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report. and the greek government offers a proposal to cut its debt. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. your last hour of the day with us. this is "cnn newsroom." prayer healing, and support. that was the focus sunday as the city of charleston mourned the victims of last week's shooting. >> it has been five days since nine people were gunned down at charleston's emanuel ame church. thousands of people took part in a sunset march across the city's longest bring in a sign of solitarity and resolve. the confessed gunman dylann roof is behind bars. prosecutors may seek the death
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penalty. but members of the church are pouring their energy into healing and supporting one another. >> the nine victims were all devoted to the church and to their families. >> cnn's andy rose gives you a closer look at how they were remembered on sunday. >> reporter: church bells rang throughout charleston on sunday morning. emanuel's parishioners held their first service since a mass shooting left nine members dead on wednesday. inside the theme was healing, not hate. >> we have shown the world how we as a group of people can come together and pray and work out things that needs to be worked out. >> emanuel's pastor was one of the shooting victims. >> through it all, god has
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sustained us. and has encouraged us. >> reporter: south carolina governor nikki haley was in attendance. earlier sunday cynthia hurd's brother says he felt joy following the tragedy. >> she is at peace. she lost her life in the church. and today she celebrates. >> reporter: references the racist racist motives, reverend goff says that time to think about that is in the future. i'm andy rose reporting. >> condolences have been pouring in from around the world. >> outside the church flowers and notes have been piled up and people gathered to sing and
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pray. >> reporter: today was another example of this community's integrity and grace dealing with extraordinary circumstances in stride. we saw hundreds fill the pews of emanuel ame church. outside, hundreds braved the heat to pay respect to the nine innocent lives who were lost. let me show you what we mean. this memorial started as a bundle of flowers at the corner behind the crime scene tape. as soon as the street was opened up you saw people come from all over not just here in south carolina but across the united states. we spoke the a couple who came from as far away as france to pay their respects to what happened here on wednesday night. >> we are here to join the people of this church and the united states to give praise to god and welcome his people who are now with him and we know that only love can drive out
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darkness. only love can drive out hate. that's why we are here. no matter where we come from no matter where we are, but we have just to keep praying and to ask for god healing and to keep strength in this difficult time. >> we pray for the past whoever passed away and all of the members. to us it's very touching and that's what we're here for. and i hope that god will bless them and the family members as well. >> the messages of healing apparent. people have written messages here. some saying love wins hate will not conquer. r.i.p. to those victims. and these conversations have just begun. the hope in this community is that this unity which is so apparent here that it doesn't just last for the day, that this continues to be something that people talk about long after the cameras leave. there is a lot of healing still yet to be done but the conversations here are just
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beginning. nick valencia cnn, charleston, south carolina. the intense manhunt for two escaped prisoners has just shifted to an area not far from the maximum security prison they escaped from. >> police set up a command post in owl's head new york on sunday night. the mountain area is popular with hikers and police are using all terrain vehicles to get around there. >> they are searching west of the clinton correctional facility in dannemora, new york and tactical units from vermont, which is a neighboring state are helping new york officer. over the weekend, the search was focused on another area allegany county new york that is southwest of the prison. >> and police were led there by a 911 call. a woman said she thought she spotted matt and sweat near her
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house. our affiliate from buffalo has more. >> reporter: not too many people trek through this field along county route 20. >> in ten years i've seen two people walk down through there. >> reporter: brandy thompson is not likely to forget the most recent two. she was leaving her barn on saturday afternoon when her dog dwan to bark at the train tracks behind her house. >> a man with a scruffy beard and hoodie was working up the tracks. my dog started barking and he pulled up his hoodie and did not want to be seen. >> reporter: thompson said he wasn't alone. >> a bigger build, darker black, brown hair with a buzz cut and they both immediately went down the other side. they looked very dirty like they have been out there for a while. >> reporter: an soon as she saw them she recognized the
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resemblance to matt and sweat. thompson called 911 and within eight minutes police were at her door and the search began. it brought more than 300 members of law enforcement to look by ground and air for the escaped convicts. >> i can't never be sure. i was so far away from them. it did resemble them. >> reporter: the heavy police presence scaled back on sunday. like many we spoke to thompson says that the search's end does not ease her mind. >> i felt the safest in the county for 24 hours and now they're gone and not so much but a little bit more at ease that they didn't see nothing. there is a loaded 30.06 on the kitchen table. >> that is our affiliate from time warner cable news in buffalo. breaking news now out of
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afghanistan where we are getting reports of loud explosions followed by gunfire outside the afghan afghan parliament in kabul. >> it happened during a tv broadcast and the lawmakers were seen leaving the building. >> we turn to our senior correspondent who joins us over the phone from kabul. what can you tell us unfolded there in the past few hours? >> reporter: about an hour ago or just over an hour ago there was a blast outside of the afghan parliament building. police officials tell us that the blast happened outside the parliament and forces cordoned off the scene. we do know from eyewitnesss that the explosion shattered windows and smoke can be seen rising above the scene.
