no, no, i'm not a racist. i'm the least racist person you've ever interviewed. >> and that's the latest from the u.s. president on a topic on this the di we celebrate dr. martin luther king jr., the famed leader of the civil rights movement. and on the korean peninsula, second meeting between north and south korean officials. we'll have the latest for you from seoul. plus cnn goes inside syria to the city where so many hope to find refuge, and instead found more suffering. hello. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm cyril vanier. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom."

it's going to be a busy weekend in congress. the government will shut down friday if the government doesn't act. one of the defiant democrats demanding a deal on immigration. >> at issue daca, the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. it was on a discussion on immigration last week that led the president to describe african nations as a less than polite word. >> thats what led to calls the president is a racist, a charge he flatly denies. boris sanchez has the details from florida. >> reporter: president trump taking time before dinner to answer questions from reporters alongside house majority leader kevin mccarthy of california on sunday night. the president making news on several fronts, answering some uncomfortable questions, specifically, whether he is a racist after it was reported on thursday that several remarks that the president made specifically about african nations and haitian immigrants to the united states drew ire from both democrats and

republicans. listen to the president's response. >> no, no, i'm not a racist. i am the least racist person you have ever interviewed that i can tell you. >> the president also addressed the potential for a looming government shutdown as that friday night deadline approaches for lawmakers to come up with a budget deal. he said that there should not be a shutdown, but that he wasn't sure if one might happen or not. listen to more of what the president said. >> i don't know if there will be a shutdown there shouldn't be, because if there is, our military gets hurt very badly. we cannot let our military be hurt. >> reporter: now getting back to those reported comments that the president allegedly made during a meeting with lawmakers at the white house on thursday when discussing immigration. there is some division among lawmakers about what the president actually said. some republicans like senators tom cotton and david perdue initially said that they couldn't recall what the president said during a meeting. on sunday both of them are outright denying that the president ever said those derogatory remarks about african nations or about haitians.

others, like republican senator lindsey graham said in a statement that he confronted the president about his remarks, though he didn't specify what those remarks were. reportedly, he did tell fellow republican senator from south carolina tim scott that the reports about the president's conversation was accurate. beyond that you have senator dick durbin confirming that the president made those remarks, and saying that they were hate-filled. all of that the backdrop of this not only a disagreement what the president said, but also on policy with the government shutdown looming on friday, we could potentially see some kind of deal from lawmakers to keep the government funded, or a stopgap bill that would keep the government funded and punt on this conversation about daca and immigration. or we could see a government shutdown if some democrats follow along as they have promised to not vote on any kind of budget without a resolution to the issue of dreamers being included. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in west palm

beach, florida. >> let's talk about all of this with international professional. boris laid out for us. he needs to avoid a government shutdown. and perhaps, perhaps there is still hope for an immigration deal. and yet this is what we're talking about. listen to congressman john lewis. >> we have come so far, we have made so much progress. and i think this man, this president has taken us back to another place. >> do you think president trump is a race snis. >> i thi >>. >> i think he is a racist. >> what do we do about it? >> we have to speak up and not try to sweep it under the rug. >> so leslie, this is what the conversation has become. can the president get out from under this, or does this sort of cripple his ability to act and get deals done? >> well, it's undoubtedly the

case that this has really drug the nation and to a certain extent the large part of the world down into a conversation that is very much focused on the president, his attitudes, whether he represents the values that have been absolutely central to the united states for so long. and certainly in the more recent years. and it's distracting from this very crucial time in terms of the movement that need to strike an immigration deal. it had looked like there was some progress on that until reports of these comments have come out which have been very, very damaging obviously. >> listen now to congresswoman nia love, a republican from utah. >> we cannot let this derail us. i think the worst thing that can happen right now is for daca, for there not to be a fix at all there are people that are depending on us, not just americans on border security, but families that are waiting,

