settling into major population densities from new york to boston, philadelphia, baltimore, detroit, toronto, montreal, all seeing this hazardous air quality that has settled in. in fact national weather service picking up on that. we have over 20 million americans under air quality al alerts. this means anyone sensitive to the fine particulate matter, like people with upper respiratory illnesses, young or elderly, they will want to stay indoors today because that is not healthy air to breathe. all a product of weather pattern. we have the low pressure just off the canadian maritimes and the cold front that continues to draw the smoke from the north to the south. and it looks like we won't have much relief in the coming days because more canadian wildfire smoke is on its way. >> everybody be careful out "cnn this morning" starts right now.

good tuesday morning, everyone. we are so glad you're with us. look who's here. welcome back. >> glad to come back. >> i let you come back. you were in japan. >> and paris. >> and you met beyonce? >> spiritually. spiritually, absolutely. >> we're so glad to have phil mattingly with us. five things to know for this tuesday, june 6th. breaking overnight, ukraine accusing russia of blowing up a major dam. you can see the water pouring through a gap in the wall there. hundreds of people have already been evacuated as flooding hits along the dnipro river. 80 cities are in the flood zone, according to president zelenskyy, and water at breach, critical level. federal prosecutors say it's suspicious as former president trump's torrance meet with the special counsel. and two more former trump

allies set to clash for the former president, chris christie gets set to file paperwork and mike pence files his own paperwork. the pilot that crashed in virginia was seen slumped over in his seat. the faa lost contact with the plane only 15 minutes after it took off from tennessee and the pilot and three others died when the plane crashed. and a record number of women are working right now. economists are scratching their heads. is it inflation, hybrid work opportunities? well, we have the answers. "cnn this morning" starts right now. here's where we begin with this breaking news overnight in ukraine. ukraine accusing russian forces of blowing up a critical dam in a russian-controlled area of the kherson region. this is new video that shows an underwater explosion. look at that.

right near the dam. the surging waters leading to fears of large-scale devastation and the country warning of an environmental disaster. settlements downstream are flooding. residents in the danger zone are being urged to aevacuate. you can see water creeping into kherson city. there are more than 800 people in the region have been forced to leave their homes. officials are warning people, do everything you can to save your life. ukraine's president holding an emergency meeting with top officials to address this crisis. let's get with our sama kyly in kharkiv. walk us through how many are in danger. >> reporter: the numbers of people in immediate danger are concentrated, really, potentially on the russian-occupied side of the river. this is still ukrainian territory on the eastern side because the higher ground is to the west. the biggest city downriver from this dam is obviously kherson city. local authorities there have begun evacuating significant

numbers of people laying on trains. also putting out messages to say to people, get your essential documents, release your pets, get onto high ground and get out of the areas lightly to be affected. it's not just that, the dnipro river downstream, but the tributaries, too, that big water cause. the numbers they have yet to release in terms of lightly affected because the floodwaters are still draining effectively in that direction. greater numbers -- more accurate numbers will be coming through but there are many thousands of people likely to be affected on both sides. now, the ukrainian government accusing rush shans of what they say is ecocide, an environmental catastrophe as well as humanitarian disaster. we've seen yet to see convincing evidence one way or the other as to how this dam was breached. there was evidence in previous days that because of the russians controlling the dam,

were not allowing the water to drain from the lake above, it was overfilling and had, indeed, flooded some villages upstream and the road across it had been breached a few days ago. this is all in that context, though. an act that ultimately if it was found to be deliberate would in many waterers be described as yet another war crime committed by the russian occupiers here in ukraine. the ukrainian authorities scrambling really hard to try to get people away from those floodwaters. above all, the problem is that this is a water source and a source of power for communities on both sides of the river. and whatever happens, they are going to be desperately short of those important humanitarian resources. >> i thought it was interesting that ukraine's ministry of defense said this was russia acting in a panic. that's the word they used. how is russia responding to these accusations? >> reporter: well, the russians are saying they didn't blow the

