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iran nuclear agreement. tonight what's really in the deal? the escape of el chapo from mexican prison caught on camera. she survived a plane crash, a fire and two harrowing days in the woods. also ahead, nasa's $3 billion mile journey. now a pluto-perfect mission. warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. glad to be with you. i'm zain asher. >> i'm max foster and this is cnn newsroom.
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>> nearly two years of stop and go negotiations are resulted in a landmark agreement aimed at restricting iran's nuclear program. >> iranians celebrated the accord in the streets of teheran. the agreement iran and six world powers reached now needs the support of iran's supreme leader and the u.s. congress. >> let's walk you through the agreement key points. firstly, iran will cut the number of centrifuges by two-thirds. it caps uranium enrichment and limits the stockpile for 15 years. >> iran must give atomic energy inspectors constant access to key nuclear facilities. the u.s. says sanctions relief will be phased in as certain conditions are met. if iran violates the agreement, sanctions will return. u.s. lawmakers have 60 days to review the agreement and vote whether to approve it. >> plenty of republicans have said they intend to sink this
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deal. it's unclear whether they will win enough votes to succeed. in an interview with the "new york times," president barack obama defended the deal. listen. >> we have cut off every pathway for iran to develop a nuclear weapon. the reason we were able to unify the world community around the most effective sanctions regime we've ever set up a sanctions regime that crippled the iranian economy and ultimately brought them to the table was because the world agreed with us that at this time would be a great danger to the region, to our allies and the world if iran possessed a nuclear weapon. we did not have that global consensus around the notion that iran can't enjoy any nuclear power whatsoever. as a member of the non-proliferation treaty the npt, their argument was we are entitled too peaceful nuclear program and we were able to say to them, given your past
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behavior, given our strong suspicion and evidence that you made attempts to weaponize your nuclear program, given the destabilizing activities you have made in support of terrorism, it's not enough for us to trust when you say that you are only creating a peaceful nuclear program. you have to prove it to us. so this whole system that we've built is not based on trust. it's based on a verifiable mechanism. whereby every pathway they have is shut off. >> and cnn is of course covering all angles of the iran nuclear deal right across the globe. chief international correspondent christian amanpour is in australia and spoke to two of the top negotiators of the deal and got their reaction. >> we have reaction from the middle east and intelligence and
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security analyst bob baer will join us live. we will begin with christiane's conversation with u.s. secretary of state john kerry. >> secretary kerry, thank you for joining us. have you made history? >> people call it an hiss tore ic agreement, i guess, because iran has come to the table, and on paper we have an agreement. but we don't have anything until this is implemented. we have an outline. i think it's a strong one. i think it's a great possibility, but as i said in my comments today, it's the implementation of this that will be the measure. >> what about the selling of it before it is implemented? how difficult will that be? >> there are people who have already politically decided i'm going to oppose this. without even knowing or reading the agreement, without knowing the terms of it, they are posed it to. and there are people who have decided, many of them that you
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shouldn't deal with iran, but they don't offer an alternative. while we did that in the tweers 2000, almost obama came in, guess what? their program went from 164 centrifuges to 19,000. their enrichment stockpile reached a level over 10,000 kilograms where they had enough thistle material to make ten bombs. is that safer? is that what people want to go back or do they want to go straight to war? they have an obligation -- people have an obligation to say what's the alternative. you are not going to sanction them in to on live yon on. we have seen that. sanctions brought that to the table to negotiate. they did the very thing everybody put the sanctions in place to do which is negotiate. so they negotiated. now measure the agreement to see whether or not it achieves what we need to in terms of insight, restraint, accountability and so forth. that's what we should be doing.
