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Trump Takes Legal Action On Mar-a-Lago Search; New Justice Department Subpoena For 1/6 Documents; Kyiv Bans Events Amid Fears Of Independence Day Attack; Dr. Anthony Fauci Stepping Down; Long COVID Symptoms Widespread; Space Telescope Captures New Images of Jupiter; NASA Revealing Black Hole Sound; State of Disaster Declared in Dallas, Texas. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 23, 2022 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. You are watching CNN Newsroom and I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead. Ukrainian Independence Day celebrations canceled this week as he prepares for the possibility of "ugly and vicious attacks from Russia."

The Department of Justice issuing a new subpoena the documents from the National Archives related to January 6 as former President Donald Trump takes his first formal legal action after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago home.

Plus, a new in-depth study on long COVID and how it impacts the brain.

ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.

CHURCH: And thanks for joining us. We begin in Ukraine. A country on edge as it prepares to mark 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union, while still locked in a brutal war with Moscow. Public celebrations have been banned in Kyiv amid fears of a Russian attack on the Capitol. And the U.S. State Department now warning that Moscow is stepping up efforts to strike government targets and civilian infrastructure.

But amid the warnings of symbol of defiance as dozens of destroyed Russian tanks were lined up along Kyiv's Main Street. In his nightly address, Mr. Zelenskyy urged his people to stand united and renewed his call for Russia to be labeled a terrorist state.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I'm grateful to all our friends, all our friends of freedom around the world who are promoting the need to recognize the objective reality and legally define Russia as a terrorist state. If this decision will come anyway, sooner or later, and the only question is how many lives Russia will be able to take before the backlash from the international community becomes really tangible to those who are responsible for this terror.

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CHURCH: Russia is blaming Ukraine for a car bombing that killed the daughter of an influential Russian ideologue. According to state media, Russia's Federal Security Service says the attack on Daria Dugina was prepared by Ukraine special services and carried out by a Ukrainian woman on Saturday. But a senior Ukrainian official has dismissed the allegation saying Russian propaganda lives in a fictional world.

Meantime, Dugina's father Alexander Dugin is calling for "victory against Ukraine in response to his daughter's death." We get more details now from CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Moscow.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Shortly after the explosion that caused Daria Dugina to crash on a Moscow highway, her car engulfed in flames. Daria Dugina was dead at the scene police say. Her father pro-Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin looking on in dismay.

Tonight, Vladimir Putin with an angry response. "A vile cruel crime cut short the life of Daria Dugina. She proved by deed what it means to be a patriot of Russia. The Russian leader said in a condolence letter.

After only a short investigation, the Russians now blaming Ukraine for the murder. The Intelligence Service releasing this video which CNN cannot independently verify, claiming to show a Ukrainian special services operative who allegedly entered Russia together with her young daughter, shadowed Dugina carried out the car bombing and then fled to neighboring Estonia.

Alexander Dubin who some believe may have been the actual target of the plot of lashing out against Ukraine.

Our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution. It's too small, not the Russian way. We only need our victory. My daughter laid her maiden life on her altar. So win, please. Dugin wrote in a statement.

Dugin has long advocated Russian expansionism and some believe laid the ideological groundwork for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainians deny they had anything to do with his daughter's killing. Russian propaganda lives in a fictional world and advisor to Ukraine's presidential administration said and hinted the Ukrainians believe it may have been an inside job adding "Vipers in Russian special services started an interest species fight."

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The incident comes as Russia invasion of Ukraine nears the half year mark and Moscow is keen to keep public opinion in favor of the operation.

With a massive show of patriotism on Russia's national flag day in a series of events around the country.

PLEITGEN (on camera): In these trying times as Russia's military is fighting in Ukraine and the country is under heavy sanctions, it's become increasingly important to display patriotism. At this event, the organizers have brought together hundreds of people to create a giant Russian flag.

PLEITGEN (voice over): Flags in public spaces and on Moscow streets. At this massive nighttime convoy many of the drivers flash the Z symbol of Russia's invasion forces fighting in Ukraine.

