comcast business built for business. a warning to moscow. world leaders demand russia stay out of ukraine or face the consequences. man hunt in canada. right now police are searching for the person who gunned down three cops. and with all the attention of bowe bergdahl's release from the taliban, parents of another soldier are hoping for another break through.

hello. you are watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. a warm welcome to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. a lot to get to. a new warning from to russia from the g 7. >> leaders of the world's wealthiest industrializations are about to begin their second day of talks in brussels. this is the group's first talks since russia was kicked out over its annexation of crimea. the g 7 is putting more pressure on russia to stop it. >> translator: the g 7 has indicated that dialogue, de-escalation and the process of the elections must be encouraged. at the same time the g 7 is ready to intensify and put in place targeted sanctions if necessary. the aim is to avoid another

confrontation process. >> translator: we have always had an agreed position on ukraine, and this position is that it is important now for russia to do its own bit in order to stabilize the situation and to bring about a de-escalation of the situation. well, later today the focus shifts to paris. french president francois hollande will host the u.s. and russian leaders, but not together. >> barack obama vowed the u.s. will stand by the ukraine in the face of what he calls russian aggression. >> our free nations will stand united so that further russian provocations will only mean more isolation and costs for russia. after investing so much blood and treasure to bring europe together, how can we allow the dark tactics of the 20th century to define this new century? >> in an interview with french

media, russian president putin accused the u.s. of hypocrisy for its, quote, aggressive attempts to punish russia over the crisis in ukraine. >> for more on these tensions and the g 7 talks white house correspondent michelle kosinski has more from brussels. >> reporter: vladimir putin was not welcome at the g 7 which should have been the g 8 had he decided not to annex crimea. the g 7 put out a communique with its support, its democracy, its economy moving forward pledging more funds on a continuing basis helping that country survive and deal with its continuing threat as well as condemning what they term russia's continued violation of ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. now even though putin is not here at the g 7, he will be

meeting with world ceremony at norman did i. he'll be meeting bilaterally with england, france, and germany. the u.s. will also meet with those leaders but not with vladimir putin. the obama administration was asked about that. they said, well, we have spoken with them. we have had continuing discussions and they hope that the same message is conveyed that he will do something, take this opportunity to at least start to de-escalate the situation in ukraine. president obama has done two things over the last two days, pledge additional funds for nonlethal aid to ukraine, things like night vision goggles, as well as saying he's going to ask congress for an additional billion to support more military training and nato defense for the region surrounding ukraine. these issues, collective nato defense, things like energy

security and independence, the economy, all of these have taken on added urgency because of what is going on in ukraine and what you might say is deteriorating in some ways. michelle kosinski, cnn, brussels. to another big story we are watching. a classified briefing in washington has failed to reassure numerous u.s. lawmakers who are skeptical of the taliban prisoner exchange for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. the closed door session came hours after the taliban residential released a video showing the soldier's capitol hill. the meeting failed to convince skeptics that the wide ranking officials meeting was the right thing to do. >> i learned nothing in this

briefing nor did i expect to learn anything in say i remain increasingly convinced that these five individuals will soon return to the fight in america. >> i was not satisfied when the briefing that i received today that the conditions that they've agreed upon are sufficient to ensure that they and threaten either americans or our allies. >> now organizers have canceled a homecoming celebration that had been planned for later this month in honor of sergeant bergdahl. this comes as questions grow about circumstances of his capture in afghanistan five new

found freedom has led to new questions. >> an american and canadian captured by the taliban were captured while traveling through. more now on the story. >> reporter: the family of american kaitlyn coleman gave the videos hoping that the publicity surrounding bowe bergdahl's release could bring her daughter home. they make a direct plea to, quote, my president barack obama for help freeing her and her canadian husband from their taliban captors. >> i would ask that my family and my government do everything that they can to bring my

husband, child and i safely to freedom. >> coleman and her husband joshua boyle vanished in 2012. in her last couple boyle said they were in an internet cafe in a, quote, unsafe part of afghanistan. two months after their disappearance caitlin's parents appeared on youtube for her safe return fearful for her health and the birth of her unborn child. >> as her parents and parents of the unborn child, allow caity, josh and our unborn grandparents to come home. >> boyle's sister was the wife of omar fattah. their father was a senior al qaeda leader with connections to osama bin ladder. less than two weeks after he was freed from guantanamo bay, boyle

