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a powerful and slow moving typhoon lashes the philippines. the country now faces the threat of flooding and land slides. we'll have a live report. and a risky u.s. military raid in yemen fails. we're learning new details about the mission and the victims. also, protests turn violent in one u.s. city as crowds continue to call for change over controversial grand jury decision. welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm atika shubert. let's go straight to the top stories. in the philippines three deaths are being attributed to typhoon hagupit. as the system moves towards a
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second landfall in that country there's great concern at this hour about the potential for storm surges, flooding and mudslides. right now the storm is pounding the islands with relentless torrential rain as it churns slowly across the nation. many people in the philippines had evacuated in preparation for the typhoon. tens of thousands are being allowed to return home. we were talking early about the sheer force of that wind and that, of course, is pushing the water into the coastline there. there are fears of a storm surge. what your seeing there now? >> reporter: yeah. hi. i'm hearing you intermittently. this is the time that we're expecting that storm surge to hit us. it's high tide and i can't tell you how strong the wind is just before you came to me i was
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practically sideways and our equipment almost fell over. it's coming at us from a different direction, virtually every hour which is why we have to change positions whenever you come to us. it's hard to know which way the wind is coming from. it's incredibly powerful. our lights went out in our hotel about half an hour ago. it was completely pitch black. we managed to get those back thankfully. so we haven't heard of any major outages. but as i look across significant difference because earlier i did have a lot of lights down in the city, but now seemingly maybe they have gone out in some parts of the city. but this is the time we were expecting that storm surge and, actually, i was down with the team, with my cameraman and my producer along the coast and those waters looked incredibly
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scary. very choppy. very powerful. and thankfully it seems that a lot of people are heeding the warnings not to go out to sea. we had sirens going out overnight warning fishermen to stay out of the water and so far it seems that the majority of people have listened to those warnings. >> you were telling us earlier thousands have evacuated to safer ground but there are still people who hang on to their homes despite the coming storm. can you tell us a little bit about why they would decide to stay? >> reporter: yeah. that's extraordinary. we have haven't seen so much of that in legazpi. in surrounding areas people reluctant to leave their homes especially on the coast which was huge concern to us. we all individually tried to encourage the families that we met and spoke to not to wait, not to leave it to the last minute. some of them said that they
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didn't want to go just yet, they've lived and weathered many storms literally and they feel that it wasn't quite so bad. others were reluctant to leave their homes today. we met one man who wouldn't leave his home down in the city and that was because he was worried about looters and burglars. and actually just about that, yesterday late last night we heard that the military is on stand by to patrol certain areas, particularly around tacloban and here to ward off any potential criminals who might try to take advantage, sadly, as this does happen at times like this when people are vulnerable and leave their homes. that's also a fact orthat people are concerned about. but at least here, three cities including legazpi 3,000 evacuation centers were set up and 10,000 individual homes
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willing to take people in and 128,000 people took advantage of that. so make no mistake, plenty of people not willing to take those chances as the governor told me earlier. he was saying people won't take the risk before but some have takens to chances and really until this storm passes no one will be able to know what happened to those people. i certainly hope they did eventually get to safety. >> let's hope so. thank you very much. meteorologi >> our meteorologist is tracking the storm. derek we were hearing the storm surge should be hitting. what should we look out for? >> we are nearing or just passing high tide in legazpi
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city along that east facing port area. this is what storm surge looked like. this was taken hours ago in leg as azpi. waves are crashing against the walls. not a good place to be. the sun has now set on this region and the coastal storm surge is still a concern, at least for the next two hours as the storm continues to move away from leg gsazpi city. we're watching a lahar, a term used around volcanoes. this is an old ash flow from a recent eruption from a volcano right outside of legazpi city. this is a mixture of heavy
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rainfall and recent volcanic ash that flooded down these regions and you can see in this particular demonstration on the graphic we created for you to explain what sirkts lava debris fields that let go from the side of the volcano, traveling upwards at speeds of 10 meters per second just destroying anything in its path and we've got some footage of this coming out of this region. you can see what a lahar look like. very dangerous. all this volcanic ash from recent eruptions mixes with heavy rain and creating this heavy mud slow down the side of the volcano and will destroy anything in its path. legazpi very much in the way of this. we'll be monitoring that situation very closely. this is the latest from typhoon
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hagupit. along the east facing shores we're looking for coastal storm surge. this storm a formidable typhoon. it's a strong 140 mid-to-upper winds. as it goes into manila we're expecting typhoon force winds, and excessive rainfall to urbanized flooding in a densely part of the philippines. >> thank you very much. let's go next to tacloban and its mayor. mayor, thank you for joining us. what is the situation in the city right now? >> the swaituation is 90% of th
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people have evacuated their homes. and we've lost power. we expect several days before utilities are back up. we have people -- very few are fearful of going back tomorrow morning. >> mayor, that's an amazing accomplishment when you consider the power of the storm that people now are able to go home safely and that you've had success in getting everyone to safety. what are the lessons learned this time around after the devastating typhoon that hit the city last year?
