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tropical cyclone pam left a trail of destruction and desperation across the south pacific islands. and now thousands of people are without homes, without clean water, and without sanitation. officials there are struggling to assess the damage especially in remote areas. in the meantime international aid is being rushed in. our senior international correspondent, ivan watson is, on the grown in vanuatu. earlier he spoke with our john vause about the conditions on that island. >> reporter: there's certainly thousands of people whose homes have either been destroyed or seriously damaged around the capital here port vila. i'm overlooking a valley where a great majority of trees have been snapped or denuded. by the roar winds that ripped through -- record winds that ripped through friday nightment i'm next to a church that more than 100 used as a temporary

shelter since their homes were damageded friday. what i'm hearing from resigns is that they -- residents is that they are subsistence farmers. they make a living supply almost on what they grow survive on what hay grow and rely on it to eat. some i've talked to say their garden their meager farm have been destroyed by the storm. that means they've lost their main source of food. that gets to the crux of the problem. vanuatu is one of the poorest countries in the pacific, and it is still reeling from this terrible storm that has not only destroyed the homes of many people we don't know how many yet, but it's also threatened the livelihoods of many, as well. >> and ivan, aid groups are hoping aerial survey will give a better idea of damage in the outlying islands. do you know if those flights are underway and if so what are they reporting back?

>> reporter: small planes have been conducting survey in the outer islands. vanuatu has dozens of islands. this is one of the problems. we're trying to figure out the damage around the capital city it's still difficult to get phone calls out to some of the more remote islands. difficult to get an assessment of damage or potential loss of life on some of these smaller islands. the sgns that the disaster management center -- gones isgones is that the disaster management center reports that this is the worst storm that many have seen in generations. a category five cyclone. harder still to figure out what happened on more of the outlying island. >> it's the hardest to get to the outlying areas. you can imagine relief worker are still trying to figure out the best way to distribute aid

that's being rushed in. earlier, thomas perry from care international spoke with zain asher on the phone from the capital city of port vila. listen. >> the best thing people can do is to support the appeals for agencies like care because clearly this is going to take an enormous effort over the coming weeks and months. i mean i was listening to ivan's report. i guess the casing is -- it's very true that it's so hard to get out and to get any information out from the northern and southern provinces at this point. we hope to have in the next few minutes one of the members, a couple members of our team on a flight to the salon in the south. and hopefully they will be able to give us some sense of what happened there. really at this point there is not a lot of information. and it's certainly deeply concerning because those islands

down there were incredibly hard hit. >> yeah. communication, as you mention, is poor other than in port vila. what sort of aid is coming in right now? >> i came in yesterday on one of the australian air force's military flights. and flight of stocked with food water, medical supplies. that's the essentials at this point. food water, and also shelter. shelter obviously a critical need. and there are now the emergency shelters popping up around town, around town in port vila. they will soon be spreading around the country to support people who obviously have been hit incredibly hard by this. >> a desperate situation on the island. if you would like to help or get involveded to help the victims of cyclone pam, go to

cnn.com/impact. you'll find a list of approveded agencies on the ground or organizing to help people who desperately need it. again, cnn.com/impact. woee move on to ferguson, missouri. a man in custody, charged with the shooting two of police officers during a protest in front of the plod last week. we are -- police department last week. we're hearing the public helped a great deal to at hen the sbhoikt had the weapon in his home. >> reporter: after arrest has been made in the case of the two police officers shot in front of the police department friday morning. 20-year-old jeffrey william is in custody. law enforcement saying williams says he was targeting someone else when he shot the two officers. >> essentially what we've charged him with is firing shots. it's possible at this point that he was firing shots at someone other than the police. but struck the police officer. so the charge is still assault in the first degree. class-a felonies for striking

the officers. >> reporter: while officials say williams was known to be part of the demonstrators in front of the ferguson police department some of the organizers say that's not the case. they say that he was not a known protester. and one man who went in to speak with williams while he's been in custody says that williams admitted to him that he had not spent any time demonstrating at all. stephanie elem cnn, clayton, missouri. later in this show we'll talk a law enforcement analyst who says the arrest could be a sign of healing in that community. a tragic situation to tell you about in la hor, pakistan. a set of bombings killed at least 14 at two christian churches. a hospital officials at least 78 are wounded. witnesses say a man blew himself up you outside one of the churches as security stopped him from be -- security guards stop him from entering. angry resigns killed two men they suspect of being involved