and coleman went missing. >> we request them to do whatever is necessary. >> the videos offer the only clue as to what might have happened to the couple but provide little proof they were, indeed, kidnapped and no demands foran some have been made. but after the u.s. and taliban traded five guantanamo detainees, they wrote president obama and asked why three other americans were not part of that deal. the families have shared the video. the u.s. can't say what it thinks happened to the couple because of privacy laws but a spokesman for the canadian foreign ministry and they say they are aware that boyle and coleman have been kidnapped and they are in contact with the afghan government. quite a story out of canada.

it's been a long, nerve racking night in the eastern canadian city of monkton as police search for a gunman who killed three police officers. >> that's right. two other officers were wounded in the shootings which happened near an entertainment complex. police locked down a nearby subdivision and warped residents to stay inside. police released this image of the suspect 24-year-old justin berg. they're seven hours into this search. we'll keep you posted on details as they come up. new details for you though in the story of that pregnant woman stoned to death in pakistan. >> police make more arrests including members of her own family. >> plus, the story of slenderman and how two american girls tried to kill their friend.

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pakistani woman are due in court. >> the brother, cousin and alleged former husband of fazana parvine are accused of beating her to death with bricks for refusing to have a prearranged marriage. three men including her father are in police custody. police in new york have arrested a suspect who they say stabbed two young children inside an elevator. one of the children died. a law enforcement official said dna evidence from a knife at the scene hemmed identify 27-year-old daniel st. hubert. he was out on parole from a domestic assault case. police say he may be responsible for another fatal stabbing a few days earlier. another bizarre and very disturbing story is getting a lot of attention here in the united states. two 12-year-old girls are under arrest for allegedly stabbing a friend of theirs 19 times during a sleepover.

>> it is so bizarre, this story. fortunately the young girl survived the vicious attack. her condition has been upgraded to fair. listen here as miguel marquez walks us through what exactly happened. >> reporter: the mug shots of 12-year-old morgan guyser and a nisa wire. pictures of innocence but their actions, say authorities, beyond belief. >> i have not seen a crime of this nature, especially when you take into account it was 12-year-old girls stabbing 19 times and then leaving the victim for dead. >> reporter: the plan, the attack, the motive all to please the fictitious horror character slenderman. you may not know him but your kids might. created in 2009, the character who preys on children has taken on a life of his own with thousands of pictures, stories and videos posted online. a virtual world with those obsessed for the mccab can

access. >> reporter: what effect does this have on students in general? >> students and parents, there's a lot of fear that our students are safe. we do have a safe school. >> reporter: grey who oversees the school of the victim and who the perpetrators attend is dealing with it. >> i have never witnessed anything like this in my 30 years of public administration. this is just the most horrific thing that i've had to deal with. >> reporter: the school has for now banned the creepy website, home of the majority of slenderman's stories from all of its computers and ipads pending a review. it's also urging parents to monitor what their kids are accessing online and to talk about it. miguel marquez, cnn, waukaushaw,

wisconsin. >> it shows the disconnect between the parents and their kids. a lot of times my kids are online. i don't know all the things they're doing. >> initially when i heard this story, wow, charges as adults are so severe. when you hear about the premeditation it becomes more disturbing. we'll keep you posted on what happens in that very, very alarming case. the u.s. marine corps says a pilot safely ejected from his jet moments before it crashed. amateur video of the crash. the plane went down in a neighborhood in imperial, california, destroying three homes. the pilot suffered only minor injuries and thankfully no civilians were hurt. the cause of this is under investigation. we jump to the weather now. the remnants of a tropical storm are dumping heavy rain and

elevating the threat of mudslides to mexico and central america. >> meteorologist is watching this. >> they're having a tough time in mexico and south america with torrential downpours. area of low pressure that was not boris was dumping several inches of rain. we had boris and the remnants of boris and not a lot has changed. take a look at some of the rainfall. 24 hours picking up 300 millimeters of water. a very impressive amount of rainfall. this is the rainey season here but unfortunately we have a tropical system that gets involved, you have a lot more rain. that's what we're dealing with here. then this broad area of low pressure that we continue to monitor in the gulf of mexico as well. national hurricane center still monitoring that for the potential of development. we are in the atlantic hurricane season now so that bears watching here. we'll keep you posted.

