-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com police serging for two dangerous fugitives in the u.s. are focusing on who may have helped them break out of prison. >> new deaths in the mers outbreak in south korea as that nation tries to contain the

virus. >> and russian president vladimir putin will meet pope francis while the battle rages on in eastern ukraine. >> a welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm erin burnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. thank you for joining us. this is "cnn newsroom." >> we begin with the search for two convicted murderers who escaped from a new york state prison. investigators are questioning a prison worker, joyce mitchell about her possible involvement. she planned to pick up the inmates after they escaped but changed her mind. >> authorities also say her cell phone was used to make calls to several people connected to richard matt. it's not clear if she knew he phone was being used.

matt and sweat broke out of the correctional facility over the weekend. joyce's son denies his mom was involved. >> she is not the type of person who will risk her lives or other's lives to help them escape. she wouldn't have an amare against my father. >> there is a report your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. did that happen? >> yes, she was in fact in the hospital that evening. i don't know the exact details. but i just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that. >> at this moment, authorities are searching the area around the prison but so far, reported sightings of the fugitives have turned up nothing. randy kaye is there. >> reporter: the only person to see the convicts is a man in his own yard the night of the

escape. >> i said what are you doing in my yard? get the hell out of here. he is like i'm sorry i didn't know where i was. >> reporter: trouble is no one is sure they've seen them since. and with the clinton correctional facility just south of the canadian border, officials are concerned they may try to flee north if they haven't already. >> if they tried to cross into canada they may have done so here. it's about an hour or so from the prison they escaped from. but this is a high security crossing. it would have been tough. the u.s. border patrol says that their officers are trained in imposter detection and fraudulent documents. >> we are look at individuals and opening doors of cars and trucks. >> reporter: i assume the pictures are at the ready? >> the photos are in the primary booths. the officers have them. they know who they are looking

for. >> reporter: but there are 300 miles of border in just this seconder a lot of it mountainous and all of it heavily wooded and some are so easy to cross that authorities are at a real disadvantage. >> reporter: the escapees may be looking for a place like this to cross the border. border patrol can't secure the entire northern border. so there are plenty of open areas where you don't need passports or documentation to cross the board. so watch this. i can keep one foot in the u.s. and one foot in canada. or i can just walk into canada, no questions asked. helping patrol these open areas? are highly traincaed canines. we asked aaron to get inside the trunk of this car, hide himself in there so we can see how they

do it. this german shepherd smelled trouble. if this was the bad guys, forcing someone to smuggle them to freedom, this may be the best hope of finding them. >> passenger side. >> reporter: randy kaye, cnn, dannemora, new york. we move to south korea where the growing outbreak of the mers virus has prompted the president to delay her trip to the u.s. >> the seoul chief press officer says that president park geun-hye will stay in south korea instead of meeting with president obama. middle east respiratory syndrome has hit south korea with the

largest number of cases out of saudi arabia where it was discovered. ivan watson is in hong kong. a travel alert was issued this week. just explain how officials are splitting up hospitals in south korea since all of the cases were contracted in medical facilities. >> let's get to the numbers of the cases here. so far, south korea has 108 confirmed cases of mers, this middle east respiratory syndrome. tragically, nine people have died who had contracted the disease, this virus. two of the people announced by the korean ministry of health who passed away were a 62-year-old man who was being treated for alcohol-related liver disease and a 75-year-old woman who had respiratory problems and a bone-related disease when she succumbed. so all of the people who have

died, with the mers virus, they already had existing serious health problems. and they tended to be older in age. and the world health organization has indicated that it is the elderly, and people already with immune deficiency problems and existing illnesses that are certainly the most at risk. the south korean government has acknowledged that all of the 108 people who have contracted mers must have gotten it at hospitals in south korea. so what they've announced is they are establishing dozens of hospitals that will be reserved for either treatment of people with confirmed cases of mers or that suspected cases of mers because the real concern is further spreading of the virus within hospitals, which is where it has spread in the first place

in korea. >> and considering it is confined to hospitals and people with mostly preexisting conditions who are elderly who are suffering and have died from this there is not a direct threat to the general public. but still though you see the number of deaths and the quarantine creeping up. i wonder if the south koreans feel the government has a handle on this. >> there is criticism of the way the government and politicians have handled it. certainly it is the top story in south korea. people are more on alert and wearing surgical masks in public. journalists on the ground report as recently as last week that local pharmacies were running out of surgical masks and hand sanitizer. and the south korean government has gone one step further. it has closed 2,400 schools and

