hey there, everyone. a big welcome to those of you watching in the u.s. and around the world. i'm errol barnett with you for the next two hours. coming up right now, the manhunt is over. at this moment, eric frein is in police custody at the same police barracks where he's accused of shooting two police officers. plus -- >> we did not go into town. we did not go into the grocery store. we are not trying to get anyone sick. >> with a simple bike ride, a u.s. nurse and her boyfriend challenge a voluntary ebola quarantine. but not all of her neighbors are so supportive. we'll look into this in this hour. also, paid to fight in

syria. is iran paying afghan men to fight for the syrian regime? this is a bizarre new twist in the ongoing syrian civil war. but we begin with this story. young people in a rural part of pennsylvania will be able to participate in halloween traditions friday because an alleged cop killer on the run has now been captured. officials say he could face the death penalty. eric frein was found in an abandoned airport in pennsylvania in relatively good shape. there appears to be a mark on his nose. he's accused of killing one state trooper and wounding another in ambush last moment. cnn's susan candiotti has been following the story and has more now on his arrest. >> reporter: after escaping capture just shy of seven weeks, suspected cop killer eric frein runs out of luck and out of time. without one shot fired, he's

taken down by u.s. marshals who spot frein before he even knew eyes were on him. sources say helped by intelligence, a special-ops team clearing a previously searched area spots frein walking across an airstrip at an abandoned airport between henryville and tannersville, pennsylvania. his latest hiding place, about 40 miles from the pennsylvania state police barracks, where frein's accused of shooting two troopers, killing one of them. marshals getting him on the ground, recovering at least two weapons, a rifle and a pistol. the self-styled survivalist is put in a car, his nose appears to be injured. pennsylvania governor tom corbett weighing in on the capture. >> we have said early on we would not rest until his capture was made and i am pleased to say we have made a major step that has to be taken down the path to justice. i can't tell you how much on

behalf of a grateful state. we want to thank all the partners who have been involved in this mission to capture this individual. and how much you have given your heart and your soul in the same of justice. >> reporter: frein is fingerprinted, booked, photographed and jailed, pending his first court appearance. while on the run, life far from normal. even halloween canceled to keep kids out of harm's way. now that's back on, one official saying frein's arrest has made him ecstatic. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >> frein is accused of killing corporal brian dixon, who you see here on the heft. trooper alex douglas was released from the hospital earlier this month, and frein is currently in a cell at the same barrack where is he allegedly ambushed those two officers. he will be arraigned later friday. now, there is a tense battle in the u.s. between a nurse who

recently returned from helping ebola patients in west africa and the governor of the state of maine. kaci hickox has been defying requests she stay indoors until a 21-day ebola incubation period is up. she tested negative twice after being put in isolation last week in new jersey. our alexander field has more. >> reporter: kaci hickox left her house for an hour going for a bike ride with her boyfriend. they were followed by police officers the entire time. the officers didn't try to detain or i rest her. the governor of maine is at odds with kaci hickox's take on the quarantine policy, but police only followed her to protect her. >> we just wanted to enjoy the beautiful day. >> reporter: kaci hickox is out to make a point. >> there's no legal action against me, so i'm free to go on a bike ride. >> reporter: almost a week after returning from treating ebola patients, the nurse who is supposed to be quarantined left her house today, surrounded by cameras. her lawyer calling the ride a good way to "exercise her

right." >> there's no justification for the state of maine to quarantine kaci. >> reporter: the governor is not immuned. >> i don't want her within three feet of anybody. her behavior is riling a lot of people up. i can only do what i can do. we're trying to protect her, but she's not acting as smart as she probably should. >> reporter: people in the tiny town are troubled by it. >> i think she's being a little stubborn. she had 21 days to stay put and one week's already gone by. so what's another two weeks? >> reporter: the state doesn't seem to understand why she doesn't stay at home. >> staying at home for the duration of this 21-day period, november 10 being the last day, does not seem like a burdensome

request. >> reporter: the governor's office said negotiations with hickox collapsed over proposed guidelines to keep her out of public places and thee feet from anyone else. >> let's put it this way, i am going to use the legal provisions to the fullest extent that the law allows me, and i just hope that she recognizes that. >> reporter: hickox already went one round with new jersey governor chris christie, who quarantined her in a tent at newark university hospital. she tested negative for ebola twice, and says she has no symptoms. back in maine, she isn't standing down. >> i still believe that i'm fighting for something much more than myself. there are so many aide workers coming back. >> reporter: we also hear from kaci hickox's boyfriend about that bike ride.

