more abuse allegations. donald trump brushes off the growing number of women accusing him of sexual assault. a new round of talks on the bloodshed in syria. but expectations are low. plus, cuba hopes to capitalize on the cigar market in a country that once banned its products. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm paula newton. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. there are now two more sexual assault accusations against u.s. presidential candidate donald trump, bringing the number to at least eight. now one woman says trump fondled

her under her skirt at a new york nightclub in the 1990s. another says trump grabbed and aggressively kissed her after she was a contestant on the reality show "the apprentice." trump says the stories are not true, and he's the victim of a cemete smear campaign. jim acosta has more. some of the language you're about to hear is graphic. >> reporter: no apologies and no admissions of guilt from donald trump who is still angrily denying he's ever sexually assaulted women. >> i look on television, i think it's a disgusting thing, and it's being pushed -- they have no witnesses. there's nobody around. they just come out -- some are doing it for probably little fame. phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country. >> narrator: every day it seems trump faces more accusations. the latest, summer zervos who

appeared with gloria allred to say she was abused by the real estate tycoon after she appear on trump's show, "the apprentice." >> it he started kissing me open mouthed as he pulled me toward him. i tried to push him away. i pushed his chest to put space between us and said, "come on, man, get real." he repeated my words when we come back to me, "get real," as these began thrusting his genitals. >> reporter: kristin anderson tells the "washington post" trump reached up her skirt and groped her back in the '90s. >> he did touch my vagina through my underwear. >> reporter: both said they came forward after seeing trump brag about grabbing women's genitals in a hot mic moment caught on camera. >> you can do anything. grab them by the pussy. >> reporter: and other women shared their allegation as jessica leeds did on "ac 360." >> did he actually kits you? >> yeah, yeah. >> on the face, on the lips? >> wherever he could find a landing spot, yes.

>> after that, i was like, okay, you know, let me back japanese girls up. you know, that's not okay. >> reporter: trump says anderson's account is false. >> one came out recently where i was sitting alone at some club. i -- i don't sit alone that much. honestly, folks, i don't think i sit alone -- i go in with groups. i was sitting alone by myself, like this. [ laughter ] then i went -- wow, it's unbelievable. >> reporter: he cast doubts on leeds's story by suggesting she wasn't attractive enough for him to assault her. >> oh, i was with donald trump in 1980. i was sitting with him on an airplane. and he went after me on the plane. yeah. i'm going to go after. believe me, she would not be my first choice that, that can i can tell you. >> reporter: mike pence says he has faith in the man at the top of the ticket. >> donald trump has asserted that all of these recent unsubstantiated allegations are categorically false, and i do

believe him. >> reporter: and pence politely pushed back on michelle obama, who denounced trump's behavior. >> i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexually assaulting women. >> i have a lot of respect for the first lady and the job that she's done for the american people over the last 7.5 years. i don't understand the basis of her claim. >> reporter: despite the fact that the campaign promised reporters all day long that it would provide evidence proving trump did not sexually assault any women, the campaign did not produce any such documentation. instead, trump told a rally here in charlotte, the allegations against him are 100% false. cnn, charlotte. during the story you heard accuser kristin anderson allege who donald trump assaulted her in the early 1990s. she also discussed why she didn't report him at the time. >> it was one of those things that happened really quickly, and i -- i pushed him off and

moved away. and i sort of didn't really ponder on it that long. and i didn't tell anybody. i've seen a few people like, oh, well, you should have said something. yeah, say what, to who? like -- >> do you feel if you had said something to the club management or security or something like that, did you think about that at all? >> i've thought about it now. could i have said something? maybe, but who am i going to tell? i go to the club manager and say donald trump put his hand up my skirt. they'll be like, yeah, and go to him, ask did you do this, he'll say now. where do we go from there? it's kind of like where we are now. he's saying no, and there are a ton of women saying yes, and more will come out. if it was that nonchalant there's no way he didn't do it to more people. >> at the time, did you consider

it sexual assault? >> no. didn't think of it that way, no. assault in my mind meant something else. you know, hitting is assault. i was very unaware with -- unaware of mental abuse, manipulation, bullying. i mean, that is just straight-up bullying. maybe not exactly what happened to me but certainly what happened to these other girls who didn't get up and leave quickly. >> blunt conversation there. hillary clinton has largely avoided commenting directly on the sexual assault allegations against trump. she's also telling supporters she takes no satisfaction in what is happening to trump because of the damage it's causing the u.s. during an event on friday, she did find an opportunity to attack his character once again.

