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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration's Deportation Of Guatemalan Children; President Xi Of China Hosts India And Russia And Other World Leaders For The SCO Summit; President Trump Challenging The Federal Reserve's Independence; Ukrainian Politician Killed In Lviv; Israeli Military Pounds Gaza Suburb; President Trump Exempt Of Financial Conflict Of Interest; NOAA Reports Possible La Nina Winter. Aired 5-6p ET

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JESSICA DEAN, CNN HOST: You're in the "CNN Newsroom." I'm Jessica Dean here in New York and we begin tonight with breaking news as a federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan children amid urgent concerns from attorneys and advocacy groups. Those children are currently in the hands of the federal government waiting to be released to a parent or guardian who is already here in the United States.

Their lawyers say they were woken up in the middle of the night and taken from their shelters, quote, "terrified and confused." Let's bring in CNN's senior White House reporter Betsy Klein who has reported on this with our colleagues. Betsy, there are a lot of questions here. At top of them, who are these children and what is the latest from the Trump administration on what happens next?

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, it's a really remarkable scene. The administration had identified hundreds of these Guatemalan children to be repatriated to Guatemala and overnight, according to a federal judge, these children, many of these children were woken up in the middle of the night and told they would be put on planes to Guatemala.

Overnight, their providers were also told to prepare them to be discharged within hours. They were told to collect their belongings and prepare them sack lunches. And a federal judge says that she was woken up at 2:35 this morning and notified that a complaint had been filed in this case. She tried to get in touch with the Trump administration and then those children were loaded onto airplanes. They were subsequently seated on the tarmac as they waited for this emergency hearing to play out earlier this afternoon. Now, the Trump administration has really been fixated on this idea of

unaccompanied minors. These are children who come to the United States without a parent or legal guardian. Now, once they are here, Department of Health and Human Services custody and officials then work with them to try to find U.S.-based family members for them to stay with while their immigration process plays out.

What's unprecedented here is that this was about to happen. They were set to be repatriated before they had had that immigration process. And advocates for the children say that many of them are afraid to go back to Guatemala. Some of them were the victims of abuse or neglect. Meanwhile, the Trump administration says that they had been requested by family members, parents or legal guardians to be returned to Guatemala. So a clear disconnect here.

The judge asking for additional information and facts to support both of those sides. But the judge for now stepping in with a temporary restraining order to stop those planes from taking off while this process plays out. She is setting a Friday deadline for the Trump administration to provide more information. And one of her main questions was what is going to happen to those children in the meantime? She did receive some assurances, Jessica, that those children will be deplaned and brought back to U.S. custody.

DEAN: Yeah, and these children ranging in ages from 10 to 17. Betsy Klein with the very latest on this from the White House. Thank you for that reporting.

They rushed out of town amid the Jeffrey Epstein saga, going home to their districts to face voters after President Trump's signature tax bill passed Congress, and now members of Congress are headed back to Capitol Hill after their August recess. And they're going to have to deal immediately with government funding because the funding deadline is at the end of September.

We could also see Congress tackling legislation on sanctioning Russia and address some of Trump's latest firings and also making the Epstein files public. CNN correspondent Julia Benbrook is joining us now from Washington. Julia, when lawmakers left for August recess, the lack of transparency over the Epstein investigation was not resolved, was actually really boiling over. What do we know about those recent calls for more information on Capitol Hill and their return?

JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right, Jessica. I mean, this topic really dominated here in Washington as lawmakers prepared to go home to their districts for August recess. And now, as some of them are returning, they are pushing to make sure that this remains a topic of conversation.

Taking a step back, some of the details, the controversy surrounding all of this. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped up soon-to- be-released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and even suggested she had the so-called client list sitting on her desk. Months later, though, the Department of Justice and the FBI released a memo saying that it had not found a so-called client list incriminating associates of Epstein and it would not be releasing more information. [17:05:01]

Before the lawmakers went on break, some of them calling for more transparency, there was a vote in the House Oversight Subcommittee to subpoena the Department of Justice for more files related to Epstein. They have started receiving some of those. It is important to note that some of the Democrats on the committee have criticized what they've received so far, saying that not a lot of new reports have been sent over quite yet.

But we do know that next week that these lawmakers are going to be meeting with some of the victims, some of the survivors of Epstein's abuse on Capitol Hill.

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REP. ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA): This upcoming week we have actually many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein coming to Capitol Hill. We're meeting with them. They're talking to lawmakers. We're going to highlight their stories. We've got to center these victims.

