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Governor Brian Kemp Testifies After November Elections; Republican Candidates Wary of Voter's Opinion on Abortion; Moscow Underestimate Ukraine's Counteroffensive; Protest in Baghdad's Green Zone Killed 10 People; Rampant Shootings in U.S. Killed Dutch Soldier; Mississippi Under State of Emergency; Heavy Flooding Damaged Billions' Worth in Pakistan; NASA Postponed Artemis 1 Launch. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired August 30, 2022 - 03:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You are watching CNN Newsroom. And I'm Rosemary Church.

Just ahead, new details are emerging about the U.S. Justice Departments review of document seized from Mar-a-Lago while an investigation into election meddling in Georgia is ramping up. We will discuss the implications of these probes surrounding former President Donald Trump.

It appears Ukraine's promise counteroffensive has begun as its forces seek to reclaim territory lost to the Russians in the south. But Moscow calls the effort a miserable failure. We are live in the Russian capital for the latest on the war.

And NASA's long-awaited mission to the moon is scrub for now, at least. The latest on the issue that's keeping Artemis 1 grounded and when the lift off could happen.

UNKNOWN: Live from CNN center, this is CNN Newsroom with Rosemary Church.

CHURCH: Good to have you with us.

We are following dramatic new details in relation to classified documents stored inside former U.S. President Donald Trump's Florida home. Multiple sources tell CNN the intelligence community has been working with the FBI since mid-May to determine the level of the document secrecy.

The review has allowed the agencies to determine whether any immediate efforts are needed to protect intelligence sources and methods. This, in addition to the damage assessment U.S. intelligence officials are conducting to determine if national security was put at risk by Trump's handling of the documents.

We've also learned some of the seized documents may contain material covered by Trump's attorney-client privilege.

CNN's Sara Murray has more on this developing story from Washington.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Justice Department suggesting it's already well underway in digging through boxes of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

SHAN WU, FORMER U.S. FEDERAL PROSECUTOR: Their point is well taken, which is, this is too late. We're already looking at this material and we've got a process in place to protect it.

MURRAY: In a new court filing DOJ says it has identified a limited set of materials that could contain attorney-client privilege information. The progress report coming after former President Donald Trump's team asked a judge for a special master to oversee the review of evidence uncovered in the search.

JAMES TRUSTY, DONALD TRUMP'S ATTORNEY: We have a lot of problems really accepting everything at face value that's coming out of DOJ these days. It's a very politicized place, I'm sad to say. And there's still a need for a judge to get involved on, on every aspect of this.

MURRAY: This, as the fallout continues over how Trump handled classified documents after leaving office.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): This guy, we now know 184 classified documents, 25 of them top secret. And by the way, countries that want to do us harm want to see these documents.

MURRAY: Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines telling Congress officials are conducting a damage assessment of the document seized from Mar-a-Lago, including an assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of relevant documents.

DOJ saying in its court filing, it's working alongside intelligence officials to facilitate a review of classified materials.

REP. ADAM KINZINGER (R-IL): This is disgusting in my mind. And like this, no president should act this way obviously.

MURRAY: Some of Trump's closest allies meantime, are leaping to his defense, like South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): I'll say this. If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle --

MURRAY: Who suggested a Trump indictment would set political tensions a flame --

GRAHAM: -- there'll be riots in the streets.

MURRAY: While New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu questions the timing of the Mar-a-Lago search.

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU (R-NH): Former President Trump has been out of office for going on two years now. Where -- why, I think this is a coincidence just happening a few months before the midterm elections and all that sort of thing. So, you know, this is unprecedented.

MURRAY: Republican Senator Roy Blunt also raising concerns about the timing, but admitting Trump should have returned the documents immediately.

SEN. ROY BLUNT (R-MO): I understand he turned over a lot of documents. He should have turned over all of them. I imagine he knows that very well now, as well.

