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frontier. [ train whistle ] -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. coming up this hour, good news for the first person infected with ebola outside of africa. doctors say she has beaten the virus. also ahead -- >> people have been led to their death unnecessarily. >> a survivor of one of the worst hiking disasters in nepal's history accuses guides of incompetence. and tops at the box office and at home. why brad pitt says his new movie has made him a better father.
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>> my crew a long time ago i'd keep them alive. >> thanks for joining us. although the ebola crisis in west africa is far from over, there are some positive developments to report. first, the u.s. military is getting more involved. a quick strike team of doctors, nurses, and trainers will be able to deploy anywhere in the u.s. within 72 hours to help at hospitals. also, 48 people who came into contact with thomas duncan before he died in texas are now cleared from monitoring. duncan's fiance will complete her 21-day quarantine in the coming hours. and blood tests show the spanish nurse's aide who contracted the virus is now free of the disease. teresa romero ramos will probably stay in the hospital in spain for a little while longer to fully recover from ebola. she's been there for two weeks now. our nic robertson has been
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following her case and joins us now live from madrid with the latest. and this indeed is very good news. and of course the whole world has been watching this, particularly her country. she's viewed as the darling of her nation now. and what it does tell us and show us is that really good medical care can have these sorts of results. >> reporter: it certainly is something that spanish authorities and the doctors here at this hospital are going to take pride in. over the last few days they've been telling us that the results coming back, the results of virus level in teresa romero's body had increasingly been showing that she was getting better, that she was getting better at fighting the disease. over the weekend, yesterday we were at the laboratory here in spain that handles all the ebola testing when her son pulled out a sample that showed she was finally negative. we were there when that sample came into the laboratories. but for her husband here he is
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still in the hospital behind me under quarantine, under observation because he came into contact with his wife. but he also has reacted very positively to this news. a message from teresa romero's husband. "i'm very happy because teresa has overcome this disease," javier lemon says. only hours earlier her latest test samples were being rushed into a lab at spain's cdc, the national microbiology institute. inside, technicians suited up. confidence was high. this would be the test that shows she beat ebola. -6. >> we are expected this. we are expected this. but i think so. i think so. we have to see. her condition is really, really improving. >> reporter: inside the highly secure lab technicians kill the virus before they begin tests. >> once the ebola virus has been killed it's safe to transport
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and it's brought from the labs where it's received over there through here for its final testing into this virus respiratory lab. >> reporter: to protect patient confidentiality, a lab tech uses another sample to show us the next step in the procedure. this, the only lab in spain capable of testing for ebola, the past week since romero got sick, have seen a surge in testing. now technicians may begin to get some rest. two other tests for suspect ebola cases also came back negative. >> now we have a real experience. we are learning a lot. we are in constant touch with africa people, with the states, with european laboratories, and then really we are learning a lot. >> reporter: for romero now not just the prospect after one more round of tests over the next few days of a return to some sort of normality, but the nursing assistant may yet get her wish and go back to helping others fight ebola.
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>> we believe that it's immune. how long we don't know yet because we don't have any experience about that. >> reporter: for husband javier this happy day tinged with frustration as he vows legal action against officials he says botched the protection his wife should have had. now, it will be another couple of days before she has that next test which will be expected to be a second negative which will really confirm for authorities here that she absolutely is clear of the virus. she did develop a lung infection, has had difficulty breathing. so she's probably going to stay in hospital for observation and help with that over the source of following days after that. it's not clear when she'll be able to walk out of hospital where when she'll be able to see her husband. her husband's going to be remaining in quarantine until the 27th of october. and that's the 21-day period from when he was in contact with
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his wife, when she did have the ebola virus. so when they will be reunited, also not quite clear at the moment, rosemary. >> and of course it has to be said, doesn't it, nick, that in the initial stages although this has ended well the spanish authorities had been accused of being incompetent in those early stages, and as you mentioned in your story there, teresa romero's husband plans to take legal action. what sort of luck is he likely to have with that, though? >> reporter: he's likely to get popular support. he's likely to get support from the unions. he had appealed to the regional health minister here, criticizing the regional health minister's comments where he apparently alleged that romero herself, it was her own mistakes and stumblings, if you will, that had led her to be infected. so he's also expected to sort of get quite some emotional support on that. legally, how will this challenge go? i mean, what he has said is that
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his wife had barely 30 minutes of training on the equipment, on the protective equipment to use, that it isn't sufficient. the unions here have said the same. other health care workers here have said the same. the hospital all along has said no, that it was -- that its procedures were adequate. a doctor i talked to there said she was very confident in the protective measures they were given. that said, the european center for disease control and spain's own special committee investigating ebola all said that the space -- that the health care workers were given to put their protective suits on and take them off was too small and that the facilities didn't meet the standards for treating ebola. so there's certainly going to be a strong emotional support for javier lemon and teresa romero in this. legally, that really will remain to be seen at the home, rosemary. >> certainly many lessons learned. and thankfully, in this particular case it has ended well with some very good news.
