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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to all of you watching us around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is "CNN Newsroom."

The Trump administration setting new standards for how the world does business with the U.S. We'll break down the U.S. President's new policies and the unfinished business still left.

Washington's Middle East envoy about to see for himself the controversial Gaza aid distribution site as Hamas lays out its conditions to resume ceasefire talks.

And a 10-year-old boy, one of the latest victims of Russia's unprovoked war with Ukraine. Ahead, a mother describes the horror of losing her son to a Russian airstrike.

UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Kim Brunhuber.

BRUNHUBER: After months of warnings and walkbacks, the White House has slapped stinging new tariffs on exports from dozens of trading partners, many of them allies. Thursday's big reveal marks a major step in the U.S. President's plan to reshape the global economy.

August 1st was the original self-imposed deadline for countries to make a deal or face punishing new import taxes. The Trump administration has now pushed that back by six days because U.S. customs and border protection required more time to process all the changes, despite insisting earlier there would be no grace periods or extensions.

Well come August 7th, countries with a trade surplus will face a universal 10 percent tariff rate, and about 40 countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit will pay 15 percent. On Thursday, President Trump hit Canada with a new 35 percent duty on some goods, while keeping Mexico's tariffs stabilized at 25 percent for another 90 days.

Alright, CNN's Marc Stewart is following the impact so far on Asia, he's live in Beijing. So Marc, take us through what you're seeing now that the Asian markets are open.

MARC STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's been a very rough day, Kim, for Asian markets, not a surprise. We're seeing a lot of declines in South Korea, seeing drops of around 4 percent on the KOSPI, that's the benchmark index in South Korea, and really not a surprise because that is a nation that just entered a new trade deal with the United States that will require it to invest billions of dollars for different projects in the United States, including ship building, which is something that South Korea has had success with. And now the U.S. hopes to make part of its economy.

But we're also hearing from economies from around the world. That includes Canada, as you mentioned, a very hefty tariff there. We got some remarks not too long ago from the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who said, quote, "Canada will be our own best customer -- we can give ourselves more than any foreign government can take away by building with Canadian workers and by using Canadian resources to benefit all Canadians."

So some very strong remarks from the Canadian Prime Minister.

This is going to have an impact on consumer prices, perhaps. It's also going to have an impact on how companies make decisions. Listen to what one analyst told CNN.

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CAROLINE FREUND, DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO-SCHOOL OF GLOBAL POLICY AND STRATEGY: My biggest fear, actually, is the investment that's not happening because companies don't know how much their inputs are going to cost. Companies don't know how much it's going to cost to sell things in the U.S. or elsewhere. So there's just kind of a lot of sitting on their hands, which is going to slow down growth around the world.

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STEWART: A lot of unknowns for companies, but also for individuals, including people who hold stocks and bonds across the United States.

Markets in the U.S. will open in just about six and a half hours. Already, futures indicate some declines. Kim, we're also expecting markets in Europe to get online pretty soon.

So we'll get a picture pretty soon about what the rest of the day will bring. But no question, a very uncertain moment for many countries and many economies around the world.

BRUNHUBER: Yes, and uncertain, I guess, is the theme in terms of the relationship between U.S. and China. Take us through whether there's been any progress on their trade agreement.

STEWART: Right. It was earlier in the week that we saw the United States and China hold some very long and lengthy trade negotiations in Stockholm, Sweden.

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At this point, all of the indications are that they had positive discussions. But as far as a pause on additional tariffs on China that are set to go into effect on August 12th, that still remains up in the air.

We're waiting to hear from the U.S., from President Trump, if that's something he will agree to. This is a tricky relationship, Kim. It doesn't involve just trade and tariffs, it involves technology, it involves rare earth minerals. These are all components of this greater, broader trade conflict with the United States.

But as we heard from the U.S. Treasury Secretary, it's going to be up to President Trump to decide whether or not this pause is indeed granted.

BRUNHUBER: All right, I appreciate it. Marc Stewart in Beijing, thanks so much.

And the White House officially announced a 25 percent tariff rate for India after repeated threats from President Trump. India's trade minister is vowing to take all necessary measures to protect the country's national interest. A senior White House official says that America's issues with India won't be solved overnight.

The U.S. President criticized India's trade barriers on social media this week. He also threatened to penalize the country for buying Russian oil and military equipment.

