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Senate Debate Amendments To Donald Trump's Domestic Policy Bill; Two Firefighters Fatally Shot While Responding To Brush Fire; Hospital Official: Dozens Killed In IDF Strike On Gaza Cafe; Donald Trump Presses Lawmakers To Approve Agenda Bill By Friday; Senate Debates Amendments to Trump's Domestic Policy Bill; White House to Ramp Up Fight Against Executive Order Challenges; Wimbledon's Hottest Opening Day Ever; More Than 18 Million People Expected to Fly for 4th of July; Last-minute Addition to Bill Adds Tax on Renewables; Trump to Give Temporary Pass to Immigrant Farm Workers; Developer Creates App to Warn About Ice Raids; Jurors Weighing Five Counts, Including Sex Trafficking on the Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial; Starbucks Remodels for Less Grab-and-go, More Sit-and-stay; British Monarchy to Receive About $118 Million Government Funding. Aired 2-3a ET

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

Just ahead, U.S. Senators work late into the night slogging through a slew of amendments as Republicans tried to pass President Trump's massive agenda bill.

We have a name, but not a motive for the suspect behind that deadly attack on firefighters responding to a weekend call in Idaho.

And fires erupt across Europe as a heat dome sends temperatures skyrocketing.

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

CHURCH: Good to have you with us, and we begin in Washington, D.C. where senators are debating the contents of President Donald Trump's so called big, beautiful bill, its intended purpose is to fund his domestic agenda.

For the better part of a day, the vote-a-rama session has stretched on with wheeling and dealing. At this hour, changes are still being floated to attract enough votes for approval. President Trump spent part of Monday on the phone with congressional leaders, pressuring them to get the bill to his desk by the Fourth of July holiday on Friday. But hurdles remain. If the Senate approves the latest version, it will

go back to the House, where there's no guarantee lawmakers will agree to the changes.

CNN's U.S. National Politics Correspondent Eva McKend joins me now from Washington with the latest. Good to see you, Eva. So, where do things stand right now on the Senate floor as the debate on amendments to President Trump's policy bill continues?

EVA MCKEND, CNN U.S. NATIONAL POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, we are now stretching into over 15 hours here. And listen, what happens in the wee hours of the morning here determines whether President Donald Trump's domestic policy agenda sinks or swims. Democrats are happy about this, about how long this is all taking. They are taking to social media right now to message to their constituents about how perilous that they think that this legislation is.

They argue that the longer this goes on, the weaker Republicans become, and the more they have an opening here to sort of weigh them down and wear them out and not being able to advance President Trump's domestic policy agenda.

But what we see on the Republican side, Rosemary, are really ideological divides. You have members like Senator Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, very concerned about the restrictions on Medicaid, very concerned about the cuts to nutritional assistance programs and how it will impact people in their state.

And then in the very same Republican Party, you actually have members who don't think that the cuts go far enough that the social safety net should be cut even more as a cost saving mechanism.

President Trump weighing in on all of this, saying that perhaps one avenue to save some money is from his old pal, Elon Musk, and wearing away at some -- withering away at some of the subsidies that he has received for the various entities that he's involved in. Of course, not clear how much cost saving that would ultimately do.

But on a serious note, these are significant differences, and Republicans can't afford to lose more than three members of the body or this entire legislation collapses.

And then, of course, Rosemary once, if it does leave the Senate, it has to go to the House for final passage, but we are still a long way away from that, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Quite a journey still to come. Eva McKend in Washington, many thanks for that report. Appreciate it.

So, let's bring in Ron Brownstein, a CNN senior political analyst and opinion columnist at Bloomberg. Good to have you with us.

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

CHURCH: So, as this marathon Senate debate continues on amendments to President Trump's so called big, beautiful bill, what are your main observations, and how likely is it that this will end in the passing of the bill by Trump's July 4th deadline as he struggles to get his party to fall in line.

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BROWNSTEIN: You know, one thing that is characteristic of American politics in the past decade is that the margins in the House and Senate are systematically narrowing as each party has become more ideologically defined to voters, fewer legislators are winning in places that lean naturally toward the other side, and the result is that we had back to back House and Senate margins that are essentially on a razor's edge.

