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Trump Commutes Sentence of Ex-U.S. Rep George Santos, Forestalling Victims' Compensation; Zelenskyy and Trump Remain Split over Future of Ukraine; Trump's Future Leverage over Putin; Siblings Tell of ICE Taking Parents; Hamas Has Released 10 of 28 Deceased Hostages; JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Warns of "Cockroaches" in U.S. Economy; Crews Search for Victims of Deadly Flooding in Mexico; New Cafe Brings Tokyo Culture to New York. Aired 4-5a ET

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SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hello and welcome to all of our viewers watching in the United States and around the world. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London.

Ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, disgraced former U.S. Congressman George Santos is getting out of prison early. Why president Donald Trump says it was time to commute his sentence.

And the future of Russia's war in Ukraine remains in doubt as president Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves a meeting with the U.S. president without the missiles he desperately wants.

And why some Alaskans won't be able to return home for more than a year.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from London, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Salma Abdelaziz.

ABDELAZIZ: At any time in the hours ahead, we could see disgraced former Republican congressman George Santos emerge from prison. On Friday, president Donald Trump announced that he had commuted the sentence Santos received for his conviction on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

He is just months into what was meant to be a seven-year term. President Trump wrote on social media that Santos was somewhat of a rogue but said, quote, "there are many rogues throughout our country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison." Kristen Holmes has more for us.

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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: On his way to Palm Beach, president Trump announced that he had commuted the sentence of disgraced Republican congressman George Santos, who had been serving seven years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to both identity fraud and theft.

Now this commutation is somewhat interesting and surprising, given the fact that president Trump has been in office now for roughly nine-plus months and he's been lobbied hard by Santos but as well as some other Trump allies to give Santos a pardon or at least commute his sentence.

He's shown no interest in doing so until now. What he posted on Truth Social was essentially linking this commutation to Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal, saying that Blumenthal had lied and he never had to go to jail.

So why should Santos have to go to jail?

Now this is not the first time that president Trump has commuted the sentence or pardoned a former Republican politician. He also did so for Republican Michael Grimm, as well as a Connecticut governor, among others.

But it was interesting, given the fact that president Trump had been lobbied routinely and never done it before.

Now one interesting point, unclear at this point whether or not this played a role. But earlier this week, Santos wrote an open letter to president Trump, once again asking for that pardon. He posted that on his Twitter -- now X -- page -- Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.

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Now over the years, George Santos claimed to be the grandson of Holocaust survivors, said his mother escaped the South Tower during the 9/11 attacks and boasted he'd been a college volleyball star. None of it was true.

But beyond the bizarre lies, Santos committed real crimes with actual victims. And as part of his commutation from Donald Trump, he will no longer be required to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in court- ordered restitution to those victims. CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin talked about this with Anderson Cooper.

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JEFFREY TOOBIN, LAWYER AND AUTHOR: Well, it's certainly permissible under the Constitution. This is one of the few absolute powers that a president has. It can't be challenged in court. It can't be challenged in Congress.

But I think it's really worth remembering, Anderson, that this wasn't just the ridiculous lies that that Santos told about his family and his own background. He ripped people off. He was sentenced to pay $373,000.00 in restitution, $205,000.00 for forfeitures. This is money that he stole from people. And yet now he gets away with it completely.

There are actual victims here. I mean, this isn't just a comic figure of, you know, someone who told lies about where he went to college. I mean, there are people who lost thousands of dollars to this guy and they are left holding the bag here. And it's just a real insult to them.

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ABDELAZIZ: John Bolton says he is not guilty of unlawfully mishandling classified information. President Trump's first term national security advisor entered the plea in federal court on Friday.

Bolton is the third Trump critic to be indicted in the past month. It follows charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James, who successfully prosecuted Trump on felony fraud charges.

Unlike the prosecutions against Comey and James, people briefed on the matter said Bolton's case has the support of career prosecutors and investigators.

We're also learning more about a controversial plea deal that left Jeffrey Epstein to avoid a federal trial in 2008. Former Trump labor secretary Alex Acosta negotiated the deal when he served as a U.S. attorney. The deal saw Epstein serve only 13 months in prison for state prostitution charges over his involvement with underage girls.

In a transcript of an interview released by lawmakers, Acosta disagreed that he gave Epstein a, quote, "sweetheart deal." He argued it would have been, quote, "a crapshoot" to take the case to trial.

