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Venezuela Rocked By Its Strongest Earthquake In Century; U.S. China, E.U. Other nations Offer Support From Rescue Operations; U.K. Records Hottest June Day For Second Day In A Row; Cassidy Speaks On Shouting Match With Trump; U.N. Commission: Israel Continuous To Commit Genocide In Gaza; U.S. Justice Department Makes Charges In Drone Network; Football's Growth In The United States. Aired 12-1p ET

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: It was a matter of seconds, back-to-back earthquakes wreak havoc on an already struggling Venezuela.

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, CNN ANCHOR: The second hour of "One World" starts right now.

The nation is in shock and experts say tremors are likely to continue. What we know about Venezuela's largest earthquake in more than a century.

ASHER: Also ahead, behind closed doors, hear what happen when a Republican lawmaker lost his temper with Donald Trump.

Plus.

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GOLODRYGA: Some are calling it the wedding of this century and it hasn't even happened yet. What people on the guest list are saying about Taylor

Swift and Travis Kelce's big day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is CNN Breaking News.

ASHER: All right. Coming to you live from New York, I'm Zain Asher.

GOLODRYGA: And I'm Bianna Golodryga. You are watching the second hour of "One World."

Rescuers are digging to reach survivors trapped in the rubble after two powerful back-to-back earthquakes rattled Venezuela.

ASHER: The nation's acting president says that more than 160 people have been killed and that toll is expected to rise. Perhaps even dramatically.

This video shows the utter chaos as the quakes hit. Warning that some of you may find this very disturbing.

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ASHER: People running. This is really difficult to watch. People running for their lives as buildings crumble around and they're, of course,

searching for loved ones as well.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. The 7.2 and 7.5 quake struck just 40 seconds apart. The second one was the most powerful tremor to hit Venezuela in a century.

CNN anchor and correspondent Isa Soares is in London with more on the twin quakes. And, Isa, the death toll sadly is expected to continue to rise as

the search and rescue operations continue.

The United States and other countries have pledged their support. I know you've been working on this all day and have been speaking with some on the

ground. There are family members of those who are there. What are you hearing from them?

ISA SOARES, CNN ANCHOR: Bianna, Zain, really good to see you.

Look, that little video you play there is absolutely terrifying. It's really hard to watch. And that was my concern this morning when I woke up

here in London and saw the news.

I straight away started reaching out to many of my friends who have made over the years of covering, after covering Venezuela and for many hours,

Zain and Bianna, I couldn't hear anything from them. That because there was a blackout in many ways.

We couldn't -- the -- the comms had been down for some time and I started thinking the worst. I have been listening. I've been speaking to them. I've

been getting tons of voice messages as well as images being sent to me.

Friends sent me images of the houses being actually completely and utterly destroyed. As we know, seven parts, seven regions of Caracas have been

severely damaged, including the north part of Caracas that covers the area near the airport.

People have just shaken to their very core and they are scared to go back inside. And you can imagine why, given, of course, the fears of further

tremors.

This happened on a -- a holiday in Venezuela with six o'clock in the afternoon. Many people were at home, others were shopping, many were out as

well, family and friends.

And as this happened, one of my friends said he ran out of the house as quickly as possible with his wife and his kids. Kids were holding on as

much as they could to the dad, bouncing off walls is what he said. And he said to me it was like a movie. It's exactly how you see it in a movie.

Right now, they're on the streets, either on the streets, in cars, in squares, because they are terrified of going back inside. Authorities

saying not to go back inside, of course, and so heeding that advice.

But people also, throughout the night, scared to even sleep because of fears of further tremors. So very much people in a state of shock given

what has happened and trying to find some clarity from -- from their -- from the government what to do, as they try to get answers about their

loved ones.

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So many people have not been able to contact so many other friends and families. So now it really is -- it's trying to -- to get a search for the

survivors and a handle on this race against time as we try to reach survivors as you clearly mentioned there.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Isa Soares, I know you're going to be on the phone trying to connect with all of your contacts there. We are thinking of them.

Thank you so much for your reporting.

SOARES: Thank you.

ASHER: All right. Let's bring in Dr. Ciro Ugarte. He's the Director of Health Emergencies at the Pan-American Health Organization and joins us

live now from Washington, D.C.

I think one of the first things that I thought when I saw the news of these double earthquakes in Venezuela was really about the fact that this is

really the last thing that Venezuela needs right now.

