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CENTCOM: U.S. Forces Complete Latest Strikes Against Iran. Trump: U.S. Ultimately Control Strait Of Hormuz; Iran: Oil Exports To "Continue As Usual" Despite U.S. Sanctions. Aired 4-4:30a ET

Aired July 14, 2026 - 04:00   ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to CNN Newsroom. I'm Lynda Kincaid. Here's what's coming up.

The U.S. targets Iran for a third straight night as Donald Trump vows to seize the Strait of Hormuz. We'll head to the region for a live report.

Plus, outrage and calls for accountability after federal agents shoot and kill a Colombian man in Maine. And second fatal ice shooting in less than a week.

And later, excitement is building ahead of the World cup semifinals will preview Spain's match against France.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with Lynda Kinkade.

KINKADE: We begin in the Middle East, where the U.S. strikes Iran for a third consecutive night as President Trump says the U.S. will be the guardian of the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command says the latest strikes targeted Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping. Social media footage shows the aftermath of the strikes in Iran's southeast. President Trump says the U.S. may soon control the Strait of Hormuz.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We are just going forward. We're attacking them tonight. We're taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the strait, with the Hormuz Strait. And I think in the end, we will end up just controlling the whole thing.

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KINKADE: The U.S. will also resume its naval blockade of Iranian ships in the coming hours. CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked President Trump when the conflict is expected to end.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: You've been

bombing Iran for months now. Is this just the new normal for the American?

TRUMP: Well, you know, we're in Vietnam for 19 years. We're here for four months. So I think we've done a lot. We've knocked out their navy in a period of one month.

We knocked out their air force. The air force is nonexistent. We knocked out most of their missiles, most of their drones. We knocked out their drone manufacturing capability about 92 percent.

Their missile capability for manufacturing. We knocked out 89 percent. And they have a little capability, but they don't have any capability for us. This is almost a military skirmish.

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KINKADE: Earlier, Iranian state media released this footage showing several cruise missiles being launched, but it's unclear where, whether they were fired or what their tender targets were. CNN's Paula Hancocks is following the developments from Abu Dhabi and joins us now live.

Good to have you with us Paula. So, give us a picture of what's happening on the ground tonight given that the ceasefire has collapsed and we've seen another round of U.S. strikes.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, Lynda, what we've seen of the Iranian response is that Jordan says it has intercepted four missiles that were incoming the second day in a row that it's had to do that, saying that shrapnel has been falling from those interceptions in a number of locations. Bahrain as well here in the Gulf had emergency alerts earlier this Tuesday morning.

Now, this does follow what we saw overnight, which was a third consecutive night of these U.S. strikes. Again, many of them focused on the air defense systems, the missile and drone capabilities along the coastline of Iran. U.S. Central Command saying that they're trying to degrade Iran's ability to be able to vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which is what we did see earlier on.

We've heard from the U.S. President, Donald Trump. He has said that this is a limited military action. He's actually notified Congress that the limited military action has resumed. He's called it limited, measured, planned. But at this point, we have been seeing hundreds of strikes in recent days against Iranian military infrastructure.

We also heard from Central Command that they are going to be implementing the naval blockade once again later this Tuesday. This is to prevent vessels from going in or out of Iranian ports.

Now, despite that, we also heard from the Iranian oil minister saying that exports will continue as usual, saying that is also despite the U.S. saying that it's going to reimpose sanctions on Iranian oil. So there's an awful lot going on at this point. We have heard from the U.S. President as well, saying that the U.S.

will be the guardian of the Strait of Hormuz. There are many questions as to what exactly this entails. Effectively, he has been suggesting that the U.S. will provide security for the Strait, but also saying there will be a 20 percent charge on vessels going through this strait. Let's listen to more of what he said.

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TRUMP: Yes, I want to be reimbursed because we're protecting a very rich portion of the world. We're spending money. And so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for protection. We're protecting by the countries that we're helping.

For instance, you look at the five countries. You have Saudi Arabia. You have UAE. You have Qatar or Qatar, as I always say, you have Qatar, Bahrain. And by the way, you have others. You have Kuwait, and you have others. And they will do very well, but we think it's appropriate that we don't need them.

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HANCOCKS: Now, it's unclear exactly how this would work. If that is a 20 percent tax on the cargo value, then clearly that's going to be quite prohibitive to many of these vessels. We also know the Revolutionary Guards say that they targeted what they call two rogue supertankers that had turned their navigation systems off. The UAE confirming two of their tankers were attacked. Lynda.

KINKADE: All right, Paula Hancocks for us in Abu Dhabi. Thank you very much.

For more on this, we're joined now by Colonel Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Defense and Security Department. Good to have you with us, Colonel.

COL. MARK CANCIAN (RET.), U.S. MARINE CORPS RESERVE: Thanks for having me on the program.

