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life. first, the battle against ebola. >> the freelance cameraman who was infected while working in liberia is now free of the virus. ashoka mukpo will be able to leave a nebraska hospital in a matter of hours. on twitter he said he feels blessed and truly happy to be alive. in spain, the latest tests show a nurse's aide is free of ebola. teresa ramos helped treat infected patients in madrid. she may remain in the hospital, though, for several more days to recover from her symptoms. and one of the infected u.s. nurses is improving. nina pham is being treated at the national institutes of health. her condition has now been upgraded from fair to good. she became ill after treating thomas duncan, who later died at a texas hospital where she worked. and travelers from the hardest hit countries in west africa will soon be limited on where they can arrive here in

the united states. >> yeah, you want the pay close attention to this. they'll have to take flights that land at a handful of american airports. elizabeth cohen has more on the latest efforts to stop the spread of ebola. >> reporter: tonight the department of homeland security says that all passengers arriving to the u.s. from liberia, sierra leone, and guinea must land at one of the five airports with enhanced ebola screening. those airports are new york's jfk, dulles, o'hare, newark, and atlanta. and as amber vinson and nina pham two, caregivers stricken with ebola remain in intensive care, the cdc is setting new guidelines, which had they been in place weeks ago could possibly have prevented them from contracting the deadly virus while caring for a liberian man in dallas. >> we may never know exactly how that happened, but the bottom line is that the guidelines didn't work for that hospital. dallas shows that taking care of ebola is hard. >> reporter: the new guidance focuses on three areas.

first, rigorous training and practice for caregivers prior to treating an ebola patient. this includes infection control training with taking on and off personal protective equipment. the goal is what they call a ritualized approach. second, no skin exposure, and new protective equipment mandates including cover-alls and single use disposable full face hoods. no more goggles. and finally, the cdc says a trained monitor should watch each worker taking on and off their personal protection equipment to confirm adhere rans. >> the margins provide an increased margin of safety, a consensus on better protecting health care workers. even a single health care worker infection is unacceptable. >> reporter: elizabeth cohen, cnn reporting. >> well, the world health organization is convening its third emergency committee meeting on ebola in the coming hours. the w.h.o. says it may have a blood serum treatment and two experimental vaccines ready to

use within weeks. the serum will be based on antibodies extracted from the blood of survivors. the vaccines are undergoing trials in the u.s., and could be tested in west africa by january. now there is some debate about the drug trials. experts are questioning whether placebos should be used in the testing when the mortality rate is so very high. to north korea now, where a state-run television is showing what it says are new pictures of kim jong un. report says the photos show kim leading field operations as he tours a rest home he provided for scientists. the north korean leader has been conspicuously absent from public events in the past few months. but state media has released a number of pictures of him over the past two weeks, many of them showing him with a big smile, walk wag cane. these images also show him with a cane and from the waist up. but to be clear we don't know when these latest images were taken. and an american man detained

for the past five months in north korea is on his way home. jeffrey fowl is expected to arrive in the u.s. later today. he spoke with cnn's will ripley last month and talked about his arrest for leaving a bible at a sailor's club. will is in tokyo, and he joins us now live with more on this. will, there were three americans detained in north korea. why was jeffrey fowle released or not kenneth bay or miller? you had a chance to talk to all three of them some weeks back. what is your feeling on that? >> well, rosemary, as you said, in north korea, it's a very mysterious country where we don't always know why things happen the way that they do. even the state department, they were speaking about this, they said they would let north korea reveal at some point why jeffrey fowle was released and yet the two other americans remain detained. what i can tell you from my trip to north korea last month is i got the impression that the north korean government was

pleased with the way that jeffrey fowle handled himself during his interview with cnn. take a look. >> i don't have any complaints. the food has been good. i got a daily walk with the guides. even medical care has been furnished a couple of times. and quarters are good. got a hotel suite type of room. so i don't have any complaints about the treatment. it's been very good so far, and i hope and pray it continues whether i'm here two more days or two more decades, whatever the casey, the bottom line, your message about your conditions here? >> i'm good for the time being. but i need to let people know that i'm getting desperate. i'm getting desperate for help. >> reporter: so rosemary, you notice he talked about how well he was being treated. it seemed to me that that was very important for north korea to get that message across, especially in light of the united nations report accusing them of widespread human rights abuses, and other agencies saying millions of people in that country are going hungry. other, hundreds of thousands are serving time in these labor