The interview with the House Oversight Committee was part of a bipartisan investigation into Epstein, the convicted sex offender, who died in prison.

The Epstein fallout continues to haunt Britain's Prince Andrew. He will stop using his royal titles, including the Duke of York, amid ongoing controversy over his relationship with the disgraced financier and links to an alleged Chinese spy.

Ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will relinquish her title as well. But the couple's two daughters will not be affected by the change. CNN's royal correspondent Max Foster has all of this.

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MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT: So it seems as though the British royal family has finally had enough of the scandal engulfing Prince Andrew,

which just does not seem to go away. All his associations with Jeffrey Epstein. They came up again more recently with a new set of emails

published in the British newspapers.

According to Prince Andrew, in discussion with the King and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me

distract from the work of His Majesty and the royal family. I'm told by royal sources that the King, King Charles Andrew's brother, is glad of the

outcome.

Now what does this mean in terms of titles?

Because the reality is that technically, Prince Andrew hasn't been stripped of any of his titles. He's

just agreed to stop using them. Titles like the Duke of York. He has many other titles as well. He's going to stop using those titles but they still

exist.

Crucially, he will still be Prince Andrew, because that title came to him at birth as the son, as the grandson of a monarch. So that won't go away.

He will still be living in his grand house on the Windsor Estate Royal Lodge. He has a private lease there. We're saying that isn't affected. In

terms of his public appearances, they're literally going to dry up.

We have seen him at family events, not necessarily state events but family events on camera. But we're told that this year, he won't even be invited

to Christmas. So in terms of what Prince Andrew did have, in terms of public profile and prestige, has now been completely stripped away. so prince Andrew, the scandal around Jeffrey Epstein has gone on and

on and on and he's agreed to basically give up his entire public role now.

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ABDELAZIZ: Now, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. president Donald Trump remain split over the future of the conflict in Ukraine. That is after the two leaders met for several hours of talks in the White House on Friday. Mr. Trump suggested the fighting should just stop along the current battle lines.

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TRUMP: They should stop the war immediately. You go by the battle line wherever it is. Otherwise, it's too complicated. You'll never be able to figure it out. You stop at the battle line and both sides should go home. Go to their families. Stop the killing and that should be it.

Stop right now. At the battle line. I told that to president Zelenskyy. I told it to President Putin. (END VIDEO CLIP)

ABDELAZIZ: Mr. Trump also made it clear that the U.S. will not send its Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv, at least for now. The weapon would put much of Western Russia within Ukraine's striking range. Mr. Zelenskyy said the U.S. president was concerned about escalation and he had later had this exchange with reporters.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT: I think that Russians are afraid about Tomahawks, really afraid, because it's a strong weapon.

QUESTION: Are you more or less optimistic that you are going to get those Tomahawks?

ZELENSKYY: I'm realistic.

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QUESTION: That's not a yes.

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ABDELAZIZ: Mr. Trump says he plans to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks. Their summit in Alaska, this summit, did not produce any concrete results but many viewed it as a diplomatic win for Russia.

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As Matthew Chance reports, Russia may now have extra incentive to talk.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: In terms of what else is going to have changed, well, it's unclear at the moment. There's a few things I suppose you could point to.

The idea that Putin and his military have not made the kind of military advances that they anticipated they would make on the ground inside Ukraine during their summer offensive; there's been increased economic pressure in Russia with the success of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil facilities and things like that.

There have been fuel shortages. And so that's adding a pressure onto it. I think to some extent, Trump, president Trump is reinvigorated as well after the success diplomatically that he's enjoyed in the Middle East with the Israeli ceasefire and the release of the Israeli hostages.

But in terms of, you know, what, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is prepared to accept, I'm not sure anything has changed at all, certainly publicly. The Kremlin hasn't indicated it's prepared to compromise on any of its core military objectives. You know, president Trump, in a Truth Social post, which we have all

seen by now, saying that he thinks the conflict should freeze along the lines where the front lines currently are, at least hinting at that, that may well be acceptable to the Ukrainian side if there are security guarantees.

And if there's the backing of Ukraine's European supporters. But it's not clear at all whether that's going to be acceptable to the Russian side. Vladimir Putin has made it clear he wants all of the territory he's annexed and a say over the future foreign policy decisions of Ukraine.

