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POLO SANDOVAL, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: And welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm Polo Sandoval, live in New York, and ahead here on "CNN Newsroom."

The U.S. strikes more Iranian tankers after saying that its Navy was targeted again. Iran responding and is threatening further retaliation.

And President Trump is moving beyond tariffs in his trade war with Canada, how he plans to exert even more economic pressure on Ottawa.

And Tilly Norwood has been billed as the first AI actor, but could she actually act? Find out in CNN's first on-camera interview.

UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from New York, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Polo Sandoval.

SANDOVAL: Right now Iran is threatening further retaliation after U.S. Central Command said that its forces struck five Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tankers, sinking one. CENTCOM says that the strikes were in response to Iran's attempts to attack a U.S. Navy ship twice over the past two days.

And Iran has since responded by launching a barrage of missiles targeting a key Jordanian airbase that was used by U.S. forces. Jordan says that 18 of the 20 missiles were intercepted and that no casualties have been reported. Tehran has also threatened to target oil tankers near Bahrain and Kuwait's ports.

Let's go to CNN's Paula Hancocks who joined me live from Abu Dhabi with the latest. So Paula, you've been telling us about the latest there in the Strait of Hormuz. What's happening today?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Polo, it was certainly an escalation that we saw overnight with these five Iranian crude oil carriers being targeted by the U.S. military. They say one was sunk. The U.S. military's released footage of that showing a ship on fire and then sinking into the waters and also hitting four others. Now, they say that they gave a warning to the crew beforehand and said

you should abandon ship before actually striking those vessels. Now, we understand from CENTCOM that that was in response to Iran trying twice over the past two days to hit a U.S. Navy warship with missiles.

Now, CENTCOM says that the warship evaded those attacks and managed to continue with the patrols. But this is very similar to what we saw last weekend when we saw three Iranian vessels targeted after Tehran had tried to target a U.S. Navy vessel. It's something that the Trump administration has said they will be focusing on.

In fact, the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was asked about it.

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MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers. And I think you'll see that again today.

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HANCOCKS: Now, we did see a response from Iran targeting U.S. assets, they said, in Jordan.

Jordan's military has said that there were some 20 ballistic missiles that were fired towards them. That is significantly higher than we have been seeing, certainly in recent weeks.

They say that they managed to destroy 18 of them. Two of them fell in remote areas. There were no deaths.

But what we've heard from Iran as well is that they are threatening to attack vessels in the ports of Bahrain and Kuwait, giving a warning quite similar to the warning they were given by the U.S. military, saying that crews aboard ships in those areas should abandon the ship and keep themselves protected.

At this point, there's no indication they have carried out any of those threats. That is the military side. There was also the economic side, there were more sanctions coming from the United States, this time focusing on the aviation industry in Iran.

We understand from the Treasury there are some 27 Iranian airlines that have been sanctioned, including nine service providers and sales agents, not in Iran, but in other countries that are accused of supporting Mahan Air, which is an Iranian airline that's been sanctioned for some 15 years now, accused of helping the Revolutionary Guard.

There has been a response, though, from Iran. The foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, has posted this on social media.

And I quote, "After 47 years of sanctions, the U.S. went to war with Iran on behalf of Israel. The fallout has been disastrous for America, including its standing worldwide." [03:05:06]

"After failing to achieve its aims through sanctions or war, Washington's 'novel' solution is more sanctions. Seriously?"

So what we're seeing there is Tehran's acknowledgement that it has coped with sanctions in the past. But we are hearing more from state media that actually the economic impact in Iran has been quite significant of the past six months. Polo.

SANDOVAL: Yes, increasing pressure on Iran's regime. Paula Hancocks live for us in Abu Dhabi, thank you so much for that reporting.

Now to a new report that says a week and a half before October 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by the President of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was preparing a major attack against Israel. And yet, according to the article in the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz," Netanyahu did not share the warning with Israel's security leaders. Netanyahu's office calling the report, quote, "an absolute lie."

And the UAE says that it does not comment on media stories or speculation regarding conversations between government leaders, but it did not deny that the call took place. In the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, more than 1200 people were killed and 251 others were taken, abducted into Gaza.

The ensuing war and Israeli invasion of Gaza resulted in at least 73,000 Palestinian deaths and has left much of Gaza destroyed. And a massive humanitarian crisis there.

