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politicians are responding to fear from some sections of the public but that really it's actually cautioning more fear because people are scared about health care workers returning. >> as the number tops 10,000 we'll look at how fear is spreading as fast as the disease itself. hello, welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm zain asher. the global coalition to fight isis is getting much needed help on the ground. the united states' newest allies. we'll hear from the brains behind this record-setting sky dive. we begin with more indications of ebola and pretty much no end in sight the world
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health organization now counts more than 10,000 cases, almost all of them as we know in liberia, sierra leone and guinea. nearly half of them have been fatal. now, the w.h.o. says that 450 health workers have caught the virus and almost all in west africa and so far 244 have died. the ebola threat has them imposing new travel restrictions starting monday. those entering from ebola affected areas will be subjected to 21 days of monitoring plus the states of new york and new jersey now require a 21-day quarantine for health care workers returning from west africa. and illinois is also beginning a similar policy for travelers who have had direct contact with ebola patients in the region. we'll have expert analysis on all of that in roughly around 30 minutes. those plans came just after the diagnosis of new york city's
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first ebola case, dr. craig spencer came down with the disease after treating patients in guinea. elizabeth cohen has the latest. >> reporter: this is an unfortunate turn for the worse. we are learning he has entered the next phase of his illness as the hospital puts it. he is now having gast gastrointestinal symptoms and moving on to yesterday they gave him a plasma donation from another patient. they didn't say or from another person and didn't say and that he was given antiviral treatment at his admission. while this is unfortunate it's not unexpected. ebola has a natural course and it is in the beginning you feel kind of sick, you get a fever, you get gastrointestinal symptoms and want to talk about casey hickocks the nurse kept in a michael jackson hospital. governor christie said at a press conference she is ill, that she is having symptoms, that he hopes she recovers. i got off the phone with a friend of casey's and says she
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is not ill. she is physically fine but exhausted in a room that's not heated and being kept in paper scrubs and isn't allowed to put on real clothing, any kind of nightgown or robe and that they wake her up every four hours but seem maa ace she's fine and doesn't know why the governor keeps saying she is ill. >> so much confusion, in fact, a preliminary ebola test on nurse casey hickox has come back negative and now she's speaking out about being forced into quarantine after she returned to the u.s. from sierra leone. now, she says she's afraid the policy could lead to medical workers being treated and i'm quoting here like criminals and prisoners. the u.s. restrictions have caused some pushback from doctors without borders. the concern is that these rules will make health care workers
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fail to return. earlier we spoke about a doctor about this. >> you're balancing a lot of things so the health care workers are obviously at increased risk because that's what they do. they take care of very, very sick patients and they're exposed to a lot of virus because that's what they're doing. where a lot of the general traveling public may or may not have been exposed to the virus and so trying to figure out what their risk is is challenging as well but the other factor you need to consider a lot of these health care workers or majority are american citizens who do have some rights as american citizens on whether they can be held in quarantine or not. now, obviously the state does have the power to issue quarantine orders, so that's not a question but balancing those personal liberties versus the interests of the state and where that falls down is where the
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governors are making their decision. now, obviously there does have to be some consideration in protecting the public and that is crucial. but balancing that with prudent measures and understanding civil liberties is also prudent and it's not an easy task by any stretch. you know, it's easy for me to sit here and talk about it and much more difficult for a leader or for a politician to make that decision. but it has to be made based on scientific evidence, it has to be based on the best possible intentions and so you're balancing a lot of different things, the civil liberties of the individual versus the need to protect the public. and that's never an easy place. >> right, we have a case right now with the nurse who was detained in newark who didn't have a fever and she's very upset by her treatment. >> right. >> so we've already seen
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confused reaction, a little overreaction in this situation and certainly well likely be more of that because this epidemic, we just passed 10,000 cases in west africa. what does that say to you? >> well, it says to me that we still do not have a good handle on what's going on in west africa. and i agree with tom frieden from the cdc who says the only way that we can reduce our risk here in the united states is by reducing the number of cases in west africa. and if you think about it purely from a statistical point of view the probability of cases continuing to occur in the united states is going to continue as long as there's an increasing number in west africa so really the way to defeat this problem is to defeat it at its source which is in west africa regardless of all of the quarantine measures and things that we put in place here in the united states to take care of the problem, it's really going to take a concerted
