real life drama for hollywood actors as contract talks collapse setting up a strike. plus president biden in finland to welcome one and eventually two nordic nations to the nato alliance. and federal prosecutors talk to the top elections official in michigan. what does she know about efforts to overturn the 2020 vote. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. we begin this morning with a developing story out of hollywood, california, where contract negotiations with the s.a.g. actors union and major studios and streamers broke down overnight. this sets the stage for hollywood s first big shutdown in more than six decades. union leaders say its national board will meet a few hours from now to formally authorize a strike. s.a.g. has about 160,000 members. if they go on strike, they would join hollywood screen writers who walked off the job in may. more on this coming up. but first president biden with a meeting of nordic leaders in finland this morning fo
u.s. made cluster munitions are now in the hands of the ukrainian military, ready for use in its counteroffensive against russia. we re going to tell you why a top ukrainian general tells cnn it will, quote, radically change the battlefield and whereukrain forces say they will not use these weapons. and access to birth control could soon be a lot easier for millions of american women. the fda approved the first over-the-counter pill. we re requgoing to tell you wheu could start seeing them on store shelves. we re following these developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a senior ukrainian general tells cnn his forces have received the u.s.-made cluster munitions that can, in his words, quote radically change the battlefield here. his forces have yet to deploy them against the russians. the arrival of those weapons has not previously been reported. you can see here video from last year in kharkiv. this is what it looks like when a ru
sent to the front lines. as putin s paranoia is leading to a bigger military purge. breaking news, two of trump s most senior white house aides, jared kushner and hope hicks have now testified before the grand jury investigating trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we re going to tell you a key question that both of them were asked. and we have new audio tonight of a passenger plane s frantic call for help after hitting extreme turbulence. that plane dropping thousands of feet in seconds. what was it like on board, two passengers on the florida-bound flight are my guests. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, putin s military meltdown. we re getting new video tonight of a deadly fight that broke out at a military camp near moscow. according to russian media, these men were about to be sent to the front lines, and then one of the soldiers here is said to have upset his superiors, he was reportedly beaten by members of a recon
london ahead on cnn newsroom ukraine s future is in nato. putin and its craven lust for land and power unleashes brutal war on ukraine. he was betting nato would break apart. he was betting nato would break. hottest temperatures of summer are coming up this weekend and in some places the hottest temperatures ever recorded. people s cars got flipped over, windows knocked out. people were screaming. this storm is really bad. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 13th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in helsinki. in the hours ahead, president zelenskyy will be meeting with authoriz nordic leaders and the finish president. and there they offered ukrainian president zelenskyy security guarantees and assurances but still no time line on joining the alliance. nic robertson is following developments and joins me now here in london with the latest. starting with what biden is doing today, he is in helsinki