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curnow, another world leader is leaving his post. japanese public broadcaster, nhk reports that shinzo abe is resigning citing health reasons. he is going to hold a news conference in an hours time. he has had two recent hospital visits, that prompted speculation about his future. his term was set to expire in september of next year. let's go straight to tokyo, the director of asian studies at tempel university in japan is joining us now. hi, sir, what is your reaction to the news? are you surprised? >> well, not that surprised, actually, i was talking to a friend this morning and i was predicting that he probably would resign, he has been looking pretty haggard over the last two months and you know, his ratings have sunk, people

don't really credit him with a successful pandemic response. there's been gathering political scandals, so, yeah, i think that, you know, just everything was sort of piling up on him, and you know, he has had, you know, bad health in the past, and you know, the three exams he since june, fueled that speculation. >> and give us a sense of his global legacy. i mean, he is japan's longest serving prime minister. what are some of the benefits and the legacy that he has left behind? or will leave behind if he resigns? >> yeah, i think he is probably going to be remembered as the longest serving prime minister. you know, really he promised a great deal and didn't deliver a lot. abe-nomics has basically been fading, households are not feeling the love. there's been an increase in inequality and the job expanse

has been on non -- fronts. he has been a strong advocate on free trade, he revived the tpp, that trump pulled the plug on. so, in that sense, perhaps, his greatest international contribution will be in supporting free trade. but domestically, you think pretty much he has missed it. he promised structural reforms. never followed through. he promised to make women shine. and that just hasn't happened. really, his pandemic response has not been very effective. and the people blame him, for that. and they didn't really feel much empathy from hip. and so, i think perhaps all that led him to decide, time to go. he will hand it over to somebody else.

>> okay. great to have your perspective. thank you for joining us. so, journalists are joining us from tokyo also with the latest. i know you have beenfollowing it and the suggestion that he may resign. what can we expect in the next hour or so? >> the prime minister, shinzo abe will address the nation in an hour's time, as friday evening closing here. and it's a widely expected address, it's surprising in a sense that we are now expecting that he will resign. speculation has been swirling about a possible resignation for the last two weeks because during that time, the prime minister has visited the hospital twice. and it was a flash back to his first term as prime minister when he abruptly resigned citing health reasons. when he was cryptic and said this when he was walking in his office. listen had. >> translator: i underwent a

medical examination to make sure that my health is in good shape and now i'm ready to get back to work and do my best. >> so based on those comments and comments from some of his allies within the liberal democratic party. there was some relief that perhaps he would soldier so. now the expectation is that he will leave office as the longest serving prime minister japan has seen in consecutive terms, 2,799 days. as political analysts have been saying, he has left behind a mixed legacy frmpt t iss-- a mi. we are in the midst of a second wave of the coronavirus, and the postponement of the olympics of course robin. >> give us a sense of the numbers in the market and how they are reacting. >> initially when had this news broke, the equity market tanked, but has recovered some since then. but has fall eastbounen.

we saw a weakening in the yen, the market has closed in terms of tokyo trading. everyone wants to know the reasons for his resignation and what kind of succession place he has. the ldp has a strong hold here and what kind of succession is in place, will character whether the policies here can go forward in a time where there's an economic and health emergency. and whether we can seek continuation in policy or more credible policies in dealing with this pandemicthe deep recession that japan is meyered in. >> we will indeed keep checking in with you there. thank you so much for talking to us. >> so i want to take you now to the republican national convention. donald trump is hoping to win over american voters with a vision of the country as he sees it. but that vision is not always in keeping with reality. in accepting had his party's

nomination on thursday night, the president pledged to cut taxes, create 10 million jobs in the next ten months and hire more police officers. law and order was a central theme of his republican convention speech as protests for social justice continue to grip the country. >> when there's police misconduct, the justice system must hold wrong-doers, fully and completely accountable and it will. but when we can never have a situation where things are going on as they are today, we must never allow mob rule. we can never allow mob rule. [ cheers and applause ] >> and the strongest possible terms, the republican party condemns the rioting, the looting, the arson and violence we have seen in democratic run cities all, like kenosha,

