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>> good to have you with us. financial forecasters in the united states warn there is an economic storm brewing but u.s. president donald trump insists the weather is fine. analysts are raising red flags on a possible recession, but donald trump and his top advisers are downplaying their warnings. >> deny, deny, deny. that's despite a volatile week in global markets and growing concerns about a trade war with china. our kristen holmes starts the reporting for us. >> reporter: president trump certainly had a lot to say as he was leaving new jersey heading back to the white house. he stopped and talked to reporters for about 30 minutes on a wide variety of topics. but it was clear that the economy was really top of mind for him. he came out there saying that he didn't believe these economists who were saying there might be a recession. that he believed the u.s. was one of the strongest economies in the world. he actually talked about how other economies were not as strong as the u.s., particularly

china. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i don't think we're having a recession. we're doing tremendously well. our consumers are rich. i gave a tremendous tax cut and they're loaded up with money. they're buying. i saw the walmart numbers. they were through the roof just two days ago. better than any poll. better than any economist. and most economists actually say, phil, that we're not going to have a recession. most of them are saying we're not going to have a recession. but the rest of the world is not doing well like we're doing. >> he also talked about those negotiations with china. he said they were going very well. he wouldn't say whether he had spoken to president xi. he was using the exact same talking points we had seen earlier in the day from his top economic advisers. and it's clear the white house is using a strategy of deny, deny, deny. deny that farmers are facing struggles because of these tariffs. despite the fact we've talked to farmers in the u.s. who say it's been incredibly hard and that government aid is not enough. and to deny that americans are

feeling the burden or will be burdened with this trade war despite a report that says that 95% of those price changes are going to fall on the shoulders of u.s. importers. so it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. theory, a tactic like this can only work for so long, particularly when people start to feel it on their wallet. traveling with the president in new jersey, i'm kristen holmes, cnn. for more on this, ryan patel joins us from los angeles. he's a global business executive and a senior fellow at the druckers school of management at claremont graduate university. always glad to have you with us. >> great to be on with you. >> so, president trump and his advisers insist the u.s. is in great shape and not heading for a recession, despise alarms being triggered by the inverted yield curve last week which generally signals a recession is on the way. what's going on here? is this all spin, and if it is,

how long can they keep denying, deny, denying. >> no matter what happened today, on sunday, it worried me, regardless of what all the signs. you have the trump administration come out full force saying everything is fine. no matter who you are, if someone tells you everything is fine you automatically think, well, it's not fine. what's happening right now is the economy, the u.s. economy, let's take it step by step. as a u.s. economy in downturn? sure. is it really that poorly. no, it's fine. it's going to be 2% to 3% growth. but what really the recession fear has become is these external factors. imagine that we didn't have any trade wars. imagine he wee didn't have any other countries, global economies intertwined going down? we could just focus on the u.s. economy and then say everything is fine. we're recession-proof. we don't live in that world anymore. we're globally tied to multiple countries from the uk, eu, germany, asia, china, everywhere. and i think this is what's scary

to investors. you still see the wild ride on wall street is that when you have this rhetoric, it provides all this uncertainty. and then when people -- and businesses are taking the hit. let's not pretend that's the case. some businesses are winning but there are businesses like farmers that are getting hit hard and that has an effect to consumer spending and how jobs are being placed. >> and not only does white house trade adviser peter navarro deny a yield curve inversion even happened last week, he also told cnn that the trade war with china is not having an impact on the u.s. economy. fact or fiction? >> well, i mean, what he had said, and i saw that interview, you know, he just stuck to his talking points saying, well, that 10% of $300 billion is nothing. sure, yeah, it's nothing in the gdp percentage. but what he failed to state in that interview was, what about all the other tariffs that have been in place? you mentioned the spin job.

it upsets me because it's the business community sees this really clearly and sees the fact when you talk about the small businesses and the executive leaders, what's happening is the average public is not seeing the actual detrimental effect to consumer spending when they see the prices coming behind. i'm very surprised they picked sunday to be the everybody came on the interviews talking to tell everyone that they're not in a recession. >> we'll see if the market buys the spin. if the white house continues to deny recession is on the way, does that mean nothing is being done to try to avoid it happening? or could they be working on this quietly behind the scenes as we all hope they are? >> truthfully, i think they recognize it because you talk about the u.s. and china last week. they came off the tariffs, christmas shopping for december. that's a huge third quarter, fourth quarter plus the u.s. always needs in the economy.

