hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. and coming up, here, on cnn "newsroom." >> what we can say is that this new russian vaccine, the results are encouraging. but it would be premature, highly premature, to think that this is the basis for a successful vaccine. >> russia's coronavirus vaccine showing promising results, but how encouraged should we be? also, trump on the defensive from attacking a damning report about his possible, disparaging remarks, to attacking a

previous, top-military official, in his cabinet. and rounding what corner? trump touts the u.s. is almost in the clear, when it comes to the deadly pandemic. but a new model predicts the country's death toll would top 410,000, by the end of the year. welcome, everyone. let's start with that bombshell story in the "atlantic" magazine, that has triggered a flood of outrage and denial. president trump, pushing back, hard, on claims that he made insulting comments about u.s. troops. and that he chose to skip an overseas ceremony, in 2018, honoring american's war dead. now, on friday, mr. trump suggested his former chief of staff, john kelly, could've been

behind, at least one, of the reports. although, trump didn't accuse kelly, outright. but he did say the retired marine general was unfit for the job as trump's top aide. >> i know john kelly. he was with me. didn't do a good job. had no temperament. and ultimately, he was petered out. he got -- he was exhausted. this man was totally exhausted. he wasn't even able to function, in the last number of months. >> well, john kelly's son was, also, a marine and was killed in afghanistan. mr. trump's opponent in the november election responded, on friday, to all of this. joe biden saying that, because of trump's well-documented attacks of the late john mccain's service in vietnam, he believes the report to be true and horrifying. >> if it's true, and based on all the things he said, i believe the article's true. i'd ask you all the rhetorical question. how do you feel? how would you feel, if you had a

kid in afghanistan right now? how would you feel, if you lost a son, daughter, husband, wife? how would you feel? for real. i probably -- i've just never been as disappointed, in my whole career, with a leader that i've worked with, president or otherwise. >> friday, the first lady, also, weighing in. melania trump tweeting out that the "atlantic" story is untrue and calling it activism, rather than journalism. now, several current and former white house staffers, also, say the story isn't true. but it is a story that is rattling american politics, with less than two months to go until the presidential election. cnn's kaitlan collins takes a deeper dive into the details,

the denials, and the denunciation denunciations. >> tonight, president trump is forcefully denying a report that he referred to fallen soldiers as losers and suckers, and questioned why anyone would volunteer to serve in the military. >> it was a totally fake story. and that was confirmed, by many people who were actually there. >> his defense in the oval office, today, comes after he angrily denied the report last night, while shouting over the engines of air force one. >> for somebody to say the things that they say i said is a total lie. it's fake news. it's a disgrace. >> citing four unnamed sources, the atlantic claims that trump cancelled a planned visit to a paris cemetery where american soldiers killed in world war i are buried because he didn't care about honoring the war dead. asking senior staff, why should i go to that cemetery? it's filled with losers.

trump insisted the trip was scrapped because of weather. >> the helicopter could not fly. the reason it couldn't fly, because it was raining about as hard as i've ever seen. and on top of that, it was very, very foggy. >> the president said he called his wife, melania, to express his displeasure about not being able to attend. though, the first lady was on the trip with him. the article, also, claims that when john mccain died, trump said, quote, we're not going to support that loser's funeral. and demanded to know why they had lowered the flags for an f'ing loser. >> i disagreed with john mccain but i still respected him. and i had to approve his funeral, as president. >> but the president did not acknowledge it took him two days to lower the flags after mccain died. or how he attacked him publicly, for years. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. okay? >> the atlantic report also claims trump asked staff not to include wounded veterans at an event because he feared people

would feel uncomfortable. reportedly, saying, quote, nobody wants to see that. the pushback from trump's allies has been sharp. and several aides who traveled with him to paris said it isn't true. including, his former press secretary and other top staffers. >> it is absolutely damnable. it is a disgrace. >> earlier today, an angry joe biden denounced president trump over the reported comments. >> if these statements are true, the president should humbly apologize, to every gold-star mother and father and every blue-star family that he's denigrated and insulted. who the heck does he think he is? >> reporter: biden's son, beau, served in iraq. >> won the bronze star and other commendations. he wasn't a sucker. >> reporter: and at times, today, he became emotional. >> if it's true, and based on all the things he's said, i believe the article's true. i'd ask you all the rhetorical question. how do you feel?

