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Senate Advances Deal to Reopen Government; Typhoon Fung-Wong Kills Two in the Northern Philippines; Senate Passes Procedural Vote to Extend Government Funding; Senate Advances Deal to Reopen Government; White House Preps for First-Ever Visit by Syrian President; Israel Confirms Hamas Returned Body of Longest-Held Hostage; Mexican President Launches $3.1 Billion Anti-Crime Plan; World Leaders Except U.S., Attend COP30 Climate Summit; Two BBC Leaders Step Down Amid Edited Trump Speech Scandal; Cleveland Pitchers Charged in Bet-Rigging Scheme. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired November 10, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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MANU RAJU, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The relief of so many Americans who have been hurt in different ways by this very damaging standoff of 40 days. It could take another couple of days before it finally becomes law. But a bipartisan deal led to a breakthrough that now will end this bitter impasse.

Now remember, this all started after Democrats insisted that health care premiums must be addressed in any sort of negotiation to reopen the government, and they have leverage. The United States Senate, it requires 60 votes to pass any piece of legislation and there 53 Republicans, 47 Democrats, one Republican consistently voted against it, meaning eight Democrats was the magic number to get to.

And for 14 times, Democrats blocked a Republican bill to reopen the government because they wanted an extension of expiring subsidies under the Affordable Care Act because millions of Americans rely on those. And they say that their health care premiums will skyrocket without a plan to extend those. Republicans were opposed to that plan and did not want to negotiate at all with them over this issue until the government was reopened.

Ultimately, there were some negotiations that happened in the rank and file, and that led to a deal on Sunday evening. As part of that deal, the government would reopen up until January 30th. Also, it would prevent Trump administration officials from firing -- doing mass firings of federal employees, would allow some federal employees who were fired in the past to get their jobs back. But it does not include language to extend those subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.

Instead, those ACA -- that ACA issue will be dealt with later as a separate vote. Democrats won an assurance from the Senate Republican leader John Thune to schedule a vote by the second week of December on an ACA specific bill, an Affordable Care Act specific bill. But there is no guarantee that that will become law. In fact, it is almost certain not to become law. It probably won't pass the Senate, much less the Republican led House, or get signed into law by Donald Trump.

So a lot of Democrats are upset with their colleagues for cutting this deal, including Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, who plans to fight this in the House. The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, also opposes this plan, as well as Senator Brian Schatz, who is poised to be the next second ranking Democrat in the next Congress. But there were enough Democrats who appropriators, some retiring senators, and the like who decided it was time to reopen the government.

And they believe that they fought hard enough and it was time to move on. And this is the best deal they were going to get as so many Americans were facing the prospects of food stamps drying up. Already facing that happening. And now this deal would extend food stamp benefits through part of 2026. So some relief there for people who need that and also relief for so many federal employees, hundreds of thousands who are without paychecks, have been furloughed, but now can go back to work once this eventually becomes law.

The House does need to come back into session and finally pass this bill. They have been out of session since September 19th amid this crisis, but they will finally be coming back to work in the Capitol, giving a green light to this issue after Democrats, some of them relented, cut a deal, and now the government could reopen in just a matter of days.

Manu Raju, CNN, Capitol Hill.

BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: Eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus broke ranks with the rest of their party, voting with Republicans to advance the deal to reopen the federal government. And despite criticism from top Democratic leadership, they defended their choice to get things moving.

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SEN. ANGUS KING (I-ME): So this agreement tonight is a -- is a win for the American people, and it's a win for those people that are so insistent that I'm hearing from all the time, protect our health care. Our judgment is the best way to do that is to get a bill on the floor. Is there a guarantee it will pass? No. Is it a guarantee it will pass in the House? There is actually some very strong interest in the House, a possibility of a bipartisan bill and get a discharge petition. And then perhaps we're on the way.

And we have that expression from Republican senators who are interested in working on a bill that will deal with the ACA issue and perhaps additional health care issues at the same time. So what happened tonight is not the closing of a chapter. It's the opening of an opportunity. What the chapter does close is the damaging shutdown that is only getting worse. That is only going to impact more and more people.

