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U.S. & Iran Launch New Strikes Amid Tensions Over Hormuz; Father of American Killed by Settlers, Visits Site of Attack; UK Counterterror Police Now Leading Widdecombe Investigation; Wildfire Rages in Forest South of Paris as Heat Wave Spreads; Apple, Microsoft, Other Tech Giants Raise Prices Amid AI Boom. Aired 9-10a ET
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, this is the scene at the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump considering his next move after a
fresh wave of air strikes inside Iran. Tehran's response being felt right across the Gulf region today.
It is 09:00 a.m. at the White House, 05:00 p.m. in Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, from our Middle East programming headquarters, I'm Becky Anderson. You're
watching "Connect the World". Also coming up, CNN caught in the middle of shocking Israeli settler violence in the West Bank as a Palestinian father
tries to grieve.
That full report is just ahead. And AI inflation, how the growing demand for artificial intelligence may be pushing up prices on some of your
favorite tech products. Well, the stock market in New York opens about 30 minutes from now. And no real surprise to see investors in a selling mood
out there ahead of the open, indicating a weaker start to the trading week.
We'll circle back there for the opening on Wall Street. We begin with escalating strikes between the U.S. and Iran, and contradictory claims
about what is going on in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian media say attacks on the country have continued into the afternoon Monday, after a fresh wave
of tit for tat strikes over the weekend.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, signaling a push to use global legal channels against the United States.
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ESMAEIL BAQAEI, SPOKESPERSON FOR IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: Seeking justice and avenging the blood of the martyred leader and every Iranian who was
injured or killed during the U.S. and Israeli military attacks is a fundamental principle and a demand shared by the public.
The state has a clear responsibility in this regard. The foreign ministry is part of this process. At the international level, we will use every
available legal and international mechanism, both to document these crimes and to pursue justice.
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ANDERSON: Well, Tehran also saying its forces launched new attacks aimed at U.S. bases in the region. American allies Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan all
say they responded to aerial threats earlier today. CNN's Paula Hancocks with me here in our Abu Dhabi studio. Iran launching fresh attacks then on
military bases.
They say American military bases in several Gulf states and indeed in Jordan, of course. And what has happened over what now the past, I'd say,
72 hours has been the biggest escalation to date, hasn't it? Since you know the sort of official end of this war, as it were, or certainly the
beginning of the ceasefire.
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. I mean, we're seeing here- it's a familiar pattern. We're seeing Iran attacking certain vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. carrying out strikes, and then Iran retaliating
by striking U.S. assets in the region, but what we've seen over the past 24 hours has been more significant.
We are seeing the U.S. strikes not just targeting along the coastline of Iran, so the, you know, the radar sites, the air defense systems along the
Strait of Hormuz, they're also pushing inland more. We've seen, for example, Iran claiming a water pumping station having been hit.
We haven't heard a U.S. response to that at this point. But we're also seeing, when it comes to the Iranian retaliation, more countries in the
region being involved in that. Now, Iran's claiming that they have done some damage at these U.S. military bases in the region again.
The U.S. not confirming or denying that at this point, but we're also now hearing from the U.S. President. He's just spoken to Fox News in a phone
interview, saying we're going to hit them very hard, saying we had a deal and they broke it. So, he's not giving any indication that this is going to
de-escalate.
And so certainly there is a concern that this ceasefire is disintegrating as we're seeing these attacks.
ANDERSON: He frankly said himself that the ceasefire is over last week. And much sort of, you know, discussion about whether that were really true,
whether we should take him at his word. But certainly, at this point, it looks as if it is. Iran says the U.S. is undermining talks with Oman on
what they say.
Certainly, we've seen some evidence to suggest that what's being discussed is, you know, some sort of deal for safe passage through the Strait of
Hormuz.
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There are, of course, conflicting reports about whether or not that waterway is open and allowing for the free passage of vessels. What do we
understand to be the situation as we speak now?
