-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com back in 1981, i had the american dream. the beautiful wife, the house in the suburbs, and a beautiful 6-year-old son. and one day i went to work, kissed my son goodbye, and never saw him again. in two weeks i became the parent of a murdered child, and i'll always be the parent of a murdered child. i still have the heartache, i still have the rage. i waited for years for justice. i know what it's like to be there waiting for some answers. and over those years, i learned how to do one thing really well,

and that's how to catch these bastards and bring them back to justice. i've become a manhunter. i'm out there looking for bad guys. ♪ i hope you're having a great day. i'm missing you so bad. can we please just be together? i'll make you lappy, i promise. i have to go now. i love you, baby. >> my supervisor called me to advise me of an escape from a halfway home. >> it's young girls. 13, 14, that's his fixation. >> baby, i miss your voice and miss talking to you. i wish you were here right now.

>> i know one thing right now, he is going to prey upon young girls. he's going to do it until we catch him. ♪ kevin's mother was the victim of a sexual assault she was raped at the age of 13 and had kevin at the age of 14. >> it was an assault by the

stepfather which produced kevin stosur. >> he had a difficult upbringing. the relationship with individuals in his home were strained. >> i went to school with him. lived down the street. he was geeky, different. didn't significant out but didn't fit in. but he was a stosur. >> march of 1994 he joined the army as an infantryman. he is promoted up to sergeant. in early 1996 while stationed in

ft. hood, texas. they get married. >> his wife was a juvenile. he was 24 years old. he was committing a crime. he was breaking the law and had to get her parents to give him special permission to marry a young woman that was not legal to get married. >> kevin was very proud to be a father. he felt very blessed to be a father but he was very emotionally and verbally abusive and he was having extramarital affairs. and because of his activities, she took the baby. she left. kevin stosur are travellers. they are men who seek out venerable children online and they worm their way into these

children's lives. >> this back in the day before facebook and the current social media was out there. kevin met shannon in one of the chat rooms. she's a young girl. she felt her father was too strict. and so she was disgruntled with his parents and kevin, seeing that opportunity, befriends her. he listens to her. >> within a month, he was telling her that he loved her, that this was a relationship that was enduring, that they were going to get married and have a life together. this is after one month of conversation. >> these men slowly erode the

defenses by showing that typically children and adults don't engage in this activity but this relationship is special. this child is different. this child is capable of making decisions that other children cannot make. >> and this carries on for about six weeks and kevin says how about we meet in person, give me your address. let's meet up. >> and then out of the blue, kevin shows up one day. >> stosur knows that his sexual interest in children are abberant. he understands that this is wrong and deviant. nevertheless he tries to present as if this behavior is hoccurrig in the terms of content.

>> there was only one sexual encounter between shannon and kevin. kevin had made the comment that every time i'm with you you tease me and leave me without doing anything about it. shannon said at that point she decided she would take action on it to make him happy for fear he would leave her. her stepfather didn't stand for that. >> that call to the commanding officer is what started this downfall, a spiraling downfall. the company commander informed the baa italian commander there was another pending investigation on kevin. he was contacted by the police department for making sexual advances toward a 13-year-old girl online. >> i wanted to tell you i miss you and i can't stop thinking

about you. >> for one second. >> i told you age does not matter to me. >> i want to be with you. i'll see you whenever you can see me. >> i promise i will make you so happy. >> thinking about you nonstop. >> you are my beautiful princess. is that okay? love kevin. >> he was the result of a rape. his mother was raped at the age of 13 and the emotional scarring it would have had on him might have helped guide him toward that target victim of a 13 to 15-year-old age group. he was bold. he didn't care that he was being investigated for one when he was carrying on with someone new. he believed he was untouchable.

kevin had been online stalking and chatting with a 13-year-old.

a month or two later, he's initiating contact with a 15-year-old. has sexual contact with her. kevin had been confronted with this accusation. he was not allowed to leave post. he was to cease and desist all contact with the 13-year-old. he definitely showed a pattern and his behavior never ceased, and you know, there was no remorse. he didn't care that he was being investigated for one when he's carrying on the same activity with someone new. ♪ >> janelle is 15. she had just gotten out of school. kevin picks her up. and at some point, they have sex in his vehicle.

♪ ♪ nothing i can do ♪ i'm addicted to you >> janelle ultimately spends the night with him, where they again engage in sexual intercourse. according to janelle, it was completely consensual. and she also states that during the evening, kevin produces a camera and he takes digital photos. >> stop! >> don't be embarrassed. >> he records their activity. >> don't be shy. don't be nervous. >> in many cases, it's to relive the experience later on. it also could have been designed for trading for other images with like-minded individuals

online, or perhaps he could use this as a form of blackmail. >> it's a compulsion that they fight, they know it's reprehensible, they know that people hate what they do, but it's a compulsion and a narcissistic desire that they have to satisfy. these guys are cunning, they are smart. he manipulated her so well that she even went and told her mother this is the guy for me, this is my road to happiness. >> she finally confesses hey, i spent the last couple days with him, we've had sex, we have done this and that. mom goes ballistic. they start arguing. voices started getting raised. they get into a very heated argument. mom then decides she's going to call the police because her young 15-year-old daughter has been sexually assaulted. she calls the police and reports rape. >> interestingly, mr. stoeser was described by the police officer as not asking any questions, as not even appearing

concerned whatsoever with the fact that he was under arrest for the sexual assault of a child. >> this event and this arrest occurred while he was still under investigation, still being looked at for the previous two offenses and these all came to light within a three to four-month period. at no point did he ever give any of these young ladies a false name. he never tried to hide his age. he believed he was untouchable. he is almost borderline nymphomaniac. as if he can't get enough sex. he's always looking for sex. he always needs sex. obviously his preference is young teenaged girls. the military investigators were able to obtain search warrants for kevin's apartment. they ultimately found images of child pornography and then kevin eventually got charged with eight different offenses, which he was found guilty on six of those and ultimately sentenced to 13 years in the military prison.

he spends roughly ten years incarcerated at ft. leavenworth. when he gets released in 2011, he is sent back based on his military record, the closest place that they could send him to with a halfway house with probation supervision is rapid city, south dakota. and at this point, facebook was now relevant. >> i was in my room supposed to be doing homework, but i was on my cell phone, on facebook, scrolling through the news feed. a message from kevin stoeser popped up.

i didn't think anything of it, because of the last name. my family is really good friends with them and they're really well known in our hometown, and i remember reading the message. it said hi, tory, my name is kevin, i went to high school with your mom. >> i said kevin stoeser? he sent you a friend request, too? she said yeah. i said well, i guess, you know, if you want to accept it, you can. it's somebody my age as one of your friends. i never thought any more of it. >> he said hi, kind of just small talk, then he went to say you're really beautiful. kevin continued to talk to me throughout the night. he had told me that he was in rapid city, south dakota, that he might be coming to town to ft. pierre, south dakota. i did not reply.

i went to school the next day, and a couple of my girlfriends in my grade had said this kevin stoeser guy keeps contacting me. i was like what? it was basically the same thing, like do you know tory deal, i went to high school with her mom and would ask them to hang out, continue to tell them how beautiful they were. >> i said seriously, he's saying those things to you? so i asked for the number and i had said you need to stop texting my daughter and her friends. that's just not cool. you know, they are 20 years younger than you. you just don't do that. he responded sorry, i understand, no hard feelings. i thought that was the end of it. >> it was shortly after that

when she told me kevin wasn't stopping and i googled his name. i had sent her this text, get on the computer and block that kevin. tell your friend, too. he just got out of prison for raping a young girl. now, tell everyone. i'm glad and happy that tory came to me and that she didn't meet him. and no one, you know, none of her friends did, either. >> if you want children to be safe, you have to separate those predators from society and when they get out like this creep got out, a couple of times, you have to track them. >> i can't imagine what those girls feel that he has destroyed by his sickness.

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kevin had returned to his old activity. based on this, they revoked his probation and sent him back to prison. so he serves that 18 months actually in the prison and at this point, they determine that once again, he's eligible to be released early, and then they forward him to the halfway house here in austin, texas. he actually requested to come to the austin area because it was the closest location he could get to his daughter. now she's 16 years old. she told me that he said i apologize for everything i've put you through. i want to try and make it up to you. i want to try and be a father. i want to be a part of your life, if you will give me that opportunity. but he would call repeatedly, answer your phone, where you at, what are you doing, what's going on. she wanted to give him an opportunity, but he was just so aggressive about it that it made her feel uncomfortable at times.

>> most offenders are able to keep their drive in check when circumstances indicated that the risks were very high. what makes mr. stoeser different is the fact that he has shown an inability to delay gratification for even a short period of time. >> being that kevin was a convicted sex offender, he's not allowed to have any communication device that would allow him access to the internet, i.e., a smartphone, or any mobile device that had camera capabilities. one of the staff members there at the halfway house is just doing a random, routine walk through the dormitory area.

>> they looked at stoeser and i think stoeser at that time knew this is it. ♪ >> he's not familiar with the austin area. he spent no time here in austin. doesn't know the terrain. doesn't know his surroundings. we obviously find out he left with nothing. he didn't have anything on him. so we did think he would be an easy catch. but that hasn't been the case.

>> once they made that big leap, once they become a fugitive and all the boundaries are crossed, that's when they accelerate the behavior. that's when they're dangerous. while they're out there, they're going i got nothing to lose, when i get caught, i'm going back and maybe i'm going back forever. that's when nobody's child is safe. >> i know there's an age difference with us but i figure if two people really like each other, then age shouldn't matter. >> he preyed on these young girls who were having problems at home. he would win their trust. >> mr. stoeser is a predator. >> my fear that kevin comes back, small town, i don't think he would, but i didn't think he would do this, either.