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MURRAY (on camera): Now, when it comes to that potentially privileged material that came out of the search at Mar-a-Lago, a judge has said she's inclined to appoint a special master in this situation, but she's having a hearing on the issue on Thursday.

Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp will have to testify before a ground jury investigating election meddling but he can wait until after the November midterm election. Kemp wanted his subpoena quashed altogether, but a judge has ruled his claim of sovereign immunity applies in civil not criminal actions.

Meanwhile, the Fulton County district attorney's office is slamming Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for what it calls his extreme position in wanting his subpoena quashed. Georgia's secretary of state says Graham called election officials in 2020, suggesting they throw out votes in counties that Joe Biden won.

I want to bring in Michael Moore. He is a former U.S. attorney and a partner at the Moore Hall Law Group here in Atlanta. Good to have you with us.

MICHAEL MOORE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY, MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA: Glad to be here.

CHURCH: So, let's start with the special grand jury investigation into Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia. A federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp must testify in that investigation, but he can wait until after the November midterm elections.

What's your reaction to that delay and how significant will Kemp's testimony be once he actually gives it.

MOORE: Well, I'm glad to be with you. And I was interested to see Judge Reinhart's ruling on that case. As you know, he's been supervising a special grand jury here. And he essentially told the governor that some of his claims did not matter that he was not above having to appear by subpoena in a criminal case.

But that there could be some negotiation about specific areas that might be out of bounds for the prosecutor to ask. What I thought was probably the most interesting part of the order was his suggestion that this would not be politicized. As you know, Kemp is up for reelection in November and it's -- and the timing is a little bit suspect here.

I suggest insisting that he appear here just weeks before the election. And it's not unusual because we saw the same type of thing from the D.A. when she, you know, had named one of her associates opponents in the election as a target and attempted to bring him before the grand jury as well here just before the election.

So, I thought, I think the judge is keeping a good finger on the case, to make sure that nobody abuses their authority. But at the end of the day, this delay, because she has a period of time, she's already been granted until May, I believe of next year, at least sometime in the spring of 2023 for the grand jury to operate.

But she'll be able to get the testimony in. This short delay should not in fact her ability at least to present the case for consideration. And I think was the right move by the judge.

CHURCH: So ultimately when that happens, what do you expect to come out of this special grand jury investigation, and how strong is the case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn George's election results?

MOORE: The -- I really think that she'll probably be interested in specific threats perhaps made to the governor about what might happen in the state or conversations in that way, either from Trump or from people close to him in his inner circle. I think that's the type of information she's likely looking for.

The case as you know, has been, because there's this tape recording there -- there was a fairly clear cut at easy case for them to make on the tape recording alone. It's almost like having a tape-recorded confession because he suggests that he has won the election and the secretary of state needs to find him these votes. And you know, and the vote total that he asked for is one vote more than the number of votes that he lost the state by.

And he mentions criminal -- criminal charges, or perhaps a criminal case involving the secretary if he doesn't do these things. And so, there's some clear intimidation there. And we know from prior statements made by the secretary of state that those were considered to be intimidating in a way.

CHURCH: And as this plays out, there are new developments in the legal battle over the FBI's search and seizure of classified documents at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The U.S. Justice Department has identified a small portion of those documents as potentially containing material covered by attorney-client privilege.

So, how likely is it that a special master will be appointed to undertake that very same task as the Trump lawyers have requested with a ruling on that expected this Thursday?

MOORE: Well, there's nothing particularly unusual about asking for a special master. What's unusual here is the length of time it took for the Trump legal team to ask the court to bring a special master, and so that the documents were not just simply being reviewed by the FBI.

CHURCH: Why do you think it did take them so long? Do you think this is just trying to play for more time or what what's going on here?

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MOORE: Well, I mean, there are some -- there's some reports about some difficulties maybe that the former president had in securing some legal counsel. I don't know that other than the public reporting. But I think it was a mistake from a client representation angle to wait that long before you made the motion. This is something that should have been done immediately, and typically would be done immediately if in fact, the documents that could -- that they contain privilege information were already being reviewed.

