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U.S. FDA Could Make Booster Decision Without Advisers; Steve Bannon Indicted For Contempt Of Congress; New COP26 Draft Agreement Published; Tough Measures Considered To Battle European COVID-19 Surge; Fire Department Logs Show Multiple Breaches At Astroworld; Biden Hits The Ground Running With Infrastructure Bill; UNESCO Begins Restoring ISIS-Ravaged Mosul; Taylor Swift Releases "Red (Taylor's Version)"; Israeli Startup Designs Balloon To Capture Carbon. Aired 5- 6a ET
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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
Steve Bannon indicted: a federal grand jury charges him with contempt of Congress. What this means for the investigation into the insurrection.
How soon can you expect to get a booster shot if you live in the United States?
Plus finally free, Britney Spears released from her conservatorship but her legal fight isn't over yet.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Kim Brunhuber.
BRUNHUBER: In Washington, a major development in the investigation into the January 6 insurrection. Steve Bannon has been indicted for contempt of Congress. He defied a subpoena from the House committee. The attorney general said these charges reflect a steadfast commitment to the rule of law.
Some lawmakers say the message to Bannon and others is clear.
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REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): It sends a message that no American is above the rule of law, that the same rules apply to everyone. And I don't know why Steve Bannon thinks that he shouldn't have to answer questions from the United States Congress or produce documents to the United States Congress, when every other citizen would comply.
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BRUNHUBER: The committee is trying to better understand what Bannon was doing on January 6th and why he said this the day before.
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STEVE BANNON, TRUMP ADVISER: All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen, OK? It's going to be quite extraordinarily different. And all I can say is strap in.
The War Room posse, you have made this happen and tomorrow it's game day. So strap in.
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BRUNHUBER: CNN's Paula Reid has more on the charges and what's next in the investigation.
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PAULA REID, CNN SENIOR LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Bannon now facing two criminal charges, one for failing to show up to his deposition and another for failing to produce documents.
Both of these counts carry a minimum one-month sentence, up to a maximum one year if convicted. Bannon is expected to self-surrender Monday and appear in court that afternoon.
Now it is not likely that he will engage in a plea deal with the federal government. It is expected that he will likely fight this in a trial. He's one of the few people with the resources to fight charges like this. Not everyone can go up against the Justice Department.
If, big if, he is convicted, he would also have the option to appeal. So this could be a long, drawn-out process. But right now this will is a win for the committee. This is certainly a deterrent for anyone else who's thinking about defying a subpoena.
Again, not everyone has the money and the resources or the desire to go through a criminal process like that. Right now, in the immediate future, we would expect that likely witnesses, I've spoken to several of them, they were watching to see what happens with Bannon to decide if they wanted to continue to stonewall.
Now that he's been charged, it is likely that the committee will see more engagement from prospective witnesses. But there's no guarantee that they will get full cooperation. These witnesses will likely try to negotiate and narrow the topics that they are willing to answer questions about.
They also have the option to show up and invoke the Fifth Amendment, any questions that they objected to. So in the immediate future, it is a win for the committee and we'll continue to report on how much cooperation this victory yields -- Paula Reid, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEOTAPE)
BRUNHUBER: January 6 committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney had a simple message for others who may be considering defying a subpoena.
In a joint statement they wrote, "Steve Bannon's indictment should send a clear message to anyone who thinks they can ignore the select committee or try to stonewall our investigation.
"No one is above the law. We will not hesitate to use the tools at our disposal to get the information we need."
All of this comes as newly released audio appears to show Trump defending rioters who threatened then vice president Mike Pence during the insurrection. This is what Trump told a Washington journalist two months later.
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JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: Were you worried about him during that siege? Were you worried about his safety?
DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No, I thought he was well-protected and I had heard that he was in good shape. No, because I had heard he was in very good shape.
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TRUMP: But -- but no, I think --
KARL: Because you heard those chants -- that was terrible. I mean, it was the --
TRUMP: He could have -- well, the people were very angry.
KARL: They were saying, "Hang Mike Pence."
TRUMP: Because it's common sense, Jon. It's common sense that you're supposed to protect. How can you -- if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress?
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BRUNHUBER: So what lies ahead for Bannon after he turns himself in on Monday?
One legal expert explained the process step by step.
