hello and a warm welcome to those of you watching in the u.s. and all around the world. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm natalie allen. our top stories this hour, nato says this is proof russian combat forces are inside ukraine. there's no shortage of finger pointing as the crisis escalates. >> a startling statistic. the number of syrian refugees now tops 3 million. lives shattered and uprooted. many of them children. we'll look into this this hour. >> we'll also have an interview with someone about that situation. and why this u.s. college football captain is in the spotlight. his heroic story that now has him suspended. we'll explain that one coming up

here. but we will start off with nato holding an emergency meeting this morning armed with what it says is new evidence of russian forces inside ukraine. >> let's go ahead and show you this new evidence. it's essentially satellite images released by nato on thursday. they show a convoy of russian artillery units essentially setting up positions between donetsk and luhansk. those of course are the separatist strongholds. russia repeatedly has denied sending in troops. but this map shows moscow -- or really why moscow's likely taking action now. the area controlled by pro-russian rebels. we see it highlighted in orange. has really shrunk in size in recent weeks as the rebels fight ukraine's army. and there were exchanges at the united nations thursday reminiscent of the cold war. the u.s. and russian ambassadors trading barbs and accusations over just who is responsible for the fighting in eastern ukraine. they talked during an emergency meeting of the u.n. security

council. u.s. ambassador first accusing russia of manipulation and straight out lying about the crisis. >> reporter: ukraine is one of roughly a dozen countries that share a border with russia. let me close with a couple questions. how can we tell those countries that border russia that their peace and sovereignty is guaranteed if we do not make our message heard on ukraine? why should they believe it will be different if tomorrow president putin decides to start supporting armed separatists and allowing soldiers on vacation to fight in their countries? >> translator: now, the american ambassador said what kind of message can we send to russia's neighbors. well, i would suggest that we send a message to washington. stop interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states. stop trying to undermine a regime that you don't like. restrain your geopolitical

ambition. they're not only russia's neighbors but many other countries around the world would breathe a sigh of relief. >> meantime, ukraine is reinstating its mandatory draft. new recruits won't initially be deployed to conflict zones, but the news will be welcomed by volunteer ukrainian battalions, who say they now face a much stronger foe. cnn's diana magnay has more for us from eastern ukraine. >> reporter: a sorry-looking convoy. one of ukraine's volunteer battalions beating a haste ry retreat it seems from the country's embattled southeast. anti-putin scrawl on the back of this car not much good as it rattles its way out of the conflict zone. past mariupol we meet members of the volunteer dnepro battalion huddled beneath a tree. on wednesday they say they were

routed from novoazovsk close to the russian border by russian forces backed by cross-border artillery shelling. "they're regular russian troops," the commander tells me, "and i have information which i can prove 100% that the tank drivers are local but that they got special training in russia." cnn can't verify his claims, but he's convinced the separatists' plan is to move north from the sea of azov to create a corridor right up to donetsk. earlier we'd driven up that road as far north as we could go. you can hear the crump of artillery fire in the distance. this is the main highway from mariupol up to donetsk, which is about 15 k in that direction. as you can see, it is absolutely deserted. we stopped because of that shelling, which the locals say has been going on for days. and most of them spend most of their time underground. it's too dangerous, they say, to -- to be out. in donetsk itself shelling killed at least 15 civilians on thursday.

the casualty count growing each day. those who can flee across the front lines, hoping signs marking their precious load, children, will save them from the cruelty of random mortar rounds. "it was scary," this little boy says. "we were scared they would hit us, the shells would hit us. and there were airplanes overhead." the troops that stay now facing an altogether tougher foe as russia apparently bares its teeth on ukrainian soil. diana magnay, cnn, mariupol, ukraine. isis fighters say they executed more than 250 syrian soldiers, and video posted online appears to prove it. we'll show that to you in just a moment. >> yeah. unfortunately, when there's an isis story too many times it corresponds with a horrific

video. u.s. air strikes, though, are already hitting isis targets in iraq. but president barack obama says it's too soon to say what steps washington will take against the sunni militants advancing in syria. one thing he is making clear, battling this group, also known as isil, must be a regional effort. >> as i've said, rooting out a cancer like isil will not be quick or easy, but i'm confident that we can and we will, working closely with our allies and our partners. >> and now to that story about the mass execution of soldiers in syria. our anna coren has details on the militants' capture of peshmerga forces in iraq. we must warn you, as we always do, the video you're about to see is graphic. >> reporter: walking hopelessly through the desert stripped down to their underwear, most with hands behind their head, these syrian soldiers know the horror that's about to unfold.

