it has been several days now since the famous saudi journalist has been seen and now some fear that he was murdered inside a saudi consulate. plus, a chilling warning to prevent a catastrophic crisis. experts fear time is running out for millions of people all over the globe. and people in upstate new york mourn after the deadliest car crash in the u.s. in almost a decade. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the cnn newsroom starts right now.

at 3:00 a.m. here on the east coast, a prominent journalist has disappeared after entering a saudi consulate in istanbul and there are growing concerns he may have been killed inside the building. the journalist in question and the critic of saudi arabia, jamal kashoji was last seen tuesday after entering the saudi consulate. what happened to him after that is still unclear. here's what we do know. a political advisor to the turkish president tells cnn there is a strong possibility that kasoji was killed inside the saudi arabia consulate. saudi arabia strongly denies any involvement. u.s. officials say they cannot confirm what happened to him, but two senior administration officials tell cnn the u.s. is quietly trying to figure out what happened to kashoji. our international diplomatic editor nick robinson has more on this mystery.

>> reporter: last tuesday he walked through these doors into the saudi consulate in istanbul. a simple visit to collect marriage papers for his wedding in a few days. it was the last time he was seen. according to turkish officials, his fiance waiting for himself outside raised the alarm nearly four hours later. the saudis insist he left the building. my understanding is he entered and got out after a few minutes or one hour, i'm not sure. but despite all the cameras around the consulate, there is no video footage of him. on saturday saudi diplomats allowed journalists into the consulate to show that he wasn't there. but at the same time, unnamed turkish officials were claiming he had been killed at the consulate and his body removed. official turkish media also report that the very same day

that he vanished, some 15 saudis, arrived in turkey and had gone to the consulate. turkish prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation. >> translator: everything, including entries and exits to the consulate, are being investigated. and departures and arrivals to airports are also under investigation. >> reporter: the turkish president who knows him well, says he hopes kashaji will resurface. but friends of the saudi journalists in istanbul say they are making funeral preparations. >> translator: today we were meant to meet. it should have been today that he had his papers this week, either today or next sunday, he was planning to get married. but this never happened. >> reporter: jamal khashoggi was a critic, an insider who fell

out with crown prince mamd ben salman. over the war in yemen, the crisis in qatar, and the way he thought debate at home was being suffocated. it always pushed the envelope, religious conservatives loathed him. last year he moved to washington, a self-imposed exile, telling cnn that reformers in the kingdom were being stifled. he said he, too, was under pressure. his colleagues at the washington post say they won't let this drop, raising the spectre of increased scrutiny of saudis already closely-watched leader in waiting. >> we're not going to shut up. we're going to keep his name out there and we're going to, again, if anything anybody who would want to silence him, they have only made us want to present who he is, who he was to the world even more strongly. >> reporter: as the mystery deepens in saudi arabia,

vehemently denies knowing anything about his disa poorns. some in saudi even suggest turkey which sided with qatar in dispute with the kingdom, is exploiting the situation. but if, as some turkish officials insist, evidence emerges that he was killed inside the consulate, the repercussions will be profound and the vision that crown prince mohamed ben salman's vision will be severely tarnished. nick robinson, london. >> it is important geopolitical ramifications, to talk more about this in context, the chair of contemporary middle east studies at the london school of economics, and the author of making the arab world live this hour in our london bureau. always a pleasure to have you on the show. clearly the turkish president

said he is chasing this himself. describing him as a friend. turkey has been exploiting the situation. what are your thoughts around the disappearance and how the questions are being pursued? >> you know, i think one small piece of news, if i may call it a good news, what president erdogan said yesterday, he said he hopes for a positive outcome. he hopes for a positive outcome for the disappearance of jamal. this implies that jamal is still alive because most of the leaks coming out of turkey suggest that jamal has been either killed or eliminated. we have to wait and see because obviously as president erdogan has said, he is following the case personally. the turkish authorities are trying to piece together what happened to jamal from the moment he entered the consulate in istanbul. the reality is if jamal, if

