ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> they targeted a certain group of people and that's black people. that's what he said he wanted to kill. >> a florida community is reeling from a racist mass shooting. it's one of several instances of gun violence across the u.s. this weekend. and soccer's body bans the head of the spanish federation after his unwanted kiss of a female player. we're live with the details. and -- >> 60 years since the march on washington. we'll look towards the anniversary of dr. martin luther king jr.'s famous "i have dream" sp speech. we'll get to those stories in a moment, but first, we have some breaking news from australia, where the crash of an osprey helicopter has killed three u.s. marines. cnn's angus watson is monitoring this breaking story for us from sydney. angus, what more can you tell us? >> reporter: kim, this incident happened nine or ten hours ago off australia's north coast, but we're only just starting to learn some details. the scale of the tragedy that's occurred. 23 u.s. marines were aboard this osprey aircraft, three were killed when the aircraft crashed this morning. all 23 suffered some form of injury. five of the u.s. personnel were seriously injured, taken to hospital. one of those people required surgery. now, i must say that we don't yet know why this incident happened, but the osprey aircraft has a bad track record of instances. just last year, nine u.s. personnel were killed across multiple accidents between california and norway. so a sad turn of events this morning, as this aircraft was going about routine training, as a part of the u.s. marine rotational force, which is based up in darwin, in australia's northern territory, on a semi-permanent basis. a sad day for australia and the u.s., very close allies, of course, the australian public monitored this very closely today, as details began to emerge from the incident. just weeks ago in a separate case where u.s. and australian personnel were training together, an australian helicopter went down in queensland, killing four australians aboard. a sad time here in australia. the thoughts with the three u.s. personnel killed this morning, kim. >> all right. well, kim, keep monitoring this story and bring new developments when we learn them. cnn's angus watson in sydney, australia. thanks so much. now to the shocking story coming out of jacksonville, florida, saturday. a deadly mass shooting that police are calling racially motivated. the suspect described as a white man in his 20s killed three black people before turning the gun on himself. one of the suspect's guns was decorated with painted swastikas. the fbi office in jacksonville says it's being investigated as a hate crime. the city's mayor condemned the shooting and the hate that motivated it. >> it's just something that should not and must not continue to happen in our community. it's too often the same folks. and this type of hate, you know, this type of -- you see the swastikas on the gun. we must do everything that we can. we must do everything that we can to dissuade this type of hate. >> cnn correspondent isabel rosales has more on this horrific story. >> let me bring you up to speed to what sheriff tk waters is saying happened here. the shooter has not been identified. the medical examiner's office will have to be the one to do that. but he is a white male in his early 20s, according to the sheriff. the sheriff saying that he entered the dollar general wearing a tactical vest and a mask. and he had on him an ar-15-style rifle and a glock handgun. on that handgun, the sheriff shared pictures. you can see swastikas on that gun. the sheriff says that he killed three people. all three of those people were black. then he turned the gun on himself and shot himself dead. the shooter, the sheriff says, resided in clay county with his parents. back in 2016, there was a domestic call to that house, but no arrest was made there. and then in 2017, the shooter, again, who has not been identified, was baker acted. now, the gun did not belong to the shooter's parents, the will have is saying. at 1:18 p.m. the shooter texted his father and told him to look into his computer and his father discovered three documents there. about 35 minutes later, the parents called the clay county sheriff's office, but were told by the sheriff by that time, the shooter had already begun. the sheriff says that the shooter offered several manifestos intended to go to his parents, the media, and federal agencies and those manifestos included the n-word multiple times. the sheriff saying that this was racially motivated. that the shooter, quote, hated black people. here's what else the sheriff had to say. >> we know that he acted completely alone. if you take a look at the images on the screen, you'll be able to see what he utilized. the weapons that the shooter used today are a glock and an ar-15-style 15 rifle. this is a dark day in jacksonville's history. any loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter's killing spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak. there's no place for hate in our community, and this is not jacksonville. as a member of this jacksonville community, i am sickened by this cowardly shooter's personal ideology of hate. >> so it's no surprise here that the fbi has, is investigating this as a hate crime and has opened up a federal civil rights investigation into this shooting. i do also want to note that the shooting happened august 26th, five years, the anniversary, five years to the day of a different mass shooting happened in jacksonville at a venue that has since been demolished, when a shooter entered a video game competition and gunned down two people, injuring ten others. so a traumatic situation for the nvil community that's only now beginning to get this could