no shortage of controversy as donald trump fights to control the impact of a damning report. new allegations about derogatory remarks he reportedly made about vietnam veterans. 100 days and counting, protesters in portland vow to stand firm demanding racial justice. and we're tracking typhoon hishen as fierce winds and rain batter japan. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to you, ow viewer here in the united states and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom."

a former senior trump official confirms to cnn that u.s. president donald trump spoke in crude and derogatory terms of american marines who died in world war i and are buried near paris. that shocking allegation about the president's trip to france in 2018 was first reported by "the atlantic" magazine. the president and his allies insist eed the story is false. we get more from cnn's jeremy diamond at the white house. >> reporter: well, the white house is still reeling from this report in the atlantic magazine that president trump referred to american soldiers who lost their lives in a critical bat unttle

world war 1, as losers and sucker suckers. now a former senior administration official is confirming to my colleague, jim acosta, that the president did indeed refer to those american war dead in crude and derogatory terms. president trump and the white house have vehemently denied this story, insisting that the president has the utmost respect for veterans and service members, the president saying even what kind of animal would refer to dead american service members in such a fashion. but nonetheless, now a former senior administration official confirming to cnn that the president did indeed make those comments. and in addition, another source who is familiar with some of the president's remarks have now told cnn that the president has also repeatedly questioned why vietnam war veterans would have served in that war, suggesting that those service members did not know how to get out of the draft, how to work the system, much in the way that the president himself did.

we know that president trump received multiple educational deferments to avoid serving in the vietnam war and he also ultimately received a medical deferment after he got a doctor's note claiming the president had bone spurs making him ineligible for military service. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> there were more demonstrations in the u.s. on saturday against the police killings of black americans. in rochester, new york, protesters are calling for justice for daniel prude, a black man who died in police custody in march. in kentucky, activists in louisville are demanding the police officers who shot and killed breonna taylor be arrested and charged. we'll have more on those demonstrations in a moment. first, let's go to portland, oregon. police there declared a riot during the 100th straight night of protests. police accuse protesters of throwing molotov cocktails and engaging in violent conduct. portland has become an epicenter

for the movement against racial injustice and police brutality. cnn's lucy kafanov is there for us. >> reporter: it is the 100th night of protests in downtown portland. we're near ventura park, the largest gathering took place in the evening. there is maybe 200, 300 people, some demonstrators throwing molotov cocktails that made the police declare it a riot. crowd dispersed. now we're seeing a different group regrouping here, trying to march back down, possibly toward the park, possibly toward the police precinct. it is sort of a repeat of what we have seen night after night, though, again, with this being the 100th night, it is somewhat of a larger gathering than what we have seen in previous evenings. there had been smaller gatherings across the city, those have been largely peaceful, including a park caravan of folks supporting black lives matter that rolled down through the streets. the demands of the protesters fairly consistent, they want

change to the policing system here, they want racial justice and racial equality. they also want things like $50 million to be diverted from the police budget and reinvested in community programs, housing, education, things of that sort. we saw on saturday a rally many memorial of the far right supporter of president trump who was killed by an activist who supported anti-fascism. that activist michael reinoehl was killed in a confrontation with police on thursday when authorities moved in to arrest him. 100th night of protests here, the clashes, the gatherings still continue. lucy kafanov, cnn, portland. and activists marched outside churchill downs racetrack during saturday's running of the kentucky derby. they're demanding justice for breonna taylor. police killed her in a raid on her home in louisville in march. the demonstrations aimed to shift attention from america's

most famous horse race to taylor's case. cnn's jason carroll was there. >> reporter: well, the demonstration ended where it began, at a park just about a mile away from churchill downs. at one point their numbers were in the thousands as they got to churchill downs, marched around the perimeter and then just as the race got under way, they stood, they shouted, they voiced all of their concerns, voiced their message, which is trying to get justice for breonna taylor. there was some concerns about whether or not this protest would be peaceful, whether or not it would be nonviolent. we spoke to one of the organizers who said this was a protest that went off just the way it should have. >> me, talking to you right now, was a part of our plan. we wanted the world to see, we wanted everyone to see and understand that we're not happy, we're not satisfied with what the attorney general is doing, what the mayor is doing. we want justice for breonna taylor. while that race was going on,