And so, I was a little surprised. I think, you know, there was nothing wrong at all with making the motion. The problem is that they waited too long to make it. So, as I say, these are looking for attorney- client privileged information. We already know they found some of that in their review. They seem to have reported that there may a subset of documents there.

So, I don't -- I don't think this is a hard call for the judge to make. There's no real criticism if she does appoint a special master. It will at the end of the day, be sort of the belt in suspenders in the case. And that is to make sure that there's not some type of appealable issue out there that privileged information got into the hands of the other side.

CHURCH: All right. Michael Moore, thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it.

MOORE: Always great to be with you. Thank you.

CHURCH: Well, the U.S. Secret Service assistant director, Tony Ornato left the agency on Monday. It is a significant departure which comes two months after his name came up during explosive testimony to the House select committee investigating January 6th.

You will, of course recall former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified in June that Ornato told her then President Donald Trump became irate when he learned his security detail would not take him to the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The House select committee says it believes Ornato could provide valuable information about Trump's movements and intentions leading up to and on January 6.

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to deliver a primetime speech in Philadelphia on Thursday where the White House says he will speak about the continued battle for the soul of the nation. He'll deliver the speech in front of the historic independence hall. The president is expected to warn about what he calls the extreme MAGA philosophy, even labeling it semi-fascism.

And that type of language is an escalation in his criticism of his predecessor, Donald Trump and his followers. And later today, the president is expected to call for increased funding for police and law enforcement. The White House says he will also address gun safety and renew his push for a nationwide assault weapon.

Well, meantime, Mr. Biden hopes his administration's recent legislative wins could help boost Democrats headed into the midterm elections, but it appears there's a bigger motivating factor for voters this time, especially women. The issue of abortion. And many Republican candidates are keeping that in mind ahead of November's vote.

CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

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BLAKE MASTERS (R), U.S. SENATE NOMINEE: Most people support common sense regulation around abortion.

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Republican U.S. Senate nominee Blake Masters surrounded by his children trying to reset the debate over abortion rights.

MASTERS: I support a ban on very late term and partial birth abortion, and most Americans agree with that.

LAH: Just after this digital video dropped, Masters campaign site scrubbed strict anti-abortion language. Before, Masters wrote he's 100 percent pro-life, calling Roe V. Wade a horrible decision, then listed a series of strict stances on abortion. Now, a softer tone, Roe went from horrible to a bad decision. The words 100 percent pro-life removed from this section. And that list of positions is shorter.

JOHN THOMAS, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: There's no getting around it. That abortion in his particular race is a hot, hot issue for one of those swing coalitions. He has to speak to that issue and being pro-life 100 percent of the time isn't going to get him there. So, he has to attempt to make that pivot.

LAH: Masters' campaign says he remains 100 percent pro-life. But he's not the only one retooling.

TOM BARRETT, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, MICHIGAN'S 7TH DISTRICT: I'm Tom Barrett.

LAH: In Michigan 7th Congressional district challenger, Tom Barrett fundraised in the Republican primary as 100 percent pro-life, no exceptions, but over the weekend, his web site that listed a value section to protect life from conception is now gone.

Barrett's campaign tells CNN we regularly update the web site.

UNKNOWN: Should all abortions be illegal in this country?

LAH: In Iowa's Republican primary to represent the third congressional district --

ZACH NUNN, IOWA REPUBLICAN NOMINEE: For all abortions, no exceptions.

LAH: The man in the center, Zach Nunn won the Republican nomination. The incumbent, Democratic Congresswoman Cindy Axne turned that primary debate moment into a campaign ad.

UNKNOWN: Even in the case of rape, even in the case of incest, even if a woman's life is in danger.

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LAH: Nunn's campaign did not respond directly to CNN's request for comment on the Democratic attacks. But Nunn wrote in an editorial that the ad was false and says, while he opposes abortion, we must be compassionate toward both women and unborn children.

