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Aired May 21, 2022 - 00:00   ET

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Paula Newton.

Ahead right here on CNN NEWSROOM. Joe Biden is working to strengthen ties right across Asia this hour, hoping to reassure longtime allies about Washington's result in the region with North Korea watching closely.

And voters are at the polls at this hour in Australia, with climate and the economy among the top issues.

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NEWTON: And we do begin in South Korea this hour, where the U.S. President has a full day planned on his first trip to Asia as commander in chief. Now any moment he will begin the second day of his visit, with a ceremony at the South Korean national cemetery on Friday.

He said the future of the world will be written in Asia. And the region will prove to be critical in the years and decades to come. The president made those comments after touring the Samsung factory making semiconductors, alongside his South Korean counterpart.

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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're standing at an inflection point in history, where the decisions we make today will have far reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow.

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NEWTON: So just to give you a little indication of how this has gone on full, later today, Joe Biden will hold talks with South Korea's new president, with the threat, of course, being posed by Pyongyang. That will be expected the main focus of the meeting.

We've also learned that Beijing is also holding military drills in the South China Sea during this visit. Now the U.S. says there is still concern, meantime, that Pyongyang could conduct a missile test when the president is in the region. But even with those issues, the war in Ukraine is still on Mr. Biden's mind. Listen.

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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Putin's brutal and unprovoked war in Ukraine has further spotlighted the need to secure our critical supply chains so that our economy -- our economic and our national security are not dependent on countries that don't share our values.

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NEWTON: OK. Watching all of this with us is CNN's Paula Hancocks and Kevin Liptak. They're both live for us in Seoul.

Good to have you here, as we continue to wait. The U.S. President, in that briefing, Paula, I'll start with, you South Korea's priorities in a security posture are significant here, especially when we talk about the fact that we could be seeing a missile test into North Korea.

What is the latest intelligence there, in terms of what North Korea will be doing in the coming days?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, at this point, from both the South Korean and the U.S. intelligence side, they're both sticking with their belief, that an imminent launch is in place.

They believe that there could be an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile, that could be fired. Now this is largely based on satellite images. And of course, we know that North Korea is very aware of when the satellites can see the ground there.

So clearly, they could hide certain things. They could show certain things in order to try and distort what is actually happening.

But as of this point, we do believe from both the intel agencies, that there could be plans, very close for a missile launch, potentially at a seventh underground nuclear test could come by the end of the month.

I don't know if in fact it would happen while President Biden is here. If a missile launch happens while U.S. President is in the country, it would be remarkable. That has not happened before, as far as I can remember.

It happens generally just before or just after a very high-profile guest has come to the peninsula. But not actually while they are here.

So clearly, this is something that is going to be top of the agenda, when it comes to the meeting this afternoon, between the U.S. President and the South Korean president. It's worth reminding everybody that the South Korean president is relatively new to the job. He was only inaugurated a matter of just over a week ago.

And he is also very new to politics. He is a political novice. He was a former prosecutor here in South Korea. He has very little foreign policy experience. So it is going to be a steep learning curve for him to meet the U.S. President so quickly, in fact, just 11 days after his inauguration.

So North Korea will be top of the agenda, when it comes to the security issues. During the campaign, in fact, for the presidency, President Yoon Suk-yeol did say he wants more than just a military and security relationship with United States.

He wanted more of a comprehensive and strategic relationship. He wanted more of an economic partnership. And that is going to be exactly what Washington wanted to hear, what the U.S. President Joe Biden --

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HANCOCKS: -- that you can see there at the national cemetery, it's exactly what he wants as well.

And they've also mentioned COVID, of course. North Korea just a week ago, admitted that it does have a COVID outbreak within the country. Both sides, the U.S. and the South Korean side, have said that they are willing to help Pyongyang. They are willing to give vaccines, masks, testing kits, whatever is needed.

Of course, the question is whether or not Pyongyang would accept outside help. Paula.

NEWTON: As you said, as we were speaking, we begin to see the president here, who will be laying a wreath. He put on those gloves there, a sign of respect, as he continues now to inspect the guard.

