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CNN Headlines: Medical Providers Testify On Lindsay Clancy's Mental State; Israel Rejects Trump's Gaza Plan, Demands Hamas Disarm First; Fuel Shortages Stall Trash Pickup On Havana's Streets. Aired 5:30-6a ET
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BRAD SMITH, CNN ANCHOR: It's half past the hour. Let's hit the refresh button on our top stories.
A major setback for President Trump and his Board of Peace. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting the 15-point plan saying that no Israeli troops would be withdrawn until Hamas is fully disarmed. A senior official for Hamas says the group remains committed to the roadmap.
And jury selection begins today for the man charged in Tupac Shakur's 1996 shooting death on the Las Vegas Strip. Now, the prosecution will focus on his 2019 memoir where they say Davis implicated himself. Davis has pleaded not guilty and legal experts have said that his defense may try to show that past statements are false.
And Todd Blanche will be sworn in as attorney general later today. He was confirmed early Saturday morning by a vote of 50 to 49. Blanche has been instrumental in reshaping the Justice Department in the president's image since Trump reentered the Oval Office.
And today, in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, it is the defense's turn to cross-examine one of her psychiatrists who was treating her for postpartum mental health issues. Clancy is the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children.
CNN's Jean Casarez walks us through some of Friday's testimony.
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JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Friday was a very important day in the Lindsay Clancy trial because this is the first time that actual providers took the stand and testified as they treated and assessed Lindsay Clancy from September of 2022 through the middle of January of 2023. And they testified that they assessed her, they observed her -- her demeanor, what she said -- prescribed medications for her.
And the first to take the stand was Dr. Alia Goodheart. She was from McLean psychiatric hospital. And on December 31 of 2022 they received a patient from Massachusetts General Hospital via ambulance. It was Lindsay Clancy. And after being admitted there were numerous assessments of her, but Dr. McLean (sic) was her lead psychiatrist.
A few days later is when she actually met with her and she said that Lindsay Clancy was medically stable and that there was no apparent suicidal risk at all. That what Lindsay was saying was is that it was hard for her to sleep, that she felt numb, and that she couldn't sleep without medication, but the medications were giving her side effects. And the diagnosis from this psychiatrist, major depressive disorder without psychotic features.
Well, on cross-examination the defense asked, "You know, she'd been to so many doctors since September. Did you go back and get her other medical records to see for yourself?" Watch the reply.
KEVIN REDDINGTON, LINDSAY CLANCY'S ATTORNEY: Did you look at her records?
DR. ALIA GOODHEART, INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIST, MCLEAN HOSPITAL, BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS: I did not have access to them.
REDDINGTON: Why not?
GOODHEART: They aren't in the same medical records system.
REDDINGTON: Well, the same medical records system is just so that you have access to MGH. You have access to Brigham and Women's Hospital because it's all part of some big computer information access you have.
What about other health care providers? Can you get access to their records?
GOODHEART: Not in -- not immediately.
REDDINGTON: And Lindsay was very, very cooperative with you guys, wasn't she.
GOODHEART: Yes.
REDDINGTON: Did anyone ever ask her to sign a HIPAA release for anyone to get access to nurse practitioner Jollotta's records?
GOODHEART: No.
REDDINGTON: How about psychiatrist Tufts' records?
GOODHEART: No.
REDDINGTON: How about nurse practitioner Paul's records?
GOODHEART: No.
CASAREZ: Probably the main psychiatrist for Lindsay Clancy, Jennifer Tufts, took the stand in the second half of the day. She testified that she first saw Lindsay Clancy in September of 2022 and the last visit was January 23, 2023. That is basically 24 hours before she killed and strangled her children. She testified that on that day of January 23 that Lindsay was
depressed. There was no question about it. That she had anxiety just as she did in the first visit. That she said it was difficult to get out of bed in the morning, but she would force herself to do it. And -- but she did assess and find at the end of that visit that she was not a danger to herself, and she was not a danger to others.
And once again, about 24 hours later -- maybe a little bit more -- she strangled her children and tried to commit suicide.
Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.
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SMITH: Thank you, Jean.
We return to this top story, Netanyahu's rejection of Trump's 15-point Board of Peace plan. CNN's Nada Bashir has more for us.
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NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is a significant amount of daylight between both the United States and the Israeli government at this point with regards to that 15-point peace plan. We heard just a little moment ago from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu very clearly rejecting that peace plan. But he has said that discussions and talks are still ongoing with U.S. officials. That there are some ideas that they agree with -- others that they do not stand to agree with.