in the attacks. pakistan's prime minister condemned the bombings. the pakistani taliban has claimed responsible. the u.s. is planning to return more than 0 artifacts smug -- 0 artifacts smuggled out of iraq. the operation helps in washington and comes at a time that isis is destroying centuries' old antic wits in iraq. ben wedeman with the story. ♪ >> reporter: the city of babylon has seen empires come and empires go. built, destroyed, rebuilt, and ransacked time and time again. it dates back almost 4,500 years and remain a symbol of the glory

of messopotamia. it was last rebuilt, if you can call it that by saddam hussein in the 1980s. one of his palaces looms over the ruins. the renovated ruins include bricks stamped with his name describing him as the son of the great babylonian king. this family has come to the ruins. "this wasn't saddam's," he says. "it belonged to our grandfathers the babylonians. not saddamment" -- not saddam." but isis' reign of terror has eclipsed saddam's end in low mania. last month, isis posted footage of the destruction, of priceless artifacts in the mosul museum. they've reportedly bulldozed the ancient cities in northern -- northern iraq.

"the mosul museum was destroyed, why," he says addressing isis. "that is the heritage of your grandfathers. why did you do that?" south of baghdad, babylon is out of isis' reach. for isis monuments like these are from the age of ignorance before the advent of islam and, therefore, must be destroyed. for most iraqis they're the achievements of their forefathers and a great source of national pride. >> this is the trickvictory sign -- >> reporter: he and parents are preparing for a campout intended to teach iraqi boys and girls about their history. "we have to preserve our heritage to show how advanced babylonian civil situation was," she says. "it was the pinnacle of ancient civilization." the assault on iraq's history

has taken -- is taken personally here. "when i saw what happened i was determined to preserve our antiquityies from isis," sees who fled -- he says who fled mosul last year when isis overran the city. iraq's very identity is tied up with its ain'tent past. in a land where history is measured not in centuries but in millennia, sites like these have a deep personal resonance. "back salon our soul," he says from the antiquities department. "it's our heritage our history, and we'll defend it." a heritage and history now under assault from latter day barbarians. ben wedeman, cnn, babylon, iraq. three british teenagers were suspect of trying to travel to syria, but turkish authorities put the halt on their plans. coming up, what they face now.

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newsroom." u.s. secretary of state john kerry is expected to meet with iran's foreign minister in a few hours in switzerland. the u.s. and its allies are still negotiating with iran on its nuclear weapons program. secretary kerry says he hopes they can reach an interim deal within the week. the deadline for a framework agreement is the end of the month. the u.s. state department is trying to downplay secretary kerry's comments on syria this weekend. he told cbs "face the nation" the u.s. will have to negotiate to remove syrian president bashar al assad from power to end the war. >> we are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we go reignite a diplomatic outcome. why? because everybody agrees there is no military solution. there is only a political solution. to get the assad regime to negotiate, we're going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his

calculation about negotiating. that's underway right now. and i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and others there will be increased pressure on assad. >> you'd be willing to negotiate with him? >> we have to negotiate. >> that comment has a lot of people talking certainly. the syrian conflict is now entering its fifth year. assad's regime is blame for thousands of civilian deaths. demonstrators outside the white house sunday likened him to the nazis. the state department says u.s. policy on the removal of assad has not changed. assad's regime is accuse of dropping bombs outside the syrian capital sunday. at least 18 were killed more than 100 including some children were wounded. the london-based monitoring group for human rights says assad's warplanes drop the bombs. the group said more than 10,000 children have been killed since

the uprising started in 2011. israel is getting ready for a crucial election. voters head to the polls tuesday and could cause a huge political shift in the country. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is urging thousands of supporters on sunday to get out the vote for his right wing party. he's been in power now for nine years. the live polls show netanyahu's likud party trailing been the left central zionist union. the face of that alliance is isaac herzog. he visited jerusalem's western wall sunday. he says israelis want change and that mr. netanyahu's focus on security and threat from iran are not the priorities from voters. exactly how an israeli government is formed sudden a bit of a complicated matter. a party might win the most seats in the knesset, but it doesn't mean that party will control the

