thanks for joining us here on cnn. i'm with you for the next two hours. a big welcome to those of you watching in the u.s. and all around the world. coming up this hour, the second nurse to come down with ebola was apparently never told she shouldn't fly. how her case could change the way health officials classify the symptoms of the deadly virus. also coming up -- >> they tell you they're not anxious about going to liberia working in an ebola unit is

delusional. i'm very nervous. >> doctors and nurses volunteering to go to the ebola hot zone show us why it is so difficult to learn the proper safety procedures. and coming up this hour amid ongoing clashes, this hour, in 15 minutes, in fact, we'll be hearing from the reporter on the scene. >> reporter: this will be the first time we're getting an immediate briefing. we'll bring you live updates after that shocking video of alleged police brutality. >> a lot happening there in hong kong. we'll get to all those stories for you this hour. first let's begin with the fight against ebola, public concern is intensifying. as a second u.s. nurse is now diagnosed with the deadly virus. she was part of the team that treated thomas duncan before he died at a hospital in dallas. she flew on a commercial airliner shortly before her

diagnosis. that has many people concerned. now, health officials are considering putting 76 other workers from her hospital on a u.s. no fly list. they may also change the body temperature threshold. it is now 100.4 degrees fahrenheit that they consider to be a possible sign of ebola. vinson's temperature was slightly below that. she has arrived at emory university hospital for treatment and ed lavandera has details. >> reporter: the second infected nurse, amber vinson, is a 29-year-old registered nurse from ohio. she like nurse nina pham had close contact with duncan before he died from ebola. after caring for duncan, vinson flew to ohio to work on wedding plans. she shen flew back on frontier airlines flight 1143 one day before her ebola diagnosis. >> alshow they did not report

any symptoms and she did not meet the fever threshold of 100.4, she did report at that time that she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5. >> reporter: the cdc says she should not have flown and is reaching out to passengers on that return flight. >> we want to deal with facts. not fear. >> reporter: battles on two fronts as texas health officials scramble to contain the deadly ebola virus and mitigate criticism of preparedness. >> we've been sounding the alarm. our nurses are not protected. they're not prepared to handle ebola or any other pandemics and the protocol that should have been in place in dallas were not in place. >> reporter: among questions about protocols and procedures, serious allegations from the nurses union representatives. >> where the protocols breached, the nurses say there were no protocols. nurses had to interact with mr.

duncan work whatever protective equipment was available at the time when he had copious amounts of diarrhea and vomiting which produces a lot of contagious fluids. >> reporter: they say the gear was insufficient and left them exposed and that the guidelines were constantly changing. >> a lot is being said about what may or may not have occurred to cause some of our colleagues to contract this disease. but it is clear there was an exposure somewhere, sometime in their treatment of mr. duncan. >> reporter: the worst, they add, may be yet to come. >> at the hospital, we have a situation involving 77 people. two of which have tested positive for ebola. we are preparing contingencies for more, and that is a very real possibility. >> meantime for the second day in a row, u.s. president barack

obama has canceled travel plans so he can deal with the ongoing ebola outbreak. in the coming hours, washington is expected to announce that u.s. reservists may be call to west africa in addition to the other u.s. forces already there. mr. obama said wednesday the u.s. will do its part to fight the outbreak where it started. >> this is not simply charity, although obviously it is important that america takes the lead in the humanitarian crisis that is taking place there. but it is also probably the single most important thing that we can do to prevent a more serious ebola outbreak in this country, making sure that we get what is a epidemic right now in west africa under control. >> reporter: meanwhile in sierra leone, one of the hardest hit nations, some of those who have died from ebola aren't even getting the respect of a prom burial. as jim clancy is about to show us, people are furious over how authorities are handling this crisis.

>> reporter: the ebola crisis triggers unrest in sierra leone. angry residents of a denily populated neighborhood in freetown demanding authorities do more after they say the body of a suspected ebola victim was left in the street for two days. outrage crowds barricade the streets, threatening to keep the blockade until action was taken. they say authorities are slow to responsible to the 117 emergency hotline and feel a barricade is the only way to get their attention. >> what they are not doing, they can block the streets. when authorities are moving around, actions can be taken. >> reporter: security forces responded by firing tear gas and shooting rounds from assault rifles to disperse the crowd.

meantime this woman also suspected of having ebola sits just meters from the body. witnesses say they are fearful the disease will continue to spread if health authorities don't take quicker action. >> because of the response of the minister of health officials, people are now getting contacted by their family members who are suspected cases. >> a red cross burial team eventually did arrive and remove the body. the government of sierra leone was not immediately available for comment on the incident. the world health organization reports more than 4,400 people have died from this ebola outbreak. jim clancy, cnn.

