terror level critical. a manhunt under way in the united kingdom after a bomb detonated in the tube. also, blaming islamic terrorism, his comments rebuked by downing street. and after north korea's latest missile launch, the united states reviewing military options. live from cnn world headquarter hads in atlanta, we all welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

it is 4:00 a.m. on the oos east coast. good day to you. in the united kingdom, a manhunt is under way after a bomb went off on the london tube early friday morning. thankfully, no one was killed, but 29 people were wounded and it could have been much worse because authorities say the explosive failed to fully detonate. the device may have used a substance called tatp. that is the same explosive used recently in attacks in spain, france and england. experts are still examining the mostly intact bomb. they are hoping to determine its contents, to determine also had who made it. the nation's, theresa may, is warning the public so stay vigilant. the joint terrorism analysis

center, that's the independent organization which is responsible for setting the threat level on the basis of available intelligence has decided to raise the national threat level from severe to critical. this means that their assessment is that further attack may be imminent. in let's get the latest live from london this how are. nina is with us. thankfully no one killed in this incident, but the station has reopened. there's still a lot of questions here for investigators to dig into. >> that's right. let's take a look at the scene behind me. the police presence that was here, significant police presence up until a half an hour or so ago with three or four guarding the station, that has all gone and there's a sense of normalcy here in had this normally quiet west london

suburb. but despite all of that, don't be deceived. there is a significant manhunt under way this hour across the british capital and across the rest of the area. it's speculated this device could have been four times more deadly had it gone off than the manchester attack that killed more than 20 people. and when it comes to the actual device, it is a chemical component used by the manchester bomber. but what i should caution you is that in contrast to the events in the aftermath of manchester, what is interesting from a personal note to note today,

george, is that we haven't seen a raft of arrests taking place overnight. that comes in contrast to the manchester attacks. we haven't heard any update since yesterday evening from the metropolitan police. obviously, we heard the state of alert has been moved to critical. and then there has been a claim of responsibility for isis, but the metropolitan police treating that with caution and they have no evidence at the moment to suggest that, in fact, it was jihadi terrorism that was behind this, george. >> nina, there have been so many attacks to speak of here and, you know, the terror level

alert, i should say, at its highest level. how are people coping with this? >> george, in communities like this, it's only two days before the monday commute starts again and this is a part of b london that relies heavily on the transport network, particularly the london underground tube network. it is imperative for the authorities to reassure people across the british capital that they are safe, particularly on a network that is the busiest -- one of the busiest in the world, the london tube network, in fact, conducts about 1.4 billion

passenger journeys every year and has more than 400 clom the ters worth of track to protect. when it comes to the investigation, that is progressing a pace, they'll be looking at forensic evidence, fingerprints, dna. it was left inside a super market shopping bag. when you purchase a super market shopping bag, they have a bar code now so perhaps they can find out who used that. and they can use the underground system that has a lot of cctv that officers have been pouring through over the last 24 hours. there's only five stations someone could have used to mount this train. since this had a timer, they'll

want to find out whether this was supposed to go further into london and it would have been far more challenging had it really detonated to the extent the perpetrator wanted, george. >> thankfully it didn't. downing street says president trump offered his condolences, but he is being criticized by british officials for his response on twitter. cnn athena jones with more on that for us. >> i want to say that our hearts and prayers go out to the people of london who suffered a vicious terrorist attack. >> president trump respond to go friday's terror attack on london subway system. >> radical islamic terrorism. it will be eradicated, believe me. >> those comments coming after a

furry of tweets, another loser attack in london. these are sick and demented people. must be proactive. >> h.r. mcmaster later trying to explain what trump meant by in the sights of sdotland yard. the london police department headquarters. i think what the president was communicating is that, obviously, all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this terrorist threat from, you know, for years. he didn't mean anything beyond that. >> the tweets brought strong pushback. i never think it's healthy for anyone to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation. the president targeting nearly all refugees as well as people from six muslim majority countries in his travel ban. trump tweeting, the travel ban