this grainy isis video then shows a pile of bloody bodies. before the camera swings around to reveal this. an endless line of dead soldiers lying face down in the dirt. the sunni extremists claim these are the 250 syrian soldiers they captured during their week-long bloody battle to take al tabka military base. the last stronghold for bashar al assad's regime in raqqa province. a large swath of eastern syria now controlled by isis. militants gloating on social media of the weaponry seized in its latest conquest. this barbaric treatment of what are fundamentally prisoners of war indicates that there is no code of conduct within this terrorist organization. isis has repeatedly shown cruelty, utter brutality, and no mercy to anyone who stands in its way.

in another display of its ruthless behavior clearly designed to instill fear amongst the kurds in northern iraq, video also released by isis of what they claim are captured peshmerga soldiers. dressed in orange jumpsuits, the same worn by american journalist james foley, brutally executed last week, the kurdish prisoners were forced to appeal to their president to stop support for american air strikes in iraq. "a message to massoud barzani and to all of the kurds," says this soldier. "i beg you to end your alliance with the americans. don't let america intervene in the region." one of the prisoners later shown to be kneeling in front of a mosque in mosul before he was beheaded. an abhorrent and medieval act that has come to define isis. anna coren, cnn, erbil, iraq. and now to this developing story for you. it's been rumbling for nearly two weeks, but now iceland's meteorological agency says the badabungol volcano is now

erupting. analysts say this is a fissure eruption which is much less explosive than a main chamber eruption. for now it's a positive situation but it's a developing situation. the volcano last erupted in 1910. our meteorologist ivan cabrera is watching all the new information coming in to us and he'll give us an update on this development in moments. >> so far so good on air travel. >> so far. but let's wait and see what happens next. all right. also ahead for you, rushing to finalize a new ebola vaccine, officials are calling on healthy volunteers to take part in trials. also ahead here, a sex abuse scandal of massive proportions in the uk. we'll look at a new report pointing fingers at law enforcement for staying silent. ♪ defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep.

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welcome back. health officials in west africa are working at a frantic pace to try and contain the spread of the deadly ebola virus. >> yes. it is growing still. a mobile lab has now been set up in freetown, sierra leone, to help speed up ebola test results. previously those tests would need to be sent overseas. now patients can find out if they're positive for ebola within three to five hours. >> now, meantime the world health organization says there are more than 1,500 confirmed or suspected deaths from ebola in

this current outbreak, and the w.h.o. warns the total number of cases, it could exceed way beyond what you see there. they estimate it could get to 20,000 over the course of the crisis. >> well, an experimental ebola vaccine is also being fast-tracked in the u.s. and the uk. the drug is being developed by glaxosmithkline and the u.s. national institutes of health. the university of oxford is also conducting trials. as jim boulden reports, they're looking for healthy humans to test it out. >> reporter: an unprecedented response to an unprecedented outbreak. with more than 1,500 dead and no end in sight to the ebola outbreak, experts are now looking for healthy volunteers in the uk, gambia, and mali to test a potential vaccine. >> previously, in studies of vaccines for the developing world, people have been incredibly generous with their time to come forward and volunteer. obviously, we'll only know when we've tried. >> reporter: researchers are

targeting the zaire strain of ebola now wreaking havoc in liberia, sierra leone, and guinea. the university of oxford is launching simultaneous human trials in the uk and africa. >> you can't make the actual trial quicker. you still have to follow somebody for a month to see if there's an immune response at a month. what we're doing much faster is all the levels of regulatory review and approvals and people are really pulling out all the stops. >> reporter: which could mean a vaccine in africa by the end of the year, though it's likely to be early next year. >> nobody has ever taken a vaccine from first time in a human being to thinking of actually using it to save lives three months later. >> reporter: the british government and the welcome trust, a charitable foundation, are funding oxford with $4.6 million to conduct the study. some of that money will also go to immediately manufacture and stockpile up to 10,000 doses of the experimental vaccine by pharmaceutical giant gsk before it's even approved.