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But he has also been very clear that he doesn't want to see any sort of moves or developments that could allow for a future development of a Palestinian state or any sort of state apparatus, be that in Gaza or in the occupied West Bank.
But, of course, the Israeli prime minister is set to face elections at the end of October, so he is now balancing pressure from Washington but also from those hardline ministers within his cabinet who do not want to see a withdrawal of Israeli forces in Gaza.
Hamas, for its part, according to one official, has said that it would be willing to keep up the terms of this agreement. However, they want to see Israeli forces pulled back beyond the yellow line and they want to see strikes coming to an end in Gaza.
And, of course, important to note that following that announcement by the U.S. president, we did see an uptick in those Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.
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SMITH: Now to Michigan. Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed told CNN about a recent talk that he had with former President Barack Obama. Just days ago, El-Sayed narrowly defeated moderate Haley Stevens. And he says that he and Obama discussed bringing the party together after the contentious primary faceoff.
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ABDUL EL-SAYED, MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC SENATE NOMINEE: I like to keep private conversations private, but it was a really, really warm conversation. I was really grateful for his advice. And, you know, we've got a long road to go here but we're perfectly unified in the need to win Michigan, take back the Senate, and hold Donald Trump accountable.
And I was just really, really appreciative of him and his advice. I mean, this is a guy who I watched come up. I never saw myself in politics until I saw him give that 2004 speech on the DNC floor. It's the first time I ever saw myself reflected in politics at all.
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SMITH: El-Sayed will face off against Republican Mike Rogers in the general election. Michigan is a key state for both parties seeking to control the U.S. Senate.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside an ICE office near Cincinnati, Ohio yesterday to show support for Haitian immigrants facing immigration crackdown.
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PROTESTERS: Singing songs of resistance.
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SMITH: CNN has learned that hundreds of Haitians in the Springfield area have received notices to appear from the Department of Homeland Security in recent days. Those who have gone to ICE for their check- ins have been fitted with ankle monitors to track their location. Organizers say that they're standing with Haitians in the community as immigration enforcement ramps up.
We return now to the fires near Spokane, Washington. For more than a week, officials are warning some people to still stay away from their homes. Some have walked into their neighborhoods to check in on their houses or to try to salvage their things, but fire officials stress it's still dangerous in some areas, even without active fires there.
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TOM STOKESBERRY, INCIDENT COMMAND: You're looking at a lot of hazardous materials in there -- the solar panels, the lithium ion batteries. That is in the air. We saw it on other fires such as even in the Palisades where you might not initially feel that but firefighters, weeks, months later, had serious medical problems because of what they were breathing.
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SMITH: The flames destroyed more than 900 structures. One person was charged with arson in connection to one of the fires.
It's time for Buzz Express, the stories that have people talking.
And first up, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is still dominating the box office. It's now the highest-grossing movie of 2026. Worldwide the movie has made $1.7 billion.
And Spider-Man isn't the only big winner. Christopher Nolan has a new heavy hitter under his belt with "The Odyssey." The movie is now Nolan's highest-grossing film of his career. Before that it was "The Dark Night Rises."
And Mattel is paying tribute to Whitney Houston with a new Barbie doll. The look is inspired by her iconic 1987 music video "I Want to Dance With Somebody." It even comes with a microphone and a mic stand. Mattel says that her sister-in-law helped create the doll. Excellent work there.
Next on CNN HEADLINE EXPRESS a woman says that she had a life-altering medical procedure after doctors told her she had cancer only to find out later the cancer diagnosis was wrong.
And check this out. Wild footage of a hippo crazily chasing a tour boat. What would you even do? It scared the passengers and the tour guides. How it all ended coming up on the other side.
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SMITH: A woman in Georgia had a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, but seven months later she learned that she never had cancer. And now she's suing, claiming a lab mixed up her tissue sample with another patient's.
CNN's Jacqueline Howard has her story.
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CASSANDRA BARKSDALE, PATIENT: Because orders was sent -- we sent in the wrong DNA. It wasn't your tissue that was sent in. It was mixed up with someone else.
JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER (voiceover): It was a shocking mix-up that Cassandra Barksdale says changed her life.
Last year, about seven months after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of uterine cancer, Barksdale found out the tissue sample used to diagnosis her actually belonged to another patient and Barksdale does not have cancer at all.
HOWARD: We don't know anything about that other person.
BARKSDALE: No.
HOWARD: We don't know whose DNA that was. BARKSDALE: That's correct. I was more worried about the other person because I wanted to know, you know, was she still alive? Did she get the correct, you know, care that she needs?
