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Stolen Plane That Threatened To Crash In MS Lands On Field; Water Still Unsafe To Drink In Jackson, Mississippi; 40-Million-Plus People In Western States Under Heat Alerts; NASA Scrubs Artemis I Launch, Mission Delayed For Weeks; Fallen Marine's Family Refiles Defamation Suit Against Alec Baldwin; Ex-NYPD Cop Gets 10-Year Sentence For Attacking D.C. Officer On 1/6; Oath Keepers Lawyer Charged With Conspiracy, Evidence Tampering; Record Numbers Of Migrants Wait At U.S.-Mexico Border. Aired 8-9p ET
Aired September 03, 2022 - 20:00 ET
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's got his hands up and he's being arrested.
PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: The person flying that airplane called 911 and said they were going to steal the airplane and crash it into one of the local Walmart's in Tupelo.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Negotiators from Tupelo Police Department made contact with the pilot and were able to convince him to not carry out this deed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Artemis launch control just called a scrub for the launch attempt today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a huge disappointment for NASA.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is part of the space business.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'll go when it's ready.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nothing coming out now.
BROWN (voice-over): Another day in Jackson, Mississippi, another day of a water crisis for residents here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's scary, it really is, not knowing whether you going to have enough water for one day to another.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in for another hot day across California.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty million under some sort of heat alert. And 155-plus potential high records expected.
MARIE METCALFE, RESIDENT OF LOS ANGELES: It's pretty stifling. Even our A.C. at home can only do so much in the triple digits.
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DEAN: Hi, everyone. I'm Jessica Dean in Washington. Pamela Brown has the night off. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.
A pilot threatens a Mississippi community for hours and lands in jail. The bizarre, intense drama playing out in the skies over Tupelo. Police say, before dawn, the pilot of the stolen plane called 911 and threatened to crash into a local Walmart.
CNN's Pete Muntean followed the five-hour drama its peaceful ending.
PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Jessica, this is the best possible outcome after a man who worked at a local airport in Tupelo, Mississippi, stole a plane, threatened to crash it into a local Walmart, and then ultimately crash landed in a nearby soybean field.
His name, Corey Wayne Patterson, an employee at Tupelo Aviation, a fixed-base operator at the Tupelo Regional Airport where he fueled airplanes.
Police now say that Patterson did have some flying experience. They're not totally sure how much.
So the big question is how he was able to start an airplane like this, a twin engine commuter plane, a Beechcraft King Air C-90.
He got on board, police say, around 5:00 a.m., made a phone call. Local 911 operators picked up and they heard this threat from Patterson, police say, that he was going to crash into one of the local Walmarts.
The plane took off. The tower there not operating yet. It's only operating part time. Circled the Walmart.
Police negotiators were able to get in touch with him. And then police brought in another pilot to attempt to talk Patterson down and have him land back at the Tupelo Regional Airport.
What is so interesting is that police say he came within 100 feet of a successful landing but then took off again and flew away to the northwest.
That's when police think that Patterson did run out of fuel. They thought the plane was refueled completely the night before.
They were able to reestablish contact with Patterson via phone again after he crashed into the soybean field.
Local eyewitnesses in Gravestown, Mississippi, where that field is, said the pilot came out with his hands up and he was immediately detained.
A harrowing story to tell that he'll have to tell in a courtroom now. He's charged with terrorist threats and grand larceny -- Jessica?
DEAN: Quite a story.
Pete Muntean, thanks so much.
Anger, fear, exhausted resignation are just some of the emotions being felt by people in Jackson, Mississippi, this weekend.
That city is dealing with a crippling water crisis made worse by this week's historic flooding.
As they work to restore water pressure, water bottles are being handed out to families who, after six days, six days, still don't have clean water to drink, bathe and wash their clothes in.
CNN's Nadia Romero is in Jackson tonight -- Nadia?
NADIA ROMERO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Jessica, this is day six of the water crisis here in Jackson, Mississippi. But we just received an update from city officials that the water treatment plant has made significant gains overnight into this morning.
Saying that the water pressure is up so much so that most people in Jackson should have water pressure. That's a big change from what happened here just yesterday and what we saw earlier in this week.
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But the problem still remains that this is an old water treatment plant that has many issues.
And so city officials like the mayor warning that there could be more interruptions, more fluctuations to come, that this isn't a permanent fix to the problem.