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>> the eu chief said this is not just a deal, it's a good deal. what do you say to those who say, okay, it's restricted them for ten years and 15, 25 dnding on various issues. what about after that? are you confident they don't rush to start up again, or is that for future generation? >> i can't make any promise about the long-term future of anybody, including the united states action or any future president obviously. but in life you have to bet on, and in diplomacy and conflict, you have to set up a structure and try to live by it and put it to the test. we negotiated with the soviet union. we negotiated with red china. we negotiated for years with people we deemed to be the archenemy. without any trust, we put restraints in our nuclear
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programs or came to understandings. could you sit there and say you knew exactly -- of course now knot but you try to shape that behavior through the choices you make and the things you put in place. we know to a certainty what this will do. we also know -- we ino, christiane, we have unprecedented access through this in terms of verification. so, yes, they get to do more in the out years. that's their right. as they clean up, supposedly, and become an npt, good-standing country. remember, during all of this time, iran never pulled out of the nonproliferation treaty. they could have said, to hell with you. we will do our own thing. they are living by the npt now. they say they are, they haven't completely which is why we put sanctions on them. now we are putting to test whether there is a change of heart, mind or direction and if there isn't we have every option available to us, every day that
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we have right now. >> prnally how do you feel? you have been in pain, you have been on crutches and said you wore the first pair of shoes that you have worn in days. we saw you in sneakers. the iranian chief of the atomic energy has been also very ill. has it been cooped up for all of these days, weeks and months. >> we all thought we were living groundhog day. we felt stir crazy and constrained, but motivated by the importance of the opportunity and by the seriousness of the subject, of course i will. >> final question, is this a strategic realignment? you talked about red china, the soviet union. you seem to be saying this is more than a nuclear deal or potentially it could redefine the balance of power and your relations in the middle east. >> it has the possibility of doing that. you heard president rouhani
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suggest that and foreign minister zarif suggest that. it would be stupid, malfeasance if you ignored the possibility. we haven't done that yet. we exclusively negotiated a nuclear deal. we knew if we got in to other issues you would never get to the nuclear deal. iran, without a nuclear weapon, christiane, i think you know this as a matter of common sense, than is better than an iran with one. for those who are worried about iran's behavior in the region, we are better off pushing it back or dealing with that behavior if they are not on a path to get one and we are demonstrating a way in which they cannot get a nuclear weapon. >> secretary of state john kerry, thank you very much indeed. >> they called the deal an historic moment. he said it is not perfect. >> here's more of his
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conversation with christiane amanpour, as well. >> we wanted to change the nature of our relationship with the west. we didn't believe it was good for iran and the rest west. we have common challenges in our region to be basically entrenching us in a nonissue, an unnecessary crisis and complicated crisis that's been created for over the past almost decade or more. >> we will have more on the iranian foreign minister coming up in the next hour of cnn newsroom. of course there are a lot of countries in the middle east that do not support the iran nuclear deal. >> becky hanson has more on that part of the story. >> i believe this is a historic moment. >> reporter: this moment, long in the making, ricochetted around the region. israel also called it historic, an historic mistake.
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>> in all areas meant to prevent iran foreign policy arming itself with nuclear weapons, excessive concessions have been made. >>. >> reporter: the statewidely thought to have an estimated nuclear arsenal of at least 80 warheads, though israel will not confirm or deny a nuclear program, has been a fierce critic of talks with iran. other middle eastern states are just as rattled, none more so than saudi arabia. the conservative sunni regime has been suspicious of iran's conservative shiite regime since the islamic revolution in 1979. but the arab persian rivalry is centuries hold. that is modern manifestation is a rash of regional proxy wars from syria a to lebanon to yemen. other arab nations are watching carefully. speaking to cnn back in may, jordan's king abdullah said any agreement would be the beginning
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of a long dialogue with teheran. >> i hope it opens the door where there are discussions on many other issues that need to be discussed with iran. that reflect challenges in the region. so it's not just a nuclear issue. >> reporter: there's also expectation in other domains. as sanctions are lifted iran is an emerging market with opportunity for investors who are waiting in the wings. >> among the countries that have the highest trade in the region are the ones with the least political relationship with iran in the region. therefore, the businessmen know where to make their bucks. i'm sure they are ready. >> reporter: politically, though, regional unease at this deal is palpable. previous american attempts to -- gulf states fell flat. a summit in may attended by just
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two heads of state along with other ministers. a measure of how much the u.s. has to do to sell it to the region. becky anderson, cnn, about bu d -- abu dhabi. >> you can understand, bob, can't you, the cynicism here about whether or not iran will live up to the deal. obviously the u.s. side talking about how it is about verification. how can we be sure we can verify what the iranians are doing? >> max, this regime, if it goes through is extremely intrusive, including a military facility. the monitoring system, i have yet to see anything this comprehensive. it would be difficult for the iranians to cheat in any big way. more than that, they have a motivation for making it work.