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>> well, we distributed placards warning the people. a lot of people here are planning to go home. they need a few days to leave the city and able to go back to their respective provinces. many of them work here, not from he
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here. >> clearly all that preparation has proved successful. you were able to get people to safely. thank you very much. that was the mayor from tacloban city. people are able to get back to their homes after the storm came through. in afghanistan a key al qaeda leader is dead after a suspected u.s. drone strike, actually in pakistan. pakistani officials say he was killed along with four other suspected militants. farooq was believed to be in charge of operations. yesterday another al qaeda chief was also killed. next on cnn a hostage in
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we're are learning more about the failed mission by u.s. special forces to free an american hostage in a desolate part of yemen. raid took place early saturday about 260 kilometers of the city. british born journalist luke somers and a south african
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teacher were fatally wounded by nil tants as u.s. forces approached. >> reporter: this was a risky and dangerous mission. u.s. officials say it all started unfolding saturday morning yemeni time. u.s. officials say two helicopters landed some distance away from the compound where their intelligence showed that these two hostages were being held. it was then where a team of 40 u.s. special forces trekked by foot through rough terrain. they were within the compound only 300 feet away when they were discovered. a fire fight then broke out with the terrorists. it was then when one terrorist turned around and according to one u.s. official he went back inside the compound and shot these two hostages. the u.s. administration has been strongly condemning these killings. here's an emotional response from vice president joe biden.
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>> women and men who were engaged in these two special rescue missionan incredible job, and inflicted serious damage on the captors, but at this time, this time they were unable to save luke. >> reporter: president barack obama called this a barbaric murder. south african hostage pierre corky was days away from freedom when u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s raided that compound. he and his wife were captured last may. she was released back one january. the man working on his release had just made her a promise, he had said corky would be home by christmas. he spoke with us. >> on saturday morning i said
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god has been there for you. we're in the final stage. the wait is almost over. a few hours before that i said pierre would be home for christmas. i put all those positive messages into her. soon after that last message to be told your husband is no more. it was too difficult for me to speak to her. in spite of that she sent out a message full of positivity and hope and said i'll speak to you later. i'll respect the time before we speak later. >> this is to thank you and your manager in yemen for trying to help. i want to get to that in a minute. on social media a lot of south africans are blaming the americans. do you? >> look, there's a lot of anger, and you have to be not emotional and more rational. we had an interest in getting pierre out.
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americans had pressure from their own people to save their hostages. so, you know, it's a difficult situation. you have to do what's in the interest of your country and people. sometimes you win, sometime you lose. that's the reality of a war situation. >> i know your charity was working directly as you say with the tribal leaders. you helped negotiate the release of his wife. was the south african government aware of your negotiations and did they inform the americans? >> no. there was no need to inform any government. it was a relationship between us -- look first of all governments say very clearly they don't negotiate with terrorists. that's standard with most governments all over the world. we didn't aspect them to negotiate directly. >> is the south africans were not aware of your advanced stages of your negotiations. >> no.
