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Never-Before-Seen Footage Shows Congressional Leaders; More Than 30 Former Trump Officials Plead The Fifth; Russia To Evacuate Civilians From Occupied Kherson Region; Russia Steps Up Use Of Iranian-Made "Kamikaze Drones"; Putin Proposes A "Hub" For Russian Natural Gas In Turkey; S. Korea: N. Korean Aircraft Flew Close To No- Fly Zone; Financial Leaders Gather For IMF Annual Meeting; Financial Leaders Gather for IMF Annual Meeting; Gauging the Effects of Long COVID; High School Mass Murderer Spared the Death Penalty; SpaceX Running Out of Money for Ukraine Satellite Service; Flooding in Nigeria Kills Hundreds, Displaces over 1.4 million. Aired 1-2a ET
Aired October 14, 2022 - 01:00 ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Live from Studio Seven at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom.
Coming up this hour, a subpoena surprise for Donald Trump from the January 6 committee investigating the insurrection on Capitol Hill and never before seen recordings from that day of congressional leaders scrambling to secure the bill.
Cheap and deadly and made in Iran. Kamikaze drones are being used by Russian soldiers targeting mostly civilians and civilian infrastructure. And new details on the lingering effects of long COVID. A full recovery from the virus might just take a lot longer than many realize.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from CNN Center, this is CNN Newsroom with John Vause.
VAUSE: We begin this hour with never-before-seen footage obtained exclusively by CNN showing congressional leaders fleeing the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Transforming a nearby military base into command center friendly coordinating with Vice President Mike Pence and Trump Cabinet ministers to finish certification on 2020 election results and to try and stop pro-Trump supporters as they stormed the Capitol building.
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VAUSE: Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at the Capitol that day with the intent of filming a peaceful transfer of power for a documentary, on the right side as she kept recording. Warning, what you're about to see the next clip contains profanity.
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RYAN MCCARTHY, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: OK. Well D.C. has requested the National Guard and it's been denied by DOD. I'd like to know a good goddamn reason why it's been denied. I apologize for being (INAUDIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't apologize.
MCCARTHY: This cannot be just we're waiting for so and so we need them there now. Whoever you got you, OK?
REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD): You also have troops, this is Steny Hoyer --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, so we have a little bit of time to make that decision.
HOYER: Andrews Air Force Base.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right.
HOYER: Other military bases.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.
HOYER: We need active duty, National Guard, all the people who are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution.
NANCY PELOSI, U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER: Just pretend for a moment it was the Pentagon, or the White House, or some other entity that was under siege.
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VAUSE: Released all the footage comes the same day, as the House committee investigating January 6 voted unanimously to subpoena Donald Trump for testimony as well as documents. He's not expected to comply, that could lead to criminal charges, as well as a protracted court battle.
A lot more details now from CNN's Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider.
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LIZ CHENEY, JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR: We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An extraordinary move from the January 6 Select Committee.
BENNIE THOMPSON, JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Those in favor will say aye.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aye.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Unanimously voting to subpoena former President Donald Trump for testimony and documents in their ongoing probe, after a hearing where members continued to make their case that Trump is a clear and present danger to democracy.
CHENEY: The central cause of January 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of this would have happened without him.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The committee unveiled never before seen footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scrambling to safety as protesters breach the Capitol.
PELOSI: We have got to get -- finish the proceeding or else they will have a complete victory.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): In the hours that followed, anger and disbelief from Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
PELOSI: They're putting on their tear gas masks.
CHUCK SCHUMER, U.S. SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER: I'm going to call up effin' Secretary of DOD.
PELOSI: Oh my gosh. They're just breaking windows, they're doing all kinds -- it's really that somebody -- they said somebody was shot, it's just horrendous and all at the instigation of the President of the United States.
SCHUMER: Why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Attorney General, in your law enforcement responsibility, a public statement they should all leave.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The committee also disclosed snippets from the nearly 1 million records they've received from Secret Service detailing how officials knew days before January 6, the violence that could unfold. In a December 26 email, a secret service field office related tip that the Proud Boys plan to march into Washington saying they will outnumber the police so they can't be stopped. Their plan is to literally kill people. Please please take this tip seriously and investigate further.
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In the days after the election leading up to January 6, Trump's own officials repeatedly tried to dispel the false claims of election fraud that Trump continued to repeat.
DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Suitcases of ballots out from under a table. You all saw it in television. Totally fraudulent.
RICHARD DONOGHUE, FORMER U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: There is no suitcase. The President kept fixating on this suitcase that supposedly had fraudulent ballots and the suitcase was rolled out from under the table. And I said, no, sir, there is no suitcase.
WILLIAM BARR, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I told them that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time on that. And was doing a great grave disservice to the country. There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The committee also released new testimony from Trump's former chief of staff and former transportation secretary, both of whom resigned in the wake of January 6th.
MICK MULVANEY, FMR. TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF: I was stunned by the violence and was stunned by the President's apparent indifference to the vitals.