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ABDELAZIZ: Let's now head over to Vilnius, Lithuania, where we're joined by Vladimir Milov. He's a former Russian deputy energy minister and he is now part of Russia's opposition.

First of all, good morning. Thank you so much for being on with us today.

VLADIMIR MILOV, FORMER RUSSIAN DEPUTY ENERGY MINISTER: Good morning. Great to be with you.

ABDELAZIZ: Good morning. I just want to start with that 2.5-hour phone call that was held between President Putin and president Trump just a day before president Zelenskyy was supposed to be in the White House. I mean, that is a very well-timed call.

Do you think that had an influence on president Trump's thinking?

And how can President Putin influence president Trump?

MILOV: It most definitely had some influence, because what we saw, it's sort of a replica that what happened in July and August, when we saw weeks of tough rhetoric on part of president Trump that, if Russia does not give up its aggression, then he will do something against Putin; introduce new sanctions, supply new weapons, whatever.

Then we had a failed summit in Alaska. And after that, the follow-up, basically the same scenario where Trump was threatening Putin with a lot of negative consequences if Putin did not, you know, concede something in the negotiations with Ukraine.

But now, again, a phone call, a summit. And it seems that Putin is a clear tactical winner because all these threats that Trump -- or Trump was mentioning in the previous weeks -- have kind of receded.

Now all eyes are on the upcoming summit and there will be no Tomahawks for Ukraine, no new tough sanctions. So we're back to square one in this regard. And you see how easy it is for Putin to kind of shrug off all this pressure with just one phone call.

ABDELAZIZ: You said, again, another phone call, another summit. You're talking about it like it's a pattern. We're back to square one.

So then what can we expect from this summit that's about to happen in Budapest?

Is there any reason to think it's going to be different than what we saw in Alaska, where it seemed president Trump turned up empty-handed?

MILOV: Listen, we already had -- we are into almost nine months of Donald Trump presidency. And what we see is basically zero impact. Let me repeat, zero impact of anything that Donald Trump does on Vladimir Putin's actions.

So for that to change, we need to have something more serious on the table than just president Trump's rhetoric. I think nine months is enough, particularly for that kind of conflict, which lasts for years already.

Nine months is enough to judge that action is needed to change Putin's behavior. So again, I will believe it when I see it, when president Trump really does something to show Putin that the pressure is on the table, apart from just empty words.

Then something might change. Other than that, it's hardly believable that the scenario that we saw in Alaska would not simply be replicated here.

ABDELAZIZ: So in your mind, action is needed, as you just said, to pressure President Putin that president Trump needs to put that pressure on the table.

But what does that look like?

Because I know, of course, that sanctions are being reviewed.

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President Trump says it's not the time. There are some who are discussing these Tomahawks as potentially psychological pressure on the Kremlin.

What types of threats or pressure, as you put it, can president Trump put on President Putin at this time?

MILOV: So whatever happened since January led Putin to believe that he can talk Trump by just one phone call out of any serious action.

What Trump might do, particularly, which he has been refusing to do on a systemic basis -- join European Union, United Kingdom and other Western Democratic nations in lowering the price cap for Russian oil to $47.60 per barrel.

United States has refused to join that effort. As a matter of fact, this week was the first time when Russian crude was priced below this new lower price cap. That's sort of an achievement on part of what the Europeans are doing.

Why not join it?

Russia is receiving a lot less revenue simply because of that effort, which Trump refuses to join. So here is one suggestion, which is kind of practical. And Trump can do it right away.

ABDELAZIZ: Thank you so much, Milov, for that very fascinating insight and for those details at the end about the oil cap.

Still ahead, some essential government workers are being forced to choose between their health and their jobs.

And a family in anguish as ICE agents take away immigrant parents, leaving terrified young children behind. Siblings tell CNN about the nightmare they experienced and how they're doing now, ahead on CNN.

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ABDELAZIZ: It's been 17 days now since the U.S. government shut down. And essential workers are facing hardship as they do their jobs without pay. Some even risk being fired if they take time off for the need of medical care. CNN's Rene Marsh has more on this worsening situation.

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RENE MARSH, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: CNN spoke with several federal workers caught in the middle of this shutdown, including a Social Security Administration employee, who didn't realize her upcoming surgery would be upended in all of this.