how would you feel, if you had a kid in afghanistan right now? >> reporter: during a rally at an airport hangar in pennsylvania, last night, the president mocked biden for wearing a mask so often. >> did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him? >> biden responded, today. >> it's hard to respond to something to idiotic. >> and the president, later, held a press briefing where he, once again, denied these reports. but singled out john kelly, his former chief of staff, who was on that trip with the president to paris in november of 2018. and has not weighed in on the story, whether to confirm it or to deny it. the president, though, took that opportunity to attack john kelly and disparage him, as he is being accused of disparaging members of the military, current and former. the president went after john kelly, saying he was not up to the task of being chief of staff. and that he was exhausted, and could not handle the pressures of the job. even though john kelly is a retired, four-star marine general. led southern command.

and had a son who died in afghanistan. the president said, despite those credentials, he could not live up to the pressure of working in his west wing. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. the u.s. is reporting, by far, the most covid-19 cases, worldwide, still. and a new model says it's about to get much worse. now, this was published by the university of washington, and it says there could be more than 410,000 coronavirus deaths, across the u.s., by january 1st. as of right now, almost 190,000 people have died. even with such chilling numbers, the white house, though, inexplicably, painting a rosy picture of the pandemic. have a listen to this. >> by the way, we're rounding the corner. we're rounding the corner, on the virus. hospitalizations and deaths have continued to decline, over the

past week. very substantially, decline. >> cnn's jim acosta asked the country's top coronavirus expert, dr. anthony fauci, what president trump could, possibly, have meant when he says, as you heard there, that the u.s. was rounding the corner on the virus. >> what do you make of that characterization? >> you know, i'm not sure what he means. >> now, dr. fauci went on to say that experts are actually concerned by a number of states, including montana, michigan, minnesota, and the dakotas, where the virus is spreading. cnn's nick watt following this story for us. >> reporter: there is covid fatigue, across the country, including pennsylvania avenue. >> we're rounding the curve. >> reporter: but the worst could still be to come. another 220,000 plus americans could be killed by this virus, by january 1st, according to one

well-known model, which ominously has underestimated death tolls in the past. they, now, say 410,000, total, by the end of the year. >> they, also, tell us that, from that 410,000 number, if we were to ease our behaviors, that number goes up to nearly 620,000 deaths. >> reporter: but if masks were mandated, across the country, they say we could save more than 120,000 lives. yet, the president won't mandate them. neither will georgia's governor. >> i, personally, don't believe a statewide mask mandate's the way to go. >> or missouri's governor. >> we implore him to listen to the healthcare workers in the state of missouri, and order a statewide mask mandate. we're the show-me state. but we're really, what would be a better name for us is the make-me state. >> reporter: now, our immediate hurdle. the long labor day weekend. the stay safe message, targeted at the young. >> well, all of us, when we were your age, thought we were

invincible. you can pass this on. >> reporter: and you can get very sick. 31-year-old, jenny ruelas, caught covid, lost her father to the virus. >> he was in a lot of pain. and that's the face i'll never forget. >> reporter: she no longer tests positive. but still, struggles to breathe. >> i have to walk around with an oxygen can. >> here, in the u.s., young people, clearly, a big issue. the state of missouri saying 30% of their new cases are in the age group, 18 through 24. up in boston, northeastern university just suspended 11 students for allegedly gathering together in a hotel room. and over on this side of the country, san diego state just suspended all in-person teaching, immediately, after another 120 confirmed cases. nick watt, cnn, los angeles.

and we will get more on the impacts the coronavirus has on those who've recovered with dr. dana mccarry, who treats long-hauler patients at mount sinai hospital. we're going to have that a little later in the newscast. so do stick around. we are going to take a quick break. when we come back, president's law-and-order message in the face of protests across the country. will that message help get him re-elected? polls suggest he might need to rethink his approach. also, a man shot seven times, in the back, by police in kenosha, wisconsin, makes a court appearance from his hospital bed. the details on his case, which -- which is unrelated to the shooting, just ahead. fights... ll-in-. oh no. no-no-no. did you really need the caps lock? mucinex cold and flu all-in-one. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start

