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France Evacuates Tourist Hotspot Amid Fire Threat; U.S., Iran Trade Strikes In 13th Straight Night Of Attacks; U.S. Imposes New Tariffs On Dozens Of Trading Partners; U.S. Measles Cases Hit 35-Year High; Plans For Arch In Washington Spark Concern For Pilots; CNN Speaks To Family Separated BY ICE Raid In Texas; NIH: 50-70 Million Americans Have Sleep Disorders; Aired 12-1p ET
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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Complete evacuation via boat. Thousands have cut their vacations short as firefighters battle a blaze in southern
France. The second hour of "One World" starts right now.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've got to go.
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ASHER: From paradise to peril, thousands flee as wildfires rage in Europe. First responders are doing whatever they can to contain the spread.
Plus, the tariffs are in full effect. Who's being targeted and why are they being announced now?
Also ahead.
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REV. JARRETT KERBEL, RECTOR, ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: America is immigration and immigration is America. The two are inseparable.
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ASHER: Better together. How local faith leaders are taking a stand for their neighbors for immigrants.
And later, doctors say it's the most important part of your health. And a third of Americans say that they don't get as much as they need. Getting
your best sleep with a man who calls himself the sleep doctor.
All right. Coming to you live from New York, I'm Zain Asher. You're watching "One World."
We begin with the wildfires tearing through southern Europe right now. In southwestern France, authorities have taken an extraordinary step ordering
the total evacuation of a popular tourist resort over fears of an out-of- control fire that could leave people trapped.
Forty thousand people left the Cap Ferret peninsula on boats and by road in just a few hours on Friday morning. More than 20,000 residents in a town
further north will also evacuated overnight because of a separate blaze.
French President Emmanuel Macron says that he's asked for help from the E.U. including firefighting aircraft.
Spain, meantime, has declared a national emergency linked to its wildfires for the first time ever. It comes after fires spread overnight towards
towns west of the capital, Madrid. CNN's Melissa Bell has more.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As wildfires grip this tourism hotspot in southwestern France, locals in a
nearby port watched as a numinous red sky marks the terror taking place across the bay.
French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Hamptons like Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, the wildfire that had devastated thousands of
hectares already doubled overnight, according to local authorities.
There's only one road linking the Cap Ferret to the outside world. Some 40,000 people use that to evacuate with a few hundred taking boats to the
port of Arcachon on the other side of the bay.
Not far away, another wildfire is also raging in the long region around the town of Biscarrosse, where 23,000 people were evacuated.
This local resident says, "It's worrying and it's worrying because the whole neighborhood where I live has been evacuated, so we're in doubt
wondering, are we OK? Has everything burned?"
Another woman from the nearby Londe (ph) region said, fear had begun to spread overnight on Thursday.
"We're all starting to panic a little now, to be honest", she says. "We spent the whole day not really knowing what was going on and now that night
has fallen and it's really red. We can feel that it's right next to us."
French President Emmanuel Macron called the situation very tense, particularly in Gironde, adding that France had requested the activation of
the European Union's civil protection mechanism.
France is battling 32 wildfires of varying sizes, according to the interior minister, including this large one in the southern Ver region.
"It really is a disaster. When you arrive here, it feels apocalyptic. It's as if we're no longer in this world, but in another one," she says.
Spain is also facing the consequences of successive heat waves and parched conditions with residents in some towns near Madrid also forced to evacuate
because of wildfires.
They've become a regular feature of European summers, but this year, the continent's forest fire information system says that it has seen far more
land burned than the annual average for the same period normally.
This after record breaking climate change driven heat waves turned the landscape into a tinderbox.
Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
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ASHER: All right. For the latest on how the wildfires are developing, and the role that the ongoing heat wave is playing in fueling them, I want to
get to Allison Chinchar, joining us live now from the weather center.
I just checked in the temperature right now. I mean, obviously, Melissa Bell was talking about France, but there are also wildfires, of course, in
Spain, the temperature right now in Spain, in -- in Fahrenheit is around 86, 88 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean, obviously, we've talked about 100 degree
weather in a lot of these countries in Europe.
Just explain to us how these sorts of temperatures are really fueling these wildfires and how it's affecting how firefighters contain them as well,
Allison.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. And the temperatures are even hotter in France. I mean, take a look at this. That southwestern portion of
France. You've got those temperatures in about the mid-30s or the upper 90s in Fahrenheit.
So, you've got several of these areas where those fires are focused. And even portions of Spain also looking at those temperatures into the 90s.
These areas where you have the fires that heat is not helping the situation at all.
Again, here's a map, just to kind of give you the scope of where a lot of these fires are. Now, the main ones we've been talking about here with the
evacuations. That's right there on that western region of France.