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nic robertson reporting there live from madrid. thanks to you. well, the president of liberia says the consequences are dire if the international community doesn't step up its response to the outbreak. in a letter read on the bbc ellen johnson surleaf warned of a lost generation in africa. she wrote, "we all have a stake in the battle against ebola. it is the duty of all of us as global citizens to send a message that we will not leave millions of west africans to fend for themselves against an enemy that they do not know and against whom they have little defense." liberia has of course been hardest hit in this outbreak. health officials say about 2,500 people have died there and many of people left children behind. the devastating impact ebola is having on the country's new orphans. >> reporter: this is calculato
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calculator's favorite dance. it was supposed to be his cousin esther's but she let him have it. the 10-year-old and his cousin are the last remaining ebola orphans at the massaque orphanage. their parents died last month. and none of the extend family is willing to claim them. they're too afraid. and they're not the only ones. at the christ kingdom harvest church in new georgia pastor john garzi says a prayer for safekeepi safekeeping. this community, like many others, has lost friends and loved ones to the disease. 21-year-old hawa's mother sang in the choir here. she died last month, leaving hawa to care for her four brothers and sisters and her own 1-year-old daughter. >> she was laying in the room dead, and all the children, the six of them, were on the porch
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lying down on the ground. >> reporter: the congregation was initially afraid, unwilling to have the children live among them. even after they showed no symptoms of ebola. but the pastor rallied, preaching, organizing collections, even just holding the children's hands, a rare gesture in these fearful times that convinced his congregation to care. >> ebola is actually separating when your family has come down with the virus. nobody want to touch. nobody want to interact. >> reporter: the world health organization believes nearly 4,500 people have died from ebola. but numbers don't tell the full story. >> this virus has impact much, much greater than the direct number of people immediately impacted. for each mother there's a child. for each father there's a child. >> reporter: the united nations children's fund unicef estimates at least 2,000 children have
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been orphaned in liberia. many go on to be stigmatized by their communities. but some like pastor ghartey are working to change that. >> they come to my house. they sit in my living room with my family. they are like a family to us now. >> at the orphanage calculator and esther wait for families willing to welcome them into their homes. if that happens calculator says he'll let esther take the doll so she doesn't forget him. cnn, monrovia, liberia. >> it is an amazing story. and aid organizations in west africa are struggling to cope with the ebola outbreak. if you would like to help, you can find a list of groups that are on the ground there on our website. that's all at cnn.com/impact. do take a look. well, the u.s. says it has air-dropped weapons and munition and medical supplies to kurdish forces in kobani. u.s. officials say the items
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were delivered by three american cargo planes and appeared to have been received on the ground by kurdish fighters. now, this comes as isis apparently has been taking a heavy hit over the past few days. while the terror group attacked kurds in kobani with mortars and car bombs on sunday, kurdish soldiers have been regaining much of the syrian border city after a recent series of u.s.-led air strikes. meantime, opposition activists report that the bodies of at least 70 isis fighters were taken to a hospital near kobani. the grueling battle for kobani has become an endurance test for the rival fighters. nick paton walsh has more on that from gazamtep in turkey near the border with syria. >> reporter: it is high-tech air power brought to bear against medieval brutality.
