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In Idaho, Two Firefighters Killed in Sniper Ambush; Senate Debates President Trump's Bill Ahead of Vote-a-Rama; Iran Could Resume Uranium Enrichment; Rescuing Hostages by Hamas Now Top Priority; Trump Presses Congress To Pass His Agenda Bill By July 4th; Temperatures Soar Across Europe; Polls Reveal Unfavorable Views On Trump's Agenda Bill; Inside Cuomo's Campaign Collapse. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired June 30, 2025 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST: Hello and welcome to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Rosemary Church in Atlanta. We are following breaking news this hour. Authorities in Idaho say there's no longer a threat to the community in the northwest city of Coeur d'Alene after a deadly shooting targeting firefighters.

The local sheriff says the body of a man believed to be the shooter has been found and recovered from Canfield Mountain with a firearm nearby. He said they believe the suspect intentionally set the fire and ambushed those who responded and that he acted alone. A county commissioner also spoke earlier about the tragedy.

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BRUCE MATTARE, KOOTENAI COUNTY COMMISSIONER: What happened was senseless and tragic beyond words. I also want to highlight the incredible rapid response from Sheriff Norris and his office and how they rallied quickly with surrounding law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal level, and that includes outside the state in Washington. Now, they quickly contained the suspect and prevented him from further harm to others.

The response was phenomenal. On June 29, 2025 is a day that we will not forget in this community. It is a day evil showed his face, and we lost two outstanding professionals of the highest quality. And I cannot fathom why anyone would commit such a heinous act. This kind of senseless violence is unheard of here, as the sheriff had mentioned. This is not who we are as a community. And when you hear how others portray the people who live here on the news, it's not true. What happened here decades ago is not reflective of the fine people who live here today.

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CHURCH: As you just heard, at least two firefighters were killed. Police and fire trucks with the Spokane Valley Fire Department held a procession honoring them. A third firefighter was injured and is in stable condition.

Earlier, my colleague Erica Hill spoke with Alexandra Duggan, a crime and courts reporter for "The Spokesman-Review." She described the challenges police faced as they responded to the shooting.

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ALEXANDRA DUGGAN, CRIME AND COURTS REPORTER, THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW: The terrain is tough. Obviously, they have tough terrain they're working with, but, you know, just the news that hit us recently that the possible suspect is dead, that we, you know, saw a ton of police leaving the area, as soon as we got that news.

It's our understanding that there's going to be a procession for the firefighters that were killed, from Coeur d'Alene to Spokane, Washington. And it yeah, like I'm saying, like a lot of police leaving right now. It seems like they're in good spirits. I saw a couple high five each other. They're eating dinner right now after all this work.

ERICA HILL, ANCHOR & NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Have you seen, since you've been there, have you seen any non-law enforcement, any civilians, hikers, really, who may have been in the park coming out?

DUGGAN: I did see a few. Some people had -- one man had said that he saw someone he believed was important to law enforcement and he pointed to the mountain and, law enforcement ran up to him to speak to him. But that's as much as I know. I also do know though that the first firefighters on scene to this fire were Kootenai County Fire Rescue and the city of Coeur d'Alene.

So, I just want to point out that, you know, the firefighters who responded to this were local. And I think, you know, the procession that's about to happen is probably going to be very somber to reflect that.

HILL: Yeah. Absolutely. It is to honor those, you know, who were killed in line of duty, responding to a fire, two, as we know, according to that union, a third, in the hospital now. There had been some concerns that there could be perhaps other casualties, perhaps other people injured. Have you heard any updates in that respect?

DUGGAN: Yeah. I think right now, they're focused on, you know, getting people out now that they're -- that it is safer to go in. They had said earlier that they wanted to neutralize this threat.

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And I've saw -- I've seen the LifeFlight helicopter sitting there this whole time. And until that press release came in, the helicopter took off. So it's my understanding that they're probably looking for more people up there.

