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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome. I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And ahead right here on CNN NEWSROOM.

Defying President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the latest US-backed peace plan for Gaza. Parts of western Canada are under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to burn quickly across communities. We go live to British Columbia.

Plus, nearly 30 years after the killing of rap legend Tupac Shakur, the man accused of orchestrating his murder is going on trial.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Hong Kong, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Kristie Lu Stout.

STOUT: And we begin in the Middle East. In an unusual public break between the Israeli prime minister and the US president, Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting the 15 point Gaza peace plan that Donald Trump had hailed as a major breakthrough. CNN's Jeremy Diamond has the latest from Tel Aviv.

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Trump called it historic and now the Israeli prime minister is rejecting it out of hand. What I'm talking about is the US-backed plan for disarming Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And the Israeli prime minister just announced at a meeting of his government that Israel is rejecting out of hand the 15 point roadmap that the US just announced a little over a week ago.

The Israeli prime minister saying that Israel will not carry out any withdrawal from the Gaza Strip until Hamas is completely disarmed of its light and heavy weaponry as opposed to the kind of phased withdrawal that would happen under this 15 point plan. The prime minister also said that Israeli forces will continue to have the ability to thwart any attacks inside of Gaza. He said that he is currently speaking with the US administration about these various disagreements.

But this statement from the Israeli prime minister marks a remarkable public split between the prime minister and President Trump. Now in these same remarks, Prime Minister Netanyahu was careful to praise President Trump as one of the best allies that Israel has had, particularly as it relates to Iran. But under pressure from right wing members of his government, it seems the Israeli prime minister has come out and forcefully rejected this US-backed plan, US-negotiated plan to disarm Hamas.

Now we don't know how President Trump is going to react to this news. We have seen his him publicly criticize the Israeli prime minister in the past when Netanyahu has angered him. We do have a response though from Hamas which said that it reaffirmed its commitment to this newly negotiated 15 point plan. And Hamas called on the Board of Peace and the mediators and the United States to ensure that Israel complies with this newly negotiated agreement.

Now, it is important to note that over the course of the last week, we have seen a significant decrease in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. And privately an Israeli source has told us that targeted killings, for example, in Gaza must now be approved by Israel's top general, the Israeli military chief of staff. So there have been some changes on the ground.

But what the Israeli prime minister is conveying here is that there certainly will not be any withdrawal of Israeli forces in Gaza right now and certainly not before Israel's elections, which are slated to take place in late October, which seem to be driving quite a bit of the prime minister's calculus at the moment. Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.

STOUT: The US and Tehran have differing views on the state of negotiations on the Iran war. In a phone interview with Axios, President Donald Trump says Washington is "low keying negotiations with Iran." He also suggested the US is increasing economic pressure on Iran. But Tehran says it will not engage in direct talks until the US honors key parts of the memorandum of understanding that was signed by back in June.

Now meanwhile, the Pentagon is urging US military contractors to ramp up weapons production amid concerns that stockpiles are running low. Sources have told CNN that the issue has frustrated Trump. The Iranian-backed Houthis are threatening to escalate the conflict. The militant group has claimed a deadly attack on Saudi forces in the Yemen port city of Mocha.

The Red Sea port is controlled by Yemen's government and it is close to the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. If that port were to close, it would cut off Saudi Arabia, that's the world's top oil exporter, from an alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz.

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Oil prices are on the rise amid all the uncertainty in the region. Let's take a look at them now. You could see the global oil benchmark.

Brent Crude is now gaining more than 1 percent at $84.41 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate is gaining eight-tenths of one percent. I'm joined now by CNN military analyst and retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton.

And, sir, thank you so much for joining us here on the program. Let's get straight to the Iran war and what is we're hearing from Trump's top general. General Caine is said to be "looking for an off ramp" from the Iran war. And I want to ask you, how many others share this view? And what would an off ramp or an exit strategy even look like?

CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Yes. Kristie, it's great to be with you. One of the things that they're looking for I think is a way in which the US can probably save some face. But the problem that they're going to run into is the alternatives that are available for the US are somewhat limited.

Iran is going to be exercising control over the Strait of Hormuz barring any kind of major military action against Iranian installations in that area. There have been, of course, attacks against Iranian installations throughout the course of this war, but they have not stopped the Iranians from exercising the degree of control that they're exercising right now. So that is a significant factor right here.