The report is based on findings from a new book by Israeli journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval. Eldar spoke to CNN's Jake Tapper about the reporting.

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SHLOMI ELDAR, ISRAELI JOURNALIST: It took to me about one year to get the sources that gave me the confidential for this story. So I have the document, I have records, I have everything that shows that the president of the UAE called Netanyahu a week and a half before October 7 and gave him a warning that Yahya Sinwar is planning a major attack on Israel.

But it came before, because it's starting for a discussion that were between the Israeli Shin Bet and Yahya Sinwar representative. One of them about the talk about the lifting of Gaza blockade. In September 1, one of the senior Shin Bet officers told me that suddenly Sinwar disappeared.

And a week later he called the coal eyes and told him, tell the Israelis if they are not going forward with the arrangement that we are talking now, I'm making a big surprise. And he said the first word in Arabic is earthquake. The coal man that just went out from Sinwar's office was very afraid and he called one of his relatives, his advisor of the UAE, and told him about the story. I think that after the warning came to the Shin Bet on September 15 to Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, he called Netanyahu and prevented him and presented the warning from Gaza. But now we can see that Netanyahu got the messages, got the warning, before ten days before the war. And I think if he just acts, anything, is doing something to prevent this attack, I think that we have more male people alive today.

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SANDOVAL: The U.K., France, and Canada have each announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The leaders of all those three nations also issuing a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to a two-state solution. The coordinated effort includes bans on goods imported from the settlements and enforcing measures against parties that facilitate or profit from those settlements.

And the British Foreign Secretary is condemning Israel's actions in the occupied territory, accusing what he calls settler terrorists of committing what he describes as ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. Ed Miliband added that Britain could no longer simply call out injustice and suffering, and that the expansion of settlements must be opposed through action, he said.

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EDWARD MILIBAND, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: I will introduce a new comprehensive sanctions regime, working with my right honorable friend the business secretary, with appropriate religious exemptions. And as part of this regime we will go further. We will take action against specific companies and individuals who provide services such as construction, infrastructure, financing, or real estate for settlement expansion.

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So to those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements, let me say this, you will face the full force of U.K. sanctions.

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SANDOVAL: And staying on this story, Israel has strongly denied the accusations and is vowing retaliatory measures. CNN's Oren Liebermann has more on the rising tensions between London and Jerusalem.

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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN JERUSALEM BUREAU CHIEF: There seems to be agreement, frankly, across the political spectrum, and we see it from Israel's head of state, President Isaac Herzog, as well as some of the key opposition leaders, condemning this move by the U.K. And therefore you'll probably see support behind the actions taken by the Israeli government in response.

It's not just the closing of the U.K.'s embassy in Jerusalem, which largely faced and worked for the Palestinians. It's also the shuttering of the U.K.'s training of Palestinian Authority forces and security teams in the West Bank, as well as essentially the kicking out of the U.K. from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat. That was the setup by the United States to help effectively run and govern Gaza in the short term here.

So that's part of the steps here. There are also 12 British M.P.'s who will not be allowed to come to Israel, although it looks like these are politicians like Jeremy Corbyn, so I'm not sure they had plans to visit Israel.

There is, therefore, this agreement across the Israeli political spectrum against the U.K. steps. The U.K. almost certainly knew that was coming, and yet because of what we're seeing unfold in the occupied West Bank very much felt that these steps were necessary.

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SANDOVAL: And U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked about Europe sanctions while speaking with reporters on Tuesday. Here's what he said.

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RUBIO: We were made aware that they were going to make this decision. We heard their arguments as to why. But, look, we share the goal of stability.

We don't want to see some uptick in violence or an uptick in conflict or tensions in the West Bank at a very tenuous time. In the region, there's always tenuous times. But beyond that, I don't think, as of this moment, we don't have any further comment on the U.K. decision.

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SANDOVAL: Rubio made those comments before flying out to Colombia, which is the first stop of his three-country Latin American trip. As the White House looks to wield its influence in the Western Hemisphere, Secretary Rubio kicked off his tour in Barranquilla, Colombia, and that's where he signed major security and cooperation agreements with Colombia's new president, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Tuesday's agreements, sparking a significant breakthrough between the two countries. Colombia's new government, along with a $1 billion boost from Washington, has positioned itself as a key regional security partner to the United States. Here's what Rubio had to say about the new era in U.S.-Colombia relations.

