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Trump Says New Negotiations are Starting; Ukraine and Russia Trade New Strikes; Unidentified Courier Delivered Bomb to Moscow Restaurant; Winemakers Adapt to European Heat Wave; Pacific Northwest Faces Wildfires; U.S. Treasury Buys Yen To Boost Japanese Economy; Stevens & El-Sayed Prep For Michigan Democratic Senate Primary; 3 Dead, 7 Injured In Shooting At Idaho In-N-Out Restaurant; Nepalese Climber Nirmal Purja's Body Recovered In Pakistan. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 03, 2026 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead on "CNN Newsroom," Donald Trump says a new round of negotiations will take place Monday between Iran and the U.S. Will that be enough to keep military strikes on hold? Russia and Ukraine are trading deadly attacks on each other. What the U.S. secretary of state is saying about ending the four-year-old war. And skygazers are hoping to get a celestial show when part of a SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon on Wednesday.

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

CHURCH: Good to have you with us. President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Iran will resume negotiations on Monday after he called off a planned attack on Iran over the weekend. Here's what he told reporters on Air Force One.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Well, now, what we're doing is we're talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon. We'll see if it's true. I'd love to do that, save a lot of lives, save a lot of unnecessary power, to be honest with you. It will take many, many years to ever build it back, if it could. I don't think it would be even buildable back.

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CHURCH: President Trump also claims there's a deal on the Strait of Hormuz and that there will be a deal on the denuclearization of Iran, as he puts it. Tehran, for its part, is not backing down on its claim to supervise the critical waterway. State media reports Iran's foreign minister held several high-level phone calls with senior Saudi and Pakistani officials on Sunday. Our Julia Benbrook has the latest.

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JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Donald Trump said the talks with Iran will resume on Monday after calling off what he referred to as a massive attack. Officials had told our team leading up to this that the president was considering planning for new strikes against Iran and that that included an option of going after Iran's energy sites.

Now, Trump took to social media over the weekend to say that he was canceling that planned attack, but that that decision was contingent on Tehran rapidly making a deal. I want to pull up that post for you now. In it, he said that the United States remains -- quote -- "locked and loaded," but added, "despite this, we have just been asked by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to."

This move comes after Trump spoke with Saudi Arabia's crown prince. And according to people familiar with that conversation, there was a push for de-escalation and concerns were expressed about these potential strikes. Trump said that allies pushing for him not to go through with this did play a role in that decision. Now, he says that parts -- perimeters of a deal are now in place. It's not clear exactly what that means as we have heard him use similar language throughout this now more than five-month long conflict.

As he traveled back to Washington from here in New Jersey, where he spent most of his weekend, he was asked specifically if there was a deadline to come to an agreement. Take a listen.

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TRUMP: Just see how it is. We're ready to go any time we want. Would I rather make a deal? I'm not looking to kill people because people die. A lot of people die.

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BENBROOK: And it's important to note that throughout this conflict, we have seen Trump go back and forth between expressing hope for a diplomatic solution, a diplomatic breakthrough, and threatening further escalation.

Julia Benbrook, CNN, New Jersey.

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CHURCH: H.A. Hellyer joins us now live from Cairo. He is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Appreciate you being with us.

H.A. HELLYER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE FELLOW, ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY STUDIES: My pleasure. Thank you, Rosemary. Always a pleasure to be on your program. CHURCH: Thank you. Well, President Trump says the U.S. and Iran will resume talks in the coming hours, but only if the two sides make a deal rapidly. It's a very different tone to what we heard from the president on Friday and comes after he canceled plans to attack Iran.

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Five months into the conflict, we have heard this before, of course, but this time, regional leaders are urging him to de-escalate the war and get this done. So, how likely is it that we'll see a deal come out of this, do you think?

HELLYER: Thank you again, Rosemary. As you pointed out, we have been at this point before where the American president announces that he's about to strike Iran in an incredibly aggressive fashion and then suddenly turns around and says, no, we're not going to do that, we're going to allow space for negotiations.