And even if you do have water pressure in your home, that water is still not drinkable. Officials say it is unsafe to drink. The boil- water advisory is still in effect.
That's why the state has set up seven water distribution sites for people in this city to come and pick up free water bottles.
But not everyone has access to transportation or can physically lift those bottles and bring them into their homes.
So we visited a senior facility where one resident hold us that she was so grateful when the Mississippi Urban League showed up with water bottles for her and her neighbors.
Take a listen.
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ALMA REGINAL, JACKSON RESIDENT: It has been frustrating and just drives you nuts not knowing what is going to happen next. Don't know how it going to happen, when it going to happen or anything.
It's scary, it really is. It's really scary not knowing how you going to make it from one day to another.
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ROMERO: That boil-water advisory continues. And residents don't know when they will have safe drinking water that they can use in their homes to cook with and to brush their teeth with.
We are now told from city officials that water restoration groups from Georgia and Florida are coming to the state to help.
We know that FEMA has visited. The administrator for FEMA was on the ground yesterday and says that those federal dollars will help the city of Jackson repair issues in the short term.
But that long-term fix there's still in timeline for how long it will take for the water quality to improve -- Jessica?
DEAN: Nadia Romero, thanks so much for that update from Jackson, Mississippi.
And for some, part of Jackson's water crisis simply is not surprising. Many in the majority black city, where roughly a quarter of residents live in poverty, told CNN that systemic neglect is one of the drivers of the water issues.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is joining me from Huntsville, Alabama. She is founder for of Center of Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She's also vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the author of "Waste, One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret."
Catherine, thanks so much for joining us on a Saturday. We appreciate it.
Let's start first, what is America's dirty secret as you see it?
CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS, FOUNDER, CENTER OF RURAL ENTERPRISE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & VICE CHAIR, WHITE HOUSE JUSTICE ADVISORY COUNCIL & AUTHOR: Well, America's dirty secret is there are over two million people living in the United States without sanitation. In other words, when they flush their toilets, it goes out onto the ground.
We have more people that living with systems that are failing, water systems that are failing in places that I've seen like in Detroit and the Jefferson Chalmers area where, whenever they get a rainstorm, they're dealing with flooding and sewage is coming back into their homes.
Or what I saw outside of New York in Mount Vernon, same problem.
Because of our lack of investment and infrastructure before this time, we'll have more and more problems as we have climate events.
DEAN: I know you've been talking with people in Jackson. What are they telling you?
COLEMAN FLOWERS: I'm hearing things like they had problems for a long time. This was the canary in the coal mine. They've had problems before, you know, when they had a problem in Dallas, Texas, that time when people without power and water for a while.
They also had problems in Jackson. And this is a temporary fix. A lot of people have told me, they turn on the water sometimes and it's not drinkable.
People tell me they have had to leave the area because of the status of the water. And people with medical problems are having greater issues, as well.
This is a time when sanitation, being able to wash your hands is very important. Without having access to clean water in their homes, it makes it very, very hard for them.
They are hoping that this time they will get a long-term fix and not just a short-term fix.
DEAN: It's worth reminding everyone Jackson is the capital of Mississippi. This is the biggest city in the state.
And you're staying that this has been an example of benign neglect from those in power. That's the biggest city in that state. Imagine what it's like in some of these smaller towns.
How do they fix this?
COLEMAN FLOWERS: First of all, they have to acknowledge there's a problem. What happened is a lot of fixes that are being used are fixes that probably would have worked 20 years ago but they're not going to work anymore.
And we have to take into account climate change. We have to make sure that we build systems that can deal with flooding and deal with rising water tables.
And all of these issues are not being addressed currently, especially in places that don't even acknowledge that climate change is real.
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And until they make that acknowledgement and then they get justice in terms of working with the administration, with a bipartisan infrastructure plan to build systems that are resilient, then we'll continue to have these problems.
But as long as they think that poor people and people of color can live with these mediocre systems, we'll continue to have these problems.
DEAN: Before I let you go -- I've got less than one minute -- can you walk us through -- I heard you mention climate change several times. How do you believe it impacting these communities, especially in the south like what we're seeing right now?
COLEMAN FLOWERS: We're seeing more and more rains. A lot of the rainstorms we're getting and the flooding are 1,000-year floods or 500-year floods that are happening more often.
