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it's the best time ever for american style. a seemingly endless battle, president trump is telling the house speaker to be careful when it comes to negotiating the government's reopening. . even as the shutdown stretches into a fifth week, the longest ever in u.s. history. it's another tough week of turmoil for the british prime minister as she gets ready to present plan b for brexit. but some opponents and members of her own party are trying to unveil their own plans. a stunning sight in the night sky. a super blood moon makes a rare appearance in some parts of the world. >> we have to see that. >> we did. there's pictures to prove it. welcome to our viewers here in
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the united states and from all around the world. >> from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, "newsroom" starts now. u.s. lawmakers from both parties are scheduled to vote on measures to reopen the government this week. but there's little doubt the stalemate will continue. >> the bickering and back and forth that seems to continue with no end in sight, the u.s. president slamming the house speaker nancy pelosi after she rejected his proposal to democrats to extend temporary protection from deportation to children of undocumented immigrants in exchange for the $5 billion he wants for a border wall. mitch mcconnell will send the president's plan to the the floor for a vote. house democrats are set to vote on their own measure. >> but it is unlikely either measure will become law. sarah westwood has details on what each side is proposing. >> reporter: president trump on saturday rolling out what he described as an attempt to break
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the log jam that's dragged this partial government shutdown on for a month now. the democrats started rejecting the president's proposal before he even announced it. now the president's proposed deal would involve him getting $5.7 billion in funding for his border wall in exchange for a three-year renewal of daca protections for the young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers as well as a three-year extension of temporary protected status for the 300,000 people facing expiration of their tps. house democrats are say iing th won't do any negotiating until the government is reopened and they have their own plan to get the government reopened. they plan to pass a package of six spending bills that will include $1 billion for border security in general. not for the construction of a wall. one thing that democrats in the trump administration seem to agree on, however, both proposals do include money for
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more immigration judges. president trump on sunday going on a tweet storm about speaker pelosi accusing her of being beholden to her left flank and that's why he says she's unable to accept his proposal. trump also defending his deal against criticism from the far right with some conservatives accusing him of extending an offer of amnesty. the bottom line is that this is not a new idea. president trump trading daca for wall money. it's something that's failed before. at the moment, it does not appear to have a path forward on capitol hill. sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. >> richard johnson is a lecturer in u.s. politics and international relations and joins us now from lancaster in engla england. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> president trump attacked nancy pelosi over the weekend for rejecting his offer to extend protection for children of undocumented immigrants in exchange for funding for his
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border wall. given all of this, what will likely happen, do you think, when mitch mcconnell sends trump's plan to the floor for a vote? >> i think that it will probably pass the senate, but the key thing is it won't pass the house. and similarly, we have seen the house democrats make moves that then mitch mcconnell hasn't taken up in a senate. it seems that the moment that both parties are playing a game of chicken here. they are trying to make the situation unbearable and tolerant for key constituents of either side to hope that they get so much pressure that their courses that something has to budge and someone has to move. but at the moment, i don't see the offer that the president made this weekend as really a serious offer to get democrats to change. i think it's more of a political move to try to shift blame from
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the president looking like the unreasonable actor in this to the democrats looking like the unreasonable actors. >> far right conservatives have also criticized president trump. some suggesting he's offering an amnesty to it dreamers. mr. trump rejects that, but how did you expect him to respond in the hours ahead to criticism of his offer coming from all sides now? >> i mean, i thought it was fairly ironic that the president sent these tweets claiming that nancy pelosi was beholden to her left flank. this certainly is a case to be made that nancy pelosi is more sensitive to the left of her party now than she's had to be in the past because of the dynamics of the congressional democratic house caucus. but on the other hand, it sounds like the president has people in the white house, who is close to the more conservative flank of
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the republican party, those people who are skeptical, those who are skeptical of immigration, i think that the president is being sort of pulled by them and so i think he's -- even if he was considering giving a more sweeping immigration reform deal, he's had to pull back object that. >> when we look at this offer that was made, it's been criticized by both sides of politics here. you're saying you don't think it was a serious offer from the president any way. given what we're all witnessing at this point, we're going into the 31st day of this partial government shutdown. what do you think it will take for someone to blink here and realize that we're coming up to the second payday that people go without. people earning $30 to $50,000 a year are not getting their mo y money, which means they are not getting food to put on the