>> we would normally not do that at this early stage of development. but working with our partners and the funding that they bring enabled us to do this much earlier in the process than we would normally do. >> reporter: if these trials prove successful, the world health organization will be given the doses to start a mass immunization program in high-risk communities. the united states is conducting a similar trial with the same vaccines starting next week. the experts say having multiple trials on various continents will help speed up the time needed to discover which dose and which method of delivery is most effective and insist those who do volunteer are in no danger of catching ebola. jim boulden, cnn, london. we've got some other news out of the uk for you now. a damning report has just been released in england showing a sex abuse scandal on a truly massive scale. it's centered around the town of

rotherham and exposes the abuse of roughly 1,400 children. the worst part here is that police and government officials were aware of it and for years did nothing. our atika shubert has more. >> reporter: rotherham, england in sowing yorkshire. for more than a decade here a new report says police, social services and local government officials ignored a horrific crime happening on a massive scale. this independent report sponsored by the city council finds that at least 1,400 children were sexually abused and exploited, and that is a conservative estimate. the report states that children were "raped by multiple perpetrators. trafficked to other towns and cities. and abducted, beaten, and intimidated." some victims were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight. the vast majority of the perpetrators, asian men. the victims, mostly vulnerable teenage girls. like this victim, who was only 14 when she was targeted by a

convicted felon. >> they knew how old he was. they knew he had been in prison. they knew that he could be a danger to other children as well. they knew full knowledge of it. they knew so much about it. and they just never did anything. >> reporter: the report says rotherham police and social services simply ignored the victims and then refused to confront the perpetrators for "fear of being thought racist." now anti-muslim groups such as the english defense league have camped outside rotherham police station, and the asian muslim community here is reeling from the crisis. >> we want these individuals who haven't been prosecuted, who haven't been convicted because of the failure of the police of the failure of the police authority or the failure of the council and the social services who were aware, we want these individuals to be convicted and prosecuted for the crimes they have committed in our community and also we want resignations for those people that were liable to protect our children. >> reporter: rotherham council

leader roger stone has resigned. the council and the south yorkshire police all condemn the abuse and, quote, apologized for failing to protect the children. the police department says it, quote, "fully intends to implement the recommendations made in the report." but police chief shawn wright has not resigned, prompting prime minister david cameron to speak out. >> the reports from rotherham are shocking and the scale of the abuse that was going on are deeply shocking. and i think the home secretary was right yesterday to say, having looked at the report and the fact that the police commissioner was at the time head of children's services, that the right decision would be to resign and take full responsibility for what happened. >> reporter: now, those may seem like strong words from the prime minister, but take a look at this map of the uk. this is rotherham. but there's also rochdale, darby, peterborough. even down here in oxford. these are all places where grooming gangs had been reported and prosecuted.

rotherham is simply the first place where the full extent of the problem has been revealed. it's no longer just rotherham. it's a national problem. incredibly, the report clearly states the abuse is still continuing and happening to this day. atika shubert, cnn, rotherham, england. coming up here after the break, malaysia airlines is expected to announce its restructuring plans just hours from now. so, your site gave me this "credit report card" thing. can i get my experian credit report... like, the one the bank sees. sheesh, i feel like i'm being interrogated over here. she's onto us. dump her. (phone ringing) ...hello? oh, man. that never gets old. no it does not. not all credit report sites are equal. experian.com members get personalized help and an experian credit report. join now at experian.com with enrollment in experian credit tracker sm.

welcome back. a volcanic eruption under way. we knew it was coming and now it's happening. our meteorologist ivan cabrera is now our volcanologist for this hour. >> put the old volcanologist hat on which i haven't put on for yarz. of course the last time we had that disaster. >> so far so good on this one. >> no one could get anywhere in europe.