ELAINE CHAO, FORMER U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: At particular point, the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue given my personal values and my philosophy. I came as an immigrant to this country. I believe in this country. I believe in a peaceful transfer of power.
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SCHNEIDER: Immediately after the hearing, the former president quickly fired off criticism of the Select Committee's subpoena for his testimony and documents asking on his truth social platform, why they didn't ask him to testify months ago, and wondering why they waited until the very end since the committee will likely be disbanded at the end of the year for Republicans win the House.
The committee though is saying it finally move forward to subpoena Trump since he has prevented many aides from testifying fully urging them to invoke privilege.
Jessica Schneider, CNN, Washington.
VAUSE: To Los Angeles now and Ron Brownstein, CNN Senior Political Analyst and Senior Editor for The Atlantic. Good to see you, Ron. It's been a while.
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hi, John.
VAUSE: So more than 30 former Trump officials who live close to Trump appearing before the committee have taken the Fifth like this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you speak to President Trump on his private cell phone on either January 5 or January 6?
ROGER STONE, TRUMP ADVISER: Once again, I advice the counsel I will assert my Fifth Amendment right to respectfully declined to answer your question.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you, General Flynn, talk to President Trump at any point on January 6 2021?
GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: The Fifth.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did President Trump authorized you to discuss publicly your January 4th, 2021 conversation with him?
JOHN EASTMAN, FORMER TRUMP ADVISER: Fifth.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Clark, when did you first talk directly with President Trump?
JEFFREY CLARK, FORMER ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL: Fifth.
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VAUSE: They have exercised their legal right not to answer questions on the grounds they may incriminate themselves. When this many people close to the President of the United States cannot really talk about what they did in the White House. Because if they do, they may go to jail. Is there any other realistic options here apart from issuing a subpoena for Trump to find out what was happening, but it also says a lot about the White House?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, you know, the question whether they go to jail will sue move beyond the committee to the Justice Department and potentially to juries. Their investigation continues. The subpoena for Trump feels in some ways, like the inevitable endpoint of this investigation. And today was more of a kind of a summary, a closing argument from the committee some new information, but mostly a very powerful summation of the astonishing level of detail they have accumulated over these last several months, John.
And I think it's really important to kind of underscore again, a fundamental shift in the frame that the committee brought to our understanding of January 6. I think, in the initial, you know, kind of shocked aftermath, the question was, did Trump recklessly and volatility at that moment inspire a mob to go up to the Capitol. And what the committee has done is reframe our understanding of that day to see it instead, as the culmination, the final stage and a multi month, multi-pronged effort to overturn the election, not a moment of peak or anger or willfulness. But, in fact, the conclusion of a very large and very ominous design.
VAUSE: Yes, and with that in mind of sort of premeditation, if you like, a Trump adviser Steve Bannon, he outlined the events on voting day, and he spoke about this. I want you to listen to this and note the date that he's speaking is October 31st. Election Day was the following Tuesday.
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STEVE BANNON, FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST: The Democrats -- more of our people vote early that count, there's voted mail. And so they're going to have a natural disadvantage. And Trump's going to take advantage. That's our strategy. He's going to declare (INAUDIBLE). So you wake up Wednesday morning, it's going to be a firestone.
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VAUSE: Go back a month earlier, a new report by the New York Times, you know, the headline was one of early results show the President in the lead because most Republicans voted in person yet in the days afterwards as mail ballots that tilt heavily Democratic are tallied, states flip to Biden. Would the President so distrust in the election by arguing that mail ballots that shift states away from him are rigged.
This is exactly what happened. You and I talked about the red mirage at the time leading up to the election day. Yes, not looking back, is there any other explanation other than Trump had no intention of carrying out a peaceful transfer of power?
BROWNSTEIN: I think that is the overwhelming -- the only conclusion that you can reach. You know, it was not a question of looking at what happened on election day, it was that he was prepared to do this, no matter what happened on election day, and to fit whatever facts, you know, unfolded into a predetermined narrative.
And to me, the shocking thing then, and the shocking thing now was how much of the Republican Party was willing to go along with this then and even more so is willing to go along with this now. I mean, two- thirds of the Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to overturn the results of election.
You know, what was it 160 House Republicans voted to overturn the results of the election. And now I feel a little, John, as though we're watching one of these spy movies where the good guy is chasing the evil mastermind all the way through the movie. And by the time they catch, that they've already loose the virus, you know, or the biological weapon in the water of the city.
You know, framing Trump's guilt at this point, and his complicity in what happened, we're really beyond that. Because his claims have metastasized through the party and there are now dozens, hundreds of election deniers running for office, many of whom are seeking control over the very elections that they are claiming falsely were rigged.
VAUSE: Yes, it's incredible to think what will happen come 2024. But there are a lot of crucial moments on the day --
BROWNSTEIN: (INAUDIBLE) 2022.