I know that there are many who see this as some sort of strategy on the part of the White House. I think it's actually much more ad hoc and spontaneous than that and, frankly, erratic. This is why I think regional leaders have been pushing so much for negotiations, for de- escalation, for some sort of a deal because they're, of course, the ones -- their countries are the ones that pay the price for any escalation and any disruption further within the region.

How likely is it? Frankly, that's all down to the next few days. The United States could easily turn around and decide we're going to strike. We have that on record multiple times over the past couple of years where the U.S. was involved directly in negotiations themselves with the Iranians and then abruptly called them off and struck, sometimes on their own, sometimes with the Israelis.

And, of course, you're correct that regional leaders have pushed against this at this particular time. They also made it very clear that they did not want a war at the beginning of this year in February, and they were overridden by the United States that listened to lobbying from the Israelis and also decided on the basis of their own calculations to go forward.

So, nothing is for certain, but I think that there's a growing realization within the Trump administration that force simply hasn't achieved what they wanted to with regards to the Strait of Hormuz or the nuclear program. This may be the Trump administration simply coming to conclusion that they can't do this anymore, and they ought to let the Gulf states take point on this.

CHURCH: And President Trump is also claiming that there's a deal on the Strait of Hormuz and another one on what he's now calling the denuclearization of Iran. But Tehran is still insisting it will supervise the strait. So, what do you expect that deal will look like?

HELLYER: I think talk about -- quote, unquote -- "denuclearization" is frankly for propaganda purposes within the United States, if I'm quite honest. The JCPOA took many months to negotiate with the Obama administration. I find it highly unlikely that the Trump administration is going to get a deal on that any time soon. I don't think the Iranians are going to negotiate on that, quite frankly, any time soon.

When it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, there's a Venn diagram here that is extremely bleak because the United States, of course, is very keen to ensure that the Strait of Hormuz returns to the state it was in in the status quo prior to the war, i.e. no control from the Iranians or indeed from other Gulf states, whereas the Iranians are very clear that they see control over the Strait of Hormuz as being their main leverage point to apply on the international community, on the Gulf, to ensure that the Americans don't strike them again.

I don't find this legitimate, by the way, but that's not really the point. I think that they do see it in that fashion, and they want to formalize it. The question is going to become more of one about how the Gulf itself can engage with the Iranians on this particular issue. It's very difficult because, of course, the Gulf doesn't want to recognize or formalize Iranian control over what ought to be an open and free waterway. But I don't know how many options they have here.

The Omanis have provided different compromise situations, scenarios, you know, dividing the strait into two, talking about voluntary fees as opposed to compulsory ones. I'm not sure where they'll land in this regard, but it won't be the United States that has pole position in these discussions.

CHURCH: H.A. Hellyer, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.

HELLYER: My pleasure. Thank you.

CHURCH: Israel has expanded strikes across Gaza for a second straight day. The IDF says it targeted two elite Hamas commanders at Deir al- Balah as well as military operatives in Gaza City and Jabalia.

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The escalation comes despite President Trump announcing fresh progress toward an Israel-Hamas ceasefire on Thursday. Hamas has said it is committed to disarming, but only after Israel stops its attacks.

Palestinians also gathered in Gaza City on Sunday to mourn a man, his pregnant wife, and their seven-year-old son, who were reportedly killed in an Israeli attack on a residential building. Officials estimate more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the initial ceasefire plan was outlined in October.

Russia and Ukraine are trading new strikes. Ukrainian officials say Russia dropped eight guided bombs on the city of Zaporizhia within an hour and a half on Sunday. The attack killed at least one person, wounded dozens, and destroyed residential buildings. Residents describe the horror they witnessed.

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MYKOLA SHATALLO, WOUNDED IN RUSSIAN STRIKE (through translator): Everything is smashed to pieces. Nothing is left in one piece: The wardrobes, the TVs, the fridges, everything. No doors, no windows. Everything was smashed.

