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a midair controversies leaves one pilot dead and one injured. after a costly mistake in seven months in a mexican prison, a u.s. marine reservist is finally home. taking to the streets and protesting the closing of one of the sites in the middle east. welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm natalie allen. straight to our top stories here. investigators looking for the answer to a devastating set back. the spaceship two broke apart during a test flight on friday. it just separate from a plane that carried it 17 meters above climp's desert. one pie h lot was killed and one was seriously injured.
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virgin galactic is deeply saddened. >> space is hard and today was a tough day. future rests in many ways on hard, hard days like this. kbu we believe it to the folks who have been flying theek vehicles as well as the folks who have been working hard on them to understand this and to move forward, which is that we'll do. >> sirj l galactic issued a statement saying in part we've always known the road to space is extremely difficult and every new transportation system has to deal with bad days early in their history. extensive ground testing had been conducted on all parts of
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spaceship two. many have seen his company as the best hope for private space exploration. as stan simon reports, prior to friday's tragedy there had been wide spread hope that flights would begin sometime next year. >> for $250,000 a ride, this is the vehicle designed to take well healed passengers to space. the virgin galactic spaceship two is a sub orbital vehicle where ticket holders would get a glorious view of the earth. it began operating in 2005 and within three years virgin galactic had more than $31 million in deposits from space tourists. >> what would you like to see happened to it in the next few years? >> i love to dream and we've got plenty of ambitions for virgin galactic. our initial ambitions are to
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create more astronauts in a year than nasa has been 60 years. that's going to be extremely exciting to do and i think that will start in a year's time. >> that timeline turned out to be overly ambition. i interviewed richard branson in 2011. it was the first time a spacecraft landed at an sbeshl airport and branson was beaming. >> you're going to go 2,000 miles an hour in eighth seconds. once in space you unbuckle, you look back at earth through these wonderful big window, you float around and have the ride of a lifetime. >> spaceship two is designed to work like this. it's carried under a mother ship. then once it reaches an altitude of 50,000 feet, it's released
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with the spacecraft firing its built-in rocket traveling 62 miles above the earth. on its website virgin galactic says safety its north star, something branson stressed repeatedly in interviews. >> i'm not going to take my son into space until we've got everything right and the team won't let me go into space until everything is right. >> the project includes 300 of the bst rocket scientists in the world. in the days leading up to the flight companies were saying if the test flights were successful, space tourism could begin as early as next year. with this mishap, there are major questions about the future of the project. dan simon, cnn san francisco. >> there are several private space companies out there. virgin galactic is obviously the most well noen. they aim to provide trips to space tourists.
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ticket costs, about $250,000. hope you get some pea nuts with that. orbital science corporation designs, manufactures and launches small and medium system pps they built the rocket that exploded on tuesday in virginia. space x is short for space exploration. the company was the first to launch a privately funded liquid fuel rocket that reached orbit. on to other news now, from west africa it is not clear who is leading the country in the wake of the president's resignation over protests of him. this lieutenant announced he's the head of the state. but just hours earlier the general of the armed forces said he was taking over. the country's former president resigned after violent street
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protests. he ruled as an authoritarian for 27 years and lawmakers considered extending that term. that's what caused the protests. zeda told us that he's in a space safe place. after more than 200 days in a mexican call, a u.s. marine is back on american soil and reunited with his family. the 26-year-old was arrested on gun charges in march. customs agents found several weapons and ammo in his truck at a tee wanna check point. the marine insisted he simply made a wrong turn on the u.s. side of the border. canada is imposing new visa rules that will help protect citizens from ebola. effective immediately, the ro country will not process a visa or anyone who's been in a
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country wide spread with ebola. canadian health care workers in west africa will be allowed to return home. the u.s. nurse quarantined after her return to africa is free to leave her home a day of casey hickox denied the order, the judge ruled that health officials did not make a case for her seclusion. he did say she needs to be actively monitored and she agreed. >> the united nations warns against isolating health care workers if they aren't sick. >> there's no scientific basis for putting them in quarantine unless there's a suggestion that they might have ebola. if they've got no symptoms, please think very hard before putting restrictions on them. we really don't want to jeopardize the effort to mobilize health works.