>> i want you to take a look at your screens. this is a look at the number of ebola cases has just skyrocketed since this all began. this is using number from the world health organization. you can see they were a handful of cases in west africa back in april and early march. in less than eight months those figures have really just exploded and now nearing 9,000 cases. in red you see liberia, the hardest hit nation with almost half the cases of boorl right now. meantime, the spanish nurse's assistant being treated for ebola is that to be doing better and the family friend said she will her husband she would go right back to caring for ebola patients as soon as she gets well. which is just remarkable. now from madrid, great to hear that teresa romero ramos is saying she wants to get back to where she was. i understand she hasn't been told her dog being euthanized.

some information has been kept from her. >> reporter: that's right. she doesn't know that excaliber was put down by madrid officials with the fear that it might be a carrier. that's according to a family friend who was in the hospital on the fifth floor with her husband, javier limon as he made a phone call to his wife, teresa romero upstairs on the sixth floor. here's how the family friend described the conversation. >> translator: he will her don't worry and she said, tell me. and he said, i don't know anything about him because i'm isolated him. and he must be okay. i don't have any news about him. but he started crying. >> so they're really trying to do everything possible to get teresa romero on the right track and withholding a bit of information they feel is all

right. >> so that's one issue comforting teresa romero ramos. what's happening on the national level? i know the prime got grilled yesterday when he was trying to address some questions and this specific hospital, i guess, one of the floors is being renovated so that it can accommodate ebola patients in the future. what kind of changes do we know about now? >> the kind of change the european experts from the european cdc who visited for three days, through saturday, recommended. on the sixth floor where teresa romero is in her room, at the other edge of that hall they are preparing four room which are double rooms. you go through one door. that's where you change into the protective suit. then the next room with the patient. then when she leaves at some point from this hospital, they'll remodel the floor so they'll have eight rooms that are available. also a lot more training courses

that have been announced. they started yesterday. the government issued a video. the medical workers have said there's not enough training. chal expand that training to firefighters, police officers, ambulance workers, they're trying to really broaden the knowledge base. and one other thing, the european union health ministers from the 28 countries meeting this day in brussels. they may be looking at airport security in terms of ebola or other diseases so there's a lot of action on this side of the ocean. >> at least you can say misery loves company. the one consistency as we just saw from europe to the u.s., everyone is upset with how the governments and officials are handling this. this may be a global lesson for us all. great to see you. live for us this morning in madrid. some other stories coming up, next, the pentagon reports some success in the battle against isis. but says this war is just beginning. and just hours after the latest

scuffle between protesters and police, hong kong's leader will hold a news conference. we understand that it is just minutes away. we'll get you live to that after this. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow.

welcome back. the u.s. has carried out more air strikes on sites militants in the syrian city of kobani. the pentagon said the air campaign has killed hundreds of isis fighters, but more are streaming in. defending kobani, tell cnn the air strikes have made room for an offensive against some isis positions. the penn admits the city may still fall but insists progress is being made. >> there are areas where we are having success. we have definitely made it harder for isil to sustain itself and to operate. they are continuing to feel the pressure which is one of the reasons why we think they're going after kobani. i think part of it is they really want a win. because they're not getting a win everywhere.

>> now despite that official line from the pentagon, there's growing skemt six that the air campaign against isis is even working. the former attache in syria rick francona said it is just not enough. he spoke earlier with john vause. >> the sortie down that we're seeing 10, 12 strikes a day is not enough to make an impact. what we would like to see is the rates in the 100 to 150 sortie range where you can make an impact. i understand there's a reluctance on the part of some of the pilots on ordnance. >> that seem to be the problem. kosovo was 100 a day. you have to have the target to hit. they're blowing up truck. using $200,000 bombs to blow up trucks. >> that's a real issue.

and isis has learned how to space out their equipment. before the air campaign began, we would see these long convoys of trucks all bunched up. we would see them bunched bumper-to-bumper. as soon as we maintained the air strikes, we gave them about two weeks notice, they dispersed everything. so now rather than being able to use weapons and take out many trucks, now you have to do them one by one. very expensive, very hard to do and often very hard to find. >> and here's the status of the campaign so far. this is a look at territory already unisis control. since launching the offensive in june, militants of the self-proclaimed islamic state have captured dozens of them. and just this week, the terror group captured the city, hit in iraq's anbar province. the city of hit, i should say in iraq's anbar province. to this.

