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families. a lot of babies are alone a lot of the time. >> go to cnnheroes.com. while you're there, nominate someone you think should be 2016 hero fp hero. that's it for us fplt i'll see you right back here on monday night. more hacking in the u.s. presidential race fplt this time authorities say hillary clinton's campaign was the target. i'm taking the gloves off fplt yes? >> no more mr. nice guy fplt that's donald trump's reaction to hillary clinton's speech. both candidates digging in fplt. u.n. officials warn of a disaster as the syrian
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government tries to take full control. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm george howell. cnn "newsroom" starts now fplt welcome to our viewers around the world fplt the race for the white house and u.s. justice department are getting involved. private investigators discovered a possible breach in the clinton campaign computer systems. this coming days after donald trump invited russia to hack hillary clinton's e-mails. in the meantime, clinton and her running mate tim kaine are now on the road on a bus tour traveling through pennsylvania and ohio focusing on some of donald trump' core supporters. our jeff zeleny has more.
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>> reporter: the new democratic ticket is taking its show on the road. >> as of tomorrow, we have 100 days to make our case to america. >> reporter: hillary clinton and tim kaine on a three-month sprint to election day. >> what better place than to kick off this campaign than right here philadelphia right here 240 years ago. >> reporter: after a convention steeped in nostalgia, their knowledge of tapping into the country's hunger for change. >> i'm not telling you everything is peachy, i'm telling you we made progress but we have work to do if we are going to make sure everybody is included. >> reporter: they try making him an unacceptable choice. >> it was a journey through donald trump's mind, and that is a very frightening place.
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>> reporter: so they set off on a bus tour of pennsylvania and oh ohio. evoking memories of another journey with the clintons and gores. >> we're going to be visiting a few places where people are making things fplt donald trump talks about make america great again. he doesn't make anything in america except bankrupts fplt. >> rich in history. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> is now the script for how democrats hope to defeat trump. >> russia, if you're listening -- >> reporter: she said he doesn't have the temperament for the oval office. >> a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.
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>> safety and security a piece of her argument. >> donald trump says, and this is a quote, i know about isis than the generals do. no, donald, you don't fplt after a week in historic philadelphia, clinton made clear the history-making moment that matters comes in november. >> i believe every time we knock down a barrier in america, it liberates everyone in america. >> every parent in this country could look at their son or their daughter and now say the very same thing, you too could be president of the united states. thank you all fplt god bless you. >> reporter: jeff zeleny, cnn, philadelphia fplt. >> jeff, thank you fplt donald trump targeting the western part of the united states fplt as we mentioned, attacking some of the speakers from the democratic
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national convention during a stop in denver, colorado. he called retired four star general john allen a failed commandser for not stopping isis and went after clinton even harder earlier in the day saying he is no longer going to be nice. >> just remember this, trump is going to be no more mr. nice guy. >> donald trump on offense taking aim at hillary clinton on the heels of this week's democratic national convention. >> i've just been saying let just beat her november 8th. after watching that performance last night, such lies fplt i don't have to be so nice anymore fplt i'm taking the gloves off, right. his friend said stay focused on clinton.
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>> if i was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. i was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin is and he wouldn't know what the hell happened fplt. >> going after michael bloom berg. >> trump says he wants to run the nation like he's run his business. god help us. i'm a new yorker, and i know a con when i see one. >> if michael bloomberg ran began for mayor of new york, he wouldn't get 10% of the vote fplt they would run him out of town. >> a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. >> trump firing back. >> if somebody tweets, i do what i do.
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who cares? i think i have one of the best temperaments of even who has ever won for the office of president, ever fplt because i have a winning temperament. >> the gop nominee, as he has done so many times in the past, calling clinton several names on twitter, all of this while mike pence took issue with name-calling after the president referred to trump as a homegrown demagogue during his speech wednesday night. >> i don't think name-calling hosni place in public life, and i thought that was unfortunate that the president of the united states would use a term like that, let alone laced into a sentence like that. >> at his event in colorado springs, trump attacked everyone from the local fire marshall to the former mayor. will those type of attacks work in terms of bringing in others into the campaign in will it bring in mod rats?
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will it bring in independents? that still remains to be seen. >> jason, a lot to talk about here. eugene scott live in washington, d.c. eugene, always good to have you. >> thank you. >> investigators learned about these new hacks and the fingerprints point to russia. julian assange of wikileaks says more leaks are on the way. we can talk about it on the other side. >> we have more material related to the hillary clinton campaign. it is is correct to say that. we also have to be very precise in reporting my statements, which are always very precise. yeah.
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those are extremely interesting. >> julian assange has made no bones about it fplt he does not like hillary clinton fplt regardless of who is behind the leaks, there is a real concern that outside actors are trying to influence the election with precisely timed leak. >> very much so fplt people following this election are very aware putin is not a big fan of hillary clinton fplt as a result some people are suggesting that he wants donald trump to win this race. but what will need to be done to show loyalty to the country, even if it looks as if he is supporting his opponent is donald trump needing to speak out against the danger of hacking into leading candidates's records. i don't think anyone on either side thinks this is the move. >> eugene, the republicans saw a
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boost after their convention in cleveland fplt so when would we be able to determine whether the democratic convention will see a similar boost. >> i think those were numbers that we're looking for early next week. the ratings for the democrats, the democrats won the first night's speech got more viewers than hillary clinton. and i imagine that is the number that donald trump is most interested in. but we will see how voters responded ultimately to both conventions within the next few days. >> clinton kaine now are on the road in pennsylvania and ohio focusing on working class voters fplt who do they need to do. >> they need to connect with white male voters, this demographic she is doing the worst with fplt these are voters whose primary concern is often economy fplt we saw yesterday
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hillary clinton had kaine as well as her husband on i think in part for optics but also speaking to issues related to the great recession, which these were significantly impacted by and hoping to let the voters know she is the candidate who can-can best reverse their good fortune in the future fplt. >> we saw trump just a few moments ago in a sound bite talking about he wanted to hit that guy, presumably talking about michael bloomberg fplt worth $40 billion. donald trump worth $4. he claims 10. after seeing trump, talking about the dnc speeches, he said he doesn't have to be nice anymore he said he's taking off t the gloves. what kind of stepped up attacks can we see with 100 days to go?