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ELIE HONIG, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: He'll be arraigned on Monday, meaning he'll be formally advised of the charges against him. They'll make sure -- the judge will make sure that he has a lawyer to represent him. And then the court will consider the question of bail. In some cases,
defendants get locked up pending trial. I think there's virtually zero chance that happens here with Steve Bannon because the maximum penalty's only one year and because he has no prior convictions.
Worth noting, he was indicted by the Southern District of New York on a fraud case but then pardoned. So he will be arraigned Monday. Then they'll go into motions. Steve Bannon will argue throw this case out.
He'll argue that he has a legitimate indication of executive privilege and then we will have a trial unless Steve Bannon pleads guilty -- I don't expect that. But we will eventually have a trial, United States of America versus Steve Bannon. If he gets convicted, he goes to jail for at least one month and possibly as much as a year.
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BRUNHUBER: His case has been referred to a judge appointed by former president Trump. It could potentially take years for the case to play out through the court system.
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BRUNHUBER: A new draft of the COP26 climate agreement was published a short time ago. The third version of the pact retains the aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius as well as language on phasing out coal. Joining me live now, Phil Black in Glasgow.
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kim, we are going through an extra day here. We have this third draft to look at, its strengths and weaknesses and the question, do we get to go home this weekend?
I'm joined by Alden Meyer, from the climate change think tank E3G.
In this third draft, there is still a reference to phasing out unabated coal and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
Is that going to survive to the end?
ALDEN MEYER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE, E3G: It will be pushed back very hard by the usual suspects, the Saudis, India, Russia and some others. But this is the most prominence it's ever had in 30 years.
So to have a debate on this, remember, in 2009, President Obama got the G20 leaders to agree to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. We've been seeing very little progress over the last 12 years on that. This would force a debate. We're still spending about $500 billion a year to subsidize something people call an existential threat. That's the definition of insanity.
BLACK: This spells out what the science says, which is we have to cut emissions by 45 percent. We know we are nowhere near close to that. The text is encouraging countries to come back next year with more ambitious targets.
MEYER: It is essential. We are on track to increase by 13 percent or 14 percent rather than reducing them by 45 percent. We have to turn this around and have a wartime effort to transform our economies over the next eight years. Unfortunately, there is very little signal coming out of here that countries are treating this as the emergency it is.
BLACK: The U.K. presidency wants the final agreement today.
Where do you think the sticking points remain?
MEYER: Around finance, which is usually where the sticking points are. There will be a debate over increased adaptation finance as the share of $100 billion countries are pledged to deliver every year to the developing countries. Right now, it's about 25 percent of the total. Three quarters goes to mitigation.
The other big issue is about loss and damage, which is basically suffering, the damage countries are experiencing -- hurricanes, typhoons, floods, wildfires, considering we've done much too little over the last 30 years to address the problem.
They are demanding help in dealing with the issue. And all the developed countries are offering is four years of dialogue, no guarantee of money. Initial reactions I've heard from some developing countries, that's not going to fly. That's not what they want.
BLACK: Is it reasonable for people at home to wonder, how has it come to this?
Why are we talking about this level of nuanced legalese instead of implementing the transformational change?
MEYER: Very powerful interests, the coal companies, the oil lobbies, the carbon majors, they have run a systematic campaign over the last 30 years to disinform and basically buy the votes through campaign finance contributions of politicians.
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MEYER: We're really seeing a process that's been too often driven by the short-term interests of a powerful fuel rather than the real interests of most of us.
BLACK: Alden, thank you very much.
MEYER: Good to be with you.
BLACK: Thank you.
Kim, so for all the optimism of the peace agreement and the clarity of the scientific warnings, we find ourselves here, at best hoping for incremental change and perhaps language that will point to a process going forward that could, in theory, still give us the time to do what the science says is necessary -- back to you.
BRUNHUBER: Thanks for taking us through it. Phil Black in Glasgow. As the standoff at the Polish-Belarusian border escalates, the Polish
interior minister says the influx of thousands of migrants is an attack on the European Union and an artificial attempt to create a migration crisis.
About 2,000 people are waiting to cross over into Poland and officials warn that number could double. Things at the border are tense as temperatures plunge and migrants search for food and ways to stay warm.
Polish police say the body of a young Syrian man was found in the woods on Friday. No word yet on the cause of death. Nada Bashir joins us from London.
Seeing the situation there is clearly becoming more and more deadly for the migrants in the cold, how are European leaders going to deal with this?
NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The humanitarian situation are hard to ignore. European leaders are meeting on Monday to discuss the situation at the border between Poland and Belarus.
Thousands are waiting there hoping to access Poland and get access to the European Union. Poland has been accused of pushing migrants back toward Belarus and Belarus has been accused of driving this crisis.
We heard from the European representative of the U.N. Security Council, accusing the Belarusian government of manufacturing this crisis to put pressure and destabilize the European Union and also that they are doing this to divert attention away from the human rights abuses in Belarus.
We are seeing intense diplomatic efforts on the E.U. front. German chancellor Angela Merkel speaking with Russian president Vladimir Putin to hope to influence the situation there.
On Monday, the key issue to be discussed is the potential expansion of sanctions against Belarusian companies and individuals believed to be driving this crisis and facilitating human trafficking according to the German foreign minister Heiko Maas.
Also controlling the transit of these refugees to Belarus, the European Union has been talking with airlines in countries such as Turkey to help get things under control.
Turkey is restricting travel for nationals from Syria, Iraq and Yemen to prevent people from gathering at this border in the desperate effort to make their way to the European Union.
Humanitarian organizations are calling for immediate action to be taken, for aid groups and journalists to be allowed to access this site. This situation is particularly dire. Freezing conditions, desperate shortages of medicine and food and we've heard reports of migrants being beaten or even deaths.
So a desperate situation leaders will try to tackle when they meet on Monday.
BRUNHUBER: Nada Bashir, thank you so much.
The U.S. government is criticizing the government in Myanmar for sentencing an American journalist to 11 years in prison. Danny Fenster is the former managing editor of "Frontier Myanmar," an independent news outlet that covered current affairs, business and politics.
The court convicted him on three charges, including visa breaches and incitement to cause fear or spread false news. A State Department spokesperson called it, "an unjust conviction of an innocent person. The United States strongly condemns this decision."
They are closely monitoring the situation and will continue to push for his release until he is returned home to his family.
Escalating COVID infections across Europe. -
Are authorities ready to impose new restrictions?
Plus new ways to reduce the country's greenhouse gases. An Israeli company is working on ways to recapture and recycle carbon.
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BRUNHUBER: Booster shots for all adults in the U.S. could soon be a reality. Food and Drug Administration will likely bypass advisers when considering to authorize the Pfizer COVID booster shot for anyone 18 and older.
Pfizer applied for emergency use authorization earlier this week. The CDC will still need to sign off on it. Health officials hope more vaccinations will help prevent another deadly surge during the winter. New cases are falling in some areas but are rising in about half of U.S. states.
With the holidays approaching, experts say now is the time to get vaccinated.
Health officials in Europe are scrambling to implement new measures to fight cases there. For more, let's bring in CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau, live from Rome.
BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right now the worst hot spot in Europe is Germany. They had been doing so well going into the vaccination campaign.
[05:20:00] NADEAU: But right now they are seeing about 50,000 new cases a day. They say they are directly in their fourth wave.
We are also seeing a number of cases in Austria, where they will try a targeted lockdown where anyone not vaccinated have to stay home until they get vaccinated.
In a month, people will spend more time indoors, at family gatherings. So it is alarming to the authorities across Europe that these numbers are growing so quickly right now, Kim.
BRUNHUBER: Barbie Nadeau, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
As we just heard there, in the coming days, Austria could begin enforcing the strict lockdown efforts for the targeted unvaccinated. For more, Dr. Dorothee von Laer joins us. She is a professor at the Medical University of Innsbruck.
Thank you so much for joining us. This is a novel and unusually targeted type of lockdown.
How bad is the situation in Austrian hospitals?
DR. DOROTHEE VON LAER, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK: Yes. The situation in hospitals is always a little later than the rise in incidents. We have a very strong rise, around 1,000 cases, seven-day incidents in 100,000 inhabitants.
Already the situation in ICUs is bad. And in many areas, there is not a single bed empty. So they are full. Of course the personnel working there is at the limit. And I think it is an urgent situation. It will really help to take new measures to alleviate this situation.
BRUNHUBER: A lockdown just of unvaccinated, how would that work?
Would police stop you in the streets and inspect your vaccination card?
VON LAER: Yes, well, that's what they did in the normal lockdowns. They would stop you in the street ask you where you were going or why you were outside. Now they will in addition ask for the vaccination card.