I want to go to Jayant Menon, senior fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and he is in Singapore. Thank you so much for being here with us.

Lending your expertise on this, we were talking just a minute ago about the thorny trade issues between the U.S. and China. Same thing with India. I mean, Prime Minister Modi and President Trump used to call each other best friends and had those big stadium rallies together.

What went wrong? How did we get from that bromance to 25 percent tariffs?

JAYANT MENON, SR. FELLOW, ISEAS-YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE: I think what we are learning now is that any bromance is up for negotiation. I think India is a protected market. The U.S. feels that a lot of its exports are unfairly treated.

There's some justification to that concern, but I think we don't see any real sort of sense in the way in which different countries are being treated.

India has fallen through the gap here. They were hoping to get a much better deal. They'd offered to open up to motorcycles, to bourbon whiskey, but it seems it wasn't enough.

BRUNHUBER: All right, so the U.S. is India's biggest export market. So is President Trump holding all the cards here? What kind of leverage does India have, if any?

MENON: Yes. I mean, for India, the U.S. market is much more important than the other way around. And this is mainly because of the shifting of supply chains out of China, mostly iPhones that are now significantly value-added in India because of President Biden's policies.

So, yes, the U.S. has the upper hand in these negotiations, but India is a country that cannot be easily pushed around, like China. They are holding their ground. They are unlikely to open up the agricultural sector, and this is going to be a sticking point for moving forward on this 25 percent rate.

BRUNHUBER: Yes, absolutely, because we've seen those big farming strikes and so on. You could see that type of thing if Modi were to acquiesce to American demands here. Just as with China, there are other issues other than trade sort of in the background here, or in the foreground in this case, because Donald Trump isn't just upset about trade.

He's also penalizing India for buying Russian oil and weapons, as we've mentioned. So is he essentially asking Modi to choose sides between Russia and America? And then we saw Trump successfully pressuring India to stop buying Iranian oil back in 2019, so I'm wondering whether the same tactic will work this time.

MENON: I think you're right. Trump is looking to use this tariff threat to hit all kinds of targets. He's even talked about a 500 percent tariff on India if it doesn't stop importing cheap energy from Russia.

So he sees this as a very flexible instrument to be used for just about anything that comes onto the radar. But I don't think it's really going to work.

I think now it's got to a point where countries feel their sovereignty and their right to make their own decisions is being threatened, and they're likely to stand up to any further threats of this kind.

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BRUNHUBER: All right. We'll see how this ends up being resolved, if it is indeed. Jayant Menon in Singapore, thank you so much for speaking with us.

MENON: Thank you, too.

BRUNHUBER: President Trump's special envoy is on a new mission to the Middle East. We'll look at what he's doing to try to end the hunger crisis in Gaza and bring Hamas back to the negotiating table. That's coming up.

Plus, a young life cut short by Russia's brutal strikes on Ukraine. That and much more coming up here on "CNN Newsroom." Please stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: President Trump's special envoy and the U.S. ambassador to Israel are visiting Gaza today. Steve Witkoff and Mike Huckabee are inspecting aid distribution sites and will report back to the White House with a plan for further U.S. involvement.

Witkoff met Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu one week after the U.S. and Israel pulled back from ceasefire talks. They blame Hamas for negotiating in bad faith. Hamas says it will rejoin the talks once the humanitarian crisis in Gaza ends.

A senior member of the group says the talks are meaningless as long as Israel's policy of starvation and extermination continues.

I want to bring in CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman from Rome. So, Ben, take us through the latest. What's at stake with this high-profile visit?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, this is going to be with Steve Witkoff, the White House special envoy for the Middle East, as well as Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel. We're seeing reports in local media that they've gone to a distribution center in Rafah, in the southern end of the Gaza Strip, a city which has been laid to waste by Israeli forces over the last 20 months.

We don't know if they're at one of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centers, even though we know that there is one in the Rafah area. The GHF is something that is a private, so-called humanitarian organization that has been supported by the United States and Israel to distribute relief supplies to Palestinians.

But Human Rights Watch today came out with a report saying that the GHF is a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. Almost 900 people have been killed, either by Israeli forces or by GHF personnel, over the last few weeks trying to get food aid.

Now, it's questionable that this event, this visit by Witkoff and Huckabee, is going to amount to much. Clearly, the Israelis are going to make sure that we don't see any repeat of the kind of bloodshed that has been typical taking place outside those centers.

