Im kim brunhuber. Ahead on cnn newsroom it is a fight to take on corporate greed. U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders joined the uaw rally in detroit. Coming up, how this strike is already impacting the auto industry. Plus the Special Counsel investigating donald trump wants to limit what the former president can publicly say. Well hear how trump is responding. And in libya, the search continues as thousands are missing after flooding. We begin with the showdown uaw and the big three car makers. Negotiations are expected to resume in a matter of hours, but were into the second day of a targeted strike that has some 13,000 uaw members walking the picket lines in three u. S. C cities. They are getting some reenforcements from washington. The Acting Labor Secretary awe long with a Top White House adviser headed to detroit friday in the hopes to help the sides reach a deal. President biden said no one wanted a strike, but Auto Companies should go further to make a deal. Here he is. Auto companies have seen record profits including the last few years including the skill and sacrifices of the workers. Those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view. The bottom line is that auto workers help create can the middle class. They deserve a contract that sustains them in the middle s. Contracts between the uaw and the auto makers expired thursday and covered all of the unions 145,000 members. The strike has affected all three. Its the first time theres been a union strike at the sate saim time. Fordnd gm are offering a 20 pay raise over theerm of potential new contract. Ste lance has offered a 17. 5 increase. The uaws a 20 raise and 4 subsequents of 5 each. Theres a lot at stake, according to one analysis. A tenday strike costs 5 billion. Theres already been some fallout. Gm says its fairfax, kx, assembly line, you would soon r out of parts. Ford told 600 workers on the truck line in michigan not to report to work friday because of the department there is on strike. The uaw president says 80 of the demands have been left off proposals from the auto makers. Fords ceo says the wage demands would put his company out of business. We have details now from gabe cohen. Reporter the sides are headed back to the Bargaining Table today with the them saying they have sent counteroffers to the big three and is awading their response. Its not clear at this point whats in those offers, but it is going to take quite a bit to bridge the divide that we have seen between these sides. And until a deal is met, until a deal is reached, were going to continue it see picket lines like this operating 24 hours a day like the one here in toledo outside this stellantis factory. There are 13,000 auto workers currently on strike between here and ohio. A Ford Facility in michigan and a General Motors factory in missouri. The auto workers i spoke with today said despite only making 100 a day in strike pay, they are ready for to strike for as long as they need to. Our members are willing to stay in for the long haul. Our starting pay was 15. 78. 14 years later its 15. 78. Theres something whrong with that. Reporter the head of the union said its possible that additional factories will strike in the coming days if they feel that it is necessary. But either way, you can expect were going to start to see more of a Ripple Effect of additional manufacturing facilities and factories that may have to shut down operations, even layoff workers because they cant get the parts they need to operate. Gabe cohen, cnn, toledo, ohio. Donald trump is lashing out at the Special Counsel investigating his 2020 federal election interference. He says jack smith is trying to rob him of his right to free speech. Smiths office has asked a District Court judge to um pose a court order limiting what the former president can say in public ab the case against him and trump pleased. Listen to this. See today that deranged jack smith, hes the prosecutor, hes a deranged person, wants to take away my rights under the first amendment. He wants to take away my right of speaking freely and openly. Trump has already been ordered not to intimidate potential witnesses or talk to them about the facts of the case. Senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez has more. Heres what prosecutors are specifically asking for. They are asking for trump basically to be limited from making statements regarding the identity, testimony or credibility of prospective witnesses and statements about any Party WitnessCourt Personnel or potential jurors that are disparaging, inflammatory or intimidating. Thats the focus on what they are trying to do. One of the things that the judge is going to have to keep in mind is the fact that a defendant has a right to speak. And judges are often reluctant to try to limit some of that because they could create problems for an appeal. And they also have the unusual situation where the defendant is running for president. Part of his the platform is his sort of beef with what happened in 2020. Thats really what hes litigating as part of his campaign. So its not clear what the judge is going to do. It is true she has already warned him about some of his comments and statements and anything that could intimidate witnesses, but you can bet what shes going to do, if she tries to limit it, is going