Kevin Liptak, good to have you there on the ground. I know you've had significant briefings on this, in terms of what the Biden administration hopes to get out of this. I mean, talk about a laundry list here.

You know, President Biden underscored the point that security in Asia has always been complicated and yet now more so by what's been going on in Ukraine.

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, certainly so. And the president has long said that he views Asia sort of a centerpiece of his foreign policy. And this initiative to try and counter China, both economically and militarily, on this continent.

And he had been somewhat waylaid by that, by various other crises, including the war in Ukraine. He has coming to Asia somewhat later in his presidency that he may have hope and partly because of the coronavirus restrictions.

But he is here now. He is at the cemetery, as you mentioned, walking up the steps. This is a cemetery where some South Koreans who died in the Korean War, fighting alongside American soldiers. So there is a significance there for the president.

He is someone who always likes to pay respect to service men and women wherever he goes in the world. But when he met with the President Yoon the other day, there was really something of a reset. This was President Biden's first time in Asia.

The last president, president Trump, saw something of a tumultuous presence on this continent. Leaders were sort of confused by some of the things he said. He talked about withdrawing American troops from the Korean Peninsula.

And President Biden is here to really say that the United States' commitment to South Korea, to Japan and to the continent as a whole is durable and will last.

One thing that the president's aides says he is really intent on doing is expanding this relationship with South Korea, beyond just focusing on the security issues related to North Korea but into sort of a more fulsome relationship that includes trade, that includes technology, economy and sort of a bigger presence for South Korea in the Indo- Pacific.

And he does something of a willing partner in President Moon (sic). The other thing that's very important to President Biden is cultivating these interpersonal relationships with his counterparts.

So when they sit down today, of course, it will be their first time to talk substantively but it will also be their first time to really get to know each other and they have some commonalities.

So certainly, they will want to talk about those. But President Biden is someone who really puts a premium on these interpersonal relationships. And this is a relationship that he will really emphasize, going forward, even once he leaves South Korea tomorrow, Paula.

NEWTON: Kevin, as you were speaking, the president is there, burning incense. Again, as you pointed out, that joint military alliance, nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in and around South Korea, now and again an important relationship that really can't be stressed enough, in terms of how much that deterrence, that relationship means to South Korea, especially in this environment.

Kevin, I wanted to ask you as well about what President Biden is doing after this and specifically, the quad, right?

That's the loose strategic security alliance that involves the U.S., Japan, Australia and crucially, India as well.

LIPTAK: Yes, and President Biden has really kind of revitalized this partnership. It used to meet sort of at a lower level but the president sort of deciding that it should meet at the leader level.

He held a summit in Washington last year and now it's Japan's turn to host the summit. The president's aides say that this is not officially a collective that's meant to counter China. But it really is kind of an unspoken pact that is designed to show

strength among the American allies in the region as China starts to build up its military aggressions, whether it's in Taiwan, whether it's the South China Sea, whether it's on that India-China border.

And so, when they meet, there are a lot of issues that they'll have to discuss, whether it's North Korea, whether it's China, whether it's trade, which is another huge part of this trip, Paula.

The major announcement that the president plans to make from this whole trip is sort of an outline of an Asia trade plan. It's not a trade pact. It's sort of a rough sketch of what the president might want to accomplish on that. But there are some sticking points in this quad meeting.

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LIPTAK: You mentioned India. India has been reluctant to apply sanctions on Russia for its war in Ukraine. It has not followed the United States' lead. And that is something that the president will have to confront the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on, when they meet in Japan.

But there are other outstanding questions from that, who will attend from Australia.

They have elections coming up in the next couple of days, whether the incumbent, Scott Morrison, attends or whether he is replaced by someone else. It's up in the air at this point. So some uncertainties surrounding that meeting.

But it's something the president want to emphasize. This won't be the last quad summit that the president attends certainly.

NEWTON: We're seeing President Biden getting in, close to his motorcade, will be heading to those bilateral meetings. That will happen at the ministry of defense.

Paula, you've been following this. This is a new leader in South Korea. Perhaps it's optics but he's moving that ceremonial location to the ministry of defense and where these meetings will be.

