-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com p killers on the lo. stip still no sign of two fugitives investigators now focusing on who may have helped them break out of prison. growing fears, south korea trying to control the outbreak and the panic as mers keeps spreading. plus, why the russian president is paying a visit to the pope. i'm rosemary church. we'd like to indeed welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. thanks for staying with us. this is "cnn newsroom."

a civilian prison worker may have played a key role in the escape of two convicted murderers still on the louisiana, possibly in upstate new york. a source says joyce mitchell planned to pick up the inmates after they escaped from the clinton correctional facility but later changed her mind. authorities also say someone used mitchell's cell phone to make calls to several people connected to one of the fugitives. it's not clear if mitchell knew her phone was being used. jason carole has more on the search for richard matt and david sweat. >> reporter: heavily armed police, many in body armor scouring farms and fields as they search the small town of wil wil willsborough. willsborough is 35 miles southeast of dannemora where

richard matt and david sweat staged their prison break four days ago. they did not have a getaway car waiting for them and may have been traveling on foot. but investigators do believe they had help and questioned joyce mitchell, an employee who worked in the prison's tailor shop. a day after the escape, mitchell checked herself into the hospital complaining of a case of nerves. mitchell's son defending her saying his mother will not risk her life or others' lives to help them escape. and they may have been spotted after crawling out of a manhole. one couple says that they think they ran into matt and sweat about a half hour after midnight early saturday morning. >> the one guy that had the life guard, he had the guitar on his back, a guitar case. >> a guitar case? >> a black guitar case.

>> reporter: they challenged the strangers. >> i ask him what the hell are you doing in my yard? get the hell out of here. and he is like, sorry i didn't know where i was. >> reporter: a former prison worker talked about how hard it would be to navigate inside the 170-year-old prison. >> so many tunnels, all the attics, all the catwalks. it's a big maze. >> that has used that maze? >> they used the maze. they knew exactly where to go. they had help. >> reporter: jason carole, cnn, willsborough, new york. richard matt was serving 25 years to life for murder, kid mapping and robbery. david sweat was sentenced to life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy. a former u.s. marshall talked about their potential state of mind. >> with the crimes these individuals committed to get

where they were in the first place we have to consider them armed and dangerous. and they have been out for four days. if they have been walk through the woods, psychologically and mentally they have to be completely drained at this point. they are either going to act like a cornered animal and in this case with this background, or they're just going to give up and say, hey, i'm tired and whipped. that's it. i'm done. >> investigators say the fugitives certainly had help breaking out of prison. they cut through walls reinforced with steel and escaped through a series of tunnels and pipes. authorities are trying to figure out how the men got the power tools needed to make their escape. stephanie elam reports. >> whoever did it has some knowledge of how the use tools. >> reporter: ernie has been an ironworker for 30 years and says there is no doubt that they use power tools to breakthrough the

walls. >> first of all it's steel. so you have to have some sort of a tool to cut it. >> reporter: when you look at that picture what tool do you think they used? >> to me it looked like a grinder with a thinner wheel made to cut through steel. >> reporter: go ahead and show us what that would look like and sound like. >> reporter: using this grinder it took him about a minute to cut this straight line through this steel plate. >> but i took my ear plug out to listen, it's really loud. >> extremely loud. >> reporter: "b," it smells. it has a distinct odor. do you think it's something they could get away with under those circumstances? >> someone would have to be trying to ignore them, i guess. the smell gets on your clothes and skin. you have to wash it off. >> reporter: the inmates managed to breakthrough a brick wall two feet thick and cut into a pipe

that let outside the prison. is there any way you can buffer the sound of the tools? >> perhaps by laying blankets around the object and working the tool slowly. >> reporter: but it would be tedious? >> yeah, it would take a long time. >> reporter: investigators believe they crawled 400 feet through a pipe that is 24 inches in diameter. >> the cuts are pretty clean. >> reporter: in the time it took you to create that one line, you did a circle around with the torch. and it's so much quieter and not as much of a smell. >> yeah. >> reporter: but there is one problem, the equipment. it requires tanks of mixed gases. if you are breaking out of jail you would rather have a torch? >> absolutely. two hours from now, russian president vladimir putin is set to land in italy.