jamal disappears, if he does not really appear and resurface, i think this would have major consequences on turkish/saudi relations which have come under tremendous strains in the past year. so, what you're going to see, george, is that the geo strategic rivalism, not just between saudi arabia and iran. already you have rivalry between turkey and saudi arabia. if basically jamal -- if the evidence emerges that he either was killed or disappeared, this could push turkish/saudi relations to the breaking point. >> all right. look, there is also a concern among u.s. officials about his disappearance. like this tweet from senator marco rubio. i want to read this to you. he says, i pray saudi journalist is alive, but if this deeply disturbing news report is confirmed, the united states and the civilized world must respond

strongly and i will review all options in senate. so what are some of the ramifications for saudi arabia? should this be confirmed, the sinister details around the disappearance? >> you know, george, the difficulty of really laying out the case is that we still at the early stages. my fear is that the longer the mystery deepens about the disappearance of jamal, the less likelihood he will emerge alive. at this particular moment our thoughts and hopes are with jamal and his family and friends and beloved ones. .2, i hope that the saudi authorities -- and i really say it with humility -- appreciate the gravity of the crisis. the gravity of the disappearance of a saudi journalist. few people realize, george, that jamal was a very mild and

mainstream critic. he was not a radical critic of the saudi leadership. also the context is very important. many people don't realize, for most of his life, he was basically part, an integral part of the elite in saudi arabia. he was the editor of the newspaper, the main newspaper of the government. he left last year. he was not a radical one. the burden lies -- again, i'm saying. we don't know all the evidence. we should not indict the saudis because the evidence isn't there. the burden lies on the saudi authorities to show that basically he left the consulate after he had entered at 1:00 p.m. and this, yes, would not only have major ramification on turkish/saudi relations. it would basically tarnish the vision of the crown prince at both politically and ethically and morally and would have major consequence on saudi western

relation, not only on saudi/u.s. relation. so all in all, this is really terrible news. the most important part is basically the well-being of jamal. and everything else is really bad news that will come out of it, sadly and tragically. >> fawaz with perspective and context. thank you for your time and perspective. a prominent figure who is no longer missing, the former president of interpol, that's been a mystery quite honestly. his disappearance in china, but now we are hearing from chinese authorities who say meng has been detained for alleged corruption and accepting bribes. interpol says that he resigned as president just days after he was reported missing by his wife. and also this, meng's wife says that she received two very unsettling text messages from her husband shortly after he arrived in china. one of them with the words, quote, wait for my call. then you see there, that emoji of a knife. she said that's the last contact

she had with her husband. cnn producer steven zhang is following the story live for us. the cryptic text messages quite scare. you now this from chinese officials. what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, george, at least finally we have some clarity on this once mysterious international incident. i think all the international attention and pressure probably have something to do with how fast the authorities here have been releasing information. now, as you said, the government has now acknowledged mr. meng is being held and under investigation for alleged corruption, but there is also something interesting in their statement. that is the mention of mr. meng's former patron who was the country's domestic security czar. he is now serving a life sentence in prison for for corruption. so that mention made a lot of people think mr. meng's detention may have something to do with internal politics or political infighting as well in addition to corruption.

also, the role of the wife as i mentioned, she revealed these unsettling message and image in france. now, she has also said she's been receiving threats online and via telephone. so, she is now under french police protection. but mr. meng is obviously now on his own. things are not looking good because if anything, we know anything about this very secretive chinese investigative process targeting senior officials, that is investigators tend to use over the top tactics, including torture, sometimes to extract confessions. but, george, this international incident, there is one thing that has never been in doubt. that is no matter who you are, nobody is really immune from the clutches of the communist authorities here if you cross the leadership. nobody is safe in president xi jinping's china. george? >> all right. a big picture question here. what impact does a situation like this have on this nation focused on its ambitions for global outreach, seeing figures