into the united states should be far larger, tougher, and more specific. but stupidly, that would not be politically correct. asked to explain his tweet, he would only say, we have to be tougher and we have to be smarter. >> the latest terror attack coming on the heels of a missile attack by north korea a problem diplomatic pressure has so far been unable to resolve. amid the escalating threat from north korea, the president visited joint base andrews outside washington on monday where he talked up the military's might. >> the f-35 eks, when they're roaring overhead, their souls were tremble and they will know the day of reckoning has arrived. >> meanwhile, here at home, the president may be extending an

olive branch to democrats signaling his willingness to make a deal to protect young people brought to the united states illegally as children. we're looking at allowing people to stay here. we're working with everybody. >> but the move is causing a stir among some conservative supporters of the president.. white house press secretary sara sanders making clear the president won't accept any deal without a strong border security component. >> he supports making an agreement on daca, but that will have to includes massive border security and interior presence. he's still 100% committed to the wall and we're going to be laying out what our specific priorities and principals are in that front over the next seven to ten days. >> let's now bring in ron brownstein. it's good to have you with us this hour to talk, ron. so let's start with the president's comments regarding the london terror attack.

you heard him in the athena jones piece quick to mention the words radical islam terror. keep in mind, we still don't know all the facts at this point. but when the facts were clear back in august after the charlottesville protests, a woman killed in clashes, he was not quick to mention the term white supremacists and he also had had this to say about facts. >> very important to me to get the facts out and correctly. i couldn't have made it sooner because i didn't know all of the facts. it takes a little while to get the facts. i had to see the facts. i want to know the facts. i want the facts. i wanted to see the facts. before i make a statement, i need the facts. you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts. i want to make a statement with knowledge. i wanted to know the facts. >> so as a journalist, speaking

of the information we know from our news room, the facts are still not in on this london terror attack. however, the president is much more sensitive in this case. >> it's been really striking that when he sees an event that he believed can advance his agenda, he has been much quicker to jump in and often with another one less facts. there are a lot of ways since general kelly has become chief of staff in which we have seen more normalcy out of this president. the handling of the hurricanes, the negotiations, more like other presidents than what we have seen before. but today's tweet is a reminder that that process is only ever going to go so far. his tweets about espn and the

white house calling for them to fire a reporter. there are core ways in which the this presidency will never be like any other presidency we have ever seen even as there is some bending toward the curve of more normal moments. >> but a string of contradictions that we say time after time. what does this do to the president's credibility? >> you know, it's really interesting. mine, you know, the president's rating, for example, has ticked up a little bit. but it's still essentially at 40% or below in almost every poll i'm aware of after what has been a pretty good couple of weeks in which the administration has responded effectively and efficiently to the hurricanes, where they have achieved a bipartisan deal to keep the government open he, at least until december, potentially a progress towards a deal with undocumented im

grants. across the board, americans have doubts about his personal politics and whether he is fit by temperament, value, judgment, and by honesty to be president. i think, you know, there are clearly elements of his agenda that have been highly polarized, but if you ask why his approval rating has been so much lower than almost any other president in their presidency, i would say to you it's primarily about personal judgments as reflected in the kind of behavior we've been talking about. >> as you rightly opponent out, the president is at a historic low. however, it is a bump nonetheless. his approval rating at 39%. who is the president appealing to at this point? >> he got 46% of the vote and he has been running his rating well below the vote. so i think that, you know, the lowest hanging fruit for him are people who voted for him the

first time but have had more doubts. and there is a portion of the american electorate that is really about performance and success and not about ideology. it's a pretty small part at this point in our history. but nonetheless, there is 5%, 7%, 9% that is movable. i think the clearest reason he has seen a few point bump is that a majority of americans say the administration has done a good job responding to hurricanes. but i guess i would submit to you to, quote, bump the 39%, 40% or 38% after several previous good weeks, you know, relatively speaking is he think a marker of the ceiling that he faces and how rooted that limit is in personal judgments about him. and i can't really emphasize that enough. it's not clear to me that those are judgments susceptible to

being changed, for example, by a better economy. there is a piece of that can be changed by a better economy, but there is kind of a wall out there based on the way people view him and his fitness for the office. ron brownstein, we appreciate your insight. thank you so much. >>. >> thank you. and still ahead this hour, a not guilty verdict is sparking protests as outrage festers over police violence. we look at the trial and hear trektly from the officer involved as "cnn newsroom" continues.

