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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Just ahead.
As people in Gaza face a hunger crisis, Arab states call for Hamas to lay down their weapons.
And it's one day until Trump's tariff deadline. What he says about the deals that still haven't been made.
Plus a string of violent attacks on crypto investors, how promoting online currency is leading to real-world crime.
UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Lynda Kinkade.
KINKADE: It is 10 a.m. in Gaza where the search for food by desperate Palestinians continues to turn deadly. First, a warning video of the scene is graphic.
The Gaza Health Ministry reports at least 60 people were killed, 600 others injured in northern Gaza on Wednesday when Israeli forces fired near an aid site. The Israeli military says troops fired warning shots and that it's not aware of any casualties.
An Israeli security source tells CNN sounds of gunfire were heard from within the crowd and some people were run over by aid trucks. CNN cannot independently verify the circumstances of that incident.
The chaotic situation in Gaza has prompted Canada to announce that it will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this September, it follows similar moves by France and the U.K.
Arab and Muslim, as well as other nations, have signed a U.N. declaration calling on Hamas to disarm and give up power in Gaza. The statement also says the Palestinian Authority should handle governance and security in all the Palestinian territory.
Our senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman has reported extensively from Gaza for decades. Well right now the Israeli government has banned all international media from the territory.
So Ben joins us live from Rome. Good to have you with us, Ben.
So just when it seemed the situation in Gaza couldn't be any more dire, we're now hearing these reports of dozens of people shot or run over by aid trucks in the chaos. What more can you tell us and is anyone being held responsible?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Now, Lynda, this happened near the Zakim crossing between Israel and Gaza yesterday evening, where several trucks carrying aid entered Gaza and were quickly swarmed by hundreds and hundreds of desperate Palestinians trying to get food and other goods.
And as a result of the chaos, it appears that gunfire occurred. Now, obviously the Israelis are denying that they fired anything other than warning shots. But what we know is that from the Ministry of Health in Gaza that at least 60 people were killed in this incident.
Now, we have lots of very vivid, very graphic video of those who were injured and killed in this incident, which is just the latest in a series of incidents where people in Gaza who are desperate to get food after Israel cut off the territory from any supplies since going back to March. We've seen hundreds of people killed as a result of this situation where they're trying to get food, whether they're being killed outside the facilities of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation or by Israeli forces.
What we do know is that hundreds of people are being killed as a result of a situation that could easily have been avoided if the U.N., which has had a system in place for decades for distributing food, if they were allowed to maintain that system, we wouldn't be wasting our time reporting on these daily massacres that are occurring in Gaza. Lynda?
KINKADE: Yes, exactly right. And of course, Ben, there is growing international pressure on Hamas to disarm and hand over control of Gaza alongside renewed cause for a two-state solution. And France has called this latest declaration at the U.N. unprecedented.
Why is this such a significant shift? And has Hamas issued any response?
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WEDEMAN: Hamas has not responded to this call coming out of a conference in New York co-sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia where we've seen that the 22 members of the Arab League that is the European Union as well as 17 other countries have called for Hamas to disarm, relinquish power, and hand everything over to the Palestinian Authority.
Now, France calls this unprecedented. I'd call it largely irrelevant because they're talking about handing over weapons and power to the Palestinian Authority, which itself is a hollow shell of what it was intended to be, given that anybody with eyes and ears who goes to the West Bank will know that the Palestinian Authority is simply a facade behind which Israel operates. Israel has total power over the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority is really just there to assuage the conscience of the international community.
So it's a lot of talk behind which there is no significance whatsoever. Lynda?
KINKADE: All right. Ben Wedeman for us in Rome. Great to get your analysis as always, thank you.
Well, more now on that dire humanitarian situation in Gaza from CNN's Jeremy Diamond.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERU.S.ALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, more humanitarian aid is beginning to make its way into the Gaza Strip and into the hands of hungry Palestinians. But the U.N. agencies are warning that time is running out to mount a full-scale humanitarian response that can actually begin to alleviate the starvation crisis that is currently gripping Gaza.
On Tuesday, about 200 trucks of humanitarian aid were distributed in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities. That's the same level as the day before, but a significant increase from the numbers of trucks that were getting distributed in Gaza last week. This comes after Israel began implementing those tactical pauses, safe distribution routes, all of these, of course, steps that the U.N. and other humanitarian aid agencies have been calling on Israel to implement for months now.