later he will have an audience with pope francis. they met back in 2013. but since then, fighting has broken out in ukraine. that fighting is likely to top the agenda at today's meeting along with a possible visit by the pope to moscow. cnn vatican correspondent, delia gallagher is in rome with more. but let's go to nic robertson in st. peter's square. what does the pope hope to achieve in his meeting with mr. putin and how aware would he be of the symbolism that comes after mr. putin's rejection at the g-7 summit looking for an ally here? >> there are certainly those who will read the visit to italy at this time, coming to the milan expo, taking the opportunity of russia national day to coordinate the timing. but it falls right after the g-7

meeting that he is excluded from. this trip gives him a big platform on the european and world stage and that only sort of elevated when he meets the pope. there are issues of common interests between the two. the pope will be as he always does, is look for peace. ukraine undoubtedly on the agenda but also the plight of christians in the middle east will be on the agenda. and the pope will look at president putin and will at what he has said in the past about how strongly he feels about the russian orthodox church, his christian beliefs himself and the fact that many of the christians in the middle east look to russia, if you will, for sort of back up, because that's -- that's sort of where the roots of their orthodox christian faith lice. so when the pope looks to help christians in the middle east he will look to president putin to

support. that when he looks for peace in ukraine he has the -- the pope has stopped well short of saying that russia is responsible for what is happening in the ukraine. and the pope from greek catholics in ukraine has received a lot of criticism for his position so far. in february the pope described what was happening in the ukraine as fratracide and hasn't blamed russia up to now. peace is at the forefront of his agenda. what he says about president putin over ukraine undoubtedly calling for him to help build peace there. but will he try to point out to him some of the gaps in the logic that president putin has presented to the world so far? we don't know. >> that's exactly right. and delia gallagher there in rome. let's go to you. because is this, do you think, a

diplomatic test of the pope to see just how far he might go in trying to influence mr. putin to enforce that cease-fire in ukraine and bring the fighting to a close? >> yes, i do, rosemary. i think this is a tricky one for pope francis. we've seen in the past that he shows great creativity when it comes to discussions with political leaders. and we might see some kind of a surprise from the pope today in his discussions with the russian president. he has a great ability to take something out of the box. we saw it in israel when he invited the israeli and palestinian presidents to come for a day of peace and prayer at the vat caican. he has a tight rope to walk. he has been criticized by the ukrainian catholics.

at the same time, the vatican likes towards moscow and its relationship with the russian catholic church. the question of the divisions between russian orthodox and the catholic church. the russian orthodox listen closely to the pope's language on the ukraine and the pope himself and the vatican want to maintain a position of neutrality so they can be a place where leaders can come and discuss and dialogue for that peace. it's a tricky one for the pope today. >> it is tricky and a significant meeting of course between the russian president and pope francis. we'll be watching it very closely as will you. and we thank delia gallagher in rome and nic robertson at st. peter's square. fifa will hold an extraordinary executive committee meeting in july.

the meeting is expected to set a date and agenda that would name a replacement for president sepp blatter. blatter was just elected. but announced his resignation in the aftermath of the u.s. and swiss investigations of alleged fifa corruption. and another of the 14 men under u.s. indictment has surrendered to u.s. authorities, alhen droe burzaco is accused of paying bribes for media rights. jack warner is blasting the u.s. in an editorial in his known newspaper. he accuses the u.s. of racism and says he cannot get a fair trial there. u.s. prosecutors allege warner took millions of dollars in bribes and the head of australia's football federation maintains his country's

unsuccessful bid for the 2022 world cup was clean. frank lowrie explained his donation for a center of excellence in warner's nation. >> i have never spoken to warner about this subject. it was always done at a level of the executives, of both areas. >> there was no conversation with jack warner about this? >> no conversation about this. >> when he talks about an avalanche of secrets he is sitting on, this isn't one of them? >> i have no concern about that. i made no offer to him. i have not negotiated with him. it was people from australia from the executives of ffa and they hired an expert to advise us on what needs to be done. and we provided the funds for the planning. >> let's take a very short break here.