minneapol minneapolis, portland, chicago and new york. >> well, critics call the white house setting a blatant use ofpresidential power for political purposes. mr. trump launched a blistering attack on his opponent as well saying no one would be safe in joe biden's american and falsely claimed that democrats would quote, demolish the suburbs and take your guns. take a listen. >> biden's record is a shameful, roll call of the most catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. he has spent his entire career in the wrong side of history. biden is a trojan horse for socialism. if joe biden doesn't have the strength to stand up to wild eyed marxists like bernie sanders and his fellow radicals. there's many, many, many all the time. incredible actually. how is he going to stand up for

you. joe biden is weak. he takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who drive their cities in to the ground while fleeing far from the scene of the wreckage. >> he delivered the speech to a crowd of 1500 tightly packed supporters as you can see here. most of them were without masks. one senior official dismissed coronavirus concerns saying quote, everybody's going to catch this thing eventually, the president claimed success in fighting the pandemic. >> in recent months, our nation and the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. like those brave americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. we are delivering life saving therapies. and will produce a vaccine

before the end of the year. or maybe even sooner. we will defeat the virus. end the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. >> scott jennings is a cmn political commentator and former speci assistant to president bush. gentlemen, great to see you, scott, to you first. what is the reaction to the speech, a long speech, it must be said. >> yeah, it was too long. this speech had good lines and good rifts and themes but a lot of the most powerful parts, i thought were diluted by the meanderring parts that should have been left on the cutting room floor. >> what is your thought on that?

>> i agree, i think the speech was very long andfor the -- for having a convention when you have got a thousand people outside in the south lawn of the white house, you would expect a little more energy, a little more umph at the end there, you didn't get that. he hit the marks he needed to get themeatically and contextually, but i don't know if it was the rousing speech that you expect for a convention speech of this nature. >> scott, from your point of view, what are the marks he needed to hit and is that very much in part of the narrative that we have seen over the past four days? it certainly seems to be a law and order narrative that threads through a lot of this. was that the stand-out theme for you or was it something else? >> no, that law and order theme is exactly where the republicans

are headed. their argument is that the democrats are too weak to stand up to the anarchists that are burning the cities. and so my anticipation for the fall campaign is that public safety, and i'll get us back to the economy we had, they will plunge us further in to economic chaos, that will be the republican message and that's what they set up with the c convention. >> in many ways, joe biden is coming out and saying that is a hypocritical argument, because a lot of the protests and the riots were seeing the unsafety that we are seeing and painted by the trump administration on the streets is playing out in his administration. and you know, there's a disconnect between those words and what is happening in the streets during his presidency. >> yeah, well the trump administration would say, these things are happening in states with democratic mayors and democratic governors.

and the trump administration has sent in federal troops in to certain areas to try to arrest people who were trying to burn down federal courthouses and were attacking innocent by-standers. the point is, where you have weak democrats in local government, they are not handling the situation -- >> on that point, is there a chance, is there a concern by democrats that these protests genuine as they are, are perhaps playing in to mr. trump's narrative? >> i mean, it's a great question, but, and i would answer it by saying that the country, the country's view of the protesters and why they are protesting, i think has shifted considerably certainly in the last two years. you know, our national pastimes, whether it's baseball, or basketball, you know, you have athletes now cancelling playoff games, teams cancelling playoff games, and working with both the players association and the

league leaders to do this in solidarity over the issue of racial unrest and social justice. so, we are long past the taking of the knee. >> you was going to continue that conversation, because what we have also seen and i was fascinated to see how many african-american men came out and told stories or gave testimonials in the past few days. etch ju even just the cut away pictures in the white house, tried to reflect a diverse audience listening to president trump. i mean, basil from your point of view, there seems to be some sort of outreach or a veneer of multi-culturalism and nonracism. who is the president targeting, a small group of african-americans in key states or the white voters that are feeling uncomfortable with the racist under tones. >> you can paint me simple, the majority of the outreach is meant, some of it is genuine in terms of winning some

