largest auto worker unions called general motors' offer to avoid a potentially devastating strike. what this standoff could mean for the entire economy ahead. and deeper than the empire it state building is tall, well over times two, that's how far below the earth this american caver is now trapped, after he fell ill underground on saturday. details on the urgent evident now to save him. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to "cnn news central." soon, president biden departs for india for a critical g-20 summit with world leaders, but back here at home, he is facing a tough crowd. new cnn polling shows the president's numbers are essentially down across the board. numbers on his handling of the economy, his age, his job approval, all of them sinking. right now, just 39% approval of biden's job as president. that's down 41% in july. we're covering all angles and implications of this story. with us, congressional correspondent jessica dean, white house correspondent kayla tausche and chief congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill for us. jessica, let's start with you, these numbers not looking good for president biden. walk us through them. >> yeah. they're really not, boris. let's dive in to some of them and talk first about his approval ratings. you saw the big number you laid out, 39% across the board. that's a low place to be for an incumbent president heading into a re-election campaign if you divide it out by party, look at democrats, he's seen his support fall within democrats from 80 to 74% now. independents at 36%. that is a stubborn numbers he's going to need to improve. those independents are going to be key in 2024. then you see the republicans there at the bottom. another additional data point that is important here is, we asked people how his policies have affected the economy and look at that there. 58% believe that biden's policies have worsened conditions in the u.s. economy. only 24% believe they've improved conditions. 18% saying they have no effect. and that worsened conditions number boris going up by 8 points since last fall. we hear the president an his team talk about bidenomics as they are on the road, at the white house, really trying to convince the american people that these policies are actually improving the economy. look the economy has improved, but if you look at those numbers, it is not something that americans are feeling right now. they feel generally pretty sour and down on things. >> the numbers not great not only when it comes folpolicy, b his age and stamina. what do the numbers show? >> if you talk to voters on the campaign trail, democrats and republicans, his age does come up. the age of both frontrunners or the frontrunner in the republican party, former president donald trump and then the age of president biden. so we asked people, does biden have stamina, the sharpness to serve as president. look at that number. 74% say it does not apply to him they don't believe he has the stamina and sharpness. it's hard to get 74% of americans to agree on anything. that is a troubling number. take it down even more narrowly and look at democrats and voters who lean democratic. when we asked them what their biggest concern is about the president, 49% cited age. that was the number one thing, by far, age. 49%. everything else right there at 7%. boris? >> put it in the context of 2024 republican candidates. where does he stand compared to them? >> so i think what's important to note, and we have been talking about this as we cover the republican side of this and go into the election season, this is a deeply divided country and that bared out in this polling. the only gop candidate that was outside the margin of error in the race would be nikki haley, 49% to joe biden's 43%. this is among registered voters, it is a national poll. we go state by state with the electoral system. that is worth noting. everyone else that's running is within a margin of error. this is going to be a tight race. one more thing, boris, covering capitol hill the last two years, we saw a lot of legislation that biden and the democrats got through, bipartisan legislation and, of course, their inflation reduction act, they -- you can go down and tick through what they've done. the infrastructure bill, the chips act, gun legislation. these are thugs thatings the whe wants to talk about, but it's not things people seem to be absorbing in terms of success. >> they take time to take effect. standby. over to you, kayla. president biden has not been someone who has put a lot of stake into polling over the years. i imagine he's probably scoffing at these numbers. what's the response from the white house? >> well, boris, the white house on the face of it is taking the numbers in stride and establishing its counterpoint like the legislative agenda the president was able to pass last year and the foreign policy agenda that will be center stage when the president travels to india and vietnam. the white house continues to say that policies underlying the president's messaging and his administration remain deeply popular, and that it's just a matter of getting the message to sink in. the president has put that message under the banner of bide bidenomics, and aides say give it more time. a month is not enough time to sink in. when i talk to sources and members of biden's inner circle they suggest as the economy improves and as that messaging sinks in, perhaps the poll numbers will improve too. the questions about age and stamina, continue to get