Our commander-in-chief and the army are doing everything right this man says, as the pro-Putin convoys circles Moscow in a display of power, trying to show that Russia won't be deterred from its current course.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.

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CHURCH: And CNN's Salma Abdelaziz is tracking the latest developments and joins us now live from London. Good morning to, Salma. So concern over possible retaliation for the murder of Dugina has resulted in the cancellation of Independence Day celebrations in Ukraine and putting their country on alert. What is the latest on this?

SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN REPORTER: Absolutely. There's a few things that are happening here simultaneously, Rosemary. Of course, you have that accusation from Russia that this very important Putin ally's daughter Dugina was killed by Ukrainian security services. That's their claim. That's their accusation, calling it an assassination. Now, Ukraine for its part denies that. They say they have no involvement.

And as you saw there from one Ukrainian official, an indication they're indicating that this was an inside job. But regardless of the back and forth here, what this has done on the ground is it has heightened the security situation. You also have at the same time Ukrainian Independence Day, that's on Wednesday. That's of course, a major day of celebration normally, when Ukraine would celebrate their independence from the Soviet Union over 30 years ago.

And you also have at the same time, the six month anniversary of this conflict, the conflict that started with Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. So tomorrow, that six months mark. And all of this coming together to indicate to President Zelenskyy who has said that Russia may try to do something particularly vicious. I'm using his language here. And his ally, the United States agreeing with that, as well.

A recent security assessment from the United States indicating that the situation on the ground is highly volatile, that it could change at any time, the United States warning any Americans still on the ground in Ukraine to leave immediately. They are also warning that there's a high possibility that Russia may attack civilian infrastructure in the coming days. So, all of this adds up paints a picture very worrying on the ground.

And what's actually happened now is the Ukrainian government has banned in two cities, the capitol in Kyiv and in Kharkiv, the second largest city, they've banned Independence Day gatherings. They warn people don't get together in large groups. Don't celebrate, don't draw attention again, because of that fear that Russia might use this as an opportunity to strike at the heart of Ukraine.

This would be a moral victory as well. Again, this is Independence Day for Ukraine, a moment in which they should be celebrating, they should be gathering. So there's this sense that this is going to really dampen this year's independence celebrations. But if you listen to President Zelenskyy he says the bigger picture here is to continue on this conflict. He has that timeline, that larger goal of ending the conflict by the end of the year.

He wants to make sure here that Russia doesn't get a victory of moral victory by striking on Independence Day. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Salma Abdelaziz, many thanks for that report. Appreciate it.

Well, Russia's parliament will hold a special session this week to discuss ongoing fighting around the Zaporizhia nuclear complex. Repeated shelling has raised fears of a potential meltdown, prompting urgent warnings from world leaders. The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says they are negotiating with both Russia and Ukraine to arrange an inspection. But he also detailed some of the risks that come with visiting a war zone.

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RAFAEL GROSSI, DIRECTOR GENERAL, THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY: The mere fact that there is active conflict that is shelling taking place there potentially affecting not only the installations themselves, but also a number of servicing activities including the supply of energy and electricity to service the plant and thereby cool the reactors and provide a number of indispensable functions that are dependent on the whole system working normally and there is nothing normal in the middle of a war.

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CHURCH: Voices of dissent within Russia have been rare since the invasion of Ukraine. A voice of dissent from within the Russian military is even more rare. But CNN's Matthew Chance met with a Russian paratrooper who was the first serving member of the military to speak out against the conflict and was forced to leave his country.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The first wave of Russian forces crack airborne troops like we met outside Kyiv, just hours after the war began. Outgunned. These men were quickly pushed back. But elsewhere in Ukraine, others held on. Fighting what the Kremlin still calls its special military operation. Now six months on, there are very public signs of discontent.

PAVEL FILATYEV, RUSSIAN SOLDIER (through translator): It's awful to realize that Russia is destroying Ukraine and Ukraine hates Russia because of what we are doing. And that the whole world thinks Russians are animals and bad people.

CHANCE: We traveled to a secret location, thousands of miles from the war zone to meet that disillusioned Russian soldier in hiding. He says he feels compelled to speak act, despite the risk.