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we don't want them feeling they will be made to feel unwelcome in their countries of origin when they return. >> right now more than 100 people are volunteering switzerland and taking part in an ebola vaccine trial. nic robertson takes us inside the lab and talks one of the volunteers. >> 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 earth organizations who's largest clinical trial on humans to date. upstairs, one of the 120 volunteer to test the vaccine prepares for the trial. >> i feel very safe about this. a lot of people told me, but there are so many risks, don't you feel like you could get sick because of the vaccine?
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this is not how i feel. there are a lot of people who could benefit from it. >> first, a blood sample taken to make sure she is in good health. trial confidentiality means 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 being a med school student. i think the hard part to me is not knowing whether i'm getting the vaccine or a placebo >> reporter: her blood blood rushed through this 14-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 i trail made for safety of the vaccine and dosage. >> we are measuring anti-bodies and asking the question, does
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this that we inject elicit a reaction. >> reporter: doctors hope to have the first results as early as december of this year. their biggest surprise so far, way more volunteers than they needed. >> we chose for the students here also the population for clinical research and also sense of urgency, so a sense of we can do something for africa. >> reporter: if these trials are successful, the who plans to quickly scale up and test vaccines on thousands of people in sierra leone and liberia as early as january of next year. if those tests are successful, they could begin a wide scale vaccination campaign as early as april. nic robertson, switzerland. >> certainly hope it works. violence erupts in the streets of jerusalem.
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how israel is trying to close palestinian anger. also a lull in the fighting in eastern ukraine opens a window for investigators to return to the malaysia airlines 17 crash site. we'll tell you what they're finding. ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. thlook what i got.p. oh my froot loops! [sniffs] let's do this? get up! get up! get up! get up! loop me! bring back the awesome... yeah! yeah! yeah! with the great taste of kellogg's froot loops. follow your nose!
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a dutch recovery team has found more human remains at the
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malaysian crash site. fighting has prevented access to the site. the dutch prime minister says the remains will be sent back to the netherlands. ma 17 crashed in july killing all 298 people on board. only nine people are yet to be identified. kiev blames pro-russian rebels for shooting down the plane. for more than a month now mexican authorities have failed to find 43 students who seemed to have vanished without a trace. it's a case that's shocked mexicans already weary of drug crimes. on september 26. the group of all male students from a teacher's college went missing. the cases sparked protests across the country. last week arrest warrants for issued for this couple, the former mayor of the city and his wife. mexico's attorney general accused them of being the master minds behind the kidnapping.
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just days ago investigators found a mass grave in a dump. they were led there by two suspects arrested in the investigation. no word yet if any of the remains are of the students. well families of some of the students confronted mexico's president on wednesday during a five-hour meeting. they demanded he do more to find their sons. cnn's correspondent spoke to one mother who shared her pain. >> it's been more than a month since 43 students went missing. yesterday their parents had a meeting with the president. they signed an agreement. but regardless of the agreement, families are not satisfied. today i had the opportunity to talk to one of the moms of these kids. this is what she has to say. >> translator: well yb yes, i feel more at peace because he signed a contract where he promise to do all he can to
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intensify the search. so yes, that leaves me more at peace. but of course i won't rest until i have any son in front of me. >> who is your son? zblr. >> translator: he was well centered, well educated. he liked sports. i remember when he was a bib by he always told me i was everything for him. and since he was my youngest i would tell him, son, you're everything for me. i didn't want him to study in the school because in 2011 two students were killed here but he insisted. i asked president obama to help us. i asked him through the media that he had to help us. over there if someone loses a hair they can find it. i said they had to find our kids alive, not dead. for me, he's not dead. he's been kidnapped by the