>> the whole world has heard how donald trump brags about mistreating women and the disturbing stories keep coming. this is who donald trump really is. we know that. now we have to demonstrate who we are. america is better than this. [ applause ] >> meantime, in the battleground state of ohio, u.s. president barack obama warned voters not to let donald trump and his supporters discourage them from going to the polls on election day, november 8th. >> now, her opponents made it pretty clear he's just going to drag this election as low as it can possibly go. and he figures that it he makes our politics just toxic, then maybe you'll figure out you got no good choices, you get

discouraged and don't vote. >> right. >> don't fall for it. >> cnn politics reporter eugene scott joins us now live from washington via skype. i mean, eugene, you kind of have to catch your breath after all this and really take a step back and say, what we're talking about here, day after day, is sexual assault. so many of the issues in this campaign have absolutely been put to the side. i mean, do you get any sense from the trump campaign that they want to get back to the campaigning, or at least they're trying? many have pointed out every time he gets on stage, he talks about the allegations against him. >> reporter: we've certainly had on cnn multiple trump surrogates and supporters say they wish that their candidate used his rallies to focus more on the issues that separate him from his opponent, hillary clinton. whether or not people inside have been able to convince donald trump that he needs to use these next two, three more

weeks to pivot is not really clear. as you mentioned, we see a significant amount of time at these rallies spent, he's defending himself, explaining away some of the accusations and not talking about the issues that voters say matter most to them. >> so funny -- kellyanne conway -- you know, trump's campaign strategist, tweeted after a reporter said, i heard someone at one of the rallies say "talk about the issues," and kelly alien c-- kellyanne conway said "no, that was me." she was heckling donald trump to stand and talk about the issues. extraordinary. in terms of dealing with the allegations themselves, we've had late-breaking developments. and we want to point out that a cousin of -- this would be "the apprentice" contestant, zerbos'

cousin, said "i'm shocked and bewildered by my cousin summer and her press it was today. since she was on "the apprentice," she had nothing but blowing things to say about mr. trump. for almost a decade she talked about how much she would look up to mr. trump and viewed him as an inspiration, a success story she wanted to copy. that is until summer invited mr. trump to her restaurant during the primary and he said now. i think summer wishes she could still be on reality tv. and in an effort to get that back, she's saying all of these negative things about mr. trump." now, immediately her lawyer, gloria allred, said, john barry is a huge trump supporter. he was employed at summer's family restaurant until several months ago when he -- when his employment ended. since then he's expressed hostility and ill will toward summer. we're getting a flavor of how this is going to go if we want to go through every single solitary allegation against donald trump. i have to ask you, we heard

yesterday mike pence, vice presidential nominee, saying there would be proof in a matter of hours to discredit a lot of the women making these allegations from donald trump. have we heard anything more about that at all? >> reporter: we've certainly heard the trump campaign say that they have e-mail records showing that there have been accusers that have had ulterior motives for what they are presently doing. but no, we have not heard responses to every single accuser. and i can't imagine that the trump campaign will want to respond to these publicly. they're dealing with serious legal issues. i imagine they would to approach things through a court of law. the reality is problems will not be solved or worked out by the end of the election. the truth is there could be more accusers coming forward after the election. i think that most voters want the candidates to focus on these

issues and try not to continue to dragging this election into the mud before the election day. >> so true. and in terms when we look to the election day, it's been more than a week since we heard donald trump in that video on that bus making those lewd remarks. what affect has it been having on the polls, especially in the key battleground states? >> reporter: we saw john king do his image -- showing how women voters have responded to the situation the last week. even among republican women, donald trump dropped about 6%. he already was struggling with women across the board. unless the campaign pivots and finds a way to start talking about the subjects and topics that women voters say that they want their candidate to address, this could continue. so i think we want to encourage people to -- to encourage the candidates to stay focused so that we can move forward all of this.