>> it bothers me the most that i don't know where he's at or if he's alive, even. it's the thing of not knowing.

>> it doesn't take a stranger with a computer to commit this crime. that person that's looking to hurt your child could be someone that you love, someone that you know and trust. just like alleged child molester charles mozdir. >> we sort of live in fear that he's out there. >> there's a predator, a monster out there still hurting children, innocent people. it is not a matter of if. it's a matter of when. ♪ doesn't work on wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula... to work on fine lines and even deep wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®.

the reason that i've kept my identity concealed is because i would like my son to move on and not be identified or stigmatized with this event for the rest of his life. >> he went by charlie but his legal name is charles richard mozdir iii. we were friends since middle school. he never really fit in with one group. he was kind of like the lone wolf and he took some pride in that, even as an adult.

>> charlie and i met at school, and we got along really well. he's very charismatic and we just, we bonded over certain things. i'm an artist and he is also very artistic. >> all the ladies in the family, he would grab them, take them by the hand and kiss their hand and greet them and be very very charming, almost like overboard, almost like in a manipulative way. >> we became friends enough to become roommates in college. people that didn't get charlie, they didn't tend to be friends with him usually. but nobody really knew him that well. >> our friend, his roommate, had told me on numerous occasions how filthy his room was.

it just was putrid. it just smelled like rotten food and dirty laundry and it was very very dark. the blinds were always drawn, his door was always shut. he didn't want people in his space. there was a safe haven there. >> we all thought that he had a secret life. i remember him telling me some stories that just seemed very outlandish. >> his conquests in paris, how he made love there at the eiffel tower, that he was kicked out of the country, he was asked to leave or told to leave before there was charges pressed upon him. >> i just kind of blow it off and look at it like oh, that's just charlie. when john and i got married, charlie was very helpful in the sense that he wanted to be the photographer, he wanted to offer any sort of help he could, and he did.

he was very helpful in putting it all together. >> charles mozdir did a great job and spent his whole life doing this great job. know what his great job was? hiding from everybody what he really was. >> charlie knew everything about us. he knew our deepest secrets. he was like a brother. even when my son was born, he was there. i think in the delivery room. liam and charlie were close in the sense of like an uncle and a nephew. >> this case is so disturbing because this type of predator is so cunning and uses his charm to make his victim accessible through the victim's own parents. little bit different than the internet pedophile. this guy ingratiates himself with the family. he's the go-to guy. he's the guy that everybody trusts.

>> liam was sick. he came home with a 105 fever from school. my daughter was a newborn, she was only a few weeks old, and i was trying to care for her with little sleep, and also care for liam being very ill. i had spoken with my husband to see if he could come home from work. he's gone all the time in the late spring and summer due to his line of work, and me being in a delicate state that i was, i felt that i really needed someone there that night. >> i actually kind of convinced my wife to call charlie, knowing that he is a night owl, that he sleeps in the middle of the day, is up at night on his computer, and that he would be more than willing to do that, that he's like family to us and that he would do anything for liam.

>> and i felt a little bit strange about it, actually, as good a friends as i was with charlie, i felt like i was in such a vulnerable place that i just wasn't -- i just wasn't sure about the whole idea. but i remember him being very resistant at first. well, you know, isn't there somebody else or are you sure. >> he came over and witnessed how sick liam was. >> i hadn't had very much sleep since the baby had been born, but i was trying to stay awake and keep an eye on liam just to make sure that he was safe, and he wasn't getting too hot. so charlie offered to put a washcloth on his forehead and sit next to the bed and just monitor his temperature every now and then. and i told him we'll take shifts. you can keep an eye on him for a little while and then i'll watch over him. he said no, no, no, you haven't had any rest since the baby's been born, why don't you go

ahead and get rest and i'll look over him. in the morning, when i woke up, i felt that we had made it through the night successfully. the morning that charlie left, i thanked him for being a great godfather and told him how much i appreciated his help and his dedication to our family. that was the last time i saw charlie. >> it's a secret taboo world and the second somebody finds out about it, their whole life turns upside down.

my son sat me down and he

said mom, i have something to tell you. and i said well, what is it? he said i don't know if i should, because he promised me i wouldn't say anything and at that moment, my heart just sunk. and he proceeded to tell me that charlie had touched him inappropriately and how he did it. when he finished telling me, i was physically sick and i called his father and said he needed to come home right now, we need to talk. >> even though melissa was in the same bed, not only in the same house or in the same room, but in the same king sized bed, he pulled back the sheets and proceeded to play with our son's private parts.

and he tried to explain to our son that it was normal, what he was doing to him, that his parents were going to be upset with him if he told them, but it was normal for, you know, friends to do that, that it was normal for him to know about how to masturbate. >> we both listened to the story and we both wanted to make sure that we weren't accusing one of our best friends of something so horrible. >> they did the right thing by coming forward right away so we could get the ball rolling as far as our investigation. and not lose the element of time

which we always want on our side. >> charlie also asked liam do you know that dogs have big penises and when i told that to the coronado detectives, they -- it raised an eyebrow with them. >> we executed the search warrant. >> coronado investigators found evidence of child pornography and bestiality on his cell phone and his computers. >> what the police found would probably shock the average person, alleged contact with animals, bestiality is a taboo of centuries in societies that even accepted child molestation, no society accepts bestiality. >> it's a secret taboo world that they've got to keep from their family members, friends, co-workers, anybody else. and the second somebody finds out about it, their whole life turns upside down.

>> he appeared to be shocked. he denied he had done anything wrong. he continually asked me why he was being arrested and what his charges were. >> you put your greatest treasure, your greatest possession of all time, with all kinds of people. anybody could be a pedophile. it could be your grandfather. it could be the child psychologist, it could be the catholic priest, the rabbi, the minister. that pedophile, that child molester could be somebody that's right in your own house. >> he continually brought up how he would never do something like this to a child, how he loved the victim so much, how he would never do something to jeopardize or hurt his friendship with the family. >> they love children in the worst way. they love children as an object of desire, an object to use as their sex slave, their toy or whatever, and throw them away. >> his family reached out to me.

they showed up at my house. they tried to get me to come with them to get charlie out of jail and to drop the charges, telling me that i was a horrible friend and a horrible person for doing what i was doing. after much yelling and shouting, they finally left. we were at the courthouse and at that moment, the district attorney had called john and was on the phone with him and i just saw -- it was like somebody ripped john's heart out. and they got off the phone and he just collapsed. and i'm like what is going on, what happened? and he said he did it before. liam's not the first victim. >> after receiving the initial crime report, i conducted a search on law enforcement data bases of our local data base

here for charles and located a prior allegation where he was also suspected of molesting a child from several years back. >> it was a similar case. charles babysitting and another young boy who brought the incident to his mother's attention. >> however, after an investigation there was not enough physical evidence to arrest him or press charges. >> he's like the junkie that can't resist the heroin. it's a crime of opportunity. it's an arrogance, a compulsion, and a cunning that we can't understand. >> and at that moment you feel a sense of torture and pain because you know that you were so close to this person but you didn't see the signs. i think something broke in john

at that moment and he hasn't trusted people in the same way since. well, the day of charlie's arraignment we were all on pins and needles. >> called his sister and said, i'll see you at court on friday for my court appearance. >> his family had bailed him out and put up a pretty big bail bond from what i knew of. so we were all hopeful that he would be there and they could serve him the restraining order. well, he didn't show up. >> that's when the warrant was issued and we all began to look for him. he took all of his money, hopped in his car, took off. >> he said he would take john out -- myself. he would take john out before he would ever go to prison. box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®.

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he was not at the residence. i spokes to charles' roommate and he told me that charles had been there a week before. that he believed it was the day he bailed out. and that he was very nervous, very anxious. >> he said, yeah, charlie grabbed his stuff in a hurry. he said that his friend john is lying and falsely accusing him and that he would kill -- or

that he would take john out. myself. he would take john out before he would ever go to prison. the roommate knew for a fact charlie had two guns -- one registered, one unregistered -- and wanted the detectives to know that, that the threat could be valid. that this should be taken seriously. >> when we found out that he was gone, that he had skipped out, it made us feel very vulnerable. we felt very worried. especially him knowing where we lived. ♪

>> the vehicle was found, and i literally did a jig. i thought, oh, this is amazing. >> several days after charles went missing, mozdir's vehicle was located in georgia. appeared to be abandoned. the license plate had been ripped off. there was an extra gas tank in the vehicle, leading us to believe he was in a hurry. >> we are thinking he drove over to macintosh, georgia over a period of two to three days. >> it appeared someone had left the vehicle in a state where they didn't want it to be found. >> after ditching his car he had a few options.

the dogs, bloodhound that picked up the scent from his vehicle, leading to the highway. and picked it up one more time from his car. the final scent was to u.s. highway 17. from there, we're thinking somebody probably picked him up. whether it be a friend, family member, or an unknown stranger. one of his last phone calls he had with a friend was i need to take off, i'm probably going to go to mexico, but i might also go to japan. and after we found his car in georgia there's been no new leads. it's been cold for almost two years now. at this point, he's scared. you know, running for his life. that's a worry for anybody in law enforcement. they have contact with the guy. we don't know what he's going to do. he is an emt. he's trained in search and rescue.