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millions of dollars of guided munitions delaying or even stopping a radical but ragtag militia's advance on kobani, a town whose significance has grown in ways this resident must have hoped never would. to the kurds, key to their bid for a homeland. to isis, the last hurdle before controlling a huge stretch of border. and to the coalition a chance to very publicly use one overwhelming advantage for a psychological short-term win and then talk like you're not. >> air strikes are dynamic. they're exciting. you can count them. you can get great video of them. i understand the drama around air strikes. but we said, a, air strikes alone are not going to do this. military power alone is not going to do this. and it's going to take some time. >> after the swift advance across syria and iraq, this is perhaps the first serious setback isis has faced. said a leading observer -- "it
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has weakened their morale," he says, "especially as they've lost a lot of their foreign fighters. especially their kurdish fighters who are considered the fiercest, about 400 to 500 in that location. this weakening could cause them to pull back from kobani altogether," he says, "and they do not have the supply line to continue the operation." isis's high-tech weapon, social media, has also been more muted on kobani, he said. reported claims that the warplanes near aleppo is aimed at restoring confidence. the reason they had that plane take off, he says, is to raise morale, to start to collapse in a very clear way, especially in their media. right now they're looking for revenge operations against the coalition countries to restore their big image. with a full cabinet now in place in baghdad, washington may hope the psychological win of kobani could bolster iraq's lackluster forces too. yet the u.s. knows its strategy has limitations. >> the idea isn't to just put a
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warhead on a forehead every single day. the idea is to try to get at their ability to sustain themselves and to disrupt their strategy. >> reporter: isis, al qaeda, the taliban, they've all adapted in the past, and these bombs may not be enough to prevent isis from doing so again. nick paton walsh, cnn, gazamtep. well, protesters are at a standoff with police in hong kong. up next, the government announces new talks after previous attempts have failed. plus, sweden has an underwater mystery on its hands. we'll show you why the country is making moves we haven't seen since the cold war. we're back in a moment.
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holding a public celebration. the former jakarta governor is indonesia's first president to not come from the military or the social elite. he won a close election in july against a former general. well, hong kong chief executive c.y. leung is under fire for saying foreign forces have infiltrated the city's pro democracy protests. demonstrators are still in the
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streets. they say leung's comments are an excuse to launch a crackdown. he refused it identify what forces he was referring to. despite the standoff talks between city officials and protest leaders are set for tuesday. mannisha tank reports. >> reporter: we're here in the admiralty district of hong kong. we have relative peace. the tent movement, which is what seems to be becoming, is getting ever bigger with more and more demonstrators wanting to come and join this campaign of civil disobedience. we had seen scuffles over the weekend in the monkok area which is on the kowloon side. lots of businesses in close proximity. and police had wanted to get the area moving again. in so doing we did see those clashes between protesters and the authorities. all of this with these talks coming up on tuesday. now, they will happen in the evening. it will be primetime viewing. in fact, people saying they're going to have viewing parties to watch between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. but the question amongst everyone here is will the demands made by the hong kong
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federation of students actually be met by the government? we spoke to one professor of law at hong kong university. his name is michael davis. he told us what he thinks. >> i doubt they're going to be met right away because beijing said no, it's not going to change its decision. and the hong kong government said the chief executive is not stepping down. but i think the students are going to push them and they're going to push them to amend the report that they filed earlier with beijing, which widely by wide acclaim misrepresented hong kong views. so there is room for the government to better explain and convey to beijing hong kong's sentiments over democracy. and i think this is very important because this is the source of a lot of anger here. >> so that's the view of one expert here. but meanwhile, police still find themselves with a bit of a problem. there are large parts of the business districts here in the admiralty area that are still not moving. so trying to move on, these peaceful demonstrators and using the rule of law to do that is
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becoming increasingly difficult. mannisha tank, cnn, hong kong. we'll take a quick break here. but there's something in the baltic sea that has alarmed the swedish navy. coming up next, hear what one admiral thinks this object in the water might be. back in a moment. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night,nd. and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24, a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70 percent of people who are totally blind. talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. don't let non-24 get in the way of your pursuit of happiness. surrender to the power of accomodation grooveland ♪ booking.com booking.yeah!
