five taliban leaders. the questions return whether they could return to the taliban. beau bide dep loses his fight with cancer. and on world antitobacco day we hear from one group trying to stop the use of tobacco in movies. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom." back to our viewers back here in the you stauts and around the world. the latest on a travel ban from

five members living in qatar. they were part of a prisoner swap for u.s. army sergeant bo bergdahl last year. the u.s. is meeting with qatar rio figures alls trying to keep them inside qatar. our anna coren has this story. >> reporter: there are grave concerns the five senior taliban members released in exchange for u.s. army sergeants bo bergdahl 345i surgeon soon return to the battlefield. they've been living in qatar for the past 12 months unable to leave the country. however, that travel ban is set to expire. it's understood u.s. officials have been in discussion with the qataris about the possibility of extending the travel ban, but no announcement has been made. sergeant bergdahl was held captive for almost five years.

earlier this year the u.s. army charged him with des certification. over the past 12 months it's alleged one of the men in ka tan contacted militants while members of the al qaeda affiliated cattani network traveled to meet with them. it continues as the taliban continues to launch deadly attacks. less than 10,000 u.s. forces remain this country. members of the congress fear the taliban five will play an even more direct role in attacks against these u.s. soldiers if they're set free. narch coren, cnn. >> that was anna coren reporting there. on to syria where 70 people are dead after barrel bomb attacks that are being blamed on the government. the syrian observatory said the deadliest strike happened in an

area controlled by isis. the barrel bombs are highly imprecise and trapped with explosives. intelligence and security analysts bob baer says he thinks the situation in syria is deteriorating fast. >> assad is losing at this point. he lost palmyra to the islamic state. the rebels have moved in and taken the rest of idlib. they're pressing hard on ikea. this is an existenceal wore for the assad regime. they shouldn't have lost palmyra. they're in trouble. i talked to a couple of syrians in the regime and they're talking about circling the wagons, dividing up syria. when i her regime figures giving up in the east, i know things are tough. living is tough in damascus. it's getting worse by the day.

inflation. there's fighting in the regime itself. where this goes, how fast it's difficult to tell. they're running out of troops. they have taken so many losses, the regime, that they're striking back with weapons of mass destruction. their use of clon reason has been well proven. the sign is it's part of desperation for the alawites. unless somebody 12e7s in with a political solution, i'm not quite sure who that will be, i predict it will get worse. >> the point for the u.s.-led coalition in iraq went to baghdad. he announced that the u.s. will send 2,000 anti-tank grenade launchers. in nigeria now the new president is beginning his first days on the job with a growing

challenge. that challenge is how to stop a terror group boko haram and the unrelenting violence at the tip of that country. the latest suicide bomb took place saturday at a mosque where 26 worshippers had been killed. there have been no claims yet. saturday they announced attacks. now to the mediterranean sea, rescuers have saved over 4,000 migrants over the week end. most of them landed in a southern sicilian port on saturday. many migrants fleeing their war torn countries in africa and the middle east flocking to italy. ben wedeman talked to two people who risked their lives. >> we need help here.

>> reporter: at night adrift here. >> hello. we need some help here. >> reporter: a boat full of syrian rev few gays waiving to the greek coast guard. it's a unique account recorded on cell phone. the rescue was just one happy moment in a long and perilous journey made possible at a price by human traffickers. >> the moment you agree with a smuggler, so you give like your life is in between their hands. you can't take any decisions. you have no decisions. you can't say no. whatever they say, you say yes. >> they crossed by foot through the hills from greece and albania where a trafficker warns them to stay out of site.

ali and her companions traveled hidden in the back of trucks and advance. this is relatively civilized. >> when you see these people it's like, you know, as godsend us angels to save our lives. so we were so happy. >> reporter: they eventually made it to germany where they've applied for political asylum. their faith smile. cnn, rome. in singapore police shot and killed a man outside of af hotel where u.s. secretary ash carter was staying. two other people were detained. mr. carter had been attending a high level conference but was in no danger. authorities say the three sus 13ek9s crashed through police barricades after they sped away from a police checkpoint.