people were forced to pay attention to what was going on outside of churchill downs and we did so nonviolently. we're going to continue to do this. >> reporter: the derby ran without fans so you didn't have the thousands upon thousands of fans that would be at the derby as they were leaving. no matter to the demonstrators out here today who feel as though their point got across, to make sure they are not going to let up on the demonstrations until they see justice for breonna taylor. jason carroll, cnn, louisville, kentucky. another night of unrest is gripping the city of rochester, new york. >> since you have refused to leave the roadway, you will be placed under arrest. >> after hours of peaceful protests, demonstrators and law enforcement clashed for a fourth straight night. police deployed pepper balls and tear gas on the crowd. thousands have flooded the streets demanding accountability for daniel prude, a black man who died in police custody in

march. earlier on saturday, the new york attorney general announced that her office will call a grand jury to investigate prude's death. the man who was the subject of massive racial justice protests in kenosha, wisconsin, has released a new video message to his supporters. jacob blake was shot seven times in the back by police officers and is unable to walk. now in the video he talks about the devastating effects of his injuries. >> i just want to say, man, to all of you out there, and even the older ones, older than me, it is a lot more life to live out here, man. your life, and not only just your life, your legs, something you need to move around and move forward in life can be taken from you like this, man. and i promise you, the type of [ bleep ] you'll go through, staples, i got staples in my back, staples in my stomach, you do not want to have to deal with

this [ bleep ], man. 24 hours, every 24 hours it is pain, it is pain. it hurts to breathe. it hurts to sleep. it hurts to move from side to side. it hurts to eat. please, i'm telling you, change our lives out there, we can stick together, make some money, make everything easier for our people out here, man. it is so much time that has been wasted. >> for more on how this is playing into the race for the white house, let's bring in natasha lindstadt. the president's re-election campaign is relying in large part on creating anxiety about urban unrest. does the violence that we're seeing have the trans tiff properties he's hoping for that the blame for violence in democratic cities will fall indirectly on biden instead of

himself as president, you know, in the here and now? >> i think there is an interesting thing going on here. when we look at some of the most recent polls on how well trump is handling the protests, how he's handling race relations, and whether or not racism is a problem, on the one hand, he's actually not doing very well on these questions. there are more americans that think he's not doing a good job, he's not making the situation better, and in fact only 13% of americans according to a recent ipsos poll say his rhetoric is helping matters. and the poll asked a number of questions whether or not he's able to make you feel safe, make the country feel safer, and biden scored better on every single question, compared to trump. but we're also seeing a recent cnn poll that indicated that more republicans feel that racism isn't as big a problem as it was in june, and more

republicans approve of the way trump is handling the situation. and i think it is also important to note that if trump is able to make the election about protests, about violence, about unrest, about chaos in our cities, that's going to be a lot better for him in the 2020 election than if the focus is on covid, on the economy, on this recent story about him denigrating people who served in battle, so he really wants the narrative of this election to be that the country is so unsafe right now, if joe biden takes over, it is going to make it worse and the democratic leaders and governors are the problem. and that he is the only one that can resolve it. >> yeah, and, you know, trump at least seems to be moving the needle in terms of voters' concerns. law and order seems to have risen dramatically in terms of the rankings of people's concerns compared to 2016 and then, you know, people's views

of the black lives matter movement since june. i wonder if painting joe biden is a ta-- joe biden condemned t violence on both sides. i'm wondering is it worth the capital for biden to distance himself further from all of this violence or is that just basically a waste of time? >> well, i think biden does need to keep coming in and urging for unity and trying to project an image of strength, trying to appear to be presidential and trying to convey to the american public that he is the leader that can heal the nation. and it is important for our -- our morality that we have been lost under trump, and that we need a leader that can come in to urge for messages of unity, rather than messages of division. he doesn't want to focus on this

so much that it loses the attention on some of the other things that democrats want to be emphasizing, which is the covid-19 situation, of course, and the economy and how democrats feel that they can get the country out of this mess, rather than if trump is leading. >> do you think, you cited some of the polls, is that reflective of the fact the president might be paying the price for being obvious and clear about essentially stating that a rise in urban violence translates into more votes for him, as though he had an incentive to help stoke unrest rather than resolve it. >> i don't think it is going to be a winning strategy for him, however this is the only strategy that he has had. he has come into the election in 2016, he came into the campaign really trying to stoke fires, to create divisions, to sow chaos. and that worked.