Here's kind of a zoomed in version. Now, this was yesterday. You can still see that smoke plume right there from those fires just to the west of
Bordeaux.
Now we move into today. You can see how much more smoke is starting to really come off of those fires. Again, these are just the ones we've
focused on here. There's even more down into Spain.
That smoke obviously just kind of really the indicator of how much those fires are growing in the last few days.
The one thing that has been fueling also to the drought conditions. Again, you can see that red area there and really much of France either in the
yellow, the orange or even the red color just showing how dry the area is. And it's those dry fuels that are really allowing that fire to spread so
quickly.
Now, we do have some winds around the area. We're not expecting really super strong winds for these areas. Most of them will also remain offshore
for this region. But at this point, it's really going to be the heat that is telling the story. The good news there, the heat is finally going to
subside by the end of the weekend.
ASHER: And that can't come soon enough. Allison Chinchar, live for us. Thank you.
All right. The U.S. and Iran traded another round of attacks and counterattacks nearly two weeks after an interim ceasefire lies in
shambles.
Tehran says it launched a new wave of attacks on U.S. assets in both Bahrain and Jordan. This as U.S. military completes a 13th straight night
of airstrikes against Iranian drone facilities and other targets as well.
U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he's not yet ready to negotiate a new ceasefire with Iran.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're doing very well against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We're doing extremely well. They would like
to do something. But I say they're not ready yet. They need more of the same.
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ASHER: CNN's Betsy Klein joins us live now from the White House.
All of this, of course, comes as the U.S. president says that he's considering a massive attack, possibly bigger than ever before. And also,
he's getting ready to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week.
Just talk to us about that meeting because, obviously, Netanyahu is somebody who has always been skeptical of the Iranian ability to negotiate
in good faith.
There's very little trust, obviously, between both countries to say the least at this point, Betsy. Walk us through that.
BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Certainly. It comes at a moment of some significant strain in that relationship between President
Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. But Netanyahu is coming here ostensibly to attend the funeral service for the president's top ally, Senator Lindsey
Graham, who will be honored next week.
So, we'll have to see how that plays out and whether the solemn moment has any sort of weight and ability to get these two to a better place in their
relationship.
But it comes, as you mentioned, after 13 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes in Iran and a diplomatic off-ramp seems increasingly less likely.
It also comes as we are getting this new intelligence assessment from the U.S. intelligence community. According to two sources familiar with the
matter, they assessed that these strikes that the U.S. has been carrying out for just about two weeks now, it's not likely to shift Iran's
negotiation position.
Meanwhile, "The New York Times" is reporting, according to sources, that Iran, on Thursday, rejected a ceasefire proposal. And they said that Iran
conveyed that they were not happy that the proposal was temporary and that it did not resolve this question of who controls the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, Iran's state media has pushed back very strongly. They call "The New York Times" report, diversionary and misleading.
A U.S. official similarly says that it is not accurate. So, trying to figure out what to make of all of that here, whether there could
potentially be an opening for diplomacy.
But in President Trump's view, Iran, he says, is not ready yet. The president going on to say yesterday, as you saw, that they need more of the
same. So, signaling here that these strikes are unlikely to stop anytime soon, even as he telegraphs the possibility of ramping that up, escalating,
potentially putting boots on the ground, targeting critical infrastructure. All of those threats remain on the table.
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The president really has limited options here. It can be status quo or that escalation.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had some very notable comments to "The Wall Street Journal" yesterday. She told them that these strikes on
Iran will continue until they come to the table in what President Trump deems a meaningful way.
It's unclear what will get that meaningful way secured. But the president's very frustrated by this conflict. This is something that he said would be
over in a matter of weeks. It's about to hit its five-month mark. The price of gas here in the U.S. steadily ticking up over $4 a gallon.
And public opinion on this conflict is increasingly negative. A new Fox News poll says that just 34 percent of Americans approve of his handling of
this war. Zain.
ASHER: Which is problematic going into the midterms. Betsy Klein, live for us there. Thank you so much.
All right. President Trump is reigniting his global trade war. Starting today, dozens of trading partners are now being hit with levies of 10 to
12.5 percent on goods exported to the United States.
The move comes as a near-blank hit tariff imposed earlier this year has expired. And after the Supreme Court ruled those tariffs unlawful.
For more on this, let's bring in CNN's David Goldman. So, David, just talk to us about which countries -- I mean, there's a whole range of countries.
We're talking about dozens of countries around the world being hit with these tariffs.
And which countries are also exempt, which goods are exempt. But I think also important is the sort of pretext that Donald Trump is using to justify
these tariffs. It's ostensibly to target countries that import goods that are made using forced labor. Walk us through that, David.
DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN SENIOR BUSINESS REPORTER: Zain, I love talking to you because you basically just said everything that I was going to say.