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less than two months, now, until the election, here, in the united states. a presidential race being run, under the shadows of a health crisis, economic crisis, and a social crisis. and we're seeing a stark difference on how president trump and his opponent, joe biden, approach race relations. earlier this week, trump responded to the protests in kenosha, wisconsin, after police shot a black man, jacob blake,

several times in the back. have a listen. >> kenosha's been ravaged by antipolice and anti-american riots. they have been hit so hard. violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses. burned down public buildings and threw bricks at police officers, which your police officers won't stand for. and they didn't stand for it. these are not acts of peaceful protest but, really, domestic terror. >> well, the president's message, obviously, focused on law and order. more than that, than social justice. but it appears his message isn't resonating. a new cnn poll found that more than half of respondents think trump's response for the protests has been harmful. many protests have been peaceful. the vast majority, in fact. but there has been violence, as we've seen. and the polls are reflecting that. violence in cities like kenosha, portland, and minneapolis, has put a dent in public support for the black lives matter movement.

but still, 51% of respondents in that cnn poll, still, hold a favorable view. 38% do not. joining me, now, is chairman of the department of politics and international relations at youngstown state university. professor, really appreciate your time. i wanted to talk about the president, clearly, counting on law-and-order messaging as a major pillar of the campaign. polling would suggest his effort to reframe the race, around that, isn't working. i'm curious what your take is on whether that has legs, as a political strategy? >> well, i think it might. and i don't think we're quite sure, yet. whether -- whether it isn't working. it's -- it's kind of early in this. voters are just starting to pay attention. and, you know, this clearly is a theme. you know, i think that -- that -- that's in the background. and i think, you know, the reactions of former vice

president biden, you know, going off to kenosha, shows that the democrats are at least a little bit worried about this, going ahead. that it could become, you know, an issue that trump can use to -- to move some swing voters into his camp. >> i mean, it is hard to remember another presidency that's been more chaotic, if we can put it that way. why do you think, politically, his supporters have been so loyal? i mean, what is it that makes them ignore the chaos of the president and see positives? >> well, i think, some of them want the chaos. i mean, remember, trump ran as a disruptor, in 2016. as somewhat of a bomb-thrower. he appealed to voters that thought that the system, as it was, was not dealing them a winning hand. and they wanted to shuffle the deck. and electing donald trump was kind of the ultimate shuffling of the deck. so they wanted that. that disruption. now, the question becomes, you know, in 2020, do they want that same disruption?

or things like covid and, you know, the disruption we're seeing in the streets. is that not what they bargained for in 2016? >> it is -- it's important to say the vast majority of protests have been peaceful. but of course, as we all know, some have not. and -- and it's interesting because there's been polling, which shows public support for black lives matter has actually waned in the wake of the violence that has happened in some places. is joe biden doing enough to counter that narrative? and -- and, you know, that -- that things will, somehow, be worse under him? >> well, he's actually in kind of a difficult position because just as donald trump plays to his base all the time, joe biden has to also play to his base. and if you go back, you know, we've forgotten about the primaries. but it was a divisive primary in the democratic party. you know, between the sort of progressive wing, led by bernie sanders. and then, the more moderate, traditional wing, with joe biden. so, you know, clearly, the black lives matter movement is very,

you know, near and dear to the progressive side of the party. so he has to be careful not to -- to sort of distance himself from black lives matters, as he wants to distance himself from the violence we are seeing in the street. >> i guess, one problem, you mention the coronavirus. i guess one problem the president has is the coronavirus because it's one problem, where he can't control the narrative. the virus does what it does, and it's difficult to massage the numbers. how much of a hurdle, politically, is covid, do you think? >> it's -- it's a big hurdle and, in part, because it scares older voters. and you know, those older voters traditionally vote republican. and they supported donald trump, very strongly, in 2016. the danger is that because, you know, if they think that the trump administration has mishandled coronavirus, and it's putting them at risk. that's not the disruption they wanted in 2016. so that's why trump has to continue to sort of deal with that. and, you know, you saw it.

you saw it in his press conference today. where he sort of talks about what he's done, what the administration has done. all the testing they're doing. so he can't just ignore that issue. >> yeah. yeah. very briefly, how -- what -- what do you see happening, in the next 60 days? i imagine it's going to be quite a ride. >> yeah. i mean, there's still a lot of events. there's still a lot of campaigning to go on. we've really been kind of frozen and everything's been slowed down by this coronavirus. we're not seeing the rallies we thought we would see. we're starting to see those a little bit. all the commercials aren't out, yet. i think the big event coming up is at the end of this month, in ohio. the debates. where we see trump and biden go head to head. that -- that -- this year -- normally, the debates, i don't think matter that much. but this year, they could matter, you know, a great deal and perhaps swing the election enough. because even though biden's ahead, he's not ahead that far in the all-important swing states. and that's what matters, we learned in 2016. got to win those swing states to win the electoral college.

