welcome back. this is cnn. we're following a tense standoff in ferguson, missouri right now. want to go to these life pictures where you can see police on the ground. police there after a standoff between protesters and police. we understand at least 100 protesters at one point blocked traffic. we also understand that there is a group of people standing in front of the ferguson market and i will -- and i wiliquor. >> it was one week ago that michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer, identified today as darren wilson. people upset about this unfolding story and conflicting reports about what led to the skirmish that led to michael brown's death. we'll continue to follow developments on the streets. police are asking people to

disperse and go home, trying to prevent anything else from heating up there on the streets. welcome back. i'm natalie allen with george howell. >> thank you for joining us here on cnn. we continue to follow this story. they had hoped for a night of peace tonight. but we're seeing these hive pictures of unrest on the streets. again, a lot of protesters came out tonight. there was a great deal of outrage over this story here in the united states of the shooting, the killing of an unarmed african-american teenager. it's still unclear. a lot of the details that led up to that shooting. but those unanswered questions, that's what is fueling a lot of people to come out at the same time, people who are trying to protest peacefully, they are struggling with people who are coming out to break into stores to cause trouble. >> right. and the family has made comments questioning why at the same time the local police identified the officer, who shot and killed

michael brown, that they also released video surveillance inside the store purportedly showing brown stealing some cigars and shoving the store clerk. then there were other reports that that was not a reason that he was a suspect. that the officer stopped him, according to police, he stopped brown and his friend because they were walking in the middle of the street blocking traffic. so many unknowns with this story and people are frustrated and very upset that one of their neighbors, a young man is mysteriously now dead and still wanting answers. right now, police holding on, just trying to get people to stop and people there not letting people get into that store. >> it's a powerful image. i was there monday and i remember the feeling. you had some people who came out to protest peacefully, to make a

message. then others came out seemingly to undermine that message by looting these stores. now you're seeing a line of people standing in front of that store, stopping looters from getting inside. we'll bring you the latest information here on cnn. authorities have identified the police officer that killed michael brown. he was shot last saturday, but the circumstances are still unclear. police also released surveillance video showing brown committing a robbery moments before his death. cnn's susan candiotti has more on his background. >> reporter: dramatic surveillance video inside a convenience store shows a robbery in progress. it's about ten minutes before michael brown is shot dead. a police report describes a tall, heavy, unarmed suspect picking up a box of cigars, then heading for the door. when a clerk tries to block him, the suspect grabs his shirt collar with his left hand, pushing him out of the way and walks out.

the store calls 911, reporting a robbery. question -- is this 18-year-old michael brown? answer, police say yes. he appears to be wearing a white t-shirt, khaki shorts, flip-flops and a st. louis cardinals baseball cap. the same cap is seen lying in the street. question -- who was with brown in the store? police say it's dorian johnson, standing behind brown here and next to him at the door. dorian is not being charged in this case. he's brown's friend who saw the young man he calls big mike shot dead. johnson is a key witness in the shooting, who has already been interviewed by investigators. ten minutes after leaving the store, brown and his friend are confronted by a police officer in his cruiser about a quarter mile away. question -- who is the officer? six days after the shooting, we

find out his name. darren wilson, wearing a badge for six years. a clean record. >> he was a gentleman, a quiet officer. and he was -- he is, he has been an excellent officer. >> reporter: but the biggest question -- why did officer wilson shoot brown? the answer remains murky. yet police acknowledge when wilson first stopped brown and his friend, it had nothing to do with that cigar robbery. >> they were walking down the street blocking traffic. that was it. >> and the officer says get the [ bleep ] out of the street, verbatim. >> reporter: but now this intriguing new detail. the police chief says when the officer drives by the teens, he may have spotted cigars in brown's hand, making a possible link to the robbery minutes earlier. >> as he passed him, that's when he might have seen the evidence and connected it. >> at that time, he reached out the window with his left arm.