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>> it depends which voters he's trying to reap out to fplt if he is trying to reach his base it is is probably what he will continue to do. i don't imagine he will change that because he's been successful so far. but now they are going after democratic voters. so it will be interesting to see what he needs to do to win them. i thought it was very interesting that his response to all of bloomberg's attacks was violence, opposed to pushing back with facts and policy proposal and discrediting bloomberg. ultimately telling people that he wants to hit him won't is serve well with voters still on the fence with donald trump. >> thank you so much for the insight fplt talk to you next hour. thank you fplt >> still ahead, a new worry for the rio olympic games. a fire breaks out at an olympic
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welcome back to cnn "newsroom." i'm george howell. russia's weightlifting team has been banned by the international weightlifting federation. the cup has been hit with bans after watch dog agencies found evidence of state-sponsored doping. russian lifters will join the track and field athletes and a group of swimmers and rowers now on the sidelines. scary moments for the australian olympic team in rio. about 100 of its athletes and staff were evacuated from the team building at the olympic village after a fire broke out in the building's basement. that fire now under investigation as a possible arson. cnn's shasta darlington has more.
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>> reporter: one week before the olympic games start, and the problems just aren't letting up. the latest, a small fire in the basement of the apartments where the australian team is staying. they were briefly evacuated. luckily, no one was hurt. now, on the security front, the officials have is announced they have had to beef up security around the torch relay after protesters in a small coastal city here in the state of rio mobbed the relay and extinguished one of the torchers of the runners. riot police are being incorporated into the relay to keep it safe from protesters. you feel like it is on lockdown. there are soldiers on every corner. security on the beach. we're looking at roughly 85,000 soldiers, police, and firefighters on hand to secure the games, more than twice what we saw in london. even in that area we have seen
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problems. police are now having to take over screening at the venues because the contractor that was hired didn't itself hire enough staff. of course the big question at the end of the day, is enthusiasm growing? on the one hand, dow see it. you see people lining up in front of the olympic rings to take selfies, to take pictures. unfortunately, that hasn't necessarily translated into ticket sales. the olympics have always been about national pride. the world's best athletes come together to bring their pride to different countries around the world. but this time there are some athletes without a place to call home because of the ongoing refugee crisis. the first ever refugee olympic team. #. >> reporter: they come from south sudan, syria, congo and ethiopia.
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together they form the refugee olympic team. the athletes that will be competing under the olympic flag in an effort to highlight the struggle of refugees worldwide. the south is sudanese athletes have been training in kenya as they prepare for the games. >> you know it's going to be a good day. you're going to meet so many people. i go to meet the world. >> reporter: syrian refugee fled her country across the mediterranean sea. how age 18 she's on her way to rio. >> it's the first time that happened to me. it is is my first olympics. i think it is is going to be an amazing experience for me. >> the athletes are hoping it can inspire millions of refugees in camps around the world. >> this is the first chance to
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give us hope that for us to encourage the young generation. >> reporter: for others, the rio olympics are a chance to reconnect with friends and family, while giving hope to all refugees that better days will come. >> when you call somebody a refugee, you feel ashamed. some of them maybe they don't have a chance to do everything like going to school. most of them, they are staying in camp because they lose hope in life. but as ambassador i can you have a chance to change your life. >> many of them originating from war-torn countries like syria, afghanistan, and somalia. the united nations says there are over 65 million refugees worldwide, the highest number ever. estimating 24 people are
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displaced every single minute. for this team, these olympic games are about more than winning medals. they are about giving refugees the strength to carry on their fight. lynda kinkade, cnn. lynda, thank you. after all they have been through, you wish the best for that refugee olympic team. >> moving on now to the save the children is is condemning the bombing of a maternity hospital that it supports there. it is the only maternity hospital there. it serves 1,000 women a woman. two people were killed in friday's bombing, several others wounded, including pregnant women and babies. it is unclear who carried out the bombing there. and in northern syria, this video that you see appears to show fires back by the united states trying to force isis out of the city of manbij. isis used that city to plan external operations and that it
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was an entry point used by foreign fighters. recapturing the city could give u.s. some intelligence left behind by isis that could help destroy that terror group. now on to another key syrian city, aleppo taking full control of the city would be a major victory for the syrian government. they are skeptical that corridors there would not be useds a strategic way to empty the city. our senior international correspondent clarissa ward has more on that for us. >> reporter: this is what remains of much of aleppo. once syria's most populus city, now an apocalyptic moonscape. this video was released by the syria army as it sell depending off rebel forces.
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leaflets have been drop, warning residents to leave he will offer amnesty to those who is surrender. but after months of relentless bombardment, many are too afraid to leave their homes. and recent history has taught people here to be highly suspicious of government promises. >> what needs to happen is the innocent people of aleppo should be able to stay in their homes safely and to receive the humanitarian access which russia and the regime have in principal agreed to provide. >> we made the drive just a few months ago. berms of earth flanked the road to protect the way against enemy fire. >> we have to drive extremely quickly across this portion of the road. on one side you have the regime. and on the other side you have kurdish fighters who are now
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fighting against rebel forces. and there are snipers all around here. but this is the only road now to get into aleppo. that road is now completely cut off, leaving some 300,000 people trapped. the u.n. paints a grim picture of life inside. prices are up as much as 300%. food will run out within weeks. >> the clock is ticking for the aleppo population. the commodities that are probably available in eastern aleppo are sufficient for maximum three weeks. >> reporter: government forces cut off all food and supplies as they continue to bombard the city for years. a siege in aleppo would likely be even longer and uglier. it's hard to imagine how much uglier it can get. clarissa ward, cnn, london.
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still ahead, donald trump is saying he has no ties to russia. we will show you what a cnn investigation uncovered next. plus, u.s. health officials say mosquitos infected to zika have made their way to the united states. live in the united states and around the world this hour. you're watching cnn newsroom.