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table, medicine for their loved ones, they are not able to help their loved ones. it's an impossible situation for those people. when is is this going to likely end? >> i think that you could look to the the senate and see if the senate, perhaps the president's proposal fails. perhaps a second attempt through the senate is a way of striking some sort of compromise position between the president's position and the house's position. but i think that if this really -- if there is movement on that, mitch mcconnell hasn't shown a great deal of at least forward leadership on this, perhaps a bit behind the scenes, then all bets are off including the possibility that the president does decide he can't make agreement through legislation and seem urgency to construct the wall. some say let him do that and let
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the courts decide. >> we'll watch to see what happens in the coming days. richard johnson, thank you for joining us and bringing us your analysis. we appreciate it. >> thank you it. we're hearing about a tense standoff in washington that went viral. >> you may have seen the video of the teen standing face to face with a native american elder. sara sidner reports the boy says he's being dismist represented in represented in that video. >> we did receive three pages of comments from this young man. his family sent it out. here's part of what he says. with these viral videos, there's more to them. there's a story that goes along with them that happens before and half something like this happens. we have viewed video that gives a better bigger picture of what happened leading up to that faceoff between the student and the native american elder. here's one part of the statement
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from the student who was standing there face to face. he said because we were being loud lu attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperons for permission to begin our chants to counter the hateful things being shouted at our group. the chaperon gave us permission to use our school chants. he's referring to the nasty things they were hearing not from the native american group, but from a group of black men that called themselves the hebrew israel lites. we're going to show you some of the things they were saying to the students and others. >> reporter: phillips found himself surrounded by students one staring him down, the others chanting around hymn as phillips was trying to create calm between two groups at odds. >> i realize i had put myself in a really dangerous situation.
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here's a group of people who were angry at somebody else and i put myself in front of that. and all of a sudden i'm the one who all that anger and all that wanting to have the freedom to rip me apart. >> this video shows what happened long before phillips shows up. you can see a group of about five black men who identify as hebrew israel identities. they start taunting people of all colors. >> let's make america great again. >> this is the moment that group becomes aware of the students. some wearing make america great again hats. >> you got these pompous kids coming down here in the middle of a native rally with a dirty hat on. >> the catholic school students are there in small numbers, but more and more students begin to
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gather watching with few weighing in. a small group of men continues taunting them. a bunch of incest babies. this is what america makes america great looks like. >> the students do not approach the men. the black men continue to condemn the kids. >> you worship blas to my. >> then one of the the students takes off his shirt and the group begins chanting. two minutes later you hear a drum beat. that's phillips and another native american drummer. he says it was an attempt to thwart potential violence. the kids danced to it and some began chanting with the native song. for those who think they were enjoying each other's company, phillips says that's not at all how it felt especially because of student standing before him. >> fear, not for myself, but fear for the next gent vaeratio
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fear where this country is going. fear for those youth, fear for their future, fear for their souls, their spirit, what they are going to do to this country. >> now in the student's statement, he says that he is is now facing fear that he is receiving death threat, as is his family. he talks about what happened during that interaction saying that he never interacted with the protester. he did not speak to him. he does not make other aggressive moves. i was confused why he approached me. i believe the remaining motionless and calm i was helping to diffuse the situation and says i harbor no ill will for this person. i respect this person's right to protest and his chanting on the steps of the lincoln memorial any day of the week. i believe, though, he should rethink his tactics of invading
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the personal space of others. but that's his choice to make. so you are now hearing the other side of the story. you're hearing from the student who has been at the center of all this saying that from his per spect i-he was the one being calm and he was the one that was getting the aggressive threats. you also heard from the native american elder who says he was trying to calm the situation down too. the people who seemed to have started all this are the ones making all the racist threats and screaming at these kids. those were the hebrew israelidentities. >> thank you. the story to stel you about you can see around the world is a sight that is rare to see overnight. it's called the super blood wolf moon created by a total lunar eclipse. >> these images were shot earlier from los angeles. as you can see, the super moon was et clipted by the earth's shadow. and the sunlight passing through the earth's at mmosphere turned the moon's color blood red.