like mr. meng placed in top global positions? >> that's right. it's really going to reinforce a lot of critics' notion what china really is. the murkiness, the nontransparency of the legal political system here. you mentioned the actress fan bing bing who also similarly disappeared suddenly back in june, then only reappeared three months later when authorities announced she had been investigated for massive tax evasion and ordered to pay a massive fine of $130 million in total. so that kind of incident, that kind of episode really give critics of the government a lot more evidence to say, look, this is xi jinping's china. nobody is safe. nobody is immune from the clutches of the authorities here. >> steven jiang, following the questions around what we now know from chinese officials. thank you very much for your time. now to a dire warning about

climate change. according to a new report, experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe. it also says that if unprecedented changes are not made and made soon, there will be irreversible damage to the planet that we all share. the report focuses on what could happen if global temperatures rise by more than 1.5 degrees celsius, that's 2.7 degrees fahrenheit. cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera is in the international weather center following the details of this dire report. ivan. >> it is dire. they're always dire. i mean, when we talk about climate change here, it's not going to be any good news. george, i think we passed the event hshz in that if we were to stop emissions today, we went to zero, we would still be in a heap of trouble. we're not going to do that and we're not going to do that for quite sometime. in fact, the goal is to get our temperatures to at least stay below 1.5 celsius overall planet wide. we'll talk about why that's important. we'll take a look. in 2030, we've got to get co2

emissions to get to that 1.5 by 45% and then we have to go carbon neutral by 2050. zero emissions to get us to not go above 1.5 celsius. that number is significant and that's what the researchers were honing in on here as far as what can happen when we go above 1.5, by the way, we're currently sitting at 1 and climbing at about .2 every decade here. so that's a problem. we're sourcing 7085% of electricity has to be renewables. we have to put a price on greenhouse emissions. technology, we have to get the co2 we've already pumped into the atmosphere out of here to help us out. here's what happens. even 1.5 which was the paris agreement accord here, more heat waves, more floods, more droutsz, drouts droughts, up to 70 to 90%. coral reefs, we've lost half across australia. and the economic growth will be

stunted big time because of this. we have a lot of work to do and each of these reports continues to drive the point home. all right, i want to talk about this situation here. we have a tropical storm in the caribbean. this is michael. it will eventually be a hurricane. it has 60 mile an hour winds right now. where is it headed? the united states. if you haven't heard about this, prepare yourself because we only really have two days to get ourselves ready for the potential of a landfalling category 2 across the panhandle of florida. a very vulnerable area for storm surge. that water is going to get pushed in. watch the clock. wednesday 3:00 p.m., that is an est management. that's what we're looking at, a category 2 hitting anywhere near panama city and continuing on to the north and east. by the way, we had one in october last year and that one also caused significant damage with the storm surge. still a couple of the models we used here, you're familiar with the european and the american, the timing is a little off. so we still have to fine tune that, george, but it is going to be headed, it looks like, to the

big bend of florida by wednesday afternoon. that's a cat 2. >> ivan cabrera, thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on that storm coming this week. still ahead, a deadly car accident in new york. we'll tell you about how that community is dealing with great pain there. plus, the so-called trump of the tropics could become brazil's next president. and women's rights activists are disturbed and alarmed. we'll explain. stay with us.

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in the u.s. state of new york, investigators are trying to figure out why a limousine crashed into a parked vehicle. the accident killing 20 people. people in scohary, new york, have been brinking flowers to the apple berry country store and cafe at the seen of the crash. a young couple who were just married in june, family member tells cnn the limo was head today a friend's birthday party. that friend also died in the crash. we the question more now from cnn correspondent paolo sandoval. >> reporter: well, a makeshift memorial continues to grow at the site of one of the nation's

deadliest transportation disasters. at least the deadliest in the last nine years here in upstate new york. authorities say a limousine basically failed to stop at a t-intersection, colliding with a vehicle and two people in a parking lot of a country store, and then eventually crashing into a ditch, resulting in the deaths of 18 people on board. the driver and 17 passengers. investigators have not revealed any information regarding the victims. only saying that they believe that that was the cause at this point, that the vehicle, again, failed to stop at that intersection, but they don't know exactly why. was speed a factor? of course, the condition of the vehicle? that is what investigators with the national transportation safety that was emotional even for the first responders who were at the

