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interview because he's going to be asked presumably some serious, tough questions on foreign policy issues maybe not yet his strength. he's been learning guys. we'll have a lot more coming up. that's it for me. thank you for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett right now. "out front" tonight, breaking news. negotiators on a historic nuclear deal with iran. we are waiting for an announcement. it could come at any moment. plus an international manhunt for one of the most brutal killers escaping from a maximum security prison through a mile-long tunnel. where could he be tonight? a boy dies after swimming in a lake. our special report. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight we begin with the breaking news.
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sources telling cnn at this hour a historic nuclear deal with iran is, quote/unquote imminent. now we are standing by for word from vienna. negotiators are literally working through the night. at this time negotiations have gone on for more than a year deadline after deadline has been missed. the stakes are huge because if the united states doesn't get what it needs, the president of the united states barack obama, has said iran could build a nuclear bomb within months. elise, today there was going to be a deal. then there was no deal. and now imminent is what you're hearing? >> reporter: that's right, erin. a major development happening right now. diplomats tell me world powers are putting the finishing touches on a historic nuclear agreement with iran. they say an announcement is imminent. it could be anytime certainly within the next few hours. now, of course no deal is final until it's announced. they're still meeting this hour trying to clear up last-minute wording of the text. some issues related to substance but these were described to me
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as crossing ts and dotting is. as you said, we started the day expecting that announcement the talks hit a last-minute snag. negotiators buckled down turned it around and finally these 18 days of marathon negotiations this final round, drama, the screaming, the rising and falling hopes all coming to an end. today the iranian foreign minister told reporters negotiators are overworked exhausted. they want to get this done and it looks like when the world wakes up tomorrow erin there will be a nuclear deal with iran. >> it's going to be a pretty incredible thing. the biggest foreign policy deal for the united states in more than a generation. all right, elise, thank you very much. as i said we're waiting. we have our reporters on the ground in vienna. the minute we get news on this, we'll bring it to you with great historical significance. also tonight we are following another quickly developing story. a massive man hunt for one of the most brutal drug dealers in history. after the death of osama bin laden, he became the most wanted man in the world. number one.
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his name is guzman known as el chapo. in an incredible escape he successfully broke out of one of the most secure prisons in mexico. officials say if he's not found in the next few hours they may never see him again. here is what we know about guzman's daring escape. he crawled through a hole in his shower. as you can see this animation here down that ladder to a tunnel a mile long tunnel. this tunnel lit. this tunnel ventilated professionally built just for him. this wasn't what happened in upstate new york. this was a professionally built tunnel to this guy's door. guzman has allegedly killed countless people is responsible for at least a quarter of the illegal drugs in the united states. nick valencia is right outside the prison with our coverage. nick, this is one of the most incredible stories of escape in history. >> reporter: it is certainly and
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a wild one to boot. it seems as though this escape was planned not just in plain view of the federal police and prison officials but also in plain view of the military. it's an escape that's led to the world's most notorious drug trafficker back on the loose living life a free man. it may have been the most expensive and elaborate prison escape ever. 8:00 saturday night, guzman the most notorious drug lord takes his medication at this maximum security prison just 50 miles west of mexico city the last time guards see him. after stepping into a shower, el chapo enters a hole in the wall. there a ladder takes him 30 feet below ground to a tunnel almost a mile long and five and a half feet high high enough for the man nicknamed el chapo, spanish for shorty to stand tall. it runs under this des ratolate
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countryside, and to this home still under construction. the daring escape for what they call our bin laden, marks the second prison break. local farmers fear the worst. are you scared now that el chapo has escaped? his 2001 escape was much simpler. for a reported $2.5 million in bribes he was smuggled out hiding in a laundry cart. during the next 13 years on the run his legend grew whereabouts said to be an open secret even to mexican authorities. millions of mexicans believe him to be a robinhood figure. one story tells of him collecting all the cell phones in a restaurant for his safety. then paying everyone's bills. authorities say the real el chapo is a billionaire and in reality a ruthless killer and one of the men behind the drug war that has left tens of thousands of his countrymen dead. >> these are people that kill
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journalists, corrections officers and then not just that person but every member of their family. their parents, their cousin their children and oftentimes horrific deaths i mean dipping their bodies in acid peeling their skin dismembering them. >> reporter: officials say el chapo is responsible for about 25% of all the drugs entering the u.s. including much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin traffic. he has been declared public enemy number one, the man supplying 80% of the drugs on the city streets. they tracked him to a no frills condo using body heat scanners determining that everyone inside was asleep. they found the guzman their beauty queen wife their two twins sleeping nearby. the man's most wanted man surrendered without a shot fired.