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international effort in west africa. >> yeah, also worth noting nations have pledged $810 million to fight the disease over there. meanwhile, unfortunately, the disease continues to spread in west africa. more than 50 people are now quarantined in mali, that includes at least 40 in the town where a 2-year-old girl died of ebola on friday. the rest with quarantined if the capital city where the girl traveled last week. she was the country's first confirmed case. also, mauritania has responded by closing its border with mali. the government had already banned travelers from its ebola-affected neighbors, as well. and despite fears in west africa u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power is traveling to the epicenter, guinea, liberia and sierra leone, a move to show u.s. support and to draw attention for the need for more
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international help. good for her. this just in, the final u.s. and british combat troops have just officially ended their operations in afghanistan. those forces are now packing up to leave the country after transferring a massive military base in helmand province to the afghan army. both u.s. and british flags were lowered then folded up for the last time today. we should note american and british forces will still remain in afghanistan in a noncombat role. also, iraqi security forces battling to keep isis militants in check say they've now regained control of an area near baghdad. jurf al sakhar is a mixed town. allied commanders say u.s.-led forces conducted more than 20 air strikes against isis on friday and saturday and say u.s. warplanes destroyed an isis artillery site near kobani and kurdish forces continue to battle isis control of that
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syrian border city and hope to see peshmerga reinforcements cross soon after turkey gave permission for the fighter to cross its territory to reach kobani. nick paton walsh is watching developments. here he is. >> reporter: as we overlook the city you could still hear the souchdzs of freyr clashes to the far east and south of the city where isis have in the past tried to move in to gain territory. a lot of pretty loud explosions there. the question really, i think, being for the kurds when do they see these iraqi peshmerga arrive. the 120, 200 fighters that would arrive, what they really want is the weapons they bring with them, anti-tank, anti-armor weapons to allow them to resist any proper isis counter attack. the suggestions we're hearing from fighters is those peshmerga may move in through turkish
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materiality from northern iraq, kurdistan, tonight, saturday night or according to kurdish media maybe sunday and of course the ministry says it's a military secret and won't talk about it. confused signals but the suggestion we feel having been moved away from the hill we normally stand on is that something is perhaps being prepared at the moment and may be in the hours ahead they move in from the city to peshmerga, that is the fighting still reasonably intense to the east and the south. a lot of talk about will there be syrian rebels coming to the assistance of the syrian kurds fighting inside the city? that's a lot of noise made by some syrian factions about that. they seem to back up whether or not they can get together the thousand or so fighters being advertised to come to the assistance and they're looking to the peshmerga and the weapons they can bring and still the sound of clash is intense over
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kobani today. >> yeah, we'll keep a close eye on what happens when the peshmerga cross the turkey border. heavy fighting in lebanon's northern city of tripoli as military forces battle islamist gunmen. at least six lebanese soldiers were kill add long with two militants and two civilians. 13 were injured as well. they both used heavy rockets and devastating the tourist location. a journalist says the gunmen are sunnis believed to support isis. >> i suspect that some of them certainly share some of isis' goals or maybe it's just an alliance of convenience. very difficult to say. but one of the side effects of what's happening in syria with isis's fight there one of the side effects is that it's ruining affairs here in lebanon and exacerbating tensions between different communities, so right now you've got people fighting probably because they just feel like their community,
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the sunni community in lebanon is being marginalized and has been set aside in favor of the shiite community and specifically hezbollah. they accuse the army of doing hezbollah's bidding and every time they target the army and the army reacts it sort of -- it continues this cycle, vicious cycle. >> yeah, and by the way the fighting started friday when lebanon's army launched a security operation targeting the militants in tripoli. okay, so still to come, in the midst of two lone wolf attacks in just one week, isis now ramping up efforts to recruit jihadis in canada. coming up. plus, as a small u.s. community deals with the deadly school shooting we have an update on the conditions of the children shot and survived. stay with us. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good around ♪ ♪ turn around, barry
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page to help her family with funeral expenses. joanna small from cnn affiliate kiro has more. >> reporter: for the first time providence regional medical center confirmed the 14-year-old girl's in critical there are shalely and gia soriano. both have serious head injuries and both have been heartbreaking for taff to treat. >> i'm drained and it's hard for me to even start thinking about this without thinking about my own children. they're out of high school but i talked to one of my daughters last night and we talked through what would it have been like if this had happened at her high school, we were both crying. >> reporter: also toss harborview medical center said the two teen boys there have had no condition. nate hatch is still serious. 15-year-old andrew fryburg shot in the head is still critical.