government coalition. orrin lieberman explains. >> reporter: israeli politics is all about where you sit in this room. this is the knesset. the israeli parliament the legislative branch of the government. of the 130 seats below me, the most important is at the center of the u, the prime minister's seat's the seats around that that determine who gets to sit there. here it is where voters don't pick a favorite politician instead they vote for a political party. no one party will win an outright majoriti. most successful part in the upcoming elections may win as few as a quarter of the seats. after the elections, the political parties meet with the president and tell the president this is who we want for prime minister this is what we want to work with in the upcoming government. that person has a chance to put together a coalition government a majority of the seats here through political wheeling and dealing and trading political favors for support. winning the most seats doesn't

guarantee that you're the prime minister if you can't make the right deal. technically, 61 seats is enough in the knesset. most prime ministers want more than that. they want a coalition of 65 or 66 seats so they have a more secure administration. oftentimes in israeli politics it can come down to one or two of the smaller parties in the upcoming election to decide which way the election goes. because they sometimes have that influence, these smaller pears are call the kingmakers. they determine who gets to sit in the prime minister's seat and who doesn't. a powerful real estate heir has been arrested in new orleans. it is the latest in a 14-year-old more investigation and mystery. details ahead.

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♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ it reads like a chapter from a crime novel. a well-real estate heir in an investigation in a more case that's been unsolved for 14 years. the victim of a crime writer living in los angeles. annie rose has this unusual case. >> reporter: authorities arrested robert durst in new orleans sudden on a los angeles county warrant. the real estate heir is the subject of the had been documentary series "the jinx." the show has looked at whether durst of involved in a 1928 disappearance of his wife kathy, and the 2000 unsolved slaying of his friend and crime author susan berman. she was shot to death in herb home in beverly hills.

the district attorney reopen the case last week. . "the jinx" website suggests authorities should give another look and connect the death to durst. >> if you back him in a corner if you threaten his freedom, he'll kill you. >> reporter: "jinx" producers say investigators believe durst knows what happen to his wife. the documentary explores the possibility that berman was murdered because she also knew kathy durst's fate. >> the jury find the defendant, robert durst, not guilty. >> reporter: durst is no stranger to controversy. the millionaire was charged in 2003 for the murder and dismemberment of a neighbor in galveston, texas. durst said he acted in self-defense. a jury acquitted him in that case. a new orleans extradition hearing is set for monday. durst attorneys say his client will fight the charges in los angeles as soon as possible. annie rose reporting. some candid remarks by post that may have taken some -- by pope francis that may have taken some by surprise.

hey is he believes his papacy will be brief. that comes in an interview with a mexican television network. >> translator: i have the feeling that my pontiff cat will be brief. four or five years, even two or three. two have already passed. to somewhat strange sensation, i have the feeling that the lord has placed me for a short time. but it is just a feeling, and so i have the possibility open. >> it's been two years since pope francis success pope benedict xvi. senior citizen religious commentator father edward beck says the pope may follow benedict's lead. >> this is a 78-year-old man. remember when he was 21, he had a piece of his lung remove. he hasn't always been in the best health. he realizes his time is necessarily limited by his age, first of all. remember that pope benedict retired at 8 because he felt he wasn't up to the job anymore.

that's a press den that's been set. pope francis -- precedent that's been set. pope francis said of benedict's retirement he's opened an institutional door which means, you know what maybe i'll retire too. >> pope francis says he is also open -- not open i should say, opposed to putting an age loimt the papacy -- limit to the papacy. rapid heat and snow melt are leading to flooding in parts of the you. we switch over to meteorologist pedram javaheri with what's happening with that. >> george nice seeing you. you know this winter of course has been such a long live winner for a lot of team as far as you how cold it's been and how much snow has fallen. the temperature well above average. they soared into the 70s for much of the weekend, well into the northern tier of the u.s. the highs some of the warmest since halloween across this portion of the united states. some rainfall across the southern portions of the u.s. all this together has led to some flooding concerns. about a 50-foot flood stage across the mississippi and ohio valleys as far as the rivers are

concerned. want to show you video out of cincinnati. the water definitely starting to take over parts of town with the tremendous levels of water height. again, this has been an ongoing event. we know the snow has been melting rapidly, and the flooding now going down stream. in fact parts of the mississippi river have seen the waters rise on the order of a foot every single day now going on ten days. impressive sight when it comes to all of this happening rapidly. there you go. we had 3% of the united states with snowfall on the ground as of the 1st of march. the seasonal maximum in place. fast forward to the 15th of march, has dropped down to 10% snow cover. all of that, of course having to go somewhere, goes down the ohio river valley and mississippi where the water levels have ballooned. you compare the sun angle back on the 1st of winter december 21st. sun angle considerably lower. fast forward to the middle of march, it get up higher in the sky. more effective in melting the snow off. that's happening with warm temperatures that are pushing