he said they stuck to the trails. he said they stayed away from town and avoided any public places where they might come into contact with other people. alexandra field, cnn. >> now some other stories we're following for you. crew members spent thursday unloading supplies including trucks and the ship has medical facilities. but the commanding officer says it won't take ebola patients on board. rather support ebola treatment centers in sierra leone with beds and labs. and switzerland is hosting the largest ever ebola vaccine trial with more than 100 human volunteers. our correspondent nic robertson takes us inside the has been for this exclusive report. >> reporter: long awaited, finally here.

an ebola vaccine arrives deep underground beneath a swiss hospital. the potential cure for the deadly virus, stored way below freezing. this tiny pouch containing the core of the world health organization's largest clinical trial on humans to date. upstairs, one of the 120 volunteers to test the vaccine prepares for the trial. >> i feel very safe about this. a lot of people told me there's so many risks, don't you feel like you could get sick because of the vaccine. but this is not how i feel, and there are a lot of people who could benefit from it. >> reporter: first, a blood sample taken to make sure she's in good health. trial confidentiality remains we can't reveal the volunteer's name but we can show her on tv and she can talk about the experience. checking for fever and rashes and blood tests. >> i'm not afraid of blood tests

or anything like that. i think the hard part to me is not knowing whether i'm getting the vaccine or a placebo. >> reporter: her blood rushed through this 1400 bed hospital to a state of the art lab. over the next few months, thousands of volunteer samples will pass through here. tests in this phase one trial make for safety of the vaccine and dosage. >> we are measuring antibodies and asking the question, do these pertain illicit a reaction. >> reporter: doctors hope to have the first results as early as december this year. their biggest surprise so far, way more volunteers than they needed. >> we chose the students, but also the population for clinical research and a sense of urgency with a sense of we can do

something for africa. >> reporter: if these trials are successful, the w.h.o. plans to quickly scale up and test vaccines on thoughts of people in sierra leone and liberia as early as january next year. if those tests are successful, they could begin a wide scale vaccination campaign as early as next april. nic robertson, cnn, switzerland. this is interesting. the iaea also appears to be helping with the fight against ebola. after the u.s. secretary of state spoke with the agency's director general, they said they discussed important work the iaea is doing to combat the spread of ebola, including through using nuclear technology the agency developed that cuts the diagnosis time for the disease by a significant amount. hopefully that's a promising development, as well. it's just past 1:00 a.m. in

the u.s. state of missouri, and the mischief in ferguson is denying reports that he's going to step down. take a listen to what he told our jason carroll in an exclusive interview. >> where does it stand? are you going to resign? >> no, i'm going to stay and see this through. >> pretty straightforward there. thomas jackson's department has faced angry protests and intense scrutiny since a white police shot unarmed african-american teenager michael brown in august. the u.s. justice department is investigating this, and the attorney general eric holder has called for what he said as wholesale change in the police department. but the chief says he isn't sure what holder wants. >> is there anger towards the attorney generalso sogeneral? >> no. frustration that he came into town and met with nobody with

the police or the city and he drew conclusions. he says he has an investigation going on right now, so he doesn't want to comment. however, he's drawn a conclusion that wholesale change needs to be made. so when you say wholesale, do we get rid of our neighborhood associations, do we stop our s.o.r. program, do we take the police out of schools, quit teaching d.a.r.e., quit sending police officers on park program trips? we have a lot of good stuff going on. so he needs to be a little more specific. >> a grand jury is hearing evidence on officer darren wilson, their decision whether to indict should come next month. there's been outrage in jerusalem after the attempted assassination of a controversial rabbi. a full day of unrest leads to police temporarily closing one of the old cities most sacred