camps which the north korean government even denies exists. the other two americans' interviews, while they also hit home on those points, they didn't give as much praise for the north korean government, bay and miller, whereas fowle as you heard talked about his conditions very favorably and was hoping to go home, as he is now just hours away from being reunited with his family. >> given that, what is likely to happen to kenneth bay and matthew miller? >> we can only assume that talks are ongoing using the traditional back channels between the united states and north korea. the two countries don't have a diplomatic relationship. sweden does. they have an embassy in pyongyang. the swedish government has been a key intermediary helping to pass information to the governments and their families back in the united states. but what will happen next really is anyone's guess. as the state department points out, the ball is in north korea's court. the u.s. continues to push for

the release of the other two americans. but as of right now, they're serving their sentences, hard labor after being found guilty of their crimes. >> all right. many thanks to will ripley, joining us there live from tokyo. right now we want to talk about ben bradlee, a man phone for his unyielding pursuit of the truth and for helping inspire a generation of journalists. >> the former "washington post" editor died tuesday after a long battle with alzheimer's disease and dementia. brian todd takes a look at his legacy and how he challenged an american president. >> reporter: his first battle with the nixon administration was over publishing the pentagon papers in 1971. leaked documents that showed how poorly the vietnam war was handled. >> the post was still looking for a seat at the big table. we weren't at the big table yet. and we very much wanted to go there. >> reporter: as editor of "the washington post," benjamin bradlee fought nixon's objections all the way to the supreme court, winning the right

to publish, along with "the new york times." a year later, the stakes were even higher as he headed the newspaper's coverage of the watergate scandal. >> the mistakes were enormous. every day the white house, the leader of the free world, his spokesman would get up and attack "the washington post," attack ben bradlee by name, attack woodward and myself. he backed us up. >> reporter: post reporters carl bernstein and bob woodward led the way in unraveling the story, which brought down richard nixon. >> we knew nixon lied when he turned to the country early on and said "i can't tell you about watergate because it involves national security." >> reporter: ben bradlee, woodward and bernstein had help from a secret source code named deep throat. >> how much can you tell me about deep throat? >> reporter: bradlee was immortalized in "all the president's men". >> nothing is riding on this except the first amendment of the constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. >> reporter: as a boy, bradlee survived polio, went to harvard,

and then served on a destroyer in world war ii through more than a dozen battles. as a young reporter, he became friends on john f. kennedy who moved in on the same block when he first got elected to congress. but bradlee always maintained a healthy skepticism of washington power players, which if anything only grew stronger over time. >> i think there has been an enormous increase in not telling the truth, lying. >> reporter: a dapper presence in the newsroom, former colleagues described him as demanding but inspiring. >> benjamin bradlee. >> reporter: he received the medal of freedom from president obama at the age of 91. >> he transformed that newspaper in one of the finest in the world. >> and as executive editor of "the washington post," bradlee championed the young reporters who pursued the watergate story, bob woodward and carl bernstein you heard them mention there. >> the two did release a joint

statement. we'll show it to you. quote, ben was a true friend and a genius leader in journalism. he forever altered our business. he was an original who charted his own course. we love him deeply, and he'll never be forgotten or replaced in our lives. >> bernstein also spoke to cnn about his former boss. take a listen. >> he took the profession somewhere it had never been. and i don't mean just the watergate story. what he did with the pentagon papers, as did "the new york times." but he understood the role of the press in a democracy. and that where there is darkness, that we've got to have light. and that's what we're all about. >> carl bernstein there speaking earlier about "washington post" editor ben bradlee, dead at the age of 93. we'll be right back.

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the pentagon says it is now investigating an isis claim that militants intercepted one of more than two dozen aid bundles air dropped in northern syria on monday. now that aid includes weapons and ammunition intended for kurdish fighters defending the long besieged city of kobani. >> and those aid bundles also contained desperately needed medical supplies to treat the wounded inside kobani.

