ahead this hour, new rules, unhappy with the moderators and their questions. the republicans team up to try to change the debate format. boots on the ground for the first time. the veng concedes u.s. troops are fight on the ground against u.s. isis forces. the u.s. is once again locked in a war in iraq. plus it's called wtf and this space junk is on a collision course. we would like to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. "newsroom" l.a. begins right now.

>> we'll start with the latest on the u.s. presidential race and an apparent revolt by some republican candidates. aides from naum ber of campaigns plan to meet sunday in washington. they want to try to take more control from the republican national committee. the rnc has not been invited to the meeting. a few candidates angry with cnbc's moderators and their questions in wednesday's debate, including the front-runner, ben carson. >> despates are supposed to help the people get to know the candidates and get to know what's behind them and what their thinking process is, what their philosophy is. and what what it's turned into is a gotcha. that's silly. that's not really helpful for anybody. >> during the debate, one

moderator asked dr. carson about his ties to a controversial dietary supplement company. the entire neurosurgeon called it total propaganda that he had a ten-year relationship with the company. so drew griffin with our special investigations unit did some digging. >> ben carson says he doesn't have a special relationship with mannatech, but whatever he had sure has been profitable. since 2004, carson has delivered four paid speeches on behalf of the company. a company that sells vitamins, minerals and something it calls glyco nutrients through mannatech's nationwide system of the distributors. according to a speaker's bureau in washington, he was paid $42,000 for just one of those speeches. listen to what he said in this speech in 2004. >> let me just briefly delve into how i became associated with the products of this company. >> reporter: sound like someone

with no relationship to the company? carson goes on in this speech saying supplements helped cure his prostate cancer. and in 2014, he gave this interstrew, done with a company representative with the company's products on full display. the it's produced with music and video overlays of the company's product. >> i bhe gan to recognize that, yes, traditional medicine is good, but also looking at some addition of natural products, you know, making sure that people are well hydrated, making sure that people get the right amount of exercise. >> but mannatech, based outside of dallas is a company with a history of trouble, at least with one state regulator. in 2007, the state of texas filed this lawsuit, claiming sales associates lied with customers about the effectiveness of the suppleme supplements. the company says it knows there are illegal claims but refuses to stop making them.

two years later, mannatech settled without makiadmitting g. >> when they are studied they don't show any good. it's really difficult to prove that healthy people are healthier if they take supplements. >> after the debate, carson insisted mannatech didn't pay him because he was paid by a speaker's bureau to appear before sales conferences, including mannatech. he says he has no links to the company. >> it doesn't mean i'm endorsing them. it doesn't mean i have any special relationship with them. and there have been some group that was looked me multiple times. it doesn't mean that i have a special relationship or are involved with their product. >> they can easily go back and find out that i don't have any formal relationships with mannatech. >> we did check. all references from carson have been removed from the various

mannatech websites, the company says to comply with better election campaign laws. in a statement e-mailed to cnn, the company says, quote, dr. carson chose to participate in videos while attending corporate event where is he gave his personal testimony. he was not compensated for his participation in these videos. drew griffin, cnn, chicago. >> and a complete breakdown of the winners and losers, please head over to our website. you'll find erg there and a whole lot more than you could ever man. cnn.com/politics. for the first time, iran will be at the table joining the u.s., russia, saud rare yeah, and other nations trying to find a solution to the crisis. the main sticking point remains the future of president bashar al assad. western powers are pushing for a way forward without the syrian dictator, but russia and iran are his biggest supporters.

and so far have showed no hint they're ready to abandon him. the united nations says the death toll at syria's civil war stands at 250,000. meanwhile, the pentagon says the u.s. troops are in combat with isis forces in iraq. until now, the u.s. has characterized the americn roll as advise and assist. but the death of a u.s. commando in an operation has underscored the real nature of the u.s. mission. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara star has the very latest now from washington. helicopter forces loyal to bashar al assad pounding a suburb. bodies retrieved from mountains of rubble. in the north near the flash point city of aleppo, syrian army units repelled an isis attack according to iranian state media. russia has focused many of its

attacks here in western syria, part of its campaign to boost assad forces. but the cia director insists the russians know there is no military solution. >> i do believe paradoxically they felt as though they had the strength in assad before, in fact, he moved out. and despite what they say, it leads the russians to not see assad in a syrian's future. it could eventually mean more u.s. boots on the ground, closer to the frontlines. >> we won't hold back in supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against isis or constructing such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground. from the u.s. military, an admission that u.s. troops are already involved in more than just advising and assisting.

>> it's the name of the mission, combat air patrol. so of course it's combat. >> the pentagon is expected to increase more intelligent sharing and communication support, especially for kurds in both northern iraq and northern syria. a key u.s. goal helped the kurds in northern syria isolate in crucial areas around racca, isis' self-declared capital. one being discussed is to put u.s. advisers out in the field with smaller, more frontline groups of both iraqi and syrian kurdish fighters. and of course, that puts u.s. troops closer to a potential frontline, closer to combat. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> retired lieutenant colonel rick francona joins us now with more on this. thank you for being with us. the u.s. is willing to commit

more troops if boots on the ground. does this play into those talks in siena, washington is at least willing to up the anteif only a little? >> yeah, i think it does, but thing these are two separate items right now. i don't see how one supports the other. mr. kerry is having these talks while the defense department is ramping up syria. i don't see how one supports the other. >> we don't have the warning, if you like to the iranians and russians if there is no resolution then the u.s. is not going to walk away, that they will be more committed to the syrian free sources. >> i think everybody realizes that at some point in time, everyone is going to have to come to the table and sit down. the american operations is going to be anti-isis operations. i think we backed away from supporting the anti-regime

rebels. we're focused on going after isis. and what we're going to be doing with the direct actions the secretary of defense mentioned and our advise and assist missions are going to be focused on isis. i think we're looking at syria as more of a long-term political shugs solution. >> chairman mao said it's always darkest before it's totally black. maybe now there's a glimmer of light that finally, if there's going to be a solution here, it has to involve the americans and the russians and it has to involve the iranias and the saudis? >> we have one group, the syrians supporting. it's interesting, you have the russians there, the turks and the iranians. we know where the russians stand and the iranians stand. both want continued access to syria. his family comes from that shiaa area. remember, iranians consider themselves guardians of all

things shia. the russians, on the other hand, want access to have syria because of that naval port. they would be willing to through assad under the bus, as long as they have a say in the future of what happened in syria. they're working at cross purposes. the turks just want to make sure the kurds don't have a country. do we represent the rebels? i'm not sure. >> you say the russians are willing to throw assad under the bus. that would sort of be a pretty big change in policy, i guess. but at least now is there an ef evolution that assad can stay maybe just for at least a time? that's going to be necessary? >> i think that's going to be the russian talking point, we're willing to have some sort of transition government with bashar al assad at the head. but eventually we're going to look at some sort of mechanism that moves him out of there. now the iranians may balk at that. but in the end, their national

interests are served by access to syria yeah. that can come in the form of a new government, a different government. it doesn't have to be bashar al assad. i would say i would be worried riebt now for my future. >> finally, with the word that we're getting with the defense department these advise and assist role, everyone is involving mission creep. this is comparison to vietnam, right back into the quagmire again. do you see it differently? >> no, i don't. i see these direct missions just exactly that. i think we're going to see more in iraq. advisers are the magic word that remember from vietnam. this is how it starts, john. >> yes, we remember it well.

>> a commercial padgett caught fire on the runway with 101 people onboard. take a look at this. thick black smoke engulfing the flight. 17 people were injured including one child. here's cnn's pamela brown with more on how the frightening incident unfolded. >> engine on fire, engine on fire! >> reporter: smoke pours from a 757 as passengers scramble to the emergency evacuation slides. the flight was about to take off from port lauderdale airport. >> we're doing a 180 here and awaiting instructions. >> his left engine is on fire. his plane was loaded with passengers. they were taxiing to the north runway to depart for caracas. >> moments before the fire, a pilot on another plane on the

same runway noticed fuel was pouring from the engine. >> hey, dynamic out of the left engine it looks like it's leaking a lot of liquid, i don't know if it's fuel. but fluid leaking out of the left engine. >> after the frightened passengers scurried down the plane's chute, some were taken away on stretchers and wheelcha wheelchairs, while others were anyone to walk away from the jet. the fort lauderdale airport was quickly shut down. stunned passengers on oh planes filmed the scene unfolding. the emergency crew extinguished the fire before investigators could move in to find out what happened and why. >> it's not something you can readily determine from the cockpit. it's just not possible to see that until you have a fuel loss situation. >> dynamic started just five years ago in greensboro, north carolina, and only goes to two international destinations from the u.s. -- venz go ahead and

giana. its fleegt consists of boeing 757s. the plane that caught fire was 29 years old. it was a similar scene in las vegas last month when a british airways planes left engine caught fire on the runway. 13 of the 159 passengers were taken to the hospital, mainly from going down the plane's slides. cnn, washington. now the video you won't see on any other tv network, a new view inside a texas restaurant y a deadly biker brawl broke out in may. you can see bikers open fire. others running for their lives. police say they confiscated 480 webs that day. one officer wrote in his report that there were so many gun, nooif, brass knuckles and other weapons they got in the way of the crime scene. one biker said harsh words turned into flying fists and then gunshots.

>> it was ho riffic. i looked to the guy to the left of mine. i said we've got to get off the sidewalk or we're going to die here. >> close to 200 people were arrested almost six months ago. no one was charged in relation to the nine people who were killed. still to come on cnn, when one becomes two. china announces an end to one of the world's biggest attempts at social engineering. also, there are millions of pieces of space junk floating around the earth and one piece is about to come crashing down. all those details a little later this hour. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought.