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RUBIO (through translator): I love being in a country that has been our strongest ally in the region for many years. And we hope not only to restore that, but also to create, and create a golden era of relations between our two countries and our people.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SANDOVAL: And Secretary Rubio is due to depart from Colombia in the coming hours. He then heads to Ecuador, where he'll be meeting with President Daniel Noboa.

And there's still much more ahead here on "CNN Newsroom," including more on President Trump's latest threats towards Canada amid an escalating trade war. A year and a half in, a look at the wider impact.

Also Friday, marking 25 years since the deadly 9/11 attacks. Still ahead, new details about New York City's response to air quality concerns around the collapsed towers.

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SANDOVAL: Welcome back. You're watching CNN.

The trade war between the U.S. and Canada could escalate even further. President Trump going beyond tariffs, now threatening to enact outright bans on a range of Canadian goods. The President also said that he would prevent major government purchases of Canadian products unless the country offers Americans greater access to its markets.

And all this comes after Canada imposed tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. products in response to President Trump's previous levies. CNN's Paula Newton has more on the mounting tensions between these two countries.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The trade war between the U.S. and Canada continues to escalate. The Canadian government said it had no choice but to retaliate with about $20 billion U.S. dollars' worth of goods on Tuesday.

And right now, neither the White House nor the government of Mark Carney says that there are any official talks scheduled between the two sides. In fact, the Trump administration has indicated that it is likely to retaliate again.

All of this comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that this will have consequences not just for Canadian businesses, but consumers and families. Listen.

MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: I don't believe in escalating the conflict. That's not constructive. But our tariffs are necessary to protect our workers, protect our companies, and our communities.

We can't let American goods into Canada tariff-free while they charge our companies to export them. Second, we're supporting Canadians, because up here we take care of each other. The harsh reality is that the American tariffs will hurt some Canadians more than others, and that was by design.

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NEWTON: When he says by design, both the United States and Canada have designed their tariffs to really be quite political. And the proof of that is the fact that even Republican politicians in the United States have said that, look, this is not doing their consumers any favors and that they see no reason why this trade war is going on with Canada.

Now, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has been a fan of tariffs for quite some time. He says that Canada was the one that walked away from the negotiating table on this trade deal for political reasons. But he also said something else, and that is that the Trump administration will continue to levy tariffs not just on Canada, but on other countries around the world.

He says the Trump administration wants to make sure that it is a revenue driver, and that despite the fact that so many tariffs have already been knocked down by the courts, that they will continue to levy those tariffs not just on Canada, but on other allies and trading partners.

Paula Newton, CNN, New York.

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SANDOVAL: Joining me now to discuss this and live from Bern, Switzerland, is economist Cornelia Meyer. She's the founder and CEO of Meyer Resources. Cornelia, so glad you could join us.

CORNELIA MEYER, FOUNDER AND CEO, MEYER RESOURCES, AND CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF ECONOMIST, LBV ASSET MANAGEMENT: Good morning, Polo, and thank you so very much for having me.

SANDOVAL: Of course, good morning to you as well. It's great to have you with us.

You know, before we get to some of the more immediate impact for consumers and businesses, really on both sides of the border, perhaps we start with just reminding viewers, we're a year and a half into this trade war. Obviously, it's not got any better. And with no new talks scheduled between the U.S. and Canada, what do you expect to happen next?

MEYER: Well, you see, I think, and I agree with Mark Carney, that there will probably be not new talks before the midterms. The U.S. administration is now caught up in the midterms.

So there will probably not be more talks. It will have dire consequences on, certainly, Canada, because it's a smaller economy, and therefore it's more exposed.

But one thing I actually think is very interesting in this is these talks, these negotiations broke down on the 21st of August, and they didn't break down on technicalities on trade. They broke down on basically sovereignty, because the U.S. said it wouldn't allow for French and English language on the packaging of agricultural produce.

And Canada said we are a bilingual country. We can't allow that.

SANDOVAL: And because, as you point out, Canada may be more exposed here, essentially suffering the biggest financial brunt of this trade war, Cornelia. Do you think that the U.S. may actually have a bit more leverage over its neighbor to the north?