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we have also heard reports of gunfire erupting outside of the parliament building. this is occurring on a day that the lawmakers were nominating afghanistan's new defense minister. we have been tracking the developments and trying to get a handle on how serious the attack is. but it is happening around a secure building in kabul. but one that's a very prominent target. >> and we are also looking at some of the first images we are getting out of this breaking situation. and we can see smoke billowing into the sky. walk us through the events as you know they took place. was it explosions followed by gunfire and what do we know of the parliament members? are there any still in the building unable to get out or has everyone been evacuated? >> reporter: well it had to have been a fairly large
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explosion. it could be heard across town and it occurred just outside the parliament according to the afghan ministry of the interior. eyewitnesss we were able to reach on the phone said that gunfire and possibly rocket-propelled grenade fire could be heard shortly thereafter. and there appeared to be additional armed men and attackers involved. perhaps what happens in many of these situations is complex attacks it usually begins with a large bomb a car bomb or some other kind of -- or suicide bomb followed by attackers wearing suicide vests who have assault rifles and other weapons. it's unclear how many attackers are involved. we have an initial claim of responsibility from the taliban. this is a breaking situation
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that we are trying to get a sense of how many casualties may have occurred and whether or not there are lawmakers who may have been trapped in the building. but as far as we know all afghan lawmakers have been rescued or taken out of the building. but we are trying to reach as many people as possible to understand the situation as it unfolds. >> nathan hodge speaking to us from kabul. i want to explain to the viewers we are seeing video from inside the parliament building. unclear if this is live or taped from earlier. but we can see people milling about and walking around parliament what as to be a smokey interior. but people moving out of that room. you're telling us that the taliban have given this initial claim of responsibility. how many attacks in and around
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kabul have the tall ben successfully implemented just this year? it seems as to this is not uncommon. >> we've seen good number of attacks in recent weeks. there was a pretty serious attack on the palace that claimed the number of lives of afghans and internationals. more recently in kabul in the center of the heart of the diplomatic quarter about a couple of weeks ago there was also a fairly major attack on a guest house that touched off an hour longus battle. we have seen a fair number of these kind of attacks over recent months in the capital and in the countryside as well out in the provinces of afghanistan. there is a feeling of insecurity in the northeast province. we have seen districts come under very heavy attacks from
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taliban insurgents than the government having difficulty holding the districts there. this has been a relatively violent year for afghanistan. civilian casualties have been high. and we can see by the situation today in kabul, the fighting is not limited to the provinces. many of the attacks have occurred in the capital itself. >> nathan hodge speaking to us from kabul we'll let you go so you can speak to your contacts and assess the situation there as we look at the images coming into cnn after an explosion outside of the parliament. the taliban giving an initial claim of responsibility. we'll continue to track this breaking story and update you on it throw the day. greece is running out of time to reach an agreement with its creditors. officials are meeting in brusz else today.