deeper from voters and just today, vice president harris answered a question from cbs trying to put some of those concerns to rest. here's what she said. >> are you prepared to be commander in chief? >> yes, i am. if necessary. but joe biden is going to be fine. let me tell you something, i work with joe biden every day. the work that under joe biden's leadership, our administration has accomplished is transformative. i think the american people most of all want a leader who actually gets things done. >> reporter: continuing that refrain when people criticize the president's age, they say watch him. the problem is that those concerns are getting deeper. the 74% of respondents in the cnn poll who say president biden lacks the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively is up from 51% during the last election. and that's up by 7 points just since march. it's not going in the right direction for the administration. >> yeah. still some 14 plus months to go until the next election. they have time to work out that messaging as they described it. on that question, manu, there are democrats on capitol hill that want the white house to get sharper when it comes to its message specifically on the economy. >> yeah. i spoke to more than a dozen of them this morning in the aftermath of this new poll, and that has been the consensus among members. they believe the messaging has been lackluster and there needs to be a sharper focus on this, on all the accomplishments, the legislative agenda. things passed in the first two years under joe biden. they believe voters will reward biden once they hear more about it and see the campaign really take shape, and some democrats also saying that they believe biden will be bolstered by former president donald trump, assuming he's the nominee, that will energize the democratic base. that doesn't mean there is still some talk about a potential third-party candidate emerging from one senator, joe manchin. >> i think the people have spoken loud and clear and not happy with the two choices. >> so there could be a third-party candidate? >> i think that's up to the public to decide that. >> the more the better in terms of pushing that message and making the american people aware of president biden's achievements, yes? more aggressive earlier and more widely i think is the right way to go. >> maybe we don't do a good enough job messaging about things like the fracture bill and pact act and things like that. >> every time donald trump opens his mouth, he draws that contrast pretty starkly. >> reporter: and manchin continued to play coy whether he might mount an independent third-party bid for the white house. something he has toyed with saying he has not made a decision yet and it would be up to voters to decide whether there is a pathway for a potential third-party challenge to president biden and potentially former president donald trump. >> he had taken part in one of those no labels events. we'll see where that heads. manu, kayla, jessica, thank you for the reporting. diplomat's look at the horrors of russia's war in ukraine. this is antony blinken seeing how ukrainian crews are risking their lives to clear land mines and other explosives from parks, playgrounds, busily traveled roads. that task will take years. this week the u.s. pledged more than $90 million for that effort. cnn's melissa bell is in kyiv and, melissa, that effort perhaps highlighted by the u.s. recently supplying cluster munitions to ukraine which have the risk of those that don't explode, last a long time, pose a danger to civilians, but i wonder, what did secretary blinken say as he toured these sites? >> reporter: well, he made the point, jim, this was now the most heavily mined country in the world. 30%, he said, of its entire surface is now littered with mines. that's going to take years, decades possibly, to get through and lots of consequences for the civilian population, the children especially going forward. essentially what secretary -- the secretary of state came to announce, this $1 billion package -- now part of that is military aid, pentagon stockpiles that include the controversial depleted ukraine ynium munitions that should allow ukrainians to help better get through the very formidable russian defenses we've been talking so much about these last few weeks and proving such a challenge to their counteroffensive. essentially however contro verl the munitions, because they're much denser than ordinary lead munitions they get through tanks and the understanding this might be with the cluster munitions that washington announced it was sending a few months ago, a key piece of weaponry of ammunition for the ukrainians as they desperately try to press further southward. in the end, after two days of meetings with his ukrainian counterparts and his trip here has wrapped up, he joined their assessment, that this counteroffensive is making progress and that was really now the message that both president zelenskyy and the united states are going to be taking to the united nations next week as they try to hold together this alliance after 19 months of a war that has exhausted absolutely everyone, not least the ukrainians. of course, secretary blinken's visit was punctured by precisely the sort of attacks he had come to talk about, a reminder the russians were own happy to oblige. >> 30% of the country is mined, the largest country in europe, that is a shocking figure. melissa bell in kyiv, thanks so much. the kremlin firing back. moscow saying it will continue