MEYER: No, I don't think so, because I think the Canadian government has dug in its heels, and they will not go. And you've also seen that Canada has started to become very close to Europe, having very good trade agreements with Europe. It has made a multitude of trade agreements with other countries.

And you only have to go back to this speech of Mark Carney in Davos earlier this year, where he said, you know, the middle powers really need to sort of bond together. So I think that some of this is about the economy. A lot of it is about politics, about Canada not wanting to be the 51st state of the U.S.

And Canada has also said, the government has said, we will support the people who are worst hit by this. So expect some subsidies or transfer payments or something.

SANDOVAL: You've also previously noted that the tariffs do not apply to some of the Canadian natural resources that are imported by the U.S., things like oil, critical minerals that you've pointed out. Why do you see that as really quite noteworthy here?

MEYER: Well, it's very noteworthy because that's really actually what Canada has leveraged. 61 percent of Canadian, of U.S. oil imports hail from Canada. The U.S. also needs critical minerals from Canada.

So that's really where Canada is a resource superpower, and Canada and the U.S. needs access to that resource superpower. So I think that is noteworthy, because the U.S. does what they think is best for the U.S., and now Canada will do what they think is best for Canada.

SANDOVAL: President Trump has also touted that by implementing some of these tariffs, that is likely to lead to job growth in the United States. From your perspective, Cornelia, I mean, what is the reality?

MEYER: I don't think so. Look, these two economies are so incredibly interlocked, interwoven.

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If you look at the automotive industry, forgive me, parts get shipped back and forth from Canada to the U.S. until they finally make it into a car. So no, I don't think so.

SANDOVAL: Cornelia Meyer, thank you so much. Have a swig of water, we heard you loud and clear, though, with that great analysis, as always. Come back any time. Thank you.

MEYER: Thank you very much indeed.

SANDOVAL: It's our pleasure.

So President Trump is gearing up for his Republican midterm convention Wednesday and Thursday. It's expected to happen in Dallas, Texas. He claims that the event is totally sold out and that everybody wants to be there.

Well, he plans to speak both nights. But a number of Republican candidates in key races, they have said that they are skipping the convention in Texas. They are privately questioning whether it strikes the right tone and whether they should even spend time away from campaigning.

And politics was clearly on the president's mind as he paid tribute to 9/11 first responders. He spoke on Tuesday at a ceremony near the White House where he praised the heroes who bravely ran toward danger during the terror attacks 25 years ago. And he managed to get in a now familiar dig against Democrats.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Our law enforcement holds our country together in light of some threats. We have some very real threats right now. We have people that want to go a different way, that want to go a communistic way.

Well, that's not going to work.

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SANDOVAL: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, he is shedding light on air quality concerns surrounding Ground Zero in 2001. On Tuesday, he announced the release of more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records.

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MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI (D), NEW YORK CITY: Now, close to 25 years later, more people have died from 9/11 related illnesses than were killed on the day itself. It would be one thing if government had stood alongside survivors and provided them with everything they needed at every step of the way. And yet we know that could not be further from what actually happened.

People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air.

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SANDOVAL: The documents showing that city officials at the time knew that air quality around the collapsed Twin Towers was unsafe to breathe despite repeated assurances to the public. The release resolves a lawsuit that was brought by the 9/11 Health Watch advocacy group shedding light on a range of health impacts to residents and first responders.

According to the 9/11 Memorial, at least 140,000 people from all 50 states have enrolled in the World Trade Center health program and 49,000 have already been diagnosed with certified World Trade Center related cancers. For example, Northwell Health, New York's largest health care provider, is reporting 9-11 certified cancer cases grew from 177 in 2023 to 235 in 2025. That's a jump of 75 percent and there have already been 132 new cases this year alone, the first eight months of this year.

And there's much more to come here on "CNN Newsroom," including a murder trial that's underway in Mexico and the 2024 killings of two Australian surfers and their American friend during a camping trip. We'll give you the details in a moment.

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SANDOVAL: And welcome back. I'm Polo Sandoval in New York and these are today's top stories.

