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backlash. >> our foreign leaders have approached the government and said you do this, this will cause violence and deaths. our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths. >> moments ago, prosecutors began their repeal of the oscar pistorius case saying it's shockingly light. we'll have the latest on the hearing this hour. protesters upset over police killings are not just stopping traffic, they are managing to stop trains. and royals night out. king james, aka lebron james, queen bee, aka beyonce, and apparently there was this other couple named the duke and duchess of cambridge. we'll bring you the latest on royalty meeting stateside. >> that and a whole lot more. hello and welcome to have you in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> good to have you back here, rosemary. i'm still errol barnett. >> more than 6,000 marines
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stationed across three continents are on high alert ahead of the release of the u.s. senate report on torture. >> that report causing an unusual rift between the white house and senate democrats. we'll have more on that angle on this shortly. but first, what can we expect when the report is released later tuesday? we know it will show the cia used so-called enhanced interrogation deck techniques on more than 100 detainees. three of them received waterboarding, considered the harshest of the techniques. it will detail 20 case studies including the hunt for osama bin laden. now only 480 pages of this report will be released. the full report is some 6,000 pages long. and here is a look at the locations of the more than 6,000 u.s. marines on heightened alert. they are positioned to protect american interests should they come under threat. global affairs correspondent elise labott has more. >> reporter: diplomatic posts
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and bases around the world on high alert, as the obama administration braces for an explosive report on the bush administration's use of torture. thousands of marines at the ready after a dire classified intelligence assessment warning of a violent backlash. a last-ditch effort by secretary of state john kerry to persuade the senate intel chair to delay the report's release. >> the release of the report may have an impact on the security situation at u.s. facilities around the world. and that's why this administration has been working for months to plan for this day and to ensure that the prudent steps are taken to protect american personnel and american facilities around the globe. >> reporter: the report is expected to accuse the cia of lying about the use of torture after 9/11 and claim the waterboarding of three terrorists, including khalid sheikh mohammed failed to produce results. now fears the report could subject american hostages to the same acts of torture and invite
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violent anti-american protests at u.s. embassies. the head of the house intel committee called the report's release a terrible idea in an interview with cnn's candy crowley. >> foreign leaders have approached the government and said you do this, this will cause violence and deaths. our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths. >> reporter: and there are worries the reports released could deter allies in the global coalition against isis, fearing terrorist reprisals. a prediction echoed by the former cia director. >> there are countries out there who have cooperated with us on the war on terror at some political risk, who are relying on american discretion. i can't imagine anyone out there going forward in the future who would be willing to do anything with us that even smacks of political danger. >> reporter: both the cia and the state department have been arguing against the publication of the report because of the threat to u.s. personnel and
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facilities abroad and the damage it could do to u.s. relationships with key allies. but both the white house and the justice department say a delay in releasing the report only prolongs the inevitable. the administration is losing the battle the courts over trying to block the report and figure it's better to get it over with sooner rather than later. elise labott, cnn, washington. >> now the report began as a bipartisan review of the cia interrogation program that republican senators pulled out of the investigation soon after it began from when president george w. bush has been quick to defend the cia's interrogation program and all the people involved. >> we're fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the cia serving on our behalf. these are patriots. and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base. and i knew the directors. i knew the deputy directors.
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i knew a lot of the operators. these are good people, really good people. and we're lucky as a nation to have them. >> and i mentioned this last hour. in a "new york times" interview, bush's vice president dick cheney called allegations of wrongdoing by the cia a, quote, a bunch of hooey. >> there it is. >> pushing back. >> exactly. all right. u.s. protester says the demonstrations over white police officers killing unarmed black suspects will not stop. they've been back on the streets in berkeley overnight. we're look at the live pictures. no, no, now i'm getting word they're not live. it was nightmare for drivers on the i-80 freeway as protesters shut down traffic in both directions. and we're hearing police did arrest some demonstrators. other protests in that area turned violent on monday. a police spokeswoman said some protesters had vandalized businesses. take a look at the scene in washington, d.c.