And, of course, Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador, is somebody who has a long history of really aligning himself with the Netanyahu line within the Israeli political establishment. He's a man who is on record as saying there's really no such thing as a Palestinian. So it's questionable whether they're actually going to see much in terms of reality, in terms of the reality of life on the ground in Gaza, but rather a very sanitized version of that.

And it's questionable that they'll be able to bring back to President Trump, to the White House, anything that approximates reality in Gaza today. Kim?

BRUNHUBER: I appreciate it. Ben Wedeman in Rome, thanks so much.

The U.S. Envoy, Steve Witkoff, will be heading to Russia in the coming days. President Donald Trump made the announcement on Thursday, just days ahead of his new deadline from Moscow to make peace with Ukraine.

If he doesn't, the Kremlin could face new tariffs and secondary sanctions by late next week. But Trump also says he's not sure those penalties would make any difference to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine is denying that Russia has overrun the town of Chasiv Yar. The Kremlin posted this video to support its claim that the key town in eastern Ukraine has fallen. But the Ukrainian military says its units are still holding the line without providing details.

The town is now largely in ruins after being the front line for almost a year and a half. But it lies on high ground and its capture would open the door for further Russian advances.

Meanwhile, rescuers are pulling more victims from an apartment block blown up by the latest Russian strikes on Kyiv. Officials say the death toll has grown to 28 people, with almost 160 others injured. The attack, launched overnight into Thursday, was the city's heaviest in recent weeks.

More than 2,700 children have been killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began, according to the U.N. We now want to go beyond the numbers and show you the face of one victim, 10-year-old Tymur Hryhorenko was killed when a massive bomb hit his grandmother's home last week.

As Nick Paton Walsh reports, his mother is now living through the agony of losing her only child. And we just want to warn you some images in the story, of course, are disturbing.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When wars kill for years, names bleed into lists without faces. But each loss still burns a black hole in the worlds they left behind.

Tymur was aged 10. He was visiting his grandmother in Kramatorsk. He really wanted to see her when a 250-kilogram Russian bomb hit her top floor home.

It was 4:40 a.m. on July the 22nd and Tymur slept alone in the spare room. Toys flipped up on the roof. His mother, Nastya, had left them together that night and was due to take Tymur home to Kyiv the next morning.

ANASTASIYA CHAICHENKO, TYMUR'S MOTHER (translated): He said he wanted to stay, I said "No son, we're going, we're definitely going." Then at the moment, I wasn't at home, unfortunately. I don't know why or how -- what forces took me away from it. But I should have been with him, and I blame myself very much for that.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): Tymur grew up in war, born in 2015, when Vladimir Putin was also annexing towns while talking peace.

His father, Yevgeny, playing with him here, was killed fighting the Russians near Liman 26 months ago. When Nastya's sister rang at 5 a.m., she sensed it meant more loss and at first hung up, didn't want to take the call.

CHAICHENKO (translated): She said, "They took mom away, and they're searching for Tymur under the rubble." From that moment on, I felt like I was in a dream.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): At the scene, rescuers had pulled Tymur out and here are their desperate efforts to resuscitate him.

CHAICHENKO (translated): It was like a new breath of hope when one of the soldiers came out and said that he had a pulse and they were resuscitating him. And for those 40 minutes while they were pumping him, I prayed to God to give him life.

But the miracle didn't happen, and I couldn't go up there. I went straight to my mom at the hospital.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): Tymur was the only one to die that night and is buried on the edge of Kramatorsk, where the graves are ready for more and the skyline often loud. Nastya remembers their last moment together.

CHAICHENKO (translated): You know, it was such a very warm last moment with him. We went crazy, I showed him how I used to give him massages when he was a baby, we laughed, and that was it.

TYMUR HRYHORENKO, KILLED IN A RUSSIAN STRIKE (translated): I wish you a beautiful love, I wish you a happy family.

CHAICHENKO (translated): He loved all the animals very much and kids. At home in Kyiv, he has two pet rats waiting for him. He loved them madly.