KINKADE: So, Colonel Cansian, the ceasefire has effectively collapsed. The U.S. is conducting yet another night of strikes, and Iran has expanded its retaliation be beyond its own territory. How would you characterize where this conflict sits tonight?

CANCIAN: Well, we've seen this escalation of attacks. It began as a low-level tit-for-tat and then escalated to very large attacks. U.S. engaging up to 80 targets in a day of strikes. In the Iranians retaliating. It's not quite at the level of the 39 days of air war.

During that time, the United States conducted about 300, 330 strikes a day. So 80 is less than that. But it's still a lot of attacks, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Negotiations are, are over. The cease fire is over. And the Iranians have been making the same sorts of statements.

KINKADE: Yes, and one of the biggest flashpoints right now is the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says it has effectively closed the Strait again while the U.S. is reimposing a blockade on Iranian shipping and President Trump suggesting a 20 percent charge on cargo that moves through that international waterway. From a military standpoint, what is actually happening on the water? Who is in control?

CANCIAN: Well, the fact is that both of them control the strait. The Iranians have been able to exert control using unconventional means. Drones, for example, speedboats, and mines. The United States has used more conventional means.

It has aircraft. It has ships at sea. They both control the straits. So essentially, nothing goes through without the approval or at least acquiescence of both sides. Some ships have been going through. There's been a steady flow, but it's been reduced to a trickle now.

KINKADE: And right now, the strikes are expected to continue night after night. You've warned that America's biggest military risk isn't today's fight. It's the impact on readiness for a future conflict. How concerned are you about the U.S. depleting its weapons stockpile?

CANCIAN: Well, the depletion of the munition stockpile is a concern that's shared broadly across the community. The United States has used between a third and a half of its key munitions. We looked at seven of those that would be used in a war in the western Pacific against China, as well as being used against Iran. And the more that are used, the greater the level of risk there is in a war in the western Pacific, and the longer it would take for the United States to rebuild those inventories.

And even the inventories at the beginning of the war were considered by most war planners to be insufficient. They wanted larger inventories. So there'll be a window of vulnerability here for a number of years until the United States can rebuild the stockpiles.

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KINKADE: I mean, you've certainly warned that prolonged operations in the Middle East could increase the strategic risk in the Indo-Pacific region. Do you believe that Beijing is watching this conflict primarily for tactical military lessons or for signs that the U.S. stockpiles, logistics, industrial capacity are being stretched?

CANCIAN: Well, there's no question that the stockpiles are being depleted in the industrial base is being stretched. Now, the United States has recognized this, recognize this back at the beginning of the Ukraine war, where it became clear that protracted conflicts were going to require more munitions that the United States and the Europeans for that matter, had stockpiled and the ISIS began to expand its industrial base so it could produce more munitions. That continued in the Trump administration and accelerated.

So, for example, for patriots before the war in Ukraine, the United States was producing about 300 a year, half going to us, half going to allies and partners. Now we're up to 600 and hope to get to 2,000.

But we've used over a thousand in this current war. Our allies in the Gulf have also used a lot. The Ukrainians want more. So there's a tremendous demand for production.

KINKADE: And just quickly, we've discussed this in the past that these stockpiles take years, not months, to rebuild. When it comes to these precision weapons, is the defense industrial base keeping pace with the demands of modern conflicts or is this exposing a potential long- term vulnerability?

CANCIAN: Well, it has exposed this vulnerability, but that was realized some years ago in the United States has taken action. But as you note, it takes time and it takes time to produce new weapons. It takes time to expand production. We're talking here, years.

If you went and ordered another Patriot today, you probably wouldn't get it for four or five years because of the backlog.

KINKADE: And obviously it requires a lot of testing, et cetera. We want to make sure that they work. Colonel Mark Cancian, we appreciate your time. Thanks so much for joining us.

CANCIAN: Thanks for having me on the program.

KINKADE: Well, White House officials says President Trump will support the passage of a bipartisan Russian sanctions package spearheaded by the late Senator Lindsey Graham. That package would clear the way for the President to impose tariffs on imports from nations that buy Russian oil and natural gas in an effort to further weaken Moscow amid the war with Ukraine.

France's annual Bastille Day military parade is underway. And it's not just featuring the French military. Troops and more planes from several European countries are joining the parade. In a show of Europe's Defence capabilities and support for Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron will be joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some 30 other leaders for the event.

Well, for more now, we're joined by CNN Correspondent Claire Sebastian. Good to see you, Claire.

So this year's parade has a very strong focus, focus on European defense and of course, support for Ukraine. Why is France chosen to make security such a central theme on Bastille Day?

CLAIRE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, the theme of the whole day, Lynda, is Europe's strategic awakening. They are, I think, trying to make this look like a moment in history for the strength of the cooperation between these countries and of course, their support for Ukraine, where the war is still very much ongoing.