REP. JAMES COMER (R-KY): There are victims that are involved here and we want to protect their futures and their reputations and their families. So we're going to have a good conversation to see how best then to turn around and present this information to the American people and hopefully put this issue to rest.

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BENBROOK: The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, who we just heard from there, has confirmed that members of that group, both Democrats and Republicans, will be meeting with some victims, some victim family members, as well as some of the attorneys for those involved on Tuesday.

DEAN: And Julia, there's also an effort to force a full House vote on legislation related to the release of the Epstein files. What do you know about what happen -- what might happen there?

BENBROOK: Well, in a separate effort from what the House Oversight Committee is doing, we are seeing Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, and Representative Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky, teaming up in this push. They are going to be holding a press conference, likely on the Capitol steps with some of the victims speaking out for the first time on Wednesday.

And this is as they try to push for the signatures needed for a discharge position. This would allow them to bypass House leadership and force a vote calling for the broad release of these files. Now they would need 218 members to sign on to that. They've both said that they're confident that Democrats will do that and then they just need a handful of Republicans to reach that number.

DEAN: All right, Julia Benbrook in Washington, thank you so much. And happening now, China's Xi Jinping rolling out the red carpet, hosting world leaders from Asia and the Middle East, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and for the first time North Korea's Kim Jong-un. That summit is part of Xi's latest push to restructure the global balance of power to favor countries like China and Russia. And it comes as President Trump wages a trade war, putting some of the United States' own allies at arm's length.

Joining us now, "Washington Post" lead global security analyst Josh Rogin. He's also the author of "Chaos Under Heaven: America, China and the Battle for the 21st Century." Josh, thank you so much for being here with us. This summit has been in existence for a while, but what makes this year different?

JOSH ROGIN, LEAD GLOBAL SECURITY ANALYST, WASHINGTON POST INTELLIGENCE: Well, what you just noted is that the Trump administration is pushing America's allies into the arms of our adversaries. And that's on our screens today. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is traveling to China for the first time in seven years. And the reason that he's doing that, or one of the reasons anyway, is because he wants to show Washington and the Trump administration that he won't be bullied into handing over trade concessions in exchange for tariff relief.

And so now we have somehow pushed India and China closer together, pushed India and Russia closer together and that seems to be against our national security interests, but that is clearly the second-degree effect of waging a trade war against all of our friends at the same time.

DEAN: What is interesting in listening to what you're saying is President Trump and the United States obviously nowhere near this, not taking part in it. These are not our allies by any stretch in the sense of China and Russia and North Korea. And yet, Donald Trump really looms large over this.

ROGIN: Well, that's exactly right. I mean, Donald Trump, you know, welcomed Putin to Alaska just a short while ago. So he's not against countries meeting with Putin because he did it himself. But what we can see is that all of these other countries are now recalculating whether or not they can rely on the United States.

And they have to come to the conclusion based on everything they've seen that the United States is less reliable than it used to be and so they're finding ways to work with each other through trade, diplomacy, military sales, all of the things that we used to do. And this reordering of the international system is not exactly what the United States would have wanted.

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You know, we have our power and our influence through our trade relationships, our diplomatic relationships and our economic relationships and our national security relationships. And pretty much every country in the world is trying to find ways to reduce their dependence on us because of what we're doing to them. And this meeting in Shanghai is just a very clear illustration of that.

DEAN: And there's also this military parade that China is going to host later this week. What message is China trying to send with that?

ROGIN: This is really interesting because Chinese government is making a very big deal out of the 80th anniversary of World War II and what their propaganda says is that China fought with the United States and Russia against the fascist powers of Germany and Japan especially, and there's some truth to that, but on the other hand, the nationalists were the Chinese that we fought with and the communists were against the nationalists, but the Chinese kind of ignoring that 80 years later.

But what they're trying to do is they're trying to sell a narrative. And the narrative is that China and Russia and the United States should all be friends against the Japanese. And that you could see how in Donald Trump's administration, there might be some openness to that, but it does run counter to the last 80 years of bipartisan U.S. policy, which has held that actually China and Russia and the other authoritarian countries are against us and our friends are the other democracies in the world. That's how it's been all this time, but the Chinese are trying to change that narrative and they might have a friendly ear here in Washington under the Trump administration.

DEAN: And then there's the significance of North Korea being a part of this, joining for the first time. What do you think about that?