>> yeah. extraordinary that the polls have moved that much with hillary clinton basically not doing much of anything and also her dealing with her own e-mail scandals and a lot of damaging information coming from her campaign. eugene scott for us, appreciate it. now, diplomats will meet in a few hours to discuss a possible cease-fire in syria. ahead, why there's little optimism the talks will bring significant change. i wanted to know where i did my ancestrydna. the most shocking result was that i'm 26% native american. i had no idea. it's opened up a whole new world for me. ♪

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and the offensive comes ahead of an operation to retake mosul. he was in the area friday to meet with civil and military leaders. gf government forces will join them in the battle. diplomatic efforts to save thousands of syrians have fallen through before. diplomats will try again in the coming hours. we've seen even more horrific violence, unfortunately, in and around aleppo this week week. experts say it is a turning point for the brutal syrian civil war. senior diplomatic editor nic robertson now from switzerland. how many times have you heard that before, this will be the inflection point, this is a crossroads, a crucial point? we've heard this for months if not years. in terms of actually finding precious, that precious common ground as we sit down to negotiations in switzerland, what is it? does it begin with just trying

to find a pause so humanitarian aid can go in? >> reporter: i don't think we're even at that stage, paula. sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, says he has no special hopes or expectations. indeed he said that he would be holding his western partners accountable for upholding previously agreed u.n. security council ruling. he didn't see compromise on the western side as much as he felt the russians had compromised their position. it doesn't seem to be an auspicious tone upon which to start meetings. if you compare that with the ratcheting up of rhetoric and increase in tensions between the united states and russia over the issue of syria, specifically over oaleppo the past couple of weeks, it gives lavrov and kerry a chance to reset the rhetoric and perhaps get back to some discussion. it very much appears these talks have been shaped to bring in far

fewer of the players. secretary kerry won't be flanked at these meetings as he has been in the past by his european allies. british, french, germans weren't invited. lavrov, he said he expected the saudi foreign minister and turkish foreign ministers to be around the table. of course, these parties have competing interests inside syria. it will certainly give lavrov the opportunity greater than bee would have -- greater than he would have been in the past if he desires to play one off the other. we heard what boris johnson, the british prime minister, said about the last time all parties met together. he said everyone was beating up on russia. and it took the iranians to step in at the negotiating table to calm that down. this will be a much smaller group. but ahead of the talks, you do have to say the hope of trying to change the situation in aleppo doesn't seem to be particularly high. if you listen to what president bashar al assad said just in the past couple of days to a russian journalist visiting damascus, he

said that aleppo will be the springboard for clearing terrorists out of the other parts of syria. every indication from the assad regime and, therefore, from the russians backing them, that the military operations take precedence and will continue in aleppo. >> and through all this, we have had the white house hint this week that they are looking at america's military options there. what are they? we've heard for many years that there aren't any good military options. >> reporter: yeah, that's something we heard echoed from boris johnson, the british prime minister, in front of the british foreign affairs select committee answering questions. he got several questions on the issue of syria. he was asked precisely that, what options are there. he said potentially more kinetic operations, you know, potentially more aircraft, the talk of a new flew fly zone. he said, i'm not getting up anyone's hopes. a coalition can't exist without the united states or the leadership of that coalition. and there appears to be no

particularly at a time of a changing presidency in the united states, no change in policy toward that increase in military action. so really although boris johnson raised that as an issue, what he's saying is from his knowledge of where discussions are amongst the u.s. and its allies, that sort of ramping up of a military side of -- of trying to resolve the situation in syria from a u.s. and coalition standpoint of view is not realistically on the table at the moment. johnson said it it was really more about trying to get humanitarian into the city, trying to find a way perhaps of warning the citizens of aleppo when air strikes were coming. this was all as operational. and that's, as he said, was a long day's march from where we are today, meaning they're nowhere near it at the moment. paula? >> again, nic robertson keeping an eye on things in switzerland as they try to get a cease-fires together for syria. we were talking about all the tension with russia, around