And as far as how many others are going to be involved in this and how many others share the view that General Caine has, there is a considerable number of people in the administration that actually think that this war needs to end for a variety of reasons. Some of them are political, domestic political considerations in the United States. But from a military standpoint point, the stockpiles of the weapons systems that are necessary to defend our troops, including Patriot missiles and the THAAD system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.

Those are systems that are in very short supply. The THAAD system about 80 percent of the THAAD missiles have basically been depleted, for the Patriot about 50 percent. And to replenish those stockpiles is a major undertaking. And it may take as long as three years or more to replenish some of those missiles.

And that, of course, is a considerable impact on our ability to conduct military operations. And that, I think, is the driving force behind General Caine's move toward trying to find an off ramp at this particular point in time.

STOUT: As you say, the view is gaining momentum that this war needs to end in order to get Hormuz reopened, but also the issue about the weapons stockpile. The US arsenal is getting depleted after six months, nearly six months of war. How are America's adversaries, like not just Iran, but Russia and China, viewing this?

LEIGHTON: Yes. They're looking at this in a very -- with a very critical eye. First of all, they realize that the United States does have other weapons that it can use in any kind of attack. So there are systems that are actually in fairly plentiful supply.

These are air to surface missiles that the United States could potentially employ in any kind of conflict scenario. And those are in fairly good supply. But they also know that the United States is looking at alternative means. Because when you look at the cost of, for example, launching a Patriot missile compared to the types of targets that the Patriots are going after, we're talking million dollars plus $2 million, $3 million in some cases, to go after a $30,000 drone.

And that is a cost equation that can't be kept up, just not economically feasible. But there are efforts underway, considerable efforts by the US to redress that balance. So they know that those efforts are underway. And they're looking at this with the possibility that they may take advantage of certain opportunities, potentially in Europe.

The Russians, for example, whether or not the Chinese would do something over this Strait of Taiwan, that's a bit more unlikely, I believe, but it's still always a possibility. And that is what is worrying US military planners right now, that one of the US' adversaries might take advantage of this. And that is why the Defense Department in the US has decided that they need to basically pressure the defense industrial base, the defense contractors, to produce more of these weapons systems. And that is something that is going on right now.

STOUT: Yes, the pressure is on. Efforts are underway to rebuild the arsenal for America. And back to General Caine. Again, this man is Donald Trump's top general.

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He has the President's ear. What does he need to do to manage his relationship with President Trump while presenting honest and frank military options directly to him?

LEIGHTON: Yes. That's always a challenge when you're dealing with political leadership of any type, but particularly with the Trump administration. Because not only does President Trump hold certain views, but there are also members of the administration, Vice President Vance, Secretary Hegseth, that have very specific views on a lot of these issues, and they come with a lot of ideological predispositions.

So for General Caine to thread that needle is a very difficult thing. But, you know, if he continues to hold the trust of President Trump, he'll be able to at least convey some of the truth to him. And that, of course, is what his goal is.

Now, it's not going to be an easy task because President Trump, on the one hand was convinced that the Iran war would be an easy war to win. That has not proven to be not the case, and General Caine knows that. So he's working very carefully, I think, within the political establishment as well as with the commanders of the unified command, such as CENTCOM, and that would be Admiral Cooper in this case.

They're working together to not only present a legitimate picture to the President, but also to present a way forward, both diplomatically and militarily. Of course, their lane is the military lane, but it also influences the types of negotiations that the United States can conduct eventually with Iran. And even though the Iranians are saying that they're not conducting negotiations now, at some point those negotiations will start again. And that this is where the military option has to merge with the diplomatic option to hopefully provide some degree of not only economic stability for the Middle East, but for the rest of the world as well by reopening the Strait of Hormuz under one condition or another.

STOUT: Absolutely. This is a very tricky needle to thread as we near six months of this war with Iran and the war is reaching a crossroads. Colonel Cedric Leighton, thank you so much for analysis and take care.

LEIGHTON: Thank you so much.

STOUT: Now, high temperatures, gusty winds, dry lightning, they're threatening to worsen wildfire conditions across western Canada, where more than 100 fires are currently burning in British Columbia. And among them the Bald Range fire, which has already burned an estimated 33,000. That's more than 13,000 hectares in less than two days.

The fast moving wildfire forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people this weekend. The province issued a state of emergency on Saturday. Local authorities are urging residents to follow official protocols as firefighters work to slow the spread of the flames.

And joining us now live from Langford, Canada, is British Columbia's Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar. And, sir, thank you so much for joining us here in the program.