Iran is responding with more missiles and threatening further retaliation after U.S. Central Command says that it struck five IRGC oil tankers. Earlier, Tehran launched a barrage of missiles targeting Jordan, a key regional U.S. ally; Iran has also threatened to target oil tankers near Bahrain and Kuwait's ports. State media broadcasting a warning issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for all crews aboard those tankers to immediately leave their vessels.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are facing a wave of new sanctions from the U.K., France and Canada. All three of those nations are targeting goods imported from settlements and parties that facilitate or profit off of them. Leaders of the countries condemned the ongoing Israeli settler attacks in the occupied territory, they also reaffirmed their support for a two-state solution.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a phone call discussing recent diplomatic trips to Moscow. The White House has released very few details about what all they may have discussed. But the conversation comes as one analyst suggests that Ukraine's war's momentum has already shifted to Russia's favor.

Germany is set to deliver Patriot missiles to Ukrainian troops from its own national stockpile. The country's defense minister made the announcement at a videoconference of nations supporting Ukraine. Officials say that those specific missiles are the only effective defense against Russian ballistic missile attacks.

The defense minister also warned that Russian attacks are likely to intensify as winter approaches.

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BORIS PIUSTORIUS, GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER: Ukraine is racing against time. Winter is coming. Preparing Ukraine for winter is of the highest priority and it requires us to act resolutely and immediately.

Together we must take the right measures to increase Ukraine's resilience. Therefore, I have decided alongside NATO summit to deliver urgently needed PAK-2 interceptor missiles from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine.

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SANDOVAL: I want to show you some of this new video out of Ukraine that shows the moment that a Russian drone struck a television channel building in Kyiv. Employees there say that it's now the second time that their office has been hit in less than three weeks. You can see some of these photos here that show the building badly damaged.

Saudi Arabia conducted 32 airstrikes on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen overnight into Wednesday and that's according to a senior Houthi official. And this comes after the Iran-backed Houthis launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early on Tuesday. The escalation risks widening the region's conflicts.

CNN's Nic Robertson explains.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Look, it does appear to be that the ceasefire, as you say, that held for four years, it's in a very fragile and precarious place and it looks for all intents and purposes as if it's realistically falling apart. The Houthis would blame it on the Saudis for enforcing air traffic restrictions over their sort of northern part of Yemen, blocking the return from the funeral of the supreme leader in Iran of a Houthi delegation to the capital Sana'a, which the Houthis control.

The Saudis bombed the runway. They believed that there was senior Iranian officials, complex communications equipment that the Houthis would use in the war on board that aircraft. That, the Houthis would point to, was the trigger point or seemed to be the trigger point where they returned to threats and hostilities.

But where we are in terms of what actually happened over the past 24 hours here, the Houthis are saying this is a retaliation strike, they're retaliating for something. We don't know what they're retaliating for. They don't say specifically what they're retaliating for, we're not aware that Saudi has been involved in airstrikes against Houthi positions.

However, I think we can be very carefully and significantly informed by what's happened in Yemen over the weekend in very simple terms. The Houthis went on the offensive at the beginning of the weekend. They were then beaten back quite significantly in most cases by the Yemeni government forces. And that seems to have been backed by airstrikes, which were

attributed to the Yemeni Air Force. But I think we know what the Houthis are clearly signaling here is that they don't believe that this was the Yemenis striking back at them, they believe that the Saudis were involved in striking them. And this is their retaliation.

So I think, yes, a retaliatory cycle. Realistically, potentially, yes. If both sides don't stop, then that four-year pause is, it's dead.

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SANDOVAL: Nic Robertson, thank you.

We are closely watching a trial that is now underway in Mexico, two years after the murders of two Australian surfers and their American friend. The three men had taken a camping trip when they went missing, and their bodies were found with gunshot wounds several days later, not far from where their truck was set on fire.

CNN's Valeria Leon brings us up to speed on the details.

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VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Surrounded by cameras, Debra and Marty Robinson walk out of a courthouse in Mexico. More than two years after their sons, Jake and Callum Robinson and his American friend Jay Carter Rode were killed. The trial of those accusing their deaths is now underway in Baja California.

The Australian brothers have traveled to Mexico with Carter Rode to surf and camp along the coast, but the trip ended in murder. The three friends disappeared on April 2024 near Ensenada, about 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Days later, their bodies were found at the bottom of a well.