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this is a last ditch effort. greece could be forced out of the eurozone. the country needs to make a payment to the imf and 2 billion euros in salaries and pensions. in july, greece has to repay the imf on the 13th and european central bank on the 20th. and by the end of the month it must pay 2 billion euros in salaries and pensions. an eu official says the country's latest proposal was a good basis for progress in talks among euro leaders. over the weekend, the prime minister presented a new proposal to the country's creditors. i want to bring in nina dos santos for the latest on the greek debt talks. what was likely in that proposal from greece and how might it
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help avoid default for the country? >> at this stage we don't know what was included. but we have a fair idea based on the indications we have been getting as each side made clear where the red lines are. the greek government says that cutting back on key pensions that as you pointed out they have to pay by the end of the month was one point. the other thing that may well clinch the deal is the idea of debt relief. effectively, write down some of the debts. this country at the moment doesn't have a hope of paying that back even if it manages to pay the imf this month it has 6 billion year rows to pay in two months to institutions like the ecb. what we've seen is a bunch of frantic negotiations and phone calls between the prime minister of greece and in particular the leaders of france and also
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germany. and what we're hoping later today is that the greek government will manage to at least this is what the leaders of france and geromeny are hoping, will have concrete negotiations with the finance ministers of the other 18 countries that share the euro as the single currency before the culmination of an emergency summit which is set to take place later on through the course of the day. but we are getting close to the june 30th deadline is when greece's official bailout expires and then it is going to take a number of days to disburse the money we are talking about here. it is several billions. that's why these talks are crucial. i want to point out that there is a discrepancy in the way the greeks view this situation and the way other countries view the situation. if you look at the polls here in
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greece and this is just exemplified by the fact that we had people in the streets over the weekend supporting the anti-austerity start. 85% of greeks want to stay in the eurozone despite the fact they don't want the same austerity that the creditors want to see on the table. however it's going to be very difficult to sell debt relief to other european countries. 51% of germans say that they think perhaps it would be better if greece were to leave the eurozone as a whole. and angrilyela americanle and spain, portugal they are going to find it hard to sell the idea of letting greece off the hook for billions of debt when their countries had to swallow the pain. >> we'll be watching closely to see what comes out of this
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summit. if greece exited from the single currency it would have devastating effects on greece itself but it also could result in a spreading financial crisis and weaken debt countries. and it could force closer ties with russia or china. and immigration could be an issue. floods of greeks battling homelessness and more would cross into neighboring countries needing aid. we want to take a break for now. the militants have been driven out but the damage left behind is overwhelming. arwa damon takes us through tal abyad in syria. and the latest threat that isis poses in the city of pal
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isis has reportedly planted mines and bombs in palmyra. it is unclear whether the militants plan to destroy the ruins or keep government troops from advancing. >> isis took the city over last month. is it a eweunesco world heritage site. kurdish fighters recaptured the border town of tal abyad. >> arwa damon was the first to visit the city. this week we will bring you the reports on how the victor at tal abyad may be the recipe for defeating isis. >> reporter: they were saying how quickly they were able to
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move through such vital terrain. for two years, isis reigned with impunity over this frontier. now, beaten back. there was a coalition air strike he was just saying on that side of this underground tunnel that goes around the entire village. isis had moved into this particular area about two years ago. this obviously dug out with heavy machinery about three feet three inches a meter wide. and pretty high as well. and then you can see the metal ceiling roof that was put into it running throughout.
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isis tunnel is fairly cruise but still hilly effectiveghly effective. this is the road that runs parallel to the turkish border. this is just one of isiss many defenses they had put into place. what he is saying is that the air strikes that happened here were key. they took place just a few days before forces advanced into the city. and they were highly effective. in just four weeks the air strikes allowed the ypd to advance some 80 kilometers, 50 miles taking over key territory, including the town of tal abyad, cutting off the supply routes.
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when the coalition against isis was formed we were the only force that was committed in the fight against isis commander of the tal abyad front says the coalition saw this and coordinated with us. he won't disclose specifics. here the u.s. can say that its strategy has delivered a blow to isis. but the battlefield is vast. and the blueprint for success hardly easy to replicate. one of the biggest challenges the u.s. and the coalition will face in trying to replicate the strategy if that is even possible is trying to find similarly reliable partners on the ground elsewhere in syria and iraq. arwa damon with that report. as charleston mourns the victims of the shootings last week authorities are looking at
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a racist manifesto posted online by the shooter. and we will bring you inside the emotional service inside the church where the shooting took place. stay with us. you know, when i started my business, a lot of people didn't believe in me. but things took off when i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i can tell the doubters to stick it. hey, honey. stick it! stick it! stick it! nana? hi... stick it! can you give your mommy a message for me? stick it! get a domain website and email starting at $1/month all at godaddy.