he grabbed on big mike's throat and is trying to pull him in the vehicle. >> what little police have said differs sharply. >> one of those individuals at the time came in as the officer was exiting his police car, allegedly pushed the police officer back into the car where he physically assaulted the police officer. >> reporter: police say the two struggle over the officer's gun. but mike brown's friend says brown was just trying to get away, not fighting for the gun. >> i looked at my friend, big mike, and i saw that he was struck in the chest or upper region. i saw blood splatter down his side. >> reporter: another witness is watching from a distance. >> the officer gets out and pursues michael as he's shooting his weapon. michael jerks his body as if he's hit. >> at that time he turned around with his hands up, telling the uflser that he was unarmed and to tell him to stop shooting. >> the officer continues to

shoot him until he goes down to the ground. >> reporter: question -- how many times was brown shot? we don't know. >> i can't really say anything because i don't know. >> reporter: brown's family has done an autopsy, too, but also won't reveal the findings for now. when will that be? we don't know that either. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >> so again, we'll follow developments from ferguson, missouri, where we've been getting live pictures from our affiliate kmov. these are -- this is live video right here. police have been asking people the disperse. worried about perhaps more looting. but some silent protests going on, just people coming out to show their support for michael brown. >> things seem to have calmed a bit from what we saw earlier. again, you see people holding their hands in the air. this is symbolic of what witnesses say they saw michael brown doing before he was shot

and killed by a ferguson police officer. again, the situation here in the united states has sparked a great deal of outrage there in ferguson, missouri. and nearby st. louis, missouri, people turning to the streets, going to the streets, making their voices are heard. but we have seen several nights of unrest. there had been hope for quiet tonight. seems that had taken a turn a couple of hours ago, but now we're seeing a much more peaceful setting with protesters just making a stand with their hands in the air. >> our other top stories, far from the united states and missouri, it is in iraq where we understand a u.s.-led military operation is under way. >> it's an operation designed to retake iraq's largest hydroelectric dam from isis militants. cnn confirmed sit a combined u.s.-iraqi mission. american and iraqi warplanes began the attack hours ago, bombing isis strong holds near

the mosul dam, which blocks the tigris river north of the city. isis captured that dam earlier this month. we're told that the air strikes will be followed up with a ground assault by iraqi and kurdish peshmerga forces. >> south of sinjar, militants swept into a village on friday, killing at least 80 men. kurdish officials say they also kidnapped many of the men's wives and their children. joining us now from baghdad is cnn's correspondent with details on the effort to retake mosul dam. what are you hearing about this operation? >> reporter: well, natalie, according to kurdish media reports, cnn has been able to confirm that this operation started in the early hours of saturday here in iraq. we're told it started with u.s.

air strikes and followed up on the ground with kurdish peshmerga forces and iraqi forces trying to retake the key installation back from isis militants who took over the dam earlier this month. up until a few hours ago, it was reported that u.s. jets bombed isis positions in four areas near the dam and they also struck isis locations nearby, about four of them including the border crossing with syria that isis took over back in june when it made that serious advance into that part of northern iraq. kurdish media are also quoting eyewitnesss saying that this is the heaviest u.s. strikes that they have seen since u.s. air strikes began last week. this is a very significant

development, natalie, because the u.s. said it would not be dragged back into war, into iraq again. so what we have seen over the past week has been what the u.s. has described as a very limited scope, involvement where it has only intervened to protect u.s. personnel and facilities in the kurdish region, in addition to protecting minorities like ton sinjar. this is an offensive that is coordinated with ground troops in an effort to regain territory from isis. we'll have to wait and see what the u.s. has to say about this involvement and how this might change what we have heard so far from the administration. >> yes. we'll see its significance and talk more about whether it was successful as we see these

fighter jets take off and land from the aircraft carrier "george h.w. bush." >> continuing our coverage in iraq, the man who is expected to become the next prime minister is making progress in his next roll. haider al abadi has less than a month to form a more inclusive government, which many hope will unite the country against isis. the sunni population complained they were marginalized by outgoing prime minister nouri al malaki. he says he's ready to work with haider al abadi. >> translator: it's very important that a body understands that he cannot start by asking us to fight the insurgents of the islamic state. we have said before that the islamic state is not a big problem for us or the main issue that we suffer from. he has to purge first the security installations like the defense, the interior, the national security, and intelligence apparatus from the

militias which were brought in by malaki. >> as political leaders seek a solution, people continue to suffer. ivan watson is following the crisis. it's now spilled over into syria, where he saw this scene right here. >> reporter: the clinics here are providing medical care for people coming to these camps. they say some of the most common problems they're facing are the little kids who they say get dehydrated due to extreme heat and many of them have also gotten weak during the long journey through the desert to reach this safe haven. >> ivan's full report "inside syria" is coming up in about 30 minutes. up next, our special coverage continues. a tale of two convoys in ukraine. one supposedly bringing russian aid. the other allegedly bringing

russian arms. the pope has a tight schedule on his south korean tour. now he's off to visit a center for the disabled. we're following his every step, next.