We saw in '21 and '22 when Joe Biden and the Democrats tried to make massive changes in a broad array of policies in their Inflation Reduction Act, how difficult that was to do with these kinds of margins. It was ultimately like seven months in between House passage of the bill and when it finally squeaked through the Senate, when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema relented, and now I think we're seeing the reverse.

I mean, Republicans are trying to make enormous changes with tiny -- you know, tiny margins in both chambers. Thomas Jefferson, way back at the founding, said great innovation should not hang on slender majorities. And I think somewhere he is smiling, watching Republicans trying to squeeze this through both chambers with some of the smallest Senate and House majorities of modern times.

CHURCH: Right. And President Trump is, of course, we know, working the phones, trying to push his agenda bill forward and get some of the holdouts on board. How likely is it that he'll win over the likes of Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski or Thom Tillis, because, you know, we've seen the threats from Trump have already resulted in Tillis announcing he won't be standing again for reelection.

BROWNSTEIN: Well, first of all, as we've discussed before, I mean, the history is that, however torturous the process, traditionally, presidents have passed this bill.

I mean, it's been common since Ronald Reagan in '81 for newly elected presidents in their first year to bundle together the core elements of their economic agenda and pass it through this special reconciliation process. The one big, beautiful bill that does not require that it can be passed with the Senate with only a majority and doesn't require 60 votes to make the filibuster.

History says they should be able to do this. But you know, as you went through that list, it really underscores their problem, because they have one camp of legislators in the Senate, and again, if he gets back to the House, who think, who are holding out because they think it costs -- it cuts too much, and then another group that is resistant because they think it doesn't cut enough.

If I had a bet in the final product. The ones who think it costs too much will hold out. Collins, maybe Murkowski, maybe Tillis, maybe. And they will have to flip Rand Paul in order to pass it. And I bet it's more likely they're not going to do that.

CHURCH: Yes. I mean, as you say, cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are proving to be the biggest hurdle, perhaps, as well as the overall cost of this policy bill and its potential impact on the country's deficit.

So, how will President Trump likely deal with the political fallout, given many American voters are not happy with Trump's big, beautiful bill and its likely consequences and might make him pay the price in 2026.

CHURCH: Yes, the bill is in many ways an anachronism. I mean, one Republican said to me a few weeks ago, this is a Paul Ryan era, Tea Party era, Republican bill for Donald Trump era, Republican coalition.

You know, under Donald Trump, the undisputed core of the Republican coalition, electoral coalition, are voters without a college degree, lower middle to middle income, many of them blue collar voters, whether white or increasingly nonwhite, those are voters who often depend upon the social programs that this bill is cutting.

You know, 85 percent of adults on Medicaid are people without a college degree. And you know, now this bill would impose the biggest cuts ever on health care, health insurance for -- you know, for Americans, and many of those are Trump voters, 64 House Republicans in districts where there are more Medicaid recipients in the national average, 11 Republican senators in the 15 states that have expanded Medicaid the most under the Affordable Care Act.

So, there's just no way around that. They are cutting programs that help a lot of their own voters in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

As we said before, there are individual elements of this bill that poll well, ending taxes on overtime, ending taxes on tips, even the Medicaid work requirement initially polls.

Well, but the basic idea of cutting taxes for people who don't really need it at the expense of cutting health care programs for people who do is just simply unpopular with the public, and it's an enormous risk for Republicans to move forward with that kind of trade off.

CHURCH: Ron Brownstein, always appreciate your political analysis. Many thanks for joining us. Appreciate it.

BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.

CHURCH: The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in their apartment in 2022 has accepted a plea deal to avoid trial. With that deal, 30-year-old Brian Kohberger, who previously pleaded not guilty, will now plead guilty to four counts of murder, bringing an end to the years long legal proceedings against him.