happen.in the world >> now, floridsn the only state that s masting this weekend in the u.s.. it also happened at an apartment building in maryland, a football game in oklahoma, a baseball game in chicago, and a parade in boston. now, in northeastern maryland, four people died in a shooting at an apartment building in boston. at least seven people were injured near a parade celebrating the city's annual caribbean carnival. in choctaw, oklahoma, a 16-year-old boy was killed after gunfire broke out during a high school football game. and police in chicago say that two fans suffered bullet wounds at friday's white sox game. now, it's not clear what happened and whether the shots came from inside or outside the ballpark. now, there have been huneds of mass shootings in the u.s. this year. source, the gun violence ative archive. so far this year, the united states h recorded more than 471 mass shootings. that compares to more than 640 for all of last year. cnn defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter. former preside dald trump is now facing criminal trials in florida, georgia, washington, and new york, but he's using his georgia arrest to make money. his campaign says it raised $7.1 million since last thursday. trump has a very busy courtroom lming over him in the district attorney fani willis is proposing an october3rd trial in georgia -- in the a ection subversion case. e federal election interference trial could as early anext year. and the civil trial brought by e. jean carroll takes place on the same days the iowa caucuses. the stormy daniel hush money case goes to trial in march. and the mar-a-lago classified documents trial is scheduled to start in may. cnn politics reporter jeremy herb has more on the some of the court cases in donald trump's future. >> reporter: now that the 19 defendants in the fulton county case have surrendered, we're getting into the complicated questions about how this trial will proceed. and we're seeing that even in some cases, the defendants themselves are at odds with each other. for instance, two of the defendants, kenneth chesebro, and sidney powell, have requested a proceedy taln the case, but that's something that former president trump is opposed to doing. a court has set a court date for chesebro in october, so it remains to be seen what that means for the rest of the defendants. another issue here is whether this case is kept in state court or moved into federal court. we've seen 5 of the 19 defendants have made a request to move their case into federal court. this is significant, because it would change the jury pool. in state court, it would be in fulton county, which is a very blue county. but the federal court would expand the district and the jury pool, potentially including more pro-trump jurors. we'll see this play out on monday, when we get the first hearing about the venue of the case for mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff. the district attorney is planning to subpoena witnesses that could testify at monday's hearing, giving us a preview of what this case against mark meadows, former president trump, and the other defendants will look like. jeremy herb, cnn, new york. the national weather service says more than 70 million people in the u.s. are still under heat alerts in more than ten states, according to the weather prediction center, a dangerous heat wave will remain across portions of the southern u.s. through monday. and over the next three days, more than 100 record warm temperatures could emerge from california to florida. the prediction center says those record-high temperatures combined some unusually high humidity will lead to heat indices near record levels over the mid-mississippi valley and the gulf coast region. meanwhile, the heat's starting to pick up in the southwestern part of the u.s., to well over 100-degree temperatures, though some cities are expected to see a drop during the next few days. in the central atlantic, tropical storm franklin has strengthened into a category 1 hurricane. franklin has gotten a little stronger during the night with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. it's currently located 575 miles southwest of bermuda. swells generated by franklin are expected to start affecting bermuda later today and franklin could create dangerous surf and rip currents along the u.s. east coast late this weekend and early next week. now to the ongoing crisis in spanish soccer. fifa has suspended louis rubiales for all football-related activities for six months. it came after he was filmed kissing a woman on spain's team moments after they won the woman's world cup last weekend. it sparked a battle in the soccer world. just hours after his suspension, nearly a dozen women of the spanish national women's soccer program also resigned. let's go to journalist al goo goodman, who's in madrid. al, we're seeing more and more fallout from this incident. what's the latest? >> hi, kim. well, clearly, louis rubiales' grip on power has loose ned wit that fifa suspension for 90 days. he's really been supported only with press releases from the federation through saturday. he was the interim president, an ally of rubiales, but the federation took down a press release that the federation put out, further slamming the woman, jennifer hermosa. that was taken down. on the other side of the coin, the voices against rubiales keep increasing. of the 11 people on the women's team who left en masse on saturday, that's the entire assistant coaching staff of the winning world cup team, condemning rubiales' behavior. also, the coach of the men's -- spain's men's national team, also part of the federation, issued a statement condemning rubiales. and here's what the fc barcelona coach had to say at a press conference on saturday. let's listen. >> translator: first, i would like to give my unconditional support to jenni and the players of the women's team, because of what they are going through now. secondly, to condemn the behavior of the spanish federation president, which seems to me absolutely unacceptable. >> reporter: and the coach of the women's team, who has been silent, jorge villa, finally after all of this saturday night issued a statement to the spanish news agency, also condemning rubiales, his boss, and the person who talked about maybe renewing him at a meeting on friday, public meeting. on the other side of the coin, the woman at the center of this whole controversy, jennifer rubiales, the star player for the women's team, reappeared in public on saturday evening, according to reports at an important women's football match near madrid. the women's teams of atletico madrid, playing for the women's cup. she was roundly applauded when she came into the stadium. and the players on both sides unfurled a banner saying, we're wish you, jenniferere ehermoso. the fallout is also looming for the government, which is trying to stake further steps to sideline rubiales, a senior government official saying on saturday that spain hopes that the fifa will not undo their look at spain. spain is trying to host the 2030 men's world cup with some neighboring countries. clearly they say that this issue could be a problem for that potentially thing. >> interesting. >> well, let's hope this leads to change. journalist al goodman in madrid, thanks so much. a midair collision claims the lives of three ukrainian pilots. among them, a flyer known for his skills in the cockpit and his love for the f-16 fighter jets. we'll have that story ahead. plus, a former british prime minister slams the russian president over the plane crash involving wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin. stay with us. salonpas lidocaine flex. a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieieve pain right where it hurts. and did we mention, it really,, really sticks? salonpas, it's good medicine. 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>> first of all, i think one of the big outstanding questions is, what happens to prigozhin's many businesses? for instance, his operations in africa. is there essentially now an opportunity for a takeover of this? possibly by some business interests that are perhaps a little bit more loyal or less confrontational towards the kremlin? you know, obviously, there's going to be a lot of questions about what happens there, but also, you know, wagner fighters basically were being folded into, or there was an attempt already underway to fold them into the conventional military. so, you know, these activities are -- they're not going to end. and, you know, prigozhin's basically confrontation with putin may have been the biggest challenge to putin in two decades of rule. the question is, who else is willing to stick their heads out above the parapet, kim. >> you talked about prigozhin's usefulness to putin, but putin seems to want to keep these types of groups like wagner mercenaries on a tighter leash. on friday, he ordered all of those involved in territorial defense to take an oath to the russian flag, to swear loyalty to the russian federation and so on. what do you make of this? he seems to really want to sort of rein them in. >> well, kim, part of the problem for putin is that these forces have already been unleashed and you can't necessarily put them back in the box the way you would like to. and already, you know, the hit to putin's prestige, even though the wagner mercenaries stopped short of moscow, the fact that they went into kind of an act of open rebellion against the state really, in a lot of ways sort of battered this sort of along-cultivated image by putin of being sort of, you know, almost czar-like, which was that he was fully in control of the situation, that he was sort of the master actor, the main decider overseeing everything in russia, the person who could resolve all problems. that image has been seriously dented by prigozhin. and i think now, you know, despite the fact that the kremlin's main message, everything is back to business as usual, you know, it still presented, i think, the most fundamental challenge, in many ways, putin's rule in over two decades, kim. >> but challenging this business as usual mantra, these drone attacks that one can assume have been worchestrated by ukraine, n terms of bringing the war to ordinary russians, is there any way to think that it might change way that russians feel about the war? >> first of all, it's very difficult to trust in polling in a country where the state maintains tight control of the media. and there are criminal penalties for, you know, criticizing the military. so it's very difficult to gauge in a country where, for a very long time, you know, the kremlin has basically, you know, exercised control over information. of course, russians have alternative means. there's not a complete firewall between them, and outside sources of information, for instance, through telegrahm channels, through the internet. it's a really difficult kind of thing to gauge in a lot of ways. because public support for the war is whatever the polls may say, the penalties for opposing the war are very severe and the possibility of going to jail for speaking out against the war, if a peaceful manner, not by marching on moscow, as wagner's troops did, is a very serious one, kim. >> always appreciate your analysis. nathan hodge, thanks so much. all right, still to come, as former president trump's mug shot becomes one of the most iconic images of the year, what does joe biden think of it? 