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construction on the rural home where el chapo is said to have emerged ended in december. they continued to see individuals in that area which drew their suspicions on sundays when people don't typically work. their take on this this has been well coordinated and planned out for months. erin? >> no expense spared. i want to bring in the former chief of operations for the drug enforcement administration he spent years tracking, gathering evidence on el chapo, and the former u.s. marshal. you said guzman wrote the book on terror. we heard nick report this is a man who has dismembered people tom fuentes said dismembering people, dipping their bodies in acid. just how dangerous is he?
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>> he is the world's most dangerous and notorious crime leader. my friend tom fuentes hit the nail on the head. he was very accurate in all of the information that he provided. to take it a bit further, this guy's responsible for not hundreds but thousands of uber gruesome beheadings dismemberments acid baths, if you will while those victims are oftentimes still alive. it's a slow horrific death. so this guy not only is he extraordinarily powerful he is a sadistic narcissist like the world has never seen. and he happens to have an enormous amount of money which makes him, i would say, the most dangerous man in the world today. >> incredible. he was number two after bin laden, for those watching on the fbi most wanted list. bin laden was killed. he is now number one.
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arthur you heard mike describe him, sadistic nars cystic beheading thousands of people acid baths. according to "forbes," one of the richest out there. where could he be? >> erin if things were a little different, he would be classified as a war criminal. when you go through that type of menu of things that he's actually done to people those are war crimes. this is stuff you hear about. in world war ii you heard about during the balkans war. where could he be? if he's up in the mountains in his mountain stronghold it's going to take a major military operation to get him out of there. and if he's looking to go to another country, we'll probably never get him out that have location either. so i don't know how this is going to work out, but when you look at a standard international fugitive investigation, you throw the book out on this one and basically go with what
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you've got and hopefully mexico has the political will to do something about this. >> this tunnel was not -- this tunnel was built custom for him, 5 1/2 feet tall ventilated. it sounds sort of like you know a state-of-the-art type of thing, this tunnel that was built for him, and they came in obviously, they put a ladder straight up to his shower. i mean it was literally door-to-door. >> hey, listen erin you can't make this stuff up. at the heart of all of this is corruption. if anyone thinks for a moment that he didn't possess the keys to the prison before he ever walked through the door they're absolutely wrong. >> you think internal guards, et cetera there were a lot of people helping him? >> listen many of them have been arrested already. you don't pull something off as elaborate as this with absolute pinpoint accuracy as you said. they literally tunneled up into his cell from what i understand
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and from what sources report. >> it's incredible. arthur you're saying it could have gone further than that. talk about having plan "a," "b," "c," and "d." even having a private jet waiting for him? >> when you have that much money you have a lot of things at your fingertips. obviously the size of his organization, you just look at the planning i mean he has a history of being the tunnel king. he's built at least seven or eight major tunnels from mexico into the southern california area to move drugs. when he was arrested in february of 2014 he was riding or moving around between seven or eight houses in an elaborate tunnel area. it doesn't take a long reach to think that maybe he's got the capability of doing this again. that's exactly what he did. >> mike are they going to find him? the u.s. is not yet involved. the u.s. found him last time. is the u.s. even capable? >> listen one thing for sure erin with every event like
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this meaning his last apprehension he has the very best attorneys money can buy. he has security experts that can match anything our country or any other country around the world has to offer and, you know rest assured they dissected every piece of law enforcement to join operation back in february 2014 that led to his arrest and they're not going to make the same mistakes twice. this guy is going to be even more difficult than the last time. i think art and tom earlier would agree with me the first 72 hours are extraordinarily important here and if they don't get their hands on him by then i don't know. we may never see the guy again. >> mike art, thanks to both of you. and next -- >> thank you. >> he willel chapo's responsible for supplying 8 0% of the drugs in some cities. the most violent and powerful cartel on the planet. plus donald trump says he
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wants the fbi to investigate a death threat against him that he says may have come from el chapo himself. and union buster and wisconsin governor scott walker joining the crowd running for president. can he overcome the trump juggernaut?
