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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> welcome back. in ukraine, shelling has killed at least three people and wounded three more. this comes as western leaders say more sanctions against russia are possible if the conflict in western ukraine continues. a truck convoy sent over the border to moscow has now returned to russia. >> reporter: delivering its load, contents largely unverified to the town without international humanitarian escorts and without ukraine's consent, and then within hours crossing back to russia with a controversial new cargo. >> translator: trucks that entered the ukrainian territory under the context of being a convoy are loaded with modern radar systems and ammunition where light weapons is produced. >> cnn cannot verify the claim. but since soviet times, russia's defense industry has relied heavily on ukrainian military components. all trade ties central for putin served, at least officially, by this war. in kiev, merkel visited ukraine's president to talk peace. >> translator: we all remember the marshal plan f

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> now for the second time in two months new york police are dealing with a security lapse at one of the city's major landmarks. >> last month, a pair of german artists climbed the towers of the brooklyn bridge and replaced the american flags with white ones. >> this time around it was, take a look, this 24-year-old russian thrill seeker, you see him right there. he climbed to one of the top of the owers, snapped pictures with his smart phone then just climbed down. who was there to greet him? the police, he was immediately arrested without any trouble. >> he now facings several charges. no word on how thrilled the thrill seeker is with jail. >> was it worth it is the question? >> i don't know. >> well, you may know this if you're in the bahamas right now. a new tropical storm dumping heavy rains in your part of the world. where's it headed next? >> here's ivan cabrera who should have the answer for us. >> it could become a hurricane here because we've had only three storms so far in the atlantic season. we've had arthur, we've had bertha and n

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> it is perhaps hard to fathom, but aziza and her family wereucky ones. scores of other yazidis were forced to flee isis by foot, a brutal journey some would not survive. >> this unbelievable sight at the peshka river crossing between syria and iraq where hundreds of people were streaming across this dingy little bridge. >> it was this kind of silent procession of very tired and very sad people. >> we've been watching a stream of desperate families carrying little more than the clothes on their backs. >> i was about to do a live report with a crowd shuffling past. and some reunion happened there, some young, thin man with a beard i think saw his family. >> oh, this is beautiful. >> they clearly had been separated. he was there waiting for them. he just started weeping and embracing them and hugging them. >> i don't know. i just kind of kept crying over and over again. >> those people coming across were people who had just experienced all of that. and some of them had left their babies behind because they couldn't carry them anymore, or because t

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> we're back with "sgmd." >>> it used to be a fringe issue.ngress is looking at proposals to loosened federal laws against medical marijuana. one new bill would legalize a treatment i've been reporting on quite a bit. it's cannabis oil to treat seizures. let's talk about marijuana and your brain. it's a rather complicated process, so let's start off with what's familiar to you. thc. the chemical in weed that gets you high. you feel lightheaded, you feel giddy, sometimes relaxed. marijuana, you can smoke it, you can eat it in an extract of food. you can inhale it with a vapor can or consume it in an oil form. it's especially good for little kids who are taking it as a medicine. no matter the method, thc goes through your blood stream and into your brain. there it's going to latch on to these special receptors, when they're stimulated to release dopamine. it sends signals to various nerve cells all around your body and makes the user feel high. not all cannabis is going to get you stoned. it contains another chemical known as cbd. that's cannaba

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> let's talk about the ukraine, where officials in kiev now are saying a convoy of three multiple rocket launcher systems were brought in from russia to eastern ukraine. of course, this coming as the violence in that region seeming to just continue. cnn's will ripley is live in kiev. good morning to you. what do you know about this latest report first of all? >> good morning, christi. the report that came in overnight is the second report in three days of an armed convoy crossing from russia into ukraine. the first convoy were essentially armored personnel carriers carrying men with uniforms. this convoy, as you said, these grad systems, rocket launchers spotted by the ukrainegovernment and traced headed into the luhansk region, the site of tremendously violent and intensifying confrontation that keeps escalating. at the same time overnight christi, another new report that a ukrainefighter jet, was shot down. this is now at least ten planes the pro-russian separatists are accused of shooting down. we all know about mh-17 which really put this

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> let's dig deeper into the crisis and what the u.s. should do to quell. joining me is former u.s. national security advisor, brzezinski. let me start by asking you a simple question. should the obama administration describe what is happening in ukraine as a russian invasion of that country? >> i think we have to indicate that that, in fact, is our view and it is a view shared by much of the international community. the russian troops are crossing the border. the russian tanks are firing across the border and there they are. ukrainians who are pro russian being harmed by the russians. it is, therefore, a serious threat to piece. >> have we misread putin. have we misread his pain threshold? how do you view our kind of interactions? when i say our i suppose the western align's interactions with putin? >> there are two aspects to it. one, there is no doubt that what has happened in ukraine has been a major blow to his personal and international ambitions, namely to recreate something like the soviet union calling it a eurasian union in whi