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we know there was another victim also a 14-year-old girl who was critically wounded during the shooting inside the high school. her name has been plastered all over social media and a family friend set up this page for her. >> having two girls of my own it was quite hard on me last night was a rough night. >> reporter: corey williams says he's a friend of zoe's family. he did this. raise $10,000 for the family. clearly that won't be a problem. the site has been up less than seven hours. and thousands in donations have already poured in. >> i was trying to find a way to tangibly help and so doing this page was clearly the thing to do. >> every time so hard to watch. he was targeting his own friends and relatives. joanna small who filed that report has given ussen update.
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the zoe galasso raised $14,000 in 15 hours. friends have been saying the shooter was popular, someone well adjusted and homecoming king, as well. the general consensus no one expected this kind of violence from him. alison kosik spoke with kat rhine neiman who wrote "pam dawber rampage: the social roots of shoot." >> deep unhappiness and they magnify the slights they imagine as adolescents. now there is a script and it involves guns. >> reporter: social media can give clues. aisle a parent. in my opinion if i saw tweets like that, i'm not making any
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judgment call because i'm not the perfect parent but if i saw tweets like that, i would have to find out what's going on. he seemed anguished since june and i get it that, you know, that kids can be, you know, all drama going through a break up. everything is new and not used to that kind of thing but at what point do parents feel like they should go ahead and step in? >> parents don't usually see the tweets of their children. we don't like to admit it but our children live in a different world than the one we live in so they can appear on the surface to be very happy, very popular and live a life of anguish on the inside that may be visible to their peers who are receiving those tweets, but we give them a zone of privacy because we want them to grow up and to become independent people. if we start treating them as appendages of ourselves we worry they never will.
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that zone of privacy makes it so hard for us to understand the interior world. >> but social media really is what kids are on. so don't you think that parents -- i understand that they want to give their kids privacy but shouldn't they also draw the line and say, wait a minute, you seem upset. what's going on here? >> if they seem really upset and can see that perhaps they should draw that line but when you listen to how people describe this young man they don't describe someone on the surface who seems upset. they talk about someone who is elect the as a homecoming prince, the people say, well, this is the last person in the world i would have expected to do something like this. and that is what they can see on the surface. but i think we will learn more in days to come about how his peers understood him and generally speaking from the research i've done, the peer world looks very different and very often sadly young people will say, yeah, i could see that coming. i didn't need the police to tell me who did this. so the adults will say i could
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tensions were high as two palestinian funerals were planned for today, a 14-year-old was killed friday with clashes with israeli forces and israel's army says the teenage boy was about to hurl a molotov cocktail on to a busy highway. others say he was only throwing rocks. today's other funeral is for a motorist shot dead by authorities wednesday just after his car ran over pedestrians in jerusalem killing a 3-month-old israeli girl. days earlier an israeli settler ran over and killed a small palestinian girl and seriously injured another child. okay, ukrainians are casting ballots in a landmark election. the first since the ouster of russian-backed president viktor yanukovych. pro-westerner president petro poroshenko is hoping his party
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will win a clear majority so reforms can be implemented. the vote is expected to further expose the divide between the pro-european west and russian sympathizers in the eastern part of the country. separatists are threatening to block voting in some districts and hold their own elections next month. okay, and brazilians are heading to the poll to elect their next president, the country's tightest race in decades. shasta darlington has more. >> reporter: yes, in brazil too it's the economy, stupid. but in a country as unequal as brazil, the economy will mean very different things for different people during sunday's presidential election. there's president dilma rousseff of the workers party, supported by millions who climbed out of poverty and into the working class thanks to social benefits and subsidsubsidies.