bridge -- blow the dam, and obviously they're saying they didn't panic. but both sides are involved in an information war. the ukrainians in terms of the ministry of defense are making the point, trying to make the point that they think the russians blew this dam in order to flood the valley below, the river valley below, which would make it harder for ukrainians to conduct an across-river assault. the dnipro river has been a natural defense. saying they have the capacity to get across those river crossings regardless of the level of flooding. but i think ultimately the -- there may well be a question as to whether or not this was somewhat of a predictable accident because the most dangerous areas are

russian-occupied areas, areas until recently they had significant concentrations of artillery they were using to pound ukrainian positions, particularly in kherson city itself. >> that raises a very important question. we'll get into it now. sam, thank you for the reporting on the ground. >> joining us is retired u.s. army general steve. talking about what ukrainian officials are saying at this point in time, blaming russia or russian-occupied forces, saying russians are panicked. you can't separate this from what we saw over the course of the last 24 hours or so. an up tick in tempo of potential actions from ukraine. do you think these are connected and how does this affect the battlefield? >> well, this probably is connected. i do believe it is an indication there is panic in the russian lines. it's another page out of their playbook. they're trying to reek havoc, trying to hurt the population and they're not going to be successful, i think, in degrading the will of the

ukrainian people to conduct this fight or to conduct any kind of a river crossing operation that they need down there. my major concern with the blowing up of this dam is the impact on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is upriver from this dam about 50 miles. they desperately need cooling water in order to cool those six active reactors they have up there. none of them are online right now. but they still need cooling water in order to, you know, to prevent some kind of a catastrophe up there. that's my big concern, on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. >> for people who don't know, you are an expert in energy issues, environmental issues. we remember that power plant, the nuclear power plant was shelled. we saw bullet holes and casing holes in the roof. would this be the only water supply to cool that plant? wouldn't you think they would have backup options or no?

>> they do have backup options, they have reservoirs but you need freshwater to circulate, otherwise the reservoir can get too hot and you could have a potential meltdown. it's critical they continue to get freshwater upstream to cool these nuclear reactors. >> to pull back and talk about the actions we've seen from ukrainian forces, or appear to be seeing from ukrainian forces. this has been an expectation there would be a counteroffensive for months. it's been telegraphed, talked about. what do you think the misconceptions are about what that will actually look like in practice as opposed to the theoretical exercise? >> my concern is they're not really ready. i know general milley and others have said they are, but i don't think they have the firepower they need to conduct this counteroffensive. remember, we're talking about russians, 200,000 soldiers, that have been dug in now for over a

year preparing defensive positions. this is going to be a very difficult fight. they can't possibly go toe to toe with these folks. the only way they'll be able to do anything, to conduct a successful counteroffensive, is to conduct mobile operations, maneuver warfare. quite frankly, i just don't think they have the equipment and the logistics to sustain a long-term offensive that's going to be required in order to get the russians out of there. >> what would they need to have? >> what they need is equipment. we promised them 300 tanks. they have about 100. we being u.s. and nato. we promised them 700 infantry fighting vehicles. they have about 300. we've given them a lot of equipment but we've never provided the repair parts and

maintenance expertise they need in order to sustain this equipment. my understanding anecdotally is less than half of the equipment we've given the ukrainians is fully mission capable. it's not operational. you cannot go into a war fight, you know, like this. they need to outnumber in terms of firepower the defending force needs to be outnumbered by the attacker by a ratio of three to one. and i just don't think they can do that. their only hope is to be able to conduct offensive maneuver warfare to seek some sort of a penetration and then attack from the rear areas and the francs and come from behind and hope they can get tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of russians to surrender. that's their only -- but there's no way they can go toe to toe with the russians. they're dug in. it's too big of an area. the size of pennsylvania we're talking to try to get the russians out. they simply can't do it right now. >> brigadier general steve anderson, thanks for your expertise. to the cnn exclusive

reporting. sources say a flood, flood of a very different type, in mar-a-lago raised suspicions among federal investigators in the classified document probe. a maintenance worker drained the club's swimming pool back in october, which flooded a room where surveillance videos are stored on computer videos. this happened two months where special services found classified documents. we know they were moved around multiple times before investigators came. >> we're told the maintenance worker who drained the pool is the same worker who was spotted on security video moving boxes ahead of the fbi search. investigators have seized his phone. this new revelation came on the same day trump's legal team met with justice department officials to complain about the special counsel's probe of donald trump's handling of those