SVITLANA, ZAPORIZHZHIA RESIDENT (through translator): They, the Russians, are not human beings. They're inhuman. They want to kill us completely. That is what I think. They want us to be gone. They don't want us to live.

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CHURCH: Russian officials say Ukrainian drones struck several targets inside the country, including Wildberries warehouse. Wildberries is the country's largest online marketplace, and it has been the target of Ukrainian strikes in the past few weeks. Kyiv claims the facilities supply Russia's frontline troops in Ukraine, which Moscow denies.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News the U.S. will try to kick-start peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in the coming weeks, though he says there are still significant obstacles to overcome.

Russian police are investigating a deadly bomb blast at a restaurant in downtown Moscow with the city's mayor calling it a terrorist attack. At least two people were killed and 21 more wounded. Investigators have not yet said who they think is responsible.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen has more details from Moscow.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Moscow's mayor has called an explosion that happened at a restaurant here in the Russian capital on Saturday evening an act of terrorism. Now, so far, the Russian authorities, of course, are still in the early stages of investigating exactly what happened there.

But what we've gleaned so far is that, apparently, at 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, there was a private event going on in this upscale restaurant that is right in the heart of the Russian capital. One of the security guards who was on duty there noticed a courier, a woman, coming to the entrance with a package. He then searched that woman, and that is when a bomb detonated that seems to have been inside that package. The security guard was killed, the woman was killed, and another bystander, a customer of the restaurant, was also killed as well.

So far, the Russians have not said who they believe was behind all of these or who they believe the target was of this attack. In the past, however, in similar instances, the Russians have pointed the finger of blame at the Ukrainians. In 2023, a well-known Russian blogger was killed. And over the past couple of years, several Russian generals were killed right here in Moscow in bomb attacks as well. In those instances, the Russians have blamed the Ukrainians, specifically the Ukrainian military intelligence.

Right now, however, the investigation is still very much in the early stages but, of course, it does come as security here in the Russian capital remains on high alert.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.

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CHURCH: Authorities in Spain's North African territory of Ceuta are transporting more migrants back to Morocco. Most of the 60,000 people who crossed the border last week have already returned. Life in the tiny community has mostly returned to normal. But far-right leaders in Spain and elsewhere in Europe are using the deadly border rush to stoke public fear and anger. The Vox party leader is blaming Spain's pro-immigration prime minister, Pedro Sanchez.

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SANTIAGO ABASCAL, LEADER, VOX PARTY (through translator): We are facing an invasion, and it must be called that. I think that at this point, no one can deny that the arrival of 65,000 people, according to what is being said at the moment, is an invasion. And we are facing an act of war promoted by Morocco and tolerated and allowed by Pedro Sanchez in different ways.

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CHURCH: Anti-immigration protesters gathered outside the Moroccan embassy in Madrid. They echoed the far-right description of immigration as a -- quote -- "invasion." E.U. foreign ministers will join an emergency meeting on Tuesday to address the growing backlash and the threats by some E.U. leaders to tighten their borders.

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Still to come, some winemakers in France were spared by wildfires scorching the region, but the severe weather is forcing them to change their approach to this year's wine. More on the fires in Europe just ahead.

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CHURCH: Cuba's national power grid collapsed late Sunday. The state- owned utility made the announcement on X. The post did not include any further details about the outage. Cuba's power system experienced three nationwide blackouts in July. It has struggled to secure fuel after imports from Venezuela and Mexico were shut down by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The threat of wildfires continues to spread across Europe. Greek investigators are looking into what caused two helicopters to collide on Sunday while aiding firefighting efforts. The country's fire service reports the two crew members from one chopper died in the accident. Greece is one of the latest countries to experience summer wildfires due to record-breaking heat waves.

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Meanwhile, new fires continue to ignite in France, causing new evacuations as a precaution. Just days earlier, the French prime minister said those fires were under control. The French interior minister says more than 119,000 hectares have burned since the beginning of the year. That's more than 11 times the size of Paris.

