a deadly storm strikes the u.s. state of oklahoma, a possible tornado in the middle of the night. we hear from the mayor of the town that was hit. plus japan's prime minister shinzo abe courts president trump with golf complacendiplome president says he is still confident in kim jung-un. and climbing the world's highest mountain comes at a price. a literal human traffic jam is making the trek more dangerous and now deadly. >> welcome our viewers around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. thank you for joining us. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

we begin with breaking news, the devastation in oklahoma after a possible tornado slammed into a mobile home park overnight. emergency officials say at least two people were killed and multiple people are injured in the town of el reno, that is t outside oklahoma city. >> and you see how destructive the storm was. rescue crews there searching for injured people in that field of debris. a nearby hotel was also hit hard because the owner says all the guests are accounted for. one survivor from the mobile home park stwribdescribed the t as the storm approached. listen. >> i heard it coming. i felt the trailer 80 hit our trailer. i know trailer 80 flipped over on top of 81, which we were in. and after everything was over with, and all shaking and

jarring and everybody landing on the floor, the sirens went off. >> went off a little too late. >> after that all happened. >> so you all were in one trailer and did you hear it coming? what did you see? >> i felt it. i don't know. >> it just got real dark real fast and everything started shaking violently. >> i told them to hit the floor. >> so residents here in the coming hours will be waking up to a great deal of devastation. we spoke to the mayor, matt white, here's what he had to say about it. >> people aren't used to them, they are not off off oklahoma in general, we all try to stay weather aware. our first responders here in el reno are absolutely qualified and capable of handling what is going on here. we're very prepared. you know, we've been through a lot here like you said the last month, had several flooding here in the last month. we've had so much rainfall. we just have had several areas

flooding just the beginning of last week. so you know, our first responders along with the sheriff's department, public works, police department, fire department, all the county forces, all units are all hands on deck and we feel confident that we'll get through this like we always have before. el reno is very resilient. oklahoma is very resilient. we have a lot of needs, but we didn't know what they are right now. we're basically asking everybody to stay away from the area right there in that one area on 81 and i-40, which is the main thoro h thoroughfare. so just let us assess everything and let the first responders do their job as far as their recent due mission. >> and you will remember el reno was hit in the 2013 tornado outbreak.>> and you will remembo was hit in the 2013 tornado outbreak. the moore oklahoma hit may 20th.

and we're seeing these communities again, derek, hit hard by these storms. >> yeah, eight people died in that tornado in el reno, as well. what we have didn't hear from the mayor but he did mention in the hours past, that the sirens in el reno sounded at 10:27. the storm actually struck at 10:31. so we're talking about a three to four minute lead time for people to prepare for a very destructive what appears to be tornado. you are looking at the aerial video of the destruction in the mobile home park. and i want you to see, it is about 200 to 300 yards wide. there were actually hopes completely untouched. you can see the cars overturned, you can see the individual people performing the search and rescue operations. we took a still grab of some of the first images of the budget inn hotel that is located opposite the mobile home park that you saw just a moment ago. you can see how it is completely leveled.

then we went back to google earth to show you what it looked like before the apparent tornado struck and you can see the second story becoming that is now reduced to rubble all the way down to its base. so this is consistent with what is called an ef-3 tornado, enhanced fujita scale with winds anywhere between 136 to 165 miles an hour. we typically see roofs and walls torn off of well constructed buildings, trees uprooted, complete heavy vehicles overturned. that is consistent with the damage that we saw. so go back in time, this is not current, this is late last night as the bow echo started to move through the greater oklahoma city metro region, i want you to see the bowing echo to this because that is very, very important for meteorologists. we look for that feature to show strong winds advancing in front of a line of thunderstorms like this. and oftentimes at that apex

