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00:00A massive recall now among Waymo self-driving taxis. The software glitch that could have them
00:06driving right into floodwaters. I'm Kate Baldwin with John Berman and Sarah Seidner. This is CNN
00:12News Central. Why the former FBI Director James Comey is now saying that the president is obsessed
00:19with retribution and while he's facing a second indictment now, Comey is also talking about a
00:25possible third. Plus a doctor who treated hantavirus patients on that cruise ship. He is
00:31now himself after testing positive for the virus and he's speaking to CNN from quarantine. And it
00:37was wild dash cam video. We're going to show you of a plane clipping a car as it was making
00:41an
00:42emergency landing in Arizona. We'll be right back. Former FBI Director James Comey speaking out for
00:49the first time since his new indictment, the second indictment against him brought by the Justice
00:54Department after the first did not succeed as we've recovered and reported. Comey now speaking
01:00out is now accusing, uh, is now accusing, uh, is Comey now speaking out after he was indicted for
01:07threatening allegedly President Trump's life with a social media post. The photo we talked about of
01:14seashells writing 8647. Comey has promised to fight this due charge, calls it blatant political
01:21retribution. He also says what he's going through is a warning for all of the president's perceived
01:26political enemies. Speaking of the FBI making headlines, the man currently holding, well,
01:33Comey's old job, FBI Director Cash Patel. He got into it to say the least when testifying before the
01:39Senate going scorched earth as lawmakers questioned his ability to do his job amid reports of allegations
01:46of excessive drinking. Patel is suing the Atlantic over this reporting, calling it false and saying
01:51that he's never been drunk at work. Still, watch what happened with Democratic Senator Chris Van
01:56Hollen asked Patel about it directly. Didn't stop there either. What Patel is apparently referencing
02:02there is Senator Van Hollen's visit to visit with Kilmar Brigo Garcia, the man that the Trump
02:07administration deported to El Salvador despite a court order prohibiting his deportation. Now,
02:13Van Hollen didn't let it go. He actually extended the fight and took the fight to social media.
02:17Sarah. Ouch.
02:19It's a specialized bookcase. Still, it made me worry.
02:22Back to me, Ellie, back to me. As part of all of this, some of the world's wealthiest,
02:27most influential leaders in tech are traveling with President Trump to China. Apple CEO Tim Cook,
02:32Tesla, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk. They're among the delegation. And the New York Times just reports
02:37that NVIDIA CEO also boarded Air Force One in Alaska late yesterday after a last-minute invite.
02:44The president's trip, we were just talking about this, it's going to focus on so many things,
02:48including the global race with artificial intelligence. It's seen as Claire Duff.
02:52Again, the U.S. would like for China to ease its restrictions on the imports of raw materials
02:57that are needed for things like chips and data centers. Big, big issues down to the most basic
03:02thing, though. It might not sound so sexy, but Rare Earth Minerals is a central and huge
03:08focus on where this relationship is and goes. Claire, thanks so much.
03:11Thank you. Sarah.
03:12All right. Thank you.
03:13There's always more streaming content to go through. The president's plans for a triumphal
03:17arch in Washington. Does it now pose an aviation risk? The FAA is now investigating,
03:22as it will sit so closely to Reagan National Airport. And Waymo is recalling thousands of its
03:29self-driving cars because of a software glitch, one that could have them driving right into
03:35floodwaters. We'll be back.
03:38As we're calling nearly 4,000 of its self-driving vehicles across the United States, the company
03:45says it's opting for a voluntary recall right now over a software glitch that could cause the
03:50vehicles to drive into flooded roads, drive onto flooded roads. And there have been Waymo cars
03:55caught on camera, if recent, in places like Austin, Texas last month, stalling out in flooded
04:00streets during rainstorms. And in San Antonio, Waymo service has been suspended altogether after
04:07a vehicle went onto a flooded road and then was swept into a creek. No passengers were in the car
04:12at the time, but it's prompting a wider review now by the National Highway Transportation Safety
04:17Administration. The company currently operates in 11 U.S. cities.
04:22So the man accused of stealing Beyonce's unreleased music will avoid trial. Kelvin Evans is his name.
04:29He entered a guilty plea Tuesday in an Atlanta court, according to CNN affiliate WSB. And as part
04:35of that plea, Evans will face two years in prison and three years probation. Police say that he was
04:40caught on security camera video breaking into an SUV back in 2025. This was just two days before
04:45Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour stop in Atlanta. And two people from her choreography and dance team,
04:50they called 911 to report a theft of their rental car and then saying that her unreleased music,
04:56laptops and other items had been stolen. John, exclusive new reporting in this morning. Sources
05:01telling CNN that the CIA may have facilitated a deadly explosion inside of Mexico that killed a
05:08member of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. CNN is also learning that this is part of a bigger
05:14secret campaign. And it's part of an expanded CIA operation within Mexico to try to dismantle cartel
05:24networks by focusing, targeting and taking out mid-level operators. CNN's Zach Cohen has much more on
05:31this reporting. This exclusive reporting is joining us now. Tell us more about what you're learning,
05:36Zach. Zach Cohen, thank you so much for bringing that reporting to us. I appreciate it. John.