officials say substances that were believed to be drugs were found on one of the detained suspects. the list of u.s. politicians running for president has gotten a little bit longer. on saturday former maryland governor and democrat martin o'malley said he was joining the race. jeff zelaney takes a look at o'malley. >> reporter: when former mayor martin o'malley tossed his hat into the ring in baltimore, he talked about a new generation of leadership. he said, it's time to have a new and fresher face. that is an implicit knock some 15 years his senior and has been in national politics for so much longer. he spoke to the liberal progressive democrat he is bernie sanders is challenging hillary clinton from the left.

open question how much room there is in this field for all of them. governor o'malley embraced his record as mayor of baltimore. of course, this city has been in the news for several weeks now request all the protests. he embraced this record and he said this is one of the reasons we're listening for a freeze. >> tell me how it is you can get pulled over for having a broken taillight but if you wreck the nation's economy you're absolutely un2u67able? [ applause ] >> you know and i know this is not how our economy is supposed to work. this is not how our country is supposed to work. this is not the american dream. it does not have to be this way. this generation of americans still has time to become great. >> reporter: it's that message

of economic fairness from main street that wall street needs to hear. it is an uphill climb for him. he flu to iowa this afternoon and evening and he will be heading to democrats. he has to spur swayed them to consider him and not vote for hrm. >> that was jeff zel lain any there. the oldest son of vice president joe biden passed away on saturday. beau biden had brain cancer. he described his son as, quote, the finest manny of us have ever known. joe johns look back on beau biden's life. >> good eke, i'm beau biden and joe bide dean is my dad. >> reporter: he was a public servant in his own right. a federal prosecutor in the late 1990s and delaware's attorney general for eight years leaving

office just this past january. born in wilmington in 1969, his childhood was marched pi a tragic car accidents. >> my mom took us to buy a christmas try tree. my mom and sister and my brother hunter and i were seriously injured and hospitalized in weeks. i was just short of 4 years old. one of my earliest memories was being in that hospital. my dad always at our city side. beau biden and i remained close. >> i went out to a parent teacher kind of thing on saturday night and my mom and dad baby-sat. they baby-sat the weekend before. >> as delaware's ag, beau biden took his talent into the law serving for a year.

he searched for the -- >> i'm he a father who got sage advice, dad, keep it short, we're in formation. >> reporter: biden had intention to run for governor in delaware in 2016 but has had recurring health troubles, suffering a mild stroke in 2010 and admitted in 2013 to a houston cancer hospital for a brain lesion. >> vice president joe biden's son, joe biden is hospitalized av an episode of disorie he entags and weakness. >> biden, 46, leaves a wife and two children joompt reporting on the death of beau biden. we'll be right back after this.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. in less than 24 hours the controversial u.s. patriot act is set to expire. if that happens the national security agency will end the government's bulk telephone collection program unless there is a quick resolution. cnn correspondent sunlen serfaty

has this story. >> reporter: on capitol hill, time is almost up and the scramble in the senate is about to be on. >> we shouldn't surrender the tools that help keep us safe. >> reporter: unless the senate acts at midnight tonight key provisions of the patriot act will expire. >> the bulk phone program operates under this. it collects numbers dialed and how long calls lasted but does not capture the contends of conversation and other surveillance provisions set to expire, one allowing the government to seek a court order, roving wire taps for burned phones and the ability too track an american lone wolf all thousanders the united states claims are ee sectional -- essential to fighting terrorists. >> it would be irresponsible, reckless and shouldn't happen. >> reporter: the house passed a bill supported by the administration which would extend the key provisions. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone

companies ahead and will require the government to seek a court order for access. >> washington's finest, barack obama. >> tonight senator rand paul is preparing to get back into the ring, vowing to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs, unless changes are made to weaken this. >> this is a debate about whether or not a warrant of a single name of a single company can be used to collect all the records, all of the phone records of all of the people in our country with a single warrant. our forefathers would be aghast. >> that's cnn correspondent sunlen serfaty reporting. for the first time in a long running trial, jurors in colorado are hearing from the man accused of one of the worst