ROGIN: Very interesting. We see the North Korean leader. We see the leader of Belarus. All the dictators are there. And it's very clear that, you know, China and Russia want to form a new set of alliances with all of the dictators in the area, and the fact that Kim Jong-un feels very comfortable meeting with that the prime minister of India and the president of Russia and the president of China and the president of Belarus just shows that whatever sanctions or isolation that we're trying to bring on these countries, especially North Korea, not really working.

You know, they're not isolated and that means we're not really pressuring them to do any of the things that we want. So you have to take a sort of a look around the world and see that, you know, we have this whole regime of sanctions and pressure that are supposed to get countries like North Korea to stop doing the things that they're doing, namely building nuclear weapons and slaughtering their own people, but it's just not happening right now and the Trump administration doesn't seem to care about that that much.

This is the result, is that all the dictators can come out to play and they're not feeling America's pressure at all. I think the consequences of that can be felt both in those countries and around the region and around the world.

DEAN: All right, Josh Rogan, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it.

ROGIN: Anytime.

DEAN: And still to come, the president ramping up pressure to take control of America's central bank. How a single federal reserve governor could tip the scale in Trump's favor and why economists warn that this is a dangerous move. Plus, the White House dismissing a judge's ruling against President Trump's tariffs as a simple, quote, "hiccup." We're going to talk to the former director of the National Economic Council about what the president's tariffs could mean for your wallet and where they go from here. You're in the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: President Trump is escalating his fight with the Federal Reserve and challenging the independence of the century-old institution. The president says he'll soon have a, quote, "majority" at the Fed as one of its governors fights to keep her job after being fired by the president. The move follows months of attacks on Fed Chair Jay Powell, who last week opened the door to the possibility of an upcoming interest rate cut. We're joined now by Gene Sperling. He served as the director of the National Economic Council for Presidents Obama and Clinton. He was also a senior advisor to President Biden. Gene, thank you for being here with us. Let's talk first just about the Fed and the dangers of a president controlling the Fed. What could happen --

Well that --

DEAN: Yeah, go ahead.

GENE SPERLING, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL: No, you're asking the right question. You know, this isn't about the particulars of Lisa Cook versus whoever they're going to nominate if she were to somehow be removed. This is fundamentally a battle now for the ultimate independence of the Federal Reserve. And anyone who doesn't see that major battle as what's at its core is missing the picture.

The Federal Reserve is supposed to be protected from political abuse or political control and one of the ways of doing that is saying that the president can only fire a federal reserve member if they have caused, and by cause that is always met something you did while you were in office that was malfeasance, that was a neglect of duty, you know, that level of abuse.

What we're seeing now is simply an administration who is trying to now argue that they can just on social media make unsubstantiated claims about a mistake somebody might have made on their taxes or their mortgage application and by that say they're guilty as charged and now they can be removed.

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If you can do that, there is no independence of the Federal Reserve. And if that's the message that happens, then when the president has a majority of his appointees on the Federal Reserve, they could now start saying they're going to fire for, you know, very unsubstantiated notions of cause Federal Reserve presidents who also vote on federal monetary policy.

Now, why does that mean anything to anybody listening? It's because you've already been struggling with inflation since the pandemic. Inflation has gotten worse on ordinary products and is supposed to get worse under President Trump's tariff regime. If you get rid of the Federal Reserve independence, every example around the world has shown the result is higher and higher long-term interest rates and inflation, even in hyperinflation.

So what's mysterious here is why the Trump administration would possibly think this is in their best interest because this type of harm from destroying the independence of the Federal Reserve is going to hurt our economy and it's going to be very clear who did it, you know, hurt inflation, hurt long-term interest rates, mortgage rates, it's going to be very clear who did it and who's to blame.

DEAN: And the president to that end, the president has been beating the drum on cutting interest rates. That's what he said on the campaign trail. It's what he said since he's gone into office. He has attacked Jay Powell, the Fed chair, over this. And now we see him going after Lisa Cook. They argue that is for cause. As you note, she has, you know, fought back against that and is now suing to keep her job.

But all of this is to say, you know, if Americans are listening to this and they say, well, yeah, why don't they just cut the interest rates? It's really expensive to live right now and that would really help me. Connect those dots as to why the Fed isn't doing exactly what the president is asking.

SPERLING: Right. So what I would say to people is that what has troubled people and been upsetting is seeing a lot of ordinary goods that they buy on a regular basis having higher prices than they were used to spending before the pandemic. I won't get into the debate about that, but you know, I think that was mostly pandemic related causes, but it bothered people because, you know, you work hard, maybe you get a raise and then meat and milk and other prices are higher.

