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far as we know they didn't kill anyone but what is it that made this case particularly com pegs in your view? >> i would have to ask the media on this willing are one. and the kentucky state police i had some contacts that i reached out to and it just go legs and kept running. we got the picture out there, and i think it was a lot to do with her being 13 and him being 18. >> cheyenne's mother saying she disapproved of the daughter's relationship. the teens remain in florida for now, and then could be relocated to kentucky. we have much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it all starts right now.
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happening now, europe on edge as new details emerge on terror probes. belgium now requesting the extradition of a person arrested in greece on suspicion of terrorism. shots fired near vice president biden's home in delaware. the hunt is on for the car that fled the scenes as investigatoring searched biden's house to see if any rounds hit it. plus -- >> we know that you need to step up and, you know take the consequences of what you have done and come home. captured after two weeks on the run. two teens wanted for multistate crime spree arrested. "newsroom" starts right now. all right. hello and thanks again for joining me. first up tensions remain high in europe as new details emerge on terror probes across the
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continent continent. in belgium five nationals are facing charges over a foiled plot to attack police. all the suspects had been accused of participating in a terrorism organization. police remain on high alert across europe. troops are patrolling the streets of major european cities and they are standing guard outside embassies and the country's national jewish museum which was attacked last year. there are fears as many as 20 so-called sleeper cells may be activated to carry out terror plots. so do the arrests in greece mean the terror investigation is widening? cnn's pamela brown is in paris. pamela what more can you tell you about these arrests in greece and why the belgians want one of the suspects extradite centered? >> reporter: a man hunt has been under way for suspects believed
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to be tied to this terror cell in belgium. allegedly these people wanted to launch an imminent attack in belgium belgium. we learned that greek authorities arrested two people yesterday, and now the belgium prosecutor announcing today that belgium wants one of those people arrested in greece extradited in connection to the raids that belgian authorities did just a few days ago. it's unclear, though beyond that what role this suspect may have played in the actual terror plot or whether belgian authorities just want to be able to have this person extradited so they can interview him to build their case. we can tell you that belgian authorities will have to convince a greek court to extradite this suspect that is in greek custody. so you can imagine the belgian authorities right now are trying to build that case in order to make this hamppen. they're also trying to get two people here in france extradited
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to belgium as well tied to the terror raids a few days ago. and there were suspects arrested earlier in france some of whom you are speaking about, some have actually been released. so what happened in that investigation? was it a matter of some people just caught up with the wrong people in the wrong place? or did they just not have the evidence that they needed? >> well they clearly didn't have the evidence they needed in order to actually file charges against those three people. just to put this in the context here in france authorities have 96 hours to question people in a terrorism-related case. they were within that window and they questioned these people after scrubbing the suspects' computers and cell phone records and so forth. also we know that some of them apparently according to a source that was tied in with the security services here their dna, some of the suspects' dna was found on one coulibaly's
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phones and so forth. there are still nine people under police custody being questioned one woman, eight men. they as far as we no have not been charged, because people are still westbound the 96 window where they can question them. once that window ends they'll have to be charged or let go. pamela thank you so much. last hour i had a chance to talk with a man on the front lines of the terror threat. rob wainwright the agency in charge of law infers mbt in the upyarp union. he called the effort collaborative and urgent. >> they have been working with belgian and greek authorities and many other authorities around europe trying to develop the intelligence around what we have seen in the last week or so. we're doing that rather urgently also following up some other lines of inquiry, because the police action that we're now
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seeing fredricka, around europe obviously reflects the extent to which security authorities in many european countries are concerned about the nature of the threat, the extent to which it's believed that maybe the next attack could happen and therefore this is a determined show by the police forces around europe to try to scale up their activity to try to protect our citizens. >> what was it about the kind of information that belgian authorities had that they felt that the timing was right to try to disrupt the terror suspects a few days ago? >> yes, i think the impact in particular of the attacks in paris and the -- also the events in belgium, which showed that we were dealing with clearly quite a dangerous terrorist cell in that case showed us just how imminent the threat is in certain cases and how widespread
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it is across europe. remember we are dealing with a large newspaper better potential thousands of people who we know have been radicalized bied conflict experience in syria and iraq many of whom have now returned to european societies with some -- some perhaps with the intent and capable to carry out these attacks. so this is obviously a very pressing threat something that we have to respond to very urgently and we're doing that in many different ways. >> all right. the actions and the profiles of suspected terrorists keeps changing. let's talk more about that. joining me right now is political commentator buck sexton also a former cia carl trough and editor for the blaze.com. >> what does the question for extradition of this suspect in greece tell you about where this investigation is headed? >> it shows that obviously there are more branching to the cells that have already been taken