in. that has been the trend. cooler weather yet again in the forecast across the eastern half of the country while above average temperatures expected to continue. so look at this, in denver from nearly 80 drops to 59. cooling trend in oklahoma city also significant, kansas city. look at areas in and around dallas dropped from the 80s to the 60s. and indianapolis and chicago, from 70 down to the 40s over the next coming couple of days. the heat has been on across southern california. look at los angeles -- downtown observation at the usc campus got up to 92 degrees. video coming out of southern california because we had the 30th los angeles marathon in place on sunday. and in fact some 47 people treat for ailments because of the extreme heat there. a 61-year-old man, cardiac arrest 15 people hospitalized because of the extreme heat across southern california. historically it is placed there in mid-march because it should be around 70 degrees in this part of the world.

it is the mild time of year but this is what people are dealing with -- extreme heat. it looks like it will be ending by tuesday. at least some better news there. >> a lot warmer there in the l.a. area. i'm sure they are happy this it's warmer up in boston places like that where they got so much snow. >> they're not complaining in the northeast. yeah. >> thank you very much. >> you got it. ebola is back in the news. cnn attempts to debunk the myth that the virus is airborne. doug. you've been staring at that for awhile, huh? listen, td ameritrade has former floor traders to help walk you through that complex trade. so you'll be confident enough to do what you want. i'll pull up their number. blammo. let's get those guys on the horn. oooo looks like it is time to upgrade your phone, douglass. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. i bring the gift of the name your price tool

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell this is "cnn newsroom." the headlines this hour -- relief groups are rushing aid to

the island of vanuatu in the south pacific. people there are just getting a real sense of the damage caused by tropical sigh cantaloupe pam. 90 -- cyclone pam. 90% of the homes in the capital city have been destroyed or damaged. a 20-year-old man is charged with shooting two policemen last week in ferguson, missouri. the prosecutor says the man admitted to firing his gun but claim he wasn't aiming at the officers. the shooting happened at the end of a protest against police. the officers are still recovering. on the eve of israel's parliamentary elections, isaac herzog co-leader of the left zionist union, has a slight lead in the polls. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's right wing party trails behind. and he made a last-ditch effort to secure the vote. three british teenagers facing terrorism charges are out on bail.

turkish authorities stop them as they tried to enter syria. it's believed they were planning to join the group isis. their return to london suggests greater cooperation in the battle against isis. >> reporter: british counterterror officials learned that two 17-year-old males were traveling from northwest london planning to go to syria via turkey. so british officials called up their turkish counterparts and the two teenagers were stopped in turkey, along with another 19-year-old male who was traveling with them. that happened on friday. all three were deported back to the u.k. late sudden night. now this quick work stopping them in turkey and returning them back here to the u.k. stands in stark contrast to the three teenage british schoolgirls who traveled from east london also to turkey. then spent several days in turkey before they were able to cross undetected into syria. that happened several weeks ago.

still, a lot of questions as to how and why they were able to do that. the fact that these three teenage boys have been stopped does suggest better cooperation from british and turkish officials. the big question now for the teenage boys in the u.k. and for their families is whether or not they will be charged with terror offenses even though they never made it to syria. cnn, london. to paris. it is the place where four hostages were killed in a terror attack in january. and now the koeshl supermarket is back open for business. reuters reports the store is completely refurbished. it has new staff since those who were there during the attack are still recovering. the gunman who was tied to the "charlie hebdo" killers -- he was later kill by police. france's interior minister of the store's first customer on sunday. he said the reopening shows that life is stronger than everything

else. the iraqi intelligence service says it's arrested 31 members of an isis-affiliated group. an agency statement says the suspects confessed to planning and carrying out 52 terrorist attacks in baghdad in the past year. it also said large quantities of weapons, explosive belts, rigged cars and motorcycles and videos of isis operations were seized. a group of american aid workers potentially exposed to the boil vier us -- ebola virus in see airily own are back in the united states for monitoring. the cdc reports 11 workers there a boston-based a group may have been exposed by a colleague diagnosed with ebola. they will be monitored at facilities around the u.s. for the next 21 days. reports of ebola exposure raised questions and fears about the deadly disease and that it could possibly be airborne but it's not. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, demonstrates why those fears are unwarranted.