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thursday. now, all of this follows violent clashes in the wake of an assassination attempt on a controversial rabbi. here's more now on a day that saw high tensions in jerusalem's old city. ♪ >> reporter: the grand mufta of jerusalem walks through the streets of the old city. today at the third holiest site in islam, he was turned away from noon prayers. closed following the attempted assassination of rabbi yehud glick. following the assassination attem attempt, they vowed to enter the temple mount for prayers, but as you can see, the site is completely closed to all worshippers. now yehud glick lies in an israeli hospital. medical sources say he's in serious condition. police say a man on a motorcycle shot him four times. glick had just hosted an event attended by members of the

israeli kinesset, which called for more israeli jews to go to the temple mount. it was here at his house that the suspect, a 32-year-old palestinian, was killed in a shootout with israeli forces. there have been increasing clashes in jerusalem. islamic scholars have been protesting the number of far right israelis arriving daily at the site. >> translator: it's the jewish right wing extremism that's raised the pace of assaults. since 2003, we've been talking about these unilateral decisions. the pace of assaults has increased. >> reporter: jews are not allowed to formally allowed to pray at the site. glick and others have been calling for greater access. more moderate voices say a solution is possible. >> it should be possible to accommodate everyone without it

without jeopardizing their attachment, but there has to be that good will. >> reporter: these days good will is hard to come by. more police are out. the neighborhood uneasy with clashes. and now all too familiar scene on the streets of jerusalem. ♪ isis is now claiming responsibility for what syrian activists reported earlier this week. the militants have seized control of wide areas of oil and gas fields in homs province. these images, what you're seeing now, is proof they say. the syrian observatory for human rights says 30 government soldiers were killed in the initial battle and fighting continues as syrian troops try to regain control.

syria's 3-year-old civil war continues to rage on and rebels say the regime of president assad is increasing it s brutal reach with fighters paid for by iran. nick paton walsh has that part of the story. >> reporter: the regime is fast advancing around aleppo, trying to encircle rebels there. this building was blown up in that fight. this rescue operation is different. they know the mouth they can just see belongs to a regime fighter. where are your friends, they ask him? they want him alive. curious, asking is he from yemen? no. in fact, this is something they haven't encountered before.

bandaged up, he can't speak their arabic. that is because he is afghan. valuable enough to keep, they feed him and film this footage, which we can't verify. "my name is ahmed. the iranians are paying people like me to come here and fight. i migrant in iran. the iranians brought us to syria to fight to defend the shrine. i don't want to fight anymore." he said he was paid about $500 a month to fight. it is a long journey between two lands brutalized by war, but in eastern afghanistan, we found the other end of this story. in this tiny village, men who used to fight with the taliban are off to fight for the syrian regime. they come home after briefly training in iran to say goodbye to their families and ask their father it is they can go to war.

they think they can fight america in syria. "we want to go there for two reasons. one is to fight against those who are being assisted by americans in syria. secondly, because iran pays us to fight in syria." we used to be part of the taliban in afghanistan, but after our disagreements caused tensions, we left the taliban and went to iran. they say they were driven to a base blind folded for 15 days training and will be paid into these iranian banks. but they know little about syria's war. for now, we don't have a lot of information about isis, he says. but if we see them in syria, we'll sit with them, talk to them, and if our thoughts are similar, we can become friends. america's old enemy, the taliban, now fighting in the new war. nick paton walsh, cnn, southern

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rapists. the target, a prominent defector who says it's all a smear campaign to discount what he is saying about human rights vie haitians. >> reporter: north korean calls this man human squcum. he's the only man known to have been born in a prison camp, escaped and lived to tell the world about it. this footage was posted on the website which carries pro pyongyang propaganda. the video alleges he left the country to avoid punishment for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. he says it is a lie he's heard before, and north korea is trying to discredit him. he wrote a book about his life

in catch 14, where he said one of his earliest memories is when he was forced to watch the execution of his mother and brother. they showed me the video, he says, either to keep me quiet or return to north korea. one thing for sure is my father's fate hangs upon north korea. if i keep doing this, my father will probably endure more hardship. she was one of the defectors who testified at the united nations, a damning report on pyongyang's human rights abuses that north korea has rejected. shin says that despite north korea using his father in a campaign to try and discredit him, this is the first time he's been grateful to the regime. he says at least now he knows his father is still alive. for many years, he had thought he was dead. paula hancox, cnn, seoul.