any moment, hong kong's chief executive is expected to speak that the pro democracy protests that we've witnessed shut down parts of the city for almost three weeks now in the recent clashes between activists and police is on many people's minds. possibly with a prelude. we're not sure what will be discussed. what we do know is that a q & a was canceled earlier in the day. what should we make of this newly announced address coming up in moments? >> reporter: well, i'll always careful to look too much into these. we have that video which i'm sure you've seen, many people around the world have seen it. more than half a million hits on this video allegedly showing at least a dozen plain clothes police officers here in hong kong beating activists in a darkened corner. this was after that activist had been restrained. so there are lots of questions as to what was going on. where that investigation is

going to go. c.y. young spoke about it just yesterday saying procedure would be followed as far as that investigation goes. but it is worth pointing out that we haven't had a media briefing since that incident. we haven't had a media briefing since pepper spray was used on protesters the night before last. and again last night. now should we start hearing from him, we'll want to cut to that press conference. many people want to get answers. they want to know what will happen to those police officers. and overarching, they want to know what will happen about this civil disobedience campaign that has been going on as you say for almost three weeks now. we've been out there this morning, talking to these, we call them protesters but i can tell you, they're students. they're sitting here doing their homework. but they are saying we understand this is civil disobedience. we're going to stay here even if the police use force to get rid of us. we want our demands met.

>> to give our viewers a sense of what's happening at this moment, we are keeping our eyes on the channel where we expect, the feed, i should say, where we expect this address to be made. as soon as that happens we'll cross to it. we expect it to begin at any moment. as we wait, programs it won't happen the next few moments. give as you sense of where the momentum is. we've had these incidents of possible police brutality. are people likely to stay in that main camp? we have seen the police take a more aggressive stance. we don't know what will be said right now but it may be an effort to make sure it gets cleared out in the next few days. >> well, i feel, and i've been coming down here the last couple weeks, i feel like we're at a really interesting juncture. the police and staff this week with the strategy of beginning to move barricades. that had set off the tension. that was one of the reasons that protesters were running to those barricades. they were trying to stop the police from disassembling them.

the 45 arrested this week were arrested for illegal assembly of barricades and. they were very specific about why they made those arrests and they have to be very careful in this environment on justifying their actions. because it has been so much tension between this peaceful protest. and it is largely peaceful, and the police who final themselves at a difficult place, in a difficult place. what they're trying to do is to get parts of hong kong moving again. they are under pressure from hong kong to do that. at the same time you've got a mainly youth based movement who has been here almost three weeks. how do you move them on? especially when beijing has been resolute. it is not going to give them universal suffrage they want. so yes, we are waiting for that to begin and it will be very interesting to see whether we get any clarification as to whether that police strategy will continue.

particularly after this video has come to light, errol. >> typically conflict is resolved through opposing parties and negotiating somewhere in the middle. it is not clear where that middle, if it is even being moved toward, is right now. we've not seen that begin yet. stand by for us. as soon as it begins, we'll bring it to the viewers live and then bring you back in for bate of context and perspective on what is said. so we'll stand by for that. 2:20 in the afternoon. we'll check back with you shortly. there are some other major stories we want to bring to you. a look at the weather that caused the tragedy and how it may impact search and rescue efforts.

the hong kong government is making an address right now amid pro democracy protests. let's listen in to what's being said. >> translator: as for the dialogue with students, we appear to continue to hole dialogue with educators.

in the last two weeks, there were some ups and downs concerning preparation for the dialogue, but we still have to carry on the dialogue. so the question of having a dialogue on the issue of constitutional reform even though earlier it was suspended, but all along, we have been active actively, in the last few days, we have a number of middle men who made contact with them to express the wish that there will be a formal meeting and a

response, that it is positive. so we hope that there will be an early meeting between the government as anticipated by the public and the earliest would be next week. and we already have free meetings in preparation for the dialogue, and before and now there are still some details. we have to confirm with them whether there will be a facilitator. so we recommend helping chancellors from the university to play the role of facilitator. we believe that some vice

chancellors of the university are willing and the candidates. and the government, students and citizens will hope that we hong kong society for progress and basic law, we will implement the 2017 constitutional reform in a pragmatic and professional manner. and by 2017, then the representatives can vote for chief executive, each with one vote. and in any society, the election

