a racist fan test toe -- manifesto published online of a man accused of killing nine people inside a charleston

church. are they closing in on the convicts? life after isis residents of tikrit coming home after isis was ousted from their city. we show you what they found on arrival. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and right around the world, i'm lynda kinkade. >> and i'm george howell. this is cnn "newsroom." ♪ ♪ it was the scene of a deadly shooting ramp age but in the coming hours, the charleston south carolina church will once again be a place of worship and healing. >> the churches grounds have become somewhat of a memorial for the victims and now we're learning more about a racist fan 'fess toe that was -- manifesto posted on a website link to the gunman. >> the pictures are startling.

dylann roof holds a burning flag. he takes aim with a pistol with a laser site. the website he owns titled the last rhodesan. we have no skin heads, no real kkk, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. the document reads, well, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world and i guess that has to be me. roof hints at why he chose charleston to carry out the massacre that left nine members of the emanuel ame church dead calling charleston the most historic city in my state. roof who appeared in court friday to face formal charges, said he became transformed by the controversial trayvon martin case. i was in disbelief he writes how could the news be blowing up the trayvon martin case while

hundreds of these black on white murders got ignored. it was not clear what he was referring to. this latest piece of a complicated puzzle may offer insights for investigators but it's no consolation from a community reeling from the violence. >> heart breaking and my prayers definitely go out to the family. it's just heart breaking. >> nick valencia cnn, charleston, south carolina. the charleston church shooting raise a wide number of questions many unique to the u.s. justice system. let's turn to our legal analyst who joins us via skype. now that this manifesto is out there, now that there are images of dylann roof with the confederate flag with these different flags that are symbolic of hate how does all this evidence come into play and how does a person like this defend himself?

>> well first, south carolina is one of the minority of states that does not actually have hate crime legislation and in the states, hate crime legislation is typically an enhancement on an existing criminal charge but at the federal level there are certainly potential hate crime charges we might see. the real question is whether or not these would constitute hate crimes or domestic terrorism and the short hans is under federal law it could be be both depending on how the prosecution chooses to charge it. hate crimes are intended to intimidate a particular group of people while domestic terrorism on the other hand and it's a minor difference maybe a zinks without a difference is intended to intimidate a civilian populace or influence a government maybe a broader swath of people intended to be scared but certainly a prosecutor could equally charge

hate crime legislation or under the domestic terrorism act under federal law. >> whether there's this hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism, this is still a death penalty case. so what sort of defense could a lawyer for him take to court? >> well, this is a death penalty case because of the way south carolina's laws are written. if you commit a mass killing, you kill two or more people that qualifies you for the death penalty. because in this case there appears to be initially a lot of evidence that he was the doer and that multiple people perished in this tragedy, that's going to be a difficult burden to overcome for this defendant. what we might see, just making a prediction you might see some sort of mental defense. by that i mean insanity some diminished capacity but the problem with that defense is all this other evidence and we're seeing a lot of this in

prosecutions around the world, which is prosecutors get ahold of your website, your blog your facebook your instagram, and they can use that against you as evidence not only of your intent but your motive and that goes a long way with a jury and defendants have fought to keep this kind of evidence out. everything from rap lyrics to pictures of their tattoos, but for the most part if it is relevant if it would help the jury make a decision as to what was in this defendant's heart and mind when they committed this deed then as a general proposition, they will come in as evidence. >> some really interesting questions that this case will raise. we'll of course continue to follow it. danny is live with us there in new york. thank you, danny. >> thank you. and the south carolina killings have also reignited debate about a symbol in america's south. the confederate battle flag. >> that's right.