it was unbelievable. upwards of a couple billion dollars i think in losses there. but let's get to the latest pictures here because we're finally getting some daylight here and i want to show what you it looks like. here's bardabunga and it's getting going here. what we have here is what the volcanologists call a fissure eruption. but there you see the plume coming out of the volcano. a very grainy web cam here. but it is live. and we have not seen this kind of action so far with this volcano. now we're talking about it. we've had those reports of the fissures underneath live from the volcano but now we're breaking through the glacier. we're at red alert imminent. that means they've closed the air space over iceland for obvious reasons. you don't want aircraft flying over the ash here. and what is a fissure eruption? the difference is when you do get the main chamber eruption that is when you get that explosive ash going well up into the atmosphere. this is what happened back in

2004. when was it? four years ago now. 2010. so this is not currently happening with bardarbunga. what is happening is we have this fissure, right? this other channel that has developed here. so that has allowed some of the magma to begin surfacing here. and that is the plume that you are seeing there. a fissure eruption is less explosive here, and that's certainly a good thing. the problem is for the locals there that is going to be an issue because once that hot magma reaches the glacier you're going to have significant melting here. so that can cause some localized flooding. so we have local issues because of the ash and then we have local issues because of the flooding. and we are hoping to stay local because if we do get the main chamber eruption that is when you do start getting the ash into the upper-level winds and those come right down into europe. we'll keep you posted and keep watching for that. let's check in on conditions in asia. we've been seeing torrential downpours over the last couple of days across thailand.

do we have pictures of thailand? i'll leave you with those here because there has been significant flooding across the region. we'll get those to you in the next half hour. about 120 millimeters of rainfall here has fallen, and it continues to pour over the same area. so we'll get those pictures for you and keep you posted on the volcano finally getting some pictures there. >> daylight. we look forward to seeing it. >> indeed. >> thanks, ivan. well, in just a couple of hours malaysia airlines is expected to hold a news conference on a major restructuring program. and of course we'll bring that news conference to you. the national airline is reeling, of course, after the mh370 and 17 disasters this year. the company announced a loss of more than $97 million in the past month. as part of the initiative it's expected the government will buy out small groups of shareholders and cut jobs as the airline attempts to streamline itself. we'll wait and see. well, meantime, the search

for flight 370 is set to resume next month. while efforts of course so far have been fruitless officials are optimistic a breakthrough will come, as we learned from cnn's brianna keilar. >> reporter: the search for missing flight 370 is arguably the most puzzling in history. but each new piece of the puzzle gives authorities and family members of victims a glimmer of hope. in a news conference thursday australian deputy prime minister warren truss said a satellite phone call to mh370 may shed some new light on the plane's possible location. >> some work is being done endeavoring to map the position of the aircraft when a filed satellite telephone conversation was attempted between malaysian airlines on the ground and the aircraft. and that has suggested to us that the aircraft may have turned south a little earlier than we had previously expected. but the search area remains the same. >> reporter: the search for

mh370 is set to resume next month. australia hired dutch engineering firm fugro for the task. >> i remain cautiously optimistic that we will locate the missing aircraft within the priority search area. this search will obviously be a challenging one. >> reporter: fugro has already begun underwater sxhapg will begin operations next month. the new search is expected to cover 60,000 square kilometers and take up to a year to complete, using two vessels equipped with side-scan sonar, multibeam echo sounders, and video cameras, investigators will scour the sea floor in a new search area, which is about 7,000 meters deep in some places. flight mh370 vanished on march 8th with 239 people on board on its way from kuala lumpur to beijing. if the plane is locate fugro's role is to positively identify and map the wreckage. the estimated cost of this new operation, up to $48 million.

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well, welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. we're glad you're with us. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm errol barnett. here are the top stories we're

tracking for you right now. russian president vladimir put inwants pro-russian rebels to open a humanitarian corridor so trapped ukrainian forces can leave eastern ukraine. reuters reports the leader of the self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic agreed to the request. this comes a a dafr nato released satellite images that it says show russian troops taking up positions inside ukraine. >> while u.s. air strikes hit isis targets in iraq, president obama says washington has no strategy yet for dealing with the militant group in syria. he's sending secretary of state kerry to the region to work on a regional coalition to address the growing threat by isis. health officials are looking for human volunteers to participate in ebola vaccine trials. volunteers must be healthy. doctors and aid groups are rushing to stop the spread of the deadly virus. the world health organization says it could take nine months. it also warns the number of ebola cases could reach 20,000.