>> yeah, very good point. professor thoracic, thanks so much, appreciate it. >> thank you. a black man, shot seven times in the back by police in kenosha, wisconsin, made his first court appearance on friday. the charges against jacob blake are unrelated to the police shooting incident, which left him paralyzed in the hospital. cnn crime and justice correspondent, shimon prokupecz, has details for us from kenosha, wisconsin. >> we got our first look at jacob blake, since the shooting. since video of him being shot, in the back, by police. this was during a court appearance from his previous, domestic incident case. he appeared from his hospital bed, dressed in a shirt and tie. it was a short briefing that was held before a judge, here, in kenosha county. that case was adjourned, and he

is due back in court in september. this is all, as we await more information from investigators here. state investigators are still looking into the shooting and the circumstances surrounding the decision. the state investigators have up to 30 days to reach their conclusions. and then, those findings are given to the district attorney, who will ultimately decide if any of the officers will face charges. shimon prokupecz, cnn, kenosha, wisconsin. >> and in rochester, new york, on friday, another face off between protestors and police. this, after video was released this week showing the arrest there, in march, of daniel prude. a black man, who later died in police custody. protestors could be heard shouting "black lives matter." police ordering them to disperse and saying they were involved in an unlawful assembly. cnn's paulo sandoval with more on this case. and a warning, his report does contain graphic video.

>> reporter: we now know a little bit more about what led up to the death of daniel prude, earlier this year. his brother, joe prude, telling me that he was the one who initially called for police assistance, back on march 23rd. when he told officers that his brother was experiencing a mental episode. that he was suicidal, hallucinating, and high on pcp. that he took his brother back to his home. and that's when he actually left that house. and that's where the body camera video, that's been shared by the prude family, picked things up here. warning, the video, certainly, not easy to watch. but in these images, you can see the 41-year-old chicago man. he is naked. agitated. distraught. and spitting, according to police. in fact, one officer wrote in his report that the 41-year-old man claimed that he was infected with the covid virus. so about three minutes into the video, officers use a mesh, a so-called spit sock, to keep him fr frommi from spitting on the officers. shortly thereafter, that's when prude's restrained. his head held down. that's when prude appears

unresponsive. he is loaded on to an ambulance, taken to a nearby hospital, where he dies, days later. an autopsy report ruling he died of suffocation, excited delirium, and intoxication. why it's taken months to finally get their hands on this body camera video and on friday, rochester authorities, basically doubling down on their claim that they were contacted by the attorney general's office, asking that they withhold information and to keep any materials, including that body camera video, from actually being released. that ag's investigation that's ongoing. and then, friday, a spokesperson for the attorney general's office, saying, at no point, did they ask the city to withhold any information. saying they were actually free to conduct an investigation of their own. and then, we did hear from the president of the rochester police union. defending the actions of this officer. saying that he had seen this video. and said that he absolutely

believes, at this point, based on what he saw there, that the officers followed their training, word for word. but at the same time, it seems there is an agreement here, among many people in the community, including the union, members of the community, and even mayor of the city that perhaps training needs a closer look when officers are responding to these kinds of calls. polo sandoval cnn, rochester, new york. >> portland police confirming they were trying to arrest michael reinoehl when he was killed in what they call a confrontation with u.s. marshals. he was wanted in the shooting death of aaron jay danielson during a protest in portland, last week. the u.s. attorney general calling reinoehl, quote, a violent agitator. and said the streets were safer without him. now, show you pictures here from surveillance video taken shortly before the shooting of danielson. you see danielson and another

man walking along the sidewalk. reinoehl seems to be concealing himself behind a building as they pass. the two were on opposite sides of the political divide and the protests. now, we often hear about people recovering from covid-19. but also, about people with long-term symptoms. months after they were infected and supposedly recovered. after the break, why we should all be paying much closer attention to this. also, russia's campaign for its coronavirus vaccine gets a boost from a major medical journal. we'll have the latest from moscow. we'll be right back. we live with at&t and we are well past the honeymoon phase.