>> and we know much of that did fall into the right hands. ivan watson has more on that from the turkish-syrian border. >> reporter: precious medicine delivered to a city under siege. an exclusive footage from inside the syrian border town of kobani. medics show the supplies they received on monday, life-saving stuff dropped from the sky by u.s. airplanes. today we received equipment, says dr. omar. it was various types of medicine, antibiotics, anesthetics, sanitary supplies, bandages. dr. omar has been here for weeks. braving enemy artillery to treat the desperate stream of wounded fighters and civilians hit during the isis siege of this kurdish city. the city's kurdish defenders have arab allies. free syrian army fighters who show off a suicide bomb vest and

vehicle they say they captured from isis. only days ago, it seemed like kobani would be all but lost to isis' furious assault. but the u.s. is helping kobani's defenders with air strikes, and now with the first air dropped deliveries of weapons and ammunition. in this tiny makeshift clinic, it's the medicine delivered by america that may turn the tide in this battle. we thank the people who brought these medical supplies, dr. omar says. and then he gets back to his very important work. but a new video that emerged on social media suggests that maybe some of the american air dropped aid fell into the very hands of the people that the u.s. warplanes are bombing. this video shows what appears to be an isis fighter next to what is clearly some kind of a parachute bundle. he then goes through what seems to be the contents of the bundle and shows crates of what seem to

be hand grenades and mortar rounds. now, the pentagon said that at least one bundle of air dropped aid did drift off course, and the u.s. warplane then destroyed it to keep it from getting into isis hands. but now we seem to see that maybe one bundle did get into the hands of the u.s.'s enemy on the ground over here in syria. and that underscores the difficulty of trying to get ammunition, guns, precious medicine to kobani's defenders, even though the turkish military, a nato ally and its tanks and armored vehicles and troops are between here and the city of kobani. the turkish government has announced that kobani's kurdish defenders are basically terrorists. they're affiliated to what they consider to be a terrorist organization, the kurdistan workers party, which the turkish government has equated with the isis militants, which it also calls terrorists. and as a result, it will not

allow the u.s. military to use this very short land corridor to deliver aid to kobani's defenders. ivan watson, cnn, on the turkish-syrian border. canadian police say they had been watching a man who allegedly ran down two soldiers with his car, killing one of them. they say the man was radicalized and classified as a potential important threat to the country. you're looking at video here of the aftermath of that incident. now, he was arrested at the airport in july, about to fly to turkey. police say they confiscated his passport, but didn't have enough evidence to bring charges at that time. all right. still to come here on cnn, police and some protesters once again face off in hong kong. this after some protest leaders met with the government. we'll get you a live report to see what is happening now, after this. i'm only in my 60's.

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the needs of people 50 and over for generations. remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. welcome back. police and protesters in hong kong are facing off once again, this time in the mong kok area of the city. >> it started when people opposing the demonstrators removed wooden barricades. police say they did not order the action, but officers swarmed into the area. meanwhile, the protesters throughout hong kong have vowed to stay put after leaders of the democracy movement met with

government negotiators and came away frustrated. andrew stevens is in hong kong and joins us now live. you've been giving us regular updates, hourly updates today. give us a sense where things stand now on the heels of this meeting that the student leaders were finally able to get with government official there's. >> well, day 25, errol, and things stand pretty much as they always have. the differences that there has been, as we've been reporting this meeting between the government and the protest leaders, this is a meeting that had been twice postponed. many are suggesting it may not happen at all. so having the meeting in itself has been a step forward. but as you point out, both sides coming away if that with still a lot of daylight between the two sides. and the result really is what you see here all around me now, these tents. these tents are going nowhere, basically. these are the students who have dug in here.

more and more tents keep appearing. they say they're going to stay here. the student leaders say they're going to stay here until they get some sort of concrete proposal, concrete action from the government of hong kong, which would of course require the blessing of beijing. now what has happened is that the hong kong government after those talks said that they were prepared to formally send a report to beijing, which would reflect the views of hong kong. but the caveat there appears to be those views will be taken into account after the election of the next chief executive, and that happens in 2017. so it appears like the government is trying to push everything forward for several years and leave the election process, the whole reason for this protest in place, which is that the government says that the nominating committee will be as the government wants it to be. the chief executive will stay

here. and anything, any negotiations will be done after that happens in 2017. the protesters say not good enough. we're staying here until something else changes. now you refer to some confrontation in mong kok, which is on the other side of the harbor from where i'm standing. there was no violence involved. there was a face-off between protesters and police. this is not unusual in mong kok. mong kok has been the flash point, and in all likelihood will remain the flash point. the police say they do want to clear that area. and the protesters say they're staying put. and we continue to have these confrontations, but no violence today. there has been violence in the past. but so far, the students are holding firm there as well, as they are, errol, holding firm here in the center of hong kong. >> indeed. andrew stevens live for us between the tents in what is really a full service campsite in hong kong. just past 3:24 in the afternoon.