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down. it's very likely there will be even further arrests. some of the individuals who may have known about, though not necessarily participated in the operational planning of these cells in belgium or france or elsewhere, those individuals may also know who else is out there, what other sleeper cells are essentially prepared to take terrorist action so the authorities are in a race against time to one, catch those who would know about this and make sure that any individuals who are trying to flee who may have aided and abetted the cells that have already been taken down that they can get them before they escape to say, syria, as we saw in the case of the fourth suspect from the paris attacks. >> and buck this evolution of terrorism, it's been very rapid. how does the intel community anticipate when the tactics used by the groups has become really a guessing game? we talked about 9/11, the use of airliners airliners, and then it was the shoe bomber explosives that
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were used with the underwear bomber and now in the paris attacks, we're talking about guns. >> that's the problem. we have to be right always to thwart terrorist attacks, whereas they only have to get through our defenses once. we'll see a continue shifting in the targets they're picking. there's going to be a shift in the sites that they attack how they attack where they attack. so despite the massive security presence we have seen across europe in recent weeks, the fact of the matter is there is no such thing as a perfect dragnet across terrorism. there's no such thing as a defense they can't get through. that's where we have to get into the reality this will continue on and the fact of infiltration that we've seen with these cells, i mean hundreds if not thousands of people who have joined isis with european passports. it's almost impossible. >> buck sexton thanks so much. stay with me though we're going to talk about the world of
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panetta addressed today on "fareed zakaria gps". >> you have to be very aggressive in confronting this more dangerous threat in terms of terrorism. you have to do it with increases or basic intelligence because obviously whether it's human intelligence or technical intelligence getting the right intelligence gives you at least a chance to avoid these kinds of attacks. secondly i think we have to continue to stress or counter terrorism operations both our intelligence operations our special forces operations to be able to use our capabilities to targets their leadership and their command and control. and thirdly, you've got to build partnerships with the countries abroad that are confronting terrorism. we have to be able to share intelligence share operations
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and be able to work together to go after this brought array of threats of these kids as they come back we're probably in a pretty good position with our watch lists and defenses that have been set up, to be able to check them, but the probeen in europe is there frankly is, you know a greater capability to be able to move from country to country without being detected. somehow working with other countries, we have to be able to share intelligence and improve or capability to track they foreign nationals that in one way or another are coming back to these countries and trying to conduct these attacks. >> buck sexton is back with me from new york and joining the conversation from skype is the author of "between two worlds" and founder of women for women international. by the way, she's joining us from istanbul. buck in new york panetta
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talking about share intelligence. hasn't that been happening? but isn't the problem that people with travel from country to quinn? so tracking people in their whereabouts is quite the difficult task. >> yes, counter terrorism cooperation with all of our european counterparts is traditionally excellent, and continues to be very strong because we have such a shared interest in preventing these attacks attacks. the problem is you're not looking for a needle in a haystack you're looking for a needle in a stack of needles. there's a lot of people moving around any given time. we don't want to be operating with police state tactics, the ability to cross over borders complicates matters a bit, because you're asking for intraeuropean cooperation, and they also involved -- so if there is a real threat a cell that looks like in the latter stages of planning the authorities and whatever countries we are talking about within the eu can take that
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action in time so they prevent the kind of attacks we have seen recently. >> and zanab, you're there in istanbul where the suspected suspect spent time from moving from turkey to syria. what is the feeling there of the reputation of being used as a safe place for transits. >> the turks don't see themselves as a country that is a safe place for potential terrorists whatsoever. they see they're trying their best toll find her. the issue for me is that you know since this incident happened there hasn't been an islamic debate within us muslims about this issue is indeed an internal issue, and we have to allow some discussion about what's going on with the religion and how it's being
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kidnapped by these people who are hijacking the spirit of the religion itself. i feel like the problem we are all acting out defensiveness. muslims are saying this is not our, and the western world is defensive. so we have to go above the defensiveness and plant the seeds for the future so we can avoid it in the future. >> zainib i wonder how will that discussion help? if it's those who are not loyal to the faith of the muslim faith, they're the ones who are the problem, right? those who are loyal to the faith, they can have this conversation but it's a conversation among themselves. how do you reach those who feel whether it's disenfranchised, who feel a certain void or feel like they are easily to be persuaded that the muslim faith is anything about what it is. >> well a couple points the issue is that the other