of the chief executive is a controversial issue. so we cannot expect to resolve the issues surrounding such a big question at one goal. so we hope students will understand this for constitutional reform will promptly continue dialogue and that will be a step ahead. >> that was the chief executive of hong kong seeming to give a status update on where the government stands as it ames to have a dialogue with some of the

students, student groups. you did hear them refer to the hkfs. the hong kong federation of students. one of the main protest blogs. he did say there though, we've heard the talks were off. we do know they will set up meetings to prepare for talks. the reporter is in hong kong amid the protesters in the streets there and also listening into this. difficult to say what the major news line is. what did you pick up from what we just heard? sometime it is what is not said that becomes very apparent. and what he didn't talk about there, it might emerge in later briefings or programs in a question and answer session. to this video that has shocked so many, on the news station that posted that particular link. the plain clothes police officers who were beating the

activist after he had been restranld. there is an investigation going on. we were hoping that cy leung would address it there. he is talking about the ongoing dialogue. tensions rose over the week. and in the past few days because that dialogue was off. and that very much had been the demand of the hong kong federation of students. that's what he was referring to when he was talking about hkfs. what's really interesting in the sxrefts the demonstration you see behind me, if you go out there and ask people, who is your leader? they say we don't have a leader. what we want to do is we want the police to stop. we want to stop the police from encroaching on our demonstration. every time they try to take down barriers, we'll run toward the barriers and we'll fortify them and stop the police from coming through. so very difficult to say it is in a dialogue with the government. very difficult to translate that

being the end of this civil disobedience movement. it feels like we have quite a long way to go. >> but you said despite these allegations of police brutality and despite how toxic some of the clashes have been that the one thing we can report is that according to c.y.leung, they do intend to keep the dialogue open. we'll continue to listen in to that press conference. live in hong kong for us. thanks very much. coming up after the break, a day after emotional testimony from the victim's family. we'll bring you a live report from south africa.

a second u.s. nurse has tested positive for ebola and her diagnosis came a day after she flew on a commercial plane.

she treated a patient in texas before he died. federal health official are considering their no fly list more restrictive. the penn says coalition air strikes in and around the syrian city of kobani have kill hundreds of isis fighters but more are streaming in even as the air campaign intensifies. some progress is being made but admits, the city may fall to isis. and just moments ago, hong kong's chief executive announced his government hopes to talk with student protesters aimed at edging the ongoing demonstrations. we're showing you live pictures. activists have been demanding his resignation as well as open elections. but not b one hour from now on, wednesday, the prosecutor had a heated exchange with the

probation office here thinks pistorius should get community service and house arrest. he was convicted of culpable homicide for killing his girl, reeva steenkamp. the ebola crisis will be at the top of the general in much of the world in the coming hours. the e.u. health ministries will be meeting to discuss how they can improve airport screening in affected countries. later the world health organization will outline its standards and practices which all countries should have met by now. key word there is "should." and the british prime minister will meet with the emergency response committee as well. a busy day ahead in the fight against ebola. meantime, doctors and nurses answering the call for medical help in west africa are receiving special training before they go. it could mean the difference between life and death for many. >> in an abandoned building in alabama, health care workers are

getting a crash course on treating ebola patients in the hot zone. this group of american doctors and nurses will soon had he to the three countries in west africa. affected by the ebola outbreak. this doctor will go to liberia. he said the training he gets today will mean the difference between life and death. >> it looks like you struggle a little bit. >> it's not easy. that was a large size and i'm not a large guy but still, i could not get those coveralls over my shoulders without touching the outside, which is the contaminated side. i couldn't do it. i'm going to practice again. >> reporter: the training is modeled after procedures used by doctors without borders. three days of intense practice in dealing withdrawing blood, cleaning vomit, and even patient burial. a lot of it is trying to limit the inevitable human error. >> the first thing you want to do is get rid of all that bulky

gear. but you have to have the muscle memory of having done it before, knowing you can do it safely and knowing that it has to take a little longer than you would like it to and you have someone there guiding you through it so that you stay calm and you just get it all off. and then you walk out knowing that you're safe. >> she thinks a lot about safety. with a wife and 2-year-old child back home in northern california, he said he is thoughtful about his impending trip. >> whoever tell you they're not anxious about going to liberia working in an ebola unl is delusional. i'm very nervous. >> reporter: why do it? >> it goes back to the idea of solidarity and equity. it is like if you're a firefighter and you signed up to fight fires and there's a fire, well, you should go fight that fire. >> reporter: nick valencia, anston, alabama.