mass shootings in history. anna ka brar ra has more information. >> we've heard from college professors, now we're hearing from the accused killer himself. in a videotaped meeting, it's evidence that gets right to the heart of the case. the question of sanity. appearing calm and speaking in a steady monotone voice, the words of accused killer james holmes has projected an image. >> do you remember when you were arrested? >> zble what day was that. >> july 20, 2012. >> for the jury it was a brief look into the mind to determine whether holmes was really sane when he opened fire in a kroet movie thighs ter. >> do you take into consideration he knows that he's facing the death penalty?

>> yes. >> ordered by the court dr. holmes was interviewed nine times. any comments? >> no. >> the conversation turns to home after breaking up with his girlfriend months before the shooting. >> thought of hurting yourself or killing yourself? >> no. >> hurting or killing other people? >> yeah. i kind of transferred it to kind of homicidal thoughts. >> dr. reid concluded he was sane when he killed 12 and injured 7 o others. prosecutors say he planned and detailed his actions in his journal. >> did he discuss having a desire to kill people. >> yes, he does. >> holmes sent his notebook to his psychiatrist but it was too

late. he details different ways to carry out an attack. he settles on mass murder at the movies, writing maximum casual at this, being caught 99% certain. holmes has pleaded guilty by reason of incompetent sanity. >> the defense says it has ramblings that don't make any sense. he writes about his mental illness. so anyways, that's my mind. he was a shy but once promising ph.d. student. >> what brings tears to your eyes sometimes. >> just for grace. >> any regrets? >> about the shooting. >> just as court was wrapping up

for the week we heard holmes why he chose the batman move slew and there would be lots of people. we expect to hear much more in the week ahead. we're entering a sixth week of the trial and the prosecution continues to present its case. anna cabrera, cnn, denver. there is enough water in texas to cover the entire state with 20 sent 3450e9 terse or eight inches of water. there is more rain on the way. in a suburb in houston police evacuated 20 homes as river raised to flood stage. 20 people have died and it's prompted sproep to look at texas. more are on the way. it's capping off a terrible week in weather. let's turn to meteorologist karen mcginnis at the world

weather center with more on that. >> yes, we have the soaking rain and the death toll continues to rise in texas. we're seeing the soaking rain moving a little bit further towards the east. not in the deep southern united states. now beginning to affect the northeast and new england. in the forecast, pretty substantial rainfall across a frontal system sweeping across new york, bashing ton, also into pennsylvania and into massachuset massachusetts. where you see blue shaded areas we could see 60 to 80 millimeters of rainfall. across texas, a real drying out spell. that will be the good news. as i mentioned, it will be the northeast and new england that will see some of the heavier precipitati precipitation. we have two videos to show you, the first one out of the houston area. take a look at this traffic. essentially the flooding began around the beginning of may, may

4th. houston has already seen 14 inches of rape fall for the main c fall. normally they would see 4 1/2 inches for the entire month. in arkansas along the arkansas river this is how it looks. already they're saying this is just about as worse as they have ever seen it for long-term residents of that area. take a look at that. thousands of homes reported underwater. not just in arkansas but in texas. as i mentioned, those floods have turned deadly. across the united storm system move in. we have some winds gusting up as high as 100 kilometers per hour. not just the wind, it will be the rainfall that could be rather heavy over the next 24 to 48 hours.