And it's an opportunity for us to move forward on behalf of all the people of this country on the issue of health care, but also on making the federal government function. [01:05:06]

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-NH): Now, I understand that not all of my Democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement, but waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a better outcome. It would only mean more harm for families in New Hampshire and all across the country.

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HUNTE: For more on the Senate deal, I want to bring in Nathan Gonzales, the editor and publisher of "Inside Elections."

Nathan, thanks so much for staying up late for me. How are you doing?

NATHAN GONZALES, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, INSIDE ELECTIONS: Hey, we're getting the week started early, Ben.

HUNTE: It's almost my week. I don't know about you. It has been a very busy night, though. We're you surprised by how all of this has played out?

GONZALES: I was a little bit surprised. You know, based on the elections that we just had a few days ago and Democrats doing so well in Virginia, New Jersey, California, down in Georgia, I think Democrats are feeling emboldened that even though the shutdown was increasing in intensity, in its scope, in its impact, that Democrats felt like they were in the right political position.

And so now we have to remember that these eight senators who voted to cross the party line and to vote for this, they are really on an island that a majority of Democratic senators, Democratic candidates running for office, Democratic strategists and voters are really upset because they feel like they -- that this was not the time to compromise. This is not the way to compromise. And because there's such a fundamental level of distrust that the things that Republicans have promised to do or votes promised to have in the future, I think a lot of Democrats are saying that's not going to happen.

They just don't think it's going to happen. And so I'm a little -- I'm surprised that it came to an end this vote as close to the elections.

HUNTE: Yes. Even just looking at social media at the moment, there is so much anger being directed at those Democratic senators who did break ranks to reach this deal. How do you think that decision could impact them in the future? Maybe it won't at all.

GONZALES: Well, that's a great question because these eight senators are not facing voters anytime soon. Some of them aren't going to ever face voters again. So you have six Democratic -- six senators who are not even up for election in 2026. Their term will be up later on down the line. And two senators, Senator Shaheen and Senator Durbin, who have already announced they're not running for reelection.

So the idea that there's going to be competitive primaries that are going to go after these senators, those opportunities aren't there. The idea that Chuck Schumer is going to get primaried by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he is not up for election in 2026. And so it's remarkable, though, when you look at the other senators who voted no, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, who is the most vulnerable Democratic senator in the country, voted against this.

And so, you know, even he's in the most politically precarious situation and he voted against it, I think that is more emblematic of where Democrats thought the politically was the right place to be.

HUNTE: Very interesting. If this really is the beginning of the end of the shutdown, was it actually worth it for either party? Did anyone come away with a win?

GONZALES: Well, we kind of need to see how some of these agreements or these other things play out over the next few weeks and months. You know, do -- what do Republicans do with the idea of bringing up those ACA subsidies down the line? Does the administration follow through on what's now the agreement to rescind the reductions and the firings that happened? What does that all look like?

And we have to remember that we are a year from the midterm elections. It is likely that 12, 13, 20 other news events are going to between now and next November. And even in the near term, when the House comes back into session to vote on this, that will take away Speaker Mike Johnson's excuse for not swearing in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona. That could be the 218th vote on the Epstein file discharge petition.

And so we could be talking about Epstein before too long. And so there's a lot that's going to happen between now and the midterms.

HUNTE: We do need to acknowledge that there is huge relief from federal workers finally getting paid again. But there are also huge concerns about what this means for U.S. health care. What do you think this deal does signal for the future of health care in this country?

GONZALES: Well, I think this just punts or is another punt down the line for a big fight that Democrats are -- they want to have elections based on health care because they believe that they are in the right spot politically. Republicans for years now have said, they've expressed their anger or frustration, disapproval of Obamacare. And they've said that they have a plan or they have concepts of a plan, but there's never been a plan that's shown up.

And so at some point, Republicans, if they -- if they want to, you know, to do away with the system, they're going to have to have a plan of their own. But we know that if premiums do go up, the party in power is more likely to be held responsible.