VAUSE: Well actually, yes, we had midterms coming up. I mean, what impact --
BROWNSTEIN: Yes. VAUSE: -- I guess just to finish up here, what impact will all of these hearings, all this evidence, this was a ninth public hearing for the committee, as you say, put everything together brilliantly, made a very good case of what happened on that day. Doesn't have any impact on the results come next month?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, I think, you know, it clearly has changed, I think. It contributed to the change in the basic structure, the frame of the election. Earlier this year, many people were anticipating a sweeping red wave and the House and the Senate. Voters were focused primarily on the Biden administration performance on issues like inflation and immigration and crime.
Those issues are still there, those vulnerabilities are still there for Biden and Democrats. But they are no longer the only issues on the horizon. And there is a big portion of the country focused on questions like gun violence, abortion, and the threat to American democracy. And I think the January 6 committee has really brought that into relief for a big part of the center left electorate in America.
What it hasn't done is really shaped Trump's hold on the Republican Party, as we saw all summer with his candidates' winning primaries in state after state, nor has it interrupted the movement of so many in the GOP toward embracing these electoral falsehoods. Literally hundreds of candidates on the ballot, who are embracing Trump's lies about the 2020 election.
And I think as striking as that has been how few other Republican leaders and Liz Cheney has drawn that clear line in the sand and said, look, I am not going to vote for someone who is an election denier, who is threatening that the sanctity of our future elections, even if I agree with them on other issues.
Doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona, Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, they are endorsing candidates who basically say that they themselves presided over rigged elections two years ago. And so, the threat has gone way beyond Trump. I think they put a lot of pressure on the Justice Department to look seriously at indicting him. But the challenge to American democracy can no longer be solved simply by establishing culpability and accountability on that one individual Donald Trump.
VAUSE: Yes, Ron, we still have -- when the fever would break for the Republican Party looks like it. Never has and never will. Good to have with us, Ron. Thank you.
BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.
VAUSE: A lot more of that footage, which is obtained exclusively by CNN or congressional leaders leave the U.S. Capitol. Transforming nearby military bases command center can be found at CNN.com. It's well worth a look.
Just a short time ago, the Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia was the target of a Russian missile strike. More reports of damage, but so far no word on any casualties. Zaporizhzhia is one of four Ukrainian regions illegally annexed two weeks ago by Vladimir Putin who declared all four regions would be Russian forever but forever isn't that long it seems.
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Now the Kremlin-backed governor in Kherson is urging residents to evacuate ahead of advancing Ukrainian forces. Of the four regions that illegally annexed by Putin, Kherson is seen as the one with the most strategic value, the most -- the first major city occupied by Russian forces. But in recent weeks, a sweeping Ukrainian counter offensive has been gaining a lot of ground reportedly liberating 2,400 square kilometers.
Meantime to the west, 11-year-old boy pulled from a collapsed building in the city of Mykolaiv, has died. He was trapped for six hours in the rubble of -- and the debris left by Russian missile strike on Thursday. His name Azan (ph). He was alive when rescues got to him taking the hospital but then died of cardiac.
In Brussels fame, now the latest NATO member committing to supply air defense systems to Ukraine. And immediately allies defense ministers, the U.S. made it clear Kyiv can count on more NATO support.
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LLOYD AUSTIN, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: NATO continues to make clear that we will not be dragged into Russia's war of choice. But we will stand by Ukraine as it fights to defend itself. And we will continue to strengthen NATO's collective defense.
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VAUSE: Right now, Ukraine is facing an immediate threat from kamikaze drones. Made in Iran that cheap accurate deadly. NATO has committed to send Ukraine countermeasures, including electron jammers.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports now on the heavy toll these drones have already taken.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Early Thursday morning, an attack on a town west of the Ukrainian capital. Russia continues its bombardment of Ukraine's key infrastructure. Across the country, scenes like this one in central Ukraine are a common sight, wreckages of power plants. The tactic is familiar, the weapon until recently was not.
A kamikaze drone seen here after an attack on the other side of the country in Kharkiv. Cheap, self-detonating and unmanned, they are a new weapon in Russia's war on Ukraine. The marking say, Geran-2 but this is no Russian made weapon.
Its name is Shahed, designed and manufactured in Iran, known as a loitering munition that could circle a target and the lightweight airframe can travel long distances. The U.S. government says a Russian delegation traveled to Iran in June to inspect the drones seen here in satellite imagery obtained exclusively by CNN.
In recent weeks, Russia has massively stepped up its use of the drones. Evidence posted on Ukrainian social media on a near daily basis.
SERHIY BRATCHUK, SPOKESPERSON, ODESA REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION (through translation): The enemy is trying to save up on cruise missiles, various caliber types. These Shaheds are firstly much cheaper, they can be used much more frequently, and they work in pairs.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): Ukraine too uses kamikaze drones like the much smaller U.S. manufactured switchblade. Though there is no evidence to suggest Ukraine has used the weapon against anything but military targets.
Ukraine's air defense has been fairly successful in Downing Russia's drones, but the fact that they are so cheap as the Ukrainians worried and plays a big part in their push this week for more Western help with air defense. Ukraine's President Zelensky says Russia has ordered 2,400 Kamikaze drones from Iran. Officials here fear that as Russia increasingly targets population centers, kamikaze drones are a growing part of the arsenal.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Kyiv.