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china's population right now is more than 1.3 billion. steven jane joins me now live in beijing. he is an only child himself. so i guess steven when you heard the news from the communist party, did it come as much of a surprise to you and i guess the rest of the country? >> well, it was more surreal moment when it was reporting the breaking news as a member of the first generation of that policy talking about the end of that policy. now, when i was growing up in shanghai in the '80 s, we accepted this policy as a matter of fact. we were taught about it and we bought the government line that the millions of preventive births because of this policy helped china grow its economy and improve its people's living standards. so it was not until years later that i found out the more sinist sinister, the darker side of this policy, especially in terms of the brutal enforcements in the country side. we're talking about forced

abortions and forced sterilizations. that's why a lot of activists and ngos dedicated years of their efforts trying to change this policy. now change has come, but not probably because of the reasons they would like to see. the government is changing its policy to address a demographic change. they're facing an aging society at a time the economy is slowing down. the party made it very clear in that document they released after a four-day leadership meeting, they are making one couple two children a nationwide policy so address the aging population and to promote a more balanced population growth. john? >> very quickly, steven, what was it like living as a generation of only children? >> i got to say as the early generation of that policy, we were not spoiled. we still lived very close to our

peers and playing and studying together. just like siblings of the huge household, unlike later generations who probably felt a lot more lonely in their luxury high rise apartments. john? >> that is so not true, i know you. i know you were spoiled growing up. i used to live in beijing. i know that. china has been hinting that this day may not be too far away, but just because chinese families will soon be able to have more than one child doesn't necessarily mean they want to. >> every chinese family revolves around a child. like both her parents before her, tao is an only child. >> once my cousin visited and we shared a bed for a few nights said her dad. i really enjoyed that feeling and i wished i had a brother.

but for decades, the communist party has relentlessly pushed its one child policy. when propaganda like this didn't work, they used heavy fines and forced abortion to curb population growth. now some experts call the one-child policy a glaring mistake. >> china has already began to feel an unfolding crisis in terms of its population change. the one policy gambled with the economic future. the world's second biggest economy faces a rapid aging population and shrinking work force. just 15 years, it will be more than 400 million elderly here in china. and many chinese feel the one child policy is out of step. >> so the party has changed its tune. pushing a new ideal family on tv

with a daughter and a son. where more is better. millions are now eligible for a second child. they should be ideal candidates. but housing in beijing is costly. and they say china is too competitive. good schools, too expensive to even contemplate a second child. >> many is only part of the problem, she says. your energy and time is also important. we both have to work. it's hard enough to raise her as a success and we'll be miserable if we have to go through that again. david mckenzie, cnn, beijing. >> in zimbabwe, at least 22 more elephants have been poisoned with cyanide, raising concerns of after new poaching trend and warning, you may find the video you're about to see disturbing. officials say the elephants were found in a remote area a national park on sunday.

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thank for staying with us. you're watching "cnn newsroom." it's time for your headlines. in the u.s., several republican presidential candidates say they're frustrated with the way recent debates have been going. campaign aides plan to meet sunday in washington to try to talk more control from the republican national committee. the rnc has not been invited. some candidates slammed cnbc and its moderators for the questions they asked during wednesday ease debate. in fort lauderdale, a commercial jet caught fire with 101 people onboard. the dynamic flight burst into flames as it taxied for takeoff. an investigation is under way. we have obtained this surve surveillance video from a biker praul in may.

more than 200 people have been arrested and so far no one has been charged in the waco, texas deaths. new talks aimed at syria's war is set in just a few hours. iran is attending the meeting for the first time and will join diplomats from the united states, russia, saudi arabia and other countries. the syrian government will not be at the table. > . >> a u.s. intelligence official says vladimir putin is winging it in syria. >> we're expected to know that a decision has been made by a foreign head of state before he makes it. putin's case in point, i think he's very impulsive, very opportunistic. it's a debate, but i fernlly

question whether he has some long-term strategy or whether he is being very opportunistic on a day to day basis. >> clapper also says the u.s. intelligence community was not a surprise when russia started air strikes. >> the european parliament narrowly voted thursday to call on its members to drop criminal charges and pro-helicopter him from extradition. authorities want to prostitute him for leaking information about government surveillance programs. the vote is not binding but tweeted out it's a game changer. two years ago, the world watched as edward snowden spent weeks in the moscow airport waiting for asylum. now a syrian refugee family is facing a similar situation as

they wait to find out what will happen next. >> stuck in limbo at a moscow airport, a family of syrian refugees with only their phones to plead their plight. >> we're from syria, we're living in airport and this is our life. we are living in airport in terminal in transition. >> for the past 50 days, they have been held in a transit area while authorities check their documents. >> i have two brothers and one sister and father and mother. we want you to help us, please. it's very cold for living ar sleeping. it's very cold. >> his father hassan is desperate. we need your help, he says. because here there is no rights of refugees. no one listens to us. i don't know, it's such a strange law. the airport is no stranger to

surprise guests. stuck in its bureaucracy. controversial whistleblower edward snowden was here for 40 days before the russians finally let him in. the family's lawyer say border officials claim their passports were bogus. but subsequent checks with damascus proved both them and their visas valid. the family has been treated no differently to other syrian refugees. and expect their case to be resolved soon. >> levin is the youngest, just three years old. the children's aunt lives in russia, has a home for them, is trying to help them. charity workers have been delivering some food and toys, and for the past few days, the family have been allowed to spend nights in an airport capsule hotel. their big fear, they may get get sent back to the war they fled.

>> please help us. there is very bad. they didn't give it anything for us. no water, no food, no anything. please help us. >> for now, lost in transit, a limbo with a very uncertain future. >> nick robertson, cnn, moscow. >> a short break. when we come back, the runaway u.s. army blimp brought down by gunshots and now the entire blimp program could be deflated as well. also a thick choking haze over south asia. the latest from indonesia when we come back.

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now investigating what caused a military blimp to break loose from its moorings on wednesday. this incident has critics asking yet again if this radar technology is worth the price tag. >> cnn has learned in an attempt to finish deflating the mul multimillion dollar balloon left tangled in dense thatches of police fired shotguns at it. an embarrassing ending for what some are now suggesting is a defense department boondoggle. >> when they were shooting, i didn't want to watch it. it was sad it's like shooting your doog. >> officials at norad are not saying yet what caused the aircraft, which stretches nearly the length of a football field, to become untethered from its base in maryland, drifting more than 160 miles north, tearing down power lines and destroying property before thufmping down n northeastern pennsylvania. the aircraft was half of a pair of unmanned blimps, each carrying sophisticated radar

onboard. blimps designed to work in tandem. >> the first is to do broad surveillance and look up for threats over the horizon about 340 miles. the second aerostat is designed to hone in on a potential threat and fuel it for another web system like a fighter jet even a patriot missile defense system. and the radar is contained in a pod underneath right here. >> norad officials say it was the second targeting blimp which came unmoored. the two errstads are designed to detect cruise missiles, low-flying aircraft and project tiles. now critics are calling the crashed white blimp a white elephant. a pentagon report cited its low system reliability. and an l.a. times investigation published last month said the program was slow to roll out, inefficient and expensive, costs taxpayers $2.7 billion.

the times report says the blimps can't distinguish friendly aircraft from threatening ones. still some independent analysts defend the program. >> the system lab excruciatingly tested successfully at white sands, against simulated targets, real targets, and it does the job it was designed to do. >> back in april, the jalens missed its chance to do that when a florida man piloted a gyro contin gyrocopter on to the grounds of washington, the blimp should have been able to detect. but it was not functioning that day. they were going through a software upgrade. >> we pressed ratheon, the manufacturer of the radar for the blimps to respond to criticism of the program. they referred us to norad. norad officials stress the blimps are one year into a three-year test period and they haven't yet determined their effectiveness.

brian todd, cnn, washington. >> thick haze has blanketed southeast asia for week ps it's the result of illegal and intentional wildfires set mostly on indonesian islands to clear the land for the production of pulp, paper and palm oil. we have more on this developing story. it starts raining and they say this is the cleanest air that they have had there for months. so i guess is that the end of the problem with the haze? >> john, that's absolutely right. and right now a little bit of good news, there's a rain shower coming down. this place in borneo, the epicenter of some of the worst of the haze, we saw numbers here, pollution index readings up above 2,000 over the past few week ps .and that's five or six times the hazardous level. but i want you to take a look behind me. what's absolutely remarkable. we talk about the haze and the

pollution and tens of millions of people living in harm's way. it all starts here. this is one example of the carbon-rich soil that when it's dried out, when it's cleared, when it's drained turns into a tinderbox ignites. most of these fires set illegally. we saw a local team of the firefighters head out here. we're in an airport on the outskirts of the city. there were smoldering spots. smoke is coming out. why these fires are so challenging to fight and why it's not as simple as, you know, taking a hose and fighting the burning trees is 245 pete burns not only at the surface but underground. we saw their efforts last about 90 minutes, mixing water and chemicals together, kind of a frothy mix targeting all the smokey spots. they had some success and moved on. this is just one fire, john. i have to mention across the country over the past few weeks we've seen tens of thousands being here on the ground.

it helps you understand just how tough this fight is. >> there's a lot of anger and it's being directed squarely at indonesia. that's ground zero for the fires. with the indonesians capable of doing anything to try to stop these illegal burns? >> john, i have to say it really starts at community level. what's absolutely remarkable about being here in this community is the am of dedication you have, not only from disaster officials, military police, but also volunteers. we talked to one gentleman, he's from the island of java from the other side of the country who came here seven days ago. says everybody needs to do their part to combat these fires and to try to stop this illegal purn burning.