one of our computer models ending with some circulation. whatever happens will continue to happen. further north the action has been incredible over the last several hours. if you're watching this from the united states, my goodness, the damage has been ongoing. tornado watches still through this hour. some of the pictures of the hail that hit nebraska. some of the damage imagine the size of hail to be able to go through the windshields of some of these cars here. that is the kind of updraft that we were dealing with. those are the kinds of storms we were dealing with. guess what, the show is not over for parts of colorado, parts of the tennessee valley and it's a scary show, indeed, because we were talking about the potential of still rotating thunderstorms here at this hour. one watch still in effect here and we'll continue to see more activity throughout the remainder of tonight. we'll keep you posted on that. when i see you in the next half hour we're going to head over to asia where the rain has been incredible there as well. >> tense and constant.

>> so much happening on the weather front. all right. thank you so much, ivan. appreciate it. you know, it's not often we get to see the u.s. president in an unguarded moment. this next video we're about to show you is just that. >> take a look. u.s. president barack obama getting a bit of exercise at the hotel gym. picking out the weight there. what can i use there? 20 pounds, 25 pounds? he had no -- >> what about 5 pounds? >> rosemary is making fun of the u.s. president. >> no, 10 pounds each. >> he's doing high reps, low weight. of course he had no idea he was being caught on video. yawning there. compound lunge movement. these are sophisticated moves. the secret service says there was nothing to worry about here. they were close by. everyone going in and out of the hotel had been screened. there was nothing to worry about. this video is raising a lot of questions, primarily, what was he trying to accomplish with

those moves? >> there was no security breach here, but they're a little annoyed. that's the extent of it. maybe annoyed at some of these moves have gotten out. >> in the hotel gym, it's so difficult to get a workout there. he's a sitting president. come on, rosemary. >> at least they don't clear out the gym and take people's phones away. >> that's news. you have to see that. we're going to take a short break now. we have new details ahead about the sale of the los angeles clippers. >> yes, and what embattled owner donald sterling is saying about his lawsuit against the nba. and general motors is expected to start answering questions about why it took a decade to fix a deadly defect in its car.

welcome back, everyone.

donald sterling's attorney said his client has agreed to the sale of the l.a. clippers and will drop his lawsuit. >> the national basketball league pressured sterling after making racist remarks. his estranged wife shelly arranged a $2 billion deal with microsoft ceo steve ballman. in the latest wave of the consolidations in the telecom industry. the thirteenth third and fourth largest companies could join forces. sprint and t-mobile are moving closer to a merger which could be announced as early as this summer. under the preliminary terms the two have reportedly settled on a $32 billion deal that would still need approval from federal regulators. later today general motors will start to give answers as to why it took at least a decade to recall cars with faulty ignition switches. the automaker will release the report of an internal investigation led by a former

federal prosecutor. earlier this year it was revealed that the switches in 2.6 million gm cars including the chevy cobalt could be unintentionally knocked into the accessory position while driving. that sometimes causes the engine to be shut off enabli disabling airbags, power steergs and brake. >> one georgia couple believes their daughter's death was caused by the defect. before the recall they settled with gm but now they're trying to take the auto giant to court over it claiming they were deceived. >> i would gladly give my last breath just to hug her and tell her i love her one more time. just one more time. >> reporter: march 10th, 2010, was brooke melton's 29th birthday. >> i kept thinking that this is not possible. it's her birthday. it can't -- this can't have

happened, that she died. >> when i touched her hand, it was cold. i knew. i knew in my heart and my gutt there was something wrong with the car, that it wasn't her fault. >> reporter: it was here that georgia state patrol said brooke melton's 2005 chevy cobalt hydroplaned on a rainey evening. the car spun out and was struck by another vehicle and then dropped 15 feet into this creek. the accident report says melton was driving too fast for roadway conditions causing her to lose control of the vehicle. >> she was driving 58 and the speed limit was 55. >> reporter: do you believe that that could have caused the accident? >> no. i believe that she lost power. >> reporter: brooke melton's parents blame general motors. it's now known the ignition switch on her cobalt was