When you think about over the past few years, the number of economic problems that Venezuela has suffered, whether it's food shortages, whether

it's inflation, whether it's domestic policy failures, whether it's an over-reliance on oil, whether it's overspending by the government.

You think about the fact that the infrastructure that is in, in and around the country, just doesn't have the capacity to sustain, not just one

earthquake, but two earthquakes back-to-back.

And I really want to talk about the pressure on the healthcare services in the country because that was already under strain even before this crisis.

How does a double earthquake compound those problems?

DR. CIRO UGARTE, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH EMERGENCIES, PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION: Thank you, Zain, because this is an unfortunate situation

that we are seeing in Venezuela. The health sector in Venezuela has begun their stress for several years already. And there are many issues that have

to -- have to be solved in the middle of this situation.

But with these double earthquakes, several health facilities have suffered structural damage. And we are in asses -- assessing what is the situation

of the health systems and services currently.

But we are receiving reports from many hospitals that are receiving many people with severe injuries, and there are many just traumatized persons

that have been accepted in hospitals.

But also because of the general coordination of the -- of the process led by the Ministry of Health and other partners, we are able to identify

critical needs. And unfortunately, there are urban and search rescue teams that are ready to be deployed to Venezuela to support the -- the national

and local staff.

We are also looking at some of the key risks that the earthquake may also increase in the general situation in Venezuela. So the -- the national and

regional response team has been activated and is ready to support, you know, that the main airport in Venezuela is not -- still operational, fully

operational. And we are looking with other avenues to deploy the -- the -- the support that is needed.

GOLODRYGA: Dr., we know that La Guaira's hospital was already overwhelmed even before these double earthquakes. As you noted, there's concern about

continued tremors and the weak infrastructure in so many of these buildings, hospitals and residences.

How efficient or how quickly do you think, from what you're hearing, can makeshift trauma centers be set up if the hospitals, at this point, are not

equipped to take in some of these survivors?

UGARTE: Well, fortunately, there was a system to call -- that is coordinated among several services. And all the big hospitals, including

the military hospital in Caracas and all other places are being activated. They are overwhelmed at this -- at this moment.

There is also an assessment of what is the actual situation of the health facilities. The communication is very, very limited. So the -- the -- the

assessment teams are -- are going along with supplies to support the healthcare emergency care particularly, but also to establish essential

services in those health facilities.

ASHER: And I really want our audience to understand, just to Bianna's point, just expanding upon it. When -- when you're dealing with a double

earthquake and, you know, hospitals and limited sort of healthcare infrastructure. Just walk us through the extent to which these hospitals

can be overwhelmed to the extent, you know, the fact that you have hundreds, if not thousands of patients needing to be seen, some with head

injuries, some with bleeding, some with broken bones, of course.

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And then on top of that, you have possible staff shortages because you've got to think a lot of the people who work at these hospitals might not be

able to get to the hospitals because of infrastructure damage in the earthquake. And some of the hospitals themselves may have been damaged in

this earthquake as well.

So, can you sort of paint a picture as to the real sort of strain the healthcare system is under in the country?

UGARTE: Yes. Most of the countries in the -- in Venezuela have been assessed on the -- what we call the hospital security index. That is the

probability of a hospital to continue operating in large emergencies including earthquakes.

And that assessment helps us to identify which of the hospitals may continue operating and those are the ones we prioritize to expand the

capacity for surgeries or emergency care.

At the same time each of the hospitals have a response plan that will immediately lower other types of non-urgent healthcare and to prioritize

the -- the treatment of patients to save lives and also limit the impact on other chronic acute diseases that may happen.

This is, of course, in a stressful situation, in an area of limited communication but those are the main areas where each of the hospitals are

dealing with and also part -- as part of the network in the big cities particularly the ones who are closer to the epicenter of these earthquakes.

ASHER: All right. Dr. Ciro Ugarte, obviously, our hearts and our prayers are going out to all the people in Venezuela who are suffering deeply,

especially those I think who are looking for loved ones, who aren't sure where their loved ones are, whose loved ones might be trapped in a

building, in rubble.

Obviously that is a very, very painful reality to have unfold before you. Dr. Ciro Ugarte, thank you so much.

GOLODRYGA: Thank you, Doctor.

UGARTE: Thank you.

GOLODRYGA: We'll continue to cover developments in that story.

Meantime, it has been a record-breaking week for Europe, as temperatures continue to hit danger levels across the continent.