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they are suffering economically. at the same time, they are doing well politically between lebanon and iraq and the rest of it. frankly, i think iran is ripe for this and this is the beginning of a much wider understanding with teheran. something we haven't sneen 30 years. >> is that true, when the money starts to rush in and there's a temptation to, you know -- that's going to change the dynamic so much. it's a huge amount of money now rushing in to iran. >> a huge amount of money. at the same time, the iranians are tired of their revolution. they have worn out their welcome. >> i think you have a generation of iranians that will welcome this. i think it will lead to other agreements and be a wedge in this regime. this is a nixon to china moment. i think things will change fast. we won't have complete control of it but at the end of the day
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it is the best agreement we could get at this point. >> one detail which is concerned a lot of people, is notice that inspectors have to give to go in to some stations up to a month. there's a lot you can change within a month within an installation, isn't there if there is corruption in the system. there's an opportunity for the inspectors not to pick up on things if things have been cleared out. >> i think we have kept pretty good check of the iranian nuclear programs without the inspectors or with limited inspectioners being there. i think it would be difficult for the iranians to cheat. you know at the end of the day, i thank eu think the iranians don't want a nuclear pom at this point. they are doing so well. the cia, since going back to the early '70s said they are five years away from a nuclear bomb. they bought the plans from pakistan but never moved to producing a bomb.
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i think it is a diplomatic card they have used successfully but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pick it up and see the best we can do with it. >> bob baer, thank you very much. president obama will hold a news conference to discuss the deal and you can find out more detail on the agreement itself on cnn.com, what's involved, what's at stake, and of course what the next steps are. all right. on to another story we are following. in the coming hours, greek lawmakers are set to vote on economic reforms in order to get a third bailout from european creditors. agreement prime minister alexis tsipras said he doesn't believe in the new measures forced upon his country but he will see them through. >> the bailout tsipras agreed to on monday is worth as much as
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$96 billion. and harsher than the one greek voters had projected. >> translator: we came to an agreement which has really very harsh reforms in it. however, it's not a dead end, or an ultimatum which i have experienced before on the 25th of june. >> well, the reforms include changes in the tax system and overhaul of the mengs pension system. tsipras said he is taking full responsibility for any mistakes and oversights. coming up on cnn, time is running out quickly to find guzman. we will have a look at a surveillance video showing the moment the notorious drug lord escaped from his prison cell. plus, a teenager is out of the hospital after walking away from a plane crash. next, how she survived for days in the wilderness.