to start small and see what donald trump does to try to abide by those. One of the things that is possible is to take a look at what he does on social media. We have seen that happen in previous cases. So if trump continues to try to undermine the judicial system by attacking prosecutors, judges and witness, he may find himself in serious legal trouble. Former Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe roaeacted to the News Earlierier on cnn. This is an important next step. It is by no means a gag order. This is not whats under consideration here, but this is elevating the warning citing a specific local court rule and presenting it to him. If she passes this, hes going to be officially on notice. Then the next instances, which im sure will come, will result in some real consequences. The they are starting to blast the new england area. Its bringing 80 mile per hour winds along the northeastern coast. Lee is expected to move through maine and into canada bringing clothes tall flooding and high winds. The worse conditions are forecasted for later today with widespread Power Outages across parts of new brunswick. Its expected to weaken before it moves across the Atlantic Coast of dcanada by sunday morning. In hawaii the official death toll has fallen from the devastating wildfire on maui. The states governor told cnn fewer than 100 people have died and nearly 3 dozen people unaccounted for. He expects those numbers to continue to fall. The number of fatal tas has actually dropped from what was projected to be 115. Its now 97. We have about 23 people who have passed away who we have not been able to identify yet. A lot of the 31 reports of missing people will cover the 23 with who have not been identified. Emergency teams in Eastern Libya are still searching for thousands of people who disappeared after catastrophic floods hit the region. Their work has been exhausting and at times mentally distressing as he will see in this graphic. Here on the northern coastline, workers have been retrieving bodies from the water days after they were swept out to see. Crews have been searching for the missing by combing through the rubble of collapsed bu buildings. First responders from around the world have been helping out. Hours before the floods came, a situation seemed manageable with local authorities keeping the flooding under control. However, the rupture of the dam caused a huge problem and resulted in a flooding kill ing many people. Its a tragedy. The scope of the defation has made it difficult to determine the exact death toll, but between 5 and 6,000 even though the extent of the tragedy remains unclear, the u. N. Says theres no doubt about what caused it. This is a tragedy in which climate and capacity has collided to cause this terrible, terrible tragedy. Cnn shows us how residents are coping with the disaster. Reporter it was a storm like no other. But its in the only mother natures wrath thats to blame for these scenes. Right up there is where the dams where when they burst, it unleashed all that water. The floods that swept entire neighborhoods like this into the sea. And you can see the force of the water when you look at buildings like this. You can see how high the waves were. Waves as high as 22 feet submerged buildings and currents so strong destroyed almost everything in path and washed it all into the sea. The mediterranean turned into a graveyard for the people. How many lives lost, no one knows, but its in the thousands. The clear blue waters are now brown. It tells the story of a city that once was of those gone, young and old. Children a few months old, elderly people, pregnant women, they are in the sea. With nothing but a rope tied around his waist, he pulled 14 bodies on the first day. There are other bodies. We dont know how to get them out. We just dont have any equipment, he says. They have gotten some help since. International support has been slowly trickle ing in, but nowhe near enough to deal with the disaster on this scale. Its mostly libyan who is volunteer from every corner of this country. Those who fought each other for years, united in grief, doing what they can to the wound of this broken city. Most are here to try to give the dead a dignified end. Its not the time to lay blame for what happened, but the dams have not been maintained for decades, residents say. Had they been, its people still be standing. Nearly a week on, emotions here still so raw. Families climbed on top of the water tanks. They all survived, but most of his neighbors did not. There are 12 to 15 homes on our street. We lost 33 people, he tells us. He then starts to name the dead. Entire families gone. Its all just too much. Libyans know loss and death all too well, but nothing could have prepared them for this. Cnn, libya. Kim jongun is forging ahead with his visit to russias far east. A look at who the leader has been meeting with and what hes expected to do next. And one year after dying in the custody of Morality Police, the world remembers her and the Protest Movement her death inspired. That story and much more, ahead on cnn newsroom. Flex any style. With Hairspray Thatat Flexes with you. New tresememme hairspray. North koreas leader is in russia for whats expected to be the last leg of his strip to the countrys far east. He toured russias Pacific LegalDefense Minister