HANCOCKS: That's right. President Biden has a short trip to the new presidential office. It was the Blue House in downtown Seoul. It would have taken half an hour. That was the traditional place. That has now been opened up to the public.

In fact on the day of the inauguration, President Yoon said that it was going to be opened up to the public. He was going to move into what used to be the defense ministry office, which he has called People's House. We will see if that is the official name of it going forward.

But he has said that he doesn't want to be seen in a separate area, he wants to be seen as part of the people, it certainly caused a fair bit of ruckus considering you have to move the defense ministry out of a building at a time of fairly high tensions with North Korea.

I know there has been some building and refurbishing ongoing frantically before the U.S. President came here to make sure that at least President Yoon's room and his reception room was really for this summit.

But all the technicalities aside, it is going to be a very important moment for this new South Korean president. I mean it has never happened that a president here or in many places, in fact has been inaugurated, and then 11 days later, the most powerful man politically on Earth comes to visit you.

So certainly, it is a baptism of fire for him, it is a steep learning curve. But he has, all through the campaign, as I, said been very focused on the fact that he wanted a stronger relationship with the United States.

He has criticized, as you might expect, because it was an opposition party. But he criticized the former president for not nurturing that alliance enough and for letting it, he believed, go to the wayside because he was pushing for engagement with North Korea.

So what we are seeing in this new South Korean president is a desire for a far more comprehensive partnership. He wants it to go beyond just the military and the security guarantees. Of course there are some 28.500 U.S. troops stationed here in South Korea.

So it will always be rooted in a military security sense. But he wants to have the economic partnerships. The fact that President Biden's first stop on this trip was the Samsung semiconductor plant in Pyontech (ph) was very telling. The fact that right from the start, these two presidents were seen in an economic background. Paula.

NEWTON: Right, and the emphasis on alliance, right, because Samsung does have those kinds of facilities and is building them in the United States as well. I guess it is a partnership everyone here wants to underscore.

Paula Hancocks, Kevin Liptak, thank you so much, we will continue to check in with in the coming hours. Again, we have a press conference in fact in less than three hours now with President Biden and the president of South Korea. We will bring it all to live. Again, thanks so much for staying with us through this analysis. Appreciate it.

Turning now to Ukraine, the situation at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Russia claims more than 530 Ukrainian forces were surrendered on Friday, after the Ukrainian commander there ordering his fighters to stop defending the city.

CNN cannot confirm if all Ukrainians have left that massive industrial site. Russia says hundreds of Ukrainians are now being held at a former penal colony in Russian held territory of Ukraine. The wives of some of those who surrendered spoke out on Friday.

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NATALIA ZARYTSKA, WIFE OF AZOV FIGHTER (through translator): Today, we have connection with our husbands.

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ZARYTSKA (through translator): Someone texted two days ago. Someone texted two hours ago. Now they are on their way from hell to hell. Every inch of this path is deadly.

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NEWTON: Now Russia says the Ukrainian commander was taken away from Azovstal in an armored vehicle. In the meantime at least seven people, including a young girl, were reported wounded on Friday by a Russian airstrike on a cultural center. Now it happened in the town of Lozova (ph) near Kharkiv.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the building had just been renovated. He called the attack the epitome of Russian evil and stupidity.

Now a Ukrainian judge could hand down a verdict on the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier since the war in Ukraine began. The 21-year-old tank commander has pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting, in northeast Ukraine, on the fourth day of the war.

But Vadim Shyshimarin now says he was nervous and in fact regrets his actions. His lawyer says the court should blame Russia's leadership instead.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The leadership of the Russian Federation is to blame for this war, not this boy. He was trying to save his own life, especially from the threat that came from his fellow servicemen.

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NEWTON: The soldier testified he didn't want to kill an unarmed civilian and only did so under direct orders. Now on Thursday he told the man's widow he was sorry for killing her husband. Prosecutors are asking he receive a life sentence.

Coming up for us, Australians are lining up and making their choices Saturday in an election that will determine the country's next leader. The latest in a live report after the break.

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NEWTON: More than 17 million are expected to cast ballots Saturday in Australia. The incumbent prime minister Scott Morrison is seeking reelection for his center right coalition government. Now his biggest opponent is, of course, the Labor Party that is headed by veteran Anthony Albanese.