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save the children is is condemning the bombing of a maternity hospital that it supports. two people were can killed, several injured, including pregnant women and babies. it is unclear who carried out the bombing. russia's weight lifters are the latest team to receive a ban from the rio olympics. the country's track and field athletes and a group of swimmers are already barred from competing and being punished after investigators found evidence of state-sponsored doping. in the race for the white house, hillary clinton and tim kaine are on a three-day bus tour traveling through pennsylvania and ohio, pushing their economic plans while after going after some of donald trump's core supporters. the fbi, justice department investigating a computer hack. a voter database program maintained by the democratic national committee and used by the campaign was accessed in a
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wider dnc breach. authorities are looking into whether russian hackers were involved. the dnc breach led to the release of thousands of democratic party e-mail by wikileaks. cnn's anderson cooper spoke with the founder of wikileaks julian assange about that and about what could be released next. >> julian, the clear bias by people in the dnc against bernie sanders is probably what got the most attention here in the united states. i'm wondering in the documents that you released, what stood out to you as the most significant thing? >> well, to me the most significant is a clear instruction by the director of communications to his staff to undercover, quote, without
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attribution, to push out a story that bernie sanders supporters were -- everyone has their personal preferences in a workplace environmentment those can be suppressed. this was instruction through the chain of command at the dnc to covertly manipulate the public. >> in terms of the timing of the release of these, how much of this on the part of wikileaks was -- clearly you timed it to the start of the dnc. was that for maximum impact, sort of maximum marketing? >> it would be for maximum interest by readers. but also we have a responsibility to, you know, if we published after you can just
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imagine how outraged the democratic voting population would have been. it is quite a lot of work, as you can imagine, to verify such material and to organize it, index it, catalog it, put it into a searchable customizable base. >> you said you have a lot more that you might release. i talked to donna brazile, who replaced debbie wasserman schultz and there very well may be a lot more things out there. >> we have more material related to the hillary clinton campaign. it is correct to say that. also, you have to be very precise in reporting my statements, which are always very precise. yeah. those are extremely interesting.
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we will see what will come of them. >> that was wikileaks founder julian assange speaking with my colleague anderson cooper. assange refused to confirm if russia is behind the dnc hack. meanwhile, donald trump is now backtracking on his comments earlier this week where he urged russia to find and public hillary clinton's e-mails if they haven't. he maintains that he has no financial ties with russia. but the trump family had a very different message about their ties with russia just a few years ago. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin takes a closer look for us. >> reporter: the current controversy over donald trump's russian connection comes up with a comment made in 2008 from his son, don jr. he said family members made a half dozen trips to russia, that several buyers have been attracted to our projects there.
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and russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. and according to don jr. back in 2008, we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. but what you can't see in russia is a lot of trump. an attempt to build a trump tower in moscow fell through before it began. and cnn can find no projects that were actually completed in russia. the only real ventures, an attempt to sell vodka to russians, which failed. and in 2013, trump made millions when he partnered with a russian billionaire to host his miss universe in moscow. trump appeared in a music video with his billionaire's rock star son. trump tower moscow is next. he trademarked not one but eight different combinations of his brand and name in russia, and
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that was it. >> he tried to negotiate major deals. he tried meeting with putin. it did not work out. >> dimitri signs the president of a washington think tank that encourages stronger relations between the u.s. and russia, says when it comes to any relations in business between trump and russia, they are very hard to find i am not aware of any business endeavors of trump's in russia. >> it may be that they turned out to be failures. >> what i can say with certainty is that the trump organization is not a major presence in russia. when you talk to americans who invest in russia, they never mentioned trump organization. >> trump has had better luck dealing with russians living in the u.s., sort of.
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he partnered with the bay rock group, a company run by soviet immigrants financed by russian and kazakhstan money. together they developed trump properties in fort lauderdale is and new york and planned on opening a trump tower in moscow. but trump said in a deposition that plan ended after media reports started to question trump's net worth. trump did make news with another russian related deal. he sold his florida mansion to a russian billionaire for $95 million. trump walking away with a tidy $54 million profit. while trump may have limited ties with russia, the real connection may be the man who seems to be running his campaign. paulmanafort has been a campaign adviser for decades. he raised eyebrows when he became a political consultant to former ukrainian president.
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manafort helped him get elected in 2010. manafort said he was trying to encourage the ukraine to be closer to europe. >> i was involved in positive foreign policy. >> he fled to russia and urged vladimir putin to invade his own country, which putin did. in 2014, the u.s. sanctioned yanukovych for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty of ukraine. cnn reporting finds manafort has russian clients. he has advised russians in the united states. but he has no ties to the kremlin. the question now is, is paul mamafort now advising donald trump that vladimir putin may not be such a bad guy after all and that russia had the right to invade the ukraine and if
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elected they should leave putin and the ukraine alone? a question silly to some that became serious when donald trump was asked about it. >> would you recognize the an exed peninsula as russian territory and also if the u.s. would lift sanctions -- >> we'll be looking at that. yeah. we'll be looking. >> trump's campaign changed the republican party platform to take a much more pro-russian view of the ukraine conflict. >> there is a lot of coincidence that is very troubling around this specific issue when you can consider how substance free most of the other issue areas in the campaign have been. in the ukraine they are taking a firm position. it's not clear why. that i think is troubling. >> so is it really something? is donald trump somehow connected to putin and putin's view of the worrell because he has an adviser that advised a
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ukrainian candidate six years ago, or is this all like donald trump's business endeavors in russia, lots and lots of talk but in the end, as they say in russian, nonsense. drew griffin, cnn, washington. >> drew, thank you. now to the latest of the zika virus. federal health officials say four people have transmitted that disease locally. our paulo sandoval has the details for us. health officials expected this for months. they believe it was a matter of time before zika-carrying mosquitos would affect people within the continental united states. three men and one woman in south florida believed to be the first cases of this kind. the centers for disease control and prevention believe the four patients were infected while in this area in early july commonly known as the win wood arts district. it is residential and very
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popular retail and also dining district north of downtown miami. it also draws in people from across the region. the type of mosquitos don't travel very far during their life span. the current preventive efforts are focused squarely on this area, hoping to eradicate the infected insects. >> u.s. national correspondent paulo sandoval, thank you. health officials expect more cases and blood collection centers are testing all donations for the zika virus. details on where the pope is is stopping next straight ahead here on cnn "newsroom". >> it may not be what you would expect a bank robber to look at. you'll see how two news anchors reacted to this robber in wolf's clothing straight ahead.