it happens year after year. will they now take steps to stop this from .haing in the future. it's a balancing act between economic growth and caring for the environment. zblon. >> economic growth and air to breathe. okay, david, thank you. david malco, thank you. >> we go to iraq where heavy rain has left parts of baghdad flooded. people could be seen driving and walking through flooded streets as they try to get to higher ground. the hateful lasted for more than ten hours. don't often get a lot of rain in baghdad. let's go to derek van dam on this. they wouldn't know how to deal with that. that's just a very rare occurrence. >> as if the thousands of displaced iraqis don't have enough to deal with already. this is what they had to contend with on thursday as heavy rain moved through. also flooding some of the street, having to create concerns for health problems as well.

here's iraq, iran. you can see the satellite estimated hateful totals in excess of 50 to 70 millimeters. when baghdad typically this time of year for the month of october only receives about 5 to 8 millimeters. a slow-moving storm system to blame. fortunately, that is moving east of baghdad. a popular holiday celebrated across the world, this being halloween, october 31. and believe it or not, there's a near miss asteroid that's going to fly precariously close to the earth, enter asteroid 2015-tb-145. and no, this is not a trick. it's more of a treat, in fact. this particular asteroid could be seen by you with a typical

device at hope, just look into the sky early on saturday morning to perhaps see this with your own telescope. we added a few effects with this particular asteroid. it doesn't look like a jack-o-lantern by any mean. it's 400 meters wide. this is as tall as the sears tower. and again, as i already mentioned it's flying precariously close to mother earth. in fact, over 480,000 kilometers away from us, which is a near miss, believe it or not. only 1,000 kilometers outside of the orbit of the moon. so a little bit too close to call for me and too close for comfort, john. but an awesome thing to see if you're an astronomer or just a wannabe scientist who wants to see something phenomenal. >> that's an interesting looking asteroid. >> you didn't know asteroids

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they worked out exactly where something like this is going to impact. how did they do it? >> we had atmospheric models. nothing is perfect. so there's going to be a pretty big probable, that is a big ellipse or circle where it might hit. fwu likely it will all burn up in the atmosphere, but there could be a few pieces that survive. >> and we're looking off the coast of sri lanka, about 100 miles or so? don't go fishing? >> yeah, it might be good to avoid that area when the impact is predicted. you never know. ite's pretty small chance you would actually get hit. if you did, it's probably just your karma. >> so you deserved it basically.

>> how do they know that. >> there's some speculation it could be a spent third stage from one of the apollo moon missions that's been going around since lunar space for this many decades. because it's in a highly elliptical orbit. and so that's kind of what causes it to come in so sharply. >> the official name is wt, a bunch of numbers and then f. how did they come up with wtf. >> i think it's appropriately named. however, at the same time, you have to remember that there's a lot of space degree up there and this is just one piece. sflg are this is a kind of larger piece than normal. and so they're keeping tabs on it. >> how much junk is up there? and how far away are we from

that day a big piece comes down and we're all wiped off the face of the planet. >> we don't have to worry about space degree too much. spent boosters like this one and smaller pieces down to a grain of sand. what might be a bigger concern is on hall lean we'll have an asteroid come within a little bit more than a moon's distance from the earth. on a cosmic scale, that's pretty small. but it's kind of, again, it's kind of a karma thing. the dinosaurs were wiped out 300 million years ago. you can look at that two ways. we're either due or we've got a lot of time left. >> i don't know what the dinosaurs did wrong. good to speak to you. resident space geek. thanks, mate. one u.s. astronaut has hit a major milestone high above the earth. he's now broken a u.s. record

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passenger airplane that caught on fire on a florida runway. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. "newsroom" starts right now. and a good day to you. we begin this hour with the high level talks that are playing out in vienna. diplomats there are set to resume talks in just a couple hours' time. on the complex civil war inside syria. >> some 18 nations plus the european union were invited to the meeting. and for the first time, iran is sitting at the table as well. the country's foreign minister jabad zarif had this to say about iran's invitation. >> we believe that iran is a government and a country that has been a positive force in the region. and you cannot put conditions on iran's presence on the talks. therefore, no conditions were placed on our attendance at these talks. and if there had been, we would

not have accepted that. >> here is a look at some of the other key players in these critical talks. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has described the situation in syria as, quote, hell. his russian counterpart sergey lavrov is also attending as his country's role in the conflict intensifies. >> saudi arabia, a key backer to opposition to president bashar al assad is also there, as is turkey, another country battling to contain the spillover from the war next door. >> for more on these talks, let's go live to make. cnn's nic robertson standing by for us live this hour. nic, good to have you with us. the western powers at the table, they insist that bashar al assad must go for any sort of solution ordeal to be reached. but we know where russia and iran stand on this. is there any talk about how these nations can even strike any sort of deal when they are so clearly divided on this single critical issue? >> there is a russian

perspective to this. and that russian perspective is, and i was asking the foreign ministry spokesperson precisely about this issue just two days ago. they believe that the united states and the others in opposition to president bashar al assad are no longer saying simply assad must go, but now believe that he could be there as a sort of transition figure. so there is perhaps some wiggle room of understanding there. of course, how long is that transition, who replaces him, what is the process to make it happen? the russians are insisting that the war has to stop first, or at least terrorism has to be defeated first. that's the way that they're framing it. having spoken also to syrian politicians who are involved in the periphery, but are also talking with russians about this as well. and i would couch them as being the moderate opposition. their sense is that russia is ready to see assad go during a

transition. the question now is iran, and iran is the country that is most wedded to assad. it sees its national security as a senior military commander in iran said over the last few days intertwined with syria. they have committed troops. they have committed money. and they see bashar al assad as a vital ally linking them to their ally hezbollah in neighboring lebanon. so, yes, that issue of assad, how long transition, can he, will he go. that's going to be core issue there is one point of agreement, and it does seem that everyone agrees that isis are a danger to syria and a danger to the region as well, george. >> and nic, let's talk more about iran. the simple fact that iran has been invited to the table a dramatic shift in u.s. policy? or does this have more to do with russia's influence in this situation? >> it's certainly an evolution in the u.s. position.

if we go back to the geneva talks in the beginning of 2014, almost two years ago now, iran was excluded. the united states is in the position now in vienna of having invited iran. but it does seem russia's military invention began in syria a month ago today to this day. and the military momentum that they have sort of created or try to give the appearance of creting on the ground, they have now try to build on to create a political momentum. and that perhaps has a lot to do with how they're trying portray this issue. their intervention in syria, how they're trying to play it domestically. it does seem that military intervention followed by the political push has followed by these talks or played a large role in it. and for their part russia has said all along that iran should be at the talks. sergey lavrov, the foreign minister met with mohammed zarif late yesterday in vienna.

how did the talks go? he used one word, perfect. i think we can expect the talks during the rest of today to be perhaps slightly less than perfect. >> all eyes will be on those talks. nic robertson live in moscow. nic, thank you so much for the reporting and context. the top spy in the u.s. says russian president vladimir putin is, quote, winging it in syria. director of national intelligence james clapper spoke exclusively with cnn's jim sciutto. >> we're expected to know that a decision has been made by a foreign head of state before he makes it. putin's a case in point. i think he is very impulsive, very opportunistic. it's a debate. but i personally question whether he has some long-term strategy, or whether he is -- you know, being very opportunistic on a day-to-day basis. and i think his intervention

into syria is another manifestation of that. >> clapper also told jim the u.s. intelligence community was not surprised when russia started to launch air strikes in syria a month ago. and in the uk, the head of the british intelligence agency says that his country is facing an unprecedented security problem. a three dimensional terror threat from syria. >> during a rare public speech in london, mi-5 chief andrew parker said that isis and isis-inspired terrorists are planning attacks to result in mass casualties at home, oversea, and online. his speech comes ahead of an important parliamentary debate. cnn's diana magnay explains from london. >> reporter: there were two takeaways from andrew parker's comments, what he said and the fact that he is actually saying it. this is the head of mi-5, britain's domestic spy agency. this is somebody who doesn't normally talk. the reason he is saying it is because he wants the public behind him for a debate that is due to take place in parliament

next week on greater powers for the intelligence and security agencies in cyberspace. he says that technology has moved faster than the legal framework, that there are dark corners of the web where terrorists are having conversations, where the intelligence agencies, even with the legal warrants don't have the technical wherewithal because of issues liken cryption to monitor what is going on. so he wants greater powers of surveillance. this is something that internet service providers, telecom companies have huge problems with. so do privacy watchdogs because of issues like privacy, civil liberties. but that is why the uk parliament will be debating it next week. and that is why he wants to make clear that this threat is real and growing. diana magnay, cnn, london. we're going to move now to a runway in florida. and how about the video of this airplane and what happened just before it was set to take off. >> scary. >> this airplane caught fire and 17 people were injured, including a child as they

quickly exited. >> you just look at all the smoke coming from that plane. the engine of the boeing 767 that burst into flames just moments before the plane was set to take off for venezuela. cnn's randi kaye has more on what went wrong. >> reporter: a pilot with a keen eye notices the first sign of trouble. fuel leaking from the plane taxiing in front of him. dynamic airways flight 405. he radios it in. >> hey, dynamic, out of the left engine looks like it's leaking a lot of fuel. fluid leaking out of the left engine. >> reporter: air traffic controllers contact flight 405. >> do you copy? >> yes, sir, we copy. we'll probably need to go back to the ramp. >> reporter: but before they could -- >> engine is on fire, engine is on fire! >> fire rescue units received the call at 12:34 for a reported engine fire aboard the jet. our units deployed.