CHANCE (on camera): Right. Well, this is the place where we're told he's currently holed up. We've spoken to him on the phone already. He's very paranoid, concerned the Russian security forces are trying to track him down. But he has agreed to meet with us and to speak with us.

Hi, Pavel.

FILATYEV: Hello.

CHANCE: Pavel Filatov serves in Russia's elite 56 Air Assault regiment deployed to Ukraine's Kherson region as part of that first invasion wave. He fought for more than two months on the front lines he told me and was appalled by what he saw.

FILATYEV: We were dragged into this serious conflict where we're just destroying towns and not actually liberating anyone. All of that's a lie. We are simply destroying peaceful lives.

CHANCE: And we've seen those lives destroyed. Russian troops, killing thousands of Ukrainian civilians in a bloody rampage across the country. Human rights groups and others, documenting alleged war crimes, including rapes and killings. But that's something Filatyev denies witnessing at all, although he does describe how grinding battles, poor conditions, and a severe lack of basic supplies turned Russian soldiers like him into savages.

Many of us had no food, no water, nor even sleeping bags. Because it was very cold at night and we couldn't sleep, we would find some rubbish, some rags just to wrap ourselves in to keep warm. Some took laptops, computers and other technology, perhaps because their salary does not provide for them to get those in an honest way. Many robbed abandoned stores with mobile phones and other things.

FILATYEV (through translator): I don't want to justify their actions. But it is important to understand that their poor level of life pushes them to do such things during war.

CHANCE: A lot of Ukrainians feel that you should be held responsible for what you've done, and for the actions that you've taken part in. Do you think that you should be held responsible? Do you feel responsible for what you've done? FILATYEV (through translator): Look, the majority of Russian servicemen did not break the laws of combat. But morally I feel guilty. Guilty for being used as an instrument in political games, which will not even bring Russia any benefit. Our army has been destroyed. My government has destroyed almost every sphere with corruption and everyone in Russia knows it.

CHANCE: But Filatyev is the first Russian soldier to speak up. Publishing his scathing frontline memoirs on social media before fleeing his homeland. Now he's an exile and he fears a potential target to the powers he's criticized.

Matthew Chance CNN.

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CHURCH: The death toll from severe flash flooding is rising in parts of South Asia. Floodwaters are still high in Pakistan where nine more deaths were reported Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths since June to at least 225. Roads and bridges have been washed away, leaving thousands stranded.

Meantime in Afghanistan cleanup is underway after thousands of homes were damaged by flooding. More than 60 deaths have been reported across three provinces in the last month with many more injured.

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Heavy rain and high floodwaters are also causing problems in Texas where Dallas County has declared a state of disaster. The National Weather Service says the Dallas Fort Worth area has received an entire summers worth of rain in less than a day. Roads and bridges have been washed out with floodwaters even spilling into homes and businesses. First responders in the area made hundreds of high water rescues over the weekend.

The rain is still coming down in some areas, with the storms expected to move further east in the coming days. Cities in China are taking drastic new measures to save power amid a crippling heatwave, that includes Shanghai which is turning off billboards and other outdoor advertisements to conserve energy. Hundreds of high-heat alerts have been issued so far this year.

Meantime, the extreme heat and drought conditions have sparked bushfires in China's southwest with thousands of firefighters and other authorities called in to fight the flames.

Our meteorologist Karen McGinnis is with us from the CNN Weather Center. But first let's go to Hong Kong where Kristie Lu Stout is standing by. Good to see you, Kristie. So, as China's energy's sapping heatwave and drought continues what more is being done to try to save power?

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Rosemary. It really is a desperate situation and China is suffering through its strongest and worst heatwave since 1961. And officials are taking drastic measures across the country in Shanghai. You have a situation where outdoor ads and billboards have been switched off. Even Shanghai's iconic been skyline has Bund skyline has gone dark as you can see in the photographs and videos on your screen.