defective. this data analysis shows that the switch was in the accessory position at the time of the crash shutting the engine off and disabling the airbags, power steering and anti lock brakes. >> we believe the evidence is overwhelming that the defects in this key system resulted in brooke's loss of control and her death. >> reporter: gm would not comment on the data recorder information. the defect led gm to recall 2.6 million cars but before the recall the melton's settled their case with gm for an undisclosed amount. now they're fighting an uphill legal battle to reopen it. >> they thought they had the truth when they settled their case. we now know they had some of the truth but not all of the truth. >> reporter: in a new lawsuit the melton's allege that gm hid key documents from them and say a gm engineer lied in a sworn deposition. >> we -- the design and release engineer for the ignition switch in the '05 cobalt? >> yes, i was. >> reporter: the melton's

attorney gave cnn the deposition of ray degorgio who denied changing the ignition switch. >> there was never a work order outlining this spring. >> so if any such change was made, it was made without your knowledge and authorization? >> that is correct. >> reporter: but in 2006 degorgio signed this form authorizing a fix to the ignition switch making it harder to turn inadvertently. >> you know that he lied under oath? >> the data that's been put in front of me indicates that but i'm waiting for the full investigation. >> let me help you here. he said several times he had no idea these changes had been made. >> reporter: he did not return cnn's calls. he's been put on paid leave. >> good evening, everyone. >> reporter: gm denied an interview and they deny they had any improper behavior.

the automaker admits 13 people died. gm's list only includes frontal crashes where airbags didn't inflate. >> general motors says 13 deaths, 47 crashes. >> they're playing with numbers. they don't count brooke's death and she's dead because of that ignition switch. >> ms. barra, is brooke melton included in general motors' death count? yes or no? >> to my knowledge, no. >> no? >> it was a side impact. >> her death has not been counted. it means like it doesn't matter. >> reporter: ken melton still keeps his daughter's number in his cell phone, something for him to hold on to. >> are you willing to settle this time? >> no. settlement is off the table. >> any amount of money? >> right. >> it's not about the money. >> reporter: general motors hired former u.s. attorney anton voluckas to do an internal investigation and ken and beth melton will keep fighting.

>> brooke's worth it. whatever it takes. if it took the next 20 years, knowing the truth for her, it's certainly worth it. >> poppy harlow, cnn, mir marietta, georgia. many people paused to remember the crackdown in at this enna men square. world leaders and elderly vets are preparing to get together on friday to observe the 70th anniversary of d day. bulldog: [yawning] it's finally morning!

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>> and i'm rosemary church. we want to welcome back our viewers in the united states and all around the world and check the headlines for you this hour. a neighborhood in the eastern canadian city of monkton remains on lockdown as police search for a gunman who killed three police officers. two other officers were wounded in that same attack. police released this photo of the suspect, 24-year-old justin berg. he's a monkton resident. g 7 leaders are warning russia of new sanctions. fears of further instability are high on today's agenda. police in pakistan have arrested three more men in the death of a pregnant woman who refused an arranged marriage. she was beaten with bricks by members of her own family outside a courthouse. 13 people are now in custody.

all right. newly released u.s. documents claim chinese soldiers laughed as they shot protestors in tiananmen square 25 years ago. people marked the vigil with a can'tle light vigil. >> the chinese government has never released a death toll from that crackdown. they say as many as several thousand people were killed. >> no tiananmen vigils are allowed. peter mckenzie joins us live from our beijing bureau with more. david, the anniversary and the crack down, it's not the only example of this internal struggle for china's political future that we've seen over the past few decades. i know that you've recently met with one person who experienced this firsthand. >> that's right, errol. there's a long history of