scene. though this community is home to only about 3500 people, they are mourning and also searching for answers. polo sandoval, cnn, schorarie county, new york. >> polo, thank you. they are looking for a man who killed two men at a factory at west bank on sunday. they searched where a 23-year-old palestinian lives. they say he use aid homemade automatic weapon. the man and woman both employees of the factory killed. a third person was seriously wounded. cnn correspondent oren liebermann is following the story live this hour in jerusalem and, oren, israeli authorities, security forces there looking for the suspect. what more are we learning about the attacker as of this hour? >> reporter: george, there is still right now a very large-scale manhunt going on to try to find the suspect here.

23-year-old palestinian, to find him and arrest him and bring him to justice after authorities say he went into a factory, his place of work, in fact, shot and killed two israelis and wounded one more. authorities have gone to his village, to his town near the palestinian city in the northern west bank. they have marked off his home for demolition and arrested a number of those who knew him and brought them in for questioning to find out if he acted alone or if he was working as some sort of larger group. but the key is now more than 24 hours after the attack, where is he? and that's why we're seeing this manhunt conducted not only by the israeli military but also with the assistance of police and the israel security agency. all of this started around 7:30 local time on sunday morning when authorities say he approached a factory in the west bank where he worked in the industrial park in the northern west bank, went inside, approached two people he knew, shot and killed them and wounded one more. then he fled the scene and ran away and that is where we come to this manhunt that continues at this point. one of those victims,

29-year-old, was laid to rest last night. the funeral for the second victim, 35-year-old is scheduled to take place in just a few hours. meanwhile, as this manhunt happens and the country prepares for this funeral, the investigation continues. one of the questions, how was the suspect able to bring a loaded automatic weapon onto a secure industrial park? that is part of what investigators have to answer. meanwhile, the investigation continues as to why this happened. investigators are looking at terror and they say part of the indication there is the social media posts as well as other indications they say they have that lead them to believe that this was a terror attack. prime minister benjamin netanyahu in commenting on this called it a very severe terrorist attack and promised to bring the suspect to justice. george, that's where we stand at this point. authorities are looking for the suspected gunman in this case to bling him to justice. >> we'll stay in touch with you for the details. oren lieberman live in jerusalem. thank you for the reporting. in china, the u.s. secretary of state is dropping some hints about a new u.s./north korean summit and when we might hear an

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you see here, a critic of saudi arabia, was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul where he was last seen on tuesday. the turkish president erdogan says he is personally chasing this investigation. saudi arabia denies any involvement. chinese authorities say the former head of interpol, meng, has been detained in china for alleged corruption and accepting bribes. interpol says meng had resigned just days after his wife had reported him missing. she says that he sent her cryptic, even scary text messages, after traveling to china, suggesting that he might be in danger. investigators in the u.s. state of new york are trying to figure out why a limousine plowed into a parked suv that crashed, killing 20 people including two bystanders. investigators say it is the deadliest transportation incident in nine years. the limo was headed to a birthday party when that accident happened. america's top diplomat has touched down in beijing.

the secretary of state mike pompeo met with china's foreign minister just a short time ago. he arrived in beijing after wrapping up a trip to the korean peninsula. while there, he met with south korea's president moon jae-in, but most of the focus has been on what you see right there, meeting with the north korean leader kim jong-un. he told report herbs an announcement about a new summit between mr. kim and the u.s. president trump is, quote, pretty close. let's talk about all of this with sam kylie. sam, following the secretary of state's visit to china live from hong kong this hour. and, look, sam, given some recent comments by the u.s. vice-president about china and current trade disputes, things are off to a rough start, it seems. >> they certainly are, george. and one had -- i had anticipated a degree of public warmth and private -- between the foreign minister of china and the united states at this meeting, but they got off to an openly almost