She was scheduled to have her procedure in early October but postponed it, afraid that taking two weeks off to recover might actually cost her her job.

A union representative told CNN that multiple Social Security Administration employees have been warned by supervisors that, if they are essential and they do not report to work, they could be terminated.

And that has really left workers feeling that they have to choose between their health and their job. At the Social Security Administration and the IRS, employees say that managers have said, if they take leave while designated as essential, they could face disciplinary or adverse actions on their employee record.

And that is something that union leaders say is unprecedented during a funding lapse. And as a reminder, essential employees, they are in critical roles and have to continue working during a government shutdown without pay.

A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration told CNN that the agency has followed standard practice during the lapse in appropriations. But across several agencies, essential employees say requests for leave, even for medical reasons, are being forbidden. At the IRS campus in Atlanta, internal messages obtained by CNN

instructed essential staff that any absence, even for surgeries, would be considered absent without leave and warned that that could result in termination.

Now CNN spoke with experts about the situation and they call it all highly unusual, saying that this is piling mistreatment upon mistreatment for these federal workers -- Rene Marsh, CNN, Washington.

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ABDELAZIZ: New video has come in to CNN showing what appears to be federal immigration agents in an unmarked vehicle, slamming into a U.S. citizen's pickup truck.

Leo Martinez, an immigration rights volunteer in California, says he was driving through his neighborhood, monitoring ICE activity, when agents rammed his truck and took him into custody. Martinez was hospitalized, then later booked into a downtown Los Angeles detention center. And he spoke to CNN after the incident.

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LEO MARTINEZ, CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION RIGHTS VOLUNTEER: I was in shock. I knew at that point I was going to end up in handcuffs for sure.

And in that moment, my biggest fear was stopping the car and getting out, because these are the same agents that have already pulled guns out on a bunch of us. And in the street where this happened, it was a very lonely street. There wasn't a whole lot of traffic going on.

I'm surprised. I didn't know about the footage until after I got released from detention but my goal at that point was to get somewhere where there was a lot more witnesses.

In my head, I was like, if they're going to drag me out, beat me up and scrape me up, I'd rather have them do it in a -- in an open public area where everybody could see, as opposed to a random side street, where there's not going to be any witnesses. That was the only thing that was going through my head at the moment.

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ABDELAZIZ: CNN has reached out to both DHS and ICE repeatedly since Thursday. So far, no response from either agency.

Now as the Trump administration pushes ahead with its mass deportation agenda, countless families are getting caught in the chaos. A video that recently went viral on social media captured one family's worst moments as the parents were taken away by ICE. Our Maria Santana talked to two of the siblings that were left behind.

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YURITHSI ENCISO, PARENTS DETAINED BY ICE: It's OK. Please. It's OK, we're OK.

MARIA SANTANA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This video quickly spread across social media. A teenage girl on the side of the road shielding her younger siblings as ICE agents arrest their parents and older brother after a traffic stop in September.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your brother, is he a citizen?

Y. ENCISO: We don't answer questions.

That's all I -- that's all I could say, like no other words came out of my mouth. I was not prepared for that.

SANTANA (voice-over): 19-year-old Yurithsi Enciso and her 22-year-old brother, Moises Jr., speaking publicly for the first time about that viral moment that they say turned their lives upside down.

Y. ENCISO: My heart was just -- it kept pounding, kept pounding. My legs, my hands kept shaking.

SANTANA (voice-over): She says was only able to hold it together for her 12-year-old sister and her little brother, who was turning 10 that day.

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Y. ENCISO: I didn't want them to see me crying because that was going to affect them more.

SANTANA: Yes.

Y. ENCISO: So I just had to make sure they were calm. It's OK. We're going to be OK.

SANTANA (voice-over): Moises Jr. says that morning he went with his parents to pick up supplies at Home Depot before the family's birthday celebration when they were pulled over for allegedly making an illegal U-turn.

He recalls three ICE vehicles blocking them in and agents surrounding their car, demanding to see their IDs.

MOISES ENCISO JR., PARENTS DETAINED BY ICE: And they just kept asking us these questions and my dad kept looking back at me and saying, like, should I answer?

What should I do?

And I was kind of like also panicking.

SANTANA (voice-over): Yurithsi and Moises Jr. both are awaiting approval for deferred action for childhood arrival status or DACA. Their siblings are U.S. citizens.