announced it will be testing everybody who is hospitalized with knpneumonia. so additional measures are being taken right now. the world health organization has sent a delegation to seoul to help coordinate with korean health officials. but it has also gone and announced that there is no need to issue a travel or trade restriction or establish any new kinds of entry screening in korea. so while the focus is on trying to prevent the spread it is also on trying to prevent panic in the wake of this outbreak which, again, has so far only resulted in 108 known cases of mers in all of korea. >> they are using a bit of modern technology, tracking the quarantined using the gps in their cell phones too. they have the resources they

need. ivan watson, thanks. to another story we are watching closely. in three hours, fifa's secretary-general will hold a news conference with russia's sports organizer. russia and qatar's world cups are under scrutiny and the u.s. indicted fifa sports officials with corruption. >> the head of australia's federation says that his country's bid for the 2022 world cup was clean. qatar won instead but fifa says there are no legal grounds to revoke either world cup, an analyst says a change could be made. >> if they want to change the location of the world cup, they can. i think from a logistical point of view, russia is a very difficult thing to move at this point. it's only three years away and stadiums take a long time to be

built. but qatar is a different story since the idea of awarding the world cup to qatar was absurd when it was done. it's a ridiculous place to hold the world cup. they can't do it in the summer. they have to move it to the winter, which would interfere with all of the professional sports leagues. if fifa is really serious about reforming itself and that's by no means clear, it is certainly possible that they could move the qatar games. meantime, a key figure in the case is lashing out now at the united states. in an editorial in his own newspaper in trinidad and tobago, jack warner says that the world shouldn't be duped by american propaganda. >> warner is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes, a charge he denies and faces possible extradition to the u.s. he writes, regardless of what the united states of america

wishes to say, but this current high moral position upon which it sits was predicated on nothing more than its failure to win the bid for the fifa world cup 2022. another of the 14 men named in the u.s. indictment is now in custody. alejandro bazargo is an argentine marketing director. he disappeared last month. >> he turned himself in on tuesday and his lawyers were with him. want to bring you this news just into cnn. israeli security forces shot and killed a 20-year-old palestinian man in the west bank. palestinian security forces say it happened at a refugee camp. >> they went to the camp to arrest a number of activists and the man tried to light and throw a canister at them during fierce clashes.

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. russian president vladimir putin is headed to italy later today. he'll have an audience with pope francis. >> this will be the second time the two leaders have met but it's the first meeting since russia annexed crimea. the ongoing fighting in ukraine is a expected to be a major topic today. >> and they are expected to talk about a possible visit by the pope to moscow. matthew chance has more. >> reporter: at mass in central moscow, a rare glimpse of a russian religious minority. for centuries, russia's roman catholics have kept a low

profile often viewed with mistrust as outsiders in their own land. >> we don't feel that we have to prove something to someone. we are just there and we are there for a very long time. and so even if some people in russia and moscow think we came from somewhere and are aliens we still don't think that this is true. >> reporter: but it is true that tensions with the russian authorities have frequently surfaced. church officials say roman catholic missionaries and priests have had visas revoked for minor infractions and the church faces a general atmosphere of unfriendliness. it is of course the world's biggest christian denomination, but here in russia it's a tiny minority, less than 1% of the entire population and many russians want it to stay that way. some catholics say they are

unwelcome in a mainly orthodox russia. but there's hope that could now start to change. the pope and the russian president have met before in 2013. this time, the kremlin says that further contacts will be discussed. and father carroll says it may help heal the rift between the orthodox and catholic church. >> i think the pope brings with him a charisma of love and understanding and invitation to dialogue. and i very much hope that when one day the pope will come to russia, the same miracle will happen. >> reporter: a miracle that may bring russia and the west closer together as well. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. for more on president putin's meeting with the pope, let's turn to cnn's vatican

correspondent. she joins us live from rome. hi there, now of course, the russian president will be eager to show the world he's not the praia that many people think he is and has an ally in the pope. the question is how far might pope francis be willing to go to enforce the cease-fire in ukraine and bring the fighting to a close? >> yes, rosemary, this is a trickier meeting than in november of 2013. in 2013, the two men found themselves in agreement against, for example, action in syria or in agreement on protecting christians in the middle east. this time, ukraine is on the top of the agenda and it is a trickier discussion for pope francis. he has already been criticized by the ukrainian catholics for