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this just in to cnn. belgian police arrested two men suspected of planning terrorist attacks somewhere in belgium. seven houses were searched on friday. no indication that the arrests are connected to the march attacks, the attacks against an airport and a metro station in brussels. we will bring you the very latest as we get more word on cnn. on to poland. pope francis stopping at a holy sites in poland. live images of the shrine of john paul ii. people gathered outside the church to welcome him. earlier pope francis visited the shrine of the divine mercy and heard confession of some young people there. the turkish president erdogan he is dropping lawsuits that he had filed against people who insulted him. keep in mind, insulting the
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turkish president is a crime. since mr. erdogan took office, prosecutors have opened almost 2,000 cases against people, including schoolchildren insulted the turkish president. there is by the international committee of the red cross that more than a million people could be forced to find safer ground when coalition forces try to retake mosul from isis. that is the iraqi capital. and the red cross says there could be massive humanitarian problems with the fighting intensifies there. >> already today one tenth of the population is displaced. every day hundreds of families continue to be displaced is and are in need of shelter, protection and assistance. it is a big military operation. it provides challenges for the humanitarian community and may displace over 1 million persons
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in mosul. the sheer magnitude could require more than just funding. it requires an organization and people that are present on the ground and ready to take calculated risks to help people in need. >> according to the red cross, it says it needs about $17 million to provide the humanitarian assistance that will be required there. terrible flooding, mud, and landslides. and a developing typhoon top the weather headlines this hour. karen. >> we have a lot tell you. reasonably quiet for now. look at that line of storms that moved across the region. we have images out of north central sections of the state of tennessee. this is in the southeastern portion of the united states. this coming out of the beth page region of tennessee. there you can see a submerged
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road. now, four people had to be rescued as their home was swallowed up by the floodwaters. how much did they see? the line of storms produced about four inches of rain or 100 millimeters of rainfall in just three hours period of time. and we have talked about flooding in nepal the last four days. they are trying to do recovery efforts. they have seen such devastating flooding there. it already has claimed the lives of at least 86 beam and has devastated a number of areas and a bridge washed away and separated people and cut them off from the rest of the areas. tey have had to have relief efforts as well. now on to our typhoon. it is not a typhoon just yet. but within the next 24 to 36 hours, once this moves across the northern philippines, we
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could see typhoon carinne. as it moves through the south china sea, it will will move more in a westerly direction. computers models are fairly confident this will impact hong kong as we go into the beginning of the workweek. right now the wind is 55 kilometers per hour, just over 600 kilometers to the east-southeast of manila. looking a little better organized over the last few hours or so. that is not to say a few hours before that we were looking at a very ragged system. but still was able to produce very significant rainfall totals across portions of the philippines. just over 230 millimeters as it moves into the south china see, george, we'll watch this. it could gain typhoon intensity then and impact the city of hong
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kong, which has just over 7 million inhabitants. back to you. >> a very busy time. a lot happening, karen. we'll stay with you to follow. thank you. so you're a bank robber. what would you choose, a mask? how about that? a wolf mask. we'll show you how this outfit had a few reporters doubled over with laughter. with laughter. "are you okay?" "yeah, i just got charged for my credit monitoring. that's how i know it"s working." "ah. you know you can go on creditkarma.com and check it out there. it's completely free." "really?" "yeah" "oh, that didn't hurt at all." "yeah, completely painless." "credit karma. give yourself some credit."
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welcome back to newsroom. i'm george howell. finland may ring in a milestone with one heck of a birthday gift. an actual mountain. norway's prime minister says she is considering moving their border about 40 meters or 130 feet, giving finland a new highest peak. it all started with a generous facebook campaign by a norwegian student and his argument, we have plenty of mountains already. why not let our neighbors have one too. so every once in a while you are bound to come across a story that is just plain odd or strange. and for people like me whose job it is is to tell those stories with a straight face, sometimes it's hard to keep a straight face. our jeanne moos takes us to two
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news anchors who caught a very debilitating case of the giggles with one particular story. >> a guy robs a bank. >> while wearing a wolf mask. >> he points a gun, demands money, jumps over a counter and takes cash. and chicago's weekend newscast, abc 7 stacy starts to crack. >> got away with an unknown amount of cash. >> leaving co anchor ben bradlee to cope with the next story. >> can resume work on its $27 million renovation of the stevens academic building -- this is stacy's fault. >> oh, yeah, through your co anchor under the bus. but it really was her fault. >> a race for the white house with a vp. i am so sorry. but the wolf mask. >> maybe it was the wolf mask or
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the hat on top of the wolf mask. but whatever it was, there's a technical term for what happened to these anchors. >> i get what i call the church giggles. >> many still dressed in their fur. >> can strike an anchor at any time. >> sorry. this has actually never happened to me. >> church giggles can be triggered by an unsmiling grumpy can cat. >> but laughing at a robber in a wolf mask. >> the crime itself is not funny, though. >> calls for demonstration by an anchor named wolf on how to keep a straight face. >> the pussywillows blowing in the wind -- i make it look easy, don't i. >> the robber lost his rehat. police are testing it for dna.
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at the democratic national convention. plus, more trouble in rio. a small fire breaks out in the olympic village just days before the opening ceremony. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome. to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 5:01 on the u.s. east coast. in the race for the white house, the fbi and now the u.s. justice department are getting involved. they say private investigators discovered a possible breach in the clinton campaign computer systems. this coming days after donald trump invited russia to hack hillary clinton's emails. this latest hack part of a series targeting democratic organizations. meantime, clinton and her running mate tim kaine are traveling through the states of pennsylvania and ohio, focusing
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in on some of donald trump's core supporters. our brianna keilar has more for us. i don't know about you, but i stayed up really late last night. it was just hard to go to sleep. >> reporter: after making her pitch to the nation, hillary clinton now has to sell it aggressively until election day. >> if you listened really closely to the republican convention, you know that donald trump talked for 75 minutes and did not offer one solution. [ applause ] in fact, his speech, his whole convention seemed more about insulting me instead of helping the american people. [ applause ] >> reporter: she and running mate tim kaine are starting with a bus tour. from philadelphia into western pennsylvania and ohio, as she struggles to appeal to white, blue-collar workers. >> i'm also going to pay special
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attention to those parts of our country that have been left out and left behind. from our inner cities to our small towns, from indian country to coal country. ♪ >> reporter: 24 years after her husband took an upbeat thousand-mile bus tour through appalachia and the midwest. she's seeking to build momentum coming out of this week's convention. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states! >> reporter: with clinton making history. >> standing here as my mother's daughter and my daughter's mother, i'm so happy this day has come. i'm happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. >> reporter: and trying to convince voters she's the steady and stable alternative to donald trump. >> imagine -- if you dare, imagine, imagine him in the oval office facing a real crisis.