Now for more, we are joined by CNN's Anna Coren, who is tracking all of this for us.

Anna, was it a really interesting election here and it could be a real watershed for Australians in so many ways, not just from domestic place but also where this will leave Australia's place in the world and, obviously, crucially where it leaves the time as well --

ANNA COREN, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Climate change is a huge issue for Australians. We are expected a lot of support for new independent candidates who made this their primary issues.

The liberal coalition under Scott Morrison have been in power since 2013. He is looking for another term. He is definitely an uphill battle, facing him. There is no doubt about it.

Now according to the polls, he certainly is trailing the opposition leader, Labor leader Anthony Albanese. The reason for this, Paula, is that people have just had enough. They are sick and tired with the coalition government. They think Morrison is smug, arrogant, out of touch.

Economic management and cost of living is a huge issue for Australians. You are seeing inflation, rising interest rates, we are seeing fuel prices go up at the pump. You know, housing prices, these are issues that obviously affect Australians day-to-day.

But even though the coalition is known for its economic management, the voters are just, as I say, sick and tired of this arrogance. Anthony Albanese is not necessarily a popular leader, either, but people are really willing to give him a chance, because his vote a short time ago, let's have a listen to what he said.

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ANTHONY ALBANESE, AUSTRALIAN OPPOSITIONL LEADER: My message is I want to represent all Australians. I want to unite the country. There has been a lot of division in recent times. It is one of my criticisms of the current government.

Scott Morrison looks for division and difference rather than unity and common purpose. I want to bring people together. And regardless of how people vote in our great democracy, it is good that people express their views. Once it is done, then we know to unite and to move forward as (INAUDIBLE) that we can.

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COREN: Paula, our producer who was at that press conference said that he saw a different Anthony Albanese, one who seemed to step into that leadership role, which is what he's going to have to do. He has been in opposition for many, many years. It is time for him to take this position. But I guess we will know. Voting ends at 6 pm in Australia. The

experts are saying this could be close, it could be on parliament, in which case it could take days before we know a result. But certainly, the polls indicate that Labor is in the lead.

NEWTON: Anna, thanks so much for that, we will certainly wait to hear.

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NEWTON: Because whoever wins the Australian election will be very soon off to meet Joe Biden on this Asia tour in Japan. Anna, thank you so much.

We will return now to coverage of Joe Biden who is in Seoul. We are awaiting him. He has just arrived there at the ministry of defense. You see our video there. He will be having a bilateral meeting and a press conference with the new leader of South Korea.

U.S. intelligence has said that they do believe that it could be likely that North Korea will try some other kind of missile test or nuclear test during this visit. Also on the agenda a strengthened, not just deterrence but obviously South Korea's readiness as well. We will bring you all of that in just a moment.

For our U.S. -- for our international viewers, "AFRICAN VOICES: CHANGEMAKERS" is next. For everyone else, I will be right back after the break.

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NEWTON: Thank you for watching here in the United States and in Canada. Thanks for your company. I'm Paula Newton. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM.

Returning now to our top story, Joe Biden is in South Korea for the second day of his first trip to Asia since taking office. A short time ago he attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the national cemetery. Now he's taking part in a state arrival ceremony at the Korean ministry of national defense before holding talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.

High on the agenda are provocations by North Korea. The State Department says there are still concerns that Pyongyang may conduct a missile launch while Mr. Biden is in the region. If that were to happen, the president and his South Korean counterpart have made plans over how they would jointly respond.

Turning to other news now. Concerning developments in the global spread of the monkeypox virus. According to the World Health Organization, there are at least 80 confirmed cases of the disease and 50 suspected cases worldwide.

On Friday, Sweden and Germany reported their first cases. Officials in New York City say one patient is being treated as presumptive positive for monkeypox. The WHO says the outbreak, reported across 11 countries so far, are atypical as they're occurring in areas are where the disease isn't normally found.

Now going to the latest updates on COVID-19 and some troubling news from the White House COVID czar. Dr. Ashish Jha believes COVID cases are being substantially undercounted, of course, due to those home tests that everyone is taking.