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was flying with her grandparents in a small private plane when she says it flew in to some clouds and then crashed in to a mountain on saturday. authorities say she walked away from the wreckage. sadly she was forced to leave her grandparents behind >> did she tell you how she tried to save them? >> she reached in and tried to grab them and pull them out but she couldn't. there was so much fire. she didn't eat or drink anything. she said she was going to try -- she started to try a little water out of the running creeks but didn't do too much. she was afraid she would get sick. last night she told us she went basically three days no water or food. >> unsurprisingly police are calling autumn veatch a super hero. dan simon has more on how she walked for days, bruise and burned to safety. >> reporter: the washington
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wilderness, spectacular but unforgiven. no one knows that more than autumn veatch, the lone survivor of a small plane crash that left this young woman alone and scared as she clawed her way to safety through this jagged, mountainous terrain. >> we're impressed with her. she is a super hero. >> reporter: the ordeal lasted 48 hours with autumn using every bit of her small frame to trek some unknown distance in the dark and cold. >> this is michael with 911. what's your name. >> autumn veatch. >> reporter: this is the teenager talking to a 911 operator moments after rescued. she had been driven by good samaritan to a country store. she was later described as dazed. >> i was riding from kalispell, montana to bellingham washington and about -- i don't know where, but we crashed and i was the only one that made it out. >> okay. made it out from the collision
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or survived? >> only one that survived. >> reporter: autumn's step grandparents apparently did not make it. mr. bowman, 62 years old, was said to be at the controls. >> okay. are you injured at all? >> yeah. i have a lot of burns on my hands and i'm like covered in bruises and scratches and stuff. >> okay. autumn, how old are you? >> i'm 16. >> reporter: autumn stayed with the bodies and the wreckage for about a day hoping help would arrive. after a while she decided to trek in to the woods. >> obviously she was shaken and distraught. >> reporter: for more than 24 hour s she hiked no cell phone coverage or map. she said she followed the river downstream until it led her to a highway. >> she definitely looked like she had been out in the woods for quite sometime. >> reporter: owner rick laduke is a pilot and knows the dangers of flying this remote region.
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>> classic jagged peaks. >> i'm just happy she's safe. >> reporter: autumn was taken to the hospital for before vags and reunited with her weary father who seemed like an eternity wondering about his daughter. >> i thought not until anything is confirmed. i just didn't feel like she was. >> reporter: we're told autumn as a burn to one of her hands because according to the sheriff she tried to pull her step grandparents to safety. apparently she did everything she could to save them. at this point, neither their bodies or the plane wreckage have been found. dan simon, cnn, washington. >> let's hope they find that wreckage at some point. newly released video shows the moment the mexican drug lord escaped from a prison. this is surveillance video from the prison. you can see him pacing back and
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forth several times. >> 45 seconds later, guzman, you can see him there on his bed. he takes off his shoes and gets up and walks towards his corner of his cell. mexican officials say this is the area where guzman, also known as el chapo escape tlaud tunnel built under the shower in his cell. incredible. surveillance video from outside of the cell shows moments before el chapo disappeared. if you look at the upper right hand corner of the screen you can see him there in the background. >> authorities say he used his motorcycle to move through the nunl his elaborate escape. mexican officials say this is the escape tunnel showing the route he took as he made hi way out of there. the tunnel led to a half-built house outside of the prison walls. >> i want to go now to nick who is joining us on the phone from mexico. first of all, i want to get your
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reaction to this surveillance video. one thing that jumped out at me was the fact there were two blind spots that authority 0s monitoring the surveillance video couldn't see where el chapo disappears to. doesn't it defeat the purpose of being under 24- hour surveillance if there are these two blind spots? >> it seems to be a series of mistakes by mexican officials within that prison. el chap poe seemingly had power in the prison as he is outside. the two blind spots. according to the national secretary commissioner of mexico, those blind spots are there, he says, to keep privacy while the inmate is going to the bathroom and shower. in this press conference that we just heard within the last hour, he mentioned there's nothing extraordinary in el chapo's actions in the minutes leading up to his escape. in that minute, we see him pacing back and forth multiple times. at one point he bends down in that area. one of those blind spots you are
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talking about as if to prepare something and goes back those bed, changes his shoes and socks and prepares for what we now know is his brazen escape. an escape that seems to be well coordinated in what by all accounts is a magnificent fete of engineering. tunnel that had lighting system and modified motorcycle used during the excavation of the tunnel. we know he escaped on the other side in a rural home a mile and a half away from the prison and the planning and what makes it all the more extraordinary, the planning of this seems to have happened in plain sight of not just the prison guards but the federal police and the military, which have a headquarters right within eye shot of this. >> absolutely fascinating. incredible. we are hearing from the press conference that mexican authorities are saying that el chapo was able to take off his bracelet, take off the bracelet that was used to detect his