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a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. [ cheers ] >> reporter: it was at times an unconventional democratic convention with appeals to gop values. >> i worked for ronald reagan. donald trump, you are no ronald reagan. >> reporter: other speakers echoing clinton's attacks on the gop nominee. >> you have sacrificed nothing and no one. >> reporter: the father of a muslim american soldier killed by a car bomb in iraq questioning trump's patriotism. >> let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? [ applause ] i will gladly lend you my copy.
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[ cheers ] >> reporter: and a retired four-star marine general asserting clinton is the best candidate to take on isis, even though polls show voters think otherwise. >> with her as our commander in chief, america will continue to lead this volatile world. we will oppose and resist tyranny, and we will defeat evil. america -- america will defeat isis and protect the homeland. >> reporter: the goal for hillary clinton on this bus tour with her running mate tim kaine is to attract support from white working class voters. she's been doing well with the obama coalition, hispanic voters, african-american voters. her campaign is worried that for white working class voters, donald trump has some appeal. you look at polls in ohio, you see that she is neck and neck with donald trump and trying to change that. cnn, harrisburg, pennsylvania. >> thank you. now on to the republican nominee for president.
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donald trump on the campaign trail targeting the western part of the united states. as we mentioned, attacking some of the speakers from the democratic national convention. during a stop in denver, colorado, on friday he called retired four-star general john allen a failed commander for not stopping isis. he went after clinton even harder earlier in the day, saying that he's no longer going to be nice. jason carroll explains that. just remember this -- trump is going to be no more mr. nice guy. >> reporter: donald trump on offense, taking aim at hillary clinton on the heels of this week's democratic national convention. >> i've been saying let's just beat her on november 8th. you know what -- well, no. you know what, i'm starting to agree with you, i'll tell you. after watching that performance last night, such lies. i don't have to be so nice.
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i'm taking the gloves off, right? >> reporter: trump is also ignoring the advice of a friend who he says told him to stay focused on clinton. >> i was going to hit one guy in, it a very little guy -- in particular, a very little guy. his head would spin, he wouldn't know what happened. >> reporter: going after former new york city mayor michael bloomberg who delivered a scathing attack against trump at the convention. >> trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business? god help us. [ applause ] i'm a new yorker, and i know a con when i see one. >> reporter: trump tweeting this response, "if michael bloomberg ran again for mayor of new york, he wouldn't get 10% of the vote. they would run him out of town." trump's prolific tuiting not lost on clinton. >> a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust
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with nuclear weapons. [ applause ] >> reporter: trump firing back -- >> if somebody tweets, i do what i do. who cares? i'll tell you, i think i have the best temperament. certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that's ever run for the office of president, ever. because i have a winning temperament. >> reporter: the gop nominee, as he has done so many times in the past, calling clinton several names on twitter. all this while his running mate, indiana governor mike pence, took issue with name-calling after the president referred to trump as a home-grown demagogue during his speech wednesday night. >> i don't think name-calling has any place in public life. i thought that was unfortunate that the president of the united states would use a term like that, let alone laced into a sentence like that. >> reporter: at his event in colorado springs, trump attacked everyone from the local fire marshal to new york city's former mayor. the question is, will those type
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of attacks work in terms of bringing in others into the campaign, bringing in other supporters? it certainly works with his base supporters. will it bring in moderates? will it bring in independents? that still remains to be seen. jason carroll, cnn, colorado springs, colorado. >> thank you. a lot to talk about here. for more insight, let's bring in cnn politics reporter eugene scott live in washington, d.c., this hour. eugene, good to have you again with us. >> thank you. >> we heard mike pence talk about name-calling. my question to you, some voters are on the fence. when he talks about name-calling like that, but at the same time we see name-callinging on the republican side from donald trump, i think the names have been crooked hillary or hillary "rotten" clinton, how does that play with voters? >> it's interesting. it remains to be seen. from that interaction, that response, it makes you think that the trump-pence campaign doesn't believe that they have
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been involved in name-calling. i'm not sure what they would call pocahontas, but most people would consider that name-calling. to push back on someone doing it from the other side, some argue calling him a demagogue is not a name, it would be something. as you show, i think there trump views himself as a nice guy with a very good temperament. in fact, i think he would say the best temperament of anyone who has ever run. it will be interesting to see what it looks like, and what no longer being mr. nice guy looks like. if he's not been calling names as of now, it will be interesting to see what he actually does say from this point forward. >> yeah, but eugene, clearly there has been name-calling from the campaign. >> absolutely. >> it republicans saw a boost after their convention. so what would we expect to see after the democratic convention? when would we see the result of that? >> i think we could see that early next week perhaps when we look at new numbers as people begin to rethink what happened
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and reflect on what has happened. i think this weekend we will see a continuation of what the clinton-kaine campaign tried to articulate. they're on a tour in pennsylvania and ohio to hopefully win voters that they aren't doing as well as, that the trump campaign is doing well with. i think when we look at all of that, we'll be able to determine how significant the bounce was from the convention. >> when we talk about that, focusing in on working class voters, the trump campaign doing very well with that voting block. now we're seeing hillary clinton and tim kaine on the road in pennsylvania and ohio. what do they have to do to connect with voters in those critical battleground states? >> these are voters who are looking at trump demographically usually. they're usually white, working class voters that they're hoping to win. what i think clinton is going to have to focus on and emphasize is that the economy is something that she can be more in control of than donald trump. these are areas that were
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significantly impacted by the great recession, and people still have not recovered to the levels that they would have hoped. and she's -- she needs to let them know that she will do the best between her and her competition in bringing them, keeping them the jobs that many of them lost during that really difficult time. >> more on this topic, just name-calling, the divisiveness, infighting that we've seen in these campaigns. donald trump saying after he saw those dnc speeches that he doesn't have to be nice anymore. >> right. >> what more could we see between these two candidates as they step up their attacks, especially in those key states? >> well, i think we saw earlier in the campaign some hints from the campaign that they would hit the clinton campaign and bill clinton and their personal relationship harder. as you know, hillary clinton is beating donald trump significantly with women voters. i think in the past, the trump campaign has wanted to portray that hillary clinton has not
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been the best candidate for women based on some of the ways she has handled women in the past who have been accused of being involved in situations with her husband. i think donald trump has hinted at bringing those issues to the forefront. if he is no longer playing nice in terms of how he would define it, we perhaps could see more of that and probably even worse names. >> my, oh my. we'll have to see what comes next eugene. we'll stay in touch with you. we always appreciate your insight on all things politics. >> thank you. this is "cnn newsroom." ahead, a new worry for the rio olympic games. a fire breaks out in an olympic village dorm where the australian team is staying. now, officials think arson may be responsible. the u.n. says the clock is ticking for the syrian city of aleppo. why relief groups say a humanitarian catastrophe could happen there soon. stay with us.