HANCOCKS: At a very basic level, the U.S. says that the strait is open, and Iran says it isn't because of these U.S. strikes. President Trump saying
it's open as far as we're concerned, but when you look at the numbers of vessels that are even daring to try and make that transit at this point,
it's minimal compared to what we usually see.
We've got some figures out from the maritime intelligence firm Kpler for Sunday, and they say that 14 vessels managed to cross. Now, bear in mind,
pre-war you're looking at 110 vessels that were crossing, but of those 14, half of them were Iranian vessels.
Also, they posted on social media the images of what you can see that the very few vessels coming through for the weekend, 10th to 12th of July, 50
percent less vessels were trying to get through. In fact, 52 percent those crossings were down. And when you look at where they were trying to cross,
the majority, 6 of them, taking the Iranian route, so close to Iran they have to coordinate with Iran, get Tehran's permission.
Only one taking that central route because that's believed to be the mined area at this point. Seven of them are dark or unknown routes. So, they're
switching off their tracking devices. None of them openly admitting that they are sailing close to the Omani coast, which we know many of them have
been because they consider that to be the safer route because that is what Iran is targeting at this point.
So, many more now switching off their tracking systems, but it's minimal the number of --
ANDERSON: I mean CENTCOM has been posting about just how many vessels have been able to transit over the past couple of weeks. Those numbers were, you
know, significantly higher than back in sort of March and April, but as you say, those numbers really very much reduced again as we speak.
All right, good stuff. Thank you. CNN's Kevin Liptak joining us from the White House. So, what is the Trump Administration saying about all of this?
I mean, Donald Trump just spoke to Fox News a short time ago. So, you know, how do we read what was said and what's in his mind at this point?
KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yeah, and I think it's clear the president understands he's at something of a strategic crossroads here.
You know, the memorandum of understanding, in his view, has been completely brushed away. It has completely collapsed.
And I think it's fair to say that the belief that the U.S. putting out these incentives for Iran, you know, lifting certain sanctions, allowing
them to sell oil in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, that, that didn't work. That the president's gamble in signing this document has so
far failed.
And now he finds himself in a position where he's deciding whether to go back to full-out war, which I think we're still a step away from now, or to
allow the negotiations to proceed. And the president seems right now to want to do both-to allow his negotiators to try and broker some sort of
agreement that would fully reopen the strait, but also extract nuclear concessions from Iran.
We're now almost halfway through that 60-day negotiating period that the memorandum of understanding set out, but it doesn't seem as if they've
gotten to talking about the nuclear issues at all. And so, the president is left sort of exchanging fire with Iran on almost a daily basis without any
clear pathway of how that will reopen the strait.
This all seems rooted in a misunderstanding between the two sides and a lack of common understanding between the two sides about what exactly this
memorandum actually stipulated about the strait. You know, we heard from American officials at the end of last week on Friday saying that they
expected a public statement from Iran saying that the strait would be reopened, and that Iran would stop firing on vessels going through.
And they actually expected it by Saturday when the Iranian Foreign Minister was in Oman meeting with his counterpart. Of course, the exact opposite
happened as Iran began firing on those vessels, and you do hear now a degree of pessimism here at the White House that any grand deal will be
able to be struck because, in their view, Iran has not adhered to the commitments that it made in the MOU.
And so, we are now stuck, I think, in this sort of liminal position, neither full-out war nor a full ceasefire, and the president will have to
find a way to negotiate that. He did say in this interview with Fox News that he thinks the U.S. would ultimately become the quote, guardian of the
Strait of Hormuz, and that the U.S. would get paid for guarding it.
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Who makes that payment, and how that setup would work? Obviously, very unclear.
ANDERSON: Yeah, we guarded it for nothing, and now we're going to guard it. We're going to get paid for guarding it, he said. We just want to be
reimbursed for doing all of this, for putting our people in danger, he added. More as we get it. Good to have you. Thank you.