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demonstrators blocked rush hour traffic on monday. this is just a few blocks from the white house. and there were more demonstrations. >> no justice, no peace! no justice, no peace! >> this -- and this was in new york. hundreds of people chanting outside the basketball game that the royal couple attended. our deborah feyerick was there. >> well, inside as the royals watched the basketball game, outside hundreds of protesters staging demonstrations. they walked against traffic, shutting it down. that was one of the mantras, shut it down, shut it down. there were many police officers, hundreds of them, as a matter of fact, setting up a perimeter, allowing all the demonstrators to march. they marched peacefully. there was anger. they demanded justice. but for the most part, the police let them do what they needed to do. at one point, they went into this shopping center where they went up the escalator, they sat down for a while. police, again, giving them the space, giving them the respect
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to do what they needed to do. the demonstration lasting about four hours, a little over four hours. and then another demonstration being planned for the next few days. that one to take place outside city hall. deborah feyerick, cnn, brooklyn, new york. >> and we have some new images in to cnn within the past few hours, showing protesters in berkeley, california. remember, we talked about them shutting down a major interstate. well, we can confirm now that they've been able to stop an amtrak passenger train. we're getting our first glimpse from these images that people have been posting on twitter. we're just walking through a couple of them here. we've not heard yet if that train has been able to continue its trip. but protesters in berkeley have taken to the streets to clog up traffic and some of the transportation lines as a way of making their message heard. unfortunately, things did get violent earlier in week as well. but the victims' relatives have
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all said they want anyone protesting on their behalf to remain peaceful, but to continue this message nationwide. so we just wanted to bring you that story just in to us. some protesters in berkeley stopping an amtrak train. when we get new information, we'll bring it to you live. rosemary? >> all right. on to this interview now. u.s. president barack obama promises to continue the fight to improve race relations in america. in an interview with the b.e.t. network, mr. obama his personal experiences help him to empathize with all people affected by the recent protests, from the protesters to the families, and especially young black people. he referred to a meeting he had with young nonviolent protesters on monday. >> a country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, because i think a lot of people who saw the eric garner video are troubled, even if they haven't had that same experience themselves. even if they're not african american or latino. i think there are a lot of good,
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well meaning people. i think there are probably a lot of police officers who might have looked at that and said that is a tragedy what happened, and we have to figure out how to bring an end to these kinds of tragedies. then attention spans move on, right? there is the next thing there is some international crisis. there is something that happens here. and change doesn't really occur. and the value of peaceful protests activism, organizing, it reminds the society this is not yet done. >> the president will give interviews to univision and telemundo on tuesday. the network's target primarily latino viewers. errol? the prosecution in the oscar pistorius trial is appealing his conviction of culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend riva steen catceeva . at this point arguing the olympic blade runner should have been convicted of murdering
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steenkamp and not gone a light sentence. they say he should have gotten a longer jail sentence. the court session began about 35 minutes ago in pretoria. i don't believe the pistorius family is there, but here is a bit of what we have been hearing. >> so what we're saying, my lady, is in terms for what accused of done, and the purpose of the consequence of his actions, the degree of culpability, the sentence is shockingly inappropriate. it is not for me to convince the court that the sentence was inappropriately light or that there was a misdirection. it was for me, my lady, that respect to indicate to the court that there is a reasonable prospect that the court of appeal in evaluating the circumstances of this case and the effects of this case may come to that conclusion.