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VAUSE: Jill Dougherty is a CNN Contributor and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Before that, she spent many years reporting for CNN from the White House at the State Department, as well as bureau chief in Moscow and Hong Kong. As always, it's good to see.
JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Hey, John.
VAUSE: OK, so right now, Moscow's most effective weapon in this war appears to be made in Iran, these kamikaze drones. So what does it say about the state of the Russian military? Possibly the impact of Western sanctions, and also diplomatically what does it say about where Russia's sense right now, internationally?
DOUGHERTY: I think it's a pathetic picture and I use that word advisedly, really pathetic. I mean, right now, Russia, which supposedly had an incredibly wonderful military is now reduced to getting weapons from Iran and North Korea. And these kamikaze drones, the only use for them is to kill civilians.
This is not really, you know, a military weapon like against other armies, et cetera. It can be. But essentially what they're doing right now is trying to decimate civilians and destroy civilians. infrastructure in Ukraine.
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And I think one of the problems is they have not a lot left in their quiver, so to speak. They have their -- their army is doing a pathetic job in the east on the ground. So Russia is forced to go to the air. And right now, you have France, the U.K., the United States, Canada and other countries, providing what Russia is really worried about. And that is air defense weapons, a variety of them.
So Russia is resorting to these weapons, you know, to the drones. But I think it's really a sign that they're in trouble.
VAUSE: You know, Putin did travel to Kazakhstan for a regional summit and on the sidelines, he met with the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And Putin came up with what seems to be sort of a surprising offer to make Turkey a hub for Russian gas supplies. Here's Putin. Listen to this.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (through translation): We might consider the perspective of building yet another gas pipeline system and creating a gas hub in Turkey for sales to other countries. First of all, of course, European countries, only, of course, if they are interested.
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VAUSE: I think this is the second time in a week he's brought this up. You mentioned that at a energy conference earlier in the week. Is he testing the waters here to see E.U. countries may at least consider breaking ranks, maybe tempted by some cheap Russian natural gas?
DOUGHERTY: Yes, I think you're onto something, John. I do think that that is probably the strategy. And, you know, don't forget that you have members of NATO who will have to vote on accepting Sweden and Finland into NATO. And Turkey is one of the countries, you know, that's a little iffy on this at that point. So there may be some of -- some strategy or attempted strategy by President Putin to, you know, bring them aboard and kind of sweet talk them into doing things that Russia -- will help Russia and that would be one of them, refusing to allow those two countries into NATO.
VAUSE: Jill, as always, thanks for being with us. Appreciate it.
DOUGHERTY: Thank you, John.
VAUSE: Another missile tests, artillery fire near the border. Now new sanctions. Details on the growing tensions on the Korean peninsula. Also, the world's top financial leaders in Washington to try and tackle global inflation. Many of them are worried the United Kingdom is moving in the wrong direction.
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VAUSE: Welcome back. For the first time in five years, South Korea has imposed sanctions on North Korea. 15 individuals and 16 organizations involved in the north nuclear and missile development programs will be sanctioned. This announcement comes after another missile test by the North. According to Seoul, it was a short-range ballistic missile launch from Pyongyang early Friday, local time.
And by our count, this is missile number 37 so far this year. CNN's Paula Hancocks has details.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It has been yet another busy night on the Korean peninsula. The Joint Chiefs of Staff here in South Korea confirming that North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile in the early hours of Friday morning. And that was shortly after North Korean aircraft flew close to the no-fly zone near the border.
Now this no-fly zone is a zone that's been agreed by North and South Korea. And it was part of the 2018 military agreements between the two sides. Now the South Korean military saying that they did activate an emergency sortie in response. Now we have heard from North Korea through state run media saying, they took strong military response in reaction to something that South Korea had done, that there was an artillery fire, a 10-hour artillery fire drill close to the border.
Now we've heard from the South Korean side they do say they had artillery fire drill. And that was about 10 kilometers away from the MDL, in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. So this is really showing that we are in the midst of a solid tit for tat action by both sides response reaction and strong military responses according to North Korea.
And of course, it comes just a day after we did see Kim Jong-un showing up on North Korean state-run television. He, according to KCNA, had overseen the launch of two long-range strategic cruise missiles which themselves don't break any rules when it comes to U.N. Security Council resolutions. But he was also quoted as saying that it was another clear warning to the enemies saying that North Korea was fully prepared for war and they weren't showing off their nuclear combat forces.
Now both sides are blaming the other for increasing the tensions on the Korean peninsula at this point. But certainly, with this latest launch that we have seen from North Korea, that makes 27 missile launches cruise and ballistic this year, alone according to CNN's tally. That is Kim Jong-un breaking his own record.
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Busan, South Korea.
VAUSE: Let's take a quick look at the financial markets right now across the Asia region. The Nikkei is up by three and a third percent, Hong Kong up by almost 4 percent, Shanghai Composite up by almost 2 percent. Green growth board (ph).