And we know that so much of what is happening in Gaza already is going to be very difficult to alleviate. And for many, it will be too late.
Inside Gaza, we're also getting a better sense of just how bad this starvation crisis is, with 39 percent of people now going days at a time without eating, according to the World Food Program. In Gaza City, in the northern part of the Strip, malnutrition levels among children under five have quadrupled in just the last two months, with a slew of agencies now describing famine-like conditions in many parts of the Gaza Strip. In addition to that, we are still seeing individuals in Gaza who are being killed by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as they are trying to make their way to get aid.
And so now the question is, can this be alleviated? And, of course, we know that those ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas have very much stalled for the time being. And so enter into the picture Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy, who is going to be traveling to Israel on Thursday, presumably to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as well as to see if it's possible to revive these hostage release and ceasefire efforts.
Witkoff, before departing for Israel, spoke with the Egyptian foreign minister. They discussed those ceasefire efforts, the entry of humanitarian aid. Egypt, alongside Qatar, of course, are the two key mediators in these negotiations. Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.
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KINKADE: U.S. President's tariffs are less than a day away from taking effect, and his administration says this time there will be no extensions to the August 1st deadline and no grace period.
Donald Trump has been ramping up the pressure on social media in recent hours. He's now threatened to impose a so-called Russian penalty on India for buying Russian oil, that's in addition to a possible 25 percent tariff.
He posted, "I don't care what India does with Russia. They can take their debt economies down together for all I care."
He also took aim at Canada over its support for Palestinian statehood, warning "That will make it very hard for us to make a trade deal with them. Oh, Canada."
South Korea did reach an agreement with the U.S., and so did Cambodia and Thailand. And there's progress in trade talks with Pakistan.
Here's how the Asia-Pacific markets are reacting on the eve of the tariff deadline. You can see they're mostly in the red, the Nikkei up just over one percent.
A closer look now at the U.S. deal with South Korea. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout has our report.
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with South Korea right before the August 1 tariff deadline. Now he says the deal includes a 15 percent tariff on imports from South Korea, and that's down from the 25 percent rate originally due to kick in on Friday.
Now the deal also includes a $350 billion investment from South Korea into the U.S. and the purchase of $100 billion worth of liquefied natural gas and other U.S. energy products. Now Trump also said that South Korea would accept U.S. products, including cars, trucks and agriculture, with no import duties.
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Now, the U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick provided more details on the arrangement.
On the social platform X, he wrote this, quote, "South Korea's reciprocal and auto tariff rate will be set at 15 percent. They will also not be treated any worse than any other country on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. Steel, aluminum and copper are not included and remain unchanged," unquote.
On Facebook, the South Korean president, Lee Jae-myung, fleshed out the investments in the deal.
He said this, quote, "The $350 billion fund included in the trade agreement will strengthen the foundation for strategic industry cooperation. In particular, $150 billion of this fund is dedicated to ship building cooperation, which will firmly support our company's entry into the U.S. shipbuilding industry."
And the name of this project, MASGA, or, quote, "Make American Shipbuilding Great Again."
Look, there was a lot of pressure on South Korea to reach this deal before the deadline, especially when its export rivals had already done so.
Here's the regional context. Now, Japan's deal with the U.S. set the bar at a 15 percent tariff while offering a hefty investment. And the Philippines and Indonesia, they settled for 19 percent, Vietnam at 20 percent.
Meanwhile, Thailand and Cambodia have been clashing at the border. A ceasefire was announced on Monday, and Lutnick told Fox News that there is a deal with both countries, but provided no further details.
Now, Thailand says no deal has been officially announced, but expects one soon. Now, talks with China for a trade truce extension, those are ongoing. Now, South Korea is America's seventh largest source of imports, it's also a key strategic ally.
Analysts note how North Korea and the U.S. military presence in the Korean Peninsula didn't appear to factor in the trade deal, but that will likely come up when the two leaders meet. Trump says the South Korean president will visit the White House, quote, "within the next two weeks."
Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, Hong Kong.
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KINKADE: Well, uncertainty over the new tariffs and how they'll impact persistent inflation has the U.S. Federal Reserve holding interest rates steady.
Chairman Jerome Powell is taking a wait and see approach and warns that cutting rates too soon could hurt the labor market. He would not need to rule out nor confirm a possible rate cut come September. And this is to the frustration of President Trump, who has long been demanding lower rates.