to strengthen its relationship with north korea, quote, with no regard to other countries' opinions. today's comments a stern pushback to u.s. concerns that kim jong-un may meet russian president vladimir putin to discuss an arms deal. cnn's nic robertson is in london for us. this comes amid new activity today at the russian embassy in north korea. what can you tell us? >> yeah. this is very interesting, and it's information picked up from the facebook at the russian embassy in pyongyang. they have 20 new staff, diplomats and staff arriving at the embassy there. in the past only 18 members of staff there. there was some talk on the facebook post that perhaps how difficult it had been for the russian officials based in pyongyang previously during covid times because of the severe restrictions that north korea has placed on its citizens and any diplomats coming and going from the country, so this was a relief of posts it appears. an increase in the number of staff there, and interestingly, very interestingly, in the context we know there seems to be a gathering of momentum for president putin to meet with kim jong-un they said we have new work ahead of us set by our country. there are new tasks for us. that was a message from the diplomats arriving there in pyongyang amongst others. it does seem that they are setting for a strengthening, deepening and improving of relations between the two countries, and it does seem to be based around the weapons that president putin needs and strengthening that relationship. >> yeah. i suppose we're not surprised vladimir putin doesn't care what other countries think about this. he certainly does not. nic robertson with the latest, thank you. so a rescue operation is under way in turkey for an american man who fell ill in a deep cave, very, very deep in the ground, like 15 hours deep. the latest on a mission officials are calling rare and extremely difficult, next. plus, we're tracking hurricane lee. it's now a category 2 hurricane, expected to get stronger, and, of course, we'll keep an eye on its trajectory. american tennis star coco gauff and madison keys vying for a spot in the u.s. finals tonight. we're live from arthur ashe stadium in a few minutes here on "cnn news central." stay with us. let me be direct... you're watching football wrong! what do you call a guy in face paint that can't get the game? 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>> yeah. we have 150 rescuers on the ground from all around the world to try and get mark dickey out from 3,300 feet below ground. i want you to think of the empire state building and times that height by three. that is how deep he is right now. he fell ill six days ago with gastrointestinal bleeding. he's already received six units of blood. he's stable. apparently he can walk on his own but walking in a cave is not good enough. i want you to think of the narrow spaces when you're in a horizontal area seeing pressure coming through on your back and stomach. you've got to crawl and then you have the vertical spaces where you need to climb, you need to be taken up by ropes. they're talking about a stretcher, but it's logistically and technically extremely challenging and very complex. think about signal in terms of communications with people above the ground. it takes hours to go to a spot where you can actually communicate. we know medical personnel have now reached him at this stage. he is, as we say, stable. on any given good day, by an experienced caver could take up to 15 hours to get out of this cave, so we're talking about days away from potentially getting him and his team out of the base camp that they're in right now. they are extremely deep. it's cold and it's wet and we're talking about very difficult conditions. >> we understand he was there on a research trip. what a exactly was he looking for? >> yeah. look, he was coleading a team of experts that were looking for new pathways in this cave. this was an exdigs to discover more of this cave, the depths and how far they could actually reach. falling ill was the worse case scenario here for someone so experienced, over 20 years of traveling around the world and going into some of the deepest of caves. caves are fascinating. you want to find out where the water sources are coming from. they're very interesting from organism perspective. there's so much to discover. him and his team, it's something they do. turkish authorities and the turkish federation of caving, said they're worried about what this is going to look like in the next few days but they're doing everything they can to map out how they will try to narrow some of the spaces or expand some of these narrow spaces and how each team at each point will be able to provide him the best care and safety out of where he is right now. >> really a delicate operation. we appreciate you staying on top of it for us. thanks. we are closely watching hurricane lee, and its potentially dangerous trek across the atlantic. cnn meteorologist chad myers is tracking everything. chad, where is it going? >> it's going in the atlantic. and then it's going to stay in the atlantaic. by the time it hits something you're going to be sick of hearing about it, we're seven or ten days before this thing being anywhere, it's so far out in the middle of the atlantic. even byp tonight it gets to be a major hurricane, around 105 right now. look at tomorrow night at a 8:00. we're looking at 160. that gets over your 157 to be cat 5. big wave, lots of wind around the storm system and really so