Let's look at the features right now. Dow Futures up. Everyone's happy, everyone's in the green. How about that? U.S. stocks initially took a nosedive on Thursday, as the U.S. reported 0.4 percent inflation rate, a strong signal that more Fed rate hikes could be coming. But investors shrugged off the news by mid-morning and close the trading day up by there, 827.87 points.
It's been 40 years, though, since the world economy has seen inflation this high and controlling it will take global cooperation. And with that in mind, financial leaders are gathering in Washington for an annual meeting with the IMF. And the head of the International Monetary Fund says controlling inflation, priority number one.
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KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR: We need to continue to fight the inflation until we win this fight. And the Fed is going to do exactly that. Why it is necessary? Because if we lose price stability, we undermine growth. And we hit people's well being.
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VAUSE: For more, CNN's Richard Quest is at the IMF meeting and has a report.
RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS EDITOR AT LARGE: From all corners of the world, the message has been the same. Things are bad, and they're going to get worse. And so, finance ministers and central bankers, along with the managing director of the IMF really have to come up with a way to navigate these choppy, difficult waters.
So far, coordination and collaboration seems to be the answer. But getting these disparate economies to all agree on a way forward is not easy. The example, for instance, of the United Kingdom has been raised again and again. The managing director of the IMF has called for cohesive policies. In other words, where monetary and fiscal, central bank and government aren't going in the opposite direction.
The managing director told me you shouldn't be putting your foot on the brake and then putting your foot on the accelerator at the same time.
GEORGIEVA: What we would like to see is that the policies that are put in place are clear credible, and that the British institutions are satisfied that the Office for Budget Responsibility is brought early in the process, and that there is confidence among the British public that we are on the right track.
QUEST: We meet several times a year. We're meeting it a particularly dark time, of course, with Ukraine and the war. The balance of risk at the moment is very much still on the downside. How confident are you?
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GEORGIEVA: The biggest risk is that we are moving from a period of time of more stability, low inflation, low interest rates to a completely different status of the world economy. More volatility, less predictability, high interest rates. And this transition we are doing at a time when the world is less together.
So, what I worry about, can we muster the will to have this pragmatic multilateralism that acts in the benefit of everybody by solving problems you can only solve together.
QUEST: And so now comes the really tricky point, getting some form of agreement that allows them all to move forward rather than just telling us all it's really going to be bad.
Richard Quest, CNN -- at the IMF in Washington.
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: For many, a COVID diagnosis is just the beginning of a potentially, long battle with the virus with the misery continuing long after the initial sickness.
When we come back, nearly half of those who get COVID will not feel better for months.
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VAUSE: Welcome back. I'm John Vause. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.
New COVID cases are on the decline in many parts of the world, new figures from Johns Hopkins University, a drop of more than 50 percent over the past week in the U.S., Russia, most of South America. But notably, in zero-COVID China, infections have risen more than 50 percent. In Canada, nearly that much as well.
And for those diagnosed with COVID-19, there is some potential (p) bad news. A new study published in the journal "Nature" finds nearly half of those who develop symptoms are not fully recovered more than six months later. Researchers in Scotland found 42 percent still suffered symptoms including chest pain, breathlessness, confusion. That's after a year later.
The odds of full recovery increase for those suffering from severe infection, along with the age of the patient and those who screened for respiratory disease.
Dr. Scott Miscovich is president and CEO of the Premier Medical Group U.S.A. and a consultant for COVID-19 testing in the United States.
It has been such a long time but it's good to see you. It's good to have you back.
DR. SCOTT MISCOVICH, PRESIDENT/CEO, PREMIER MEDICAL GROUP U.S.A.: Good to see you again.
VAUSE: Thank you.
Now, the study seems to reveal just how much we still don't know about the coronavirus and COVID. And contrary to popular opinion, COVID it seems is not just a meaner and nastier version of the flu. It is a multi-symptom disease, which can continue in some people for an incredibly long time.
DR. MISCOVICH: Yes, John. And I'm fortunate where I've been able to see some of these patients back in the offices medically, so I have firsthand experience.
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DR. MISCOVICH: And it is even deeper than that. I mean the study that came out of Scotland is one of three main studies that we're looking at, that basically is repeating the same thing.
So John, you have to understand, what we have now is so much more data. We have so much more experience, and we have these major universities. We have the University of Washington, and actually, WashU out of St. Louis with the other two studies.
I mean we are talking a million plus people, combining all those studies. And they're all coming up with the same thing. Long COVID is a serious illness.
And what are we talking about? Brain fog, neurologic symptoms, breathlessness -- those are the -- palpitations. These are the key symptoms.
VAUSE: You said you've dealt with this up close. You've seen it. How serious because we're still in the early days, right? So we're looking at what certainly has been happening, you know, for years and decades to come. What exactly are we looking at?
DR. MISCOVICH: That's the problem. We don't know. I have colleagues I dealt with at Stanford and UCF, Hawkins. And fortunately, we have across the United States and in the U.K. and other countries, South Africa -- we have long COVID clinics that are developing, and we share information that basically comes together, and we have long term outcome studies.