trust me, wall street is not -- wall street is not buying -- wall street has been up and down but they're not buying rhetoric. they'll see if things, if talks are happening. they'll see the longevity behind it. maybe a few days of the market, but i think the u.s. administration knows that they need the trade partnerships and for the economy to keep going forward. otherwise they wouldn't be doing these tactics. >> right. of course, some analysts suggest there's more of a risk involved if the u.s. caves in to china right now out of fear and negotiates a trade deal from a weaker, more desperate position because china knows the u.s. is trying to avoid going into recession, giving china all the leverage here. what do you say to that and what options remain for the u.s. when it comes to trying to avoid a recession. what can they do at this juncture? >> at this point you're completely right. the u.s. can't come back to the table and say let's do a deal. china, obviously, knows that.

and the currency trade war -- if i'm giving advice to the trump administration, it's try to create a deal with china that makes them look good. that makes both of them look like partners, not just as adversaries. that's the key in this deal here. they are both going to win because china and the u.s. both need each other, but how you craft this deal to where you get what ip protection rights you want and get what china wants is really key here because no one wants to lose face. and we've been entrenched in this for such a long time that i don't see either one backing down. >> a dell krat operation for sure. we'll be watching to see what happens, of course, to see how the markets open and close on monday. ryan patel, thank you as always. >> thanks for having me. >> that was key. will the markets buy the spin? that's what it comes down to. >> they're smart folks. they're not going to listen to someone just trying to talk up the market. they know what's there.

they know the fundamentals, right? >> so we will see. before returning to the white house on sunday, mr. trump also discussed afghanistan. >> yeah, the u.s. is holding peace talks with the taliban. the president says he wants to pull even more u.s. troops out of america's longest war. take a listen. >> looking at afghanistan, we're talking to afghanistan, both the government and also talking to the taliban, having very good discussions. we'll see what happens. we've really got it down to probably 13,000 people. and we'll be bringing it down a little bit more. and then we'll decide whether or not we'll be staying longer or not. >> and mr. trump's goal of leaving afghanistan is facing pushback from members of his own party. >> here was senator lindsey graham speaking on another network on sunday. >> i would invite every member of the united states senate and the house to look at the intel

assessment as to what would happen to america if we pulled the plug on afghanistan if we did not have a counterterrorism force. it's ominous to the homeland. every national security adviser for president trump is recommending unanimously that if we do a peace agreement with the taliban, we must maintain the ability to have a counterterrorism force with intel capability as long as conditions on the ground warrant. the idea of leaving at a date certain is a disaster for the united states because isis and al qaeda will regenerate. and the intel assessment i just spoke of also has realtime events for al qaeda and isis are reaching back to the homeland to try to attack us. >> so the majority of u.s. troops leaving. that departure won't end the decades of violence that's been seen in afghanistan. just a day before mr. trump's comments, kabul was hit by another deadly suicide bombing. >> that kind of attack is

nothing new in afghanistan, but this one seems particularly vicious. the bomber targeted a wedding in kabul killing at least 63 people. isis is claiming responsibility. but the afghan president says the taliban must share in the blame. cnn's becky anderson has more from london. >> reporter: a pile of victims' shoes. blood coating chairs, all in a shattered banquet hall. in afghanistan's unending malstrom of violence, this is how weddings can end. >> translator: i've lost hope. i lost my brother, my friends who came to join me wedding party. >> reporter: the day after his wedding party, the groom recounts what happened when a suicide bomber snuck in and detonated a massive bomb that had been strapped to his body. shaking the neighborhood. >> translator: i was in the wedding party when a blast occurred. it was very powerful and the situation was terrible.

>> translator: we were sitting in our home when the strong sound of the blast came up. we came to the site of the blast, and i saw that many women and children were screaming and crying. many martyrs and injured people were transferred by the ambulances, and it was a really terrible situation. >> reporter: it's not unfamiliar. in afghanistan, death is a familiar business. murdered by terrorism at night, the next morning, families already burying the dead. as the wounded badly hurt struggled to cling to life in dilapidated hospitals while afghans suffer through the bloodshed. the politics of finger-pointing goes on. the taliban condemning the attack deny any involvement. but, afghanistan's president insists the group must share in the blame. saying, quote, they provide a platform for terrorists. and later, as it often does, isis claiming responsibility. but offering no evidence.

