♪ she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ love is all you need pure devastation in the bahamas. some people giving up hope that the island can return to what it was before hurricane dorian came roaring through. also ahead, taliban talks canceled. the u.s. president revealing a plan for secret peace talks at camp david with the leaders of the taliban. those talks now called off. also haed thahead this hour walmart takes a stand in the u.s. guns debate. the retailer will reduce its gun

and ammunition sales. we have a look at what this could mean for the hot-button political issue. live from cnn headquarters here in atlanta, we welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the cnn "newsroom" starts right now. 4:01 here on the u.s. east coast. thank you for being with us this day. what was once hurricane dorian is no longer a hurricane but still packing a punch in canada right now. it slammed nova scotia, bearing winds of 100 miles per hour, about 155 kilometers per hour, and it knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses as well. this is the image in the bahamas. a very different story. a story of just a lot of devastation there. officials there ramping up efforts to recover to help people get back to what they can

find. this after dorian left the islands in total ruin. the storm killed 43 people there. but that number is expected to rise. some on the island who lost everything are now scramble to go try to escape. just take a look at that image. the united states says it has evacuated more than 1,400 people to the state of florida so far. one of the evacuees spoke with cnn about what they're dealing with. >> the roof caved in. the wall caved in. it was flooded. it was awful. but i'm here. i made it. >> one resident from grand bahama now fears the island fay never fully recover. cnn's patrick oppmann has more on how people there are dealing with all of this. >> reporter: washington smith, smitty to his friends, who

longer recognizes his backyard, the island where he has lived all his life. hurricane dorian stalled out over the eastern end of grand bahama island, ravaging everything and everyone in its path. dorian punched holes in concrete, tore foundations from their houses, and flung his humvee through a wall. worse than the storm, he told us, is the lack of government response. over a week now after the storm first hit the bahamas. smitty, like many people, is running out of patience. >> grand bahama right now is dead. it's dead. and now this makes it worse. this makes it worse. one part of all of this, all of this happened in the east grand bahama. and i haven't seen a government official yet to come to say, well, here is a bottle of water or to see what's going on.

>> reporter: the damage to smitty's home defies description. a wall of water crashed over this part of the island. smitty and his teenager daughter survived. many others did not. this is the hole that hurricane dorian punched in the house of washington smith, i should say one of the holes. it t his work. sent boards with nails flying at over 100 miles per hour through his house. everywhere you go you see damage. you see how shrapnel shredded the ceiling. be careful of this. you see a nail sticking out of a board that came flying through. and then the most frightening thing, see where the water rose to. all along here. it came up, up, higher and higher, until here.

this is over 20 feet high. and it stayed this high for 50 hours. he said it was 50 hours of pure torture. little aid has reached this area. in many places, the only road in is blocked or under water. as they wait for government assistance, some residents, like marilyn ling, in the town of high rock, have taken it upon themselves to organize a relief effort, distributing supplies donated by friends and family. staying busy, she tells us, keeps her from reliving the horror of the storm. >> i have no words to say how bad. maybe 1 in 10 houses is standing. >> reporter: there is silence in these hard-hit towns. the stench of death in the arras bodies are still being recovered. u.s. coast guard helicopters hovering low, residents say, usually means another victim of

the storm has been found. there has never been a storm like dorian before here. >> from 1962, i ran out every storm here. >> would you ride out the next storm? >> no. i tell my daughter, when i hear a storm coming now, with the help of the good lord, i will pack up and get as far as i can from here. >> reporter: dorian has scarred the bahamas and bahamians forever. patrick oppmann, cnn, grand bahama island >> there is a massive aid effort under way now in the bahamas. and to talk more about that aspect of the recovery, let's bring in luis david rodriguez, with direct relief joining us from nassau. good to have you with us. >> reporter: hi. good evening, george. >> food, water, medicine. talk to us about how critical

those items are for people so many days after dorian made its mark there. >> reporter: yeah. like you said, it's all very critical. especially in the area of grand bahama and abaco, freepoverty and marsh harbour and abaco. those people really need all the help they can get. most people in marsh harbour are being evacuated. especially food, water and medical aid. >> and where are there in nassau, things are someone normal. that is the nerve center of the rescue effort. but when you get out to grand bahama island, high point, freeport, how difficult is it to get around there to reach people?