andrew, thanks. all right. let's move to the weather now and travelers in northwest europe could face delays again today. meteorologist ivan cabrera is joining us again with details on this. ivan, give us an idea how bad these delays are likely to be. >> i think they're as bad as we had them yesterday in london. everything is pushing east. and so now we're going to involve the airport, germany, netherlands, luxembourg, and potentially even further east. we'll watch that closely. these are the winds we had to deal with yesterday, 7 to 100 kilometer per hour wind that not only brought us significant delays at the airport as, but look at this. trees going down. we had significant damage in some areas here as a result of that kind of wind force there that continues to head off to the east. this brought to us by again, this was the remnants of what was a hurricane in the atlantic, a post tropical storm that arrived here with a ferocious seas and incredible winds here. now, the winds subsiding

somewhat for the uk. london checking in just fine this morning. so if you have a flight in or out of london, you'll be doing fine. it's further to the east that we're going to see the winds really picking up later this afternoon as the storm pushes further to the east. and that's where the wind gusts could be anywhere from 60 to, well, 80 kilometers per hour. and that's going to wreak havoc along the airports. munich at 75. kph is 1700 now heading into a wednesday evening. and then we have a new system moving in with fresh new winds up to gale force in some cases. very busy pattern in europe. very unsettled indeed. all that action is heading down to the south. again, the potential for delay here is across the major airport, amsterdam, brussels, paris, frankfort, if you're flying in or out, check ahead. you may find some delays. crashing into the alps with very heavy snow, 25 to 50 centimeters of accumulation here. my goodness, look at this new model run-in at innsbruck there at 90.

sure, that will put a nice coating on the mountains there. and we'll have more to come. >> fantastic skiing conditions too there. >> absolutely. >> very important. >> ivan, thanks very much. now, he was an olympic hero in south africa, living in an upscale neighborhood. but now today oscar pistorius woke up in prison. next, what he faces in his life behind bars. plus, tensions remain high in ferguson, missouri, as people there await a grand jury decision concerning the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. q.

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headlines for you this hour. u.s. travel restrictions will go into effect in the latest effort to stop the spread of ebola. all passengers flying from liberia, guinea, and sierra leone will be required to land at one of five airports that have enhanced screening. now those airports are in new york, new jersey, washington, chicago, and atlanta. an american man detained for the past five months in north korea is now on his way home. jeffrey fowle was arrested in may for leaving a bible at a sailor's club. it's not clear why north korea released him, but the u.s. is urging the regime to release two other detained americans. a giant in american journalism, ben bradlee has died at the age of 93. the former "washington post" editor guided the newspaper through its coverage of the watergate break-in. the resulting scandal forced u.s. president richard nixon to resign. bradlee suffered from alzheimer's disease and dementia. now, at this moment, oscar

pistorius is serving the first full day of his maximum five-year prison sentence, some 20 months after he killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. >> but there is a lot of debate over whether the punishment fits the crime. robyn curnow has reaction from the victim's family. >> reporter: he came to hear his punishment. >> count one, homicide, the sentence imposed is the maximum imprisonment of five years. >> reporter: oscar pistorius showing little emotion after a trial that has been filled with drama, delays, and tears. in silence, he was then led to the holding cells an driven away in this prison van to spend his first night behind bars. some of the public still highly critical. >> i don't think it's enough. you compare with other cases we've seen many this country. you can see if you are wealthy and you get the most expensive

legal team, you are likely to get away lighter. >> outside the family spoke for the olympian. >> the court has now handed down judgment and sentence. and we accept the judgment. oscar will embrace this opportunity to pay back to society. >> reporter: but speaking to cnn, the day before the sentence, pistorius' siblings acknowledged the end of the case was not the end for those involved. >> no one who has been close to the situation can just overcome this and, you know, it's something that my brother will carry with him forever. and it's not -- regardless of what is happening now, it's just a certain phase in the journey which will never end. >> reporter: it's unclear if the state will appeal. but cnn's legal expert and