welcome back. it is just after 10:00 a.m. in ukraine, and fighting between government forces and russian backed rebels is intensifying. the government is trying to reclaim the rebel strong holds

of donetsk and lahansk. >> will ripley is in kiev and joins us live. will, let's start with the stories about these two convoys, both reportedly from russia. one military, the other humanitarian. let's start with the military convoy and it's really a war of words between ukraine and russia on what happened to this convoy and whether it even existed. >> reporter: yeah, you said it, natalie. an information war is how the finnish prime minister put it. you have the ukrainian government, western journalists, nato claiming that this armed convoy crossed overnight on thursday into russia. the ukrainian government said they tracked it and fired on it and partially destroyed it. the russian government saying that this is all a fantasy, denying that the convoy even exists. just like moscow has continued to deny the ukrainian

government's claims and many western ally claims that through this conflict, weapons and personnel have been funneling from russia into ukraine to fuel this violent conflict. the rebels have successfully held onto their territories in donetsk and lahansk. the rebel's power structure is collapsing. 25 battles reported in the last 24 hours. but if this report, if these reports are accurate, that this russian convoy crossed from russia into ukraine, it's very alarming. many in europe and the eu are saying this would be a violation of international law and could be more sanctions. so there's a big meeting happening in berlin on sunday. russia, france, ukraine and

germany will sit down to talk this out before this gets worse. >> and will, with the intensifying fighting there, so many civilians, reports of civilians being killed. that's what led to this humanitarian effort that's under way, and this strange, white convoy coming from russia. that has been confirmed to have humanitarian aid. is that all, can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, as far as we know, natalie, ukrainian inspectors, a team of them crossed into russia and they spent much of yesterday inspecting the contents of this russian humanitarian convoy, totally separate from the armed convoy we've been talking about. they looked through those white trucks and found a lot of them were nearly empty. so you had these nearly empty trucks driving from moscow to the order. they contained things like buckwheat, water, sleeping bags, that sort of thing. the red cross is still putting

together this deal. as of this morning, as far as we have been told, those trucks are still sitting close to the border, waiting to cross into ukraine. basically red cross volunteers are going to join the russian drivers on those trucks to supervise and direct this convoy as it goes to the hardest hit area of luhansk. we'll have to see how it shakes out. >> will ripley for us live in kiev. >> we'll have more on the situation in ukraine in about 15 minutes, including a conversation with an expert who has spent time in russia and written several books on the government in moscow. stay with us.

welcome back. heavy rains continue for east asia this weekend. >> that's where we begin our weather report and our meteorologist ivan cabrera joins us now. >> this is that semi permanent front that sets up during this time of year. what we have here are the rains with that warm, moist air from the south and we have very heavy rainfall. of course, it impacts with china, taiwan, japan and the korean peninsula. also we have typhoon season. pretty busy season, and look at

japan here neo dprvegs uri. we had nakri and halong. the rain is falling and heavily at that. 173 millimeters of rainfall in the last 24 hours and more to come today and tomorrow. look at that explosion of thunderstorm activity, from japan crossing along the east china sea into taiwan. not as heavy the rainfall here in china. so that is fogood, because thiss the area we've seen significant flooding. so a bit of a break there, but not for japan. in fact, on the radar from the japan med agency, you see some of the colors here indicating

showers and thunderstorm activity, with lightning out there, as well. so a wet weekend in japan, no question about it. further south and west, we are going to get that activity, firing up once again. so we have more rain that is going to be on the way for areas. that is the way it's shaping up over the next couple of days. in the next half hour, we'll get back into europe. severe weather yesterday. george and natalie? >> ivan, thank you. people in northern iraq are doing whatever they can to escape isis fighters. >> even if that means turning into another syria. many of the fighters came from syria, now people are running to syria. coming up, we'll have our special report, the flight from terror. >> and police are trying to regain control of the streets. in days before, they have used

military grade gear. in ferguson, missouri, these are pictures. the rain is coming down. protesters on the streets. it seems a lot quieter now than it seemed an hour ago. a story we continue to follow here on cnn after the break.