ASHER: I'm so sorry.
GOLDMAN: Now, I think -- no, no, this is great.
ASHER: I'm so sorry. I won't do that again.
GOLDMAN: No, you're better at this than I am. That's the key. That everyone at the home needs to understand this.
I mean, you're exactly right. And I think pretext is a really important term because we're going to get to that exact point.
Now, as you mentioned, 10 percent to 12.5 percent. Now, that is more for some countries than they were paying before. Why are they doing this? Why
is this the number? We're going to get to all of that.
There are 60 trading partners, as you said, dozens of countries. Most of the countries that had tariffs before this regime are going to have the new
tariffs.
This equals about 99.4 percent of all U.S. imports are now subject to a tariff. If you're a country that's not on this list, it's really because
the United States isn't doing business with you. This is basically a tariff on everything.
And remember, there were these old tariffs that replaced the tariffs that the Supreme Court said the president wasn't allowed to use. They just did a
10 percent across the board tariff using Section 122. We all know it well of the tariff act -- the Trade Act of 1974.
But the problem with that is that it only lasts for 150 days and then they expire. So they needed to replace it with something. Remember when you said
pretext, this is what they replaced it with. Section 301 of the same Trade Act.
But what are they doing? They're citing forced labor. They are saying that all 60 of those countries have a forced labor problem. And that is the
legal mechanism that they use to put these tariffs on.
But they have also said that they want to replace the old tariffs to get the -- the effective tariff rate back up to where it was before the Supreme
Court ruled.
So, you want to talk about pretext, that might be a pretext, but this isn't done. They're not over. We also have 50 percent tariffs coming on Canada
using a different unused tariff act from 1930. And then Brazil has another 25 percent using the same tariff act.
Zain, there is a replacement mechanism for all the tariffs that we have long since forgotten about and now they're trying to do it and testing the
legal theory that they can get this done.
ASHER: All right. David Goldman, thank you for breaking that down for us. You did a better job than I could have --
GOLDMAN: Thank you. No, no, no.
ASHER: Honestly. You did.
GOLDMAN: Let's switch places and see if I can do your job.
ASHER: Hilarious.
All right. David, thank you for that.
I want to bring in John Iceland. He's the Associate Director of Economic Analysis at the Budget Lab at Yale University. John, thank you so much for
being with us.
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I think it's important for our audience to really understand what's happening here. I mean, obviously, as David and I were talking about, the
pretext is this idea that these tariffs are meant to target countries that import goods that are used -- that use forced labor.
However, it does coincide with the fact that the Supreme Court ruled against tariffs that were used justified by the IEEPA rule. And so many
people are saying this is Donald Trump's way to get around that. Give us your take on that.
JOHN ICELAND, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ECONOMICS ANALYSIS BUDGET LAB, YALE UNIVERSITY: Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me on. I think it's
worth noting just how closely they've newly announced tariffs today match up with the overall tariff rate that we saw literally one day ago under the
Section 122 regimes.
Right now, we're looking at statutory tariff rates of about 12 percent. That's within like a couple like -- like 0.01 percentage points what we had
before. It's actually 0.3 percentage points down from the Section 122 era.
So, the tariffs that are just enough to be really closely replicated and aggregate the tariffs we saw in the last 150 days.
All that being said that the stated goal of these tariffs, exactly as you said, is to kind of like enforce these kind of forced labor rules.
However, the data we're seeing shows that it's just replicating with a new set of authorities the -- the tariffs we've been seeing for the last
several months. It is worth seeing -- worth noting though that as of right now, we aren't back up to the tariff rates we saw prior with the SCOTUS
decision in February of this year.
There are, however, other potential tariff authorities coming down the pipe. There are further investigations under Section 301. There are -- as a
former (INAUDIBLE) to say that other potential tariff reporting that could be used. And so we're all here waiting to see what might come next.
ASHER: One thing I find really interesting is that despite these tariffs that this administration has been imposing, the trade deficit is actually
widening.
And there are many reasons for this, you know, including strong domestic demand, especially for, you know, A.I. related -- related technology,
strong dollar, weaker yuan. That sort of thing.
But it is interesting because ostensibly, I mean, some economists argue, whether or not a trade deficit or a widening trade deficit really matters
all that much.
But regardless, the -- the very sort of reason why this administration wanted to impose tariffs in the first place was to shrink the trade deficit
between the United States and various other countries. So, explain to us why it's having the opposite effect.
ICELAND: So, I think there are a couple different moving pieces there. The first is that a lot as, you know, as you apply, a lot of other stuff is
going on in the economy exactly the same time. And this not just affects the trade deficit, but also consumer prices and everything else that
tariffs are not, you know, the only thing that's active.