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the consulate and ambassador was aware in saudi arabia because we asked him to keep a passport ready and pierre had to be pulled out without a passport. so he would have been informed to be on stand by. nobody ever talked about a raid taking place. >> that was the gentleman who was close to negotiating a release of pierre corky. trying to rescue hostages in such remote places is risky. a short time ago we talked to cnn terrorism analyst philip mudd about why the white house approved such a hazardous mission. >> i don't think we have many options. we're talking about how quickly people were murdered after a video was shown. obviously it funds terror groups. when you're dealing with groups
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whether nigeria, somalia, they adopt that ideology, they see what al qaeda do. it's shown it will behead people they detain. these other groups say if that's the direction of the global al qaeda movement that's hat i'm going to do. these people are at high-risk if we let them remain in detention and high-risk raids are sometimes the only thing we can do. >> american hostage luke somers was working as a journalist when he was abducted. he's at least the third american journalist murdered by militants in recent months. coming up next, we'll show you how one peaceful demonstration against police in the u.s. broke down into violence.
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in the u.s. protest against police brutality took a violent turn. this was the scene in berkeley, california. two officers were injured. authorities used gas canisters to disperse up to 200 people. some buildings were damaged as mass protesters smashed windows and looted stores. demonstrations have been held across the u.s. after a grand jury declined to indict a white
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police officer in the chokehold death of a black suspect. for the most part those demonstrations over the past several days have been peaceful. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> in hollywood, california, protesters blocked traffic at a major intersection and chanted eric garner's final words "i can't breathe." in washington demonstrators held die ins for crowds in union station lay motionless on the ground. it was a similar scene in atlanta as dozens lay in quiet protest near a busy freeway. the new york city medical examiner determined the compression of the neck during restraint by police, this chokehold you can see there was the cause of eric garner's death. this technique is banned by the new york city police department but used by law enforcement
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across the u.s. martin savidge found out what a chokehold is and why it's still used. >> reporter: the first thing i discovered is police aren't the only ones to use a chokehold, it's also a martial arts move. matt is a black belt judo instructor. there's a lot of ways to choke someone but really only two styles. cut off the oxygen to the lungs or cut off the blood supply to the brain. here's the air supply choke. okay. all right. so that's the restricting the airflow by pressing up against the wind pipe. and it cuts off your ability to talk as well as cuts off -- >> right. >> reporter: next up is the blood flow one. >> same thing. when you feel it i'll stop.
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>> reporter: okay. that create as sensation of light headedness. you get that tunnel vision thing. much quicker. it's the last choke that blood supply choke experts say is the safer of the two techniques because it's easier to restore blood flow than getting someone breathing again. phil is the next guy to wrap his arms around my neck. >> tell me what that's like. >> reporter: difficult to talk or give a strong breath. he's a former beat cop in georgia and tells me something interesting different police departments use different chokes. there's no national standard. georgia's chokehold goes for the oxygen supply but -- >> georgia emphasizes restraint that winds up with the person being face up as oppose tokd fa --
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opposed to being face down. >> reporter: that's the mistake the lawyer sees when he sees the take down of eric garner. the victim is falling forward. >> dragging him forward hil this guy has got him sort of pulling him backwards and so it adds more pressure against that wind pipe. >> reporter: there's another problem with choking off oxygen. the victim's inability to breathe. >> the adrenaline response kicks in. the body does what it can do to get air in the lungs. >> reporter: causing officers to apply more force in a deadly escalation. chokeholds can be extremely effective. but experts say get it wrong for even a few seconds and the results can be tragic. like a taser or pepper spray many police departments see the chokehold as a valuable tennessee when trying to restrain someone. far safer than using a gun.
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we're tracking that storm in the philippines. the country is getting ready for round two of that deadly massive typhoon. coming up we'll take you there live and show you how residents are preparing for hagupit to make landfall again. plus the latest break in the case of 43 missing mexican students coming up. ♪ just look at those two. happy. in love. and saving so much money on their car insurance by switching to geico... well, just look at this setting. do you have the ring? oh, helzberg diamonds. another beautiful setting. i'm not crying. i've just got a bit of sand in my eyes, that's all. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
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welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm atika shubert in london and here's an update on top stories we're following this hour. a massive typhoon is expected to make landfall a second time in the philippines in the coming hours. typhoon hagupit has already dumped hundreds of millimeters
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of rain on the country and there's fears of mudslides and flooding. officials say three people have died in the storm. a key al qaeda leader is dead after a suspected u.s. drone strike in north pakistan. pakistani said amir farooq was killed with four other suspected militants. farooq was believed to in charge of al qaeda's operations in pakistan and afghanistan. two hostages have died as u.s. special forces attempted to rescue them in a remote part of yemen. british born american luke somers and south african pierre corky were fatally wounded by their captors as u.s. help arrived. u.s. president barack obama authorized the mission. two police officers were injured after peaceful protests over police violence turned chaotic. some demonstrators hurled bricks and gas brigades at officers.