a short time ago. They headed to the ship after visiting an airfield near the port city earlier. We are following developments in beijing. For north koreas leader, these types of photoops are nothing new, right . As we have seen over the last few months, ub u. N. Really does see value in these photoops, personally when it involves Military Hardware and world leaders. To guf you more details, he saw military fighter jets, an attack aircraft, a long range Passenger Plane and a Hypersonic Missile system. Again, being accompanied by the Defense Minister. Also as far as that visit to the port, he was touring a warship, but with a key russian leader, that being the commander of the russian navy. A lot of symbolism behind this visit, but the alliance between the two nation, we saw kim jongun in an armored train make this journey from north korea to russia. We know on wednesday, according to state media, he did meet with Vladimir Putin. It is interesting to see this Alliance Building that we are seeing. These are two nations that have isolated themselves. And perhaps have needs that each nation can perhaps provide. North korea certainly would perhaps like to take advantage of some of russias military technology, even simply demands for food. Russia, on the other hand, needs munitions because of the stress from the war in ukraine. It is important to point out, though, that these nations are also being watched very closely. There are United Nations resolutions strictly prohibiting this kind of Military Cooperation and weapons exchange. The kremlin has said that it is fully complied with these restrictions, but its certainly drawing attention from observes Ertz Around The World and the United States, south korea as well as japan. While china as well. How is china viewing this relationship . It is interesting. North korea really has two allies around the world. Russia and china. In fact, it was just in july that we saw the leadership of both china as well as from russia in pyongyang. They saw a very similar Military Display as kim jongun saw well in russia. It goes to emphasize the isolated trifecta of nations. China has not directly condemned the war from russia in ukraine. So these three nations have really ice nated themselves. We have seen them form this kind of alliance, especially since the war in ukraine. Interesting. Thank you so much. We we really appreciate it. China has announced its plans for next weeks general assembly. Their Vice President will lead the delegation. Xi jinping isnt expected to attend the gathering. He also skipped the g20 summit in india. Meanwhile, President Biden and the israeli Prime Minister will be at the u. N. Ga. They will hold talks on the the side looips in their first face to face meeting since Benjamin Netanyahu came back into office. Vladimir putin is looking westward for another ally. The russian leader invited the belarus president after that summit. It was the seventh time they have met this year. Russia has been suffering losses in crimea. The commander said the devastated village has been retake open whag he said was a bridge for ukraines Coun Counterorvesive to advance. It gave troops control of a vital railroad. We have more onnen cukraines offenseive. Reporter Ukrainian Forces on the attack at the crack of down. Troops ousted the russians from two villages on the Eastern Front in the past days. One of the units involved releasing this video reportedly showing one of the drones hitting a russian vehicle carrying an officer. Ukraine attacking not just on land, but from the sea and the air as well. This Video Reporting to show unmanned sea drones trying to ramp a warship just hours after the ukrainians say they hit a russian sub in the key port as one of sophisticated surface to air Missile Systems in crimea. Thank you for todays triumph, the president said. The air Defense System was destroyed very significant, well done. In crimea, some residents seem increasingly concerned attacks that link it is to the mainland. When it was attacked for the first time, i was worried so much, this man says. Nevertheless, russia is still strong. And he says times are turbulent now. But in general, driving over the bridge is okay. Under pressure, Vladimir Putin continues to court north korean strong man kim jongun. Kim vuting a plant that makeing fighter jets during his ongoing trip to russia. And while the russians claim no deals have been signed to provide ammo to moscow, it looks like he wants to deepen ties with pyongyang. You have never violated anything, and in this instance, were not going to violate anything, he says. But we will look for opportunities to develop relations. The russians also touting their own military industry. The Defense Minister on a visit to a shipyard for Nuclear Submarines saying russia will develop Underwater Drones as well. While russians showcase their weapons manufacturing, ukrainians say forces are the ones with the initiative on the battle front. Fred pleitgen, cnn, kyiv. A group of u. S. Senators is pushing the Defense Department to provide information about reports that earth lob musk restricted the use of his starling satellites used by Ukrainian Armed forces in 2022. Three members of the Senate Armed Services committee sent a letter to defense secretary lloyd austin. 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