All in a desperate attempt to save electricity amid this power sapping heatwave. And then you have the situation in the city of Chongqing where over 5000 firefighters and emergency personnel have been dispatched to put out these bushfires that have been caused as a result of the drought and the extreme heat. According to local officials, these blazes have been put under control and no casualties have been recorded.

And in the entire province of Sichuan, a mega province of some 84 million people. Authorities there have been forced to cut hydropower capacity by half which is very significant for this province because 80 percent of its electricity comes from hydropower. So in order to make up the difference, they're now relying on the provinces largest coal fired plant and on top of that, Sichuan province, they've announced that they plan to extend or they have extended blackouts for factories in 19 of Sichuan's 21 cities.

And this is significant because it's a major high-tech manufacturing hub where solar panels are made, where chips, semiconductors are made. This is where Apple, Intel and others have factories. And because of the Power crunch in Sichuan Province, that is led to supply chain disruptions in Shanghai affecting major automakers there including Tesla and SAIC. This is China's largest automaker.

So look, this is a prolonged and intense heatwave with far reaching implications. It's been going on since June. It's affected some 900 million people across the country. And this is having a serious toll on people's lives. The economic toll is rising as well. Back to you, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes. It is enormous. And Karen, let's turn to you. What are you seeing in terms of the possibility of some relief inside for China with this extreme heat?

KAREN MCGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, Kristie mentioned a lot of those points for more than 60 years. We haven't seen anything like this and every parameter as far as the impact, duration, scale, and intensity. All of those are impacted. And just to give you some idea, thousands of cities across China, thousands of them since mid-June had been impacted by this relentless heatwave. Not just --- that it's hot, it's also extremely dry. And will it continue?

Well, according to our computer models, yes, all the way to next Monday. Now, then we start to see maybe a few little dips in the temperature, but it's not going to be anything dramatic. Look at this, Chongqing saw 43 degrees, the average high temperature there would be 33. So it would still be a hot forecast, but not exceedingly hot like we saw the past 24 hours. Take a look at that, temperature still in the low to close to mid 40s for Chongqing coming up.

And then for Fuzhou, we're looking at temperatures mostly in the 30s. Now typically, we might see temperatures in the 30s just not this hot for this long. And look at this forecast keeping those 40s in the forecast for Chongqing coming up. All right, let's take a look at what's happening with the tropics. And right now our tropical storm Ma-on is moving across North Central Luzon. It did say some reports of Northwestern Luzon seeing as much as 160 millimeters of rainfall.

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MCGINNIS: Now this is expected to move over into the South China Sea as it does, it will move just to the southwest of Hong Kong. Hong Kong should be impacted with wind and rain but will continue to follow this as it makes landfall in the next several days. Back to you, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right. Thank you so much. Kristie Lu stout, Karen McGinnis. Many thanks to you both.

Well, the state of emergency has been declared south of Moscow as far as fires intensify in Russia. Local officials have been scrambling to control the blazes and evacuate residents and personnel. Authorities gave an update on the situation Monday.

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OLEG GREBENYUK, DEPUTY HEAD OF THE MAIN OFFICE OF FIRE PROTECTION: Because of monitoring, the situation is monitored through overflights, it continues to be difficult. As a result, the number of rescuers deployed to extinguish these fires continues to increase.

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CHURCH: The fires come amid a heatwave in the area. Temperatures are expected to reach up to 32 degrees Celsius in Moscow this week. That's almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

And still to come. Donald Trump's legal team tries to play the long game, how they hope to stall the investigation after the FBI search of his Florida home.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. Well now to a CNN exclusive report tied to the January 6 investigation. We have learned the U.S. Justice Department has issued a new subpoena to the National Archives for more documents related to its probe of the Capitol riots. According to sources the request for additional material pertains to both before and after the insurrection. It's a possible sign the Justice Department is ramping up its investigation into the role of former President Donald Trump and his staff may have played in the events leading up to January 6.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports more than 150 sensitive documents were recovered at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate by the National Archives last January. And when FBI agents returned earlier this month with a search warrant, they found another stack of highly classified material. All told the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from the former president since he left the White House. That's according to the Times. Trump's legal team has asked a federal judge to appoint a third party attorney known as a special master to oversee the review of evidence the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz has details on this latest legal tactic from the Trump team.