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the phenomenon was also seen in parts of europe, africa and the americans. let's talk more about this with david wright. he's a lecturer joining us from los angeles. pleasure to have you on the show with us. >> thank you. nice to be here. >> so david, tell us more about why the name and what's actually happening to the moon as we watch it? >> well, what we saw tonight was a total eclipse of the moon. it moved into the earth's shadow, which blocked the direct sunlight from falling on to it. it's known as a blood moon because some of the light from the sun passes through our atmosphere and the blue light gets scat red out. but that red light make it is to the moon and give it is a reddish hue. so that's what was going on tonight. we had a beautiful view of it here in los angeles. >> that's cool. you can see it there in l.a. our whole team went outside. i think we have some images to show you. the cnn team went out to see the
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moon for ourselves. worth every hoemt of it here though it was friezing cold here in atlanta. you can see the red on the moon. you can see it right there up in the sky. it was amazing to watch. how can people see it around the world. how visible is it right now? >> right now, the moon has moved out of the deepest part of the shadow. it's very difficult to see that. there's not too much left to see. but everybody that was on the half of the earth that could see the moon tonight got to experience the eclipse. we even got a report from our director who was in the norwegian sea who managed to see it all the way outside of norway there. so folks all over the dploeb were able to see this eclipse. >> how rare is this sort of thing to see and what's the next big event we can look forward to up in the sky?
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>> we won't have another et eclipse for more than two years. i know that. the next big event, i know there's going to be some meteor showers coming up. i'd have to look it up online. but we don't have any eclipses coming for quite awhile, which is why we made a big deal about this one and had a huge crowd. people really celebrated it. so i'd have to look on the calendar to see what's up next. >> i would imagine it was a little warm er there for you in l.a. than here in atlanta, but it was worth every minute to et see this thing. >> we were worried about the clouds. but it cleared out. the temperature dropped a little bit. nothing like atlanta, for sure. it was well above freezing. so it was quite nice. >> david, we appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> you're very welcome. thank you for speaking with me. >> british lawmakers want more say over brexit, but downing street warns the way they are
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israel launched a new round of strikes in syria. syria's ally russia says an airport in southeast damascus was the target of the strikes. on twitter the israeli military had a map showing several targets around the capital, but also says iranian forces launched a rocket on sunday. >> russian state media says four syrian soldiers were killed in israeli strikes. israel has warned damascus not to retaliate, but syrian forces shot down israeli missiles and this video from syrian state media was reportedly captured near the border with lebanon. in northern ireland, police suspect the new ira, militant group may be responsible for a car bomb that exploded on saturday. four men have been arrested so far. no one was hurt when the bomb blew up. now police released video of the the explosion.
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>> you can see the car here parked on the street in front of the courthouse. when it detonated, politician from all sides of the political spectrum are slamming the attack as pointless. no one in northern ireland wants to return to sectarian violence. another week of brexit drama kicks off on monday. that's when britt irk prime minister theresa may will lay out her brexit plan b in parliament. lawmakers are trying to take more control over brexit negotiations. >> cnn has learned that a growing group of cross-party parliament members are planning to introduce legislation to make it impossible for britain to leave the eu without a trade deal in place. that mean possibly pushing back the brexit date beyond march 29th. >> uk trade minister warns parliament that taking over brexit would jeopardize democracy.
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>> you have a population and a remain parliament. parliament has not got the right to hijack the brexit process because parliament said to the people of this country, we will make a contract with you, you will maik the decision and honor it. what we are now getting are some of those who were always opposed to the result of the referendum try ing ing to hijack brexit an steal the result from the people. >> so let's get some insight low from matthew doyle. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> so the prime minister will unveil her brexit plan b in parliament in the coming hours. what do you think will happen? what are your expectations? >> i don't think today we'll see what you could call a full plan b. what you'll see is somewhat of a holding statement from the prime minister as she continues to
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scramble around to try to patch a deal together that will get support from her colleagues ahead of the votes in eight days time on the 29th of january. so the period we're in now is a week of what's going to be intense testing of what possible compromise could be found by parliament to ensure that there is the agreement that everybody says they want. >> right, as we just reported, cnn as learned that a group of cross-party lawmakers plans to introduce legislation making it impossible for britain to leave the eu wout a trade deal in place. so what do you know about that and how do you think that's likely to work? is there a shifting of alliances going on right now as we speak? >> so there are a number of different initiatives of which that is one being led by different groups of members of parliament.