so it wouldn't be uncommon if we got a tip saying, hey, this guy's been camping in the woods here for a long time, living off the land. >> it is, in my opinion, that he is a predator. we want charles richard mozdir iii behind bars. >> because of the wonderful brave viewers of the hunt, we had our first capture. >> he began firing him. he hit one of the detectives in the abdomen. he hit another in the leg. another was injuried with what appears to be shrapnel or a

bullet to the arm as well. they opened fire back, taking him down. he was killed and is dead on the scene. >> charles mozdir after two years on the run and not one clue where he was was taken down. charles mozdir chose to run and stay out there for two years. he chose to have a gun and he chose to shoot the cops first. they wanted to bring him in. they wanted to take him in alive. they only had to fire because he shot each one of those three cops. i always believe that the public was the best ally to law enforcement. all i ask was go online, make that phone call, give us the tip. we'll take it from there. and they came through again. you came through again. >> i felt it was very important to share our story in hopes that charlie would be brought to justice. this is not an easy choice to make. but could possibly help protect somebody out there from being a victim in the future. >> i figured out one thing. one thing in all of these years

since my son was murdered. they're out there. they're evil. until we figure out how to keep them away from children, it's up to you to protect your child and to be street smart and follow to be street smart and follow your gut. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a deadly typhoon battering taiwan, leaving damage, flooding and millions of people without electricity. a live report on the ground is next. plus, donald trump disinvited from a conservative conference after making shocking comments about a female fox news anchor during an interview on this network. and convicted of killing 12 people inside a colorado movie theater, james holmes hears his sentence from a divided jury. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom."

good day to you and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we start this hour tracking a powerful typhoon. it is barreling across taiwan at this hour, bringing with it devastating accommodations of strong winds and credential rains. according to taiwan's central news agency, typhoon soudelor has killed four people and four people are missing. the government has deployed some 35,000 military personnel in order to help out with evacuations there. right now, soudelor is making its way toward china, but it is set to weaken before it makes landfall there. our derek van dam is tracking it all here. derek, this is a very strong storm. >> extremely strong storm, george. in fact, it peaked on wednesay as the strongest storm so far in 2015. it had 180-mile-per-hour sustained winds. >> wow. >> 290 kilometers per hour for

our international viewers. it slowly, gradually started to weaken, but it was still a formidable storm when it lashed the east coast of taiwan, and it brought some impressive rainfall totals to that region and also mudslides. take a look at this footage coming out of that area. scarey stuff when you consider just how difficult it is for some of these reporters to stand up in the elements like that. people trying to, well, get on with their daily lives, but just, frankly, it's impossible with this type of weather and wind and rain, blinding rain sweeping through. and the population density of this storm or where this storm is headed over the fujian province is quite fascinating as well. if you can get to the graphics, you can see we've highlighted this area across the southeastern portions of china. that would be the next area of landfall, the second landfall of this particular typhoon. and there's roughly about 1,500 people per square kilometer across this area, so it is quite

densely packed. of course, the storm has made its way over taiwan, and it has weakened considerably, but it is still a strong storm. it's moving across the taiwan straits as we speak, and it will bring heavy rain and strong winds to the southeastern portions of china. in fact, it's already doing that as we speak right now. 1 165-kilometer-per-hour sustained winds. this is the projected path it will move across the fujian province, eventually curving to the north and northeast over the next 24 to 48 hours. when it makes a second landfall over the next two to four hours, we expect winds about 130 kilometers per hour for that initial landfall, right near the eye wall. now, it's the rainfall that has been a major concern. look at these rain totals. we are measuring this in meters, folks. 1.2 meters in the mountainous regions of northern taiwan, and that left mudslides and landslides, dangerous stuff for the local residents across the area, not to mention the storm

surge. some of the images coming out of this area have been also quite impressive. and look at what resulted in taipei. i mean, some of the rivers there flooding over their banks, also inundating some of these basketball courts near the coast -- or near the river's edge. i just want to quickly remind you that we're not done with this storm in taiwan just yet. there's still a considerable amount of rainfall expected for the southwest-facing slopes of this central mountain range that i've been discussing. we overlay the rainfall totals for the next 48 hours, and you can see, clearly, rain could easily exceed 250 millimeters. this is on top of what they've already experienced. remember, we had rainfall totals in excess of 1,000 millimeters, so landslides and mudslides still a concern going forward. look at the wind gusts we've recorded. 200 kilometers per hour plus with this, picking up objects in the streets, and, well, flailing them about as if they weren't even weighing down or being

weighted down. it's just a dangerous situation. and one thing i want to also just quickly mention, george, is that in 2015, we've already had ten typhoons in the western pacific, five of which have become supertyphoon status. in a regular season, we only experience four. >> wow. >> and it's only august. so, you can see just the track and the trend that we happen to be on at the moment. so, very, very busy, active tropical season for the pacific. >> and just to look at a couple more of these images that we've seen, derek, really, really heavy rains coming down. you were explaining, it's kind of like pushing a sponge, right? >> that's right. it's a good analogy, because the mountains there act as a barrier. you take a wet sponge, for instance, and you press it against a surface like a mountain or a wall, for instance, and you squeeze out all that available moisture, and it comes down in torrential, excessive rainfall, and this is the result, george. >> and you know, we are actually in touch with a storm-chaser on the ground there, james

reynolds. james was due to speak with us right now, but you see what james is dealing with. i mean, really strong winds, really heavy rains. as we hear from james, we'll get a live report there on the ground. derek van dam, thank you so much. we'll stay in touch with you as this storm continues on its way toward china. here in the united states, there is more fallout from the republican presidential debate. donald trump. he was disinvited from a big republican event here in atlanta. organizers swiftly rescinded his invitation after comments that he made just hours ago on cnn about the female moderator of thursday night's debate. listen for yourself. >> i don't have a lot of respect for megyn kelly. she's a lightweight. and you know, she came out there reading her little script and trying to, you know, be tough and be sharp. and when you meet her, you realize she's not very tough and she's not very sharp. i just don't respect her as a journalist. i have no respect for her. i don't think she's very good.

i think she's very overrated. but i go out there and what am i doing? i'm not getting paid for this. i go out in and they say lift up your arm and i didn't know there would be 24 million people, i figured, but i knew it would be a big crowd because i get big crowds, i get ratings. they call me the ratings machine. so, i have -- you know, she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. and you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. >> donald trump in his own words. the organizer of the red state gathering, erick erickson says that even though he likes trump, his comments went too far and were inappropriate. he also said, "i just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal." trump's team fired back soon after, saying this was just another example of "weakness through being politically correct."

there will be other republican heavy hitters on saturday's event, including mike huckabee, ted cruz and jeb bush. megyn kelly, that broadcaster, has also been invited to attend in place of donald trump. trump's remarks about megyn kelly are just the latest of his controversial comments that have been aimed at women and the presidential candidate refuses to back down from any of his past attacks. cnn's suzanne malveaux has this story. >> reporter: donald trump standing center stage at the first republican debate, confronted with his insults against women. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. >> for the record, it was well beyond rosie o'donnell. >> yes, i'm sure it was. >> your twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. you once told a contestant on "celebrity apprentice," it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. does that sound to you like the

temperament of a man we should elect as president? and how will you answer the charge from hillary clinton, who is likely to be the democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women? >> i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. i've been challenged by so many people, and i don't, frankly, have time for total political correctness. >> reporter: rosie o'donnell responded almost immediately, tweeting, "try explaining that to your kids." the bad blood between them reportedly going back nearly a decade to 2006, when o'donnell questioned trump's decision not to fire miss usa, tara connor, over drug abuse, calling him a snake oil salesman. >> left the first wife, had an affair. left the second wife, had an affair. had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in america. donald, sit and spin, my friend! >> reporter: trump shot back. >> if you take a look at her,

she's a slob. if i were running "the view," i'd fire rosie. i'd look her in that fat, ugly face and say, "rosie, you're fired." >> reporter: trump also said this to brandi roderick, a contestant on his reality show -- >> must be a pretty picture. >> reporter: most recently, he was asked about a claim from a female attorney, that trump called her disgusting for asking to take a break to breast pump during a deposition. >> she wanted to breast pump in front of me, and i may have said that's disgusting. she's a vicious, horrible person. >> reporter: trump says he doesn't have a problem with women. >> the biggest applause of the evening was when i mentioned the name rosie o'donnell. the place went wild. >> reporter: still, trump criticized moderator megyn kelly's handling of the debate, going on a twitter rant overnight. "wow, megyn kelly really bombed tonight. people are going wild on twitter. funny to watch." he also retweeted disparaging remarks from others, including this one, calling kelly a bimbo.