What you're seeing right now, is that the tariffs are already driving up your coffee prices, your beef prices, your banana prices, Nike tennis shoes. Best Buy and Walmart and Target are all saying prices are going up. So what you need to understand is if the Federal Reserve looks like they don't care about inflation anymore, that they'll just do whatever the president says, they'll juice up the economy in a way that will hurt inflation.

Then what that means is that you're going to face even more higher products in things that affect your living. So lowering interest rates when it's not appropriate or when it looks like it's done for pure political reasons will have a negative effect on inflation and the products that you buy every day. And people who lend us money for a long term are going to have less confidence that inflation will stay low.

And what that means is that they're going to charge more money to lend for 10, 20, 30 years. And that means that mortgage rates will stay high, even if the Federal Reserve could lower the overnight rate that banks charge each other. So again, you know, there's really virtually nobody out there who thinks right now that you should have a major, major cut in interest rates that because of the inflationary impact that it would have.

So again, even if I were President Trump's advisor and looking out only for his political interests, I would say, sir, do not do this. This is going to raise prices in a way that is going to hurt ordinary families and it's going to be clearly connected to your attack on the Federal Reserve and your random and erratic increase of tariffs on products people use in everyday situations.

DEAN: All right, Gene Sperling, thanks for your time. We really appreciate it.

SPERLING: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

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DEAN: Yeah. Still to come, the Israeli military moving forward with plans to take control of Gaza City despite global pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war. Stay with us. You're in the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his army is reporting nearly 300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or severely wounded in Ukraine so far this year. And the update comes as a prominent Ukrainian politician was shot and killed this weekend in what authorities are calling a carefully planned attack. And as President Trump is contemplating what role, if any, he will play in future peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. CNN's Melissa Bell picks it up there with more.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: An investigation has been opened after the assassination of a leading Ukrainian politician on Saturday in city of Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was shot eight times and died before rescue services could get to him. It's been described as an assassination, terrorism, according to Ukrainian leaders. And that investigation will now focus on how he came to be killed and why.

This was a leading nationalist politician. He'd been active in politics in Ukraine since the early '90s, in the Orange Revolution, in the Maidan Revolution, and he was noted for his promotion of Ukrainian language as the national language of Ukraine. That assassination came even as Russian attacks continue on Ukrainian soil.

Overnight, there were more attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, drone attacks, that took on electricity in the region of Odessa, leaving many without power. This, of course, just a day ahead of what had been President Trump's deadline for a trilateral meeting between himself and the presidents of Ukraine and Russia. That appears not to be taking place. In fact, the Russian president is in China, in Tianjin, this Sunday, for the start of a summit as world leaders gather around Xi Jinping and ahead of a military parade into next week that will keep him in China. No word then on what happens to this planned trilateral meeting, nor

indeed what President Trump's moves will come next, whether he will seek to revive these efforts at bringing peace or starting at least peace negotiations in the region, or whether he will choose to back away as a result of the failure of this latest effort. Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.

DEAN: All right, Melissa, thanks so much. Israeli forces have been pounding the suburbs of Gaza City this weekend as the IDF declares the area a dangerous combat zone. Those attacks continued as Israel's security cabinet came together to review the government's plans for seizing control of Gaza City.

We're joined now by CNN Global Affairs Analyst, Kimberly Dozier. Kim, good to see you on this Sunday. President Netanyahu is pressing ahead with this and his war cabinet seemed to be pressing ahead with this even amidst all of this opposition, both at home in Israel, but also abroad. Why do you think that is?

KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Yeah, even with hostage families protesting nearby because it was held at a secret location, so they were protesting near where they thought the meeting was going on. It seems that Netanyahu and his ministers have decided that now is the time to eliminate the Hamas threat as they see it. Even though senior military commanders in the Israeli defense forces have warned this is not the best way to get all of the hostages out alive.

They had been arguing for saying yes to Hamas's final offer to do a 60-day two-part deal so that some of the hostages could be released. What they're pursuing right now is a policy of, you know, you already have IDF forces outside of Gaza City, one of the last places in Gaza still standing and they are sort of softening the ground apparently with an intent to go in and get rid of the rest of the Hamas tunnel network and also to try to find some of the hostages at least to recover their bodies.