That means cases could be even higher than the more than 100,000 average daily cases recorded by Johns Hopkins University. Infections have more than doubled over the past month and are trending up in all but three states.

Recent data from the CDC shows that people who are unvaccinated have a risk of dying from COVID 17 times higher than those who are fully vaccinated with a booster. Unvaccinated people were also about twice as likely to test positive for COVID-19 in March and April than unvaccinated people (sic).

Dr. Scott Miscavige is a national consultant for COVID testing and joins me now from Hawaii.

I'm glad to see you again, Doctor, although I really wish we weren't continually having these conversations. I want to get first to that issue of the testing. I mean, I have to be honest with you. I don't know anyone who's tested positive in the last few weeks, who's told anybody about it, except for work and friends and stay at home and isolate. Definitely it has to be an undercount. You say, though, this is also meaning a failure for public health policy right now.

Why?

DR. SCOTT MISCOVICH, FAMILY PHYSICIAN AND NATIONAL CONSULTANT: Yes. I mean, I do believe, Paula -- good to see you again. I do believe that we are seeing a minimum of five to seven times the number of cases that are currently out there.

If you look at the University of Washington who does this data collection, one of the top in the world, they're saying we're only collecting 13 percent of positives. I mean, that's outrageous. In the field where we have teams, I totally agree with that estimate.

Now why is this a failure?

Right now, from a perspective of the public health -- protecting the public, we should be standing back and standing up the mitigation measures we know work.

How simple is it to wear a mask?

But you go into the grocery stores or outside, it's getting more rare to see people with masks out there. So things like masks, things like encouraging testing and the appropriate use of the types of tests that we need, having masks on airplanes or indoor public gatherings, we're just not seeing it anymore.

We need to get the word out to the public that we are still in a pandemic. And we will still be in a pandemic at least another year. The politicians, because we're in an election year in the United States, and business interests have basically said, we're on our own. So I think public health policy would predict something else.

NEWTON: But at this point do you feel that perhaps people are maybe stepping ahead of where public health policy is, even if it's for everyone's own good?

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NEWTON: People are tired of wearing masks. But more than that, if you're saying that this is a severe underestimate in terms of how many people are testing positive, then hospitalizations are quite low comparatively.

MISCOVICH: Absolutely. I don't want to underestimate the fact that we have made massive progress. The vaccines work to keep you out of the hospital, to keep you away from severe disease and to prevent death.

Now we are starting to see that waning immunity we've been talking about and we have the new variants, especially the BA.4 and ba.5, which the European CDC now has changed to be variants of concern. We definitely have to push the vaccinations.

Then the other good news, Paula, is treatment. And we have the pills that we can give our patients just as an outpatient. And then we have the monoclonal antibodies. We could use them a lot more. Yes, there are positives.

But we are in a major surge right now that, if you really look at those numbers, we're probably past where the Omicron surge was but very fortunate, across the country, we're not seeing a lot of hospitalizations or deaths.

NEWTON: In a sense that we're getting a real look into how this virus has changed. The CDC is recommending everyone over the age of 50 get that fourth shot, even if you are not medically compromised and perfectly healthy.

I think it's important we talk to people about the monkeypox cases showing up more and more around the world. Look, when I look at this -- and I've spoken to public health officials in Canada, because we had at least 2 dozen suspected cases there; only two confirmed, though -- this is not highly transmissible. It's not spreading wildly.

Is there really a cause for concern?

Sure, we keep an eye on it. But there isn't a sense of panic here.

Should there be? MISCOVICH: No, there should not be a panic based on what we know about monkeypox because monkeypox has a lot more direct contact transmission, whether it's fluids; there is sexual transmission associated with it. You can get it from sheets and towels but it doesn't have those little respiratory droplets that make COVID so contagious.

You can but you need a lot of them to get it. Now one little warning: we are starting to see, as these cases increase, people who do not have contact that are coming up positive. So that's why there's a big caution on this.

Normally we would see people coming out of Africa, Guiana or some areas that would be transmitted but we're seeing cases that have no association with any travel or being associated with a term we all know, contact tracing, associated with monkeypox.

So you know, don't be terrified of it because it's still difficult to transmit, compared to COVID-19. But we need to watch it and keep studying, as we are across the world.