UNKNOWN: I've grown up here.

LAH: In Minnesota's gubernatorial race, Republican nominee Scott Jensen, a doctor, said this in a radio interview before the primary.

SCOTT JENSEN, MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: If a mother's life is in danger, I think that that would have to be a medical consideration and an area for potential exception.

UNKNOWN: No exceptions for rape or incest?

JENSEN: Unless a mother's life is in danger.

LAH: Now in the general election, he's calling his previous words clumsy.

JENSEN: If I've been unclear previously, I want to be clear now. Rape and incest along with endangering the mother's mental or physical health are acceptable exceptions.

THOMAS: It is an animating issue, particularly in very tight congressional and Senate races, where there are lots of college educated white women, but that's not every district in America. So, in select races, you're seeing these shifts on abortion.

The challenge is on some of these very hot issues the other campaign keeps receipts, meaning they have the web site. They have the primary TV ads.

UNKNOWN: Too dangerous for Arizona.

LAH: Those receipts are now appearing in general election ads. Democratic campaigns and groups have spent more than $50 million in ads referencing abortion since Roe was overturned, sensing a chance to energize voters this November.

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LAH (on camera): Pivots and politics are certainly not that unusual, whether it works on a wedge issue like abortion is how convincing the candidate is if the candidate is sincere, and most importantly, whether voters believe it.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.

CHURCH: We turn now to tennis and Serena Williams day at the U.S Open. If she is indeed retiring, she is going out with a bang. The 23- time Grand Slam winner was dominant in first round play defeating Montenegro's Danka Kovinic. Now this could be Williams' last tournament after she announced earlier this month that she plans to evolve away from tennis. After the match, she said she wants to stay vague about retiring because you never know.

And still to come new images reveal some of the damage at Ukraine's embattled nuclear facility as an urgent mission to ensure its safety gets underway. Those details after the break.

Plus, protests turn deadly in Bagdad after a powerful cleric announces he's pulling out of Iraqi politics.

We're back in just a moment.

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CHURCH: A long-awaited counteroffensive appears to be getting underway in Ukraine with troops launching a series of attacks on Russian forces in the southern Kherson region. Moscow acknowledged the attacks on Monday but said Ukraine's offensive, quote, "failed miserably." But in Kyiv, Ukraine's president remained defiant saying he wouldn't share details of their plans, but the ultimate goal should be clear.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (through translator): I am sure you all understand what is happening and what we are fighting for and what we want. Ukraine is returning its own and it will return Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. Crimea, and definitely the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.

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CHURCH: A dangerous mission is also underway in a different part of Ukraine as inspectors from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog make their way to the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

This, as new images reveal some of the damage within the complex including this massive hole in the roof of a building. At least three other holes have also been spotted. It comes after weeks of repeated shelling around the Russian held plant and growing fears of a potential nuclear disaster.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of the attacks and both countries say they support the International Atomic Energy Agency's visit.

For more, we want to bring in CNN's Fred Pleitgen joining us live from Moscow. Good to see you, Fred. So, what are the Russians saying about the offensive?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Rosemary. Well, first of all, it took the Russians quite a while to actually acknowledge that there was an offensive going on. It only happened pretty late last night. And that was after sources that already told our crews on the ground that the Ukrainians apparently had made some headway in that offensive taking four towns or villages in total as they were trying to move in on the city of Kherson, which obviously is a really big town in the capital of that, of that region as well.

The Russians for their part claim that they destroyed a lot of military technology as they put at tanks and armored vehicles, they said over 20 tanks, over 20 armored vehicles as well. They claim that over 500 Ukrainians had been killed as the Ukrainian offensive was repelled. And that the situation was essentially under control.