that are in limbo, that need something that a president can't give or take away from them. we have to find a way to fix the immigration issue, fix the daca issue. >> so, look, can negotiators, can lawmakers get back to the negotiating table in a few hours perhaps starting tuesday and somehow get to a deal on immigration by the end of the week? >> well, this is the question. it does seem like there is certainly a lot of reason to get that immigration deal through. but trump's advisers, stephen miller seems to be pushing him hard to hold the line and ask for more on border security. the context here of course is that the majority of americans are very sympathetic towards the dreamers. remember hen donald trump said he was going to end that program, there was a tremendous backlash across the united states from all sides, even republicans and supporters of donald trump by a slim majority support the dreamers. these are people who -- children who came undocumented that most

americans feel have the right to stay and should have a path to citizenship. the courts, as we know have pushed become on donald trump. so he is being required to continue to support that program. so even if there isn't a deal reached, it's hard to imagine that there would be any political support for sending any of the dreamers home. having said this, it's absolutely right what we just said. the uncertainty that it creates. the backlash that it creates, the instability that it creates for individuals is not to be understated. but the politics are tremendously problematic now because there is all this doubt coming out of where does the president really stand. does support the immigration? does he support individuals? and is he taking a very racist lynn on this? >> so that's what i want to know on this. walk us through the politics of this. mr. trump has been tweeting

this. he says dak d.aca is probably dead. because the democrats don't really want it, they just want the take desperately needed money away from our military. >>, no of course, and the democrats i think are aware east that they have a very strong hand on this. sympathy is on their side. and of course there is a deal that needs to be made to secure that government funding, to keep the government open. and yet the president's style and twitter as we've seen for so long doesn't take a step back in the face of what are often very difficult politics. i think the compromises, if there are to be compromises, can be made behind closed doors. even then what we're hearing and seeing is that he is continuing to push very hard, and again in part buzz he is being advised to use this moment to really press forward on his desire to have more funding for border

security, in large part so he can turn to his base. we're coming right up to that one-year anniversary of his inauguration where he can turn back and say i've secure mid campaign promises. but of course if the price is too high, it's hard to imagine that the president wouldn't make some sort of compromise deal. >> yeah, january 20th. it will be a year since he's been in office. we're coming up to the date in just a few days i know. >> very rapidly. leslie vinjamuri, thank you very much for joining us on the show. a pleasure. a floor has collapsed on the stock exchange in jakarta, indonesia. trade willing continue as normal for the second half of the day. the collapse happened in a space where tourists usually gather near the entrance. it's unclear what caused the floor to clams or if there are any casualties at this stage. a source says most people have been rescued. that's what we know for the moment. new procedures are being put in place in hawaii to prevent another emergency missile alert

being sent out by mistake. officials say a state employee pushed a wrong button during a routine drill. and that's why this was sent out. saying an inbound missile, this warning came to cell phones, tvs and radios saying a missile was inbound headed for hawaii. >> yeah. and as you know, people panicked, scrambled to find shelter saturday morning. 38 minutes it took for the mistake to finally be corrected. >> from my side, i just want to apologize to the folks. because it's my team, my responsibility. it was my fault. we need to understand we need to continue preparation for this hazard because it's still there we've reevaluated some of the procedures and taken positive steps to ensure this will never happen again. >> it guess beyond this false alarm. >> what makes me angry is yes, that this false alarm went out, and we have to fix that in

hawaii. but really, we've got to get to underlying issue here of why are the people of hawaii and this country facing a nuclear threat coming from north korea today? and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? all right. we're going to move on to north korea and south korea meeting again for the second time in only a week after more than two years without direct discussions. for now, both sides are focusing on how the north will participate in the winter olympics next month in south korea. pyongyang says sanctions had nothing to do with why they agreed the talk. >> a and the north also says it's trying to improve relations with its southern neighbor. however, in case you're thinking this could perhaps move the needle on its nuclear program, the answer is no. the north has made very clear that it will not negotiate its nuclear weapons. >> well, it certainly is an open door in some respects. cnn international correspondent ivan watson joins us from seoul, south korea monitoring these

talks. what do we know about this round, ivan? >> natalie, it's remarkable. north and south korea didn't speak to each for some two years. now they're discussing about where to put a stage at the pyeongchang winter olympics for north korean performance group. that's a remarkable shift that we've seen in a very short period of time. these are working group level discussions taking place in that panmunjom complex, this time on the north korean side of the line of demarcation. among the people participating from the north korean side is a woman who leads a group that's called the moranbong band for fans of north korean pop culture and the music industry there. this band is an all female group that includes instrumentalists and singers and dancers that are often featured on north korean state tv and presumably they are part of the quite large