it is a symbol that has a lot of people talking for sure and as our we report the flag was featured on his website and it is prominent in south carolina politics. >> reporter: this flag is still flying in front of the capital of south carolina. to some the confederate flag is a legitimate symbol of the state's southern pride. for others it's a symbol of prejudice and slavery they cannot forget. >> some will assert that the confederate flag is a symbol of years gone by but when we see that symbol lifted up as an emblem of hate as a tool of hate as an inspiration for hate as an inspiration for violence that symbol has to come down. that symbol must be removed from our state capitol. >> 21-year-old defendant dylann roof confessed according to law

enforcement officials for shooting nine black worshippers at the emanuel ame church. he also wanted to start a race war. on his profile it ishe is also pictured with a confederate flag license plate. some of these groups kkk denounce this ak of terrorism. we think it's a shame to have someone do that while people are praying. these people are good christian people. it was questioned whether it was roof was part of a white supremacist group. they say he is not. >> you don't need to join a hate group to learn what the propaganda tells you. >> roof's childhood friend joey

meek says the shooting it upsetting. he took his gun away a few weeks ago for a day when roof began railing about black people and real estate marked he had a plan. some are wondering why the confederate flag a symbol embraced by hate groups is still flying and hasn't been lowered to half staff. >> the confederate flag is not flown atop the dome of the state capitol building. that is only for the u.s. flag and the south carolina flag. it's the governor who can order those at half staff. the confederate flag by law must fly at a height of 30 feet any changes must be passed by a super majority of the general assembly and that has not been

done. cnn, new york. and as calls ring out for tighter gun control in the u.s. there's been another two mass shootings. one was the a children's party in detroit and other at a picnic in philadelphia. >> it's tragic all the way around. this children's party, there were 10 people were shot one man was died. 400 people had gathered on a basketball court there for a party. investigators say even wp so many witnesses, unbelievably no one is talking. >> there's kids out here. i'm livid and there's no excuse there's not any excuse why no one is not talking. there's people at the hospital. we're going to find out as much as we can. man-up or woman-up or whatever and tell us what's going on. >> police are naturally very angry about that situation. and in philadelphia seven people including several children were shot at what was supposed to be a peaceful

picnic. all of those remain in critical condition. authorities don't know how many gunmen there were and why the shooting began. it's just unbelievable and with that particular shooting a kid that's less than two years old got shot in the neck and the poor child remains in critical condition. it's hard to make sense. i remember a case i covered in chicago where a little girl was shot and people saw it happen but no one spoke up and i just don't understand that because it takes someone to speak up and tell the investigators what they saw so that you can catch the people who did it so that it can stop. >> i don't even know why you would take a loaded gun to a children's birthday party. another whole question. now the hunt for two killers who escaped from an upstate new york prison has zeroed in on a new location. law enforcement says there was a credible sighting of richard matt and david sweat near the

town of friendship just north of pennsylvania. that's 400 miles southwest of the prison which they escaped from. >> this is all very important and state police say the site -- sighting is unconfirmed. authorities have warned residents to stay alert. some have armed themselves. we have more on this manhunt. >> reporter: state police now actively searching an area in allegheny county new york. it's a border county to stuben county new york which is about 350 miles away from here and where there were two unconfirmed sightings last weekend, two consecutive days in two separate towns, people called in and said they spotted two men walking who appeared to match the descripg of these two escaped inmates. state police didn't get this tip until tuesday. on friday they came across surveillance tape from a local business which was too grainy

not good quality enough for them to confirm or deny that this could be a possible sighting however they are now this weekend going over that surveillance video at the state police crime lab and enhancing it to see if they can confirm if it was these two escaped inmates who were spotted walking in these two border towns. now, state police in the meantime have not abandoned their search here. they are still going through active trails and unoccupied homes. more than 600 miles of trails and more than 200 homes as they continue their search. meanwhile, the gag ongoing. a clinton correction officer has been placed on administrative leave. authorities not giving us many details but saying it is a man and he has been placed on leave as part of this ongoing investigation. they have always left open the possibility that there were more people involved in this elaborate escape. now, an al jazeera reporter is calling the egyptian

government weak and petty. last year a cairo court sentenced him to 15 years on torture charge. he wasn't even at that trial. he was stopped in berlin on saturday as he tried to board a flight to ka -- qat tar. what is he accused of doing? >> during the 2011 revolution when the government is accusing him of torturing a lawyer in tahir square a charge that he denies last october he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia the egyptian government asked interpol to arrest him and that's what we're hearing today. now, these are charges that he denies and he spoke to al jazeera about them. >> translator: i want to assure everyone that these charges are