05:41All right. We do have some breaking news just in new key data coming in on the on inflation
05:46and the numbers are blowing past expectations. Not in a good way. Matt Egan is here with it. What's
05:52what do you have? Okay. Look, another day, another very hot inflation report. Yesterday was consumer
05:57prices. Today's producer prices. This is wholesale inflation annual rate for producer prices since the
06:03end of 2022. And again, a lot worse than expected. This is the trend for wholesale inflation for
06:10producer prices and what all of us pay at the store, right? When you go back in time, you can
06:15see that
06:16there's that these two indexes are really linked very closely together, right? And what you have is
06:21this is actually goes back to COVID. So you can see there was about 40% of the increase came
06:26from
06:26gasoline alone, but it's not just gas, right? There was also a significant increase for jet fuel,
06:32for diesel as well. Right in the US back during the 2024 election, it was at 2.7% when
06:38the president
06:38took office, 3%. Now it's almost 4% and Kate economists are expecting that these numbers on
06:45inflation are going to get worse before they get better. Well, and a very real question of how much
06:51worse, but also then how quickly they could be turned around, which is a huge question when you're
06:57looking no matter what, take the political calendar out of consideration. It matters that question,
07:03how quickly it can be brought down. But then you add in the political calendar. This is
07:06quite a time. It is. And look, even if the straighter who moves here from everyone is going
07:10from we're going from months now inching towards a year. Yeah. Yeah. This could be something that
07:16doesn't go back to normal until 2027 at this point. All right. Thank you so much, Matt. Much more on
07:20this breaking news to come, Sarah. All right. Thank you. So an American doctor who was caught
07:26on that cruise ship hit by the Hantavirus is now speaking out, speaking out from a biocontainment
07:31unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after a positive test for the rare virus. Listen
07:37to this. Dr. Kornfeld says that he is now awaiting the results of more testing coming this week. The
07:46WHO believes there will be more cases to expect beyond the current 11 they are tracking. But
07:52the outbreak, but the outbreak, they say they are. There seems to be a lower level of fear
07:57about how far and wide it will spread. The outbreak, though, does come at a precarious time for public
08:02health in the United States. The CDC has been without a permanent confirmed director for several
08:08months now. Add to that President Trump is now on his third pick to be surgeon general who still
08:14needs to be confirmed. And the FDA commissioner, Marty McCary, just resigned Tuesday from his post.
08:21Joining us right now is former Health and Human Services Secretary. Joining us right now is
08:25Democratic Congressman Al Mubarra of California. He sits on House Foreign Affairs,
08:30House Foreign Affairs Committee and Intelligence Committee as well. Congressman,
08:33thanks for coming in. Trump in China. What do you want to hear or see out of this visit
08:39that would have you? Congressman, thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate it.
08:45Much more to come on that for sure. Sarah?
08:51Who is treating patients? A high-stakes trial that could determine the future of AI is set to wrap.
08:57What OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, though, said about Elon Musk from The Stand and the multi-millionaire
09:04cosmetics mogul, giving up his fortune and about to become a priest.
09:12So, a wild moment. A plane clips a car as it's forced to make an emergency landing on a highway.
09:20I'll tell you how this all went down. And it's one of the messiest, bestiest traditions ever.
09:25The Naval Academy's annual monument climb underway right now.
09:31It is one of the U.S. Naval Academy's best and messiest and most celebrated rites of passage,
09:36and it is underway right now. The annual monument climb for the class of 2029
09:40is happening this morning. It's that decades-old tradition where the freshman class worked together
09:47to climb a 21-foot monument covered in Crisco, courtesy of the upperclassmen, of course, who are
09:52also spraying the freshmen with water while they attempt to climb. The goal here is to get a white hat
09:58known as a Dixie cup from the top of the monument and put an upperclassmen's hat in its place.
10:03All of this to mark the end of their first year, the first year of that grind. Last year,
10:10it took the class of 2028, two hours, 27 minutes. The record for the fastest climb was the class of
10:151972.
10:16One minute and 30 seconds, but they did not have grease as part of that one, so it's a totally
10:21different category. Dashcam Bourbon looks concerned. You should see his face. Let's look at this though.
10:28Dashcam video shows a small plane going down on an Arizona highway right in front of a family of
10:32four. Just watch this. Plane, you can see it make a hard landing. The wing goes right directly over the
10:38top of their heads. The propeller then hits the back of the truck. The view from the truck's rear camera
10:43shows that the plane continues down the highway until it hits a sign and comes to a stop. No word
10:47on
10:48window. Then there's this. I always love to hear about a chapter two when it comes to people's
10:51careers and boy is this one setting the scene for you. A multimillionaire giving it all up to become
10:56a priest. Scott Vincent Bourbon was the co-founder of Elf Cosmetics, the wildly successful and almost
11:02ubiquitous makeup brand. Bourbon says that with that success, he became a poster child for the luxury
11:08lifestyle of fame and fortune and excess. I think partying with the Kardashians type of lifestyle.
11:13And Bourbon says that he found himself at a glamorous event one night wondering what it was all
11:17for. And so he prayed for clarity and it came. He decided to give it all up, give his fortune
11:23to
11:23charity, become a deacon at the California, at a California seminary. Now he's been studying for
11:27the last few years in the place that he calls home, a small little tiny room and with very few
11:32belongings
11:32saying he has never been happier. And now with all that, he's going to officially become an ordained
11:39Catholic priest on May 23rd. John? What? A full non-profit to its current for-profit structure
11:45overseen by a non-profit foundation. Hadass Gold for us out there in Oakland watching the case.
11:51Thanks so much, Hadass. And thank you for joining us. This is CNN New Central. Situation Room, up next.
11:55We'll see you next time.
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