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welcome back to cnn. well, german airline lufthansa has canceled almost 1,500 flights after a pilots union
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announced plans to strike. the company says more than 200,000 passengers and 2/3 of its scheduled flights are affected. the strike is planned for today and tuesday in response to a dispute over retirement benefits. it would be the eighth strike this year for the airline. well, sweden's hunt for foreign underwater activity is heating up. the country beefed up its naval presence in its territorial waters after sightings of something suspicious in the baltic sea pape mobilization like this hasn't been seen since sweden's search for soviet submarines during the cold war. the armed forces released this photograph that appears to show a partially submerged object in the water. though it's not clear what exactly that object might be. >> translator: it could be a submarine or a smaller submarine. it could be a diver using some sort of moped-like underwater
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vehicle. and it could be drivers who have no business in our territory. that's where i think you have the span of what could be foreign underwater activity. >> swedish media says the search started after an emergency radio transmission in russian. russia says none of its vessels in the baltic are in trouble. well, an event in china aimed at promoting fitness was anything but healthy on sunday. many of the 30,000 people registered for the beijing marathon put on face masks or even gas masks just to get through the 42-kilometer run. the pollution was 16 times what's considered acceptable. many runners bailed out before the race began. others started but did not finish. so let's get some more on the smog. and here's meteorologist ivan cabrera. of course, it can be at the best of times, but this is to the point of ridiculous. >> yeah, that's trouble there. and you can imagine a marathon is difficult enough to run and then you're dealing with the
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smog and then of course you put a face mask on, that is tough stuff. 16 times the normal here that we talk about in beijing. so thick the smog was and the fog that we were able to see it from space. this is from a nasa satellite here. look at this. the gray clouds you'll be able to see. those aren't clouds at all. that's the smog right down at the surface. clouds up above are further down to the south. where are we now? we had been in the 400s. doing a little bit better. but still that i hazardous range p 318 as of the last check. very unhealthy conditions over the next day or so will continue. and then we'll get a front that's going to sweep things out. we'll get some gusty winds off the north and west. actually one feature that rolled through. but still, we need this one to get in here. this area of low pressure will continue to intensify. on the way to japan with some rainfall there. but it will be the wind that will help us out here, not only through beijing but also making
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it all the way to shanghai. although there getting latest -- arriving a little bit later. but nevertheless, it's coming. so the air quality will begin to improve. and then of course an area of high pressure builds back in. so eventually we'll go right back up as far as the air quality. let's show you what's been happening here, what will happen over the next couple of days. there's that low as it gets a little more intense here. the winds will pick up for japan, an area certainly here that does not needs additional rainfall will be getting it in the next couple of days. as we take you to australia, big storms over the weekend in perth here with this low that moved right in with incredible range. 64 millimeters is what we picked up in some areas. and the normal monthly average is 33. 64 is about 2 1/2 inches here. we picked that up in 24 hours. let's take you to perth and show you the hail as well that was following. three-centimeter hail or what we call a quarter hail in the united states on the charts there. looks like snow covering out of the grass there. flash flooding as well.
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for our good friends in western australia. now things calming down. you'll see the low beginning to move away. but the big story for the rest of australia will not be the rainfall. it will be the heat. temperatures well above average. upper 30s to 40 degrees in the next couple of days in celsius, of course. >> some wacky weather there. just about, what, five weeks away from summer. we've seen snow there in new south wales. >> we have this snow west of sydney. and now the heat building in. >> don't know what's going on there. thanks so much, ivan. well, networks here on cnn call it ebola diplomacy. former cuban president fidel castro says cuba will gladly cooperate with the u.s. in the fight to stop ebola. we're back soon. sir, we're loaded and getting ready to go... ...we're going to need you on the runway. (vo) don't let a severe cold hold you back. sir?
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a very warm welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. want to check the headlines for you this hour. a spanish nurse's aide who's been hospitalized for ebola is now free of the virus. some good news at last. teresa romero ramos contracted the disease while treating an infected patient. two tests showed ebola levels in her blood why nearly nil, and a third test came back negative. as isis attacks kurds in kobani with mortars and car bombs, the u.s. is air-dropping weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to kurdish forces there. u.s. officials say the items were delivered by three american cargo planes, and it appears kurdish fighters did receive them. pro-democracy demonstrators are standing their ground in hong kong. over the weekend they reclaimed part of the city's monkok
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district. several scuffles broke out between police and protesters. talks between the government and protest leaders are scheduled for tuesday. an experimental ebola vaccine will soon be on its way to the world health organization. canada is shipping about 800 vials of the untested vaccine to geneva the w.h.o. in turn will consult with health officials from the infected countries to determine the best way to distribute it. well, human testing of the canadian-made vaccine is under way in the u.s. at the walter reed army institute of research. brian todd has a closer look now at the efforts to keep ebola from spreading. >> reporter: we've known about the ebola virus now for 38 years but until now no vaccines about v. been available for public use. right now at this army facility outside washington they are