First, could you share with us what you and your teams are seeing on the ground? Just how fast are these fires moving?

RAVI PARMAR, MINISTER OF FORESTS, BRITISH COLUMBIA: Well, good evening, ma'am. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be able to speak to your audience. We are dealing with a very challenging wildfire situation here in British Columbia. And I also want to take the opportunity to send all of my best to the wildland firefighters in the United States who are also facing a very challenging wildfire situation this year as well.

What you described with this Bald Range fire near Summerland, British Columbia, at the Okanagan, the central interior part of our province, is a very difficult situation. What we have is a wildfire that really acted like a bomb went off. And what we saw in a matter of an hour was the wildfire that started at about 50 hectares, grow to just over 1,000 hectares in less than an hour.

That led to an evacuation of a beautiful town called Summerland in a matter of just hours of over 15,000 individuals. At this time, we have over 20,000 individuals right across British Columbia dealing with evacuation orders. And without a doubt, what we are facing this year in particular is extreme, extreme wildfire behavior driven by climate change and drought conditions.

STOUT: You say these fires are "like a bomb going off, extreme fires that are moving very fast." So what is your message to residents and visitors in the area? What do they need to do now to stay alert and to stay safe? PARMAR: That's a great question. What we are asking all British Columbians is to know that the BC Wildfire Service are hard working. Wildland firefighters are working hard every single day, doing their level best to contain this fire. But it is very challenging given the velocity of growth that these fires have seen as soon as they set off on a run.

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What we want residents to know is every British Columbian has a role to play in a wildfire season. We need them to do their part. We need them to be fire smart. We need them to have their go bags ready. We need them to support our wildland firefighters by not having campfires, by not doing anything that would increase the likelihood of a fire occurring in their community.

Certainly we are positioned well with resources from Mexico and Australia as well as throughout Canada, but what we are experiencing with these fires in particular is there is no number of resources you can put on a fire to deal with the level of growth that we've seen over the last 48 hours.

STOUT: And tell me about the firefighters because they are working hard and working tirelessly. They are fighting the fires, they're helping with the evacuations, but they're also saving lives. Could you tell us more about how they're responding to this disaster?

PARMAR: I'm glad you asked that question. What we saw on Friday evening here in British Columbia was a day that I don't think we will ever forget. In particular for my organization, the BC Wildfire Service, when this fire was discovered at 5:30 in the evening, we threw everything we could at it.

And quickly our wildland firefighters had to transition from fighting this fire to actually evacuating individuals who were within the perimeter of this fire. We had 19 helicopters that evening working very hard to quickly evacuate people as quickly as we could, given the circumstances. And so, I want to speak directly to not just the wildland firefighters in British Columbia, but throughout the world. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for running into these fires and saving lives every single day.

STOUT: And do your teams right now have what they need? Do they have the resources required to fight these fires and to save people who may be trapped?

PARMAR: The BC Wildfire service is responding with strength every single day. We are a world class organization with strong partnerships with other agencies around the world, including a very strong partnership with Cal Fire. And we are well-positioned to deal with the challenges ahead.

But I am mindful of the fact that we are dealing with extreme wildfire behavior. When someone on my team describes the Bald Range fire as a bomb going off, leaves me very concerned. And so I want to warn all British Columbians, all Canadians and people around the world that we are amidst a very challenging wildfire season globally. Now is the time for everyone to do their part and we will get through this together.

STOUT: Absolutely. And we have to talk about the displaced because more than 20,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. And do you know people who have lost their homes? And how is the community coping during this fast moving, fluid and dangerous time?

PARMAR: Well, ma'am, I've never been put in the position myself to have had to evacuate. And so, I can only speak from the stories that I've heard on the ground. And I've just seen a level of heroism of people looking after one another.

Summerland is a community that has a lot of seniors in its population. And to be vacating your homes at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning is challenging for anyone of any age. But in particular, I want to thank all those unsung heroes who stepped up to build to help support, those individuals who are most vulnerable to be able to get to safety.

Without a doubt that this fire has caused structure loss, but we are recognizing how challenging of a circumstance it is to vacate a town of 15,000 people in the middle of the night. And I want to thank all those emergency officials and personnel who worked so very hard under very difficult circumstances.

STOUT: Well, Ravi, we also want to thank you and your team for being there to support the community during this time of these fast moving, explosive fires. It's a very scary situation. We thank you. And please, you and your team, take care. Ravi Parmar joining us live.