U.S. stocks closed mixed on Wednesday as Wall Street processed those remarks, and that's despite new GDP figures that show the U.S. economy sharply rebounded in the second quarter. And futures so far have been in positive territory. You can see that the Dow up just a little bit over a quarter of a percent and Nasdaq up 1.34 percent.
The White House official tells CNN that President Trump is quietly discussing plans to host the G20 summit next year at his golf club in Florida. The official says the possibility has been under discussion for weeks now.
During his first term, the President wanted to host a G7 summit at the Miami area resort, but he reversed course amid conflict of interest questions about hosting a major gathering of world leaders at his own property.
Well Russia is rapidly gaining ground in eastern Ukraine. Still ahead, CNN takes you there where the slightest movement could get you killed, as Russian drones patrol the skies.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: We just have to keep every kind of light source or heat source indoors in case Russian drones are passing overhead.
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KINKADE: Plus, CNN takes you inside a home where a terrifying attempted robbery took place. The attackers were seeking cryptocurrency. We'll have that story and much more ahead on "CNN Newsroom."
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KINKADE: Welcome back.
Rescuers are combing through the rubble of a nine-storey building in Kyiv searching for survivors after a new Russian airstrike. More than two dozen sites were hit in the Ukrainian capital overnight, and local officials say a six-year-old boy and his mother were among the at least six people killed.
Officials say the targets included in apartment building which took the direct hit. Rescue crews are now searching through the rubble for survivors and say they've made contact with at least one person who's trapped underneath.
Well, on the front lines, Russia has been making piecemeal advances for months, but its summer offensive is now shifting into high gear. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh went to Ukraine's Donetsk region and saw firsthand how quickly the territory is changing hands.
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PATON WALSH (voice-over): After dusk, the war has fallen silent but got deadlier. This tiny military medical unit near the town of Pokrovsk, which Russia is close to encircling, is waiting for patients in total darkness and quiet just for survival.
That bright light, we're told, is a Russian spotter drone, and look at how their other attack drones riddle the dark. The first warning is gunfire. Ukrainians aiming at Russian drones.
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PATON WALSH: We just have to keep every kind of light source or heat source indoors in case Russian drones are passing overhead, and that makes it impossible, frankly, to go outside for this unit to welcome in the wounded. Instead, listening to the eerie noises in the dark, trying to work out what's a threat and what's not. But imagine how hard it must be for those actually at the front lines trying to bring wounded out with constant drones above them.
When that one landed so close, you can actually smell the explosive now in the night air.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): The medics tell us this is a quiet night in the skies, but no injured here is no relief.
PATON WALSH: The fact that you haven't had patients tonight isn't necessarily a good thing. It might mean they can't get out.
DMYTRO, MEDIC, UKRAINIAN 35TH MARINES BRIGADE: Yes, it's true.
DMYTO (translated): We often learn there are casualties, but the evacuation is difficult. The rescue vehicle gets hit. Even an armored vehicle doesn't guarantee a timely evacuation.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Dawn is when the injured usually come, when the changing light disrupts drone cameras. But the only patients, six men with suspected concussion after their vehicle was hit by a drone on the road who drove straight here.
UNKNOWN (translated): Where are the worst injured?
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Some of the badly wounded trapped as this video shows. Ukrainian wounded evacuated here two days earlier by police from the front line, their injuries infected after the long wait.
Daylight doesn't stop the hunt. We rush to our car to leave. But there's a problem.
Two elderly locals hear the noise. One runs and the other braves it out.
PATON WALSH: So our car won't start. And we've just noticed locals running away from a drone. And so we're trying to get out of here as quickly as we can.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Our vehicle is under a tree, but SUVs are a priority target. We managed to go.
The need to leave when you have to abandon your life is constantly creeping up on people here.
This is Dobropillia, where yesterday the normal bus service ran. But today it's cancelled and the way out is with the police in an armored van. The drones closing in fast.
PATON WALSH (translated): Why did you decide to leave today?
KATYA, LOCAL RESIDENT (translated): Just like everyone else.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Katya explains she and her baby son truly have nowhere to go. No plan for what's next. It's happened that fast.
Days before, Russian drones struck many civilian targets like this coffee shop. But every day, the map of where police can go is changing.
This is Belitsky, a flame, Russian troops on its edges.