[02:10:14] In exchange, prosecutors will not pursue the death penalty. In a Facebook post, one of the victim's families said they were furious at the state of Idaho and described the announcement of the plea deal as very unexpected. A hearing is now scheduled for Wednesday.

Authorities in Idaho have identified the suspect in the deadly ambush on firefighters who were responding to a brush fire in the city of Coeur d'Alene on Sunday. They named 20-year-old Wess Roley, who they believe opened fire before turning the gun on himself.

CNN's Nick Watt has more details about the shooting and the firefighters killed in that attack.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's an active shooter zone. They're shot. BC3s is down. BC1 is down. Everybody's shot up here.

NICK WATT, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): On a routine brush fire call on a sunny afternoon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got two unresponsive battalion chiefs, gunshot wounds, multiple gunshot wounds. It's clear to me that this fire was intentionally to draw us in.

WATT (voice over): Authorities say by 20-year-old Wess Roley, who we're told, talked to firefighters when they first arrived on scene.

SHERIFF BOB NORRIS, KOOTENAI COUNTY, IDAHO: Here's some of his social media postings that were recently removed.

WATT (voice over): An Instagram story of the suspect, apparently armed and camouflaged, set to a song called Hunter.

NORRIS: This was a total ambush. These firefighters did not have a chance. We did have reports that he was shooting at first responders via a tree.

WATT (voice over): Two firefighters killed, a third injured, fighting for his life.

BEN HECTOR, FIREFIGHTER: We're friends and coworkers, and he's a great guy. We haven't lost a member in the line of duty for a very long time.

WATT (voice over): For hours, around 300 law enforcement personnel hunted the gunmen or gunman. They didn't know which shots were fired.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had a cell phone activation. We honed in on that cell phone, and we saw that there was a male, appeared to be deceased, with a weapon nearby. We believe that there was only the one shooter.

WATT (voice over): Authorities now believed the suspect died by suicide. His grandfather told CNN he wanted to be a fireman. He was doing tree work, and he wanted to be a fireman in the forest.

NORRIS: We don't know if there's a nexus to that desire and what happened.

WATT (voice over): Coeur d'Alene now in mourning, paying tribute to two of their own killed in what city leaders are calling a senseless tragedy.

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WATT (on camera): And we now have the names of the men killed. Frank Harwood, 42 years old, married with a couple of kids. He was the foreign rescue chief for Kootenai County. Also killed John Morrison, who was a battalion chief with the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department, injured, an engineer with that same department, Dave Tisdale. Tisdale has undergone two surgeries, and we're told is still in critical condition.

Now, the suspect's family is now cooperating with officials. They send their heartfelt condolences to all impacted, and say, "We do not understand why this happened."

Nick Watt, CNN, Los Angeles.

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CHURCH: The Trump administration warns countries they could soon be facing sharply higher tariffs.

When we come back, the White House ramps up the pressure on trading partners.

Plus, the head of a hospital in Gaza says dozens are dead after an Israeli air strike on a cafe. We will have the latest on the aftermath and the IDF statement on that attack.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. An update on our top story now, the U.S. Senate is continuing its marathon vote-a-rama with no end in sight. Senators are right now proposing changes to Donald Trump's massive domestic policy bill, and all of those amendments need to be voted on.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is accusing Republicans of making deals in secret as they negotiate changes. So far, Republicans have revealed new taxes on renewable energy and have authorized increased cuts to Medicaid, which would leave nearly 12 million more Americans without health insurance.

Well, President Trump's 90 day pause on tariffs runs out next week. Since delaying massive tariff hikes on dozens of countries in April, his administration has had successful trade talks with the U.K. and China.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there will likely be a, "Flurry of trade deals" leading up to the July 9th expiration date, and he had this word of warning for countries still negotiating with the U.S.

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SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: We have countries that are negotiating in good faith, but they should be aware that if we can't get across the line because they are being recalcitrant, then we could spring back to the April 2nd levels.

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CHURCH: U.S. Canadian trade negotiations are back on track after a last minute concession from Canada. Ottawa agreed on Sunday to drop a digital tax on tech firms that were set to begin this week. President Trump had suspended trade talks on Friday because of the tax. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney framed his move not as a cave in but as part of the negotiations.