but he just barely won in 2016. and it was really by very small margins in some of these states in the midwest that he was able to pull out a victory. he's convinced he needs to remain loyal to this base and continue to stoke the fires because it does resonate really well with his base. and what he thinks is going to happen is he can ensure that there will be full voter turnout among his base, and that he can depress voter turnout for people who might vote for democrats. >> is there a power in images, we're showing the images now, a power in images that transcends rhetoric. do you think that these images will have a visceral power to change minds in ways that maybe the political discourse can't? >> well, the question is whether it has the power to change minds of people who are undecided

independents, people in the middle. i think it only really strengthens the feelings of those in the base that they definitely have to get out and vote, that things are getting worse and that trump is their only savior. the question of how this is playing out among those in the middle, among those that lean republican, they're really questioning whether or not these movements and protests have gotten out of control and whether or not the democrats are going to respond strongly enough to that. but i don't think that's going to be enough to win the election for the republicans. they're going to have to offer something else besides just fear tactics. >> well, very interesting to see how this plays out in the coming weeks. thank you for joining us, natasha, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. police in birmingham, england, declared a major incident after reports of multiple stabbings in the city center. a witness tells the bbc radio 5 it appeared to begin as several people arguing outside a nightclub. she says they were yelling

racial slurs and then the situation escalated into an all-out brawl among a large group of people. now, at this point we don't know how many people have been injured or how serious those injuries are. pharmaceutical companies, the world over, are racing to find a vaccine that works on covid-19. now several companies have come together to make an unusual promise aimed at keeping customers safe. plus this holiday weekend is going to look very different in a lot of cities in the u.s. including right here in atlanta. we'll explain why right after the short break. stay with us.

since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the u.s., there have been more than 188,000 deaths and some 6.2 million infections according to johns hopkins university. now, amid hopes for a vaccine that would get our lives back to normal, at least three pharmaceutical companies are making an unusual joint pledge. they say they won't seek approval for any treatment unless it has been proven to be safe and effective. according to the wall street journal, pfizer, moderna and

johnson & johnson signed the pledge. it is designed to soothe concerns that it might be push through early and undermine public confidence in it. some wonder whether americans will trust a treatment that seems rushed to the market. cnn's dana bash asked democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris about that question. >> do you trust that in the situation where we're in now, that the public health experts and the scientists will get the last word on the efficacy of a vaccine? >> if past is prologue, they will not, they'll be muzzled, they'll be suppressed, they will be sidelined because he's looking at an election coming up, in less than 60 days, and he's grasping for whatever he can get to pretend he's been a leader on this issue when he has not. >> let's say there is a vaccine approved and distributed before the election, would you get it? >> well, i think that's going to be an issue for all of us.

i will say that i would not trust donald trump. and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. i will not take his word for it. >> you can watch that entire interview with kamala harris on "state of the union," 9:00 a.m. sunday in new york, 2:00 p.m. in london. well, here in atlanta, the city's estimating it will lose more than $640 million from canceled or postponed events this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. this labor day weekend is typically busy with conventions and major sports events, making it one of the busiest and most profitable times of the year. but obviously not this year. cnn's natasha chen reports on the economic fallout of the virus. >> reporter: this entire walton street is just a hotbed of --

she would usually be booked solid, giving tours of iconic spots in atlanta where major block busters and tv shows were filmed. >> right behind us is the tank scene from "walking dead." >> reporter: the post apocalyptic atlanta of the walking dead may be a thing of fiction, but the reality of 2020 can be bleak. nearly 6,000 people in georgia have died, about 280,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus, and businesses like atlanta movie tours closed for good. >> it is emotional, but i think you come to a point where you know that you made the right decision. >> reporter: they say this labor day weekend would have seen nearly a quarter million visitors. and businesses would have made more than $151 million just off