right at the precipice bow, you can get spinups and question can measure that with velocity scans that show us the difference in the wind speeds going away and coming towards the radar. this is an indicator where potential tornado development occurs. and you can see what is called gate to gate shear. the changes in color shows that rotation. and it also gives us a good estimate of what the potential windshields could be as well. the dangers here of a nocturnal tornado are great. 37% of all tornadoes that occur in oklahoma occur at night time. you go to bed, you typically unplug from your cellular phone or your severe weather warning device, so you have no way of being notified of an oncoming disaster like this. so you can see the threats not to mention most people are sleeping when nocturnal tornadoes actually occur. so going forward today we have yet another round of severe

storms, this time across the texas and oklahoma panhandle and across the mid-atlantic. so keep an eye to the die if you are located in amarillo, perh s wichita, even d.c. and roanoke a chance for severe weather. so the mystery continues. >> people in those areas, sleep with your warning systems turned up. der derek, thanks. donald trump on a state visit to japan says the u.s. and japan are getting closer to a bilateral trade deal. >> the president and the prime minister shinzo abe attended a sumo wrestling tournament. mr. trump presented the champion with a large trophy there. >> mr. trump claimed progress on trade after a round of golf sunday morning with the prime minister, but the president cautioned no final agreement would come until japanese upper house elections in july. >> earlier mr. trump created diplomatic turbulence with the

tweet that says north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. >> that statement directly at odds with japan's view of north korea's actions. still if the remark upset japan's prime minister, he didn't show it on the golf course. >> mr. abe was all smiles as he and president trump played golf. the foreign ministry says the two leaders dipped deep into their friendship amid a cozy atmosphere on the golf course. >> ivan watson has more highlights of mr. trump's first full day in tokyo. hello, eivan. >> reporter: that's right, there was some attention to these tweets having to do with bilateral relations here with president trump downplaying north korea's short range missile launches earlier this month. that contradicting not only the japanese position at the time which was that this violated

united nations security council resolutions, but also contradicted his own national security adviser john bolton who told journalists on saturday that he agreed with the japanese that this was a violation of u.n. security council resolutions. also in saying that trade talks would essentially be postponed at least some kind of agreement being signed until after japan holds elections for what is essentially its upper house of parliament until july, that pushes back the white house's own schedule. it had said the trump administration in the run-up to this meeting here in tokyo that it wanted a trade deal between the u.s. and japan signed before trump came out to tokyo. now he is pushing that back, a concession, if you will, to prime minister shinzo abe's own political cycle. and president trump signaling that he is hoping for some

breakthrough for u.s. agricultural products to come to japanese markets. this as the trade war rages between the u.s. and china and the u.s. has lost access to very lucrative markets for its agricultural exports in china. >> this is also a cultural visit as well for president trump. and we know that he is attending a sumo wrestling match. the question is, will he bow to tradition and sit on the floor. much to say about how japan loves its sumo wrestling. >> reporter: that's right. i mean this has been a day of athletics for the two leaders. first they choppered out from tokyo and back to play rounds of golf. they had lunch evidently it was double cheeseburgers with u.s. beef. and then they went to the stadium here in tokyo for the finals of this sumo tournament. and the first of this new imperial era, you have to recall

that part of the pomp and circumstance around the newly enthroned emperor here in japan. and that is where they witnessed what was today's loss in the ring of basically a rookie in japanese professional sumo. and i've been getting a crash course in this thanks to some experts. he lost today, but he won ov overall in the tournament. so president trump awarded what is described as the president's cup to the champion. this is a 4 1/2 foot tall trophy cup, weighs about 60, 70 pounds. so he got some assistance from a sumo official in actually picking the thing up. prime minister shinzo abe also awarded his own prime minister's cup to the champion. there were a lot of cheers when the two leaders entered the stadium in a nod to the

centuries of tradition here. the first ladies were not allowed on to the mound, that ring where the giant sumo athletes wrestle. they had to sit outside. and there were warnings, there was extra security here, one of the popular traditions, if you will, not endorsed by the sumo association, is when the crowd gets really wild, they throw the cushions that they sit on around the stadium and they were warned not to do that and that if it hits anybody and hurts anybody, these cushion, they could be arrested. but from what we saw, people were much busier taking cellphone photos of the two leaders rather than throwing cushions around the stadium. >> that makes sense. all right. ivan watson covering it for us in tokyo. thank you. one person not throwing cushions, let's bring in inderjeet parmar, professor of international politics at city university of london joining us this hour. good to have you.

