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Two Children Killed, 17 Other People Wounded in Attack; Ukraine: At Least 18 Killed in Massive Russian Attack on Kyiv; Inside Trump's Campaign to Fire Governor Lisa Cook; Nvidia Shares up after Reporting Revenue Jump; Son Heung-Min Throws Out First Pitch at Dodgers Game. Aired 9-10a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, this is a live look at recovery efforts in the Ukrainian capital that's after a massive Russian

attack, in complete contrast to Vladimir Putin's show of diplomacy in Alaska just weeks ago. It is 04:00 p.m. in Kyiv, it's 05:00 p.m. here in

Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson. You're watching "Connect the World" here on CNN.

Also coming up, new video obtained by CNN reveals a third near instantaneous strike in Israel's attack on a Gaza hospital on Monday. And

we are going live to the scene of Wednesday's school shooting in Minneapolis, where two children were killed and more than a dozen others

injured.

The stock market in New York opens about 30 minutes from now, GDP numbers just out, showing a stronger than expected rebound for the U.S. economy.

Nvidia's earnings also shaping market. Sales, setting a fresh record for the AI chip giant, but their outlook causing jitters. We will explain why

later this hour.

I want to begin though with the City of Minneapolis and an entire country in shock and mourning in the wake of yet another mass shooting targeting

American schoolchildren. Just two kids, just 8 and 10-years-old, were killed when a shooter opened fire at a Catholic school during Wednesday

morning mass, 14 other children and three elderly parishioners were injured, but are expected to survive.

Well, police are searching for a motive for the shooter who they identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman. Westman was later found dead from a self-

inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday night, families, neighbors and government leaders came together for vigils, many of them now calling for

gun reform. The Minneapolis Mayor says thoughts and prayers are no longer adequate. He called on the city to unite in action.

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JACOB FREY, MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR: Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now, these kids were literally praying. It was the first week

of school. They were in a church.

And I was running as quick as I could to get to the scene of this horrific act. There were dads that were kicking off their flip flops, carrying their

kid like a football, running towards the school because they had another kid potentially inside.

You know, we all have these beautiful moments that seemingly are routine in the morning where you put a headband on your little girl, and you whisper a

few beautiful things in her ear, or maybe not so beautiful, and you say, get out the door, and you shove them some applesauce.

You do that, hopefully with the confidence that they're going to come home and that you're going to see them that night. Every parent should have that

assurance.

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ANDERSON: Police say that the shooter began firing through the church windows and barricaded at least two of the exits to prevent people from

escaping. A 10-year-old student says a friend saved his life.

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WESTON HALSNE, 10-YEAR-OLD SURVIOR: The first one, I was like, what is that? I thought it was just something. Then I heard it again. I just ran

under the pew, and then I covered my head. My friend Victor, like saved me, though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit. Yeah, I was super

scary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do you want to say to your friend who helped protect you?

HALSNE: Um, he is really brave, and I hope he's good in the hospital.

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ANDERSON: Well, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar says that a former staffer's daughter was at the church with her siblings and witnessed her

friends get shot.

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SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): So, the kids were in the mass, and they were packed in there. And so, this girl, seventh eighth grade, literally watched

her friends, some of her best friends, be shot, one in the neck, one in the stomach, and when they were running out, when they finally got out, she was

the one this child who had to tell one of her friend's dads that the friend had been shot.

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ANDERSON: CNN Law Enforcement Correspondent Whitney Wild in at the scene in Minneapolis. I want to start with what we know about the victims, if you

will?

WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: Becky, what we're learning is that, again, as you had said, two of those children died. They were 8-

years-old and 10-years-old. 14 more children were shot. There were other people who were victims, parishioners of the church.

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Some of them were in their 80s. The children who are fighting for their lives are in the hospital. They are in critical condition. We do not yet

have an update on their conditions. What we know at this point Becky is that four children have since been released from the hospital.

There was one man who is a neighbor here, and he ran directly to this church when he heard the shooting. He saw one girl had been shot in the

head. A bullet had grazed her forehead. His understanding is that she's out of surgery and she's doing OK. He saw another girl who had been shot in the

neck. He tried to render aid to both of these girls.