top secret documents. let's bring in cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. it's unclear if the surveillance video room flooded was a mistake or intentional. what were prosecutors looking at here? >> good morning, phil. the reason why this matters is this is a data point, another data point in the overall investigation of obstruction, which is one of the reasons why the former president is in the legal jeopardy he is. and according to sources who talked to kaitlan collins, witnesses are being asked by prosecutors about this incident. it's all about the timing. the first subpoena that comes to the trump team is in the early summer. they provide some documents and then the fbi goes and does a search in august. and it is after this they get

more subpoena to turn over surveillance videos from mar-a-lago. during the time fbi officials are serving a search warrant for surveillance video and another they get for a preservation order. this adds up to prosecutors trying to understand whether this flooding incident which happened, which affected a room where surveillance logs are being kept, whether this was intentional, whether this was a mistake. some testimony that came in to prosecutors indicated that the i.t. room was not affected by this. again, just the idea this happened in the middle of all that timing is why prosecutors are asking these questions. >> also a really critical meeting that trump's legal team had been asking for. they wanted to meet with attorney general merrick garland but they met with lisa monaco and other top prosecutors at doj about these federal probes and jack smith, the special counsel. what do we know?

>> that was a bit of a surprise, poppy. the lawyers arrived, they were there for about an hour and a half. we were running around, trying to figure out -- you can see me there looking goofy, figuring out when they were leaving the justice department. but they had a meeting with the top career official at the justice department. this is all part of what merrick garland, attorney general, is trying to keep this investigation in the hands of the special counsel, trying to make sure there is no political interference. however, smith did show up to this meeting. we know that one of the things that the trump team wanted to bring up was their belief there has been prosecutorial misconduct. we don't know exactly what that is but they're complaining, for instance, prosecutors have obtained attorney/client privilege material, stuff they usually cannot obtain. we don't know exactly what happens next. we do know they were not told that any charges are imminent. guys? >> can i just say, i love the

image of our calm, cool, collected, coifed colleague evan perez sprinting around the justice department trying to find these lawyers. >> if that's you running around looking goofy, you're so calm. we see the trump legal team behind you. that's really, really interesting, especially given the way the judge, how she ruled saying, look, you don't have attorney/client here. the special counsel can see this because of the crime fraud exception. we'll see what happens. thank you, evan. appreciate it. former new jersey governor chris christie set to announce he's running for president today and he's vowing to take down his former ally, donald trump. we'll take you live to new hampshire next. demonstrators in france once again taking to the street protesting the new increase in the retirement age, that change in the law. we'll take you to paris in our next hour.

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his own white house bid. omar jimenez is live for us. omar, i covered former governor christie's 2016 campaign. we spent a lot of time in new hampshire. get comfortable there. it's a wonderful place. why is this time different? what's his theory of the case this time around? >> well, look, at this time, look, i'm not going to pretend i can keep up with phil mattingly, but his case this time is going to be, he's been candid in the past, he's some never trumper republican coming into this. he framed it in previous town halls as someone who has worked with the former president, thought he could make him better, and then in christie's words, former president trump failed him and the country and that if he were to get in the race, he would do something directly about it. we seem to be at this point. chris tisty expected to announce his run for president today. he's hosting a town hall tonight

in new hampshire where he's expected to make brief remarks and then answer questions from the audience. but the key message, the key moment for tonight will be he will set the tone for what his campaign will be in what we know is a crowded gop primary field. >> he hasn't been subtle in the leadup moment about what that tone will be. he's announcing a day after we learn with our colleague dana bash that chris sununu will not run. it's fascinating sununu's reasoning for not running. what was it? >> part of the reasoning is he would have been joining a growing gop field. it's part of why in that answer he said he really wants those in the race right now to consider the responsibility they have when something or their campaign is not working to get out and get out quickly. he also doesn't believe

president trump is the ticket to a win in november 2024. take a listen to some of what he told dana bash. >> if republicans nominate him, we're saying a vote for him in the primary is effectively a vote for joe biden. that's ultimately how the math will play out. >> reporter: that said, trump remains the person to beat in this race. he's polled higher than other candidates at these very early stages. a lot can change as people like the soon-to-be candidate chris christie tried to break through and make it to the coveted debate stage in august. the elections in campaign 2024 season is well under way. >> great stuff, buddy. tomorrow dana bash moderates a cnn republican presidential town hall live from iowa with former vice president mike pence. it airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. ongoing feud with neighbors ends with a mother of four shot