>> very good to be here. >> let's start with the u.s. president notably at odds with his japanese counterpart on the issue of north korea. given the importance of this close relationship between japan and the u.s. on issues of security, does this signal that there is daylight between the two nations on north korea? >> i think that there clearly is. japan is right in the region and therefore more worried about the recent missile tests which are short range missiles than the united states as a mainland. although american forces are in the region. i think basically there is a situation here where there is two forces at play. south korea also have been quite soft line on the new missile tests. and that is that the united states wants to keep pressure on north korea as much as possible so there will be military exercises but at the same time they want to keep a window open for further dialogue especially as president trump wants to

portray himself in electoral politics as having come to some kind of a deal/agreement with north korea itself. >> and also now to the issue of trade. president trump indicating again in that no final agreement would come until after the japanese upper house elections that are set to happen in july. so with this delay, does shinzo abe gain ground with president trump on this front? >> i think there is a micro politics in which we can talk about the kind of jockeying for position and the gaining or losing of ground. and i think on that front president trump is reliant on japan in a bigger context, the kind of macro context if you like is china. the raging trade war with china has now according to many analysts becoming a new high tech cold war. and people are talking about a digital iron curtain. and the declaration by president trump of a national emergency in

regard to china's high tech development and sanctions on huawei for example, it suggests that now the united states needs its allies to try to enforce that kind of sanction against chinese high tech development. and that probably means that japan has a little bit more leverage within the micro politics of the relationship itself. >> and we talk about how important the relationship is geopolitically, we talk about how important it is to japan. but as president trump returns to the united states, how important are the optics of this trip for him domestically for him and his administration? >> well, they are very important because you will recall that president obama and secretary clinton declared a kind of pivot to asia, a rebalance to asia. asia is now the cockpit of the greatest geopolitical struggle. what president trump achieves there is going to be a very large part of what he takes to

the 2020 elections as a set of achievements. so the alliances in that region, the fact that he is now cementing alliances in a large number of ways and increasingly coming to see that he needs those alliances to be unified against china, i think that will be his big thing. those $16 billion worth of farm subsidies to farmers in america i think is a key part of that too. so he is going to try to return from asia trying to say that he is now unifying his alliances and has reduced the tensions and he is a diplomat on the world stage. he's to be trusted with american power. and to be quite frank, there is a broad bipartisan alliance which unifies people on the extreme right like steve bannon and people who write for the "new york times" like thomas friedman who agree that president trump is taking the right stance in regard to china.

and i think that that will play very strongly when he returns home and as he prepares for the big -- his possible re-election in 2020. >> inderjeet parmar, stay with us here because we're looking at these live images, if we can take them again, of the trumps and abes sitting together for dinner at 6:17 p.m. in tokyo. if we're able to listen in, let's do so to see what they are saying. >> personally i think won't have anybody get me in trouble. so we brought that beautiful trophy which they will have many for hundreds of years. and that will be their trophy for the championship, sumo championships. and i think it was very nice. and we really enjoyed being there. that was something to see these great athletes, because they really are athletes. it is a very ancient sport. and i've always wanted to see sumo wrestling. so it was really great.