500 people may be missing after this landslide in sri lanka. at least ten people are dead but hundreds more are feared trapped after wednesday's disaster. let's bring in eric vandam for more. i know officials have toured the area and they know where the problem is, but you can't control the weather. there's only so much that people can do as they try and rescue possibly more survivors. >> that's correct. the rain is not helping in that recovery effort. it's hampering the effort. it's just caused the area, which is a mountainous region, to destabilize. so we have an increased risk of landslides across south central sri lanka. this is the scene as rescue efforts continue and are under way. you can see people obviously bundled up across this area, because the rain has been very

consistent for the past several days. in fact, it's rained 16 of the past 17 days now for this part of the region. again, that has led to the unfortunate event that unfolded there wednesday morning at 7:30 local time. this is what the terrain looks like. very mountainous region. this is a population of about 48,000 people. unfortunately, ten are confirmed dead with 192 still missing with 140 homes destroyed by this mudslide. to make matters worse, we still have continuous rainfall on top of rainfall totals that are exceeding 100 millimeters. so it is extremely wet as the monsoonal rains continue across south central sri lanka. you can see our precipitation forecast going forward, moderate to heavy showers blanketing the area. we could experience another 20 to 30 millimeters of rainfall.

this is where the mudslide took place. i'm going to change gears because a lot of us have been getting used to the warm temperatures in the united kingdom. the mean temperatures for october, around 11 degrees, which is 1 1/2 degree above average. 9 out of 10 months have been above average. all good things must come to an end. look at this temperature trend for london and paris and berlin. cooling all for all three location. still to come here on cnn, the military takes over after a violent anti-government clashes in that west african nation. details after the break.

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er welcome back. i'm errol barnett. here are the big headlines we're following on cnn right now. prosecutors in pennsylvania say they will seek the death penalty for alleged cop killer eric frein after nearly two months on the run, he's now in custody and people are expressing relief that he's no longer on the loose. >> i actually felt like i was in a war zone a couple weeks ago and it was hard to sleep for a few nights, worrying about where is he is, where his whereabouts are. but it's a good thing now that he's caught and now can final lip rest again. >> the largest ever ebola vaccine trial is under way at this moment in switserland. more than 100 people have volunteered to be part of the research. the world health organization hopes to have the first results

in december. ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people in west africa. film director roman polanski has been released by polish authorities after a u.s. request to arrest him. prosecutors questioned him thursday but did not take him into custody. the u.s. is seeking to extradite him more than 30 years after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. a south korean military court convicted four soldiers in the beating death of a 20-year-old conscript. he'll seven between 25 and 45 years in policeon. prosecutors said the victim was beaten and bullied almost daily for a month before he died. now to a mass execution by isis militants in iraq. the victims, hundreds of sunni tribesmen that had been battling the extremists who are also sunni. as jim sciutto reports, the massacre is raising new questions in washington about the war on isis.

>> reporter: when they took up arms against isis earlier this month, they celebrated with gunfire and a parade. they are essential to the u.s.-led war. moderate sunnis challenging the extremist sunnis of isis. much of the sunni awakening fought back against al qaeda in iraq during the iraq war. but now just two weeks later, this. in the last 48 hours, tribal leaders tell cnn isis massacred 400 tribesmen. 45 iraqis executed on camera on wednesday. and today, hundreds more found in a mass grave. today, pentagon leaders acknowledged that u.s. trained iraqi forces could not be relied on to help. >> the iraqi security forces in al anbar province are in defensive positions and would be unlikely to be able to respond