that table there in switzerland. some western powers say russia should be investigated for possible war crimes in syria. russian warplanes along with syrian jets are blamed for deadly air strikes. our matthew chance has more from moscow. >> reporter: as russian warplanes continue striking aleppo, the carnage in syria has pushed moscow's relationship with the west to new lows. powers debating military action again. russia has upped its forces in syria and its cold war rhetoric. in his flagship "current affairs" show, top news oinkar issued this stark warning of global war. "brutish behavior toward russia," he declared, "could have nuclear dimensions. it is an apocalyptic vision,

quite literally." not since the conflict in ukraine where russia fueled an eastern rebellion after annexing crimea, have tensions between russia and the west, particularly the united states, been so strained. critics accuse moscow of dangerously undermining the international order. many russians, former cold war warriors like this retired general, see it very differently. >> russia is fighting u.s. dominance over the world. that's -- that's -- it's not all about syria or ukraine. in ukraine it was a definite coup supported by the united states. we have different views on what's going on in the world. >> reporter: these are just flashpoints in a larger battle? >> of course, of course. >> the fight over dominance? >> of course. >> reporter: a battle to secure russian interests in syria, to protect the last toehold in the

middle east and ukraine to prevent yet another soviet state turning to nato and the eu. it is a strategy, as they say, that sets russia and the west on a collision course. [ gunfire ] >> since the collapse of the soviet union, the west had opportunity and capacity to reshape the whole world according to ideas which the west believes were correct and right. what we see now, there are attempts to believe that this post-cold war arrangement can be restored or prolonged. unfortunately not. >> reporter: and what will replace it may not be to everyone's liking. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. coming up, france marks a grim anniversary. three months since the nice terror attack, as some stivers are trying to recover -- survivors are trying to recover, that's ahead.

plus, conflicting reports over the deals to release 21 nigerian schoolgirls once held captive by boko haram.

hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm paula newton. here are the headlines this hour -- two more women now accuse donald trump of sexual assault. one says the presidential candidate groped her under her skirt in the 1990's. a former contestant on trump's show, "the apprentice," said he grabbed and kissed her aggressively in 2007. there are at least eight accu

accuse accusers. donald trump vehemently denies the claims. almost 200 countries have agreed on a major step to reduce global warming. delegates in rwanda promise to reduce the greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. those gases are more dangerous for the environment than carbon dioxide. the teal gives develop -- the deal gives developing countries more time to make changes than wealthier countries. a u.s. aid worker has been abducted from outside his home and taken toward mali. a source says a guard and policemen were killed. they forced the man to strip to his underwear to avoid being tracked. the infamous drug lord "el chapo" could be sent to the u.s. early next year. the country's national security commissioner says juan guzman could be extradited as early as january or february. his lawyer disagrees saying it would be hard for it to happen so soon. in france, friday marked the

three-month anniversary of the bastille day terror attack in nice. 86 people were killed when a man drove a truck through a crowd of revelers in july. enough to a national ceremony to honor the victims is set to begin soon in nice. french president francois hollande is expected to attend. for more on the events and how the victims are recovering, our melissa bell joins us live from paris. melissa, you know, it's important to remember that until now the french government even discouraged these kind of memorial services. they didn't want people to gather in those numbers and thought it would be dangerous. >> reporter: and it is important to remember that this ceremony has been organized by relatives of the victims. they are at the heart of this ceremony. francois hollande, as you mentioned, will be president, he will be speaking. this is really about the victims, those that were close to them, and the thousand or so that helped on that day, the 1 fourth of july, after the truck

crashed into the site causing so many casualties. ahead of the ceremony at which the relatives will be central part, we caught up with one family involved in the attacks. one american man. he comes from los angeles. he had come on holiday with his wife and 10-year-old daughter and has been here ever since visit a look. slowly at first, the white truck made its way down the street. then with the crowds who'd gathered for bastille day firmly in his sights, he sped up. >> it happened so quickly. the truck was going 70 miles per hour. my wife was about ten feet in front of me. she screamed out loud, "greg, look out, there's a truck!" i looked straight ahead and saw the truck in front of me, the big, white truck. i had a choice to either jump to my right or jump to my left because the donald trump was