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many are operating across party lines because i think the one thing there's a definite agreement on is that the price of leaving the european union on the 29th of march of this year without there being a deal in place is one that is just too high a price to pay. and ultimately, i don't think parliament will be reckless enough to allow to happen. the problem is to stop it happening, there needs to be ab alternative plan in place. and that's why you're seeing all of these groupings sort of scrambling around at the moment to try to work out what that might be. >> do you think they have the numbers to support that basically to avoid a no deal exit crashing out of the eu? >> if there was a straight up and down vote on do you want to leave with no deal, then, yes, the prospect of leaving with no deal would be defeated. however, it's not as simple as
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that. to stop no deal happening, there needs to be an tail ligalternat. because the default at the moment is that we leave on the march 29th. there's a chance that what you could see is just the can being kick canned down the road by people trying to look to an extension of the process. eu, move that deadline beyond march 29th. but the european union said it's not willing to agree to that extension if essentially it is just because of the uk trying to negotiate. we'll really only do that if it thinks there's a genuine chance of a change in the position. for example, an extension precipitated by a general election or the calls for there to be another referendum. >> time is running out. so for these lawmakers to come up with another plan, they are going to have to get enough numbers supporting that. that's not what we have seen so far when it comes to some sort of alternative.
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what are you learning behind the scenes about what's happening with that? and what this next plan is likely to look like? >> you're absolutely right. if you look around the parliament, what you can see is there's no faction that has a majority. and that's why you are seeing increased talk of having to be a different way of breaking the political dead lock i taking the decision out of the hands of parliament and giving it back to people through a second referendum. and for me, from where i sit at the moment from the mps i talked to, it just seems there's no deal that parliament can come up with and so we are in a situation where i believe it's going to go back to the public for a final say vote. >> a lot of resistance to that as well. they are not happy at all. thank you so much for join ugs. et we do appreciate it. still ahead here on "newsroom", people in zimbabwe
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border wall funding. >> funeral services were held for the victims of the deadly pipeline explosion. the death toll standing at 85 people who lost their lives. at least 58 people were injured from it. officials say the accident happened as people were trying to steal fuel from the pipeline. >> police say 60,000 people gathered outside the greek parliament sunday. they are furious about the renaming of a neighboring country as northern macedonia. the greek parliament is expected to vote on the name change in the coming days. police were seen using tear gas as some demonstrators threw projectiles. >> the u.s. president says tremendous progress has been made ahead of his second summit with kim jong-un. >> trump tweeted on sunday along with details of his meeting with north korea's nuclear negotiator trump and kim jong-un first met last june in singapore. the summit is is scheduled for late february, but the location
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emp and date have not yet been announced. now to seoul, south korea, with paula hancocks reporting. it comes down to the the question the difference between words and pleasant tries and substance. could there be real progress leading up to the summit? >> certainly, if you hear what the trump administration is saying, they are very positive about what has been happening and certainly the u.s. president was positive about this second summit saying he and kim jong-un are definitely looking forward to it. but if you speak to long-term korean observe issers, there are concerns. this is basically because after the singapore summit back in june of last year, they believe very little was accomplished. the declaration was vague. it talked about working towards the denuclearization of the peninsula. so there are concerns as to how much can be gained from the u.s.
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point of view when it comes to trying to nail down north korea's efforts. even the u.s. vice president said last week there have been no concrete signs that they are moving towards denuclearization. so this is going to be the key for many observers and for critics of what will they agree at this meetings. it's clear north korea would like some sanctions relief. they would like the easing of some of these sanctions. of course, we have heard up until now from the u.s. presidents that he's not going to do that until there's complete verifiable denuclearization. but it's very difficult to know exactly what will come out of this summit because it's not two leaders who deal with working level talks beforehand and have everything set out before they walk into the room together. they are both very much top down leaders who will decide things once he's in the room. you mentioned complete
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denuclearization. the question here, is there any tangible proof that north korea is taking steps towards that goal? >> there is proof, really of the opposite. we have been hearing u.s. mi military intelligence assessments that they are continuing to develop the technologies. we have even heard from secretary of state mike pompeo an admission they have been developing and creating more material. north koreans didn't agree to stop that. that wasn't in the declaration. so those specifics mean it's not working against the declaration itse itself. it has been widely accepted that north korea is moving forward with its programs. although it hasn't been doing missile and nuclear testing,
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just recent ly the pentagon had their missile review saying that north korea still is a, quote, extraordinary threat to the united states. that's consistent with what intelligence assessments have been in recent months. it's not consistent with what the u.s. president donald trump has been saying. >> paula hancocks, thank you. >> activists are calling on zimbabwe to stay at home and not go to work after a bloody government crackdown. the unrest was fired last week after fuel prices would spike by 150%. the president they say it was meant to ease fufl shortages. >> security forces shot at least five people dead and wounded dozens of others. he now says he will skip that event given the protests.