He does not have a condition update on the girl who was shot in the neck. This has just absolutely rocked this community, Becky. This was the first

week back from school. This was the first all school mass of the school year that is meant to be a special moment shared with the school with the

community.

Quite often, parents attend those masses, and what we know is that there were parents who were inside as that shooting rang out. This -- at this

point Becky, this is a city that is trying to figure out how to move forward and when it's appropriate. Right now, the school says they do not

have an update and when classes might resume, Becky.

ANDERSON: Look, the FBI is investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime, what is the latest on that investigation and any

possible motive at this point.

WILD: As is quite common in cases like the Becky, police are reluctant to define a specific motive, because quite often what the evidence shows, and

that is certainly the case here, is that the motivations are really scattered. They are the illogical musings of a twisted mind. And what we

are seeing now, and what investigators have said, according to our sources here, and what the police chief has said, is that there is no definitive

motive yet.

But what law enforcement sources are saying is that quite a there is just a really large volume of evidence. There are quite a few videos that give you

some insight into what the shooter was thinking and feeling leading up to this event. For example, some of those shootings show anti-Semitic, excuse

me, some of those videos show anti-Semitic, anti-Black and anti-Religious comments.

There were writings. One of the videos shows the shooter, presumably the shooter, paging through writings that show a diagram of the church. Some of

the writings show the words, I'm sorry. I love my family, but at the same time, seem to obsess over mass shooters, specifically drawings of other

mass shooters.

And so, there was quite -- it was quite clear, Becky as that there were perhaps a mix of motivations here, that there was a very clear obsession

with mass shooters. And then finally, Becky, what we were learning from our investigative team is that there was a connection to the school.

This shooter had been a student here, graduated in 2017 according to a yearbook we reviewed. And further, our investigative team has found that

his mother was an employee here sometime within the last 10 years, Becky.

ANDERSON: Whitney Wild is on the scene. Thank you. New video obtained by CNN is providing more details about this week's deadly attack on Southern

Gaza's biggest hospital. It reveals there were three strikes, three strikes on Nasser Hospital, not two in what has been described as a double tap

assault.

The second tap was, in fact, two near simultaneous strikes. Israel claims it killed six terrorists at the hospital. At the same time, Israel is

challenging a report on famine in Gaza. It wants the IPC, which is a Global Hunger Monitor, to retract its assessment, calling it deeply flawed. CNN's

Paula Hancocks joins me here in our studio. Take us through the firstly, the new exclusive video that we've got in.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, Becky, this is new video that's obtained by CNN, and what it shows is the moments of the second attack. So

10:08 a.m. local time, there was an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital, and we know that just about nine minutes later. So once all the emergency

workers, rescue workers, journalists, had been on the scene, there was a second attack.

But what we see in this video is you see one of the incoming rounds at about 10:17 a.m., it hits the area of that outside balcony where those

people are gathered, and then less than a second later, there is a second round that comes in and hits almost at the exact same spot.

Now this second attack on this area was, we understand, far more deadly than the first. It is what's called a double tap attack. It's a tactic, for

example, used by Russia we have seen it. It is considered to be a war crime against international law. Why this is significant that we believe there

are two rounds coming in, not just one is according to one weapons expert we spoke to?

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It suggests it's a more coordinated attack. It's not necessarily just one vehicle that is accidentally fired once again on a particular area. Now we

have an Israeli security official telling CNN that they believe it was tank shells that had been used. This has been borne out by what we have seen in

these videos from weapons experts.

We put this to the Israeli military, but they haven't said they have anything further to comment on. They have said at this point, it is one

strike. They have not addressed the double tap aspect of this, and they have said they have been targeting a Hamas camera that was monitoring

Israeli troops, but providing no evidence of that.

ANDERSON: Described as a tragic mishap by the prime minister's office. Israel wants the Global Hunger Monitor IPC to retract its report of famine

in Gaza. What's Israel claiming and how does that compare to reality on the ground as we understand it?

HANCOCKS: When this report came out last week, it came as no surprise to everybody on the ground. They knew that famine was present, but this

officially confirmed that in the area of Gaza City, there is famine, and by the end of September, it would spread to further south, Deir Al Bala Khan

Yunis, for example.