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And right now, that is the Republican Party. So I think there's more risk on the Republican side if something dramatically happens with the cost of health care because they are in charge of the White House, they have the House, they have the Senate, and that's a difficult position to be in heading into a midterm election if you're -- if the president of the United States is unpopular.

HUNTE: Well, let's keep talking about that because how could this shutdown fight and the way that it's ended shape the messaging and the momentum heading into the midterms?

GONZALES: Well, you know, this is -- this is going to be the talk for the next few days and few weeks. But ultimately, I think that the elections are -- most of our elections come down to the economy. The strength of the economy and more importantly how do people feel about the economy. So if this shutdown, if it contributes to the economy, continue to sputter or struggle along and people don't have that confidence, that impacts the President Trump's job approval rating in a negative way.

And in a midterm election, if the president is unpopular, then usually the president's party suffers because either voters punish that party or they say we need people from the other party to come to Washington and to kind of rein in what's going on. So if the -- if the lingering, the lingering pieces of the shutdown negatively impact the economy, that hurts Republicans. If it positively helps the economy, then that boosts the president's standing and could help Republicans in the midterm, although the House is still so close that Republicans are at risk of losing that majority in 2026.

HUNTE: Oh, yes, there is so much going on. Let's see how it shakes down.

For now, Nathan Gonzales, we'll leave it there. Thank you.

GONZALES: No problem.

HUNTE: OK. Still to come, the Philippines is dealing with the aftermath of its second deadly typhoon in a week. The latest on those recovery efforts when we return. See you in a bit.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. Toronto has turned into a Winter Wonderland. Some parts of the city got up to 10 centimeters of snow on Sunday. Environment Canada issued a special weather alert earlier in the day. Officials warned of difficult driving conditions and potential transit delays. Many of the city's landmarks, including CN Tower and Nathan Phillips Square, were dusted with fresh snow. Some people took photos and even played in the powder.

Meanwhile, parts of the U.S. could be seeing some snow, too, as temperatures plunge in certain areas.

CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar explains.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Roughly 40 locations could end up having record lows Monday and Tuesday of this week, and a few areas could have those records for both the high temperature and the low temperature. You can see all of the dots here on the map, indicating where those record lows are possible. And this, all because of this cold swath of air right through here.

A cold front has been sweeping across the eastern portion of the U.S., and behind that cold front is that surge of arctic air spreading from the Midwest to the northeast and all the way down to the Gulf Coast. You can see Monday and Tuesday it continues to slide to the east. And then once we get to Thursday and Friday of this week, we will finally start to see those temperatures rebounding back to where they should be for this time of year.

Wind is also going to be a concern up and down the Eastern Seaboard for much of the day Monday. So if you do have some plans to travel, do keep an eye out for any flight delays due to some of those gusty winds up around 40 to 50 miles per hour.

Here's a look at the forecast highs for Monday. Again, lots of temperatures in the 30s, but even down to the south you've got several, including Atlanta, that may barely even make it to 40 degrees. For the high temperature Tuesday you're really starting to see the temperatures drop across the northeast and the mid-Atlantic, but you will notice that the temperatures over here in the southern plains are actually starting to bounce back up.

Here's a look at Atlanta. The high temperature again bitter cold on Monday. Some very gusty winds. But we do see those temperatures getting back up oddly to above average by the time we head into the upcoming weekend. And they're not the only locations. Cincinnati looking at snow showers for Monday, as that temperature is likely to barely make it much above the freezing mark. But we are back into the 60s just in time for the weekend.

HUNTE: Officials say two people have died from typhoon Fung-Wong as it slammed into the northern Philippines on Sunday. The massive storm lashed parts of the country's main island with heavy winds, rains and storm swells. It caused landslides and damaged roads, closing off access to at least three towns. Around 1.4 million people evacuated ahead of the typhoon, which is the second in a week to make landfall in the country.

Let's keep talking about it. CNN's Mike Valerio is following this story from Beijing.

Mr. Valerio, thanks for being with me. What is the latest on this situation? How severe is the damage so far? What are officials saying about the area still cut off? Tell me about it.

MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Benny, I would say that the biggest thing happening at this hour on this side of the world is that teams are trying to get to areas that were cut off by these huge landslides as quickly as possible, and you hit it exactly on the head of why this is such a big deal. Two typhoons in less than a week.

And, you know, to show our viewers around the world the power of this storm, let's go to video of the storm surge, which still, there's the danger of storm surge about three meters high, roughly twice as tall as I am. But you can just see these huge wave crashing into the coastline when the storm made landfall just yesterday evening right there.

So the latest figures that we have, according to our CNN reporting, this is from the Office of Civil Defense in the Philippines. We're talking about in terms of the human condition and the people who are affected here, about 1,000 homes damaged because of this second double whammy typhoon. And I know you said, Benny, in the introduction to the story, more than a million people evacuated. So how that roughly translates the government says to families, that's about 426,000 families who have left their homes for safety for again the second typhoon to hit the Philippines in less than a week.

And to that end, we heard from a 21-year-old who survived the worst of it. But let's get a better idea as to what this 21-year-old saw just a few hours ago. Let's listen.

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ROMEO MARIANO, STORM SURVIVOR (through translator): We felt the wind and some rain picking up around 6:00 p.m. and it got stronger around 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. until the early morning.

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Almost all the tree branches nearby fell, and when we got out to check our home, we saw the damage. As you can see, even the electrical post was damaged, so it might take days for our power to get restored.

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VALERIO: Yes. And now he has to rebuild all of that in the background. So the track that this storm took made landfall yesterday evening at the coastal municipality of Dinalungan, that's on the island of Luzon. Sustained winds at 185 kilometers an hour. For our American friends who may be watching, that's around 115 miles an hour.

The death toll in Catanduanes Province, one reported drowning. Also, firefighters who have made their way through waterlogged villages in Catbalogan City have managed to recover the body of a woman when the structure around her collapsed.

Also, according to the latest figures, 318,000 people are still in evacuation centers. More than 6,000 evacuation centers and schools, hospitals, grocery stores, you name it. So in terms of where this thing, this typhoon is going and what people need to be concerned about, obviously the rescue missions, priority one. Priority two, according to authorities on the ground, they're saying this through social media, storm surge until around 8:00 p.m., again, around three meters high is still a danger, even as this storm moves towards Taiwan -- Benny.

HUNTE: Well, this is awful. Those waves are crazy. Can you just tell us what preparations have been underway in Taiwan so far?

VALERIO: Yes. So far, schools are closing in eastern counties that are expected to be, or I should say eastern municipalities that are expected to be affected, as well as evacuations. So again, it looks like Wednesday is when this is going to have its main impacts on Taiwan. So parts of life are already starting to pause or shut down on Taiwan, schools being the primary thing so far. And people preliminarily getting warnings that they may be evacuated so far, Benny.

HUNTE: OK, we'll leave it there for now, but thank you for your reporting, Mike Valerio. I'll speak to you soon.

VALERIO: Appreciate it.

HUNTE: Let's keep going. Malaysia's maritime agency says crews are searching for survivors after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank near the border with Thailand. Ten survivors and one body have been recovered so far. The Rohingya Muslim community faces violent persecution at home in Myanmar, and they often live as refugees in Bangladesh, too. But many people want to flee the overcrowded camps and attempt the dangerous journey across the sea to Malaysia and Indonesia.

Still to come, the U.S. Senate takes a step towards reopening the government. We'll tell you what's next as our breaking news coverage continues. See you in a bit.

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HUNTE: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Ben Hunte.

And we are following breaking news out of Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Senate has broken a Democratic filibuster on government funding with a vote of 60 to 40. Eight Senate Democrats helped advance a funding deal in exchange for a future vote on extending health care subsidies. That is the main sticking point that Democrats had been fighting all of this time for.

Senate Republican leader John Thune committed to a vote on health care no later than the second week of December. But even if the bipartisan measure doesn't pass, it started the ball rolling, says Senate independent Angus King.