And in the south, particularly the southeast, we have high water tables and the high-water tables combined with the rain that is coming from the air or from the sky that is creating more and more pressure on the systems failing.
Some pipes are over 100 years old and just not being able to hold up to the pressure. And when you have these deluges coming in over and over and over again, it's just not working.
And also, the type of investment that's needed to actually replace, not repair, but replace a lot of these systems hasn't happened. And it needs to happen not just from the federal government but also from the state government as well. And therein lies some of the problem.
So hopefully people understand that if they cannot -- if they do not put in place that type of investments, we'll have more and more Jacksons throughout the south.
DEAN: Catherine Coleman Flowers, thank you so much for your expertise. We sure do appreciate it.
COLEMAN FLOWERS: Thank you so much.
DEAN: More than 40 million people across the western United States are under heat alerts this weekend as the power grid gets squeezed out there.
We go now to California where residents are being urged to turn down the A.C., avoid using major appliances and turn off unnecessary lights. And that flex alert is extending into Sunday as well.
CNN's Chris Nguyen joining me from Pasadena, just north of Los Angeles.
Chris, what are people doing to cope with this intense heat?
CHRIS NGUYEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Jessica. Most people are staying inside if they can. It's almost 5:15 here in Pasadena and the temperature is still close to 100 degrees.
State officials issuing that flex alert, asking people to conserve energy between now and 9:00 p.m. all with the hope of reducing stress on the power grid.
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CHRIS NGUYEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend.
MARIE METCALFE, RESIDENT OF LOS ANGELES: Our A.C. at home can only do so much in the triple digits.
NGUYEN: In Glendale, California, residents are seeking refuge at the Galleria Shopping Mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning.
METCALFE: Getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool release is nice.
NGUYEN: California is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the year, a major concern, especially in large cities like Los Angeles where dark pavement and buildings can easily absorb heat, bringing little relief overnight.
(on camera): Skid Row is an urban heat island, which is why water is crucial, especially when temperatures hit triple digits.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Free water! Agua gratis! Free water!
NGUYEN (voice-over): That's why volunteers with Water Drop L.A. are checking up on the unhoused and the elderly --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you want some water?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, sure.
NGUYEN: -- handing out cold water to those who need it.
SOFIA GUADRON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WATER DROP L.A.: At the core, we're all people, and we should care about each other. We should love each other, and we should look out for each other.
NGUYEN: The extreme heat wave also testing California's power grid. In Irwindale, Southern California Edison crews are busy moving transformers and extra equipment throughout the region.
DAVID EISENHAUER, SPOKESMAN, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON: We have "all hands on deck," ready to respond if there are outages so that we can get the power restored as quickly and safely as possible.
NGUYEN: Many Californians bracing for more misery ahead.
CARLA LIZAOLA, RESIDENT OF LOS ANGELES: It's insane. It's unbearable to even be home.
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NGUYEN: But, Jessica, the extreme heat didn't keep thousands of fans from coming to the Rose Bowl this afternoon. In fact, UCLA, USC and the Dodgers all had home games today throughout the region -- Jessica?
DEAN: That's right. College football is back.
Chris Nguyen, for us in Pasadena, thanks so much.
NASA's trip to the moon will have to wait. The space program forced to scrub the lunar mission launch again. We'll have a report from Kennedy Space Center next.
Plus, thousands of migrants stuck in a tent city. We'll talk to them as they wait for a chance to cross the border legally.
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And the new COVID boosters are starting to become available. When should you get one? Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaking it all down for us. That's just ahead.
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DEAN: For the second time in a week, technical issues have forced NASA to cancel the launch its massive new moon rocket, Artemis 1. A liquid hydrogen leak is to blame for this latest setback to the unmanned test flight.
CNN's Kristin Fisher has the latest.
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KRISTIN FISHER, CNN SPACE & DEFENSE CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Jessica. The problem is that NASA needs to fix this hydrogen leak. And it was a big one today, much bigger than the one they encountered on Monday during the first launch attempt.
So to fix it, they have two options. They can either try to fix it on the launch pad or they can roll the entire rocket back to the vehicle assembly building, which is essentially the garage.
But to do that, it takes up to three and a half days to do it, a very long period of time. You have to move this rocket very slowly.