far, missing everything that is the good news. oh, and well, my computer crashed, so now i can't show you the rest. that's just kind of what happens. so the effect basically is that this thing is going to be in the water for the next week. we'll be talking about it every day where is it going to go, how long will it take to get there and so really you have to watch this. this could be from north of the carolinas all the way to nova scotia. we don't know. we don't know anything about seven days, ten days away for any hurricane, let alone this one. >> i want to know if that's you swimming in that screen saver. you can save that answer for the next shot. chad myers. >> yes, those are my fins right there. fins up. >> we'll get that graph up. thanks so much. we continue to follow the storm. >> that is totally chad. there is a new analysis showing abortions are increasing significantly in the states bordering those where bans are in place. more on that just ahead. the department of justice says the special counsel is going to indict hunter biden this month on gun charges. what to expect. stay with contr"cnn news centra" while watching the game. who's winnnning? 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>> this is a historic thing if it comes to pass, and it could happen by the end of the month. this is what the special counsel said in an update to the judge that was overseeing this. he said the special counsel -- i'm sorry, the speedy trial act requires that the government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury by friday, september 29th, 2023, at the earliest the government intends to seek the return of an indictment in this case before that time. of course, as you pointed out, look, this is an incredible turn of events. he was minutes away really from having this behind him under this agreement with the government, and then it turns out it just fell apart after the judge was starting to ask questions about the legality of this part of the deal, especially, the part where the government was going to put aaand have this go away if he abided by certain conditions, related to a gun he purchased in 2018 during the time that hunter biden has publicly said he was having drug abuse problems. >> now, there were tax crimes or alleged tax crimes as well. where does that stand from the special counsel's -- >> the special counsel has -- right. the special counsel has said that they dismissed those charges in wilmington, delaware where this proposed deal was supposed to be struck, and they say that they may bring them in the two jurisdictions where those alleged crimes took place. hunter biden lives in the los angeles area, so that would be one place. they could bring one of those crimes, one of those alleged crimes, and then washington, d.c., where his taxes were prepared, that's the other venue where they could bring those charges. again, we know that investigation is continuing, and those are the venues where they would bring those. >> there's no similar speedy trial deadline for those crimes, is that right? >> well, there is another deadline, which is that there is another deadline because the statute of limitations is coming up soon in those. if the special counsel is going to indict hunter biden, again, something that hasn't happened for the son of a sitting president, the child of a sitting president ever, right, that is going to happen in the next few weeks. >> so much to follow. evan perez, thanks so much. brianna? >> it is an issue that will have serious implications for the presidential election, and now we are getting a new look at the reality of abortion access in this country. the institute shows abortions have increased in states where it remains legal, especially in states bordering those that have bans. the largest increases in new mexico and wyoming, with more than three times as many provided in the first half of 2023 compared with 2020. joining us now to discuss this, we have a professor of economics from middlebury college, kaitlan meyers. you have looked at these numbers and gone through them and analyze them and say there are two competing forces at work here. people who are trapped in states where abortion is banned, and improved access in other states where it is not. tell us what you're seeing? >> so what we're seeing in the numbers is that compared to the last full yer-ar that we were ae to measure which was 2020, abortions in the united states have gone up it in the first half of 2023, and that isn't entirely surprising because there are states where abortion access has actually expand the in the wake of jobs as people in particular become more aware of and available to access telehealth provision of abortion. at the same time, there are states enforcing near total bans on abortion or very restrictive gestational bans on abortion and they are pouring out of those states specifically new mexico, illinois and kansas, where we're seeing a tremendous increase of abortions driven by the out-of-state travelers. we have these two countervailing forces. what we're seeing on net is that abortions went up. it's important to recognize that that doesn't mean there aren't people who have not been impacted by the bans. >> you estimated before the overturning of roe that there would be a decline in illegal abortion of about 13%. how do you square that with what you're seeing here? >> so, that estimate i'll say, first of all, is an estimate based on the full forecasted set of bans, which is more states banning than are enforcing bans, but i think