Government. So we ll get into all that coming up here. Dana: president biden pulling the plug on the state department inquiry while calling for an independent investigation where the virus came from. The contractor who was leading the state department probe telling fox news he doesn t know why the administration would doubt his team s efforts. We re getting reaction from senator marco rubio. The world health organization is not capable of undertaking this investigation. The chinese won t allow it. I think it s possible that the chinese government, communist party itself doesn t exactly know what happened. They don t have a system you are at the wuhan lab and had an accident and you would selfreport it. People like that disappear or get fired. Dana: rich edson is reporting live from washington bill: the former state department officials involved in this investigation tell us then secretary of state mike pompeo set it up over the objections of some at state who opposed an investigation i
lahaina. residents desperate to find t of their homes, others searching for loved ones hundreds still unaccounted for. new images of burnt out cars survivors in dire need of supplies and where were emergency officials when the fires broke out. plus, the family who fled into the ocean to escape the flames. what they told me about how they waited there for hours. both sides to the left and the right are on fire. and the newscaster breaking down live on the air. this is one of the toughest stories i ve had to cover in my time here. also breaking tonight, a massive explosion destroys homes in one pennsylvania town. the investigation now into what caused it. nearly all republican candidates in one place in iowa our reporter with former president trump as we learn when a georgia grand jury will hear a new case against him. is there any chance you ll take a plea deal in georgia? frightening close call at a san diego airport, a southwest flight almost taking off into a
the former u.s. marine who was recently released by russia in a prisoner swap has been wounded on the battlefield fighting russia in ukraine. we re live from the pentagon just ahead. and we are watching for any developments outside of a federal courthouse in washington, d.c., as a potential third indictment looms over former president donald trump. a grand sure is expected to meet today to hear more evidence from the special counsel jack smith. and lebron james son bronny is recovering in a hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during basketball practice. what the family is saying about how he s doing. we re following the major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. an american wounded on the ba battlefield in ukraine, just a year after he s released from russia in a high-profile prisoner swap. a biden administration official telling cnn that the marine veteran trevor reed was wounded while fighting in ukraine. they are fami
they will radically change the battlefield. back here at home several homes damaged after a rare suspected tornado ripped through a town just miles from the city of chicago. i m sara sidner, with kate bolduan, this is cnn news central. happening now, a pivotal summit in finland with leaders as president biden wraps up a high stakes trip. he is ending with a strong e nato and long-term promises to ukraine in its war effort. next hour biden is expected to speak but more trillion talks are taking place fresh off the ga gathering. the nation shares an 800 mile border with russia. biden moments ago meeting one on one with his finish counter part. nic robertson is leading our coverage this morning. what is the global message that president biden is hoping to achieve once he returns? reporter: i think part of it here, obviously, is that nato, despite president putin s best efforts of cracking nato s unity, it s russia that s cracking, the recent coup by prigozhin, the wagner
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