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>> for more we want the to go to david mckenzie who joins us live. what all are you learning about this? what's going on? >> he's rushing back home because of the political crisis. he had this to say on twitter that in light of the economic situation, i'll be returning home. now that's only part of the picture. the economic situation is dire, but. the political situation and human rights groups say that the situation just for people on the ground has been who rent douse. 12 people have been killed by security force, according to a variety of human rights groups in the last few days. you had those protests that were sparked by this massive fuel increase announced by the president right before he left the country to try to garner some business teals for the ailing economy.
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again saying that this is a clear sign that the security forces are not willing to respect human rights in that country and the optimism that might have followed the ouster is certainly turning into dread that this is more of the same in zimbabwe as people struggle to peop feed their families and have to deal with mull tear forces moving through the streets and randomly arresting and peopbeat people. bl what's the president's next move on this? >> he faces difficulty within the ruling party. it's been a heavy handed one.
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the anger is deep. it must said today this morning people heading back to work, but they have shut down social immediamedia including messaging services to try to stop people organizing to protest. the government has even blamed rogue elements for stealing army uniforms and striking out a process. something that's been met with widespread ridicule. so the strategy doesn't seem to be coming together to stop this discontent. in the meantime, just nothing really, no strategy seems to be picking this country up off the floor. >> we'll continue to watch this story. david mckenzie bringing us that update on the unrest in zimbabwe. thank you. china calls it counterterrorism, but others call it cultural genocide. we hear from survivors of china's campaign targeting
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muslims.
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we have an update to the unexplained differences of members of the muslim minority group in china. the u.s. says possibly more than 2 million people have been detained in internment camps in the past year and a half alone. >> china denies the accusations and says it is fighting islamist extremist. ivan watson met with people who are missing parents and child n children. >> reporter: there's a lot of love in this apartment in virginia between a mother and her children. but something, someone, actually, is missing here. in 2015 ethnic weeger then a
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citizen of china, gave birth to triplets in egypt where she had been living and working. and barely a month later, she flew home with them to a region of western china at the airport she says chinese police detained her and took away her babies. >> i ask her where is my baby. please give me my baby. >> they taped your mouth? >> police jailed and interrogated her for the next three months. the day of her release, she went to the children's hospital to see her infants. >> when i come, the doctors say my baby can can go outside of hospital. he say i die. i love him, what die? i don't believe it. i scream, why you kill my son.
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i said please stop. and they gave me my baby so cold. i say what happened? he cannot strong. so he die. >> cnn reach ed out for comment from the children's hospital but did not receive a response. the surviving siblings have scars on their necks. a cnn medical expert says that suggests they like their deceased brother received intravenous tubes for nutrition at a time they should have been breast-feeding. her son's death was just the beginning of a three-year nightmare during which she was jail ed two times and tortured. >> they ask questions. when i say i don't know, they start beat meso hard. >> during the second imprisonment, she was put in a crowded cell with 50 other women, all from her hometown. >> someone is my doctor, someone
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is my schoolteacher, some of our neighbor, 80% i know. >> the u.s. government alleges this is part of a much larger frightening pattern. >> since april 2017 chinese authorities have detained at least 800,000 and possibly more than 2 million weegers and members of other muslim minorities in internment camps. >> beijing has gone from deny ing these mass detentions to saying prisoners are getting vocational training. authorities recently took some diplomats and journalists on a carefully supervised tour of some of these facilities. some detainees told journalists the camps reeducate them. >> translator: all of us found that we have something wrong with ourselves and luckily enough the communist party and
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the government offer this kind of school to us for free. >> the climate of fear can be felt half way around the world. >> i lost contact with my family in 2017. >> that was the last time you heard your mother's voice? >> yes. >> and your father? >> yes. >> reporter: this 21-year-old came to the u.s. three years ago to get a university education. but gradually, his parents stopped sending tuition money and stopped calling him. then last september he made this desperate appeal on youtube. >> i have confirmed that my father is sentenced to nine years in prison and mom is in concentration camps. >> if both of your parents are detained, who is taking care of your 10-year-old brother? >> i don't know. >> if you could say something to your parents right now, what would you say? >> i hope they are alive. >> reporter: afraid to go home, he's been granted asylum in the u.s. many students are similarly