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get back to one of our top stories this hour. donald trump's presidential campaign is saying that he's raised $7.1 million since he was booked on criminal charges in atlanta on thursday. now, this comes as a very busy and complicated courtroom calendar looms over the former president. trump is facing four separate criminal trials. georgia district attorney fani willis is proposing an october 24th trial date. meanwhile, the u.s. president is chiming in on trump's mug shot. cnn's kevin liptak has more on joe biden's reaction. >> president biden is back in washington after a week vacation here in lake tahoe. while he was here, he did make a notable comment about his predecessor's legal saga. we caught up with the president after he went to a pilates class in town here and he was asked what he thought of president trump's mug shot. listen to what he said. >> have you seen donald trump's mug shot yet? mr. president, are you worried at all about the -- >> i did see it on television. >> what'd you think? >> handsome guy. wonderful guy. >> reporter: so the president really adopting something of a sarcastic tone there, and you saw that sarcastic tone continue, the president's campaign sending out a fund-raising appeal just as president trump was arriving to the fulton county jail. saying, apropos of nothing, today would be a good day to donate to my campaign. this is notable because the president, his campaign, the white house, they have taken pains not to weigh in on president trump's legal predicament. president biden really hoping to stay out of that. the tragedy there is two-fold. one is to avoid weighing in on the judicial process. the president, a believer in judicial independence. but also a political strategy to avoid giving president trump a pretext for claiming political persecution. president biden's strategy has really been to go about the business of the presidency, selling his domestic agenda, conducting foreign policy. and you did see that at play this week as well as president trump was aarriving in atlanta for his surrender. the white house said that president biden had spoken to the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, but certainly president biden will have a balance to strike here. as of now, he is not weighing in on the sheer gravity of these charges that president trump faces. and when it comes down to it, these issues that are at play here, the issues of democracy, of president trump's attempt s to cling to power will be the animating feature of the upcoming campaign. and so while this is not a wholesale strategy shift for the president, it is a sign that he won't remain silent on these issues completely going forward. kevin liptak, cnn, traveling with the president in south lake tahoe, california. >> thousands of people gathered at the lincoln memorial in washington to mark 60 years since martin luther king jr. expressed his dream of an america without racism. the 60th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom broughto out veteran civil rights activists and young ones, as well, but the theme was less about nostalgia to reaffirm that the dream remains unfilled. a quarter million people turned out in washington on that landmark day of august 28th, 1963, and many believe that helped push congress to approve the civil rights act a year later. jason carroll returned to the lincoln memorial to activists who were there that historic day to hear them reflect on what it was like and what it means to them today. >> reporter: it was a call for economic and racial equality, a call to action that brought more than 200,000 people to the national mall in washington, d.c., on august 28th, 60 years ago. a day best remembered for martin luther king jr.'s historic "i have a dream" speech. >> now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. >> reporter: among the hundreds of thousands, two young activists, who were filled with hope. >> i was all the way on the top. >> over to the left? >> yeah, over to the left. >> reporter: courtland cox is now 82, but 60 years ago, he was a 22-year-old, working for the civil rights organization snik, the student non-violent coordinating committee. and what i remember is the platform was there in the center. >> reporter: edward flanagan was there too. where were you? >> i was sitting on the wall up top there by the entertainers. >> reporter: flanagan is 80 now, but on the day of march, he was a 20-year-old who had just finished his shift as a waiter, like scores of others, he wanted to take a stand for civil rights. >> i was very close to joan baez, i was able to notice that she was barefoot and i had on a new pair of shoes. >> she was barefoot? >> she was barefoot! ♪ we are not afraid ♪ >> reporter: a march six decades ago, now seen through the eyes of two different men who shared the same goal many did that day. >> it was, in fact, a march for jobs and freedom. >> our thoughts are today that we succeeded in changing this country. >> reporter: as a young organizer, cox was responsible for arranging safe transportation for people making the trek from the south to washington, d.c. he says there were challenges from top-to-bottom. much had to be done in very little time. >> the challenge from the bottom was the logistics of getting people here. i'm trying to get trailway buses, greyhound buses, and the drivers are saying, look, it's dangerous bringing people to the south. the challenge from the top was the kennedy administration was opposed to john lewis' speech. >> reporter: cox worked alongside then 23-year-old civil rights activist john lewis, who was the chairman of sncc. this picture shows the two men as they re-wrote the speech to tone it down, to make it less critical of the kennedy administration's civil rights bill, which they felt didn't go far enough to protect people from police brutal. >> reporter: john lewis and jim foreman myself were in the back of the lincoln memorial, rechanging