Now to our next story. Prosecutors in Dublin, they charged the alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan with directing a criminal organization. This was after he was extradited to Ireland on a government plane from the United Arab Emirates. Now, Kinahan had been living openly in Dubai for the last decade, organizing high profile boxing matches.

He's also wanted by the US which has accused him of being one of three leaders of the Kinahan crime organization. The US designated the group as a transnational criminal organization four years ago. Irish police say that the gang went from selling heroin locally to operating all across Europe. Kinahan has previously denied accusations that he is a crime boss.

You're watching CNN NEWSROOM coming to you live from Hong Kong. And still to come, another heated week of primary elections in the US. We will have the very latest on the battle for control of Congress just ahead.

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STOUT: Welcome back. Now a new batch of US states is set to hold primary elections this week. They come just days after Abdul El-Sayed narrow win in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary. The key races we're watching are in South Carolina where Senate Republican Darline Graham joins a crowded Republican field for the seat once occupied by her brother, the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

And she was appointed to finish the final months of his term and now wants a nomination to run in November. She has no previous experience in elected office. And in Wisconsin, another test of Democratic Party unity. Progressive Francesca Hong is leading the field in the race for the governor nomination.

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She is hoping to prove that Democratic socialist can win in a true political battleground. Our CNN's Manu Raju spoke with Republican Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina about the upcoming midterm elections as well as current ads running about the Democratic Senate nominee, Abdel El-Sayed.

MANU RAJU, CNN ANCHOR: Senator Tim Scott is bullish about his party's chances in November. He is the chairman of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, is in charge of holding the Republican majority. He thinks not only will they hold the majority, that they can expand their 5,347 majority and add another seat, meaning 5,446 over the next two years.

Democrats of course, discount that, but it is a difficult road to the majority for the Democrats. They have to pick up a net A4 seats. That means they have to win in red states, Ohio being one of them, Alaska being one of them. Can they win in a place like Iowa? Can they win in a place like Texas?

They also have to flip in main seat with the incumbent Senator Susan Collins. Always a difficult race, very good chance in flipping the North Carolina seat, but that they have to hold two of their incumbents. Georgia, Jon Ossoff, the incumbent there, running ahead in that race.

But what about that open seat in Michigan? That's where Abdul El- Sayed, the progressive candidate won in that very divisive Democratic primary last week, beating Haley Stevens, who is backed by the moderate establishment of the Democratic Party.

Tim Scott told me that El-Sayed makes their job easier to win in November. And they've been using his full name in attack ads. Abdul El-Sayed is Muslim. He's son of Egyptian immigrants. And in the ads from the National Republican Senate Trail Campaign Committee, they've been using his full name.

And I asked Tim Scott if this is a way to try to gin up fears about El-Sayed and to remind voters that he is Muslim.

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SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Not at all. What we're saying, what we're only saying to voters is a simple thing. He says he's the most dangerous candidate you can find. He's right. We should trust his words, not ours.

RAJU: But why not just use his name, Abdul El-Sayed, which he goes by?

SCOTT: Well, listen, I go by Timothy Eugene. And so I get called that all the time. Here's what I know for that question. It's about what he stands for.

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RAJU: Democrats believe those kind of attacks will backfire in a pivotal swing state. But nevertheless, this is going to be a very vicious and ugly campaign between El-Sayed and Mike Rogers on over the next couple of months. Manu Raju, CNN, Washington.

STOUT: Joining me now is Ron Brownstein, a CNN senior political analyst and opinion columnist for Bloomberg. Ron, thank you so much for joining us. We got so much to talk about. First, we have to talk about what's happening with the Democratic Party, right?

Last week in Michigan, voters there chose Abdul El-Sayed as a Democratic US senate candidate. And next up, we got Wisconsin and we have this progressive candidate running for governor. So what should we expect in this next test for Democratic Party unity?

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, I've been covering national politics in the US since the 1980s, and I can't recall a year when I've written so many stories about Democratic primaries because I think we are seeing the most systematic conflict between left and center in modern times. Now, you know, each side can point to big wins along the way. And up until Michigan, most of the left wins were coming in safe blue Democratic areas that were not going to be contested really in November.