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>> prosecutor harry nell there. cnn legal analyst kelly phelps as you see joins me now from cape town, south africa, to discuss this still ongoing appeal. and kelly, harry nell there saying the sentence was shockingly inappropriate. but what the judge has to decide really doesn't have anything to do with any opinions related to that, does it? >> well, he is using that phrase because that phrase is the legal technical term, the boundary points at which a court of appeal would interfere with the discretion of the trial courts and actually change the sentence. so he's prefacing the fact that he feel there's is a very strong case for appeal in this matter. but ultimately, there is actually two issues being heard today, and we must distinguish the two. first, he is appealing the sentence, and second, he is appealing the verdict. in certain respects, his appeal on both of those issues actually contradicts each other, because
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in order to appeal the sentence, he needs to proceed from the basis that the verdict was correct. but in order to appeal the verdict, he needs to convince the judge that another court may think the verdict was incorrect. so he is going to have quite an uphill battle today in separating out those two points for the judge and trying to convince her that she should grant the appeal on both of those matters. >> and we're just watching some pictures coming from the courtroom now as harry knell continues to make his case to the judge. so would you say based on that, this possibly contradictory approach, might it be more important for the prosecution to undermine the verdict of culpable homicide and gain a different verdict, and wouldn't that naturally then change whatever the sentence would be? >> it absolutely is the more important aspect of their appeal because if it were a murder conviction, that would trigger mandatory minimum sentencing,
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potentially a 15-year sentence in this case, or a life sentence in cases of premeditated murder. so that would essentially automatically allow the appeal court to consider the sentence as well. and you can see that in the hearing today. he only spent a few minutes discussing his appeal on sentence and has then gone straight into the meat of his argument with regards the appeal on verdict. and it is with regards that appeal that the boundary he ultimately needs to cross is convincing the judge that all of his issues, his queries with her verdict are in fact matters of law and not matters of factual interpretation. >> there you have it. our cnn legal analyst kelly phelps joining us via web cam from cape town, south africa, as this appeal gets under way. just approaching a quarter past 10:00 in the morning there. kelly, thanks. all right. let's take a very short break now. but just ahead, a millionaire accused of plotting his wife's murder on their honeymoon walks
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free. ahead, we will show you why the judge dismissed his case and hear from the victim's devastated family. plus, five of bill cosby's accusers speak to cnn about what they say happened to them and how they feel about the comedian now. makes my stomach twist. makes me sick to my stomach just to look at him. just sick to my stomach. he is pretty much probably the world's greatest actor, because he fooled a lot of people. and what britain's royal couple has been up to, drawing their u.s. trip, including the power couple they rubbed elbows with. back in a moment.
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a mother and her two young sons were killed when a small plane crashed into their home in the u.s. state of maryland. marie gemmell and 3-year-old cole and baby devon were found inside their second floor bathroom. a twin-engine plane hit their house and two others monday morning, not far from a local airport. you can see there the wreckage was just strewn all over the neighborhood. the crash also killed the three people on the plane. one of them was michael rosenberg, the ceo of a health-related company. federal officials haven't said whether he was the pilot. they are still investigating the cause of this crash. and investigators are looking into possible arson as the cause of a fire that destroyed an apartment complex in los angeles on monday. it took about 250 firefighters
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three hours to bring that blaze under control. a nearby freeway was shut down as crews worked to put out the flames. the apartment complex was under construction. the fire also damaged three buildings nearby. no injuries were reported. the duke and duchess of cambridge are getting the royal treatment during their u.s. trip. monday night they shook hands with hip-hop's most powerful couple. >> and the new york society pages abuzz tomorrow with jay-z and beyonce meeting the other royal couple from across the pond. >> how about that? before the game, the royal couple met with lebron james of the cleveland cavaliers. king james gave them two jerseys, one with cambridge on the back, and another fit for a prince with george and the number 1. >> very nice there. before heading to brooklyn for the basketball game, the duke and duchess had a very busy
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monday. cnn's max foster gives us a look. >> earlier in the day, the duchess of cambridge went into harlem. she went into a youth development center where a lot of the children were rather disappointed. they were expecting to meet the princess after the "frozen" movie. but they were all taken by her as people often are when they meet her for the first time. meanwhile, the duke of cambridge headed down to washington where he met the president. the duke asked him if he knew the sex of their forthcoming child and they conceded they don't yet. they want it to be a surprise. a speech at the world bank. it was about his pet cause, which is asking people to join his fight against the illegal poachers in africa and the whole trade in illegal wildlife parks. it's actually an interest shared by secretary clinton. so the two of them also met up in new york to discuss that and how the take that cause forward. certainly a very busy monday here in new york and washington. and it continues on tuesday.
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the first event is them paying their respects at the 9/11 memorial museum. max foster, cnn, new york. >> now, it took a direct hit. coming up, we'll take you on a bird's-eye tour of a town in the philippines battered by the strongest storm of the year. plus, we will find out more about the apparent raid on a gay bath house in egypt that reportedly left more than two dozen men in jailment we're back soon.