ASHER: Yes. So far, France has been worst hit. Wednesday saw temperatures rise to a sweltering 104 degrees Fahrenheit. That's 40 degrees Celsius in

many towns and cities that includes Paris.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. Countries have already warned of the threat to life that this heat causes. Spain reported 212 heat-related heat wave related deaths

in four days.

And France, Reuters reports at least 48 people have drowned in the past week as they try to cool off in open water. Three children have died in hot

cars.

ASHER: And in the U.K. the Met Office recorded its hottest June temperatures in history for the second day in a row.

CNN's Nada Bashir has warned how the U.K. is responding to this crisis.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I cannot stand this U.K. heat.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've just had to get off this bus because it's set fire to itself like the battery is overheated.

NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Temperatures in Great Britain are soaring past 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 35 degrees Celsius, a historic heat wave for

the country. The problem, almost everything here was designed to keep heat in.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is worse than a tropical country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When does that happen in any other country due to heat?

BASHIR: For centuries, Britain's biggest weather challenge has been staying warm. Homes are built with thick walls, small windows and insulation

designed to trap heat through long cold winters.

Even today, it's estimated that less than 10 percent of U.K. homes have air conditioning, according to one consultancy group.

But now, the global climate is changing and Western Europe is seeing unprecedented heat. When temperatures spike, the U.K.'s infrastructure

starts to struggle. Rail tracks can expand and buckle in the heat, forcing trains to slow down or stop altogether.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not prepared for this, not at all.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It took me a while to get to sleep. And I've been up since 4:30. So yeah, it's been, yes, quite intense just trying to keep the

house cool.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today's been hot but it's the journey home that I think I'm dreading.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get into it.

BASHIR (voice-over): This latest heatwave has led to school closures in parts of the country as rare red heat warnings have been issued.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At home, we don't have much better conditions. I don't have air conditioning or any proper funds.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do feel a lot more hot and it's harder to go to the park and have a nice time outside.

BASHIR: The U.K.'s weather service, the Met Office, warns that extreme heat events are becoming more likely as the climate changes.

Scientists say temperatures that were once considered rare could become increasingly common, forcing Britain to adapt to a much hotter future.

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GOLODRYGA: Our thanks to Nada for that.

Joining us is CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar. And, Allison, so many records, none of the records that we want to be setting, are being set now.

And the Netherlands, for the first time, issued its first ever red alert for heat on Friday warning of dangerous conditions.

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I mean, we keep talking about the fact that this is a population that is not used to these types of temperatures. The country isn't retrofitted and

many don't have the air conditions that we're so used to here in the West.

When is some relief going to come in sight for those?

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It -- it will come in sight for some before it gets there for - for many others, especially in the central and

eastern part of the country.

So, I do want to let you know we did just get a brand new record in from Switzerland. They hit 37 degrees. They have never hit 37 degrees anywhere

in that country in the month of June prior to today.

So, again, you're talking -- this isn't just a little bit warmer than usual. I want people to understand, we are talking record breaking. And in

some places, you are breaking countrywide records several days in a row.

This is where the heat alerts are in effect for the day on Friday. So you can see it does cover still a lot of Western Europe, Central Europe, and

now starting to creep into portions of Eastern Europe as well.

These are current temperatures. This is not the highs for today. This is current. This is what it feels like there. And it's kind of heading into

the evening hours for some of these locations.

Several still triple digit numbers across France and even into Spain. When you're talking about Fahrenheit, you're looking at upper 30s right around

that 40-degree mark for some of these in Celsius.

Again, we're talking multiple days because for many of these areas, it has been day four, five, and six of having those temperatures that warm.

And we take a look at the U.K., again, as you mentioned, the hottest June date on record 36.4 degrees, breaking the previous record from yesterday.

Again, so as you're talking multiple days here in a row, where it's these extreme temperatures and it's not just the U.K., it's not just Switzerland,

as we mentioned, even France looking at these extreme temperatures.

And that's the concern is this prolonged nature of what these areas are dealing with. You've got that high pressure that's going to start to shift

off to the east, so that we'll give a brief reprieve for areas along the Iberian Peninsula, but it's only going to get worse for areas of

Scandinavia, portions of Eastern Europe as those temperatures actually just continue to climb in the coming days.

The one bit of reprieve that some areas are getting is we're starting to see at least a few showers in the area. That's going to bring more cloud

cover, help to keep temperatures a little bit more moderate. So, you're seeing that across Portugal, Spain, and even areas of Western France.

And I think a lot more folks would like to see things like this. Anything they can get to help cool those temperatures down.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Allison Chinchar, thank you.