hostile start with mr. wang, the chinese foreign minister, saying the united states had made some wrong remarks and actions, clearly a reference there to vice-president pence's statements a week ago, suggesting that china was not only a military rival, but an economic threat and, indeed, was meddling in the november midterm elections. mr. pompeo was not going to take this on the chin. again, very publicly he said there were fundamental disagreements between the united states and china and that the u.s. has great concerns about actions that china has taken. i think they are probably referencing in detail locally the efforts by china to take possession of a number of islands in the south china sea, but perhaps also he's likely to raise -- present some evidence which the americans have not done yet for this alleged interference in the elections. and, of course, china is a growing military power and is

locked in a trade war with the united states, george. >> sam kylie live for us in hong kong. thank you. we'll of course continue to follow the secretary of state's visit there. the u.s. president donald trump is taking a victory lap after getting his second supreme court justice confirmed. justice brett kavanaugh was sworn in on saturday after a contentious confirmation process. both political parties are likely to use this fight to rally support in their bases ahead of the midterm elections in november. that includes differences over issues like gun control and roe v. wade, the decision that legalized abortion. much of the criticism of kavanaugh is overblown. listen. >> there are many people in this country who are thrilled it is president trump and not president, the person who lost the election last time, putting these justices on the united states supreme court so we can get back to the constitution and its four corners. having said that, senator

collins again echoed this in her speech, justice kavanaugh -- justice kavanaugh, i love that -- said during his testimony that he believes roe v. wade is settled law. >> let's talk more about this with scott lucas. scott, professor of international politics at the university of birmingham in england live for us there in birmingham, england. thank you so much for your time today, scott. look, brett kavanaugh is now justice kavanaugh and it is clearly a big win for president trump and his party. the question for you, who is more energized heading into the mid terms? is it republicans who may be very pleased with how last week played out? is it democrats who have been energized since the u.s. president took office and got kicked in the teeth through the demsz la democrats last week? >> i don't think we can find out, george. we can speculate on republicans rallying around trump and the party as they kept pushing the idea that kavanaugh was a must-win. we can talk about votes for

democrats being mobilized, especially over the issues of women's rights, social issues, remembering this comes on top of other issues such as immigration, such as discrimination against people of color. but you don't actually know until people make that decision to get into the voting booths. what i think concerns me at this point, however, the tactics leading up to this, and specifically the last few days, the so-called victory lap, which of course comes as trump is still facing the russia investigation, is now facing allegations -- and i stress allegations -- that much of his wealth came through tax manipulation and even flawed. this victory lap is built upon the idea that those who demonstrated, who rallied in support of women's rights and even sexual assault survivors are part of a mob. even going so far in donald trump's words to say they're a mob financed by the jewish billionaire george soros. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell repeated that yesterday in an obvious election

tactic, which is to say, this idea of mob rule that would come in or was being fostered by the democrats. and i find that really concerning, george, because if republicans are mobilized to vote, that's great. everyone should vote. and people who support brett kavanaugh, that's their right and they should not be cast as an enemy because of it. but on the other side, those who happen to oppose donald trump or happen to challenge the senate leadership should not be portrayed as an enemy within simply because they said that this issue generally of sexual violence, and specifically over a need for investigation of brett kavanaugh, they shouldn't be dismissed as an enemy either. >> you talk about this word "mob" and it does seem to be a word that republicans, many republican operatives have latched onto as campaign strategy. and that goes really to the process. i want to talk about process, the process that brought brett kavanaugh to becoming justice kavanaugh. this 50-48 vote, very narrow, but it was indicative of the

divide within the united states. some republicans and democrats are looking back at the process with a great deal of disappointment, including the republican governor of the u.s. state of ohio, scott. let's listen here. >> our leaders need to stop playing a zero-sum game, like flipping a coin. i win, you lose. leaders need to figure out a way to bring people together. now, they can have a victory, but they can't leave the person who loses vanquished and that's so much of what we're seeing. and in a zero-sum game, we get to a point where any tactic is acceptable and then we use our tongues and we say things that we ultimately can deeply regret. >> the republican governor of the state of ohio, john kasich there, he ran for president, didn't quite make it, but he was a person seen as a politician who would bring people together in the middle. what are your thoughts about his assessment of u.s. politics as it stands now?