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typhoon hagupit is now blamed for at least 27 deaths in the philippines and believed to have destroyed nearly a thousand homes. this has been the strongest storm so far this year for the region. >> and now we are getting a view of the damage from above. cnn asia-pacific editor andrew stevens took an aerial tour of the island that bore the brunt of hagupit. >> reporter: the reports that we've been getting say the small town of dolores is one of the hardest hit in this entire region. it's about 100 kilometers northwest of tacloban. we're going up there now. there were reports that there were real fears of a storm surge there, but we haven't heard anything from that town. this island sena was hagupit's first landfall where it hit with the highest intensity. we reached dolores 40 minutes later. from the air, it looks battered but not devastated.
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trees down, houses unroofed, and just north of the town, this resort clearly showing the scars of nature's fury. we were the first international journalists locals tell us to reach this remote town. we've arrived here in dolores. this is the grounds of the school here which is now the main evacuation center of the town. you can see there are originally hundreds of children here who sought safety from the storm. you can also see these downed trees as testament to the sheer power of hagupit. all around this area, big trees, all of which have been uprooted. dolores took a direct hit from hagupit. it roared ashore with winds of up to 230 kilometers an hour. but no sign of a deadly storm surge. the damage here looks like a result of high wind smashing houses as it came through. >> the wind is very, very super strong. >> what happened to your house?
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>> my house is broken. my house is broken. many -- many houses are broken. >> the storm destroyed our house and many houses in our neighborhood got destroyed. >> do you know have, you seen many people who have been hurt? >> nothing i can see, because the area so we can evacuate. so everyone was safe, i think. >> gratitude here for the early warnings from the national weather service. others we spoke to told of injuries here but no deaths. but they do tell us the islands just offshore took a much harder hit than dolores. what you can see from here, you see some damage certainly, but certainly not the devastation that was associated with haiyan at the school ground. all the fishing fleet has been
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pulled up, out of harm's way. obviously they had plenty of time to prepare for what was coming. these low-lying islands and coastal communities are among the most vulnerable to the powerful storms that frequently ravage the philippines. for most, the best hope of survival is simply evacuating, getting out of harm's way. the lesson at least for now appears to have been learned. andrew stevens, cnn, dolores, the philippines. >> hagupit is still a tropical storm impacting the philippines at this hour. meteorologist joins us from the international weather center with details. and pedram, if you see that andrew stevens report, it shows you that everyone seems resilient and thankful that they were fine this time around. but this weather pattern isn't going toe change. >> no, long-term, of course, you've seen the increased
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activities. seven typhoons, the average being three. seven so far in 2014. and you think look, the showers finally beginning to taper off. for the first time since saturday morning across the philippines, i think it's safe to say in the next three to four expect clearing skies to move in. the wet weather exits the picture. light showers left in place. the vast majority strong thunderstorm activity is pushing offshore across the philippines. and the winds about 75 kilometers per hour, roughly 45, 50 miles per hour with this last bout of weather left in place. upwards of 16 inches copping down. upwards of 400 millimeters there right across this region in recent days. that's well above the average for this time of year which is actually the beginning of the dry season across the philippines. hagupit on the move. hagupit, if you're curious, direct translation in filipino means lash. precisely what it did towards the eastern portions. but the storm is finally going to move over the south china sea and move into southern portions of vietnam by friday and
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saturday. let's turn the attention towards western and northern europe. a very potent storm system pushing in towards this region. wave heights over the open waters up to nearly 40 feet. about 12 meters high. this is going to impact travel as far as the winds pushing ashore in the next couple of days. watch travel here for wednesday and thursday, guys. i'll send it back to you. >> all right, pet ram, thanks p lot. new details on a failed rescue mission in yemen that left two dead. of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment begins with the cloud. this is "titanfall," the first multi-player game built and run on microsoft azure. empowering gamers around the world to interact in ways they never thought possible. this cloud turns data into excitement. this is the microsoft cloud.