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welcome back to those of you tuned in from here in the u.s. and all around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. in charleston south carolina thousands of people marched across a city bridge in a show of solidarity after nine people were killed last week inside the
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emanuel ame church. earlier in the day hundreds of people packed the church for its first service since the massacre. police are searching an area near an upstate new york prison for two killers who escaped two weeks ago. officers shifted their focus late sunday night and set up a command post in a popular mountain town. in afghanistan, a car bomb exploded outside the afghan parliament in kabul. all parliament members were evacuated unharmed. at least 19 people were reportedly hurt. the taliban have claimed initial responsibility for that attack. it was an emotional day in the city of charleston south carolina in the aftermath of a church massacre that left nine people dead. thousands of people marched across the city's longest
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bridge. the gathering was a show of citywide solidarity and resolve. >> crowds gathered out the african methodist episcopal church the site of the shootings. dylann roof told authorities he wanted to start a race war. >> investigators are look at a racist manifesto posted on his website. >> reporter: even though that manifesto surfaced online over the weekend the focus in charleston remains the nine lives lost in this tragedy. the manifesto is about 2,000 words long and has inflammatory language not just about blacks but also other minorities. it was published on a website that was registered to dylann roof and in it the manifesto talks about a possible turning point citing the trayvon martin
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case as a catalyst for change with roof and perhaps what fuelled what happened and also chai charleston was chosen as a target. the manifesto ends with i have no choice i'm not in a position to go into the ghetto and fight. i chose charleston because it is the most historic city in my state. we have no skinheads no real kkk, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world and i guess that has to be me. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that dylann roof was in fact the author of that manifesto but it was published on a website registered to him. we do know the fbi is carefully looking at that document. and meantime inside the emanuel ame church on sunday the focus was on healing. worshippers fought back tears
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but promised to come back stronger than ever. >> this was the first service since wednesday's massacre. although nine of their congregation died in the massacre the message was one of love. here is a look back at some powerful moments from the service. [ bells ]. >> it has been tough. it's been rough. we've some of us have been downright angry. but through it all god has sustained us. there's a time and place for everything. and now, it's a time for us to focus on the nine families. oh i know i'm right. i want to say to the citizens of charleston and visitors, thank you.
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for being whom god has called you to be. thank you for your flowers out front. thank you for the cards and the e-mails and all the acts of kindness and finally i want to say thank you to law enforcement. i got no problem in doing that. i want to thank them. respect gets respect. a lot of folk expected us to do something strange and to break out in a riot. well, they just don't know us. and we are going to hold our elected officials and others accountable to do the right thing. the blood of the mother emanuel
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nine requires us to work until not only justice in this case but for those who are still living in the margin of life those who are less fortunate than ourselves, that we stay on the battlefield until there is no more fight to be fought. and for that, we say thank you. [ bells ] you know, when i started my business, a lot of people didn't believe in me. but things took off when i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i can tell the doubters to stick it. hey, honey. stick it! stick it! stick it!
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against russia. it was imposed after russia annexed crimea and a plane was shut down over eastern ukraine. >> it will continue until january 31st of next year. pro-russian separatists and ukrainian separatists have renewed the fighting. two more people have died of middle east respiratory syndrome. the death toll is now 27. officials confirmed three new cases bringing the total confirmed cases to 172. >> this comes just days after thailand confirmed its first infection. it became the 26th country to report mers cases since the disease was identified in saudi arabia in 2012.
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the heat has turned deadly in parts of southern pakistan as the hottest temperatures in more than a decade are being recorded. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us with details on this. it's more than just the temperature we're reading as well. the feeling of heat is higher than what we're seeing. >> the humidity is pretty high and ramadan is taking place. muslims around the world, 1.5 billion of them observing ramadan and this is co inciting with -- coinciding with the longest day of the year. imagine going without food or water from 5:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night and the temperatures are around 40 degrees celsius. it is a dangerous situation and the timing is rough. ramadan is observed based on the lunar calendar. for the first time since the
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1980s it's in alignment with the longest day of the year. here is the perspective. the longer days and the more fasting for these people making it very very challenging. the human body does a fantastic job of cooling itself. you sweat and it evaporates it but in pakistan the humidity is around 95% to 100%. and in the peak season latter portion of june and middle portion of july not helping with the humidity not evaporating off your skin. you look at the observations 58 celsius which is 136 degrees fahrenheit. extremely dangerous scenario. 140 lives lost because of the heat wave. the pattern is expected to improve but it will take a couple weeks to get the monsoonal moisture to come into place.
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the high pressure in the southeastern united states. and the officially full first call of the summer season. and the temperatures 110 in phoenix fahrenheit. we are talking into the mid-40s celsius. we have around a heat advisory in place over this region. in the united states one every nine day a child loses their lives because they are left in cars. it takes two minutes to increase the temperature 15 degrees fahrenheit. it's a great insulator that lets the radiation come in through the windshield and traps it inside your car. people think i can run into the post office. >> they run a quick errand. >> it is tempting to want to leave the kids it's so much work to get the car seat off. but two minutes, 15 degrees. >> never do it. >> thanks a lot.