>> it's unreal. >> yeah. more now on the fight to stop those isis militants, or isil militants. a week and a half ago the extremist group released of course gruesome video of an american journalist being beheaded. >> yeah. and at that time isis said it had been open to a prisoner exchange because the u.s. has someone it wants. pakistani neuroscientist sophia siddiqui. she's been one of the fbi's -- on the fbi's most wanted list and has been referred to as lady al qaeda. but in an exclusive interview with cnn, her sister insists that siddiqui is not a terrorist. sama mosun reports. >> i condemn any kind of violence. i don't care who does it. i condemn it. >> reporter: aafia siddiqui's sister fowzia made the decision to speak to cnn from her family home in pakistan because the family doesn't want terrorists carrying out attacks in aafia's name.

after the brutal beheading of journalist james foley a letter sent to his family reveals how isis claims to have requested aafia siddiqui's release. it read "rev also offered prisoner exchanges to freet muslims currently in your detention like our sister dr. aafia siddiqui." not in our name, says her family. >> any kind of kidnappers, isis these days, the aafia brigade, or whoever wants to claim aafia. i'm afia's sister. we're aafia's family. and we speak on her behalf as well. we want no violence no aafia's name. our whole struggle has been one that is dignified, that is peaceful, and that is legal. >> reporter: a pakistani neuroscientist based in the u.s., aafia went missing in 2003. a year later she was named on the fbi alerts list as a sought-after al qaeda member.

in 2008 she reappeared, stopped by afghan national police for acting suspiciously outside a government building. she was accused of shooting at two fbi agents and several military personnel while being held at an afghan facility and sentenced by a u.s. federal judge to 86 years in prison for attempted murder and other charges. >> she is an icon. she is the poster girl for jihad. and in that way she serves as a sort of rallying point. >> she is the premier symbol of the muslim woman in distress. >> it's my challenge to them as well. >> aafia should be released. but not for ransom. not in exchange. not for other people that are kidnapped by extremists. no. and if i were to make an appeal to the kidnappers of hostages i would say the same thing to them. we don't get anything -- achieve anything by kidnapping innocent people.

unjust incarceration is wrong. >> reporter: the only solution, says the family, is to remove the extremist cause celebre and release aafia siddiqi. sima mosen, cnn. >> now, the u.s. is still trying to confirm the identity of a second american reportedly killed in a battle in syria just this last weekend. one official tells cnn his name was abderahman muhumud. but it's not yet confirmed he was a jihadist fighting for isis. syrian rebels battling isis have said a second american was killed the second day as this man -- not this man here, sorry. the same day as douglas mccain. no, that's not him. the official says mccain's identity was easier to confirm because of his -- a tattoo on his neck. now, the isis crusade to carve out an islamic state is drawing recruits from several countries including the united states. and as ted rowland is about to

show us, not all foreign fighters start out as radicals or even as muslims. >> reporter: two americans, friends in high, both killed while fighting for extremist groups overseas. douglas macarthur mccain and troy kastigar reportedlying struck up a close friendship while attending robinsdale cooper high school in new hope, minnesota, a suburb of minneapolis. while neither of them were raised muslim, they had many friends who were members of minneapolis's large population of somali immigrants. and eventually they both converted to islam. >> he grew to have like really strong muslim beliefs, so much to the fact like where he was almost like turning into a somalian. because he had like a lost somalian friends. >> reporter: kastigar's mother tries to explain how these two young men who played basketball together in high school ended up fighting together overseas. >> i think there was like wanting to have a -- you know,