However, we did hear overnight from pro-Russian sources that the town of Nova Kakhovka was shelled pretty heavily, they said by the Ukrainians that there's no electricity or water, or gas in that town at this time. But a pro-Russian official also came out this morning and once again claimed that the Russians are well entrenched around Kherson, and that no one is going to be able to threaten that town as they put it.

So, as you can see some counterclaims to what the Ukrainians are saying, but the Ukrainians of course, also pretty tight lipped right now about the way things are going. They wanted this to remain as secretive as possible, obviously for operational security as well, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Perfect sense. And Fred, what are the Russians saying about that IAEA visit?

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PLEITGEN: Well, the Russians from the very beginning have said that they support that visit. They want that visit to happen, and they obviously blame the Ukrainians for a lot of the shelling that seems to be going on around that power plant specifically in the town of Enerhodar, but apparently, also on the premises of the power plant as well.

Now the Ukrainians of course, say that the Russians are behind all of this so this is all a provocation. The Russians, however, have said that there were, there was a building that was apparently not targeted, but that there at least were some places were hit close to a building were spent fuel, spent nuclear fuel is being stored.

They say that there were two ruptures as they put it close to there. It's unclear whether or not that means explosions close to there, or whether anything more significant. It was ruptured as a part of that. But certainly, there does seem to be some military action going on

there. Some strikes there. We saw before that to those two punctures in the roof of a building which actually seems to be pretty close to a reactor. But again, it's totally unclear who is behind that. But of course, one of the things where both sides say it makes that mission by the IAEA ever more important, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right, Fred Pleitgen joining us live from Moscow, many thanks.

Iraq's capital city is reeling from some of the worst violence it's seen in years. Hundreds of protestors loyal to Shia cleric Muqtada al- Sadr stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone after Al-Sadr announced he would withdraw from political life.

The protestors clash with security forces with at least 10 people killed, 200 injured. The military has imposed an open-ended nationwide curfew.

And CNN's Nada Bashir is following developments for us. She joins us live from London. So, Nada, what more are you learning about these deadly clashes in Baghdad's Green Zone and what might come next.

NADA BASHIR, CNN REPORTER: Well, look, Rosemary, this is already a hugely fragile situation. It could certainly continue to escalate further. We've had new information coming in from medical sources in Baghdad confirming that at least 10 people have now been killed in those clashes. Some 200 people injured. And in the last hour or so, we've heard from the Iraqi security forces saying that four rockets landed in a residential complex within the once secure Green Zone in Baghdad, which is of course where several government offices and diplomatic missions are housed.

So, there are real concerns that this could continue to escalate further. And as you laid out, that this has really come off the back of the announcement from the influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that he would be stepping down from political life, that he would be closing most of the political offices across the country associated with his Sadrist movement.

Now, that political block actually came out on top in elections back in October, but they were unable to secure the majority that they had hoped to achieved. And since then, we've seen Sadr unable to form a government, but also unwilling to enter into negotiations with other rival Shia blocks in parliament namely the pro-Iran coordination framework alliance.

And since then, we've seen Iraq being plunged into a state of political paralysis. And of course, we have seen over the last few weeks sporadic protests and in the Green Zone, and of course around Baghdad. Now, Sadr actually back in June said that he would be withdrawing from politics. He asked for his 73 lawmakers in parliament to withdraw from their seats in response to that political stagnation. And he said at the time that he would no longer be interfering in Iraqi politics. But since then, we have seen Sadr calling on his supporters and

loyalists. And of course, also calling on other Iraqi to take to the streets in response to what he characterizes corruption in the government, calling for the dissolution of parliament and even going so far as the call for a complete overhaul of the political framework in Iraq.

And we have seen on multiple occasions now across the last month, his supporters reaching the heavily fortified Green Zone, even storming the parliament building. We saw at one point a sit-in being staged in the parliament building. And we have heard from a close aide who shared on a Facebook post yesterday that Sadr has gone on a hunger strike, has called for the end of violence, restoration of calm and for the end to the use of weapons in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

But it remains to be seen whether or not this will go anyway towards this de-escalation that many are hoping for in Baghdad. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Nada Bashir joining us live from London, many thanks for that report.