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america's biggest drug lord escaped from prison on the loose tonight. the clock ticking on an international manhunt for joaquin guzman. el chapo, as he's called. before he's back on top of his massive drug empire that slice 80% of the drugs in some u.s. cities. jean casarez is "out front." >> reporter: known as one of the world's most notorious drug kingpins an all-out manhunt in mexico now ongoing for joaquin "el chapo" guzman and his organization's influence is strong. according to law enforcement it stretches far into the united states. this video from 2013 shows a tunnel allegedly built by the cartel from tijuana to san diego, one of several discovered since 2010 used for smuggling illegal drugs to sell on
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american streets. according to the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement, authorities seized 8 tons of marijuana and 325 pounds of cocaine through that tunnel. >> we warned the cartels directly if you build them we're going to find them and when we find them we'll destroy them. >> reporter: that isn't stopping the cartel. the department of justice describes it as one of the world's most prolific violent, and powerful drug cartels stretching their illegal business operations to states all over the country. mexican cartels have a presence in more than 1,200 u.s. cities. >> they get in through multiple different channels. they get in through small planes. they get in through tunnels underneath the border. they get in through cargo ships. it's very difficult to actually stop the flow of illegal substances into a country when demand is so high for it. >> reporter: even as el chapo sat in prison drugs still flowed into the u.s., $50 million worth
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of heroin was seized in new york and that was just in may. it was the largest d.e.a. heroin seizure. in 2014 el chapo alone was responsible for 25% of the illegal drugs entering the united states which primarily comes through a porous mexican border. >> it tends to be smaller organizations at the local level that receive the drugs and then distribute them and then send back the profits to mexico. >> and, jean who exactly does the cartel work with in the u.s.? >> right, the associates. >> a lot of people getting a lot of money. >> local gangs and local criminal organizations, so that can only increase the violence and crime in the united states. the san diego case we talked about in the piece, 60 people were indicted and they're either members or associates some united states citizens some
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legally, some illegally here in the united states. >> wow. obviously an incredibly extensive organization. >> extensive and continuing to grow whether he's on the run or whether he's in prison. >> all right, jean, thank you very much. and i want to go straight now to michael out front mo investigated guzman from inside prison for the dea. you predicted guzman would be in charge of its cartel 48 hours after his escape. that's basically right now, tonight. >> that's correct. el chapo guzman has maintained control of his drug organization. when he went to prison he left one of his primary lieutenants, an individual by to take charge of the cartel, but both individuals are very close friends so he probably has already assumed that total control of the cartel as we speak. >> wow. as we speak.