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frantically testing a vaccine for the first time on humans. >> an urgent need to find a vaccine for ebola. in this u.s. army laboratory vials like these contain the ingredients crucial in the race against the deadly virus. it's one of two ebola vaccines now being tested in the u.s. for the first time on humans. >> can the vaccine being tested here stop this outbreak? >> well, it depends on how fast we can get this particular product through the regulatory pathway so it can be used in efficacy-type trials. right now we have to establish that it's safe. >> vaccine investigator colonel shawn remick gave us inside access to the walter reed institute of research. the ebola vaccine's being he tested here on 39 people. they cannot get ebola from the vaccine, and officials here say the side effects are minimal. experts say when ebola gets into the body it often overwhelms the immune system, works too fast for the immune system to combat it. this vaccine's designed to speed up the immune system's ability to fight ebola. >> if this vaccine works, could
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it be used to prevent people from getting the ebola virus and treat people who already have it? >> the majority of the studies were looking at post exposure, that means animals expose theed to the ebola virus and treated. we also looked at some studies doing preexposure. they were given the vaccine and then exposed. both of those were good results, and so we are cautiously optimistic. >> reporter: but will it work in humans? >> to be very realistic, most medicines and vaccines even that look great in animals don't pan out in the long run. >> reporter: even as they rush these vaccines through trials, there are serious questions over why it's taken this long. even though we've known about the ebola virus since 1976, there are no approved ebola vaccines available to the public. why? experts say ebola outbreaks until now haven't been widespread enough. >> it's not on the order where it hasn't been until recently of a problem like malaria, hiv, or
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tb in terms of how people have prioritized investment in vaccines. >> so when will this vaccine be ready? dr. remick says they're pushing the testing protocol here as fast as possible but he and other experts say even under the best of circumstances the vaccine being tested here and at the national ibs toouts of health may not be ready for public use for several months. they simply have to make sure the vaccines are safe. brian todd, cnn, silver spring, maryland. well, one country you may not expect has emerged as a big contributor in the fight against ebola. cuba. the island nation has already sent more than 100 health workers to west africa, and it's earning high praise from some unusual places. cnn's patrick open has more. >> reporter: at a field hospital in havana cuban health workers learn how to treat patients with ebola while keeping themselves safe. these doctors and nurses will soon join their colleagues in
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west africa on the front lines of the outbreak. the cuban government has made one of the largest commitments of medical personnel to combat ebola, garnering rare praise from usually adversarial u.s. officials. >> if we don't adequately address this current outbreak now, then ebola has the potential to become a scourge like hiv or polio that we will end up fighting, all of us, for decades. >> reporter: while ebola is striking fear in countries around the world, it is also creating unusual alliances. on saturday former cuban president fidel castro engaged in some ebola diplomacy himself. writing that cuba's health workers would "gladly cooperate with their u.s. counterparts to stop the spread of the killer disease." fidel castro did not spell out how the u.s. and cuba would work together, and it's unclear if
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washington is taking his offer very seriously. in 2005 castro also volunteered to send cuban doctors to the u.s. gulf coast to help with the aftermath of hurricane katrina, a gesture that u.s. officials ignored. cuba's once model health care system was laid low by the collapse of the soviet union. still, the island continues to send doctors to countries ravaged by disease and natural disasters. says the official charged with training cuban doctors to fight ebola. >> translator: our principle has been to share what we have and not to give what we don't, he says. the little we have, we have share. our principal resource is human capital. nurse carlos garcia fought the outbreak of cholera in haiti. and he volunteered to take on ebola in west africa. "if it could show up in developed countries like the u.s. and spain, it can show up in underdeveloped countries too," he says.
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"our families are at risk as well." on monday cuba is hosting a regional conference on how caribbean and latin countries can work together to counter ebola's deadly advance. further proof that the specter of the epidemic is slowly tr trumping politics to bring countries together. patrick utman, cnn, havana. to another story we're watching. the grim search for missing hikers in the himalayas has entered its sixth day. we are getting word more than 400 stranded people have been rescued after a huge snowstorm struck on tuesday. whether in the area has improved. nepal's army deployed several helicopters, hoping the better conditions would help speed up the rescue. but officials say 39 bodies have been found. now a survivor is blaming ill-equipped mountain guides for leading hikers into danger. cnn's sanima.
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udess has the latest. >> this is the high camp. >> reporter: before the storm hits british trekker paul sheridan films his descent to toron long pass. at an altitude of 17,769 feet, it's the highest point in the an purna circuit, one of nepal's most popular trekking routes. it should have been an experience of a lifetime. but that afternoon as sheridan reached horidan la the weather turned very quickly. >> i couldn't see through my glasses. the sky changed color. the ground sort of seemed to be the same as the sky. and the conditions at that time were i believe life-threatening. and decisions should have been made at that time to save people's lives. >> at least 39 people have died. japanese, israelis, canadians, poles, slovaks, indians, and nepalis. most of them died in toron la.