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> back now to the continuing developments from ukraine. ukrainian military officials say a russian-built anti-aircraft system has shot down one of its military fighter jets in the eastern part of the country. nato says russian equipment has been seen inside ukrainian territory and it points to satellite imagery as proof. russia has something to say about that. bring in our senior international correspondent matthew chance in moscow. not just sergey lavrov, also vladimir putin just saying quite simply, matthew, these images are fake. >> reporter: well, look, i mean, every kremlin official talking on this subject is repeating the same line. despite the mounting body of evidence assembled the satellite images you mentioned released by nato, western military alliance, the detention of ten russian paratroopers inside ukraine earlier this week, who were interviewed and paraded on television, despite all of those aspects of evidence that have been compiled, the kremlin line is exactly the same, which is look, we're not putting troops into ukraine

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> the local police in ferguson have been accused of using excessive rubber bullets and tear gas. the state highway patrol says the violence must be broke. he walked along protesters to show he is committed to do things a different way. norm stamper is the former chief of the seattle police department. jason fritz is a u.s. army officer. norm, i have heard from cops from my show this week said the bad guys have a lot of equipment of their own. this is what we need to be competitive with them. what's your response? >> there are times and places and circumstances that demand the use of s.w.a.t. equipment and weaponry and tactics. no disputing that. armed and barricaded suspects and school shooter situations of any kind. on the streets of an american city day in and day out, appearing as military officers, military soldiers, i think is a huge mistake. the police in america belong to the people, not the other way around. >> people may recall your involvement in 1999 when you had to deal with the wto in seattle. i know, norm, you have the regrets of use of

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> marshall frank was working to prove james duckett's innocence but once he gained access to duckett's police notebook from the night of the crime, one particular entry aroused frank's suspicions. >> there were certain notation in his log at certain times of the night, traffic stops and all the little things that he did. everything was in normal order. but the jiffy stop check that he talked about wasn't in the same order as all the other loggings. and i thought that was odd. the way it was written. it looks as though it was put in there to establish the alibi. and i said oh, well, all right. i'm still pursuing this because i believe the guy is innocent. >> with the notebook entry raising his suspicions, frank decided to look more closely at evidence he had previously discounted including the testimony of three young women who said duckett had made sexual advances toward them. >> they all looked about the same age. they had similar physical appearance. they were slight of build, about the same length hair. they were all accosted by duckett and tak

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> hello again, and welcome to our viewers around the worldthe united states. i am isa soares and you are watching cnn. >>> a bold step by russia, the convoy that moscow claims is full of aid crosses the border into ukraine. and later, >>> wisdom, fear and anger from the children of ferguson, missouri. how the town's youngest residents feel about the turmoil that has put their town in the national spotlight. we begin this hour, though, in iraq. we warn you the video you're about to

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >> welcome back. a quick technical note.e senator robert menendez standing by in kiev. we're having a couple of technical problems. it will take a little bit to get him to. right now we want to talk labor day weekend conversation. it means it's time to get serious about the mid-term elections and 2016. potential republican presidential candidate rick perry is fighting a felony indictment alleging he misused his power as texas governor. that's never a big plus on the campaign trail but can perry make it work for him. i'm joined by someone who has been there before, former house republican leader tom delay. quite familiar with both politics as well as the texas justice system. congressman, thanks for joining me. is it possible for governor rick perry to fight these charges and still keep the light, a positive light on a presidential campaign? >> well, it's going to be difficult, candy. that's for sure. especially in raising money. people that may want to give him money will wait until this is over to give him the money or they

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> it's a familiar scenario, a black male dies at the handsf police, unquestionable circumstances, as in otheris dents, race has reared its head in the shooting death of michael brown. joining me, columnist and cnn political come nator l.z. granderson, political strategist tara wall, and actor and activist with "grey's anatomy" and also works with a civil rights organization. jesse, let me start with you. i always have great hesitation about these conversations. i feel like we have them all the time and they become placebo conversations. they do nothing. they move nothing, and then the next sentence comes up and we do it all again. what changes this kind of die na d dynamic? >> yes, i feel that's a reasonable sentiment, it feels like it changes nothing t moves nothing. police have been beating the hell out of black people for a very, very, very long time after the advent of the video camera and despite the advent of the video camera there are incredible trend of police brutality and killing in the street and justice isser in served. you can't