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charged case. friday, former police officer jason stockily was found not guilty of murdering -- of the murder, rather, of anthony lamar smith, this happening back in 2011. the decision was reached by a judge, not a jury, and the decision sparked protests across the city. you see this image, the video of protesters walking the streets in st. louis. four police officer were injured. 23 people have been arrested in those demonstrations. >> it was a mostly peaceful process overnight. protesters marching for miles but when they got to the mayor's house, they decided they wanted

to break the mayor's windows. once that happened, officers swarmed the windows and once they swarmed the windows, they asked people to leave. for most of the night, it's been peaceful. protesters have been marching and talking about a change for justice. a lot hasn't healed here ever since michael brown and what happened in ferguson. tonight you saw a multicultural group walking through the streets of st. louis talking about change. wanted the the neighborhoods to know they want to see something different happen. but by the end of the night, obviously, some emotions got maybe a little too heated. in fact, we even saw this in the middle of the street, protesters using this to clean out their eyes after that teargas got into their nostrils and face. so far police have been able to move people back, but helicopters have been up in the sky looking for people who decided not to go home. ryan young, cnn, st. louis. >> and as ryan mentioned, the case has many people comparing this police shooting to the

death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. during the trial, prosecutors accused stockily of planting a gun to justify the shooting. while the former police officer insisted he acted in self-defense. randi kaye has more on this case. >> you're watching the final moments of a man's life. it's december 2011 and motorists anthony lamar smith is being chased by st. louis police officer jason stockily and his partner. the officers suspected he had been involved in a drug deal. the officers would later say when they approach smith web jumped in his car and drove off, hitting the police cruiser and knocking officer stockily sideways. the officer fires several shots saying he feared for his life and the safety of others. the high speed chased tops 80 prp. during the pursuit, stockily is

hearing saying, goent to kill this blank. don't you know it. it's difficult to hear on the dash cam video, but court documents say that's what he said. the chase ends with a crash which smith survives, but when officers approach, stockily ordered smith to show his hands and that he thought he saw smith reach for a handgun. officer stockily fires four shots. anthony smith is struck in the chest and dies at the scene. an internal report says officer stockily entered the weapon to locate the weapon and render it safe. according to the criminal complaint, forensic analysis revealed that only officer stockily's dn had a was on the gun he said belonged to smith. officers jason stockily is relieved of his duties and charged with first degree murder. >> we all knew what it was when it happened.

there couldn't have been any doubt about it. i knew that it was murder from the beginning. >> stockily's murder trial started last month. the key question, whether or not the motorist, smith, had a gun at the time of the shooting. officer argued the gun could have been planted. still, in his not guilty ruling, judge timothy wilson said the gun would have been too large for stockily to hide and plant. the judge said he reviewed the video pneumoniable times and just because the driver's fingerprints weren't on the gun didn't mean the driver didn't touch the gun. randi kaye, cnn, new york.

>> jason stockily is speaking out about the trial giving his side of the story. here is how he described what happened to the st. louis post dispatch. >> i did not murder anthony lamar smith. i did not plant the gun. as i testified at trial, and homicide on the day of, it was an imminent threat to my life. i had to. it's -- the taking of a life is the most significant thing that one can do and it's not something that is done lightly and it's not something that should ever be celebrated and it's just a horrible experience altogether. but sometimes it's necessary. >> again, that was former police officer jason stockily speaking with the st. louis post dispatch reporter christine buyers after he was acquitted of the murder of anthony lamar smith.

still ahead here on "cnn newsroom," we continue following the terror attacks on london's underground. live from atlanta, georgia, to our viewers he in the united states and around the world, you're watching "cnn newsroom." who knew that phones would start doing everything?