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movements. he took off his bracelet before he escaped. how was he able to remove that bracelet? >> that is certainly where investigators will be focusing their attention. we know more than 30 prison guards at the prison have been taken in to custody and are being questioned right now. that bracelet, monitoring his every movement. he essentially left that bracelet behind before he slipped down in to that tunnel. part of the problem here, according to the equivalent of the interior minister of mexico is that prison guards likely helped el chapo escape. there's no other way really for him to have done it so easily. we were actually in that prison. we manage ed to get in to the prison earlier today. going past one perimeter to the other. it was incredibly frustrating and seemed it was incredibly embarrassing as well for the director that our news crew was able to get past some of the check points. no communication within that
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prison. if we as a news organization, cnn, were able to get that access without being really able to or should have been able, to you can only imagine what access and the ease of which el chapo moved, a man with incredible influence, a lot of money. you can not forget he was with one of the richest men in the world. that influence seems to stand today. >> security and corruption. clearly a problem in that prison. we know a number of prison guards have been fired. thank you so much. >> that video just out. china announces the economic growth figures for the second quarter. we'll show you how they stepped up against expectations next. the markets have been all over the place. >> you can say that again. also, a half century after the first fly by of mars, nasa sends a spacecraft all the way to pluto. more on what scientists are already learning about this mysterious corner of our solar system.
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welcome back. you are watching cnn. i'm max foster. >> i'm zain asher. let's give you your headlines. newly released video from inside of joaquin guzmans prison cell thou shows the moment he escaped. he escaped through a tunnel built under the shower in his cell. authorities say this, what you are seeing here, is the escape tunnel showing the route that el chapo took as he made his get away. >> in coming hours, greek lawmakers are set to vote on economic reforms in order to get
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a third bailout from european creditors. alexis tsipras said he doesn't believe in the new measures forced upon the country but will see them through. iranian celebrated in the streets of an a agreement was announced on the country's nuclear program. iran and six world powers agreed on a plan to scale back the nuclear program and allow inspections to verify weapons are not being made. in exchange, economic sanctions will be phased out. joining us now to discuss the ie ran ran deal is phillip -- thank you for joining us. >> good evening. >> what worries you most about the deal? >> i think this deal is historic. it's an historic breakthrough. there are some significant policy implications, essentially prevented iran from becoming a -- emerging as a nuclear
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weapons state. i think we have prevented a nuclear arms race in the middle east. there's less of a chance that terrorists will get their hands on nuclear material and we have done this without the use of u.s. military forces, which could have been quite disastrous. of course everything -- the issues are really -- the devil is in the details and it's really making sure we follow through on this agreement. that's what concerns me. this is one step. the key then is for us, for both sides really, to follow through. >> that's the question. obama has said the deal is not about trust but verification. >> exactly. >> it does shake things up in the middle east. how will it change the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia which of course is iran's, one of iran's main enemies. >> some of this is exaggerated and overblown. i think obviously for saudi arabia possibly iran having a
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nuclear weapon is a threat. from their perspective, they of course i will want to reduce any risk of this to zero of iran having a nuclear weapon or a possibility of a nuclear weapon. we know that's not possible at all. when you, on balance, look at the interest, i think when the saudi arabians look at the agreement and the details, they will ultimately decide this is in the best interest for them and the region as a whole. >> iranian, the iranian foreign minister he goes back to iran. some will say he's a hero. others think he is a traitor. how does he balance that? how does he get his people on board 100%? >> in a sense there's always been three negotiations here. negotiations between the governments themselves, the united states, between the administration and hard liners and in iran the same thing. ultimately the decision rests with the supreme leader. all indications are the supreme leader has decided this is something he wants to go
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through. i think what happened is he swallowed hard when he saw what the final, tough position was of the united states and ultimately decided this was in the interest of iran to move forward with this. it is clearly in the interest of the united states and the world powers who negotiated this agreement. ultimately he will have some issues to deal. he will have to claim victory in an exaggerated way but i'm not expecting that much difficulty in iran at this point. >> that is phillip yun. now obama has to get the deal through the congress. >> minor detail. >> he will use his veto, that may help. now to china where the country's gdp growth has beaten expectations. new second quarter figures show china's economy has grown at a annualized rate of 7%. >> investors had been watching closely especially after the quarter ended with a stock market crash. some feared the world's second largest economy was stalling to financial crisis levels.