not speaking out more forcefully against what they see as russian aggression in their country. and the pope has two things to consider when he is talking to the russian president. one is that the vatican does not like to take sides and get involved in the political fray. they like to remain the moral voice for all people who are affected by war and conflict as well as a neutral place for political leaders to come and dialogue. the second point was brought out in matthew chance's piece, that is the russian orthodox church which split from rome in the 11th century. all modern popes have wanted to go to russian to heal that skizem. and the russian orthodox church is close to putin and has a lot of sway over what goes on religiously and politically in that country. the vatican has an eye on what

the russian orthodox church thinks. so it's a very tricky political discussion for pope francis today. we know of course that he has good diplomatic skills and to your question, rosemary, i think we could possibly see a surprise from pope francis. we've seen it before, in israel when he invited the palestinian and israeli presidents to come to the vatican for a prayer day. okay, it didn't effect anything in the long term. but we don't know yet what other things might come from those types of meetings. the pope is very creative when it comes to dealing with political leaders. we saw his role in cuba as well. i wouldn't be surprised if we don't see something new today in his discussions with vladimir putin. keep in mind that the vatican

after these meetings issues a standard statement. so we'll have to see in the weeks to come, really, what the effect is of today's discussions between the hope and the russian president. >> you and i will have a chance to talk more on this next hour. cnn's vatican correspondent joining us there live from rome. many thanks to you. in eastern ukraine fighting rages between the government and pro-russian separatists despite a cease-fire in place since february. >> earlier ukraine's prime mnister spoke with cnn's wolf blitzer. he praised the u.s.'s efforts to end the fighting and demanded stepped up effort to oust russian forces from his country. take a listen. >> i want to be very clear. more than 10,000 russian military boots are on the ukrainian soil and in addition about 30,000 of russian-led

terrorists trained by russian army. >> president putin is placing growing pressure from world leaders to pull out of ukraine. >> as jim sciutto reports there is fears that ukraine is just the beginning of russia's expansion. >> reporter: these are the front lines of the war in ukraine today. ukrainian troops locked in battle with russian-backed rebels. the four--month-old cease-fire looks meaningless. president obama is placing the blame firmly on russian president vladimir putin. >> does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recreate the glories of the soviet empire. or does he realize that russia's greatness does not depend on taking over other countries.

>> reporter: like this fly by in the black sea last week, russian moves in the ukraine increasingly a attack against the u.s. nato war planes are now on rotation in the region. but despite the show of force, large parts of eastern ukraine and all of crimea remain under russian control. 2016 presidential race heating up, soon to be candidate jeb bush blames failed u.s. policy. >> while mr. putin is a ruthless pragmatist he will push until someone pushes back. i believe that is nato. >> reporter: increasing lie, russia's european allies fear they could be next. >> i don't think we can assume that putin's plans start and end with ukraine. i think we have to assume that we may see threats like this else where in the future. >> that was cnn's chief u.s.

security correspondent jim sciutto reporting. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. plans to head to ukraine in the coming days. she will meet with government officials. >> and she will deliver a speech to the ukrainian people underscoring u.s. support for the country's citizens. the texas police officer caught throwing a teenager to the group is out of a job. you'll hear from the police chief about this controversial incident after this short break. (music) boys?

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around the world. i'm erin burnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. it's time to check our top stories this hour. investigators in new york believe a prison worker planned to pick up two inmates who escaped over the weekend but later changed her mind. a source says joyce mitchell is cooperating with authorities. a massive manhunt is underway for convicted murderers richard matt and david sweat. south korea's president is postponing a trip to the u.s. this weekend as her country fights a growing outbreak of the mers virus. she will oversee her nation's response to the disease. it has killed nine people and 3,400 are quarantined. bomb threats closed parts of the white house and capitol hill on tuesday. the daily briefing was interrupted and reporters were told to leave. hours earlier, the transportation security meeting was also evacuated because of a

bomb threat. we keep our focus at the white house now. a senior u.s. official says it is considering about 500 additional forces to iraq. >> most of them will train and advise iraqi troops. this comes a day after u.s. president barack obama met with iraq's prime minister and reiterated the u.s. pledge to help boost training for iraqi troops battling isis. there are currently just over 3,000 u.s. forces in iraq. and u.s. officials are learning more about isis tactics which are getting more sophisticated by the day. >> and it's not just what the terror group is using on the battlefield but whom. barbara starr explains. >> reporter: in iraq and syria, the bombs are getting bigger. much bigger. and the u.s. is trying to figure out what to do about the growing number of improvised explosives