At the time, Israel said that it was deeply flawed. They said the problem is it was relying on information, on figures that had been provided by

Hamas. And what they are now saying to the IPC is that they want them to officially retract this report, because they say the basis of it is flawed.

Now it is a report that has been widely accepted by the international community. IPC is a very credible hunger monitoring group, which we have

used many times in the past, as has the United Nations and others, but Israel's line is still there is no famine. We've heard from the Israeli

Prime Minister say there is no starvation in Gaza, despite even U.S. President Donald Trump saying there is real starvation in Gaza.

They have pointed the finger of blame to the fact that the U.N. and other NGOs are not picking up the humanitarian aid that they are allowing in. So,

there's a very fundamental difference in the way that Israel sees what is happening in Gaza.

ANDERSON: It's always good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Paula Hancocks with me here in Abu Dhabi. Well, Russia's war with Ukraine is

another conflict that the Trump Administration has vowed to end, but efforts to do so are struggling to gain traction.

Ukrainian officials say at least 18 people were killed and dozens were wounded overnight in what has been described as a massive attack on the

capital. An urgent search is underway for anyone who still may be trapped. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz following this story for us. And the Russian attack

comes as a Ukrainian Delegation is set to meet with U.S. officials on Friday for talks in ending this war. Where are we at this point? What more

can you tell us?

SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, if you're asking Becky, how President Putin has responded to these -- peace first of all President

Zelenskyy says, here is your answer, one of the largest attacks on Kyiv since the start of the conflict, nearly 600 Russian drones and 30 missiles

fired overnight at the capital.

In some parts of the city, people were under air raid sirens for nine hours. At least 19 people killed so far, among them several children. The

youngest is just two years old. There are still rescue workers digging through the rubble Becky. There was 500 rescue workers and 1000 policemen

on the ground.

It gives you a sense of the scope and scale of this attack, which hit residential buildings, kindergartens. It even struck a European Union

Mission building and a building for the British Council and both the EU and the UK have called Russian diplomats to ask them about these attacks.

That's why you've heard President Zelenskyy today pointing to these attacks and saying, look, it is clear that President Putin is not serious about

peace. He says that President Putin is choosing ballistic missiles over the negotiating table. And of course, the timing of this is extremely

important, Becky.

It comes just as EU defense ministers are supposed to be meeting in Copenhagen today and tomorrow to discuss security guarantees. There's also

further meetings at the White House as well to discuss those security guarantees. This would be a backstop measure, essentially that if Russia

and Ukraine are to reach a peace deal, these security guarantees would provide Ukraine with that insurance if it were attacked again.

But Russia has already said it does not accept security guarantees it's not involved in and it will not accept any foreign forces on the ground.

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Now, as we see these continued attacks take place on the ground, and this diplomatic effort stall, what we're watching here is a tried-and-true

Russian response diplomatic efforts stalling while the offensive on the ground intensifies and those drones and missiles continue to rain down on

Ukraine.

ANDERSON: Salma, following the story for you. Salma, thank you. Well, ahead on "Connect the World", the Centers for Disease Control, a leading public

health organization designed to keep Americans healthier, has no leader right now. Thanks to the Trump Administration. Up next why the U.S.

political firing could be a big deal for the rest of the world.

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ANDERSON: Well, chaos and confusion at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the White House said its director had been fired. A

spokesperson said that Dr. Susan Monarez, nominated by Donald Trump just months ago, was not aligned with the president's make America healthy again

agenda or MAHA.

Attorneys for Monarez said that the notification of her removal was legally deficient and that she remains CDC Director. This matters because the CDC

plays a crucial role in preventing and managing global pandemics. CNN's Stephen Collinson has been following the story. He joins us now.

And you wrote in a new analysis piece that RFK Jr., has brought, quote, politically engineered chaos to America's public health institutions. The

CDC leaders, lawyers say, quote, this is not about one official it's about this systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of

experts and the dangerous politicization of science. Just get us up to speed on what has been happening here, Stephen?

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Yeah, what's been happening is that there is, I think, a purging, almost is the right word,

of scientific experts in institutions like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes for Health, other public health

agencies.

Because you have a very strong feeling among President Donald Trump supporters that these agencies over reached during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There's a strong sense on the conservative base of suspicion about vaccines and into all this has walked Robert F Kennedy, Jr., who is now the Health

and Human Services Secretary.