john lewis' speech to make sure that while it was critical, it was not negative. >> reporter: that had to be an incredible moment? >> but what was more incredible to me is that john got up after all of that controversy and delivered a fantastic speech. >> it is true that we support the miadministration's civil rights bill. we support it with great reservation, however. >> i have never been here before. >> reporter: this week, flanagan brought his daughters back to the place where history was made. cox prefers to stay away this time, saying that his marching days are behind him. both agree wile much was accomplished that day, the work is not over. >> we are still, while we are in a much better place than we were in '63, we are not in the place one would expect 60 years on. >> we succeeded in doing a number of things, that we did in the past, but we also know that we have to do much more for the future. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, washington. >> earlier, cnn spoke with bernice king, daughter of martin luther king jr. and she reflected on her father's legacy and says it's still relevant in the fight for civil rights. here she is. >> i think he would be challenging us to continue to, you know, focus on right to find the way to create a society where we can respect the dignity, worth, and value of all people. and would be pulling together strategies to deal with all of these different issues and organizing people in a way around those strategies to address them and come up with solutions that can move us to a higher plane. you know, the way in which my father fought, obviously, was through nonviolence. he used that as his weapon. and it was a weapon that enabled people to rally around and really focus their attention on the goal that they were seeking and so i think those are some of the things that he would be doing today. you know, not just challenging it, but really organizing people strategically to address each one of those issues that you just raised. >> health authorities are sounding the alarm about an uptick of covid-19 cases. we've got details on that and more on where case numbers are surging. stay with us. it's because of tiktok that i had to go out and get a website. i'm at a point now where i've outgrown my house. growing up, every time i'd get out of the shower, i would itch. my first experience with goat milk soap, it kinda was like a light bulb moment. tiktok is a fantastic platform for diy. if you'd have told me three years ago that i would own my own business and be expanding into a separate building, i would've told you you'd lost your mind. two school districts in eastern kentucky canceled in-person cases due to uptick in covid-19, respiratory illnesses and strep. attendance had dropped more than 82% less than two weeks ago when classes started and class members were sick as well. here in atlanta, morris brown college announced this week that it was implementing a two-week mask mandate and other mitigation protocols after reports of covid cases among students. now, officials expect updated covid-19 vaccines to be available to the general public by mid-september. cnn's meg terrell has more on the coronavirus threats emerging around the u.s. >> well, we know that cdc's group of outside advisers is planning to meet on september 12th to talk about and recommend the updated covid shots for the fall. that always happens after the fda has a already signed off on the vaccine. so that's expected to happen around that time frame. after that, the cdc director will likely accept that recommendation and the vaccines will start to become available in pharmacies. we're talking about that sort of middle week of september, around september 12th. the few days after, that really starting to happen. this updated covid-19 vaccine targets one strain of the virus, and it's not too dissimilar from the current strain dominant in the u.s. that accounts for 20% of u.s. cases in the last couple of weeks. now, of course, we are in a little bit of a covid spike right now. we have seen evaluated levels of covid in wastewater monitoring, suggesting that cases are at a higher level. we are also seeing in the cdc's data about a 21% increase in terms of both hospitalizations and deaths from covid, right n now. of course, it's, important to note that's off of a low base, one of the lowest we've seen for the entire pandemic, but we are starting to see that uptick. many health authorities are looking forward to the availability of this updated vaccine, which is expected to provide better protection against the currently circulating strains one thing public health authorities are paying a lot of attention to right now is an emerging variant. now, the reason they're paying such close attention to this, even though ten cases have been detected worldwide, including a couple here in the united states, is because this is a very mutated variant. it looks different from the variants that have come before it. right now, there's no evidence that this variant causes more severe disease. it's not known yet how transmissible it will be, if it's more transmissible than others, and that will play a big role in whether this takes off in a big way. it's expected to still be detected by texts and medication, like paxlovid are expected to continue to work against this variant. what the concern is, it is so different from previous variants that existing immunity in terms of previous infection or vaccines may not be able to work quite as well against this variant. and so will that lead to more infections, potentially more hospitalizations? those are the questions that folks are wondering about right now, and they expect to have more data on that within the next couple of weeks. at this point, this really has not been detected extremely widely, but it has been detected in