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"i'm going to vote for dilma. i'm worried about going back backwards." then aecio neves. for many he just represents change after 12 years under the pt. "my vote will go for aecio because the pt promises and promises but never gets anything done." rousseff won the most votes in the first round ballot earlier this month but not enough to avoid a runoff. since then, third place candidate popular environmental marina silva pledged her support for neves. they have opposingle strategies, this man says. aecio neves has to confirm that
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he's the change. last year, a million people took to the streets to demand better schools and hospitals and denounce political corruption. the most recent scandal involves an elaborate kick-back scheme with petrobras. for whoever wins the real challenge is going to be to simultaneously narrow that income gap and jump-start the economy. shasta darling ton, cnn, sao paulo. >> polls are set to open in roughly around 30 minutes and should have the results in 12 hours so do stay tuned. so coming up, ice hockey, scenic views, canada has a lot to offer but this isn't a tourist ad. it is actually an isis recruitment video. plus, some travelers coming to the united states from west africa may have to endure forced quarantine. we'll hear from critics who say
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welcome back. i'm zain asher. an update on the top stories we're following at this hour. starting monday, people from ebola-affected areas entering the u.s. will be subject to 21 days of monitoring, plus new jersey and new york now require a 21-day quarantine for health workers returning from west
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africa and illinois has a similar plan for high-risk travelers, as well. the last u.s. marines unit and the final british troops have officially ended operations in afghanistan. those forces are packing to leave the country after transferring a massive military base to the afghan army. american and british forces will still remain in afghanistan in a non-combat role. also, kurdish forces in kobani hope to see peshmerga reinforcements soon as they continue to battle isis for control of the syrian border city. allied commanders say u.s. warplane s destroyed an isis artillery site over the weekend and say u.s.-led forces conducted more than 20 air strikes against isis in syria and in iraq. also, protest leaders in hong kong are suspending a vote scheduled for today. the vote was meant to measure support for government proposals following tuesday's talks, but
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leaders couldn't agree on how to carry out the vote. they did call for demonstrators to return to the protest site today. and this just in from australia. an 18-year-old woman in brisbane has been placed in isolation and is being tested for possible ebola. she'd recently arrived in brisbane with her family from west africa. they had been placed in a 21-day home quarantine. she had experienced an elevated temperature on saturday. a health care worker in the u.s. state of new jersey has tested negative for ebola and twice now but she remained in mandatory quarantine after arriving in newark friday from west africa where she was helping treat ebola patients. now, while in quarantine she wrote an op-ed blasting the state's stringent new policies and several doctors have said on cnn she's not the only one questioning the new rules. >> what are your thoughts on this new mandatory quarantine that we are now seeing in both
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new jersey and new york? >> the concern here is from public health experts who are says these policies don't align with the science and that politicians are responding to fear from some infections of the public but really it's actually causing more fear because people are now scared about health care workers returning. the science tells us if you don't have symptoms you are not capable of transmitting it to anybody else and what public health experts worry because they weren't notified about these policies they're not prepared to provide quarantine appropriately to the many potentially hundreds of health care workers, u.s. military who will be returning to west africa and they really need to make sure if there is going to be quarantine they have the time and the facilities to be able to do it properly. at the moment we know that kaci is an unheated tent outside of newark university hospital and hasn't been allowed to shower. doesn't have her personal
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belongings with her and frightening situation for her and potentially many other health care workers. >> is this unfairly punishing these health care workers who are risking their lives to go save lives. >> i think it's not punishing them. most health care workers are vaunting to work in these situations and happy to endure a huge amount of hardship in the field. the objection to this it's not only not necessary it doesn't prevent any transmission of ebola here in the states. but also that it costs us a huge amount of money in terms of enforcement, costs a huge amount of money in terms of screening and doesn't affect our risk at all but makes it harder to work in west africa. we heard from the governors how much better the response has been in new york city and this has been incredibly poorly thought out and either have to say why didn't they change the guidelines month ago or admit this is bad policy. >> yeah, clearly a lot of strong feelings about the new quarantine rules everybody pretty much learning at the same time. all right, the revelation that the gunman who opened fire