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and you say his cartel operates a lot like, frankly, isis. and what do you mean when you say that? >> the cartel believes in controlling territory because territory translates into money and power. they have wages against rival cartels. >> when we try to understand he is the most wanted man on the fbi list bin laden and then el chapo. now it's number one el chapo. we've seen it explode. how much of the heroin in the united states is coming from el chapo? >> i would venture to say that the heroin epidemic here in the
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united states is as a result of the trafficking of heroin into the country by the sinaloa cartel. they traffic methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. their cash commodity is cocaine. >> thank you very much michael, we appreciate it. you know more about that guy than anyone else. and republican presidential candidate donald trump has decided to use el chapo's escape in his campaign. he's asking the fbi to investigate death threats he says he has received from el chapo himself. athena jones is "out front." >> reporter: the prison break of mexican cartel head joaquin "el chapo" guzman is a talking point of donald trump. he says they used the border unimpeded for the drug trade. that sparked what appeared to be a threat directed at trump supposedly from el chapo's
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twitter account. trump alerted the fbi to the tweet and said you can't be intimidated. >> the silent majority is back. >> reporter: the exchange comes on the heels of trump's weekend in phoenix where thousands came to listen to his tough talk on stopping illegal immigration. >> we charge mexico $100,000 for every person they send over. >> reporter: he said u.s. leaders failed to address the problem. >> i respect mexico greatly as a country, but the problem we have is that their leaders are much smarter, sharper, and more cunning than our leaders, and they're killing us at the border and they're killing us in trade. >> reporter: his remarks interrupted by protesters. >> usa! usa! >> i wonder if the mexican government sent them over here. i think so. >> reporter: he kept the focus on crimes committed by those in the country illegally. a man whose son was killed by an
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illegal immigrant. >> he's the only one talking about saving our country. >> reporter: that comes after trump seized on the shooting death of 32-year-old kath lynn steinle allegedly by an undocumented immigrant. >> we're housing people from all over the world that other countries don't want. they're sending criminals to us and we're putting those criminals in jail oftentimes after they've killed somebody or hurt somebody. >> reporter: and one more thing, a new poll out today by monmouth university shows nearly 4 in 10 republican voters feel that donald trump's campaign is more about getting publicity for himself rather than making a serious run for the white house. erin? >> athena thank you very much. next scott walker announcing he's running for president. on the same night a new poll shows donald trump surging. can he break through? and the iran nuke deal imminent any moment. we are standing by for an announcement as the biggest deal
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tonight donald trump rising now statistically tied for number one in the gop race for president. in the latest poll of republicans, this by monmouth university jeb bush leads the pack. he has 15%. but, again, within the margin of error, two points behind there sits donald trump, 13%. just moments ago governor scott walker joined this very crowded field declaring his run for the white house. >> my record shows that i know how to fight and win. now, more than ever america needs a president who will fight and win for america. [ applause ] >> walker is the 15th republican to enter the race. walker is a union buster a polarizing figure beloved by the republican right. but the reality is this. trump surged.
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can walker get any of the oxygen back? the latest republican presidential candidate. i know you're in waukesha wisconsin. can scott walker break through? >> reporter: well a really good way to break through the pack is to win iowa. that is the top prize they are eyeing. they are going to spend a lot of time there and try to build a coalition of tea partiers social conservatives, fiscal conservatives to try to carry him to the finish line. scott walker needs to prove to voters he is presidential. they know he's approachable. they like he's this midwestern middle class kind of guy. he had some high-profile stumbles early on. he needs to prove to voters he is ready for prime time and he's prepared to be president and to deal with issues that are bigger than the ones he's faced in just wisconsin. erin? >> thank you very much sara. it's going to be incredible obviously as you point out, rocketing to fame because of fighting the unions. "out front" now the former
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congressman and presidential candidate along with paul begala begala paul let me start with you. new numbers on bush and trump within the margin of error. those are people who said you keep citing polls about trump rising and it was before this whole thing about mexican immigrants and rapists and he's going to tank. those people were totally wrong, at least for now. he has surged yet again. can any candidate break through this right now? >> well i think they can. first off, i do think mr. trump has continued to rise. he is tapping into some anger. there's a lot of anger on the republican right. mr. tancredo can speak to it better he's a republican. this is about, i think, followers more than leaders. there's a great number of republican primary voters who are looking for perhaps, i guess from my liberal perspective, the most conservative person in the race. i think that's going to be hard to beat donald trump on that score. >> tom, it's interesting,
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though, too, the other thing that trump detractors kept pointing at look donald trump has this high unfavorable rating so even though he has room to rise, he has a ceiling. 4 in 10 voters said he wants publicity so that supports that point of view. on favorability in june his favorable numbers were 20% and now that number has doubled in one month. 20% to 40%. that is pretty incredible isn't it? >> indeed it is. i think that donald trump and bernie sanders had something in common. they both are addressing issues that a lot of people in their respective bases care a great deal about. they're both somewhat angry people. they're both bringing up issues that other people don't want to talk about necessarily. bernie sanders is sort of aggressive socialism. donald trump is an aggressive populism and, by the way, he puts the icing on the cake of anti-illegal immigration.