wanting to have a purpose, wanting to be a valuable human being and not finding that. >> reporter: kastigar was killed five years ago in somalia while fighting for the terror group al shabaab. that group made it clear they were trying to recruit more fighters like him. kastigar and two others like him called themselves the minnesota martyrs starred in this video. >> if you guys only knew how much fun we have over here. this is the real disneyland. you need to come here and join us. take pleasure in this fun. and walk amongst the lions. >> reporter: before becoming jihadis, mccain and kastigar seemed more like troubled teenagers. while living in the u.s., kastigar had a few run-ins with the law. ten years ago he was charged with giving false information to police and two dwis. mccain was also arrested at least six times, all for morn offenses, but he went on the u.s. law enforcement authority's radar in early 2000 due to his

association with other known terrorists. the state department says they knew about mccain's ties to isis. his body was identified when the rebel group who killed him found his u.s. passport. minneapolis somali community leader omar jamal says he's worried there are more would-be terrorists who've made their way from minnesota to syria and may want to come back. bringing jihad with them. >> those kids with the u.s. passport, not only u.s. passport but also european passports might one day come here and do something. >> well, the united nations says roughly half of all syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes. according to new figures, a staggering 3 million people have fled the nation and its brutal three-year civil war. >> i mean, that's such a huge number. it basically translates to one in eight syrians now living outside of their homeland. the agency says except for the palestinians there is no bigger

refugee population under its care. the u.n. says before things can improve the world must take action. >> in the face of total impunity, grave human rights violations have become the norm in syria. parties to the conflict are oblivious of their obligations to protect civilians and abide by international humanitarian law. as they continue to commit terrible crimes against civilians, young and old, women and men. the perpetrators must be held accountable. the impunity must end. >> well, the conflict has in turn put strain on neighboring countries which are having refugee camps for the syrians who have fled. more than a million of them are in lebanon. the u.n. estimates turkey has more than 800,000 syrian refugees. more than 600,000 in jordan. another 215,000 in iraq. these are like bigger than some of the biggest cities in the world. and there are nearly 140,000

syrian refugees in egypt. the numbers are just staggering. and it's a crisis of course that sadly only seems to be getting worse. we keep talking about the fight against isis now in syria and iraq. well, batul ahmed with the united nations high commissioner for refugees joins us now to talk about these troubling new numbers. and we know you are in beirut, batul. we appreciate your time. you know, we've been talking so much about the militants and the fighting and sometimes the refugee crisis gets lost in all of this as people seek solutions for now, what's going on in iraq and syria. but how in the world can your agency and can these people continue to cope in basically tents in all kinds of weather? >> thank you. it's a very, very sad day for us today to mark this really tragic

milestone of 3 million syrian refugees in the region. as your report earlier said, this is the largest refugee population under at the moment. it's a crisis of enormous scale. as our high commissioner said, this is the largest crisis, u.n. humanitarian crisis that unhcr have had to deal with. and it's an enormous challenge. sorry. go ahead. >> no, please go ahead. go ahead and expand on the challenges. >> yeah. it's an enormous challenge for the unhch and the more than 150 partner agencies that we work with. the donor community has been exceptionally generous in funding the appeals that we put out so far $4.1 billion have been given to unhcr as part of these regional appeals to deal with the syria crisis. however, we still -- we are still $2 billion short. and people still need a lot of

help. >> $2 billion short. how in the world will you make that up? when we're about to hit september and then of course it's the winter months again. we had many stories last year here at cnn about how these children don't even have coats. >> we are very, very concerned about that. as you know -- as we've said in our report, nearly 2.4 million people will need assistance for winter. and winter in the middle east can be very harsh and very unforgiving. so we do need the international community to really step up and pay attention to what's going on in syria and in the neighboring countries. make countries are bearing the brunt of this. the burden on countries like lebanon, a very small country, where there's now over 1 point -- 1,600,000 syrian refugees. so the burden on countries like lebanon is enormous, and the international community needs to support countries like lebanon, like jordan to be able to assist these refugees and give them the minimum, the basic standards of