african-american support. but i think a lot of it goes toward asuaging concerns among white people that he is not doing enough to reach across racial conconstituents. you want him to make an effort to engage the diverse conconstituents. >> out of 10, how do you rate the last few days? >> i let scott go first. >> oh, well, i will say, i will give you a broad answer. i think both parties given the circumstances, did a fine job putting on conventions under really weird circumstances. so, good job for both parties. this republican convention exceeded all of my expectations. most of the speakers with a few exceptions, i thought really did a nice job and lobelonged and h

compelling stories. i will give it a 9 out of 10, and i will take off 1 tick mark. >> i agree, i think for both constituents, they hit high marks. i was pleasantly surprised, i didn't think the democrats would have the kind of convention they had. and they are saying that they like the set up, so they don't want to go back to the old set up. for the republicans, i think donald trump and the republicans did exactly what they needed to do for their own constituents. i will take off more than a half point. a full point for a fully long speech, a fully way too long. way too long. and on the south lawn, at that, like who does that. he does that. >> imaginary also, another indication of how this president has certainly bumped tradition. to you both, thank you for your expertise, thank you very much, gentlemen.

>> thank you. so, still ahead, more news. a 17-year-old is facing multiple charges related a fatal shooting after the protests in wisconsin, what his social media footprint is revealing. that is next. and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days.

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welcome back, live from the cnn center, so the u.s. president donald trump did not talk about the police shotting of another black man, jacob blake, on the republican convention on thursday nightment he did not mention the fatal shooting of protesters in wisconsin either. he just pounded his theme of law and order and pointed his finger at democrats. take a listen. there's violence and danger in the streets of many democrat run cities throughout america. this problem could easily be fixed if they wanted to. we must always have law and order. all federal crimes are being investigated, prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law. >> but rival joe biden can did talk about jacob blake's shooting andthe kenosha

protests, earlier on, on cnn and he a point to make about president trump as well. >> these guys are rooting for violence, that is what it's all about. to prove that you should be scared to joe biden, and they are pointing to what is happening in donald trump's america. i made it clear from the beginning, there's no place for violence or looting or burning and when i spoke with jacob blake's mother, julia, you guys played their on the air. she said that is not who we are, that is not who our family is. that's not who jacob is. don't do it. and so, you know, he continues to root for violence. well, jacque object blak-- is kept handcuffed to his bed even though he is partially parpa paralyzed. there's a warning here, sbome o the images are disturbing. >> reporter: they are sevens

heard around the world as many are fed up with what is becoming an all-too familiar story. the nba is set to resume play later this week, after postponing their playoffs for days in sole daidarity with jac blake. and several nfl teams cancelled their practice. >> they felt helpless. they felt luke they wanted to do something. they felt like they were not a part of it. like they were being protected from what everyone els e in th world is seeing. you have everyone in the -- >> wednesday, police arrested kyle rittenhouse and charged him with first degree intentional homicide. after a night where two people were killed and a third injured. his social media portrays him as loving guns, police, and the

president. >> the president gets it done. >> even posting a tiktok from one of president's iowa rallies in january. it's not clear if that or support for blue lives matter played in to his alleged actions. a post to a snapchat account believed to belong to rittenhouse, appears to show him on tuesday, with the rifle, near the scene of the protests. >> hey, dude right here just shot them. >> law enforcement has not confirmed that the man seen here in the video is rittenhouse, within a minute of him firing his weapon, he is seen walking towards police with his hands up as onlookers continue to yell. >> that dude right here. >> law enforcement moves on. >> thursday, nearly all of the local leadership held a press conference and did not add any major new details and shuffled out without taking a single question. that shooting happened three

nights after jacob blake was shot in the back. >> all law enforcement officers are cooperating in the investigation. and the involved officers have been placed on administrative leave. as i said, this is an ongoing investigation. >> the with you wi department of justice releasing new details about the initial call for officers sunday, that a woman claimed her boyfriend was there when he was not supposed to be. and wouldn't leave. jacob blake, he is not supposed to be there and he took the keys and refusing to give them back. >> not long after that is when officers arrive on the scene. investigators say jacob blake admitted to having a knife in his possession, but would not say when exactly he it. a knife was recovered from the driver's side of the vehicle. but it was unclear if officers were aware of it at the time. previously attorneys for the blake family said he no weapon in the car and posed no threat and kyle rittenhouse, the