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the international weightlifting federation has banned russia's weightlifting team from the rio olympics. the country's been hit with several bans in sports after watchdog agencies found evidence of state-sponsored doping. russian lifters will join the country's track and field athletes and a group of swimmer and rowers that are presently on the sidelines. some scary moments for the australian olympic team in rio. about 100 of its athletes. and staff were evacuated from the team building t village after a fire broke out in the basement. that fire under investigation for possible arson. shasta darlington has more for us. >> reporter: one week before the olympic games start, and the problems just aren't letting up. the latest, a small fire in the olympic village in the basement of the apartments where the australian team is staying. they were briefly evacuated. luckily, no one was hurt. on the security front, the
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official have announced they've had to beef up security around the torch relay after protesters in a small coastal city here in the state of rio mobbed the relay and television wi-- and extinguished one of the torches of the runners. riot police are being incorporated into the relay to keep it safe from protesters. in the city, you almost feel like it's already on lockdown. there are soldiers on every corner. navy off the coast of the beach where a lot of hotels are. in total, roughly 85,000 soldiers, police, and firefighters on hand to secure the games. that's more than twice what we saw in london. even in that area, we've seen problems. police are having to take over screening at the venues because the contractor that was hired didn't that hire enough stuff. the big question at the end of the day, is enthusiasm growing? on the one hand, you do see. it you see people lining up in
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front of the olympic rings to take selfies. unfortunately, that hasn't necessarily translate into ticket sales. we're one week away, still 21% of tickets up for grabs. shasta darlington, cnn, rio de janeiro. >> thank you. now to the syrian city of idlib. save the children is condemning the bombing of a maternity hospital. the only hospital in idlib. it serves more than 1,000 people a month. two people were killed in friday's bombing, several others wounded including pregnant women and babies. it is unclear who carried out the bombings. in northern syria, the video you see appears to show fighters backed by the united states trying to force isis out of the city of manbij. a top official says isis used the city to plan external operations. it was an entry point for
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foreign fighters. recapturing that city could give the u.s. some intelligence left behind by isis that could help to destroy the terror group. another key syrian city is aleppo. taking full control of that city would be a major victory for the syrian government. the united states says it is skeptical that humanitarian corridors there would not be used as a strategic means to empty the city. our senior international correspondent has more for us on that. [ explosion ] >> reporter: this is what remains of much of aleppo. once syria's most populus city, now an apocalyptic moonscape. this video released by the syrian army as it celebrates cutting off rebel forces in the eastern part of the city. leaflets have been dropped on the besieged areas, warning residents to leave. syria's president assad says he will offer amnesty to armed
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rebels who surrender. russia claims humanitarian corridors will be opened. after months of relentless bombardment, many are too afraid to leave their homes wanted recent history has taught -- homes. recent history has taught people to be highly suspicious of government promises. >> what needs to happen is the innocent people of aleppo should be able to stay in their homes safely and to receive the humanitarian access which russia and the regime have agreed, in principle have agreed certainly according to the u.n. security council resolution to provide. >> reporter: we made the drive into rebel-held aleppo a few months ago. berms of earth flank the road to protect the road from enemy fire. we have to drive extremely carefully. on one side you have the regime. on the other side, you have kurdish fighters who are fighting against rebel forces. there are snipers all around here. this is the only road now to get
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into aleppo. that road is now completely cut off, leave something 300,000 people trapped. the u.n. paint a grim picture of life inside. prices up as much as 300%. foods will run out within weeks. >> the clock is ticking for the aleppo population. that the commodities that are probably available in eastern aleppo are sufficient for maximum three weeks. >> reporter: for most here, the memory of the siege of homs is fresh in their minds. government forces cut off all food and supplies as they continued to bombard the city for years. a siege in aleppo would likely be even longer and uglier, though it's hard to imagine how much uglier it can get. clarissa ward, cnn, london. the civil war in syria has now gone on for more than five
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years. according to western governments, a major obstacle to a peaceful resolution is the future of the syrian president, bashar al assad. now a top u.s. intelligence official doesn't sound optimistic about syria's future. >> we need to be able to have some sense that assad is on the way out. there can be a transition period, but it needs to be clear that he is not part of syria's future. until that happens, until there is at least the beginning or the acknowledgment of the transition, you're going to have syrians d-- syrians dying, many are trying to reclaim their country for the good of syria's future. many also want syria to be the safe haven for terrorists. i don't know whether or not syria can be put back together again. whether there's some type of federal structure where the various confessional groups are going to have the lead in governing their portions of the country. >> the u.n. estimates about
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400,000 people have died in the syrian conflict so far. now to weather. terrible flooding, mudslides, i should say, landslides are developing. typhoon another topic dominating the headlines this hour. our meteorologist karen maginnis has the latest. there's a lot happening. >> there certainly is. on different parts of the globe. we start across the united states where heavy rainfall made its way in across the southeastern state of tennessee. just to the north of nashville. we've got plenty of video to show you out of several places. this in beth page, tennessee. they saw about four inches of rainfall in just about three hours. roughly 100 millimeters. four people had to be rescued from their home which was swamped during the very heavy downpour. this is associated with a frontal system that's moving toward the east. speaking of that, look at brooklyn, new york. they saw heavy downpour, too.