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alternative, the wujz who are saying it is a religion of forgiveness and we want human rights and freedom of expression and reforms, they are actually being prosecuted in their own country, such as saudi arabia morocco, jordan you know egypt. they are being put in prison for their own expression of religion. there was a person with 1,000 lashes people in egypt are in prison for speaking about freedom of expression. the alternative is being prosecuted why isis is telling young men and women come join our cause. they have a very clear message, we'll gel you salaries protection security, they're not going to tell them you'll by a sexual slave in you are a woman. we don't know that until it happens, but the image in here the propaganda image is they are winning, actually. they are taking over our youth in a very scary way and what --
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we have to have room for the other side to flewish, including in europe. we need room for european countries to be in debate with the islam and their population rather than be in defense and scared of it. >> let me ask you about turkey and what -- it's the only muslim nato country and ally to the u.s. and europe. does turkey find itself in a rather precarious situation, in that they do have this porous border? and there does seem to be a track record now of people who are using turkey to get to countries like syria undetected? >> the precarious situation is much worse than the porous border of course it's a porous board entire a massive civil war that's kind 200,000 people. it's already spilled over very much into iraq and even into
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lebanon. obviously the turkish authorities, the turkish government want to make sure there's no cajun to the north. by the same token, there have been some problems in terms of the turks and their willingness to abide groups that many believe are terrorists. they have provided safe haven for hamas over the past year that's been troubling to allies troubling they're a nato country, so they are caught between the obligations to the west and to the nato as well as their obligations to the region and the sense that they have to be both a good neighbor and neighbor that looks out for itself to make sure that what happens in syria doesn't become more of a problem already. they have taken some measures recently. i think we can say it's a little late but they are providing safe harbor for some refugees but a lot of terrorists have filtered across that border. >> zainib i want to get back to you touching on the growing role
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of these women being lured in. wasn't there a time when the notion of women being pardon of a radical group wasn't possible they would be used as sex slaves or mistreated in other ways now some young ladies could be treated as valuable commodity, perhaps hayat boumeddiene might be so what is happening? how is the strategy of luring young girls into this trap so to speak, happening? >> every research every track record every stories we have is once these young women are arriving to isis bases, they are treated like sex slaves. that's their role to actually marry the fighters and provide sexual services to them. there's no doubt about that this is how they get treated. the propaganda image is that come you are joining as a fighter in the -- in their purpose, in the jihad, they're giving her a role. if you're a young woman who is
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disenfranchised in france for example, if you are in your 120s, and you see hayat, a normal-looking girl you know the most wanted woman in the world, roaming around the world, getting all the attention, frankly it's an appealing picture. it's scaryily appealing. we need to provide an alternative image. where is our coverage of the young muslim women who are are 'tises or peace builders? we have to make that alternative image more attractive than what we giving the platform, frankly. powerful words. buck sexton thank you so much. great conversation. to both of you, i appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead, shots fired near the vice president's delaware home and the suspect is still on the loose. at t-mobile you can hook up the whole family for $100 bucks. get 4 lines with unlimited talk and text and up to 10 gigabytes of 4g lte data. plus get the brand-new samsung galaxy note 4 for $0 down.
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one opened fire near the vice president's home in delaware last night. so far the suspect or suspects are still at large. vice president's private home is in wilmington and often leaves the white house area or the vice presidential observatory address in d.c. for home on the weekends to delaware. but he wasn't there at the time of this incident in delaware. cnn's erin mcpike is at the
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white house now. what is the secret service saying? >> first to clarify, yes, the bidens were in wilmington delaware this weekend. they were just not at home when the shots were fired, but we have gotten information from the secret service today. i want to read part of that statement to you that we have from the spokesman. he says -- while the vice president and dr. biden were out for the evening, a vehicle drove by the residence at a high rate of speed and fired multiwand againshots. the shots were ahead by secret service personnel posted and a vehicle was observed by an agent leaves the scene at a high rate of speed. what they have found from searching the nearby residences is that no one was injured and there has been no damage but of course the secret service and the newcastle county police are taking this very seriously. they have learned that there were also shots fired at a nearby reservoir. and of course if it has anything
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to do with the vice president at all, but given that it was so close to his house, even though it was hundreds of yards outside and outside the security perimeter, they have to take this with a lot of caution, fred. >> keep us posted on that erin mc pike thanks so much. he's promising the middle class a new tax cut. will the gop-controlled congress give it to the president? we'll preview the president's state of the union speech, next. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it!