devices or ieds right from the first bomb-making step. some in congress are calling for the u.s. to do more to keep the explosives material itself from flooding into the battlefield. >> you don't want ammonium nitrate or other elements to be developed because we haven't shut down the smuggling networks. >> reporter: as iraqi troops struggle to retain ground, u.s. military intelligence officials say the mega ieds are changing the battlefield. bulldozers and humvees packed with explosives helped isis gain control in ramadi. below ground, isis operatives dig tunnels and pack them with explosives. cnn learned the pentagon is looking at highly classified new sensors that could patrol

overhead, sniffing out explosives look for indicates of radio frequency or magnetic triggers. the idea, detonate the ied before it gets near iraqi troops. it comes as another isis tactic using women as couriers is getting attention. the u.s. representative described female slave markets where women are stripped, bought, and sold. >> we've had a study where a woman has been pseudofor a pack of cigarettes. after something buying her, he used her for a while and got tired. >> reporter: they are also used to lure more foreign fighters. but u.s. intelligence is look at the possibility that some women who have joined isis may be more important than first thought. some may even be work as couriers or involved in operations. these mega ieds, a growing

concern. the u.s. wants to get the iraqis trained up to be able to deal with them. it is very much worth remembering over 3,000 u.s. troops lost their lives in ied attacks in over a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld tells cnn he is not become critical of former president george w. bush over the iraq invasion. >> rumsfeld was an architect of the invasion. he says the idea of bringing democracy to iraq was, quote, unrealistic. but he tells cnn his comments were in no way anti-bush. >> and now he says he is skeptical about democracy in iraq and expressed hope they

would be a idea for the world. and now the police officer in texas has resigned. eric casebolt has not been charged but his chase remains under investigation. >> police are responding to calls about a fight when the incident occurred on friday. the police chief says his training does not support his actions. >> as the chief of police i want to say to our community that the actions of casebolt as seen on the video are indefensible. >> if you have seen the story bounce around social media, you know there has been debate over whether the incident was racially motivated. a black witness said it was not a racial incident and casebolt was just trying to establish

order. let's turn and check the weather now and storms have prompted flood watches across large parts of the western united states. let's go to pedram javaheri. where are we talking about? >> southwest of the u.s., areas that need the moisture and we are getting remnants of a tropical depression that made land fall in the past couple days. we have the prime area with the steering currents set up over southern california and nevada. the heavy rainfall expected to continue. parts of six states under flash flood watches at this hour. the temperatures with an onshore flow after a historic run in the pacific northwest with temps in the 80s and 90s, they will see a cooling trend where the 70s come back in the picture. and medford, 87 fahrenheit.

but here is the perspective for showers and thunderstorms at this hour. heavy thunderstorms in northern california. over 200 lightning strikes in northern california in the past 24 hours sparked six fires. yes, it's beneficial but unfortunately, it's so arid that lightning strikes are sparking fires that you see where the flooding concern remains in place and you look back from the month of may, the single wettest month for the united states in history. this is the perspective. the green areas including 100 to 500% above normal in the precipitation for an expansive area of the united states. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration releasing information saying we had 400 reports of tornados. we also had the wettest month of may on record in the states of texas, oklahoma, and the state

of colorado and the second earliest landfall to a tropical storm occurred in may. tropical storm ana came on shore in the carolinas in the month of may. and will leave you with perspective coming out of the state of colorado. a supercell thunderstorm snapped. and you see multiple tornados. a double tornado storm and another one on the back end of the storm system. >> yeah, impressive. terrifying. >> can you imagine? >> that imagine is sure to win image of the year in some contest. >> i think so. >> very daunting. likely u.s. presidential candidate jeb bush is facing harsh criticism for a book he wrote in 1995 calling for the restoration of shame for single parents. we'll discuss this after the break. meet the world's newest energy superpower.