>> well, i think john kasich is also positioning himself for a possible presidential run in 2020. but let's put that to the side. he makes an important point. if you're concerned about the process, here i'm speaking to those up on capitol hill, do something about it. i mean, this process which initially focus on getting brett kavanaugh through before november's elections, whatever it took, that's not a proper way in considering someone who is one of nine supreme court justices for life. if you're concerned about the process when there are issues raised, investigate them, and not what we saw last week, which was not an investigation, but a political cover note. investigate it. and if you are really concerned, either way, about the issue of sexual violence and women's rights, actually address that and don't go into your camps and simply try to portray brett kavanaugh, for example, as a victim and dismiss christine ford, or on the other hand say brett kavanaugh is guilty. i was tired of hearing

people after the vote talk about the need to respect process when quite clearly the process should have been respected before the vote. and i'm worried about the process the way this is, framed in the victory lap as being an us versus them moment. it's not. these rights concern all of us. and i know how important elections are, but to simply try to divide americans, that is going to have lasting damage if we don't stand up against t. >> scott lucas live with perspective and context in birmingham, england. thank you very much for your time, scott. >> thank you. >> the pop star and megastar taylor swift is making news. she's long been criticized for not using her platform as a powerful celebrity to talk about politics, but, well, things changed. and now she is. she's broken her silence, a political silence, revealing on instagram that she will vote for two democratic candidates running in the state of tennessee. she also slammed the republican candidate backed by president trump writing, quote, i cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for

all americans no matter their skin color, their gender, or who they love, end quote. taylor swift also encouraged her fans to register to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. following the elections in brazil, a far-right candidate there is getting closer to becoming the next president of that nation. beyonce knowles nar owe is being called the trump of the tropics, the antiestablishment candidate established a stunning lead in the first round presidential election. shasta darling has more from sao paulo. >> reporter: the message from brazilian voters was loud and clear. they are fed up with the endemic political corruption and the rising crime in violence. bolsonaro may not have won a majority in sunday's election, but he has a wave of conserve tids many ahead of the election.

he candidate gave a sobering speech on social media saying the next three weeks are not going to be easy. >> translator: we indeed are able to change the destiny of brazil. we continue continue flirting with socialism or communism. >> reporter: bolsonaro's standing went up in the polls when he was stabbed during a campaign rally and forced to recover first in the hospital and then at home. in the end he's going to face-off against fernando haddad, the candidate for the left wing workers' party who really only joined the race a month ago when da silva was jailed on corruption charges and forced to pull out of the race. and after voting himself, haddad told his supporters that he's going to try and unite other parties behind his candidacy. now, what's interesting here is these are the two most popular candidates but also the two most unpopular candidates with very hirie jection rates. in fact, just a week before

sunday's election, tens of thousands of brazilians took to the streets in marches organized by women encouraging brazilians to vote for anybody but bolsonaro, using the slogan, not him. now, of course, they have three weeks to try and unite brazilians are round them. i'm shasta darling ton for cnn in say owe po paulo. >> thank you. we are following the story of a nigerianian girl abducted by boko haram and threatened with execution. we'll have reports from nairobi with efforts to save her life. many people living with diabetes

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life. to the fullest. s the parents of a kidnapped nigerian school girl tell cnn the terror group boko haram has issued a execution deadline for their daughter. her father says boko haram militants threaten to kill leah this month if their demands are

not met. the 15-year-old was abducted with more than 100 school girls in february. most were released after four weeks, but leah was held back after reportedly refusing to renounce her christian faith. the deadline has been issued. what more are you hearing from authorities about their efforts to try to save this young girl? >> reporter: well, you know, george, the nigerian authorities, the federal government of nigerian has had this war, this battle with the islamic insurgency of boko haram a very long time. and indeed, it is such an insidious fight that they even, no matter how much fire power they have, no matter how many fighter jets they buy from the united states, even going so far as accidentally bombing a camp of displaced people in the northeast of nigerian, this is an enemy that is very, very difficult to crush down like alterists in the world. and at the moment, we know that