this latest episode of violence, horrific, but unsurprising as it is, comes as peace talks seem on the cusp of coming together. america could be about to agree to pulling out its forces. the deal is supposedly meant to be finalized in the coming days. yet it is unclear what that will mean for ordinary people. the country is riven by religious and political factions, flooded with weapons and battle-hardened fighters, all after nearly 20 years of american involvement. so the only thing that seems certain, looking ahead, is that these will be far from the last innocent deaths in afghanistan. becky anderson, cnn, london. >> and we turn to hong kong now where protesters are showing the world they are not giving up their fight for democracy. and to prove it, they are turning out in droves.

look at these pictures. protest organizers say nearly 2 million people joined the march sunday. police say there were only 128,000 people at the rally's starting point in victoria park. >> despite conflicting numbers, the pictures, well, they speak for themselves. take a look. the crowds filled out the park and turned the city center into a slow-moving sea of umbrellas. the march was unauthorized, but it was calm after weeks of clashes between police and protesters. sunday's march was a move to restore peace. ivan watson was there to ask what they are hoping for. >> reporter: on sunday, the skies opened up over hong kong. a tropical downpour that did not stop this sea of humanity. a mass protest against the government's handling of the worst political crisis hong kong has seen in decades. if the authorities were hoping that this protest movement would

fizzle over time, they were terribly wrong. even pouring rain hasn't dampened the protesters' enthusiasm. from hong kong's victoria park, the crowd trudged west. among them, 30-year-old des'ree wong here with her husband, mother and sister. it is pouring rain out here. >> yes. >> and there's still a lot of demonstrators. >> yes. because we are determined to let the government hear us. the weather cannot change our mind, cannot change our demands. >> do you think that the government will listen to you this time? >> i hope so, but to be honest, i do not have a lot of hope. >> reporter: hong kong has been locked in a cycle of unrest for more than two months. after two separate million-man protest marches last june, the city's appointed government suspended but refused to completely withdraw a proposed law that would allow the extradition of suspects from this former british colony to

mainland china. since then, the violence has only escalated. the authorities denounced protesters calling them rioting criminals while the opposition accuses the police of excess use of force. on saturday, supporters of the government staged their own smaller demonstration supporting the police. >> we support the police and -- >> reporter: but the government in mainland china has a more ominous message. showing off its security forces on the border with hong kong, an obvious warning. but these threats from beijing haven't quelled hong kong's dissent. this 23-year-old volunteer medic says she's attended more than 30 protests in the last two months. is there anything that the local

government could do to satisfy the people? >> yeah, i think if they actually responded to those five requests, including, you know, withdrawing the extradition bill and setting up an independent inquiry koucouncil, that will c a lot of things down. >> reporter: a senior hong kong official told cnn there would be no compromise when it comes to the protesters' demands. the test of wills between the government and the people in the streets appears far from over. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. >> incredible determination there. >> indeed. we'll take a very short break. still to come, the fallout from a no-deal brexit. >> a government report suggests it could lead to food and fuel shortages and widespread protests. we'll look at some of the other predictions as "cnn newsroom" pushes ahead. recharge

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." iran is claiming diplomatic victory after its detained oil tanker was released by britain. >> the ship departed from the british territory of gibraltar just hours ago.

it set sail to an unknown destination under the cover of night. its release came after gibraltar rejected a u.s. warrant to keep the vessel at port. >> the uk took control of that ship back in july. it was suspected of carrying 2 million barrels of oil for syria in violation of eu sanctions. in the meantime, a british-flagged tanker that iran seized last month, it's still being held. in less than 75 days' time, the uk is set to leave the european union, with or without a deal. we'll see. >> but government documents leaked to the "sunday times" suggest a no-deal brexit would see shortages of food and medicine and long waits at the ports of entry. cnn's simon callen reports. >> reporter: for years the uk has been preparing for brexit. but now with just under 2 1/2 months to go, with no withdrawal agreement between the eu and uk,

time is becoming a lot more critical. according to a report by the "sunday times" newspaper, which is based on leaked government documents, the uk is largely unprepared for the reality of a no-deal brexit. code-named "operation yellow hammer" it warns that because of potentially significant delays at the english channel and shipping ports, medical supplies will be vulnerable to severe extended delays. the availability of fresh food will be reduced and priced will rise. and border delays could affect fuel supplies in london and surrounding areas. more broadly, it warns the return of a hard border between the uk and ireland could spark protests. and the potential unrest could stretch police resources. the minister responsible for the no-deal brexit planning responded to the report on twitter saying, we don't normally comment on leaks, but a few facts. yellow hammer is a worst case scenario. very significant steps have been