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government. i feel that's close. i feel he will come back. >> reporter: the families still hold the hope of finding their families alive. >> we'll certainly continue to follow that story. well a third victim, another girl of last week's school shooting in the u.s. has now died. she passed away friday at just 14 years old. she was shot at her marysville high school in washington state. one of her doctors read om emotional words from the daughter's family. >> our hearts are broken by the passing of her beautiful darth. shae means everything to us. >> four other teenagers were shot in the school's cafeteria before the gunman killed
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himself. three girls in the u.s. are dead after being hit by a speeding car while trick or treating on halloween. it happened near los angeles, california. police say halloween is one of the deadliest nights for pedestrians. krystle cruise from our affiliate reports for us. >> three teenagers in halloween costumes trick tore treating with their candy bags were hit and killed in a crosswalk in santa ana. a suspect car has been found but officers are still looking for two men. >> i believe we have damage that's consistent with a vehicle collision and we believe that's the vehicle at this time. police understand that this is an ongoing investigation so we're still trying to put all of the pieces together and trying to notify next of kin. >> according to authorities, the car was speeding through that residential neighborhood when it slammed into the teens. neighbors say they know the children who died at the scene
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whose name hasn't been released. >> my daughter is really sad. one of them was her best friend. >> it happened unexpectedly. you never know when it's going to happen. i'm blessed of shared her last day with her. not like a couple of hours ago we were together. >> that was krystle cruise reporting from santa ana. well a cold front is sweeping through the midwest in the u.s. this weekend. some are even seeing the first snow of the season. we'll show you. and downtown chicago, the windy city, we'll look at that. so windy the wake is pushing waves on to lake shore drive. also ahead here, a homeless man in canada is an internet sensation and the haunting music he plays may only be matched by the haunting story of how he ended up living in the streets. ♪
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well many people often ignore or avoid the homeless they see on the streets. but one woman captured a video of a man playing a haunting melody on a piano set up in a public square in edmondton and she had to know more. ♪ >> in the middle of downtown, a meddy so beautiful that rosalind
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knew she had to record this. >> i wanted to show it to my friends and my kids. it's kind of unbelievable. >> but the question became just who is this man and what is his story. after three days of searching the inner city and the shelters, we finally found him, 43-year-old ryan orcant. he looked much different and had no idea he was a star of a video that went viral. >> my hair? the strong hold. >> it's hard to piece together just how he got here. he was put into foster care as a young child and it was in one of those homes where he first played a piano. >> it's like it's never been touched, you know. it's never been touched at all. >> he's lived on the streets for most of his life and is consumed by addiction. >> what has it meant for you to express yourself through music?
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>> music, it becomes a part of you, like you're born with it. >> after our interview, he played for us. >> the grand peianopiano. that was my dream. >> that same haunting song. ♪ later in the day pollard came to the church to learn more about the man she recorded. >> this is not a happy end pg. it's not something that youtube is going to fix. >> the video most likely will not change his life. >> you're playing but you forget yourself. >> but it's a sad reminder that beauty and promise can be found anywhere. ♪ >> well it may not have a happy ending but what a very sweet story. we turn now to the weather. derek vam dam is with us with
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some new news. >> we're going to start with the radar over the western half of the united states. you can see we've had a significant amount of rain across this region, especially near the los angeles area. and i bring this up because we're getting some information from the ventura county fire department, an area about an hour north of los angeles maz actually had a mudslide occur within the past few hours. one house was impacted directly. a man was trapped inside of the house. but he was located and removed and is safe along with his wife. 11 homes have been evacuated as a precaution. you can see the rainfall moving through the area. it has been a drought stricken season for much of california, in fact all of california. los angeles, the last time it had any measurable rainfall was in may of this year. so this is bringing much needed relief. but because the ground is so dry, any amount of rain will