HILL: I've talked to some folks about the park, about how big it is. Right? Two dozen -- 25 miles of hiking and biking trails, two main trailheads, I'm told. This is also a decent sized city, 60,000 people, I believe, in in Coeur d'Alene, and then you've got Spokane right there. Just walk us through what the area is like if you could.

DUGGAN: Right. Yeah. The area, it's a very small town community. It's also very touristy. A lot of people come here to visit. There's a lot of things to do. There's hiking. There's biking. There's swimming at the lake. But everyone here, especially in the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene area, is very in tune with each other. There's a lot of people who live here from Spokane. A lot of people, you know, vice versa.

So everyone kind of knows everybody and everyone travels back and forth very often. So, you know, this is definitely, I think, a situation that links both communities. But if not both communities, everyone in the Inland Northwest. And I think, you know, when Norris said that this is going to affect people for days, that's probably true and probably weeks and months and years after this.

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CHURCH: We are also following breaking news in Washington where President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill is inching closer to the finish line. The U.S. Senate adjourned nearly an hour ago after debate on the package of tax cuts and spending priorities. Senators are now bracing for a marathon voting session on amendments as a vote-a-rama after they convene at 9:00 in the morning. Some Republican holdouts are still calling for changes to the mega bill. For more on what comes next, here's Julia Benbrook in Washington.

JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Over the weekend, Senate Republicans took a major step toward passing President Donald Trump's massive agenda package or the so called one big, beautiful bill. Trump called the procedural vote a great victory, but there are still potential roadblocks ahead. Only two Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, voted against advancing this bill.

Hours later, Tillis announced that he will not seek reelection. But there were several other GOP lawmakers who have voiced concerns throughout the process. This is a multitrillion dollar package that would lower federal taxes. It would boost spending on the military and the border and downsize some government safety net programs, including Medicaid.

After this procedural vote, Democrats looked to use a delay tactic, forcing the clerks to read the full 940-page bill out loud. This took close to 16 hours. Then they started the formal debate process. After that wraps, we'll see vote-a-rama, which is an open ended series of votes on amendments. Some of those focusing in on political messaging, while others are more substantial. So we could see more changes.

After that, then the Senate looks at final passage. If they are able to pass it, all eyes then turn to the House where there will likely be more challenges. House Speaker Mike Johnson was able to narrowly get their version through that chamber just a little while ago, but it was a delicate balance. And he has been warning that any major changes could add more complications.

Republicans have put together a lofty goal of getting this bill to the president's desk for signature by July 4th. In Washington, Julia Benbrook, CNN.

CHURCH: Ron Brownstein is a CNN senior political analyst and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg. He joins us now from Los Angeles. Good to have you with us.

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITCAL ANALYST: Hi, Rosemary.

CHURCH: So, the marathon senate debate still underway on President Donald Trump's agenda, what he calls his big, beautiful bill. What do you see happening in the hours ahead? And do you expect this bill to pass and be on the president's desk for signing by the Senate's self- imposed deadline of July 4th?

BROWNSTEIN: I don't know about July 4th, but the history is that presidents have traditionally passed this bill. I mean, really going back to Ronald Reagan in 1981, every president except for George H.W. Bush has essentially consolidated their first year economic agenda into what we are now calling one big, beautiful bill, a reconciliation package that you can pass through streamlined procedures in the Senate. And it's often been hairpin turns and a tight rope to get there, but they have historically passed them.

Now what makes this more complicated is that Republicans are trying to do two things at once. They're trying to cut taxes in a way that mostly benefits people at the top.

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And at the same time, they are cutting, social safety net programs that mostly benefit people at the median income and below, and they are doing them both, Rosemary, in the same bill for the first time since 1995 when Newt Gingrich tried to do this and was ultimately stopped by a veto from Bill Clinton. They found it very difficult to defend the idea of cutting programs for the middle and working class at the same time so they were funding tax cuts for the rich then.

And in the polling now, they are finding it very difficult again. In the end, I would bet they get there, but there are probably going to be a few more twists along the way.