>> tphfirst of all, it's not as easy to get to those islands. everybody is trying to help in some way, somehow. transportation is kind of difficult to find a way to get help is not easy. once you get out there, communication is still kind of fragile. it is not easy to communicate with everyone there. it is kind of tough to find out where they need us, actually what's needed and what items, what area. >> i'm curious to ask you from an organization like yours, what is the planning? how do you fan out, how do you make sure you reach all of those different areas. there are so many different areas that are affected here. >> you have to corroborate with the local government. for us with the ministry of heating, find out what the needs in different places, how they

assess. and that way you try to reach the most people as possible. for example, we got here tuesday and delivered some meds to marsh har harbour. >> from what you're seeing on the ground. i've been in, you know, many of these places where storms hit hard. there is the short-term where you reach the people, get people exactly what they need, food, water, medicine. then the long term, the look at recovery. how long do you think it will take for the short-term and also the long-term. . >> well, being in abaco and marsh harbour, there are only a few buildings still standing up.

it's going to take a long time. i'm actually from puerto rico. they have a long process ahead of them. from what i have seen, they are very resilient people. it is something they will get around to. >> you know, look, given the fact that you have experienced a major storm coming through puerto rico and the recovery effort after that, you know what it's like to go through this, as you say. so when you speak to people there, what is the mood right now? because the images that we're seeing, you know, here in the u.s., around the world, the images are quite devastating. >> yeah. you know what, actually i can speak from my experience the last couple of days being in marsh harbour and flying around

some of the items. for these peoplewho lost everything, literally they lost everything, their spirits are actually pretty high and pretty positive. obviously you see there is a little bit of 6th station and uncertainty of what's going to happen in the near future and the long road ahead. they don't know what to expect. but from what i have seen, they are resilient people, they are uniting and helping each other in the efforts to recover. >> luis david rodriguez, we appreciate your time. certainly thankful for all the work that you and your group are doing there with people in need of a lot of help. thank you. >> thank you. and the other big story we're following, the u.s. president is canceling a secret meeting with the taliban leaders at camp david, this just days before the u.s. marks 18 years since the 9/11 terror attacks. president trump tweeted that a bombing in the afghan capital of

kabul derailed talks. that killed a u.s. soldier. the taliban are claiming responsibility. the president says that he was also meeting separately with afghan president ghani. he wanted to set up a meeting with ghani and a founding taliban member. sir john from the asia-pacific joining us live from london. thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you, george. >> there's a lot to unpack here. i mentioned the optics around 9/11, inviting a senior member to the taliban during such a sensitive week. we can talk about the optics in a moment. the meeting the president says he canceled, it suggests he felt he was truly close to a deal here. >> well, the president may have felt that and that could have

been based on basis with his consultant to the taliban. but no one else felt a viable deal was actually possible. they have been skeptical. the president trump's own military advisers were also saying that this is perhaps too premature, too much ground is being conceded to the taliban. and senator lindsey graham, a close adviser to president trump, has been quite vocal about his concerns about this potential deal. because the taliban were not conceding on any ground. and it was very worrying they potentially were going to maintain their ties with terrorist groups like al qaeda, and that was also sending out alarm bells around the world. >> you pointed out the taliban not giving any ground here. it is important to underscore the taliban and afghan deposit are still not willing to meet face-to-fa face-to-face. they won't meet and talk. so what would talks like this accomplish? >> well, the afghan government

has been willing to talk to the taliban. it is the taliban themselves who referred to negotiate. therein lies the problem. the taliban has not changed since 9/11. they re-mayna maimain ardent in beliefs. this is a group that has been openly active in cultivating poppies for opium production. so they are involved in narcotics. and they retain very strong ties with terrorist groups. and the other important thing, george, is the taliban is not a single monolithic group. the trump administration was negotiating with a faction that is controlled by the pakistani military. and they are also the weakest faction. they don't speak to the other