It's hard to kind of wait what is exactly being driven by the -- the set of tariff policies versus A.I. booms versus other, like, structural like
things that are impacting the U.S. economy.
I do want to say though that as we kind of reckon all of that, one thing that the tariff regime is introducing into the economy and has been, for
the last year, is an incredible amount of uncertainty.
I -- I'm an economist and I spent -- it's my full-time job to try to track these proposals. And, you know, just this week alone, there were two
different changes that came down the pipe that we had to try to understand. That's hard for an individual consumer to try to understand. It's also
really hard for businesses to try to like prepare for what might be coming and how to make large-scale business decisions. So, one of the biggest
things that's continuously being driven by this is uncertainty.
ASHER: OK. So just -- just really quickly. Where are we on -- because obviously the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs. Where are we on
the United States being forced to issue refunds to -- to various importers on that? I have about 20 seconds.
ICELAND: No, absolutely. Yes, the -- the refunds are in the process of going out. And so if you look at the daily -- the monthly treasury data,
we're partway through that process and it seems to be flowing out.
One of the toughest things about that refund process though is that the folks that ended up probably paying the burden of tariffs, which felt a
large amount of consumers, might not be the same people that'll be getting the refund. And so how that gets worked out, that's going to be a
(INAUDIBLE).
ASHER: Uh-huh. And now these importers are having to face more tariffs. So, we'll see what happens.
All right. John Iceland, live for us there. Thank you so much.
All right. Still to come here on "One World," a public health milestone that nobody wanted to see. Why measles cases, in the United States, have
now reached their highest level in 35 years?
Plus, a new legal twist for Chris Brown as the singer pleads guilty in a London court.
Also ahead.
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SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: This airspace above me is among the most complex for planes taking off and landing.
And President Trump is about to make it even more complicated with this.
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ASHER: Trump has plans to build the 76-meter high arch in the nation's capital. Why pilots are worried it will make landing near Washington
difficult? That's after the break.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Chris. We love you. Chris.
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ASHER: This is Grammy-winning singer, Chris Brown, in London. He was in court earlier where he pleaded guilty to fighting in public in connection
to an incident at a London nightclub.
The case stems from a 2023 confrontation in which prosecutors alleged that Brown struck a music producer with a bottle. Brown has previously denied
the more serious assault charges.
All right. The U.S. has reached a grim public health milestone. Measles cases have climbed to their highest level in about 35 years, surpassing
last year's number with more than five months still left in 2026.
Health officials say, the vast majority of cases are people who are unvaccinated. Experts warn the U.S. could soon lose its measles elimination
status, a milestone achieved back in 2000.
CNN medical correspondent Meg Tirrell joins us live now.
So, what is it going to take? I mean, obviously, there are a rising number of children who are unvaccinated. What is it going to take to get this
under control, Meg?
MEG TIRRELL, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Unfortunately, it is changing the trajectory on vaccination rates.
Right now, what we're seeing is that they've been falling from before the COVID-19 pandemic. And with the virus-like measles, which is the most
contagious virus that we know about, you need to have at least 95 percent in an immediate community of people vaccinated in order to get that herd
immunity.
So, we're protecting people who can't get enough benefit from vaccination or who are maybe too young or immunocompromised so they can't get
vaccinated.
And so we are not at that point nationally anymore. Before the pandemic, we were above 95 percent on a national level. Now, we're at about 92.5 percent
when it comes to kindergartners in the 2024-25 school year.
And then if you look down into states, communities, counties, schools, the vaccination rates in some of these pockets can become much lower than that.
And that is why we are seeing so many people get infected with measles.
The last two years have set records. So last year, we surpassed 2,200 cases. Now, just about halfway through this year, we've surpassed 2,300
cases. So that's the most measles cases we've seen in any given year since 1991, 35 years.
Of course, we eliminated measles in the year 2000. And that is now at risk as we see ongoing outbreaks continue to smolder.
So, particularly at the border of Utah and Arizona, there's an outbreak that's been going on since last summer. We expect to see officials meet in
November to look at the data and see whether there's been ongoing transmission for more than a year. And if they determined that there has
been, and many think that is the case, then we will be at risk of losing that elimination status.
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And that was something that had been worked on for years, for decades, to achieve in the United States and really signals that we've lost control of
this vaccine-preventable disease. Zain.
ASHER: All right. Meg Tirrell, thank you for that.
All right. President Trump is planning to build a 76-meter high arch in the nation's capital, and it's sparking a lot of concern in the aviation
community. The arch would be in the middle of very congested airspace near Washington's Reagan National Airport.
CNN's Sunlen Serfaty takes a closer look.