He constantly called me and asked, Mom, did you clean the cage? Did you feed them? Do they have water? Very caring, very bright boy, very.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): As towns fall and deadlines pass, remember Tymur Hryhorenko, aged 10, who knew only war, whose teacher said he spoke up when girls were picked on, who had two pet rats and who really wanted to stay with his grandmother on the night, a Russian airstrike killed only him as he slept.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

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BRUNHUBER: We'll be right back.

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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom," I'm Kim Brunhuber. Let's check today's top stories.

Hamas says it will rejoin ceasefire and hostage talks when the humanitarian crisis in Gaza ends. The U.S. and Israel accuse the group of negotiating in bad faith, but a senior Hamas official says the talks are meaningless while the starvation and extermination of people in Gaza continues.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is in the region today, he's visiting Gaza to inspect aid distribution sites with plans to report back to President Trump about how the U.S. can help.

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Witkoff met Thursday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The White House unveiled its new trade plan on Thursday, hours before President Trump's self-imposed deadline. A senior administration official says most countries will face a 10 percent tariff when the policy takes effect next week. Other nations with which the U.S. has a trade deficit will be hit with at least a 15 percent rate.

Alright, joining us live from Nairobi, Kenya, is CNN's Larry Madowo. So, Larry, give us a continental perspective here. How are various countries in Africa going to be affected by these tariffs?

LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kim, so far, there have been no trade deals with any African country, and in the latest tariffs announced before the end of this August 1st deadline, some African countries have had their tariffs increased to 15 percent, except Algeria, Libya, and South Africa, whose tariffs stand at 30 percent, and that is a negotiating tactic to try and get them to agree on some kind of trade deal.

South Africa obviously stands out because President Trump has some issues with South Africa. He's supposed to be heading to Johannesburg later this year to take over the challenge of the G20, but he said a few days ago he will not be going there because he has some problems with them.

And they have been scrambling, like many other African countries, to try and get a deal across the line. Before August 1st, it was not possible. And South African officials said that as recently as Wednesday night they were on the phone speaking to the U.S. embassy and the U.S. trade representative.

They have made some proposals, a framework for a trade deal, but they haven't heard back a response from the U.S. administration. The trade minister was on public broadcaster SABC News yesterday.

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PARKS TAU, SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER OF TRADE, INDUSTRY, AND COMPETITION: And they were unable to give us a firm indication as to what it is that we need to do now to get to the point of a decision in relation to South Africa.

They suggested that, look, maybe present a revised offer, because we had given an offer when we were in the U.S., if you recall, we announced that we had given a framework deal to the U.S. with a set of issues that we thought we should be able to offer them, but also a reciprocal engagement on what we would require from the U.S. side. But we haven't had confirmation as to what their stance is so far.

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MADOWO: And the trade minister said he's been talking to other countries if they've heard back from the U.S., but a lot of them are in the dark. They haven't heard back from the United States about a trade deal and when that will happen. And now, like the rest of the world, they're waking up to this new regime where they're either 10 percent or 15 percent, in the case of S.A., 30 percent of tariffs, until they can work out some kind of agreement, Kim.

BRUNHUBER: All right. And there's a U.S. law that allowed many African countries to export to the American market duty-free, so that's about to expire. I mean, how will that affect the continent?

MADOWO: It's called the African Growth and Opportunity Act. It was passed and signed by the George W. Bush administration in 2004, and it's allowed for many African countries to export huge amounts of products to the U.S. market duty-free. It helped build up manufacturing industries in the country.

One of the big beneficiaries of that was Lesotho, the tiny mountain kingdom in Southern Africa that was slapped by 50 percent of the original tariffs announced April 2nd, it's now been reduced to 30 percent, it's now been reduced to 15 percent. But it's already led to some job losses in Lesotho. The garment industry there depends almost entirely on the U.S. market.

And many of the African countries access the U.S. market, especially in garments and textiles. Because of that, Kenya, for instance, is the largest exporter in the garment sector to the U.S., $530 million worth in 2024.

This AGOA Act is supposed to expire on September 30th. But in this new tariff regime that President Trump has administrated, it's almost certain it will not get renewed. So each of these African countries has to, they have to get a deal done before then if they hope to still access the U.S. market.

And in exchange for that, they have to offer something. And that's the negotiations that have to happen within essentially the next two months, Kim.

BRUNHUBER: Yes, so much on the line there. Larry Madowo in Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you so much.

America's new trade plan includes a drastic cut to Pakistan's tariffs from 29 percent to 19 percent. That's the lowest tariff rate of any South Asian country.