living to ensure that they have the protection that they need and they have the basic things they need to get by. >> mm-hmm. and it's important to point out these are people from all walks of life that had good jobs and professions back in their countries, that are just stymied, that are sitting here. we see pictures of children. children of course always find ways to cope, especially when the cameras are on, children seem to lighten up. but the conditions are simply appalling. and as you say, it's putting a strain on all of these countries that have 100,000, 200,000 people sitting there living on their borders just like that. so where do you expect the money to come in? how can the money come in? >> we understand that at the moment the donor community is possibly overwhelmed with the crises across the world. but the syria crisis cannot and must not be forgotten. we have -- taij today we are

marking this tragic milestone. and refugees continue to pour into these countries. i personally have met refugees from syria who were university graduates, who have law degrees, who are architects and doctors and teachers and are now living in conditions which are unimaginable to what they would have expected of their lives. i met a family last week in jordan who the economics graduate husband, the wife was a geography graduate, and they find themselves in a situation where they're registering with unhcr because they've been in jordan for a year, they've exhausted their savings, they have no more resources and they now need help. and it was very difficult. it's psychologically very difficult for these people. and we must not forget the psychological impact on refugees as well. >> right. most of the world just can't imagine what that would be like for so many people. and as you say, the world is seeing refugees now from gaza, people fleeing their homes in ukraine, and now look at the

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torrential rains have hit south asia and china's dealing with another landslide. >> it feels like they cannot get another break in asia or china. our meteorologist ivan cabrera is following that for us. ivan. >> yeah, the rain situation has been incredible in china. in fact in japan as well and korea. we've been talking about the extension of the rainy season. it's just continued. and the rainfall has been prolific. take a look at some of the

thunderstorms in the afternoon. you get clear sky in the morning and then just downpours here south of chongqing is where i'm going to take you to weixo province. unfortunately there again you see the green and then the red there depicting the earth just giving away. what you don't see of course are some of the homes that have been just buried there. upwards of -- we understand at this point six people unfortunately lost their lives. we've had these occurrences just it seems weekly now. but there it is. with the heavy equipment in there trying to get things back to normal. it's going to be a while. and it is going to be raining on them as that happens. area of low pressure as well down to the south also bringing torrential rainfall. and if you appreciate a little spin here, if this thing had hung out in the south china sea a little longer we could have had something more organized. but nevertheless the effects are the same because we have had the downpours here of 120 millimeters in vietnam.

thailand getting in on that as well. it's about five inches. let's take you to some of the pictures of the flooding that has been under way there. you see here more of a nuisance situation here. less life-threatening, as you can see. commuters still trying to get to where they're going. this was through the day yesterday. very heavy rainfall across in part of the world. of course we're in the southwest monsoon and this is the time of year that you would expect it. also this time of year we are in typhoon season, and so far it has been a while since i have tracked one for you. and that is excellent news. we hope not to do that for a while. and in fact not hinting at anything. however there is an lpa, a low pressure your that has been impacting the philippines here. and in luzon look at this moisture coming in here with incredible amounts of rain. i'll leave you with some pictures here of what first appears to be -- well, it is a good time for the kids. but this is not a lake. this is in the middle of the street with traffic behind them.

that looks a bit dangerous there. but you know how the kids are. they enjoy this kind of weather. and it is that time of year. >> well, kids make the best of it. >> making the best of it. a little bit close. hopefully the parents scooped them up shortly thereafter. see you next hour. >> thanks, ivan. comedian joan rivers is in a new york city hospital after apparently suffering cardiac arrest. her daughter says she is with her family and is now resting comfortably. a law enforcement official tells -- or says rivers stopped breathing during throat surgery at a manhattan clinic on thursday. the 81-year-old tv personality was taken by ambulance in critical condition to mt. sinai hospital. >> we wish her well of course. well, in los angeles a college football player sprains both his ankles jumping from a balcony into a pool to save his nephew from drowning. that's what usc captain josh shaw told his coach.

