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: What the president is doing right now, as we've seen all along, is giving some talks some space. Talks are ongoing. They're happening at every level.

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SIDNER: CNN's Zach Cohen is joining me now. Zach, he also said, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., that the troops have all they need when it comes to this fight with Iran. But we're hearing about these dwindling munitions.

What's the sense of what's going on here, Zach?

ZACHARY COHEN, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: Yes, Sara, Ambassador Waltz did say that the U.S. has all the munitions it needs. But that does not line up with what we've been reporting, frankly, since back in April, when analysts and Pentagon data has shown that the Pentagon's munitions stockpile, including these key missile defense systems, are running low because of the high frequency with which they're being used during this war with Iran. And while the White House and the Trump administration is arguing that this temporary pause over the last three days is intended to give space for diplomacy, we've learned new details about a consequential meeting that took place at the White House on Friday, when discussions were being had about potentially escalating the conflict with Iran.

All of the president's top advisors were in the room, we're told. And there were some hard truths laid out for the president by both Vice President J.D. Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Caine. But then warning about potential concerns related to the options for escalating this conflict.

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And Caine, in particular, pointed to these warnings about the U.S.'s diminishing stockpile of key munitions, saying that if the U.S. continues to use them at the clip they've been using them so far in this conflict, they may not have enough for the next war, especially if it's against an adversary like China or Russia.

Now, this is just one of the concerns we're told that was raised during this meeting on Friday that ultimately preceded the ongoing temporary pause. The other concerns that were raised included potentially massive amounts of civilian casualties inside Iran. If the U.S. were to follow through with Trump's threat to strike civilian infrastructure, things like power plants and bridges, things of that nature. We were also told that concerns about retaliation against Gulf energy infrastructure and a broader regional escalation were also mentioned. So ultimately, those concerns all taken into account seem to have led to this current pause. But there's still so many questions about whether or not diplomacy can ultimately get back on track and bring an end to this war.

SIDNER: Yes, a lot of people waiting to see if that is what is going to happen next. Zach Cohen, thank you for all your reporting on this -- John. BERMAN: All right. Hundreds of thousands of evacuations as unprecedented fires spread across a continent and now head toward major cities.

And this morning, opening statements in the trial of a mother accused of killing her three children.

And the police raised to save nearly a dozen horses after their stable burst into flames.

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BERMAN: Breaking this morning. We're told the extreme wildfires raging across France and Spain are so large, they've now created their own weather systems. There are dozens and dozens of fires raging across Europe right now. Each little red dot, very little red dot on that screen there represents a fire that is burning now.

But you can imagine the impact is spread much further than the dots themselves. Let's get to CNN's Pau Mosquera, who is near the fires outside Madrid. Give us a sense of what you're seeing there, Pau.

PAU MOSQUERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, John, I can tell you that we are 20 kilometers away from one of the active fire fronts here in Western Madrid. This is the closest that we could get to ground zero as the authorities have blocked all access to the different towns affected by the wildfires. Let me show you what is happening around.

Actually, what you can see behind me on your screens is a mix of clouds, but also of smoke, because it's marking the place where right now the area is burning. But it's important to say that the fire already engulfed part of the town that we are where we are right now. This is Navas del Rey.

Around 3,400 people live in here and they were evacuated between Thursday and Friday because of the advance of the flames. And actually, you can see how the blaze engulfed part of this area because the ground is looking completely black. And all of them have been taken to, for example, shelters that are spread all around of the autonomous community of Madrid.

Or there are other cases that if they had relatives around, they have directly gone to their homes. And I'm being told, John, by the authorities that today will be a critical day. All the efforts that can be done to extinguish the fire will be, besides necessary, will be critical.

Because weather conditions are expected to worsen from Wednesday and on. Spain's weather agency has already alerted that on Wednesday we will be suffering the fourth heat wave of the summer. So this means that the temperatures are going to climb again.

And this is not going to help at all to extinguish the actual active fires -- John. BERMAN: Pau Mosquera for us outside Madrid. Pretty chilling to think that this is only going to get worse as the week goes on -- Kate.

BOLDUAN: It does not look like it's getting, they've turned the corner on this at all quite yet.

Coming up for us, a terror attack at a crowded pride festival in Berlin. What police are now learning about the suspect they say drove into the crowd and then began attacking people with a machete.

And a near disaster at the Tour de France. A cyclist almost falling off a cliff after a crash.

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BOLDUAN: The trial begins today for a woman accused of murdering her three young children. Lindsay Clancy is her name. She has pleaded not guilty, though the court details of this tragedy not in dispute.

In 2023, Clancy strangled her children, who were just eight months, three years, and five years old. She then tried to kill herself, jumping out a second story window, and she was left partially paralyzed.

Her attorney, though, argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness, so she was not responsible for her actions. And as things get underway today, her ex-husband Patrick could now become a key witness in all of this.

CNN's Jean Casarez is here with much more on this. I was just saying as we started, this is just so horrible all over the place.

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And there's so much to this. Opening statements should begin in less than an hour. The defense here is saying, according to legal documents, that she was not diagnosed with bipolar disorder and postpartum onset, that she had so many medical professionals around her, and they were prescribing so many medications. They say, quote, it was a polypharmacy, and that only made her worse.

And that led to a psychotic break, which led to a psychosis, which led to then the hallucinations, the voices that told her and commanded her to kill her children. Prosecution says, no, this was deliberate premeditation with extreme atrocity and cruelty.

According to the facts and legal documents, she had her husband go to a takeout restaurant. She called up the restaurant, ordered food -- it was near dinner time in January -- and told her husband, go get the takeout food, then go to CVS and get our daughter some medication for constipation. She then, according to documents, allegedly calculated how long it would take him to go get that and then get back to the house. And during that time period is where the state alleges she murdered

her children. And that is where the deliberate premeditation comes, knowing right from wrong. Defense says she did not know right from wrong.

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She bears no criminal responsibility for this, but her husband, key witness, he will be, we believe, potentially even today on the stand because he found her, he found the children in the basement, but the defense will be calling him also.

BOLDUAN: Wow. I don't even know where to begin with this, Jean, other than to lean on you to help bring the facts as this starts to play out today. Opening statements today, and we will just see what happens.

Thank you.

CASAREZ: We will have it live on "ALL ACCESS."

BOLDUAN: And you can watch it live, all the live coverage of this trial starting this morning on "CNN ALL ACCESS" streaming on CNN.com. And Jean will be leading the way -- Sara.

SIDNER: All right, thank you, Kate.

Coming up, one man in custody, another on the loose, three dead and several injured. The latest we're learning on the manhunt in Seattle after a deadly shooting at a popular food festival there.

Also new reporting on why the White House is pressuring hospitals across the country to hand over detailed emergency room records for millions of patients. Those stories and more.

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SIDNER: All right, we're following the breaking news out of Seattle where police are still searching for a suspect in the deadly mass shooting at a food festival near the iconic Space Needle.

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