KATELYN POLANTZ, CNN SENIOR CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER: Donald Trump's legal team has gone to court to hit back against that search of Mar-a- Lago two weeks ago and now in court on Monday.

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His team has filed a request for a third party to be appointed by the court something called a special master that can come in and review the evidence that the FBI, the Justice Department collected out of Mar-a-Lago was appropriately handled and that they have the ability to use that in their investigation.

Even more so though, Trump is requesting for a pause on what the Justice Department is doing at this time as they examine whether there have been federal laws broken related to the handling of federal records and National Defense Information. So, in his new full court filing today, Donald Trump is arguing his constitutional rights, may be at issue here, his -- he may have potential privileges that should be protected that these are things a special master should consider.

And on top of that his attorneys are laying out some details we hadn't known before, such as what happened in June, between the Justice Department and Donald Trump and his team, and specifically they are describing Trump having some agency in authorizing a search of Mar-a- Lago by the Justice Department to see where documents may have been held at that time, locking a storage room to secure them and also complying with a subpoena for surveillance documents.

On top of that, Trump's team does make public and unusual message that his attorney sent to Merrick Garland just a few weeks ago after that search. In the days after Trump said in his message to Garland, whatever I can do to take the heat down to bring the pressure down, just let us know -- let us know that is an unusual thing for someone even a former president to be sending out -- during an ongoing investigation.

Now on top of this all, as we're looking at it, the Justice Department has not yet responded in court, they say through a spokesman on Monday night that they'd like to. The judge also has not responded to this request in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, but a few caveats here. It has been two weeks since that search of Mar-a-Lago and there has been a filter team already at work at the Justice Department making sure that evidence that should not be used as this investigation continues is used. Katelyn Polantz CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: The leading candidate to be Brazil's next president is defending the integrity of the upcoming election, as the current president says doubt. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he believes the results of the vote will be accepted despite political polarization. Lula slammed the incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro as a botched copy of Donald Trump for attempting to discredit the electoral system.

Mr. Bolsonaro says he will accept the presidential results as long as it's "fair and clean." He has routinely attacked Brazil's voting system and other democratic institutions.

Kenya's opposition leader made dramatic new allegations on Monday, moments after he challenged the presidential election results in court. Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga claims corruption cartels rigged the vote earlier this month. A vote that officials say he lost to William Ruto. Odinga submitted a truck full of documents to the court on Monday, but it's unclear what evidence he has if any that the vote was rigged.

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RAILA ODINGA, KENYAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is a do or die battle for the corruption cartels who have everything to lose to the forces of democracy take over. For the sake of Kenya's future, the corruption network must not only be stopped, it must also be crushed.

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CHURCH: Tensions arising in Pakistan as police investigate with a former Prime Minister Imran Khan violated anti-terror laws. It comes after Khan threatened to take action against Islamabad's police chief and a female judge during a speech on Saturday. Over the arrest of Khan's former chief of staff who's facing sedition charges. A government regulator accused Khan of hate speech and has banned him from speaking on live T.V.

Hundreds of Khan supporters have been gathering outside his home saying they will take over the capital if he's detained.

A quick update on the dancing Prime Minister of Finland. Officials say Sanna Marin's drug test shows no evidence of narcotics. Marin took the test after a leaked video of her dancing drew criticism from political opponents. The 36-year-old leader has acknowledged partying in a boisterous way, but says she's angry the footage was leaked to the media. Women across Europe have been making Tiktok videos of themselves dancing in support of the prime minister.

Well, the doctor who became a household name during the COVID crisis and a calm reliable source of information for millions of people says he's ready for a change.

Then why lingering coronavirus symptoms known as long COVID may be much more prevalent than many of us realize.

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Back with that and more in just a moment.

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CHURCH: The doctor who guided the United States through the coronavirus pandemic and saved countless lives says that he is ready to pursue the next chapter of his career. Dr. Anthony Fauci who is 81 will step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy Infectious Diseases at the end of this year. He served the agency for nearly four decades, but much of his work was out of the public eye until COVID hit.