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sheridan says the disaster could have been avoided. >> i've been involved in the incident on the thoromwa pass. where people have been led to their death unnecessarily. and the systems and processes are in place that contributed to these people dying. the people and the guides there that were given the support to tell people to move forward, were moving people into worse conditions. ee thofg people into conditions where the sky was the same color as the ground. and as the snow hit your eyes you just couldn't see where they were. >> in a statement to cnn the president of trek agencies association of nepal said 85% of those who died were individual tourists who did not hire an official guide. the so-called guides that were accompanying most of these trekkers were not from one of the registered companies. so they did not have knowledge of the challenges in such a situation. these were nepalis they picked up on the way to guide them, he said.
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the prime minister has vowed to set up a weather warning system nop one expected a snowstorm in october. it's peak season for trekking and mountaineering in the himalay himalayas. but this tragedy will likely take a toll on nepal's trekking industry, one of the country's main sources of income. six days on the search continues. more than 330 people have been rescued, many of them with severe frostbites. some may have to amputate their limbs. it is unclear how many more may still be missing. samima uross, cnn, new delhi. >> we'll take a short break now. but still to come here on cnn, the founder of north korea, kim il sung, lived to be 82 years old. but a doctor says he wanted to make it to 100. the bizarre medical treatments she says he received in an attempt to extend his life. that's coming up.
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well, no reports of damage or casualties after a small exchange of gunfire between north and south korea. a south korean defense official says the military fired warning shots at north korean soldiers who had twice approached the line dividing the two countries, then shells believed to be from north korea landed near a south korean guard post. well, north korea's leader, kim jong un, left korea watchers guessing when he stayed out of the public eye for more than a
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month. he's since resumed public appearances, walking with a cane but not explaining his absence. a doctor who treated kim's grandfather kim il sung says the young leader may have inhearted some health issues. she spoke to paula hancocks about the unusual treatments kim il sung received in his quest to live to be 100 years old. >> reporter: kim il sung is everywhere in north korea. pictures of the country's founder adorn every single building and home along with his son kim jong il. massive bronze statues tower above the heart of the capital, but if kim il sung had his way he would still ab live. tr dr. kim so young was one of his personal physicians before defecting in 1992. for ten years she headed up a research center kim had ordered be set up to help him live to at least the age of 100. he made it to 82. "we did a lot of research at the longevity center," she tells me, "but we only gave him the
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treatments he had chosen from our list of options. he wanted to rule as long as he could. i think he wanted to live a long life for his own satisfaction." this was one of the more popular remedies dr. kim says. kim il sung would watch young children do adorable things and laugh. the research center decided happiness brings good health. ♪ and a more sinister technique. blood transfusions from 20-year-olds. kim says those selected to give blood to the father of the nature were fed special nutrition before donating. current leader kim jong un has been compared physically to his grandfather, a comparison that is strongly encouraged according to dr. kim. "kim il sung is still popular in north korea because he was the founder of the country. so in order to remind people that it's still kim il sung's country they want kim jong un to look like him." dr. kim says kim jong un may have inherited diabetes and heart problems from his father and his grandfather, but she's
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concerned that his issues may be even more serious. he's only in his early 30s and already he's disappeared for five weeks and returned with a cane. north korea itself is saying nothing new about its leader's health. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. all right. let's shift to weather now. the remnants of hurricane gonzalo will hit northwest europe with heavy rains and wind. let's turn to our meteorologist ivan cabrera with more details on this. ivan. >> reporter: yeah, not intact. it's not arriving as a tropical system here. but nevertheless, it is going to be bringing us some very nasty winds to northwest europe. also with heavy rain as well. let's take you to when it was a hurricane passing through newfoundland, picking up 52 millimeters. a couple inches here. but the important thing is wind gusts acts as 100 clmsz per hour as the storm is racing off to the north and east. it's not prophet tropical but it is going to be moving in. there's iceland there and there's the uk. ireland. bringing in some heavy rain and along with this some strong winds. i think certainly gales over the