ones. if they were willing to negotiate, the other factions certainly weren't. >> by speaking with the taliban, politically speaking here, the u.s. president inviting them to the united states, does it risk rel rel re-le gentlemen mitt tphaoeuzzi? it. >> is one thing negotiating with the head of state of north korea. . >> the dictator kim jong-un, not president. >> well, right. he is the official representative of north korea. whereas the taliban have no official recognition in afghanistan. they are not represented by anybody inside afghanistan itself. and what is so disturbing about this is the fact that the taliban harbored al qaeda. they refused to give up osama

bin laden after 9/11, which removed the taliban with operation freedom. and to bring them to camp david, to give them legitimacy has rightly shocked people across the u.s., not just the democrats but republicans too. just a few days before 9/11, it sends out a bad message. it is important to find out who pushed for this invitation to camp david. they obviously had no sensitivities to what transpired on september 11, 2001. >> that leads to the other question i have for you. let's talk about the optics of this in mind. it was al qaeda, not the taliban, who were behind the 9/11 terror a, ta. the taliban is considered a terror group. your expert tears. what do you make of the optics, inviting the taliban to the united states during such a sensitive week?

>> it's flawed. and it doesn't have any logic to it. and i'm also skeptical that president trump canceled the meeting just because of the recent attacks that took place in which a u.s. and romanian soldier were killed in kabul. there was something else hiding behind the scenes we're not privy where to. it could be the that the reality was daunting, that this deal was not going to be a result in a drawdown. his own political advisers were speaking out. the only one who seemed to be in favor of it was al swrad. we have to remember the taliban have not changed. many of their factions are prescribed terrorist groups. they have issued messages for strong support with al qaeda.

as people are warning, al qaeda is growing. they are reemerging in pakistan. their tentacles could spread into afghanistan if we abandon their country. one of the more important metrics to remember is such operation enduring freedom, there has not been a single terrorist attack from afghanistan that's been hatched against the west. so western intervention was very important in the first place. it prevented terrorism from growing in afghanistan albeit it has now found a home in pakistan. . >> no one better to get expert analysis. thank you for your time. we'll keep in touch with you. the 2020 democrats are pounding the political pavement, you could say, in the state of new hampshire this weekend. that is a crucial early voting state. we'll get analysis on how it's going for them. also ahead, walmart being hailed as an unexpected champion of gun safety.

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the 20u7 election, the drum beat are picking up. the state of new hampshire will hold the first democratic primary ahead of the 2020 election. that primary not only gives the winner bragging rights but serves as a huge springboard to the primaries that follow. that's why 19 u.s. presidential candidates are in new hampshire this weekend speaking to the state's party convention. it's critical for the presidential hopefuls to win supporters now and a lot of eyes are on bernie sanders who beat hillary clinton there back in 2016. >> this country cannot continue to have a president who is a pathological liar, who even uses it sharpie pen to lie about the direction of a hurricane.

how crazy is that? >> no sharpies here, just analysis with natasha lynn stad joining us from cole chester, england. thank you for being with us >> thanks for having me. >> looking at the democratic party, it is set to host its annual convention, attracting nearly the entire 2020 field. joe biden still the front-runner. what do his competitors need to do to stay viable as we have watched gillibrand and others drop out. and there is interest in bernie sanders and what happened with him here? >> normally, you would advise candidates to go after the front-runner to pick them apart to attack, you know, on their vulnerabilities and then to also focus on the issues that democratic voters are interested in, which seem to be health care and the environment. but we have a very interesting year this year. polls are revealing that democrats and independents leaning left, 65% to 70% of them

believe the most important thing affecting their vote is who has the best chance of beating trump. that has a couple implications. one is that it may mean to attack the front-runner may not go over so well because democrats feel they need to put up a united front to beat trump. it also means you have to present yourself as someone who has a chance of getting elected. you have to focus on your issues as well, but you have to project to the voters that you have a chance of being elected and that's why biden has been benefiting so much in the polling. >> so you talk about joe biden, the front-runner, even before the leadup to this election, the former vice president was known for his gaffes. here's the question, natasha, the u.s. president is also known for all sorts of things that he does and none of it turns his base away from him? do you think joe biden has that same untouchable quality with so