ASHER: All right. President Trump is demanding lawmakers pass the controversial SAVE America Act.

And until this happens, he's holding off on signing a separate bipartisan housing bill. The attention now turns to House Speaker Mike Johnson's

expected to meet with Trump this afternoon about a way to move forward.

GOLODRYGA: The U.S. Senate, meanwhile, is walking back its rebuke of President Trump's Iran war powers.

This week, Trump became frustrated with Senate Republicans arguing that they were undermining America's position at the negotiating table with

Iran.

One Republican who faced Trump's wrath on Wednesday was Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy. The two devolved into a shouting match over Cassidy's recent

criticism.

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SEN. BILL CASSIDY (R-LA): He asked, why would anybody vote for the War Powers Act? As he continued, I said, is that a rhetorical question? Or

would you like to really know? He said, I'd like to know.

I stood and said, you have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it lasted four months.

Our original objectives have not been achieved. And I want to know what's going on.

He did not particularly care for my comments. Raised his voice. I lost my temper. That's not appropriate. It's the -- it's the Irish in me.

But I, again, matched his tone and his volume.

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ASHER: For more on the drama on Capitol Hill, let's bring in Stephen Collinson. I'm interested to know President Trump's reaction to this in the

moment. If only we could be a fly in the wall, because he's not used to that. He's not used to people standing up to him and talking back to him in

that way.

I mean, obviously, it's sort of easier for Bill Cassidy because he's lame duck at this point. He doesn't have much to lose. But still, that would put

the president, I imagine, from an ego perspective, in a very awkward position.

STEPHEN COLLISION, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: That's true. And every interaction that the president has, whether in his personal life or

political life or previously in his business life, is based on the presumption that he tries to dominate the person he's across the table

from.

So, I think that was very unusual. Of course, this is a White House that has been completely shaped so that it gives total loyalty to the president

and doesn't contradict anything he wants to do.

And I think we saw that playing out in the decision to go to war with Iran, where it was certainly a gut check call from the president.

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What was interesting, however, is that after voting against the president of one Iran War Powers Act, Cassidy was given a briefing on the deal that

ended the war with Iran and he reversed his position on a second vote.

So, the argument there was that he didn't want to constrain the administration's maneuvering room in a negotiation. But I think what you're

seeing is quite an unusual challenge to the president's power by Republicans.

They, after all, have six-year terms, so they're much less exposed to the political weight that the president can apply in primaries, et cetera, you

know, going forward when he only has two and a half years left in office.

But as you say, Cassidy is a lame duck, precisely because Trump objected to his challenges on previous issues, and Trump backed a challenger in the

primary, and therefore, Cassidy lost the right to fight for his seat from Louisiana in November.

GOLODRYGA: And fellow Republican Louisiana Senator who always has a knack for words, Senator Kennedy, described the shouting match and just the back

and forth between a number of Republicans and the president yesterday by quoting from the movie Forrest Gump saying that the life of Donald Trump is

like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you're going to get.

And he did seem to get his way on a number of things, including their walk back of the War Powers Resolution Act. But he did not get his SAVE Act

anywhere near the finish line yet.

And that has now both Speaker Johnson and Majority Leader Thune at odds, potentially, with the president. Where does that stand?

COLLINSON: Yes, that's a real mess. The SAVE Act is a piece of legislation that really restricts or introduces new restrictive measures on voter

registration, including the need for people to show up at the polls with voter I.D.

Democrats regard this as yet another attempt by -- in American elections. It's not clear actually that it's even constitutional, but it's an attempt

by the president clearly to limit the damage in the midterm elections, if he can drive down democratic turnout in key states such as Georgia.

Now, the act has passed the House several times, but there is no majority to pass it in the Senate.

The president wants the Senate to blow up all the rules and get rid of the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass major legislation.

But even if the Senate did that, it's not clear that there are enough Republican votes in a test vote. It only got 48 votes. It would need 50

plus Vice President Vance's casting votes to pass.

So there seems to be no way that this can get through the Senate. The president has tried to force the Senate to attach it to various pieces of

legislation.

Yesterday, he took the Extraordinary Act of refusing to sign a housing affordability bill. This is a major Republican priority because they're

trying to show Americans that they empathize with the high cost of housing running into the midterm elections.

So in many ways, the president is hurting the Republican Party to push through a priority, which is based on his obsession arising from his false

claims that the 2020 election was stolen. So they're in a real mess. He's meeting the House Speaker this afternoon.