the nigerian president issued a tweet about five days ago in which he said he spoke to leah's mom and reiterated the government's determination to bring leah back home safely. he said he would do everything to bring them back. now, of course it's election year, campaigning time in nigerian for massive elections in february for 2019. and the issue of security in the northeast is hugely important to president buhari and important they bring leah back. we hear from the local press in nigeria leah turned 15 in captivity, which means she was 14 when she was abducted. only one of 110 girls still in boko haram's hands. she issued a plea in a tape we heard from a oklahoma allege journalist in nigeria, she's begging for people to treat her with compassion and calling on the government, particularly the president to pity her and get her out of the serious situation. it's a story that is going to be

gripping nigerians for a while, even over the weekend we heard former nigerian international football player posted on his facebook that the boko haram should take him. he's a 51-year-old guy who used to play for the super eagles. he said, please, it is important that she, leah, be released. >> you mention elections, and this was an election issue before. the president focused on cracking down on boko haram in the north part of the country. so the question, given another incident, one that the world is certainly watching, does this undermine, does it show that the government is not effectiveness at cracking down on this, this terrible group? >> reporter: well, you know, george, the government of nigerian says yes, they are effective. they will point to the fact that 104 girls were released, only leah was taken back. only four weeks after they were taken.

they are behind the scenes, george, all kind of negotiations going on with the militants. we know that money has exchanged hands. they demanded the release of some of their fighters captured by the nigerian government. leah must not be used as some sort of political football in this campaigning. that her release is different twashds the political campaigns that are going on right now. and it is very important now to see what the government can do or whether this month has promised to be her death month will pass with her being released, george. >> all hopes are she is able to be returned to her family safely. thank you for the reporting. a famous landmark in tokyo shutting its doors forever. we'll at the you what its closure means to the city and why it's already being missed by so many.

in japan, the world's largest fish market is shutting down after 83 years, and now tokyo is finding it hard to say good-bye. our alexander field has more. >> reporter: it's 5:30 a.m. at

tokyo's tsukiji fish market. a thousand colossal tuna fish have come off the boats. the prize catch is inspected. then a flurry of movement. the bell rings. the auctioneer begins his rhythmic chant. deals are done by the flash of a hand. the best fish sells for nearly 40,000 u.s. dollars. >> translator: i wake up 2:30 a.m. every day. i come to the market at 3:30 a.m. when i walk through the market this morning, all my memories came back to me. >> reporter: he joined his father's business here 35 years ago. he buys semen fish on saturday. they will be the last he'll take away from tsukiji, the catch of the day has come into the biggest fish market on earth for the last time. >> translator: i entered the auction for the first time in my 20s, and saw raw tuna for the first time. all those memories and emotion

now, overwhelmingly, pour into my harlt. >> reporter: the bang of the 2k3w568 h gavel has long been the heart of the community. they buy over 400,000 tons of seafood each year. for many of them, tsukiji feels like the antithesis to tokyo's unrelenting modernity. >> translator: i love this chaotic atmosphere. this is a real market. i will miss it here tremendously. >> reporter: in tsukiji's place will be toyusu market, a modernized venue not far from here. the move has been controversial. the discovery of polluted soil at the new site stoked fears over public safety. chemicals have been sealed up and that tsukiji's aging facilities mean the market has to move. but many people don't want to give up their piece of history.

he is 3r0ud of the city icon he has helped to make. >> translator: my market is tough, but i want to become a tuna man even if i was to be born for the next life. i think this market is wonderful and i want to work here. >> reporter: one city government idea is to pave this over for a parking lot as tokyo plans to host the olympics in 2020. tsukiji will be remembered by many as part of tokyo's old soul. alexander field, cnn. >> thank you for being with us. i'm george howell at cnn, atlanta. for our viewers early start is next in new york. for viewers around the world, max foster is live in the cnn newsroom. thank you for watching cnn, the world's cable news leader.

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