Abdul El-Sayed is the most important victory so far for the left in this internecine struggle precisely because it is in a swing area. And now we have the potential for another one next week in Wisconsin where, as you know, Francesca Hong, a Democratic socialist, is leading for governor, would have a very, I think, tough time in a general election. And by the way, in Minnesota as well, there's a left center split on a primary next week for Senate where the lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, who's much closer to the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren type forces, may have a lead over centrist Angie Craig.

So this really is a serious struggle that is going on in the Democratic Party. One side hasn't knocked out the other. Each side, as I said, has had important wins. But there's no question the left is finishing on a high note.

STOUT: And let's talk about South Carolina because we know that Trump has picked Lindsey Graham's sister to finish her late brother's term. But Republicans, they're up in arms about that. Tell us why.

BROWNSTEIN: Well, you know, look, I mean, she's his sister. She's not someone who has kind of, you know, pay their dues in the political arena. There are people with more of a political pedigree who would want this seat. But, you know, Trump's approval among Republicans, as you know, has fractured somewhat.

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It's not nearly as high as it was in his first term, but it's still 80 percent. And he has shown that he can translate that into success in primaries. There really hasn't been an American president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1938 who tried as hard to purge his party of members of Congress who were critical of him. Roosevelt mostly failed.

Trump has mostly succeeded. And I'd be surprised if he doesn't succeed again in South Carolina this week.

STOUT: And the Republican strategy as we head into the midterms, because it appears that the gloves are off in an ugly way. You know, you have Trump calling El-Sayed, a man of hate and a communist. There are people in the party who are emphasizing his full name in a xenophobic manner. Are we going to see more of this sort of open prejudice and xenophobia in the run up to the midterms?

BROWNSTEIN: I think, for him, I think the broader kind of umbrella that this is all occurring under is that in modern US politics, the single most important factor in midterm elections over really the last three decades has become views of the incumbent president. And right now, Trump's approval rating is lower than it was in 2018. It's also lower than it was for Biden in '22, Barack Obama in 2010, George W. Bush in 2006, and Bill Clinton in 1990.

If the election is a referendum on Trump's performance, Republicans are going to have, by these historical metrics, a very bad night. So their goal is to shift the focus to Democrats wherever possible. And that is going to largely be given that people are so unhappy with the economy, that's largely going to be a cultural argument. It's going to vary from place to place.

But it's basically the Democrats are weak on crime, weak on immigration, extremists on issues, LGBTQ issues. And in the case of El-Sayed, emphasizing his background, you know. He is -- some of these candidates that are off to the left are giving Republicans a lot to shoot at on policy, but the history is that it's been really tough for the party in the White House to make the midterm about the party that isn't in the White House.

So we'll see how far Republicans get with this tragedy. The best thing they have going for them is that it's being fought out mostly in Republican terrain in the Senate and the House. Most of the districts and the Senate seats that are being fought over are places that Trump won. So there may be a bigger audience for this.

But again, the historical record is that this has not been an easy kind of switch for the in party to make.

STOUT: And back to the issue of Democratic unity and electability, who should Democrats nominate to defeat the Republicans if they want to win? Should they be backing a moderate, a centrist or progressive?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, I think the history is that the moderates have an easier path in these swing states and swing districts. But that is exactly what is being fought out right now in the Democratic Party. And, you know, as I said, most of the big wins for the left this year have come in places that are safe.

And so the center has argued, well, you can't win in competitive districts. And now the left is saying, OK, we have our chance. We have a left nominee in a true swing state in Michigan. We may have a left nominee for governor in a true swing state in Wisconsin. I actually think that the way the primary is unfolding is setting up a real world test of this argument that's been really raging since Sanders first campaign in 2016.

You have a centrist Jocelyn Benson, who Democrats just nominated for governor, and you have the very left progressive Abdul El-Sayed, who they just nominated for Senate. There will be a real world test in Michigan about which one of them runs better in November. And I think that will be, as I wrote in my Bloomberg column today, I think that's going to be a very instructive comparison for Democrats going into 2028.

Same thing if Hong gets nominated in Wisconsin, compare her to Josh Shapiro, who's much more centrist in Pennsylvania, an equal swing state. Which one of them runs better? We can have empirical evidence to deal with what has been kind of an ideological argument for 10 years now in the party.

STOUT: You know, this political pulse check with you is just so necessary, the midterms now just three months away. Ron Brownstein, we thank you so much. Take care.

BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.

STOUT: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. And still to come right here in the program, some of those displaced from southern Lebanon are returning to find their homes and communities in ruins. We'll have more on their stories after the break.