thank you very much. [ speaking foreign language ] >> so again, inderjeet parmar, still with us if you are, so the president saying that he enjoyeded the sumo championship, al wanted to s always wanted to see that. so it does seem that that relationship and gesture was appreciated by president trump. >> well, yes. i don't really have much to say about sumo wrestling i'm afraid. but yes clearly this is an important struggle between two allies which are now increasingly unified against a major strategic revisionist threat as china is being seen. and you will recall a couple weeks ago the head of the policy planning in the state department said that this was a different kind of struggle between the united states and a major kind of revisionist threat compared with the soviet union. this was a noncaucasian power on

the world stage which is unprecedented. and i think that that relationship between the united states and japan i think is in a new context and i suspect will get a little closer in a number of regards. >> i was looking forward though to your thoughts on sumo wrestling, but we'll leave it there. inderjeet parmar, thank you so much. >> i'll read up about it later. thank you. there were all kinds of wild hats here on our program. we appreciate him. conservative heavy weights in the uk are throwing their hat in the ring to succeed prime minister theresa may. will the winner though be able to strike a brexit deal? we'll have a live report from london next. plus the world's biggest multi country elections almost over. what the results will mean for the european union. e skin, and i get ingrowing hairs. so it's a daunting task. oh i love it. it's a great razor.

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announce his bid. >> he is among more than one dozen conservative mps challenging boris johnson, the current frontrunner to replace theresa may. mrs. may announcing on friday that she will be stepping down as party leader on june 7 after failing to get her brexit deal passed. salma abdelaziz is joining us with a closer look. certainly people there are probably quite weary of the whole brexit matter. and now they have got to find a new leader who can try to get it done. >> reporter: that is exactly right, natalie. actually i brought you the sunday paper just to give you a sense of what has been talked about here. "stop boris johnson." "get boris." "the race is on." a and "race turning toxic all

right." so there has been bitter in-fighting. the tory party has taken it hard because they are the ones in power. and people are sick and tired of it. they really want people to just get on with the business of brexit. instead we're involved in a leadership campaign in the conservative party. over the next few weeks, we'll see prime minister may hold her position until june 7. after that, she will move into a caretaker role. we're expecting to see 10 to 15 or more candidates come forward. conservative mps will whittle those down to just two names. and then by paper ballot, conservative members across the country, some 150,000 estimated people, will vote for one of those two candidates. that prime minister will be in place by the end of july. the next critical date is october 31st. that is when the uk officially leaves the eu giving that prime minister just three months to sort out the crisis. >> whoever gets the job has to

get to work, didn't they. salma abdelaziz, thank you. and another important vote, the european elections sunday is the last day for voters to cast ballots in the world's biggest multicountry election. >> more than 350 million people are eligible to choose representatives in the european parliament. we will start seeing results from the election in the coming hours. results will shape the european union for the next five years. >> and our international viewers can join cnn on sunday night as the elections start to take shape. our special coverage on cnni hosted by hala gorani kicks off the a 8: at 8:00 p.m. relations appear to be on shaky ground, the new aggressive message from kim jung-un to donald trump. as the u.s. president visits

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welcome back to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. here are our top stories. two people have died and multiple people are injured after a possible tornado ripped through a small town in oklahoma. a mobile home park, a hotel and a car dealership were severely

damaged in el reno, that is outside of oklahoma city. rescue crews have been going door to door looking for more people. ean earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.0 just struck in northern peru. it had an approximate depth of 70 miles. cnn reporters felt it as far away as venezuela. more than 20 countries are participating in the final day of voting in the european parliament elections. some 400 million are eligible to cast ballots. how it turns out will shape the european union for the next five years. early results are expected after the polls close later on sunday. the u.s. president trump and first lady ending their first full day in japan. you sea here right now they are meeting for dinner with the japanese prime minister and his wife. earlier the two men played a round of golf and attended a sumo championship.

mr. trump tweeted that he was not disturbed by recent north korean missile tests, this despite japan's misgivings. in the meantime u.s. lawmakers say they want to closely monitor the trump administration's diplomatic efforts with north korea. they have introduced bills that would give congress oversight of those initiatives. >> this comes as north korea has been sending more aggressive messages to the u.s. brian todd has more about it. >> reporter: as president trump visits japan, the ambitious young dictator next door is once again rattling his saber. in a new statement from his state news agency, north korea's kim jung-un is issuing another brazen challenge to trump saying the further america's so-called mistrust and hostility grow, quote, the fiercer our reaction will be. analysts say there is one particular threat the dictator could be holding over trump, a missile launch. >> he may start testing again. he needs to put pressure on