delegation that north korea intends to send to these winter olympics. they're discussing other nuts and bolts issues. for example, the south koreans have proposed to try to make a joint women's ice hockey team. we haven't heard yet whether the north koreans have agreed to that proposal. one of the key questions going forward is how do you just get a bunch of north koreans, not just athletes, buzz only two north korean figure skaters have actually qualified for olympics. but how do you get this larger entourage to the olympics, and how do you house them and take care of them when there are so many economic sanctions in place that the south koreans will have to deal with here. and already we have heard that the north koreans have essentially agreed to another round of discussions scheduled for wednesday. and this would be at a higher level. so the olympic diplomacy is moving forward. natalie? >> certainly is. we thank you. ivan watson for us there in

seoul. and next here on "cnn newsroom" -- >> his wife was killed in aleppo six years ago. he is raising his two sons on his own. we ask where the boys are now, and his eyes fill with tears. we fled from aleppo to get here. >> they fled one humanitarian disaster. now face another. arwa damon reports from inside syria's idlib. that's coming up. and drones could be used by terrorists to cause wide scale damage. how officials are trying to prevent such attacks. manolo! you're so cold, come in! what's wrong? it's dry... your scalp? mine gets dry in the winter too. try head and shoulders' dry scalp care it nourishes the scalp and... ...keeps you up to 100% flake free head and shoulders' dry scalp care

next saturday marks one year since president trump took office. he was a critic. you may recall of the obama administration's policy on the syrian civil war and promise to do things differently. >> in april, he ordered a missile strike on syrian forces after a chemical weapons attack. he is also taking credit for driving isis from raqqah. the terror group is near defeat. however, the bloodshed continues. as cnn's arwa damon reports, the city of idlib could become the

next aleppo. >> reporter: it feels like one is peering into a doll house of broken lives. bits of concrete tumble down as people try to clean up or salvage what they can amid the horrors that they can't escape. >> we're hiding. five of his relatives were killed in that building, three children among them. >> reporter: images like this are familiar a year ago from the siege of aleppo. but this is idlib city. this is where families were supposed to be safe. this was meant to be a refuge, one of the last remaining ones. part of a so-called de-escalation zone that lately has become anything but. the strikes that hit here happened five days before we arrived. and many of those we met had actually fled from aleppo. so lucky they were in that back room. this man is haunted by all he has lost.

his wife was killed in aleppo six years ago. he is raising his two sons on his own. we ask where the boys are now, and his eyes fill with tears. we fled from aleppo to get here, he tells us, whispering, choking on his words. there is no solution. there is just no solution. the boys were both studying for exams when the bombs shook the building, sucked the air out of the room and everything went pitch-black. they were screaming, "daddy, daddy," mohammed remembers. he couldn't find them right away. when the kids were younger, during happier times, what childhood. children have lost everything in life. we head south where some towns

already feel deserted. closer to the front lines of the fighting, children rummage through the aftermath of bombs to look for plastic to sell. "we do get scared. we hide from the bombs," they say. the latest push seems aimed at eliminating or at the very least suffocating the last major rebel stronghold. hundreds of thousands of people have been on the move the last few weeks. many fleeing ahead of what they know is coming, or as soon as the first strikes hit. some live in make-shift camps along the road the turkey, bringing everything they can, including their livestock. by now everyone is resigned to knowing that no one is going to save them. no one is going to stop the violence. vada and her family were initially in isis territory over a year ago. as they were fleeing, there was an explosion. her daughter almost lost her

leg. i don't like to remember, the 7-year-old tells us. they thought they would be safe. but then the regime and the russians started bombing. and four days ago, they arrived here. turkish aid organizations are building new and expanding old camps in syria right up against their border. mohammed's youngest was board in the camp the day they arrived. he is saying freedom he bitterly jokes. if the barrel bomb had hit us when we were sleeping, it would have been more merciful. syria's remaining rebel areas risk turning into the next aleppo. only this time fewer people are watching. even fewer seem to care. for many we spoke to here, it's not about if this area will also get bombed, it's about when, and how many souls can get crushed into the shrinking safe space. and what happens when it's gone?