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you are watching cnn. thanks for staying with us. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. we want to check the headlines for you this hour. >> we want to begin with some developments out of berkeley, california. demonstrator there's temporarily shut down a major interstate highway, jamming traffic for kilometers in both directions. this was part of ongoing protests of white officers killing unarmed black suspects. hundreds chanted outside a new york basketball game attended by the duke and duchess of cambridge as well. the u.s. senate is set to release a long delayed report on the use of torture. it would detail so-called enhanced interrogation techniques following the 9/11 attacks. the cia program included waterboarding and sleep deprivation. thousands of marines across the globe are on alert ahead of the
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report's release. at this moment, prosecutors in south africa are asking a judge to allow their appeal of the oscar pistorius conviction. you're looking at live pictures coming to us from the courtroom there in pretoria. the judge found pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he was sentenced to five years in prison. the prosecution argues he should have been convicted of murder and received a longer sentence. well, the body of a south african hostage killed by al qaeda's affiliate in yemen aprivated in pretoria just a short time ago. pierre korkie and american photojournalist luke summers were by their captures during a failed rescue mission on friday. >> summer's family said they didn't sign off on the raid. korkie was expected to be released soon. >> reporter: outrage from the family and friends of the south
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african hostage pierre korkie. >> there is a lot of anger against the u.s. government and there is a lot of understanding on the other side too. so there is mixed comments and mixed thoughts on the process. >> reporter: after months of being held by al qaeda in yemen, his family thought he would be free within hours. >> my name is luke summers. >> reporter: u.s. michelles say, however, after seeing this video of american hostage luke summers late last week, the pentagon concluded summers was in emmeant danger of being killed. the u.s. scrambled for a last-minute rescue. by thursday the u.s. had satellite images of the compound where summers was being held. by midmorning friday, the mission was a go. it would not succeed in the end. >> the president does not at all regret ordering this mission to try to rescue mr. summers. >> i commend the president for acting because the intelligence showed an urgency to get in where they were going to kill this american hostage anyway. >> reporter: it was the dead of
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night in yemen. u.s. officials say v-22 aircraft raced to a remote region in eastern yemen. about 30 commanders from s.e.a.l. team 6 and combat medics began hiking to the compound where luke summers and south african korkie were being held. just yards from the target, dogs began barking. the s.e.a.l.s were spotted. a firefight erupted. with aircraft keeping watch, the s.e.a.l.s battled the terrorists. u.s. officials say one terrorist ran back into the compound, shooting summers and korkie. the u.s. did not know korkie was there. it was a desperate 30 minutes on the ground. the medics tried to stabilize both critically wounded men. they called for the v-22s to land as close as possible, but one hostage died on the aircraft, the other back on board a nearby navy ship.
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some in american hostage luke summers' family say they wish more had been done to get him out of yemen earlier, and that they were not consulted about the rescue mission. u.s. officials point out that the united states does not tell families ahead of time about highly classified hostage rescue efforts. barbara starr, cnn. the pentagon. a british businessman accused of having his wife killed on their honeymoon is a free man after a south african judge threw out the case. prosecutors argued that he hired hitmen to kill his wife annie while they vacationed in capetown in november 2010. but the judge ruled the state's case and evidence were weak. the victim's family is devastated. >> we waited patiently for four years to know what really happened to annie and it feels
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like we're -- we're never going to get the answers that we want. we're never going to find out the truth of what happened to annie. the hope that we would get the full story has kept us as a family going. and today that was taken away from us as a family. >> he has said his wife was the victim of a carjacking and denied any involvement in her killing. now sierra leone has now overtaken liberia with the highest number of ebola cases. take a look at our west african breakdown here. new numbers from the world health organization show the death toll has risen to more than 6300 in the three hardest hit countries of sierra leone,
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liberia and guinea. over half of the reported deaths are in liberia. but the w.h.o. says the toll is likely far higher than the figures show in sierra leone. that country has an estimated fatality rate of 70%. now to a story that just gets worse as the weeks go on. now at least 20 women say bill cosby, a man once known as america's favorite dad, sexually assaulted them. for the first time, a group of those women sat together face-to-face. >> five of them talked on monday night with cnn's don lemon and alisyn camerota. listen to how they felt when the comedian's face showed up on the studio monitors. >> i sort of expected that you would have the reaction that you did when we put the pictures of him up. and that was? >> revulsion, really. >> you try never to see bill cosby's pictures? >> right. i sort of go like this. i shut down my peripheral vision. >> you can't look at him, can you, barbara? >> well, we were -- we were
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comparing which pictures sparked that scratchy awful feeling. >> and which one does? >> for me? >> yeah. >> that one. >> why? >> because that was the face that i saw. and that was the age. >> i saw the young one other there. >> me too. >> you see the young one. >> because it happened when he was -- >> yes, we both were in the '60s. >> both of us. >> '65 for me. >> what is going on? >> me? >> i can't look at him. 44 years when his picture went across the screen, when it was in a magazine or a newspaper or i heard his name mentioned, i had to walk away, change the channel. i can't -- i just -- >> i couldn't watch "the cosby show". >> never. >> it makes my stomach twist. >> makes me sick to my stomach to look at him, just sick to my