donald trump and he also needs to show his internal audience that even though he came away from hanoi with nothing, he is pressing hard to get results. >> reporter: kim likes to make a splash and to keep the u.s. off balance. in the past, he's tested miss e missiles around american holidays and presidential visits. analysts are concerned that kim jung-un will take the opportunity to anger the japanese, to grab headlines and grab the president's attention. >> the obvious thing would be that now that they have launched short range missiles and the u.s. didn't respond, that they could then go to a medium range missile, perhaps a static rocket test of a long range missile, it would indicate that the icbm program is continuing. >> reporter: why provoke president trump now? diplomats say that kim jung-un was much more surprised and embarrassed that trump walked out on him in hanoi than either side has let on. during that summit, kim demanded a complete end to sanctions on north korea in exchange for

partially dismantle willing his nuclear facilities, something trump refused to accept. >> kim jung-un is frustrated. the summit in hanoi was a failure for him. with his own people, he had promised sanctions relief, american investment, possibly a nuclear deal. and it was a spectacular failure. >> reporter: north korea's new statement places the blame for the failed summit in hanoi on the, quote, dishonest position taken by the united states. and says if the trump team doesn't change its approach, dialogue will never be resumed. >> it is pressuring the united states to come back to the table. not on u.s.'s terms obviously, but according to the pyongyaonyg pyeongchang's time line. >> reporter: responding to the message of blame and threats, a state department spokesperson says that president trump wree ma remains committed to building a lasting peace and that the president believes kim will stick to his promise are to

denuclearization. analysts say it is important to temper its response, but if north korea tests a nuclear bomb, that will kill off the entire diplomatic process. brian todd, cnn, washington. as the u.s. and iran wage a are war of words, iraq finds itself caught in the middle of it all. iran's foreign minister was in b baghdad saturday as the u.s. pledges to send even more troops to the region. >> the foreign minister met with iraq's president and prime minister. officials say they discussed sanctions and avoiding the, quote, dangers of war. meanwhile democrats running for u.s. president are slamming the way mr. trump has handled the situation in the middle east. >> president trump is escalating tensions, is provoking yet another war in the middle east. so we didn't need another war. we need to find a way to work with allies and partners and in some cases with our enemies. >> no, it does not make us more

secure to enter into an escalation that could lead to a confrontation with iran as though we had learned nothing from the confrontation with iraq. >> several other democratic candidates have spent the weekend rallying across the country, many of them in the key battleground state of iowa. u.s. senator bernie sanders was among those candidates on the campaign trail. >> on saturday, he held a rally in his home state, vermont. ryan nobles was there. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders back here in vermont, a homecoming rally where he talked about the reasons that he is running for president of the united states. and he did it here in montpelier because he harkened back to the political career that started here in the green mountain state, sanders talking about some of the big issues that's championed for many year, fighting against economic inequality, raising the federal minimum wage, talking about breaking up the big banks and of course his big signature issue of health care to all americans.

and this is where he believes that his political revolution began. sanders ran for office here as an independent candidate for on more than ten years before finally being elected the mayor of burlington, a race he won by only ten votes. and what he is selling to democratic primary voters is a message of consistency. the positions that he held back then are the same positions that he holds now as candidate for president. and sanders also talked about the effort that's is making on behalf of workers. in fact in the coming weeks he will head to arkansas to represent walmart workers as they participate in a shareholders' meeting. sanders saying that he is hoping to send a message to the walton family. >> the walton family of walmart, this is a family that is worth $175 billion. they are doing well.

