david mckenzie: i am david mckenzie, the digital projects manager. sarah jencks: and we are so excited to share a project with you today. we have been working for the last year and half to create "remembering lincoln." it allows us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can learn more about how regular people responded to abraham lincoln's assassination. david mckenzie: when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses s grant down at appomattox courthouse, and this is, going back and the moment, the first presidential assassination in the country's history. it is something that americans had never experienced before. they had also experienced four years of death and warfare. it was a terrible time. and it is really getting back into the moment is what we are trying to do here. sarah jencks: there is real value, we feel, and we have learned this from watching o

david mckenzie live from beijing. david, hat off to you and your team for sticking with this for so long to try to make this story happen for us. it is quite fascinating to see what china is working on. being up close up front with a new era of astronauts, anything surprise you about them? >> actually, it was really surprising, natalie. here in china, you very rarely get access to officials and even less frequently get access to military officials. all of the astronauts are part of the military, the liberation army, and senior officers at that. what surprised us, their person als came through. you had the joker. you have the female who brought a lot of during gruelling hours of training. they were passionate about wanting to work with other astronauts, particularly from the u.s. >> very fascinating story. i know that we will see more of it. thank you very much. david mckenzie live from beijing. can you see more of his story, "inside space city", at 12:30 in london. you're watching cnn newsroom. i'm natalie allen. geor

whatever they may be. >>> and we want to turn now to david mckenzie from beijing. david, do we have any idea of china plans to build many more artificial island. how are the other countries that lay claim to the island likely to respond at this point? >> certainly they're responding with a great deal of worry. particularly the philippines. in some cases vietnam. as i said in the report, rosemary, there are multiple countries claiming these islands. china is not the only one that its but resing or building out reefs to create territory. china certainly its more assertive in this. has been building as you saw there, rapidly island using huge amount of money. resources to create an island out of almost nothing. and it is clear, say analysts thament this on some level has the a military aim. so the worry is from the island, a way for schoin to assert control on what it says is its claims which effectively is the whole of the south china sea. puts more than a million square miles of key territory, potentially into, even more dispute. rosemary. >> it is a concern. intere

>> david mckenzie live from beijing for us. thank you very much. >> breaking news into cnn.cretary tells us three bodies have been found at what is believed to be the crash site of a u.s. military kopter. it was found in burned condition. it was carrying six marines and two nepali soldiers. we will continue to work the story and have more details hopefully throughout the day here and coming out but in the meantime a short break on cnn newsroom back in just a moment. introducing a whole new way to enhance your eyes. it's 1-day acuvue® define™ brand contact lenses. the eye enhancement lenses that comfortably accentuate your eyes' natural beauty. ask your doctor today about 1-day acuvue® define™ brand. >>> is this the back best backdrop ever, ever on cnn. >> like being on the simpson's cartoon. >> it is. voice actor harry shearer is quitting after 26 years. you certainly know his voice. >> and he is taking his version after few characters, including ned flanders and mr. burns with him. >> turning down a $14 million offer. you turned that same offer down with cnn. >> that's what

david mckenzie is covering it for us. s live now from beijing and a fairer international order. that sounds quite broad. what are they accomplishing there, david? >> a good point, natalie. the leaders are big on the statements an not necessarily big on specifics. they though they did sign 24 different agreements on a range of issues, mostly diplomatic from everything on space cooperation between the two rising space powers to increase support outside of the capital. they pushing this as a major break through. but certainly it is just an important meeting between the leaders of asia's two powerhouse economies. $72 billion in trade between india and china. that sound like a big number but most feel that could be higher if there was more investment in this. also, india has a trade deficit to china. certainly still an issue. overhanging all of this though i have to say is some of the things between the two countries. mostly because of a disputed border region that has been disputed for some decade. but isn't any nearer to bein

rosemary. >> david mckenzie. talking to me a short time ago. >> yes scored a victory on the battlefield. this one in syria. the terror group has taken control of the ancient ruins of palmyra. >> this comes less than a week after isis seized the iraqi city of ramadi. that has some questioning the u.s. strategy against isis. pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports. >> reporter: ramadi residents continue fleeing the city as isis consolidates its position. across the border in syria, the ancient city of palmyra with artisfacts dating back thousand of years in the hand of isis. experts fear scenes of look this in iraq when isis destroyed museum antiquities. >> caught in the cross fire for some time. the pentagon insists its anti-isis strategy is not changing. it will train iraqi troops, there will be no u.s. force in comb battle on the ground. >> what this looks like, in fact on the ground is containment. that's not what president obama says his policy is. that's not what he is selling to the american people. >>