In addition to the fires, hot and dry weather across Europe is forcing winemakers to adapt. Some have been lucky enough to avoid the massive wildfires, but the weather has been enough to change the taste of this year's vintage.

CNN's Melissa Bell reports.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Not very far from the edge of the Gironde wildfire, some of the Bordeaux region's finest grapes are ripening. The owner of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte says they were lucky the flames were 18 kilometers away and the smoke never made it here.

BELL: And looking at these grapes, it isn't simply that the smell came to you for a couple of times, a couple of hours. You didn't get the smoke.

FLORENCE CATHIARD, OWNER, SMITH HAUT LAFITTE WINERY: No.

BELL: We're far from the fires, and the grapes are such that they are impermeable at this point anyway.

CATHIARD: Totally because you see, if you touch them, it's very hard. And we have maybe two hours of bad smell, not ashes, nothing. So, it's perfect.

BELL (voice-over): The vineyards here go back to the 14th century. From the vantage point of the Chateau's tower, Florence Cathiard explains that the real challenge this year has been protecting her organically grown grapes from the summer's extreme heat.

BELL: Wow! It's beautiful from up here.

BELL (voice-over): Under the Chateau's floorboards, you get a glimpse of what's at stake. They call this paradise, where the property's most ancient and expensive wines are kept.

YANN LAUDEHO, WINEMAKER, SMITH HAUT LAFITTE WINERY: This is a very special piece. And, in fact, you can have -- you can see here all the bottles. The oldest we have here, it is 1878.

BELL (voice-over): As we taste 2016, Yann Laudeho says this year's vintage will be unharmed by the fires, but redrawn by the heat.

LAUDEHO: I try to make the best wine we can make for each vintage.

BELL: So, it's a reinvention.

LAUDEHO: Exactly. BELL (voice-over): Unlike recent vintages affected by wildfires in Napa, those of the Bordeaux region appear to have emerged relatively unscathed.

ROBERT JOSEPH, WINE EXPERT, INDUSTRY ANALYST: It looks as though the problems of smoke taint, which is the biggest fear, there may be some, but there won't be very much by the sound of it. It certainly won't be anything like what we saw in California in 2020, for example.

BELL (voice-over): Leaving now just the question of what sort of vintage such a hot and dry summer will yield, even now that the fires appear to have been tamed.

Melissa Bell, CNN, in the Bordeaux region.

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CHURCH: Firefighters in Spokane, Washington will see some of their most favorable weather conditions in days on Monday as the state battles its worst fire season in more than 30 years. Earlier, a county official told us an estimated 700 homes are among the many structures that have been destroyed since a series of wildfires broke out over the weekend. At least 60,000 people have been evacuated.

Our Julia Vargas Jones filed this report earlier before the latest updates were received.

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JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're in the northwest part of Spokane, Washington, and we have reports of at least 600 structures damaged or destroyed. And this is what we're talking about when we're talking about this kind of destruction.

We spoke to a neighbor who walked out and talked to our crew who said that this was his grandson's home. They had moved here just six months ago. His grandson, his pregnant wife, and their three children, they are luckily safe and out of this area.

But it just goes to show how cruel the path of the fire can be. We see this pink spray of fire retardant around the family's truck, standing still here right out front of the house. But just across the street, houses that seem to be, at least from the outside, from where we're standing, still just fine.

This is the kind of cruelty that we've seen with different kinds of fires here. If this estimate of 600 structures damaged or destroyed is correct, then it could rank among the most destructive fires in Washington's history.

There are three different fires burning in this area as of now, in 15 major fires across the state. In order to fight that, authorities have at least 4,000 people, manpower, just coming from all over the place, from Alaska to Florida, firefighters helping out in this fight. Two hundred and fifty thousand acres have already been burned across the state. [02:25:00]

That's about an area nine times the size of Washington, D.C. That kind of help comes as just not manpower. There's also equipment that's heavy, machinery, planes, bulldozers, and other kinds of fire engines that will be needed to clear out the path.