false. the egyptian regime that came to power through the coup is weak and petty and cannot drag a country like germany or the e.u. to be part of this zpik kal. >> this is up to the german judiciary to determine if this is a case that can move forward and if he could could and would be extradited to egypt. mansour claims he is a document from interpol to prove he is not wanted on any charge. however, german authorities say they have an interpol request. what is the egyptian government saying about this? >> i just talked to a spokesman of the foreign minute tri, they say they are going to coordinating and they are going to work to extradite any sort of extradition here to egypt.

they say they are coordinating with egypt's public prosecutor to paf -- pave the way for that as well. talking to them whether they believe this is a political case. it is a completely legal matter. it is egypt's judiciary that will determine the innocence or guilt but he reiterated this is a serious accusation of torturing someone in tahir square. >> this isn't the first time that egyptian authorities have gone after a journalist. al jazeera says it's no, sir the first time they have been targeted. do you think they are being targeted? >> there is no love lost between al jazeera and the egyptian government. this trial of the three journalists has been widely condemned as being politicized. these journalists are not guilty of the charges of helping and

aiding the muslim brotherhood. that they are caught in this political bicker between egypt and qatar. when you see these cases, these questions reemerge is this part of this whole dispute between the two countries but it will be up to germany's judiciary to really figure it out and cut through all that and to determine if this case does have merit. >> we'll have to see how this plays out. thank you, very much. on to eastern africa. a somalia security group says militants launched a suicide attack against a intelligence base. >> they detonated a scar bomb before. several militants were killed and there was one government

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"newsroom," these pictures from turin, italy. just a few moments ago, he led prayer services infront of shroud of turin. let's bring in our vatican correspondent delia gallagher. this shroud is one of the most sacred religious items on the planet. this is one of the top items on the agenda. >> it was important to the pope to go and pray in front of shroud. the shroud for centuries has been a mysterious and venerated icon of the catholic church. it has a man's image who was crucified. it has blood on it.

it has been scientifically tested throughout the centuries, they have never come to i aconclusive one way the other whether it's a hoax or whether it's the authentic burial cloth of jesus. nevertheless popes throughout the centuries and certainly many catholics have gone to turin to pray in front of what pope benedict called an icon. so pope francis did that early this morning at the beginning of this two-day trip to turin. he is finishing up a mass in the central square. he also met with workers from turin. it's one of the great industrial cities of italy. if you've heard the fiat car, that's where it's headquartered. pope was talking about the economic dignity of work. he's going to have a long afternoon. having lunch with juvenile

detainees, he's going to meet with the ill, disabled and with youth. tomorrow he's going to be the first pope to end a valdensan group. the pope is making a gesture of outreach toward them and in the afternoon he will have lunch with some of his family members. this is part of the italy where his family comes from. his father emigrated from near tur nixt so hoep tomorrow he will have lunch with some of his relatives. >> talk to us about the wider impact about the pope's visit. it does appear he is spending a great deal of time as you laid out his agenda with the most marginalized in society. >> that's not surprising is it? we've seen that time and time again that wherever the pope goes for whatever reason he goes he makes an effort to have

lunch with the people who are most marginalized. he makes an effort to speak to them. he's doing six speeches in these two days and most of those are to the ill, the disabled the disenfranchised, et cetera. during his homily just now at mass he mentioned one of popes who wrote a poem about immigration and this goes right to the heart of this pope whose family emig grated from this area and also a very topical issue for this pope and the world at this time. >> thank you so much. we will continue to follow events there. in london tens of thousands offant austerity protesters marched outside parliament on saturday. they are angry over plans for