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really destabilize the ground across that area leaving the potential for the mudslides. people need to be very well aware that the potential for mudslides does exist for that region. he's move on to some different weather. we're talking about a major cooldown across the upper midwest and it's created quite a phenomenon on the lake shore drive near chicago in the great lakes. let's get to some visuals before we explain why this happened. well the gales of november came a day early. this is halloween and lake michigan's waves reached a near record height of 22 feet on friday. previous record was 22.9 feet set back in september of 2011. measured wind gusts of 59 miles per hour. this was the scene. we're talking about scenic lake shore drive being flooded leading to lane closures,
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traffic being backed up and even causing authorities to close the east end of chicago's famed navy pier. the cold front moved through and it changed the winds out of the north. now this wind was actually running parallel with the entire length of lake michigan. this is called the fetch. and when you combine that with above average lake levels, we're talking about lake levels that are at its highest since the 1990s and that strong northwesterly wind, that impacts the southern portions of lake michigan bringing waves upward of 22 feet with the buoy in the southern portions of lake michigan. and this should continue, we have a potential for pretty hefty waves across that region. authorities are warning any residents to stay away from piers near the shoreline. with the passage of the cold
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front, meaning that the temperatures take a nose drive. we've got freeze warnings for most of the central united states. a snowstorm taking place near the southern appalachians. we could see a foot of snow before it's all said and done. very cold weather moving along the east coast. back to you. >> it's coming. you know, i love chicago in july. >> that's right. favorite time of the year. >> thank you, derek. a braet of home for kurds in kobani. coming up, fighters from iraq are head there had to take on isis. we'll have a live report. plus, why u.s. military advisers may be on their way to an isis strong hold in iraq. and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter.
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welcome back to cnn's live coverage. i'm natalie allen. a u.s. marine held in a mexican jail is back home after being freed at the order of a mexican judge. he was arrested in march on gun charges after customs agents found weapons in his truck at a tee wanna check point. the marine says he made a wrong turn on the u.s. side of the border. crowds outside the army headquarters celebrated after the chief of the armed forces said he was taking control of the west african country. but just hours later, a lieutenant guard made a rival claim. the former president resigned after a violent protest. disaster for richard branson's galactic spaceship two as it breaks up during a test
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flight. the experiment tall craft had just separated from the plane carrying it. one pilot was killed, the other seriously injured. branson says there was extensive ground testing of all parts of the spaceship. invest garigators are look the reason for the crash. some clues might be found in pictures that were taken of friday's test flight at the moment the breakup took place. he spoke with cnn's anderson cooper. >> that first shot you see it just separated, the two craft have separate pd. the plume looking bright and distinct. then as we go to the second shot, you'll notice the plume is not as distinct and bright as it was before. >> it's the spacecraft on the right -- >> yes. >> -- that's the galactic spaceship. >> glad you clarified that. to the left is the mother ship,
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to the right is the spacecraft. it also looks like a string of pearls as if it's sputtering. now look at the next shot and you can see that isn't really necessarily an explosion as it is an inflight breakup. you look at all of the pieces and the trail there. one of the things they need to look at is was there some sort of rupture in the fuel tank. what that would do is cause piece to fall off, cause the sputtering effect and it could also cause some sort of a symmetrical thrust which could cause a further breakup. >> many wonder how the tragedy will affect the future of travel in space. some thoughts on that now from our senior aviation correspondent, richard quest >> people don't go into this industry. they don't go down this route if they're going to be put off by set backs.