within two minutes, our first units were on scene. >> reporter: there they find a boeing 767 on fire, right on the runway at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport. thick black smoke spewing out of the jet's left side and into the sunny florida sky. all of it forcing an evacuation of the 101 passengers and crew. the jet's emergency slides are deployed. within minutes, everyone is out. some lucky enough to simply walk away. others were taken on stretchers and in wheelchairs. more than a dozen were taken to the hospital. one with serious burns. meantime, fire crews doused the plane with water and special white foam to knock the fire down. it covers the tarmac, but leaves the plane's burned out engine on full display. the plane was taxiing out for takeoff, on its way from florida to caracas, venezuela when the engine suddenly caught fire. passengers on other airplanes nearby captured the terrifying

scene. posting pictures and video on twitter. many writing simply "plane on fire." both runways were closed. the airport shut down until late afternoon when the north runway is reopened. at least 111 flights delayed. nearly 50 canceled. and we're learning more about dynamic airways. it only started about five years ago. it has two international destinations from the united states. one to venezuela, where this plane was going, and the other to guyana. this particular plane we have learned is 29 years old. we don't know if the engine that caught fire is the same age, or maybe perhaps it had been replaced. we tried calling the airline for comments on what happened here. they would not comment at all. reporting from ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport, i'm randi kaye. back back to you. a biker brawl in texas that

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we have dramatic video for you. it shows one of the bloodiest afternoons in the history of american motorcycle clubs. >> but first this is what it looked like as police were making close to 200 arrests. this after two rival clubs, biker clubs, got into a deadly shoot-out at a suburban restaurant in waco, texas. nine people were killed. but here is the thing. at this point, no one has been charged. for the people who were killed in that biker brawl. >> ed lavandera of cnn walks us

through the video, and shares new details from the police report. and we want to warn you. some viewers might find the video disturbing. >> reporter: this was the scene inside the twin peaks restaurant in may, just before the violent shoot-out that killed nine people and ended up in the mass arrests of 177 bikers. a fight and shoot-out erupts just off camera between a group of motorcycle clubs called the bandidos and the cossacks. the reaction tells the story of the chaos and horrific scene that unfolds as the gunshots start exploding. members of the cossacks club are sitting on this patio. they duck for cover. some grab firearms and other weapons. one biker is seen on the surveillance video running through the patio and firing a shot toward the parking lot. dozens of bikers rush inside the building, hide in bathrooms and the restaurant kitchen. john wilson is the president of the waco area cossacks motorcycle club.

he was on the twin peaks patio that day. >> the whole incident probably didn't last more than 90 seconds. it seemed like an hour when you're laying there and people are getting shot around you and bullets are whizzing by you. >> reporter: in dozens of interviews, they blame their rivals for starting the deadly melee. bodies left in the parking lot by toppled motorcycles, hundreds of weapons all over the place. handguns left hidden in the restaurant toilets. cnn has obtained thousands of documents, many too graphic to show and surveillance video giving us the most detailed accounts of what unfolded last may. waco police and prosecutors have consistently defended the mass arrests of the 177 bikers that day, all charged with organized criminal activity. >> i think you can see by the number of weapons that we have recovered from here today, they didn't come here to eat and have a good time with their family.

they came here for a reason. we think part of that reason was a criminal activity. >> but many of the bikers and their attorneys say investigators and prosecutors overreacted by carrying out mass arrests. some say these videos show the vast majority are innocent of the criminal charges. >> they just up and arrested everybody before they determined who was involved. >> reporter: these are just some of the videos investigators are using to piece together what happened that day five months ago, a shoot-out that one witness said looked like the gunfight at the o.k. corral. ed lavandera, cnn, waco, texas. >> it's just sickening to see. and too many scenes like that, of course, in the united states. >> it's really unfortunate. there are talks about things that should be done, can be done. we'll just have to see what happens. but these things reoccur so many times. in washington, the u.s. house of representatives formally elected its new speaker representative paul ryan. the 45-year-old republican from

wisconsin says he will try to unite a divided house. >> to me, the house of representatives represents what is best of america. the boundless opportunity to do good. but let's be frank. the house is broken. we're not solving problems. we're adding to them. and i am not interested in laying blame. we are not settling scores. we are wiping the slate clean. >> ryan replaces john boehner, who has become known in part for crying publicly. he came prepared this time with a box of tissues. >> i leave with no regrets, no burdens. if anything i leave the way i started. just a regular guy, humbled by the chance to do a big job. >> boehner left the new speak

area parting gift. on wednesday, the house approved a budget deal, thank goodness, which eliminates the possibility of default. and if you're wondering, he did shed a tear or two. >> but he had the tissues this time. so good for mr. boehner. let's take a live look right now at the u.s. senate. at this point, he is still talking, i should say. but lawmakers have just voted to break republican presidential candidate rand paul's filibuster of an $80 billion budget agreement. the deal would raise the debt ceiling and lower the risk of government shutdown in december. on the campaign trail, jeb bush is now in damage control. critics say he just didn't deliver during the debate on thursday during a conference call with donors. he admitted he could have done better. >> but two people on the call tell cnn that mr. bush says his campaign is a-okay. brianna keilar has more.

>> reporter: jeb bush is back on the trail today, trying to connect with new hampshire voters. >> it's about fixing problems. it's about solving problems. it's about bringing people together rather than tearing them apart. it's not about the big personalities on the stage. it's not about performance. it's about leadership. and the leader today in this country needs to be a unifier. >> this after critics, include manage republicans, are panning his third debate performance. >> i'm running with heart. i'm not a performer. they're looking for an entertainer in chief, i'm probably not the guy. >> reporter: bush struggled to make a mark, and gave marco rubio a huge opening. >> marco, when you signed up for this, this was a six-year term. and you should be showing up to work. literally, the senate, what is it, like a french workweek? you get three days where you have to show up? you can campaign, or just resign and let someone else take the job. >> i don't remember you ever complaining about john mccain's vote record. the only reason you're doing it

now is we're running for same position. and someone has convinced you that attacking me is good for you. >> in a move that stung more -- >> the most principled senate leader i know, marco rubio. >> reporter: but five years and a campaign later -- >> his record of attendance was low prior to his announcement of his campaign. and i just think that's wrong. >> reporter: bush, the once presumed front-runner who raised more than $25 million for his campaign and is back by a superpac that hauled in more than 100 million has had to cut payroll costs by 40%, and has dropped sharply in the polls. >> it's not on life support. we have the most money. we have the greatest organization. we're doing fine. >> reporter: now some political observers are concluding that bush's presidential prospects are doomed, even as he tries to project confidence he can make a come back. >> there are two types of politicians there are the talkers and there are the doers. i wish i could talk as well as some of the people on the stage, the big personalities on the

stage. but i'm a doer. >> reporter: brianna keilar, cnn, portsmouth, new hampshire. wind and rain are helping to disperse some of the thick haze which has blanketed southeast asia for weeks. >> the haze is the result of illegal and intentional wildfires set mostly on indonesian islands to clear the land once again for the production of pulp paper and palm oil. palm oil, of course certainly controversial. with more on this developing story, let's turn to cnn's david maoko. he is live in indonesia. hello, david. >> hi, natalie. we've been talking for weeks about these fires and the haze. they have sickened so many people, upwards of 500,000. some 40 million people living across indonesia living in harm's way. smog stretching from thailand all the way to the philippines. natalie, it all starts here in

the lands. we were out with volunteer firefighters. our cameraman climbing aboard the fire truck as they raced to the scene here just outside the city of roughly a quarter of a million people. the tricky part was once they got here. it's not what you would expect with flames at the surface. peat, that carbon rich soil, it smolders. it burns below the surface. while they're spraying it with water. while they're spraying it with chemicals, they're trying to knock the spots down there, is a chance it could pick up right again. it's been raining again this afternoon here. and we've seen the land behind us, the land they just sprayed smoking once again. it's great to see these efforts and that commitment. but experts here in indonesia say water bombing and firefighters on the ground just aren't what they need. what they really need, natalie, is a whole lot of rain. >> clean air once again for the people there, not to mention the endangered animals in that region as well. david molko for us, thank you so

much. >> you're watching "cnn newsroom." and still to come this hour, china announces an end to one of the world's biggest attempts at social engineering. we'll explain. also ahead, an imprisoned saudi blogger wins a top human rights award as his family says they expect his punishment of one thousand lashes to start up again soon. we'll have his story. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive?