the polls are mixed. a recent cbs poll shows 62% of registered female voters have an unfavorable view of trump. among republican women, it is 42%. but another poll has trump leading among women when compared to the other republican candidates, taking 20%. the question now is whether this debate will have any impact on trump's approval from this critical group. suzanne malveaux, cnn, washington. >> you can see the next republican debate right here on cnn. mark your calendars. the date will be wednesday, september 16th, at the ronald reagan presidential library in the state of california. and cnn will also bring you the first debate featuring the democratic presidential candidates, including hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders. that will be tuesday, october 13th, in las vegas here on cnn. the current president of the united states, barack obama, is trying very hard to sell the nuclear deal with tehran with a congressional vote fast

approaching. there is one setback, though. a very influential democrat, senator chuck schumer of new york, announced that he will vote against it. cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta has details. >> thank you. thank you. >> reporter: reporters were hustled out of the oval office before the question could be asked about what president obama thinks about losing a key democrat on the iran nuclear deal, senator chuck schumer. it was during the gop debate -- >> no. >> reporter: the new york democrat dropped the news after it leaked to "the huffington post," saying in a statement, "i believe iran will not change. the vote to disapprove is the right one." before he announced his decision, schumer called the white house to inform the president. >> was not particularly surprising to anybody here at the white house, even if it was disappointing. >> reporter: schumer could pay a price for his defection. a slew of top obama aides lashed out on twitter, rallying against schumer's expected rise to become the next top senate

democrat. chuck schumer, who said it was a mistake to pass obamacare now comes out against the iran deal? this is our next senate leader?" asks jon favreau. it depends whether or not he pushes against the deal," a key aide told cnn. "he says he has the votes but something like this could change that." no arguments against that at the white house. >> but i wouldn't be surprised if there are individual members of the senate democratic caucus that will continue the voting record of those who say they would like to leave the caucus. >> reporter: but schumer's vote likely won't kill the iran deal. while republicans are expected to pass a bill denouncing the agreement, it's unlikely enough democrats will join them to beat back a presidential veto. >> the president is going to veto it, and i do not believe at the end of the day that republicans will have the votes to override his veto. >> reporter: still, questions linger. cnn's fareed zakaria asked the president how he could put his faith in iran's ayatollah. he tweeted a picture of

president obama with a gun pointed at his head. >> you don't negotiate deals with your friends, you negotiate them with your enemies. and superpowers don't respond to taunts. superpowers focus on what is it we need to do in order to preserve our national security. and the national security of our allies and our friends. >> that was cnn's jim acosta reporting for us. and as he mentioned, the president sat down with our own fareed zakaria. here is a quick snippet of that interview. mr. obama is standing by a controversial comparison he made between republicans and iranian hardliners. >> in your speech at american university, you made a comparison. you said that iran's hardliners were making common cause with republicans. it's come under a lot of criticism. mitch mcconnell says even democrats who oppose the deal should be insulted. >> what i said is absolutely true factually. the truth of the matter is, inside of iran, the people most opposed to the deal are the

revolutionary guard, the quds force, hardliners who are implaquably opposed to any cooperation with the international community. the reason that mitch mcconnell and the rest of the folks in his caucus who oppose this jumped out and opposed it before they even read it, before it was even posted is reflective of an ideological commitment not to get a deal done. >> you don't think -- >> and in that sense, they do have a lot in common with hardliners who are much more satisfied with the status quo. >> the iran deal is just one topic covered in fareed zakaria's interview with the president. you can watch the global television exclusive interview sunday at 8:00 p.m. in london, 9:00 p.m. central european time, only on cnn. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the fight against isis in syria has a grim outlook these days. more on how the u.s. strategy

could be faltering. and later this hour, the man who shot and killed a dozen people at a movie theater in the u.s. state of colorado has been sentenced. plus, kim jong-un plays father time. why everyone in north korea will be getting up a little bit earlier starting next week. need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over one hundred of the web's leading job boards with a single click. then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. the capital of afghanistan was rocked by two bombings on friday, one of of them a suicide attack on the city's police academy. a bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of the building friday evening. this is according to a spokesman for the kabul police chief. afghan police say 27 students were killed. 26 others were wounded. the taliban has claimed responsibility for this attack. there is growing concern that isis may be trying to step up its scale of attacks abroad. the terror group has repeatedly shown that it has the ability to carry out mass slaughters in iraq and syria, but in the west, it's been linked more to lone wolf attacks.

cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: from the bloody rampage in paris on the offices of "charlie hebdo" to attacks on commercial aviation, the u.s. intelligence community divided on whether isis today focused on less ambitious lone wolf attacks may be working to build the capability to carry out mass casualty attacks -- more complex, more coordinated, more deadly. the motivation in part to compete with aqap. that same competition was evident this week when aqap made its own pitch to supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks that, so far, have been largely isis's territory. >> i think they're taking a lot of the new recruits that they don't have time to train who have not been brought up in their systems and they're using them to create the kind of mass casualty which produces the

media attention that exactly is what they want that shows they're still powerful. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence assesses that the formidable flow of foreign fighters to isis has not abated. today the total number of isis fighters numbers between 20,000 and 30,000, similar to levels when the u.s.-led air campaign began, despite thousands believed killed in coalition air strikes. turkey, the prime transit point into syria, is still struggling to stem the flow. however, the u.s. believes its agreement to allow u.s. air strikes from a turkish air base and to help establish a safe zone along the border indicate that istanbul is stepping up. the administration is also claiming gains on the ground. >> in iraq, isil has lost the freedom to operate in some 30% of the territory that they held last summer. overall, isil has lost more than 17,000 square kilometers of territory in northern syria. >> reporter: still, u.s. officials say the process of

degrading isis will take at least three years. in fact, the president pledging no specific timeline for defeating the group, not disputing that he will hand this war to the next president. >> i think my key goal when i turn over the keys to the president, the next president, is that we are on track to defeat isil. >> that was cnn's jim sciutto reporting. while the u.s. is opening a new front against isis, the situation on the ground in syria and iraq remains grave. first, the u.s. can't account for a small number of syrian rebels that it has trained and deployed, and isis has overrun another syrian city. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has this story. >> reporter: u.s. air strikes against isis in syria could be launched from this turkish air base within days, according to u.s. officials. this section of the border u.s.

intelligence calculates new isis fighters are still entering syria as fast as the u.s. can kill them. on the ground, u.s. strategy rests on the shoulders of just 54 u.s.-trained, moderate syrian rebels. >> what we're trying to do is protect this very small force as it's on the very early stages of building combat power. >> reporter: the official pentagon word -- the group is eager to fight and thwarted a recent al qaeda attack. the reality -- up to half are missing, they may have deserted early on, fled after the attack last week or been captured. one defense official admitting to cnn, "they are no longer a coherent military unit." >> they are not accompanied by u.s. forces in the field, which means they're going to get limited training, little equipment. but the vast majority of successful u.s. train, advise,

assist missions require embedded forces in the field. >> reporter: privately, pentagon officials say something has to change in how the u.s. aids the rebels. >> this breaks basically every train, advise and assist rule that special operations forces have learned. >> reporter: and isis still grabbing territory. activists say in this western syrian town, more than 200 people have been abducted, up to 500 unaccounted for. cnn cannot independently verify those claims. >> today actually marks the one-year anniversary of the commencement of air strikes in iraq against isil targets. >> reporter: there have been gains, but iraqi forces still trying desperately to retake lost ground. here in baji, where there is a krill oil refinery, u.s. officials privately acknowledge isis is now massing forces, gearing up for a new

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." good to have you with us. i'm george howell. the headlines this hour. in the west bank, we have just learned a man has died from wounds he sustained in an arson attack on his home. his 18-month-old son died july 31st in the same attack. both palestinians and israelis condemned the incident, calling it a terrorist attack. the palestinians also blame israel for the killing. a former russian army officer was found guilty in a u.s. court on friday of being a taliban fighter. hamidalan converted to islam before a 2009 attack in the region against afghan and u.s. forces. he was the first afghan war military combatant to be tried in u.s. federal court.

in mali, at least six people are dead after armed islamic militants stormed two hotels on friday morning. ukraine's foreign ministry says one of its nationals is being held hostage. united nations mission in mali says one of its foreign staffers was among the dead there. a former head of chile's notorious secret police has died. manuel contreras, who headed the feared spy agency that tortured and killed thousands of people during the military dictatorship of pinochet. contreras was serving a 500-year sentence for human rights abuses. he remained unrepentant until his final days. contreras was 86 years old. typhoon soudelor churning across the ocean at this hour, headed toward taiwan, tracking mainly toward mainland china. taiwan's central news agency says four people have been killed, four people are still missing. this strong storm is expected to weaken before it makes landfall

in china late saturday. we now have a storm-chaser who is on the ground there for us. james reynolds is looking at all of the developments there. we've seen the images of what's happening, the heavy rains, the strong winds. james, what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: hi, george. well, the winds are slowly dying down. the typhoon is moving away from taiwan and approaching china. however, the area i'm in, southwest, is still really receiving the full brunt of this torrential rain that this typhoon is dumping on taiwan. it's been raining heavily all day. we're expecting quite a few more hours of this to continue. this is only going to increase the risk of flash floods and landslides in what is really a very mountainous area. >> james, talk to us, if you could, please, just about the flooding situation. how are people dealing with that? and how are people riding out this very strong storm? >> reporter: well, earlier on

this morning, in the morning hours, all the streets were guarded and everyone was really hunkered down and riding out the worst of the storm at home. i traveled down the east coast and there was considerable damage in the coastal areas, where large waves and localized storm cells have washed out part of the road. i haven't had a chance to get into the mountains and see the flooding situation, but the pictures i've seen in taipei do show it's very high and the longer the rain falls, the more problems there are. >> james, the latest that we've heard from taiwan's central news agency is that four people have been killed and that four are still missing. have you heard any new updates or information from where you are? >> reporter: personally, no. i've spent most of the day

myself just traveling around the region, shooting video. but i haven't been able to contact any local government source to get any information myself. >> james, we're looking at these images right now as you're speaking. right now we see certainly a lot of water going over a road. you see trees falling down. it looks very difficult when it comes to driving. what have you seen in your travels reporting on what's happening? >> well, i was out shooting the worst of the storm when it hit landfall and large pieces of debris were crashing down. it was very noisy. you really have to be in a safe, secure location to be able to proceed safely. lots of trees down. where i am now, virtually every tree in the city has sustained some sort of damage, which is quite a damage, considering how far away this city is from the