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He is a long-time skeptic of vaccines, and that's putting it kindly, and he's been given great power by the president to implement his ideas. Just

yesterday, we had a narrowing of the criteria for the COVID-19 vaccine, which you used to be able to get in the United States just by walking into

a pharmacy. That's going to be much more difficult now for anyone that's not over 65 or who doesn't have pre-existing conditions that make them very

at risk from COVID- 19.

So, we have an ideological reshaping of an agency that was always seen as a global standard for public health, and this is being done on political

grounds, and not on the grounds of science. This CDC Director, who was ousted yesterday, had only been in office for three weeks. She was

confirmed by the Senate, and at the time, there was great concern that she wouldn't be able to stand up to Robert F Kennedy, Jr., and those fears now

look to be validated.

ANDERSON: And those who had fears about this agency and about the wider sort of health policy under RFK Jr., will probably say they are not

surprised. But it doesn't mean that people aren't shocked.

You cited several public health officials sounding the alarm, one saying, this presents, quote, a clear and present danger to Americans of all ages,

and leaves our nation extremely vulnerable to a wide range of public health threats, from outbreaks to bio terror attacks. And let's be quite clear

about this, there is an awful lot at stake, not just in the U.S., but around the world, correct?

COLLINSON: That's right. The CDC was looked to for many years as a leader in public health globally, lots of countries outside Europe follow the CDC

recommendations. They read the science. And this is an organization that had a massive global scope in tracking down threatening public health

emergencies and pandemics.

The Ebola crisis of a few years ago in Africa that was largely suppressed because of the work of the CDC during the Obama Administration. And this,

of course, the Trump the second Trump Administration, has absolutely savaged public funding for American public health programs overseas.

So, you're seeing a confluence of factors here. I think Robert F Kennedy Jr's., remarks this morning on Fox News, in which he said there was a

malaise within the CDC and other agencies, and that it needed to be swept away, and that there should there are people there that shouldn't be

working there are going to cause even greater alarm than Dr. Monarez's departure.

Because this looks like a radical ideological reshaping of science-based institutions on behalf of someone who now has great power. I think the

President and RFK Jr., also caused alarm this week during a Cabinet meeting. One of RFK Jr's., causes has been that there is a link between

vaccines and rises of cases in autism. There's no science at all to back that up.

There have been multiple studies that haven't found that, but he seemed to hint in the Cabinet meeting, and he was backed up by the president, that

there's going to be some announcements from the administration, potentially along those lines about the causes of autism and drugs.

So, that would really shock, I think, the U.S. health establishment, which has always been based on science and painstaking research. Research,

incidentally, which has also been badly hampered by the administration's attacks on elite universities, lots of studies look like getting their

funding drying up, and that could impact critical health research on diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's.

ANDERSON: That's right. Always good to have you. Stephen, thank you. And you can read more of Stephen's analysis online for more on the impact of

RFK Jr's., current tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services. You know where to find that. You can also find it on your CNN App of course.

What we are seeing that the CDC has echoes of another ongoing attempt by the Trump Administration to exert control over a traditionally independent

body that is, of course, the Federal Reserve. All week, we've been covering Donald Trump's legal fight with Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

The president says he's firing her site in an allegation that she committed fraud on her mortgage application. It is an accusation that came from Trump

loyalist Bill Pulte, who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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He shared his allegation directly with President Trump, arguing that there are grounds to dismiss Cook, why? Well, maybe because the president's goal

is to turn the leadership of the Central Bank into one that will do his bidding. He hinted as much on Tuesday.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: They'll have a majority very shortly. So that'll be great. Once we have a majority,

housing is going to swing and it's going to be great. People are paying too high an interest rate. That's the only problem with housing.

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ANDERSON: Well, meanwhile, a new report shows that the U.S. economy rebounded faster in the second quarter than was originally reported.

According to the revised numbers, growth came in at an annualized rate of 3.3 percent as consumers stepped up spending. Economists had expected more

subdued spending as the Trump Administration's tariffs spread uncertainty.

Well, joining me to discuss all of this is a good friend of the show. Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz. Firstly, these

are going to be numbers that Donald Trump is going to crow about certainly. What do these GDP numbers indicate to you about the health of the U.S.

economy Mohamed?

MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER, ALLIANZ: They indicate that the economy remains resilient. It grew at a solid pace. Interestingly, what

surprised on the upside in terms of components of domestic investment, which is good, and exports.

It's also been reinforced by the corporate earnings. Today, we had a host of retailers telling us that the demand for their products, including from

low-income household, remains solid. So overall, it's an economy that that is very resilient in the face of one shock after the other.

ANDERSON: Yeah, and it would be churlish to dismiss these very sorts of robust numbers in the face of such uncertainty. And you and I have been

talking about that uncertainty pretty much since the first days of this administration, back in in January, of course.

On Donald Trump's efforts to exert more control over the Federal Reserve. Mohamed, you've called for the Fed Chair, Jay Powell to resign? And you and

I have talked about, you know, how you -- how you sort of -- you know, crafted that narrative to a degree.

And you criticize his speech at Jackson Hole, signaling that he would lower interest rate saying he was kicking the can of strategic vision down the

road. I just want you to explain for our viewers where you stand on Trump's fight with Powell at present on rates, and indeed, this sort of feud, as it

were, with Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

EL-ERIAN: So, I think the most important thing is maintaining the independence of the Federal Reserve that is crucial to good economic

outcomes.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

EL-ERIAN: The reason why I argued that in the interest of that objective Chair Powell should have resigned a year -- a month ago, was to avoid what

has happened. And what has happened is that the attacks on the Fed have deepened and broadened. They have deepened to include other members of the

Fed, including Governor Cook.

They have broadened to include other parts of the political system that is attacking the Fed, and this was exactly my concern. The hope had been, by

giving President Trump a win, he would move on and the incoming Chair and the list of 11 candidates include some very credible people, highly

respected, could go on with the much-needed job of reforming that institution.

ANDERSON: Yeah, it's fascinating. Your insights really important, and I really enjoy your analysis on this. Exactly a year ago, you wrote that

maybe the new mantra for financial markets should be, quote, don't fight the Fed, and at least for now, don't fight Nvidia. You say whatever Nvidia

does greatly impacts markets, just like the Fed not does appear to be truer than ever.

Today, we're waiting for Nvidia, of course, to start trading today. We've had the numbers out yesterday. The forecast is somewhat worrying people,

but the numbers on the face of it, you know, are remarkable, really, when you consider, you know, where this company is at?

It's a bellwether for an AI industry which is dominating the news and markets, not just the NASDAQ but of course, the S&P as well.

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Your broad thoughts on what these earnings from Nvidia said about the potential AI slump as we listen to the opening bell here on Wall Street.

EL-ERIAN: So, what the earnings told me is that the bedrock of AI is really solid in terms of critical inputs, and the demand for critical inputs. And

that's going to continue, and I do believe that this is a generational shift in productivity potential.

And those numbers confirm, they also reinforce this notion that you and I have been talking about, which is that investors are very happy to separate

all the noise and all the uncertainties on the sovereign side, tariffs, institution, Federal Reserve, and put them aside and say what I care about

is corporate America, and corporate America led by Nvidia, and that is what I'm going to bet on.

And that's why we had another S&P record last -- yesterday, despite the fact that we've had all this stuff happen on the sovereign side, and it's

the new mentality now Becky in the marketplace is you can sideline the sovereign and just focus on the corporates and focus on the leaders within

the corporates.

ANDERSON: Just looking at the Nvidia stock as you speak, and as these markets open, the stock up about one and a quarter percent, took a bit of a

beating in the Asian markets, and certainly after those numbers, so a bit of a recovery here, perhaps at 184 that's a big number for this $4 trillion

company. Thank you, sir. It's really good to have you. And more on Nvidia after this short break.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You're watching "Connect the World". And Nvidia's hot streak may be cooling somewhat, but

for the world's first $4 trillion company, it is all relative. Of course, the AI juggernaut posted more than $46 billion in quarterly revenue. That

is a 56 percent jump from last year.

Instead of blowing away expectations, though, it just about met them, and that, of course, sent shares lower in after-hours trading on Wednesday as

Wall Street had hoped for more shares, though up a little bit, or they have been higher this session, with just four or so minutes into the session.