swerving. so i had to make a decision which way to jump. i decided to jump to my left, and thank god i did because if i didn't, i would have been dead. >> reporter: 86 people did die in the attack, and those that survived suffered horrific injuries. road crash injuries on. a massive scale. greg's leg was fractured in eight different places. amid sthe chaos, all he could d was wait for help. >> an ambulance didn't come because they were too busy with people who were dead or more injured than me. a good samaritan, a french gentleman, came by in his car and picked me up and whisked me to the hospital. >> reporter: that night, 300 people were treated here. it was the first time the doctors had seen anything like it. sadly, the man who saved greg's leg, doesn't think it will be the last. >> we know that it can happen again. unfortunately. this is what we have to face

actually. we're to realize that we are in war. >> reporter: the attack was the third major terror attack in france over an 18-month period. for the first time, the victims were mostly families. >> i have hatred, of course, for that person. i have a lot of anger when i think about it. why me, of course, comes up. >> reporter: greg's 10-year-old daughter was also injured, but she's one of the lucky ones. that night ten children lost their lives. >> i was shouting to everybody like, help, help. there was ambulances everywhere. and people trying to help and tax taxis. it was a crazy night. >> reporter: do you wonder about why what happened happened? >> well, i know that for some reason it happened, and i know that if it was some reason, it

happened, and only god knows what it's for. >> reporter: that question put so eloquently by that little girl will be at the heart of the ceremony. so much emotion three months after the attack. it is a tightly controlled ceremony. only those who have been invited will be allowed to attend. as you mentioned in your question, authorities do worry about large gatherings. this is what france has become used to sadly. the fact of the matter is that even as the country grieves the last attack, it has on its mind the fear about a possible next one. >> yeah, and you always have to keep that in mind as places like nice say they'll be forever changed unfortunately by this incident. melissa bell, thank you, appreciate it. reports conflict now over when the nigerian government released some boko haram commanders as part of the process that freed 21 girls. a source close to the deal

modesto captured militants -- said some captured militants were free. a militant says there was no swap. the girls were welcomed home on thursday. you've been talking to the families of the girls for so long. if we look at the context and controversy over whether or not the commanders were freed, how would they feel if that were true although the government denies it? >> reporter: i don't think the families would care in the slightest. this has been 2.5 years of misery, 2.5 years that they felt on many occasion that they were on with their suffering with their children taken from them. for them, they had said and had been adamant they didn't care what needed to be done. they just wanted to see their children come home. as you make the point, more than 200 were taken that night, april 14th, in 2014. we're now celebrating the

release of 21 which leaves well over 180 girls still in captivity. but this is a very, very, very important step, if you will. an important step that shows that a deal can be done, and these 21 have been released. we understand that the families are making their way, at least some of them, from northern anything to to where the girls were -- nigeria to where the girls were taken upon release. we expect an overgenoci-- overj reunion. this has been a moment that's transfix wanted nigeria, the fact that after such a long time these girls are finally back. the questions in the days to come over what deal was done or what condition the girls are, what information they can share with the government, everyone will be paying close attention. for the families themselves, they had always said just bring our girls back, we don't care what you have to do. paula? >> and a precious few are now back. i mean, what was the ones that

boko haram still holds? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, that's the question, right? i mean, you can imagine that for this group of families, you know, almost 300 families, 21 are overjoyed at the moment. for the rest it is pure heartbreak with the knowledge that their girls were not released. our understanding is that negotiations will continue in the days ahead. the release of the 21, that the outcome of many, many days of negotiation involving the swiss government and the international committee of the red cross. parties that will continue to talk with boko haram fighters to secure the lease of more girls -- the release of more girls. that is not certain, of course, that outcome. what we can say with certainty and with great joy, especially for me personally as someone who has covered the story from the very beginning, is that 21 have been released and will soon reunite with their loved ones. >> yeah. there will be some tender moments to come for those

families. we'll to bring you that coverage in the coming dice. thank you very much. now many people in thailand are still in shock and disbelief after the death of their king. a live report from the country's year-long period of mourning ahead.