Dr. Fauci provided the U.S. with calm, careful expertise and withstood a multitude of insults by right-wing anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, death threats as well. Dr. Fauci advised seven U.S. presidents, going all the way back to the Reagan administration. He, most recently, filled the role of chief medical officer to President Joe Biden who praised his unwavering commitment and said that he touched all American's lives with his work.

Well, meanwhile, new research shows lingering coronavirus symptoms often referred to as Long COVID could be far more widespread than many realize. We are learning that one in eight people likely suffer from this condition. And our next guest says the only sure way to prevent Long COVID is to avoid getting COVID in the first place.

Eric Topol is a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. He joins me now from San Diego California. Thank you, Doctor, for all you do and for talking with us.

DR. ERIC TOPOL, CARDIOLOGIST AND PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE, SCRIPPS RESEARCH: Oh, of course my, Rosemary. Great to be with you.

CHURCH: Thank you. So, you wrote an op-ed for the "L.A. Times," documenting the impact of Long COVID on the human brain. What are new studies revealing about Long COVID?

DR. TOPOL: Well, there has been many, in a very short period of time, which we need, because we haven't really understood Long COVID nearly as much as we need to. One of the things, of course, is that it is more common than a lot of people realize.

A major study showed that it was one and eight people. And while it might be less than that, because of the vaccines and boosters and the different variants, it is still appreciable and it's a major burden. Many of these people, in recent studies, suggest that at least 4 million people in the U.S. are out of work because of Long COVID. And its symptoms are very substantial.

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So, this is a syndrome that we are now starting to understand its root causes, a very important study out of Yale and Mount Sinai showed us that the adrenal gland and the pituitary were malfunctioning. They were low cortisol levels and a hormone called ACTH. So, this is localized both from that as well as the peripheral autonomic nervous system to be potentially rooted with neural inflammation. That's a big help to understand that.

CHURCH: Absolutely. So, presumably, some people are more vulnerable to this than others. And if we know all of that, how do we fight the impact of Long COVID on the brain and other organs? DR. TOPOL: Well, you're bringing up a really important point, because there is a misconception. It's actually younger people, aged 30 to 50, with mild COVID that have been comprised the vast majority of those who are affected. But the main point is, it's unpredictable. And there are so many people who sail through COVID infections, but others have this protracted and are really suffer, disabling features.

So, what we really need is treatments to suppress the inflammation, to sort out certain people have more of the so-called dysautonomia of the nervous systems symptoms. Others have more of the immune dysfunction, immune system going haywire. And we need trials that test drugs that go after each of these different clusters of symptoms and the underpinnings.

CHURCH: And, Doctor, some good news, a new COVID booster shot is expected to become available mid-September here in the United States. What all do you know about that shot and what is your message to our viewers about that booster?

DR. TOPOL: Well, this is directed towards BA.5, which is the variant that has taken over the world and has created lots of trouble. We do not have a vaccine or even close that will take on this variant, because it is so distinct from anything we had previously.

So, it's good that this will become available at scale and serve as a booster. I hope we will have data to show that we developed really strong neutralizing antibodies, because that's going to be essential for it working well.

The other thing we do not know, Rosemary, is whether it's going to help block infections. It's going to help bolster protection against hospitalizations, deaths, perhaps even development of Long COVID, but we do not know if it's going to help prevent the infections and the spread or transmission.

CHURCH: Right. That is critical, of course. And, Doctor, you have also been pushing a nasal spray vaccine. Why is that so important to you? And how likely is it that eventually the COVID booster will be made available in a nasal spray?

DR. TOPOL: Yes. That really is the patch up to our problem. Our biggest problem right now, what we really need is a booster, is one that prevents infection and transmission. And it's unlikely we are going to get that from a shot. We need a nasal vaccine that achieves this so-called mucosal immunity.

Now, why is that possible? Well, we have 12 different nasal vaccines that are in clinical trials. One large trial was just completed in India in 4000 people. We are awaiting the data. But we know it was very safe. And there's others just behind that. If we could get a nasal vaccine and use that as a booster, there is so much compelling data that that is the missing link right now. So, I hope we'll have some positive news on that very soon.