CHURCH: And, Ron, the Senate version of the president's agenda bill is estimated to raise the U.S. deficit by $3,3 trillion over a decade. That's according to the Congressional Budget Office, which also notes that the bill will cut at least $1 trillion from Medicaid and estimates that nearly 12 million Americans will go without health insurance. Now most polls indicate the majority of Americans don't like the president's big beautiful bill. So what impact might all this potentially have on the 2026 midterms?

BROWNSTEIN: Yeah. It's a real risk for Republicans. I mean, there are individual elements of this bill when you pull them out, that do poll pretty well, ending the tax on tips and overtime, requiring -- imposing a work requirement on Medicaid. But the totality of it is polling extremely poorly.

I mean, two to one negative and really for the reasons that I said. You know, you mentioned 12 million. I'll see you 12 million people losing health care, and it's actually 17 million is the full estimate, because one of the most important things this bill does is what it doesn't do. At the same time that it's extending all the Trump tax cuts from 2017, the Republicans are allowing to expire at the end of this year, the enhanced subsidies that were provided for people to get coverage under Obamacare during the Biden administration, and that will knock another 5 million people off of health care, taking the total to 17 million.

No bill in American history has ever revoked health care from as many people as this bill at the same time that it's giving very big tax breaks to people at the top. I mean, the Congressional Budget Office, which is kind of the nonpartisan scorekeeper, has estimated that on average, families earning up to $76,000 a year will lose more from the spending cuts than they will gain from the tax cuts, and that is a tough sell. So while Republicans have a few elements they hope to highlight in their campaigns, Democrats certainly see this, I think, as their central argument in trying to win back the House and maybe even the Senate in 2026.

CHURCH: And, Ron, GOP senator Tom Tillis, who voted against advancing this bill has announced he will not stand again for reelection. What does that signal to you given Donald Trump has said that failure to pass his bill would be the ultimate betrayal? And how is that intense pressure being felt by other Republicans?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, it tells you something that we sort of know and it becomes more clear all the time, which is that there really is no place anymore in the Republican Party for any, at least, federal official who is not down the line committed to kind of bending the knee to Trump and accepting the full MAGA agenda.

I mean, just before Tillis made his announcement, Don Bacon of Omaha, one of the few Republicans in a district that was won by Kamala Harris in the House, that has displayed some independence from Trump at times. He also announced that he was retiring. So, I mean, very clear signal that there's no room in the party if you are not willing to be totally, you know, online in thrall to Trump. The question is whether there are 218 House seats and 50 Senate seats you can win that way.

I mean, Trump did win 230 districts this time. So, but last time, he only won 202. I mean, it's not clear that you can win as a full MAGA acolyte in enough seats to get a 218 House seats. And in the Senate, it's probably right at a 50/50 kind of split whether you can win that way or not. But I think the message is very clear that Trump's thumbprint on the, you know, handprint on the party is only growing more intense.

CHURCH: We'll watch to see where all of this goes. Ron Brownstein, many thanks for joining us. Appreciate your analysis.

BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.

CHURCH: Canada says it's cancelling its tax on online services. The digital services tax was supposed to begin today. It's a way to tax online services as opposed to physical products. The move comes after President Trump announced that he was ending all trade discussions with Canada. Canadian officials say the U.S. has now agreed to resume trade talks.

U.S. stocks have been on a tear lately, and investors are looking to close out the month with a big finish. And here's a look at where things stand right now. You can see all in positive territory in the futures there. The Dow futures -- it's up 300 points at 44,425. We'll see what happens there in the coming hours.

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Well, Donald Trump says U.S. strikes on Iran obliterated the country's nuclear program, but the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency says that's far from accurate when the IAEA says Tehran could be back at work enriching uranium, and why Iran says it will never stop. That's just ahead here on "CNN Newsroom."

And weeks after its shocking attack on Iran, Israel says getting back the hostages taken by Hamas two years ago is now its top priority. Reaction from the families of those still missing. That's next.