Now, look, I want to turn to the West Bank, where CNN accompanied the father of an American citizen killed by Israeli settlers back to the site
of his son's death for the first time in a year. That journey quickly turned dangerous as armed settlers ambushed the convoy. Here's my colleague
Jeremy Diamond's report.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Kamel Musallet hasn't been able to reach this land in over a year. This is the hillside
where his son Saif, an American citizen, was killed.
DIAMOND: It's like it's down here if you want to walk.
KAMEL MUSALLET, FATHER OF AMERICAL KILLED BY SETTLERS: Yeah.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Beaten to death by Israeli settlers exactly one year ago. Since then, settlers have illegally occupied the area, preventing this
father from getting the closure he so desperately seeks.
MUSALLET: We have to keep an eye because usually they'll come down that way.
DIAMOND (voice-over): We've come here in an armored vehicle, wearing bulletproof vests because of how violent these settlers have been, but
we've made it.
DIAMOND: What does it feel like to finally be here after a year?
MUSALLET: It's just like I'm honest with you. I'm imagining -- like just imagining him, you know. Like so, it's just thought a lot going on my head
right now. Like just what he went through at that moment.
DIAMOND: Just take a moment, Kamel.
DIAMOND (voice-over): But this solemn, sacred moment won't last. Within seconds, we spot a car speeding towards us. We start to leave, but as we
drive away, we see that four settlers have set up a roadblock. Armed with clubs and rocks, they try and block our way. First with their bodies, and
then.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And now it looks like he's trying to slash our tires. He's trying to slash our tires.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, he's got a knife --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my God.
DIAMOND (voice-over): A group of independent journalists and activists are in the car behind us. But their vehicle isn't armored.
MUSALLET: Without an armored car, without a bulletproof vest, how do I get to my land? The Israeli army should, right now, should be here and kicking
them out. It's illegal for them to be there. It's frustrating. You're so angry and you can't do nothing about it. It just kills you from inside.
DIAMOND (voice-over): But the settlers aren't done. More arrive, blocking another road before chasing us and attacking us again.
MUSALLET: No, they're trying to stop our car again. They're hitting us.
DIAMOND (voice-over): We finally make it back to safety, where I get on the phone with the Israeli military, which is responsible for security in this
area. But settlers have also called the military, and these soldiers are only interested in harassing us, refusing to take action against the
settlers.
Minutes later, the commander of a different battalion arrives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's OK. We'll take care of it.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Sends his soldiers after the settlers, detaining them until the police arrive. The Israel police said they arrested four suspects
and seized clubs and a knife. They vow to quote, bring them to justice accordingly. A full year later, Kamel Musallet is still waiting for his
son's killers to be brought to justice.
MUSALLET: No one's been arrested. No accountability.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Saif was just two weeks shy of his 21st birthday when he was killed. A Florida native, he had been visiting his family in the
West Bank. At the time, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned Musallet's killing as a criminal and terrorist act and vowed to pressure
Israel to bring his killers to justice.
DIAMOND: I reached out to the U.S. Embassy. I sent them a list of questions, and this is the response they gave me. They said the Trump
Administration has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans. Due to privacy considerations, we have no further information to
provide at this time.
MUSALLET: Let's feel if that was true, you know, they would do something about it. You know, at least an open investigation. You know, that's the
least that they could do. If it was anywhere else in the world, an American citizen was killed by a mob of extremists, of terrorists.
What kind of outrage would there be? You know, how disappointed would Saif -- be right now that you know his U.S. passport did nothing for him?
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DIAMOND (voice-over): Saif believed in that blue passport.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Blue is blue. Not because he's Palestinian-American. He's just American.
DIAMOND (voice-over): But his family is still waiting for it to mean something, anything, in their pursuit of justice. Jeremy Diamond, CNN,
Sinjil, the West Bank.
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ANDERSON: And you can get a lot more on that. You can read Oren Liebermann's article on this about the incident on our digital platforms.
He's written more on what has been this shocking incident. I'll leave you to do that. I want to take a very short break. Back after this.