turmoil in china, like many other countries, of course, around the world when it comes to politics. certainly since the communist party came to power in '49, there have been several traumatic periods in fact caused by the party itself. and in the decades before tiananmen square there was a very traumatic period for the country and the scars still run very deep. this gentleman is well into his 90ed. he wants me to show his letters to his wife that he's carefully protected because for nearly 50 years memories are all he's had. he and his wife were both loyal communist party members. his wife was a respected educator at a beijing middle school, mother to a proud family. >> translator: my wife was a kind and gentle person. she was kind hearted, gentle,

but her death tragic. >> reporter: the very first murder of the cultural revolution. in the mid '60s they unleashed the cultural revolution sparking a decade of violent evil targeting china's history, its intellectuals and professionals. the notorious red guards, some no older than ten, enforced the chaos. historians estimate that millions of people died during the cultural revolution, but this stain on china's history is rarely talked about and its first victim often forgotten. she was vice principal at this middle school. on august 5th, '66, students no older than these targeted her as a counter revolutionary. >> translator: her former students are now in their 60s. they describe how red guards began berating and beating her.

>> translator: the red guards came up to us and said, miss bien can't take it anymore. she was lying flat on the ground. her eyes were black. she was drooling. >> translator: the staff called to tell me she was injured and i should go to the hospital, so i went with our four children. i remember that hospital very clearly. >> reporter: he grabbed the camera to document the crime against his wife. the red guards beat her for three hours with wooden sticks spiked with nails. >> translator: she passed away by the time i got there. >> reporter: he covered her face so his youngest couldn't see. >> translator: we couldn't tell them to stop. they would have said we were resisting the tide of the revolution. i didn't dare speak up. >> reporter: no one was ever charged for bien's murder. the former students asked themselves every day why they let it happen, and they recently

made a rare public apology. but juan has lived through decades of pain and he won't forget. >> translator: their apologies are just for show. they want to cover up their murder. >> reporter: he keeps a small shrine to his wife still seeking justice, and he believes china's wounds will never heal unless the party owns up to its past. >> reporter: many chinese of that generation have very traumatic memories of that period, errol. i've spoken to several of them. they talk about having to point out their parents as counter revolutionaries of the murders and killings and beatings that went unpunished. of course, the communist party did help rehabilitate many people after the cultural revolution and several prominent communist party members were prosecuted for it, but a

wholesale investigation and discussion and reckoning of the period has never happened and many feel it's because if they opened that door, it would be very dangerous, indeed, for them politically to walk through it. >> so important that we tell and keep retelling these essential stories. david mckenzie live for us in beijing. thank you. rosemary? well, frank dikatau is the professor in the history department and he joins us to talk about china's crackdowns. frank, thanks for being with us. now china's leadership has successfully erased from the history books the events that transpired throughout the cultural revolution and the tiananmen square massacre. what happened to all those protesters who called for reform in the leadup to tiananmen square and throughout the country's history?

will they ever get their say? >> you could call the people's republic a state of enforced amnesia in that there is very little public debate, not to mention memorials, museums about some of the horrors that have happened since 1949. that includes, needles to say, the tens of millions that died during the cultural revolution which was a period of actual trauma and of course the tiananmen massacre. now what has happened to those who spoke out, individual fate are very different, but i think overall one has to say that the victims have been silenced very effectively. >> yeah. and the younger generation appear to have no memory at all of this or prevented from speaking out. it's difficult to figure out. has any progress been made in

china since the political revolution? >> of course the cultural revolution ends in 1976 and then there is this extraordinary, if you wish, economic improvement, but what strikes me always as rather odd is that one would want to praise the party for having achieved that. after all, it was the party who dug a massive black hole into which the lives of tens of millions disappeared in the 1950s and '60s. so to them somehow allow people to crawl out of that hole and take praise for it seems a little odd. the people have transformed china and made it into what it is today despite all the political restrictions which remain in place. these are restrictions of freedom of assembly, religious

belief, you name it. i think there is to some extent the cultural revolution has scared the party of its own people and made it absolutely determined not to allow any political freedom to be implemented beyond the most amazing freedoms of economic activity. >> given that, how long will it take or will it ever happen that the leadership of china looks back and faces the country's past, perhaps even apologizes to its people? we've seen that play out in many nations that have followed similar ways through history. do you think that could happen at some point? >> it's unlikely to happen any time soon. first of all, this is a party scared of its own people. the people are allowed to attack people during the cultural revolution and it scared the party forever. the people spoke out in 1976 and '86 ten years later in tiananmen