more spending cuts. >> similar protests were held in liverpool and glasgow. the cuts will ensure future governments have extra funding. >> while maintaining the anti austerity tone the greek government is promising concessions to its international creditors. >> time is running short and euro zone leaders are holding an emergency meeting on monday. greece has the end of june to repay $1.6 billion euros to the imf. hundreds of homes of under threat to a raging wildfire in california. >> you speak about the weather, it's about that relative humidity that meteorologists talk about that is so incredibly low in san bernardino county in

southern california that's created this scenario. the lake fire currently at 16,000 acres in size just to put this in perk this is all part of the five million acres that burn on average in the contiguous united states. at the moment there's about 15% containment of this fire. as george mentioned 400 structures threatened at this memo in time. take a look at some of these aerial visuals coming out of san bernardino coin. this lake fire this is smoke-filled ravines and valleys. a lot of heavy brushes and trees in this area have caused this fire to rapidly spread and expand. forest fires and while fires can spread at a rate of 14 miles per hour 23 kilometers per hour depending on which units you work with. now, there's 18,000 firefighters working to protect the buildings

and homes that are threatened in this area and you can see some of the airplanes there that are assessing the situation. coming back to my graphics. this is the relative humidity i talk about. look at how low it is. it is a measurement tool for meteorologists to determine how much available moisture there is. on top of the relative low humidity we have some wind in the area even though it's relatively calm, it doesn't take much to take one of those glowing embers to spread it across forested areas. the forecast looks dry and it will continue. look at the heat that is in place across the southwestern united states. we are easily breaking triple digits from palm springs, phoenix, las vegas and right around the big bear area as well. this is fire season over the western u.s. >> tricky situation, especially for the firefighters there. derek van damme, thank you very

much. now, the devastating transition from internet racist to mass killer. ahead, we'll look into what may have driven dylann roof to murder. plus as charleston south carolina deals with a horrific mass shooting at a shoich -- church african-americans speak out.

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cnn "newsroom," i'm linda kink aid. investigators are taking a close look at the racist manifesto written by dylann roof. it was posted on his website sometime before he killed nine people at a charleston church. >> police are searching southwestern new york for two killers who escaped from a maximum security prison after someone phoned in a tip saying they may have spotted the men. the source says the sitings are credible but they are unconfirmed. south korea says three new patients have been diagnosed with middle east respiratoryiryy virus. 29 people have died from the virus. including one man this week.

isis has claimed responsible for a bombing in yemen's capital. two people were killed and six injured. it happened at a mosque used by houthis rebels. a few hours from thou the charleston church where nine people were murdered will hold sunday services. >> this will be a solemn service there. it will be the first service at the emanuel ame church since the killings took place on wednesday. later this morning, other churches plan to ring their bells in a show of solid dart. >> on sunday evening, they plan to form human chains as a shown of unity. meanwhile, dylann roof is under suicide watch at the jail. >> to find out how that hatred

to turned into this terrible ramp age played out in charleston we're joined now by dr. fisher via skype. here's a person before the shooting a person who put pictures on line this manifesto with indeed it is mr. roof who penned or who wrote this manifesto, he's putting all his thoughts out there. it just seems that he's asking people to pay attention to him. he's crying out for people to see what he's all about and it just seems he's all about hate. >> i think we have to understand is here is somebody who has seemed to have grown up in the background a bit. he wasn't seen to be popular and he had issues with feeling somewhat disadvantaged it seemed and one of his friends said in one of the articles he seemed to be okay with that but often when you see something on the surface that doesn't mean that's what's

going on inside. hate is one of those protective emotions along with rage and anger and arrogance and flip yancy. as this lkds it often does result in acting out. he had been expressing it in words, in his pictures and unfortunately it came out in actions, and that's why it is so important not to allow these things to happen in an incubator but to make sure we're communicating and learning to communicate with our kids or he communicated with his peers who didn't feel comfortable confronting him more and that is something that could have changed some lives if they helped him get the help he needed. >> as this manifesto points out and the pictures we see him in it seems that he had a lot of racist kind of views. do you think people are going to be quick to point out that he