to a request for assistance. >> reporter: on monday, the u.s. air dropped humanitarian aid, but there was no military action to rescue them. and pentagon leaders end camed that will not change any time soon. >> here you have a group that is risking their lives in a way that the coalition is frankly desperate for. and yet no one came to their aid except an air drop of meals. >> this is just another but one of many daily dimensions of what's going on over there. the brutality of isil and what they're doing has to be stopped. >> reporter: as isis continues its deadly march through syria and iraq, the president's national security team is facing its own internal disagreements. today, defense secretary chuck hagel acknowledged that he sent a two-page memo arguing for a

page in syria policy, specifically to make confronting the regime of bashar al assad a central part of the strategy. >> that's a responsibility of any leader. and because we are a significant element of this issue, we owe the president and we owe the national security council our best thinking on this. and it has to be honest and it has to be direct. >> reporter: this is a very public disagreement on a core element of the administration's syria policy, which is what to do about assad. for three years, the president said assad must be removed. now he's pursuing an air campaign which hurts assad's key rival isis. also a key point of contention between nato allies, the u.s., and turkey. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. keeping our focus in syria, u.s. officials say leaders of the al qaeda linked khorasan

group remain an imminent threat despite missiles meant to kill them in september. barbara starr has details. >> reporter: these u.s. attacks apparently did not work. the first missile strikes in syria last month were supposed to stop one of the most deadly al qaeda affiliates, the khorasan group. al qaeda operatives the u.s. says are a direct threat. >> the intelligence reports indicated that the khorasan group was in the final stages of plans to execute major attacks against western targets and potentially the u.s. homeland. >> reporter: but now u.s. intelligence believes two key khorasan leaders are still alive. still plotting against the u.s. while the coalition has conducted over 300 air strikes against isis in syria, an administration official tells cnn there have been to new military strikes against khorasan. nobody knows where they are. >> what's actually happened is

senior khorasan members, and a number of other individuals have scattered to various safe houses in syria. haven't stayed together, but have scattered making it more difficult to target. >> reporter: after getting help from al qaeda's master bombmaker, the group is capable of making bombs that could potentially evade airport screening. the u.s. urgently needs to find and target two key operatives. a long-time osama bin laden insider, he moved to syria about a year ago. now involved in plots against the u.s. >> the americans and a range of other european countries are using all means possible to collect intelligence on khorasan, including fadhli. anything they can to identify his whereabouts. >> reporter: the hunt is also on

to the french khorasan bombmaker with ties to core al qaeda in pakistan. he's facilitated the movement of european jihadists to syria, then pack to europe. >> these two men know they're marked men, so they'll be taking huge precautions to stay safe. so it's going to be a real hard job to get them. >> reporter: so did they really disappear? analysts say it's possible they were never there at the attack site the night the u.s. navy struck. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. now to rapidly unfolding developments in the west african nation of burkina faso. the military there has now taken control of the government after clashes erupted on thursday. >> translator: the national assembly is dissolved. the government is dissolved. an interim authority will be set up in consultation with all the

forces of the nation. in order to prepare the conditions for the return to the normal constitutional order within a period of 12 months at the latest. a curfew is established throughout the country start thing day, from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. to preserve the safe any of persons and property. >> that nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew in burkina faso comes after anti-demonstrators set fire to a parliament building on thursday. >> reporter: the president of burkina faso has declared a state of emergency. trying to disrupt a vote which, if it had gone through, would have attended the constitution. so as to grant him another term in office. he's hs said that he has taken that constitutional reform vote off the agenda, but that he is still the president. protesters clearly have had

enough of the strongman politics of a leader who professes to be democratic, and he has been in office for 27 years, taking power in a bloody coup in 1987. the african union has appealed for calm and says it will send a mission to burkina faso to try and keep the pace. the u.n. secretary-general has also sent his special representative for west africa to burkina faso. he's due to arrive on friday. the president himself earlier appealed for calm on twitter, but there was violence. the security forces firing tear dpas and live rounds into the crowds and there have been casualties. now, burkina faso over the last few decades, despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, has maintained relative political stability because of the iron fisted grip of the president. he has also been a very, very key ally for both france and the

united states who have partnered with burkina faso in the fight against islamist militants, and the president was also instrumental in trying to negotiate peace in northern mali. it is clear that the west will be looking closely at this political uncertainty to see whether it has any ramifications. >> we will continue to watch closely developments out of burkina faso. now, as u.s. investigators try and figure out who hacked into the white house computer network, one country's topping the list of suspects. we'll tell you why, after this. ♪ man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan,