square. it's unlikely that this party will allow people to somehow examine what happened during those decades. more so, it has nothing to gain from such an examination. it knows very well that any closer scrutiny, public or otherwise of its own record, will inevitably lead to an even greater loss of credibility. >> frank dikotter, thank you very much for sharing your perspective. appreciate it. 70 years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, they've come back. >> elderly world war ii veterans being awarded a special norman did i medal at a ceremony in the french town of caan. hundreds of survivors of the d-day invasion will be in france for friday's 70th anniversary.

>> we'll remind you to stay with cnn for live coverage marking that fateful day. for our international audiences, special coverage begins at 9:00 a.m. for those of you in london that's on friday. cnn's christiana amanpour and max foster will be live for this historic event. world war ii veterans have lost another brother in arms. >> a very special man. the last of the original code talkers has died. justin nans was among 29 people who used the navajo people to send information. >> it was difficult for you initially starting out, that the regular soldiers, the regular marines didn't treat you as well as you might have expected, true? >> that's true. that's really true. at first the troops didn't quite understand why we were there.

after we got out of boot camp they sent us to another training center. that's where we developed a code. unless you complete the code, then they were saying we were with a different division. they had a lot of respect for the navajo code talkers. >> you know what, the japanese were never able to break the navajo code. chester nez, the last of the original navajo code talkers died wednesday. he was 93. coming up on "cnn newsroom", secret documents shedding new light on the growing controversy from the war in afghanistan. >> what wikileaks reveals about bowe bergdahl and the taliban. also, germany's federal prosecutor releases a high profile case from secrets revealed by edward snowden. bulldog: [yawning]

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we have new details of u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl's disappearance that the pentagon has not released. >> wikileaks obtained a classified report and cnn's brian todd's been combing through it. take a look at this. >> reporter: a dramatic message in the early morning hours june 30th, 2009. soldier is missing. it's apparently the first report of sergeant bowe bergdahl's disappearance. that report is classified, but we know what it says because it's among thousands of leaked military documents posted by wikileaks chronicling the hours and days right after bergdahl vanished in afghanistan. the reports offer two contrasting pictures of what might have happened that day. about 5 1/2 hours after he disappeared u.s. soldiers intercept a radio communication, presumably by the taliban. the translation, an american soldier is talking and is looking for someone who speaks english. indicates american soldier has camera. but a day later another communication from the taliban indicating they've picked up bergdahl in a latrine.

he was sitting taking expletive. he had no gun with him. the army's explanation is that bergdahl left of his own free will. >> the taliban knew that they had somebody very valuable. they've kidnapped other westerners but they haven't kidnapped other western soldiers. july 1st, a day after his capture, one taliban fighter says, i think he is big shot, that's why they are looking for him. another says can you guys make a video of him and announce it all over afghanistan we have one of the soldiers. the taliban wanted to trade bergdahl for 15 taliban fighters in u.s. custody and some money. at the same time u.s. forces were using drones, surveillance planes, everything they could deploy in a search for him. >> in seven to nine days nobody slept. this was the constant focus. at the end of those days you are

physically and merchtly exhausted. >> reporter: ironically wikileaks is a key source of classified information from the other side of this case. top secret dossiers of the people bowe bergdahl was traded for. the five men were senior taliban commanders. one had close ties to osama bin laden. two were wanted for murders of shiite muslims. all have complicated the release and muddled the confirmation that they were safe to release. we cannot verify the authenticity of the wikileaks documents. the u.s. army would not comment. brian todd, cnn, washington. and today marks the first anniversary of the first intelligence leaks from former nsa contractor edward snowden. >> and the u.s. senate intelligence committee has scheduled a hearing on surveillance reforms. senators will discuss a house bill and reforms passed last