The U.S. raised tariffs on Canada to 35 percent on goods not covered under a preexisting free trade agreement. The country's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, released a statement saying he's disappointed by that decision.

President Trump says he agreed to pause higher tariffs on Mexico for 90 days, keeping them at 25 percent. As CNN's Valeria Leon reports, the decision came after a phone call between Mexico's President and Trump.

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VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: While Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum said that mutual respect was key in the negotiations with her U.S. counterpart to gain another 90-day suspension of tariffs on Mexican goods, her government admitted that they couldn't negotiate in their interests.

It was in a 40-minute call between both presidents, according to Trump, a very successful one. But negotiations with Donald Trump haven't been easy, to say the least.

Mexico's President revealed that the key is to avoid confrontation with Donald Trump. But her government conceded they were unable to advance the country's interests, given the mostly defensive nature of the talks. This is what Mexico's president said this morning.

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We have the best possible agreement compared to other nations. Investing in Mexico remains the best option. We are in a very good position facing this new international commercial order. Since President Trump took office, our strategy of keeping a cool head, composure and firmly defending our principles has worked.

LEON: Although Mexico has a unique advantage over other countries, not only because it's the U.S.' biggest trade partner, with 84 percent of its exports sent to the U.S., but also because since 1994, both countries have had a trade agreement under which half of the Mexican products exported to the U.S. are free of the tariffs already imposed.

Valeria Leon, CNN, Mexico City.

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BRUNHUBER: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary says Ecuador is considering visa restrictions on citizens of 45 countries as part of its efforts to curb illegal immigration.

Kristi Noem met with Ecuador's president and members of his cabinet during a visit to the capital, Quito, on Thursday. The visa restrictions are aimed at reducing the flow of migrants to the U.S. southern border. The Trump administration and Ecuador also signed an agreement to coordinate security information for 18 months.

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KRISTI NOEM, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Ecuador taking actions has already dramatically improved our security situation in the United States, and we're looking to share more information to make that possible in the future. Ecuador is also working to impose similar restrictions on 45 other countries, including high-risk countries like Haiti and Cuba. I look forward to working with them on this issue and to helping to ensure a safer America for Ecuador and for the United States of America and the Western Hemisphere.

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BRUNHUBER: For the first time, U.S. federal air marshals have been reassigned from protecting commercial air travel to act as security guards and flight attendants on deportation flights. A group that lobbies for air marshals says the Trump administration is putting public safety at risk.

CNN's Rene Marsh has this exclusive report.

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RENE MARSH, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Federal air marshals highly trained to stop the next 9-11 on a commercial passenger plane are being reassigned by the Trump administration to do security on ICE deportation flights. The air marshals are mostly unarmed on ICE flights, and according to internal documents and communications seen by CNN, their duties include serving snacks to detainees, bathroom escorts, pat-downs, and according to one group that advocates for air marshals, lice checks and trash removal.

The Department of Homeland Security says it's part of a broader interagency effort to support the President's immigration agenda that aims to remove a million immigrants from the country in one year.

Now, TSA tells CNN air marshals are proud to assist ICE and help secure the homeland. But one group representing air marshals says that the Trump administration is putting security of commercial passenger planes at risk.

Air Marshal National Council sent a cease-and-desist letter to DHS and filed a complaint with the agency's inspector general. They argue that air marshals are supplementing the security workforce of a private contractor that's already being paid by the government to provide security on board. These air marshals are earning thousands in overtime for these missions, and the agency, for now, has capped the number that they will reassign to 250.

Rene Marsh, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE) BRUNHUBER: The New York police officer who was killed, along with three others, in Monday's mass shooting, was laid to rest on Thursday. Thousands of fellow officers attended the funeral to pay their final respects.

CNN's Omar Jimenez has more.

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OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a solemn day in the Bronx as fellow officers, friends and family gathered to honor fallen NYPD officer Didarul Islam, who was killed Monday in midtown Manhattan. Inside a crowded mosque, New York's Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD leaders and Islam's family spoke in his memory.

MAYOR ERIC ADAMS (D), NEW YORK CITY: I am responsible for the safety of New Yorkers. That is my obligation and that is my most basic function. And for someone to drive across our country carrying an automatic weapon and taking the lives of innocent people.