many gaffes but keeping his base of voters? >> he seems to be not affected too much by his gaffes just as trump is not affected by all the things he has. bide especially has high levels of likeability because people believe he has a chance of beating trump. he is the far front-runner in this regard. 45% of polls -- of those polled believe he has the best chance of beating trump compared to who comes in second, which was bernie sanders with 14%. so there's a really big gap there. and voters think that is the most important thing. now, if we were to look at history, history shows while most of the time the lead in the republican primaries goes to the primary is won by that particular candidate. that is not true on the democratic side. the front-runner usually actually doesn't win. we have seen many cases, you know, thinking back to 1992 with

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching cnn "newsroom" live from atlanta, georgia. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. the u.s. president says he is calling off a secret meeting with taliban leaders. donald trump tweeted that the talks were set for sunday at camp david. he said they are now being canceled after a deadly attack on kabul. the taliban claimed responsibility. one u.s. soldier and others were killed in the attack. hurricane dorian killed 43 people. the number is expected to rise. dorian has now made landfall in canada as a post tropical

cyclone. it struck nova scotia of 100 miles per hour, or 150 kilometers. >> and marching to the city's u.s. consulate in hong kong asking the united states government to liberate them from beijing. this the 14th straight weekend of protests there. the british prime minister faces a tough week ahead with a blow to his government. one of the more high-profile secretaries in the british government, amber rudd, abruptly resigned from the conservative party on saturday and the cabinet. she said she no longer believed johnson was committed to a brexit with the eu. he purged 21 members of parliament when they voted against a no-deal brexit. live to london bureau. this was a major blow to boris

johnson as well. he may be forced by law that he swore he would not do, to carry out brexit at any cost. that may be a no go for bojo. walk us through it. >> reporter: that's right, george. absolute terrible first week in parliament for the prime minister. he lost a series of votes. he lost his bid to call for snap elections that he was desperate to have happen. he lost his majority when an mp defected. his own brother resigned saying he was torn between family loyalty and national interests. and the nail in the coffin was this law that's set to go into effect on monday. it would legally roeequire him get a new deal or he has to go back to the eu and ask for a three-month extension, taking the new date to january of next

year. he said he would rather die in a ditch than ask for an extension. so that seems like it would be off the table. but the reality is he has few other options. he could resign, but that's something he said he's not willing to do. he could go for the nuclear option, to call a no confidence motion on his own government. but that also does not guarantee him an election. ultimately, he could do what he has hinted he might do, which is to break the law, to refuse to abide by the legislation. but if he does that, we could see the prime minister of this country wind up in court, george. . >> wow. sal salma, tell us more about this possibility of a general election. where does that stand now? how likely is it? >> reporter: well, prime minister boris johnson needed this general election. it was necessary to his strategy. and that is because just like his predecessor, he is in gridlock in parliament. the numbers are simply not

there. so he needs the election to be able to make the makeup of parliament and possible through any possible legislation. but he's already had one vote turned down last week. a second vote set to take place on monday. the opposition said they will turn down that second attempt. so once two attempts to call a general election are turned down, what can he do? not much really is the answer. because you have to remember, prime minister boris johnson, a few weeks ago, went to the queen and got the order to suspend parliament for five weeks's time. so that is supposed to take place next week. the clock is running down. there are two options he can look at, to pass a short-term bill that would push through elections. but he would still need a majority in parliament for that. or a no confidence vote on his own government in the hopes they will get their act together in time and trigger a general election.

but really by the day he is losing options, george. >> somehow i feel cnn london will be busy this week. thank you for the reporting. the question here, is walmart changing the gun debate in the united states? a gun reform activist talks to us about the retailer and seismic shift of safety in the age of so many mass shootings. that's next. we call it the mother standard of care.