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that station, parsons green has reopened a short time ago. authorities, though, believe another attack may be eminent. they continue to search for the suspect or suspects who are still at large. the u.s. president donald trump offered his condollanced, but another part of that response to the attack, it is drawing criticism from british officials. he tweeted the attack was carried out by people in the sights of scotland yard. the british prime minister was asked about the comment and said it wasn't helpful to speculate about an ongoing investigation. in north korea, that nation's leader reportedly said friday's missile launch was perfect and he indicated there would be many more. this was the second time in less than a month north korea has launched a missile that flew over part of japan. the u.n. security council friday condemned the test as highly provocative. human rights watch issued a new report accusing myanmar of deliberately burning ro hinge ga villages near bangladesh.

it released satellite imagery where these buildings have been destroyed. >> a crudely built bomb placed in a train of london's underground. this sent more than two dozen people to the hop with wounds like singed hair and flash burns. witnesses say it caused a stampede of commuters desperate to get out of the parson's green tube station in west london. >> it was every man for himself. >> this wall of fire was just coming towards us. >> the suspect or suspects still at large. further a attack may be imminent. >> the full resources of scotland yard and british counterterror forces engaged in an intense man hunt.

>> looking at ccv, forensic work and speaking to witnesses. >> the bomb itself did not go off, which for law enforcement is a great thing because the bomb, in and of itself, it's.sort of the fingerprint of the individual who made it. >> a timer was found on the device, that it's clear that although this was a crude bomb, it was intended to cause much greater damage. >> we are only aware of one device. so we now have the remnants of that device. it's been examined by our experts. >> once source briefed on the investigation says an initial assessment of the bomb indicates it's highly likely to have attained tatp, an unstable explosive that packs a nasty punch. this video shows tatp combusting just from a tiny film canister. >> tatp is one of the most sensitive explosive known to the bomb tech community and it takes very little to set it off. >> the fact that a timer was used and the suspect is still at large has londoners bracing for

the worst. >> the timer is what's freaking people out and did this individual place bombs at other locations. they are, obviously, sweeping all the train stations in london, all the tube stations right now at this particular time. they're looking for other devices. >> this marks the fifth significant attack this year in britain after the attacks at westminster bridge, london bridge, the mosque at finsbury park. >> these attacks in britain along with the attacks in barcelona means terrorists are going to continue to come at these cities, second only possibly to cities here in the united states. brian todd, cnn, washington. turning now to north korea, the u.n. security council friday condemned the latest missile tests by pyongyang. statements attributed to kim

jong un show he has no intention of slowing those tests. ian, it's good to have you with us. north korea remains defiant and determined despite diplomatic pressures. >> yeah, that's right ro recently, the u.n. security council hassed these actionses and the north koreans have said they're going to continue not only their missile program, but their nuclear program. what is significant about this one, though, is that this is the first missile test that has taken place since north korea detonated that hiefd again bomb which is far larger than previous bombs they've detonated also after north korea announced they've been able to put a miniaturized hydrogen bomb on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

it just shows how north korea is advancing at a rappit pace. >> sl any sense you're hearing from leaders that they have any recourse here because north korea is not looking to stop what it's doing? >> that is the real question, dornlg, what can south korea, japan, the united states, the international community do to put a stop to north korea's activities. that is the million-dollar question because no one has the answer. we did see south korea launch two missiles of their own, actually, within six minutes while the north korean missile was in the air. they launched those two missiles and south korea, one of them failed and fell into the ocean, but here the president, moon jae-in said that this shows that south korea is ready ask capable to strike the north if need be shortly after the there's any sort of provocations.

he also went on to mention that they have the permanent ability to disabled north korea and said if north korea tries to go after it or any of its allies, that they're willing to do that. so you still get tough talk from here in the south, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the north, george. ian lee live for us in in seoul, south korea. thank you for the report. still ahead, trapped under isis rule for years, but now the city is getting back to what it was was normal. we'll tell you who the residents wish to thank pore their return home. plus, two brothers who almost left everything in hurricane irma have left the virgin islands all thanks to an unexpected gift. and we've spent our whole lives around professional sports taking hits and catching our fair share of aches and pains. which is why we use blue-emu's pain relief products.