NEWTON: Once again, public health policy front and center and another virus there. Dr. Scott Miscovich, good to have you here as we continue to make our way through this pandemic. Appreciate it.

MISCOVICH: Thank you.

NEWTON: Now the U.S. state of Oklahoma could soon have the strictest abortion laws in the nation, essentially banning all abortions with very few exceptions. The bill now needs to be approved by Oklahoma's Republican governor. CNN's Lucy Kafanov has more.

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GOV. KEVIN STITT (R-OK): We believe life begins at conception and we're going to protect life in Oklahoma.

LUCY KAFANOV, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Republican Governor Kevin Stitt not mincing his words, making good on his promise to make Oklahoma the most anti-abortion state in the country.

Oklahoma lawmakers passing a bill on Thursday that would ban abortions at fertilization, making it one of the nation's most far-reaching abortion prohibition prohibitions, adding to a growing number of Republican leaning states advancing strict measures in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe versus Wade.

WENDI STEARMAN (R-OK), STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE: This bill does not preclude any other programs seeking to help women and children in difficult times. What this bill does is protect life.

KAFANOV (voice-over): The bill sparked immediate pushback from state Democrats.

CYNDI MUNSON (D), OKLAHOMA STATE HOUSE: People will die. Women will die because they cannot access a procedure that they need to save their own life. And it will be on our conscience.

KAFANOV (voice-over): Vice President Kamala Harris calling it the latest in a series of blatant attacks on women by extremist legislators while on Thursday offering a grim preview of a post-Roe America.

KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It represents a threat not just to women but all Americans. At its core, this is about our future at a nation.

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HARRIS: About whether we live in a country where the government can interfere in personal decisions.

KAFANOV (voice-over): Oklahoma's bill would ban abortions at any stage of pregnancy. Unless it was a result of rape, sexual assault or incest but only if those crimes had been reported to law enforcement.

While there are exceptions for medical emergencies, it effectively prohibits almost all abortions in the state. It relies on private citizens for enforcement, allowing them to sue any individual who knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs through insurance or otherwise.

RABIA MUQADCAM, SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY, CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: This law was designed to bring frivolous and harassing lawsuits. It's basically an all-access pass to the courthouse to bring a lawsuit against somebody for something that you think may be taking place.

KAFANOV (voice-over): The bill now heads to Governor Stitt's desk, who has promised to sign any legislation that limits abortion. Just last month, he signed a bill modeled after a Texas legislation that prohibits abortions as early as six weeks, before many women even know they're pregnant.

The measure does allow for exceptions in medical emergencies.

STITT: Other states can do things differently but we're going to stand for life in the state of Oklahoma.

KAFANOV: Here in rural Oklahoma, women are already severely limited in terms of their options of access to abortion. There are only four clinics in this entire state that offer abortion services. Two of them stopped provided abortions earlier this month.

Once Governor Stitt signs this bill into law, this near total abortion ban, it goes into effect immediately and that's when the other two clinics will cease providing abortions, leaving Oklahoma women with no options in the state -- Lucy Kafanov, CNN, Oklahoma.

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NEWTON: Coming up, Buffalo begins the heart-wrenching task of burying the victims of the racist massacre that left 10 people dead. We'll have a report from Buffalo right after the break.

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NEWTON: A setback for the Biden administration: a federal judge in Louisiana has blocked it from ending a Trump-era restriction on an immigration law called Title 42. Now it's a measure instituted during the pandemic that allows authorities to turn migrants away from the border.

Last month, the CDC announced plans to end it because of the availability of vaccines and other COVID-fighting tools. The White House says they will appeal that ruling.

The U.S. Justice Department says it will use every legal tool it has to combat hate crimes in the country as the investigation into the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, moves forward. The news came as the heartbreaking work of laying the victims to rest has begun.

CNN's Brian Todd is in Buffalo, where the community is remembering the lives of those lost to hate.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An outpouring of support at the first funeral in Buffalo in the weak of Saturday's supermarket shooting. One of the 10 victims, Heyward Patterson, a church deacon and jitney driver, was honored by friends, parishioners and the community.