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welcome back, everyone. israeli security forces shot and killed a palestinian man in the west bank early to morning. it happened at a refugee camp. israeli police 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. one of the soldiers opened fire hitting the man. palestinian sources say he was shot in the chest and the canister exploded without injuring anyone else. a senior u.s. official says the white house is considering sending 500 additional forces to iraq. most would train and advise iraqi troops.

there are currently just over 3,000 u.s. forces in iraq. this comes as iraqi forces try to retain baiji. one says that the fight is far from over and isis appears to hold about half of the city. want to get the latest in the fight against isis. and we are live from aman, jordan. how will the troops help in the fight against isis, exactly? >> we'll have to see, rosemary, once the announcement is officially made by the white house on the final decision of how many troops and where they are going to be based and if the majority are going to be training. one of the options could be directly training sunni tribes. we know that this for the united states is a key part of the strategy in defeating isis.

they want to see the iraq sunni population play a key role in that fight and turn the tide in that fight against isis to replicate what we saw in 2006 and '07 when the u.s. trained sunni tribal forces in the fight against al qaeda. that played a major role in shifting the balance in that battle. so is that going to happen again now? it is going to be very tough, rosemary. as we know the united states is depending heavily on the local forces on the ground and the air strikes. these are two parts of the key military strategy in the fight against isis. and so far, ten months into the coalition intervention in the fight against isis in iraq it does seem that the group is still powerful enough and still on the offensive as we have seen, taking new territory including major cities like ramadi. and for things to really change on the ground, rosemary, as we have heard, iraqi officials and

others saying you have to see more happening. stuff needs to happen also on the political level there in iraq to try and include the sunshi sunnis in the fight. not one magic wand solution in the fight. >> let's concentrate now particularly on baiji. we're hearing one thing from the united states and another from iraq about who exactly is in control of that city. is it isis or the iraqi forces and their supporters? >> well, rosemary if we look at what is going on in baiji over the past year, the city, the refinery has changed hands several times between isis and the security forces. and there has been intense fighting going on in that area for -- in recent weeks, air strikes taking place and joint iraqi forces, shia militias and the security forces trying to regain control of that key

refinery. and while it really isn't functioning, it is very important strategically and symbolically for isis to keep hold of that refinery and the city of baiji that's on the road between baghdad and mosul. and what you're -- as you mentioned we're getting conflicting information. you have a more cautious assessment coming from the u.s. u.s. officials are saying that isis still controls half of the city. they say that the iraqi forces have made some progress around the baiji oil refinery saying they have punched through the outer area of the refinery and managed to establish a supply line for some of their forces that are inside the refinery to increase their foothold there. but at the same time we are hearing a different version from iraqi forces. several officials have told cnn that they are in control of the majority of the city of baiji and what is left is pockets of resistance as they describe it.

and officials saying they are in control of about 75% of the baiji oil refinery. so a very different assessments and versions of what is going on the ground there. but it does seem at this point that the battle for baiji is far from over. >> that is the way it looks. we will be watching to see if those additional 500 troops from the u.s. go to iraq and what impact they will have on that fight. many thanks to you, bringing us a live report from aman, jordan. former florida governor, jeb bush is polishing his foreign policy credentials in berlin. bush is expected to announce he's joining the republican race for u.s. president next week. we have more on how he is trying to prove himself on the international stage. >> reporter: jeb bush exchanged pleasantries with angela merkel

and received polite applause. this was an opportunity for jeb bush to burnish his foreign policy credentials and to distinguish himself from the foreign policies of his brother, former president george bush who remains deeply unpopular here largely because of the war in iraq. the crisis in ukraine appears to be the main theme for jeb bush. he will be in poland and continue on to estonia. these are all countries that are wary of russian blij rans. it is a way to set himself apart from the unpopular foreign policies of his brother. former u.s. house speaker dennis hastert once second in line for the presidency appeared in court on tuesday.