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CHURCH: Iran's ambassador to the U.N. says his country's uranium enrichment will never stop because Iran has what he calls an inalienable right to do so for peaceful activity. The comments on CBS News "Face the Nation" came one week after the U.S. launched strikes on several key Iranian nuclear sites. Now, despite Donald Trump's claims that those attacks set back Iran's nuclear ambitions by decades, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says Iran could begin enriching uranium again in a matter of months.

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RAFAEL GROSSI, IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL: Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there. It is clear that there has been severe damage, but it's not total damage, first of all. And secondly, Iran has the capacities there, industrial and technological capacities. So, if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this, again.

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CHURCH: President Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. strikes, quote, "completely and totally obliterated" Tehran's nuclear program. Well, in the wake of its attacks on Iranian targets, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says rescuing the hostages held by Hamas is now the country's primary goal. The comments came during a visit to a Shin Bet facility in Southern Israel where he praised the security agency for its role in removing what he called two lethal threats to Israel's existence.

The Hostage Families Forum released a statement reacting to Netanyahu statement saying, we welcome the fact that after twenty months, the return of the abductees has been set as a priority by the prime minister. Well, Netanyahu's comments on the hostages are a dramatic change in stance by the Israeli leader and as CNN chief international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson reports, it's not the only one happening in Israel right now.

NIC ROBERTSON. CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: There seems to be a lot of shifting ground and rhetoric here in Israel at the moment, and it is focused around Gaza. And it does seem to point towards a shift potentially towards maybe a deal with Hamas over Gaza, maybe. So what has the prime minister said? He had a meeting where he was addressing the internal security, Shin Bet, just in the past few hours, and he told them that the sort of victory in Iran had created new opportunities, and he used some language he hasn't used before.

He said, out of those opportunities, making the priority first getting the hostages out of Gaza. That's the first time he's used that kind of language. He's previously talked about defeating Hamas, and then as a result of that, getting the hostages. Now, he's putting the hostages first, it appears. The Family Forum representing the hostages say that this is positive, finally putting them first. This is what they've always wanted him to do.

So that's a change in rhetoric. You have as well the law courts that were going to be having testimony from Prime Minister Netanyahu this week about these allegations of corruption that he's facing. They've put his testimony on hold for a whole week, which again seems to hint that the prime minister has some highly important things scheduled coming up.

Of those top officials that the prime minister is meeting with at the moment include, Ron Dermer, a top confidant, if you will, who's expected to go to Washington, D.C. just in the next few days, is creating that speculation that perhaps alongside President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu really is moving to a deal.

And another surprise announcement coming from the government today announcing that those communities around Gaza, the places that Hamas overran October 7th, like Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Beeri, that the government no longer sees a security concern there. And they're saying as of the end of the next month, any families who were relocated and funded by the government to live elsewhere in the country will lose that funding.

This is the first time the government has indicated they don't see a security threat around these communities. And those communities are saying, hold on a minute. We think that this is a dangerous move. However, if this is the case, if no longer a security threat, then get the hostages home. That to them means an end to the war. So a lot seems to be changing at the moment. I would emphasize seems to be, a lot of it's new. Nic Robertson, CNN, Jerusalem.

CHURCH: Still ahead, the very latest on the shooting in Idaho where two firefighters were killed in what police are calling an ambush.

Plus, the U.S. President presses lawmakers to approve his big, beautiful bill, but it's not certain to pass. We will have the latest from Washington. Back in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. An update on our top story now. Police believe only one shooter was involved in the attack on firefighters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Sheriff's officials say the body of the suspect was found near the scene on Canfield Mountain with a rifle nearby. On Sunday afternoon, firefighters were shot while responding to a brush fire in a popular park. Police believe the shooter set the fire intentionally before opening fire, killing two firefighters and seriously wounding a third. Earlier, police described the crime scene.