probably the question we got more than any another -- is ebola airborne? the answer is no, it's not. but to i want to take a couple of minutes and show you why not. i think you'll fine this interesting. a lot of viruss when they're circulating through the air, if you breathe them in part of the reason they make you sick is because they stick to your airways. imagine this is your airway and in is one of those viruses. put that in there pull it through. it's actually staying. imagine that virus now staying in your lungs. ebola, though, doesn't act that way. it's not as sticky. even if you were to breathe in an ebola vier us, it might look like this. and put it through your airway here watch what happens. goes right through. doesn't stick in your airway and that's why it's not airborne. doesn't make you sick. there's another reason ebola isn't airborne either. i top show you this. when you think about cold viruses or flu viruses, oftentimes they act like a powder. this powder sort of in the air,

people can breathe it in. they can also live on surfaces for days even weeks. that's in part what makes it airborne. instead, with ebola, it's much more like this baseball. you think about a baseball you could put this in the air, as well. see what's going to happen quickly -- it's going to drop to the ground and it's not going to get anybody sick. >> dr. gulp gupt reporting there. the suspect in the ferguson police shootings apparently did not mean to shoot police officers. details on the arrest and why one analyst says it's possibly a sign of healing in the community. plus scandal involving brazil's president sends a million people into the streets to protest. we'll tell you exactly what they're demanding. oh yea, that's coming down let's get some rocks, man. health can change in a minute. so cvs health is changing healthcare.

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welcome back. a 20-year-old man is under arrest for the shooting of two police officers in the u.s. city of ferguson, missouri. you see him here. according to officials, jeffrey williams admitted to firing a gun in the protest against police. they say he claims he was trying to shoot at someone else not the police officers. high was charged with assault -- he was charged with assault. police say the public helped find him. mr. cedric alexander, the president of noble, the national organization of black law enforcement executives, and on the presidential task force for policing. sir, we always appreciate your time and insight on police

matters. the first situation there in ferguson, police have arrested jeffrey williams, this 20-year-old who says he was not shooting at officers. clearly they charged him for allegedly firing a twep officers. how do they determine, you know his motive there? >> that will certainly be left up to the criminal justice system in the community which i'm sure will include police and the district attorney's office as well. >> i assume at the conclusion of the investigation they'll make sense of what the motive may have been probably based on other witness sometimes and physical evidence ailless, too, which will play a significant part in that. >> for law enforcement, though what impact did that have? we've seen the protests for many months. now to have two police officers who were shot, what impact did it have on the men and women been the badge? >> that's really significant is

this -- that ever since they've been hunting for this gentleman it took both the community and the police that took part in this -- looking for this individual, and you think about that community at large, in and around ferguson and other communities, we know that there's been strained relationship between police and community. what's significant is here that the community got out, went to work. they did not like that either. no oneness to see police hurt. the -- no one wants to see police hurt. the unfortunate incident allowed that community and police department and police departments in the community work together. and as you can tell from the earlier reporting that i've seen there to the d.a. he clearly made it clear that the community play a role on this subject being brought into custody. >> let me ask you that. you're talking about strain relationship. after that doj report --

>> which of scathing. scathing report. >> cited several instances of racism there. the police chief, you know has stepped aside. from your expertise, especially as the head of noble, what does a community like that given all that it's gone through, who steps in and how do they turn thing around? >> you know that leadership in the community, whatever is left of that leadership in that community is going to have to make real decisions about setting new goals, new objectives that include that community in the process. any new initiatives, any new policies any new selection of personnel that will backfill positions, it becomes very important that that community itself is part of that process. it starts there, basic fundamental trust and respect for community and for police working together. right? >> and people want it in

education, in city government. >> since education -- it's in education, in city government. it's in employment all those things. it's a community that struggles with a lot of social issues but it's a community that can overcome this if government is working with community. but from the report we saw released that was clearly not government working with communitiment and i think the report speaks for itself. but that has to be a starting point hopefully for the community as bleak as it may seem. it has to be a starting point for that community and the government in the leadership there to begin working co-he'sively together. >> mr. said -- cohesively together. >> mr. cedric alexander. thank you. switching to vanuatu, and aid worker have their work cut out for them. the full extent of the damage is still not clear. let's turn now alice clements communications officer with unicef. she joins us now via skype --