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STOUT: Welcome back. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. And let's take a look at today's top stories.

The Israeli prime minister has rejected a 15 point Gaza peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace. Benjamin Netanyahu says no Israeli troops will be withdrawn until Hamas is fully-disarmed. The comments come after President Trump announced that a deal had been reached with Hamas to give up all its weapons.

Canada is battling more than 100 wildfires across British Columbia. One of the worst, the Bald Range fire has reportedly burned tens of thousands of acres since Friday, forcing evacuation orders for more than 20,000 people so far. A regional forecast say heat, wind and lightning could worsen wildfire conditions this week.

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Alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan is currently in custody after prosecutors charged him with directing a criminal organization. Kinahan was extradited back to Ireland from Dubai on Sunday and appeared in court shortly after his plane touched down. The 49-year- old is also wanted by the US for allegedly being one of three leaders of the Kinahan crime organization.

And Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall in eastern China. It marks the strongest storm to hit the country this year, receiving China's highest red alert threat level on Sunday as some Coastal regions faced 93 mile an hour winds, or about 151km near the storm center at landfall. Torrential rain is scheduled through Monday, prolonging the risk of widespread flooding and landslides.

Now, CNN's Mike Valerio joins me now live from Beijing with the very latest. And, Mike, how are people there in Shanghai and across Zhejiang feeling the effects of the storm?

MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'll tell you, Kristie, so it's tons of rain, more than a thousand flights canceled in Shanghai. And now according to our reporter, Sylvie Zhuang, working this story in Hong Kong, there is a nine-year-old boy missing, swept out to sea. We'll get to those developments in a couple of seconds.

But when we're talking about the intensity of this storm, three think on the map of Shanghai and southern areas, which is central and eastern Zhejiang province. And when we're talking about central and eastern Zhejiang province, according to forecasters here in China, the province could get between 250 millimeters of rain all the way up to let's get the tape measure here to the exact spot, 500 millimeters of rain. Up there just outside of our live shot box.

So that's how much rain could be resulting from this storm. A nine- year-old boy on Friday, Kristie, walking the seaside in the same province, the same area with his family. A huge wave comes crashing into the rocks and he is swept out to sea. There is still a search to look for that nine-year-old as we speak.

So torrential rain, big swath of geography here. We're talking about Zhejiang, Shanghai, northern Fujian Province, northeastern Jiangxi province, central and southern Anhui, Jiangsu as well. This story is so big because there have been more than a million people evacuated.

Shanghai's Yangshan Port has moved more than 500 vessels just to make sure that they're safe as the storm passed south of Shanghai. The city itself canceled 1,500 flights, according to Veriflight. And checking the latest numbers, the municipality of Shanghai also evacuated 30,300 people because of this storm.

No matter where you're watching in the world, if you consider a municipality evacuating that many people, in addition, further south in Wenzhou, they evacuated more than 900,000 people because of that storm. That is certainly huge. So where it's going, it's tracking westward, certainly losing intensity, becoming a tropical storm now.

But the landslide mudslide flooding danger persists throughout, I would say the day today and into the middle of the week, Kristie.

STOUT: Yes, so many risks here. And this is China's biggest storm so far this year, as you showed us quite vividly with that visualization. It's a rainmaker, a lot of water, which means additional risks like flooding.

And China is part of the world that is very sensitive to global climate change. So, you know, what is sort of the greater discussion among the people there in China about the climate crisis, and about what is needed to mitigate or prevent more disasters from happening?

VALERIO: So it's interesting being a reporter here, right, because China is the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide right now, the biggest contributor to climate change. But there's a concerted effort where we're broadcasting from in Beijing for emissions to reach a peak by 2030, to manufacture more solar panels, wind power and to set the tone here in Beijing and the policies in Beijing across this giant country to build more sponge cities is what they're called, to have more permeable surfaces that channel rain.

So that it's soaked into the ground and channel it away from sensitive areas. So, you know, it is interesting to have China as a big, you know, climate carbon dioxide emitter in one box, but also as more parts of the world heat up, especially in Europe, to see China try to become more of a climate solutions exporter around the world and to deliver solutions at home. That's certainly one of the big elements of conversation as this storm makes its way through China, Kristie.

STOUT: Yes, the climate crisis certainly being underscored with this major storm and heartbreaking to hear of that nine-year-old being swept out to sea. Mike Valerio, we thank you for your reporting and take care.