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there is a sense in both parties that these guys are saying things that a lot of folks want to hear. now will that -- how long will that go on? god only knows. i will tell you the more serious question both parties need to ask themselves seems to me is what happens after neither one of these two people get the nomination? what do each one of them do? will they go separate ways? you know that could be the really fascinating part of this entire debate during the primary. >> and for now, though and i will ask both of you about this donald trump has taken the oxygen out of the room from everyone else right? scott walker a guy known for taking on the unions and getting a lot of people angry -- i'm trying to use appropriate words, paul begala and now he's this tame calm guy. chris christie is this tame calm guy. chris christie spoke to the frustration -- >> chris christie? >> like why is donald trump
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getting all of the attention. here is how chris christie answered the question. >> donald is a friend. i like him personally. but his comments were inappropriate. that's the last time i say it. every time i get on a media show all anybody wants to talk about is donald trump. >> it's got to upset them all, paul. >> absolutely. you're right he's drawing all the oxygen out of the room. you're going to be asked the 51st time believe me because donald -- jeb bush has been a politician for, i don't know 20 years, and he's at 15%. donald trump has been a politician for three weeks and he's at 13%. there's something going on. tom raised a really important point in parallel with bernie sanders. there's an important difference congressman, bernie sanders is talking about issues i can sell to centrist swing voters talking about social security and minimum wage and economic insecurity for the middle class. donald trump is saying things
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that i know you believe in but i have to tell you the great number of americans the majority of americans, disagree especially latinos. so the damage is not equal and opposite even if the appeal is interesting and parallel. >> and you nope what's interesting, tom, even david letterman came out -- >> i disagree. >> go ahead and disagree then. >> i have to disagree because, of course you have to remember that a large part of the appeal and the large part of the message for donald trump doesn't revolve just around this immigration issue. it is a populous issue. it's about trade. it's about jobs going to china. those issues resound with a great number of people not just the far right of the republican party, and i think, by the way they resound a little more so with middle america than bernie sand ers sanders' socialist agenda. i think honestly trump does a
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little better at it in terms of going to that broader group of potential voters. >> because i want to play this david letterman bite so badly. here is david letterman on his top ten of donald trump. >> number seven, he wants to build a wall. how about building a wall around that thing on his head. number two, donald trump has pissed off so many mexicans he's starring in a movie titled "no amigos." [ applause ] >> paul okay. a joke to some but his poll numbers are very real. do you believe that they'll last? >> no not over time. they'll last a while. the damage will last. the damage he's doing with latinos will last it will hurt the republicans and it may cost them the presidency. for now mr. trump is god's gift to democrats, to cable pundits, of which i'm both and to late-night comics and even david letterman had to come out of
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retirement. >> he came out of retirement because he couldn't resist donald trump. that has to say something. paul tom, thanks very much to both of you. next the iran nuclear deal. negotiators literally working late into the night, an historic deal imminent. we are gathering that right now. the funeral for a young man who may have been the victim of a brain-eating amoeba. it attacked him while he was doing what everyone does on summer weekends. so many people went swimming in a lake. a special report on this mysterious and deadly infection. the keys to this home belong to mark and alissa anderson. they bought the place four months ago on what was arguably the scariest day of their lives. neither has any idea what the future holds for them. but they bought into a 30-year mortgage anyway. that was bold. they must really believe in themselves. buy in. quickenloans/home buy. refi. power.