So either way, whether they make the repairs on the launch pad, or at the VAB, they are not going to make this launch window that ends on Tuesday.
So that pushes it back to a September, end of September launch attempt at the very earliest. But more likely, this thing would not launch until October at the earliest.
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One other issue they've encountered is some safety violations on the range. They need to replace some batteries with the flight termination system because this rocket has been on the launch pad for so long.
They're going to try to request a waiver with the Space Force, which runs this range, but they just don't know if they'll get it.
So as of now, Jessica, we're looking at a delay of several weeks at the earliest.
Here is NASA associate administrator, Jim Free, speaking a few hours after the scrub was announced.
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JIM FREE, NASA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR: We don't go into these tests lightly. We don't say, hey, we think, we hope this is going to work.
The confidence to do another launch attempt today was born out of the fact that we understood the hydrogen leaks we had on Monday. Those are different than the leak that we had today in terms of scale. One was in the same place but today was a different signature.
And we understood the engine issue. So we were confident coming into today. But as administrator said, we're not going to launch until we're ready.
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FISHER: NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, was also at the press conference and he pointed out that the cost of two scrubs is less than the cost of one failure.
So, Jessica, while there's a lot of disappointment here at NASA at the Kennedy Space Center today, there's also an acknowledgement that this could have been worse. A worse-case scenario would have been an explosion at the launch pad or shortly after liftoff.
One other thing, we talked so much about the bad weather in September in the afternoon in Florida. But look at this weather. I mean, Jessica, it is almost certain that if NASA had not encountered this hydrogen leak, this weather would likely have made this launch a go -- Jessica?
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DEAN: All right, Kristin Fisher, thank you.
You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. Actor Alec Baldwin facing another legal battle after the family of a fallen Marine refiles a lawsuit for defamation. We'll have details on that ahead.
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DEAN: And you are looking live at the White House in Washington D.C. And 8:26 p.m. here on the east coast on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We're getting ready to kick off the unofficial start to fall. And a look there at the White House.
This week, the widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan refiled a $25 million lawsuit against actor, Alec Baldwin.
Initially, Baldwin donated money to the family after Rylee McCollum was killed in action.
But they say he later exposed them to a flood of social media hatred by claiming on Instagram one of the sisters was a, quote, "insurrectionist" because she attended Trump's rally on January 6th.
She says that while she did attend the rally, she took no part in and did not support the mayhem and insurrection that followed.
CNN legal analyst, Loni Coombs, is joining me with more.
Loni, great to see you on this Saturday.
Why would this family need to refile the case? And what do you make of the chances of winning?
LONI COOMBS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Jessica, this is a sad case because Alec Baldwin started out doing a lovely thing for the family, giving them a $5,000 donation. He said it was a tribute to their fallen hero.
And then everything turned when he saw this post about January 6th by the sister.
So after this backlash, the family filed a lawsuit in federal court in Wyoming and the judge said, look, this is the wrong jurisdiction and dismissed the case.
So they filed it again in New York, which is the proper jurisdiction, because that's where Alec Baldwin lives.
And the claims they are making are intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and defamation.
Now Alec Baldwin is saying, look, this is my personal opinion, I was having a discussion, I have freedom of speech, this are my First Amendment rights, and so I didn't do anything wrong, nothing egregious happened here, no claim.
The plaintiff says, wait a minute, I had a little conversation with you before you decided to post about me where I told you I was not a rioter, I was protest. I left. I talked to the FBI. They cleared me of wrongdoing.
So when you called me an insurrectionist on your social media, you knew that was false. And that was egregious behavior. And look at the backlash. She was called a white supremacist. She was called a Nazi. She had death threats. The family had death threats.
So it will be very interesting to see what the jury does with this. I think there are legitimate claims. And they're asking for $25 million in damages.
DEAN: Let's talk about the former New York City police officer and former Marine who was sentenced this week for attacking a D.C. police officer during the capitol riot.
Thomas Webster, the one wearing red right there, unsuccessfully tried to convince the jury he was acting in self-defense. And instead they found him guilty on six charges, five of them felonies. He got a 10- year prison sentence. And so far, that's the longest given to any January 6th defendant.
Did his own history as an officer and a Marine factor into this decision do you think? Was it a factor?