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welcome back. apple's ceo tim cook has revealed that he's gay. and he says he did it to help othering. take a look at a letter he wrote "i've come to realize my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something more important. that's what has led me to today. while i've never denied my sexuality, i haven't publicly ak knowledged it either. so let me be clear, i consider to be gay and i consider being gay among the greatest gifts god has given me." brown resigned from bp seven years ago after a accomplish newspaper outed him.

>> people have asked me, what would it have taken for me to come out on the job? i said my fears would have kept me in place. although if there were an example like tim cook, it probably would have sent an electric shock through me and i might have thought about it for me. role models are so important, so the more the better. >> cook's declaration makes him the only publicly gay ceo in the fortune 500. that's a list of the largest corporations in the u.s. key word there, publicly. now for this, russia is denying allegations that it was behind the computer security breach at the white house. there's been no hard evidence, but that hasn't taken the kremlin off the list of possible suspects. matthew chance explains what's behind these growing suspicions. >> reporter: is washington the latest battlefield in russia's cyber war with the west? the kremlin denies allegations

it was behind the recent white house computer security breach. but analysts say russia has emerged as a highly sophisticated cyber threat. >> by far the biggest problem is the criminal element operating inside russia. this includes trojans, botnets. there are a fairly large number of governmental related cases coming out of russia, as well. >> reporter: but there are suspicions that range is growing. as relations between russia and the west deteriorate, particularly over the conflict in ukraine. analysts are seeing coordinated digital attacks against western institutions and infrastructure. and the moscow headquarters at the labs which tracks global cyber threats, an upsurge in military and political targets

points to state involvement. and the suspicion is the same highly skilled programmers behind criminal cyber attacks, are now also being paid as mercenaries in a global cyber war. >> what we see now, the governments are indicate not directly, of course, we see it in the united states, in china, everywhere. >> reporter: there is, of course, little by way of hard evidence pinning any cyber attacks on russia or any other country. anonymity is one of the key reasons cyber warfare is so widespread. but analysts say the types of targets being hit, the level of sophistication being used, points to a coordinated kremlin backed campaign against the west. into which even russia's cyber criminals may now have been

drawn. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> it's not just government's concern about cyber attacks. the fact is, it's getting easier to hack you and many and many of us aren't doing enough to protect ourselves on the web. samuel burke explains how gaining access to our personal information can be as easy as a walk in the park. ripe breezy fall day in central park. like many others, my colleague is taking a break. he finds a convenient place to stop and browse the internet. but he's about to fall into a cyber trap. >> this is going to be my internet access. >> reporter: caleb huff is an expert in online intrusions, with all the skills of your typical hacker. he's created an unsecured,

public wi-fi network. >> from here, these are the applications that i can run within the antenna. this is going to allow me to see people's log-ins and passwords. >> we're just waiting for our next victim to log into the network. >> right. >> reporter: he's using a tool that routes it through the hacker's computer. >> the log-ins and passwords for these websites are encrypted, just not very strictly. so this program decrypts them in real time and displays them in plain text. >> reporter: jose is our next victim. right on cue -- >> it's one of the only ones that's not locked down. >> reporter: that's his first mistake and it's a big one. do not connect to open wi-fi networks. >> what we're seeing right here, someone is logging in to yahoo.com. winter is coming. got to get myself a new coat.