As of now, we heard from authorities, there's still a lot of uncertainty. They haven't confirmed any kind of injuries or deaths related to this fire, but they're not ruling it out either because this is still very much an active scene. They're still looking through all of the destruction to see if anyone is missing. They've set up different shelters across the city.

We heard from the mayor of Spokane, Mayor Lisa Brown. She said, for all of those who are suffering from both loss and the uncertainty, that our hearts go out to you. She encouraged residents who are able, who are in a safe place to go out to these shelters and help out those who are in need.

Of course, the overall context of this is both Washington and neighboring Oregon having the worst fire season in more than 30 years. More than 2.1 million acres destroyed since as of July 30th.

Julia Vargas Jones, CNN, Spokane, Washington.

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CHURCH: A massive fire erupted at a vacant warehouse in Portland, Oregon. First responders were on the scene around 4 p.m. on Sunday as smoke and flames were pushing out of all sides of the building. Portland Fire and Rescue say firefighters did not enter the vacant warehouse because of fears it may collapse. A plan was set up for fire crews to only battle the flames from the building's exterior to keep it from spreading. No injuries have been reported.

Still to come, another key Senate primary for the Democrats, this time in Michigan, and it's also another critical test for the rising progressive movement. We'll have a preview of Tuesday's closely- watched race. Back with that and more in just a moment.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: The United States has bought Japanese yen in an effort to boost the currency after it fell to a 40-year low against the dollar. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the currency exchange was coordinated with Japan, but did not say how much was purchased.

But a "Reuters" photograph of a to do note taken over Bessent shoulder at a recent cabinet meeting suggests the purchase could range from $5 billion to $10 billion U.S. dollars. President Trump told reporters the exchange was a gesture of friendship.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have a good relationship with Japan. Were very strong, very, very strong financially. And they are, you know, they have a weakening yen and they want it a little bit of help. And we're always there for Japan. Japan's been very good to us with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor. They were not good.

REPORTER: Mr. President, what is the U.S. getting out of that arrangement?

TRUMP: Financial benefit. Financial benefit. We also -- it's also good for the world economy.

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CHURCH: All eyes are on Michigan as the state gets ready to hold its Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday. It's a key race that could help determine whether the Democrats can take control of the Senate later this year. But it's also another critical test for the party itself, pitting a rising progressive candidate against a more moderate member of Congress.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: We are in the final hours of campaigning here for the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. This is a marquee senate primary contest. And here is why: Democrats must hold on to this senate seat in Michigan to fill the seat of retiring Senator Gary Peters. And they must flip four Republican seats as well, if they want to have the chance to claim the Senate majority.

But all eyes are on this primary because it is a very hard-fought contest between Congresswoman Haley Stevens and progressive insurgent Abdul el-Sayed. We've been following the candidates around to events like this all day long. Haley Stevens will be here in Oakland County, which, as you know well, is a critical area for Democratic votes as well as Republican votes later in the year.

But this has been a competitively fierce contest between Stevens and El-Sayed into the final hours. Stevens is being propelled by the Democratic establishment. She has the endorsement of, of course, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, but also here in Michigan of Governor Gretchen Whitmer and many other elected officials as well. El-Sayed has been traveling around Detroit, campaigning with a few other members of congress, like Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts and some others.

He is making the case that it is time for change. Now, this has really been a referendum, as we've seen throughout the year, progressive wins in New York and other deep blue areas are being tested anew here in Michigan, a critical battleground. And the question is, which one of these candidates is the strongest, most electable candidate to take on Mike Rogers, a former member of Congress here in Michigan in November.

And the question of electability has been a central one, there's no doubt about it. We caught up with El-Sayed earlier today, and he said voters know electability. They will decide that. He said that pundits and analysts should not be making claims of electability.

There's no doubt that he has some energy and momentum on his side. But the Democratic establishment is on the side of Haley Stevens. That's why this test here in Michigan is going to be such a central one on Tuesday in this primary testing, whether this insurgency. We've seen this deep blue progressive insurgency can play in a statewide contest here in Michigan.