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SERFATY: This airspace above me is among the most complex for planes taking off and landing. And President Trump is about to make it even more
complicated with this. A 250-foot triumphal arch in the middle of this very congested airspace, less than two miles from the final approach of
Washington's Reagan National Airport.
SERFATY (voice-over): The size and location is sparking concern in the aviation community. Ever since 9/11, commercial airspace is restricted. So
planes have to use this flight path to come in from the north. Pilots tell us this is already one of the most difficult landings in the country.
BEN BERMAN, FORMER AIRLINE PILOT: It's challenging, especially that last turn.
SERFATY: Right.
BERMAN: Now, the arch is going to be something we come across near the end of this arrival when we're already at low altitude.
SERFATY (voice-over): Ben Berman, a former airline pilot, took us into a simulator to show us exactly what pilots see when they make this landing.
BERMAN: So right now, we're flying by the arch.
SERFATY: So you're talking about only 300 of clearance between you and the top of the arch.
BERMAN: Yes, approximately. So right now --
SERFATY: How does that make you feel?
BERMAN: Oh, if it's a clear visual day, I feel good. But if I was flying that RNAV approach to 19, I could be doing this in the clouds. You can't go
to the left because there's the restricted airspace of downtown Washington and all the Capitol and White House and everything. And then you can't go
to the right because, well, there may be an arch there.
So then at the very last bit, make a -- about a 30-degree right turn to line up with the runway. It all has to be judged, you know, by -- by eye.
SERFATY: I am standing where the arch will ultimately go. I'm nearly six feet tall. You can see how tall the arch would be. The flight path is just
350 feet above the highest point of the arch.
SERFATY (voice-over): While that seems like a small distance, experts say it's enough space because the horizontal clearance is so wide, between
1,400 to 2,000 feet.
Even so, for years, pilots have complained about landing at Runway 19, the one that is closest to the arch.
According to government reports, pilots have said, there is not enough room to make the descent, flying too low in the area, receiving caution obstacle
alerts from their warning systems, and struggling to avoid flying into the prohibited airspace.
The FAA says the arch is safe, saying it would have no significant adverse effect, but called for red lights to be added to the arch to help pilots
navigate around it.
SERFATY: And the arch has already passed through one of two key federal commissions. On September 3rd, the arch will likely go in front of the
National Capital Planning Commission. That is the second one that has to pass this through.
We potentially could see final passes of the -- passage of the arch. A reminder, that commission is one that President has stacked with his hand-
selected loyalists, so very likely it could go through.
But this does still face a significant lawsuit from Vietnam veterans groups and also historians and preservationists, so it is still working its way
through the court system.
Sunlen Serfaty, CNN, Washington.
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ASHER: All right. Welcome back to "One World." I'm Zain Asher in New York.
As the Trump administration cracks down on immigration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is saying it's issued more than $84 billion in civil
fines to illegal immigrants who refuse to leave. That's since the beginning of this Trump administration, but for those who have left families have
been separated.
CNN's Valeria Leon speaks to one of them.
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VALERIA LEON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): ICE raids across the U.S. have not only resulted in deadly shootings, but in families being torn
apart.
Venezuelan mother of two, Jessica Urriola, was left alone with her daughters in Houston, Texas after her husband was detained by ICE and
deported to Venezuela in 2025.
JESSICA URRIOLA, VENEZUELA MIGRANT (through translator): He left for work and that day immigration officers stopped him. It was during the mass raids
and immigration took him away.
LEON (voice-over): The family entered the U.S. through a CBP One appointment in 2024, part of a Biden era program used by nearly one million
people before the Trump administration shut it down.
As U.S. immigration policy sharply shifted when President Trump retook office, Jessica feared she could face the same fate as her husband. She
decided to self deport with her daughters.
URRIOLA (through translator): I didn't want the same thing that happened to my husband to happen to me. If they detained me, who would my daughters be
left with?
LEON (voice-over): For more than a year now, they've been living in Mexico City where 16-year-old Yescarlys has been able to play soccer for the first
time during an event organized by the European Union for refugee children. But her biggest wish is to reunite with her father.
YESCARLYS GARCIA, URRIOLA'S DAUGHTER (through translator): I'd like to go back to Venezuela. I want to see my dad.
LEON (voice-over): Without the money and documents to travel, they remain stranded in Mexico.
URRIOLA (through translator): We're waiting to see if we can get help with a humanitarian flight because we don't have the resources to return to
Venezuela.
LEON (voice-over): Nearly 13,000 third-country migrants have been deported from the U.S. to Mexico since January 2025. Mexico denies the claims that
serving as a U.S. safe third-country for asylum seekers.
President Claudia Sheinbaum says the country receives migrants for humanitarian reasons.
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We are a humanitarian country. And when people of other nationalities arrive, they
are not turned away.