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and welcome back. i'm michael holmes. you are watching cnn "newsroom." appreciate your company. the coronavirus mortality rates do not tell the whole story. far from it. even though, they might seem low, in certain countries, that doesn't mean that there aren't some serious, long-term effects from the virus that we're just starting to learn about. thousands of people around the world are saying they're dealing with ongoing symptoms, months after being diagnosed with covid-19. they call themselves covid long haulers. some of the symptoms they describe include breathlessness, memory loss, extreme fatigue, ongoing headaches, brain fog, muscle pain, and swelling joints. dr. dana mccarthy treats long-haul patients and she joins me. great to talk to you, doc.

growing attention is being paid to this issue of the long-haulers. just give us a sense of what people are going through, those that you're seeing. >> yeah. so there is a confluence of symptoms that, overwhelmingly, have in it, fatigue is one of them. second would be this kind of heart rate variability. they have differences in heart rate, when they are going from either lying down to standing up. anytime they try to exert themselves, they are feeling that they have intolerance to that. it seems as if, i would say, kind of, before illness, they had an energy window that might've been this big. and now, after illness, their energy window is much smaller. so their tolerance for, either cognitive exertion or physical exertion becomes much less. and when they push past that balance, they become very symptomatic. and that could, like i said, be blood pressure changes. it can be headaches.

it can be this feeling of fogginess. inability to concentrate. memory loss. anything to feeling sick again. sore throats. feeling like you have fever, even though you don't. >> and -- and it goes on, for a long time, too. i mean, in many cases, weeks. i think a cdc study found 35% of people who tested positive had symptoms two to three weeks later. i've heard of people two to three months later. >> yeah, even longer. so our patients in new york, right, we were at the peak of acute illness in march, early april. and i am now treating patients out this far, right, who are still very symptomatic. i mean, these are individuals who can't even work, at this point in time, and have been out on disability or are fighting to be out on disability. >> that, i mean, it really is so worrying. the issue, of course, is it's a new virus. so the learning curve is, still, developing. we don't know what the future holds. but -- but what worries you, the

most? how concerned are you that, over time, we're going to see this as an ongoing public-health issue? >> >> oh, absolutely. i think that was, for me, one of the biggest frustrations. i would say fortunate to have identified this pretty early on based on some measures we had taken at mount sinai as a health system. we had this monitoring program for patients with acute illness, and we continued to follow them, throughout. so we kind of had this heads up. the issue, again, is it is so debilitating and that's one thing i really want people to understand. the age range of patients that seem to be suffering from this is 20s to 40s and 50s. so these are people who, beforehand, were relatively healthy. didn't have any major illnesses or comorbidities. and now, they're, like i said, absolutely, their lives have been turned upside down. >> i'm curious your take, the emotional toll, on these people. i know there are some pretty big support groups out there. i think one facebook group has

100,000 members. but i can imagine these people feel helpless, worried about the road ahead, emotionally, let alone physically. >> yeah, absolutely. how can they not, right? when, in our history, there's never been a time where you have gotten ill and you're able to seek out a physician for help. you've been told to stay at home, to isolate, to not talk to anybody, right? so that, in and of itself, is anxiety ridden. and then, afterwards, you're just presumed to have gotten better. right? so, now, you keep feeling these extreme symptoms. and all of these -- so many of these patients, i should say, have gone to see so many different specialists. they have been in and out of the emergency department. and all of the workup has come back negative, right? so, because we don't know, and that's a really hard position and i tell this to patients all the time, right? for both the patient and the care provider, the healthcare provider, we're not used to being able to say i don't know. right? and that's vulnerable for everybody involved. so the anxiety levels that go

into this for the patients are absolutely sky high. but that's not what's causing the issue, right? but that just makes it worse. so being told that this is in your head, right, when it's not. you are having physiological symptoms that we don't, yet, understand, based on a novel virus. but then, being told that just makes it that much worse, which then exacerbates the symptom. a negative feedback loop, so to speak. >> doctor, really appreciate your time and really appreciate the work you are doing for that -- that group of people. thank you. >> thanks for having me. a top u.s. expert is congratulating russia on its covid-19 vaccine research. dr. anthony fauci says moscow did the right thing, in publishing early results, on friday. the report, in "the lancet" medical journal, said that the vaccine produced antibody response in all studied participants. cnn's matthew chance tells us how the vaccine effort and the report are playing at home.