of dragon con and two college football kickoff games at mercedes-benz stadium. instead dragon con is virtual. the pride festival is happening in person, but the tour championship at east lake golf club is being played to no fans. the two kickoff games and a third one next weekend are canceled. >> you're talking about $100 million over the three games, and $7.5 million of that would have translated back into tax revenue, into this city of atlanta, so certainly the hotels, the restaurants, the bars, the city itself is losing a great economic impact. >> as you see, when you guys came in, there is no one on the streets. there is no business men, no lawyers in the offices and high rises. >> reporter: the red phone booth, a speak easy in downtown atlanta, opened exactly five years ago, with a dragon con cigar club as their first

guests. so this would be packed during labor day weekend? >> absolutely. absolutely. all dressed up, some in steam punk, some in the 1920s theme with charlie chaplin stuff. >> reporter: instead, they'll have local supporters coming by this weekend at a reduced capacity per state rules. more than half of the furloughed staff are back, but business has not recovered enough to bring back all of them. >> there has been many sleepless nights. >> reporter: he knows some businesses like his friend kerry burns atlanta movie tours won't make it on the other side of this pandemic. >> i think we could have done better to stop this or slow this early on with some -- between mask wearing and physical distancing, early, early stages. we got to the point where we were just a little too late. >> reporter: while the owners of businesses that are empty this weekend know that the sooner the virus is stopped, the sooner they can see friendly faces again, that requires people not to gather en masse this holiday

weekend. >> i understand that many, many of us are tired and ready to move on. but we have to hunker down and keep chopping against covid-19. >> reporter: natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. still ahead on "cnn newsroom," president trump keeps telling his supporters to vote twice, which, of course, is illegal. we'll explain how he appears to be creating a big election problem where one doesn't exist. also coming up -- >> it is embarrassing, right? it is like i wrote for a foreign government when i had no idea. >> reporter: a freelance american writer is enlisted into rush russia's propaganda machine without realizing it. we'll tell you how it happened. stay with us. ndicators of brain performance. memory... focus... accuracy... learning and concentration. try it today with our money-back guarantee!

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welcome back to you our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the u.s. presidential election is a little more than eight weeks away. and president trump is again telling his supporters to try to vote twice, once by mail, and then in person, even though doing so would obviously be illegal. take a listen to this. >> on election day, or early voting, go to your polling place, even though you mailed it in, go to your polling place to see whether or not your mail-in vote has been tabulated or counted. if it has, you will not be able to vote because it is going to be counted. you'll not be able to vote. and the mail-in system worked

properly as it should. but there is a big chance that it won't work properly. >> election officials say there is no reason for anyone to try to vote in person if they have already mailed in a ballot. and even though mail-in voting has been used successfully for many years, the trump campaign is framing it as an insidious ploy by democrats. campaign released the statement -- the president now drawing attention to the reckless election law tampering democrats are doing in states across the country, creating the very real opportunity to for people to vote twice. as our drew griffin explains, the trump campaign appears to be trying to create a problem where there isn't one. >> reporter: this statement from the president of the united states is a lie. >> the ballots are lost.

there is fraud. there is theft. it's happening all over the place. >> reporter: it's not. what is happening all over the place is the spreading of the lie. even somewhat formally reasonable politicians like white house chief of staff mark meadows are fueling the vote fraud myth with unreasonable logic. >> there is no evidence that there is not either. that's the definition of fraud, jake. >> reporter: no, there is no widespread voter fraud. it has been proven over and over again, and, yes, that includes mail-in ballots. if you don't believe me, because i'm from cnn, believe the right wing conservative heritage foundation, which keeps this running election fraud database. prominently displayed on its dashboard, 1,296 cases, it says of proven voter fraud sounds like a lot, until you realize it covers every election for nearly four decades, billions of votes. to say the number is small would be overstating it. >> the only way we're going to

lose this election is if the election is rigged. >> reporter: president trump is setting the stage to explain his possible election loss with lies. case in point, california. >> when they send out, like in california, millions and millions of ballots to anybody that is breathing, anybody in california that is breathing gets a ballot. >> reporter: wrong. california is sending ballots to registered voters the same people who would be eligible to vote at the ballot box. facts don't seem to matter. this is the president last monday, saying 80 million mail-in ballots will somehow litter the country. >> they'll be sending them and dumping them in neighborhoods, people will be picking them up, they'll be bribing, paying off people to grab some. >> reporter: no, this seems completely made up. as other presidents tweets that people will print thousands of forgeries and force people to sign. or this tweet in august, attacking the nevada governor's plan to use universal mail-in ballots. president trump calling it a