most primarily into scotland and perhaps into noern ireland. as we go into tuesday. we're already seeing yellow and red alerts across some sections of the united kingdom. they're waiting for the monsoon to really begin to develop. that will break the heat wave. in some cases it says it claimed 2,000 lives or 1800. it won't be abated until we see the monsoonal moisture. you can see the representative temperatures already in the mid to upper 40s. back to you, george. >> karen, i know that people in that part of the world are looking for some relief to the heat so hopefully that will happen in good order. karen, thank you so much. a pilot is making his way right now to hawaii as part of an around the world journey that is fueled solely by the power of

the surn. the solar impulse left after many days. the pilot will spend the entire four square meter cockpit and can sleep for 20 minutes at a time. he is expected to complete this trip in about a week. we wish him well. you are watching cnn newsroom. the united states has a big concern. the surge of americans siding with isis. a man's face after a complete face transplant. more after this continues on cnn international and cnn u.s.a.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom." glad to have you with us this hour. i'm george howell. the headlines we're following. a travel ban for five taliban officials living in qatar is set to expire. the men known as the taliban five were part of a prisoner swap with the u.s. in may of last year. the u.s. is meeting with qatar rio figures alls to try to keep the men inside qatar. syria is defending claims that they used barrel bombs to attack their citizens. activist groups say the bombs killed 70 people and wounded dozens of others. the areas under attack are under the control of isis. in singapore police shot and killed a man outside a hotel where u.s. defense secretary ash carter was.

two other people were detained. authorities say the three suspects crashed through police barricades after they sped away from a police checkpoint. mr. carter had been attending a high level security summit at the shangri-la who tell. joe biden announced the loss of his son, beau biden, to cancer on saturday. the iraq war vaeb and former delaware attorney general had been battling brain cancer. he's survived by his wife and two children. he was 46 years old. today the world health organization is honoring world no tobacco day. every year the who and its partners try to highlight the health risks of tobacco and to push for new policies to reduce its use especially when it comes to illegal trade of tobacco. i'm joined by theona who is the director of well-being of public

health for the company health care bupa. one of the biggest fears is to know people know the dangers of tobacco. >> a global survey of people asking them about their impressions of how film portrays smoking. what we found was that 70% of people say in films smoking is portrayed unrealistically. more than half say films are more than likely to encourage people to take up smoking. they have movies with james bond, sharon stone, james dean, but they think it's relevant for people in their everyday lives. >> you talk about cigarettes, tobacco being use the in movies, et cetera, but how common is it? when you think about the use of significant relts, how many cigarettes could you say are just tobacco products are traded

legally? do people understand the change? >> i think the world health organization's point. >> says it dearly. we need to reduce i will lis sid trait. in film tobacco has showed what the who is highlighting. it showed how they encouraged people to smoke but it showed the side impact it has on people. so illicit trade which the who is highlighting today is really important to crack down on. it impacts people's everyday lives. >> as far as movies are concerned, how far hoos the band gone at this point. >> certainly people rec koeg niezed. we were pleased to see the 50s committed to actually removing smoking from its flimsz.

we think that everyday you need to be making sure that people don't have glamorized images of smoking. that's why we're pleased to see that disney is taking this action and why today although it's back a day, it's really important to provide people with practical everyday support where work and live. >> can you talk to us about the u.k.'s push for antismoking advertising about cigarettes? >> well, we know from our australian business that plain packaging works. there are australian colleagues know that smoking has reduced by 15% in recent years and cigarette sales have slowed. in the u.k. the government intends to introduce plain packaging from may next year. we want to see all opportunities to reduce smoking and reduce the glamorization of smoking. we know that plain packaging works because it actually makes

it easier for people to be aware of the health impacts of smoking itself. >> fiona, people will be paying attention to that message for sure. thank you so much for your insights on that cam pain. >> thank you very much. in the united states there is a growing concern over isis sympathizers. cnn's deborah if feyerick is reporting. >> reporter: the isis threat is real and growing and it's going to take everyone in their job to prevent a potential attack. the failed attack by extremists shot dead in garland texas was in respects only a matter of time. >> two police officers shot possibly have explosives on them. >> reporter: there has been a surge in u.s.-based isis

sympathizers. the threat is far greater because of twitter and social media reaching people willing to act. >> there are thousands and thousands of messages being put out into the ethos fear. they're hoping it's put on to an individu individual. the director says 180 million americans have tried to join terror groups overseas. now isis's strategy is evolving. not only is the terror group using social media to recruit overseas and inspire locally, national security officials say they're using social media to make direct contact as they did allegedly with elton simpson who plotted an attack on an anti-muslim cartoon event in texas. once they identified an individual they'll directly communicate to give them coaching and guidance on how to