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You ask yourself over and over again, what more could we have done? How could we have responded better? And you have a tendency to blame yourself. And I just want to say sorry to this family.

JIMENEZ (voice-over): Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had served just three and a half years on the force, was remembered for his dedication.

DEPUTY INSPECTOR MOHAMMED ASHRAF, COMMANDING OFFICER, 47TH PRECINCT: Your journey started across oceans, but your purpose brought you here to these streets, to this city, to this part of the Bronx. To this shield and the NYPD 47th prison, you made us all proud, you made a difference.

FATIMA BEGUM, SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF JAMILA AKAR, DETECTIVE ISLAM'S WIFE: Though my heart is broken, I find comfort knowing that his sacrifice may have saved others in that lobby, people who were able to go home to their families that day.

JIMENEZ (voice-over): Officer Islam was just a few weeks away from welcoming his third child.

OFFICER KAMRUL HASAN, BROTHER-IN-LAW AND FELLOW NYPD OFFICER: He's not only my brother-in-law, he was my protector. He was my best friend.

Anything, everything, anybody need anything, he come to -- he come to us. He was helping everybody.

JIMENEZ (voice-over): Even neighbors who didn't know Officer Islam personally wanted to pay their respects.

GULAN KHAN, FROM SAME TOWN IN BANGLADESH AS OFFICER ISLAM: He is from the same town that I grew up in Bangladesh. So we have sympathy for his family. So we want to attend the funeral. JIMENEZ (voice-over): Islam was working as a paid detail, but his

death is being treated as a line of duty death, and he'll be posthumously promoted to Detective.

Omar Jimenez, CNN, the Bronx, New York.

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BRUNHUBER: All right, still ahead, federal authorities are investigating this Delta flight after extreme turbulence through passengers, crew, anything not bolted down into the air.

And a horrifying accident at an amusement park in Saudi Arabia injures at least 23 people. We'll have more on those stories after a short break. Please stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: Parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. should be drying out in the coming hours after heavy rainstorms dropped dangerous flash flooding on parts of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. The storms left some people stranded on top of their vehicles on flooded roads and also disrupted rail transportation and air travel. The flood risk will shift south in the coming hours into the Carolinas and parts of Georgia.

Emergency services in Portugal say crews are making significant progress towards stabilizing a wildfire. This blaze and two others have burned 14,000 hectares or about 34,000 acres this week. More than a thousand firefighters are working to keep the fires from threatening nearby towns and villages.

New research is offering fresh insight into the dangers of lightning. A study in the "Bulletin of American Meteorological Society" found bolts can travel quite far from the storm where they originate. Most lightning travels less than 16 kilometers, but scientists found one bolt in east Texas that crossed 828 kilometers in just seconds.

It's called megaflash lightning and new technology is giving scientists the chance to learn much more about it. The study's authors say the research shows lightning can pose dangers that reach much farther and faster than previously thought.

Delta Airlines says all crew members and the passengers willing to share their status have been released from hospital after severe turbulence forced their flight into an emergency landing. Passengers say they were thrown out of their seats in the most extreme turbulence they've ever experienced.

We get new details now from CNN's Pete Muntean.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The images captured by passengers prove the force of what could be the worst case of turbulence on a U.S. commercial flight in years. Anything not strapped down was tossed to the ceiling of the Airbus A330 about 40 minutes into the nine hour flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam.

DELTA 56 PILOT: Minneapolis tower, Delta 56, emergency aircraft,

MUNTEAN (voice-over): The unplanned landing in Minneapolis was caught on video with emergency crews waiting at the gate; 25 people, nearly one in every 10 on board, were taken to hospitals.

WILLIAM WEBSTER, DELTA 56 PASSENGER: I watched a wine cart just get thrown into the air.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): William Webster says the bad turbulence came on quickly and only got worse.

WEBSTER: It was very unnerving. I mean, I'm a frequent flyer, like I'm on like 80 flights a year, probably flown over a million miles in my life, never seen anything like that.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): FlightRadar24 shows the flight climbed more than 1000 feet in less than 30 seconds, followed by a rapid descent, causing passengers to scream and phones to go flying. The flight was over Wyoming, where the National Weather Service warned of potential thunderstorms on Wednesday.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: A SIGMET, which is an aviation weather advisory, was in effect where we believe the turbulence took place over portions of Wyoming.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): It is just the latest example of passengers being rocked by turbulence in flight. Last year, a British man died after turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight. But fatalities are rare and such incidents often leave flight attendants with broken bones.