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BOB NORRIS, CHERIFF, KOOTENAI COUNTY, IDAHO: We had to scoop everything up so quickly. We could not preserve the scene like traditionally we would like to. So, we believe that there's a likelihood that when we are able to enter the scene again tomorrow without the threat of fire, that we'll find other weapons that were placed.

So, this was a total ambush. These firefighters did not have a chance. When you have an environment where you don't know where the bullets are coming from because of the trees and the shrubbery and what have you, it is daunting for police officers, let alone firefighters who were there just to put out the fire. So it's very, very difficult, very difficult for drones or helicopters to see any individuals up there. So, this was a total ambush taken by surprise and, yeah, it's unfortunate.

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CHURCH: In the coming hours, the U.S. Senate is expected to enter into a marathon voting session or a vote-a-rama before a final vote on President Trump's domestic agenda bill. It comes after a weekend of discussions and debate over the package of tax cuts and spending priorities. That session is expected to begin at 9:00 a.m. in Washington.

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President Trump declared it a great victory after key Senate Republicans shifted their votes to advance the bill to the debate stage. He says they are patriots who, quote, truly love our country.

CNN's Kevin Liptak has more on the president's push to get the bill to his desk by July 4th.

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KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: President Trump is under pressure to get this massive bill passed. Remember, it contains almost the entirety of his domestic agenda, whether its immigration enforcement or an extension and expansion of those tax cuts that he passed during his first term in office.

And it is clear that the president now views this bill as essentially a loyalty test for Republicans. You saw that in how the White House messaged this bill to Capitol Hill, as lawmakers were working to pass it on Saturday evening, the White House saying that Trump was committed to keeping his promises and that failure to pass the bill would amount to what they say is an ultimate betrayal.

And you see how President Trump is going after Republicans who oppose this measure, essentially as a cautionary tale for some of those Republicans who may be still considering how they will vote on the final passage, for example, Thom Tillis, the Republican senator for North -- from North Carolina. The president threatened to back a primary opponent to Tillis if he voted against this bill, which he ultimately did.

Now, Tillis on Sunday said that he would not be running for reelection in North Carolina. Essentially opting out of this loyalty test altogether and saying that his decision to step down to retire would now allow him to call balls and strikes as he sees fit going forward. But it is also clear that the president recognizes the political stakes in this bill. And in fact, he talked a little bit about that in an interview that aired on Sunday morning.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Let's see. We're cutting, yeah, $1.7 trillion. Think of it. I think I just saw the number a little while ago, $1.7 trillion. But we can grow our country so much more than that. And we're not going to have to do -- you also have to get elected. You know, when you do cutting, you have to be a little bit careful because people don't like necessarily cutting if they get used to something.

And what I want to do is do it through growth. We're going to have growth like we've never seen before.

LIPTAK: So, you hear the president there saying, you have to be careful with what you cut, essentially lending voice to some of these concerns, including among Republicans, that this bill might do too much to cut some of the social safety net. In fact, that's exactly why Thom Tillis voted against this procedural measure in the first place. Now, the president is dealing with a whole other contingent of Republicans who are concerned that this bill doesn't cut enough, that it expands the deficit, that it spends too much money.

You saw the president addressing some of those concerns on social media on Sunday, saying that for all cost cutting, Republicans, of which I am one, remember, you still have to get reelected. Don't go too crazy. We will make it up times ten with growth more than ever before.

And so, you see, the president has to deal with both those who want to cut a lot out of this bill and those who are concerned that this bill might go too far. He does have to contend with all of those competing factions, including in the House. And we saw on Sunday the House Freedom Caucus, that group of ultra conservative Republicans voicing concern on social media that the bill, the Senate version of it, at least would expand the deficit, would explode it more than what they voted for in the House.

And remember, once the bill passes the Senate, it will have to go back to the House to secure a passage again on that side of Capitol Hill. In order to do that, the president will need some of those House Freedom Caucus members to come on board.

And he has set a very ambitious deadline for getting this done. He wants the bill on his desk by July 4th. That's Friday, but it still is evident that the president may need to continue doing some arm twisting before this makes it to the White House.