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in expected can did killed a soldier had connections with other jihadists raising new concerns about isis and their seemingly successful recruiting tactics in the west. randi kaye looks at how the group is doing it. >> reporter: you might think this is a commercial from the tourism board of canning da. it's not. it's actually a recruiting video from isis aimed at convincing extremists to join jihad in syria. >> by islam in syria i originally come from canada. >> reporter: he is the ultimate pitchman for isis, andrew powellin, a canadian convert who changed his name to abu. listen to what he says. he was just a normal canadian teenager before. >> i watched hockey, i went to the cottage in the summertime. i love to fish. i wanted to go hunting. i like outdoors and i like sports. >> he knew during the battle the
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man who did not know death. >> the message of the video is that you need to emigrate from western countries, especially canada, to syria because it's only there you can live properly as a muslim. >> reporter: that message is resonating. the canadian government identified 30 canadians now fighting in syria and iraq. another 100 fighting in places like yemen, pakistan and afghanistan. the government claims to know the identification of all of those fighters. already, 80 of them have returned home and could pose a potential terrorist threat. why is isis targeting canada? because of its growing problem with radicalization. >> too many young canadian muslims have felt alienated from mainstream society and have looked to radical ideologies for a sense of identity and purpose. there is a clamor amongst people from these backgrounds extremist
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backgrounds in canada, extremist ideologies to go and travel to syria and iraq and join the islamic caliphate as they see it. >> reporter: it's not just fighters isis is hoping to recruit. on the video, his pitch goes well beyond that. >> we need the engineer, we need doctor, we need professionals. we need volunteers, we need fund-raising, we need everything. there is a role for everybody. you can even come here and help rebuild the place. >> reporter: or you can come here and die. just like andre powellin. as he rushed into battle at a military airport he was killed by explosives last year. far from canada and the country he once loved. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> frightening and by the way a cia source actually told cnn as many as 2,000 westerners had traveled to syria to help isis. okay, well, seven years ago a car bomb ripped through one of baghdad's most colorful street
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markets. despite the threat of more attacks the books, the artwork and lively debate haven't stopped in the years since. ben wedeman telling us how baghdad, street of hope survives amid all the violence. >> reporter: when you're looking for a book in baghdad, any book, you'll find hit here on this street every friday. whether it's an old copy of hemingway's "farewell to arms" or welles" animal farm" or something more recent. there's a saying that goes like this, cairo write, -- beirut publishes and baghdad reads. this man has catered to its voracious readers but it's not just about the books. >> it's what keeps baghdad ensu ensured of them and alive. >> reporter: some tried but failed to kill that spirit. in 2007, a car bomb here killed
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26 people. the book sellers and customers, however, were determined to keep the market alive. >> the show must go on and we -- it's our life, we think. we just enjoy our life. >> reporter: despite everything, somehow they do. what's amazing about baghdad, despite the often grim of headlines one reads coming out of here do the people have managed to maintain the ability to function at least try to find a way to function in the normal manner. in the park just after this street an artist will draw your girlfriend's picture. you can listen to music or join lively debates on any subject under the sun. talk about a variety of topics, economics, politics or
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literature said said. sometimes it gets a bit heated but in the end we're all friends. [ speaking a foreign language ] this teacher is a regular participant. "there is a future," she says. "like it or not even if there is only one iraqi left we have a future and i'm thinking of the future." this is just a tiny corner of baghdad, of iraq, but here in addition to books and banter, you can find hope. ben wedeman, cnn, baghdad. >> yeah, iraq clearly trying to maintain a sense of normalcy amid all that chaos. up next when it comes to e-commerce across the asia pacific region, india is one of the fastest growing markets. we'll show you what's behind that boom. that's coming up. ♪
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india is separating -- celebrating. there are more than 240 million internet users, more than in the u.s. and second only to china so it's no surprise that e-commerce in india is booming as we have a report now. >> reporter:diwali, five days