17-year-old accused of shooting people in the streets of kenosha is facing five felony charges, including one count of first degree intentional homicide, and one count of wreckless homicide, tied to the two people that were killed tuesday night. and according to the criminal complaint filed, he actually was on the phone and told someone on the phone that i just killed someone after allegedly shooting the first person. rittenhouse is expected to be in course friday morning. omar jimenez, cnn, ckenosha, washington. >> thank you for that. as some athletes are taking a stand, the presidential administration is attacking them for taking off games. >> they have become like a political organization and it's not a good thing. i don't think it's a good thing for sports or the country. >> yi think the nba players are

fortunate that they are in a financial position that they can take a night off of work. >> in my mind, it's absurd and silly. >> we have a sports analyst and usa today sports columnist, and joins me from washington. christine, wonderful to see you. i want to get your take on how powerful the message is that we are seeing right now. >> this is historic, i can safely say we have never seen a day or two like this in the history of united states sports. where the pro leagues have shut down in protest trying to give voice to the voiceless. trying to help other communities, obviously it's the blakity shooting this time, another unarmed black man shot by the police. george floyd a few months ago. breonna taylor, sadly, on and on the list goes. they have spoken up time and time again, this is different. they shut down the sports. they boycotted, they went on strike, whatever words you want to use and they did it in a

unified fashion. the nba, the wnba, and women's tennis, and major league baseball and finally the national hockey league. it's a remarkable day or two in u.s. sports history to have this kind of social protest all coordinated, uniform across the board. never seen anything like it. >> how much bigger does it get? >> that's a great question. i think the athletes by going back to play, which had ththey o do by starting up the games again. and keep in mind, it the playoffs. this is what you live for as an agethlete athlete, and they stopped. the bucks stopped it 40 miles from kenosha, they would be the first team to do this and to lead the way. but now that they are going the to go back and play, i think their platform actually will be stronger. if they have shut down their leagues for the rest of the

year, which you know, some people talked about. it didn't seem feesable. i actually think they might have, their voices may have waned over the next week or two, we always kind of move on to the next thing. and this way, they are front and center. they have got the platform. that huge platform. sports in america. professional sports. they have their voice and they have everyone listening and i think it's one of the wonderful moments where sports takes us to an important national or international conversation that we otherwise would not be having. >> you are saying that what they have done is a strategic strike here. why in many ways that nba been ahead of the game, excuse the sports pun. but why have their players in many ways felt more empowered than others in terms of leading the way here? when it comes to social justice. >> simply, they are a majority black league. and i hate to make it that

simple, but i think that's where it starts. it's, these are men who come from the communities. they have lived this life. they have been stopped by the police. they or their bothers or cousins or a friend or a colleague. they know the stories of these men who have been you know, obviously the victims of police brutality. and same with the wnba, a majority black league. i truly think that is it. and i think the leadership of the nba, adam silver, the commissioner, is by far, the most progressive of any of the top american pro sports leagues. there's a friendly voice there. there's a smart voice. they are ahead of the game. they get it and understand the role. >> thank you for that, always good to speak to you and get your expertise. thanks, christine, have a lovely day. >> thank you, robyn.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom live from the cnn center here in atlanta. it is 35 minutespast the hour. in the u.s., the suspect in tuesday's fatal shooting in kenosha, wisconsin, is set to appear in court on friday morning to face extradition back to the city. kyle ri the -- rittenhouse is