According to DHS, their parents, Constantina Ramirez and Moises Enciso Sr., are undocumented Mexican immigrants. They have lived in Cicero, a suburb outside of Chicago, for nearly 20 years, the family attorney told CNN. They are now being held in separate detention centers.

Y. ENCISO: And I remember that first night. The first thing I wanted to do was sleep in my mom and Dad's bed, because it felt like if I was sleeping there, I had like a part of them.

SANTANA (voice-over): That night marked the beginning of a new reality, one where they were suddenly left to care for their younger siblings.

Y. ENCISO: They haven't been doing good. They're always saying that they miss them. Whenever we're, like, about to eat and like, oh, we didn't -- like, they have flashbacks about my mom and dad: Oh, remember when momma did this?

And then, they just like, go quiet. They're sad.

SANTANA: What would it mean for your family if they were to get deported?

M. ENCISO: I try not to think about it.

Y. ENCISO: What?

SANTANA: Oh, so sorry. It's hard.

M. ENCISO: I think we don't know. That we don't know if my siblings can stay here with us. Like, we don't know if they have to go to Mexico. It's just a lot of, like, insecurity or uncertainty that we just don't know.

SANTANA (voice-over): According to DHS, if the parents have a valid claim, it will be heard by a judge. If not, they will be subject to removal.

But their children say they'll keep fighting until their family is together again.

M. ENCISO: I think listen (ph).

Y. ENCISO: (INAUDIBLE). They're hardworking people who -- I don't know but I consider my parents were best friends. I know they're going to be there for me and support me.

SANTANA (voice-over): Maria Santana, CNN, Chicago.

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ABDELAZIZ: Nationwide protests against president Trump and his administration's policies are expected in the coming hours.

Round two of the "No Kings" protests will include more than 2,500 demonstrations across all 50 states. That's more than were planned in June, when about 5 million people took the took to the streets to protest what organizers had described as Trump's authoritarian agenda.

Some Republican politicians are slamming the demonstrations, labeling them as "hate America" rallies.

Now two United Airlines planes collided on the ground at an airport in Illinois on Friday. It happened at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. That's according to United Airlines.

The plane was headed to its arrival gate when it bumped into an empty stationary aircraft, reportedly clipping its rear stabilizer. United Airlines said no injuries were reported and 113 passengers and five crew members were able to disembark normally.

We're learning new details about the latest hostage released by Hamas. We'll get a live report after the break.

Plus, tensions escalating between the U.S. and Venezuela. What Trump says Maduro offered him in exchange for lowering the temperature. That's up next.

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ABDELAZIZ: Welcome back to all of you watching in the United States and around the world. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London and this is CNN NEWSROOM.

Israeli officials say the body of a hostage handed over by Hamas on Friday has been identified as Eliyahu Margalit, known by his nickname, "Churchill." Margalit was killed in the October 7th attack and his body was later taken into Gaza.

Hamas has now released 10 deceased hostages since reaching a ceasefire deal with Israel last week. But 18 still remain inside the enclave, as frustration grows over how slow the process has been.

Joining me now for more, in Nairobi, Kenya, is CNN's Larry Madowo.

Thank you so much for joining us early this morning. I just want to start by asking about the ceasefire because it is holding but it's been tested many, many times this week because of the dispute over the release of hostage remains.

What's the latest?

LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Salma. I want to show you this new video of the convoy carrying the body of Churchill arriving in Tel Aviv this morning. The major issue here, Israel has accused Hamas of essentially breaching the ceasefire agreement negotiated by president Trump by not returning all the hostages. There are still 18 believed to be still in Gaza.

But Hamas says it's committed to this deal, this ceasefire. But it's difficult to find all the corpses within Gaza, partly because Israel has bombed so much of the enclave that it's difficult to dig up the remains from where they are.

And it's also accusing Israel of not allowing more heavy machinery bulldozers into Gaza to retrieve the remaining 18. In fact, U.S. officials have downplayed the possibility that Hamas has breached that agreement. They believe it has acted in good faith.

And some leaked reports of this deal in the Israeli media have suggested that there was an understanding that the remains would not be immediately all available to be handed over back to Israel as soon as this deal came into effect.