main impact zone in taiwan. george? >> james reynolds, we appreciate your insights and reporting there, and we wish you safety as you continue to do so. we'll stay in touch with you again as this storm continues over taiwan and heads now toward mainland china. james, thank you. governments and aid organizations, they are already stepping up to help, and then if you would like to do the same, cnn's "impact your world" has several ways that you can support relief efforts, through groups like the red cross and through world vision. you can find more information on our website. head over to cnn.com/impact to learn more. here in the united states, the man who shot and killed a dozen people at a movie theater in the state of colorado will spend the rest of his life behind bars. sentencing wrapped up on friday in the case of james holmes for the 2012 massacre at a movie theater in aurora, colorado. holmes admitted to his crimes but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

barry muller has more. >> reporter: after almost seven hours of deliberations, the judge announced the jury's decision on whether james holmes should live or die. >> we, the jury, do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count. >> reporter: holmes was present as the decision was announced. last month, a jury convicted him on 24 counts of first-degree murder, 2 for each of the 12 people killed when he opened fire at a 2012 screening of "the dark knight rises." and on all 24 of those counts, the jury said it could not come to a unanimous decision. >> we, the jury, understand that as a result, the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. >> reporter: before reaching friday's verdict, the jury asked to see a grisly 45-minute video detailing the crime scene. the judge granted their request the same day the verdict was announced. several family members of the victims were upset by the sentence. >> our lives are forever altered, and the thought that

this monster gets to have visitation with his parents and gets to receive mail and pictures of his very strange girlfriends is very hard to accept. >> reporter: holmes' defense lawyer argued he was insane when he threw a tear gas canister into the theater and let loose a hail of bullets from three guns. in addition to the 12 who died, 70 other people were wounded. i'm mary muller reporting. the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370 has entered a new phase. at the same time, there are conflicting statements about the state of the investigation. our pamela brown has more. >> reporter: tonight, french authorities on reunion island and nearby maturiscious looking for debris from mh-370, planes and boats scouring for hours.

this captain not downplaying how hard the search will be. >> it is very difficult to undertake a search for a small object from the air. >> reporter: in malaysia, the transport minister doubling down, telling cnn his teams have not only confirmed the wing part known as a flaperon is from the plane, but that more plane debris is in french custody. >> we may have found additional debris, and this debris are all aircraft materials, the window pane material, the cushion materials. so, once we collect it, immediately we hand it over to the military police. >> reporter: but french authorities on reunion island tell cnn objects were collected, but no one has determined if they are relevant. >> breaking down the tug-of-war here, it appears that the additional debris is still on reunion island. i don't think malaysia can say that is definitely even from an aircraft, much less flight 370, but i think the flaperon, malaysians are correct, there is very little doubt that that's

from anything else. >> reporter: and frustration is growing in beijing, where chinese relatives of those on board are demanding answers. some crawling on hands and knees to the malaysian embassy. this woman who lost her daughter, pleading, "please, i beg you, bring my child back to me." and this woman saying nothing makes sense, even pointing out the passengers' cell phones worked and rang through weeks after the plane went down, adding she believes the passengers are still alive. but in the end, no one from the embassy showed up to meet with them. and another day ends with no new answers. >> that was cnn's pamela brown reporting. one of three men convicted of kidnapping a school bus full of children in california back in 1976 has been paroled from prison. james schoenfeld, his brother and a friend ambushed the bus in

chowchilla, a small farm town near fresno. then they sealed the children and driver in a van that was buried in a quarry. one of the children, now an adult, says schoenfeld's release sends the wrong message. >> i was nauseous and then very tearful, because first, i think first of other children. the children that were in the kidnapping itself as well as children in the future. >> the children were able to escape unharmed. the men were planning to demand a $5 million ransom. you're watching "cnn newsroom." north korea's kim jong-un wants to turn back time. coming up, why he is ordering people to reset their clocks. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin.

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north korea literally wants to turn back time. the isolated nation is create its own time zone to go back to precolonial days. meanwhile, the country has a new threat for the united states. brian todd has more. >> reporter: he's ruthless, unpredictable and looks for any excuse to jab at his enemies. and now, with joint u.s./south korean military exercises coming up, kim jong-un's found that excuse, sending a spokesman for his foreign ministry out to deliver a message in english, warning that north korea's adversaries are provoking a second korean war. >> the u.s. is hell-bent on increased level of military provocations in front of the door of the dprk and globalnobo safe. >> reporter: they say he is not only extending an external signal to his enemies, but an internal one as well. >> it's all about legitimacy, i

think. this north korea leader has been having a hard time, i think, holding things in place. it's all about perpetuating the myth of the leadership in the kim family. >> reporter: that demand for obedience, that siege mentality, is part of what seems to be kim's m.o. during his short stint in power, to create his own reality inside north korea, where outside truths don't apply to him, from possibly faking a missile launch from a submarine to flaunting floemtic rules, making dennis rodman the highest profile american to visit pyongyang during his rule, regardless of the pr fiasco it appeared to be. >> i don't give a rat's ass what you think! >> reporter: despite his reality, he's creating his own time zone he calls pyongyang time, setting all north korean clocks back 30 minutes. that will happen on august 15th, the 70th anniversary of north korea's liberation from what they call the wicked japanese imperialists. analysts say it won't have much practical effect. >> they already control when people wake up in the morning with loudspeakers and

revolutionary music. nothing is computerized there, so they don't have to rewrite any code. it's all manual. so, someone just has to come in and turn the speakers on a little earlier in the morning. >> reporter: analysts say this time zone change is also part of kim's calculation to portray himself more like his grandfather, the founder of north korea, kim il-sung, considered a hero in their liberation from japan. experts say the young kim has already been trying to look more like his grandfather physically. and by making the time zone change, playing up north koreans' hatred of japan, he's trying to solidify his position inside his country. brian todd, cnn, washington. formula 1 star jenson button believes he and others were knocked out with gas by robbers in the south of france. his spokesman claims two men broke in monday evening while button, his wife and friends were asleep using chemicals to make sure that they didn't wake up. media reports say $500,000 worth of jewelry was taken, including

button's wife's engagement ring. one security expert told our richard quest he is surprised that someone like button wasn't better protected. >> he is a celebrity. he demands, his position demands having executive protection. anyone who's in the news, including yourself, i'm afraid, really has to have some sense of awareness, and at the very least, training with regard to protecting them self. >> police say sleeping agents have been used in french riviera robberies before, but experts say doing that would be complicated and require a great deal of gas. the killing of a south african lion has angered much of the world, but the people of zimbabwe, where cecil lived, many have a different take. yes, we are twins. when i went on to ancestry, i just put in the name of my parents and my grandparents.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. many people across the world were outraged by the recent killing of cecil the lion by an american dentist. we wondered, though, what the people of zimbabwe think about

it and found that many there have a very different take on it all. our david mckenzie has this story. >> reporter: on the early-morning walk to school, rural zimbabwean children can face long distances and hidden threats. tanaka walks two miles each day. her mother is relieved when she makes it home. "i hope she can walk to school and come back safely," she says, "because of the wild animals." they live on the edge of a national park where cecil the lion was killed. they say lions are a pest. "if a lion is killed, i really don't care," says margaret,"mar "because it destroys our catt cattle." droughts decimated their savings and foreign tourists pass them by. tourists and hunters travel down this road, bringing big money

for zimbabwe's wildlife, but the local communities here say they don't see a cent. in fact, it's money, not lions, on the mind of most people here. "our zimbabwean money is worthless," she tells me, "we can't use it." hyper inflation now means they use only american dollars and struggle with the high cost of living. this man saved three years to buy his van, but the police want bribes all the time, he says, and it's getting worse. >> there is no -- the life we are living here now is difficult. we can't live. >> reporter: like many here, he feels more attention should be put on the plight of zimbabwe's people, not on the plight of its lions. david mckenzie, cnn, hwange, zimbabwe. >> in a striking op ed piece in "the new york times," a

zimbabwean man who is a graduate student in the u.s. calls lions objects of terror. he writes in part, "we zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why americans care more about african animals than about african people." our jonathan mann spoke with the author of that op ed, which he called "in zomm baab withob wit don't try for lions" and he says they don't talk about lions being loved or local favorites. here's part of that conversation. >> when cecil was shot, so many people around the world felt sad and angry. how did you feel? >> at first, i felt like how i would have felt when i was back in the village when i was little. so, i was excited that the lion was dead. >> you were excited. i'm going to interrupt you right

there. why would you be excited? >> because back in my village, animals like lions, elephants and hippos attack people. like, elephants eat crops. so, that is a danger to, you know, the lives of zimbabweans, villagers. so, that's why i felt like i had that happy moment. i got bitten by a snake and i lost my leg to a snake bite, so that wasn't a lion. however, there's been people that have been attacked by lions in my village. and to give a perspective about this, i didn't get to see my grandfather because he was attacked -- he was eaten by a crocodile. the only thing that could bury was his head. so, my understanding of animals, basically, in zimbabwe, like in

the villages, in some of this communal lands in zimbabwe, it's not very, very good. so, if you're looking at this story from that perspective, you would not have this same experience or the same kind of response that you're getting from the western side. a lion is not a majestic animal. it's not that cute if you are looking at it from the perspective that it could possibly attack you. >> it's a big world and many people see things in many different ways around the world. we thank goodwill nzou for his perspective, and we thank you for watching as we proudly cover news from around the world. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. i'll be back after the break with another hour of news. you're watching "cnn newsroom," you're watching "cnn newsroom," the world's news leader. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