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david mckenzie. watching that. very closely from his vantage point in beijing. many thanks. >> a busy day for david. we'll take a short break. when we come back on "cnn newsroom," royalty and stars, gathered in the french riviera for cannes film festival. highlights from the very first day. bulldog: get a queen serta set for just $397. save up to $300 on tempur-pedic breeze. and get up to four years interest-free financing on the entire tempur-cloud collection! the memorial day sale is ending soon. ♪ mattress discounters >>> the deadly train derailment in the u.s. city of philadelphia. we are looking at live pictures there. 3:38 in the morning. authorities have identified the engineer as 32-year-old brandon bostian. he told police he was not sure how fast he was going. investigators say he applied the emergency brakes just seconds before the train jumped the rails. police are in the process of getting a search warrant for his phone records to try to determine whether he was distracted at the time of that crash. >> former u.s. congressman pat wreck murphy was on b

david mckenzie, great to have you. >>> 55 minutes past the hour you'll soon be able to get your pizzaix without artificial ingredients. why even junk food is going natural now. next. >>> i'm christine roam mansion, let's get 'early start on "your money" this morning. u.s. stock futures barely budge. what a day yesterday, the dow fell 190 points. the worst day so far this month. the housing market is improving so is consumer confidence. that's supposed to be good news right? sort of it could mean an interest rate hike is coming soon from the fed. that was the problem in the stock market. >>> one crunch wrap supreme, hold the artificial blazers. young brands is cutting the artificial ingredients. young brands with pizza hut. and taco bell will follow suit by the end of the year. separately baby formula similac is launching a new product free of gmos. it's response to demands. >> let the babies decide. i don't think the babies have been outraged over the baby food have they? >> no just an interesting trend, all kinds of packaged food. fast food packaged foods moving away from some of the

cnn's david mckenzie, cnn, beijing. >>> a desperate situation for thousands of might go grants driftingt sea, first abandoned by smugglers, now dehydrated and hungry after three south asian countries refused to let them in. the u.s. is criticizing malaysia for pushing them out to sea. the united states is taking a more diplomatic stance to save the lives of thousands strandsed. cnn's ivan watson has more on the dire situation. >> reporter: desperate and adrift. the sounds from this overcrowded boat pretty much say it all. packed on to the decks and the corridor hold, hundreds of persecuted refugees from myanmar, swell economic migrants from bangladesh. they appear to be floating out here for weeks. they begged journal efforts on a nearby boat for help. alerted by reporters to their flight, coastal authorities from nearby thailand make an air drop. passengers hurl themselves into the water to collect badly needed supplies. some don't even wait before they eat. aid organizations warn thousands more people may face similar life threatening conditions on other boats in the andamman sea. >>

mckenzie in glasgow. these are live pictures of david cameron making his way to downing street. wonder if when he left he expected he would ever be back for a long period of time. it seems as if he will return and if the polling is to be believed. that the conservative party will have done much better than any of the polls before the election suggested. these are the scenes as we crisscross london following the conservative party around. let's talk about what the future for britain looks like with alan crawford. it seems we are facing to bump big x essential questions this morning. one is around the union and whether the u.k. can hold together and the other is the u.k. role in europe. all of these big questions being highlighted by the election results. >> on the one hand, david cameron is looking like he could have a majority. he has no fractious coalition to worry about, but at the same time he still has a large number of back ventures who will insist he follows through on his pledge of holding a referendum on the britain membership in the eu and that is hard to see as not dom

david? let us know. this is bloomberg "surveillance ." it is may 13. good morning. ♪ tom: thank you for joining us this morning. james with us from mckenziecchrystal as well. our top headlines. vonnie: in boston this morning the jury and the dzhokhar tsarnaev case will start its first full day of deliberations. the prosecution wants dzhokhar tsarnaev executed for the boston marathon bombing. his lawyers say he was radicalized by his brother. radioshack owns the name. -- general took over 1700 radioshack stores. a scary looking crash in indianapolis. but the driver walked away unhurt. he hit a wall. his car flipped. he was practicing for the indianapolis 500. those are the top headlines. tom: very good. coming up on bloomberg "surveillance" this morning, lots to talk about. we will look at the army with stan mcchrystal. we have our guest out with a new book. on to the mcchrystal book. somewhere is buried -- lima 2.1. what ever pros say. stand down. the helicopters ground to a standstill. so begins the most important chapter of stanley mcchrystal"s "team of teams." the summary the general as spectator and that is by far the most difficult s

david cameron is going to have problems with the euro skeptic wing of his party. guy: thank you very much indeed. stephanie baker joining us. let me take you to glasgow now and tom mckenzie're seeing here the seismic shift caused by the s.n.p. you're pitting the scottish voter, the anti-austerity vote from scotland against what we see to be the continued austerity vote for cameron and osborne. what does that mean for the business climate here in scotland? joining me now is the chief executive of the tabasco chamber of commerce. stewart, what can we read from the results? what does it mean for business? >> i suspect in scotland the reaction will be not dissimilar to the reaction against the u.k. a complicated outcome. what sorts of policies are going to be implemented for sectors like infrastructure or energy that depend on how investment is going to enbe encourage bid the government. there will be some relief for a chance of clarity. who'll be governing the country. >> is there concern -- the almost total grip that the s.n.p. has on scottish politics? >> i guess there is a couple of things i would say about that. firstly, they are probably used to the idea this was comin