This is an experiment. It has never been done. The classical lockdowns, a drastic reduction of contacts have been done previously in many countries and shown to work. A lockdown just for unvaccinated individuals, I think this is something new and we do not know if it is going to work. And I'm not quite sure if we have time for such experiments.
BRUNHUBER: Interesting.
If 65 percent of Austrians are fully vaccinated, higher than here in the U.S. Here what's keeping the rate low is the vaccinations are heavily politicized. There is a clear link between Republicans and conservatives and lower vaccination rates. Is that going on in Austria as well?
VON LAER: Yes. We have a certain correlation between political governments in different areas and vaccination coverage and the incidents. We have low vaccination rates, we have higher number of new cases.
Also we have, like in Germany, a right wing party. Both parties are very skeptical. Of course, they have not helped in motivating people to get vaccinated.
BRUNHUBER: I'm wondering, you might not know this but I wonder if this might cause a backlash because those who aren't vaccinated will feel discriminated against. It is one thing not to be able to go out to a restaurant but another not to move about freely.
VON LAER: OK, I said it may not work controlling the numbers. But it has clearly already worked in getting people to get vaccinated. So the vaccination numbers have risen drastically in the last days. We've had many new individuals being vaccinated as in spring when everybody wanted the vaccine.
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VON LAER: So at the moment, at least it looks like it is helping to motivate people to get vaccinated.
BRUNHUBER: That's interesting. That is good news, I guess. You say it is an experiment. And other people are watching this.
Is this something other countries will have look at, too?
VON LAER: We'll see how it will work in Austria. The incidents and the number of new cases within the vaccinated group is five times lower than in the unvaccinated group. If we can reduce, if this lockdown works, we could increase the number of new cases fivefold.
But we'll see. All the other measures like only vaccinated or tested individuals were allowed to go to work. In restaurants, only vaccinated and recovered individuals were allowed. We've been trying these measures since November 1. They have not helped.
So I'm not so optimistic that this will work. Any measure is only as good as the compliance of the individuals, which are supposed to follow these measures.
BRUNHUBER: Yes, that exactly it. We'll certainly be watching and wish you the best of luck. Thank you so much for your expertise, Dr. Dorothee von Laer, really appreciate it.
VON LAER: Thank you. Have a nice day.
BRUNHUBER: Coming up, a big move by the prosecution in the case against Kyle Rittenhouse and why the judge continue to make headlines.
Plus why are these Britney fans are so happy? Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber.
Steve Bannon is expected to turn himself in on Monday after he was indicted by a federal grand jury. He defied the subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Members of the Select Committee saying the indictment should be a clear message to others who think they can stonewall their investigation.
Five hundred Wisconsin National Guard soldiers are on standby, ready to deploy to Kenosha for the verdict in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Closing arguments are set for Monday. Rittenhouse faces five felony charges in the shootings of three people last year during Black Lives Matter protests. Brian Todd has more.
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KYLE RITTENHOUSE, HOMICIDE DEFENDANT: And there were --
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A dramatic trial near is its final stages tonight, a trial marked by intense emotional testimony from the accused.
RITTENHOUSE: There were people right there.
TODD: A trial where the judge commands seemingly as much attention as the defendant, admonishing lawyers, like he did today during debate over jury instructions.
JUDGE BRUCE SCHROEDER, KENOSHA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT: You're asking me to give an instruction. I want to see the best picture.
TODD: The homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is now slated for closing arguments and jury instructions on Monday.
Today, prosecutors won a small victory when Judge Bruce Schroeder said he would add an instruction on provocation, allowing prosecutors to argue that Rittenhouse provoked one of the victims who was shot and killed, Joseph Rosenbaum, into chasing him.
Today, prosecutors also ask Judge Schroeder to give the jury instruction for lesser charges in addition to the six original counts, some of them more serious Rittenhouse already faces. The judge explaining to Rittenhouse what that could mean.
SCHROEDER: Having a lesser-included offense included, you're raising the risk of conviction and you're also decreasing the risk that you'll end up with a second trial, because the jury is unable to agree.
TODD: Rittenhouse said he understood the ramifications and agreed to the inclusion of lesser charges. The judge indicated he will likely allow some lesser charges but not allow others.