coup, adding the post office could never handle the traffic of mail-in votes without preparation. weeks later his own post master general testifies, yes, we can. >> the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's ballots, securely and on time. >> reporter: two recent case of election crimes have made headlines lately, one in patterson, new jersey, a city council election, and one aimed at helping a republican congressional candidate in north carolina. a republican campaign operative has been charged with ballot harvesting, conspiracy, and possession of absentee ballots. experts tell cnn these were insider crimes, not voter fraud, and both caught. showing the system worked, and both leading to new elections. mail-in voting takes place in almost every state in some way or another. five states have all mail-in voting, it is the main way people cast their ballots including colorado, where election officials tell cnn the president is just wrong about fraud.

>> we have been doing universal vote by mail in colorado for seven years and we can say with certainty that is not the case. >> reporter: that's not to say mail-in voting is without risk, it is why colorado and other states pay attention to signatures, bar codes and var fight ballots aren't counterfeit. it is why the rare examples of mail-in fraud are local and small and caught. >> it seems like deja vu all over again. >> indeed. >> reporter: the last time i interviewed mena perez from the brennan center it was about president trump's lies about voter fraud in the 2018 midterms. now, perez says the lies put the entire system of u.s. government at risk because of the pandemic, protests and a shaky economy. >> all of these kinds of things are just an attack to try and discredit the idea of a free, fair and accessible election. and we should reject these ideas every time we hear them. >> reporter: the national association of secretaries of states, the people who actually oversee elections in the states and who debunk the president's

2016 claims of widespread voter fraud have recently come out with another statement, ensuring voters that their votes are going to be counted this election and that they are prepared for any kind of interference. still the president insists on pushing this myth, this false myth, that there is widespread voter fraud. drew griffin, cnn, durham, north carolina. seemed like a miracle at least good luck aspiring writer jack delany, what he didn't know is that according to the fbi he was being tricked, duped by a russian propaganda operation aimed at interfering in the 2020 election. we have this exclusive report. >> i mean, this is -- this isn't the way i want to be getting media attention or getting notoriety. this -- i mean, it is

embarrassing, right? it is like i wrote for a foreign government when i had no idea. >> reporter: jack delany is a 26-year-old aspiring writer who lost his day job at a restaurant because of covid-19. so he was delighted when somebody calling themselves alex lakusta messaged him on twitter, offering him a job for a left wing news website. >> the message was, you know, saying, hey, we liked your work, would you like to write for us, be part of our publication, we can offer you $200, $250 per article. at that time i was, like, this sounds look a good opportunity for me, i can make money, get my work published. >> reporter: everything seemed to look normal to delaney. >> i looked at all the editors, few of the editors, saw that there was linkedin accounts matched to their names, their pictures were popping up on google image searches. at a glance, it looked legitimate. >> reporter: he wasn't who he said he was. in fact, he didn't exist at all

and peace data wasn't an independent left wing site. it is according to facebook a russian influence operation. peace data say the accusations are baseless, the russian government has not commented. >> i'm no fan of putin or the russian government, so it is it was concerning, obviously. i don't want to have any association with an authoritarian regime. so it was -- i mean, i can't put it in any other words it was one of the strangest experiences of my life. >> reporter: it must be quite surreal to hear about this, and say, oh, my god, i'm -- am i part of a russian disinformation campaign? >> totally surreal. i was unwittingly doing it. i had no idea they were linked to the kremlin or anything. obviously if i had known, wouldn't have done that. it seemed like -- it seemed legitimate from what i saw. >> reporter: the whole thing

apparently a russian con. even the profile picture of delaney's editor, not a picture of a real person, but an image of a face generated by a computer through artificial intelligence. i was looking at that picture and there is no way i could have told there was anything off about it, that it was a fake image. it looks so real. >> it looks like a head shot, a standard head shot of an editor i've seen other places. it didn't tip me off as being a fake image. i had no way to tell. >> reporter: and jack wasn't alone. cnn spoke to three other americans who were also co-opted, all paid online. and was all done by people linked to the internet research agency according to facebook. that's the same russian troll group that interfered in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. >> i'm more mad at myself for letting this happen than at, like, vladimir putin or russia or anything. i should have my guard up a little bit more. >> that report from our do