DEAN: Okay, and as all of that's happening, there have been two -- like a big central question, especially when it comes to trying to get a ceasefire, is what comes after this war is over? What is the day after plan? And there has really just not been a lot on that. We're getting new reporting from the "Washington Post" that the Trump administration is discussing the so-called Trump Riviera plan that we heard him talk about a couple of months ago, but essentially, it's a 38-page prospectus that envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza's more than 2 million population, either through what it calls voluntary departures to another country or into restricted secure zones inside the enclave. What might that look like?

DOZIER: Yeah, the plan that the "Washington Post" outlines would have each Palestinian family decide whether to wait for an apartment back inside Gaza or to take money to move somewhere else, with the emphasis being on trying to convince as many Palestinians as possible to leave the territory at least during the reconstruction phase. But Palestinian reaction to all versions of this plan has been suspicion. They basically think once they leave, they won't be allowed back. That said, when you look at the totality of destruction across Gaza, the U.N. estimates that something like 60 to 70 percent of all structures have been destroyed.

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And Israeli defense forces upload video of themselves exploding further buildings. So in polls, a large number of Palestinians say they are ready to leave, but will they accept this promise of coming back at some point? Also, the plan talks about this being funded by investors rather than

the U.S. or any other country having to outlay investment. It's got a lot of big question marks. It sounds too good to be true.

And I don't know how they're going to get buy-in, especially when this is considered under international law, occupied land. And this would be the Israelis taking it over and handing it to the U.S. to keep in trust during reconstruction.

DEAN: So there's that piece of it. Again, we'll see if that actually comes to be. At this point, it's just a prospectus. There's also new reporting from CNN that Prime Minister Netanyahu is considering a diplomatic offensive of sorts in response to some nations who are going to be recognizing a Palestinian state at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly here in New York City next month, and that those measures could range from a full annexation of the West Bank or partial annexation of settlements. How might that affect this war?

DOZIER: It's going to be like a diplomatic bomb going off in the middle of the UN General Assembly. But with the US backing, whatever the Netanyahu government does, I don't see any way that the world sort of stands against it, anyone who might oppose it. The Netanyahu government has already moved forward with approving a plan for settlements by Jewish settlers that would basically bisect the West Bank territory so that even if there was a Palestinian state in the future, you'd no longer have a contiguous West Bank.

It would have this settlement going straight across it. So if they go further than that and seize a large number of the areas, you've had people like Ambassador Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, say that he's personally for the annexation of the West Bank, but Trump himself, he hasn't said, yes, it's a good idea. He's basically just said, this is up to Israel to decide. And from the Israeli perspective, that's a green light.

DEAN: All right, Kim Dozier, always good to have you on. Thanks for walking through some of these updates with us. Really appreciate it.

DOZIER: Thanks.

DEAN: And coming up, the story of Emmett Till is being retold 70 years later, the haunting piece of history from one of America's darkest moments that suddenly resurfaced and is now on display at a museum.

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DEAN: Every single employee in the executive branch is required to avoid financial conflicts of interest. Everyone except the president and the vice president. President Trump's many business ventures monetizing the presidency have raised concerns and allegations about possible conflicts of interest. But a decades old presidential exemption to the federal Criminal Conflicts of Interest Law gives Trump a loophole to avoid legal consequences. CNN's Marshall Cohen has more.

MARSHALL COHEN, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: You could call it a presidential carve out. The federal Criminal Conflict of Interest Law requires all executive branch officials to de-conflict their personal finances from their government duties. It applies to everyone except the president and the vice president. This isn't new. These have been the rules for decades because policymakers wanted the president to be able to handle anything that came across his desk.

Still, past presidents have voluntarily complied and de-conflicted their finances. But nonpartisan experts say Trump is different because he is brazenly flouting ethics norms. Just this year, he had the Pentagon accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. He privately dined with investors in his crypto coin. He's selling Trump branded smartphones. And he recently promoted his golf properties in Scotland.

Meanwhile, his cabinet members, White House advisors, and appointees throughout the administration have to de-conflict and CNN has obtained internal e-mails and other documents showing how top officials have been jumping through hoops to comply with the law. Just look at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as an example. He's a former hedge fund manager and he's got nearly $1 billion in assets that he needs to divest. He says he's 96 percent of the way there. The only thing remaining is a highly illiquid farmland in North Dakota that he has promised to sell by the end of this year.

There's also a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget named Thomas Williams. He oversees defense spending and he started the year with $2 to $10 million in stocks from Palantir, a major government contractor. Ethics watchdogs flagged this as a potential conflict, but records reviewed by CNN show that he recused himself from all matters related to Palantir earlier this year. And OMB says that career ethics officials have affirmed that Williams is in full compliance.

