in, and i ve got to tell you, i was in a section of town called the del mar loop on saturday night. more than 20 businesses had their storefronts damaged. it was quite a scene to see. i want to listen now to a couple of those store owners. i personally see the value of protesting and i ve been there myself and feel that it s the cause is necessary and people need to get out there and let their voices be heard, but the kind of violent and senseless acts like this really are bothersome and sad. i don t think it hinders the cause rather than furthers the cause. when you saw all of these businesses hit, what did you think? all night that i thought i m going to be up all night. reporter: yeah. if you re in the glass repair business in st. louis, you re going to be pretty busy. brooke, let me sort of explain the scenario. once this peaceful protest ends
all right. you re watching cnn. i m brooke bolduan. thank you for being with me. the america first president meets the united nations, and any moment now on the sidelines president trump will sit down with the french president emanuel macron, president trump a longtime critic of the united nations has only been at the general assembly for a couple of hours today and has plugged one of his properties and told diplomats to pay up. in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by 140% and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing the results in line with this investment. president trump may have mocked the u.n. in the past, but this week he is there to ask for help in dealing with north korea and the country s leader who he
announcing his support for the legislation saying graham cassidy is the best path forward to repeal and replace obamacare, and you re thinking why is this germane? it is because senator mccain, arizona, has indicated his decision will depend a lot on what the governor says. joining me to discuss this i have new york congressman tom reed with me, a republican. welcome to cnn. great to be here. thanks, brooke. you know the deal with votes and what they need. i guess, collins and paul, they re out so it comes down to even if mccain, depending on it sounds like how the arizona governor is going, it s lisa murkowski who says she s still looking at it, hail mary, congressman, is this thing going to go anywhere? the clock is ticking and the senate has to act. obviously, i ll believe it when i see it given the nature of where the senate s been. if they can move it we ll have to deal with it in the house, but at the present time it s up
for all of us. it is out there, you can find it and we need to stop that. we need to protect ourselves. i have to go. i m brooke bolduan. apparently, you can know more about me, but on that note let s go to washington. wolf blitzer begins right now. thanks very much. happening now, one of these men will become the new pope. we ll take you to the vatican and to cities around the world hoping to provide the next leader of the roman catholic church. some in washington, even inside the administration are not charmed by the president s charm offensive. is it all just for show? thousands of sharks head north past florida s beaches, scientists rushing to do some research that may save the lives of shark bite victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com
it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let s bring in lisa sylvester. she s working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what s going on? reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united states. normally an animal contracts bse from consuming contaminated feed and this cow tested positive from atypical bse, it s a rare form of the disease and not generally associated with an animal-consuming infected feed and it states, quote, the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption so at no time presented a risk to the food supply and milk does not transmit bse. so you can se