>> reporter: in russia, the battle against covid-19, it seems, is being fought with real soldiers. this is the country's defense minister getting a vaccine. then, on state tv, moscow's mayor tells the russian president he's just been vaccinated, too. temperature rise a concern, president putin asks? no, says the man. just a slight headache and a little fatigue. the intended message, russia's vaccine, called sputnik v is safe. even top officials trust it. although, the kremlin won't confirm to cnn if putin, himself, has taken the plunge. but there is, now, some reason for russia's confidence. first, data from phase one and two clinical trials. published in the lancet medical journal suggest the russian vaccine produced no serious, adverse side effects. it seems to be safe, in other words.

and it generated an antibody response, according to the lancet, in all the test participants. admittedly, only 76 people. but russian scientists say that's more than enough to prove their vaccine works, and works well. >> the high level of cell immunity suggests there are great prospects for developing memory cells. this tells us that it will not just create high, protective levels at the moment of immunization. but also, that this protective impact will last for a very long time. >> reporter: russia has been one of the world's worst affected countries in the covid-19 pandemic, recording more than a million cases, nationwide. it also has a track record of creating vaccines, famously, against polio in the 1950s. more recently, in 2016, to battle the outbreak of ebola in west africa. but there's been a cautious reception to russia's covid-19 vaccine. lack of published data, until

now, and approval for use, before human trials were complete, raised concerns about its safety and effectiveness. even now, with phase one and two trials published, the lancet warns the studies are too small, and that larger, phase three trials are needed to know how useful the vaccine will really be. >> what we can say is that this new, russian vaccine. the results are encouraging. but it would be premature, highly premature, to think that this is the basis for a successful vaccine for public use. >> reporter: that's not what the russians want to hear. they named their vaccine sputnik v after the soviet-era satellite, which shocked the world by orbiting earth. a global first and a symbol of russian scientific prowess. the vaccine, it seems, is not quite there, yet.

matthew chance, cnn, moscow. you're watching cnn "newsroom." when we come back, a cargo ship goes missing in stormy seas. now, rough weather, impeding search and rescue efforts. we'll have a live report, when we come back. fees. so, you can t investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

reports say the japanese coast guard has temporarily suspended the church for dozese dozens of missing sailors. the sailors were on a cargo ship that got caught in a typhoon. this was on wednesday. that -- that ship was carrying a shipment of thousands of cows from new zealand to china. only a few of the 43 sailors on board have been found. cnn's will ripley is following developments, from hong kong. not good news. that -- that the search, being

pulled back, for now. >> it is not good news, certainly, for the families of these dozens of sailors, who remain missing. we got confirmation, from the department of foreign affairs of the philippines, their japanese consulate, that the search for any remaining survivors has to be called off because the waves in this part of the east china sea could be extraordinarily dangerous. when you see the photos of this ship that we're about to show you, it's massive. it is a converted, cargo container ship, known as an open livestock carrier. it allows the winds to blow back and forth, so that the nearly 6,000 cows on board can get adequate ventilation. but it also makes them extraordinarily vulnerable to the winds like the ones that were happening on the day that this ship vanished. a dramatic rescue off the coast of japan. this japanese coast guard vessel desperately tries to reach a man in the water. battling rough seas. getting closer and closer, as

the man bobs up and down like a cork. finally, they are able to get him on board. they bring him on to a coast guard ship, warm him with a blanket, and give him water. >> i am only one. >> he is a 45-year-old chief officer of the gulf livestock 1. a cargo ship that went missing after a distress call, early wednesday, near southern japan. the ship was carrying 43 crew members, and almost 6,000 cows. some, seen dead, floating in the sea. the ship left napier, new zealand, headed for china. a journey that was supposed to take 17 days. at the time of the ship's disappearance, it was being pounded by a powerful storm, typhoon maysak, the same strength as a category 4 hurricane with winds more than