> r p a dead throurthrougp through td a trail of flooding and destruction. a live report on the ground is next. donald trump makes shocking comments to cnn about a female fox news anchor, getting himself disinvited from a conservative conference. more on that story ahead. and convicted of killing 12 people inside a colorado movie theater. james holmes hears his sentence from a divided jury. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is "cnn newsroom." good day to you and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we start this hour with a strong typhoon that is hitting taiwan as we speak. right now, typhoon soudelor is

bringing strong winds and heavy rains. this strong storm is moving right now toward china. according to taiwan's central news agency, four people are dead, four people are still missing. two people were killed before the storm even made landfall on friday. a 7-year-old girl and her mother both swept to sea along with the girl's twin sister. she is still missing. this powerful storm has triggered mudslides and flooding. roughly 2 million homes remain without power. at this hour, we have a storm-chaser on the ground who joins us by phone. james reynolds is there. james, thank you for being with us. just talk to us about what you're seeing right now. >> well, it's been a very long and arduous day traveling down the east coast of taiwan. this morning when the typhoon made landfall, we were hit by extremely ferocious winds and blinding rain as well as huge waves battering the coastline. and the results of which was a lot of flying debris, a lot of

tree damage, and along the coastal areas, the waves have inundated the low-lying areas, damaging the roads in places as well as some vulnerable areas by the coast. so, a lot of different impacts have taken place today, george. >> james, we have our meteorologist, derek van dam, here with us. and in a moment, he'll give us a sense of where the storm is presently and where it's headed, but from your perspective there, does it seem like the storm is letting up or the opposite, are things getting worse at this hour? >> well, the worst of the wind has passed. so, things are getting better. we're still getting hit by torrential rain. i'm in a city in southwestern taiwan, and that's really feeling the tail end of the typhoon. so, really heavy rain is lashing this area, but the winds are calming down. and hopefully, the rain will only last for a few more hours and then we should be in the clear. >> james, as you say, the rain

is letting up. i'm sure you're getting a much better sense of the flooding. we see these images as you speak now. we see these homes that are flooded, we see roads that have been washed out and even see people, like this image, driving through these floodwaters. what is the situation right now as the storm lets up a bit? >> well, the area i was in, in southeastern taiwan, has thankfully escaped the worst of the flooding. i wasn't actually able to reach the northern areas of taiwan just because the roads to access that area is so precarious and dangerous that it's simply just impossible to travel along. a lot of the roads carve into the sides of mountains, and it's just too hazardous with landslides and flash floods. but what i've seen from my colleague, who actually is from taipei, his friends have been sending him photographs of the rivers at extraordinarily high levels, very unusual scenes that they're not accustomed to in

taipei. >> james, we know that you're a professional at this. still, we wish you the very best of safety as you continue to cover this very strong storm that is hitting taiwan right now. let's now turn to our meteorologist, derek van dam. derek, you heard what james is dealing with. >> yeah, i would say that he's not quite out of the woods just yet, george. he said that he was on the southwestern side of taiwan, and that's actually where what is called a return flow of this storm is going to be impacting the region. so, we and he should expect heavier rain to continue at least for the next four to even upwards of six hours before it's all cleared, all said and done, and that means landslides, m mudslides are still a concern there as well. the storm is now headed towards the fujian province in southeast china, george. and i want to talk about population density across that area, because according to local authorities, about 185,000 people have been moved to safer ground. but look at this population density across southeast asia. right along the coast there's about 1,500 people per square

kilometer, if not more, where you see that darker shading of red. so, it's a highly populated region. anyone along the coast is really susceptible to feeling the brunt of this storm. even though it's in a weakened phase, it's still a formidable typhoon. here it is moving across taiwan within the last 12 hours, making landfall early saturday morning. now, the mountain range across this area really started to help deteriorate the center of this circulation of the storm, but as it moves across the taiwan strait -- this is the 180-mile stretch between western taiwan and the eastern shoreline of china. that area has allowed it to just gain a little bit more organization, and it will continue to bring heavy rain and very strong winds to southeast china. speaking of winds, look at these wind gusts that were recorded on taiwan. 200 kilometers per hour, taking objects and flying them along the streets in taipei. this is unbelievable stuff coming out of this region, and it wasn't just the wind that was

a concern, it was the heavy rainfall as well. you can see it making a southeasterly trek over the next 24 to 48 hours, bringing upwards of 300 to 400 millimeters of additional rainfall to the southeast coastline. look at the rain totals in this area, 1,253 millimeters recorded since the storm started in central and northern sections of taiwan. you can see that that led to mudslides. we've been showing this footage, but george, i want to take one last look at it because it's impressive stuff to see just a wall of mud rushing down the side of a mountain, which, by the way, can travel at upwards of 40 kilometers per hour. >> but as this tracks, again, toward china, weakens a bit. >> it's weakened, or it's in a weakening phase, but that doesn't mean that heavy rain and wind won't be a concern. it really won't be until it gets into the interior of china, where it starts to dissipate. >> derek van dam, thank you so much. >> thanks, george. >> and just so that you know,

government and aid organizations are stepping in to help, and if you'd like to do the same, you can go to cnn's "impact your world." there are several ways that you can support the relief efforts. you can find that information on our website at cnn.com/impact to learn more about that. there is more fallout from the u.s. republican presidential debate. donald trump found himself disinvited from a big republican event today that took place here in atlanta. organizers quickly rescinded trump's invitation over comments that he made just hours ago on this network about the female moderator of thursday night's debate. want you to listen for yourself here. >> and you know, she came out there reading her little script and trying to, you know, be tough and be sharp. and when you meet her, you realize she's not very tough and she's not very sharp. she's zippo. well, i just don't respect her as a journalist. i have no respect for her. i don't think she's very good.

i think she's highly overrated. but when i came out there, you know, what am i doing? i'm not getting paid for this. i go out there and, you know, they start saying lift up your arm if you're going to -- and then i didn't know there would be 24 million people, i figured, but i knew it was going to be a big crowd because i get big crowds, i get ratings. they call me the ratings machine. so, i have, you know -- she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. and you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. >> donald trump in his own words there. the organizer of the red state gathering, erick erickson, says even though he likes trump, his comments went too far and that they were inappropriate. he also said, "i just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal." trump's team then fired back after saying this was just another example of "weakness through being politically

correct." there will be other republican heavy-hitters at saturday's event, including mike huckabee, ted cruz, jeb bush and megyn kelly, that journalist and broadcaster mentioned by trump. she was also invited to attend instead of him. the republican presidential candidates made a lot of claims on stage thursday night, but the question what was true and then what was false. our tom foreman looks into it. >> the accusations have been answered. the missteps have been made. so, now it's time for our top five reality checks from the big debate. number five. we start with the front-runner, donald trump, who said mexico is shipping criminals over the border and u.s. officials are doing little about it. >> and they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. they don't want to take care of them. why should they when the stupid leaders of the united states will do it for them? and that's what's happening, whether you like it or not. >> but deportations have been at record levels, including for criminals.

false. number four. marco rubio. what a strange mistake. he gave democrat hillary clinton huge credit for her public service. >> but if this election is a resume competition, then hillary clinton's going to be the next president, because she's been in office demand government longer than anybody else running here tonight. >> um, except for at minimum kasich, graham, walker and perry. rubio's statement not true. number three. give it to carly fiorina for her triple attack on trump. >> since he has changed his mind on amnesty, on health care and on abortion, i would just ask what are the principles by which he will govern. >> trump says times change, but boom goes the dynamite. she was right. number two. chris christie says his time as governor pulled new jersey up from the pits of economic despair. >> and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place. and what's happened since? 192,000 new private-sector jobs in the 5 1/2 years i've been governor. >> actually, not quite that many. the state's finances are still a wreck. true but misleading.

and number one, jeb bush trying to make the same claim about being governor of florida. >> and the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. >> but he did not mention the debt his office incurred. so, this is also true but misleading. and that's where they stand for now, at least until the next time the words start flying. >> tom foreman there reporting. and you can see the next republican presidential debate right here on cnn. it takes place on wednesday, september 16th. it will happen at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. and cnn will also bring you the first debate featuring the democratic presidential candidates, including hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders. that debate will be tuesday, october 13th, in las vegas here on cnn. the man who shot and killed a dozen people at a movie theater in the state of colorado will spend the rest of his life behind bars. sentencing wrapped up on friday in the case of james holmes for

the 2012 massacre inside a movie theater in aurora, colorado. holmes admitted to his crimes but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. our ana cabrera reports from outside the courthouse. >> reporter: life in prison without parole, that is the sentence for the man convicted of one of the worst mass shootings in u.s. history. it is the end result of a lengthy and emotional trial. 15 weeks, 306 witnesses, more than 2,600 pieces of evidence, and the jury deliberated for less than seven hours and ultimately determined they could not reach a unanimous verdict on his sentence. and as a result, james holmes by default gets a life in prison without parole sentence for killing 12 people inside that packed movie theater back in july of 2012 and wounding 70 others. now, all along, the prosecution has pushed for the death penalty, saying justice is death, while the defense urged mercy, saying james holmes was