people in thailand are bidding a tearful farewell to king bhumibol adulyadej. tens of thousands watched on friday as a procession bearing his body wound through bangkok to the grand palace. the official mourning period lasts an entire year. will ripley joins us now live from bangkok with more. and you know, the images are amazing. just -- you know, how transfixed the entire country is right now, and how they're mourning every

hour of the day. it seems to have seized everyone there. >> reporter: it really is incredible, paula. it is a beautiful day here in bangkok. a saturday afternoon. and you can see there are still thousands of people here outside the grand palace. i would say more than 90% of the people, tourists and locals alike, are wearing black, the national color of mourning during this one-year mourning period that began yesterday. people are coming here, they're taking photos, they're going inside the grand palace. you see this lady taking photos. they're going inside the grand palace to sign a condolence book for the king and royal family who really have gripped the nation when they watched those live pictures yesterday of the ceremony where the king was taken on his final journey here. the royal hearse coming through the streets. and the emotion in these streets silent but palpable. a sea of black outside the grand palace in bangkok. tens of thousands gathered in grief. on the first day of thailand's

year-long mourning president, some openly wept for king bhumibol adulyadej. a man considered the moder father of thailand -- modern father of thailand, a man many can't believe is gone. what is the hardest part of what you're going through now? >> the hardest part, we still not accept the truth that our king has just passed away. and it's still very hard for everyone, not just me or us. we just like crying. every time we look around, we see people watching tv, something like that. so just make -- just make it feel very down to accept that he's really, really passed away. >> police say the crowd outside the grand palace alone easily exceeded 100,000 people. >> you see that people around, you know, as most here -- young face, old, students, there's a

lot of us. today's really like an important day. like a heartbreaking day. >> reporter: aside from the ceremonial cannons outside the royal palace, you don't hear much noise despite the huge crowds. the thai people don't tend to sob or wail, theirs is a silent grieve. the hearse passed the doctors and nurses who worked fire tireless -- worked tirelessly to save his life. through the bustling streets, now eerily silent. salutes along the route as the king made his final journey to the palace. his body batheded in thai buddhist tradition, a ceremony led by his son and successor the crown prince as his wife of 60 years, the queen, looked on. the ailing queen hasn't been seen in public for several years. even a full year of official mourning may not be enough for those who believe thailand lost

more than a king. they say it lost part of its soul. what is so moving here today, yesterday there was a lot of grief in the streets. today people are in an uplifting mood. and you can see, they're handing out water and snacks and refreshments. you can't walk more than a few feet out here, outside the grand palace without people wanting to come and give you things. they've set up so many things to make sure that people are comfortable here so that they can come, they can pay their respects. it almost feels like a street festival where people are smiling, and they're sitting with friends and families. but everybody is still wearing black, and some are holding pictures of the king and reminiscing about their memories. this is a weekend, yes, of mourning, but also a weekend of celebration here in bangkok. and for tourists that have come here, obviously a lot of the night life in the city is a bit subdued now. businesses aren't closed, but tourists have been asked to wear

somber colors. outdoor bars are not operating. all of the bars are operating inside. yet, you're seeing a piece of thai culture, perhaps a different piece of this conservative society than people expect when they come to bangkok. even in his death, the king is still teaching the world a lesson or two about his country that he loved so much and served for 70 years. >> we can see in the pictures all around you that indeed it is more of an atmosphere of celebration, celebrating the king's life and what he meant to thailand. will ripley live on the streets of bangkok. appreciate it. now the u.s. pacific northwest is bracing for another day of wild weather. meteorologist derek van dam is here with me, you'll go over the world weather -- >> right next to you. >> it's a cliche, isn't it? you always say the west coast doesn't get crazy weather, you shouldn't worry about it. >> you're right. i believe it's on average, two tornadoes a year in oregon. and they had ten tornado