COOMBS: Yes, it was a factor. A judge said, in a very emotional hearing, sentencing hearing, she said, look, you were a New York police officer. You were a Marine. So when you got there that day and you saw this chaos and this mob, you knew how dangerous it was for law enforcement trying to protect the capitol.
And yet, you showed up in tactical gear with a flagpole and you hit a D.C. police officer so forcefully with that flagpole that you broke it. And then you went and tried to get his gas mask.
And because of that, that officer went down. It broke the police line and thousands of people were able to get into the capitol because of your actions.
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COOMBS: And because of your experience in law enforcement, you knew exactly what you were doing and because of that, she justified the 10- year prison sentence.
DEAN: And also this week, 43-year-old, Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer for the Oath Keepers militia, was charged with conspiracy to obstruct a joint session of Congress and tampering with evidence. It is not believed that she entered the Capitol on January 6, but she took part in video conferences with other Oath Keepers in the weeks leading up to that. She was not charged with seditious conspiracy, though. So what are your thoughts on that case?
COOMBS: You know, this is a significant arrest, Jessica, because she is the General Counsel to the Oath Keepers, right? She's the top adviser to the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who was arrested for seditious conspiracy. She was allegedly with him that day at the Capitol, she didn't go inside, but she was also allegedly with him the night before when he met with the leader of the Proud Boys. So she is a very significant witness to a lot of things that occurred with the Oath Keepers.
Now, three of the Oath Keepers have been charged with this seditious conspiracy. And that is the most serious case, the most serious charge that has been charged in these insurrection cases. So it might happen in the future, that she might end up cooperating with the government and becoming a witness should be a very powerful witness in those cases. She is an attorney, but there is an exception to the attorney- client privilege, which is the crime fraud exception.
So she herself has been charged with tampering with documentary, which is a very serious charge. It's a maximum of a potential of 20 years in prison. So she has something hanging over her head which may motivate her to cooperate with the government.
DEAN: And then before I let you go disgraced R&B star, R. Kelly, saying he won't take the stand in a federal trial in Chicago. He is facing 13 counts of production of child pornography conspiracy to produce child pornography, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. We know he's already serving a 30-year term for other convictions. Do you think he'll be found guilty again?
COOMBS: I do, Jessica. I think that the tide turned against R. Kelly back in 2019, when that very damning documentary came out, Surviving R. Kelly, who was convicted in Brooklyn and sentenced to 30 years here in Chicago. Four more witnesses came forward, very courageous woman who gave very similar testimony about being sexually abused by him when they were 14, 15, 16 years old. I think he'll be convicted here and be sentenced to double digits. And after that, he goes to Minnesota to face a third trial.
DEAN: All right. Loni Coombs, thanks so much for offering us your expertise and analysis. We appreciate it. Have a great night.
COOMBS: Thank you.
DEAN: Still to come, a pastor in Mexico is helping thousands of migrants who want to wait their turn to enter the United States legally and safely. We'll have their story, just ahead.
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DEAN: Border Patrol agents made a chilling discovery Thursday near Eagle Pass, Texas. There, they found the remains of nine migrants in the Rio Grande River, while they were rescuing another group of people in the water. Border patrol agents continue to search for other victims.
Despite the harrowing journey and risk of death, thousands of people continue to flock to the U.S.-Mexico border. Many are waiting in tent shelters on the Mexican side of the border looking for their chance to cross legally. It's all for a shot at the American dream and many are being encouraged on social media by people who were able to get legal asylum. CNN's Rosa Flores has more.
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ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Little Francillon has been in pain for weeks. His dad, Francillon, Sr. has no money for doctors after the family fled Haiti with nearly nothing six years ago.
There's a lot of violence earthquakes. For your family, you left.
They've been living at this migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico for about a month. Pastor Hector Silva runs the shelter and says in 25 years, he's never seen this many migrants. Thousands arriving every week. He drives us to the second shelter he opened a few months ago and estimates about 12,800 migrants, mostly Haitians, are currently waiting in Reynosa. He can house nearly 6,000. The rest are living on the streets.
HECTOR SILVA, RUNS BORDER SHELTER FOR MIGRANTS: It's very difficult to stand at the gate and see the mom with a towel and say, I'm sorry, I cannot help you.
FLORES: The question is, why? Why are so many people flocking here and why now?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In my -- in my Instagram.
FLORES: Instagram.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
FLORES: And for you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Facebook.