And you know what we are coming up with? We're just cracking the egg. And one of the things that I can tell that's so concerning to me, is there is no treatment. We're starting to look at things but no mattering what type of combination of medications that we're using, that these symptoms are so complex with all of the inflammation that has occurred whether it's in the brain or the lungs. Once the damage has occurred, you're almost just treating the symptoms but you're not curing it. So we really don't know what it is yet.
VAUSE: In many ways, it seems we just didn't take this virus seriously at the very beginning, and now we're paying a price for that.
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DR. MISCOVICH: Well, you and I have talked about that numerous times on the show when I was just, you know, putting my arms up with our CDC discussions, like taking away mask mandates, and just basically turning off any of the things we know that could reduce the spread.
Yes, we were seeing reduced numbers of people dying and reduced hospitalizations. But now we're paying for it in the long term, and this is what we are all concerned about.
We haven't even touched this. John, there is another thing I'm seeing which aren't being counted. I have patients coming in that have just had heart attacks or had strokes. I look at them -- perfectly healthy, not diabetic, not overweight, but they are post-COVID.
We have so many people we're not talking about in that first year have a higher risk of blood clots to the lungs, heart attacks, stroke, and other neurologic dysfunction. So lots to worry about still.
VAUSE: In the Scottish study though, they make this point. And a small portion of the study participant, about 4 percent have been vaccinated before their infection. And many of those with only a single dose. How does that play out in the mix of all of this?
DR. MISCOVICH: You have to look at each study to have a little bit difference in all of these. You know, one of the things that I thought was very interesting in one of the studies we looked at, this was the WashU, Washington University St. Louis. It was a BA study with like 152,000 participants.
And it found that if you did not have the vaccine, that if you've got your vaccine -- first vaccine within four weeks, or even your next vaccine within eight weeks, there is a chance of getting long COVID reduced.
And so, you know, we see a little bit of varying information, but it does show that in general, when we look at all the data, vaccines helped. You know, vaccines will reduce but it doesn't totally protect you. You could be vaccinated, and still go on and get long COVID.
So, get your vaccine, but see your doctor early because you could have blood clots, you could have a heart attack waiting to happen. You could have a stroke waiting to happen.
VAUSE: You have to respect this virus because it's so different from anything we've seen before.
And (INAUDIBLE) what you've been saying, the head of the W.H.O. says, the impact of long COVID is serious, needs immediate sustained attention.
Here's part of what he wrote for "The Guardian".
"Countries must now seriously ramp up both research into the condition and access for care for those affected. If they are to minimize the suffering of their population and protect their health systems and workforces."
Already, governments around the world have spent what -- close to $16 trillion on COVID. Right now, inflation is high, economies are struggling, most people just want to get this pandemic ever even happen. What's the incentive here to do more on this.
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DR. MISCOVICH: Yes. Well, you know, I presented to a business forum, and I was talking about how we are not looking at long COVID and the deaths from COVID, and how much they have affected the world economy.
As we just saw in your prior pieces -- we're talking about inflation, and we are talking about, you know, where we are in 40 years. Well, you know, the lack of people in our job market and all the monies we are spending to care for these people, and everybody really pulled out of our supply chains across the world, which is so interconnected. It is all interrelated. And we still need to worry that we are going
to have a winter outbreak across the world. It is just starting to show the data that is coming up in Europe. and we are not at the end of this pandemic, regardless of what political leaders say.
And we still need to invest in prevention, vaccinations and masks. Those are the big things that we can do to protect our elderly across the world which is where the deaths are still occurring.
VAUSE: Yes. We're having what a thousand or so people dying everyday from the virus, it doesn't seem like this pandemic is over. It just seems like it's lingering.
DR. MISCOVICH: Yes.
VAUSE: Dr. Scott Miscovich, as always, good to see you. Thank you very much.
DR. MISCOVICH: Good to see you John. Thank you.
VAUSE: Well, when we come back, a jury rejects the death penalty for the killer of 17 students, and teachers at a Florida high school. You'll hear the stunned reaction of the victims' families as the jury's verdict was read.
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VAUSE: A jury in Florida has recommended life in prison for the shooter who killed 17 people at a high school four years ago. Many parents of those who were killed were hoping for the death penalty. 14 students and three teachers, died in 2018 at Marjorie Stoneham Douglas High, in the town of Parkland.
Parents say that if any case deserves the death penalty, this was it. The jury though opted for a life sentence.
Here is CNN's Brian Todd.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We, the jury, unanimously find that the aggravating --
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The facial expressions and body language were excruciating. As the sentencing verdict for Nikolas Cruz was read in court, mothers shook heads, wiped tears. Fathers slumped down with heads in hands, or could barely contain their anger.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- the jury having returned a verdict of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole --
TODD: Cruz, who pleaded guilty to the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida avoided the death penalty. Victims' relatives pouring out their heartache in graphic terms. ANNE RAMSAY, MOTHER OF PARKLAND VICTIM HELENA RAMSAY: Today, we let
someone off that murdered 17 people in cold blood. How do you describe someone dying as bursting open their head?