I think obviously the subtext, the background to this is that this is happening amid a significant drop-off in commitment by the U.S. towards the transatlantic alliance and in practical terms. The need for Europe to really step up and spend more on its defense and accelerate production. And of course, you know, through the coalition of the willing, many of the -- many of the countries involved in that, of course, involved in the parade today.

They just held a meeting of that coalition yesterday and a number of countries agreed to join an anti-ballistic missile defense coalition for Ukraine in partnership with Ukraine to produce a joint missile defense program to help defend against especially Russian ballistic missiles. We know there's a significant lack, partly thanks to the war with Iran, of Patriot interceptors. President Zelenskyy admitting in a press conference after that meeting on Monday that there are some nights where Ukraine has no Patriot interceptors with which to tackle these incoming missiles. It's a significant vulnerability in this war.

And so this is sort of the level of urgency that we see now. He has appealed off the back of this meeting for 100 Patriot Interceptors for every winter month. That's 300 in total. That's almost half of the entire production line of the US Per year.

So I think that sort of really gives across the level of urgency here. So we have a show of support from Europe at this Bastille Day parade, a show of unity. And, you know, I think it really remains to be seen how quickly they can translate that into real practical support for Ukraine.

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KINKADE: And while they're talking about this support for Ukraine, what's the latest on the ground in Ukraine and Russia as this war drags on?

SEBASTIAN: Yes, what we got overnight, right on cue, as those allies had just committed to this missile defense coalition. We got another attack involving 10 missiles from Russia, 135 drones. This was not a night. It seems, where Ukraine was defenseless against these ballistic missiles. They managed to shoot down five out of eight according to the Air Force. But still, you know, destruction in multiple regions across the country.

Kyiv was hitting 16 sites, according to President Zelenskyy, a school and a business that was critical infrastructure hit in a number of other regions. We're hearing about power outages, injuries in Kharkiv and Chernihiv, which is just north of Kyiv. So it was one of many of these nights that we see of Russian attacks. On the flip side though, we saw from the Russian Ministry of Defense that they say they averted almost 300 Ukrainian drones heading for Russian territory.

So you can see that we're in this period of escalation on both sides.

KINKADE: Yes, they certainly are. Claire Sebastian, appreciate you. Thanks so much.

A second immigrant in the U.S. has been shot and killed by ICE agents in less than a week. This time in the state of Maine. A neighbor has identified him as 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero from Colombia. We need to warn you, video of the aftermath is disturbing. You can see ICE agents here pulling Guerrero from his vehicle after he was shot.

An immigrants rights group says he was authorized to work in the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement saying ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop the vehicle, attempted to flee the scene, and fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.

Well, that has sparked protests, a vigil, and a lot of questions about why an officer would shoot a fleeing vehicle. More now from CNN's Jason Carroll. And another warning, his report contains disturbing images.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): State and federal authorities are investigating another ICE-involved shooting, this time in Biddeford, Maine. Maine Senator Angus King saying he spoke to DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, who shared that the victim of today's federal law enforcement shooting, identified as a 26-year-old Colombian man, was not the target of the warrant. This in contrast to an earlier conversation in which Senator King shared that Secretary Mullin told him the victim was the target.

Witnesses tell CNN shots rang out early Monday morning around 7:15.

LAURA PETERS, HEARD SHOOTING: I was getting my DoorDash, and I thought I heard a car backfiring and asked the DoorDash driver if that was a car. He said he didn't know. So we kind of went down to the corner and saw a bunch of vehicles pull up at the same time, marked and unmarked.

EM AKERLEY, WITNESSED AFTERNOON OF SHOOTING: I heard a rapid fire of gunshots afterwards. I got up and went to the window, and that's when I saw the little white car being driven in a circle like it was circling the intersection with two officers pressed up against his driver's side door.

CARROLL (VOICEOVER): Video from the scene shows officers hanging from the side of a white Kia sedan, and moments later a second video shows agents and vests providing aid to a man on the ground.

The victim had work authorization in the United States and was issued a Social Security number that, according to the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition. "We are grieving, we are furious, and we will not allow his death to be treated as routine or inevitable," the organization said in a statement.

CHELLE PINGREE, U.S. HOUSE DEMOCRAT: No one should be shot by ICE under circumstances like this. We have also heard that the individual's family was nearby and that a young child was there. A lethal killing is never justified in my opinion in a case like this. But we don't know exactly what went on.

We don't know if the individual had a weapon. None of those things have been made clear to us. We've asked for a thorough investigation.

CARROLL (voiceover): According to the main attorney general, the man was attempting to flee in a vehicle in the direction of the officer before he was shot. This comes just days after another fatal case in Houston where officials say an ICE agent shot and killed a 52-year-old Mexican national.

Both shootings have sparked protests and calls for accountability across the country, with many questioning ICE's tactics during traffic stops.