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ANDERSON: British counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the suspected murder of Former UK Lawmaker Ann
Widdecombe. Now, this comes after new information and evidence has emerged, according to the country's home secretary, who says the police are now
considering multiple possibilities as they try to determine a motive for the attack.
They had previously suggested there was no indication the killing was terrorism-related or politically motivated. Widdecombe, a former
Conservative MP, government minister and fixture on British television was found dead at her home in Devon last week. A 28-year-old man has been
arrested on suspicion of murder.
Well, tributes are pouring in following the death of Senator Lindsey Graham in the states, a preliminary finding from the Washington D.C. medical
examiner shows that the 71-year-old died on Saturday following a tear in his aorta, medically known as an aortic dissection.
President Donald Trump, among top leaders, paying tribute to the longtime senator from South Carolina.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: He's a great politician. He was a natural. There are very few of them. He was a natural
politician. Got along with everybody. When he didn't, he was very tough. You know, he was tough cookie too, but he got a got along with everybody.
He was one of the 17 people that ran against me. And he was, you know, a smart guy, and it was a nasty campaign. He was tough and nasty, but I was
nasty too, and it worked out fine. And I got to know him by little drips and drabs. And then we became friendly, and there was no better advocate.
He was a fantastic advocate in the Senate.
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ANDERSON: Well, CNN's Annie Grayer, following this story for us from Capitol Hill. It's been more than 24 hours now since we've heard from so
many people, both in the U.S. and around the world, about Senator Graham's passing.
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I don't think it would be unfair to suggest that he was a controversial figure. And I wonder what, as the sort of dust settles, as it were, what
his political legacy will be. Is it clear at this point?
ANNIE GRAYER, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Well, certainly, Lindsey Graham was a power player, a power broker, and a very key ally of President Trump. But
as you mentioned from that clip of the president's remarks on Graham, it didn't always start that way. When Graham was running against Trump back in
2016, they were fierce opponents.
But over time, Graham learned to work with Trump and has become a very fierce ally for Trump in the Senate. So much so that when Graham came back
from Ukraine on Saturday, he called the president, and they were discussing. The president says his key bill to overhaul the U.S. election
system, which the Save America Act, which Trump is very dug in on, to the point where other business has essentially come to a standstill as a
result.
And Graham and Trump were trying to work behind the scenes to try to find ways to pass pieces of that legislation, being able to use a lower
threshold to do so because Graham was chairman of the powerful budget committee, which was very important for passing many parts of Trump's
agenda this term.
Graham was also a major defense hawk. He was a big believer in the U.S. providing its allies with foreign aid. He was -- he had just come back from
Ukraine, where he had been pushing the over a year to try and put sanctions on Russia, and he finally got the green light from Trump to do that.
So, his colleagues have said that they try we're going to try and carry that mantle forward in his honor, in his passing. Graham was also, as a
member of the Appropriations Committee, was really pushing for the U.S. to provide more funding for the war in Iran. And that was something that was
having an uphill battle among Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
And Graham was going to be a key voice in getting that funding over the finish line. And just this week alone, Graham, as a member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, was going to be sitting for the hearings for Todd Blanche, who is trying to get confirmed as President Trump's next attorney
general.
So, you can just see how many different things Graham was involved in and how important and prominent his role was in all of it. But now, in Graham's
passing, there is a scramble in South Carolina to replace his seat. The Governor of South Carolina, who's a Republican, is expected to appoint
somebody in short order to just hold Graham's seat for the short term.
But then there is going to be a primary, likely in August, where candidates are already scrambling to see if they -- who's going to be running for that
seat, and because Graham was running for re-election in November, but in Graham's passing, Republicans still own the majority in the Senate, but
that margin is even narrower.
Especially because his colleague, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, is currently in the hospital and will remain there for we don't know how long.
So, the Republicans have a very narrow margin to work with. They have a tall list of things that they want to get accomplished, and Graham was
going to be at the center of all of it.
ANDERSON: Yeah, absolutely. Good to have you. Thank you. Well investigators in Bangkok, in Thailand, are trying to pin down the cause of a deadly fire
that engulfed a bar overnight. Officials there say at least 27 people were killed, and more than 60 others were taken to hospital.