Police taking out those who, like many here, simply didn't see things changing so fast.
As they leave, they use this device to intercept Russian drone signals --
UNKNOWN (translated): The highway.
UNKNOWN (translated): Our one?
UNKNOWN (translated): Yes.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): -- and recognize that one is flying above the same road they are on, but the escape options are shrinking.
Ukraine normally catches Moscow off-guard, but now Russia's summer offensive is shifting the ground beneath their feet. Perhaps irreversibly.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, near Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine.
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KINKADE: Still to come, Senate Democrats aren't letting the White House forget about the Epstein files. We'll tell you their latest move to try and force the release of more information.
Plus, a popular online gamer says she was targeted in a terrifying home invasion because of a cryptocurrency investment. That story, next.
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KINKADE: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom," I'm Lynda Kinkade. Let's check today's top stories.
[03:30:01] And Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. in September. It comes as the World Food Program reports that 39 percent of people in Gaza are going days at a time without food. Children's malnutrition rates have quadrupled in the past two months.
It's now the eve of the U.S. President's August 1st tariff deadline, and a flurry of new deals have been announced with Asian trading partners South Korea, Cambodia and Thailand. Donald Trump says a trade framework with Pakistan is also in place.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has once again left interest rates unchanged, much to the annoyance of President Trump, who has long demanded that they be lowered. Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned about persistent inflation and said rate cuts could hurt the job market.
Senate Democrats are trying to use a nearly 100-year-old law to try to force the Justice Department to release additional files from the Epstein investigation. This is the latest bid for transparency in Washington, but it's unclear if Democrats would get the files they want.
A source tells CNN the Justice Department is not expected to comply. Well President Trump continues to get questions over comments he made, claiming Epstein hired workers from Mar-a-Lago.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: He took people that worked for me, and I told him don't do it anymore, and he did it and I said stay the hell out of here.
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Mr. President, you said earlier that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women. You said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?
TRUMP: Be quiet.
COLLINS: So did that raise alarm bells for you?
REPORTER: Mr. President, what do you think Epstein was stealing those women for?
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KINKADE: In March, a well-known online gamer and OnlyFans model endured a terrifying home invasion. The attackers entered the home she shares with her husband, demanding their cryptocurrency in what's come to be known as a wrench attack, and they're getting more frequent.
CNN senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz reports.
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SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN SR. CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Kaitlyn Siragusa's attackers came under the cover of darkness, guns drawn with one demand.
KAITLYN SIRAGUSA, ATTACK VICTIM: They point the gun at me from the hallway, and they told me to stand up. And so I'm freaking out, and I'm standing up, and there's a chair over here. And so they kind of all come towards me, because there's three of them, and they corner me into the chair.
And that's when they start, like, pistol-whipping me, you know, asking where the crypto is holding me at gunpoint.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Siragusa is a famous streamer and OnlyFans model known to her millions of followers as Amouranth.
And while she's no crypto kingpin, she believes that a tweet nine months earlier alluding to her investments in crypto is what prompted the attack.
PROKUPECZ: So you're sitting there, and the three of them are, like, around you like this, sort of.
SIRAGUSA: Yes.
PROKUPECZ: Masks on.
SIRAGUSA: Oh, Yes.
PROKUPECZ: Guns. And then one guy is in here.
SIRAGUSA: Yes. He was on this side of me, holding the gun to my head, and the other one was here, hitting me.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): What Saragusa's assailants didn't realize, the entire attack was being captured by surveillance cameras.
And Kaitlyn wasn't alone. She called her husband Nick when the attack began, and he was listening to the entire frightening episode from another part of their home.
NICK LEE, ATTACK VICTIM: I got to hear kind of all the dialogue that was happening, and then even them hitting her. I'm running over here. I go to the, you know, little safe thing I have here, and I type in my code, and then it pops open.
I grab the handgun, and then I slip this on, grab this, and then I'm rushing downstairs.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Fearing for her life, Siragusa decided to lead her attackers towards her husband.
PROKUPECZ: So at this point, you're up. What do you tell them?
SIRAGUSA: Like, oh, I remembered where it is. I'll take it to you, too. Like, it's so comical, honestly.
PROKUPECZ: And so how does this, this is blood here?
SIRAGUSA: Yes. That was from my hand bleeding after it was touching, you know, my head dripped onto my hand.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Surveillance footage captured Siragusa sprinting across her driveway, leading them to what she hopes is an ambush.