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similar demonstrations across the u.s. remained peaceful. the city of tacloban was the most worried about as typhoon hagupit, it was hit hard last year by a super typhoon and has not fully recovered still. it does appear the city has been spared the worst of this storm. let's get to andrew stevens who is in tacloban. andrew this is in many ways a success story after last year, many feared the worse. this time it seems tacloban residents were able to get to safety well before the storm hit. what can you tell us? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. there was a lot of preparation, a lot of planning, a lot of o y cajoling in the days leading up to the typhoon. the best ways to describe it is
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rushing past tacloban in the end. three to four days before it was due to hit authorities were asking people to leave. many did. last year the biggest killer was a storm surge which accounted for so many of those 6300 victims here in tacloban. authorities and residents were making sure that wasn't going to happen again that they moved quickly, and efficiently away from the vulnerable areas, low-lying areas into places like this. this is the church of redemption and even now 24 hours really after the storm really started to build on its way to tacloban there were still a couple hundred people here not yet prepared to go back because they know the strength of these sort of storms and want to make doubly sure that hagupit is clear of this area before they
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venture back. many others can't go back at the moment because their houses are either flooded or might have lost roofs. it's extraordinary to take a year on with a big storm bearing on there were no casualties reported in the tacloban region after a devastating event about this time last year. you're right. it has been a success. it's come at a terrible price, of course, given so many people did die. it's ingrained in people's psyches here. this is a population still traumatized by the events of a year ago and they were going to make sure it wouldn't happen again. there are evacuation centers all over the place. and authorities had stockpiles of food if needed. it hit at 7:00 in the evening. the wind is dropping, rain is lighter and most people say the worse is certainly over and most people are talking about going back home. >> so encouraging to hear no
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casualties and it strikes me that this is not just the authorities but really a community effort. i know you were in that church earlier had mass was ongoing and that this is where people have taken refuge. it goes to show how the entire community has pulled together. what can you tell us about where you're at right now and the scene you're seeing. >> reporter: well, it's amazing here, actually. this has been taken over by hundreds of people, this church. it's opened to anybody coming in. there are families and usually in this part of the philippines very big families who have settled here in the past three or four days. there are pets, dogs running around the church. chickens out the front. there are people cooking food, just behind me and right around this entire church. it's dinner time and people are eating. so many children are here playing tag. it's quite of -- almost a
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festive atmosphere here given the reason they came here. people are obviously making the most of this refuge, if you like. you know, talk to people here. they say they were genuinely terrified of what could have happened and so thankful that the worst did not happen. that the mass we heard just a couple of hours ago giving thanks saying that the faith of the people had been rewarded, in fact the storm did not do the same sort of damage. this sort of scene is being repeated in many official evacuations. the unofficial evacuation centers. speaking of the community pulling together, many private residents opening up their homes for strangers, for people to come in to seek refuge, to get away from those vulnerable areas. it really has been a coming together. the community spirit in places like tacloban and many parts of the philippines is very strong any way and to a degree bound
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together by a very, very deep belief in christianity. >> the power of the community pulling together there. thank you very much. andrew stevens for us there in tacloban. one area possibly the most at risk in this storm is the city of legazpi. it could see a storm surge of up to 13 feet. we have a report from a market in legazpi where residents are stocking up as the typhoon repairs to make landfall again. >> reporter: we're here at the legazpi public market. we're experiencing strong winds and heavy rains as we await typhoon hagupit's second
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landfall. this hasn't stopped residents from still going out and doing their last minute shopping in preparation for the landfall of typhoon hagupit. and as you can see, many of the stores here are closed, but this did not stop some businesses to continue operations and most of the residents here or the shoppers buy rice, packs of rice. they also buy canned goods and instant noodles and ready to eat meals. nobody knows how strong the impact of tag pit will be here but store owners say that other businesses would go back to operations in a day or two. our meteorologist is tracking the storm from the world "weather center". i know it's moving very slowly
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across the country and that actually could be worse for some areas. can you tell us more? >> when you have a storm slow down like this, what you see is just an intense amount of rainfall, very excessive rainfall pattern across much of the central philippines. this is the latest information we have to pass along to you. this storm is becoming more and more disorganized as time ticks on. basically we still have a category 2 equivalent hurricane in this area, of course we're talking about a typhoon but winds at the moment at 100 miles per hour for our domestic viewers, that's roughly 160 kilometers per hour. it's really the rainfall we're concerned with and we'll highlight that in detail in a moment. let's talk about where the storm is headed. currently it's just passing to the south of legazpi and saeding to the southern luzon region impacting manila by late monday evening.