it looks like somebody is logging into their amazon account. password is displayed right here. these numbers will represent the symbols on your keyboard. so what this spells out is pass, pass, 02-02. >> reporter: like so many of us, jose is using the same password for e-mail and amazon. another mistake. now we have all this information. let's see how far a hacker might take it using just my everyday cell phone. cyber, joey, cnn. so i'm in. i've gone into our victim's amazon account. i have the american express card already in there. he saved it. i just made a purchase on his account. jose will have no idea he's been hacked until he sees his bill. caleb now has access to his e-mail account, amazon and his credit card.

how easy was that? >> extremely easy. everything we're using is readily available on the sper net. anybody can download the soft fair and there's tutorials out there, as well. >> reporter: for everyone involved, a walk in the park. samuel burke, cnn, new york. >> there you have it. no excuses, guys. we've been washed. still to come here on cnn, when is the last time you saw a show like this? >> they're glow in the dark, it's quite mind blowing. it really plays with your eyesight. all the colors show up like so vibrantly. >> that is some trippy stuff. find out how a group of ballet cancers created this dazzling display. stay with us.

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states, impacting atlanta and washington, d.c. the national weather service in the united states issuing hard freeze warnings for saturday morning. temperatures dropping below 32 degrees fahrenheit. and you can see the snowfall impacting the region. here's the latest temperatures for the weekend. we should be at 63 for st. louis, but saturday, only 54. the shading of blue representing the rain, but that white is snowfall. it's lake-effect snow for the northern part of michigan, impacting lake erie and lake ontario. we'll switch gears to, well, rainfall and very autumn-like weather across norway. but this heavy rainfall has caused some serious flooding. take a look at this visual coming out of the region. this is actually from otto, about 300 kilometers to the west of oslo, norway.

buildings and structures threatened by swelling rivers. they're almost two times the size they should be on average, at least. and there haven't been any reports of any fatalities or injuries fortunately enough. but definitely a nuisance. it's closed down 20 roadways in the area. we're talking about twice the monthly average rainfall for that region. here's a look at some of those rainfall totals. 146 millimeters since monday. you can see we've got more rainfall in the forecast for norway and much of europe. >> a snowy halloween for the states. artists from around the world gathered right here in atlanta for an annual body painting competition. where was any and a performance by the atlanta ballet in 3-d neon paint that lit up the room. check it out. ♪

>> standing there and letting them do their work, it's a mental challenge and takes a long time, but it's so amazing when it's done. >> you had a certain amount of time to get your artwork done. it's six to ten hours that you want to work on it. >> after that, it's just -- have a shower and it's gone. >> the black light is reflecting on your eyes so close. so when you're working on fluorescent paint, it's like having light in front of your eyes. it's just bouncing off the body. i'm a little bit drained right now from painting for 2 1/2 hours. what makes this different from any other show is the lighting of the paint. when you paint yellow and red, and you tack it up on top of each other, it creates an optical illusion. then if you tack the blue and the green, it create an optical

illusion in contrast with the yellow and red. then you get the 3-d glasses and that sets it on fire. >> it's quite mind blowing. it really plays with your eyesight. all the colors show up so vibrantly. >> you start with absolutely nothing, it's black. so you have even less of a canvas. and working back from that is a fantastic feeling. people see themselves after they've been painted in black light, their reaction of like, oh, my god, is so much more than people just being body painted. >> i walked into the studio with the dancers, and that's how we started. i said, you're going to be on the runway. let's see what comes out of our bodies and my imagination. >> their canvas is the dancers. i wanted to show it off in the best possible light.

>> being a dancer and having the artist come together is phenomenal. it was a strange process, because dancers aren't very good at standing still. >> my inspiration is the total transformation. with regular body painting, you'll always see the original human body. here, black light, everything is possible. >> very creative stuff there. thanks for joining me. i'm errol barnett. natalie allen joins me. coming up, suspected cop killer eric frein is in custody in pennsylvania. prosecutors say they will pursue the death penalty. also coming up, a cnn exclusive. cuban migrants are desperately trying to cross the florida straits and reach the u.s. we get a firsthand look at their dangerous journey. stay with us here on cnn. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa

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