LORI ALHADEFF, MOTHER OF PARKLAND VICTIM ALYSSA ALHADEFF: I sent my daughter to school, and she was shot eight times. I am so beyond disappointed and frustrated with this outcome.
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TODD: Lori Alhadeff's 14 year old daughter Alyssa was one of 14 students killed that day. As with other victims, Judge Elizabeth Scherer read the jury's finding. Did the aggravating factors of Alyssa Alhadeff's murder, factors which would prompt a sentence of death, outweighed mitigating circumstances that would prevent the death penalty.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.
TODD: Prompting a muttered expletive from Alyssa's father Elon. Her mom, covering her face in anguish. Elon Alhadeff later telling reporters what he thought of the outcome.
ELON ALHADEFF, FATHER OF PARKLAND VICTIM ALYSSA ALHADEFF: I am disgusted with our legal system. I am disgusted with those jurors.
TODD: The jury foreman said, three jurors voted against the death penalty. One of them because they believed Cruz was mentally ill. Mental illness was one of at least 40 mitigating factors the defense presented, to persuade jurors that death wasn't the appropriate sentence.
Other mitigating factors, that Cruz had been exposed to alcohol and drugs in the womb. That he'd been sexually abused by a trusted peer.
AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: The mitigating factors in this case, particularly those that went to his state of mind and his mental health, were critical in sparing his life.
TODD: But those factors only seem to draw fury from parents like Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was shot four times.
TONY MONTALTO, FATHER OF PARKLAND VICTIM GINA MONTALTO: Pressing the barrel of his weapon to my daughter's chest. That does not outweigh the poor little what's his name? Had a tough upbringing?
TODD: Another father, saying what he now wishes for the shooter.
FRED GUTTENBERG, FATHER OF PARKLAND VICTIM, JAIME GUTTENBERG: In prison, I hope, and pray, he receives the kind of mercy from prisoners that he showed to my daughter and the 16 others.
TODD: The judge will issue the formal sentence on November 1st but she cannot depart from the jury's recommendation of life in prison. The judge has also set an early December when victims' relatives can give statements saying why they believe the death sentence should have been imposed. But, that too, cannot change the sentence.
Brian Todd, CNN -- Washington.
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VAUSE: The rainy season in Nigeria, one of the deadliest and destructive in decades, already flooding, hundreds of lives, forced 1 million from their homes, and we're with details after the break.
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VAUSE: A CNN exclusive now. Elon Musk's SpaceX says it's running out of money to fund the crucial satellite Internet service that Ukrainian troops depend on daily on the battlefield. This comes amid reports that Musk recently spoke directly to Vladimir Putin about the war. Musk denies that.
CNN's Alex Marquardt has the story.
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ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: In Ukraine's fight to push out Russian invaders, one of the most critical pieces of technology doesn't fire rockets, or bullets. It's small, easy to use satellite Internet terminals, called Starlink. Made by SpaceX, the rocket and satellite company founded by Elon Musk.
According to SpaceX, there are around 20,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine and they have been vital for soldiers communication, flying drones, and artillery targeting.
SETH JONES, SENIOR ADVISER, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM CSIS: Starlink is the glue really between the forward deployed drone and the artillery that is conducting the strike against Russian positions.
MARQUARDT: Starlink arrived in Ukraine as the war started. Earning Musk global praise and thanks. CNN has now, exclusively, obtained documents showing not only that SpaceX is just one part of a large, international effort getting Starlink to Ukraine's front lines. But now seven months into the war, SpaceX is warning the Pentagon, it is facing the choice of reducing or stopping service.
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JONES: Why, at this moment, Starlink is raising this issue? It is really bad timing.
MARQUARDT: The company says it has spent almost $100 million and, quote, "We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time.
SpaceX has now requested the Pentagon pick up much of the tab -- $124 million for the rest of 2022, a rate that would translate to close to $400 million for the next year. DMITRI ALPEROVITCH, SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR: SpaceX is not a
charity, of course, and they are losing a lot of money right now, as a business. So, I am sure, they're trying to recoup some of their costs.
MARQUARDT: SpaceX request coming after Ukraine's commanding general Valeriy Zaluzhny (ph) wrote in July directly to Musk. The letter obtained exclusively by CNN, Starlink units provide exceptional utility, the general wrote. Then, asked to Musk for almost 8,000 more terminals.
Instead, SpaceX said they told Ukraine to send their request to the Pentagon, adding, "We have now exceeded our original agreement with Ukraine."
Without Starlink, Ukraine says, it can't fight. Last week, reports emerged of widespread, sudden Starlink outages on the front line, as troops fought to take back territory.
ALPEROVITCH: They're puzzled about why that's going on. Is that something that SpaceX is doing intentionally? Is that coming from Elon, no one is quite sure.