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this is a densely packed area of the philippines. we have a major concern of flash flooding across that area going forward into the early parts of the work week. 400 millimeters plus for some regions already. starting to see the back start of the storm. the storm center again just south of legazpi and does have its eye set on southern manila and much weaker typhoon by the time it reaches that location but nonetheless a big rain maker. let's look at the rainfall totals. as you can see how it's picking up on some significant rainfall. this is well over a foot of rain in two days for our domestic viewers, 340 million meters of rain in manila.
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here's a look at the population that could still experience tropical storm force winds from the eastern and central parts of the philippines. 40 million people possibly experiencing that and we still have our typhoon force winds in this swath of red and that includes about 10 million people. now with an onshore wind near legazpi city we had concern for coastline storm surge. you can see that compounding effect of that direct onshore wind pushing up the waves and really creating some concerns. we still have that as it quinns with high tide. it's already passed. the east facing bays and inleapts of this island region continuing to see the impacts of storm surge possibly for the next hour two. >> thank you very much for keeping track of that storm surge. moving on there has been a break through in the case of 43 mexican students who vanished in
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september. investigators have identified the remains of one of the students. the families of the missing say their quest for justice is not over. >> reporter: the remains belonging to 19-year-old alexander are the first to be identified. he's one of the 43 students from a rural teacher's college in southern mexico who went missing in late september. the announcement was made on the school's facebook page. a legal representative for families of the missing also confirmed the news to cnn. at a protest in mexico city saturday night the parents acknowledged the announcement but said the search for the rest of the group is not over. my son, wherever you are, i'll keep looking for you even if my heart is breaking by the news this father said. the spokesman for the parents of
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the missing says their quest is not over. no matter where the missing might be we the parents are not going to stop until justice is done philip said. the mexican attorney general announced his investigation indicated all students were dead. >> translator: based on circumstance evidence the students were abducted by corrupt officers, turned over to a criminal gang, executed and bodies burned in a landfall before being tossed in plastic bags into a river. >> reporter: the challenge of positively identifying the human remains is daunting. the bodies were so badly burnt that they were only able to recover tarred bone fragments and ashes. many victims may not be identified. last week mexican president visited the area for the first time since the students
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disappeared. the president said organized crime is to blame for the disappearance of the students. he also said his government is resolved to get to the bottom of the case. coming up on cnn details on a u.s. runoff election that will leave the democratic party without a single senator or governor south of virginia next year. plus sexual assault survivors react after "rolling stone" magazine back pedals on its explosive campus rape story coming up. you can't breathe through your nose, suddenly, you're a mouth breather. a mouth breather! well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more.
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journalist detained in iran has officially been charged with unspecified crimes. jason works for "the washington post" and has dual american and iranian citizenship. the paper reports he signed documents saturday acknowledging the charges, but his lawyer has not been allowed to visit him. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has asked for his release. in louisiana a republican congressman has won a seat in the u.s. senate after a tough runoff election. bill cassidy claimed victory late saturday night over democratic incumbent mary landrieu. republicans have picked up nine senate seats this election cycle and will have control of 54 seats, a majority in the upper chamber next year. landrieu could not shake off ties to president barack obama who is unpopular among white voters in louisiana.