About a third of the injured in critical condition. CNN's Mike Valerio has the details on the emergency response and what we know so far. And I've got
to warn you, this report that he filed contains images and details that you may find disturbing.
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MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A huge fire tore through a popular pub in Bangkok early Monday morning, killing at least 27 people and
injuring dozens more -- news video shows violent flames raging as terrified patrons ran for their lives.
Thick smoke gushed out of the entrance, the fire engulfing the building in minutes. Firefighters from multiple Bangkok stations rushed to the scene,
taking about half an hour to bring the fire under control. But by then, the damage was devastating.
CHAKRIT KHONKOM, LEAD FIREFIGHTER: The fire was not that aggressive, but the smoke had engulfed 100 percent of the venue. Once we knew there were a
number of victims inside, we sent in a search and rescue squad and found that a lot of them were inside the toilet.
Most of them were trying to escape to the back because they saw that the flames were at the front.
SUKANYA WONGWONGWAL, FRIEND OF MISSING PERSON: My friend, who's a singer singing on stage, said at first they noticed the smell of something
burning. Then, a little after, they saw the ceiling was on fire.
VALERIO (voice-over): The blaze broke out around midnight at the Na Lat Phrao Brewery Restaurant, popular live music venue in Bangkok's Chatuchak
district. Footage of the aftermath shows scorched interiors, collapsed furniture, and blackened walls. Authorities are working to identify
victims, with many of their ID cards unable to be found.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul visited the site in the early hours and directed agencies to assist victims' families.
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Investigators are now working to determine the cause of one of the deadliest pub fires -- been seen in recent years.
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ANDERSON: Well, that was CNN's Mike Valerio reporting for you. Just south of Paris, French firefighters are battling a huge blaze in the
Fontainebleau forest. So far, more than three square miles, or 800 hectares, have burned. Firefighters have been scooping up water from the
River Seine by aircraft to tackle the flames.
Wildfires not unusual in Europe, but this season has been a lot worse than normal because of the heat waves as well as a wet winter that left an awful
lot of vegetation that's now clearly burning. The hot weather also proving especially deadly, with more than 2000 people losing their lives during the
last week of June.
That's a rise of 29 percent from the week before. All right. We are just a moment away from the opening bell on Wall Street. Traders closely following
the latest developments in the Middle East gearing up for a busy week of corporate earnings as well. We're going to see the impact on U.S. markets
after this.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You are watching "Connect the World". Wherever you are watching, you're more than welcome.
These are the headlines. U.S. President Donald Trump tells Fox News, quote, we are going to hit them very hard after the U.S. attacked dozens of
military targets in Iran during another night of strikes.
Tehran says its forces responded with aerial attacks towards U.S. bases in this region. Well, investigators in Bangkok looking into what caused the
deadly blaze at a bar. Officials there say the fire killed at least 27 and injured many more before firefighters were able to bring it under control.
At least two dozen people are still in hospital. Politicians in the U.S. and around the world paying tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham as
we learn new details about his death. A preliminary finding from the Washington D.C. medical examiner shows that the 71-year-old died on
Saturday following a tear in his aorta, medically known as an aortic dissection.
U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says a fall last month sent him to hospital after he briefly lost consciousness. The 84-year-old seen here
also battling a mild case of pneumonia. He's now at a rehabilitation center and plans to continue working until his retirement in January.
His statement on Sunday reads in part, weeks of questions over so it puts to an end week of questions about his hospitalization.
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Right, let me get you to the New York Stock Exchange now. We are about to begin the trading day, trading week, of course, ringing the bell in there
today. That group at the New York Stock Exchange, and that is the bell. Futures indicating a weaker start to the trading day, although not
significantly so.
Apart from on the NASDAQ, which was trading about a 1 percent lower on the futures markets. We'll get a sense of what the S&P and the NASDAQ are doing
as those markets settle. We have got a look at the DOW for you, which is pretty much unchanged. We've seen this escalation over the weekend doesn't
seem to be calming down in the Strait of Hormuz.