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the president of the united states. >> reporter: president obama is getting ready to deliver his state of the union address and put a actual multiual year behind him, one that chapenings to obamacare, scandals in the v.a. and the secret service, and abroad the rise of isis a return to iraq, air strikes over syria, americans murdered. >> we will be vigilant and relentless. when people harm americans everywhere, we do what is necessary to see that jews is done. >> reporter: not quite what he emphasized last state of the union. he's been battered by republicans over -- approval ratings down around 40%. racial tensions and a violent end to obama's attempted reset with russia. and 2014 ended with a painful loss of the senate to
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republicans in the midterm elections. but wait obama is now saying -- >> i'm still around. because i've got some work to do. >> reporter: which in just a few weeks khaled groundbreaking moves on -- a victory lap on the economy. >> america is coming back. >> reporter: his ratings bouncing back some as well. 2014 was also remember obama's self-title year of action the labor force and trade, he proclaimed obamacare a success, reached out on social media, sat between two ferns. now he needs to address the nation with resolved. in the face of fresh cyberand terror attacks. >> are they having to rewrite it? >> things are going on as we speak. >> they are rewriting the whole thing now anyway. >> jane bexar worked on the state of the yew in 1995 as on
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after both houses shifted. >> this is a president who is now saying the battle for the middle class in this country has begun. in some respects this is the first shot in the battle of the 2016 presidential election because there's a fight for what the next american agenda is going to be. >> reporter: does he need to start out with counters terror because of france? if you were writing the speech would you start with that? >> probably not. i think i would start with the domestic but that's a good question. >> reporter: in the last few weeks he's laid out a road show prequel, but will that encourage more americans to tune in? >> if you had to wager on how many millions would watch, what would you say? >> 40 million. >> reporter: given that last year saw the smallest audience in more than a decade that would be a success. michelle kosinski cnn, the white house. all right. so the president has been busy getting ready for tuesday
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night's state of the union speech. the administration in fact posted this picture on the white house instagram account of him and his main speechwriter working on the address. theron johnson was the -- and adam goodman, a gop community indications strategist. good to see both of you. often the state of the union, it is great theater. it's really the popcorn moment i believe, where everyone crowds around the camera but too is the fascinating walk of the president into the chamber, and usually republicans, democrats leaning over trying to touch the president. we see it here with george w. bush and here with president obama, but i wonder now we're talking about a republican-controlled congress. might the tone by different? or do you believe that a message will still be sent theron to the nation that everyone gets along and is excited about the president being here? >> this is an excellent opportunity for the american people. this is the kickoff the the
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session. this is the one time with both chambers coming together and all three branching, but i think the president has done something very unorthodox. he's telling the american people some of the -- i think what's going to be very interesting about this particular state of the union is you're right, fredricka, this is the first time in seven years of hmm big president where you have both chap better controlled by the republicans, so i think you'll see an outreach. >> how do you see? >> totally differently. first of all, you're right, this is awesome theater. it's interesting that one projection there was 40 million, you've heard as low as 30 millions versus the first state of the union speech which was at 52. i think the president has to do a couple things. recognizing it is a different congress and recognizing also the moment we are now living through, i think the events in paris and -- >> you think that's top of mind?
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>> i think it's top of mind in terms of what the people are looking for, but he has to do more, many of which might be dead on arrival. he has a chance to really tell the nation i'm ready to lead. >> why is it so important he would unavailable, like you just said as a precursor to the actual state of the union speech he's -- you know, why is this a priority for the president when, economists are saying you know what unemployment very low, it looks like the contribution to the gdp is very high and this is impressive. what's the explanation behind this type of approach? >> this is the backbone of our american economy. you have 11.2 million new jobs 58 months of straight job
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growth the most ever in history of america. so that's what the president is going to talk about. when you talk about these tax cuts i mean he's going to look at fair options to look at some of the loopholes but again his message will be all about strength in the middle class. what we are seeing is these full-time jobs that people have they're getting them but also he wants to train more americans through his proposal with a two-year college to make sure they are trained and educated about this is two-year proposal. so we have to apologize for the mood light, you into suddenly you're not in the light. we have a new studio and -- who is the audience here when you talk about this? is it the small business? big business? is it the middle class, those who were still struggling? >> whether it's 30 million or 40 million, it's still pretty much everybody, but i think he's going into the environment where there's a real lack of confidence about our competent.