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meetings for the first time as well. joining diplomats from the united states, from russia, saudi arabia and other nations. the syrian government and the syrian opposition, though, will not have seats at the table. some truly terrifying moments for passengers on board this commercial jet in ft. lauderdale, florida as the plane caught fire on the runway shortly before it was set to take off for venezuela. more than a dozen people were injured as they scrambled out the emergency exit of the dynamic international airways airplane. >> scary moments on that plane. the head of the british intelligence agency says that his country is facing an unprecedented terror threat. during a rare public speech, mi-5 chief andrew parker said that isis extremists, that they're planning attacks to result in mass casualties against the uk at home, overseas, and online. his comments come ahead of a crucial parliamentary debate on beefing up communications surveillance. for decades, china's

communist government has restricted most families to just one child. but now couples will be allowed two children. >> officials say it's because of an aging population. in the next 15 years, it's estimated that china will have more than 400 million people over the age of 60. the one child policy began in the 1970s to control population growth. >> china had a runaway population. it's by far so crowded and densely populated that it had a real issue. and from the time that this policy was enacted, the population has gone up 400 million people. so i think one has to understand the context of this. now china's population is stable. thank goodness, because the stresses on the environment are enormous. the water stresses and other challenges of climate change and

so on. china has succeeded in stabilizing the population. it could even gently decline in later decades. >> and undoubtedly, this was a controversial control policy that had a heavy price to pay. government data shows that since 1971, doctors performed at least 336 million legally mandated abortions. sterilized 196 million men and women, and inserted 403 million intrauterine devices. >> another impact, an estimated 113 million so-called ghosts in china. these are people born without any official documentation. steven jiang is joining me live from beijing. steven grew up shortly after the restriction began. so steven, you have personal experience with this. and let's talk about the impact this one child law has had. and now why china is changing it. >> well, natalie, it was

actually surreal yesterday when i was reporting this breaking news. as a member of the first generation of the policy talking about the end of the same policy. now when i was growing up in shanghai in the 1980s, we just accepted this policy as matter of fact. we were taught about it in school, and we had to be tested about this policy in exams. we were also buying the government line that the millions of prevented births really helped china grow its economy and improve its people's livelihood. it was not until years later that i found out the more sinister, the darker side of this policy. especially in terms of brutal enforcements in the countryside in the forms of forced abortions and forced sterilizations and things like that. but, you know, there are activists dedicated years of their efforts trying to get this policy abolished. now the change has come. but probably not because of the reasons they have hoped for.

the government has made it very clear the party made it clear the reason they're doing this now is to address demographic shifts. they're facing a double whammy of a shrinking workforce and an aging society at a time when the economy is slowing down. so the party in a document released after a four-day leadership meeting saying they are making this one couple two children policy a nationwide policy to address the issue of the aging population and to promote more balanced growth. natalie? >> and it's interesting, steven. your story is interesting the way you were taught about it in school. had no idea that it went into the schools like that. so what is the reaction from people? they were used to this one thing. they might not have liked it. but now all of the sudden it's changed. and will people change with it? >> well, natalie, the irony is if the party, the government's goal is to reverse that

demographic change, it's unlikely it's going to happen any time soon. now remember, the state has been tweaking, they were relaxing the policy in recent years. two years ago, they started testing the water by allowing some couples, those with at least one spouse as a single child to have a second child. but very few people took up that offer. the reason? the high cost of raising children here. i talked to many people back then. i talked to many of them again with the latest announcement. they said they simply cannot afford to have a second child, especially in big cities. they have done the math. the cost of going through another pregnancy, putting another child to school is just way beyond their means, natalie. so at least in the short-term, this new policy change is unlikely to change the population growth trend. >> very interesting story. steven jiang for us there in beijing. thank you so much. we appreciate it. from china now to iraq. heavy rain has caused flooding

in the capital during a normally dry time of year. meteorologist derrick van damme joins us now to tell us more about that. >> that's right, george and natalie. as if displaced iraqeries don't have enough to contend with, we have significant amount of rainfall in what typically a dry time of the year. take a look at some of the video coming out of this region. and you can see what they've had to contend with, pushing their vehicles through some of the flooded streets. not only is the flooding a concern, but it's also a health hazard for the individuals living within this particular area. take a look at the satellite loop across this region. and you can see the thunderstorms that moved through baghdad and the western sections of iran late thursday. in fact, satellite-derived rainfall estimates indicate between 30 and 50, even upwards of 70 millimeters of rain where we would typically only experience about 5 to 8 millimeters of rainfall during the month of october. so this is typically a dry time of the year.

this is all thanks to a very slow-moving storm system. it is moving east of baghdad. but it will bring the potential of flooding to places like tehran and the eastern sections of iran. 50 to 75 millimeters of between additional rainfall. so something we'll monitor into the weekend coming off of the potential of more flooding. now i need to transition to, well, a common holiday to celebrate across much of the world. that's halloween. october 31st. and believe it or not, we have a near miss asteroid that is going to fly precariously close to here on planet earth. this is asteroid tb-2015 tb-145. we had to doctor this up to make it look like a jack-o'-lantern. that's not actually what it looks like. it's amazing. it's not a trick what i'm talking about, it's more of a treat. astronomers like yourself perhaps can take a telescope and go outside and see this with your own eyes.

so something you might want to consider as you make your way outside early saturday morning. put this into perspective. this is 400 meters wide. that is roughly the same height as the willis tower in chicago, illinois. also to put this into further perspective, this is precariously close to the planet. only about a half million miles away or kilometers i should say, roughly 310,000 miles away our orbit. so this is precariously close. a little too close for comfort, if you ask me. not a trick. more of a treat. get outside if you can, natalie, george. we have a lot of budding astronomers out there that would love to see something like this. all they need to do is take their telescope into their backyard and point into it the sky early saturday morning, and perhaps they'll be able the see a bit of a treat in the skies. back to you. >> why not. all right. thank you so much, derek. very interesting. next here on "cnn newsroom," a close-up look at arctic norway, which some are

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the european parliament has voted to protect edward snowden, recognizing him as a whistle-blower and defender of human rights. >> so by a close margin, lawmakers voted for a resolution that urges its member nations to drop criminal charges against snowden and prevent his extradition. the vote does not have any legal force. the former contractor at the u.s. national security agency leaked documents about secret mass data collection programs in the u.s. on twitter, snowden called the vote a game changer. sentenced to ten years in prison and one thousand lashes for insulting islam, the family of a saudi blogger fears that the flogging will start up again soon. the punishment has been pushed back, though, since january. >> it's really surreal, isn't it? the european parliament just

awarded rice badawi the prize for human rights and renewed calls for his release. here is more on his story from becky anderson. >> reporter: the scenes that sparked a global outcry. cell phone video believed to be showing saudi blogger rife badawi getting lashed in january. now the 31-year-old is being awarded the european parliament's sakharov human rights prize in recognition for his contribution to human rights and democracy. >> translator: in the case of mr. badawi, fundamental human rights are not only being respected, they have been stepped on. so i would like to call on the king today to stop the execution of this sentence, to release mr. badawi, to allow him to go back to his wife and to allow him to travel here for the december session to receive this prize. >> reporter: badawi was sentenced to a hotel of one thousand lashes and ten years in prison in 2012. his charges include cybercrime

and insulting islam through his saudi arabian liberals website. he often blogged about free speech in the conservative kingdom. his first flogging sparked an international outcry, and saudi authorities had suspended the punishment on medical grounds. but hopes for leniency were dashed when saudi arabia's supreme court upheld his verdict in june. speaking to me shortly after the case first came to public attention, badawi's wife had this message for saudi arabia's leadership. >> translator: he did not do anything. he was not armed. his weapon was just his pen. >> reporter: a pen that landed him behind bars, but may now help raise more awareness about his calls for freedom of speech in his country. becky anderson, cnn, abu dhabi.

2 degrees celsius is arguably the most crucial number of our time, especially when it comes to climate change. expert says if average global temperatures rise above it, we're at risk for serious global issues that. >> is what they say. and just in one month thousands of people from nearly 200 countries will meet in paris to discuss and debate this very issue at the united nations conference of parties on climate change. ahead of that critical meeting, we sent cnn's arwa damon to arctic norway to see how changes in the climate have impacted that area. >> and what she discovered may surprise you. here it is. >> reporter: it's late october in the arctic. freezing cold and snow covered, as one would expect. but so much just isn't the way it used to be. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. >> morning.

>> reporter: jim johansson is a guide here. taking visitors on a tour which includes a glacier. for him, compared to last year, the changes on the shoreline are obvious. one just needs to look at the size of the rock beneath the icy blue of the glacier. >> last year you could hardly see the rock formation. you could hardly see that as a brown line underneath the glacier. it's shedding a lot of ice this summer. obviously it's something is happening for sure. >> reporter: that something is climate change. and this, the arctic, is ground zero. scientists say temperatures here have increased at twice the rate than anywhere else on earth in the last several decades. normally by march these waters would be frozen over. a layer of ice so thick people would take their snowmobiles from town to outlying areas. but the last time these waters froze was a decade ago.

we're out with oli, a former fisherman turned marine biologist and managing director of the university center. a good catch. >> it's a couple of kilos. >> reporter: but this cod species is not supposed to be here. they appeared three years ago. and that he says is because the temperature of the water where these cod were just pulled out is 4 to 5 degrees warmer than it used to be. and now the cod can swim here. how do you know that temperature rises because of climate change? >> we know that temperatures in the waters on the western side are very, very because of the variations in the northeast atlantic current and so on. but now we see an underlining being more and more evident that it's due to a general rise in the sea temperature of the world oceans. >> reporter: earth's climate is

changing. scientists still trying to unravel its mystery and determine how it will alter our future. arwa damon, cnn, norway. >> and we'll have more stories on climate change in the next few weeks in the lead-up to the cop 21 talks that will take place in paris. astronaut scott kelly hits an out-of-this-world milestone. >> that's right. what he has to say about his flight into the record books. as "newsroom" continues. good. very good. you see something moving off the shelves and your first thought is to investigate the company. you are type e*. yes, investment opportunities can be anywhere... or not. but you know the difference. e*trade's bar code scanner. shorten the distance between intuition and action. e*trade opportunity is everywhere.