Kevin Liptak, CNN, the White House.

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CHURCH: Europe is sweltering under the first heat of the summer. Still to come, we will go live to Spain to see how Europeans are coping with these soaring temperatures.

Back in just a moment.

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CHURCH: A major heat wave is sweeping through Europe, sending temperatures soaring across the continent. Tourists and residents alike sought shelter and tried to stay hydrated.

In London, temperatures rose to over 30 degree Celsius. That's 86 Fahrenheit, well above average. And Spanish authorities warned of extreme temperatures above 40 Celsius, that's a scorching 104 Fahrenheit.

So, let's get more now from journalist Al Goodman. He joins me live from the sweltering Spanish capital, Madrid.

So, Al, how are Europeans coping with these soaring temperatures?

AL GOODMAN, JOURNALIST: Hi, Rosemary. I am in a coveted spot as I speak to you in the shade right now, but that's not going to last very long. So that's one thing that people all across Europe are trying to do, is to get into the shade, stay out of the heat in Seville, Spain, southern city, 41 degree Celsius, 106 degrees Fahrenheit is what is expected this day. Madrid is not much cooler.

The Spanish high over the weekend was 46 degrees Celsius, 114 degrees Fahrenheit, in a village along the border with Portugal, and the flip side of that is the lows overnight. It doesn't cool down enough, getting down to 23 C or 73F, it just doesn't cool down.

Now in Portugal, Lisbon is at 42 Celsius, 107 Fahrenheit this day. And there's much of the nation there is on high alert for the high temperatures and fires.

In Greece, there was a wildfire just before the weekend near Athens, near the ancient temple of Poseidon. Dozens of people were evacuated from that.

In Italy, high alert for Rome, Milan, Naples, and regions like Tuscany are thinking of limiting for workers the time they can spend outdoors during the heat of the day. In Barcelona, a municipal city street cleaner, a woman, 51, died shortly after her shift ended on Saturday.

And in England, which you just mentioned, the Wimbledon tennis match is supposed to start this day and its supposed to be the hottest ever in terms of temperatures start in the history of the tournament. If the temperatures get over 30.1 Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit, there will be mandatory ten minute breaks for the players and the authorities are also trying to take care of the fans, the ball boys and the ball girls.

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So all across Europe, it's a major issue. Heat related mortality is up 30 percent across Europe in the last 20 years, according to a European Union and United Nations joint report -- Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yeah, and of course, what makes that harder is that air conditioning units are not really ubiquitous across the continent, are they? So we'll see -- see what happens there.

Al Goodman, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it. And stay cool. Stay in the shade.

Well, Tropical Storm Barry weakened to a tropical depression as it made landfall in the southeastern part of Mexico earlier. Barry formed in the Bay of Campeche on Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the second named storm of this year's hurricane season. Its intensity has decreased and now has maximum sustained winds of near 55 kilometers, or 35 miles per hour. Tropical storm warnings have been canceled in Mexico, but they're still expecting a wet next couple of days in the area, with the potential of 10 to 15 centimeters or up to six inches of rain.

I want to thank you so much for your company. I'm Rosemary Church.

For our international viewers, "WORLD SPORT" is coming up next. And for those of you in the United States and in Canada, I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after a short break.

Do stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back to our viewers here in North America. I'm Rosemary Church.

An update on our top story. Police believe they have found the body of a suspected gunman in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They now believe only one shooter carried out Sunday's attack, setting a brush fire intentionally and ambushing the firefighters who responded.

Two firefighters were killed. Police say a third is fighting for his life but is in stable condition after surgery. Authorities say a shelter in place order has been lifted, but a wildfire is still active on the mountain.

Well, now to another story we're following in Washington, where the U.S. Senate is debating a massive piece of legislation meant to fund President Donald Trump's domestic agenda. But new polls show how Americans really feel about the bill. And the numbers are not in the president's favor.