In the House, Anna Paulina Luna, a Trump backing Republican from Florida, is stopping any legislation coming up until the SAVE Act is passed. So

you've got this massive collision between a president and his own party, which is rare in itself.

And it's really hampering the GOP as they try to go out into the country and campaign before the midterm election.

ASHER: All right. Stephen Collinson, live for us there. Thank you so much.

GOLODRYGA: An independent United Nations Commission has issued a damning report accusing Israel of deliberately targeting children in Gaza. It's

part of what the Commission describes as an ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

ASHER: Israel rejects the findings calling them politically motivated and false.

CNN's Clarissa Ward has more.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces have continued to commit the crime of

genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

These are the words of a report published on Tuesday by an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry. The commission describes what it says

is the deliberate targeting of children as a key indicator of Israeli authorities' genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian people, including

after a ceasefire in Gaza took effect.

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The three-member expert panel, which does not officially speak for the U.N., compiled videos, photographs, and medical reports, including C.T.

scans, as well as interviews with eyewitnesses and medical professionals.

Israel has fired back, calling the report propaganda and a political blood libel. Israel's foreign ministry responded, quote, "The COI report

completely erases Israeli children who were brutally murdered, kidnapped and targeted by Hamas, while ignoring Hamas' cynical use of Palestinian

children as human shields and pawns of war."

According to the Commission of Inquiry, 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed and 44,143 injured by Israeli security forces since October

7th, 2023.

We asked Gaza mother Suheir Isa (ph) for her reaction to the report. Two of her children, Mahmoud and Sharif (ph), were killed in an Israeli strike on

their home in Nuseirat Camp, Central Gaza, on October 25th, 2023.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through text translation): For me, the report will not bring them back. It did not receive the desired echo, the desired sound,

did not reach. The sound, unfortunately did not reach, even if it was through the United Nations.

Well, we need them taking measures on the ground.

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GOLODRYGA: The U.S. Justice Department says that they have made criminal charges over an operation that it says was using drones to deliver cell

phones, drugs and escape tools into federal prisons.

ASHER: And it was allegedly being run out of a former daycare in the middle of the state of Georgia.

Let's go to senior U.S. national correspondent Ryan Young. Ryan, this is quite a sophisticated operation. We're talking about drones essentially

delivering meth, marijuana, cocaine and even saw blades possibly designed to be used to help these inmates escape.

I mean, this is a very sophisticated operation here.

RYAN YOUNG, CNN SENIOR U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is sophisticated. And I don't start off smiling because when you think about this, when you,

I think about movies a lot of times when I'm doing a story. I think about Shawshank Redemption. I think about Andy Dufresne.

I'm not thinking about somebody dropping contraband with drones, but that's exactly what's happening all across the U.S.

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Some of these consumer drones are quite large and people are adapting them using 3D printers and being able to fashion sort of drop mechanisms so they

can fly over the prison walls or sometimes the fences and drop large payloads. I'm talking about 30 pounds sometimes.

We've even seen where they've used a stuffed cat where literally they get a doll, they cut out the stuffing, they put drugs on the inside and they drop

it over the side.

So this is a sophisticated operation. It was going on in several different states. More than 10 federal prisons were dealing with this.

And at night, this is when they really fly these in and drop some of these tools. One of the big things they want cell phones, as you can imagine,

people want to make calls when they want to make calls. They still want to surf the internet and get on Instagram.

The other thing they were shipping is, is saws. Like you said before, tools to get out of these jail systems.

And on top of that, the one thing that kind of made all of this sort of chuckle is someone ordered crab legs at one point to get food in the jail,

which you can kind of understand because we've been told the food there is not great.

But listen to the federal prosecutor talk about this case.

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WILL KEYES, U.S. ATTORNEY, MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA: Thirty-eight drops at 10 federal prisons. This is the largest charge on an organization doing

this kind of activity in the history of the United States. And it's over several years. So it is widespread.

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YOUNG: Now, look, I know you guys have been thinking about the World Cup and a lot of the cities here in America have drone areas where they cannot

fly drones. A lot of drones have been confiscated.

I bring this up because some of this drone tracking technology is now being used outside these federal facilities. The states are trying to do the same

thing. When a drone gets near a prison or a jail, you start to hear an alarm that alarm lets people know on the yard that something could be

dropped.