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they want government to work again. >> who needs that confident particularly? >> i think what government has to understand is the american people want to raise the bar in washington tell them we want stuff to happen again. if the speech is all about creating divisiveness it would not be the success. if he leads, i think we have something to start cheering about. >> let's look at it from a different point of view. this is the first time republicans have an opportunity to lead. for the last seven years they've been the party of no. well now the american people are anxious to see what this republican congress is going to do. also they've got to work with the president. i mean they need the president as much as he needs them because these results that they want to produce for the many, many people they tau to around the country will arrive the president's signature. >> we might get an indicator when he hear the republican response that would be maid be joni ernst.
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you know sometimes the person as opposed to the message, you know kind of upstages everything. we saw marco rubio, you know moment with the sipping of the glass, and then you know bobby jindal some said he didn't look very comfortable. what do the republicans or what does senator ernst have to win or lose in that republican response? >> well joni ernst is part of a new class of senator that is came in in '14 that goes by the name of cotton till his, sullivan gardner. they came in with a message. their message was and still is let's make things work again. so i think it's incumbent on joni ernst -- now where focus groups have seen every farm animal and which one will take place of the big? we're trying to figure out how to get that done. i think you'll find a sense of refreshing freshness, spirit
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looking at things differently. bottom line willing to go back home and say, darn it we got things done today. >> i think the most important thing is they're putting out a woman. they are sortic looking to the future to see that on a democratic side it's highly likely we may have a woman to be our nominee so much she is a freshman and they really are coming with an inclusionary message. >> if you look at the campaign so far, starting to percolate and jeb bush with the right to rise act and romney's comments about economic empowerment, i think both sides are moving that way. isn't that interesting? and very, very quickly. i think that the be a faultline in the campaign. >> and there's things to say about mitt romney and the search for that republican nominee for 2016. let's listen. >> he did call and we did speak, and he said that he's seriously considering it.
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he wanted some advice and input, but the rumors out there were true certainly for him to appear at the gop event that was there in san diego recently, you don't do that if you're just putting your ball cap down and going to seaworld for the afternoon. so yeah i think he's very seriously considering it. >> what did he say that will be different this time around? >> well he does have the experience. i think mitt romney checks three boxes that the rest of the candidates don't do. number one, he's vetted. there won't be that october surprise that republicans would naturally be worried about. i think he as been proven right on so many of the issues, but foreign policy he almost looked prophetic talking about russia and the war on terror those types of things. so we know he was right on the issues then you have to have
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somebody who raise the $1 billion that it would take in order to beat hillary clinton. certainly mitt romney can do that as well. >> is that indicative of the love that the republican party will share with mitt romney? >> it is end of the day, the republicans have a field of tremendous candidates to choose from. i don't see the rationale for mitt to get into the race. right now with people like bush and christie and scott walker and rand paul you know we've got a lot to choose from. i think we're not going to need -- >> and some people say with all those names, that would make it so exciting. >> absolutely. and mitt romney governor romney was a very successful businessman, unsuccessful president atcandidate. for someone who went up against him in 2012, the problem in 2012 will be the same problem in 2016. that's pushing for a narrative,
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and also dealing with some of the waste stagnation we have in this country. he is a part of this wealthy class of people -- >> except he tried to change his tune a bit. >> i think you saw -- >> people more less than -- >> even here in georgia, it's more of bipartisan talk because i think they came out of the these mid terms and now they're trying to prepare. >> last word? >> stay tuned, you think theater will be great tuesday night? '16 will be even better. >> adam and therin good to see both of you. appreciate it. don't forget to tune into the president's speech tuesday night. they'll have every angle covered hight here on cnn, our coverage beginning 7:00 p.m. eastern time, and we'll be right back.