facing charges. jacob blake is hospitalized with multiple injuries. we were told -- it was heartbreaking, where jacob blake's father said he was glad to see his son awake, but that his son's first question or first words to him were daddy, why did they shoot me so many times? and he described that he remembered being shot five types, and he did not remember the sixth and seventh because he must have gone in to shock or lost consciousness and he described how his son was handcuffed to the bed and was angry about that. he said why is my son chained up and there's no reasonable explanation for why somebody who

is paralyzed from the waist down would have handcuffs on. >> we have angela with us, the former executive director of the congressional black caucus, and she joins us, hi. what impact could the shooting and these protests have on the election? >> well, i think quite a bit. you know, the country has been reeling. the united states really the world, there have been protests all over the world since the killing of george floyd and what we are now seeing with thor after math of jacob blake is the fact that it's not one and done. there have been so many murders and this one an attempted murder where this man, jacob blake has lived to held tuesday story. today, when speaking with his father, the question he asked him, is daddy why did they shoot me so many times? this man almost lost his life.

seven bullets later, all in front of his 3 children. and now, he is paralyzed from the waist down. and you think what we have to understand is that the humanity of black people in ways of unseen before, is being just broadcast before our eyes now thanks to social media and cameras on phones. and so, the questions we really have to begin asking is how many more, how much longer and when will justice be served? >> jacob blake's family say that he is handcuffed to his hospital be bed even though he was paralyzed. what is your reaction to it and what does say to you? >> i think jacob blake, given the fact that he was shot before his three children and we still don't know what the alleged crime was, has already paid his sentence. this is quite the sentence. i don't know what could have been the crime. but i know it certainly was not almost risking his, worth him

risking his life and it was certainly not worth them paralyzing him from the waist down. it's inhumane and cruel, and it demonstrates that this law enforcement a agency and fartoo often, all over the country,ity not train today ted the same wa demonstrates there needs to be a nationwide standard for policing and protecting and serving all communities not just the ones that you are not subjectively afraid of. >> the u.s. president has just made a speech, and he talked about an unsafe america. he is running on a law and order message. saying that these protests and i'mparaphrasing are a sign of violence and extremism, how does it avoid becoming a pawn or device, to justice the u.s. president's message that the americans could be fearful?

>> i will be honest with you, i am afraid, i have been afraid for four years he was in the white house, i was afraid before he was elected when he called mexicans drug dealers and rap t rapists. i was afraid because he was stoking the worst fathers of those among us who were wored about losing power. they have held on to power in oppress i ha oppressive ways and even the thought of sharing power with those that look differently than them or think differently than them scares them. that's the tactics that serve to divide the country and have not served us well at all in the last four years. we have to go in a different direction, our very lives depend on it. >> angela, good to speak to you. >> thank you, a pleasure. >> we are now going to hear from a woman who said she was at the protest on tuesday night when the shots rang out and immediately went in to action to

help. carol is a 20 year army veteran with first aid training and told erin burnett that she performed cpr on one of the victims. i had come down her because i wanted to see the peaceful protests. and just in the matter of walking around, it ended up being on sheridan, when all of a sudden is, i heard a hail of gunshots. so, instead of running away from the gunshots i decided to run towards them, because i saw a person down on the ground to my left. one to my right. and i was not trying to pick or choose, so i just ran to a particular person, and he was face down. there was so much people around him screaming and hollering, i said please can you back up, i turned him over so he was face up, and felt his pulse, to see

if i can feel a pulse, he no pulse. so, i started doing cpr on him, hoping to get some sort of reaction or pulse for him to breathe. he did not. his eyes were rolled back in his head, it was the worst thing i think i have seen in my life. >> the attorney general said that the community of kenosha deserves the chance to heal and he said for those that came to cause chaos to leave. hurricane laura has weakened but it's not harmless. far from it. we will show you some of the devastation. devastation. that is next. supplements... neuriva's clinically proven ingredients fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. take the neuriva challenge with our money-back guarantee!