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wroeub to cnn "newsroom". i'm george howell. the ceo of walmart, doug miss milan, is taking a stand on guns in the united states in light of a recent span of deadly mass shootings in the united states. walmart is asking customers not to openly carry guns in stores. they will also stop selling

handguns, ammunition for handguns and short-barrel rifles. walmart's ceo is going a step further to sending a letter to congressional leaders, urging them to pass universal background checks. the company's actions are creating a ripple effect as well. cvs, walgreen's, kroger and w d wegmans. >> walmart is stopping the sale of certainty ammo after the recent shootings. >> that's up to walmart. they are very smart. they had a tremendous quarter. they just announced tremendous numbers. which tells you how well our country is doing. that is the ultimate poll. walmart announced numbers that were shockingly good. i'm proud of them from that standpoint. from the standpoint of what they're doing with ammunition and guns, you would have to talk

to them. . >> walmart is not the first retail chain to ask shoppers to keep their guns under wraps while in the store. target introduced the same policy back in 2014. . >> let's talk more about this now with matthew litman, the president of a nonprofit advocacy that works to reduce gun violence called 97% gun reform. former speech would i for joe biden. good to have you with us. >> thank you, george. >> let's talk about the president's answer to this, or more precisely, his non-answer to the question about walmart's decision on selling guns. it falls along political fault lines. some see it as polarizing. it is an issue where the president walks a fine line. what do you make of his response? . >> well, let me just say this, george, 97% of the country, 97% of americans favor universal

background checks. with when we say there are these fault lines, almost all americans agree we need gun reform. there is also red flag laws. assault weapons bans. the president is a little behind. so are some of the congressional leaders. they are behind where the country is. walmart and companies like that are taking a lead that the president is not. >> well, let's talk more about that. as we see more companies like walmart and several others taking a stand on this critical issue, as we see more of it, does that start to sway the balance politically for something to be done about this? >> well, it's a very good question, george. because what they are doing is representing the will of the people. even in the country, in states like texas and states like virginia and ohio, people do favor some gun reform, some elements of gun reform. but the congress hasn't moved that far. the president needs to come from gun reform advocates.

i think people who own guns are very passionate about gun ownership. people on the side of gun reform need to be very passionate about that reform. there are many more people on the side of reform. they need to be more passionate about it. that's how we make a difference. . >> some people think about gun control in the united states, there is a pessimistic view. look, matthew, we have seen so many of these mass shootingings, one after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other. and it doesn't seem to sway the debate. so what difference does it make when we see corporations taking a stand like this? >> well, corporations are acting as leaders, responding to the will of the people. if i had said walmart was going to take this action, people would have thought you were crazy. walmart is the biggest retailer in the world. it's true that business is not made on selling guns. they do sell some. but that is not how they really

make their money. but the idea they were going to say to people we're not going to sell certain types of guns and ammunition is a very, very, very big step. but you also are right, george, to be pessimistic, we have not gone nearly far enough, nearly as far as we should. however, it's important to note in the 2018 elections, really for the first time, the people on the side of gun reform were the candidates who were winning. that hadn't happened before. then if you look back when al gore, who was running against george bush, he couldn't even sigh he was in gave of gun reform for fear of offending voters. but now you have so many people speaking out about gun reform because it affects so many lives. you know in this country what is happening is ridiculous and people are demanding answers. >> people around the world look at the gun issues around the united states. it is noteworthy to say walmart. there is something symbolic about walmart taking a move like

this. that companies serves a lot of people here in the united states. some of those who are gun owners, some may see this as an afront as their right to carry weapons. what is the blowback for companies who take a stand like this? >> there is a company in the united states called dick's sporting goods. they stops selling weapons a long time ago, and their business suffered for a few months. then it picked back up and they're doing just fine. i expect for walmart, it will be much the same. they are a huge retailer. their business is not really in guns. they will be okay. the key part is it shows where the momentum in the united states is going. people around the world are right to think about this as being absolutely crazy. in 2017, the united states had 40,000 gun deaths. that's more than we have ever had in a single year. 23,000 of those suicides. we need to take some action to lower these numbers. >> mathew litman. we appreciate your time and perspective on this very

important issue. thank you. >> thank you, george. still ahead, in the state of california, a dive boat tragedy last week left the california community mourning. now officials are starting to answer some of the hard questions there that this tragedy has raised.

on the west coast of the united states in california, investigators are slowly coming up with answers after a tragic fire last week, a fire that killed 34 people on a dive poet. salvage efforts to raise that sunken boat are still set to resume on monday. cnn's paul very cammon reports. >> reporter: smoke inhalation, not burns, is the likely cause of 34 deaths above the ill-fated dive boat conception. >> the belief is that the victims died and that the burn damage to the victims was postmortem not antiy mortgage 'em. >> ali kurtz, the only crew member who did not survive, was sleeping in the bunk room with passengers.