SIRAGUSA: As soon as I turn the corner of these stairs, he's there waiting at the top, and he tells me to get down. And I'm about, like, right here when I do. I just hug the side of the wall.
LEE: I fired three shots.
I hit the guy once, I believe, in the lower abdomen area.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Attacks on prominent crypto holders have been growing. Police say in May, a man in New York was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured for three weeks by men trying to gain access to his Bitcoin account. He escaped with his life, beaten, bloody and barefoot.
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That same month, in France, gunmen ambushed the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss, attempting to abduct them off the streets of Paris in broad daylight. And it's not just the crypto elite being targeted.
In 2023, an elderly couple in North Carolina was held hostage by two men posing as construction workers. They zip-tied the couple before threatening to cut off the man's toes, genitalia and rape his wife before making off with more than $150,000 in cryptocurrency. Both men were convicted, and Justice Department officials say the ringleader is now serving 47 years in prison for his involvement in a series of similar attacks, the other is awaiting sentencing.
Ari Redbord is the global head of policy for TRM Labs. They're a blockchain intelligence firm that tracks wrench attacks. They issued a report this year analyzing wrench attacks and identified three key factors contributing to their rise.
The perceived anonymity and irreversibility of cryptocurrency transactions, the public visibility of wealth and the ease with which personal information can be gathered online.
ARI REDBORD, TRM LABS GLOBAL HEAD OF POLICY: We've seen a spate of these recently, I think in part because you're seeing copycat type activity. You know, one gang says, hey, we can see we can do this and then we can steal these funds and move them at the speed of the Internet. And another kind of does the same.
SIRAGUSA: So these are the bullet holes, actually. And there's that their blood still where they were bleeding from.
PROKUPECZ: Because this is the blood from one of them.
SIRAGUSA: Yes.
PROKUPECZ: So these are still. The bullet holes.
SIRAGUSA: Yes. And some fragments.
PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Kaitlin Siragusa and Nick Lee are now taking more precautions. They've hired private security and installed a 12 foot high steel fence around their property.
As for her attackers, the man who was shot survived and all have been arrested and charged in connection with the crime.
PROKUPECZ: The crypto thing now is it's there's a lot of concern over security for people who own crypto.
SIRAGUSA: Yes. I'd say if you have crypto in your public about it, definitely make sure you live somewhere where you can have a gun.
PROKUPECZ: And with these attacks happening all across the world, law enforcement from every part of the world is trying to work together to prevent these from happening. One of the things that they're using, one of the tools is that they're trying to work with private firms who know how to trace cryptocurrency. These blockchain tools are called, and that is helping them in their investigations.
Another thing that we're going to see a lot of in the future are prosecutions and stiff penalties for people who conduct this kind of attacks.
Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, San Antonio, Texas.
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KINKADE: We're 24 hours after one of the strongest earthquakes on record. The threat of destructive tsunami waves and flooding has largely passed. We'll have a report from Honolulu next.
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KINKADE: The U.S. Geological Survey says more than 100 significant aftershocks have occurred near Russia in the hours that followed one of the strongest earthquakes on record. Three of those tremors have been a magnitude six or greater, with the strongest reaching 6.9. Wednesday's powerful quake, at a magnitude of 8.8, raised fears of destructive tsunami waves throughout the Pacific.
Places as far away as South America were on alert. The Galapagos Islands saw waves of more than a meter higher than normal tide levels.
Tsunami alerts are largely cancelled now across the region. The waves thankfully remained relatively small and most places avoided major damage.
CNN's Will Ripley has more now from Honolulu, Hawaii. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WILL RIPLEY, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over0: Tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean. A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's far eastern coast. Waves first slammed into Russia's shoreline towns.
Panicked sea lions dove into the ocean as rocks tumbled. Furniture shook inside homes and buildings. The tremors damaged an empty kindergarten, even forcing surgeons to hold down a patient on an operating table.
Waves also crashed into the Japanese coastline. People rushed to rooftops for safety.
The threat reached parts of South America on Tuesday. Authorities in several countries evacuated coastal areas due to fears of a tsunami.
And in the U.S., parts of the west coast and Hawaii were on edge overnight and into the day.
CAPT. NICHOLAS WORST, U.S. COAST GUARD SECTOR HONOLULU: A lot of anxiety and stress from folks during these types of situations and the decision as the captain of the port to shut down commercial harbors, to evacuate, to hold vessels off, that's not a decision I take lightly at all.