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>> cnn senior international correspondent is joining us with more. huge relief for the government and economies around the world but china is holding up. >> reporter: that's right. this is the world's second largest economy, more than $10 trillion economy. a point of a percentage point in its economic growth makes a big difference around the world. it beat expectations of many economists. most economists that cnn surveyed thought the growth rate would be 6.9%. instead it is 7%. now there are always questions about some of the statistics, the economic statistics that come out of these countries. questions raided by the economists we have been talking to. take a listen. >> china is a large economy. it's difficult to very fi the data. we know a lot of local
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governments are fudging the numbers. we have noticed local governments are fudging electricity numbers because they know our leaders are looking at electricity numbers. china does not have an independent bureau. >> the fact is that even if there's a point of a percentage point difference or something like that, most countries around the world will kill for a growth rate of 7% or 6.9%. there's another fact here, as well. that is that china's just booming economy, that we have seen the last couple of decades is going through a transition. it's starting to slow down and change. for instance, the electricity production is flat, the exports are flat. economists say the number of housing starts is down. the amount of auto production is down, but on the erhand, you have the fact that industrial
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output is going up. perhaps the most interesting thing is that consumer spending here, that has been growing at a healthy rate. that's the target the government here wants. it doesn't want to just be a factory for the rest of the world's stuff. it wants chinese people to start consuming this stuff that's being made here in chinese factories. max? >> ivan, thank you very much indeed. still to come here on cnn, it's pluto like we have never seen it before. coming up, see what nasa has already learned about the dwarf planet from its historic mission. devhighest quality,the clinically proven nutrition isn't easy, so at gnc, why do we do it? why do we include key ingredients found in fruits and vegetables to create the world's best multivitamin programs? why do we do over 150 quality checks before putting them on the shelf? well, here's why... ♪
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the numbers are unbelievable. after a 5 billion kilometer journey nine years in the making, a u.s. spacecraft has completed the first ever mission to pluto and its moons. >> copy that.
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we are in tewith the space cras >> the probe successfully phoned home after communications blackout. >> the satellite has been taking stunning photos for days of the dwarf planet and its moon. the u.s. is the first country to send a space probe to every planet and the dwarf planet in our solar system. >> it demonstrates what this country is able to achieve when it puts its mind to it. more than this country, it demonstrates what the world can achieve when we work together in a collective manner. >> the newest details -- >> inspiring, isn't it. >> unbelievable. the probe transmitted the closest approach expected to release in the coming day if goes according to plan. >> we have more on the historic mission and what we are learning about our mysterious neighbor. >> three, two, one!
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>> a historic moment for nasa. employees celebrated the moment their space probe became the first spacecraft ever to fly by pluto. a remarkable achievement in space exploration after new horizons traveled nine years and 5 billion kilometers to reach the icy planet. this incredible image taken by the probe is the latest and most detailed view of pluto we have ever seen. it was taken 766 kilometers from the dwarf planet, about 16 hours before the closest approach. this victory now completes nasa's initial investigation in to the solar system. having explored every planet. it is only the beginning of what scientists can expect from new horizons. >> stay tuned because our spacecraft is not in communication with the earth. we programmed it to be spending its time taking important data sets that can only take today. over the next period of about 12 or 13 hours, the spacecraft will
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continue to take that data. then tomorrow morning we should see the beginning of a 16-month data waterfall. >> reporter: space probe will take not only photos but measurements to help scientists learn more about pluto's atmospheric structure, composition and temperature. as nasa revels in the success of new horizons, this is the start of the excitement as it will continue to gather data for weeks after it goes by pluto. traveling in to the keeper belt at the end of the solar system. >> i have to pinch myself. look at what we accomplished. it is truly amazing. humankind can go out and explore these worlds. and to see pluto be revealed just before our eyes. it's just fantastic. >> is it a whale tail, or heart.