federal prosecutors say he lied to the fbi about paying millions in hush money to cover up an alleged sexual abuse of a former student. >> reporter: after 12 days in hiding, dennist hastert arrived in federal court in chicago to a spectacle. he fought his way to the biggest crush of cameras since his time as the longest serving republican speaker of the house. he's accused of paying millions of dollars of hush money to keep secret allegations of sexual misconduct from his time as a high school wrestling coach. he pleaded not guilty in court. he was ordered to surrender his passport, all firearms and give a dna sample. he left the courthouse alone, not accompanied by his wife, children or family members. a former prosecute says that he believes that hastert will plead guilty to avoid a messy trial.

>> this is like going after al capone for tax evasion. the reason that the department is bringing charges has everything to do with the underlying allegations. >> reporter: the allegations are from four decades ago when he was a teacher in illinois. the name of the person receiving hush money, a former student, has not been disclosed. the fbi has identified at least three potential victims. >> the house will be in order. >> reporter: hastert is not charged with sexual misconduct. the statute of limitations have long expired. he faces these two counts, hiding $1.7 million in payments to individual "a" and lying to the fbi about it. hastert said he was setting aside cash because he didn't trust the banking system. each penalty carries up to 5

years in prison and a $250,000 fine. >> the judge ordered hastert to have no contact with any alleged victims or potential witnesses in that case. south korea is trying to contain the spread of the mers virus as public fear over the potentially deadly disease grows. the measures the country is taking to keep people safe is just ahead. and security threats disrupt business at the white house and on capitol hill. details coming up.

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viewers here in the united states and all around the world, this is "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. it's time to check the headlines for you. authorities in new york state have yet to find two convicted murderers who escaped from the prison over the weekend. joyce mitchell planned to pick up the two men but later changed her mind. mitchell is reportedly cooperating with authorities. russian president vladimir putin is set to land in italy in about 30 minutes. later today he will meet with pope francis. they are expected to discuss the fighting in ukraine and a possible visit to moscow by the pope. fifa will hold an extraordinary executive committee meeting in july it is expected to set a date to elect a new president for sepp blatter. blatter announced his resignation from the world football governing body in the

wake of investigations into alleged fifa corruption. a growing outbreak of the mers virus in south korea has prompted its president to postpone her trip to the u.s. this weekend. this is video from president park geun-hye's last trip to washington where she met with president barack obama. her chief press officer says she will stay home this time to oversee the country's response to this deadly disease. cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson joins me with more. we know at this point, nine people have died from mers. there are 108 confirmed cases and more than 3400 people are quarantined. the numbers are increasing. people are alarmed. what are authorities doing to try to contain this deadly disease and how long might it take to control it? >> one of the measure that the world health organization has sent a delegation to coordinate

with south korean health authorities on dealing with this outbreak. what is interesting is we have seen a divergence on opinion coming from the south korean government and from the w.h.o. the south korean government has closed more tan 2,400 schools particularly in areas that are close to the hospitals where all of the 108 people who contracted middle eastern respiratory syndrome or mers where they have appeared to contracted the virus. the world health organization has come out with a statement suggesting it's not necessary to close the schools, that perhaps this is taking one measure a bit too far. but i guess the south korean authorities don't want to be seen as making any potential mistakes. another measure that they've called for is testing anyone who is currently hospitalized with pneumonia, testing them further for mers as well. and they have announced that

they're establishing a number of specific hospitals and clinics that will specialize in treating people who are confirmed to have cases of mers or who are feared to have cases of mers because of course, again, everybody seems to have contracted the virus in hospital. so one of the concerns is to ensure that hospitals do not become a place that will continue to spread the virus throughout larger portions of the south korean population. >> and of course, ivan, that abundance of caution you referred to there is understandable given that the south korean government was a little slow to respond in the initial stages and received a lot of criticism as a result. but talk to us about these safe clinics that you mentioned and what that entails given that so many people contracted the mers virus from the hospitals. >> i think we are trying to