We've also got some AI news for you, which may be keeping investors somewhat off these markets or out of these markets. Because if you're
thinking about buying a new laptop or gaming console anytime soon, be prepared to dig deeper into your wallet, the price of many electronics is
rising, and you can blame artificial intelligence for that.
The AI boom is, as I'm sure you're well aware, driving huge demand for memory chips, and manufacturers frankly can't keep up, creating a shortage
that is leaving consumers to pick up the tab. Well, Lisa Eadicicco is CNN's Tech Editor, and she's been having a look at this.
This is a fascinating story. What type of electronics are we looking at here? As likely seeing the biggest price hikes, and which I guess we should
also ask will not be impacted at this point?
LISA EADICICCO, CNN BUSINESS TECH EDITOR: Yeah, Becky. So, where we're seeing the biggest impact right now is in products like game consoles,
laptops, tablets. Companies like Apple, Sony, and Nintendo and Microsoft have all announced price hikes to their products, like iPads.
The Nintendo Switch 2, the PlayStation 5, things like that. There are also Xbox price hikes expected for August, and that's because these are the
products that use the most memory. We're talking about computers here that are rendering graphics and doing a lot of processing on board.
And the types of products that we haven't seen affected yet are things that are a bit smaller and less processing intensive, like earbuds,
smartwatches, the kinds of devices that really rely on the processing power in your phone or other devices to handle the heavy lifting, and so that's
the good news for consumers.
The silver lining in all of this is that not every product will be affected, and that, according to some estimates, one analyst I spoke with
seems to think that the biggest price hikes in electronics will be behind us soon. This initial wave of price hikes. The bad news, however, is that
prices are only expected to increase further.
Probably not as dramatically as we'll see in this initial wave, but they are expected to continue increasing. And there's no short-term fix on the
horizon, and that's because there's only three companies that make most of the memory that powers all of the computers in the world.
And those three companies have been flooded with demand for data center buildouts, as you mentioned. And simply put, it just takes time to create
new factories. That's what's happening now, but that kind of project doesn't happen overnight, especially because this type of manufacturing
that's required to make these chips is it's a really nuanced and complicated process.
It's some of the most one analyst I spoke to called it the most complex manufacturing process on earth. So, this can't happen overnight, and at the
same time, there's a chance that demand for AI could continue to just grow until that point. So, there's no near-term fix, but for consumers that are
in the market for a new laptop, a new game console, the advice that I've been hearing is you should buy now before prices get too much higher.
They're probably not going to come down anytime soon. And if you have purchased something recently, take good care of it. Make sure you can hold
on to it for a long period of time. And if you are shopping for something and you want a little bit of a discount, try looking at the secondhand
market.
There's a lot of refurbished programs out there where devices perform pretty much like new, and you can get them for a little bit cheaper.
ANDERSON: I guess, and thank you. I mean, that's good advice from the experts on you know what we should be thinking about you know buying
wherever we live in the world, be that in the states or around the world, and this is a sort of you know global phenomenon, I guess.
The other issue, of course, has been the supply chain hit that we have seen on the stuff that goes into these chips with the closure of the Strait of
Hormuz. And frankly, you know the supply chain sort of hit that has come off the back of that sort of that resonates. It doesn't surprise me to a
degree that we are seeing a bit of inflation out there.
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Is that also something to be wary of? Given that we're not quite sure what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz at this point.
EADICICCO: Yeah, that's certainly a factor here, and that has a trickle- down effect that definitely impacts supply chains globally. And I think that's another big factor in this as well that makes it difficult to
predict exactly when prices are going to change and how they're going to change and how long this shortage is going to last.
And another thing I've been hearing that throws a wrinkle in this as well, speaking of supply chain nuances, is that even when prices for memory come
down, we might not see that actually reflected in consumer products for a long time, possibly around a year, one analyst told me.