others say the sentence is fair and offers a compromise. >> her sentence strikes a balance between the two positions put forward. it's not so severe that the defense is likely to appeal. >> reporter: and under south african law, his prison sentence could be converted to house arrest in less than a year. in the fast few week, i've spoken to oscar pistorius, and he seemed to accept the possibility of jail, saying that he wasn't scared, he wasn't afraid. on tuesday, he began his five-year sentence. robyn curnow, cnn at the pretoria high court. >> south africa's prisons are notoriously crowded and dangerous. it's a harsh reality for the man who had been living a comfortable upper class life. cnn's diana joins us now. talk to us about prison

conditions in south africa and what oscar pistorius is likely to be experiencing on this, his first full day behind bars? >> well, the conditions that pistorius will face are slightly different to what the majority of prisoners will face, and that is because of his disability. so he had his assessment yesterday, which is meant to happen within six hours of admission for a new inmate. and it did. and they decided that he would go to the hospital facility of this prison behind me, which is better and previously known as pretoria central. so he is in that hospital wing, alongside the other disabled patients here, eight other disabled patient, two of whom have prosthetic limbs, five of whom are in wheelchairs. and it means that he has better facilities. he has a shower and bath facilities within that unit. he has a single cell. he has in that single cell the area commissioner told me his own prison issue, and he is

wearing an orange uniform, as all prisoners do. and he has prison sheet, prison bed, a toilet in his cell. but he was apparently allowed to bring in his own toiletries. as to what his first day holds, i've been trying to find that out and haven't managed to make headway yet with the area commissioner. but there is not much free time involved, or these not much time for exercise, probably because of the ratio of wardens to prisoners, which is very, very low. most of the time, although there should by law be more than an hour hour given to exercise or the possibility to be in a sort of more outside space each day, in practice, what normally happens is that prisoners don't get that much time outside of their cell. but rosemary, it is a different story for pistorius in a single cell in the hospital unit to how it is for the majority of prisoners. this is an overcrowded prison, as a lot of prisons in south africa are. probably more for those

prisoners waiting for trial rather than for those who have actually been sentenced. and this is one of the arguments of those who say that he got fair treatment, because his trial happened far earlier than most people would have been able to get their case to trial, and was concluded, even though in the public eye, with best criminal lawyers available, and with a sentence which many people here in this country who disagree with the culpable homicide verdict feel is too lenient, despite what the judge said about there not being in south africa one rule for the poor and one for the rich and famous. rosemary? >> yeah, and that is the thing, isn't it? many people are saying they feel that oscar pistorius got off lightly. they now feel he is going to get this special treatment in prison. i mean, will there be some sort of effort to show the public that he is being treated equally? >> well, i think that's not

really in the interests of the correctional services. they just have to do what is required of them by law in terms of their disabled prisoners. the area commissioner said to me yesterday he was duty-bound to protect the vulnerable, and pistorius is classified as vulnerable, especially when we know that there have been already threats made against him in -- by prisoners, by certain gangs within south africa's prisons. that said, i think many south africans will feel if it does turn out that after ten months pistorius is released with just correctional services, ie house arrest, that this sentence will have meant very little indeed. but that is primarily because so many people feel that this culpable homicide was not -- was not the appropriate verdict. that said, the judge didn't have the evidence before the court to find him guilty of murder. >> all right, diana magnay

reporting there. appreciate that. all right. still to come here on cnn, the hunt son for what may be a foreign submarine lurking in the waters off sweden. we'll talk to a submarine tour operator, next.

we turn now to a story that sounds more like a cold war spy novel than a modern day security concern. >> yeah, that's because swedish helicopters and warships right now are combing the baltic for what may be, we have it highlighted for you there, a submarine possibly from russia that has now been spotted near stockholm. moscow denies, though, having any vessels in swedish waters. >> swedish authorities won't say exactly what they're looking for, but they say they are ready to force to it the surface, whatever it is. local media say the search began thursday after swedish intelligence picked up an emergency radio call sent to the

russian enclave kaliningrad. >> so what is going on here? let's connect with schmidt on the line now from sweden. he heads up submarine operations for a local tour company that had to cancel one of its trips because of this search. so lasse, this is quite a search there in sweden. you have this civilian transport operation. what recently happened that initially first made you suspicious of what is going on there? >> well, it's actually thought the last friday and really i don't know much, but the news they've been telling us, but what we noticed with our operation is the navy calling us and stopping our operations as of yesterday. and also last friday we were given a few calls and asking about our whereabouts with our submarine to make sure that it