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wrote, quote, it's an honor to be here. he said he looked forward to making progress in space. mr. kelly has taken to twitter quite a bit during his time in space documenting a number of moments. and sharing these incredible photos too. if you're watching up there, mr. kelly, congratulations. >> and he has also taken really great photographs of the storms we've had recently. even the huge hurricane recently in mexico. all right. well, now we're going to turn to the dogs. the english bulldog who skateboarded his way to a guinness world record has died. we're sad to say at the age of 10. tillman became a canine celebrity after a video of him skateboarding went viral. it went on to be part of an iphone commercial. look at him. in 2009 he set the world record for the fastest skateboarding dog. >> the things he could do. tillman also enjoyed surfing and snowboarding. his owner said he never managed to getting around to teaching

the bulldog traditional canine tricks. look at him go there. >> none of that sit and stay. he only lived ten years, but what a life he lived. >> absolutely. so thursday switching from dogs to cats, thursday was national cat day in the united states. >> but the internet is always full of funny videos from prideful cat owners. here is cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: for cat people. >> really? >> reporter: every day is national cat day. but instead of staying home and clipping your cat, imagine watching cat clips. 100 of them at the berkeley performance center in boston. we're talking masterpieces like the cat and the lamp. or the cat trying to catch its tail. where is it? and then falls off the couch looking for it. or cat versus printer. most of the clips are cinema verite style. now better known as youtube

videos. that give the impression cats might not care about national cat day or us. >> come on, remy, come on it. >> reporter: i mean, come on, who wouldn't want to shell out 12 bucks for a ticket to see action like this? or to hear cats say in portuguese while getting a shower it hurts. these videos were first screened at the international cat video festival. from hover cat to the existentialism of henri, the black cat. and though cats may be top dog this week, that didn't stop george and amal clooney from adopting her.

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in a little more than an hour, the international effort to end the war in syria will resume in vienna. the end of the biggest population control experiment of our time. what's next after china ends its one child policy. and terrifying moments on the tarmac. the engine of a commercial jet catches fire. emergency chutes deploy. dozens of passengers get out and

fast. >> just look at all that smoke coming out of the plane. we'll have details. welcome to our viewer here is in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. we're glad you're with us. this is cnn newsroom. and we begin with the war in syria and what is being called the most important meeting to date to try to end this conflict, this war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. some 18 nation, plus the european union. we're invited to the meeting in vienna. it's set to resume in a little over an hour. and for the first time, iran is at the table. >> it is hard to say, though, just how much real progress will be made during these very tough talks. everyone wants something different. these are just some of the players involved. the conflict in syria is putting the united states and russia against one another. their bombing campaigns and weapons are helping opposing

sides. >> and regionally, there are religious considerations with, as you can see, shiite iran on one side and sunni sawed rain on the other. >> let's talk more about that and go live to moscow. cnn's nic robertson standing by live for us. good to see you this hour. so western powers as we just showed our viewers, they insist that bashar al assad must go for a deal to be reached. but we know where russia, where iran stand on this. is there any talk, any nuance about these nations finding a way to strike a deal given that they are so clearly divided? >> and those divisions as you're saying, they are sectarian divisions. shia iran, the sunni saudi arabia. perhaps what we're going to see at these talks is the real exposure of one of the most significant fault lines of the conflict. and that is its sectarian nature. it didn't start out that way. but it certainly has become that way. iran sees assad as a vital ally

and geopolitical connection between the shiite hezbollah and lebanon. for them, the iran leaders have said they see syria's international security intertwined with that of syria. and bashar al assad they see as the man who play that role. they backed his and his father's leadership in that country for decades now. so perhaps for iran it's going to be toughest to back away from supporting president bashar al assad. the russians from their point of view continue to support assad. their military campaign on the ground backs him. they say that they don't mind and they're not particularly backing him, that they're fighting terrorists. that's not the way it's perceived outside of russia. but that's the russian position. but the russians do think that they've got some agreement, understanding at least, with western powers and regional powers. turkey, saudi arabia included here. the assad could become a

transitional figure in a political transition. but russian's position is that isis has to be defeated first. perhaps that's the one thing that all these parties agree on is that isis is a terrorist organization that it is a threat to syria and a threat to the region. that agreement alone and building out from that doesn't make a solution in itself. but we're told that these talks are a starting point. perhaps that's going to be the place where they begin. it's certainly what russia has been pushing recently. george? >> important to point that out that yes, that would be a starting point for these countries that are divided on the assad issue. i do want to talk, nick, just a bit more about iran, which has been invited to the table. a dramatic shift in u.s. policy. or is it a bit of russian influence that is at play here? >> there is an absolutely broad understanding. and the united states has been

saying this, that iran is playing an increased role economically, militarily inside syria. and the understanding that grows out of that, if there is going to be a political solution, which is one of the fundamental international standings here that iran must be around the table. but what we have seen over the past month since russia began is military campaign in syria. and it began a month ago today is that they followed on with this diplomatic political push, which is really what has sort of spurred these talks in vienna to get under way. this change in the facts on the ground, this push by russia. perhaps as much for domestic consumption as international consumption. it needs to move from its narrative of a successful military campaign in syria to a political movement ahead. otherwise it's going to look domestically like it's getting bogged down in syria. it has been saying, russia has been saying all along that iran

needs to be part of these talks. so it does seem that russia's role right now in syria has played an element getting iran to the table. george? >> with reporting and context, nic robertson live for us there in moscow. nic, thank you so much for the reporting. the top spy in the u.s. says russian president vladimir putin is, quote, winging it in syria. director of national intelligence james clapper spoke exclusively with cnn's jim sciutto. >> reporter: we're expected to know that a decision has been made by a foreign head of state before he makes it. putin's a case in point. i think he is very impulsive, very opportunistic. it's a debate, but i personally question whether he has some long-term strategy, or whether he is, you know, being very opportunistic on a day-to-day basis. and i think his intervention

into syria is another manifestation of that. >> director clapper also told jim the u.s. intelligence community was not surprised when russia started to launch air strikes in iria one month ago. meanwhile, the pentagon says that u.s. troops are in combat with isis forces on the ground in iraq. until now, the united states has characterized the american role as an advise and assist mission. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has the latest on that from washington for us. >> reporter: helicopter forces loyal to syrian president bashar al assad pounding a damascus suburb. bodies retrieved from mountains of rubble. in the north near the flash point city of aleppo, syrian army units repelled an isis attack according to iranian state media. russia has focused many of its attacks here across western syria. part of its campaign to boost

assad's forces. but the cia director insists the russians know there is no military solution. >> i do believe paradoxically they felt as though they had to strengthen assad before in fact he could be moved out. and despite what they say, i believe the russians do not see assad in syria's future. >> reporter: just as the pentagon is detailing new u.s. military options for defense secretary ash carter to send to the white house. it could eventually mean more u.s. boots on the ground closer to the front lines. >> we won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against isil, or conducting such missions directly. whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground. >> reporter: from the u.s. military an admission that u.s. troops are already involved in more than just advising and assisting. >> of course it's combat. our aviators are conducting combat air patrols. that's the name of the mission.

combat air patrol. so of course it's combat. >> reporter: the pentagon is expected to increase more intelligence sharing and communications support, especially for kurds in both northern iraq and northern syria. a key u.s. goal, help the kurds in northern syria isolate crucial areas around raqqah, isis' self-declared capital. one option being discussed is to put u.s. advisers out in the field with smaller more front line groups of both iraqi and syrian kurdish fighters. and of course that puts u.s. troops closer to a potential front line, closer to combat. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. the former berlin rapper turned isis recruit has been killed by a u.s. air strike. a u.s. official tells cnn dennis cuspert who once went by the name diso dog was killed last

month. he travelled to syria after converting to islam and was deemed a global terrorist by the united states. he specialized in recruiting german speakers to join isis. an american army veteran is back on the battlefield joining kurdish forces to fight isis. >> he spoke to clarissa ward about why he is willing to risk his life on the front lines. >> reporter: randy roberts has spent much of the last seven months on the front lines. the former u.s. army specialist who deployed twice to iraq was studying graphic design in the u.s. when he decided to join the fight against isis. >> i felt like i could given my past military experience and that i had been to this region before, that i could contribute and i could actually help the cause. >> reporter: how did you get guidance as to how to get here, who to link up with? >> well, google.

>> reporter: google? that's how you planned your trip to come and fight isis? >> believe it or not, yes. i simply looked up westerners who had come over here before me. >> reporter: roberts is one of more than 100 westerners who have come to syria and iraq to fight with kurdish forces. the internet is full of slickly produced ypg propaganda videos featuring american volunteers. there is even a website selling isis hunting kits and offering packing lists on what to bring. at a small training camp in northern syria, we watched some new recruits, among them two americans. most did not want to show their faces. unlike roberts, few had any military experience. >> and you also meet a lot of people who think this is going to be the, you know, gaming experience, call of duty.

they think because they understand how to pull the trigger on a control that they know how to do it in real life. >> always elbows in and tight to your body. >> reporter: roberts believes the most valuable gift he can offer kurdish fighters and his fellow volunteers is training. >> so when you need to reload, you take a knee behind cover, mag out, up, stock in here. >> reporter: while some kurdish fighters welcome western volunteers as a morale boost, others have dismissed their presence as a nuisance. do you think you have helped? >> i believe, yes, i have. >> reporter: but some people would say this isn't your war. this isn't your business. >> it's better to stand up and do something if you think you can help than to just sit back and watch because, hey, it's on the other side of the world, not my problem. >> reporter: certainly the risks are real. one american, keith broomfield died fighting alongside kurdish fighters this past summer in syria. and roberts has seen for himself how tenacious an enemy isis can

be. >> outside of mines they place in the field to keep us from advancing on these villages, they also have little wadis and trenches that they hide in. so then they pop up and machine gun fire. >> reporter: has it ever crossed your mind that you could get killed? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: that's a price you would be willing to pay? >> yes. if i got to the end of my life and i hadn't come and i look back on this and i had chose not to come out, then it would have bothered me. it would have bothered me for the rest of my life. >> reporter: for randy roberts, being here is a moral duty. clarissa ward, cnn, northern syria. just after 3:00 a.m. here on the east coast and in washington, d.c., the u.s. senate has just passed a two year budget plan after breaking a filibuster on the deal. this new plan extends the country's debt limit through march 2017. you're looking at live images here as this is happening.