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typhoon haishen is battering parts of southwestern japan. what you're seeing was the scene on the island a bit earlier. winds topped 120 miles per hour. that's close to 200 kilometers per hour and equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. officials are worried residents won't evacuate due to the threat of coronavirus. this is the third major storm to hit the region in less than two weeks. joining us is james reynolds, a storm chaser who took the video we saw there. tell us what it was like to be out there in that and whether things have improved since then. >> it has been a really long and

rough day here on amami island, since the sun came up this morning through to about 1:00 in the afternoon, it was just relentless wind and torrential rain, ripping up the sea. thankfully over the last three or four hours the conditions have really improved since the typhoon is moving away. unfortunately that means the people in kyushu are next in the firing line. >> yeah, as it moves through, weather experts are saying some areas are expecting winds strong enough to topple homes, rain so fierce, like pouring buckets of water on your head, how are people reacting to those warnings and tell us how covid is complicating the evacuations. >> yeah, the local people here have been taking this typhoon really seriously. i've been filming typhoons in japan for almost 15 years and i have never seen such widespread preparations taking place ahead of the storm. the island i'm on a lot of the

locals have been evacuating to hotels, i don't know for sure whether this is due to the covid situation. but it would make sense a hotel would probably be a potentially safer place to be than a crowded evacuation center. >> i'm wondering whether you've been able to survey the damage now that it has kind of passed through. >> i've driven across a large part of the northern part of the island, which was hit hardest. power is out in most areas, but thankfully because the island is built very tough and solid, there was no major damage i saw. just some minor trees down and one or two roofs, but that was about it, thankfully. >> all right, well, james reynolds, thank you very much for speaking with us. we're going to bring in meteorologist derek van dam now to tell us where this thing is headed and how bad it will be. >> yeah, you heard from james, this storm is a real monster, to be honest, kim.

it is huge. it spans 4,000 kilometers from north to south. but it is starting to move away from the islands. that means that kyushu, over southwestern japan, is its next point of concern. so the storm, you can see, the eastern eyewall is actually just away from the amami oshima island where james reynolds is located, right there, there is some promising trends showing some weakening continuing with this system. in fact the joint typhoon warning center official forecast has this going from a category 2 hurricane, equivalent, where it is now, to a tropical storm in the next 24 hours by the time it makes landfall across the korean peninsula into busan, west of that city. let's time things out for residents located across this region. we really have the worst of the weather impacting k ining kagos the kyushu islands.

we see the impacts from wind, extreme rain and storm surge threats across extreme southern portions of south korea. you can see the rainfall threat across this region in excess of 250 millimeters locally on top of what is already a very saturated environment. so flash flooding a big problem. you got to see this, do you know that the weather with this typhoon actually impacts and alters the weather on the western united states. so we're talking worlds apart here, and amplifying the jet stream allowing for the ridge to build over the western u.s., causing very extreme heat which, of course, has been a problem for the energy sector, pg&e saying if people, their customers, do not conserve electricity, they can expect rolling blackouts through the course of this long holiday weekend. many people want to get outside, and get relief from this heat, there is simply nowhere to go, overnight lows aren't dropping that low and maximum highs are getting to what should be middle of july values.

we have extreme heat warnings in place, but also with the dry conditions we have red flag warnings in place as well. you can see those any place across the entire western u.s. in fact, some fires have grown rapidly, including the creek fire. you have to see this video. this is coming out of the madeira county region in central california. look at the moment where these hikers were led through the explosive creek fire, getting led to safety by one of the park rangers there. incredible to see this video and quite a harrowing moment. they were safe, however. kim? >> good to hear they came out of it alive. thank you so much, derek van dam, appreciate it. well, hopes for a miracle were dashed saturday in lebanon. rescuers have declared there is no sign of life after all beneath a building that collapsed in last many's huge beirut explosion. they now say that the breathing that sensors detected in the

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