Kyle Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to six charges, including intentional homicide, reckless homicide and attempted intentional homicide for shooting three people during protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of last year following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Two of those three people, Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, were killed. One was wounded.
Judge Schroeder's behavior has loomed large over the trial. Schroeder has been accused of favors in the defense. He's harshly admonished prosecutors multiple times, including once when a prosecutor asked questions the judge had already disallowed.
SCHROEDER: Don't get brazen with me. You know very well that an attorney cannot go into these types of areas when a judge has already ruled without asking outside the presence of the jury to do so. So don't give me that.
AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: He seems to be a narcissist, likes a lot of attention, draws attention to himself, engages in these really outlandish outbursts and a lot of attention has been focused on him, his demeanor, his conduct when, in a trial of this nature, this is a serious murder trial.
We shouldn't be talking after the fact about the judge.
TODD: Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorneys have filed a motion for a mistrial with evidence, citing what they call prosecutorial overreach. The judge is taking that under advisement so we should know about that by Monday.
Our legal analyst, Areva Martin, says she believes it's not likely the judge would declare a mistrial at this point -- Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
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BRUNHUBER: Here is the background to the Kyle Rittenhouse case. It happened in summer of 2020. Protests broke out across the United States following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and more demonstrations followed as more cases of police shootings surfaced across the U.S.
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, some of the protests turned violent and, on August 25th, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men and wounded a third during a night of angry demonstrations.
Rittenhouse says the shootings were in self-defense.
In another high-profile case, jurors heard new testimony and watched more bodycam video Friday in the trial of three white men accused of chasing and killing an unarmed Black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery. One defense attorney apologized after a complaint that there were too many Black pastors in the courtroom.
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BRUNHUBER: Fire department logs obtained by CNN paint a disturbing picture of last week's tragedy at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas. Several breaches were reported throughout the day.
Thousands entered the venue without scanning tickets. Crowd surge in the evening would leave nine dead and hundreds injuries. The funeral for one of the victims, 16 year-old Brianna Rodriguez is set to take place in Houston a few hours from now.
A California judge terminated the 13-year conservatorship for pop star Britney Spears on Friday. The pop star has been fighting a lengthy legal battle with her father, who oversaw her estate and controlled much of her personal and professional life up until last month. CNN's Stephanie Elam, with more.
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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For the first time in 13 years, Britney Spears is once again in control of her own destiny. A Los Angeles County judge, terminating the conservatorship, effective immediately.
We understand, from her lawyer, that there will be some safeguards put in place, to protect her and also, to protect her estimated $60 million estate. We also know, that there will be two more court dates but those will be for technicalities.
This is essentially the end of the conservatorship at this point now. There were no objections in court, which is noteworthy, considering that we have seen her go back and forth with her father since this started playing out in court earlier this year.
Remember, in those two explosive testimonies over the summer, Britney Spears said she was forced to take birth control, that she was forced to perform. And she said she was a victim of conservatorship abuse. And she was pointing the finger at her father.
After those testimonies, her father petitioning the court to end the conservatorship. Instead, in September, the judge terminating him as co-conservator of her estate but keeping on the conservatorship until now, finally, ending this long saga for Britney Spears.
Obviously, the Free Britney band, out here, in great numbers, celebrating. We saw some people who were hugging and crying. There was pink confetti everywhere. And you can also see some people performing and singing her songs.
And Britney Spears herself, taking to Instagram to post about it, writing, "Good God, I love my fans so much. It is crazy. I think I am going to cry the rest of the day. Best day ever, praise the Lord. Can I get an amen?"
Then, she signed off from it with #FreedBritney.
When you look at how her fans have played a role in this, her thanks to them really makes a lot of sense because, without them, who knows if this day would have come as quickly as it did -- Stephanie Elam, CNN, Los Angeles.
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BRUNHUBER: The Biden administration wants to get the ball rolling on the new infrastructure bill. The plan to sell the bill to voters as next year's midterm elections loom on the horizon.
And a city in Iraq, once reduced to rubble, now seeing new hope. Mosul begins to resemble itself, four years after liberation from ISIS. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: The White House plans to hit the ground running after President Joe Biden signs his $1.2 trillion infrastructure law into a bill on Monday. Now he needs to sell it to voters. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Aww, thank you all for being here.
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Biden refining his sales pitch.
BIDEN: American people sent us here to deliver. American people sent us here to make their government work. And they sent us here to make a difference in their lives.