GERALD SLACK JR., FRIEND OF BUFFALO SHOOTING VICTIM: When Patterson got shot, he was actually loading groceries into the back of a vehicle, helping somebody else.

TODD: Another friend says the community is angry but --

Can you forgive this gunman?

GENEVA SMITH-JOHNSON, FRIEND OF BUFFALO SHOOTING VICTIMS: I have to.

TODD: Some people would argue you don't have to.

JOHNSON: Yes, yes. Well, I'm a Christian. You have to. It's mandatory for us.

TODD: The Buffalo suspect's racism was evident during a previous visit to the store, according to an employee who survived the shooting.

ROSE WYSOCKI, TOPS STORE PRODUCE MANAGER: He told me I looked like I didn't belong there. I said what do you mean by that?

You look like you belong in the suburbs store. Then under his breath I could hear him say just another -- lover. I thought you're just rude.

TODD: Another employee who survived told CNN she called 911 and the operator scolded her for whispering.

LATISHA ROGERS, TOPS STORE ASSISTANT OFFICE MANAGER: I gave her the address and said please send help. There's a person in the store shooting. She proceeded to tell me, what, I can't hear you?

Why are you whispering?

You don't have to whisper. They can't hear you.

TODD: She dropped her phone and said she was disconnected.

ROGERS: I laid down flat on the floor and got against the counter praying he didn't see me and during this whole time, it's just constant just shooting. He won't stop. It's constantly going.

And as I hear him getting closer, I just pressed myself like trying to be as flat as I can on the ground and up against the counter praying to God he wouldn't see me.

TODD: Now in addition to the profound grief that this community is feeling, as you can see here with this mural, there is also the potential for economic fallout.

Several people in this community told us that it took local leaders years to get this Tops Store established in this neighborhood right here. And after it did, other businesses like local banks and other businesses followed right after that.

They're now worried that even after this Tops store reopens as promised, that the economic viability of this neighborhood could really take a nose dive -- Brian Todd, CNN, Buffalo, New York.

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NEWTON: A flat day on Wall Street to close the week. But what's worrying people is eight weeks of losses on the Dow. The S&P 500 briefly touched bear market territory on Friday, slipping more than 20 percent from its record high in January.

This is all being fueled by investors, who are getting increasingly spooked about inflation and the possibility of a recession.

A rare tornado devastates a community in Michigan. We'll bring you the latest from that developing story when we return.

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(MUSIC PLAYING) NEWTON: At least one is dead and dozens hospitalized after a damaging

tornado touched down in Gaylord, Michigan. The state's governor has declared a state of emergency. Look at these pictures.

A city council member says the tornado took out an insane amount of buildings. You can see why there. Right through the community. Adding that the town is devastated.

And they are in. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station on Friday. The unmanned test mission was beset with technical issues, including two failed launch attempts.

But a third time proved to be the charm and Boeing is hoping their shuttles can ferry astronauts to the space station by the end of the year.

And back here on Earth, internet could soon be coming to the Amazon rain forest thanks to Elon Musk. Shasta Darlington has more from Sao Paulo.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met with Elon Musk in Brazil on Friday. They appeared on a stage together at a luxury hotel about two hours outside of Sao Paulo and discussed economic development and protection of the Amazon.

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DARLINGTON (voice-over): Bolsonaro is a strong proponent of mining and economic development in the rain forest arguing it's the best way to protect the Amazon.

During his administration, however, illegal deforestation has surged and environmental activists have accused him of making it easier for farmers to encroach on protected land.

For his part, Musk tweeted that he was, quote, super excited to use his Starlink satellite network to provide environmental monitoring in the Amazon and to extend internet coverage to 19,000 schools in remote areas.

At a press conference during their meeting, Bolsonaro also called Musk's plan's to take over of Twitter a, quote, "breath of hope." Musk has cast doubt on the deal but Twitter's board says the agreement remains in effect.

Bolsonaro has been repeatedly reprimanded by social media platforms for what they have determined was misinformation as well as breaking their rules --Shasta Darlington, CNN, Sao Paulo.

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NEWTON: I'm Paula Newton. I'll be right back in just a few minutes with more news.