Well, just ahead, there were multiple shootings across the United States over the weekend. We will have a report on gun violence in the country. That's next.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: An elite Dutch soldier is among the latest victims killed in U.S. gun violence. Indianapolis police have identified the slain soldier as Simmie Poetsema, a member of the Dutch Commando Corps. The Dutch government says he died on Sunday after being shot outside an Indianapolis hotel. Two other Dutch soldiers were wounded.

The troops were visiting Indiana for training at a U.S. base. Police say they don't think the shooting was random. But so far, they have not reported any arrests in the case.

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The Indianapolis shooting is not an isolated incident. There were several other shootings across the U.S. last weekend.

CNN's Brynn Gingras has the story.

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HEATHER THOMPSON, HEARD DOZENS OF SHOTS: There were 10 to 20 shots and then another 10 to 20 shots.

BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sound of rapid gunfire coming from a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon. Just one of several shootings across the country over the weekend. Bend authorities say a 20-year-old walked into the grocery store while firing an AR-15 style rifle. Making his way through the aisles, menacing customers and workers.

ROBERT, SAFEWAY EMPLOYEE: It was loud enough to make me and three other employees ran into a walk-in refrigerator and closed the door and stayed there. We stayed hidden until the authorities arrived.

UNKNOWN: Wow.

GINGRAS: Two people were killed, a customer and a 66-year-old employee who tried to stop the shooter.

SHEILA MILLER, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, BEND POLICE DEPARTMENT: Surrett engaged with the shooter, attempted to disarm him and may very well have prevented further deaths. Mr. Surrett acted heroically during this terrible incident.

GINGRAS: Police found the shooter dead inside the store from a gunshot wound. Blog post by the shooter indicated his desires to commit acts of violence. In D.C. --

RON RIVERA, HEAD COACH, WASHINGTON COMMANDERS: We really got to start getting to the point where we started talking about gun safety.

GINGRAS: Washington Commanders head coach expressed his frustration with the gun violence after his rookie running back became a victim. Brian Robinson, Jr. drafted by the Commanders this year was shot twice in the lower body during an attempted robbery according to police.

RIVERA: He's very fortunate in his very unfortunate situation, but he's doing well, you know, and, and it's just, it'll be a matter of time before he is back out here.

GINGRAS: Two Phoenix, Arizona officers were injured while exchanging gunfire with a suspect armed with a semi-automatic rifle and wearing tactical gear who went on a shooting spree.

UNKNOWN: This is a massive crime scene.

GINGRAS: That suspect killed two people before turning the gun on himself according to police. In New York City, 16 people were shot, five killed in more than a dozen shootings. One breaking out on the packed Coney Island boardwalk.

KENNETH COREY, HEAD OF SECURITY OPERATION, NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT: We have five people hanging out on the boardwalk, really just sitting on the benches, enjoying a nice summer night and shots are fired from the nearby housing development.

GINGRAS: Houston police pointing to an eviction notice possibly leading to this horrific scene where three people were gunned down.

TONY FINNER, CHIEF, HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT: This suspect, unfortunately, and very sadly and very evilly, set fire to several residents, laid wait for those residents to come out and fired upon them.

GINGRAS: That gunman was killed during a shootout with authorities, says the police chief. And in Detroit, the same weapon may be linked to the killings of three people in what authorities are calling random incidents.

JAMES WHITE, CHIEF, DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT: One was waiting on a bus. One was walking his dog, and one just on the street.

GINGRAS: And in the windy city, it was a five-year-old boy shot in the head and what the community is now calling a crisis on Chicago's children.

UNKNOWN: All these kids want to do is go to school and play and they can't even do that. Then that's messed up. They can't even do that. And it's just keep happening.

GINGRAS: Brynn Gingras, CNN, New York.