COLLINS (voice-over): Biden meeting with his cabinet for the first time since Congress passed his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
BIDEN: We've gathered in my cabinet this afternoon at a moment of immense hope and possibility.
COLLINS (voice-over): The president's next challenge will be implementing the plan and selling it to voters after he signs it into law at a White House ceremony Monday.
COLLINS: How many Republicans should we expect to see at the signing ceremony here on Monday? JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We will see. We've invited a broad group of Republicans.
COLLINS (voice-over): Biden plans to name someone from outside the administration to oversee the implementation of the massive bill.
BIDEN: To make sure this money is used wisely, used well and used for the stated purposes for the American people.
COLLINS (voice-over): The sales pitch from the Biden administration comes amid rising inflation and gridlock in the supply children.
KAMALA HARRIS (D), VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We need to bring costs down for the American people and in particular for working people and working families.
COLLINS (voice-over): Complicating the nationwide workers shortage, the Labor Department says a record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September.
The White House arguing that passing Biden's larger social spending will address the economic headaches.
JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Our view is this is a strong case. This makes a strong case for moving forward with this agenda because what we are really talking about is cost to American families, how it is impacting them.
COLLINS (voice-over): Senator Joe Manchin raising concerns about more federal spending as the U.S. sees the highest inflation in 30 years.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is your position currently on Build Back Better?
SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): We haven't seen the bill.
COLLINS (voice-over): The White House pushing back on those concerns.
PSAKI: This is not a bill that will add to inflationary pressure and, in fact, over the longer term, it will ease inflationary pressure.
COLLINS: And the president will sign that bill on Monday and then will go on a tour to sell it, starting in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The White House says they aim to have the president out at least about once a week, selling that bill and pitching it and promoting it to voters.
Of course, in addition to the cabinet secretaries and other administration officials, they'll be selling it as well -- Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.
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BRUNHUBER: The daughter of the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte is running for vice president next year. Sara Duterte Carpio, seen here with her father, filed for her candidacy on Saturday. Until now, she has been giving mixed messages on running, despite favorable political polls.
President Duterte is not allowed to run for reelection but some experts say, he wants to have loyalists, in high places, to shield him from possible legal action over his brutal war on drugs, that has left thousands of people dead.
The U.S. State Department, saying it is making progress evacuating U.S. citizens who remain in Afghanistan. Secretary of state Antony Blinken, saying all Americans who asked for help leaving have been offered a chance to do so, as long as they have their documents and are ready to go.
The U.S., also in touch with about 200 other Americans, who are not ready to leave yet. And officials are tracking thousands of U.S. green card holders, who also remain in Afghanistan.
Turning, now, to Iraq and a city rising up from the ashes after years of brutal rule under ISIS. Mosul was devastated by the terror group and the operation to liberate the city in 2017, which did much damage.
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BRUNHUBER: But the U.N. organization, UNESCO, has embarked on a major reconstruction effort to restore what had been left in ruins. As Jomana Karadsheh, now reports, Mosul is starting to get back on its feet.
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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the sound of music once silenced by terror, the sound of a resilient population turning the page on a dark chapter of Mosul's history, one that made Iraq's second largest city synonymous with ISIS and its so-called caliphate, one that reduced much of Mosul into rubble, shattering the lives of millions.
Countless lives were lost here. During its reign of terror, ISIS tried to literally erase thousands of years of Mosul's rich history, culture and diversity.
OMAR MOHAMMED, IRAQI HISTORIAN: As a historian it's beyond just it's being painful. When you know the history of the city and you witness the destruction of everything you have learned about. This was the most brutal moment in the history of the city of Mosul, a brutality that will never be forgotten.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): Eighty percent of Mosul urban landscape was destroyed by ISIS and the battles for liberation, according to the U.N. More than 800 years of history were wiped away when the grand al- Nuri mosque and its iconic Al-Hadba Minaret were blown up in 2017.
The monument and churches and many other sites were also devastated. But four years after the defeat of the terror group, Mosul is rising up from the ashes. Thousands of tons of rubble and explosives have been removed from these historic sites, paving the way for reconstruction set to begin in the coming weeks and months. Reviving the spirit of Mosul, as it's dubbed, is the most ambitious reconstruction campaign undertaken by the United Nations cultural agency in recent years. UNESCO's initiative funded by the UAE, the EU and others will create 2800 jobs much needed by this community.