meanwhile this very same family that owns walmart pays its workers wages that are so low that many of those employees are forced to go on government programs like medicaid, food stamps and public housing. in other words, working families, you here in vermont and throughout this country, are paying extra taxes to subsidize the wealthiest family in this country. how insane is that? >> reporter: this is a trend for sanders where he is serving as a representative for the workers of some of these big corporations. he did this during a video conference call with m see walm

raise their lowest pay structure to $15 an hour. but he is also asking for improved conditions. he also wants better opportunities for them when it comes to reporting sexual harassment claims. this is one of the bedrocks of the sanders campaign, that is why he made it a big part of the speech which got plenty of attention here in vermont. sanders hoping that this message of his political rise in this relatively small state is something that can transfer to the highest office in the land. ryan nobles, cnn, montpelier, vermont. it is always risky to climb mt. everest, but as the crowds of people wanting to scale that tall mountain grow larger, so too does the danger. you make time... when you can. but sometimes life gets in the way, and that stubborn fat just won't go away. coolsculpting takes you further. a non-surgical treatment that targets, freezes, and eliminates treated fat cells, for good. discuss coolsculpting with your doctor.

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it has been a deadlier than usual climbing season on mounts eve every rest. since friday, three people have died and that brings the number to nine. the latest casualty, a british mountaineer who died saturday. this is his last post to social media. in it, he warned that overcrowding at the summit in his words could prove fatal. that traffic jack -- jam earlier could have contributed to two deaths. the crowd of people you see there lined up waiting to reach the summit, they are all in what is known as the death zone, the part of the mountain where oxygen is dangerously low. >> joining us now to talk more about what is happening here is alan arnett, he has climbed mt.

everest four times. good to have you with us. >> thanks, george. >> so again, you've climbed this month several times. tell us about your experience and the dangers of these traffic jams. >> you know, so first off mt. everest is a difficult mountain. it often has a reputation of being a walk up that anybody can do it, but the reality is that mountain over 26,000 feet, it is truly going to the death zone and you have to be prepared to do that. i tried three times without success and made it on my fourth time. and it was much sweeter on my fourth time because i realized how difficult it was. >> and again, you've described this as the death zone. help our viewers to understand what that means because part of the climb really comes down to being susceptible to altitude related illness. >> that is exactly right. when you get above of 26,000 feet, the human body just simply was in the designed to survive at that altitude. and what happens is if you don't

metabolize food, your body is slowly dying and really all you want to do is lay down and go to sleep. but you are also trying to move from the high camp around 26,000 feet up to 29,000 feet. you're trying to do it as quickly as possible and then you get back down as quickly as possible. >> and it comes down to the amount of oxygen, right? so you are able to take a certain amount up and coming down, time really matters. >> it does. you're carrying supplemental oxygen, but that only makes a difference of about 3,000 teat. so if are you at 27,000 feet, your bed feels like it is at 24,000 feet. and there is a limited amount of:00 again th oxygen that you can carry. so if you go too slowly and that is what happened this year with a few people, that they have gone too slowly, they have run out of oxygen, and when you run out of oxygen above 26,000 feet, it is a deadly consequence. >> and again the fact that climbers have to contend with a human traffic jam, that again

just adds to the factor, the time factor, of this climb with literally hundreds of who hapeoo have been permitted to make the climb. and there is a narrow window for the climbers to summit. >> that's right. and in 2019, it was a combination of several factors that created just an imperfect storm if you will. first off, the jet stream, the high winds aloft that were over 120 miles an hour, they typically move off the summit in the middle of may allowing for a few days of winds below 30 miles an hour. last year in 2018, there were 11 straight days of acceptable winds. this year 2019, there has been about five. the second factor this year is that nepal issued a record 381 permits to foreigners. plus they required that every foreigner hire a sherpa guide. so you have close to 800 people trying to climb the mountain this year. so you take a record number of people in a limited number of

days, you know, that needle becomes very difficult to thread. >> and i'd like to again show our viewers -- we've been looking at these images while you explain what it is like to climb this mountain. but if we could take full the image of all of the climbers in this traffic jam. it is not really something that many people think about when it comes to people climbing mt. everest. what is it like to have summited the mountain and then you're coming down and it is the slow, slow descent with so many people in line? >> you know, this photo is shocking to anybody associated with everest. it is unacceptable full stop. what we're seeing here is the consequence of having too many people in too short of a time trying to attempt the mountain. you know, like i said earlier, that there is a limited amount of days that are available and people go up and down the mountain in april and early may