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some people tried to go through the streets. there was also storm drain trouble this -- trouble there, as well. the water has receded, but it looks like sunday's forecast calls for another round of potentially heavy rainfall. and we've talked about the flooding rain due to the monsoon season in nepal. you may remember last april they were devastated by a terrific earthquake there. a number of people were already out of their homes. then this flooding occurs thanks to the monsoon season, and they were trying to locate people lost in rubble. there was a bridge that collapsed due to the heavy precipitati precipitation. this has been devastating. at least 86 dead, others missing. they are bringing in military people to provide some aid and
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comfort across the region. let's talk about our potential typhoon. right now, it's at tropical depression status. looking a little more impressive on the enhanced satellite imagery. its position put it just about 600 kilometers to the east/southeast of milan. it is moving to the north but will gradually make its way more in a westward movement. so going into the beginning of the workweek, we could see this increase in intensity to typhoon intensity and maybe take aim at hong kong. hong kong is a city of about 7 million, 7.5 million people. already not even at typhoon status, and we're seeing very heavy downpours in northern sections. the philippines. back to you. >> wll stay in touch with you. a lot happening. thank you. this is "cnn newsroom." still ahead, donald trump has said that he likes vladimir putin and that putin likes him. he's also insisting that he's got no ties with russia.
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killed and several injured at the sear man maternity hospital. it is unclear who carried out the bombing. russia's weightlifters are the latest team to receive a ban from the olympics. the track and field athletes and a group of swimmers are already barred from competing. they're being punished after investigators found evidence of state-sponsored doping. in the race for the white house, the u.s. democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton and her running mate tim kaine traveling through the states of pennsylvania and ohio to push their economic plan while going after some of donald trump's core supporters there. both the fbi and the justice department investigating the possible computer hack of hillary clinton's presidential campaign. a campaign spokesperson says a data program maintained by the democratic national convention and used by the campaign was accessed in a wider dnc breach. authorities are looking into whether russian hackers are also involved. the hacking controversy is
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putting renewed focus on the relationship if any between russia and the presidential candidate donald trump. trump insisting he has no ties to russia. his campaign shrugging off speculation that the leaks are aimed at helping him to win in november. jim shciutto has more. wouldn't it be nice if we did get along with russia? >> reporter: donald trump trading compliments with russian president and u.s. adversary vladimir putin. >> when people like me, i like them. even putin! >> reporter: their relationship now under new scrutiny with u.s. officials saying it is likely it was russia that hacked 20,000 emails from the democratic national committee. wikileaks released the emails on the eve of the democratic party convention. the timing raising questions about whether it was an attempt to influence the u.s. election, perhaps in trump's favor. director of national intelligence james clapper told
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us that while it's too early to say with certainty it was russia, the kremlin does have an interest in undermining the u.s. political process. is it your view that russia has the intention if not influencing this election, undermining confidence in the u.s. political process? >> they see a u.s. conspiracy behind every bush. they believe that we're trying to influence political developments in russia. their natural response is to retaliate. >> reporter: that is a very serious concern for the u.s. government. >> was this just to stir up trouble, or was this ultimately to try influence an election? this is a serious proposition. >> reporter: when asked about erin burnett, trump's campaign manager discounted the theory that russia leaked the documents to help put trump in the white house. >> it's absurd. i don't know anything about what you just said. you may know it. if you do, you ought to expose it. >> reporter: in fact, trump
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maintains that he has no connections to russia whatsoever. and cnn has not been able to find any current business operations there. >> i have nothing to do with putin. i've never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him. >> reporter: when he brought his miss universe passage tonight moscow in 2013 -- pageant to moscow in 2013, trump said he spoke personally with putin. >> i was in russia, moscow recently. i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin, who could not have been nicer. >> reporter: and now trump's favorable comments about russia has u.s. allies worried about whether the u.s. would defend them against russian aggression. >> it's bothersome to our foreign partners. i hear that from my counterparts. >> reporter: jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> thank you. as jim mentioned, wikileaks published thousands of democratic party emails that russian hackers may have accessed. in an interview with cnn, wikileaks' founder, julian
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assange, indicated that a lot more material related to the u.s. election could soon be released. >> there has been multiple hacks of the dnc over the last two years. the dnc and the rnc, had been swiss cheese in terms of their security. the dnc has been notified quite some time ago that that is the case. and it has legal responsibilities it must carry out to notify its donors that it's aware that their confidentiality has been breached by a hack. >> assange also refused to confirm if russia was behind the dnc hacking. while hillary clinton and donald trump are rivals on the campaign trail, their daughters have forged a very close friendship. as cnn's tom foreman reports, that friendship appears to be continuing despite the very heated rhetoric that we've seen
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in the race for the white house. lying "crooked" hillary. [ applause ] she's a liar. >> donald trump talks about make america great again. he doesn't make a things in america except bankruptcies. >> reporter: amid the campaign's fury, an unlikely alliance. ivanka trump and chelsea clinton, fierce political foes, steadfast personal friends. chelsea says it's so -- >> our friendship had nothing, has nothing to do with politics. we were friends before this election. we'll be friends after this election. >> reporter: and ivanka does, too, telling "people" magazine "we're both incredibly supportive of our parents, as we should be, but we also continue to have great respect for one another." a dozen years ago when their families were friends, the two met and found they had things in common. they still do. both are married, mid 30s with ivy league educations and children.