But when you're doing it at night, they're quite sophisticated. And again, you talked about that former daycare. They actually dubbed that place "the

lab." And they went there to construct these drones so they could make these drops. It's kind of unbelievable when you put it on.

ASHER: You -- listen, you cannot -- this is like a movie. You cannot make it up.

When you said they needed cell phones, I was like, where are they -- where's he getting with this? They needed cell phones, I guess, to

communicate. No, you said to get on Instagram.

YOUNG: I mean, well, come on. You had a younger population.

ASHER: I guess we're all addicted, right? We're all addicted.

Could you give up Instagram for 30 days? You could get these to work for 30 days. A hundred percent. So you -- you understand what's going on here.

GOLODRYGA: High-end food tastes too, ordering some crab legs on top of it all.

ASHER: And, by the way, the best prison escape movie is -- is "Roofman." Have you guys seen "Roofman?"

GOLODRYGA: No.

ASHER: With Channing Tatum.

YOUNG: I haven't seen this one yet.

ASHER: The toys where he escapes a prison and then hides out in a Toys R Us. You haven't seen that? "Roofman." Go watch it.

YOUNG: No. And I'm going to watch it now because of this.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. It's a work assignment, Ryan. Enjoy.

YOUNG: Exactly.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Ryan Young on the story for us.

ASHER: We'll be right back with more.

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GOLODRYGA: All right. Welcome back to "One World." I'm Bianna Golodryga.

ASHER: And I'm Zain Asher.

Quick reminder of our top story. A desperate race against time to find survivors in Venezuela after the worst earthquake there in more than 100

years. Two major earthquakes hit the north of the country just seconds apart.

GOLODRYGA: At least 164 people have been killed, but that number is likely to rise. These images give you an idea of the scale of the destruction in

the state of La Guaira, which has been declared a disaster zone.

Stefano Pozzebon has more on how the devastation unfolded.

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STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Not one, but two earthquakes shaking Venezuela in a matter of seconds, killing well over 100

people and injuring around 1,000 more.

Authorities say dozens of buildings collapsed in the capital Caracas, less than 200 miles from the epicenter.

The first quake measured magnitude 7.2 striking just after 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday. Less than a minute later, an even stronger 7.5 tremor.

Authorities say more than 30 aftershocks were reported. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez declaring a state of emergency when survivors are still in

shock.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I am 59 years old, and I felt the earthquake very strongly. Inside my house, the glasses, the plates,

everything fell. We believe it was quite strong because it shook for a long time.

You could see the water in the hotel pool sloshing out, and there is a lot of debris in the streets and many people outside.

POZZEBON (voice-over): In the areas hit the hardest, entire buildings reduced to piles of concrete and twisted metal. Rescue teams working

through the night. The search for people trapped in the rubble never seizing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I was here when I managed to get dressed. He helped me, and all the walls were cracked. We managed to open

the door however we could. There was a cloud of smoke that wouldn't let us see.

And when we went downstairs, the scene was like a horror movie. We had to climb over the rubble and everything. The building superintendent with the

baby and all the neighbors coming down. But from that building, I only saw that one family got out.

POZZEBON (voice-over): Officials warned the death toll could rise as first responders reach areas still cut off by the damage.

While international aid is starting to reach Venezuela to provide help for one of the deadliest natural tragedies here in this century.

Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, Bogota, Colombia.

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ASHER: We'll, of course, continue to stay across that breaking news out of Venezuela. And the sad part is that the death toll could, of course, rise

even more.

Stay with CNN. We'll have much more "One World" after this short break.

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ASHER: Japan fans are fired up in Dallas, Texas. They're getting ready for today's big match against Sweden and the group stages of the World Cup.

GOLODRYGA: I love looking at these videos of the fans.

Meanwhile in Kansas City, these Netherlands supporters partied into the night ahead of the team's match today in Tunisia. A win could put them

ahead of Japan in Group F.

ASHER: And in one today in Mexico, South Africa fans cheered after beating South Korea, guaranteeing them a spot in the tournament's knockout stage

for the very first time.

While football is far and away, the world's biggest sport, American fans are still looming to soccer.

GOLODRYGA: But the U.S. fan base is growing. "The Economist" reports that soccer finished third in a poll asking Americans to choose their favorite

sport. It's behind only American football and basketball.

That is a big change from where things stood in 1994, the last time the U.S. hosted the World Cup.

All right. Time now for The Exchange. Kevin McCarthy is the former executive director of New York's Downtown United Soccer Club, and the

former head coach of Columbia University's Women's Soccer Team. And he joins us from New York.