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these children who lost their mother in cold blood, we need answers. we need an arrest. >> that is the attorney for a woman shot and killed in florida by her neighbor. well, they're demanding an arrest, as you heard. aj owens, the mother of four children, was shot after a dispute with their neighbors. owens' children were playing outside when the neighbor engaged them and threw a pair of skates at them, and also shouted racial slurs. when owens confronted her, that woman shot and killed her. there are so many questions this morning, but key for the legal team is why this woman hasn't been arrested. do we know? >> reporter: well, poppy, the sheriff's office is saying they're looking into whether this shooting was in

self-defense. that's an argument the victim's family is just not possible. 35-year-old aj owens was killed on friday north of orlando in ocala, florida. owens knocked on the door minutes earlier who had an issue with owens' children playing outside. the victim's family said the woman repeatedly harassed the children, calling them racial slurs, and wanted to know why the woman kept an ipad the children left behind and why she threw a pair of skates at them. here's more of what that mother said. >> she knocked on her door, a closed, locked door. door never opened. my daughter, my grandchildren's

mother was shot and killed. she had no weapon. she posed no imminent threat to anyone. >> reporter: so the sheriff of marian county said the two women were yelling at each other through that front door and that authorities haven't made an arrest yet because of floor's stand your ground law, adding authorities are still interviewing other neighbors and owens' 9-year-old son who was standing next to his mom when she was shot through that door. here's the sheriff. >> what we have to rule out is whether the deadly force was justified or not before we can even make the arrest. and sometimes it becomes difficult. and sometimes it becomes an obstacle. but only a temporary obstacle. because it will be moved and the final answer will come forward. >> reporter: so the sheriff said

the neighbors have had issues before with at least six calls made to 911 since 2021. the name of that 58-year-old neighbor who shot owens has not been released. poppy and phil? >> tragic. carlos, thank you very much for the reporting. we're also learning new details this morning about that private jet that crashed into rural virginia, prompting supersonic fighter jets to respond when the jet was not responding. the faa says it lost contact with the plane 15 minutes after it took off on its way to east long island, new york. the flight path shows it turns and heads into restricted air space over washington, d.c. f-16 fighter jets tasked with protecting the area scrambled and tried to get the pilot's attention. >> fighter vanguard, if you hear this transmission, contact us. >> sources tell cnn the pilot was seen slumped over in his

seat, triggering an investigation into a possible loss of cabin pressure as the cause of the crash. we're also learning more about the four victims. the pilot, jeff hefner, on the right, the plane owner's daughter, adina azarian, her daughter and nanny. new details about how wealthy conservative activists helped ron desantis spring a tight relationship with clarence thomas after he called thomas our greatest living justice. fascinating reporting ahead. we're getting new video this morning of that flooding in kherson after ukrainian forces accused the russians of blowing up a critical dam overnight and more than 800 people in the region have been evacuated so far. we'll take you back to ukraine ahead.

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this morning a lawyer for the gop mega donor who held private deals with supreme court thomas agreed to meet with staff. cnn obtained a letter from dick durbin from michael bop who reiterates urges the committee to, quote, reassess the partisan course it is pursuing. into the letter telling durbin to feel free to have his staff contact him with any questions and set up a time to discuss his request. durbin said he believes crow's letter will help craft judicial reform legislation. staying on the supreme court, we have fascinating new details from our colleague's reporting about how a wealthy conservative activist may have helped florida governor ron desantis seal a tight

relationship with ron desantis. leo has advised desantis and president trump on nominations for the supreme court, and friends with justice thomas and desantis has praised him for his conservative stance on the court. three years ago at disney world at an event for florida chapter for the federalist society, governor desantis had this to say about justice thomas. >> this is a justice that has courage of his convictions and he's willing to apply the constitution, you know, regardless of any criticism that he may face because i do think he is our greatest living justice. thank you. >> quite a statement after that speech that desantis gave justice thomas and leonard leo, all three went to dinner, sealing a relationship that could help desan tis in his race for the white house. this is so interesting, the world you take us into.