FLORES: Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Facebook.
FLORES: Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Facebook.
FLORES: Facebook.
Many say word has spread including on social media that migrants who come here can enter the U.S. legally if they wait their turn. Silva says, there is some truth to it.
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SILVA: The good way.
FLORES: The legal way to do it.
SILVA: The legal way.
FLORES: We checked, from May to July, at the six ports of entry, more than 28,000 Title 42 exceptions were made, which allows migrants to go to these international bridges and seek asylum. This is notable because until recently, exceptions to Title 42 were rare.
Title 42 is the Trump-era pandemic public health rule that immigration agents have used nearly 2.2 million times since 2020 to swiftly expel migrants to Mexico. And per court order, the Biden administration must keep it in place, forcing asylum seekers to cross into the U.S. illegally, advocates say.
Little Francillon's family want to cross legally. That's why they're here after a grueling journey.
So they traveled through 10 countries to get to Mexico.
The pastor shows us how it works. Anticipation builds as he puts migrants on a list by arrival date. Little Francillon's parents arrived in early August and don't make the cut on this day. After months of waiting and paperwork, the pastor buses these migrants to the Reynosa-Hidalgo International Bridge where they walk up to immigration, and in most cases, ask for asylum.
On this day, he says he bust more than 200.
This removes the human smuggler. This is them going to the port of entry and in some cases asking for asylum.
SILVA: Yes. They know that there's many people on the list and then it's got to be legal.
FLORES: Legal but still broken. More than 40 percent of the more than 28,000 exceptions to Title 42 have happened here at the Reynosa- Hidalgo International Bridge. Silva has this message for migrants.
SILVA: Do not come to the border. Do not come to Reynosa.
FLORES: Little Farncillon's family is already here, risking it all.
What is your American dream?
He says, he wants to work for a better life. And so are thousands of others waiting for their chance at the American dream.
Rosa Flores, CNN Reynosa, Mexico.
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DEAN: Rosa, thank you. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.
Legendary actress and activist, Jane Fonda, beginning chemotherapy, but determined to stay active to her causes. We'll have more on her cancer diagnosis and the outlook for the future. That's next.
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DEAN: It is a landmark moment in the nation's fight against COVID. That's the reaction from the U.S. Surgeon General after the FDA and the CDC gave the go ahead to roll out updated coronavirus boosters. Here's CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, with more. Sanjay?
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Jessica, what we can tell you is that as soon as the shots were authorized by the FDA, the shipping of these shots to various pharmacies and health care providers, that already began. So this weekend, over the next several days, certainly, the shots should be increasingly available for people. Just like they have been in the past, they should be free, you should be able to make appointments, get them from your doctors, clinics, pharmacies, et cetera.
Now, a big question also comes up as to how long should you wait in between shots? When should you get this shot? That kind of depends a little bit on when you've received your last shot. So just broadly speaking, if you sort of look at the benefits of getting these shots versus not getting any shots at all, you've seen the standard before, but for people over the age of 50, people who are unvaccinated compared to those who have had two or more shots have 14 times the risk of dying.
And people who are vaccinated with one booster had three times the risk of dying as compared to those who had two boosters. So that gives you some idea of the importance. First of all, of the shots. Now, how long do these shots last is sort of the second part of the question that helps you answer then when you should get a shot.
What we can tell you, you look at these graphs, and they're kind of busy graphs. But what we know is that the effectiveness of these vaccines do wane over time. So at four or five months, you have about 33 percent the effectiveness that you did at the time that you first got the shot. So that may be one way to sort of look at it and to sort of think about it.
Again, these shots should be available, Jessica, over the next several days and clinics and pharmacies. But think about the fact that these shots have been -- being released now in September, as opposed to waiting for later in the fall. Because the forecasts are that if the shots are given now, it could as -- it could prevent 130,000 or so hospitalizations and some 10,000 deaths. So that's the latest data that we have, Jessica, as we get more information. We'll bring it to you.
DEAN: All right. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, our thanks as always.
Legendary actress, Jane Fonda, has announced that she's been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She revealed that news on Instagram while also sharing that she has started chemotherapy. Chloe Melas joins me now. Chloe, what is Jane Fonda saying about her diagnosis?