Full disclosure, my kids both play the Downtown United Soccer Club, DUSC. They have played there for many years and that's where I got to know Kevin.

So, it's bittersweet that you're no longer with the organization, but I love what you're doing now and continuing to push for the expansion of

youth sports here in the U.S., Kevin.

If you're just looking at the numbers of viewership here, the U.S. against Paraguay drew 27.5 million viewers. That's the most watched soccer game in

U.S. history. That was bigger than the past two World Cup finals.

And the Mexican opener became the most watched Spanish language soccer broadcast the U.S. has ever seen.

So, do those eyeballs then, Kevin, translate in your view to more parents and kids signing up for youth soccer?

KEVIN MCCARTHY, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DOWNTOWN UNIFIED SOCCER CLUB: So, Bianna, I think that the U.S. is quickly becoming the future of soccer.

It's soccer in America is increasingly reflecting itself. It's multicultural, multilingual, women and girls.

Soccer is woven into our culture already. So I think it is reflecting. I was not aware of that data that you shared, but I'm not surprised by that

at all.

I mean, it's -- it's not just a soccer event anymore, it's a cultural event. You know, New York City residents will know our mayor celebrated

Arsenal's premiership championship in a -- in a bar in Brooklyn joined by Spike Lee.

There's increasing investment by Americans in European soccer. You know, a really common or really well-known example of that is the Wrexham F.C.

project with Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds.

So, again, soccer is really becoming the third popular sport is -- is fantastic, so.

ASHER: Kevin, I'm from the U.K. and what -- and I've lived in the U.S. for about 20 years. And what I think is really interesting is that when I talk

to my American friends about soccer, they tend to reference, you know, Arsenal and Manchester United much more than they would reference. I don't

know, the New York Red Bulls or Inter Miami. They don't seem to sort of care about those teams as much as they are sort of in war of the European

Premier clubs.

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GOLODRYGA: Even with Messi playing in Miami.

ASHER: Can you explain that and also whether or not that's going to change soon?

MCCARTHY: Well, I think that there is -- that's a reflection of, again, that I think the culture, the soccer culture that -- that and I think the

premiership has been on NBC for well over a decade now. And it -- it crosses borders clearly.

I do though if you look at what is the most popular Jersey and certainly not in the World Cup because everybody's wearing their nation's jersey.

But Messi's pink number 10, you know, Miami F.C. Jersey is the most popular jersey in the world. And so the MLS, I think, is making strides as well as

our women's league, the NWSL.

And one of the ways to -- to see that is seeing people wear Trinity -- Trinity Rodman's jersey.

GOLODRYGA: Yes.

MCCARTHY: Certainly not in the numbers that you see that Messi number 10. But I think that's a good sign of it.

And it's -- you also see a lot of real die hard soccer people are very devoted to the -- the domestic leagues here in the U.S.

GOLODRYGA: So, let's talk about youth sports because I know you credit Title IX for the women's four titles. The women have been far and away

dominant here in the U.S. for a number of years.

And you credit that to accessible, affordable school based soccer. But we are seeing more of the -- the private clubs. I mean even like Downtown

United, and not the soccer fields at schools where a lot of these young players, both girls and boys, are being trained and developed to be the

next superstars.

How -- how worried are you about that the fact that some of these parents just can't afford to pay for these leagues and for these clubs in a way

that perhaps going to a public school and having great soccer coaches there can't?

MCCARTHY: There are models that I think are school-based. And I think that the increasing popularity of private equity getting involved in youth

sports, you see that in youth hockey, youth baseball. It's creating an interesting environment.

Bianna, as you know, we created a need-blind financial aid process at Downtown United, much like, you know, you'd see at colleges or universities

to make sure that we provided access. And we do as a New York City club have field challenges.

You -- we know how there are adult leagues competing for space. There are other sports competing for space. So those are challenges. The U.S. Soccer

Foundation addresses those by making many pitches.

And so they've done some quality work with that, but it is -- it is a challenge. And I think U.S. soccer is making moves towards providing

greater access. The MLS academies are free, for example.

And we do have, I think, in Emma Hayes who coaches our U.S. women's national team and Mauricio Pochettino who interested in both worked at

Chelsea at the same time.

I think they understand that. And Emma, in particular, is creating cultural movements to open up access for girls and women especially.

So, I think that will be one of the legacies of this World Cup and important for us to follow up on that.