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CHURCH: And rockstar Ozzy Osbourne says U.S. gun violence is a factor in why he's moving back to the U.K. Osbourne and his wife, Sharon have lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades, but they tell The Guardian in a new interview they are returning to England in February. Osbourne said he's fed up with people getting killed every day and he doesn't want to die in America.

But it might not be his only reason. He told a tabloid earlier this year, he wanted to leave because his taxes were getting too high.

Well, still to come, Pakistan assessed the damage as massive flooding affects millions. Why one minister says this is among the country's worst disasters ever.

KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis. And the CNN weather watch is in association with visit Maldives.

In the United States, flooding all across a deep south as a weather system kind of languishes across this region while across a western United States, it's going to be the heat could see some record setting temperatures all the way in the Pacific northwest, all the way down into the southwestern portion of the United States.

Frontal system sweeps across the northeast in New England, especially some of those major metropolitan areas along the i-95 corridor could see those storms during the afternoon and evening hours, while areas across west Texas looking at some pretty good storms there as well, and could produce some localized flooding as well.

There you can see kind of the overall weather picture and the accumulation that will be the heaviest, especially across the lone star state of Texas. But we continue to monitor the situation across central Mississippi where they have seen devastating floods there over the past week or so. [03:39:57]

Warm in the east, but very hot across the west with temperatures that are going to soar well into the 40s, all the way from Bakersfield to Death Valley. Salt Lake City is going to see upper 30s in the forecast. Chicago, you're looking at 27 degrees, New York, maybe some storms and Atlanta 33 degrees.

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CHURCH: In the U.S., the water system in the state capital of Mississippi is on the brink of collapse. Jackson is struggling after heavy rain and extreme flooding damaged infrastructure impacting some 250,000 people. The governor has declared a state of emergency for the city saying there isn't enough running water to fight fires or even flush toilets.

State agencies will help distribute clean water to residents while making sure emergency services have enough water to do their jobs as well.

Well, Pakistani officials say deadly and widespread flooding has caused more than $10 billion in damages so far this year. Repeated floods over the summer months have swept away buildings and destroyed homes across Pakistan.

The International Rescue Committee says more than 70 percent of the people they've contacted don't have access to enough clean drinking water. And Pakistan's climate change minister says the flooding is one of the worst disasters the nation has ever seen.

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SHERRY REHMAN, PAKISTAN CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER: Literally, one-third of Pakistan is underwater right now, which has exceeded every -- every boundary, every norm we've seen in the past. We've never seen anything like this. Even the 2010 super floods, which had literally wiped out half the country is -- was -- was better than this. I mean, we are much worse today than 2010.

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CHURCH: And CNN's Anna Coren joins me now from Hong Kong with more. Good to see you, Anna. So, help is on the way, but the cost so far and lost lives and damages is extraordinarily high. What is the latest on the impact of these devastating floods?

ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the human toll, Rosemary, we know that more than 1,100 people have died in these floods, but we believe that's a very conservative figure. And that once emergency teams get to these isolated cutoff areas that the death toll could potentially soar.

As far as the financial toll, the planning minister of Pakistan came out today and said that they are looking at $10 billion in damage. That is what these monsoonal rains and floods have caused washing away infrastructure, devastating hundreds of thousands of homes. And he says that really until the water recedes, that they're not going to be able to fully assess the damage that an actual fact it could be two to three times higher.

Now, Pakistan has already had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund. It is, has an incredibly fragile economy and having to deal with this calamity is obviously something that it just cannot do on its own.

Hence, the appeal for international aid, international assistance and it is starting to come in, Rosemary. There are planes flying in from China, the UAE and Turkey bringing in aid. There is humanitarian assistance coming from Australia, from Canada, Japan, the U.K., but still there is a huge plea for more.

But let's now have a listen to some of those residents that have been impacted by these floods.

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UNKNOWN (through translator): We are poor people. If the water recedes from our homes, we will go back. Our home was destroyed. Our belongings disappeared in the big flood. Our children are waiting on the bank foodless and shelter less.