outrage in ferguson, missouri, right now, after police released new information surrounding the shooting death of an unarmed african-american teenager. you're looking at pictures as police respond to reports of looting. police say brown stole a box of

cigars from a convenience store, pushing a clerk into a display rack as he was leaving. now, as we understand the situation right now, at least three stores there sustained damage. some sort of damage from looters. authorities were in riot gear but never engaged the crowd in any way, according to our cnn reporters. authorities did issue warnings through bull horns telling them to push back, get off the streets, and not to advance towards police. this disturbance went on for about an hour. what you're looking at there are pictures in front of this store, this store where brown allegedly stole cigars. we understand that community members took a stand. you look at it there. these community members who stood in front of the store to stop people from looting. it was a dramatic scene that our affiliates have been monitoring and reporters are following, as well. for now, let's go to our

reporter who joins us on the phone. steve, if you can tell us the latest from your vantage point. >> reporter: george, i'm outside that convenience store right now. there is a tense standoff continuing right now between a few dozen remaining demonstrators and a line of police officers in riot gear and also on top of what look to be like armored vehicles with some sort of turrets on the top of them. as you mentioned, they did not engage the demonstrators. they kept a distance of 100 yards or so. but it was very tense earlier in the night. this all began -- all throughout the night while it was a large demonstration here in ferguson, it was a very peaceful event. it almost had the air of a block party. people were out, smiling,

laughing, enjoying the night with their neighbors, as they demonstrated here for one more night this week. there was even some music. people dancing in the street. but then something happened that changed the mood dramatically. at one end of this avenue that passes through ferguson, somebody in the crowd threw at least three molatav cocktails at a domino's pizzaria and it landed on the roof. this was just one or two people in the crowd that did this. the overwhelming majority of the people here at the time were behaving in a peaceful and lawful manner. then a few blocks away here at the convenience store where michael brown is apparently seen on surveillance video, there was another confrontation between somebody amongst the demonstrators and several dozen

police officers who were protecting the store. we are told here that a bottle was thrown in the direction of the police pi one person in the crowd. and that is what brought in more of a response. and the situation just elevated from there. several hundred then administrators ran to this end of ferguson right outside the store. a s.w.a.t. team essentially, this group of several dozen police officers and their armored vehicles and their riot gear formed a line, approximately 100 yards away from the protesters, and there was a very tense standoff here. there was some bottles thrown towards police. lots of shouting pack and forth. the police through their bull horns were telling people that they must get out of the area, to leave the area, get out of the streets. that it wouldn't be tolerated. if they did not disperse, they would be arrested. that they were threatening

arrest, people would not get out of the street. local community members got in between the two groups and mediated a standoff here, and it's been that way for several hours now. at least two hours. we haven't heard any announcements from the s.w.a.t. team, from the riot police. and i should also say that a lot of young men who were here for the demonstration, rushed to the two stores, a small number of people had broken into them. they cleared out the looters and since then for the last two hours, have been standing guard in front of these stores. we had a moment to talk with them and we found out they don't even know each other. they just saw what was going on. they felt it was wrong. they knew that it would create a negative image here in ferguson. theylooters to get out and they've been standing guard in front of the stores that were broken into, preventing anyone

else from going in and doing any sort of mischief. we did hear shots fired in the air, but no reports of nibble shot or injured in any way. again, no reports of any violence whatsoever. but again, a tense situation with a few dozen determined demonstrators. >> steve, sounds like what you are experiencing there tonight, sh similar to what i experienced there last week. as you point out, community members took a stand to take back the situation, to stand in front of that store, to stop people from looting. it was a tug of war between people trying to make a stand and make sure their voices are heard. and then those people who simply came in to loot and to cause

problems, undermining the message that people are so desperately trying to make. steve, we appreciate your reporting and of course, be safe out there as you continue to bring us information. our other top story is in iraq where the u.s., we are told, is involved in air strikes in the northern part of the country to try to take back a very important strategic facility, a dam that isis had taken last week. a telling indicator of just how confused and complex things have become in iraq for the citizens is the movement of iraqi refugees. they're looking for safety in another war-ravaged nation in syria. >> reporter: the children are wilting, sick after fleeing through the desert to escape isis.

the clinics are providing medical care for people coming to these camps. they say some of the most common problems they're facing are the little kids they say get dehydrated due to the extreme heat and many of them have also gotten weak during the long journey through the desert to reach this safe haven. more than 13,000 people live here. almost all of them are kurdish yazidis from iraq's sinjar region. every tent holds a horror story. this woman got separated from her son when they fled in panic two weeks ago. they later tried calling his cell phone. you called him and isis answered the phone? [ speaking a foreign language ] she says the stranger said, whoever we capture we kill. at this refugee camp aid

organizations focus on helping the living. distributing tents, blankets, daily meals. even soap. armed kurds in uniform, many of them women provide protection. calling themselves the people's protection unit they are better known as the kurdistan workers party or pkk. the u.s. and europe accuse them of being terrorists but for the last year in this corner of syria this leftist kurdish militia has helped hold back isis islamists. when the yazidis were attacked they started a counterattack into iraq. >> translator: we attack to protect many people and opened a safe road and we helped bring more than 16,000 of them here to safety. >> reporter: this fighter shows me posters of her comrades killed fighting isis. she says she trained them. so you were their commander.

[ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: she is the commander of this region. >> reporter: at the camp, kurdish volunteers deliver daily meals to hungry refugees. and distribute ice to help them cope with the heat. amid the commotion, a 4-year-old boy falls hurt. this woman fled here with three children pregnant with a fourth. her husband far away finding work in europe. she wasn't ready for this war. ivan watson, cnn, in kurdish controlled syria. earlier this week, i van brought us another report, a first hand look at the spenlsty

of the refugee situation in sinjar. he took a helicopter ride to report on a story and it turned into a life-saving mission. >> reporter: nobody told us what the plan was. so i didn't expect to be hurling aid packages out the helicopter doors to people and i didn't expect we would be picking people up either. >> you can see how that aid drop developed into a rescue mission and watch as desperate iraqis swarm that helicopter. that's coming up in "flight of terror" airing at 2:30 p.m. in london. cnn newsroom will be back in two minutes.

we're taking you back now to live pictures in ferguson, missouri, of the standoff between protesters and police. things seem to have quieted down a bit from earlier from what we saw. we understand there was a standoff between protesters and police. at least 100 protesters in the streets. many people there protesting peacefully, demanding action. demanding answers in this case that many believe is an injustice. the fatal shooting of michael brown, shot by a ferguson police officer. there are a lot of unanswered questions leading up to that shooting. it has sparked outrage in the community, and for the last several nights, we have seen unrest on the streets. it was hoped though tonight that

things would be quieter. it was quiet for some time. but then things took a turn when some people, according to our reporter just a few moments ago, started throwing rocks and bottles apparently. and then started looting stores. at least three stores had damage from looters. but here's the most important thing. we know that people, community members stood in front of that store to stop the looters from going inside, basically reclaiming the streets themselves and reclaiming the message in many ways, demanding answers as police say the investigation continues. >> as this story unfolded, a lot of people questioned the heavily armed local police force, and many questioned whether some police forces in our country are too heavily armed. as brian todd reports, while some call on police to demilitarize, others say law enforcement officers need to payable to protect themselves. >> reporter: many of their armored vehicles and machine guns came from washington.

now some of washington's power players want to take them back. in the wake of the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, senator rand paul is calling for the demilitarization of police. the 2016 presidential hopeful writes that the pentagon's dolling out of military grade equipment to police temperatude has created essentially small armies. >> you don't have to police while in an armored vehicle. it's not conducive to you being able to serve the people and protect the people. it sevens as an opportunity for you to impose your will on people. >> reporter: johnson, paul and

makaskill are all on homeland security committees and johnson is pushing a bill to turn that pentagon spigot police off. >> it's not military, it's tactical operations, s.w.a.t. teams. that's who is out there. we're doing this in blue. >> that represents such a deep disconnect, with the police are looking at the images the rest of the country saw. if that isn't militarization, i don't know what is. >> reporter: but according to cnn law enforcement analyst mike brooks, police have to be ready for scenes like sandy hook. >> so what is law enforcement supposed to do, go out there without any armored vehicles or helmets? no. because if you're being shot at, police officers aren't paid to get killed. >> reporter: many critics say it's the police in small towns

that don't need all this military equipment. mike brooks says you can have mass shootings and barricaded suspects in small towns too. and in america, we're seeing plenty of that. with this equipment, better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. >> we want to turn to the crisis in ukraine where the government is trading accusations with russia. ukraine says it destroyed most of a russian military convoy that crossed into its territory thursday. russia denies there was any such incursion. meantime, the ukrainian government is working with the red cross to inspect a russian a aid convoy. kiev expressed concerns the trucks may be carrying military equipment. russia says ukraine is keeping humanitarian aid from people who desperately need it.

>> steven phish has spent a great deal of time in russia and joins us live from berkeley, california. if you could first tell us, what will it take to bring some sort of peace and stability to this region? there's a lot of mistrust between kiev and moscow. what will it take at this point to bring some sort of stability? >> you're certainly right. there is a great deal of instability and mistrust. i think what it would take is for president putin to back off. this is his war, and he has instigated it. but so far it doesn't seem like he plans to do so. he's now entered a new phase in his effort to mix things up and shake things up in east ukraine, which is this convoy, which is something of a publicity stunt. as long as putin continues to push his case in east ukraine and continue to try to destabilize it, it's hard to see how peace can come to the region.