and you see mitch mcconnell speaking at this hour. it increases federal spending on defense and domestic programs. many senators oppose the budget, saying it does nothing but, quote, explode the debt. it now heads to president barack obama for his signature. now to take you back five months. remember that deadly shoot-out between biker clubs in waco, texas? >> cnn has exclusively obtained surveillance video. this surveillance video from inside the restaurant where this shoot-out took place. it shows people running for their lives, shooting, and taking cover. when it was all over, nine were dead. almost 200 arrested. >> cnn's ed lavandera shows us more of the video that you won't see anywhere else. but we do warn you many of these images are disturbing. >> reporter: this was the scene inside the twin peaks restaurant in may, just before the violent shoot-out that killed nine people and ended up in the mass arrests of 177 bikers.

a fight and shoot-out erupts just off camera between a group of motorcycle clubs called the bandidos and the cossacks. the reaction tells the story of the chaos and horrific scene that unfolds as the gunshots start exploding. members of the cossacks club are sitting on this patio. they duck for cover. some grab firearms and other weapons. one biker is seen on the surveillance video running through the patio and firing a shot toward the parking lot. dozens of bikers rush inside the building, hide in bathrooms and the restaurant kitchen. john wilson is the president of the waco area cossacks motorcycle club. he was on the twin peaks patio that day. >> the whole incident probably didn't last more than 90 seconds. it seemed like an hour when you're laying there and people are getting shot around you and bullets are whizzing by you. >> reporter: in dozens of interviews, they blame their rivals for starting the deadly melee.

after it was all over, crime scene photos capture the nightmarish between. scene. bodies left in the parking lot by toppled motorcycles, hundreds of weapons all over the place. handguns left hidden in the restaurant toilets. cnn has obtained more than 2,000 pages of documents, crime seen photos too graphic to show and surveillance video giving us the most detailed accounts of what unfolded last may. waco police and prosecutors have consistently defended the mass arrests of the 177 bikers that day, all charged with organized criminal activity. >> i think you can see by the number of weapons that we have recovered from here today, they didn't come here to eat and have a good time with their family. they came here for a reason. we think part of that reason was a criminal activity. >> but many of the bikers and their attorneys say investigators and prosecutors overreacted by carrying out mass arrests. some say these videos show the vast majority are innocent of the criminal charges. >> they just up and arrested everybody before they determined

who was involved. >> reporter: these are just some of the videos investigators are using to piece together what happened that day five months ago, a shoot-out that one witness said looked like the gunfight at the o.k. corral. ed lavandera, cnn, waco, texas. and next here on cnn, fireball on the runway. the engine of a boeing 767 bursts into flames. we look at what may have gone wrong.

welcome back. i want to talk about some tear fight scary moments for passengers on board this commercial jet in ft. lauderdale, florida. the plane caught fire just before it was set to take off for venezuela. >> all you can say, at least they weren't in the air. they got off. >> for sure. on the ground. >> 17 people, including a child were injured as they scrambled out of the emergency exits of this dynamic international airways plane thursday. and while investigation of course is under way, cnn's mary maloney has more on what may have caused it. >> a mindful pilot potentially prevented a disaster. just as he was about to take off, he spotted fuel leaking from the plane in front of him.

within minutes, smoke fills the sky as fire erupts on a passenger plane with more than 100 people on board. >> the pilot declared the emergency. his left engine was on fire. the plane was loaded with passengers. >> reporter: the doors opened and slides deployed, getting the passengers and crew off the plane. >> everything worked as it's supposed to work. >> the goal is you've got to get everybody off the plane within 90 seconds. that's what the regulations require. 90 seconds with half the doors being unusable. >> reporter: some lucky enough to walk away. others were taken on stretchers. more than a dozen went on the hospital. >> the injuries themselves seem to be minor. most of our patients are walking wounded. >> reporter: crews put out the flames covering the red and white plane with flame retardant. the fire happened just before flight 405 was scheduled to take off for venezuela. dynamic airways started five years ago in greensboro, north carolina and flies to a handful of international destinations.

its complefleet consists only o. the plane that caught fire was 29 years old. i'm mary maloney reporting. we turn to washington now and the u.s. house of representatives formally elected its new speaker, representative paul ryan. >> this is the people's house. this is the people's gavel. and the people's name, it is my privilege to hand this gavel to the speaker of the house congressman and honorable paul ryan. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> yes, we finally have a new speaker. the 45-year-old republican from wisconsin says he will try to unite a divided house. he has a tough job ahead. ryan added he will, quote, wipe the slate queen. >> ryan is replacing john boehner who has become known for publicly crying. he came prepared, though, this time with a box of tissues.

mr. boehner left the new speak were a parting gift. on wednesday, the house approved a budget deal which eliminates the possibility of default. and if you're wondering, john boehner did cry at that event. >> the apropos exit by mr. boehner. we wish him well. in the race for the u.s. white house, republican candidate donald trump was back on the campaign trail on thursday after the third republican debate. >> yes. and during that debate, we didn't hear as much as we usually do from the very outspoken trump. he says he was wednesday night's winner, however. >> so who saw the debate last night? and great book. and who won the debate? >> you did! >> we did well. everybody. i mean, i think there were a few people that really did well last night. and we were given good credit. it's hard to get good credit from the press. when you get good credit from

the press, i don't know you really did well. >> here is trump being trump. along with several other republican candidates who slammed debate hosts cnbc and its moderators for the questions they asked. >> maybe every moderator should show that they vote republican. because why should we have -- why should we have these people that hate everything we stand for, i mean, i won't mention his name. but the questions were so nasty. >> campaign aides for several republican candidates now plan to meet sunday in washington, d.c. to try to take more control over debates from the republican national committee. the rnc has not been invited to that meeting. there were some standout moments in the 30 debate future a coupe of candidates who have lagged in the polls. >> a look at who shined on stage and who played it safe. >> reporter: new momentum for marco rubio. >> we can't afford to have another four years like the last

eight years. >> reporter: his strong debate performance could be a breakout moment for his campaign. >> the democrats have the ultimate superpac. it's called the mainstream media. >> reporter: but rubio today trying to temper the hype. >> well, we feel good about it, as we did with the other two debates. the election wasn't decided last night. we're going to have another debate in 14 days and that will replace in people's memory this one. >> reporter: some damage control from the bush campaign after rubio had the debate their candidate needed. >> marco is obviously a very talented debater. marco had some good zingers. in the broader debate over who do voters trust to do the job, marco has been this the senate for six years and hasn't done anything. >> reporter: the other struggling candidates did what they could to break through. >> i want to tell you, my great concern is we're on the verge of perhaps picking someone who cannot do this job. >> we have $90 trillion in debt. we have people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us. and we're talking about fantasy football? >> reporter: and despite being center stage, the spotlight mostly avoided the

front-runners. donald trump and ben carson seemed to play it safe. >> such a nasty question. but thank you, governor. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: both fading into the background at times, providing an opening for another insurgent candidate, ted cruz to stand out by taking on the moderators. >> how about talking about the substantive issues people care about? . >> reporter: ben carson today also taking aim at cnbc. >> what it's turned into is a gotcha. that's silly. >> reporter: and is trying to organize the other republican candidates to push for changes to their next big encounter in less than two weeks. >> debates are supposed to be established to help the people get to know the candidates. and get to know what is behind them. >> that was cnn's sunland surfat ireporting. an end to one of the world's biggest attempts at social

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and welcome back to our viewer here is in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. the headlines this hour. new talks aimed at ending the civil war in syria. resume in vienna in just about iran is attending these crisis meetings for the first time, joining diplomats from the united states, russia, saudi arabia and other nations. syrian government and the syrian opposition, though, will not be at the table.

cnn has exclusively obtained this surveillance video of a deadly biker brawl from last may in texas. nine people were killed when violence broke out between two rival motorcycle clubs at a restaurant. you can see the waitresses running for their lives. it's been more than five months. so far no one has been charged in the deaths. big change for the world's most populous nation. it is ending its controversial decades long one child policy. china's ruling communist party says due to an aging population, couples are now allowed to have two children. china's current population is roughly 1.3 billion people. wind and rain are helping disperse some of the thick haze which has blanketed southeast asia for weeks now. >> and it has been just a hazard on so many levels. the haze is the result of illegal and intentional wildfires set mostly on

indonesian islands to clear the land for the production of pulp paper and palm oil. >> that's right. and indonesia's fires and haze are also a major threat to animal there's. >> cnn's christy lou stout shows us the efforts to protect the endangered orangutan. >> reporter: the race is on to save endangered orangutans from the burning forest of borneo. this 9-year-old male orangutan tries to evade capture in the wild. the rescuers have to sedate him with a dart and scale the tree tops to catch him to get him out of one of the worst affected areas. the team also tracks down another orangutan, successfully sedated and catched it in a net before it hits the ground before it's brought back to the safety of a rescue center. >> translator: when we got there, the orangutan was very weak, very weak. but naturally, wild orangutans

avoid humans. that's why we have to use sedatives to evacuate them. >> reporter: the apes are choking on the dangerous haze caused by fires lit deliberately in an illegal slash and burn process in indonesia to clear the land for new plantations. the annual burning churns out thick smoke across parts of southeast asia. this summer's haze is the worst it's been for nearly 20 years. >> reporter: the fires this year are very different from usual. the forest in this region has become very dangerous for the orangutans and their habitat. orangutans are very important for the life of the forests, and in particular for the lungs of the world. orangutans naturally reforest their habitat. >> reporter: this precious species is still only found in the wild on two islands in the world, borneo and sumatra. both of which have been shrouded under haze for two months. the government says it is pulling out all the stops to solve the problem. but at these sanctuary, time is

running out as an already shrinking population is now even more under threat. >> christy lou stout reporting on one of the very important offshoots of the threat that is going on in indonesia. we want to turn back now to one of our top stories as well. for decades, china's communist government has restricted most families to just one child. but now couples will be allowed two. officials say it's because of the aging population. in the next 15 years, they estimate china will have more than 400 million people over the age of 60. >> this is a big change. the one child policy began in the 1970s to control population growth. it did just that. but it came at a very heavy price there. government data shows since 1971, doctors performed at least 336 million legally mandated abortions. sterilized 196 million men and women, and inserted 403 million

intrauterine devices. another impact it's had, an estimated 13 million so-called ghosts in china. those are people who are born without any official documentation. let's talk about the ramifications of this huge change for china. steven jiang is joining me live now from beijing. steven, you were telling us you grew up in shanghai shortly after the restriction began. so you were one of the first to experience this tremendous change. >> that's right, natalie. i was a member of the first generation of that policy. when i was growing up in shanghai in the 1980s, we just accepted this policy as matter of fact. we were taught about in school. we bought the government line of those prevented births in the millions really helped china grow its economy, and they improved its people's living standard. it was not until years later that i found out the more sinister, the darker side of this policy.