over the phone i should say in vanuatu. thank you very much for taking time to join us. you and i have been talking for the last several days. we heard you going through the storm. we hear you after the storm. talk to us about the situation there on the ground now. >> absolutely. there's promising sign right. yesterday the military aid -- started to make it through to the airport which had been previously closed because of damage to the airport and closed due to incredibly high winds that were lingering after cyclone pam passed through. so it's great to at least some relief groups getting through things with critical medical supplies and emergency relief items. including some medics from the australian government. to with the number of humanitarian worker arriving was really -- real technical special ziegz izations for that emergency

response. we need a rotation of relief goods for those needed. i was speaking to a woman yesterday and asked about the situation. she lives in a community that was primarily made from corrugated iron and tin roofing. all of these houses have been destroyed. she was nine month pregnant. she was due on the 9th of this month. a few days overdue. and she quite literally said, i had no water, no power, no food, and no shelter. the hospital is having problems operating. so in this situation, there are incredible situations for pregnant mothers and newborn babies who must have literally been born in the last week. >> there are so many people there, i remember you telling the story of a woman who protected a 1-year-old, four-day-old baby in the terrible storm. i will imagine tea party a desperate situation for people. how are those relief workers how are they getting around on the island? i'm sure many of the roads are impassable. i know that many of the airports

are shut down. how are they getting around? >> reporter: the road are a huge problem. again, the thing about vanuatu, there are 8 islands in this country. 65 of them are inhabit. if you picture an emergency like a hurricane katrina simultaneously hitting 65 island at the same time the question is how to prioritize. and there's no telephone communications whatsoever. the question is how you prioritize and fine out the information about who's affected. the other promising thing the last two days has been the government of vanuatu claims traveling up and the down the length of this 1,-300-kilometer area of island has been to assist the situation. what we've heard from pilots flying plane is this is bad. this is really bad. and some communities are described as flattened. >> alice clements on the grown

in vanuatu, the capital city of port vila. thank you very much for the last several days of talking to us as this terribly powerful storm passed through. we certainly hope you and all the people there a speedy recovery. we now move on to the country of brazil where people are taking to the streets. they are demanding an end to corruption there. and they want the impeachment of the country's president. cnn's shasta darlington has more about sunday's massive demonstrations and what protests want. >> reporter: close to a million people took to the streets in protests across the country in brazil on sunday to denounce corruption and demand the impeachment of president rousseff amid a massive bribery scandal at the state-run oil company and a worsening economic scenario with 2015 looking like it's going to dip into recession yet again. now despite the negative tone and the demand for impeachment, according to our cnn teams on

the ground the mood was fesstively. people carrying the brazilian flag wearing national colors and singing the national anthem. license to what some said. >> translator: political reform. political reform. >> translator: i'm here because i'm jig dig unanimous of what's happening in our country. it's absur. the whole -- absurd. the whole political system is corrupt and the judicial system failed. i think dillmond is leading this. >> reporter: at petrobrass, it's suggested that millions were paid in bribes to executives and politicians to obtain lucrative contracts. most of the politicians being investigated belong to the workers party or the ruling coalition. although president rousseff herself has not been implicated she was chairwoman of petrobrass

during the period when much of the alleged corruption took place. and impeachment is unlikely given that they would have to prove wrongdoing on the part of the president. the fact russia that she's only been re-elect three or four month ago mean that she's got a long four years ahead. lots of opposition to overcome at a time when she's still trying to approve austerity measures to troy and get the economy back on the right track for 2016. shasta darlington, cnn, new york. now it is personal british pop stargellon john is calling for a got of dull see and gabbana's material. i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com.

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cnn is on the ground in the remote island nation of vanuatu, a country rocked by a devastating storm. this suspect is behind bars in the shooting of two police officers in federal ferguson. and -- in ferguson, missouri. and a medicalaire real estate u.s. air under arrest, accused of a killing that's gone unsolve for 15 years. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> glad to be with you. i'm zain asher. this is "cnn newsroom." right now residents of the pacific salon nation of vanuatu -- island nation of vanuatu are trying to repair extensive damage to their homes. a lot of this going on in the capital city. >> that's right. 90% of the housing has been destroyed or damaged. schools and hospitals even churches have been wrecked. the humanitarian group