And so, two Trump advisers have told reporters that they intend to move on to phase two of this agreement while Hamas makes every effort to retrieve and bring back all the remaining deceased hostages that remain in Gaza.

So it's a very difficult situation where Hamas wants to make sure that it still looks like it's agreeing to the deal and trying to find the remaining bodies, Salma.

ABDELAZIZ: That's very interesting how you laid this out there, Larry, because you understand just how much the U.S. is involved in mediating and essentially holding this truce together.

But we're also hearing from U.S. officials positive signs. They say that aid is being allowed into the Gaza Strip at the rate that was required in the deal.

But is that enough?

What are we hearing from humanitarian workers?

MADOWO: Humanitarian workers all agree that it is not nearly enough. Yes, aid is coming in. And as part of this ceasefire agreement mediated by president Trump, Israel needs to surge aid into Gaza. And the U.N. has been warning for a few days now that it needs to come in at scale and from all border crossings.

Part of the problem here is that they accuse Israel of still blocking the Rafah border crossing from Egypt into Gaza. I've reported from this border crossing. I know how difficult it is, even in the best of times, to get aid into Gaza.

And right now they say just not enough of it is coming. The World Food Programme says it has enough food to feed Gaza for three months. But it just needs to be able to get it in there. Part of the problem has been accessing the northern part of Gaza, which, because of the bombardment over the past two years, a lot of it has been reduced to rubble.

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The roads don't exist. Some roads are closed. So it's really difficult to access people there. But the U.N.'s top humanitarian official said the aid needs to come in as quickly as possible. Thousands of trucks need to come in every week to deal with the

widespread displacement, with the famine that's affected the area and affected Gaza over the past few months. And so far, what all the humanitarian workers combined say, enough is not coming in. It needs to be surged in faster, as quickly as possible.

ABDELAZIZ: So an issue of access rather than of actual supplies. Thank you so much, Larry Madowo in Nairobi, for those updates.

Now violent clashes took place in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday, as protesters confronted police near the U.S. embassy. Authorities responded by firing water cannons to disperse masked demonstrators, who threw fireworks and explosives and shot arrows. Four police officers were injured. That's according to the city's mayor.

The confrontations took place amid broader protests by the Congress of the Peoples, an organization representing indigenous and peasant peoples.

President Trump is appearing to confirm reports that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro offered the U.S. preferential treatment to his country's natural resources.

Mr. Trump said Maduro's offer was in exchange for bringing down the temperature between the two countries. As CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports, president Trump directed some strong language at the Venezuelan leader.

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TRUMP: He has offered everything. He's offered everything. You're right. You know why?

Because he doesn't want to fuck around with the United States.

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Trump claiming his Venezuelan counterpart may be ready to strike a deal after the sixth U.S. strike targeting alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. As numerous U.S. navy destroyers and aircraft patrol off the country's coast. Trump also threatening strikes on land.

TRUMP: We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela and a lot of Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that but we're going to stop them by land also.

OPPMANN (voice-over): Trump publicly revealing he authorized the CIA to carry out operations inside Venezuela. He says to stop the flow of drugs and migrants.

REPORTER: Does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro?

TRUMP: Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that.

NICOLAS MADURO, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT (through translator): Never before had any previous government since the CIA has existed publicly said that it was sending the CIA to kill, to overthrow and to destroy countries.

OPPMANN (voice-over): Maduro, who faces a U.S. federal indictment on drug trafficking charges, which he denies and a $50 million bounty for his capture, is accusing Trump of trying to topple his regime and is responding with both a military buildup and a propaganda campaign, calling the U.S. a Nazi empire with supremacist ideologies.

Maduro is digging in and has implored the Venezuelan people to join militias to fight against any U.S. intervention. Venezuelan state TV, even showing videos of some of the training, which includes calisthenics and the basics of handling firearms.

Thousands have reportedly heeded his call but many appear to be senior citizens or raw recruits with little to no military experience.

MADURO: Our mobilization will be permanent and never stop.

OPPMANN (voice-over): Maduro posting this video to Instagram today with a message. We continue completing all the necessary preparations, reaching the optimal state for the integral defense of the homeland.

Maduro, even trying in broken English to send a message directly to the American people.

MADURO: No, not war. Just peace.

OPPMANN (voice-over): Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Panama City, Panama.