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HOWARD: You originally went to see your doctor last year and Kaiser Southwood Medical Center for fibroids and initial bleeding.
BARKSDALE: Yes, a routine visit. That's correct. And she told me I had to do the biopsy. She told me that they found an aggressive form of cancer in my biopsy. And the first thing that went to my mind is that I was going to die and I was like how am I going to tell my family? How can I tell my kids that I have aggressive cancer?
HOWARD (voiceover): Barksdale says that her doctors recommended surgery. She had her cervix, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and four lymph nodes all removed. The procedure plunged the 45-year-old into an early menopause with hot flashes and sleepless nights.
BARKSDALE: I'm still having panic attacks. I'm in a deep depression. It's just -- I have hard days.
HOWARD (voiceover): Barksdale's attorneys filed a lawsuit this week against Kaiser Permanente seeking damages of more than $10,000.
DR. RODERICK EDMOND, BARKSDALE'S ATTORNEY: I haven't seen a case like this before. I mean, I've practice medicine for 12 years and I've been doing medical malpractice for 25, and this is just a bizarre situation. It just doesn't happen.
HOWARD (voiceover): In a company statement, Kaiser Permanente says, "Ms. Barksdale should not have experienced this. We have highly trained staff and very thorough processes in place to prevent errors like this from taking place. After this occurred last year, we took immediate steps to ensure it could not happen again. We realize the impact of this incident and are committed to working with Ms. Barksdale and her counsel to resolve this in the most fair and accountable way we can."
Barksdale says that she's continuing counseling, finds hope through her church, and finds pride in her two sons, the younger of whom is attending Morehouse School of Medicine to study pathology.
BARKSDALE: So once he found out what I experienced he changed it to do pathology because he feels like he can make a difference in preventing things like this from happening.
HOWARD (voiceover): Jacqueline Howard, CNN.
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SMITH: All right. Let's go around the globe to see what else is making headlines starting in Thailand with an apology from the mother of the 14-year-old who is accused of last week's deadly school shooting.
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MASS SHOOTER'S MOTHER (through translator): I want to apologize to society for what my son did. We are truly devastated because no one thought this would happen. No one knew at all. I apologize to all the victims. I apologize to society. We know -- we know that -- I don't know what to say. If I've said anything wrong, I apologize for that too.
There were no signs at all. He was a bright, cheerful person. He behaved normally. I always told him that if there was anything, he could tell -- not to hide it. He always said there was nothing wrong.
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SMITH: Police say the boy shot and killed his grandparents at home before killing another six people at his high school. He then took his own life.
Investigators say that they discovered the shooter had watched violent content online and they say a teacher had confiscated an air gun that the teen took to school last year. The attack was Thailand's worst mass shooting since 2022.
Taiwan is in the middle of its 10-day-long annual military drills. Part of Sunday's activities included decontamination exercises with soldiers, tanks and armored vehicles put through a simulated nuclear biological and chemical attack. They also practiced rappelling an air landing assault on the strategic Penghu Islands.
And a typhoon has made landfall in eastern China. It is the strongest storm to hit the country this year. A 9-year-old boy is missing after being swept into the sea during the storm. Some areas faced about 93- mile-per-hour winds near the storm's center at the landfall.
And Cuba's fuel and energy crisis -- it isn't just causing blackouts. There are fuel shortages creating a hazardous trash disaster in the streets. Our Juan Carlos Lopez, excuse me, visited a neighborhood in Havana to find out more.
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JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN EN ESPANOL ANCHOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: This is a regular street scene in the Marimar neighborhood in Havana. The beach is right over there -- at least the ocean.
But now I'm going to show you what it's really like and this is one of the consequences of a lack of fuel. The city of about two million people has to deal with this. Since there's not enough fuel to go around trash accumulates on many corners. And it's not only the historic old Havana, it's neighborhoods like this one.
And we've seen the trucks picking up the trash. We've seen the workers at night and at day trying to clean this up. But there's just so much that you'll find this anywhere you go in Havana.
This is one of the consequences of the lack of fuel. This is what the residents of the city have to put up with in the middle of this crisis. It's not only the rolling blackouts which bring the lack of water, but then also the smell on the side of trash on many of the corners of the city.
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SMITH: Juan Carlos Lopez, thank you.
All right, you've got to check this out. In Botswana a hippo was seen charging a tour boat in the water after getting too close. A woman on the boat calling the encounter extremely terrifying. She says the tour guides smiled at the end because they were so relieved. Who wouldn't be relieved?