do an attack inside the you states. >> the phi is increasingly difficult to detect because they're essentially hiding behind encrypted communication. the fbi director has warned police chiefs to be hyper vigilant since police may get no warning prior to an attack. >> it is an inmaterially difficult task. i can't stand here with any great confidence and say i have it all covered. >> reporter: justice officials were trying to gain support for two surveillance tools that are critical to investigating potential terrorists. the first is monitoring individuals with no ties to nonterrorist groups. both are set to expire on june

1st and the senate will be returning to debate legislation to decide whether to renew the two surveillance tools little while ending the nsa bulk phone program as it exists. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. in iran a group is showing off its work in a cartoon process. they are battling it one pencil stroke at a time. >> reporter: in a recent string of attack against cartoonists, it wouldn't seem if the popularity would stall. instead, a new cartoon contest is sweeping the globe and it has people flying into iran. tehran's house of cartoons stages a competition based on the theme crimes committed by the islamic state.

we have to keep in mind this is the organization that hosted the grow tess being contest for cartoons of hollow cast denied. many depict the group's tactics of destroying ancient culture from a cartoonist from germany. this one shows isis fighters leaving their brains and hearts at the door when they join. and of course as cartoonists themselves, some show isis attacks on the pencil as petty and futile. as the artists fly in for the ceremony in tehran, they know the risk they take spreading out. some travel under false names. all of those taking part push one message, that the pencil is, indeed, mightier than the swort. the winner of the contest will

be chosen. the top prize, $1500. the european union wants to know why russia created a list banning 89 european officials from entering that country. that list includes intelligence and military individuals. russia has been under e.u. imposed sanctions after it annexed cry knee yeah. >> one of vladimir putin's citizens is now a u.s. cisicitc ukrainian citizen. he is in the western province of odessa. he's called a fugitive. next here on cnn, a remarkable meeting between a man who received a face plant -- a face transplant and members of that donor's family.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom", i'm george howell. three years ago doctors at the university of maryland medical center performed an extensive face transplant surgery. the family of a deceased man donated his facial loug for the complete transformation of richard norris. my colleague, jonathan, spoke to one of the doctors who performed that surgery about the challenges and what happened

when a family member saw their family member's face on someone else. >> as we look in this history, we're 30 to 40 transplants that have been performed. every case is uniquely different. i performed the review which was revealed in the "lancet" publication over a year ago which looks at the plex at this of the cases. i will tell you that every case is unique on its own and it's entirely dependent on the deform hit of the patient and dependent on the number of surgeries. he required the skin from the top of the head to the clavicles but also the tongue, the teeth, the upper and lower jaws, significant amount of tissue was required with the face transplant. the entire surgical procedure took over 36 hours. >> 36 hours. that's astonishing. it's succeeded. let me ask you. does mr. norris now have a normal life?

does he shave? wash? eat and sleep like the rest of us? >> everything is essentially normal like you and i. the only difference is he needs to take medications twice a day. other than that, if he were to walk in a roomful of people, no one would recognize him. he wanted to be a normal person and blend in like everyone else. he's no longer wearing a mask or baseball cap. he's no longer concealing himself. he's going to school full time. his significant other. so his life has changed dramatically looking back when we did this three years ago. it's great to see now at his three-year anniversary that he's really evolved into an incredible individual, remarkable person and is as courageous and forthright as he was when we met him. >> what draws our attention is the fact that there was an extraordinary encounter with a member of the donor's family, a woman who basically saw the face of her dead brother on a living,