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KING: So this agreement tonight is a -- is a win for the American people. And it's a win for those people that are so insistent, that I'm hearing from all the time, protect our health care. Our judgment is the best way to do that is to get a bill on the floor. Is there a guarantee it will pass? No. Is it a guarantee it will pass in the House? There is actually some very strong interest in the House. A possibility of a bipartisan bill and to get a discharge petition. And then perhaps we're on the way.

And we have that expression from Republican senators who are interested in working on a bill that will deal with the ACA issue and perhaps additional health care issues at the same time. So what happened tonight is not the closing of a chapter. It's the opening of an opportunity. What the chapter does close is the damaging shutdown that is only getting worse. That is only going to impact more and more people.

And it's an opportunity for us to move forward on behalf of all the people of this country. On the issue of health care, but also on making the federal government function.

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HUNTE: CNN's Betsy Klein has all of the details on the deal from the White House.

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BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, we are now one major step closer to ending this government shutdown and getting the federal government reopened. And it has been 40 days of hardship and uncertainty for more than one million federal workers, so many of whom were deemed essential and required to report to work all this time without a paycheck.

And this vote in the Senate comes as the shutdown had reached a period of new pain impacting more Americans. Over the weekend, we heard from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who warned that air travel would be, quote, "reduced to a trickle" heading into that very busy Thanksgiving travel season, and separately SNAP benefits, those very critical nutrition benefits impacting about 42 million Americans.

The Trump administration had ordered states to disburse partial about 65 percent SNAP benefits to those in need, affecting about one in eight people in this country. But the heart of the issue driving this shutdown is that Democrats wanted to extend those expiring Obamacare enhanced subsidies. President Trump making very clear in recent days that he was vehemently opposed to doing so.

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And we heard a change in tone from President Trump following Tuesday's elections, where Democrats won in very key races. The president said that Democrats, in his view, were not shouldering enough of the blame in this shutdown.

The president had also, both publicly and privately, intensified calls to end the filibuster, that is that 60-vote threshold required to pass any piece of legislation in the Senate. President Trump calling on senators to end that even though there is bipartisan opposition to doing so. But those two major pieces set the stage for this vote on Sunday evening.

And there are two very important provisions in this bill impacting federal workers. Number one, the fired federal workers who were let go during this shutdown will be reinstated and will be given back pay.

And separately, there was some question from President Trump, even though he signed a law back in 2019, ensuring that those who had been furloughed would receive back pay. The president calling that into question in recent days.

But we have learned that this bill does require those furloughed workers to be paid at the conclusion of this shutdown,

President Trump has a series of private events on his schedule behind closed doors, meeting with the Syrian president at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. He is also set to attend a swearing in ceremony for the U.S. ambassador to India around 3:00 on Monday. We will see -- right now both those events closed to press. We'll see if he takes questions and opens them up.

Betsy Klein, CNN, at the White House.

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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: The Trump administration is preparing to host the president of Syria, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, in the coming hours.

His visit to the White House on Monday marks the first ever by a Syrian head of state. And it comes just days after U.S. removed his status as a specially-designated global terrorist.

The former leader of al Qaeda, who once had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, was seen playing basketball with top U.S. military officials over the weekend. How things change.

Hamas has finally released the body of its longest-held hostage. Israel confirmed it received the remains of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin on Sunday. Goldin was an IDF soldier killed in the final days of the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

Like previous hostage returns, Hamas gave Goldin's body to the International Red Cross, which then transferred it to the Israeli military.

The return leaves four deceased hostages still in Gaza, including three Israelis, who were killed on October 7th, 2023 and a Thai citizen who was kidnapped during the attack.

And now to Jerusalem, where CNN's Oren Liebermann reports on the latest hostage return and the most recent incident of extremist violence in the Occupied West Bank.

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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN JERUSALEM BUREAU CHIEF: More than a decade after Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was killed at the end of the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, his remains were returned to Israel.