MARQUARDT: The outages, and news of the funding request of the Pentagon, come as Musk's support of Ukraine is also questioned after he proposed a peace deal suggesting that Ukraine relinquish Crimea to Russia and hold a U.N.-backed referenda for parts of eastern Ukraine.
He told a private audience that Ukraine does not want to talk about peace negotiations, while he says Russia would accept those terms.
In the backlash that has followed, Elon Musk has repeatedly insisted that he is pro Ukraine. Just yesterday, tweeting at a Ukrainian official who thanked him for Starlink saying, "You are most welcome, glad to support Ukraine."
IN reality that support is more complicated. The documents that we obtained show that SpaceX fully donated just 15 percent of the Starlink hardware, the terminals, with a majority 70 percent of the Internet service. Now, the rest comes from countries like the U.S., Poland, the U.K. and other entities.
So at the same time that Musk is saying that he's glad to support Ukraine, his company is saying that that support may soon slow down or end. SpaceX ignored our repeated request for comment, and a lawyer for Elon Musk did not respond.
Alex Marquardt, CNN -- Washington.
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VAUSE: Nigeria is in the midst of one of the deadliest rainy seasons in decades. Massive floods are wreaking havoc across the region, tearing homes apart, and destroying lives.
CNN's Larry Madowo has the latest.
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LARRY MADOWO: It is the worst fighting Nigeria have had in a decade and, the impact is clear to see. Authorities say as many as 500 people have died and more than 1.4 million people have been displaced since the start of the rainy season in the country.
Last month, the number of displaced stood at 100,000. People are posting on social media how the floods are affecting them. This video, taken late last month in Kogi State, one of the worst affected areas.
But the toll it isn't just in human life. For Abraham Han, the flood has decimated his livelihood and food security.
ABRAHAM, FARMER: All of this is my farm, right up to where we have electrical poles down south, combined hectares 50 hectares of land. It all (INAUDIBLE) gone down the drain.
MADOWO: To get a better sense of scale though, take a look at this. NASA imagery taken around 40 months apart, showing an area near a number of the states.
Just a few days ago, authorities say, 76 people drowned there, trying to escape floodwaters when their boat capsized.
The country's emergency management agency says the heavy rain is the main cause of the flooding, as well as a dam releasing excess water in neighboring Cameroon.
Authorities are keen to tout their response. Here, they are demonstrating the clean water in one flood hit region. They are also posting photos on social media of the response, and going on national TV.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As we dispatched (INAUDIBLE) we've dispatched our boats also to support the neighboring (ph) states in times of rescue.
MADOWO: And as the floods continue to wreak havoc, many are flagging the impact climate change is having on the country. This clip, weather used a shortage journey that should be five hours. Instead, taking two nights, and calling it a first hand view of the climate crisis.
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MADOWO: The rainy season in this region is expected to end this month but the impact will likely be felt for much longer.
Larry Madowo, CNN.
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VAUSE: Another powerful weather system in the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Karl is forecast to make landfall in either Vera Cruz or Tabasco on Saturday. Heavy rains and flooding are expected in the region.
CNN meteorologist, Derek Van Dam joins us now with the very latest development. So what are we looking at? DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. You know, the storm has been
notoriously difficult to really predict this trajectory. Yesterday, at this time, it was a stationary tropical storm. Now, it is starting to get that southernly shift that we had anticipated, but it is a little further east than what we saw yesterday. So that puts places like the Campeche Bay (ph), also a threat from this particular storm.
But I want you to see this. This is the center of the circulation, and all the thunderstorm activity is actually just to the east of it. So a lot of this is being sheared off by high, strong, upper level winds. That is important because that's an indicator to meteorologists that this is a weakening storm, and as it continues to progress across this region, it is going to battle all this dry air that's located within the region.
And that is going to place a significant impact on how the storm is going to play out over the coming days as it makes landfall here by late Friday night, and into the day on Saturday.
Now, the good news is, this cold front, and high pressure to the north, is actually going to work as a deterrent for the U.S. So this is not going to be a U.S. threatening storm. It is really going to be right along the coastline of mainland Mexico near Tabasco, as well as Campeche, and even into the Vera Cruz states there. You can see that on our map.
But the forecast has shifted a little further to the east. It will dissipate as it moves over some of this mountainous terrain.
So the wind threat, really not the biggest problem here, it's the rain. So localized flooding, flash flooding, as well as landslides, and mudslides as rainfall totals here exceed 100 millimeters in the three-day period.
And it's not just tropical storm Karl that we are focusing on. We still have an active hurricane season, ongoing across the Atlantic. We have a 20 percent chance of development with a weak tropical wave that's moved off the west coast of Africa. And if you look at this projected name list, the next name would be Lisa.
Of course, we are working through Karl at the moment, and, well, we couldn't forget what happened in Florida three weeks ago with major Hurricane Ian but that is not the case here, John.
VAUSE: Derek, thanks for that. Appreciate it.
VAN DAM: Ok.
VAUSE: And thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause.
Please stay with us. CNN NEWSROOM continues after the break with Kim Brunhuber.
See you next week.
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