may have a mental illness to use that as perhaps an excuse? >> well it's already been done and i look at somebody who commits a crime, our prisons are filled with people with mental illness who aren't getting the help they need. an insanity defense is not an excuse it's clear he is of sound mind and body but that doesn't mean he's not mentally ill even though he's of sound mind and body. you have people with depression anxiety, post traumatic stress they have mental illnesses but they are not psychotic. he clearly didn't seem to be psychotic, however, there are other indications that he may have had this budding mental illness that went uncheck and that's something we have to discriminate between. just because somebody is in jail for a crime they committed doesn't mean that they don't need therapy and don't need help and this is why so many people who get out of jail end up being

resid vixic in their behavior they didn't get enough help to change their attitudes and heal their issues. >> we spoke about this the other day. when people are arrested for these brutal crimes you mentioned this document that was written, this paper that was written, a discussion about the difference between how black suspects are referred to and how white suspects are referred to when it comes to mental illness, when it comes to other terms that some could consider derog tory tory. >> right, right. we have to be aware how do we have our unwritten, unspoken attitudes that we just don't make connections with until somebody brings up an issue like this and it is so important for us to begin to open our eyes to see people as people.

to begin to become in some ways color blind and see us as raw humans on this earth, we're all here to learn and grow and do certain things it's not in the end, how much money you have or the status you raised. to me it's what we've done with what we've been given and that is the issue here is how do we help each other make it through this life successfully and together and actions like this that result in division and as i've said before hatred tries to divide or people who use hey dread as a tool try to divide and destroy trust and security and safety and this is why we have to pull together in these situations and not fall into situations of judgment but fall into places of understanding. >> keep hearing this thing from charleston people say, you know hey dread is not something you are born with. it is something that is learn through the course of life. dr. fisher thank you. >> thank you. according to some residents

in charleston their southern city has a great deal of work to do when it comes to race relations. >> they say it is racially divided and hostile toward its african-american citizens. >> you will believe that everything is going smoothly that it's all so neat and everybody is to nice and it's the best place to be. most place who come here don't know how charleston formed. dogs have got a lot more rights but there is no protection at all for blacks. ♪ ♪ >> my name is william bill sonders and i'm really a trouble maker in the charleston area making sure that people get a chance to take a look at what's going on. i think that right now we got so many enemies all over the world,

yet the most important fight we got is on segregation and integration integration. >> charleston is great for tourists because they love their tourists but if you are black in charleston it's not a good place to be. >> i feel like charleston it's a great place to live i love living here but there are definitely a lot of underlying issues that we have and unfortunately they are just not talked about. >> it's a beautiful place with a lot of history and you only see that. you see the glitz and the glam glam glamour. >> i always felt like somebody might be waiting to kill me those are the kind of thoughts that i've been through for so long. >> i feel like this problem can be fixed many ways. it starts with my generation stepping up to the plate and saying we're not going to put up with this our grandparents

might have our parents might have it's time for us to really buckle down and fix some things. >> one of the things i wanted to be all my life since about 12, 13 years old is to be a money, not a black man. i want to be a man. there's no way i can ever be a man in charleston south carolina. i would always be a boy in this system. >> it's a very interesting city. spending time there after this shooting personally you know when i think about trig to trace my own heritage i can only go so far and when i get to a city like charleston you know i can learn things about where the slave trade started there in that city on sullivan island and it's a point of entry for me to learn about my family. i don't even know where to start with things like that. it's just a very heavy city. it's got a lot of history and it's got some sadness to it. it's an interesting place to be. >> a lot of people obviously go

there because it's a tourist destination. it's a very pretty city. you find it oppressive. >> when you think about what happened there a long time ago, yes. there is a certain heaviness that comes along with that city. it's beautiful to visit, but if you visit for a certain reason for me to go there and try to learn more about, you know where maybe my relatives came from there's just a lot of heaviness that comes along with that city. we'll be right back after this.