breathing man. how common is that? >> that is not very common. i would say that with our case it's probably the second case that this has occurred. this is something where we protect the anonymity of the donor and donor family but on occasion the doeb nor family does want to reach out to the patient and in this case one of joshua's sisters did reach out to richard lenores and it's a remarkable first kind of reunion. it's wonderful that it's been able to happen. >> would you normally try to discourage it? >> we normally do. i think it's very important that the donor and the recipient family not really be involved. this is something that's not governed by us. there's a governing body in the u.s. and it's called unos. the whole purpose is to protect the donor family, protect the

recipient's rights and keep the surgical teams out of this direct communication with the donor family. it's very important to provide the anonymity of the families. >> why is this? >> there are up number of potential repercussions. the consideration of how the gift came about. to really allow each family to go on their merry way. basically for the recipient family to enjoy the gift that's been provided but also for the donor family to know that the gifts are being provided and there's no need for potential psychological burden or repercussions down the road. >> i want to ask you one last question about that. it's the very basic one. a person's face is the most profound marker they have of their own identity. >> that's correct. >> i'm just wondering about the effect on the recipient because he has to get to know himself in

a sense as a new person. >> well, the one thing that i have personally learned in treating facial disfigment for quite some time is patients with severe deformity of the face, they don't really look at themselves as normal. once they receive a face transplant with normal anatomical features like the nose, the lips, the eyelids, for the first time they do see themselves normal. >> the recity sip yent will have some resem brans to the donor. if you look at them side by side, there are two different individuals. we're not trantd planning the skulg. there will be a blend. there are specific anatomical features which are clearly that of the donor. so for the sister of our donor to look at richard now with the face of her brother, there's

certainly some notable features which she will recall but they're two different individuals. >> just amazing to see what medical technology is able to accomplish. speaking of technology, that, art and music are all on display in australia. coming up on "cnn newsroom", why sydney's most famous landmarks are being lit up for 18 days. wow. you get used to stale odors in your mudroom. you think it smells fine, but your guests smell this... febreze air effects works instantly to eliminate odors you've gone noseblind to. smells like a field of awesome in here. so you and your guests can breathe happy.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." more than a month after a massive earthquake devastated the country of nepal, students are finally back in class. nep nepal's government instructed schools to restart lessons on sunday, which is considered a working day in that country. the 7.8 magnitude quake damaged 1/3 of the schools in nepal. the government estimates it will need up to $300 million to rebuild some 8,000 schools. all right. so talk about a tough day on the job. a salesman was trying to demonstrate a car's safety feature, but he forgot to check to make sure that that car was actually equipped with that

feature before taking it for a spin and now there is some shocking video to show that shows a near disaster with that. here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: this is how not to train your car dealership staff about a safety system meant to protect pedestrians. it's okay. no one was badly hurt. no one even went to the hospital. staff at this volvo dealership in the doe min be any can republic will be a little less trusting of technology even though it wasn't the car's faultd. this is no evil car's fault like the one in christ teeb mowing down people on person. volvo is looking into it but tells cnn the dealership thought it was equipped with a radar and camera system that scans for pedestrians. >> automatically reacts if the driver fails to respond inside.

>> so what happened with the driver behind the wheel at the dealership? the good news is that according to volvo the pedestrian detection system did not function, the bad news is that the car wasn't equipped with it. for thinking it was when it wasn't and letting staff stand there, volvo blames the mishappen on human error. once during a demonstration for the press volvo's automatic braking system failed. volvo attributed that to a battery problem. >> a mishap in the testing here. >> reporter: others have challenged the pedestrian system for laughs. even using humans dressed as dummies, but that was nothing compared to the crash course these guys got. jeanne moos, cnn, new york.

>> gosh. all right. now time to see something that you really won't see every day. this is a group of sopranos that are singing next to stalagtites. they're a group of performers that sing inside the queensland cave. besides the interesting local, the cave offers amazing acoustics. just listen there. ♪ ♪ >> the singers don't even need a microphone to belt out the operas. there's quite a show above ground in australia. it's called vivid sydney. it is some of my favorites lit to the sound of music. vivid sydney is in the seventh year. that is spectacular to see. we end the show on that note. we thank you for watching. for viewers in the u.s., "new day" is up and for everyone

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