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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: There's a question of timing, in terms of the date for the final negotiations and when the tax was coming in, into effect.

And you know, it doesn't make sense to collect tax from people and then remit them -- remit them back so it provides some certainty, and as I just said, negotiations have restarted. We're going to focus on getting the best deal for Canadians.

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CHURCH: Carney says the two sides still hope to reach a tariff deal before their July 21st deadline.

New developments, in the war in Gaza, the IDF says it's reorganizing access to Gaza aid sites, to "Minimize friction with the population."

The Palestinian health ministry says more than 500 people have been killed as they approached aid sites or trucks in the past month. On Friday, the U.N. Secretary General demanded that the killing stop, saying, the search for food must never be a death sentence.

A report from Haaretz, Israel's longest running newspaper, says soldiers have acknowledged firing at unarmed Palestinians waiting for aid, claiming they were ordered to do it. The IDF strongly denies that.

Well, hospital officials in Gaza say at least 41 people were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a bustling seaside cafe. It offered internet access, making it popular among students and journalists.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond has the latest from Tel Aviv.

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, another deadly day in Gaza, made especially deadly by a strike on the port in Gaza City. The target was a seaside cafe where at least 41 people were killed, 75 injured, according to the director of Al-Shifa Hospital.

We can see in videos from the scene thick black smoke rising from the site of this air strike. But then once you get on the ground to the aftermath of this strike, you can see how bustling this cafe must have been in the moments before the strike actually took place, because there are victims all over the place, broken chairs and tables in what was clearly a bustling cafe where people would actually come to try and get access to the internet.

This made it a spot Al-Baqa cafe for students, journalists and others trying to access the internet in Gaza, where internet access has been so spotty.

The director of Al-Shifa Hospital saying that the majority of the casualties were indeed women and children. We do know that at least one of the people who was killed was a journalist, freelance journalist, Ismail Abu Hatab. According to the Hamas controlled government media office, that makes him the 228th journalist to be killed by the Israeli military since the war in Gaza began.

But as these air strikes are continuing unabated in Gaza, there is discussion at very high levels in the Israeli government right now about the potential for a cease fire and hostage release deal. All of this coming in the wake of that cease fire deal between Israel and Iran and the 12 days of military conflict between those two nations, where we saw a series of stunning military successes for the Israeli military.

And in the wake of that, the Israeli prime minister is signaling that there is a window of opportunity now, perhaps to lead to a cease fire in Gaza and a deal to release the hostages. And for the first time now, the prime minister is talking about the need to secure the release of the hostages as a priority, whereas as recently as a few weeks ago, he was making clear that defeating Hamas was the number one objective, he now seems to be signaling that releasing the hostages is the priority.

And so, we will see. Clearly, there is disagreement within the Israeli government with right wing allies of the Prime Minister advocating for intensifying the war in Gaza. The Israeli military seems to be signaling that now is the right moment for a cease fire and hostage release deal. We will see what the Israeli government decides.

Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.

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CHURCH: In response to questions about the strike, the Israeli military told CNN it, "Struck several Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, and that the incident is under review."

Well, three days after the US Supreme Court weighed in, lawyers resumed the fight against Donald Trump's ban on birthright citizenship. We'll have the latest details just ahead.

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CHURCH: It's nearly 2:30 in the morning in Washington, where the marathon vote-a-rama in the U.S. Senate is continuing as senators debate and vote on amendments to Donald Trump's massive domestic policy bill. Lawmakers are up against a tight timeline to pass the legislation. The U.S. president has called on Congress to deliver the bill to his desk by the Fourth of July. CNN's Kristen Holmes has more details now from Washington.

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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: President Trump and his team say that they are still optimistic that this bill is going to get passed. I spoke to one White House official who said that they like their odds at this time, despite the fact this is continuing to go on, we're not really quite sure where it's going to end up.