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of firework, ritual, celebration and most importantly shopping. for retailers, diwali can account for up to a third of their annual sales and this year, well, it's never been better. >> within the period it has gone ten times at least. >> reporter: the exponential growth largely owing to e-commerce sites like snap deal and the lead-up to this holiday season founder and ceo says snapdeal sold one smartphone every six seconds. a laptop every 20 seconds and a pair of shoes every 10 seconds. snapdeal works like a virtual marketplace similar to alibaba, they don't buy or keep stock but the products are here. deodorant, smartphones, they've
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got razors and everything is brought to centers like this, packaged and then distributed. snapdeal will deliver some 20 million products across 5,000 towns and cities in india this month. other leading e-commerce sites like amazon india both similar numbers. >> the explosion that has happened over the last i would say six to nine months has been immense and i still feel we've just seen the tip of the iceberg and seeing nearly 70% of our orders are coming over smartphones. we like to leapfrog trends, fixed line phones and retail and leap-frogging buying the pc. >> reporter: online retail in india grew 88% last year. millions of indians living in small towns and villages like these now shopping online with smartphones. for small business owners like
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bunsil has transformed the way they think. >> now we get customers from kashmir. >> reporter: in other words, from north to south india. there are currently 243 million internet users in india. that too is expected to more than double by 2020. what does it say about the potential of e-commerce in india? well, the math is quite simple. have nima udas, cnn, new delhi. >> a bright star among the economies. its growth rate playing catch-up to china. modern art knows how to stir opinion. when you combine it with cutting edge buildings people will talk. now, in a marriage between fashion and architecture, lvmh, the luxury company behind louis vuitton brought in an architect to create this stunning museum in paris. cnn's jim bittermann has been looking at the results ahead of the big opening. >> my client.
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>> reporter: so what happens when one of the world's most prominent architects gets together with one of the world's richest men, you could end up with something like this. one of the most striking new art museums. sticker price according to architect frank gary, something more than $130 million but then it will house the public and private art collections of the foundation louis vuitton and its very wealthy founder, bernard arneau. take a tour around the building with the normal lvmh president and you get the impression he can barely contain his enthusiasm. >> beautiful and here you have this cascade. when you hear concerts and you are sitting here with this in the concert, it is absolutely fantastic. >> reporter: in addition to the permanent collection he intends to bring in temporary exhibitions and educational
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activities and performance artists. like these men, not just three guys with their heads stuck in corners, but vocalists trying to capture and re-create the audio resonance of gary's metallic and glass structure. for arneau whose crafty business acquisitions has left some calling him the wolf in the cashmere coat, the foundation is a chance to soften his image. >> showing that we are very good citizen and that we are working not only for profit but also for something that is tran send dent. full of potential and full of talent, but in the middle of europe which is now in low down and i hope we will be able to push the economy of the country and economy of europe during the
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next few years in spite of this slowdown which i hope will not last forever contrary to what you see in the u.s. where things are more flexible, where you can adapt faster to evolution is in a way polished by very hold on septembers on the economy and also by excessive level of the state economy. >> reporter: in france, that inflexibility even give arnault problems in constructing his new museum. >> france is a country where as you know you have a lot of many protesters, each time you do something, people are against. even for this fantastic building we had to go through a lot of contest before being able to finish it. >> reporter: was it psychological resistance in france. you had a president who once said he hated the rich. >> i think he has changed. now he likes free enterprise,
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no? yeah, which is right. hmm. you know politics. when you want to be elected you say those things, but i think today we are on the right track. at least under economic thinking. now we have to do it which is more difficult. >> reporter: arnault for one has never left the difficulties of doing things stand in his way despite the resistance sometimes of those around him. parisians have already nicknamed the gary structure the glass bird and like so many other things here when they first arrived like the eiffel tower and the pyramid in the louvre there's already debate about whether a modern structure belongs in such a traditional city but the parisians better get used to it because in just 50 years or so the foundation is going to turn over the building and its contents to the city of paris. jim bittermann, cnn, paris. >> yeah, i love it when he says when you want to be elected you say a lot of things. ain't that the truth? okay, so you heard of executives wearing power suits.