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KINKADE: Thanks to Jason Carroll for that report.

More now on the fatal ICE shooting in Texas. The Harris County District Attorney says his office has already issued nearly 20 subpoenas for evidence and testimony. He says the federal government is not cooperating and an independent investigation could take months.

Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on July 7. He was not the target of the immigration enforcement operation. Witnesses dispute ICE officials' claims that the man targeted them with his vehicle.

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Here's more from the District Attorney.

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SEAN TEARE, HARRIS COUNTRY, TEXAS DISTRICT ATTORNEY: We are running this investigation so that we can be transparent, so that the community as a whole, all of Harris County, all of Texas, and quite frankly all of the United States can know what happened out there on that Tuesday morning. And if someone needs to be held accountable, they will be.

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KINKADE: Well, Europe is being hit by its third heat wave this summer. New data showing the health impact of the record-breaking temperatures seen at the end of June.

Plus the heat is sparking wildfires across the continent, including one burning through a historic forest via Paris. The details just ahead.

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KINKADE: We're looking at live features there of the French President Emmanuel Macron at the annual Bastille military parade, which is underway. Troops, warplanes. You can see the military band performing there. They are all there in a show of Europe's defense capabilities and, of course, support for Ukraine.

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KINKADE: And later today we expect the French president to be joined by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as some other 30 world leaders showing support for Ukraine and of course, Europe's defense capabilities.

Well, European countries recorded more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heat wave in June. The data comes as Western European -- Western Europe breaks under its third heat wave since May.

People aged 65 and older accounted for over 90 percent of the fatalities according to the Euromomo, a European death monitoring network. The figures include deaths from all causes, not just those related to the heat. CNN's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir Robert reports.

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BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: Last summer's record shattering heat wave caused around 2,500 excess deaths. This one already so much worse. This is reporting coming into a network of health agencies in Europe, 27 different countries. They didn't really break it down.

They did say that France and Belgium suffered the most extreme. But these are 10,000 in excess of 10,000 extra deaths. It averages about 500 a week over time. And there's no pandemic raging. So the heat is the main cause.

90 percent of these are folks 65 and older, a reminder that the heat preys on older folks, aging folks, and aging structures, so many of those in Europe. Of course, a separate study came out looking just at England and Wales and found an extra 2,700 deaths going back to May and June. They attribute 42 percent of those extra deaths to this heat dome effect, these sort of omega shape, the Greek omega letter heat domes that many scientists believe come with the breakdown in the jet stream.

As Greenland and the polar ice caps melt a normally tight band of wind around the top of the Earth, it gets wobbly, and even in winter it can bring cold air way down to Texas, or in the summers can park these heat domes over North America. We have another one now, and Europe now for the second time here as well. And adaptation as obviously the conversation of the day. Europe didn't need air conditioning for centuries of civilization, but now here we are on a new Earth where the levels of carbon in the atmosphere and the ensuing temperatures are off the charts and not going in the opposite direction.

And so these grim numbers, the latest reminder that adaptation is now a matter of life and death in places that didn't have to worry about this kind of heat in years past.

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KINKADE: Thanks to Bill Weir. Well, French firefighters are battling a wildfire raging through a historic forest south of Paris. It's one of several Wildfires to ignite as Western Europe bakes under scorching hot temperatures. Crews have been scooping water from the River Seine to help battle the flames.

The fires forced many residents from their homes, and police say they're investigating whether it was deliberately lit. CNN's Melissa Bell reports. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we've come as really as close as we can to but to give you a little perspective, those are not clouds that you see behind me. That is the fire coming from that fire still not fixed. The authorities so they still haven't managed to contain it. And what we understand as authorities have spoken about what has been happening here since last night.

We're about 60km to the southeast of Paris. This is most unusual to see wildfires this far north. What we understand is that this fire started last night. There were two different fires that started on either side of this Main Motorway, the A6 that leads south out of Paris right by Orly Airport.

Those two fires have now, say authorities, become one. And it is raging out of control, as you say, 800 hectares already burned. It's about a fifth of the forest of Fontainebleau, this very ancient forest here to the southeast of Paris. And just behind me, near where that fire is currently raging, of course, the famous chateau of Fontainebleau, the royal residence here in France and one of the most famous royal residences there are.

So still not contained. And what we're hearing is that this nearly thousand-hectare fire now is likely to continue being pushed on by the kind of winds that we've been seeing. But it is also very dry conditions. We're now in the middle of our third heat wave in just a month and a half already across France. It is 32,000 hectares that have burned. That is more than the entire season of the wildfires of heat of 2025. And it gives you an idea of just how dry the earth is and just how hot the air is.

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KINKADE: Now, thanks to Melissa Bell. Still ahead. President Trump formally notifies Congress that military action has resumed in Iran. We'll go to the White House for details.

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