to delclimatize their body, get used to the altitude. so when you're in that line, you are using up the supplemental oxygen and every minute that you are there, your body is getting weaker and weaker. you're also worried that you can take another step hire, but can you take another step lower. and because the lines are so clogged, it is almost impossible to turn around. this year was the worst possible scenario that you could possibly imagine. >> alan, we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. coming up here, president trump's state visit to japan has included a chance to watch a sumo wrestling tournament with abe and their wives. we talk with a sumo expert straight ahead. be

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the u.s. president gave the winner a special trophy called the president's cup. >> and after the sumo experience, the trumps and abes met for dinner at a tokyo restaurant. mr. trump used that occasion to reflect on what he saw that day. >> the prime minister and i talked a lot today about trade and military and various other things. i think we had a very productive day. and tomorrow likewise will be a very productive day. >> all right. they golfed and they went to see a sumo wrestling match. we want to talk about that with a sumo expert and former commentator and columnist with the japan "times." mark, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we know that the president is a fan of professional wrestling in the u.s. that has nothing to do with sumo wrestling. we know that. all together completely different. but it is even sacred in the japanese culture. we hear that the president was

really wanting to see a wrestling match. and he did. so what did he get to witness there? >> well, he was a day late basically. the tournament was won yesterday. so today's bouts were all just to finish off the tournament. they were of no real importance. the champion determined that he would be the winner yesterday. he did get the emperor's cup and then the prime minister's cup. he is receiving what is called the trump cup, raether than the president's cup. >> and mr. trump was able to give the trump cup and there were some people because of the culture didn't want that to happen. tell us about that. >> there were a lot of people who essentially boycotted today and didn't bother going. these are long term fans. some quite prominent fans who

had never missed a day didn't go. and they were just unhappy that mr. trump was there, not politically, not because of who he is or any controversy in the u.s., but because he was sat on a chair and his wife and the prime minister of japan, they were sat on a row of chairs which took about 25 or 30 seats for normal people. other guests from other heads of state have always sat on the floor japanese style. nobody has ever sat on a chair. >> what about princess i think diana came to watch. >> yes, diana was there with charles when they were still together. but they were on the second floor in the imperial box. so that looks down on the ring. >> so we see them sitting in the chairs. there is melania and the abes and president trump. so that is part of an important tradition which it is the culture of japan that is celebrated with sumo wrestling. talk to us about that.

>> absolutely. sumo -- it depends who you ask, but it has roots going back at least 1500 years. maybe people say 2,000. and only about 260 years ago, it became an organized sport 37 it is -- it is not the national sport, but it is a major event. there are six tournaments a year, three in tokyo. this is called the summer tournament. a bit rml learly, but called th summer tournament. and they sell out with 11,000 people in the stadium every single day. it is a huge sport. it is live on tv. the sumo wrestlers are the top baseball players, the top soccer players of japan. and they are all household names. except the guy that mr. trump presented the trophy to. he is the lowest ranked wrestler for many decades to win it. >> it is interesting, i understand people say that they don't like the president chose

to sit in a chair. it is hard to read the president's face there to see if he was enjoying it because he has his usual expression on which is not much of an expression. mark, we really appreciate you joining us and helping us understand it. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. the raptors clinched their first trip to the national basketball association finals in their this year history. >> the canadian based team eliminated the milwaukee bucks 100-94 in a wild game six of the eastern conference finals. toronto's kawhi leonard had a spectacular night with 27 points and 17 rebounds. >> but it was kyle lowry's steal in the fourth quarter that led to the game's singular highlight. his assist to leonard had the crowd on their feet. the raptors play the warriors in game one of the nba finals starting thursday. that will do it for us. thanks for join watching. >> the news continues here on

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