we all know how powerful the federalist society is, from federal judges up to the supreme court. what can you tell us about what seems to be desantis following the path that former president trump took in 2016 running on these are the kind of justices i will get on the supreme court. >> good morning, poppy and phil. yes, you know, donald trump even said halfway through his tenure, one of the reasons i became president is because of the supreme court. he vowed to appoint conservatives, anti-abortion rights justices and followed through on his three appointments. and leonard leo was one of the men, and they were men in a small band advising president trump on who to choose for the supreme court. and then leonard leo started advising governor desantis when he won the state house down in florida in 2018. so, he's had this relationship

between the two men. you know, leonard leo has a huge, big dollar donor support base. he hasn't said who he's supporting yet in the sprawling gop primary race, but he has praised governor desantis and, you know, certainly been advising him in his choices down in florida, poppy. >> you know, part of the fascinating part of this article, the story you've got, it really reveals the tight relationships that developed between desantis, leonard leo and supreme court justice thomas, some of which traces to the federalist society dinner. how is leo being as his way the go-between between desantis and thomas? >> certainly. leonard leo is at the center of so much when it comes to what happens with the judiciary federally and at the state level. he is known clarence thomas since 1990 here in washington.

and he has long known governor desantis also since governor desantis was at harvard law school and in the federalist society. and at this 2020 florida federalist convention, you know, saw there governor desantis introducing clarence thomas. afterward they go to a private dinner at the steakhouse. leonard leo told me, that's where those two men really got talking. you know, phil, they already were so aligned, the kinds of things clarence thomas is known for in the law, you know, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion rights, anti-press rights are certainly part of governor desantis' state agenda and now his presidential campaign agenda. those two men probably would -- there was leonard leo helping to bring them together in early 2020. >> it is interesting to watch desantis try to out-trump trump when it comes to the supreme court when trump was so successful in getting three new

justices on to overturn roe versus wade. the agrument we heard desantis say, if i run i could have eight years and appoint more justices than trump in four years. >> it is something to try to out-trump trump but this is what governor desantis is saying. he was saying he would get eight years if he wins, and wins a second year, obviously, and donald trump is limited to four more terms. what the governor is saying is he can take this court that's a 6-3 conservative dominated court and make it 7-2, to have an impact over many, many more decades because he's saying he could get multiple appointments over eight years. now, who knows. knock wood, poppy, i do not expect any immediate retirements, but this is the governor's pitch to the republican base for why they should choose him over donald trump in this round. poppy, phil? >> if there are pending retirements, we know who will know about them first. >> thank you. >> and who will talk to them.

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>> reporter: absolutely, prince harry has been very vocal in the past, and even more so now in his witness statement, in his criticism of the tabloid journalists working under the mirror group newspapers. he spoke in his witness statement of the impacts that the intrusion on his personal life has had, not only on his life but his family in particular, that of his late mother, princess diana. this witness statement has detailed 50 newspaper articles published between the 1990s and 2000s, and 11 which he says detailed private, intimate information that could only been known through unlawful information-gathering. we're talking about phone hacking, interception of his vo voice mails, his and people around him, and payments made -- recent revelations of payments made to private investigators to glean information from not only his activities but those of his late mother, princess diana, something that he says makes him

feel physically sick. prince harry is facing cross-examination over that witness statement. he is amongst more than 100 claimants suing the mirror group newspapers over that illegal and unlawful gathering of information through means including phone hacking. he has spoken about the impact this has had on his life. he spoke about his personal relationship, the circle of friends who are smaller and smaller as a result of the paranoia this caused him growing up, the strain this placed on his relationship. he said he suffered bouts of depression as a result. in fact, this played a significant part in his decision to step back as a senior member of the royal family and relocate his family to los angeles. of course, he has been vocal in the past about this. he has spoken about his wish to reform the media landscape, particularly when it comes to the activities of the british tabloid press. phil, poppy? >> thanks so much. the vegas golden knights --