in the midst of the ebola crisis, there are success stories. one of them is dr. kent brantly. a name you're probably familiar with. this is american aide worker who survived after contracting the virus in liberia. his blood has helped others survive as well. earlier he spoke with anderson coop better his take on the heightened fears of the outbreak. especially in the u.s. >> i think there's a lot of irrational fear about ebola spreading to the united states. if we think about what we've seen so far, we had one man who came from liberia. contracted the disease there. came to america and got sick here. now who else has gotten sick from him? two health care workers who were taking intimate care of him, cleaning up his bodily see creases, dealing with his blood. those are who got sick.

not the 48 some who had contact with him in the community. no one from that group has gotten sick. the people taking close care of him in a hospital setting. >> you have repeatedly donated your own blood, your own plasma in order to help those who have been affected. is it four time now that you've done this? >> three or four. >> three or four. what is that process like? >> it's very fortunate that the three patients i've been able to donate to, they and i share the same blood type. that's why i have had the unique opportunity to help in that way. >> would you donate plasma again if you were the same blood type? >> i pray that there is no more need for plasma donations in this country but i'll keep doing it as much as is needed. as much as i can. if it will help, potentially

help save someone's life. >> there you had it from dr. kent brantly. he had ebola and even he says, there are some irrational level of fear. you can help those suffering with ebola, trying to head out. there are links to websites as well as descriptions taking place of the work in west africa. we are less than an hour away from day four of the pistorius sentence and hearing. on wednesday we heard emotional testimony from reeva steenkamp's cousin. she spoke about how it has affected her family. >> we can see the effect it still has on you. on the family, on barry and june. >> it's terrible. it's ruined our whole family.

it has ruined uncle barry and aunt june. reeva was everything to them. >> let's get live to pretoria, south africa. from outside the courthouse as we just saw there, yesterday was a bit more emotional than what we've seen before. we learned a bit more about the monthly payments pistorius has been making to the steenkamps. what took place yesterday? >> reporter: well, two things. the cross-examination by the prosecutor of the probation officer who had argued that in her opinion, just three years correctional services and he argued that she had no knowledge of the correctional services act. that she was inherently biased against the prison system. her argument was it is very far from the reality. and then the witnesses for the

prosecution took to the stand. and i think that will mark a turning point this week into the far more emotional. it was the first time really that reeva herself came to the forefront. and the whole duration of this trial. we heard from her cousin kim marine, all about her. about how her death had affected the family and about what she was like as a person. and it was a really charming picture of this girl who was incredibly devoted to her family, incredibly kind, supported them, loving of animals, always taking care of everybody around her and how shocked as we just heard they were when kim and her husband were driving and heard the news on the radio that pistorius had kill his girl and he turn and said i hope he was cheating on reeva. the whole court had to adjourn at one moment because kim broke

down. it was the first time that we saw yoon and barry steenkamp, june especially, breaking down. and pistorius himself sat with his head in his hands sobbing throughout much of the testimony. also, from kim, you got a sense that she really encouraged her to push the point of how hard up the steenkamps were. how hard working they were but how they did not get very much money coming in from their business. initially the business was looking after horses in the stable. and i think that point was really driven home as a way of countering the flair-up in the press really of this issue of pistorius having paid them monthly ever since the incident took place. >> it was a real insight into the steenkamps and how they've really suffered since reeva's

death. one that that really stood out after yesterday's proceeding, the judge telling prosecutor, she is not available next week or for many weeks after that. what does that suggest about how close we are or or not to an actual sentence? >> reporter: well, it is interesting that she said that at the end of his lengthy cross examinations. you would have expected certainly at certain points that she could have that, this is a waste of the court's time. it was only once he had wrapped up cross examining these witnesses that she said how many more witnesses are you going to bring? he said three or four. and she said, you know, i hope that this whole process is going to be short because i don't have much time left. i think what we should be aware of is that the defense attorney, the defense advocate, harry, has a much more concise method of cross-examination.

so he says that he has only two questions for kim, the cousin, who was on the witness stand yesterday. so i think that he will be much shorter in his cross-examination than nell was. but i'm sure the judge wants this to wrap up by the edge of the week as i'm sure everybody else does. i would be, i would be giving you a false expectation if i said that was definitely going to happen. >> we don't know yet. if the past few days have been any example, we should expect oscar pistorius to arrive there any minute now. outside the courthouse in pretor pretoria, approaching 8:45 in the morning there. we will see you again soon. we'll have more live coverage for you next hour. day four of oscar pistorius's sentence and hearing as the olympian waits to hear whether he will go to prison for killing his girl. do stay with us for the latest out of south africa. coming up next, it has been six months since the south