arwa damon, cnn, idlib, syria. russia's foreign minister is in moscow right now holding a news conference addressing world issues. no word yet if sergei lavrov has mentioned the war in syria that goes on. he has said that russia would work to preserve the iran nuclear deal despite washington's misgivings about the agreement. he also said russia is ready to support direct talks between all parties in the north korean missile crisis. this is his annual news conference on russian diplomacy. again, live video there of him still giving that news conference that paula newton has been monitoring it from moscow. she joins us now with more on what he has had to say. paula? >> yeah, hey, natalie. before we get to the north korean issue, and we'll talk what sergei lavrov was saying there, i do want to address ara's latest piece and the fact that he did talk than. such a heartbreaking piece from arwa. we've seen her go into syria

again and again to tell the stories of people escaping. something dee in her package is the people in idlib were supposed to be in de-escalation zones. those are zones that sergei lavrov and the russian government are very proud of. they say it was they and iran and turkey and syria that built up those de-escalation zones. what you see on the ground is the reality that is quite different. again, we are starting 2018, natalie, the way we ended 2017, with russia blaming the united states and the united states blaming russia for what you see on the ground there in syria. you know, he perhaps stastarted conference with the understatement of 2018, to say 2017 the year was not easy. unfortunately for people suffering through this on the ground, this will not be easy. i want to highlight again what is going on right now with north korea. we see the direct talks between south korea and north korea. russia saying that of course they do in fact back those talks. i want to now paraphrase what

sergei lavrov said than in general. while he said certainly he and the russia government support those talks, he still says that the united states is not being helpful. he says that in fact the united states quite plainly is really following a mentality of military confrontation. they're acting as if it is inevitable, and that this could have catastrophic consequences. and that he wants the conditions for talks to begin and for the united states really to stop acting as if military confrontation is inevitable. they are proposing what china has said is a freeze for freeze. if north korea freezes its nuclear development, its nuclear development, that the united states and south korea will freeze their military movers. i want to point out something else, though. when we were talking about the iran deal, sergei lavrov wanted to make a fine point of the fact that if the united states wants to pull out of an iran deal and renege on an iran deal, what hopes do they have getting a nuclear deal with north korea? because they continually will be

looking over their shoulder. we signed this deal but the united states could pull out at any moment. not much new being heard here in terms of temperament, natalie. i have to caution it is very important to keep an eye on russia and where sergei lavrov is going with the foreign point both in north korea and syria. russia wants the north korean diplomacy to continue. they did not block new sanctions at the u.n. and that was highly significant. but they do want to play more of a role, a role that so far they've really been shut out of. interesting developments there. paula following it for us. thank you for filling in the issue about syria following arwa's report, there paula. appreciate that. we'll continue to monitor it. well, russia says recent attacks on two of their bases in syria raised the possibility of a new kind of terror attack. >> brian todd reports on the deadly potential of armed drones. >> reporter: these drones displayed by the russian defense ministry appear to have small

bombs on them. the russians claim swarms of these unmanned vehicle, 13 drones in all attacked two of their bases in syria in recent days. they blame isis for the attacks. russian official says no one was injured, and that their anti-aircraft units brought down the drones. tonight experts are concerned about the possibility of warming drone attacks on american targets. >> they are small and relatively hard to detect. the radar is not looking for something flying typically as low as a drone or that is as small as a drone. also, when the drones are launched on a target in a swarming manner, this creates a redundancy. and also a saturation effect. >> reporter: russian official says they believe the drones were launched from at least 30 miles away from their targets, but they could travel as far as about 60 miles. how would swarms of this be operated? >> the idea of launches multiple drones at a target isn't that difficult, especially if the

jones have a gps capability and there is a way there for to preprogram a way point into the drone so that it lands, basically crashes at a certain point and becomes a kamikaze. >> cnn has learned that u.s. security officials are scrambling to keep up with this lightest threat of swarms of drones. a large open venue where there are a lot of people gathered. how vulnerable to swarming drones? >> a bunch of people in a wide open space, of course they're vulnerable. we already know that. we've seen attacks, new york city and other places. and mostly in vehicles, right? now what we've done is tried to protect ourselves on the ground. this is something new. >> reporter: high profile targets like the upcoming super bowl could potentially be threatened by swarms of drones. a key question tonight, how can security teams defend against them? >> one is you find the people and stop them before they do