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remember, rish ard branson has ditched onds two round the world balloon attempts. he's been across the ocean in a speedboat and won the blue ribbon. this is a man who is not faint hearted when it comes to risk. now is he obviously going to pause for thought absolutely. will there delay the final result of virgin galactic? without a doubt. i cannot see him tonight turning the lyings off. >> cnn's richard quest there. as richard branson put it following friday's disaster, we will persevere and move forward together. syrian kurds are finally getting some desperately needed help in the battle against isis. more than 100 kurdish piethers have entered the town. they crossed over the border after arriving from iraq. let's bring in our senior international correspondent. he's been following the
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developments for many days. he joins us now live. nick? >> reporter: natalie, this entry waited for so long, so much debate about whether these pesh merger, the iraq ki kurds after they travel through turkey, what kind of mission would they undertake. would they bring in the weapons and teach the kurds how to use them or would they actually be fighting. it appears that they're there to actually fight and assist the syrian kurds. now we speak to one syrian kurdish after the pesh merger went in. they went in about 9:00 local time last night using the cover of darkness an an entrance to the west of the city, a hole in the fence basically with the turkish army. we spoke to one syrian kurdish fighter who discussed about the pride he felt and how iraqi
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kurds and syrian kurds were fighting against isis. that is what the similar po lichl was to provide, a symbol of unity. but people now in kobani looking to see what isis can throw at this fight. they have continued to fight for the official crossing which may it hard for the pesh merger to go in. in terms of the fight for kobani. >> and u.s. air strikes, they didn't really seem to be able to get isis out of there. are the air strikes, have they subsided for now? >> reporter: the air strikes continue to come in, not quite with the intensity that we saw over ten days ago where we were seeing 60 in just a matter of four days. we're seeing less now. they seem to be targeted, often much larger blasts that with eve
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seen previously. they appear to be used to keep isis back from advancing, to remove parts of the armor which is hard for those fighting on the ground to actually take on. of course now with the iraqi kurdish troops on the ground, there's more capability to move isis out of the areas that they continue to harass in kobani. this is that they've been waiting for. we'll have to see in the days ahead if that changes things inside kobani. >> we've been talking about kobani for so long, whereas there have been other areas that isis has taken over. why the significance of this town in particular, nick? >> reporter: well it started out as not being that significant. on a smaller scale it is significant for isis. it's important to syrian kurds because it's part of their broader team for an independent kurdish nation. but in terms of itself it's not
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as significant as e lep po. but it's become significant partially because of the fact that tv cameras have been able to record bit by bit, day by day the fight for that. that's a rare thing in syria where access to the war is so difficult and dangerous so much of the time. it has become important for isis and syrian kurds. for the coalition it became a chance to impose a psychological blow against isis by using the air power and perhaps off putting certain people that might think about joining isis. >> you'll be there for us to see what significance these troops will play there. thank you. well women play a significant role on the front lines of the syrian kurdish army and as cnn international correspondent ivan watson explains, they have many reasons for fighting isis so fiercely. >> the kurds have long been described as the largest ethnic
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group without a country of its own. they're poorly understood, often ignored. now i first travelled to the kurdish areas of turkey, syria and iraq in 2002 and they are a people that have long been divided by borders, by linguistic differences, by politics and occupation in assimilation as well. a lot has changed in the subsequent 12 years. for instance when i first traveled from the kurdish part of syria to iraq, i had to grow by boat across this river. today there's a bridge there. and in august we watched this incredibly disturbing site of tens of thousands of kurds streaming across that bridge fleeing the offensive by isis militants. on this trip we went the opposite direction into the kurdish part of syria and got an introduction to the syrian
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kurdish fighters who have been fighting isis for more than a year. and what's very striking is how much women are playing a front line role in that war and in the leadership of the kurdish on claifs of syria that have grown up in the middist of a civil war. we see very much that gender equality is important there and that's astounding when you consider their enemies, their isis which have been hiding women away from public life. and, as we also learned, have been accused of kidnapping, thousands, i'm talking thousands of kurdish women in iraq who come from the minority. it's justified their enslavement of these women arguing that it is allowed within the muslim holy book, the quran.
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they're calling this is genocide l policy. the scale of the kidnapping is mind blowing, barbaric and hard to comprehend even for somebody like me who has been traveling through these blood soaked lands for more than a decade. ivan watson, cnn reporting from istanbul. >> well the giants may send military advisers to iraq to help in the fight against isis. as our chief cnn correspondent reports, iraqi forces want the help. >> um bar -- an bar is a powerful base for isis just west of baghdad and seen of some of the fiercest fighting, including the isis masker of 400 sunni tribesmen in two days this week.
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now the pentagon is developing a plan to send u.s. military adviser to anbar. this will better enable to iraqi security force to protect themselves ache take the fight to isis. >> we need to expand the train and advise vision into the anbar province. but the precondition of that is that the government of iraq is willing to arm the tribes. we have positive indications they are but we haven't begun to do it. >> the plan would expand the military's so-called train and assist mission beyond baghdad ae and and and e bill. and iraqi forces clearly need their held. . this week as hundreds of tribes men were slaughtered, iraqi forces were confined to defense.