CHURCH: Yes. I hope so too. That sounds very promising. Dr. Eric Topol, thank you so much for talking with us. DR. TOPOL: Thank you.

CHURCH: To Beirut now, a section of grain silos damaged in the port blast two years ago has come crashing down. This was the scene earlier today as the silos collapsed a cloud of dust and debris filled the sky on August 4, 2020, hundreds of metric tons of ammonium nitrate ignited, sparking a massive blast that devastated the city and the country. More than 200 people were killed.

And, still to come, these new images of Jupiter are so remarkable, even scientists say they were stunned. That story, just ahead.

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CHURCH: Well, new before and after images show just how fast the world's glaciers are melting in Switzerland. They are losing an area the size of Manhattan every 10 years. This is what the country's Gorner Glacier looked to like 87 years ago. And you could see just how far the ice stretches. But today, the ice is gone, replaced by trees and vegetation. And here are two more images 93 years apart. The glacier is now gone. Researchers say the world can expect to see another 60 percent loss in glacier mass by the end of the century.

Well, majestic new images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Jupiter like we've never seen it before. These pictures were taken with an infrared camera and then, artificially colored. But the level of detail here is just extraordinary. At the top and bottom of Jupiter, you can see stunning images of the planet's northern and southern auroras.

The second image is these wide field view. And you could see the faint outline of Jupiter's rings. And also, two of Jupiter's moons. One on the left of your screen is very bright. And the other, a little fainter, is to the right. Almost to where the rings are. NASA says the fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely other galaxies. Extraordinary.

And you might think space is a quiet place, but according to NASA, it is not radio silence. The space agency says while most of space is a vacuum with no sound waves, a galaxy cluster has so much gas that they are able to pick up actual sound. In this case, a black hole. Take a listen.

It's quite eerie, isn't it? Back in May, NASA explained the actual sound is way too low for human ears, so they scaled up the sounds for that tweet (ph).

Thank you so much for joining us. I am Rosemary Church. World Sport is coming up. Then, I'll be back with more news from all around the world in about 15 minutes. You are watching CNN. Do stick around.

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Although, I will say, the Democrats do have a certain amount of intensity and energy now after the Dobbs decision that might mitigate or make this race a little tighter than it would be. But it just seems like DeSantis is in a strong position.

LEMON: You think Florida is a lot for DeSantis or no?

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ALLISON: OK.

LEMON: That's for Senate, right?

ALLISON: Yes. But I'd look at it as a package, right? So, if you get some excitement around the Senate race and Rubio out and voters show up and you have young people and people of color showing up, that's going actually help in the governor's race as well. I think that DeSantis is probably trending most likely to win in the general. But there was also a pull out, I think, a week ago where people were saying in Florida that they did not want DeSantis to be president. So, you also have to wonder, and this is for independent voters, you have to wonder do they even want him to be governor anymore.

He has definitely been on the right of the right of Donald Trump right now. And I think some independent voters will show up and maybe say no.

LEMON: Well, since you've jumped ahead in the work book, this Senate race, Democratic Representative Val Demings hoping to clinch the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Senator Marco Rubio in November. If she wins, as expected, how big of a threat do you think she could be to Rubio? You were just talking about that. Do you --

ALLISON: She has a bright political future. I mean, she was a part of the impeachment hearings. She's a former law enforcement, she is from the community. I mean, she was on the short list to be the vice president for Joe Biden. So, I do think you are seeing her poll numbers trend up the last couple. I saw she was up by four points.

I think, you know, Rubio does have popularity in Florida. But I think this is a race to watch. And one thing I love about this race is that she's keeping it local. You don't hear a lot of conversations. She knows that the way that you in Florida is to get into those communities and have direct conversations. You don't need it to be a national race. She's doing great with fundraising and I think she has a strong possibility.

LEMON: It's been interesting to me to watch how she has been keeping it local. She's done a few national interviews, but mostly, she is keeping it local. And if you go to Florida and you watch, you know, the airwaves there, you'll see that she is all over the airwaves.