CHLOE MELAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER: Look, I think that you know first of all her announcement of her diagnosis, Jessica, took everyone by shock on Friday this very lengthy Instagram Graham post where she didn't just talk about her diagnosis, but she took this as an opportunity to talk about the things that she's most passionate about and that's politics, her activism, climate change.
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I want to read you a little bit of what she said. She said, this is a very treatable cancer, 80 percent of people survived. So I feel very lucky. She also goes on to say, I'm also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. And I realize it's painful that I'm privileged in this. She goes on to say that far too many Americans do not have quality health care, and that it's just not right. Then she went on to also talk, like I said, about the midterms and that this is not going to slow her down. I've interviewed Jane Fonda. She is 84 years young. And you better believe that she is a fighter, and she's not going to let it slow her down.
A lot of celebrities took to social media to flood the comment section of her post, sharing their support, one of which was Diane Keaton, who started with her in the 2018 moving Book Club, and she wrote something really poignant. Just saying, you're such a hero, you're such a warrior. I support you, I love you. And that was incredibly touching. But there are so many too many to count.
Also, Reese Witherspoon said that she's sending her strength but, you know, the list goes on and on of all of the lives that, you know, Jane Fonda has touched. And, again, she used this as an opportunity. And I think that that speaks to Jane Fonda's resilient incredible character of how she's always thinking about other people. And in this moment, sharing this major diagnosis. She's saying, I'm OK. I'm worried about you. And I think that's the takeaway here.
BROWN: Yes. Well, we're certainly wishing her the best. Chloe, thanks so much for that update. We appreciate it.
MELAS: Thank you.
DEAN: It is a tale from the upside down world and that's not Stranger Things, but it's certainly a strange position that one gym goer found herself stuck in at a very odd hour. We've got that story next.
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DEAN: The Manhattan District Attorney's office has seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. They say many of the objects were illegally looted from Italy and Egypt. A spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg told CNN the objects will be repatriated to their countries of origin and ceremonies next week. The DA's office says they have investigated and return nearly 2,000 objects to date and promise to continue.
An Ohio woman got stuck in the upside down on an inversion machine. So what do you do when you can't get right side up at 3:00 in the morning? Jeanne Moos has the story.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don't you hate it when you have to call 911 because you're stuck upside down? CHRISTINE FAULDS, GYM GOER: I'm stuck in this reverse, like, back decompression thing.
MOOS: Good thing Christine Falls was able to use her smart watch to call 911.
FAULDS: And I think the thing went too far and I'm just stuck upside down and I cannot get myself upside -- right side up.
MOOS: Stuck at the Powerhouse Gym in Berea, Ohio open 24 hours. The only other person she knew was in the gym with her at 3:00 a.m.
FAULDS: Hey, Jason.
MOOS: Was in another room lifting weights and couldn't hear her.
FAULDS: And it was just so much pressure in my head.
MOOS: She kept trying to lift herself free, but no amount of squirming helped. She hung there for five or six minutes before she decided to call 911.
FAULDS: This is so embarrassing.
MOOS: The inversion table is supposed to loosen your spine.
So are you going to use the inversion table ever again?
FAULDS: Well, not without a buddy.
MOOS: An officer arrived at the gym a few minutes after Christine called 911.
FAULDS: When the cop walked in, Jason called me and the cop came in and said, we got a call that someone stuck hanging upside down.
Oh, dear lord. My ankles are burning
MOOS: The officer chuckled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you ready?
FAULDS: Just the easiest, easiest rescue ever.
MOOS: The ordeal lasted a total of about 12 minutes. She had a headache afterwards and felt a bit fuzzy.
FAULDS: It's like -- people were like, why would you post that? It's just so embarrassing, but I'm like, no. I mean, sometimes you just kind of laugh at yourself and move on.
MOOS: Move on, but no more working out like these guys sleep.
You kinds of look like a bat.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York. (END VIDEOTAPE)
DEAN: Oh. And this quick programming note. They risked their lives to bring us the biggest headlines from all around the world. "No Ordinary Life," a new CNN film shares the remarkable story of five female photo journalists who made their mark by braving the frontlines to capture Images from Tiananmen Square, conflicts in Iraq, Somalia, and more. "No Ordinary Life" premieres Monday at 10:00 p.m. only on CNN.
I want to thank you so much for joining me this evening. I'm Jessica Dean. "History of the Sitcom" is up next.