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ABDELAZIZ: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with China's vice premier in person next week to continue a discussion that they had begun by telephone on Friday. He said they talked trade in a, quote, "frank and detailed conversation."

And it comes as Donald Trump said on Friday that he doesn't see the 100 percent tariff on China as a long-lasting policy. Instead, he indicated it was likely to just be a temporary measure. He said it was forced on him by China's restrictions on their supply of rare earths.

When you see one, there are probably more. That's what JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon said about cockroaches when asked about some recent bankruptcies and bad loans getting his attention in the U.S. economy. CNN's Matt Egan has more on what's worrying some investors.

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MATT EGAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR WRITER: Beyond the confusing trade war and the slumping job market, a new worry has emerged in recent days. Bad loans going bust. Back-to-back bankruptcies last month in the auto industry have left some investors wondering what else is lurking on balance sheets.

And what would those loans look like in a potential economic downturn?

Now count JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon as among those who are concerned that perhaps too much money has been lent to too many weak companies.

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Take a listen to how Dimon talked about these recent bankruptcies.

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JAMIE DIMON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, JPMORGAN CHASE: My antenna goes up when things like that happen, and I probably shouldn't say this, but when you see one cockroach, there's probably more. And so, we should -- everyone should be forewarned in this one.

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EGAN: Many on Wall Street were caught off guard last month when a subprime auto lender called Tricolor suddenly imploded. Even JPMorgan lost about $170 million in that bankruptcy.

But then weeks later, there was another bankruptcy, an auto parts supply company called First Brands, also filing for bankruptcy. Investment bank Jefferies has been caught up in that collapse. Jefferies' share price has fallen significantly as that incident has shaken confidence among at least some investors.

Though Jefferies has pushed back by saying, one, they can easily handle any potential financial losses here. Jefferies also pointed out that the bankruptcy of First Brands was likely linked to apparent fraud and that the Justice Department is reportedly investigating.

Still, though, fears have spread beyond Jefferies, with regional banks Zions and Western Alliance revealing that they lend to businesses that defrauded them, too, leading to significant losses.

Now market veteran Michael Bloch, he told me that everyone is just waiting for the next shoe to drop. He said it's possible that this is a false alarm. He said it's also possible that, where there's smoke, there's fire.

And look, it's easy to dismiss this as just a Wall Street story. But this matters to Main Street as well. These bad loans and bankruptcies are linked to the struggles that many are feeling on Main Street, where prices are high and hiring is low.

And yes, some people are falling behind on their car loans. And look, if banks suffer further losses here, this is going to give them less firepower to lend to the healthy small businesses, consumers and corporations at the heart of this economy.

So hopefully these are just isolated incidents and not the first shoes to drop in a more significant problem.

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ABDELAZIZ: Instagram is launching new safety features for teens that will let parents stop chats with AI characters. Meta, which owns Instagram, says the move will address growing concerns about how artificial intelligence could impact a teenager's mental health.

Parents will be able to turn off access to individual chats with AI bots and characters. Now, Meta said its AI characters are designed not to engage in conversations with teens about self-harm, suicide or disordered eating or topics that could encourage, promote or enable those subjects.

Up next, Alaska's long road to recovery. After a deadly storm wipes out entire coastal villages, we'll tell you why it may be years until some evacuees can return home.

Also, the latest on the search for the people missing in Mexico after last week's deadly flooding and landslides.

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ABDELAZIZ: Alaska's governor says recovery from last weekend's deadly storm could take at least 1.5 years. More than 2,000 people are currently displaced after the remnants of typhoon Halong slammed the western coast of Alaska with the strength of a category two hurricane.

One person was killed and dozens of people had to be plucked out of their homes as the houses floated away. The state's governor has asked the White House for a major disaster declaration, which would provide additional funds and help speed up the relief efforts.

Now in Mexico, crews are searching for at least 4 dozen people still missing after deadly flooding and landslides there. Mexico's president said Friday that at least 72 people lost their lives. Victims say humanitarian aid is slowly arriving in impacted areas. CNN's Valeria Leon reports.

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VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Amid the wreckage, neighbors in Poza Rica, Veracruz, find a body swept away by the flooding of the Cazones River last week.

"What we saw was a dead person," this resident says.

A grim discovery for Santiago, who's been looking for his wife, Leticia Garcia, missing ever since the intense rains devastated this estate eight days ago.