turns out it's all a lie. shaw has confessed. now he's been benched indefinitely. so how did he sprain his ankles? sara sidner reports. >> reporter: josh shaw was already considered a leader on the field. now he was suddenly a hero off of it. just days ago shaw said he rescued his 7-year-old nephew from drowning. forced to jump from a second-floor balcony to get to the boy in time. in the process he injured both ankles after hitting the concrete. he told the university website, "i would do it again for whatever kid it was. it did not have to be my nephew," shaw told usc's website. "my ankles really hurt but i'm lucky to be surrounded by the best trainers and doctors in the world. i am taking my rehab one day at a time, and i hope to be back on the field as soon as possible." and who would doubt him? >> although i play in front of 90,000 fans in a coliseum, i am

much more nervous today than any game. ever. >> reporter: shaw was a highly regarded student at usc. in may the trojans' starting quarterback was asked to give this commencement speech to his fellow graduates. he was also chosen as team captain for his final year. >> when i was first asked to be a speaker at today's commencement ceremony, i was truly humbled, honored, and overwhelmed with joy. >> reporter: but questions started surfacing this week about shaw's story about his nephew. head coach steve sarkisian was pressed for clarification. >> it's pretty clear there's quite a bit -- there's quite a few conflicting stories out there. you know, any information that we've been provided up until this point we've pushed along to campus authorities. we're really going to let it play out in their hands up until this point, and quite honestly we're in somewhat of a holding pattern. so that's where we're at. >> reporter: then late yesterday there was this. a statement released through his attorney. "on saturday august 23rd, 2014 i injured myself in a fall.

i made up a story about this fall that was untrue. i was wrong ton tell the truth. i apologize to usc for this action on my part." while shaw admitted his story was a lie, the los angeles police department tells us there was a burglary at the apartment complex where shaw's girlfriend lives, and they say they have interviewed his girlfriend. but shaw is not a suspect in the case. >> obviously, we thought very highly of him. he spoke at our commencement this past spring. so when he came with the story to us i didn't have a reason not to believe this guy. i think that's where the disappointments kicks in. >> reporter: disappointment with significant repercussions. shaw has been suspended from the team indefinitely. sara sidner, cnn, los angeles. >> i went to usc's rival school ucla across town. so i can say i enjoyed that story. but he did tell that story. and josh shaw certainly by all accounts a very good guy. still ahead for you here on cnn, into the lagoon. and in trouble with the law. a million-dollar gambit gone

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bye! why in the world but the proud owner of a rare multimillion-dollar bugatti deliberately wrecked the car by driving it into a lake. hmm? for the insurance money of course. >> of course. >> but instead of that the owner now could get prison time. >> why do they think they can do that and it's going to work? the key piece of evidence, a 24-second video that captured the whole incident. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: hey. did you see that? that is a bugatti. and since this ultra expensive super car is rarely seen, no wonder a guy riding near galveston, texas five years ago whipped out his camera when he saw one. >> that will be mine one day. >> reporter: i don't think you want this one. not after what happens next. >> oh. oh!

he wrecked! oh, [ bleep ]! oh, [ bleep ]! >> reporter: the bugatti slammed into a salt water marsh. driven by a dealer of high-end cars named andy house. house first told police he dropped his cell phone, reached down get it, then when he sat back up he was distracted by a low-flying pelican, which he tried to avoid by jerking the wheel. but that excuse was for the birds because this week -- >> andy house pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. >> reporter: the assistant u.s. attorney says house bought the bugatti for a million dollars, took out a car collector's insurance policy worth 2.2 million, and intensionally totaled the car. house didn't turn off the engine so salt water would ruin it. house's excuse for not turning it off? >> well, he said the mosquitos were really bad. but they're not so bad that you need to bail out of a car like it's on fire. >> reporter: the bugatti is the type of car rappers rap about.

♪ bugatti though it's so unusual it's hard to identify. >> what is it? >> pretty sure that's a lambo, dude. >> no, not a lamborghini. that lambo line became a catch phrase. >> i think it's a lambo, dude. >> the assistant u.s. attorney called the 24-second videotape of the crash the cornerstone of his case. it shows there was no pelican to avoid and no brake lights. what are the chances of having a video of this happening? >> if there were a mt. rushmore of bad luck, i think andy house's face would be on it. >> reporter: though there's a 20-year maximum for wire fraud, a more likely sentence is a year or two. there was vindication for one much-maligned character. one poster noted, "finally, after all these years, that poor innocent pelican is off the hook." even a tow truck guy bows to the bugatti, washing his hands in the marsh before daring to touch

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