anything. the second is all of these are radio controlled. you would interfere with the radio signal. and the third thing you might do is shoot them down. they are fragile and light and you could probably take it down with a high-powered rifle. >> reporter: are the steps being taken to protect americans against swarming drone attacks? pentagon officials say they are, but a lot of that is classified. one homeland security official did say some of the measures are being used to protect big crowds at significant events. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> well, that report was unsettling. coming up here, u.s. democrats hope to retake the house in the midterm elections. but the republicans promise a tough fight. we'll have that for you coming up.

hi, everyone. good to have you back with us. i'm cyril vanier at cnn hq. >> i'm natalie allen. let's update you on our top stories this hour. >> a floor has collapsed inside the building of the jakarta stock exchange. 72 people were injured. it's unclear what caused the collapse. it happened midday near an entrance where tourists tend to gather. trade willing be resumed. pope francis is traveling to chile and peru during a six-day south america tour. his visit to chile is his first as the leader of the catholic church. the pope faces protest over the church's handling of child theft abuse cases. u.s. president donald trump says he is not a racist in response to allegations that he used a vulgar term to describe several african american countries. his comments come as the

government faces a possible shutdown with democrats making demands on an immigration deal before they cooperate. and president trump is also facing criticism within his own party for his reportedly vulgar comments about haiti and africa. >> the house republican mia love is haitian-american, and she said on cnn's "state of the union" were racist in her opinion. here is more of what she said to our jake tapper. >> your parents are immigrants from haiti. you're the first haitian american elected to the united states congress. how did it feel to hear those comments from the president? >> well, jake, i can't defend the indefensible. you have to understand that there are countries that do struggle out there, but they're good people. and they're part of us. we're americans. you have to understand that my parents, they came from haiti. they worked hard. they paid their taxes. when they pledge their

allegiance to the american flag and became u.s. citizens, they meant every word of it. and they did everything they could to take on not just the benefits, but the responsibilities of what it meant to be an american citizen. and you have to understand, i'm a product of that. i am the american dream. that's who we are. those are not just american values, but they're certainly utah values and they're values that we all hold dear. it's difficult to hear especially because my parents are such big reporters of the president. we have to do everything we can to make sure that we are coming from a place of compassion and we're speaking from a place of kindness. that is the at least minimal standard here. >> this shouldn't come as a surprise that the reported comments did not go over well in africa. south africa is among the latest countries to react. it's lodging a formal complaint with the u.s. embassy. let's talk about this with david

mckenzie in johannesburg. david, tell us about the reaction there. >> cyril, across the continent people have been outraged by this comment. and what has been interesting is this outrage has lasted for several days. and you've had i think the governments following on from the queue of different citizens and countries on social media and elsewhere have really kind of condemned the president of the united states. so in a way, the governments are playing catch-up to the people. here in south africa, the department of international relations and cooperation bringing in the head of the embassy for what seen as a dressing down, asking that person or that head to really explain the comments of the president of the united states, that they say could be seen as racist. and that's generally the consensus that i have seen across the continent. while that's not unprecedented to have this demosh or the calling in the head of the

industry, what it is having it called over issues of direct links to the president. the presidents of south africa, botswana, namibia explicitly criticizing the president of the united states. something very unusual in the african context, particularly for businesses that do a great deal of business with the u.s. and in some cases receive a great deal of aid. cyril? >> reporting live from johannesburg. thank you very much. the political battle to control the u.s. congress is heating up ahead of midterm elections in november. democrats now have a major opportunity. 32 house republicans will not seek reelection. >> and just last week, two republican representatives from california announced that they're calling it quits. cnn's miguel marquez reports democrats in orange county have high hopes of victory. >> hey hey, ho ho! >> reporter: the protests like clockwork. every week for a year now at the offices of four orange county republican members of congress,