learn what the south korean authorities mean by these safe clinics. but they have acknowledged that they've clearly acknowledged that certain medical institutions need to be prepared to deal with people who may or may not have mers to prevent its spread. that is going along with recommendations from the w.h.o. to make sure that other people do not contract the virus. it's important to note that while this virus does not have any known vaccine or any specific treatment we're told the best treatment is of the symptoms, to provide fluids and rest and pain relief for the cold-like symptoms that come with mers. the people that are most vulnerable tend to be the elderly and almost all of the contracted cases of mers

documented in south korea appear to be mostly senior citizens with the exception of one teenager, thus far. and the most people vulnerable to dying from the disease are people who already have existing ailments. the man who succumbed to mers today was a 62-year-old man who already had liver disease. the woman who south korean health authorities say also succumbed was 75-year-old and had a bone-related disease. as in the case of the common cold which is from the same family of viruses of mers it is the elderly and people who are already sick who are the most susceptible to succumb to this. this has sent alarm bells across the region. in hong kong, a region that suffered seriously from the sars outbreak in 2003 when hundreds

of people here died, it has issued an alert and extra screening methods at the airport for people flying in from south korea and has been testing more than a dozen people suspected of possibly contracted mers. none have contracted it thus far. there is one case of someone traveling from seoul to hong kong and traveled on to china who tested positive for mers. the people who are still feared to have mers in hong kong, they are being checked right now, though more than a dozen of these individuals have since been released and tested negative. >> understandably, a lot of nervousness not only in south korea, in hong kong and all of the region, in fact. our ivan watson keeping an eye on all of that from hong kong. many thanks to you. the texas police officer caught on video throwing a teenaged girl to the ground at a

pool party has resigned. eric casebolt has not been charged. but his case remains under investigation. police were responding to calls about a fight when the innoceci occurred on friday. the police chief says his city's policies and training do not support eric casebolt's actions. >> eric casebolt has resigned from the mckinney police department. as the chief of police i want to say that the actions of casebolt as seen on the video are in indefensible. >> there has been some debate as to whether the incident was racially motivated. a white witness said the officer was targeting black teens. however a black witness said it was not a racial incident and that casebolt was trying to establish order. bomb threats closed parts of the white house and capitol hill on tuesday. the daily briefing at the white

house was interrupted after one threat was phoned in. reporters were told to leave. press secretary josh earnest resumed the briefing a half hour later. officials say president obama and his family were in the white house but they were not moved. hours earlier, a transportation security administration hearing in the senate office building was also evacuated because of another bomb threat. still a lot of people asking questions there. a group of tourists are being blamed for last week's deadly earthquake in malaysia and now the country's news agency says four of them have been arrested for stripping off their clothes on top of the mountain. the two canadian men and two women, one dutch and the other british could face up to three months in jail if convicted. local people believe the nudity angered the mountain spirit,

triggering last friday's earthquake which killed 18 impeachment. new developments in the case of a u.s. inmate seeking his freedom after more than 40 years in solitary confinement. a new york man jailed for three years for a crime he says he did not commit has taken his own life. now his family hopes a lawsuit will grant them the justice he deserved.

a u.s. man who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement will remain there for at least two more days. this, after a louisiana appeals court granted a temporary stay blocking the release of albert wood fox until at least friday. he has spent 43 years in solitary confinement and on monday a judge ruled he should

be freed. the 68-year-old is the last member of the so-called angola three, accused in the 1972 killing of a prison guard. woodfox was convicted twice but both were later overturned. >> the state many years ago knew there was a very serious error in this case and they chose to gamble on appeal and they would win their appeals and never face this moment. they are facing this moment and have chosen this path. >> woodfox was imprisoned on an armed robbery conviction. a man jailed for a crime he says he did not commit has taken his own life. kalif browarder has taken his own line.