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>> i say a heart. >> is it a whale's tail or heart. >> that's what nasa is calling it, a whale's tail. >> what an incredible story. we have learned more in the past five day s than the last 85 years in the risry books. it was in an observatory i went top flagstaff, arizona. incredible because to think the images and the way they have advanced and we learned there are ice caps on there and parts of the southern hemisphere don't see sunlight but once every 100 years. >> we take the pictures and it takes 4 1/2 hours. >> over the next 16 months we will get complete images, over thousands of images taken. this is what it looked like in 1930s. pixels. new horizon in the past 24 hours the perspective vastly different
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as we head over the next couple of days as the images will get dramatically better in the coming hours. look at the depiction when it comes to what we have. earlier this year, 1.2 billion miles away. april 18th, 65 million miles away. in june you work in to a couple of weeks ago and see one of the larger moons. one of five that we know exists. last week, 4 million miles away, a couple of days ago, 1.6 million miles away, 470,000 miles away, two days and ago inside the next seven hours, 8,000 miles or say from new york city to mumbai. could you imagine the perspective of how great the detail might be here. if you are to place pluto over the united states it would hug the central portion of the u.s. 18 1/2% of the earth's surface area. if you are watching in asia,
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beijing, hong kong and australia takes much of the heart of australia as well. it is a dwarf planet. there are thousands of icy bodies outside of our solar system. that's the distinction of why it was demote ed because there are many like it. this is the farthest we have ever had a man made object travel away from earth. >> i just learned a huge amount. >> he's good at that. >> coming up, donald trump is making campaign waves once again, no surprise. this time over a photo he posted on twitter. we will tell you why it was swiftly deleted and who's to blame. two big u.s. retailers pull out all of the stops in the battle for consumers. details in moments.
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welcome back, everyone. comedian and talk show host whoopi goldberg says she no longer believes that bill cosby is innocent until proven guilty. her remark is one week after a federal judge released documents in which cosby admitted to purchasing drugs to give to women for sex. speaking on her show with a legal analyst, goldberg, who had defended cosby until now,
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admitted that all the information made public so far points to cosby's guilt. >> what a turn around. cosby has been accused of sexual assault by more than 25 women now. he denies wrongdoing and has never been charged with any crime. u.s. presidential candidate donald trump posted a photo to his account on twitter but it didn't stay up long. >> it showed the republican face with the american flag, shadowy images of soldiers. twit wither users noticed the soldier's uniforms were foreign. >> cnn was able to confirm the uniform as -- he said a young intern mistakenly created the photo. what a disaster. >> very embarrassing. >> also, two huge u.s.-based retailers have begun a deep discount price war. amazon is advertising a christmas in july type of sale
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in the coming day. prime day, as it is called, is meant to mark the 20th anniversary of the on-line giant. the one-day event offers bargains exclus live to the members of the prime program. >> the idea got wal-mart's attention as well. the ceo put up a blog post saying no admission fee. you shouldn't have to pay $100 to get great deals. so wal-mart is offering its own roll back sales in the coming hours. at least all of the competition creates deals for the customer. >> for sure. >> thank you for watching. i'm max foster. >> i'm zain asher. we will be back with another hour after this quick break. don't away. ♪
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an historic nuclear deal with iran. now it is time to convince american lawmaker and regional leaders to get on board. >> also ahead, new prison break images from mexico. moments leading up to drug lord el chapo's rush to his escape tunnel. the 16-year-old who walked from a plane crash speaks out about how she survived.

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