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d.c. has been recalled to rome, this after the u.s. state department says the priest possibly violated laws relating to child pornography images. he represents pope francis and has diplomatic immunity. the vatican says it has opened its own investigation and will not be waving his immunity. we're getting an inside look at one of the bloodiest battlefields in isis. many people are returning home and they're also thanking russia. fred pleitgen explains why. >> take off to one of the most brutal battlefields in syria. the russian army is taking us to the stronghold derazier.

>> there are a lot of isis fighters in this area. that's why taking the helicopter is the safest way to get to deir ezzor. after landing in this town, the russian army takes us to the city center. isis ruled much of deir ezzor for years. now, commerce is returning here. russia is a friend, a very, very good friend. we like russia. we respect and appreciate them. what russia did for us is so great. their efforts are too great to describe. >> syrian army and its russian backers are continuing their fight trying to win back remaining parts of this key town which remains scarred by the fighting. this area here used to be right on the front line between syrian forces and isis. and the entire area that you see behind me here, all of these sand berms just a few days ago

those were isis fighting positions. the russian military says it believes a victory in did he ir ezzor would put them close to icing isis from all of eastern syria. sflt our forces have already pushed isis about five to six kilometers away from the city on the left side of the euphrates, but the most important thing is the blockade on the city has been lifted and the people are receiving humanitarian aid. >> but gains are quickly reversed in the eastern desert. and russia warns while they have been moving forward fast, tough battles still lie ahead. cnn, deir ezzor, syria. >> fred, thank you for the report. human rights watch has herbed a report accusing myanmar of purposely burning rohingya camps.

>> we're just a few miles from the border of myanmar where the united nations saying it's seeing a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. that has triggered a humanitarian crisis which has sent refugees streaming across the border into bangladesh in three weeks. the official camps are already full so these people are setting up whatever kind of shelters they can find. this is where entire families and nunts are living. they're sit aalongside the road. they are badly in need of attitude, water and medical care. they see people arriving with gunshot wounds, they see people who have been injured by land mines. there are pregnant women arriving here so sick that they are giving birth to babies that international aid organizations say cannot survive.

those organizations say some of these babies are born, they die and they're buried right in the mud. that is the scale of the kind of catastrophe that we are witnessing here. there are already some 400,000 people that are living here that fled myanmar. this latest mass exodus was triggered on august 25th when rohingya militants are said to have attacked a number of border security posts. the military responded with a campaign that has left some 1,000 people dead. again, this is something that the united nations is calling a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. the military says they are driving terrorists out of the country. 400,000 rohingyas fleeing that country in just three weeks. international aid organizations say there's no way they can keep up with the demand that is required by those who are arriving here in bangladesh every day by the tens of

thousands. we have seen handouts of water, of food, of various supplies, but those things are being given to the most vulnerable parts of the population, the sick, children, women. of course these aid organizations say with these supplies that they have against the number of people they're trying to serve, they're only beginning to scratch the surface and international effort is truly needed in order to deliver to these people the kind of help they need. in bangladesh near the border ofmy an ma, alexandra field. still ahead, hurricane jose remains in the atlantic ocean far from the united states at the moment, but it could yet again turn and threaten the northeast. we have the latest on the storm's path. plus, how two teenagers were able to leave the u.s. virgin islands vfr barely surviving hurricane irma. their story, next. e the next big i should totally get that domain name...