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want to turn now to japan where dancing in a club after midnight could get you arrested. >> surprised to hear that. but this soon could change as will ripley reports, lawmakers voted to ease the country's long-standing dancing ban. >> reporter: in the non-stop scramble of tokyo's shibuya crossing people don't think twice about dancing in the streets. but late night dancing in clubs has been outlawed in japan for almost 70 years. >> crazy. don't make any sense. it's a dance club. >> reporter: like the fairy tale cinderella dancing past a certain hour has been risky in japan. bars and nightclubs put up these signs trying to avoid problems with police who call the clubs magnets for violence and sex crimes. for years the dance clubs have
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been forced to go underground because of a law dating back to 1948 that forbids dancing in bars clubs or public venues after midnight or 1:00 a.m. what that means is that everything you are seeing in this room right now is technically illegal. japanese lawmakers voted last week to relax the dancing ban, a law going back to the american occupation after world war ii. police looked the other way for decades, allowing japan's dance scene to thrive. but high profile drug cases and a brawl five years ago led to a surge of arrests in club raids. it's wrong, she says we need to dance. the new law says clubs can't be too dark an attempt to discourage crime. and until changes take effect next year, after hour dancing like this is against the law. >> go you worry about police
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arresting people? >> of course. i worry about it every day. i have been worrying for 30 years says this club owner. he spend 21 days in jail for violating the dancing ban. 150,000 people signed a petition to lawmakers. now the artists and djays will be able to work safely. more great artists will be able to come here. he says japan's war on dance is finally over. the victory dance will keep going long after the clock strikes midnight. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> more to come for you here on cnn. a dramatic finale at the u.s. open. >> we'll tell you which golfer took home the title if you don't know already. you're watching "cnn newsroom."
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history to win the u.s. open and the masters in the same year. tech giant apple is singing a new tune about its payment of royalties to artists after being called out by singer taylor swift. in a recent blog post the musician threatened to keep her wildly popular album "1989" after apple's streaming service. she was mad about apple's plan to withhold royalties. >> the company responded in a series of tweets apple music will pay music for streaming during customers free trial period. we hear you artists, love apple. swift tweeted saying she is relieved. >> a powerful young woman. and i spoke with kim
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seraphim recently. >> this is something she talked about behave. she pulled her music off spotify. she ends this letter saying we don't ask you for iphones for free, don't ask us for music for free. >> want to move to the movies too. "jurassic world" is still dominating at the box office. what are the numbers and the reviews. and the movie "inside out" how is that doing? >> "jurassic world" dominating the box office and the world again. this is a huge movie and people love it. it's the second film in its second weekend to make over $100 million domestically. so i mean this is just a human, human picture. even bigger than anyone expected it to be making this much money.
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it just beat "the avengers" ten day total. and "inside out" this is a pixar movie. and usually pixar when they open a film that is usually number one. this ends their domination of that number one spot. but $91 million is not bad for a pixar film and got fantastic reviews. >> pretty incredible numbers there. and just want to finish. we have seen father's day come and go. and in the midst of that celebrities were out there celebrating their fathers. tell us what everyone was doing on that day. >> it is nice to see celebrities posting pictures with their own dads when they were younger. beyonce, hugh jackman, and blake lively posted a picture of ryan
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reynolds and her new child. and you had kylie and kendall doing a tribute to caitlyn jenner. we have a bunch of those on our website. a lot of the celebrities coming out there and honoring their dads. it's a nice way to say, look celebrities love their dads just like everyone else. even kensington palace put out a photo. >> kim, thank you always a pleasure. >> thanks so much. we are about to get an unprecedented view of our own planet. on tuesday the european space agency will launch its sentinel 2 satellite into orbit. it's the first optical imaging satellite. >> it will be sent into space about 55 minutes after liftoff,
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the satellite will celebrate from vega and be released into orbit and provide unprecedented images of earth and gather information on forestry and pollution. the dalai lama marked his 80th birthday on sunday. he celebrates the date on the tibetan lunar calendar. >> the nobel laureate vowed to continue to work for religious harmony. thank you for watching us on cnn. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. "early start" is next. >> have a great day.
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breeging overnight, a flurry of activity. a huge police presence in one area. are authorities finally closer to capturing these convicts? charleston healing this morning as investigators dig into what motivated a young white man to open fire on a black church killing nine. now the debate over the confederate flag flying at the south carolina statehouse. that debate heating up. is it time for that flag to go? good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start"." i'm john
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