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hundreds of iraqis from tikrit are finally be given the

chance to go home. they won't be going back to the city they once knew. >> we show how tikrit has been torn apart and why the destruction cannot be totally blamed on isis. [ speaking foreign language ] >> they wait to hear their names called so they can finally go home. residents of tikrit who fled when isis took over a year ago, line up to get security clearance from iraqi intelligence officers allowing them to return to their battered city but returning to what? >> translator: there's nothing left. our home is just a pile of dust. it was destroyed in the shelling and the fighting. >> reporter: this woman and her children wait in the shade in a tent. she heard her home was torched. [ speaking foreign language ] we can replace things she says but at least we're still alive. what we really need is stability and security.

on the outskirts of tikrit the signs of battle are clear. inside the city, however, block after block of burned and ransacked shops speak of revenge. only about 1,000 families have returned to tikrit since it was liberated from isis more than two months ago out of an original population of more than 150,000. what they are going to find when they come home is a city severely damaged by the fighting and subsequent looting. after isis was driven out of tikrit, a predominantly sunni city iraqi security officials say some shia-led paramilitary fighters burned and looted civilian property. only now are residents allowed to come back. those who have returned are hesitant to point fingers. >> translator: i would have found everything of value gone

and everything left turned upside down. >> reporter: we don't know who did this he tells me. i don't know if this is thieves or someone from outside. isis or not isis, i don't know. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: his home was demolished. she and her family have moved into an abandoned house. she says isis looted it. but it wasn't isis that scrawled this anti isis graffiti on the walls. municipal workers have begun to clear away the debris, a task likely to take months. a tiny minority will never be welcome back says the mayor using an insulting name for isis. >> less than 1% of population of tikrit was surely with dash.

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welcome back to cnn "newsroom." let's talk star wars fans of that movie franchise, they are so eager for the film's next release this winter they are getting their fix at secret gatherings throughout the city of london. >> i like this story fans are bringing the star wars franchise to life with costumes and live theater. >> reporter: in a galaxy far far away, a dramatic moment is to unfold inside a jail where a prisoner has proven too hot to handle. ♪ ♪ ♪ everyone's favorite woki escapes

detention and heads out to mix with familiar faces, familiar to anyone who is a fan of the original star wars trilogy. r 2 d 2 and c 3 po are here. along with princess leia. and hans solo. alongside a collection of flot sam and jet sam of sci-fi legend. i'm at a secret location in the heart of london. around me, we've seen some star wars favorites, luke skywalker and chewbacca have been here. this is the magic of secret cinema. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> secret cinema is an immersive film experience. where the audience is part of the film. we turn old buildings into the movies. ♪ ♪

>> i've always been massively passionate about going to the cinema. as a child, i used to remember these trips to the cinema it was very magical. everything was much larger than life and a lot more romantic and adventurous. i put on small events and suddenly the idea of putting theater and cinema together blossomed into this. >> reporter: ticket holders are sent an email giving them a character and a mission and directing them to a meeting point in london. they are encouraged to interact with the other actors before settling down to watch a screening of "the empire strikes back." >> i think they like to completely lose themselves in the film and literally step inside the film and i think they like the idea of being completely disconnected from the worlds they interact in.

>> there are more surprises during the screening. at $120 a ticket, it's not cheap, but compared with some western shows and premium sporting events, it's proved so popular that last week it propelled "empire strikes back" into the u.k. top ten for the first time since its release 35 years ago. organizer hope to sell more than 100,000 tickets before the show ends in september. secret cinema, it seems the force is strong. neil curry, cnn, somewhere in london. somewhere in london. very mysterious. >> how do you know where the parties are? >> he obviously got the invite somehow. >> we thank you for being with us this hour on cnn "newsroom." i'm george howell. >> i'm lynda kinkade. for viewers in the u.s. "new day" is coming up and for everyone else we'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines. ♪ ♪ ♪

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. new this morning a day of healing in south carolina. in a couple of hours, church services will begin at the a.m.e. church since the first time a gunman took the lives of nine people less than a week ago. and we're learning more about that gunman after the manifesto he left behind. why he says the trayvon martin case may have triggered these