taken in the last three weeks to accelerate brexit planning. in the past few weeks, the government has announced an extra $2.5 billion to prepare for no-deal brexit, including $30 million for an express ferry service to ensure that medicines can quickly arrive in the uk. the british prime minister boris johnson is vowing to continue to pursue a no-deal brexit unless the eu agrees to make changess to the withdrawal deal. something it's recused to do. this week he's expects to meet his french and german counter parts for the first time since becoming prime minister. and while he continues to call on them to reopen negotiations, the increasingly likely outcome is that britain will leave the eu on october 31 without a deal. simon cullen, cnn, london. we turn to bangladesh now where 10,000 people have been left homeless after a fire destroyed their makeshift houses in a dhaka slum. >> residents lost everything they own in that fire. our paula newton has this report

for you. >> reporter: residents watched from a distance as giant flames engulfed their homes friday night. silhouetted by fierce pillars of smoke that swept through the slum in bangladesh's capital city of dhaka. 200 huts were destroyed in the fire. the local fire inspector said leaving at least 10,000 people homeless in just a matter of hours. >> translator: everyone started running out. some people were bathing. they ran out wet. some left all their belongings and ran to safety. it was chaos. so i lived here for more than 30 years, and i have lost everything. i don't know where i will go and live. i lost everything, and now i am homeless and don't know what to do. >> officials say the majority of the residents earn low wages from working in garment factories nearby. and many were celebrating the muslim festival of eid when the fire broke out.

bangladesh's state manager for management and relief announced on sunday that around 80% of the slum was either completely or partially demolished by the fire. no one died, but it caused structural damage and injured four people who were then hospitalized, according to the director of fire services. the fire services director said the initial flames broke out about 7:14 p.m. local time, lasting a little more than four hours before they were put out. residents dug through what's left of their belongings hoping to salvage anything they could. >> translator: i was born here. i lived here with my father and mother. i grew up here. my whole family used to live here in this slum. now we'll be separated. our family had 12 rooms together. it was such a nice place to live. now we will never find a place like this to stay together. >> what caused the fire remains unknown but cnn was told a committee has been set up to try and investigate and report its findings back in 15 days.

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a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm george howell. >> i'm rosemary church. want to check the main stories we've been following this hour. the iranian tanker that was detained in gibraltar for six weeks has left british territory. it set sail after gibraltar denied a u.s. request to hold the vessel on a warrant. britain had suspected the ship was carrying oil to syria in violation of eu sanctions. the tanker's new destination is not known. a deadly attack in afghanistan. families there buried their dead on sunday. this after a suicide bombing at a wedding in that nation's capital city of kabul. it happened saturday. that blast killing at least 63 people, wounding almost 200

others. isis is claiming responsibility. it was president trump and his top advisers dismissing recession concerns. that's despite a volatile week on the global bond market and u.s. stocks plunging before regaining some ground by friday. the president's advisers also brush aside the impact of the trade war with china. a white house trade adviser peter navarro discussed the impact of the tariffs with our jake tapper. >> all but the trade deal that the trade wars and the tariffs have anything to do with this? >> the tariffs are hurting china. china is bearing the entire burden of the tariffs. >> that's not -- >> in terms of -- >> -- what a lot of experts say. >> that's what this expert says. what we see here is that china is bearing the burden by lowering their prices. they lowered the yawl value of yuan by 12%. and here's the most important

part of the pain on them rather than pain on us. we're seeing production, investment, supply chain, sourcing move -- it's hemorrhaging from china. and the good news is, it's going into southeast asia and it's coming here. >> you and the administration keep on saying that the entire burden of these tariffs and this trade war is -- >> and that is absolutely true. >> a study from researchers at harvard, university of chicago, imf and federal reserve bank in boston in may found u.s. importers are shouldering 95% of the price change from the tariffs and china shouldering only 5%. >> that dog won't hunt. you put on 210 -- 10% tariffs on -- >> your saying their research is wrong? >> $200 billion we put on a 10% tariff and china devalues their currency by 12%. >> uh-huh. >> okay. are consumers bearing anything on that? no. we have seen absolutely no evidence in the price data. that's not showing up in the