RIPLEY (voice-over): This ring camera video from a business in Haleiwa shows time-lapse footage, water surging from the waves. The water can be seen getting very close to the deck of Blue Planet Adventure Company.
In Hilo, the waves flooded parking lots. U.S. Coast Guard ships went out to sea for safety.
WORST: We pre-staged these Coast Guard assets, essentially got them out of the harbor, and in order to be able to quickly respond to any search and rescue cases.
RIPLEY: This Coast Guard cutter, the Oliver Berry, just returned to home port here in Honolulu.
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The tsunami advisory for Hawaii has been lifted, but the National Weather Service urges people here and in other affected areas to stay cautious, because strong currents and dangerous conditions may continue for the next day or so.
Will Ripley, CNN, at the port of Honolulu, Hawaii.
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KINKADE" The U.S. put a major dent in the stockpile of its key anti- missile defenses during last month's conflict between Israel and Iran. Sources say Washington used about a quarter of its THAAD interceptors in only 12 days to protect Israel.
And as Tamara Qiblawi reports, it could leave a big gap in the U.S. military posture overseas.
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TAMARA QIBLAWI, CNN SR. INVESTIGATIONS WRITER (voice-over): Each of these bright lights come from a sophisticated U.S. intercept missile system known as THAAD, being used for the first time in a war to defend Israel as Iranian ballistic missiles rain down.
A CNN investigation found that the U.S. cut deeply into its stockpile of THAAD missiles, launching more than $1.2 billion worth of the interceptors in just 12 days, and burning through these crucial defense weapons much faster than they're able to make them.
When Israel went to war with Iran, it came under the most sustained attack of ballistic missiles in its history. Unless intercepted, those Iranian projectiles can take out entire apartment blocks. Israel shot most of these down, and the U.S. military stepped in to help with the THAAD.
As Iran launched its missiles towards Israel, THAAD, along with Israel's Arrow 3 and the U.S. Navy's own SM-3 interceptors, sprang into action. Where other systems faltered, American troops on the ground launched THAAD, destroying the incoming missiles just outside the Earth's atmosphere.
We know from sources that more than 100 THAAD interceptors, as many as 150, were used during the war. But only 11 THAAD missiles were commissioned by the U.S. government last year, according to official budget numbers, 12 are being built this year. And in 2026, production is expected to ramp up to 37, meaning it could potentially take years to replenish the stockpile used against Iran in less than two weeks.
And it's not just hard to replace, it's expensive.
THAAD launches cost around $12.7 million a pop. A THAAD interceptor missile is over 20 feet long and weighs around 1500 pounds. Each system takes more than 95 U.S. Army specialists to operate, making it one of the most complex weapons in the U.S. arsenal.
We spoke to several former defense officials who say that the war has only deepened a problem that the Pentagon has faced for years.
"Stockpiles are dropping, we need more. We need them faster than they're being built. There's not enough systems, there's not enough interceptors, and there's not enough production. And there are not enough people working on it."
Analysts say the stockpile depletion could impact U.S. air defenses where they may be critical, in the Asia-Pacific region.
SIDHARTH KAUSHAL, SR. RESEARCH FELLOW, RUSI: The idea is that China can erect an anti-access area denial bubble to keep the U.S. Navy at arm's length in the event that it wished to intervene in, for example, Taiwan. From a narrowly military standpoint, the Chinese are absolutely the winners here.
QIBLAWI (voice-over): Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said the U.S. military is, quote, "the strongest it has been and has everything it needs to conduct any mission, anywhere, anytime, all around the world."
Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, London.
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KINKADE: Well thousands of fans lined the streets of the home of heavy metal. Just ahead, Birmingham, England, honors and says goodbye to the late Prince of Darkness.
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KINKADE: Well, people in Birmingham, England, showed up in force to honor Ozzy Osbourne. The city is considered the home of heavy metal, and it's where his band, Black Sabbath, formed back in 1968. Osbourne became the group's frontman in the 1970s.
CNN Entertainment reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister has this remembrance of the Prince of Darkness.
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ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Thousands of fans lined the street in Birmingham, England, to honor the life and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne. The funeral procession came one week after the rocker died.
Now, no cause of death was given. But at the time, his family had said that he passed surrounded by love. Now, his family members were seen at this funeral procession.