wasn't us, of course. >> right. but what is strange, i know our producers spoke with you earlier. you've been able to operate your company when military drills were taking place, for example. you said this is very unusual, and it's also unusual that the swedish military, they're not confirm organize denying anything. all of this adds to suspicions that possibly, i don't know, a russian military vehicle could be at the center of all of this. moscow denies that. is that the only theory that you're hearing? i mean, what are people saying about all this? >> there is a lot of theories about what is going on. i can only be sure that these guys should know what they're doing, and they're asking us to stop our operations. so i'm sure there is a good reason for that. >> okay, yeah, but what do you think is going on here? >> well, i guess that there is some kind of activity going on. i mean, they wouldn't waste all the resources to finding nothing.

it might be a submarine, or it might be something else. i don't know. >> right. >> but something is going on for sure. >> and has this had an impact on your -- you operate this underwater experience business, this all kind of came to light on friday. has it impacted your business at all since then? >> well, it has been some impact. of course we got a lot of attention for our submarine. but there has been some good attention. there is also been some bad attention since there is theories that where people think that it's us or our submarine that has been spotted during these operations. and of course that's not the case. >> yeah, i understand that you can't give us specific answer because nobody knows, and no government is specifically there where you are giving us any information. but certainly everyone still wondering what is happening there. lasse schmidt operating a

special underwater tour service on the line with us from sweden. >> it is a mystery. >> yes. all right. next here on cnn, a nun who sings like an angel. ♪ ♪ like a virgin, touched for the first time ♪ >> and you heard right. she also sings madonna's "like a virgin." her story coming up. ♪ i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead.

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all right. you are back with us as we take these live pictures from mong kok. this is one of three main flash point areas in hong kong. of course, we've been telling you about the four weeks of pro-democracy protesters. what we're seeing play out here is earlier some anti-occupy demonstrators came in and police moved in as well. at that stage, it was the anti-occupy demonstrators who moved barricades. what is happening now is police have received court injunction. they are removing the barricades. and in the midst of this, we have the pro-democracy demonstrators. i know it sounds very complicated. but you've got three sections basically, the anti-occupy demonstrators who do not want these pro-democracy demonstrators there. they have moved into the area. and then we've got the police removing the barricades. so this is an effort to basically move these pro-democracy demonstrators out of mong kok district. and we'll keep a very close eye on that situation. >> yeah, it appears to be a bit

of a fluid situation at this moment. let's get you some news out of the u.s. state of missouri. the governor there, jay nixon is setting up a special commission now to look into social and economic conditions in the town of ferguson. that may sound familiar because that's where unarmed teenager michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer in august. >> yeah, the town has seen round-the-clock protests ever since. sara sidner reports. >> reporter: on any given night, tension goes from zero to 100 in seconds in ferguson. nightly protests, sometimes and an arrest. but this is nothing compared to what some of the demonstrators say will happen if the grand jury does not indict police officer darren wilson in the killing of unarmed teenager michael brown. businesses this the city still bear the scars of the first time anger and frustration boiled over here. raised in st. louis, pastor has been in ferguson throughout the turmoil.

he participates in the protests and has been arrested twice. he talks to us as we walk by the burnt out quick trip near the center near where the protests started. >> democracy is on fire and we're called to be firemen. >> reporter: you're okay with things going up in smoke? >> i mean it is not my preference, no. but i'm more concerned about the conditions that produce this. that the simmering poverty, the simmering oppression, the simmering alienation, the existential crisis that black youth feel in america. i'm far more concerned about the conditions that produce the burning of buildings. >> reporter: the frustration that people feel? >> yes. our children in a tremendous amount of pain. >> reporter: what started out as an explosion of anger over the police shooting of michael brown has turned into a movement that has not stopped since the day brown was killed august 9th. the idea officer wilson might not be indicted and what that might mean to this town has city and state officials on edge.

today the missouri governor announced the formation of a ferguson commission to study and find solutions to the underlying social and economic conditions fueling the unrest in the wake of michael brown's killing. are you worried about what might happen when the grand jury decision is made and announced? >> when you have this level of energy, and when you have what has happened over the last 73 days, you can rest full assured that we are focused and concerned about what could be the most problematic of scenarios. >> reporter: but pastor seku echoes others. >> the only words that would have mattered that could have possibly began the process of some symbol of justice is the creation of a special prosecutor or the announcement of the indictment of darren wilson, the officer who viciously killed mike brown.