DENT: Well, the reason why they do that, look, in what should be a decent Republican year, you will always -- if you are the party in power, the Democrats, you will try to localize the race because oftentimes you do not want to nationalize these races. The national environment favors other party, so you will localize the race.

I think it's very hard these days to localize races. But they really have no other choice. But at the end of the day, I still think that Rubio comes through there. I think he's got enough juice. And Florida -- the trends -- I don't bet against history when it comes to these midterms.

LEMON: I agree with you. But it's surprising to see how well she's doing.

DENT: She's doing well.

LEMON: It's surprising to see how well Democrats are doing in the races in Florida.

DENT: She's an impressive candidate.

LEMON: Yes, yes. All right. Do you disagree? I think it's surprising always when I see Florida or, you know, like Arkansas or some red place, red state where I see Democrats are doing well, I'm like, what is going on? But in order for Democrats to win, even in Pennsylvania, they have to be really far ahead in the polling. I think Democrats are excited, saying, oh, you know, we are catching up or we're -- you know, we just edged them out. You've got to be far ahead in this.

ALLISON: Well, the one thing -- I saw some members yesterday --

LEMON: Because people usually return home.

ALLISON: Yes. But I think if you look at the numbers right now, the early voting and vote by mail in Florida is ahead of 2018, and that is a good sign for Democrats right now.

LEMON: Unless Republicans have learned their lesson from 2020.

DENT: Well, the big voter suppression that went on in 2020 was Donald Trump suppressing Republican votes by telling Republicans not to vote by mail.

LEMON: Not to vote by mail.

DENT: It's really dumb.

LEMON: All right. Thank you both. Good to see you. See you soon.

Catastrophic flooding turning deadly in Dallas, Texas after a one and 100-year rainfall event. Now, a state of disaster has been declared.

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LEMON: A state of disaster has been declared in Dallas, Texas with damaging rain in flooding, killing at least one person. Authorities believe that a 60 -year-old woman was killed when her vehicle was swept away by floodwaters. Parts of the city got an entire summer's worth of rain in a single day.

Here is CNN's Ed Lavandera.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: A one in 100-year rainfall event in Dallas-Fort Worth. Drenching some parts with more than 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God. I can't get home.

LAVANDERA (voiceover): The storm left major roadways flooded, vehicles submerged and some residents waking up on Monday morning to kitchens, living rooms and hallways submerged in water. Emergency officials in Dallas and Fort Worth say they've responded to hundreds of high-water incidents and traffic accidents.

LT. JOSEPH MARTINEZ, DALLAS FIRE AND RESCUE: I don't think anybody wasn't anticipating this much rain this fast.

LAVANDERA (voiceover): Sudden and drastic change in weather has stunned the Dallas-Fort Worth area after months of extreme and exceptional drought.

Since January, there has been a rainfall deficit of more than 10 inches. That deficit has been erased after a summer's worth of rain soaked the area in less than a day. These storms have been moving over the same path since the overnight hours, dumping relentless amounts of water along the way.

LT. MARTINEZ: The ground is very dry but it can only absorb so much so fast.

BRITTANY TAYLOR, DALLAS APARTMENT FLOODED: I am freaking out. My apartment is literally flooding. I just woke up and I don't -- should I call 911? What do I do?

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LAVANDERA (voiceover): Brittany Taylor says she moved into this Dallas apartment just two days ago. She woke up at 3:00 a.m. to what she described as "torrential rain" and two feet of water on the first floor of her home. Now, she is waiting through the aftermath to see what, if anything, remains undamaged.

TAYLOR: Oh, good guys, look, MacBooks can float. Yes. There's all of my childhood keepsakes.

(END VIDEOTAPE) LAVANDERA (on camera): Don, today's rainfall leaves behind some tragic news, officials here in the area confirmed that a 60-year-old woman was swept away in the floodwaters. The police chief in Mesquite says she was actually on the phone with her family when they lost contact with her. Don.

LEMON: Ed, thank you. And thank you for watching everyone, our coverage continues.

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