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it's been six months since the tragic thinking. most of the lives lost were school children out on a feel trip. the reporter met with the ten families who refused to leave

until their children are found. >> reporter: sitting and waiting as they have for the past six months. the forgotten families of south korea's ferry sinking. april 16, the passenger ferry sank off the south coast, killing more than 300 people. the majority of them school children on a field trip. overloading of cargo much of which was not tied down properly contributed to the sinking, according to the officials. an accident that should never have happened. devastated a nation. parker is still living that nightmare with her husband. looking at photos of their 16-year-old daughter. they refuse to accept she may never be found. we need to find our child, she says. we can't leave until my child is found even if we die here, we need to stay until we find her.

body after body was brought to shore in the weeks after the disaster but no one has been found since july. the search continues. winter is fast approaching. the port where the search operation has been based has become a memorial for those who lost their lives. people come to pay their respects. each yellow ribbon is a prayer for a message of support. two of the families are still living here at the port. they are refusing to leave until their loved one has been found. their lives have been at a standstill the last six months. the same could be said of this country's political system. the protest tent has been set up by some families in the heart of seoul calling for the truth. but an investigation into what went wrong has not even started. politicians and families still arguing over what it should look like and who will lead it. parliament has been crippled for months. thousands of draft bills sit

unread. and back there, ten families waiting for the loved ones to be found are sickened that their loss has turned political. i feel embarrassed to be living in a country like this, says park. my husband is saying we should move out of the country when they final our daughter. we can't trust this country anymore. they're not the only grieving family to feel this way. cnn, south korea. all right. unseasonably heavy snowstorms have caused deadly avalanches along the himalayas in nepal and at least 17 trekkers were kill on tuesday. they did release these images of one survivor being rescued. derrek van damme joins with us more. when it come to have a launches, they don't come with any warning. it is such a tragedy that so many lives are lost. >> absolutely.

this is turning into one of the deadliest tragedies in all of nepal's history. quite a statement considering that six months ago, there was another ice related event that killed several truckers in the mountains and himalayans. it is out of the ordinary because usually the snow maker, the monsoon rains, is retreating from the region. by october 1st, it is well out of nepal. but it usually leaves this type of a sight for hikers and trekkers. that would be these conditions, autumn and spring are the two best scenics to come. hundreds of thousands come to visit this area during this time of year. unfortunately when it becomes a rescue attempt instead of a personal achievement for these hikers, we do not like to report on these particular cases. of course. here's the reason for all the unseasonable snowfall that we experience. we had the remnants of what was tropical cyclone hudhud which

made its way inland. you can see how the moisture spread across nepal. would it normally not be happening this time of year. the monsoons have departed. this is left between 200 to 300% above its monthly average for snowfall. so needless to say, they got a lot of snow. upwards of four to five meters on the tops of those very ohio peaks. we have over 100 mountains that are actually over 7200 meters. that's nearly 24,000 feet in the air. so basically, what is happening is the phenomenon, this is important. think of it as a wet sponge being moved against an object that doesn't want to move. like the himalayan mountains and it squeezes out all the available moisture, leaving heavy rainfall in the valleys and very heavy snowfall on the mountain peaks where it is cold enough to snow. that's what took place causing the unseasonably high snowfall

totals. we'll switch gears to europe. multiple rounds of rain impacting the united kingdom. we have a few different waves moving in from the atlantic and that has caused the possibility of severe weather and heavy rainfall. in fact, look at the rainfall totals from croatia. we're talking about 60 to 100 millimeters of rain within the past 24 hours. not only do we have the possible of heavy rain but fehr weather today. that's all from the world weather center. back to you. >> thanks very much. one of the candidates in florida's contentious election for governor dropped out of a very important debate wednesday night. stay with us. you have to hear why he was so upset. people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing

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was shown by the scott campaign say that there should be no fan. somehow there is a fan there and for that reason, ladies and gentlemen, i am being told that governor scott -- will not join us for this debate. >> because there was a fan. the issue with the fan held up the debate for nearly eight minutes. much to the dismay of the audience. it is not clear why scott didn't want to appear with crist and his fan. was it just strategy to psych him out? who knows. you are watching cnn. rosemary church joins me in a moment. oscar pistorius has just arrived at the courthouse in pretoria. we are 30 minutes away from the beginning of testimony in his

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