Still to come on CNN HEADLINE EXPRESS why a Delta jet carrying some 200 people was forced to return back to Atlanta's airport just after takeoff.
And nearly a billion dollars now up for grabs after no one picked the winning numbers of the latest Powerball drawing despite my best efforts. Will you play?
Stay with us. We've got more on that ahead.
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SMITH: In today's Money Express Galanz refrigerators are being recalled because of a fire risk.
Megan Dice is at the Nasdaq MarketSite with all the details on that and the rest of your Money Express headlines.
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MEGAN DICE, NASDAQ MARKETSITE: Hey there.
More than 121,000 refrigerators sold through Amazon and Home Depot are being recalled after a deadly electrical fire. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says electrical components on the Galanz retro refrigerators can short-circuit creating a fire hazard. The recall notice follows one reported death and 34 other additional fire reports.
Customers should stop using those refrigerators immediately and contact the company to schedule a free in-home repair. You can find full recall details available on the CPSC's website.
Families with K-12 students are expected to spend a record $43 billion on back-to-school shopping this year. The National Retail Federation's latest survey puts the average at just over $863 per family. That's up slightly from last year. More than half of those surveyed say they took advantage of sales like Amazon Prime days and Walmart deals. And for college students, spending is also expected to hit a record, topping $103 billion with families averaging $1,438 each.
The full report can be found at nrf.com.
American Airlines has changed its rule on refunds for bookings canceled within 24 hours of purchase. Travelers now have to book at least seven days before departure to qualify for that 24-hour refund window compared with the previous two-day requirement. The carrier says the new policy took effect July 29, and it applies to all tickets regardless of class. The change brings American in line with other carriers, including JetBlue, Southwest and United, which have similar restrictions.
Fall flavors already making their way to those menus. Dairy Queen has introduced its seasonal caramel apple cheesecake Blizzard. That's available through August. More fall treats on the way as well, including pumpkin pie, brown sugar cookie dough and toasted marshmallow mocha Blizzards.
Pumpkin spice latte season also around the corner, of course. Dunkin' launches its fall menu August 19 followed by Starbucks on the 25th.
I'm Megan Dice at the Nasdaq MarketSite.
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SMITH: Thank you, Megan.
The Powerball jackpot is closing in on $1 billion after no grand prize winners Saturday night. The jackpot has climbed to an estimated $905 million for tonight's drawing. Some players won sizable prizes, though. One ticket in Texas -- it matched five numbers to win $2 million. Not too shabby.
All right, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines across the country.
We start in Georgia. A Delta flight had to return to Atlanta because of reports of smoke in the cockpit on the way to Orlando.
Listen to what the pilot told air traffic control.
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DELTA PILOT: Uh, Delta 2204, change of plans. We now have smoke in the back, and we need to deplane immediately -- Delta 2204.
ATC: Delta 2204. OK, you can -- you can stop there and do what you need to.
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SMITH: There were more than 200 people on board. They used the emergency slides to evacuate. Delta says safety is paramount and they apologize to customers for what happened. Now we take you to Idaho. Police have released surveillance footage from the deadly mass shooting at an In-N-Out and here's a closer look. But we do want to warn you that the video may be disturbing to some viewers.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Newly-released surveillance footage shows a gunman as he committed a mass shooting at an In-N-Out in Idaho. The gunman is scene pulling into the drive-thru, parking his car, and walking around the perimeter of the fast-food chain carrying a handgun and then eventually a rifle.
Footage shows customers and employees scrambling to evacuate the premises with the assistance of an off-duty Idaho state trooper. The trooper and the gunman exchanged fire when a civilian inside was struck.
A woman is seen fleeing from the restaurant and taking cover behind the gunman's car, picking up his jammed handgun before she runs off.
Three people were killed and seven others were injured. Officials say the gunman died of self-inflicted wounds. Police say they still do not have a motive for the shooting.
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SMITH: And in Texas, a fuel truck crashed into a television studio in a hit-and-run collision. Police say a pickup ran a red light and hit the fuel truck, sending it into the building in Amarillo. They say that the drive of the pickup and two passengers got out and ran. Police were able to later identify that driver. The fuel truck driver was not hurt.
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All right. And officers in Alabama had an unusual call. A 1,500 pound bull was running loose in a neighborhood. Police were put to the test. They tried to lure the runaway bull, and they mounted on horses and swung lassos to capture the animal. Officers say that they prefer patrolling the streets rather than being cowboys.
That does it for CNN HEADLINE EXPRESS, everyone. I'm Brad Smith. "CNN THIS MORNING WITH AUDIE CORNISH" starts right now.