multiple countries, so it is expected there is international spread. >> earlier i spoke with anne rimoin, a professor at the school of epidemiology and asked her, how concerned should we be about this recent uptick in covid cases? here she is? >> i think what we're seeing is something that we expect to see in the fall. you know, we see changing appearance of people going back to school, people getting -- being indoors, in close proximity to each other. and that is usually what kicks off respiratory virus season. and that's where we are right now. we have covid, we have rsv and influenza coming. i think it's not surprising that we're starting to see an uptick in respiratorypa engines, covid included. the way that this works is that the fda will issue an approval for this vaccine, and it's going to come to the cdc. the cdc is going to determine who should get it and when. so we should be hearing that, i think the data for the cdc meeting is september 12th. so we'll hear soon after that. what we anticipate is that the people that will be on the list to encouraged to get will be people who are older, people who are immunocompromised. those will be the people that should be first in line to get it. and we'll learn from cdc who's next on the list. >> the pga's victor hovland is the big man on the course this weekend, so is the norwegian poised to win back-to-back titles? coy wire joins me live to break down what happened on the greens. veversus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now avaiailable in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv you can save money by spending less of it. makes sense! oh, i see what you did there! - what? - what? i don't get it. hehe. sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep... ...so he takes zzzquil. the world's #1 sleep aid brand for a better night sleep. so now, he wakes up feeling like himself. the reigning family room middle-weight champion. better days start with zzzquil nights. well, hot lanta will live up to its name later today when under the blazing sun, some top pga golfers will compete in the final round of the tour championship. viktor hovland who resides in oklahoma via oslo, norway, seems to like the hot conditions. with me now is coy wire. is this viktor hovland's to lose? >> absolutely. i hope you have been putting sunscreen on that bald head of yours, my bald brother. you would think that viktor hovland might be sweating it a bit. the 25-year-old from norway has been cooler than a polar bear's toenails, entering the weekend tied for the lead, hovland turned up the heat, shooting a 4 under 66, tying the second best round of the day. hovland has onlyhad three bogeys through the first three rounds, that ends up to a six-shot lead over xander scha schauffele, here he is. kpl . >> the list of names on my trophies is pretty special. maybe not a marathon, but feels more like a sprint. obviously it's a marathon getting into this week, but it's hard to win the fedex cup if you haven't played well the last few weeks. it's just a great list of names that's won the tournament and we would -- it would be awesome to have my name on there. >> five pga tour wins, two this year. hovland is on fire. >> interesting. speaking of on fire, let's turn to the soccer pitch now. lionel messi has been with miami for more than a month now, but last night was technically his major league soccer debut, but still ends the same way. a win for miami. >> he's played for intermiami in the league cup, messi bringing miami their first ever title, but now his mls career officially beginning. another road sellout last night facing new york, get-in price at red bull stadium, more than $300. fans had to wait a bit to see messi, resting up a bit. coming on as a sub at the hour mark. it was worth the wait. more messi magic! putting new york defense in a blender, setting himself up with the give and go from ben kremasky. 11 goals now in just 9 games for miami. that leads the team in scoring and check out the reaction at times square in manhattan. simply awesome. jaw-dropping, making fans stop wherever he goes. messi and miami win 2-nil. another highly anticipated debut on new york on sunday, aaron rodgers taking the field for the jets for the first time after 18 years in green bay. radiologist said afterwards, he had the butterflies. didn't look like it. playing just two series against the giants, less than ten plays, but he threw a touchdown pass to garrett wilson. jets open up the regular season in 18 days from now, hosting the bills on monday night football. now for the second straight week, kim, an nfl pre-season game was called off early because of an injury. dolphins' rookie daywa davis taking a blow to the head midway through the fourth quarter for the jaguars. davis was down for several minutes before being immobilized and carted off the field. the dolphins say he was conscious and all extremities had movement. he, doug pederson, and the team's players' reps all agreed that they needed to stop playing this game. >> without a shadow of a doubt, i know that was the right call. i'm glad for the collective group for doing the right thing. >> he was a guy who, you know, his teammates really root for. that tells you everything about a human being, more than anything. you know, we're just hoping for a full rory and have had some good news and hope to have some even better news moving forward. >> second pre-season game now being called, it shows a sign of the times, a changing culture when it comes to football and injuries in the game. >> let's hope he's okay. coy wire, thanks so much. and that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. you can follow me on " "x" @kimbrunhuber. for viewers in north america, "cnn this morning" is next. for the rest of the world, it's "hidden treasures." ♪ hello, everyone, andco