His wife, Sharon Osbourne, visibly moved, very emotional and crying throughout the procession.
Now, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham honored Ozzy and explained why they wanted to hold this funeral procession, also revealing that the family paid for this procession. Here is part of what he said.
He said that Osbourne was, quote, "more than a music legend, he was a son of Birmingham." His statement went on to say, quote, "It was important to the city that we support a fitting, dignified tribute ahead of a private family funeral. We know how much this moment will mean to his fans."
Now, Ozzy obviously kept his fans close to his heart in his final days. In fact, his final performance was on July 5th, just weeks before he had passed in his hometown of Birmingham.
Back in 2023, Ozzy Osbourne spoke to "Rolling Stone U.K.," saying that he wanted to perform just one more time before he passed.
Here is what he said, quote, "If I can't continue doing shows on a regular basis, I just want to be well enough to do one show where I can say, 'Hi guys, thanks so much for my life.' That's what I'm working towards, and if I drop down dead at the end of it, I'll die a happy man."
While Osbourne was able to get that final wish with that July 5th performance, he was not able to walk. So they constructed a throne- like chair, very fitting for him. And he was able to perform on stage one last time in front of thousands of adoring fans.
Now, back in 2020, Osbourne had revealed his Parkinson's disease diagnosis, and he also had endured a series of spinal surgeries. So his health issues were well documented in those final years. But still, his death at 76 coming as a surprise.
Back to you.
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KINKADE: Our thanks to Elizabeth there.
Well, "Vogue" magazine is facing criticism after using an A.I. generated model in its August issue. This is the ad for Guess that has people talking.
Paris-based A.I. marketing agency Seraphinne Vallora used algorithms trained to mimic runway looks, fashion campaign photos and studio lighting. The result is this stunning model. But she's not real.
While "Vogue" discreetly notes the image was made by A.I., it's done little to quell the criticism. And while it may have cut costs, fashion insiders are concerned about how it could become a destructive trend for the industry.
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Earlier, I spoke with Shira Lazar, host of "The A.I. Download" podcast about the controversy. Here's part of our conversation.
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SHIRA LAZAR, HOST, "THE A.I. DOWNLOAD" PODCAST: In a magazine like "Vogue," known as the pinnacle of fashion, of course, two months after Anna Wintour steps down, which makes many feel like, is this what the future of "Vogue" will be like if they're allowing something like this?
And so, of course, we're seeing screenshots and a lot of videos popping up on TikTok from the industry. But yes, from fans and from social media alike that are saying, one, this isn't what "Vogue" represents. And also even Guess, if you remember these incredible campaigns they used to have with, you know, Anna Nicole Smith and these beautiful images and pictures.
And now if you look at the ones that you showed on screen, very bland, very basic, very typical, does not represent what we would say is the, I guess, beauty standards that we want to see.
We want to see diversity. We want to see soul. And this is definitely not it.
The idea is that a company is more ethical if they're using the human first, even though it's scaled up with A.I. And in the end, this is just not what we're seeing from something like this. This features, you know, clearly a white, blonde haired, blue eyed, thin women.
And fashion has come just so far in terms of progress when it comes to beauty and pushing through toxic beauty culture. And this is just not it.
And even if you look at this company's Instagram, you'll see a lot of just typical models like that. And if this is what we can expect from companies like that, then we're going to be very, I think, disappointed.
And, you know, other brands have tried this. H&M also is saying they're about to train their models with A.I. So they'll actually use a real model to create an A.I. twin.
I think this is possibly a bit more ethical because the models will be able to make money without actually working. So I'm down for that.
But then just creating fake humans and creating this homogenized view of beauty, I don't think it's what the public wants to see. And it's not ethical.
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KINKADE: Australia is set to ban access to YouTube for children under the age of 16. It comes after the government had originally promised to spare the video sharing platform from being included in a crackdown on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, all must now prevent children from creating accounts or risk hefty fines.
The YouTube spokesperson says they will, quote, "consider next steps and will continue to engage with the government." The new law is set to take effect in December.
Well, that does it for this edition of "CNN Newsroom," I'm Lynda Kinkade. Thanks so much for your company.
Stick around, "Amanpour" is up next. And then stay tuned for "Early Start" with M.J. Lee, which begins at 5 a.m. Eastern, that's 10 a.m. in London.
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