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CHURCH: Joining us now is Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book "Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris and the 2024 American Election".

Always great to have you with us.

LARRY SABATO, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR POLITICS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: Thank you so much, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Of course.

So, Larry, it is election day in America on Tuesday. What are the races to be watching and what are you looking out for?

SABATO: Well, the race is all over the country, but there's one that looms larger than any others, maybe as important as all the rest of them put together. And that's the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan. If Democrats are going to take over the senate, they need some breaks. And we've already been through the situation in Maine, where Democrats shot themselves in one or maybe both feet. And there have been other problems for them, too.

But Michigan is one they really counted on. It is a Democratic seat. The incumbent Democrat is retiring.

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If he were running again, I think he would win easily, but he's not. So, Democrats have developed in Michigan what they have seen develop all over the country. A basic split between the progressives and what I would call the mainstream liberals, mainstream moderate liberals.

And this one could be close, frankly, to this point. The progressive Abdul El-Sayed seems to have the edge. And if he wins, you're going to see a lot of commentary about how the Democratic Party has found two more feet to shoot.

CHURCH: And, Larry, polls show that president Donald Trump is in serious political strife if he doesn't end the war with Iran soon. And now, of course, we hear his canceled a planned attack on Iran contingent on the two sides rapidly making a deal.

How critical is it for his political survival that he end the war and open up the Strait of Hormuz as the midterms approach?

SABATO: Well, considering support for the war is either in the 20s or 30s, depending on what poll you look at, you can see this is hurting him and the Republican Party badly. After all, he pledged again and again that the war would end almost immediately. And we had one after just a few days, and at most it would last a month.

And we're in month five and the war shows no sign of ending, and there are no good options. What exactly can Trump do now to guarantee that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open and free, and that some of his other objectives, denuclearization and even regime change, which he talked about for a long while but has dropped recently, how is he going to get these things?

His allies in the Mideast are encouraging him not to attack, giving Iran an opening to reach some kind of peace deal. But I don't think any of us have seen Iran show an inclination to reach that deal. They're pretty pleased with how this has turned out for them, this war was really mismanaged, and I think it's going to be written up rather badly for Trump in history.

CHURCH: We'll watch to see what happens there, of course. And, Larry, President Trump's mail ballot fight is putting the Supreme Court's election timing rule to the test. What do you expect to see happen there?

SABATO: Well, this Supreme Court, you never bet against them helping Trump out or the Republicans out because its a six-three Republican split court. And they're very loyal to Trump. At least three of them are. They have to get two more votes.

Having said that, ill stick my neck out a little bit and say even they will not approve this scheme to eliminate mail balloting, which, by the way, Trump uses himself. Americans are used to mail balloting. Older voters in particular, depend on it.

And here's the incredible surprise, it actually favors Republicans in many states, the Republican officials are hoping that this doesn't go through. But there's no talking to Donald Trump when he makes up his mind.

CHURCH: Larry Sabato, great to have you with us and enjoy your political analysis, as always. Thank you.

SABATO: You're very kind. Thank you so much, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Three people were killed and seven others injured after a man opened fire at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho. The location had only been open a week when the shooting happened on Saturday. The 24-year-old gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene. An off-duty state trooper and a civilian at the scene returned gunfire.

Police commended their actions.

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CHIEF MATTHEW HICKS, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO POLICE: We want to take a moment and commend the actions of the off-duty officer and the citizen and their heroic action to stop this incident. We believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties.

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CHURCH: Authorities have not released the identities of those killed or injured, saying not all of their families have been notified.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What is happening?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's happening?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People are running from N-In-Out. Call the police!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's happening? What's happening?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What happened?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's happening?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shoot.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shoot! Go! Just go, go, go, go! Somebody got shot!

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CHURCH: The FBI is asking people to submit any videos, photos or audio that captured the shooting.

The uncertainty over where Cape Verde star goalkeeper is headed next appears to be clearing up.

Still to come, the latest on Vozinha's trip to Chile after signing with a major club.

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We'll explain.