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There's also the nominee for Army Under Secretary, Mike Obadal. And before Trump appointed him to that post, Obadal worked for Anduril Industries, a major defense contractor that does a lot of business with the Pentagon. CNN has learned that he has now fully divested in the company ahead of his potential confirmation by the Senate.

Now I spoke to ethics experts who praised these moves, though they said they will be keeping a very close eye to make sure that Bessent keeps his promises and that these defense officials stay away from matters involving their former employers, like the massive Golden Dome Missile Shield project.

This is the bizarre reality. These Trump administration officials are divesting and deconflicting, sometimes at great cost, while Trump is free to potentially profit off the presidency. Marshall Cohen, CNN, Washington.

DEAN: Marshall, thank you. Less than a week after a shooter opened fire on Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing two children, the bishop says the parish offices will reopen Tuesday. That deadly shooting happened during the morning mass on the first day of school. That's when those two children were killed. Eighteen others were injured, 15 of those were children as well. The church has not said when classes will resume at the school.

The man suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar, then evading capture for a week as hundreds of law enforcement officers searched for him in nearby mountains, now officially faces four counts of murder. Michael Paul Brown lived next door to the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana, where a bartender and three others were shot and killed earlier this month. Officials have not given a potential motive for those shootings.

Brown, a 45-year-old former soldier, hid in nearby forests for over a week as helicopters and drones searched overhead and officers searched on the ground. The owner of the bar says Brown was a customer for several decades but was not aware of any conflicts between the suspect and the victims.

Seventy years after the horrifying murder that helped ignite the civil rights movement in the United States, the gun that was used to kill Emmett Till is now on display at a museum in Mississippi. The .45 caliber pistol is part of an exhibit at the state's two Mississippi museums that aims to tell the whole story of Till's murder in the Jim Crow South. The 14-year-old was kidnapped in 1955 by two white men who beat and tortured him before shooting him in the head and throwing his body into a river. The pair were found not guilty of the crime, but later confessed to that killing in a magazine interview.

Still to come, a look ahead at what forecasters say could be another La Nina winter, the chilly and wet weather that could be coming in the next few weeks or months ahead after the break.

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DEAN: The Labor Day holiday weekend in full swing, but temperatures in some areas might already kind of feel like fall. CNN's Chinchar has a preview of what we might see this winter.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: The holiday weekend is expected to be much cooler, especially for most of the eastern half of the country. Really, the only spots we're expected to see temperatures well above normal is actually going to be out into the western tier of the country. But the question becomes, okay, does this provide any insight into maybe what the rest of fall or even winter is expected to look like? And the interesting thing to note is that NOAA has actually issued a La Nina watch going forward into the winter season.

And basically what this means is we have conditions that are expected to be favorable for the development of La Nina over a period of about the next six months. Now, traditionally speaking, what La Nina conditions do is it can have implications on some of the weather patterns that we experience here in the U.S., namely much drier and much warmer conditions across the southern tier of the U.S. And then in terms of the northwest, this is where you're typically going to have some of those cooler and wetter conditions.

Now that's on an average La Nina winter. But what does the actual forecast look like? Well, when we look at the long range forecast for several months from now, December all the way through January, it does look pretty similar to that other map. You've got the temperatures well above normal across most of the southern tier and slightly below average for some folks in the Pacific Northwest. And then in terms of moisture, same thing, very typical where you have the below average amount of rainfall expected in the southern tier and perhaps a few splotchy areas. of above average precipitation across portions of the Ohio Valley and the northwestern portion of the U.S.

DEAN: All right, Allison, thanks so much. Well, the already enormous Powerball jackpot got a little bigger. No one hit last night's $1 billion drawing, and that means tomorrow night's jackpot has now soared to an estimated $1.1 billion. It becomes the fifth largest prize in the game's history. Cash value of the lump sum option of the jackpot prize is around a half billion dollars. There's been no Powerball lottery winner since the end of May.

Are you feeling a little news fatigue? "Have I Got News For You" has the cure and also the disease. The comedy quiz show returns with a new season on September 6th at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on CNN.

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Still ahead, Pope Leo speaking out and sending a direct message to lawmakers here in the U.S. What the pontiff is demanding from leaders in Washington. Stay with us here in the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: You're in the "CNN Newsroom." I'm Jessica Dean here in New York. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill getting ready to head back to the office after August recess.