LEON (voice-over): Despite Mexico's goodwill, ICE raids continue to leave families split apart and spread out across nations wondering when they will
be able to reunite.
Valeria Leon, CNN, Mexico City.
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ASHER: Leaders from various faiths gathered in Maine Thursday to speak out again recent violence against -- excuse me, recent violence incidence
involving ICE. It comes 10 days after the deadly shooting of Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford. Keenan Mills reports.
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KEENAN MILLS, REPORTER (voice-over): The states of Maine, Texas, and Florida, all three of which have had ICE involved deaths this month, along
with clergy in Minnesota, held simultaneous events in their respective states, demanding an end to violence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a -- it's a reality that the communities are under attack.
REV. JANE FIELD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MAINE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: Silence is complicity. It's not easy. But to -- to ever say to a congregation, we just
won't talk about politics here. It's speaking very loudly about politics there.
MILLS (voice-over): The speakers saying that many in their communities and of their religious groups are fearful of simply leaving their homes, adding
that several have taken the role of supplying food, running errands and more for those that are uncomfortable in doing it themselves.
REV. SARA EWING-MERRILL, LEAD PASTOR, HOPEGATEWAY CHURCH: When immigrants tell us they're afraid to leave their homes or too afraid to send their
kids to school, it is a lie if we say you're fine. Just go ahead and do it. It's not true.
KERBEL: America is immigration and immigration is America. The two are inseparable. And always have been and always will be our faith is that what
is good about America will defeat what is wrong about America right now.
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ASHER: All right. Let's take a look and see how U.S. markets are doing right now. Let's see how all three indices are faring or rather than just
the Dow.
It is up by slightly more than half of a percent. The S&P 500 as you can see there by half of a percent as well. And the NASDAQ up ever so slightly.
This is your business breakout.
All right. Global oil prices dips back below $100 a barrel for the first time in two months. It comes as markets braced for more volatility as the
Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen threatened to impose a blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea.
An update to the lawsuit that Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is filing against U.S. group, Eli Lilly. Novo is now seeking preliminary U.S.
court injunction to immediately block Lilly's obesity and diabetes drugs advertisements. Novo says the ads are based on outdated studies, giving a
false impression that the American company's drugs aren't superior. Lilly denies any wrongdoing.
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All right. New music is on the way from Destiny's Child. The Grammy-winning trio of Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams is set to release new
remixes this summer. That's coming from Beyonce's father who managed the group.
Their classic album, "The Writing's on the Wall" turned 27 this month. And fans are pleading with the trio to reunite.
All right. Actor Ryan Gosling's long-running joke about his La La Hand is getting a new twist. A redesigned poster for the Oscar-winning film has
been released to market's 10th anniversary.
CNN's Samantha Lindell has the story.
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RYAN GOSLING, STAR OF FILM "LA LA LAND": This is my Hail Mary attempt to fix my -- my La La Hand.
SAMANTHA LINDELL, CNN REPORTER: This iconic movie poster has haunted Ryan Gosling for 10 years, but the movie star is finally getting the correction
he's been asking for.
Gosling has said in social media posts and interviews that he disliked his hand placement in the original "La La Land" theatrical release poster.
GOSLING: But I thought we were supposed to have our hands up. And I thought it'd be cool to put my hand like that. Even though everyone told me it
wasn't cool, I was sure that that was cooler than that.
LINDELL (voice-over): In a 2024 interview with "The Wall Street Journal," he said that when he and co-star Emma Stone were dancing, he didn't know
the moment would become the movie poster.
GOSLING: And that when I look at it and I just have to see it all the time, you know what's been cooler than this? That.
LINDELL: Even Eva Mendes has joked that his La La Hand was one of his biggest regrets, posting his attempt at a redo.
GOSLING: How is my hand?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's good.
LINDELL (voice-over): To celebrate the film's 10 year anniversary, the movie will be back in theaters starting August 16th. The announcement on
Instagram was posted with the caption saying, quote, a minor adjustment, referring to the new poster.
And fans were torn on their feelings about the new poster with comments like, quote, Gosling will be so relieved and reverse the La La Hand
immediately.
The film won six Oscars and Gosling received a Golden Globe for his role as Seb.
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ASHER: All right. This just in to CNN. LeBron James says he's heading to Philly. The NBA icon made the announcement earlier on Friday. The 76ers
will be the fourth team in his story 24-season career. This after winning championships in Cleveland, Miami, and most recently in Los Angeles. His
management tells ESPN that LeBron signed a two-year $8 million contract with Philadelphia.
All right. We all love it, so why do we neglect it? I'm talking about sleep. After the break, we'll look at how much you need and why so many of
us simply do not get enough.