consumer price index. china is -- >> if these tariffs aren't hurting anybody in the united states -- >> they're not hurting anybody here. >> i want to give you an opportunity to address the fact that you keep saying that china is bearing all the burden and that goes against what we're hearing from researchers at harvard, university of chicago, imf, federal reserve bank of boston. former trump adviser gary cohn. the editorial board of the "wall street journal" which is very conservative. economist after economist says that you're not being straight with the american people on who is bearing the burden of these tariffs. why are all these people lying and you telling the truth? >> so all i would say to you is look at the data. there's absolutely no evidence. no evidence whatsoever -- >> did you look at the data i told you about. >> there's no evidence whatsoever that american consumers are bearing any of this. >> it is the politics of denial in full bloom for sure. the u.s. president's claim that china is paying tremendous amounts to the u.s. on tariffs,

well, that's not completely accurate. >> tariffs are a tax on imports. so they are paid mostly by importers of chinese goods. >> u.s. companies or u.s. units of foreign firms. >> those u.s. companies may offset the higher cost by cutting jobs or wages for u.s. workers or by raising prices for customers who are mostly american consumers and manufacturers. >> the tariffs have meant months of uncertainty for u.s. farmers. it's because china is not buying u.s. agricultural products. instead, china is turning to brazil and argentina for that. >> in turn, u.s. farmers are left with high inventories and lower prices. vanessa spoke with farmers who are feeling the impact in minnesota. >> farmers we've spoken to here in minnesota say they are drained. physically, emotionally and financially. they are also warning that if

this trade war continues, trump is in jeopardy of potentially losing support from his base here in minnesota. we also spoke to one farmer named cindy who says this trade war could change the face of american farming forever. >> it's very scary. i mean, i sometimes stay up at night worrying about what the future does hold. you know, what do you tell your children that want to farm? do you tell them, go find something else to do? one of our sons already has. he's already -- sorry. he always had a passion to farm, and because you don't know what the future is going to bring, you almost want to encourage them to go do something else. >> you hear that emotion from cindy. and the fear in her voice about the uncertainty of the future, something we've heard from so many here in minnesota.

including gary wardish whose farm we're on right now. he says in order for trump to end this trade war, he's going to need a change in strategy. >> words and twitters and tweets, that doesn't pay the farmers' bills. that doesn't solve the problem we're dealing with. this one -- like i said earlier, this is self-inflicted by our president and we definitely agreed with him at the beginning. but it does not appear there's a plan "b." >> that's the fear that plan "a" is not working and there is no plan "b" which makes it really hard for farmers to plan for their future. a lot of them say that that market with china is lost and is never coming back. and as we know, farm bankruptcies have been on the rise in the past couple of years which is forcing farmers to have to make some really difficult decisions about their future. >> and that was vanessa yurkevich reporting. as hong kong's pro-democracy movement shows the world it's

not backing down, the u.s. president is weighing in. >> mr. trump told supporters sunday he thinks china should make an effort to deal with the protests but with a diplomatic touch. listen. >> i'd like to see hong kong worked out in a very humanitarian fashion. i hope president xi can do it. he sure has the ability, i can tell you that, from personal knowledge. he certainly has the ability. i'd like to see that worked out in a humanitarian fashion. >> one of china's most outspoken state media outlets has consistently accused the united states of instigating a revolution in hong kong. >> it's the global times, which is known for its nationalistic coverage and its frequently quoted by western media. the editor recently sat down for an interview with cnn's senior producer, steven. >> translator: the u.s. doesn't care if chaos reigns over hong kong. the u.s. wants to see chaos in

hong kong and use it to pressure china. but beijing has a responsibility to ensure peace, stability and development in hong kong. if there were no longer other options, then this military option would have to be used. and at that point, reactions from the u.s. or the west would matter very little. >> you've been increasingly re-enforcing the notion that a u.s. instigated revolution in hong kong. what's your proof of that? >> translator: nancy pelosi and john bolton have recently made inflammatory remarks. they are telling hong kong society that you've become a model for democracy for the world. i was in tiananmen square during the 1989 protests. i was a student in the square, and we listened to the voice of america every day. it was immensely encouraging when we heard leaders say smuch things. how can you say the u.s. bears no responsibility for what's happening in hong kong?