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local tribe leaders complain they're desperate for the iraqi military's help. >> translator: i contacted them and they did not say no to me. i was promised air strikes by the iraqi air force but it did not happen. >> reporter: sending u.s. adviser to anbar would see military officials open the door to an iraqi national guard, include sunni tribes. >> it's important that the iraqi security forces continue to reach out to the sunni tribes on their own and bring them into the fold. >> reporter: where these u.s. military advisers might be deployed in anbar hasn't been determined yet. advisers would be deployed as they are in baghdad to the command headquarters of the iraqi units and not out on the front lines.
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jim schu to cnn washington. jerusalem on edge. we'll tell you about the situation in a live report when we come back. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you're underwater? try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a delicious taste. grandpa! [ female announcer ] stay strong, stay active with boost. grandpa! bonjour. comment ce va? bonjour. comment ce va? due cappuccini, per favore.
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us real has partially reopened a revered holy site in gentleman ruz lem but tensions over its closure are still boiling. only muslim men and women age 50 open over were able to attend friday prayers at the sanctuary.
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violence erupted just a short distance away. our cnn crew was there. >> reporter: friday afternoon at the palestinian neighbors of jerusalem, fire works and rocks thrown as israeli forces who respond with tear gas and stun grenades. firing tear gas, okay. clashes like this in palestinian areas of gentlemjerusalem on a moving -- let's keep moving -- they're not unusual. but the anger here in recent weeks is growing. it is this place that is the focus of recent anger and violence. palestinians call it the noble sanctuary. two of islam's most holy sites. the mosque and the dome of the rock. it is also holy for many jews.
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under existing rules jews can visit but they can't pray here. it's provoked palestinian rage. he's arguing that the juice might have greater access. on wednesday just after giving a speech on the topic he was shot four times. he survived and underwent surgery on friday. the suspected shooter, a palestinian was later shot and killed by israeli police. they said he fired first when they tried to arrest him. his father tells him he does not condemn his son. >> if he do it he have the right because of equal resistance. >> reporter: fried morning thousands of palestinians were forced to pray in the city streets. israeli authorities fearing more violence initially blocked public access to the mosque. the restriction slightly
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loosened later allowing only women and men over 50. >> this is something related to our religion, to our creed. they are committing a big mistake if they're continuing preventing us from going to our mosque. >> reporter: when prayers finishes, the clashes began in jerusalem and the west bank. in gaza thousands rallied in the streets. some palestinian leaders made ominous predictions. >> we're experiencing a new uprising. it's just a matter of time. >> reporter: on friday, the rain helped cool the violence on the streets but it didn't wash away the anger that inspires it. phil block, cnn jerusalem. >> as you might imagine after seeing phil's report, security in jerusalem is intense right now. let's check in with erin mcglock
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lynn to see what the situation is now. she's live from jerusalem. you've been covering this story since it broke. what are you seeing and hearing. >> reporter: well the situation here in jerusalem is tense. in the relative calm of yesterday has continued into today. the fact of the matter is the reasons for this tension persist. far right rabbi was shot four times after hosting an event in jerusalem that called for more israeli juice be able to go to the temple mount or noble sanctuary to pray. and that is a position that infur rates many muslims. while leaders in israel say that the status quo of the site will remain that juice are allowed to visit the site threw be's the no formal place of prayer for them. senior officials tell me that the position of the israeli far
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right have stirred deep suspicions among muslims that something could happen to that status quo. and it is very difficult to see how these two sides could reconcile given the lack of trust that exists between israelis and palestinians. natalie? >> right. it's like they needed yet another issue to do this and cause more violence and tension and anger. what do we know about the controversial rabbi that sparked this and how he's doing? is he expected to recover? >> reporter: well we're still waiting for an update from hospital officials as to his condition today. as of yesterday hospital officials gave a press briefing in which they seemed optimistic about his prognosis. they characterized him as being in serious by stable condition.