Harry Enten breaks down the latest data on President Trump's so-called Big, Beautiful Bill.

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HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: As the Senate debates the one Big, Beautiful Bill, how did the American people feel about it? Well, data from across the month of June shows that the adjectives that the American people would use to describe it are awful, horrible. And to quote Charles Barkley, terrible, terrible, terrible.

What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look at the net favorable ratings of the Big, Beautiful Bill. I don't just got one poll for you up here on the screen. I got five, and they all tell the same story.

"Washington Post", look at that, the net favorable rating, minus 19 points, 19 points underwater. How about Pew? Twenty points underwater. How about Fox News? Twenty-one points underwater. How about Quinnipiac? Minus 26 points on the net favorable rating. Holy cow. How about KFF, the worst of the bunch at minus 29 points.

But no matter how you look at it, it's terrible from minus 19 points to minus 29 points on the net favorability scale. This isn't one Big, Beautiful Bill as the American people are concerned. It's one big, bad bill.

Now here's the question. Obviously, during the month of June, the bill has been debated. The American people have learned more about it. Has that made them change their mind for the better? Uh-uh.

Take a look here. The change in the net favorability rating of the Big, Beautiful Bill, according to Quinnipiac University. Well, look, in early June, it was minus 26 points. How about in late June? The same, minus 26 points.

The American people thought that the bill was awful in early June, the same number say that it is awful in late June, at least on the net favorability scale.

Now, the question is why? Why did the American people not like this bill? Why is it one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation that I can recall that's on the cusp of potentially going in and becoming law? Well, it all goes down to the argument. Does the one Big, Beautiful Bill actually help your family? How did the American people feel about this? Well, Trump's policies and your family help the Big, Beautiful Bill,

just 23 percent of Americans say that the big beautiful bill actually helps their family. Compare that percentage to the hurt 49 percent. And this is so much different than how the American people view Trump's first term and the policies there, and why he was elected back in November.

Look at this, Trump's first term agenda, 44 percent of Americans thought that his first term agenda helped their family, compared to 31 percent who said hurt, so a much, considerably larger proportion of the American public said his first term agenda helped than hurt their family, which is the exact opposite of how they feel about the Big, Beautiful Bill, with the clear plurality, 26 points more of the American public saying it hurts than helps their family, and that, my dear friends, is why this bill is just so unpopular at this point, historically unpopular.

As I said at the beginning, the American people see it as awful, horrible and terrible, terrible, terrible, to quote Charles Barkley.

Back to you.

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CHURCH: Jury deliberations in the criminal sex trafficking trial of Sean Combs are set to get underway Monday. This comes after the panel heard hours of closing arguments from the legal teams. The defense argued that the prosecution exaggerated its case against Combs and has only shown evidence of his sexual preferences and personal drug problems, not a criminal enterprise. The prosecution accused the defense team of blaming the victims, and urged the jury to find Combs guilty.

The music mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges that include racketeering, conspiracy and sex trafficking. If convicted on all counts, he could face up to life in prison.

Andrew Cuomo's failure to clinch the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York was a major shock.

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And now CNN has brand new reporting from inside Cuomo's failed campaign. The former governor of New York lost to political newcomer and self-described Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani's success defied nearly every poll and expert, making waves among the Democratic establishment.

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KRISTEN WELKER, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: I think the Democratic establishment is afraid of you?

ZOHRAN MAMDANI (D), NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE: I think that people are catching up to this election. This is an election that went against so much of the analysis that had been told about our party, and where we needed to head to, and ultimately, what were showing is that by putting working people first, by returning to the roots of the Democratic Party, we actually have a path out of this moment where we're facing authoritarianism in Washington, D.C.

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CHURCH: CNN spoke to a dozen Cuomo aides and advisers to unpack what went wrong in his campaign and how. And what does it mean for the future of the Democratic Party?

CNN's Isaac Dovere has the details.

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ISAAC DOVERE, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: It was an earthquake week in New York City politics, as Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor, beating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Some of that was Mamdani's historic expansion of the electorate. Some of that was other campaigns collapsing.