The White House, they seem pretty confident. And I spoke to a number of administration officials who say this has been a real full court press. You have had not only President Trump on the phone with various senators, congressional leadership, but you've also had members of the administration, allies of President Trump's, anyone who has a relationship with any senator, they are calling them. They are pushing them. That's really because this is such an important part of President Trump's legacy, his team and he believe that this is going to be what really cements that legacy moving forward.

Now, we heard from the Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talking about this. Here's what she said.

KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Republicans need to stay tough and unified during the home stretch, and we are counting on them to get the job done. The president is very well aware that this bill needs to not only pass out of the Senate, but it needs to go back to the House, and we need the full weight of the Republican conference to get behind this bill. And we expect them to, and we are confident that they will.

HOLMES: Now you can hear her expressing confidence there, but also saying that Republicans needed to stick together and really try to work this through, stay tough.

Now, perhaps part of the reason that the White House has confidence in this hour is because of what we have seen from President Trump. We saw him on social media, essentially, kind of leveling some veiled threats at people who might try to stop this bill from being passed, saying, senators who are cutting costs, you need to be careful. Don't go too crazy. You still have to be reelected.

Of course we saw him over the weekend, essentially saying that he would primary North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis when he voted against the bill. Thom Tillis shortly afterwards saying that he was going to retire anyway.

But this is obviously going to be something that's on these senators' minds as they are working through this process. Again, we will be checking in with the White House as this vote progresses to see if anything changes. But right now, they are feeling confident that they still like their odds.

Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.

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CHURCH: After a recent Supreme Court ruling, the fight against President Trump's effort to ban birthright citizenship has entered a new stage and it seems to have raised more questions than answers. CNN's Paula Reid has the latest developments in a federal lawsuit seeking to block Trump's executive order.

PAULA REID, CNN CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: The hearings on Monday were significant because this is the first time, we've heard judges weighing in on that historic Supreme Court ruling Friday limiting the power that judges have to block a policy for the entire country. In many ways, that decision was a lawyer (ph) Full Employment Act because it left open so many questions that now need to be designed by lower courts.

Like, all right, what now becomes of President Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, who can challenge it? And for example, the Supreme Court said, that class action lawsuits may be one way to block these policies with the Justice Department making it clear on Monday that they intend to oppose those kinds of legal maneuvers. Now, in Maryland, we heard from lawyers representing clients, and the sort of the anguish that they described that these clients are facing in the wake of all of this uncertainty. One lawyer described a client as being afraid of bringing more life into this world and described the incredible stress, anxiety, and fear that their plaintiffs are experiencing, as this question remains open of who exactly will be a citizen at the end of the month.

Now the Supreme Court put a hold on its ruling for 30 days. That's why I say the end of the month. At that time, the Supreme Court appears in some form could be letting this executive order go forward. So, one of the questions that this judge really wanted to know was, when will they start deporting babies once this goes into effect? Now, the Justice Department gave an answer that wasn't very clear. A lawyer for the Justice Department saying my understanding is that the executive order will not be operative for 30 days.

She asked the judge, is that your understanding or the position of the United States? The lawyer just said, it's my understanding. I can confirm that, but I have a high degree of confidence in that understanding. So, this is a really big question and the Justice Department could not give a clear answer. So, the judge in Maryland demanding more clarification on that question and it's just an example of how much more still needs to be worked out in and around this executive order, all the confusion about who exactly will be a citizen at the end of this month. But this is the kind of confusion that the Supreme Court invited with this decision. Paula Reid, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: Wimbledon is off to its hottest start ever and we are not talking about the action on the court. The famed tennis tournament recorded its hottest opening day temperature as Europe swelters under a brutal heat wave. We will go live to Paris. That's next.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The breaking news, we are following in the U.S. Capitol where Senate lawmakers are working into the early morning on amendments to President Trump's domestic policy bill. They have spent more than half a day discussing the massive piece of legislation. Some lawmakers are ready for the prolonged session to end. Senate Democrat John Fetterman says party members who are dragging out the process are not helping. But Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says a lot of amendments are being proposed to at least make "pieces of this bill better."