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isis suddenly released hundreds of hostages. here is cnn's ivan watson. >> reporter: the kurdish activists are trying to take care of an enormous number of prisoners from the uziti religious minority which were released without explanation on saturday after being held in capitalivity. the members of the religious minority describe by one activist as almost entirely elderly men and women, many filthy hungry and sick after months in captivity, some of them mentally or physically disabled. we don't know why they were released they were dumped by an isis front line and sent walks toward kurdish specialpeshmerga positions. their release underscores a much bigger problem, the fact that
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isis launched the military offensive last summer they took thousands of members of the religious mine orth hostage, many grls and women, who basically from sources i've talked to sold into modern-day slavery where they have been using in many cases as effectively sex slaves. isis has been very public about this they have justified this along religious grounds, they have even issued instructions for what age, for example someone can begin to have sex with their uziti slave, under what conditions they can sell or trade their slaves. this has been a developing membership for this minority some of whom have been forced to try to gather up money to pay ransoms to win back the release of their missing loved ones still believed to be missing and
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held hostage, in the thousands at this date. fred? >> a horrible situation. thank you so much ivan. meantime in this country, a nationwide manhunt is over. two teens are now in custody. now how police found them, next. at t-mobile you can hook up the whole family for $100 bucks. get 4 lines with unlimited talk and text and up to 10 gigabytes of 4g lte data. plus get the brand-new samsung galaxy note 4 for $0 down.
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all right. checking our top stories, icy roads in the northeast have caused more than 420 accidents today, some of them deadly. police say two people have died in relation to accidents involving black ice. one was killed after getting out of his car after he crashed into a large pileup. and two kentucky teens are in police custody after their arrest in panama city beach, florida, following an alleged multistate crime spice. dalton hayes and cheyenne phillips were spotted sleeping and then arrested. changing careers can be
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pretty tough for everybody. chris cuomo shows us how one man did it and in the process he is now changing lives. >> yeah four minutes, four minutes. it's a competition. >> ricardo silva is using his competitive edge make math count for these high school students in washington, d.c. >> number three is what? my hope is to bring awareness, total life outcomes you can do whatever you want through education. >> silva as first job wasn't in a classroom. it was on a football field playing for the detroit lions. >> my mission was to get to college and start in the nfl. let's move on to something more meaningful to me which is providing opportunities to kids who do not necessarily know how to get where le need to be. >> teach for america. the program offers free classroom training to profession from therefore they teach in an underserved school for two years.
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>> for kids not achieving as well as the more affluent counterparts. we're trying to close the gap. this is why i'm here. >> it's certainly not for the paycheck or the ease of a job. >> football all you have to do is wake up every day, work out and do what the coaches tell you to do. in school you have to motivate young teenagers who are more interested in the social media outlets than math. >> reporter: a seemingly impossible task but silva is up for the challenge. >> the first thing we must do? >> all i had is one person believing in me my entire life. i feel i can bring that to the kids. all they need is one person telling them they can do it and be successful. the torch had been hassed to a numb generation of americans.
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. pope francis wrapped up his week-long trip to asia. wind and rain weren't enough to stop an estimated 6 million people for a papal mass. here's cnn's anna koran. korin. >> reporter: they came in the millions. gathering to bear witness to
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papal history and celebrate mass with the man they believe represents the son of god. pope francis arrived wearing a plast inponcho the same worn by the faithful who have been standing in the mud waiting patiently for hours. it's been 20 years since the pope visited the philippines, home to the third largest catholic population in the world, the last was pope john pau paul ii in 1995 when 5 million parishioners attended mass. white authorities believed that record would be surpassed, the wet weather may have dampened numbers, but not spirits. continuing his message of helping the poor and preserving the family the 78-year-old pontiff delivered hi homily in english, this time focusing on children. >> we need to care for our young
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people not allowing them to be -- and condemn them to a life on the streets. >> reporter: a they'd earl yes when the hope addressed people at the oldest catholic university in manila when a street child asked why do children have to suffer, before breaking down. from the outset pope francis said he was going to be a pastor on this visit, and he didn't disappoint warming the hearts of so many in a country that has endured so much. >> i just feel ecstatic. it's overwhelming. i just want to pray and laugh. i can't way to see the pope in person. >> reporter: if the catholic church was concerned about a disconnect then pope francis has certainly brought many of those sheep back into the flock.
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for the millions who have gathered in the rain his visit, a visit of mercy and compassion have united the country's faithful. after 90-minute mass of reverence and reflection the crowd erupted again with pope. as he said his final farewells, the pontiff stopped the pope mobile several times to kiss children. a demonstration of his love for the people whose unwavering devote they give in return. anna korin, cnn manila. >> what an incredible site. thanks for joining mess. the next hour of the "newsroom" begins now with poppy harlow in new york. \s . hi everyone you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm poppy harlow j