For more on what this all means for the AI boom, let's bring in CNN's Clare Duffy, who is in New York. Look Clare let's be quite frank, Nvidia's

revenue strong investors, though, were not impressed. Why?

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CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: Yeah Becky, I mean, certainly the company is not running out of money anytime soon. These are results that most

executives would cheer at, but good results may not be good enough for Nvidia at this point.

Wall Street expected, I think, to be blown out of the water once again, as we've seen over the past year and a half or so, but these results were

mostly in line with expectations. I think the bigger story here, though, is the fact that, as you said Nvidia's eye popping growth appears to be

slowing down somewhat.

That quarterly revenue figure $46.7 billion as you said, marked 56 percent year-over-year growth, but that's compared to the 122 percent year-on-year

growth that the company posted in a year ago quarter. And I do think that slowdown could potentially fuel these worries about a potential AI bubble

and whether this market is due for a correction.

I heard Mohamed El-Erian saying just a minute ago that the bedrock of this industry is strong, and I think that's true. You still have the biggest

players, the Googles, the Metas, who are going to keep spending billions of dollars on AI infrastructure.

But the worry around the bubble is really that there are too many high- flying startups to continue to exist in the long run, and that could potentially still trickle down and affect Nvidia in the long run here.

However, the company did say that it sees a long runway ahead. It's expecting $3 to $4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by the end of the

decade, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, this is a massive run up in artificial intelligence spending, of course, and it continues. It's one that has -- that is yet to

actually pay off, of course. And there are some who expect that spending to slow somewhat. How are U.S. restrictions on chip sales to China shaping

Nvidia's future growth. The CEO spoke to that, or was certainly asked about that, and the earnings call yesterday, what do we learn?

DUFFY: Yeah, this is the other big thing that is weighing on Nvidia's growth right now. China, last year, made up 13 percent of Nvidia's sales,

but for yet another quarter, Nvidia was unable to sell its H20 chips into China because of these U.S. export restrictions.

Now, of course, people may remember that a few weeks ago, Nvidia came to an agreement with the White House to pay it 15 percent of its sales to China

in exchange for export licenses. But what we heard on the call last night is that the guidelines around that have not yet been given to the company,

so it hasn't been able to restart sales to China.

Here's what CFO Colette Kress said last night on the call about the opportunity that they're losing out on. She said, if geopolitical issues

subside, we should ship 2 billion to 5 billion in H20 revenue in the third quarter. Every license sale we make will benefit the U.S. economy and U.S.

leadership in highly competitive markets.

And so, as you hear there, these executives still lobbying the White House to find a way to make sure that it can restart sales to China and not be

missing out on billions of dollars in revenue each quarter, Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, it's good to have you. Clare, thank you very much indeed. You're up to speed, folks, still to come on CNN, South Korean Football Star

Son Heung-Min thrills fans by making an appearance at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. A close look is just ahead.

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ANDERSON: Well, for all his experience of life in the spotlight on the football pitch, Son Heung-Min had to deal with a different kind of pressure

on Wednesday. The South Korean was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Dodgers baseball game. Amanda Davies joining me now. And

he will be much missed, of course, at White Hart Lane, where he played for Spurs. How did he fare on the pitchers Amanda?

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Well Becky, if ever there's a sign of anyone settling in to their new life in the United States, it's not

completely messing up this moment, isn't it? We have seen many a sports star from the other sports crumble under this pressure.

But as you can see, he did all right Son Heung-Min. He made his first appearance for LAFC at the weekend, scored his first goal, helping them to

draw. They were away from home, then this moment, and he'll be hoping to complete a pretty special week with his home debut on Sunday.

But you know what is the best bit of this story for me? Becky, it's the fact that I haven't had to talk to you about Manchester United's

humiliation that defeats -- Grimsby another season, same old story. But the bad news for me is that that is what is leading the way in "World Sport" in

just a couple of minutes, if people fancy joining me.

ANDERSON: You know, I'm going to tell you I was at college with the now Chairman of Grimsby, and I haven't got his number, but I messaged a mate of

mine just a couple of hours ago to say, have you got Andrew Pettit's number? Because I really need to call him. I mean, what a result you, I'm

sure, will not get away with not talking about that on "World Sport" that is coming up after this short break. Stay with us.

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