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she has represented louisiana in the senate for 18 years. democrats won't have a single senator or governor south of virginia next year. after "rolling stone" magazine apologized for its story about a college campus rape, sexual assault survivors say they hope victims will still come forward. anti-rape advocates held a rally in virginia to talk to high school and college students about tissue. >> reporter: shock, surprise and concern, that's how many here at the university of virginia are feeling this weekend after "rolling stone" magazine's apology. the main concern that the broader issue of campus sexual assault will be lost. the stories of survivors discredited. >> i was terrified had i first heard the news. >> reporter: sexual assault survivors like ashley brown worried after "rolling stone"
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magazine backed away from its explosive reporting of an alleged gang rape at a university of virginia fraternity house. >> sexual assault is a huge issue. >> reporter: several survivors we talked to says there's still too much tolerance at uva where rape is so misunderstood there's even a nickname for it. >> that experience, yeah. that's the overhemming euphemism you had a bad experience with that person or party or house or whatever. >> you know what i'm talking about but i'm not saying it. >> reporter: emily says she was assaulted by an acquaintance last year. >> i remember crying. i remember saying no and pushing him off of me. >> reporter: according to officials 38 uva students trortd the university they were raped last year. none of those reports led to expulsions and there's no way of knowing how many more are like
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emily and didn't report what happened to them. >> you really start wondering well is it actually going to do me any good to report. for some people it's worth it. for some people it's not. >> reporter: she started the process of reporting her attack. >> i had panic attacks on campus. i was covering my face with a hood and running from class to class because i was fearful of running into the person that hurt me. >> reporter: eventually she dropped her case but told cnn she witnessed disturbing scenes like having to carry friend out of frat parties where she says they were drugged. >> people use words oh, that's the rapy frat. the majority of narratives i've heard you're not hot enough to get into this party or try a different frat. >> reporter: members of the interfraternity council released a statement acknowledges there's a bigger issue asking our
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community does not become mired in the details of one specific incident but rather that we continue relentlessly pursuing institutionalized survivor support. a sentiment the university president agrees with. >> there's a piece of our culture that's broken. and i ask your help in coming together as a strong and resilient community. >> reporter: welcomed words for survivors like ashley brown. >> i think that attitude doesn't exist but a lot of the greek system is finally waking up. >> reporter: since the rolling stone's story broke the university instituted a zero tolerance policy. the police investigation into the alleged gang rape continues. this just in to the cnn newsroom the u.s. government says it has released six guantanamo bay prisoners. the pentagon says the men were sent to uruguay for a
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resettlement. four irian, one tunisian and one palestinian. it's the latest step by the obama administration to close down the facility. still 136 prisoners remain at gitmo. the u.s. president hasn't felt so well lately so barack obama underwent routine ct scan saturday in washington. after complaining of a sore throat the tests showed everything was normal but his doctors said the symptoms were consistent with acid reflux. coming up, how much would you pay to own the batmobile? one of the originals was just auctioned off and for a bar begin prays too, coming up next. we got married, we became a family of five.
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long before the tumbler was featured in the latest batman movie there was the iconic batmobile. the earliest known custom car of the comic book hero went up for auction on saturday. the 1963 batmobile fetched $137,000. that's a bargain compared to $4.2 million paid for a similar car built for the batman tv show. under the rocket engine equipped car is a 1956 oldsmobile. it was customized by a fan to resemble batman's car from the comic books in the 1940s and
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'50s. the worlds largest white chocolate was also auctioned off for $61,250. it was discovered last weekend. white truffles are very rare and can only be discovered in certain parts of italy for three months of the year. royal family fan now owns a slice of history. a piece of fruitcake from the wedding of the duke and duchess of cambridge sold at auction for an unexpected $175. cake was given to guests at the wedding in 2011. one inviteee sold to it an auction house. thank you very much for joining us. i'm atika shubert. for viewers in the united states, "new day" is just ahead. for everybody else i'll be back with cnn newsroom as we continue to track typhoon hagupit and its
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[ sirens ] we're beginning with breaking news. overnight in california, a peaceful protest turns violent in berkeley. flash bombs and tear gas, two police officers hurt, stores vandalized. the demonstrators upset over a new york grand jury's decision not to indict an officer in the death of eric garner. and good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye, in today for christi paul. >> i'mic