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welcome back, everyone, a u.s. federal appeals court has upheld some of the strictest provisions of a texas law that could force most abortion clinics in the state to shut their doors. it requires abortion clinics to meet hospital-like standards. >> the texas governor applauds the rulings saying that it raises the care for women and protecting the unborn. the opponents call it a sham law that risks harming countless women. jeb bush is haunted by comments he made 20 years ago about shaming single mothers. >> in his 1995 book "profiles in character" the possible republican presidential candidate wrote this, one of the

reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. >> the book was published before bush became florida's governor. and lindsey graham, if he were to win the election many are wondering who would play the role of first lady. >> graham says he has lots of friends. there could be a rotating first lady and joked that his sister who introduced him at this announcement could have the job. >> if chose on the be president, he would be the first life-long bachelor since james buchanan, back in 1856. in the coming weeks the u.s. spreert will decide whether to gut the affordable care act also

known as obamacare. also expected to rule on federal legalities on how it works. >> president obama is defending the health care law which has been key to defining his political legacy. he's trying to build the case that millions of americans are benefitting from obamacare since its implementation five years ago and taking aim at the motives of those challenging it. take a listen. >> i have to say, just deeply cynical about the ceaseless, endless, partisan attempts to roll back progress. i mean, i understood folks being skeptical or worried before the law passed and there wasn't a reality there to examine. but once you see millions of people having health care. once you see all the bad things that were predicted didn't

happen you'd think that it would be time to move on. >> earlier this week, mr. obama questioned why the supreme court took up the case but he voiced confidence the justices will leave the law intact. british lawmakers have backed a bill in second reading which could have profound implications for the united kingdom and the rest of europe. it calls for a referendum on britain's future in the european union. >> over the next few months, prime minister david cameron will be negotiating with his eu counterparts ahead of the referendum. cnn's max foster has more from london. >> reporter: it will be a vote that could change the shape of europe. >> european union referendum bill second reading. >> reporter: on tuesday, members of the uk parliament had their

first chance to debate it. >> mr. speaker this is a simple but vital piece of legislation. it has one clear purpose, to deliver on our promise to give the british people the find say on our eu membership in an in/out referendum by the end of 2017. >> the bill is facing minor opposition only and expected to pass. after david cameron won the uk general election last month he waste nod time moving forward with his pledge to renegotiate britain's place in the eu. he wants to stay, but he also wants to see a number of changes that will slow down immigration into the uk including restricting the amount of benefits that immigrants can claim and restrict movement of new citizens of new eu countries. once the negotiations are complete, cameron says he will

put his reforms to the test with a referendum that could be as early as may 2016. while it was all smiles in the german alps for the g-7 meeting the thorny topic is causing cameron problems, not least within his own party. on the international front, some countries like germany are resistant to cameron's proposed changes. but german chancellor angela merkel showing signs she is willing to compromise. >> translator: the european union is better off with the united kingdom as a member and i believe that britain's national interests can be best served by staying in the european union on the basis of a reformed settlement. that's what we both want to happen and what we will work on in the coming months to achieve. >> president obama is looking forward to the uk staying a part of the european union. with the latest opinion poll

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welcome back, everyone. we all know that when we give blood we are giving the gift of life to those who need it. >> quite literally. you are about to meet a man whose blood contains something so unique he has saved millions of lives. dr. sanjay gupta shares his story. >> reporter: on the surface james harris is an average guy. he loves his dog and grandchildren. he collects stamps. but it's what is under the surface that makes james

extraordinary. >> i got nicknamed the man with the golden arm. >> reporter: specifically it's what is in his veins. james's golden arm from which he has donated blood every week for the last 50 years. >> in 1951 they removed a lung and i had 30 units of blood. >> reporter: at that time you had to be 18 to donate blood in australia. not long after, doctors called him with an idea. his blood could be the answer to a baffling problem in australia. >> in australia, up until about 1967 there were thousands of babies dying each year and doctors didn't know why. the women were having numerous miscarriages and babies born with brain damage. researchers discovered ntd and

james was discovered to have this anti-body in his blood. >> it's called rhesus disease. in the worst case it can result in brain damage or death for the babies. >> australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this anti-body. >> reporter: james worked with doctors to develop a vaccine using the anti-bodies in his blood. >> today i will be making my 1,101 donation. >> reporter: his plasma is separated from the red blood cells and he gets those back.

>> he doesn't see it as anything big and that's the other rare thing about james. he thinks his donations are the same as anybody else's. he doesn't think he's remarkable. >> reporter: his blood is precious. in his home country, james is considered a national hero. but he doesn't see it that way. >> it is quite humbling when they say you've done this or that or you're a hero. no, no, no. it's something that i can do. it's one of my talented. not my only talent is that i can be a blood donor. >> reporter: but is it a big deal. james and his vaccine are credited with saving the lives of more than 2 million babies. yes, 2 million lives saved by one man's blood. >> every batch of ntd ha has ever been made in australia has come from james' blood and more than 17% of women in australia are at risk. so james has helped save a lot of lives.

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