warnings issued by portland, the national weather service in portland, just in one day. that's a record for them. and we have one of those tornadoes queued up for you to see. we'll show what happened. look at that tornado, that stretched just under a mile, along the coast of oregon. a town called manzanita, 100 miles west of portland -- 60 miles, i should say. the path of the tornado was about 700 feet long. so only on the ground for a short period of time. it did enough damage to ruin 128 structures. there were no injuries, but certainly scary moments for several of those residents. catching them offguard even though they did have warning ahead of time in terms of a massive storm was on its way. but here's some of the leftover damage from the tornado that moved through the region. and guess what -- there is yet another low-pressure system that is waiting in this one's wings. so it is not going to get

better. it's actually going to get worse over the next 24 hours. so believe it or not, this is actually the remnants of a priests typhoon. it's -- previous typhoon. it's travelled across the entire pacific ocean and has reached the shores of the united states. look at the wind gusts. this is the storm that came through on friday. oceanside, oregon, over 100 mile-per-hour winds. this is hurricane force, by the way. megler, oregon, high wind warnings in place. you can imagine the coastal erosion is a concern. the potential for flooding rains is our secondary -- as our secondary storm system slams the u.s. and gusts at 60 to 70 miles per hour. some higher elevations could easily top turk hurricane -- top hurricane efforts winds this saturday morning. the constant barrage of moisture impacting the united states. specifically from washington into oregon and northern california. they have the potential for six

to ten inches of additional rain on top of what they've already experienced. no wonder there are mudslides a potential considering that the ground is already saturated from the receipt rainfall. this will be -- recent rainfall. this will be a storm that they will not soon forget. i've got friends out there that were sending photos earlier today, coming out of the alkai beach region of seattle. waves were pounding over the coastal breakers. scary moment definitely. >> as i said, it's unexpected. last weekend we were talking about hurricane matthew. here we are, the storm snuck up on us. >> it's early in the season for this, as well. >> thanks. appreciate the update. now the cuban cigar is one of the island nation's greatest calling cards. how the industry could soon see massive growth. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european.

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president barack obama is lifting more u.s. sanctionses on cuba including import limits for americans on perhaps its most famous product, cigars. our patrick ottman visits a cuban tobacco farm to see how they're preparing for an expectexpect expected surge in sales. >> reporter: harvesting cigar

tobacco, cuba's green gold, one leaf at a time. long ban the in the u.s., the island's legendary cigars bring in hundreds of millions of dollars. a bright spot in an otherwise teetering economy. but many more americans may soon be lighting up illegal cuban cigars following change in u.s. regulations that now allows u.s. citizens visiting cuba for the first time in over a half century to bring home an unlimited amount of cuban tobacco products. this tobacco farmer says the loosening of restrictions presents a huge opportunity. "the first thing we have to do with the americans," he says, "is create an appetite for our product because they have lost that. since what we make is excellent, as soon as they try it, they will see the difference." the question now is when cuba can begin to supply a new market for their famed smokes. much of the work on this tobacco farm is done by hand, the way it's been done here for generations. cuban producers say that they make some of the best cigars in

the world. but that means nay can't cut any corners in meeting a rising u.s. demand that could take years. for cuban cigar producers, the air is filled with smoke and the realization the industry needs to prepare for what many hope will be the eventual lifting of all sanctions in cuba, which would allow for the sale of cuban cigars in the u.s. >> there's obviously built-up demand and excitement in the united states for people to smoke cuban cigars. they haven't been able to smoke them legally for more than 50 years. i think all cigar smokeerts in america well -- smokers in america will want to give a legal cigar a try. >> reporter: within a few years of the lifting of the u.s. embargo, they could control some 70% of the u.s. market for cigars without compromising their product. "quality is something we can never give up," he says. "entering any market including the u.s. will happen with a product of maximum quality." cuba's cigar producers say their

tobacco doesn't like to be rushed which means that americans may have to wait a little longer before they can fully quench their stataste fore island's once banned cigars. cnn, cuba. i'm paula newt an. i'll be back after the break with another full hour of news.

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