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its mind about its direction. derek, the east coast of the united states is looking on very concerned here. >> as they should be. because the storm does have the path of uncertainty in its sights. and we'll talk about that in just one moment. but let's get to the details of where jose is located as we speak and what it's doing across the atlantic. right now, sustained winds 80 miles per hour. gusts at 90. it's moving in a northwesterly direction at about 9 miles per hour. its location, 500 miles southwest of bermuda. still well offshore from any landfall. it does make an equivalent category 1 atlantic hurricane. but i want you to see the projected path from the national hurricane center. and two things i want you to gain from this. one, it is anticipated to strengthen ever so slightly over the next 24 hours still maintaining category 1 status, but also the path of uncertainty actually starting to creep into the southern sections of new england as we head into the day on wednesday. more on that in just one moment.

so let's get to the details. here is the satellite move, start to go look more impressive. some of the colder cloud tops located there with the convection right in the center of the storm. again, there are various models that we look at and we continue to harp on these things because various models show us a different path of jose. in fact, the global model, which was the american model, shows almost a landfalling hurricane into the new england coastline from the middle of next week. the european model keeps it offshore. one thing is for sure, we do expect this system to bring at least rip tides and potentially strong gusty winds of a tropical storm force if not hurricane force along the east coast. most on that in just a second. what is it going to encounter? thanks to the warm ocean waters south of bermuda, that's why we anticipate a strengthening. but once it reaching the cooler waters, that's where we'll see this system start collapsing on itself but also start to spread

out. and we expect a larger system by the time it impacts the new england coastline. that's for the middle of the workweek. you can see in our wind field here stretch ago good 400 to 500 miles easily. so that means cape hatteras into new jersey, boston, perhaps even new york city feeling strong, gusty winds, perhaps outer rain bands as the system finally moves in. so with ta constant flow of energy around our tropical system here, we have the potential for strom rip currents across the coast, a lot of the famous beaches there, we do expect hazardous swimming conditions over the next several days. now, if jose wasn't enough, we have yet another tropical system and even one mind the that that we're monitoring very closely. these are tropical waves coming off the west coast of africa. this is travel depression 14 and an area that we're monitoring very closely. we have another possibly hurricane that will develop with this system and some of the long

range computer models will show that moving across the bahamas and potentially impacting the east coast again. so they line up one after another, george. >> you saw the intensity of this had storm firsthand. just a rough season when it comes to these storms. >> it has been very active. >> thank you so much. in the meantime, picking up the pieces of their lives after hurricane irma, two teenage brothers on the island of st. john survived that storm with almost nothing left of them. but their story has a happy ending courtesy of a country music star. sara sidner has this report. >> a heartfelt good-bye to the complete stranger who took the bruce brothers in after the storm. the teenagers were on st. john when hurricane irma blasted the island and decimated the home they grew up in while they were inside. >> we were in the shower laying down against a concrete wall and five minutes later the roof gets ripped off our head. >> that's the moment where i was

terrified. i felt like irma was a spirit because, like, i felt like i saw that hand grab the roof, squeeze it and throw it off into the wind. it was just -- it was crazy. >> they survived alongside their grandfather, but the winds tore nearly everything else apart on the island. >> i feel like the best way to put the image in your head is picture a car on the highway going 185 miles and you know you put your hand out the windows sometimes, and you feel the wind. picture your face outside, picture your body outside and you feel like you're going at that speed, that's the way it felt like. >> when it was all over, they were left with nothing. their childhood home gone along with almost everything in it. >> there is basically nothing to go back to on st. john's. >> the brothers were picked up by a private boat like this one. that's where they met sue. her sons owned the boat. they took one look at the boys and said you were staying with me, not in a shelter.

>> what are your lives going to look like now since the house with was gone? >> well, we're trying to make it to philadelphia to our mother right now. but there were no commercial flights out of the islands. >> then an unexpected gift arrived. >> i don't know what to say except thank you. i heard that the guy wanted to stay anonymous. thank you very much. >> the brothers were told an anonymous donor donated hs private jet to fly them to safety. we found out who that anonymous donor was. it's country star kenny chesney. >> i kept saying one day this will be one hell of a story to tell. it's going to be one good story to tell. >> and now we're on cnn telling this story. it's crazy. >> soon they'll telling the story in person to their mother who is anxiously awaiting their arrival back in philadelphia. >> sara, thank you for that report and thank you for being with us this hour. i'm george howell live at the cnn center in atlanta. the news continues here on cnn

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