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CHURCH: The body of world-renowned mountain climber Nirmal Purja has been recovered in Pakistan. Purja died following an avalanche in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan's northeast. The Nepalese mountaineer set records by quickly traversing some of the world's tallest peaks. Purja was one of 10 climbers who went missing last Thursday following the avalanche on broad peak.

I want to bring in CNN's Mike Valerio now, who's following the story from Beijing.

Mike, what more are you learning about this tragic story? And of course, global reaction to it?

MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I mean, the global reaction has been incredible since we first put this story on Instagram, on our social media platforms, millions of people, Rosemary, it's been incredible and heartening to see how these climbers, not just Nims, but the whole multitude of them, have made a difference in the lives of others.

This is the main update that we have, though, since the last time we were with Ben Hunte last hour -- because of the reporting of senior producer Sophia Saifi in Islamabad, she's conveyed to us on this side of the world that eight bodies have been located, but they have not been brought back down to base camp. So, rescue teams, search teams, I should say, are looking for the bodies of two other people from that mountaineering party. There were ten in total.

So, two at this hour have not been found. And we're adding one new name to the list. Let's take up the full screen board so we can get to who has been lost.

So Nims Purja is at the top, U.K. citizen born in Nepal. If you're just joining this storyline, he's the one who found fame from the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks", summiting the 14 highest peaks in the entire world above 8,000 meters, 26,300 feet. And he was trying to do that twice. That's what this mountain expedition was part of.

Nadhira Al-Harthy from Oman also on the list. Pur Bahadur Gurung from Nepal also on the list.

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We are adding Nima Sherpa. That's the latest addition above. Sarah Mallory Geis from the United States.

So, there are more people who are part of the expedition, but it's just been a delicate effort to make sure that they are properly identified, find the remains a very slow process because we're reporting over the weekend, Rosemary, was such that there is still a risk of avalanches on this Broad Peak, the 12th highest mountain in the world.

However, Nims' foundation has confirmed on social media that all of the climbers have been lost. They wrote in part over the weekend, quote, "Today, we mourn not only Nims, but every life lost in this tragedy, including his trusted climbing partners and guides. His legacy will live on in the countless lives he changed and the people he inspired to climb their own mountains."

And that's really wrapping up here what has resonated with so many others. I think it was the mission of Nims and all of these climbers to say, you know, if you have a personal health, you know, event that you need to overcome adversity, a matter of personal growth, they were doing this as a means of showing what humans could do to show us all that, you know, if you have some mountain of your own, you're able to climb it as well.

So again, the main storyline is those eight bodies have been found. Rescuers are looking for our search teams, I should say are looking for the final two, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Such a sad and tragic story.

Mike Valerio, bring us up to date on that. Appreciate it.

Well, the inaugural season of the new women's pro baseball league began on Saturday. The New York Heights took on the Los Angeles Queens. The Queens won 10-8. The WPBL is based on the first professional women's league that ran from 1943 to 1954. It was also featured in the movie "A League of Their Own".

Maybelline Blair is 99 years old and played in that league years ago. She also threw out the first pitch at Saturday's game.

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MAYBELLINE BLAIR, FORMER PRO BASEBALL PLAYER: I want everybody to realize that we finally get an opportunity and show the world that we can play baseball and we don't have to be pushed into softball like the good old boys wanted us to be.

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CHURCH: Just magnificent there.

Cape Verde stand out World Cup performance has caught the attention of some prestigious international soccer teams. Forty-year-old goalkeeper and team captain Vozinha was key to the Blue Sharks' thrilling debut. Now he's signed on to play for Chile's largest soccer club, Colo-Colo.

CNN's Christopher Ulloa has more on his arrival in the capital city of Santiago

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CHRISTOPHER ULLOA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The wait is finally over. The goalkeeper, 40 years old Josimar Jose Evora Diaz, better known as Vozinha, has finally come to Chile. All of this after several days of not knowing if the player was going to finally join Colo-Colo. But that story today makes another chapter.