Three people were arrested in connection with the killings. Investigators believe the attackers tried to steal tires and other parts from the surfer's vehicle, but according to state prosecutors, the three friends resisted the robbery and were killed. CNN has reached out to the Baja California Attorney General's office for more details and is attempting to contact the defense teams for those on trial.

The killings shocked people in Mexico, Australia and the U.S. and sparked protests demanding justice for the three surfers.

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A fourth person linked to the case was found with one of the victims' phones. She pleaded guilty to robbery and vehicle theft with violence and was sentenced last November to 20 years in prison.

Now, more than two years after the three friends came to Mexico for a surfing trip, their families are back, this time waiting for justice.

Valeria Leon, CNN, Mexico City. (END VIDEOTAPE)

SANDOVAL: Well, for the first time since the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy trial, we are now hearing from three of the jurors of that case. Here's what the jury foreperson said about the lone holdout juror who prevented the panel from acquitting Clancy.

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RONI CARLSON, JURY FOREPERSON, LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL: He had reasonable doubt. He admitted he had reasonable doubt after we watched that video of the interview.

I think that's what it was. He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms. I was so excited.

I actually, there were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one and then he said, but I'm still not going to say that she's not guilty by reason of insanity.

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SANDOVAL: And Clancy's defense attorney says that he's willing to work out a plea deal for his client, Lindsay Clancy, who has admitted to strangling her three young children in 2023, but attorney Kevin Reddington had argued that she should not be criminally responsible because she suffered from postpartum psychosis. It's now up to the district attorney to decide whether to retry the case or maybe take up the defense on that plea deal.

Reddington is also asking President Trump to pardon Clancy, thinking she was tried for state charges, not federal court, giving the governor of Massachusetts the pardoning power. In the meantime, an attorney for Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband is threatening legal action to stop what they call an escalating campaign of misinformation and defamation. The attorney is accusing conspiracy theorists of publishing falsehoods that suggested that Patrick Clancy was somehow involved in the deaths of his own children.

There's so much more ahead here on "CNN Newsroom," including lights, camera, power on. A tech company says that it's created Hollywood's first A.I. actor. CNN puts the character through an audition to see if it can really put on a show.

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SANDOVAL: Welcome back. Here are your business headlines.

Americans are footing a $100 billion energy bill from the war with Iran, that's according to a cost tracker from Brown University. Gasoline and diesel fuel are costing about $770 per household, with prices expected to remain high. AAA is reporting that the nationwide average for a gallon of regular unleaded is $4.15.

And while Brazil is reaping the benefits of the energy market, its oil production and exports have hit record highs this year, largely due to increased demand from China. The surge highlights the race to find energy sources outside of the Middle East as the Iran war is now in its seventh month. The US summer season at the movies has become the highest grossing of all time.

Domestic ticket sales for the summer box office from May 1st through Labor Day stand at $4.76 billion. That's according to Rentrac, an independent research company. Revenues surpassed the record set in 2013 and are also the biggest since COVID upended the industry in 2020.

One A.I. studio is looking to change the film industry with what it says is the first A.I. actor. The digital character is named Tilly Norwood and it's raising questions about the use of an A.I. in Hollywood. CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister met with Tilly to find out whether the controversial creation can actually act.

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ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tilly Norwood is known as the first A.I. actor, but this is what happened when we asked her to act during her first on-camera interview.

WAGMEISTER: Can you improv a scene? Say that you just found out that your dog died. Now act. What would you do if this was an audition?

TILY NORWOOD, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTRESS: Oh, Elizabeth, that's a tough one. If this were an audition, I'd probably just stand here completely still, feeling the digital ache of it.

WAGMEISTER (voice-over): The fact is Tilly can't actually act. She, or it, needs a series of prompts to tell it what to do. Once inputted, the initial results weren't great.

NORWOOD: What is it?

UNKNOWN (on the phone): It's Barney. He didn't make it through the night. I'm so sorry.

WAGMEISTER (voice-over): But as the prompts were refined, it got better.

UNKNOWN (on the phone): It's Barney. He didn't make it through the night. I'm so sorry.

NORWOOD: No.

WAGMEISTER (voice-over): After hours of computer work, this is the final scene Particle 6 created after our interview and later sent to CNN.