Hamas said early on Sunday that they would be transferring the remains of Goldin to the Red Cross and on to Israel. And that was confirmed a short time later by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, even before the remains had been confirmed and identified, said that Goldin, his remains, his body were on his way home for a proper burial. A short time after it was confirmed that the remains were indeed Hadar Goldin, his family, his father, Simcha Goldin, issued a statement in which he said, "We brought Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, our son, a fighter, to be buried in Israel. We achieved this because our soldiers fought to bring warriors back from the battlefield. The IDF brought Hadar back to his homeland, no one else."

This marks the fifth transfer of deceased hostages from Hamas to Israel within just about a week. And this is a key critical phase of the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

It is, in fact, the one that is still ongoing here. There are, at this point, four deceased hostages who remain in Gaza from October 7, 2023 and Israel has demanded that they all be returned, even as the government knows and has known for quite some time now, as CNN has previously reported, that Hamas may not know the location of all of the deceased hostages.

This, however, is a key part of the ceasefire agreement and is required to move on to the second phase, which calls for an international security force in Gaza and a lot of the details to be worked out.

And that's where the U.S. effort is right now, to make sure this U.S.- brokered ceasefire continues forward and progresses here.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, we also saw continued settler violence against Palestinians, activists and journalists, this time in the Palestinian village of Beit Ha, near Nablus.

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LIEBERMANN: That's where witnesses and activists say Israeli settlers descended from a hilltop and attacked during the annual Palestinian olive harvest there, injuring not only Palestinians, but also journalists and activists.

An Israeli photographer captured these scenes from the attack on Reuters journalists. Reuters confirmed that two of their journalists were injured at the scene there.

The Israeli military said they were aware of and responded to the incident and were aware that Palestinians were injured there. As they investigate, they say they, quote, "condemn any acts of violence".

But the United Nations has pointed out that there were more than 260 settler attacks in the month of October, far more than have ever been recorded in a month since records were tracked going back nearly 20 years.

Oren Liebermann, CNN -- in Jerusalem.

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HUNTE: World leaders gather in Brazil for a global environmental summit, but one billionaire's recent comments on the subject are causing headaches. All the details just ahead on CNN.

See you in a bit.

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HUNTE: Welcome back.

Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is launching a new anti-crime plan after the cartel-linked assassination of a local mayor sparked nationwide outrage.

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HUNTE: She's deploying more than 10,000 military and national guard troops to target criminal gangs and drug cartels.

They're headed to one of Mexico's most violent states, where more than a thousand homicides have been recorded so far this year.

The announcement follows days of protests over the killing of Mayor Carlos Manzo, who was an outspoken critic of the government's lack of action against organized crime.

Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of India's capital on Sunday. They're demanding more action be taken to stop air pollution. Government data put New Delhi's air quality index over the weekend at 392, among the worst in the world.

Experts say chronic pollution takes a heavy toll on people's health. And it can shorten life expectancy.

The world's biggest climate summit is happening right now in Brazil. Politicians, scientists and diplomats are gathered at COP30 to talk about ways to minimize a worsening environmental crisis.

Among those not in attendance, members of the Trump administration. The U.S. president has repeatedly called climate change and the science behind it the "greatest con job", end quote.

CNN's Bill Weir looks at what's at stake now.

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BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: Ten years ago, humanity was burning so much fossil fuel that earth was on track to overheat by a catastrophic four degrees Celsius by century's end.

But then came Paris, when nearly 200 nations agreed to wean themselves off of oil, gas and coal, protect more nature, and hold the global warming line at 1.5.

The Paris Accords led to innovation and market forces that now make sun, wind and storage cheaper and more popular than ever.

But humanity is still burning way too much carbon, and the U.N. announced this week that earth will likely overshoot 1.5 on the way to around 2.6, which would still mean the end of coral reefs and mountain glaciers, coastal cities and island nations as we know them.

So going into history's 30th conference on climate change in Brazil, the stakes could not be higher.

And then at this pivotal moment comes the second coming of Donald Trump, who is actively trying to force all of these countries to go backwards on climate. And then Bill Gates drops a 5,000-word memo in which he argues that less money should go towards the climate buckets, and a lot more should be poured into solving global poverty and global health.

But Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech, argues climate is not a bucket. Climate is the hole in every other bucket. The hole that makes solving these problems that much harder and more expensive.

KATHERINE HAYHOE, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, TEXAS TECH: And that hole is getting bigger and bigger the more carbon emissions we produce. And if we don't patch that hole, we are never going to be able to address any of the other issues he cares about.

His premise that climate change is just a separate bucket at the end is profoundly flawed.

WEIR: She is among the chorus of top climate scientists who spent the week trying to debunk the billionaire's confusing new message that rich cities will be immune from the worst effects, and that technology can save us.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Those coal mines are opening up one after another -- clean, beautiful coal.

WEIR: Even if Republicans refuse to even try.

ZEKE HAUSFATHER, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, BERKELEY EARTH: Technology doesn't descend from the heavens on magical stone tablets. It comes from decades of important R&D work, most of which is funded by governments, and deployment work, which is funded by governments like tax credits for clean energy.

And so this idea that we can somehow rely on technology to save us, independent of policy, independent of what we actually do to get that technology out there, I think is worrying.

DANIEL SWAIN, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: They had just fired their entire climate team at CVS. I was literally reading this, instead of going to do that interview.

At the same time, there was a torrential downpour. Multiple people drowned in New York City, and in the interviews that Bill Gates has given in response to the criticisms, specifically pointed out that it was ridiculous to think that New York City was going to have problems with climate change.

I was reading this as people were actively underwater in their basement apartments in New York City last week. So the rhetoric just isn't matching the real world here.

WEIR: Meanwhile, former Biden climate czar Gina McCarthy is in Brazil, along with a group that includes California Governor Gavin Newsom and others who will try to convince the world that blue states and big cities are still in the fight with pledges to keep.

GINA MCCARTHY, FORMER BIDEN CLIMATE CZAR: This is a difficult time, Bill, that you know, and I've never been at a time when I felt that the federal government was as much out of the loop as this federal government is.

But that can't be what we focus on. We have a chance to go to Belem and let people know that America is all in.

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MCCARTHY: There are solutions. There are opportunities. There is hope in the United States.

HAYHOE: We also see that businesses, organizations, nonprofits, churches, tribal nations, universities -- all kinds of different entities are taking climate action.

So when Gina is going to Brazil to tell people that people in America, organizations in America are still acting, she's right.

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HUNTE: CNN NEWSROOM continues in just a moment. Stay with us.

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HUNTE: Welcome back.

Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday following a growing scandal that called into question the broadcasters' impartiality. Director General Tim Davie and chief executive of news Deborah Turness both quit after it was discovered that the BBC misleadingly edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump, among other revelations.

CNN's Brian Stelter has the latest details for us.

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BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: Today, the BBC is facing a gaping leadership void after a shocking set of resignations on Sunday.

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STELTER: Both the director general, Tim Davie, and the BBC News boss Deborah Turness, stepping down with the proximate cause being a scandal over a misleading edit in a one-year-old documentary about President Trump.

While the Trump angle is getting a lot of attention, the story is really a lot more complicated, with a lot more layers. As one BBC source remarked to me, the right-wing press in the U.K. has

been, quote, "feasting like vultures", part of a long running conservative campaign against the British broadcaster and the screw up with the Trump documentary played right into that campaign.

Now, Davie and Turness will be staying at their posts in the short term to ensure an orderly transition.

But like I said, this is a shocking development for BBC staffers. They've never seen this kind of turnover, with the top two executives at the same time.

The specific row involving the Trump documentary started about a week ago when the British newspaper, "The Telegraph", got a hold of an internal whistleblower memo describing the misleading edit that was made to the panorama documentary.

It was shown on the BBC just a few days before the U.S. presidential election last year. The documentary spliced together different parts of Trump's infamous speech on the Ellipse on January 6th, 2021.

The way the documentary portrayed it, it sounded like Trump was telling his supporters that they were all going to walk down to the Capitol together and, quote, "fight like hell".