Airlines are getting ready for a busy holiday travel weekend across the United States. More than 18 million people are expected to fly for the 4th of July holiday weekend. That's according to transportation officials. Flights will likely be full with the busiest travel days expected on Thursday and Sunday. Travel experts at the website Hopper believe Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport will handle the most passengers this week.

Well, Europe's extreme heat wave is expected to peak in the days ahead. Players and fans alike are sweating at Wimbledon as the famed tennis tournament began on Monday with the hottest opening day ever. In parts of France, Spain, and Portugal, the temperature is topping 40-degrees Celsius, which is over 100-degrees Fahrenheit. One meteorologist says temperatures are soaring because the heat is trapped over the continent.

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KIRSTY MCCABE, SENIOR BROADCAST METEOROLOGIST, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY: Avoid (ph) high temperatures because of the time of year, but the longer the high pressure stays in place, the temperatures keep rising day by day because the heat dome's almost acting like the lid in a pot and it's trapping that hot air underneath it.

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CHURCH: And those hot dry conditions have triggered wildfires. Fires have broken out in France and Italy, and forest fires force the evacuation of 50,000 people in Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia. So, let's get more now from CNN Senior International Correspondent, Melissa Bell, who joins me live from Paris. Good to see you, Melissa. So, we were just reporting there's 50,000 people evacuated in Turkey due to forest fires. What more can you tell us about that? MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Essentially, what's been happening is that Europe is experiencing a heat wave and temperatures that it normally experiences sort of later in the summer end of July, Rosemary, August, except it's been happening them in June. Spain, we believe is about to -- will have recorded its hottest June ever on record. And of course, these extremely hot temperatures and it's 8:30 a.m. here in Paris. It is super hot already and the sweltering conditions will go on until well after the sun has set because of that heat dome effect that we're seeing in so many parts of the European continent.

Here in France, Rosemary, we expect that today and tomorrow the temperatures will peak. And places like here, the (inaudible), people have been doing what they can to stay cool. Remember, the European cities are simply not really equipped for this kind of heat. There's not much air conditioning, and it's really difficult getting through these high temperatures with all of the associated risks that there are.

The wildfires that you mentioned, some have also broken out near Athens and there are warnings, in many parts of France, parts of Italy, parts of Spain, about these extreme heat conditions, the wildfires that they can bring, but also the impact that they can have on people's lives. The figures take a little while to come out. We've just had those for 2023 when we had a very hot year as well and it was nearly 50,000 people that died in Europe. And so, specialists are warning again that this could happen. It'll have an incidence of course on people's lives possibly and urging people to do what they can to stay at home.

Still, for now, no respite on the horizon here in Europe. It's going to get hot and stay hotter because of that heat dome effect. And what the meteorologists say is that it's going to take a few days before that sense that we have of being in a boiling pot with a lid on it passes, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right. Melissa Bell in Paris, many thanks. Stay cool over there. Appreciate it.

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Well, the British Royal household has released its annual financial statements saying the lump sum it will receive from the government will again be just over $118 million. That amount known as the Sovereign Grant is funded by British taxpayers and goes toward maintaining the royal palaces and covering the costs of the Royals' public duties. In return, the monarchy gives all profits from the Crown Estate, a vast collection of properties and other holdings in the U.K., to the government.

I want to thank you so much for watching. I'm Rosemary Church. For our international viewers, "World Sport" is coming up next. And for those of you here in the United States and in Canada, I'll have more news after a short break. Do stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, we are watching the U.S. Senate as it continues its vote-a-rama, as it's called, with Republicans and Democrats announcing new amendments to Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill. As it stands right now, the multi-trillion dollar Trump bill will lower federal taxes, pour more money into the Pentagon and Trump's border crackdown, and dramatically shrink safety net programs, including Medicaid. Officials estimate it will add $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.

A last minute addition to the bill is sparking fury. Senate Republicans revealed an entirely new tax on the solar and wind industries over the weekend. The bill already stripped tax incentives for renewables by 2027. CNN's Chief Climate Correspondent, Bill Weir explains why the proposal is so devastating to the clean energy industry.