protests in anger over the trump administration already hitting their target. >> this is the first time i've ever come out to protest. and i'm doing it because i'm so upset. >> reporter: democrats in this once deeply conservative county angry at president trump going after members of congress in the midterm elections. less than ten months away. >> i believe that the tide is changing. the demographics are changing. i think that things are a lot different. people like me didn't live in orange county 50 years ago. so, yeah, i think we can. >> reporter: democrats must flip 24 seats to win control of the u.s. house of representatives. nationwide 23 republicans are in districts won by hillary clinton. seven of those districts are in california, and four right here in orange county. do they really have a shot at those four seats? >> oh, absolutely not. but i love that they think they do. >> reporter: republicans here say all the protests on the left will only drive turnout on the right. but who will they vote for?

two orange county republicans darrell issa and ed royce now join some 30 other gop house members not seeking reelection. democrats here pressing their advantage. two dozen groups on the left working in unison to flip all four orange county seats from red to blue. >> are you finding in trump areas support? >> it's funny, because there are a lot of democrats in there. they just don't show up to the polls. >> and what is the level of engagement now? >> they are on fire. >> reporter: democrats say they need to turn out 15% more of their voters next november to offset the advantage of gop incumbents. republicans say good luck. democrats are so confident that they can win seats in orange county that the d kcdccc say by election day they expect to have at least a dozen staffers and

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this is video recorded inside that airplane that went off the runway in turkey mere seconds after it skidded off the runway. while trying to land. passengers here stumbling off the aircraft. somebody had -- they always do, it seems, to get video. and that is what they were coming out of. that airplane right there nose-down towards the black sea.

168 people aboard. they all got off that airplane. no one was hurt. >> yeah, that video, we've been watching it for a few hours now. it's just stung. and it's pretty amazing to consider that no one got injured. you can see how dangerously close it came to the sea. it was you telling me earlier that the reason the plane stopped there and didn't slide. >> the wheels got stuck in the mud. thank goodness for mud. >> very lucky on that one. and fingers crossed also we can get some good news out of california. rescue workers there are still combing through the wreckage searching for survivors. unfortunately at this stage there is not a whole lot of hope left. >> 20 people are now confirmed dead and at least four are missing after those mud slides rip aid part dozens of homes. officials warn the number of missing could change. on sunday, thousands gathered for an emotional candlelight vigil to honor those who were lost. the next storm to make its way across the u.s. could drop a

lot of snow on a lot of people. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now with the forecast. p pedram, it is when? where? how much? >> the snow amount not as impressive as the coverage area which is more impressive. show you what's happening here. we're talking about windchills well below zero, well below 20 below zero. up into the dakotas, schools delayed because of the extreme cold. the last thing you want to do when you have windchills of 30 to 45 below which is being felt across the dakotas to have kids waiting for school bus. such windchills in only minutes can cause permanent damage to your skin. that's the concern moving forward. look at the high temps. struggling to get above zero for high temperature in parts of north dakota. minneapolis around 4. chicago at 26. but even down around north florida, the 50s widespread. of course we're talking about 60 million people across the midwestern united states that are underneath winter weather advisories.

the coverage of snow once again. it is quite widespread. but generally 2 to 4 inches. a few spots 6 inches of snow. down towards the south, tuned in across portions of houston, san antonio, even dallas not depicted well on this model. all of these areas could see ice accumulating into the overnight hours of tuesday. monday into tuesday, i should say. the cold air really begins to seep farther south the middle of the week. we're looking for a trend of warmer temp beyond that by the time you get wednesday afternoon, the temperatures bottom out places like atlanta. only six times in the last two decades has atlanta failed to make it to 30. it's going to get close to it on wednesday afternoon. high temps there. and notice how quickly it climbs up into the middle 60s the upcoming weekend. i want to show you what is happening quickly as far as what is going on right now across the philippines. this is a very well-known tourist location. we have a threat here for

eruption. in fact, a level 3 has been issued which is a concern here that a lava flow has been detected. officials say level 4 meaning hazardous eruption is likely in the next couple days to next couple of weeks. this is a story for thousands of people that live close to this mountain there. guys? >> we're watching that. how many more days left in winter, be i the way, pedram? >> we're only three weeks in. >> we're not looking forward to those 30 minus degrees here in atlanta. >> thanks, pedram. all right, next on "cnn newsroom," imagine a future where a driverless car delivers your food or even takes you to work. it turns out it may not be that far off. stay with us. we'll tell you why. ♪