In reality, Trump did talk about fighting repeatedly during the speech, and he had a combative tone. But when he talked about walking to the Capitol, which he ultimately did not do, he was saying he was going to go with his supporters to cheer on the brave GOP senators and congressmen who were there. He did not say the words the way they were spliced together by the BBC documentary.

Now, the producers should have used a white flash or some other effect to show the edit. And while the edit would have caused quite a commotion internally, it would not have normally caused the resignation of senior leaders. That's partly why the Sunday news was so shocking.

But the context is really important here. The BBC is operating in a politically poisonous atmosphere with near-daily disputes over coverage, especially BBC's coverage of Israel and Gaza.

There are equally frequent attacks from the BBC's media rivals in the U.K., and there's a looming review of the BBC's license fee model. So it's easy to understand why Davie was tired of fighting after five years in charge as director general.

BBC Radio 4 host and former BBC news political editor Nick Robinson spoke for many inside the organization when he said on Sunday before the resignations happened, quote, "It's clear that there is a genuine concern about editorial standards and mistakes. There's also a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organization." Robinson's point was that both things are happening at the same time.

In her memo on Sunday, Turness said mistakes were made, but quote, "I want to be absolutely clear. Recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally-biased are wrong."

It will be up to the BBC News boss and the next general -- the next director general, to prove that to a skeptical audience.

Brian Stelter, CNN.

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HUNTE: President Donald Trump was at the Washington Commanders football game on Sunday. Earlier, the White House said it would be beautiful if the team named a new stadium it's planning after him. ESPN reports there have been back-channel talks between the White House and the owners of the Washington Commanders.

President Trump is said to have expressed interest in having the new stadium named after him. The team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but has said they plan to open the new stadium by 2030. So we'll see.

The Los Angeles Chargers rolled over Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night. In the first quarter, Rodgers was sacked in the end zone for a safety.

And things didn't get much better for him. He ended the night with one touchdown pass and two interceptions.

It was a good night for Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert. He passed for 220 yards and a touchdown. The Chargers went on to win 25 to 10.

Two Major League Baseball pitchers could be facing years behind bars. They've been indicted for allegedly taking part in a sports betting scheme focused on their pitching. The pair, both from the Cleveland Guardians, are accused of planning pitches in advance to help their co-conspirators win h of thousands of dollars.

CNN's Don Riddell has details for us.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLDSPORT ANCHOR: This is major news in Major League Baseball, which is just reeling after the indictment of two players for their alleged roles in a scheme to rig bets on games.

According to prosecutors, the Cleveland Guardians' pitchers, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, are facing charges on multiple counts of wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery, money laundering conspiracy and more.

Ortiz has already been arrested. He's in custody. His lawyer told CNN that his client is innocent, adding that there is no credible evidence Ortiz did anything other than try to win games.

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RIDDELL: Both men were placed on non-disciplinary leave by the league back in July. In a statement to CNN, the Guardians said, quote, "We are aware of the recent law enforcement action, we will continue to fully cooperate with both law enforcement and Major League Baseball as their investigations continue."

MLB also says that it is cooperating with the investigation by the Department of Justice. And these accusations are pretty serious; if proven, the players could be looking at decades behind bars.

Of course, all this coming barely two weeks after a similar scandal rocked the NBA. Two players and a coach were arrested for their roles in insider trading in sports betting and rigged high stakes poker games.

In both these cases, the NBA and MLB, the indictments are coming from the same U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, New York.

Back to you.

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HUNTE: NBA legend and Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkins has died at the age of 88. Wilkins was a nine-time all-star and three-time inductee into the basketball Hall of Fame as a player, coach and part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team.

He led the Seattle Supersonics to their only NBA championship title in 1979. And he was long celebrated as the godfather of Seattle basketball.

He retired in 2005 as one of the winningest coaches in NBA history.

That's all I've got for you. Thanks for joining me and the team.

I am Ben Hunte in Atlanta and I will see you at the weekend.

CNN NEWSROOM continues in just a moment with the very fabulous Rosemary Church. See you soon.

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