BILL WEIR, CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: The only explanation is really vengeance because it makes no economic sense. This language was inserted in the middle of the night, and so everybody in industry was looking at this language saying, what is happening? It was written so haphazardly. There's big fears it'll destabilize more than just these industries.

But, the best analogy I heard is imagine if -- when Henry Ford's model Ts were just starting to crank off of the assembly lines in Detroit, President Taft had murdered that industry with taxes and subsidized horses. This is -- there are subsidies now in this new bill for coal and meanwhile cutting off emergent battery technology in places like Georgia and Texas. And there was a lot of thinking that because of the Inflation Reduction Act was embedded intentionally into bright red Republican districts, where people would see the fruits of this and see what clean energy could mean economically, it would be hard to rip out.

But this new bill rips it out root and branch and then just salts the earth behind it. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is embracing these technologies. So, it is astounding what this would do to an industry now that is toddling and energy sources, which are the cheapest in human history, which ultimately will punish those Republican districts. For example, the electricity bill in Oklahoma could go up $845 a year if this passes. That's just pocketbook issues without even talking about the climate implications of going the other way.

CHURCH: President Trump says his administration is working on a temporary pass for immigrant farm workers. Farmers and business leaders have voiced growing concerns over labor shortages caused by the president's aggressive immigration policies. The president also says immigrants working in the hospitality industry would be eligible for the temporary pass.

Well, the Trump Administration is sending teams of masked ICE agents into U.S. cities to detain undocumented migrants. But as we see more frightening scenes of these violent detentions, some Americans are pushing back and one tech developer has built an app to warn people about nearby raids. CNN's Clare Duffy reports.

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JOSHUA AARON, DEVELOPER, ICEBLOCK: When I saw what was happening in this country, I wanted to do something to fight back.

CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER (voice-over): Joshua Aaron developed ICEBlock. It's a free crowd-sourced app that alerts users when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are spotted within a five- mile radius of their location.

DUFFY: Will you just sort of explain what ICEBlock is and how it works?

AARON: Sure. So, imagine if you're walking down the street and a notification comes up on your device, it says ICE has been spotted four blocks ahead. Instead of continuing down that path, you can turn left or turn around and avoid the situation altogether.

DUFFY (voice-over): Aaron grew up Jewish and has a background in tech, music and activism. He says he sees parallels between the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown and Nazi Germany.

AARON: We're literally watching history repeat itself. And so I thought, what if there was an early warning system and that's what became ICEBlock.

DUFFY: I'm looking at L.A. now. I'm seeing one in East Hollywood, and then as I zoom out, it's showing me a few others.

AARON: One of the core principles of the design of this app is a hundred percent anonymity for our user base. As of today, we have 20,000 users. We're hoping to grow that 10 or a hundred times, of course, but there is no signup process. There is no user data collected. There is no user data even captured by our app.

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DUFFY: Do you have a way of verifying the accuracy of the reports that people are making on the platform?

AARON: We don't, but what we've done is put some safeguards in place so that people can't, for lack of a better word, spam the database. Every reported sighting is deleted in four hours time, as you can only report within a five-mile radius of your own location. Beyond that, we have a five-minute limit. So when you report a sighting, you can't report another one for five minutes.

DUFFY (voice-over): ICE did not respond to CNN's request for comment regarding the app or Aaron's characterization of the agency's activity prior to this story's publication. On Monday, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons released a statement strongly criticizing CNN's report and saying that ICEBlock "basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officer's backs" and that officers and agents are already facing a 500 percent increase in assaults. DUFFY: Something that's interesting that's on here too, it says, please note that the use of this app is for information and notification purposes only. It is not to be used for the purposes of inciting violence or interfering with law enforcement. How important is that piece to you?

AARON: The app was designed to inform, not obstruct. It's important to remind people that let's report the sightings, let's get people away from those areas, so they can protect themselves and their communities. But let's not obstruct what's happening right now. DUFFY: We have also seen the way that many big tech leaders have

supported Trump, donated to him, showed up at the inauguration. But what you're doing is challenging the policies of the Trump Administration. And I wonder what you would say to the other leaders and your colleagues in this industry.