it's important to recognize that the estimate for the current set of bans is that they'll reduce national abortions by about 3%, relative to if there weren't bans in force, and that number will grow as more states begin to enforce bans. but the counter factual is if those bans weren't enforced. that's not at odds with the new data we're seeing at all. we are seeing an increase in abortions, but we expect they would have increased even more if it weren't for the fact that these bans are trapping some populations, particularly poor populations, in ban states. >> because there's a cost. crossing state lines doesn't mean it's easy, right, for people to get access to an abortion. does the data tell you anything about what a is actually happening in states where abortion is now banned? >> it tells us some, and we're going to learn more as more data are released that track apporti apportions by state of residence. many people are managing to get out of banned states. it's incredibly costly for people to travel, for instance, from houston to wichita, kansas, near theest destination to reach a brick and mortar abortion facility. people have to arrange to take off work, child care, how to pay for travel expenses. it's not easy. what we can see in the data is many people are finding a way. what we also know is that there are people who are trapped who aren't getting out, and so my best estimate based on what we saw just before dobbs is about three quarters of people who live in banned states are finding a way to travel to states where abortion is still legal, and about a quarter of them aren't. >> there's something that we know, but i don't think we fully know from this, which is there's some people who are in banned states who are still accessing abortion pills, right? they're getting them in a way that their state would not consider legal. they might be ordering them overseas. are we getting a sense of any of that from this data? >> those aren't included in the data. these are including abortions obtained in the formal health care system. it can be via telehealth, but it's in states where abortions are permitted and medications mailed to states where they can legally be mailed. there's this other feature that is happening that's a lot harder to count, which is people are ordering the medications to induce abortion and having them shipped in to banned states through a gray market health care system. now, that doesn't mean it's not a safe and effective method. providers like aid to access that ship these medications from overseas into banned states by all available evidence are sending the same medications that people would obtain in the u.s. health care system, but we don't count them. we don't know how many are receiving medications that way. we know a lot more people are requesting them. there's a lot of observational evidence they're being shipped into the states, but it's harder to measure. >> it's really interesting and a shift since the dobbs' decision. we appreciate you showing us what the data has revealed here. thank you. >> thank you. jim? 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>> reporter: well, this judge is saying that's what federal law says. let me take you through this, because it's very interesting. this federal judge is saying, look, we're going to go by what federal law says. the federal law says that state of texas should have obtained permits before deploying these border buoys and i want to reich rea -- read you a portion of his order. the judge says, quote, governor abbott he was not asking for permission for the anti-immigration program for which texas constructed the floating barrier. unfortunately for texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation's nav vick kable waters, the rio grande river. this judge goes on to say that state of texas tried to take a self-defense argument, in essence, the state of texas was saying that texas is being invaded by migrants and the cartels, but this judge was not having it. he was not having it in court, stopping the attorneys from the state of texas multiple times saying you have to stick to the issues. you can't go into fentanyl, you can't go into broad statements made about immigration. you've got to refocus on the buoys because that is the fact at issue. now, the judge used this specific quote when he mentioned that particular defense, he said, it was simply, quote, unconvincing. governor greg abbott striking back saying the state of texas has authority to deploy these statements saying, quote, this ruling is incorrect and will be overturned on appeal. we will continue to utilize every strategy to secure the border including deploying texas national guard soldiers and department of public safety troopers and installing tragic barriers and, of course, boris, as you mentioned, governor abbott goes on to say he's willing to take it all the way to the supreme court. >> we'll see if it winds up before the supreme court justices. in today's home front a reminder you're never too old to live your dream. this is 34-year-old former marine pilot and father of two matt ganyard. he decided to return to his alma mater the university of virginia to get his mba but would try out for the football team as a kicker despite not having experience playing football. >> i felt like ted lasso. i've been to some of the high school recruiting camps which, you know, the old guy showing up to camp with 16, 17-year-olds they would look, are you a transfer? 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