But as I detail in a new story up on CNN.com, it was also a Cuomo campaign where many things went wrong from a candidate who refused to be out on the trail much or do much to mitigate the heavy negative feelings against him, to he and a close circle of aides who were not changing their pitch. Even as the race rapidly changed around them.

The story has internal conference calls, meetings and calculations that Cuomo and his aides were making that only a few people knew about. I talked to a dozen people deeply involved in the Cuomo campaign, and a dozen more who are integral to the race in other ways.

One Cuomo adviser told me this, "You are not going to turn Andrew Cuomo into the new Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo is Andrew Cuomo. He's exactly the person he always was.

He was not going to build alliances. Not clear. He could anyway. He wasn't all of a sudden going to be warm and friendly, and his operation wasn't all of a sudden going to be warm and friendly."

Cuomo, as I reported earlier this week, is keeping his name on the ballot as an independent. But whether he actively campaigns is a big question. And some of that to aides is going to be about how much he rethinks some of what I report in this article.

Isaac Dovere, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: A close call for Beyonce drawing her hometown show in Houston Saturday night.

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BEYONCE, SINGER: Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: Her flying car prop malfunctioned and tilted mid-air, drawing the song. 16 carriages, prompting her to call for the music to stop. Luckily, the singer stayed strapped into her safety harness and was lowered to the ground. The team says no one was hurt and the show went on.

Well, space company Blue Origin has successfully launched a new flight of tourists into space.

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CHURCH: After a string of delays due to weather, the rocket finally lifted off with six tourists aboard. The flight lasted about ten minutes, taking them just past the internationally recognized boundary for space and giving them a brief moment of weightlessness.

The rocket, known as New Shepard, is the 13th tourist flight launched by Blue Origin.

Well, plastic pollution is choking waterways around the world. In Brazil, one river has been so overrun, it's now one of the worlds polluted places. Now scientists are racing to find solutions before it's too late.

CNN's Derek Van Dam reports.

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DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): The shore of this river is far from sandy. Instead, it's full of trash. The piles of garbage have become a norm for the residents along the Rio dos Bugres River in Brazil.

Mass quantities of pollution have created an ecosystem dominated by plastic instead of plants, altering the lives of those who depend on the river.

This fisherman has experienced the difficulties firsthand.

He says he used to make a living off of fishing because it was possible. But now there are very few fish. Recent research has found that this river contains one of the highest concentrations of microplastics in the world.

But the problem of plastics is worldwide. Plastic does not decompose like organic waste. Over time, natural weathering breaks down plastic into smaller and smaller pieces. Eventually creating microplastic particles.

Humans unknowingly ingest these particles every day.

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Research on the health effects of microplastics is still in its early stages, but one study has identified a link between plastic particles in the body and an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and even early death.

Around the world, scientists are developing possible solutions to the plastic problem. Researchers in Japan have developed a dissolvable plastic.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When we place the plastic sample in an aqueous solution with the same salt concentration as seawater, it dissolves quickly in about 2 to 3 hours, depending on its thickness and size.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is different. How is the colony size?

VAN DAM: Meanwhile, researchers in Australia have turned to fungus for help.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Typically, plastics are very well known to be degrading over many, many years and even decades. This research has been showing that, in fact, fungi are able to degrade plastics much faster.

VAN DAM: The fungi produce enzymes which naturally break down plastic. But Abbas warns that this is not a complete solution.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are other more significant steps that we as a society must take. And this includes upstream design of new products and redesign and remanufacturing, reuse.

VAN DAM: As part of this effort, legislators around the world are pushing to enact restrictions on the production of plastic. While nonprofits such as the ocean cleanup are taking action by conducting large extractions of plastic found in water, the group aims to clean up 90 percent of floating ocean plastic pollution by 2040.

Derek Van Dam, CNN.

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CHURCH: And thanks for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after a short break. Do stay with us.

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