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ASHER: All right. The National Institutes of Health says that more than 50 million Americans have sleep disorders. Sleep is obviously hugely important
for your health.
I want to bring in Michael Breus. He's a double-boarded clinical psychologist and clinical sleep specialist whose latest book is called
"Sleep, Drink, Breathe." Michael, thank you so much for being with us.
I have so many (TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY) when it comes to sleep, especially because this is something that so many people, not just Americans, of
course, but people around the world really struggle with.
There are lots of reasons why people are not getting enough sleep, but I -- I will say this, that there is no substitute at all for a good night sleep.
Just walk us through the various reasons --
MICHAEL BREUS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: I couldn't agree more.
ASHER: Right. The various reasons that so many of us are struggling with our sleep.
BREUS: Well, there's a whole host of reasons why people are struggling with their sleep. I think one of the big ones has to do with stress, right?
I -- I -- I think that's probably the biggest one that many people don't think of. Even small daily stressors like watching, you know, things that
are upsetting or learning about new and pieces of information, all of those things can, over the course of time, really have a general effect on you.
Or just being upset in general being in upset situations. People don't realize it, but that will compound over the course of the day.
The other big thing is your environment. One of the big things I'm always talking about with people is, do you get enough light in your day? Because
many people don't realize, but light during the day actually helps set us up for better sleep at night.
ASHER: I'm so glad you told me that because my first anchor job, I worked from 1 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. And so I worked the overnight shift. And I
absolutely did not -- I had to learn and train my body to sleep during broad daylight.
BREUS: Yes.
ASHER: How do people know the difference between a genuine sleep disorder and just a few nights of bad sleep?
BREUS: Boy, what a great question. I think consistency really plays the role there. You know, it's not uncommon to have a bad night of sleep during
a particular stressful situation or, you know, travel oftentimes can do that.
But if you are noticing that something is not going well with your sleep more than, I would say, three nights a week for more than three weeks in a
row, that is probably a sign that it's -- it's worthwhile to at least mention it to your primary care doctor, or maybe even potentially see a
sleep specialist.
I will tell you in all honesty, many people avoid talking to a sleep doctor because they think they're going to have to go do a sleep test, which might
land them using something called a CPAP machine.
And I want to be very clear, there are 88 different sleep disorders. Only one of those is where -- is where a CPAP machine might be useful. And by
the way, there are at least six other treatments for sleep apnea.
So, I want people to know and understand, don't avoid sleep testing. But if you do think that there's the possibility that you could have a sleep
disorder, it's probably worth discussing it with your doctor. Because every other aspect of your health is dependent on sleep. Literally everything you
do --
ASHER: A hundred percent.
BREUS: -- you do better with a good night sleep.
ASHER: I mean, it ruins your entire day. So -- so what -- for people who say, look, the reason I can't sleep well is because -- and this is a common
one that I hear all the time, my brain just won't switch off. Like my brain continues racing.
BREUS: Sure.
ASHER: I have anxiety. I can't stop thinking. What do you do if you're in that situation?
BREUS: So, my favorite technique is something called 4-7-8 breathing. This is a technique developed by Dr. Andrew Weil, Harvard-trained naturalist,
super smart guy, and it's exactly what it sounds like.
You slowly breathe in for a count of four, you hold for a count of seven, and then you gently breathe out for a count of eight. If you can do 22 zero
cycles of this, it will lower your heart rate to a point where it'll allow the natural sleep process to come in and help you fall asleep.
This is my number one technique that I use for people, especially folks who either can't fall asleep or wake up in the middle of the night and have
difficulty returning to sleep.
I have an entire video on it on my YouTube channel, and people want to check it out.
ASHER: You know, and I'm so glad you -- you mentioned that. Yes, the YouTube channel, but also about the breathing technique, because it's so
tempting to reach for --
BREUS: Yes.
ASHER: -- a sleeping pill, right? And the problem with --
BREUS: Right.
ASHER: -- sleeping pills is that if you take a sleeping pill and you wake up before your body is ready, God help you. I mean, your entire day is
going to be just feel completely off-kilter.
So, what do you -- what do you think about sleeping pills overall?
BREUS: So, here's what I'll tell you is, I think there are certain situations where sleeping pills make a lot of sense. But generally
speaking, I -- I think that they have historically been overprescribed. I think there are a lot of people who have been on sleeping pills for 15, 20
years, when in fact, that's probably pretty inappropriate way to do things.
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The way sleeping pills were originally designed is to be used for three to six months maximum. I mean, I've got people who show up on my doorstep and
been using them for 10, 15 years.
To be clear, if you are out there on a sleeping pill and you're not happy about it, do not. I repeat, do not take yourself off of it by yourself.
This can be quite dangerous. You want to speak with your doctor and get what's called a tapering schedule where it's a lowering of the dose over
the course of time to slowly be able to get you off of that.