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You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. And still to come right here on the program, 30 years after his death, Tupac Shakur will finally have his day in court. More details on the man accused of murdering the famous rapper after the break.

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STOUT: A minute of silence was observed at Nagasaki Peace Park on Sunday, in a ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing. Bells rang at 11:02am local time, the exact moment the bomb was dropped on the city. The bombing of Nagasaki came three days after the first US atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly in the two bombings.

Hundreds of thousands more died later from injuries and radiation related illness. And in this year's ceremony, Japanese leaders warned of the dangers of nuclear deterrence as well as emphasizing the importance of non-proliferation.

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SHIRO SUZUKI, MAYOR OF NAGASAKI (through translation): As mutual distrust, conflict and division spread throughout the international community. Rule by force by major powers is becoming rampant. Situations in Ukraine and the Middle East where nuclear armed states are directly involved remain unpredictable.

TANAE TAKAICHI, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (through translation): It's becoming increasingly important to spread an accurate understanding of the reality of atomic bombings throughout the world. We will continue our efforts to pass on the memory of the devastation caused by the use of nuclear weapons, by inviting world leaders and future leaders to visit the atomic-bombed cities and see the reality of the bombings firsthand.

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STOUT: Now jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of a man accused of murder in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years ago. Duane Davis is the only person ever charged in the fatal shooting of the rapper on the Las Vegas strip back in 1996. Prosecutors accuse him of being the shot caller of the group that fatally shot Tupac and wounded Death Row Record CEO Marion Suge Knight.

They say he implicated himself in the murder after releasing a memoir and discussing the events of that night in multiple media interviews. He has pleaded not guilty. The case remains one of America's most notorious unsolved murders and a source of conspiracy theories.

Davis' trial is expected to last a month, with the possibility of life in prison as a sentence. And speaking with CNN's Omar Jimenez, attorney Areva Martin says Davis handed his case to prosecutors.

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AREVA MARTIN, ATTORNEY: The investigators were no longer pursuing leads, at least actively, until Duane Davis wrote this memoir in 2019 and started this media tour. He went on podcasts, he went on televisions. He did a documentary talking about the fact that he was involved in the murder. So in many ways he handed the prosecutors a case.

And the case that's being made by the prosecutors against him is one based on his own words, his own testimony. The defense, however, that this is a book, that it's a fiction book, and that it was written by a ghostwriter and that Duane Davis never read the contents of the book and never sanctioned the book. Duane Davis' theory is that -- or his position is that he told his life story to this ghost writer, and the ghost writer just kind of ran with his narrative and that he did not admit to killing Tupac.

Now, interestingly enough, Omar, this ghostwriter is on the witness list. So we're going to hear from the ghost writer and we'll get to see, the jury will get to see who's telling the truth, because both things can't be true at the same time.

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STOUT: Areva Martin there. Now, Cuba's fuel and energy crisis isn't just causing blackouts for residents, it's also creating a hazardous trash disaster out in the streets. With fuel shortages, many state run garbage trucks are at a standstill.

Juan Carlos Lopez visited a neighborhood in Havana.

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JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: This is a regular street scene in the Miramar neighborhood in Havana. Beach is right over there, at least the ocean. But now I'm going to show you what it's really like, and this is one of the consequences of a lack of fuel.

The city of about 2 million people has to deal with this. Since there's not enough fuel to go around, trash accumulates on many corners. It's not only the historic old Havana, it's neighborhoods like this one. And we've seen the trucks picking up the trash.

We've seen the workers at night and at day trying to clean this up. But there's just so much that you'll find this anywhere you go in Havana. This is one of the consequences of the lack of fuel. This is what the residents of the city have to put up with in the middle of this crisis.

It's not only the rolling blackouts which bring the lack of water, but then also the smell on the side of trash on many of the corners of the city.

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STOUT: Wow, incredible scenes there. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

And still to come, it is a marathon like no other. Just ahead, we take you to a one of a kind event. Drivers racing lawnmowers for nine grueling hours.

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STOUT: Move over Formula One, one of the most unusual races in motorsports took place in England on Saturday. But it wasn't on asphalt. Thirty teams raced on these modified riding lawnmowers in a grueling nine hour event.

And each team had three drivers. They were able to reach speeds of up to 80km an hour. And this was an endurance race. And just like any endurance race, they were pit stops for refueling, for driver changes, and also for mechanical repairs.

Wow. F1, eat your heart out. That is epic. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. I'll be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after this quick break. Keep it here.