i almost said nuggets. nuggets are in another series. >> that's okay. >> the golden knights, two wins away from lifting the stanley cup after routing the florida panthers in last nim's game two and coy wire is here. that's true hoping what happens in vegas happens in miami, too? >> that's right, poppy. when you said nuggets, that made me hungry. i started think being chicken, even though it's 6:00 in the morning. >> someone get coy chick-fil-a. >> feed me. the golden knights have had nine different players scoring goals. the most by any team in nhl history. this just in, jonathan mahas ni goals in his last nine games. the next play sums up the knights' night. captain mark stone breaks his stick and turns into a stone age man searching for his next meal. pummels a panther, grabs another

twig and then goes on to get the assist, feeding brett houghton for one of his two goals on the night. vegas eviscerating the panthers 7-2. their combined 12 goals are the most ever in the first two games of a stanley cup final. aiden hill, how was it out there? >> probably the most fun i've had playing hockey. just enjoying t cherishing every day. taking it one day at a time. just kind of living in the moment and it's been fun. it's been awesome to be part of this journey with this team. >> vegas up 2-0 now as this series goes from the ice in the desert to the ice in south florida. game three is thursday night on our sister network tnt. not looking good for florida. 90% of the time, teams with a 2-0 series lead go on to win the stanley cup final every time. >> the pessimism, pessimism from coy. he's the most optimistic guy i know. >> he's hangry. >> he's hangry.

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it's a move that will probably baffle people. the world's social media platforms are rolling back measures to help combat the spread of disinformation as we head into the next election cycle. this is a new article from axios. facebook and instagram are updating policies and reinstating some previously banned accounts. joining us with reporting is cnn senior media analyst sarah fisher. sara, i feel like it's been trending in this direction during the course of the last several months. i guess my biggest question is the why. you see the political elements of it, the business elements of it. why is this happening? >> the tech pop would tell you, phil, because when they evaluate

their policies, they need to balance the protection of their community and their users with also free speech. right now they don't think the risk to real world harm can incite violence or protests, et cetera, is as bad as it was when they implemented some of these policies. some of the misinformation policies around things like election denialism started to increase and increase in enforcement following the january 6th attack. some of the misinformation policies around vaccines increased around covid. what the tech platforms are saying now is there isn't as much pressure in terms of making sure people aren't going to riot in response to these things and, thus, they think they can roll the policies back. >> but isn't the whole point of having policies like this to protect against things happening like january 6th, like so many people following lies, believing them, isn't the whole point to protect against that instead of to come in the aftermath, which is what happened last time? >> it is.

i asked youtube about this specifically because youtube is the one that last week said they will, moving forward, allow election denialism content back to the platform after previously banning it. they couldn't provide examples of how they're weighing this decision. i asked, is it you're seeing less real world violence? i asked what made them make the decision now? they couldn't give me an answer. the woman i quoted in the piece, the founder of factcheck.org, really the way to approach this is not necessarily take down all speech but to limit the algorithmic disinformation but also flood the zone with critical context. meaning, provide fact check as long misinformation, et cetera. one of the challenges is, we've been talking about it, these big tech platforms have had huge amounts of layoffs. and oftentimes those responsible for fact-checking have been the ones that have been decimated.

>> it's a labor-intensive process. twitter ad sales have fallen by 59% in a year and the ad sales staff is concerned the companies are turned off by what you're explaining now. what's the path forward for twitter? >> phil, they're pretty bad. i want to put into larger context the entire ad market is down right now. not down that much but i think it wouldn't be that bad if we were in a bullish market. what makes this bad for twitter is the same report that "the new york times" had shows they don't foresee it getting any better. a lot of media companies and tech platforms see this ad revenue but project is to increase later on in the third and fourth quarters. that's not the case for twitter and that's going to present a huge problem for its incoming ceo who started just yesterday at twitter. >> but this is her bread and butter, this is what she's great at, ad sales