But again, this is not something that you should participate on by yourself. You want to talk with the prescribing doctor if you're
uncomfortable.
But also, there's no pill shaming going on here. If you need a sleeping pill and you and your doctor have come to that conclusion, I don't think
there's anything wrong with that.
ASHER: OK. I'm glad you said that. And so, for people who wake up consistently at 3:00 A.M., not that they can't go to sleep, they go to
sleep and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. What are the do's and don'ts if you're in that situation? Asking for a friend, by the way.
BREUS: Sure. No problem. So, step number one, don't look at the clock. Let me explain why. It turns out that there are three --
ASHER: Or the phone, because the clock is on the phone.
BREUS: -- things that you need -- right. Well, and that's the problem. One of the -- the res -- the -- the big thing that people need to focus on are
three different things to help them get back to sleep; you want your temperature to get lower, your heart rate to get lower, and your anxiety to
get lower. If those three things low, then the sleep process can come in.
So, when you grab your phone, the big problem is you look at the clock, and then you immediately do the mental math, and now you're upset and you're
saying to yourself, ugh, here I am again. It's three o'clock in the morning. I wish I wasn't here.
And what does that do? That raises your heart rate, which raises your anxiety. Now, we're going in the opposite direction of the direction that
we want to go in. So please, don't grab your phone.
Also, many people think that they need to get up and use the restroom. If you don't actually have to pee, please, don't go pee. I want to be clear,
if you really need to go, go to the bathroom. But a lot of people say --
ASHER: Thank you for your permission.
BREUS: -- I'm up. I'm up. I might as well go to the bathroom. And what that does is when you go from a line to a seated to a standing position, you
elevate your heart rate.
So once again, this is a game of lowering the heart rate. That's why that 4-7-8 really seems to work well.
ASHER: And how much of getting a good night sleep comes down to discipline? Because it's so hard when, you know, you're -- you're lying in bed, you --
you want to scroll, you know, on your devices, you want to look at, for me, in my case, it's definitely the news that I'm reading at all sorts of
hours.
But, you know, for all of us --
BREUS: Right.
ASHER: -- you know, there -- there -- there is a level of discipline that's involved in saying, no, it is 10 o'clock at night, I'm going to put the
phone down and get some sleep.
BREUS: So the way I like to work with it is, I -- I try not to rely on discipline, if I'm honest with you, because sometimes that's not so easy to
come by.
And so what I do is I -- I help my patients by giving them opportunities where discipline isn't necessarily all that much required. As an example,
every single one of my patients wakes up at the same time seven days a week.
So as an example, if you wake up at 6:30 during the week, your schedule is a little crazy. We're not going to go with your schedule. But let's say
normal humans when they wake up at 6:30 during the week. I'm asking them to wake up at the same time on Saturday and on Sunday to keep circadian
consistency.
When you know that you're waking up every single day at 6:30, you will actually make sure that you get in bed and go to sleep. You will actually
cause self-discipline, because you know, after doing it a couple of times, it's pretty miserable to wake up at 6:30 in the morning if you went to bed
at one o'clock at night.
ASHER: And just quickly, does diet affect sleep?
BREUS: So, diet affects sleep in certain ways. I think there's some nuance here. Number one, we know that for people who are overweight or falling
into different categories of being overweight, like obese and things like that, that can compound something called sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a situation where your throat is blocked in the middle of the night and you -- you stop breathing. And so you have to wake up
hundreds of times a night in the middle of the night. So people who have a tendency to gain weight, do also have a tendency to have more severe sleep
apnea.
Also, certain foods can cause indigestion and that can be disruptive to sleep. So for people who are trying a new food, it's probably not the best
idea at, you know, eight o'clock at night to try, you know, the hottest spicy chicken wings that you've ever tasted in your life. That -- that
might not turn out so well for you.
And in addition, I think another big thing from a food perspective that a lot of times we don't talk about is alcohol. Alcohol has a dramatic effect
on sleep. While it does make people feel sleep, the unfortunately it ruins the depth of sleep. You don't get into the deeper sleep cycles and that is
also one of the reasons why you have a hangover the next day.
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ASHER: OK. So much I'm going to try. I'm going to try that -- You said 4-7- 8. 4-7-8 is the breathing technique.
BREUS: 4-7-8 breathing. Yes, I've got a great video. Swing over to YouTube. My channel is called Sleep Doctor. You should check it out.
ASHER: Thank you. Michael Breus, thank you so much.
BREUS: Of course.
ASHER: That was excellent. Appreciate that.
All right. And we are out of time. That does it for this hour of "One World." I'm Zain Asher. Appreciate you watching. Bianna hosts "Amanpour,"
next.
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