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he underwent a surgery yesterday on his abdomen for intestinal issues. hospital officialing say he could possibly have another surgery next week, though they didn't say why. but they say it is possible he could make a full recovery. >> thank you. live in jerusalem. up next here in our coverage, halloween at the pro-democracy protest site in hong kong brings out a notorious dictator. ouncer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you're underwater? try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. ♪ hi. i'm new ensure active clear protein drink. >>clear huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got 8 grams of protein. new ensure active clear protein. 8 grams protein. zero fat. ensure. take life in.
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so very lucky trick ore treaters got to ask for halloween candy from the president of the united states. the first family handed out cookies, pob kurn, even baseball cards to children in costume for machine that 4,000 attended the white house halloween candy. the children were from public schools in the washington area and from military families. the president and first lady left the dressing up to the kids. well don't be deceived. that is not kim jong-un. he's actually an impersonator named howard. he wanted to go to the protest site on halloween to lighten the mood. it seems he did just that as he waved and took pictures much to the delight of the crowds.
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looks a lot like him. well there were no clown costumes this halloween in one french town. apparently there's been a wave of pranksters dressing up as creepy scary clowns like this who have terrorized the public. police in southern france are having none of it tonight. they've banned clown costumes for all of november but started friday to prevent halloween related crime. good for them because that's just not right. that's not okay. in the u.s. clowns are gaining popularity but they aren't making people laugh. they're the same kind of clowns, the creepy kind. we take a look at these clowns and talks with a psychotherapist about what kind of person dresses up like that. >> my son has been a little down in the dumps. maybe you can share love. >> as the popularity of "american horror story" demonstrates, clowns are associated with more than just children's parties and circuses.
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ever since serial killer and part time john john wain daycy was convicted of murdering in the '70s, the image has turned increase ily more sinister. >> i'll drive you crazy and kill you. >> they've become some of our most widely used popular villains. people love to be scared of clowns. psychotherapist explains the fascination. >> you might say that the painted expression of a clown makes it difficult for people to gauge what that person's emotions are, what their motives are. >> but now the fears have become a reality. one sleepy southern california town turned into a media hot spot after one couple's photography project went viral in early october. >> they can grow from a legal project, a photographty project
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into an urban legend. >> the photos of a man dressed in clown gash posing around the small town sent social media ablaze, leading to a number of copy cat pranks. meanwhile, the real clown became a local celebrity. it insider similar pranks in mexico and florida. fuelled by social media, the story has taken a dark town as it spreads worldwide. police are arrested mull. people dressed in clown costu s costumes, some carrying deadly weapons. but why clowns? it all comes down to an almost of mistrust. >> the quick movements that they make, the bright colors, put that together and again, don't know who that person is, that brings up fear.
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>> if the trend continues, the fear of clowns may claim more victims. stephanie elam cnn hollywood. >> i'm a victim. i say let's just say no to all of the clowns. thank you for joining us. we really appreciate it. it's been three hours. i'm natalie allen. for viewers in the u.s. "new day" is ahead. for everyone else "cold war" starts after the break. get up! ! get up! get up! loop me! bring back the awesome... yeah! yeah! yeah! with the great taste of kellogg's froot loops. follow your nose! >> technology gives you security. technology gives you control and now technology gives you home security and control in a new and revolutionary way. introducing plug & protect from livewatch security, an easy to use wireless security system, customized just for your home.
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we made it to the weekend. good morning and thanks for being here. i'm an ma cabrera in for christi. >> i'm victor blackwell. we begin with breaking news along awaited freedom for u.s. marine reservist after seven months in a mexican jail. we're expecting sergeant andrew tahmooressi to arrive in his hometown not far from westin. he flew out of san diego, you see him here, boarding the plane. this is the new video in to cnn. he's being driven here we see last night to the border post in tijuana, getting out of that white suv and then going out toward the customs buildings, before crossing back to the u.s. into california. tahmooressi was jailed, you may remember, after entering tijuana with three guns in his truck. the veteran