>> it's hard. >> her grandmother devastated. >> did she suffer? did any of those people suffer? that's where i'm having a lot of might nightmares about. . >> one, was there a watchman on duty when the fire erupted? the certificate of inspection requires it. >> the role of that person is exactly that, to rove and check on the safety of the area that they have been placed in charge of. >> reporter: in an email response, they said a crewman was in that space one half before the fire. pending case cannot say anymore. when asked to clarify if he went one half hour, he did not reply. he and his wife have taken preemptive legal action seeking

exoneration from or limitation of liability. a team tries to pinpoint a cause. a national transportation safety board member who examined a replica, the vision, questioned whether there were enough fire extinguishers on board. it is hitting the still grieving seaside community hard. that is one calendar year after the mud flows killed 23 people. ♪ >> may the dive lights of their presence not be diminished by the darkness at twilight. >> grief counselors helped organize a friday night vigil. loved ones grieving for the 34 divers who lost their lives out in the sea they love. ♪

>> what was once a deadly hurricane, it is now a post tropical cyclone. dorian slammed into eastern canada on saturday. take a look. it is still packing a punch there. that storm's winds of 155 kilometers or 100 miles per hour. half a million customers in the canadian maritimes left without power. 150 residents in nova scotia had to be evacuated to shelters. police in halifax also report trees blowing down there. and this construction crane toppled by dorian. meteorologist ivan cabrera is here tracking the storm. it has left a message behind it. >> yeah. and i think still we will have some damage. we will get new pictures. the winds are still how wellili

george. i want to show you how rare this is, right, from nova scotia to get a category 2 hurricane making landfall on the coast was ginny back in '63. and juan in 2003. a lot of destruction from juan in 2003. and now of course we have dorian. so count it back to '63. only three made landfall. here is post tropical cyclone. what does that mean? it is not a hurricane but still causing hurricane conditions. it gets its energy from the differences in temperature and moisture here not so much. obviously a hurricane, as you can see. the cloud cover spiraling to the north. it is still clocking 80-mile-per-hour winds. 100 gusts. that is mostly occurring over water. i have seen wind gusts around 70, 75 through the overnight hours in nova scotia. it is heading up to

newfoundland. 30 miles per hour plus. so it will be out of the picture finally by sunday night, as we head into monday. we call them hurricanes in the atlantic and typhoons in the western pacific. under a tropical cyclone umbrella. and that is a category 3 typhoon. it was category 4 yesterday. look how close it is to tokyo. unusual track. i think it will go right over the heart of the city, one of the most populus in the world here. thiss not next week or five days from now. this is today, later tonight, heading into monday. it will wreak havoc there. watch as i put the clock in the motion. it will go in between suruga bay and tokyo. 150 kph, 170 kph. but 100 to 110 miles per hour. that will be a huge deal for tokyo. keep that in mind. it is happening monday and

continues through monday afternoon. a big wind storm. we'll talk about a potential for coastal flooding as the surge comes in. and rainfall, although thankfully this thing is going to be moving, no the going to be stalling anywhere near japan. this will be also gone here in the next 24 to 48 hours. it will be harrowing day and a half for our friends in tokyo. . >> wow. we will just have to keep an eye on that. let's talk about what was happening in seattle. this was a rare phenomenon to say the least. take a look at this. i'll tell you i lived in seattle for five years. and you would never see anything like this. . >> you usually just get a flat rain, right? just a flat rain. that was not the case in the overnight hours. over 1,000 strikes in three hours. that is quite something for seattle. they can go many, many, many, many months without seeing a lightning strike. they got a lot tonight.

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