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breaking news. we are awaiting news of a nuclear deal with iran. a western diplomat telling cnn that a deal is imminent. this would be the biggest foreign policy deal for the united states in decades. the details could come at any moment. the president of the united states has said his belief is there's no deal iran would be capable of getting a nuclear bomb within months. there are many with a lot of criticisms about this deal that say it doesn't provide anything that the united states needs at
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all. elise labott is out front. i know you've been talking to your sources and have some breaking news. >> reporter: that's right, erin. diplomats are telling me that a deal is imminent. they're putting the finishing touches on a deal world powers and so-called p-5 plus 1 finishing up the final wording. there was a little bit of final negotiating over substance related to one or two of the issues. we could have a deal anytime certainly within hours. the day started we were expecting that announcement. the talks hit a last-minute snag but the negotiators were able to turn it around and now a deal has basically been agreed to and just dotting the is and crossing the ts. >> to have a nuclear deal that the united states knows is real you have to be able to walk in to any place in iran anytime you
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want and say we want to look at it. does this deal do you think, do that? >> i don't think it's going to be anytime anywhere as that's the buzz phrase. you don't have enough inspectors to be able to just snap their fingers and say we're going to this location. it's going to be a lot longer of a lead time than the u.s. or world powers would like. the criticism is they will be able to do some bait and switch and move things around. when you talk to diplomats, to experts that are in favor of this deal they say that there are going to be so many of the inspections and so much access on all areas of the so-called fuel cycle in iran. it won't be able to cheat in all areas f. they think there's cheating going on they'll know. i think certainly this whole issue of the access to military
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facilities in particular because there are all these lingering questions about past weapons programs this is really for congress one of the main things. >> they can say we can catch it here but without an anywhere anytime you're going to have a lot of people who say this is not a deal with teeth. elise, thank you very much. we anticipate a formal announcement any moment as they are literally getting the documents ready. next a 14-year-old boy buried today. days after doing what boys do in the summer jumping in the lake going for a swim. what is the mysterious amoeba that is lying in so many lakes? jeanne moos with this little girl all smiles because she got glasses for the first time and could see her parents. benny's the oldest dog in the shelter. he needed help all day so i adopted
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the culprit is believed to be a parasite that when it attacks is almost always fatal and lives in lakes. just a month ago a woman in california died of the same thing. >> reporter: when 14-year-old hunter boutain went swimming in a lake last week he had no idea it would cost him his life. it is believed the teen developed a rare form of meningitis after a brain eating amoeba entered his nose while swimming in a fresh water lake. hunter boutain became ill and died two days later. his family posting the news online saying hunter's condition deteriorated throughout the night and he was declared brain dead this morning. hunter died surrounded by his family. it is a deeply emotional time for all of us. hunter had just finished the eighth grade. >> to the family and show our love towards them and to pray for them and have others pray for them and then to find out more. >> reporter: if confirmed this would be the third case of this
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type of brain disease in minnesota in the past five years. however, local officials insist it's still safe to swim in the lake. >> it's as safe as swimming in any lake in the nation. the fact that there's been one confirmed case from this lake does not make the lake more dangerous. >> reporter: the tious disease specialist at the mayo clinic. >> unfortunately when the cases occur they tend to make a lot of news. these are uncommon but very horrific kinds of infections that often end in the death of a child or a young person. >> reporter: 35 cases were reported in the united states from 2005 through 2014. at me ba the amoeba found in warm water. >> we do see this infection in
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other parts of the country as well. it is not localized just in one area which would make it easier of course to prevent these things. >> reporter: while quite rare the doctor says avoiding swimming in freshwater lakes, ponds and streams is the only guaranteed way of protecting yourself from the disease. >> reporter: not to submerge your head below the water. couple parents' groups. talked about having nose clips. under $10. clip on your nose. if you are swimming in a body of water stop the water from going up your nose. obviously something no parent wants to deal with during the summertime when everybody wants to have fun, especially swimming. >> terrifying. thank you very much ryan. i want to go straight now to chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. sanjay, pretty tear fichlgtrrifyterrifying. only way to avoid it don't swim in freshwater. am cans do that every weekend. it is the summer. where does the amoeba come from?