In this latest case, one passenger who suffered whiplash said the episode felt like an earthquake.

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LESLIE WOODS, DELTA 56 PASSENGER: There's a little girl across the aisle from me that was just terrified. She screamed, we're going to die. We're going to die.

So he's trying to keep her calm. And I really thought we were going to die. It was that scary.

MUNTEAN: The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating this. It says turbulence is the top cause for injuries on board commercial flights. The pilot told passengers that this episode came on without any warning.

Seven Delta crew members were injured in this. The airline says they have since been released from the hospital.

Pete Muntean, CNN, Washington.

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BRUNHUBER: At least 23 people were injured when a fairground ride in Saudi Arabia snapped in midair. Now, just want to warn you, you might find this video disturbing.

The accident happened on Wednesday evening at an amusement park near the city of Jeddah. The ride soared into the air on a pendulum. Then that pendulum snaps and the two pieces collided.

State media say three people are critically injured. The region's governor has ordered the park closed while an investigation takes place.

Apple marked an iPhone milestone as it announced quarterly earnings on Thursday. We'll have more on that after a short break. Please stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: We're watching U.S. stock futures react to President Donald Trump's latest tariff moves. Have a look here, you'll see all major indices in the red, hours ahead of the start of trading.

Well, Apple has now shipped more than three billion iPhones. CEO Tim Cook revealed that figure when Apple became the latest tech company to report earnings for this quarter.

But as CNN's Clare Duffy reports, President Trump's tariff policy continues to hang over the tech industry.

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CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH WRITER: Yes, I think the question going into this earnings doubleheader was really about what the impact of this sort of whiplash we've seen on tariffs over the past few months has meant for both Apple and Amazon. And I think the answer is that these companies haven't seen a huge impact just yet. Both companies beat Wall Street's expectations on both sales and profits.

But there are still big questions about what tariffs could mean as we go through the rest of this year.

Now, Apple actually said that it believes tariffs led to higher sales in the June quarter as consumers raced to buy up devices ahead of costs potentially going up. The company posted year-on-year sales growth in iPhone, Mac and services, and crucially, year-on-year growth in the China region, which is something that it hasn't seen so far this year.

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Now, the company did say that it took on $800 million in tariff- related costs during the June quarter. And in the September quarter, it expects to see $1.1 billion added to its costs because of tariffs. So it is not completely out of the woods just yet.

But I think there are good signs in terms of consumers continuing to go to Apple for devices, despite the fact that the company has been behind many of its rivals on artificial intelligence.

Now, if we look at Amazon, again, results are pretty mixed. But on the whole, I think a good sign the company said that it had its biggest Prime day ever.

But if you look at the stock market reaction, I think what we're seeing there is Wall Street reacting to the AWS results. AWS sales were up 17.5 percent year-on-year, but essentially in line with analysts' expectations. And those expectations are so high because there is this race to provide cloud services for artificial intelligence.

And we saw the stock pop off after Microsoft's results, after Google's results on strong performance in their cloud divisions. So I think that analysts would like to see and investors would like to see an even stronger performance from AWS on its A.I. services.

Clare Duffy, CNN, New York.

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BRUNHUBER: Alright, before we go, researchers in Australia have discovered an insect that has a body about as long as an average cat.

Have a look at this. It's a stick insect about 40 centimeters long, which weighs 44 grams. This fellow is the heaviest insect ever seen in Australia.

It was found in a rainforest in northeastern Australia. And one of the researchers who discovered it says he's proud. Here he is.

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PROF. ANGUS EMMOTT, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY: To find Australia -- potentially Australia's biggest insect -- heaviest insect, is just a really neat experience. And to be involved in describing it scientifically, it's just, yes, it's great for the Atherton Tablelands. But just personally for myself, it's great to be involved in it.

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BRUNHUBER: The professor also says the insect has been unknown until now because its habitat is so remote. Gosh, imagine that thing landing on your shoulder. No, thank you.

Thanks for watching "CNN Newsroom," I'm Kim Brunhuber. "Amanpour" is next, then stay tuned for "Early Start" with M.J. Lee starting at 5 a.m. in New York, 10 a.m. in London.

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