mentally ill at the time of the crime and that he should not be killed because you don't kill sick people. jurors did hear from several mental health experts who agreed that james holmes does, indeed, suffer from mental illness. yet, they convicted him on all counts, saying they believe he understood right from wrong at the time of the crime. perhaps the mental illness did play a factor here in their sentence. again, the punishment for james holmes, life in prison without parole. at the very least, for the families who have been waiting three years for some closure, this offers them a chance to move forward. >> tomorrow the sun is going to come up. we're going to have a little more pain, little more hurt in our lives, but the sun will come up and there will still be love in our lives. we have to remember that. we have to remember the victims. >> we didn't lose loved ones. our loved ones were ripped from us and they were slaughtered in that movie theater. but the jury chose another way,

and we have to accept that. >> reporter: a little more perspective here. the death penalty is relatively rare in colorado. there has only been one person executed in the past half century or so. that was back in 1997. and only three people are currently on colorado's death row. ironically, they're all from this very county. ana cabrera, cnn, centennial, colorado. >> thanks for ana's reporting there. we spoke to cnn legal analyst danny ceballos, who said it wasn't very likely that holmes would have gotten the death penalty. >> it's always difficult to predict these cases. on one hand, you have one of the worst massacres in history in colorado, but on the other hand, you've got a state that has executed exactly one person in almost a half a century. you have a state that has been very antideath penalty overall, that has three people on death row. and each of those killers killed far less people than this defendant. so, on each side, it was utterly

unpredictable. but i will say this, that colorado's death penalty statute by staging each phase of the penalty phase gives a defendant the most opportunity to avoid the death penalty. but procedurally, understand this, it came down to the wire, to the final stage, where the jury after considering and weighing aggravating and mitigating evidence has the power to still, even if it feels like there is compelling aggravating evidence, aggravating factors, can spare his life and give him life without parole. and that is exactly what happened because they could not reach an agreement. >> the defense argued holmes is mentally ill and that he was having a psychotic episode on the day of that mass shooting. you're watching "cnn newsroom." a catholic priest accused in an illegal adoption scheme is walking free. chile's so-called children of silence are still looking for

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people in chile want to know why a priest who's accused of stealing at least two babies and

possibly many more is not facing justice. the roman catholic priest admitted to facilitating illegal adoptions decades ago. rafael romo went to santiago to try to get some answers. [ bells ] >> reporter: enunciation parish in santiago is a church without a shepherd. fath this priest who wasn't until recently its head pastor, has been dismissed. the roman catholic priest admitted to being involved in illegal adoptions in the '80s. according to his order and chilean authorities, the priests could release two babies from their biological mothers, either through lies or coercion, and gave them in secret to adoptive families. a chilean prosecutor who investigated the case found that the priest was indeed involved in facilitating the illegal adoptions but ruled that the statute of limitations had ruled

out. the ruling puzzled many chileans and people are still questioning the recent decision to send the priest to argentina. when cnn tried to get an answer from the order, a priest hung up the intercom. so, we tracked down the order's leader. [ speaking foreign language ] he refused an interview and quickly drove into the order's house and closed the gate. chilean authorities say gionone is only one of many priests, nurses, doctors and others, that conspired to carry out illegal adoptions during the dictatorship of augusto pinochet in the 1980s and '90. the investigation is still open and the number of stolen children, officials say, could be in the thousands. in chile, they're known as the children of silence. constansa's looking for her

biological parents. her adoptive parents say they picked her up as a newborn in a santiago clinic. the clinic shut down years ago, and you can see the building is now in ruins. there are some paintings on the door, some graffiti. looking inside, the place is full of debris. she says she feels like a part of her will be missing until she finds her biological mother and the truth about her past. >> i don't want to, like, to change my name or change my last name or change my family. i just want to know who she was and how this happened. >> reporter: some of those responsible for the illegal adoptions from doctors to priests and nurses have died over the years. for those who are still alive, the statute of limitations is running out, and many fear they may never get justice or the truth about the children of silence. rafael romo, cnn, santiago, chile.

the former head of chile's secret police has died. manuel contreras headed the feared spy agency that tortured and killed thousands of people during the military dictatorship of augusto pinochet. contreras was serving a 500-year sentence for human rights abuses but remained unrepentant until his final days. contreras was 86 years old. u.s. car racing champion tony stewart is facing a wrongful death lawsuit one year after his car hit a fellow driver. kevin ward jr. got out of his car to confront stewart during the caution period of a dirt track race. ward's parents filed suit, saying stewart gunned the engine while approaching their son. stewart was never criminally charged in that incident. now to a brazen burglary against one of the world's top formula 1 stars. jenson button was asleep in a rented villa in the south of

france when nearly $500,000 of jewelry was apparently stolen from him. the f-1 star believes that gas was used to knock him out and pull off this daring theft. cnn's fred polite kagain has more. >> reporter: one of the top race drivers in the world robbed when most vulnerable. jenson button was asleep in a republicaned villa in france, his wife, jessica, and friends, also in the house. jenson, jessica and friends were on holiday in a rented villa in san trope when monday evening, two men broke into the property whilst they all slept and stole a number of items of jewelry, including, most upsettingly, jessica's engagement ring. button oo button's spokesman said it's worth alone hundreds of thousands of dollars. in total, they say $500,000 worth of jewelry may have been stolen. even more disturbing, button believes the burglars may have used gas to knock him and his guests out, according to his

spokesman. san trope is on the french riviera and frequented by the rich and famous, and break-ins happen quite frequently, says will gedies, who runs an international corporate protection agency. >> there have been a number of reported instance where gas has been used by intruders, burglars who are trying to obtain access to properties to burglarize, especially when the occupants are in residence. >> reporter: in 2006, burglars allegedly pumped sleeping gas into the cannes home of french soccer star patrick villera before breaking in. but the vice president of london's aneed cysts is skeptical. >> it would need to be delivered in enormous quantities to produce the effect that has been reported, and that would be very difficult. the delivery devices that we use in an operating theater would just not fit the bill for this purpose. >> reporter: whether or not gas

was used, button says he and his wife and friends didn't notice the break-in as it was going on and that all of them are shaken by the events. fred pleitgen, cnn, london. and here in the united states, the fbi is asking for the public's help to help solve a 25-year-old case. for the first time, the agency is releasing surveillance video, hoping to find 13 pieces of missing artwork, artwork that is worth $500 million. they were stolen from boston's isabella stewart gardner museum in 1990. the video shows a man being allowed inside the museum by a security guard the day before the theft. you also see a shot of his car, if you look closely, parked at the museum's back entrance. the museum is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the recovery of this missing artwork. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the search for missing

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." good to have you with us. i'm george howell. the headlines this hour. typhoon soudelor, it is barreling across taiwan, moving

toward mainland china. taiwan's central news agency says four people have been killed, four people are still missing. forecasters predict the storm will weaken before it makes landfall in china late saturday. in mali, at least six people are dead after armed islamic militants stormed two hotels on friday morning. ukraine's foreign ministry says one of its nationals is being held hostage. the united states mission in mali says one of its staffers was among the dead there. the capital of afghanistan was rocked by two bombings on friday, one of them a suicide attack on the city's police academy. a police spokesman says the bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of the building friday evening. afghan police say 40 cadets and civilians were killed or wounded. killed and wounded. and the taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack. a statement claiming to be from al qaeda's branch in bangladesh says the terror group is responsible for the death of

a blogger in dhaka. neloi neil is the fourth online writer who had criticized islam to be killed this year in that country. police say he was hacked to death in his apartment by five to six men. the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370 has entered a new phase now. cnn's pamela brown has more on that as well as the conflicting statements about the state of the investigation. >> reporter: tonight, french authorities on reunion island and nearby mauritius ramping up the search for more debris from mh-370. planes and boats scouring the ocean and coastal areas for hours. this captain not downplaying how hard this search will be. >> it is very difficult to undertake a search for a small object from the air. >> reporter: in malaysia, the transport minister doubling down, telling cnn his teams have not only confirmed the wing part

known as a flaperon is from the plane, but that more plane debris is in french custody. >> we managed to find additional debris, and this debris are all aircraft materials, window pane material, the cushion materials. so, once we collect it, immediately we hand it over to the military police. >> reporter: but french authorities on reunion island tell cnn objects were collected but no one has determined if they are relevant. >> breaking down the tug-of-war here, it appears that the additional debris is still on reunion island. i don't think that malaysia can say that is definitely from, even from an aircraft, much less flight 370, but i think the flaperon, malaysians are correct, there is very little doubt that that's from anything else. >> reporter: and frustration is growing in beijing, where chinese relatives of those on board are demanding answers. some crawling on hands and knees to the malaysian embassy.

this woman who lost her daughter pleading, "please, i beg you, bring my child back to me." and this woman saying nothing makes sense. even pointing out the passengers' cell phones worked and rang through weeks after the plane went down, adding she believes the passengers are still alive. but in the end, no one from the embassy showed up to meet with them. and another day ends with no new answers. >> that was our pamela brown reporting for us. earlier, my colleague, natalie allen, asked cnn safety analyst dav david soucie, if he thought the flaperon found on reunion island was from mh-370. take a listen. >> from what i've heard, yes, it is. there is not a lot of questioning amongst the colleagues that i've been speaking with about it. however, we are looking at waiting for what they're going to do in europe to tell us whether it is or not. >> and what do you think's

keeping them from saying that? >> well, there's two approaches to this, and as professional investigators, they're obligated to make sure that there's forensic evidence that it came from that specific aircraft. they can't use the rule of the fact that it's not anywhere else, so it must be here kind of thing, or they can't rule it out by saying that all the 777s are accounted for. what they're looking for is forensic evidence which gets to the science of what is the makeup of the paint that's on the aircraft, for example. does that match this particular flap? so, there's a lot more to it than just simply, yeah, i think that's the right part number. >> you know the families of those who have long been missing are definitely wanting 100% certainty on that, and we thank our analyst, david soucie, for his insight on that flaperon piece and the investigation. u.s. president barack obama is trying hard to sell the nuclear deal with tehran with congressional votes approaching. there is a setback, though.