And that's because there's a gap in time from when these companies actually pay for the memory and when that memory is then incorporated into the
products that you see on your store shelves. So, there's a lot of factors here, as you mentioned. There's the supply chain as it is.
There's what's going on around the world, and then of course there's the amount of time it takes to just put up these new factories, and then of
course the other X factor of how AI demand is going to grow.
ANDERSON: Sure. Yeah, fascinating.
EADICICCO: But it's definitely something we'll keep an eye on for sure.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you. Thank you, Lisa.
EADICICCO: Yes, thank you.
ANDERSON: Thank you. When we come back, Cape Verde became the surprise star of the World Cup, didn't it? But the underdog's success wasn't just down to
luck. I'm going to explain what we mean by that, after this.
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ANDERSON: Well, Cape Verde shone in this World Cup, didn't they? Becoming the smallest nation ever to enter the knockout stage of the tournament, but
their unexpected success was actually the result of years of investment in the island's nation's youth. CNN's Patrick Snell has the story for you.
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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT (voice-over): Cape Verde's football team have gained unexpected fame around the globe after emerging as a surprise
fan favorite at the World Cup. With a population of less than 600,000 people, they became the smallest nation ever to reach the knockout round of
the tournament.
But their fairy tale run ended after a thrilling 3-2 defeat during extra time to reigning champions Argentina. This was Cape Verde's World Cup
debut, though they have long been preparing for their chance. The country's football association has run youth development programs for years, often
funded by FIFA.
SILVERIA NEDIO, HEAD COACH OF CAPE VERDE WOMEN'S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM: The aim of football is, first of all, to form good citizens, to keep them
away from trouble with the law through football, the main passion for every child in Cape Verde. And that's why we decided to turn the project into a
football training school.
SNELL (voice-over): FIFA says it's invested more than 5.7 million dollars into the country across 17 FIFA forward projects.
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The investments have included new artificial playing fields and stadium upgrades, along with national team development programs. A couple of the
Blue Sharks who played on the history-making World Cup team trained with the program.
MARIO SEMEDO, PRESIDENT OF CAPE VERDEAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION: Yes, I believe we have indeed made real investments. Take our own example. We have four
players in the national team who received all their training here at the Federation's training center through the Bola Pra Frente program. This
center is clear proof that investing in training is a priority for us.
SNELL (voice-over): If Cape Verde's success at the World Cup shows anything, it has the talent and an enthusiastic fan base. One of the
biggest obstacles so far has been money, but the country is expected to receive a payout of over 20 million dollars for reaching a round of 32,
which could be a game changer for its football program.
NEDIO: The future of football in Cape Verde, both women's and men's, is strong. It is big. From this World Cup moment, things can change, not only
in football, in people, or in country, but in the whole structure.
SNELL (voice-over): Patrick Snell, CNN.
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ANDERSON: Well in tennis, world number one, Jannik Sinner defending his Wimbledon title after defeating Alexander Zverev on Sunday. Sinner now
claims his fifth career major, but his first win of any kind in almost two months. Well, our Coy Wire joins us now.
And it was a great weekend of tennis, a great two weeks of Wimbledon with all sorts of story lines that, though, a familiar ending, I guess.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, five major titles now at 24 years old. Guess who else won five by the time they were 24, Becky.
Novak Djokovic, the guy who has more than anyone else. So, he's rolling pretty well, right? And what a tournament it's been to your point?
I mean, we saw the return of Serena Williams. We saw Novak Djokovic get a 55th semifinal appearance, only to fall to center. That man there who was
hoisting and kissing that trophy. We're going to go through how he got there. Had to come back from adversity in this match, on top of the
adversity, having overcome that heat illness that he suffered back in Paris at the French Open. That and so much more to come, Becky.
ANDERSON: Yeah, and a shout out for that lady's final. I thought it was over in in what an hour and two minutes. I walked away, came back, and it
was a three-set thriller. I'm sure you're going to have more on that in "World Sport". That is coming up after this short break. Stay with us.
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