is because of these joint military drills by the u.s. and south korea. yeah. those pictures of those drills that you have captured send a loud message. thank you for that report. this is cnn news central . here s a look at the other headlines we re following this hour. good news for pope francis. the vatican says he s expected to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow morning, nine days after undergoing abdominal surgery for a hernia. earlier today, the pontiff visited with child cancer patients at the hospital s nearby cancer ward. also, the manager of the harvard medical school morgue has been indicted on charges of stealing and selling human body parts. yeah. according to the indictment, the body parts came from cadavers that were donated for educational purposes. it accuses cedric lodge of taking the body parts to his home and then shipping them to buyers. prosecutors also say lodge
brought people to the morgue to shop in-person for body parts. anyway, here s a quick look at the dow. it s up big today, nearly 400 points. taking kindly to the federal reserve s big announcement yesterday. the first time in 15 months hitting pause. there are two more potential rate hikes planned for the end of the year. boris, it is back. a new round of smoke from at least 63 wildfires now burning in ontario, canada, blanketing parts of the midwest here in the u.s. this is a view of chicago from earlier this morning, and no. those are not rolling clouds, not mist. that is smoke pouring into the windy city. meteorologist jennifer gray joining us now from the cnn weather center. she has been for days now talking about this story. this is actually triggering some red alerts in some major cities. who s seeing the wovrsrst of th? we re talking about the midwest this time. this was a huge story last week in the northeast. before it hit the northeast, it was in the midwest, so they ha
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federal government agencies have been hit by a global cyberattack. cnn s shawn lingas is with us. this actually began unfolding a couple of weeks ago when news broke that a ransomware gang out of russia used a widely used software that governments use to transfer files, often sensitive information. they used a flaw in that software to burrow into various organizations,and it s taken awhile for the dust to settle and for us to figure out who are our victims and cnn got con fir missi confirmation, that there s the exploit. we haven t confirmed if it was the russian ransomware hackers themselves that did this, or someone else that managed to take that vulnerability and use it against the government agencies. however, this is very much a