200 kilometers or about 125 miles an hour. the chief officer told authorities the ship's engine failed. the vessel was hit by a wave and capsized. on friday, 30-year-old filipino crew member was, also, found clutching on to a ripped life raft two kilometers from the island. rescuers discovered a third man, floating, unconscious. he was, later, pronounced dead. the wife of the ship's chief engineer pleaded for officials to continue searching for the rest of the missing crew. >> translator: i would like to call on the philippine government to give us legitimate information and strengthen their cooperation with the ongoing search and rescue operations. >> new zealand has, since, announced it's temporarily suspending exports of live cattle as it investigates what happened during the ship's journey. the export of livestock has been controversial. animal rights groups have long called for the practice to be

banned. one of the reasons groups have called for the practice to end is because when the animals are traveling on those ships that are open air, essentially, they're really vulnerable to the conditions at sea, that can be, as we are seeing, in realtime, right now, extraordinarily dangerous. michael, of the 43 crew members, 39 of them were from the philippines. the other families just have to wait. >> just terrible. thank you, will, good to see you, my friend. will ripley there in hong kong. now, typhoon haishen is headed towards japan and the korean peninsula. it will be the third major storm to hit the region, in less than two weeks. the storm just downgraded from a supertyphoon. outer bands, though, are reaching the riyuku islands. let's bring in our meteorologist, derek van dam, for more. what are you seeing, derek? >> yeah, undoubtedly, michael, the reason for the halt of the search and rescue of the ship is

because of this approaching typhoon. let's talk about the bad, before we get to the good. because all the threats are here. we've got storm surge potential. we have flash flooding potential and destructive winds from what is now an equivalent to a category 4 atlantic hurricane. 230-kilometer-per-hour winds. but good news, there are signs the storm is starting to weaken and that is the official forecast from the joint typhoon warning center. you can see, in the next 24 hours, dropping to 215 kilometers per hour. it's becoming a little more disorganized on satellite. but of course, maybe not quick enough because this storm has the potential to bring extremely damaging winds and extremely damaging storm surge to the northern islands. if we are going to time this out for any of our residents and -- and individuals watching from japan or in the korean peninsula. we are talking about sunday morning, local time, into the riyuku islands. that is when the most intense part of the storm will make landfall there.

and then, just off the west coast of the island of kyushu, this is when we anticipate that surge to be pushing into the bays and inlets. and then, of course, as it makes landfall into south korea, that will be overnight sunday and to early tuesday morning. so, we monitor this for the potential with lots of rain, flash flooding, storm surge, and destructive winds. michael. >> all right. derek, thank you. derek van dam there with the latest. keep an eye on it for us. appreciate that. now, we are going to take a quick break. when we come back, rescue crews back at work in beirut, this hour, hoping to reach anyone who might still be alive in the rubble of that massive explosion a month ago. we'll have a live update from the scene when we come back. olay faced expensive serums and won.

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it is late morning in beirut, where a chilean rescue team is, still, searching for possible survivors trapped in the rubble of last month's deadly blast. now, that massive explosion at the port, you'll remember, killed more than 190 people and injured thousands more. well, now, crews have been saying they have picked up on what might be body heat, and

even breathing from debris near the epicenter of the blast. cnn producer tamara joins us, now, from beirut with more. it's incredible to think somebody might have survived this long. what -- what is the latest on this search? >> hi, michael. there is more hope, today, than there was yesterday. at least, that's what one of the chilean rescuers who is here on the scene told us. this is day three of the search and rescue that was sparked by a chilean dog, a search dog named flash, that is part of a volunteer search-and-rescue team. three days ago, they -- this dog detected life under the rubble that's behind me. and prompted a search and rescue, in which they deployed a sensor. and on that sensor, they detected life. they detected respirations,

roughly 18 beats per minute. now, that's -- those respirations have gone up and down. and with yesterday being the, i would say, most hopeless of the three days of the -- of the -- of the operation. the respirations were nearly zero. now, the search and rescue team were blaming that on the crowd that was around. that was, the sounds and the mobile phones that were intercepting with the machine. but what later happened, later in the night, was the crowds left. quiet prevailed. the -- the -- the sensors, then, detected 18 beats per minute, again. and so, therefore, today, there are signs of life, again. a glimmer of hope for the lebanese people who are glued to their tv screens today. >> yeah. and -- and we -- we cling to that hope, as well. and it's certainly something that has brought the lebanese people together, in this time of tragedy. tamara in beirut. thank you so much for your

reporting on this. >> and thank you for watching cnn "newsroom." i'm michael holmes. appreciate you spending part of your day with me. my colleague, kim brunhuber, is up next with more top stories. it's pretty inspiring the way families

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