>> reporter: police have said wilson was defending himself from brown. what do you say to people who say the justice system is going through its paces, let it work? >> the justice system? this justice system. which has a wonderful set of facts to support the way it has engaged police who have taken black lives, this justice system. >> reporter: sara sidner, cnn, ferguson, missouri. >> now, a new tropical depression has formed in the gulf of mexico. meteorologist ivan cabrera joins us now from the cnn weather center to tell us what impact it could have. >> flooding the potential here certainly for mexico over the next few days. that's my main concern. in fact, this moisture is going to head all the way into cuba and even south florida we're already seeing some of that moisture. you can clearly see this thing is not well-organized. where is it? is it here? is it here?

no, it is in the bay of campeche, and it is going to be making technical landfall later on today. and we could by then be dealing with a tropical storm. so the winds will get bumped up a little bit. we're at 55 kilometers per hour. we could go up to 40 or 45 and that would make tropical storm hannah, but it doesn't have much time to do that. there it is in about 24 hours heading into the yucatan peninsula with all sorts of rain here. it's going to be prolific over the next couple of days. and then it heads off towards cuba. the moisture associated with it that the national hurricane center has is dissipating over the western caribbean. so, again, not dealing with a significant wind event here, but it is going to be very heavy rainfall to places like cancun, cozumel, and there belize as well. and look at here, even south florida getting impacted with some of the rain that we have already seen. in fact, key west picking up, or at least the florida keys some areas picking up upwards of 4 inches earlier today. and we'll do that again over the next few days with heavy rain.

likewise in the northeast, if you're traveling to this part of the united states, coastal flooding the potential there as this low gets going. you see now it's going to head over to the atlantic. and once that happens, then the rain will really get going and the winds will pick up as well. we'll watch that developing over the next couple days. if you're traveling to this part of the world, new york may see some delays with gusty winds. but certainly we can deal with that. the main delays are in europe with that big storm there. >> yeah. >> all right. thanks. >> thanks, ivan. well, pop star madonna caused quite a stir when her hit song "like a virgin" came out back in the '80s. it was considered pretty racy back then. >> it was, for some reason. if you look at it now, boy, times have changed. but could you imagine it being performed by a nun? jeanne moos reports, you don't have to imagine, just listen. >> reporter: this have been flying nuns on tv. and singing nuns in movies. ♪ follow him wherever he may

go ♪ >> reporter: but madonna is a hard act for a nun to follow. ♪ like a virgin >> reporter: could a real nun really sing those words? ♪ like a virgin, touched for the very first time ♪ >> reporter: oh no she didn't. remember sister christina from italy's "the voice"? ♪ part of what she got for winning is a record contract. her album comes out next month, and her first single has just dropped. ♪ like a virgin >> reporter: there she is in her habit and sensible shoes, wearing a cross. no way you'll mistake the nun for madonna with her exposed midriff. ♪ next to mine >> reporter: and the lion is missing, but both videos feature venice, and christina's echoes

some of the shots in venice. the sister says she has no intention of scandalizing. she told a catholic newspaper if you read the lyrics, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again. sister christina did drop one itty-bitty word from a certain line, the boy that madonna is singing to ♪ going to give you all my love, boy ♪ >> reporter: disappeared from the nun's version. ♪ i give you all my love >> reporter: seemed to be g-o-d rather than b-o-y that christina is addressing. sister christina won't be getting rich off her music. she has taken a vow of poverty and says any money she makes would go to church projects. she lives at an italian convent, though she wasn't home when cnn called. "like a virgin" has been parodied by weird al yanukovych ♪ like a surgeon

♪ >> reporter: threw is something almost virginal about having it turned into a serious ballad by none other than a nun. ♪ like a virgin ♪ ♪ let your heart beat next to mine ♪ >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ >> reporter: new york. >> what a contrast. >> stuck in my head all day. >> i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. the news continues after this.

♪ breaking news this morning. an american detained by north korea for five months is finally on his way home. the surprising release now fuelling hope for two other americans being held in that country. the hospital where the first ebola patient in the united states die said apologizing for how it handled the situation admitting that they did there was wrong. we'll tell you how they plan on preventing it from ever happening again. and homegrown terror concerns this morning. three high school girls in