BADSHAH KHAN, FLOOD VICTIM (through translator): We are the residents of the city. It rained a lot here and the rain water mixed with sewage and our homes collapsed. So, we are wandering around to look for some shelter as we are homeless now.

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COREN: Rosemary, millions of people have been left homeless and destitute. And these are the people that need the aid right now.

CHURCH: Yes, it is just shocking. Anna Coren joining us live from Hong Kong, many thanks.

And still to come, NASA postpones its highly-anticipated Artemis 1 launch. The latest on the reason for the delay and when the lift off might be rescheduled. Back with that in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Well, the only U.S. Navy ace fighter pilot to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II has died at the age of 101. Dean "Diz" Laird joined the U.S. Navy just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, going on to log more than 8,200 flying hours over his nearly 30-year career, according to the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

Laird also fought in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He received multiple awards during his career, including the title of ace, only given to pilots credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft.

Well, NASA is now hoping for a launch this Friday for its Artemis 1 rocket which will mark the U.S. space agency's first moon mission in almost 50 years. But first, their team will need to fix an issue with one of the rockets four engines, which forced them to scrub Monday's liftoff.

The latest now from CNN's Kristin Fisher.

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UNKNOWN: Mission and lift off of the space shuttle discovery --

KRISTIN FISHER, CNN SPACE AND DEFENSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Engine number 2058 has helped propel six space shuttles into orbit, starting with this flight back in 2006.

UNKNOWN: Scrub of the attempt of launch of Artemis 1.

FISHER: But today, the system that cools that engine was the primary culprit behind the scrub of the first test flight of the Artemis moon rocket.

MICHAEL SARAFIN, ARTEMIS MISSION MANAGER: We need the engine to be at the cryogenically cool temperature, such that when it starts it's not shocked with all the cold fuel that flows through it.

FISHER: NASA says it's too soon to determine when it will try again. But Artemis mission manager, Mike Sarafin gave a classic NASA response when addressing if the next launch opportunity on Friday is still in play.

SARAFIN: There's a non-zero chance we'll have a launch opportunity on Friday.

FISHER: The Artemis rocket or SLS has largely been cobbled together using leftover parts from the shuttle program, the four RS25 engines on Artemis 1 combined flew more than 20 shuttle missions. NASA had hoped that by recycling these old parts they'd be able to build this new rocket faster and more affordably.

Instead, the SLS rocket is six years behind schedule and billions over budget.

LORI GARVER, FORMER DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NASA: We know these shuttle parts were very finicky and expensive. And so, it shouldn't have been any surprise that putting them together differently was going to also be expensive and take longer than we hoped.

FISHER: Still, this rocket is the most powerful ever built. It's designed to return humans to the moon by 2025 and someday go on to Mars.

Thousands of people converged on the Kennedy Space Center today in hopes of seeing it fly for the first-time including Vice President Kamala Harris. KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Today was a very important day. And while a lot of folks might be disappointed that the launch did not actually happen, a lot of good work really happened today.

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FISHER: NASA administrator Bill Nelson whose own shuttle flight scrubbed four times reminded that these kinds of delays are routine for any space flight, but especially a first test flight.

BILL NELSON, ADMINISTRATOR, NASA: This is a brand-new rocket. It's not going to fly until it's ready. Needless to say, the complexity is daunting when you bring it all into the focus of a countdown.

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FISHER (on camera): Despite all of the technical issues this rocket is still the only rocket in the world as of now that is capable of carrying people to the moon. And that's this close to being ready to launch. SpaceX is developing a similar rocket, but it's not quite ready yet. Though, that rocket called Starship is going to be fully reusable, which would make it much more affordable to fly in the future.

Kristin Fisher, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center.

CHURCH: And thanks for spending part of your day with me. I'm Rosemary Church. CNN Newsroom continues with Christina Macfarlane, next.

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