a very influential democrat, senator chuck schumer of new york, announced that he will vote against it. cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta has this story. >> thank you. >> reporter: reporters were hustled outsi of the oval offic before the question could be asked about what president obama thinks about losing a key democrat on the iran nuclear deal, senator chuck schumer. it was during the gop debate -- >> no, megyn. >> reporter: -- the new york democrat dropped the news after leaking to "the huffington post" saying "i believe iran will not change. the vote to disapprove is the right one." he called the white house to inform the president. >> was not particularly surprising to anybody here at the white house, even if it was disappointing. >> reporter: schumer could pay a price for his defection. a slew of top former obama aides lashed out on twitter, rallying against schumer's expected rise to become the next top senate democrat. chuck schumer who said it was a mistake to pass obamacare, now

comes out against the iran deal? this is our next senate leader?" asked former obama speechwriter jon favreau. "it depends whether or not he pushes against the deal," a key obama aide told cnn. "he says he has the votes but something like this could change that." no disagreement at the white house. >> i wouldn't be surprised if there are certain members of the senate democratic caucus that will consider the voting record of those who say they would like to litead the caucus. >> reporter: but the vote is not expected to kill the deal. it is unlikely enough democrats will join the republicans to beat back a presidential veto. >> the president is going to veto it, and i do not believe at the end of the day that republicans will have the votes to override his veto. >> reporter: still, questions linger. cnn's fareed zakaria asked the president how he could put his faith in iran's ayatollah. he tweeted a picture of mr. obama with a gun pointed at his head. >> you don't negotiate deals

with your friends. you negotiate them with your enemies. and superpowers don't respond to taunts. superpowers focus on what is it we need to do in order to preserve our national security. and the national security of our allies and our friends. >> that was cnn's jim acosta reporting there. and as he mentioned, the president sat down with our own fareed zakaria. here's a quick snippet of that exclusive interview. mr. obama is standing by a controversial comparison that he made between republicans and hardliners in iran. listen. >> in your speech at american university, you made a comparison. you said that iran's hardliners were making common cause with republicans. it's come under a lot of criticism. mitch mcconnell says even democrats who oppose the deal should be insulted. >> what i said is absolutely true factually. the truth of the matter is, inside of iran, the people most opposed to the deal are the revolutionary guard, the quds

force, hardliners who are implacably opposed to any cooperation with the international community. the reason that mitch mcconnell and the rest of the folks in his caucus who oppose this jumped out and opposed it before they even read it, before it was even posted, is reflective of an ideological commitment not to get a deal done. >> you don't think -- >> and in that sense, they do have a lot in common with hardliners who are much more satisfied with the status quo. >> the iran nuclear deal is just one of the topics covered in fareed zakaria's interview with president barack obama. you can watch that global television exclusive interview sunday at 8:00 p.m. -- or in london, rather, 9:00 p.m. central european time. and for our viewers in the u.s., see the full interview at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn. one of the three men

convicted of kidnapping a school bus full of children in california back in 1976 has been paroled from prison. james schoenfeld, his brother and a friend ambushed a bus in chowchilla. that's a small farm town near fresno. then they sealed the children and a driver in a van that was buried in a quarry. the men were planning to demand a $5 million ransom, but everyone was able to escape unharmed. one of the survivors says schoenfeld's release sends the wrong message to his victims. the killing of a south african lion has angered much of the world, but the people of zimbabwe, where cecil lived, many of them have different concerns on what happened. we'll have that story. plus, singapore goes into its 50th year of independence, but for the first time without its fearless leader. pwhat've we got? 5. bp 64/40

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many people around the world were outraged by the recent killing of cecil the lion by an american dentist, but we wondered what the people of zimbabwe make it of all and found that many people there have a very different take. our david krctionmckenzie has t story. >> reporter: on the early-morning walk to school, rural zimbabwean children can face long distances and hidden threats. tanaka walks two miles each day. her mother is relieved when she makes it home. "i hope she can walk to school and come back safely," she says, "because of the wild animals." they live on the edge of hwange

national park, where cecil the lion was killed. they say lions are a pest. "if a lion is killed, i really don't care," says margaret, "because it destroys our cattle." their family grinds out a living after successive droughts decimated their savings and as foreign tourists pass them by. tourists and hunters travel down this road bringing big money for zimbabwe's wildlife, but the local communities here say they don't see a cent. in fact, it's money, not lions, on the mind of most people here. "our zimbabwean money is worthless," she tells me, "we can't use it." hyper inflation means now they use only american dollars and struggle with the high cost of living. this man saved three years to buy his van, but police want bribes all the time, he says, and it's getting worse.

>> there is no -- the life we are living here now is difficult. we can't live. >> reporter: like many here, he feels more attention should be put on the plight of zimbabwe's people, not on the plight of its lions. david mckenzie, cnn, hwange, zimbabwe. on sunday, singapore will celebrate 50 years of independence. the country's founding father, lee quan you, transformed the british colony into an economic powerhouse but passed away in march of this year. cnn's anders stevens has this story. >> reporter: this was singapore when li kwanyu became prime minister in 1959. a tiny former british colony about half the size of new york city with no natural resources. but li worked to his strengths, his people. >> i've got nothing except skilled manpower, infrastructure. i build up the infrastructure.

i educate the people. we have the best educated workforce anywhere in asia, and i would say within another ten years anywhere in the world. >> reporter: and this is singapore today. according to the world bank, the 36th biggest economy in the wor world, the 10 eighth biggest in terms of wealth per person. it's also consistently ranked internationally among the best places to work and do business. lee did it through strong economic policies and strong government. the so-called singapore model has its critics but also some very influential admirers. among them, the man considered the architect of china's economic transformation. >> as far as china is concerned, lee has been an inspiration for china's reform and opening to the outside world. in 1978, the late leader met with lee for the first time and he was very much impressed by

what he saw in singapore. >> reporter: but that economic success did come at a cost. lee kuan youw ruled with an iron fist and did not terate any dissent. he always said he did what he had to do. >> i'm trying to create in a third-world situation a first-world oasis. i am not following any prescription given me by any theory tuition on democracy or whatever. i work from first principles what will get me there. >> lee kuan yew did get singapore there, but as the young country celebrates its 50th anniversary, it must now map out where it goes from here without its founding father. andrew stevens, cnn, hong kong. it is a time change some people will not want to miss. kim jong-un wants to turn back time. coming up, why the north korean leader is ordering people to reset their clocks.

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jong-un, has created a new time zone that returns the reclusive country to its precolonial days. hala gorani explains why it's happening and the problems that time change could cause. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: a message from north korea's state-run television. from august 15th, the country will turn back the clocks, reverting to the time zone used before japan colonized the korean peninsula more than 100 years ago. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: across the border, south korea warned that things might not run like clockwork after the time shift, especially

in the shared industrial park north of the demilitarized zone, where it will be one time in north korea and another in the south. >> translator: there could be some problems caused in the matter of exchange between south and north korea, such as entering kaesong industrial complex. >> reporter: the half-hour shift backward will put north korea at 8 1/2 hours ahead of universal time. and this isn't the country's first intervention in time-keeping. instead of using the gregorian calendar, which puts us in the year 2015, north korea's calendar counts from the birth of founding leader kim il-sunil. he was born in 1912, making it north korea's year 104. hala gorani, cnn. an incredible discovery in the swiss alps. authorities have identified human remains of two japanese climbers who went missing 45

years ago. skeletal remains and climbing equipment, including this boot, were found at the foot of the matterhorn glacier in september. investigators conducted dna tests comparing the remains to samples from the victims' family members. the two climbers were only in their early 20s when they disappeared in 1970. a blizzard forced rescuers to abandon their search. mankind is finally headed to mars, in a way. on friday, a pair of researchers began a two-week simulation of "mission to mars" on a glacier in the austrian alps. at 3,000 meters above sea level, the glacier valley offers ideal conditions to replicate the red planet. researchers say they're excited for what they'll discover during the expedition. the austrian space forum says it could take another 20 to 30 years, though, before astronauts will be voyaging to mars.

we cannot take you to mars here, unfortunately, but we thank you for watching as we proudly cover news from around the world on this planet. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. for our viewers here in the united states, "cnn new day" is just ahead. and for viewers around the world, "amanpour" starts in just a moment. you're watching cnn, the world's you're watching cnn, the world's news leader. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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this is cnn breaking news. the breakings in overnight. donald dumped. gop front-runner donald trump is d d disinvited today. >> this after trump made new comments last night on "cnn tonight." as debate moderator megyn kelly. she pressed the real estate mogul about past controversial comments concerning women. here is what trump said last night about kelly to cnn's don

lemon. >> so i have, you know, she -- she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever, but she was, in my opinion, she was off base. >> in response to trump's comments, officials with red state, the event, said this. the organizers eric erickson said his comment was inappropriate. it's unfortunate to have -- to disinvite him but i don't want somebody on stage gets a hostile question from lady and his first inclination is to imply it was homeran. it was just wrong. wasting no time, a trump spokesperson fired back saying another weakness through being politically