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both grew up with famous fathers, facing personal turmoil. and both have taken a deep interest in their parents' bid for the white house. indeed, introducing them at their party's conventions. >> my mother -- >> our father -- >> and our next president -- >> hillary clinton. >> donald j. trump! >> reporter: blue from are sharp political difference -- but there are sharp political differences, too. after ivanka praised her father's record of hiring and promoting women, promising the same as president -- >> he will fight for equal pay, for equal work -- >> reporter: her friend chelsea quickly shot back. >> how would your father do that given it's not something he's spoken about? there are no policies on any of those fronts that you mentioned on his website. >> reporter: with the race growing only nastier and each pushing so hard for her parent to win, it's fair to wonder if their cross-party friendship can survive. >> a man you can bait with a
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tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. [ applause ] >> i just beat 16 people, and i'm beating her. >> reporter: amid the scorching rhetoric, ivanka says they've not seen each other lately. although asked about a daughter's summit to ease campaign tensions, chelsea said -- >> it's something that occurred to me, but something i would consider -- >> reporter: not a bad idea. after all, thomas jefferson famously said he never thought anyone should lose a friend over politics. tom foreman, cnn, philadelphia. >> thank you. now moving on to the zika virus. that virus apparently now in the continental united states. federal health officials say that four people have transmitted the disease locally. our national correspondent, paolo sandoval, with details. >> reporter: officials believe it was a matter of time before
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zika-carrying mosquitoes would affect people within the continental united states. now, three men and one woman in south florida believed to be the first cases of this kind. the centers for disease control and prevention believe that the four patients were infected while in this area in early july. it's commonly known as the winwood arts district. a neighborhood not only residential but a popular retail and dining district just north of downtown miami. it draws in people from across the region. the type of mosquitoes don't travel far during their life span. the current preventive efforts now focused squarely this area, hoping to eradicate any of these possible infected insects. >> polo, thank you. health officials say they expect more cases of zika. blood collection centers in florida are testing all of their donations for the zika virus. live pictures from krakow, poland. pope francis there holding mass
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sites and celebrating world youth day on. friday, he went to auschwitz. he visited that site where an estimated one million jews were killed by the nazis during the holocaust. our vatican correspondent joins us live from krakow. good to have you with us this hour. let's first talk about the pope's visit to auschwitz, that image of him walking through the gates of the terrible site. how significant a moment was that, and how has it been received? >> reporter: well, george, when the pope before coming here talked about auschwitz said he wanted nog silence with as few -- to go in silence with as few people as possible and wanted nog and pray. he prayed for a long time on a bench there. that was his response, the silence, to one of the questions which the holocaust poses for religious men and, indeed, for
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writers, victor frankel, anyone who has tried to grapple with the holocaust. equity -- the question is where was god. the silence of pope francis encompassing the humility before that question and the difficulty of answering that question. he said afterwards, george, from the window when he was greeting the crowds in the evening, he said, you know, the cruelty of auschwitz continues during the day, continues in the form of torture for people around the world. it continues in the form of wars. he's said to the young people that that cruelty cannot have the last word. that they are to be the sowers of hope for the future. the message today and yesterday with the young people being one of, yes, there is cruelty, asking for god's mercy for forgiveness, and asking young people to forgive each other. indeed, that is the theme, as well, this morning because he is visiting the shrine of divine
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mercy. this is one of the major shrines here in poland. and it is also homage to john paul ii because this is a place, george, which is based on the visions of a polish nun, st. faustina kowalska. she had visions and jesus and wrote it in her diary. the vatican banned the diry in the 1960s. and john paul believed in her visions. a vision of jesus with rays of light coming from his heart and the idea of mercy. you'll see that image of jesus all around. and john paul ii got behind her cause -- called on the vatican to lift the ban. when he became pope, he made her a saint and had this place designed and built. pope francis visiting both in homage to john paul ii and the important of the saint, but also because it's the team ofomers -- of mercy. the theme of the trip. the kids are making a pilgrimage of nine miles on foot to go to
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the outskirts of krakow for the crescendo, the last night of the five-day visit before the final mass tomorrow. >> and talking about that, while you were speaking, we saw images of pope francis while he was walking in to wash wi-- to auschwitz, walking past the gates. now the terrorism that's happened, the violence, refugee crisis, all of these things. to see that image that we're seeing now certainly sobering. i want to ask you what sort of reactions, what other reactions have you heard simply from that one visit of the pope there to auschwitz? what other reactions? >> reporter: i think pope francis has been a friend of the jewish community since his time in argentina. so certainly there is great
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support for him from the part of the jewish community. equally, of course, the kids here. there are hundreds of thousands of kids here, george. they are a new generation. and you talk about the terrorism around the world, the sense of insecurity that people are feeling in europe and around the world. these kids are the hope for the new generation. the pope spoke about the important of memory, of knowing what occurred at auschwitz. but the important of forgiveness, of forgiving the past and, therefore, creating a better future. i think it's been important, as well, for the youth to see the pope at auschwitz, to know what happened there, to continue the memory of what man is capable of doing. that's what the pope wrote in the guest book at auschwitz, man's cruelty and asking god's forgiveness for that but saying this cruelty continues today. we need to be vigilant today, but we can't let it have the last word.
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it's a big theme, but it's the pope's main point that goodness has to win out. so he is encouraging that goodness amongst the young people here today. they are accepting that challenge, i have to say. you see them in the streets, lots of enthusiasm here. george? >> delia, thank you very much for being with us. in rio, security is top of mind during the olympic games. for that reason, one of rio's top tourism draws will be on hold while the games are going on. we'll have that story ahead. the earth needed to find a new waytury, to keep up with the data from over 30 billion connected devices. just 30 billion? a bold group of researchers and computer scientists in silicon valley, had a breakthrough they called... the machine. it changed computing forever. and it's been part of every new technology for the last 250 years. everything? everything! this year, hewlett packard enterprise will preview the machine and accelerate the future.
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de janeiro is one of the most breathtaking cities in the world. one popular way for tourists to see the soaring views will soon be closing for the olympic. our senior international correspondent jar -- correspondent arwa damon explains why. very popular in rio de janeiro and brazil, the hang gliding is the best in the world. >> reporter: expert pilot manuel navarro is among the best here. >> demand is 35,000 a year. there's lots of flights. >> reporter: a good look. >> you'll be all right. okay? you'll be all right. >> reporter: i'll be all right. okay, so maybe i was a little nervous. >> are you ready to run? >> reporter: i'm ready to run. >> you don't feel confident. are you ready to run?
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>> reporter: i'm ready to run. >> one, two -- go faster. >> reporter: i'm terrified. it's beautiful! the views from up here are unlike anything else. the air is just so crisp and fresh. i love it! >> okay? >> reporter: yes. what makes this unique among hang gliding spots is its location. starting up, sprawling over a sprawling urban landscape and rio's stunning coastline. it's one of the best ways to experience the city. it is a shame that people coming here for the olympics won't be
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able to do this. that's because the brazilian government is closing the airspace for the olympic games. it's a security measure. they did the same things for the world cup. it's big bucks lost for the industry. manuel says he understands why the city needs to take these precautions. so if you want to try it out, schedule it in before or after the games. i totally recommend it. brilliant. absolutely brilliant. arwa damon, cnn, rio de janeiro, brazil. >> that looks so cool. good on arwa. i've always wanted to do that. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm george chamberlain at the cnn center in atlanta. for our viewers in the united states, "new day" is next. for other viewers around the world, "amanpour" starts in a moment. we thank you for watching cnn, the world's news leader.
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