And change is already visible with the ongoing restoration of 122 heritage houses in the Old City.
PAOLO FONTANI, UNESCO DIRECTOR FOR IRAQ: The idea of rebuilding Mosul is not just the fact of rebuilding stones or houses. But it's really the idea of rebuilding a spirit of a city that has always been a symbol of connection among the people, whether religion or culture, the city of publishing, the city of books, the city of art.
This is not just an exercise in rebuilding heritage but it's really a willingness also to bring back cultural identity to bring back the spirit of living together.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): It is that spirit of peaceful coexistence that ISIS tried to destroy by ripping apart the very social fabric that made Mosul the city it was for generations, a home for Iraq's different ethnic and religious minorities.
MOHAMMED: But historic at the same time, I chose the most is insignificant, it can't have important impact and positive impact on the people. Trust can be so the Mosul but what are the conditions?
There are many but we have to start with reconstruction.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): Visits by world leaders this year, including the first ever by a pope, brought the world's attention to the city and gave its people hope that Mosul will not be forgotten.
MOHAMMED: Just don't give up on that most of the people of Mosul. It is an important example of resilience and recovery. Don't give up on those people. They are literally rebuilding their life step by step.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): Healing the wounds of a city that is lived through an unimaginable help will not be easy. But Mosul's long road to recovery begins with bringing back to life what ISIS reduced to ruins -- Jomana Karadsheh, CNN.
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BRUNHUBER: New innovations are cropping up to help solve the climate crisis. We'll show you how one Israeli company is looking to the skies to cut carbon. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): Well, Swifties get ready, what's old is new again. Pop star Taylor Swift has rerecorded her 2012 album, "Red." The remake dropped on Friday along with a 10-minute short film called, "All Too Well," based on a track on the old and new albums.
The original version consisted of 16 tracks but the new one boasts 30. Now Swift has been rerecording old material in a bid to regain control of her earlier work. She doesn't own the masters for her first six albums. "Red (Taylor's Version)" is the second in her rerecording project.
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BRUNHUBER: Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is by far the biggest contributor to climate change. Scrubbing the emissions from the atmosphere is a key part of healing the planet. It's often difficult and expensive but an Israeli startup says it has found an easier and more cost-effective way. Tom Sater reports.
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TOM SATER, AMS METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): High above Northern Israel, a little hydrogen powered balloon makes its way up to the sky. It's not carrying any passengers but a technology created by an Israeli startup that has high hopes of removing large amounts of carbon from the air.
Their plan: thin fleets of such balloons into the sky, where they will trap carbon dioxide and bring it back to Earth for recycling. The company is named High Hopes Labs, a reflection of their mission.
What they hope to achieve with the help of a mechanism and the carrier of these balloons that separates the solidified carbon dioxide present only in higher altitudes where the gas naturally freezes and stores it in the pressure tanks that it carries with it.
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NADAV MANSDORF, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, HIGH HOPES LAB: The beautiful thing is that capturing gas is very easy when it's close to freezing temperature. So imagine when you wake up in the morning in winter, morning, and you see a layer of thin ice on the leaf and it's very easy to capture. The same thing is with carbon.
The payload goes up with a balloon connected to a balloon. The air goes through the payload and in the middle of the payload imagine some kind of pressure only the -- only the carbon because it freezes in this temperature. So and then it feels they can get it down and repeatedly every day.
SATER (voice-over): Facilities to remove carbon dioxide from the air already exist but traditional ground-based methods require a lot of energy and resources. A Swiss startup called Climeworks specializes in carbon pulling from the air expends anywhere between $600 to $800 a ton. The goal of High Hopes technology is to make the whole process of extracting large volumes of CO2 from the air easier and cheaper. The research team has already done small scale tests and found promising results.
MANSDORF: Without carbon capture direct from the air or the climate events we saw on the last few years of fires and flows and other disasters will increase and be more painful.
SATER (voice-over): In the next few years, the lab plans to launch larger balloons, each with the potential to capture a ton of carbon a day while keeping costs below $100. Another stride in the fight against the world's climate crisis, as countries pledge net zero emission goals -- Tom Sater, CNN.
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BRUNHUBER: I'm Kim Brunhuber at CNN Center in Atlanta, thank you for watching. "NEW DAY" is next. For others, it is "CONNECTING AFRICA."