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stomach. he is pretty much probably the world's greatest actor because he fooled a lot of people. >> now many of the accusations, as you heard there, go back decades and have the same story of women being drugged and waking up feeling they had been violated. >> how many of you were drugged? allegedly? all of you. >> yes. >> and that seems to have been from the women we have spoken to his m.o. >> yes. >> there are allegations that he would drug women. >> right. >> do you -- who of you remembers being drugged? tell me. >> well, i remember both times. i remember having one bloody mary topped with beer, as i said. he called it a red-eye. and i woke up i don't know how long later with him taking off my clothes. and you don't pass out from one small drink. >> do you think about him every day? no. >> i'll tell you what it is,
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though, don. it's like this subliminal soundtrack. i don't think about my son dying 44 years ago every day. but it's always there just under the surface, you know. >> cosby's lawyers have said at least one of his accusers tried to extort money from him. the women who spoke to cnn say they never tried to blackmail cosby, and we should remind you cosby has not been charged over any of these accusations, and his lawyers repeatedly say there is no truth to them. now australia's cricket team is back on the pitch for the first time since the death of philip hughes. the squad played its postponed first test match against indian adelaide as fans paid their respects. austral aussie players all wore 408. hughes died after a bouncer hit him on the back of the neck. the man who delivered that
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bouncer also returned to action. he received applause at his match in sydney, the same venue where the incident took place. he has received widespread support as he tries to shake off the tragedy and try and resume his career. now international football legend pele is expected to leave a brazilian hospital today. the 74-year-old star went into intensive care last month to be treated for a urinary tract infection. last week he sent a video to fans thanking them for their concern, telling everybody to relax, he is fine. pele is one of football's all-time best known players with a career that includes three world cup championships for brazil. everyone very happy that he is in good spirits. >> absolutely. all right. still to come here on cnn, another security breach, this time on sony's playstation network whom. has taken responsibility for this attack, just ahead.
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welcome back, everyone. reports say more than two dozen men are under arrest in egypt on suspicion of homosexuality. authorities pulled the men from a bath house during a raid in cairo. homosexuality is not outlawed in egypt, but gays face discrimination in the very conservative society. at the risk of arrest, two men spoke with cnn's ian lee about what life is like for gays in egypt. >> reporter: it's a tender moment captured on home video.
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this clip appears to show two people affirming their love for each other. it would also land them in prison for three years on charges of inciting debauchery. a charge often levelled against gays and lesbians in egypt. many in the gay community here live in a constant state of fear. two men agreed to talk to us on the condition of anonymity. we'll call this man ahmed and this man noor. both are open to a degree with their immediate family. >> my mother was difficult. >> but it stop there's. >> it's difficult because you have to be aware of everything you're doing, your clothe, your reaction toward people. >> reporter: this clip shows a police raid in which five people were arrested and later convicted of debauchery. human rights activists say egyptian courts have sentenced at least 20 people to that and other similar charges this year. grinder, a gay dating app has warned its users say police may
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be posing as lgbt on social immediate where to entrap you. >> i'm always afraid that if i meet someone and he is from the government, and then i got arrested. >> reporter: the condemnation of homo sexuals in egyptian society runs deep. from the movies to religion, leaders in both dominant religions in egypt, islam and christianity speak out forcefully against homosexuality. many families turn to psychiatrists upon discovering their child is gay. >> my father took me to a psychiatrist once. and he gave me this medical thing that actually makes you stop having any sexual feelings, but it doesn't cure you. >> reporter: ahmed says there is a lack of understanding. >> there is no room for dialogue. that's my problem with egypt. it's like i want you to ask me about it and i will tell you, you know. and maybe you'll understand. >> reporter: so gays and
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lesbians remain in the shadows with many too afraid to even form activist groups to push for change. >> there could be an uprising, right? but the whole country will back the mass killings of homosexuals. like the whole country will sweep it under the rug. you can't fight the government when you don't have anything to fight the government with. >> and we are waiting to find out whether the men arrested in that bath house raid will be formally charged with debauchery. with more on this, i'm joined now by ian lee live, who is in cairo. so ian, what is likely to happen to the two dozen or so men who are currently under arrest in egypt under suspicion of homosexuality? >> rosemary, we talked to the ministry of interior, and they say there is still an ongoing investigation that charges haven't been leveed against these men. but what we usually see --
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>> all right. obviously having trouble there. our ian lee in cairo. we have been having a few technical problems. we're happy to actually get him there. but unfortunately, it did freeze on us. all right, errol? some other stories we have for you. the u.s. border patrol is looking for a few good women. right now about 95% of the agents on the southwest border are men. but over the last three years, the number of undocumented women the agents have apprehended has grown by more than 170%. one agent says the border patrol job has changed a lot recently with more hardware, more technology, and manpower. but the agency desperately needs i guess what you could call more women power. rosemary? a parliament session in jordan has gone viral online and it's bringing gender and equality issues into focus, all because of this altercation.