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stranded here. >> they are terrified because they don't know what to do. they don't necessarily want to declare asylum in the united states because that reflects badly on their family, but they have been getting messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they will be put in one of these internment camps. >> reporter: she claims she saw fellow prisoners die in detention. >> i saw one woman die. i would become crazy. >> reporter: the government denounces criticism of the human rights record saying these preventive counterterrorism measures protect more people from being devoured by extremism. she and her children are now in the u.s. going through the asylum process. but it's not easy. her 3-year-old suffers chronic asthma attacks and she can't afford a pediatrician. one day she tells me she will
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tell her surviving children the chinese government killed their brother. ivan watson, cnn, washington. >> ivan, thank you. cnn reached out to regional authorities several times for comment on this story and at this point has not received a response. parts of the u.s. are digging out from a winter storm. coming up in a moment, we'll take a look at which parts of the country got hit the worst. and if there's more on the way, we're back in a moment. because people trust advertising icons. some bloke tells you to go to geico.com and you're like, really? and just who might you be? but a gecko - he can be trusted. i ask you if you want to save hundreds on car insurance. and you're like, yes thank you, mind babysitting my kids? i'm like, of course i'll sit with the kids. you're like a brother to me. geico.com. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
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well, the fierce storm that's blowing through the northeastern u.s. has brought heavy snow and ice in addition to strong winds. this is the state of maine, where roads are covered, making travel treacherous and keeping the snow plows busy. >> our meteorologist pedram javaheri is in the international weather center with the latest on the situation. pedram? >> yeah, guys, you know, the storm system is finally on the move but it really left behind quite a bit of damage when it comes to the amount of snow that came down and also how cold the air mass is back behind us. in fact, about 74 million people now dealing with wind chill advisories that are running to as cold as 40 degrees below zero across the eastern portion there
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of the adirondacks, the catskills, and work your way toward the midwest, even at this hour wind chills 10, 15, 20 below zero in a few spots. pretty impressive setup here from as far south as northern florida sitting right at the freezing mark with the wind chills. atlanta at 15 degrees. nashville at 10. and work your way toward the north. almost 20 below zero what it feels like in detroit at this hour. into boston, minus 10, into new york city minus 7 how cold it feels outside when you factor in the blustery winds. climatologically we are in the dead of winter. into the first couple of weeks of february that is typically when the united states sees its coldest temperatures and really much of north america as well. we are there. and the storm system didn't help out with, it leaving behind significant snow. in fact, accumulations generally going from about 6 to 18 inches. we've had a few isolated areas across the higher elevations of new york that had as much as 26 inches of snow come down in the past couple of days. cancellations exceeded over 1600
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in the past 24 hours. delays across the u.s. boston, new york, chicago, and jfk in new york city among the most disrupted airports with all this weather that was in place. that was the weather there. into the midwest. also picking up at least a foot of snow, which altogether not unusual for this time of year, but you take a look, even into the afternoon the wind chills into the heart of the afternoon still struggling to get above zero degrees in places like new york or boston or even syracuse. and that cold air, the arctic air, is still there through at least the middle of the week. we think all of that snow is not going anywhere anytime soon. beyond that we see conditions want to warm up just a little bit going in toward this weekend. in fact, temperatures from new york, 14 for a high on monday afternoon. up to 44 degrees by wednesday before the bottom drops out yet again going into this upcoming weekend. and this secondary bout of colder air also looks like it has more staying power, guys. so if this sticks around a little longer we're talking about this approaching even super bowl sunday with cold air continuing for much of the
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eastern u.s. for an extended period after this week. >> goodie. yay. >> we don't like the look of those temperatures at all. thank you. >> and thank you so much for being with us this hour for "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. we'll be back with another hour of news in just a moment. you are watching cnn. do stay with us. when i kept finding myself smoking in my attic. dad! hiding when i was supposed to be quitting. i thought, i should try something that works. i should try nicorette. nicorette mini relieves sudden cravings fast. anytime. anywhere. nicorette mini. you know why. we know how.
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the partial government shutdown showdown. a fight that won't end. the u.s. president and speaker of the house at a total impasse over the battle over a border wall. and israel launches another round of air strikes into syria, saying they are iranian targets and warning damascus not to retaliate. >> plus, did you look up in the sky? did you get to see this? a super blood man makes a spe spectacle over north and south america. with the only total lunar eclipse this year. very cool. >> very. >> we are live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, and we welcome our viewers here in the united states and all

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