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welcome back. the future of driverless cars is coming faster than you may realize. >> cnn's chris moody gets in the car with no one behind the wheel for his new digital series "our driverless future." >> reporter: i spent the past year traveling the country, talking to entrepreneurs, engineers and test drivers who are building the cars of tomorrow. and when they imagine the future, driving the car isn't part of it. i asked them all the same thing.

what will the future look like? and what will it take to get there? what i found was really exciting. but also a bit shocking. >> self-driving mode. because technically, we don't need a driver in the car. >> so you and i are basically in way just passengers now? >> yes. >> we're test driving a car powered by oug ed bed by a car the prototype of an automobile that not only takes you out of the driver's seat, but creates a future where you might not need to own a car at all. at least that's what the people building them think. >> ownership would probably be abandoned. you'd mostly i have cars that we summon on our phone. they come empty to us and pick us up. and we get inside at our office

or house, and it drives us straight to the restaurant and there is no time wasted in the parking. we'll look back and say wow, people owned cars to get from this point to that point? >> reporter: eliminating car ownership would drastically shape the way we travel throughout the city. >> you could travel 30 or 40% of the roads. you don't need cars on roads. you need them on the perimeter of your neighborhood. >> all of the parking facilities today get turned into residential space or parks or offices or restaurants. and we can kind of give back the city to the people that live in it and take it away from the automobiles. the quality of life and the opportunity to kind of reuse that space is going to be pretty magical. >> reporter: the rise of car sharing services has already made people accustomed to the idea of not owning a car. today human drivers pick up us when we use uber or lyft.

but that's not going to last. >> autonomous ride sharing is coming. you seal it in pockets and slowly and surely you'll start to see the vehicles all over the place. >> there is an opportunity on a long enough timeline where we may have a fleet that is fully autonomous. as you start to see people adopt to transportation as a service, the hope here is that cars will -- car ownership will slowly decline. >> we're both sitting on this. >> that's pretty cool. >> bring it on digital. we'll be hearing more than. we have all been hearing about president trump's border wall since his days as a presidential candidate. >> now we're learning that it may be shrinking. cnn's jeanne moos explains. >> reporter: so far it's been a wall of words. >> i will build a great, great wall. >> we're going to have a very, very big and powerful wall.

>> an impenetrable physical tall, powerful, beautiful. >> it's going to be a trump wall. >> nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. >> but it's also a shrinking wall. the eight prototypes are as tall as expected. but after promising at least thousand mile wall, the trump administration has proposed a new structure running about 316 miles with another 407 miles of replacement and secondary wall. >> there could be some fencing. >> fencing? trump fence doesn't have the same ring. >> they put my name on it. i want a gorgeous wall, you know? the trump wall. would that be a beautiful wall! >> reporter: already comedians are mocking the prototypes. >> venetian. see-through means immigrants can see a better life but they can't touch it. just look at the decorative fringe of the spoke razor spikes. >> reporter: talk about looking sharp. >> one man even war a spandex

war costume. >> reporter: and a possible $18 billion, the cost of the wall isn't shrinking. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: nope. mexico says no way. and remember how every time a mexican leader dissed the wall, it grew? >> i'm not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. >> the wall just got ten feet higher. it's true. >> reporter: false. the prototypes are still 30 feet. >> what are the walls going to be made out of? >> reporter: concrete, steel and hype? a youtuber created this mash-up ♪ the wall just got ten feet higher ♪ ♪ i'm building a wall, i'm building a wall, i'm building a wall ♪ >> even it won't keep out the proverbial fly on the wall. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> what can you say? and with that, it's time for us to say goodbye. thank you for watching. i'm cyril vanier. >> i'm natalie allen.

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. >> no, no, i'm not a racist. i'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed. dark and rather unusual words from the president of the united states after reportedly using a expletive to describe african nations now who can and can't remember what was said in that meeing suddenly a partisan meeting. >> the president i