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>> it is terrifying you pointed out. ryan pointed out. very rare as well. talking to a handful of cases over the last several years. look this is an amoeba one of the simplest organisms out there. the size 1/10 the size of a human hair to give you an idea. found in soil. it's found in sediment and found in freshwater bodies. so, you know lakes, ponds. not found in the ocean. to clarify. and as ryan mentioned these are warm bodies of water typically. this used to happen exclusively in the south now. you are hearing minnesota, indiana, hearing kansas. so it's been moving further and further north. it also sometimes is untreated water out of taps as well. that's less common. but possibility as well. >> which of course is scary. you know then you have a lot more people paying attention to this. sanjay given that, that it is now in more and more places around the country and that it could be in tap water in some places how does it attack the
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brain? >> this is really interesting. and sort of just pure mechanical standpoint. this is an amoeba that essentially goes up your nose. its usually forced up the nose. think about that someone diving into a body of water, somebody using something look a neti pot, irrigateing with untreated water. typically what happens. this amoeba travels up one of the nerves that actually goes up into the brain. typically the amoeba for their food they like to eat bacteria. if there is no bacteria they start actually sort of digesting parts around the brain. that's the horrifying part of this. that's how it actually ends up killing somebody. that is essentially what this rare amoeba will do. >> that is that is terrifying. so why is that some people get infected and some people don't? >> that is a really interesting question. keep in mind this amoeba is present in lots of bodies of water. lots have gone swimming no problems whatsoever. it could be unless you have a
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significant irrigation of water into your nose you're not as much at risk. it could be somepeople have antibodies good at fighting the amoeba already. if they get an infection the body takes care of it. again, a hard thing to actually cause, to have it goes up your nose sort of latch on to thiack the brain. >> and literally eat the brain. all right, thank you so much. sanjay gupta. next jeanne moos talking to the parents of this little girl for the first time she got to see her parents.
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a baby gets glasses and cannot believe her eyes. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: kids and glasses are cute. but ate not often you get to watch a baby see her parents clearly for the first time. >> how are you? >> reporter: so that's what you look like 10-month-old piper must have been thinking wearing her new pink glagssses as she went from eyeing her mom. to eyeing her dad. and now millions are eyeing this video. touched, though maybe not as touched as her dad, andrew verdusco was. >> it took me a lot to hold a tear in. >> reporter: her parents got worried when piper seemed to be having an issue with crawling. a pediatrician sent them to an
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eye doctor who found piper to be extremely far sighted. everyone wants to know how do they determine a baby's prescription when a baby can't read an eye chart, can't answer that often tricky question which is better this or this? optometrists joke about the challenges of treating children. >> now, one of the -- >> reporter: you can't just tape them to the instruments. >> one of the problem of course with children not the same as the adult exam. >> by dilating a child's eyes and shining a light in through various lenses it is possible for eye doctors to come up with a rough prescription. an organization offers such exams free to kids under the age of 1 nationwide. as for piper. >> she is actually starting to crawl. we see a huge difference. >> reporter: if only they can get her to keep her glasses on. >> she likes to take the glasses off, the floor is a droom. glasses are the drumstick.
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mom. dad. mom. dad. no wonder everyone is making googoo eyes over this kid. jeanne moss cnn, new york. >> absolutely precious. thank you for joining us. set your dvr to record the show. you can watch us anytime. anderson starts now. good evening, tonight new developments in the story of this girl baby doe, a computer rendering of what authorities think she may have looked like before her body tragically turned up on a massachusetts coastline. randi kaye working her sources and will joan us soon about her new reporting about the case. we begin with breaking news out of mexico city. expecting any minute now to hear from mexico's interior minister with late developments in the hunt for el chapo guzman head of mexico's drug cartel. before he was captured the last time around, 1