AARON: I think I would say grow a backbone. You can't just be about the money. I understand that you have shareholders to report to. I understand that you have employees that need their paychecks, but at what point do you say enough is enough?

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CHURCH: The jury in Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial will begin day two of their deliberations in the coming hours. On Monday, they sent several notes to the judge, including one raising concerns about one of the jurors, CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister reports.

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ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Deliberations are underway in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, the rap mogul facing life in prison if convicted on the most serious charges. Now, just about an hour into deliberations, the jury sent a note to the judge saying that they had concerns that one of the jurors, Juror Number 5, would not be able to follow the judge's instructions. We have no other information beyond that, but that is quite a stunning note to get from the jury so soon into deliberations.

Now, deliberations coming after this 12-person jury has sat through seven weeks of testimony and closing arguments, the culmination to a nearly two-month trial. Now, for Combs, the stakes are incredibly high. He is facing five different charges, and if convicted on the most serious charge, which is racketeering conspiracy, the maximum sentencing there is life in prison. Combs is also facing two sex trafficking charges.

One pertaining to Cassie Ventura, his ex-girlfriend of more than a decade, and another sex trafficking charge pertaining to a woman who testified anonymously under the pseudonym 'Jane'. Each of those counts, those separate sex trafficking counts, and the jury was instructed by the judge to deliberate on those two counts separately. Each of those carries a minimum of 15 years. So again, very serious for Sean Combs. Combs was seen supported by his family in court, as the jury received those instructions and as they headed back out of the courtroom into that deliberation room, his six adult children were in the courthouse with him in addition to his mother.

Now, of course, no word on how long these deliberations will take, but this is a very complex case. So, this could go on for days and days, but there is the July 4th holiday coming at the end of the week. That could be an incentive for this jury to deliberate quickly. Back to you.

CHURCH: Starbucks is trying to get back to its roots as a local coffee shop. As part of its turnaround plan, the company is redesigning its stores to try to lure customers back. CNN's Maya Blackstone goes inside a New Hamptons location that's a model for the company's plans.

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MIKE GRAMS, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, STARBUCKS: It's creating comfortable seating where people want to come in. It's not just the quick grab-and-go concept. That's not the idea of it.

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And maybe over past years, we lost our way a little bit on that.

MAYA BLACKSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After five straight quarters of falling sales, Starbucks is betting its future on what worked in the past.

GRAMS: It's the basic fundamentals of creating a coffee house community.

MEREDITH SANDLAND, CHIEF COFFEE HOUSE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, STARBUCKS: Starbucks was a creator of the third place. A place where you can come and relax for yourself, and let life play out. I think we're hearing from customers that they want us to go back to playing that role in their lives.

BLACKSTONE (voice-over): After prioritizing digital orders and drive- throughs, Starbucks is returning to its roots. This one in Bridgehampton, New York is one of four newly redesigned stores with a lot more seating.

SANDLAND: We think about 30,000 seats have come out of the system in the past several years. So across 10,000 U.S. stores. I think in the last few years as the rise of digital orders has occurred, the impact of COVID, things like that happened. Maybe customers weren't going out quite as much, but they long for it. We are thinking about comfortable places to sit and to be able to use them in a variety of ways. The lighting is good. The sounds feel nice. The aromas are wonderful. You'll see outlets returning.

BLACKSTONE (voice-over): The company plans to upgrade a thousand stores next year, 10 percent of its U.S. footprint with even more after that. Starbucks won't say how much money it's putting into the effort, but investors are betting on the turnaround plan. Shares have recovered from an earlier sell off in April. GRAMS: Look, America loves coffee, so I think there's a lot of competition out there, but Starbucks has been a true differentiator with that experience.

SANDLAND: I think customers want to sit and stay. They need a third place. They want to be together with each other.

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CHURCH: Thanks so much for your company this hour. I'm Rosewood Church. I will be back with more "CNN Newsroom" after a short break. Do stay with us.

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