>> there is a lot of pressure on putin and russia in the form of sanctions. how does putin walk out of this situation? what is his way out of this? >> that's a very good question. he does have a long-term plan to try to -- ultimately to assert russian hedgomy. he was hoping to continue to do this, his campaign, without too much resistance from the ukrainian army. recently, the ukrainian arm yil has gotten its act together and is fighting back and trying to take back the towns that the rebels that putin has supported have actually taken. so he's in a tough situation right now. he can either send in massive numbers of troops, in which case his international standing will erode even further and he's going to have a very big crisis on his hands.

or he can continue with the kind of thing he's doing right now, a tactical retreat, followed by an effort to continue his campaign. this time using this armed convoy is an excuse for continuing his policy in east ukraine. it's hard to see right now how he has an easy out. >> as far as these humanitarian convoys, obviously many in kiev question, you know, the motive behind this, if there is an ulterior motive. what can you tell us from your take on what's happening with these humanitarian convoys? >> well, there's nothing humanitarian about them. this is an effort on the part of putin to play to a domestic audience, to show them that he's gone this far in this effort to try to assert russian dominance over east ukraine. and he's stuck out, because it's either invade or watch the people he's sponsored in east ukraine possibly be defeated by the ukrainian army. so this is something that

represents neither a land invasion nor in fact a complete backing off. this is meant to may to the audience at home, too. this is about domestic politics for putin. one of the reasons he launched his ukrainian adventure to begin with is because the russian economy was turning down and he was trying to may on nationalism to distract people from that fact and distract them from the corruption that people are seeing more and more of at home. now it looks like he will has to do something to keep alive the forces that he's created and this is, again, thplaying to a domestic audience at home. he's trying to show russians that he cares about these people, who have been victimized by his campaign. >> mr. steven fish, sir, we appreciate your insight today. >> pleasure. more news ahead here, including what regions of the world are getting hit by summer storms. ivan cabrera has a preview.

>> unusual weather in the baltic sea. four reports of waterspouts through the day yesterday. and now following that, some much cooler summer temperatures in northwestern europe.

live video right now from south korea of pope francis visiting a rehabilitation center for the disabled. according to the pope's schedule, a group of children will perform for him and present him with gifts.

very touching video of the pope there visiting with the children. he's on the third day now of historic visit to the country. a first visit by a pope in 25 years. a country that is 10% catholic. >> erin mclaughlin has more on the visit from seoul. >> reporter: the words that pope francis celebrating the lives of 124 korean martyrs. today in seoul, a massive crowd gathered for their beatification, bringing the martyrs of the early korean catholic church one step closer to sainthood. >> translator: the legacy of the martyrs can inspire all of us to

work for a more just free and reconciled society. thus contributing to peace and the protection of authenticity. >> reporter: the pope has said there are more martyrs today than in the early days of the catholic church. most recently he's been outspoken about the ongoing christian persecution in iraq. he's calling for international action. today's ceremony highlights the grim reality that the kind of brutality and violence from over 200 years ago still exists in the modern world. cnn, seoul, south korea. strong summer storms spawned waterspouts in the baltic sea friday. our meteorologist has his eye on that story. >> and behind that, cooler temperatures are going to be on

the way. a couple of reports along the island here, and also to the west, north of denmark. no injuries, so that is good news. part of the storm system that brought us these spectacular photographs. looking at storms rolling in here, and that will continue to push off to the east. so we'll get improving weather conditions. but that will be temporary. we have another storm that is, well, cued up and ready to move in sunday and next week, bringing showers and gusty winds. there you see the clouds. there's a shot there from just a few showers that moved through and now heading into germany, as well. quiet down to the south and west where the warm air will stay. here, temperatures will run well below normal. look at glasgow with 13 degrees. temperatures as far south there as munich, running into the mid

teens. cooler than we should be for this time of year. a possible tropical development here in the eastern atlantic after a quiet time. natalie? >> ivan, thank you very much. you've been watching cnn's special coverage. much more ahead. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. the news continues on cnn right after this break. medicare? that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call today to request a free decision guide to help you better understand what medicare is all about and which aarp medicare supplement plan works best for you. with these types of plans, you'll be able to visit

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