"We took a video of her for testing it because it could take days before the forensic team arrives."

The damage is immense. The army and navy are racing against time to reach 90 isolated communities, cut off by landslides and flooded roads. "There are many missing people here," Veracruz resident Guillemina

(ph) says.

And amid the rubble, the military has been using heavy machinery to remove debris. President Claudia Sheinbaum promised her government won't spare any resources to help the victims and rebuild devastated areas. Her administration has approved more than $1 billion for recovery efforts.

"We have a plan to restore communications."

The smell of rubble and waste is unbearable. Residents wear masks to cope. Lime powder has been sprinkled to reduce the stench and prevent diseases.

"Everything was ruined. We have no money, not even enough to eat."

Authorities warn it would take weeks to restore full access to some of the hardest-hit areas. Driven by hope, Santiago presses on, desperate to see if the body among the rubble is his wife's -- Valeria Leon, CNN, Mexico City.

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ABDELAZIZ: It's about the size of a paperback book but this painting by the Spanish master Picasso is reported lost at a cultural center. Ahead, how its disappearance has everyone mystified.

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ABDELAZIZ: Paleontologists in England have discovered one of the longest dinosaur trails ever unearthed. It was revealed after researchers conducted a controlled explosion at a quarry in Oxfordshire.

The trail, a kind of dinosaur highway, stretches more than 700 feet or 200 meters and dates back at least 166 million years. Look at it there.

Experts say these huge prints likely belong to sauropods. The herbivores roamed this region during the middle Jurassic period.

Now Pablo Picasso's painting, "Still Life with Guitar," has vanished on its own to an art exhibition in Granada, Spain. Investigators still do not know exactly when it disappeared.

According to a statement from the cultural center, the exhibition items were being moved from a van to a freight elevator all at once. Now nothing unusual showed up on surveillance cameras. A private collector actually owns this small artwork, which the Spanish cubist created in 1919. And it is insured to the tune of $700,000.

A Japanese artist is sharing his love of Tokyo with the people in New York City. Tokiodelic is a rebranded cafe and bar that fuses Tokyo street culture with contemporary art and Japanese cuisine.

The cafe opens to the public on Saturday and it features colorful interiors, including a pink conveyor belt and conveyor belt art. The man behind this business said he wants visitors to experience Tokyo's energy and creativity without traveling.

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SEBASTIAN MASUDA, JAPANESE ARTIST: People are really interested in Japanese culture but they say Tokyo is too far away for them to go to.

Or they're a little interested in Tokyo but they don't know what to expect. They come here to experience the music, art, fashion and anime that are popular in Tokyo right now, all in New York, without having to go to Japan. I think that's how people feel.

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And surprisingly, even people who don't dress in Japanese fashion are coming. And they've been coming quite a bit during the test opening period. So I think people are really interested in it.

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ABDELAZIZ: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani had a legendary night as he led the team back to the World Series. Ohtani hit three home runs and struck out 10 batters, securing a sweep against the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship series.

He was named Most Valuable Player of the series. Since arriving in Los Angeles, the Japanese baseball sensation has been breaking records left and right, with Friday's two-way performance one of the greatest in the history of the game.

It was an epic night for college football Friday, with the Louisville Cardinals upsetting the second-ranked Miami Hurricanes. Louisville intercepted four passes from Miami quarterback Carson Beck. The Cardinals took the lead less than 10 minutes into the game and ended up winning 24-21.

Another big upset in college football, the unranked Minnesota Golden Gophers beat number 25 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Final score last night in Minneapolis, 24-6. Minnesota's defense dominated, sacking Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola nine times, a new school record.

Nebraska hasn't won a Big 10 game as a ranked team since 2016 and both teams now sit at 5-2 this season.

And in tennis, top seed Holger Rune battled back from a shaky start to secure his spot in the Nordic Open semifinals in Stockholm. The 22- year-old Dane dropped the first set but leaned on a powerful serve, firing 12 aces to beat Argentina's Tomas Martinez Etcheverry in three sets.

Rune won the Nordic title three years ago. He'll face France's Ugo Humbert today in their semifinal. Meanwhile, Norway's Casper Ruud and Canada's Denis Shapovalov will play in their semi for a shot at Sunday's final.

That wraps this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London. I'll be back with more CNN NEWSROOM right after this break.