month ahead of an upcoming senate vote. one of edward snowden's eye opening leaks said they attacked the phone of angela merkel. >> now german prosecutors say they are investigating that claim. we have more. >> reporter: this was a highly polite sized case in germany where the opposition was accusing the lang merkel government with trying to make the whole matter of nsa spying here go away and the angela merkel government did, in fact, say they believed all of this was resolved until it came to light that merkel's phone itself had also been tapped probably by the national security agency. now the opposition has said that it took a very, very long time for the federal prosecutor to come forward and make a decision on whether or not criminal proceedings would begin. however, that did happen today. here's the way the federal prosecutor spoke about what was going to happen now. >> translator: there is a suspicion that unknown employees

spied on a mobile phone of the german chancellor. i have, therefore, opened preliminary proceedings based on an initial suspicion according to paragraph 99 in the penal code. >> reporter: this investigation has been going on for a while. the way things are going to move forward now is they're going to continue to start questioning people. these are going to be official witness testimonies. one of the witnesses that might actually be questioned would be he had war snowden. the big question would be would na happen by a video conference with snowden in moscow or could the german government potentially try to get snowden over to germany? there are some top level german politicians who believe that is a slim possibility but a possibility nevertheless. he's put together an official query to snowden's lawyer asking for official information, however, he has not gotten that just yet. one of the big issues in all of this is that the german government is also saying that they've also launched a further investigation into whether or

not there was wider wire tapping and spying by the national security agency against other german citizens. they say some 2000 legal complaints have been filed here in this country. however, they say at this point the information is not enough to open any additional criminal proceedings aside from the ones recording angela merkel's phone. let's take a quick break now. still ahead here on "cnn newsroom", a graduation story decades in the making. >> you've got to see this. how a world war ii vet final bely got his diploma.

flooding rains continue to impact southern china and southern japan. >> yeah. let's go to our meteorologist ivan cabrera with all the details on this, ivan.

>> incredible details where we're in the spot where the damage has likely occurred. we still have not gotten the pictures. i must believe that there are areas that are completely underwater just from the satellite and some of the totals that are coming out. take a look at this 48-hour loop. this coastal low gets going. this right here is kochi prefecture getting it on the chin in the last 24 to 48 hours. this low just barely moves here and then just kind of backs into the prefecture there with 1/4 to as much as 1/2 meter rainfall. that would be about 20 inches just in a very short amount of time. this is the low here. now beginning to push off towards tokyo where it has not rained as heavily but nevertheless it is still a slow moving system. now in mainland china, the storms are blowing up. 162 meters. china pictures, we'll show you

what's been happening. look at the river to the left. then the other river that has formed to the right. that is where a road should be. look at these vehicles still trucking through there as are the people living there, just rivers of water moving through their streets. incredible scenes coming out of china. unfortunately i do not have better news as the system that caused this is still going to be producing heavy rainfall over the next couple of days. so it is not going to -- it's going to be a long time before we can dry out these rescues there. that must be still underway across the region. look at that, people just getting out. my goodness, amazing pictures coming out of china. we'll keep you posted on the events there. >> ivan, thank you very much. europe is marking d-day. 70 years since the allied landing in europe that helped bring down nazi germany. >> and there's one world war ii veteran who's also marking

another milestone. his high school graduation. take a look at this. 90-year-old jack kulig went back to school to finally get his diploma. that's his daughter honoring him at the graduation. >> isn't it great? he left high school in the early 1940s to go to war and never returned to school after he came back. kulig was ecstatic, of course, to finally graduate. >> wonderful. it's like a dream world. i can't believe i'm up on the stage. >> wow. great stuff. koolik was awarded several medals during his time in the military. nice to see that. >> powerful story. >> isn't that wonderful? that's great. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm he rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. "early start" is next in the u.s. for those others stay tuned for "cnn news center." hey, razor. check this out. we can save big with priceline express deals.

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happening now, new questions, new outrage surrounding the prisoner trade that freed a captured american soldier but sent five high-level terrorists back home. this morning we're learning new details of how the controversial deal went down as the president defends his decision to a growing list of senators who are calling this deal dangerous. we'll bring you live, team coverage, all the angles, coming up. good morning, everyone. great to see you this morning. this is early erls. i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday, june 5th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with new anger in washington and the new doubts directed a