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i'm sure everybody remembers this. luis suarez biting another footballer. his third biting offense and got him a four-month suspension but
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on saturday he returned to the pitch with a new team barcelona. it couldn't help them. real madrid won and had a 3-1 victory. all right. so we turn thousand to weather. they're cleaning up in athens this weekend after flash flooding friday. that turned roads into raging rivers. ivan cabrera is here in the cnn weather center. businesses flooding. we saw homes flooded and cars piled up on top of one another. >> incredible scenes coming out of greece and the rain, zain, has moved further to the east which is a good thing but the problem in athens was the 90 millimeters they got in just a couple of hours here, just put that in perspective. 52 millimeters in the entire month of october, 2 inches. they got 3 1/2, 2 hours and led to incredible scenes coming out of the region here with car, yes, piled up. this was the end result, of
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course, and what we'll show you now is what -- well, caused it and there it is. that will take a car and everything else that is in its way, just incredible scenes here, in athens now. this is part of that weather system that has been stuck here for the last couple of days. we've been talking about the flooding in turkey but that just dramatic stuff. no one hurt because thankfully with that kind of water coming down so quickly you don't have much time to get out of the way. so the low still spinning here across this region. we are showing you a 72-hour loop here. look at this. in three days not moving all that much so very heavy rainfall over the same area and it's been pulling in cold air, very chilly, cold enough i think for lower elevation snowfall at this point here so places in areas will get in on a little bit of that not looking for a blockbuster snowstorm but an indication of how far south the cold air has been pulled in. look at this.
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looking at single digit numbers right now across the region here, milder air to the west and we'll go there because we have a big event going on sportingwise. london will be fine as we take you into the afternoon. it'll be morning here in the united states across the eastern seaboard. nfl in london, american football taking over there, atlanta falcon, detroit lions, 16 degrees, 61 in fahrenheit. a lot of clouds around but i think the showers will remain to the north. so, again, 9:30 eastern. that will be 13:30 gmt. this will be paid attention to. over open water for now but it'll make a move on oman and curve to the east. by the time we get into friday i think we'll be looking at a threat of a landfalling tropical cyclone in pakistan, karachi specifically with strong wins and heavy rain. >> i'm going to try to stay
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awake for the nfl game in london. just a couple of hours away. i wonder if the brits will take to american football. >> we hope so. that's the plan. >> thanks, ivan. we appreciate it. a google vice president is going into the record books as the world's newest space daredevil. he set a skydiving record on thursday. not for me, by the way. by jumping more than 135 thousand feet from the stratosphere over new mexico while wearing a specially designed suit. now, he remained in freefall for about 4 1/2 minutes. can you imagine before deploying his parachute and landing safely on the ground. now, the previous record was actually set by austrian skydiver felix baumgartner. an arizona-based company paragon designed the suit. the life support and other systems that made the extraordinary jump possible. we asked paragon's president and ceo how he felt when eustis
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safely touched down. >> oh, wow, well, it was a combination of elation and trepidation being engineers, we know that things are only going to happen well if you thought about everything but you hope you haven't missed something and so hitting the ground getting back down on the ground and getting what we call a green extraction, meaning the pilot was healthy and in good shape was a feeling i really can't describe. >> your company paragon designed the space suit that made this possible. tell us a little bit how it works. >> okay, yeah, combined with some of our partners like i ilctover we designed it and controls the pressure of the flier, in this case, alan. it keeps the pressure above no less than 5.3 pounds per square inch. i apologize, i don't know metrics for that right now. and then it also provides oxygen for him through a mask.
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it provides a protection for the actual flight. by being structurally strong enough it won't be ripped apart going to such high speeds in the atmosphere. >> faster than the speed of sound. he even created a sonic boom. >> oh, yeah, he made it up to mach 1.23 i believe was the official number now which is a little over 800 miles an hour. >> and now he was hoisted to that height by a helium balloon unlike baumgartner who used a special capsule. how were you able to achieve that? >> well, baumgartner had a special capsule but it was suspended under a helium balloon so the method of getting to the atmosphere was the same in that regard. our person was not in a capsule. it was just a space suit so he was hanging from the space suit with a special harness device and that device released him when we got up to 135,000 feet. >> wow, 41 kilometers above the earth. i cannot even imagine.
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