You can already see in the images of my cameraman, Walter Valenzuela, all the people that is gathering around has come to this international airport to give Vozinha a proper welcome. What is going to happen next? This Monday, Vozinha is going to take some medical and physical exams, and it's expected that on Tuesday, Vozinha is going to be announced and officially presented by the Colo-Colo football team.

For CNN, Christopher Ulloa, Santiago, Chile. (END VIDETAPE)

CHURCH: Bears on the road in Romania. Still to come, why officials are worried about the growing interaction between brown bears and motorists who feed them. This story and more just ahead here on CNN.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.

An abandoned piece of a SpaceX rocket known as the upper stage, is expected to crash into the moon on Wednesday. The spacecraft had launched a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. Experts predict the space junk will hit the moon at seven times the speed of sound near the Einstein crater. It will carve out a crater and send up a plume of dust and rubble that observers on earth hope to see.

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN AEROSPACE ANALYST: The fact that it is going to hit the moon and kick up this dust cloud, and astronomers can actually watch that happen. Get some very, very excited because they can determine exactly what that -- how those dust clouds act and how they work. And if you go back to 2009, there was a spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into the south pole of the moon called LCROSS.

And it was that crash and that plume that allowed them to determine that there was actually ice water on the moon. So, a lot of science can come out of this, but it is important -- it's important that these things happen on purpose, right?

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CHURCH: Very exciting indeed. Well, a team of scientists from UCLA are turning to an unusual source of funding. Only Marms is an OnlyFans account dedicated to marmots, the fuzzy, cat-sized rodents often found on mountainsides. Although the platform generally features adult content, Only Marms only post videos of marmots, and it's generating some serious attention online.

The UCLA scientists and students behind the accounts say recent federal funding cuts to universities have ramped up the pressure, forcing them to explore new ways to generate money for their research.

Well, authorities in Romania are facing a growing challenge as motorists encounter, and in many instances, engage with brown bears on the road. Despite the risks and fines people are feeding the bears. And stopping traffic isn't the only problem, as officials worry that both motorists and bears could be in danger.

CNN's Ben Hunte has more

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BEN HUNTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brown bears on the prowl in Romania looking for food not deep in the woods, but from motorists trying to snap a selfie, roadside signs warn people that feeding the bears is illegal.

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But that hasn't stopped the traffic or the frequency of these animals roaming the streets. It's a dangerous intersection of human and animal life, causing concern in some mountain communities.

JEAN STANGACLU, RESIDENT (through translator): Well, the bear comes almost every evening, usually to the garbage containers. They got used to us, to the people who live here, the residents. They're not afraid of anything.

HUNTE (voice-over): Romania has the largest population of brown bears in Europe outside of Russia, and nearly 30 people have been killed by the animals in Romania over the last two decades. That's according to the country's environment ministry.

To protect against further attacks, Romania has doubled its annual hunting quota for this year and the next to nearly 900 bears. But conservationists say that won't solve the problem

CRISTINA LAPIS, MILLIONS OF FRIENDS ASSOCIATION, LIBERTY BEAR SANCTUARY: This conflict between people and bears will not be resolved through the hunting law, first of all, because the hunting will not be done where the bears are coming onto roadsides, hunters will want to go into the forest to take trophy bears.

HUNTE (voice-over): Wildlife experts blame climate change and urban expansion for driving bears into populated areas. And some animal advocates say the non-lethal solutions that are in place, like electric fences and better trash management, have not been properly enforced.

But if people continue to feed the bears for a chance to photo even despite the threat of steep fines, it may be the bears that pay the highest price.

Ben Hunte, CNN.

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CHURCH: A small village in Bosnia and Herzegovina turned the community into ancient Rome this weekend for its Roman Days festival. The villagers did reenactments of gladiator battles inside a makeshift colosseum. There were also ancient crafts and costumes on display. Organizers say the festival is a way to honor the region's archeological heritage.

I want to thank you so much for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church.

CNN NEWSROOM with Polo Sandoval is next after a short break. Stay with us.

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