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next 48 hours. and that will -- that will expand further to the east, crossing the north sea and heading into scandinavia. we'll have to watch that closely. it will arrive as well with some nasty squalls. look at that. in the next 48 hours. and then pushing in across northwest europe. is we are likely going to see some delays with the kind of wind gusts we're talking about here, anywhere from 75. look at this. 80-kilometer per-hour winds. sure. that will be a problem for the airports. glasgow and even london getting in on 60-kilometer per-hour wind gusts. moderate to strong gales in the next 48 hours for northwest europe. and again that will be accompanied with some rainfall here into the north and west. staying with a tropical theme, hurricane ana brushing hawaii. we had it passing through the big island. want to show you some scenes as it kicked up the surf. but this was not a direct strike. it certainly could have been worse. but they did not miss the storm entirely. as you can see there, with the big waves coming in on the big
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island and now moving south of honolulu, with it being close enough to even bringing us some heavy rain as well. we continue to see issues there and some warnings for the ports out on the islands. there behind me we'll be able to see tropical storm ana now. we have lost its hurricane status here. so certainly excellent news. but as i mentioned, you clearly see the cloud cover on top of the islands here. and of course under the clouds plenty of rainfall, tropical storm ana will continue to move on to the north and then we'll be long gone from the islands here. so condition wills begin to improve. >> there's so much happening there across the globe weatherwise. and you're right on top of it. thanks so much, ivan. appreciate it. well, actor brad pitt is the king of the box office right now. but hardly anyone's asking about his latest film. coming up, hear why questions about his children are front and center. we're back in a moment. i lost my sight in afghanistan, but it doesn't hold me back.
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it has been a busy week in show business. a medical examiner reveals what exactly killed comedian joan rivers. a hollywood star gets to cross off a big event off his bucket list. and brad pitt's very good year is getting better. i spoke with "in touch weekly" magazine's senior editor a short time ago to find out what the entertainment world is buzzing about right now. here's kim serafin. >> kim serafin from "in touch weekly," thank you so much for joining us. so life's looking pretty good for brad pitt, isn't it?
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we know that he has beat out ben affleck at the box office. >> yeah. exactly. ben affleck's "gone girl" has been number one at the box office the past two weeks, but now brad pitt's "fury" rose to the top, making over $23 million. and brad pitt obviously, it's been a good year for him. he's newly married and he's had to answer a lot of questions as he's been promoting the movie. but you know, brad pitt, he's very private about their life. he was asked do the kids like you being married? how do they like it? he said they like it, they like it. he said their honeymoon was kind of dysfunctional. he jokes about that because they're actually -- he and angelina are off filming a movie in malta, so they kind of had a very challenging honeymoon. but he's been great. it's really nice to watch him do this, have another great movie. he really makes great choices in his career. >> yeah. he has the midas touch for sure, doesn't he? >> yeah. >> let's move to joan rivers. we want to find out a little bit more about what exactly killed her. what's being said? >> yeah, the medical examiner now has just released a report
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saying that her death was due to complications. basically, it was a lack of oxygen that caused brain damage. it was during a procedure that was there to look at her vocal changes in acid reflux, or reflux disease. but you know, the health department is still investigating what went on. and we also know according to reports that melissa apparently, her daughter, did not want an autopsy. so again, this medical examiner's report, these therapeutic complications, that seems to be the definitive answer as to what happened. the brain damage due to lack of oxygen. >> yeah. interesting. and neil patrick harris, he is going to be hosting the 2015 oscars. wow. i mean, this is a first for him. he actually quite literally ticked it off his bucket list, didn't he? >> yes. this is how he announced it. he had a video. he was pretending he was on the phone. he said okay, i'll do it, then went to his bucket list and went and circled "host the oscars" after all these other things he was going to do. and not so surprising. he's actually hosted the tonys four times.
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he hosted the emmys two times. there's a lot of people -- there's a lot of high expectations. so a lot of pressure. because a lot of people have wanted him to host the oscars for a long time. and you know, he's such a song and dance guy. you can definitely expect a musical number. especially "into the woods" is opening so, i would imagine there might be some broadway elements to that. he said he loves billy crystal's green screen, he liked how ellen made the audience feel comfortable. so i think this is going to be an amazing, amazing hosting performance. >> and billy crystal was one of the best, wasn't he? so if he follows in his footsteps he can't go wrong. >> definitely. not bad. >> kim serafin, many thanks, as always. >> great. thanks so much. and natalie allen is up next after a short break with the latest on u.s. efforts to ease concerns over the ebola virus. i'm rosemary church. stay with us. stay with us. the news continues. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything? unh-uh.
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