GOLODRYGA: Well, that is very exciting, Kevin. I promise not to bother you tonight around 9:00 P.M. Eastern time when the U.S. men's team will be

playing.

Kevin McCarthy, the other Kevin McCarthy, as I have you listed in -- in my phone. Not the former speaker but the former head of Downtown United.

Always great to have you on. Thanks so much.

ASHER: Thanks, Kevin.

MCCARTHY: Thank you. And I love talking about the beautiful game.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. So do we.

ASHER: All right. It's perhaps the sign of the time. The Sweden's climate minister brought her three-month-old baby along with her to an E.U.

ministers meeting in Luxembourg.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. She said she was using the moment to highlight the importance of parental leave policies that allow caregivers to balance

family life and work.

An E.U. council official said that it was the first time a baby had ever attended a meeting of E.U. ministers.

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ROMINA POURMOKHTARI, SWEDISH CLIMATE MINISTER: Good morning. Very pleased to be back in the council and looking forward to today's discussions on

many different topics.

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Happy also to be an example of not having to choose between being a present minister and a present mother. And I think that there are many things that

makes Europe a wonderful place to live.

One of them being just this that we can have the possibility of attending meetings and attending to my child.

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GOLODRYGA: That is a well-behaved baby as well.

ASHER: Exactly.

GOLODRYGA: In Sweden, parents are entitled to around 16 months of paid parental leave, one of the most generous policies of its kind.

All right. We'll be right back with more.

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ASHER: All right. After the euphoric victory of the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, the venue might be hosting another historic event quite

soon.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. Law enforcement sources have told CNN that an up-and-coming singer named Taylor Swift and her fiance, Travis Kelce, have applied for a

permit to host an event in the vicinity of the arena.

Now, Swifties are speculating the couple might be getting married there.

Let's bring in CNN's --

ASHER: What great place for a wedding venue.

GOLODRYGA: -- Elizabeth Wagmeister. Really?

ASHER: No. I'm being sarcastic.

GOLODRYGA: Oh, OK. Because I've been sarcastic about the up-and-coming singer, so I just never know if our audience gets our -- our humor.

Elizabeth Wagmeister, I remember, Elizabeth, when there was -- there was talk about some estate maybe in Rhode Island, on the East Coast. I mean,

that I would imagine makes more sense to people, but Madison Square Garden, really?

ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: So really, maybe yes. And I say maybe yes because we don't really know, but we do have a lot

of new information. So let me tell you what we do know at this moment.

As you said, we have confirmed with city officials and law enforcement sources that a permit application has been submitted to shut down streets

around Madison Square Garden. The permits are for July 2nd through July 4th. They have asked for canopies or a tent to be constructed outside of

Madison Square Garden. And the permit states that this will be to gather anywhere from 500 to 999 people.

Now, this report incoming from our colleague Gloria Pazmino, who has also learned that the permit application does not say Travis Kelce and Taylor

Swift.

It actually comes from an event production company, which is known to host big events around the New York City area.

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But I had a source who told me long ago that wedding invitees were told that the wedding would be on July 3rd in New York City, but they did not

get the venue.

But, Bianna, here is where Madison Square Garden does or could make sense, and just bear with me here. We cannot really get in the mindset of Taylor

Swift because we are not the most famous person on the planet, but if you are, privacy and security has to be top of mind. Then you might think that

her gorgeous home in Rhode Island makes sense, because it maybe looks nicer, but Madison Square Garden has no windows and guests can come in

underground.

So, Bianna, it could keep the paparazzi out and most importantly could keep the area safe and secure. So that's what we know right now. It could all

change.

ASHER: But where did Beyonce get married? It wasn't anywhere like that. I can't remember where. Wasn't it somewhere in Europe? No.

GOLODRYGA: Was it -- was it an island or something? Yes.

ASHER: I don't know. But it has to be (INAUDIBLE).

WAGMEISTER: This would certainly -- this would certainly be the first of its kind. You are right there that I do not think that any modern-day

celebrity would say, let me get married at Madison Square Garden. But again, this is Taylor's world and we are all just living in it.

ASHER: Yes.

GOLODRYGA: We're serving hot dogs and peanuts.

All right. Elizabeth Wagmeister great to have you on always. Thank you.

WAGMEISTER: Thank you.

GOLODRYGA: Best source reporter we have.

ASHER: Yes.

GOLODRYGA: That does it for "One World." I'm Bianna Golodryga.

ASHER: I'm Zain Asher. Thank you so much for watching. "Amanpour" is up next.

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