[03:50:06] UNKNOWN: We just got done with the vet. It's not looking too good right now.

WAGMEISTER: You said that you want Tilly to be the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.

ELINE VAN DER VELDEN, PARTICLE 6 PRODUCTIONS: In A.I., yes. It's not to replace anything in the traditional film-making scenario. That's not what she's made for.

She's never meant to replace any actor. I totally understand why people don't like it.

I thought it was very scary when I first saw A.I. Once you start playing around with the tools, you start to understand it, it removes some of the mystique, and that makes you feel like, oh, it's not going to take over the world, at least not in entertainment.

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SANDOVAL: Now to actress Meryl Streep. She is using some of the fabulous fashions from her hit movie, "The Devil Wears Prada," to benefit two charities. Christie's Auction says that the charities, handpicked by the actress herself, are the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, very important causes there.

The highlight of the auction is a tassel jacket that she wore on screen, and the most expensive piece is a bone cuff that was worn by Emily Blunt's character, which is estimated between $20,000 to $30,000. The all-on-sale is scheduled to end next Tuesday, so you've got time to submit those bids.

There's so much more ahead here on "CNN Newsroom," including another art heist in France, this time at a museum in the French Riviera. We'll be looking at what was stolen, and how the thieves managed to pull it off in less than five minutes.

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SANDOVAL: Well, police are investigating another art heist in France. It took less than five minutes for thieves to steal four paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera on Tuesday. But as they fled, authorities say that they were forced to abandon two of those paintings.

Our Melissa Bell has more on the missing artworks, and also how the thieves pulled it off.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Thieves have stolen four paintings, abandoning two as they fled, from France's Renoir Museum in the latest heist to hit the art world. A large hole can be seen in this wired fence surrounding the museum. The Impressionist painters Madame Colonna Romano, worth $2.3 million, and Jeune Femme aux Puits, worth $230,000, were stolen on Tuesday, according to local officials in the French Riviera town of Cagnes-sur- Mer, where the museum is located.

The thieves were forced to abandon portraits of Madame Stephane Pichon and Coco Lisant as they fled, according to the town's mayor.

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He also said the museum's alarm system went off at 5:48 local time, and that police had arrived at the scene five minutes later.

BRYAN MASSON, CAGNES-SUR-MER, FRANCE MAYOR (through translator): They were equipped with, if I may say so, an electric knife, or a metal saw, whatever you want to call it. They cut through the bolts holding the frames of Renoir's paintings in place. The arrival of the municipal police, along with the sirens from the museum and the police, caused the burglars to rush off.

They stole only four of the twelve works in the Renoir museum. They fled by running through the gardens, and it seems dropped two works along the way.

BELL: In a statement, the mayor's office said that the museum had been targeted, quote, "by several individuals who were clearly organized, equipped and well-informed," adding that the museum's security system had been triggered as soon as they entered the museum's gardens.

BELL (voice-over): The latest heist comes nearly a year after the Louvre was targeted in an audacious raid. Video footage captured thieves in yellow vests on the second floor of the Louvre after they'd forced open a window. They managed to grab nine priceless items and fled back down a truck-mounted ladder, all in just four minutes.

Police recovered the angle grinder and a torch that were used to force open the window. One piece, the crown of the Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III, was dropped and found very quickly, but the eight other pieces remain missing.

French Senator Nathalie Goulet doesn't think the French people understand the magnitude of the problem facing museums.

NATHALIE GOULET, FRENCH SENATOR: Well, I think we opened the door of the box. I mean, with the Louvre, which was so easy, with a kind of impunity and nobody was catched or almost. I think it's like an open door to a new trite for other museums.

BELL (voice-over): Now calls are growing for authorities to help better protect the country's museums to prevent increasingly organized and determined criminals once again striking at the heart of French culture.

Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.

(END VIDEOTAPE) SANDOVAL: Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered a nearly intact funeral tomb containing the remains of more than three dozen people. Peru's culture minister says that the tomb holds the remains of at least one elite member of the Chimu civilization, it's a group that lived on the country's northern coast more than a thousand years ago. It's the first time Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered an undamaged funerary platform.

And thank you so much for watching, I'm Polo Sandoval in New York. I'll be right back with you in a moment with more of your headlines right here on "CNN Newsroom."

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