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hitting louisiana as a category 4 hurricane. the storm is moving through arkansas on friday, and could reach the mid atlantic states on saturday. right now, louisiana and texas are taking stock of the damage, martin savage is on the ground and he is showing how bad it is. martin. >> look, look, look, look, the roof there had is a faux roof coming down. you can see it some on the ground there, raining down here in lake charles. >> roaring ashore is a category 4 storm. hurricane laura was the strongest storm to hit this part of louisiana and far eastern texas in over a century. laura's powerful winds tearing across 35 miles inland, causing destruction. homes and buildings torn apart. roofs sheared off. huge trees, snapped in half. and lamp posts and street signs

bent in half or completely torn from the ground. this video captured by one man who spoke to cnn after riding on out laura in his condo in lake charles. >> i heard a big bang and that woke me up and i decided to go out and see what it was. and it was a roof. this was a lot worse. >> six storm related deaths have been reported, including a 14-year-old girl. the louisiana governor said that at least four were due to trees falling on homes. >> a scary situation near lake charles where a chemical fire sent huge plumes of smoke in the air, forcing the officials to issue a shelter in place order to people living nearby. meanwhile, rising waters are a concern for. >> water is still rising are right now. but, at a very slow pace compared to rita. >> the storms knocked out powers to hundreds of thousands of people in louisiana and texas. the red cross said that more than 400 volunteers are on the

ground in both states and the national guard has been issued to help with the clean up in lake charles. and there's tornadoes that are a concern. luckily he was not hurt, but the chance for deadly conditions is still there. >> even at 1:00 a.m. on friday. tomorrow morning a tropical storm in arkansas. we were out in the storm all night long and it was brutal. you knew that there was a lot of damage being done, you just couldn't see it and daylight proved it to be true.

if you stayed and rode out the storm, you will never forget it. if you left, you are probably glad you did. know that the lake charles you come back to is not the same one that you left and won't likely be for quite some time. martin savage, lake charles, louisiana. >> thanks for that. coming up the u.s. had a massive covid-19 testing problem since the beginning of the pandemic and it still does, as september approaches, see for yourself next.

a new cdc forecast is making a dire prediction, and saying that the death toll could be -- so johns hopkins university is reporting that more than 180,000 deaths in the u.s. since the pandemic began, all of it as the white house said that the federal government will buy 150 million rapid covid-19 tests by abbott labs. this could be a game changer and potentially save thousands of lives.

meanwhile, growing outrage as white house pressure led to the cdc no longer saying that people need a test after close contact with a infected person. the testing chief denies there were pressure. >> that is really bad advice, i believe it was political propaganda than the solid advice. >> it's the silent spreaders that have done the most damage. >> this explanation from the white house. >> the guidance from the update is that there's backlogs on the testing. what it speaks to is that something that is not a secret to anyone, we don't really have enough testing at this point. >> it's a secret, president

trump continues to try to keep. >> we have the best testing in the world. >> we might be about to actually get better testing. the fda grantsed emergency authorization for a $5, 15 minute test. nationally we are doing better in this battle. major metrics moving in the right direction. past 10,000 cases total. >> 56% of those have been asimple mat you casimp m asimple mat -- asymptomatic. people can be contagiouses in the sense that they transmit the decide. >> 21 new cases in north dakota alone, linked to that undistanced sturgis motorcycle

rally in neighboring south dakota. pugh did polling in 14 advanced economies and they found that more than half of americans think their government is doing a bad job handling he ining thi pandemic. the only people more disgruntled than americans about how their leaders are approaching this, are the british. cnn, los angeles. i'm robyn, stay with us for more on our top story. shinzo abe is stepping down and we expect to hear from him in a few moments. don't go away for that one. so you're a small business,

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. good to have you along this hour. welcome, i'm robyn curnow here in atlanta. we're following two major stories this house. first the breaking news, reports that the japanese prime minister is on the verge of resigning. we expect to hear from shinzo abe this hour. and also donald trump wrapped up an unprecedented republican national convention.he low ligh lights. we begin in japan where they are reporting that shinzo abe is preparing to resign citing health reasons. he has fought colitis for many years now. reports of his impending resignation sent the japan stock