his case has drawn national attention now, becoming a symbol for what many see is a broken criminal justice system. brian todd has more details. >> reporter: chaos inside new york riker's island prison. this disturbing security camera footage from 2010 shows the gang beating browder and barging into a cell and beating him again. >> this seems like "lord of the flies" what is going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> reporter: this video was obtained by "the new yorker" magazine. two years after the gang

beating, this video shows browder thrown to the ground after browder appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't count. if we in corrections responded to every verbal statement that is made derogatory in nature we would be fighting every minute of every hour. that is common place. it is part of the culture. >> reporter: browder was sent to riker's for allegedly stealing a backpack in the bronx. he was ultimately released, the charges dropped. >> no apology or nothing. they just said case dismissed. what do you mean? you took three years of my life. i didn't go to prom, graduation, nothing. i'm never going to get those years bag. never. >> reporter: and he never did, this past saturday, kalief

browder committed suicide. his family is suing the city, the bronx d.a. and the new york department of corrections for $20 million. a former commanding officer in riker's is baffled what happened to this young man. >> i cannot fathem why a person would be in that isolation for that period of time. >> reporter: the prison says that their thoughts and prayers are with his family. the officer that slammed him to the floor is being retrained and that the gang incident is being investigated. since browder's release, new york mayor bill de blasio has moved to limit the number of cases where inmates are held at riker's for a year while their cases are pending. brian todd, cnn, washington.

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the love locks have been unbolted from a bridge in paris but now art is in their place. arabic letters now cover the bridge. lovers had attached so many small padlocks on to the bridge's metal frame, their weight threatened the bridge's stability. the new look is drawing mixed reviews. >> it's a cool combination to bring together the classical stuff and more modern, nitty gritty stuff. that's a cool combination. paris is supposed to be the city of love and we have horrible drawings on the bridge. although the padlocks weren't nice to look at, the idea of the padlocks was a nice idea, romantic. >> romantic. >> always happens with art.

mixed reviews. the padlocks were meant to symbolize enduring love. people in parts of the middle east are on alert as a tropical cyclone nears landfall pedram javaheri joins us with the details. this is pretty rare, right? >> it is, yeah. average speaking we see this once per year. but sometimes you go through many years without seeing any. and this one is over the arabian sea and the sea temperatures are bath-like in nature. the observations at 90 degrees fahrenheit in a few of these areas. absolutely balmy conditions to support a tropical cyclone but the winds are howling. it has pitched a tent and camping out off the coast of

oman. a desert environment and going to cause significant flooding. and the storm is meandering offshore. and the rainfall working into saudi arabia in a few days as well. but again the wind speeds around a strong tropical storm not significant as far as the winds. look at the damage coming out of china. the roads buckling here, video to show you of the devastation left in place. we have had a quarter of a million people displaced in china. over 50 fatalities as the seasonal rains, some of the heaviest in four decades in southern china. this pattern is expected to continue over the next couple of weeks and through july when you see the rainfall impact this part of china. and beneficial rainfall in parts of california, we have residual

moisture from a tropical system that landed in mexico over the weekend. that will go into nevada and colorado. and in the northwest, the temperatures cooling off into the 70s. portland, oregon cooling off nicely as well. and we will leave you with a photograph of a supercell tornado. we have a tornado in the front and one in the back. a rare sight to see two tornados out of one supercell. a spectacular one in a million -- he called it his unicorn shot when he got this. >> it's extraordinary. but really daunting when you consider what it would be like standing right next to it. thank you very much. appreciate it. if you have a fear of heights look away right now. a daredevil climbed up the arch

on wembley's stadium. he spent months setting up a safety team and getting permission for the climb. he has scaled some of the world's biggest buildings reportedly to overcome what used to be a fear of heights. he's done it. look at him. fantastic. a new video has surfaced offering a rare glimpse into one of america's legendary aviators. it appears to show amelia air hart's last ever photo shoot. she left miami, florida the next month in her second attempt to circumnavigate the globe. various stops and 22,000 miles later she landed in new guinea. she took off there in july 1937 and was never seen again. a book on her last journey is being released along with the

video. how about that? thanks for watching cnn. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is coming up for our viewers in the u.s. elsewhere, "cnn newsroom" continues in london. have a great day.

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