when it comes to unrest on the streets, they need spiritual support, incitement, encouragement. that's what the u.s. and the west are offering and in a very deliberate and intense way. >> "global times" was among the first media outlets to publish videos of the police force congregating in shenzhen by the hong kong border. you've been writing things like, it's time for reckoning in hong kong. so are you preparing the public for a military crackdown by china in hong kong? >> translator: we obtained the video and believe that the amassing of the people's armed police soldiers was meant to send a strong signal. it was obviously a clear warning to the perpetrators of violence in hong kong. that was our analysis. you would have drawn the same conclusion in my position. could we call it just a regular

exercise? that would be insincere. so one would believe us, and we would lose credibility. >> your reporter was captured and restrained by protesters in hong kong. why do you think he became a target? >> translator: many mainland journalists feel threatened in hong kong. they feel radical protesters are very hostile towards them. normally when they're asked about their identity, they tend to be vague to avoid trouble. it's been a common strategy adopted by mainland journalists, not just him. he didn't try to deceive anyone. >> western media pay a lot of attention to what global times says because your tone, your coverage tends to be cheekier, angry are, a lot more interesting than most traditional chinese media outlets. is that a deliberate choice on your part to get the chinese government's message across on the global stage? >> translator: we say things out loud. you could call us radical or

nationalistic. but we reflect true sentiments in chinese society. you could learn the truths better through us. that's our appeal. and that's why western media likes to quote us. some of the criticisms against me are a reflection of my debate with western media and values. and i don't mind them. i want to promote progress in china and preserve china's national interests. if i become a controversial figure because of this, so what? still ahead here "cnn newsroom," three recent arrests are raising disturbing scenarios in the u.s. >> the charges these young men face and how they were nabbed. we'll have the details for you on the other side of the break. do stay with us. patients that i see that complain about dry mouth, they feel like they have to drink a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth.

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welcome back, everyone. in an unsettling development, u.s. authorities announced they've foiled three possible mass shootings. >> that's right. three young men under arrest in three different states. polo sandoval reports all three cases were brought to officials' attention by tips from the public. >> in light of the most receipt mass shootings, the recent arrests are disturbing for investigators. the first one in ohio where james reardon was arrested last week. he made an instagram post of a video which shows a man shooting a rifle at what really caught the attention of investigators here is that the jewish community center of youngstown was tagged in the caption. and that same caption also implies the gunman seen in the video would be the shooter behind a potential attack. at that jewish center. reardon has been charged with telecommunications harassment. police served a search warrant at his mother's home.

they recovered several rifles, a bayonet and a gas mask. investigators are trying to determine if those were purchased legally. the interview has interviewed reardon but they've not filed any federal charges. and look at this body camera video released in florida that shows the arrest of a 25-year-old man believed to have threaten toed commit a mass shooting. tristan wicks was detained by police, suspected of sending messages threatening to open fire on large crowds. in fact, one of them i want to break the record for longest kill. his girlfriend alerted authorities about this. >> the girlfriend is a real hero. she went to a local municipality, showed the text messages and four municipalities got involved. he is the profile of a shooter. he's 24 years old. he lost his job. he lost his girlfriend.

he's depressed. i truly believe in my heart that he's an active shooter. that's exactly what he was. he fits the profile exactly. >> wicks has told detectives he does not actually own any weapons to carry out any sort of attack. however, that he says that he was fascinated with mass shootings. and finally in the state of connecticut, another man was arrested there on thursday who also showed interest in carrying out a mass shooting. 22-year-old brandon wagshaw who was arrested and charged with various weapons charges. police received a tip he was buying several components of a rifle and apparently attempted to build his own weapon. police also discovered that he had posted messages on facebook indicating that he would like to carry out a mass shooting. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. migrants stranded at sea

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a stranded rescue ship carrying more than 100 migrants has submitted an urgeness request to dock on an italian island of lampedusa. >> it's led some of the migrants to take very desperate measures and caused a political firestorm as our rick foalbrook reports. >> reporter: a desperate search for a place to land. migrants seen in this video make a valiant attempt to swim to an italian island sunday after being stranded on a rescue ship in the mediterranean for more than two weeks. the spanish humanitarian ship called "open arms" rescued more than 130 people in maltese waters august 1st. the ship waits off the italian island of lampedusa. there's a stalemate with the italian government. an italian court ruled wednesday

that the "open arms" should be permitted to dock in italy despite a ban by the far right interior minister. a bitter political standoff between prime minister conte and salvini as to whether or not the ship can dock on the island. salvini did allow 27 unaccompanied minors aboard the ship to disembark in italy saturday, but placed the responsibility exclusively on prime minister conte. the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez offered sunday to open spain's doors to the ship at the port. but oscar camp said another five days and 950 miles of travel could be unsustainable. the four migrants who jumped ship have been rescued and returned to the boat but the plea from "open arms" becomes urgent. camp said they warned of this days ago. despair has limits. rick foalbaum, cnn. it's been the talk of washington and denmark for

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