including as you mentioned the ghost children. those are the children born without special permission. they tend to be the second child in their families. i talked to one young woman who falls into that category earlier today. and she told me her polite as an undocumented citizen in her own country. here is what she said. >> translator: as soon as i was born, i became ineligible for health checkups or immigration shots because i couldn't be registered or receive an id card. when i reached school age, i couldn't go to school. i've never gone to school for a single day. i couldn't find a job without an id or a diploma. i still cannot go to the hospital when i'm sick, or take a train, or even by cold medicine at pharmacies. >> so her struggles are really on a daily basis. now she, of course, has heard about the news of this policy

change. but she feels ambivalent, because she has heard about tweaks and relaxation of the policy before. those changes really hadn't changed her situation. so she is now seeing a glimmer of hope. but she says she is certainly not holding her breath. natalie? >> a lot of ramifications for this change. whether people will change just because china says okay, you can have another child, will they now? of course and the other thing of course, steven, is the gender imbalance. more people wanted boys that live in the rural areas. and there are many more men now in china. and so many american people adopt chinese girls. it's just a fascinating story on many levels and what changes this will bring. >> that's right. the gender imbalance is becoming an increasingly since you mentioned it, especially in the countryside.

because of the culture traditions make families want to have boys. not only because those going to boys when they grow up will be able to handle heavier farm work, but also they will stay home to take care of their parents when the parents become older. so the countryside is also where you see more of these utter negative effects of this one child policy infanticide, selective abortions, and abandonment of girls. so this new policy, the two -- one couple, two children policy hopefully will address those issues as well. i talked to human rights activists who have fought for years to get this policy abolished. they are really not seeing this change, this latest change as a victory. they say one kid or two kids, the government state, the party is still telling people how many to have. that's something they simply find unacceptable. natalie? >> can understand. all right. steven jiang live for us there in beijing. thank you so much, steven.

to iraq now, where heavy rains have left parts of baghdad flooded and forced residents to leave their homes. many of the one thousand displaced iraqis living in this camp have seen their dirt floors turn to mud. and they're in jeopardy of losing basic services like clean water. some don't even have a patch of dry land to sleep on at night either. >> all of this rain is hitting baghdad in a normally dry time of the year. >> that's right. meteorologist derek van dam is here to talk more about it. >> typically baghdad only receives about 5 to 8 millimeters of rainfall in the month of october. they have far exceeded that, receiving about 50 millimeters of rainfall just from the storm alone over the past 24 hours. as if the displaced iraqis don't have enough to contend with. you add flooding on top of everything. take a look at some of the visuals coming out of this area. you can see the flooded streets, the things that people have had to deal with, just impacting their day-to-day live hoods, having to push vehicles, including trucks and just having to get from point a to point b

very difficult. on top of that, this is also a health concern for the individuals living within these communities as well. in the capital city of baghdad. here is a look at the satellite across this region. you can see the thunderstorms that fired up across eastern iraq and western iran. there is the thunderstorms right there. and we have actually what is a nasa estimate of the accumulated rainfall during this 24-hour period. and that shading of green there indicates about 50 millimeters of rainfall. that is really unprecedented for baghdad, considering that, again, october is one of the dryer months of the year. only receiving between roughly 5 to 8 millimeters on average climatologically speaking. that's all thanks to a very slow-moving storm system that continues to move away from baghdad. so you will start to dry out. if you're watching us from that part of the world. but the chance of flooding, guess what? it shifts eastward. tehran, the eastern sections of iran expecting good chance of rainfall throughout the next 48

hours. some of which could lead to localized flooding. we have the possibility between 50 to 75 millimeters of rainfall across that region. which is very unusual. i want to take you to the arabian sea, where we have another unusual phenomenon taking place. this could turn out to be one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever across the southwest arabian sea. here is yemen and aman. currently, this is 175 kilometer per hour sustained winds. that makes it an equivalent to a strong category 2 atlantic hurricane. and guess what? it's set to strengthen even further as it treks westward towards the coast of yemen. this does not occur that frequently. and you can see our computer models taking that towards the coast. a very well defined eye with the storm system. this is something that we do not typically see. again, this could go on the record books as one of the strongest storms ever across this part of the world. >> wow. >> goodness. all right, derek, thank you. >> thanks, george, natalie. next here on "cnn newsroom,"

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two degrees celsius is arguably the most critical number when it comes to climate change. expert says that if average global temperatures, if they rise above it, we are at risk for global catastrophes. >> so that's what the countries are coming together to talk about in just a few weeks. in just one month, thousands from nearly 200 countries will meet in paris to discuss and debate this very issue at the u.n.'s talks on conference change. >> ahead of that very critical meeting, we sent cnn's arwa

damon to the arctic norway to see how changes in the climate have impacted that area. >> reporter: it's late october in the arctic. freezing cold and snow covered, as one would expect. but so much just isn't the way it used to be. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. >> morning. >> reporter: jim johansson is a guide here. taking visitors on a tour which includes a glacier. for him, compared to last year, the changes on the shoreline are obvious. one just needs to look at the size of the rock beneath the icy blue of the glacier. >> last year you could hardly see the rock formation. you could hardly see that as a gray -- a brown line underneath the glacier. it's shedding a lot of ice this summer. obviously it's something is happening for sure. >> reporter: that something is climate change. and this, the arctic, is ground zero. scientists say temperatures here have increased at twice the rate

than anywhere else on earth in the last several decades. normally by march these waters would be frozen over. a layer of ice so thick people would take their snowmobiles from town to outlying areas. but the last time these waters froze was a decade ago. we're out with oli, a former fisherman turned marine biologist and managing director of the university center. a good catch. >> it's a couple of kilos. >> reporter: but this cod species is not supposed to be here. they appeared three years ago. and that he says is because the temperature of the water where these cod were just pulled out is 4 to 5 degrees warmer than it used to be. and now the cod can swim here. how do you know that temperature rises because of climate change? >> we know that temperatures in

the waters on the western side are very, very because of the variations in the northeast atlantic current and so on. but now we see an underlining being more and more evident that it's due to a general rise in the sea temperature of the world oceans. >> reporter: earth's climate is changing. scientists still trying to unravel its mystery and determine how it will alter our future. arwa damon, cnn, norway. you're watching "cnn newsroom." we'll be right back after the break.

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>> reporter: bremerton school officials say this is the problem. joe kennedy praying on the field in front of students after a high school football game. the conservative liberty institute asked the district for a religious accommodation, but that was denied. now kennedy's lawyers are prepared to sue. >> the ball is in their court, in the school district's court. they have the opportunity to make this right, to do the right thing, to follow the law. >> reporter: but the district says the law is clear. officials believe kennedy's public prayers could violate federal law that separates church and state. some officials worry it leaves the district open to lawsuits. the superintendent told kennedy in a three-page letter that his prayers, quote, must not interfere with the performance of his job and must not lead to a perception of district endorsement of religion. and, quote, any further violations will be grounds for discipline, up to and including discharge from district employment. the superintendent's letter also said kennedy could pray at a private location on campus, as long as the prayers didn't interfere with his job. but kennedy and his attorneys believe that rule violates the

coach's rights. >> they're telling me that oh, well, we'll give you a closet to go hide in. it's like i'm an american citizen. i'm a taxpayer. and that is my community. my kids go to that school. and you're telling me i can't do this? >> and that story from cnn affiliate kcpq. thanks to reporter steve kiggins for that. >> and we'll continue to follow developments in that story. now this. what started with some u.s. police officers going to break up a fight, and we've been seeing some ugly instances in the u.s., this wasn't one of them. this ended with a dance battle. take a look at this from washington, d.c. a female officer challenged a 17-year-old girl to a dance-off. then they broke into the nay nay dance. >> look at those moves. the girl in the video says the officer's moves took her by surprise. >> there was an argument here. and that's why the police were called in the first place? >> yes. it was an argument between two

group of friends. my friends and another group of friends. >> i guess they stopped arguing to watch this, right? >> everyone stop arguing. they even came out front. that's when they start watching it. and everybody, they even put out their camera. the whole neighborhood was watching. >> that's amazing. how did this end? how long did this go on? >> for like two minutes. >> really? just going back and forth. was she saying anything during this? >> no, she was just looking. oh, i won. oh, man, it's not over. wow, you just danced with a cop? i was yeah like, we got it on video. for real? i didn't even know it was recording. yes, you did your thing. because at first i didn't know it was all that. i didn't know it was some good cops out here. i thought it was all cops on the videos to be on the news and everything. when i met her, there is actually some good cool cops. if we had more cops like that, i think the world would be peaceful. >> we'll end on that one.

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