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a lot of shouting there. here is what happened. a few members repeatedly asked fema parliamentarian hindel fayez to sit down to allow another member to speak. instead she continued spoking that provoked another mp to shout and curse about the quota, referring to the mandatory allotment of some seats to women. al fayez spoke with cnn about that outburst. >> by the end of the day, i would say what he did probably was for the advantage of the female. and that's for the advantage of the female, because it triggered a very important issue that we as the jordanian in specific and the arabs in general, we're not taking women empowerment that seriously. >> he was asked to apologize, but he instead repeated his statement to some laughter and
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page not found. it's not you. it's the internet's fault. when they tried to access the site. >> a group that calls itself lizard squad has claimed responsibility. another second attack targeted sony pictures where they leaked some of the new movies online. one of korean air's vice presidents is under fire after she delayed a fight over some nuts. the daughter of the airline's ceo reportedly demanded a seoul-bound plane return to the gate in new york so that the lead flight attendant could be removed. what did she do? well, she served macadamia nuts in a bag and not in a plate or on a bowl. sacrilege. a korean spokesperson says the incident delayed the flight 11 minutes. the airline has apologized to passengers. south korea's ministry of transport is investigating whether any laws were violated here. >> someone may be a little spoiled there. >> perhaps.
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britain's most famous couple william and kate are in the united states and getting the royal treatment everywhere they go. >> yeah, the duke and duchess of cambridge don't seem to have a shortage of fans during their first trip to new york. get ready for lots of screaming. here jeanne moos. >> reporter: the distant screams carried a whiff of beatle mania. but no, this is another british import. though these fans will cheer anything. >> this is cnn. [ cheering ] >> reporter: local news anchors hammed it up, and late night comedians were doing jokes before the royal couple even landed. the pros and cons of their visit to new york. >> pros, seeing the naked cowboy in times square. con, realizing it's actually prince harry. oh really? >> reporter: the naked cowboy's underwear was not on the royal agenda. but kate's outer wear was, from the serrefine coat she arrived in made by a designer of luxury
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maternity clothes to this coat by goat. yes, there is a british fashion label called goat that kate wore to visit a child development center. >> get out of the way! >> reporter: kate proved to be adept at wrapping gifts for the kids. meanwhile, prince william was wrapping things up with president obama. you try making small talk as a herd of photographers descends upon the oval office. the royals, they're just like us. when prince william flew between new york and washington, he took the us airways shuttle first class. one passenger tweeted a photo of the prince looking as if he were searching for some place to stash his carry-on. on the way back to new york, cnn's anderson cooper tweeted prince william just got on my d.c. shuttle flight. i'm hoping this means an on-time departure. it did. the royal couple reunited at a reception celebrating wildlife conservation attended by hillary
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and chelsea clinton. >> is it about william or about kate? >> kate! >> do you remember who is coming to visit you today? >> princess. >> they know you think you're out of "frozen." ♪ cold never bothered me anyway. >> reporter: in frozen new york, you won't find this princess tossing off her thousand dollars goat coat. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> high expectations there for frozen princess. >> they'll grow up and realize who they really got to meet. >> thanks for watching cnn. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. early start is next for those of you in the u.s. everyone else stay tuned for cnn newsroom. have a great day.
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