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> holy -- i don't know how you do this so much.viously danica patrick, that is why it didn't flip over. i had a chance to go around with her on the atlanta motor speedway at 145 miles per hour. when you are up on the track by the wayside by the wall, there's a slope there. when you are in the center, you feel like the air is going to come on the left side and whoosh. the nice thing about her is, a, she was doing it for a good cause. they didn't just take me around, she took around breast cancer survivors. she talked about tony stewart, who we know is racing for the first time since that accident where he killed a fellow race car driver. also about track safety. here you go. more of all of that with danica patrick. >> okay, talk to me about why this breast cancer campaign is important to you. >> i have been fortunate to do this at atlanta every year where i get to meet a bunch of guys and girls have had breast cancer or been affected by it. they are such a positive group. amazing how something is trying to take your life and make yo

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> horrifying new claims of mass murder and abduction by isissts to drive home the warnings of genocide in iraq. we are inside iraq with the latest. what are you learning, anna. >> reporter: we've heard from the kurdish regional government there has been a massacre about 40 miles south of sinjar where the yazidis fled genocide. 80 men were killed and 100 women kidnapped and according to our sources they say the women were taken away to become sex slaves. these are reports that are not the first to come to us. this is something that seems to be recurring. but despite the u.s. air strikes the isis militants are trying to make their advance across iraq. >> what is the latest on the humanitarian crisis? >> reporter: it's still very serious. we're with the governor of -- this region who is looking after all these refugees and he is completely overwhelmed. he says he cannot cope, does not have the resources, does not have the manpower to feed, shelter, clothe all these people. he says it really is a humanitarian crisis. and he was very critical of the

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my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> welcome back. we're live in ferguson, missouri. the people in this kotown demanding justice. the president is look for justice for james foley who was executed by isis. the threat from isis has grown so strong that pentagon officials tell cnn they're considering expanding air strikes against the terror group, not only in iraq, but also possibly staging them against targets inside syria as well. joining me to discuss this is the former attorney general under president george w. bush. an fbi bulletin was issued today saying at this time, there is no credible isis-linked threats against the u.s. yesterday, chuck hagel says the u.s. needs to, quote, get ready cht what . what is your assessment? >> this is a group that is intent on doing as much damage as it can, as quickly as it can, which is illustrated, of course, by how quickly its risen. they've done something that no other group has done, which is take and hold territory. by the same token, they want to lash out at the united states. that was clear with the murder of james foley.

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> the protests are thinning out here in ferguson, missouri.hot and killed by a police officer. this community has been outraged. overnight, it was peaceful. protesters on the streets, but there were no arrests. today, in a sign of solidarity with the people of ferguson, there are multiple rallies expected across the country, including one in washington, d.c. supporters of darren wilson, the officer that shot brown, are expected to gather in st. louis today. some of the supporters have raised more than $250,000 for his defense. we are also learning about the grand jury weighing in on the case. according to a st. louis administrator. 12-person panel. three african-american and nine other members. the troubles swell. another police officer, dan page, he pushed cnn's don lemon and protesters back. this morning, page, a military veteran and 35-year veteran of the force is on administrative leave. it is because of video surfaced of inflammatory comments he made of women and gays and president obama calling him an illegal l alien not being from the u

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> welcome back to "new day" saturday, here in ferguson, missourince again turned violent overnight. looters targeted the ferguson market. that's where michael brown allegedly stole a case -- packs, rather, of cigars in the minutes before he was shot and killed by officer darren wilson. that officer's name released yesterday. i want to bring in cnn shimon prokupecz, the producer who saw some of that unfold over night. shimon, to tell us what you saw. >> well, it was a remarkable scene, where basically dozens of looters were allowed to run free on the strip here. they looted several stores. one of which was a meat market. they went in, took bottles of alcohol, meat, literally, boxes up to their chin, just like stacked boxes of food. they went into a beauty supply store and broke through the window. a couple of them ran in, took out tons of stuff. and then ran into cars and sped away. at one point, we even -- saw team leaders carrying what looked like a tremendous size sort of industrial electric saw. two of them were carrying it. they put it in the c

my name is sydni and i'm your dividend. >>> pope francis has been facing criticism for not being involvedncis' envoy to the region. he is not unfamiliar with iraq. >> cnn has been looking into this. who is this cardinal? >> we don't know the details of what he will do when he finally gets there. this is more of a symbolic gesture after the criticism. the criticism the pope is facing. this is his answer. cardinal is 68 years old. a veteran vatican ambassador. he has had worldwide service from sri lanka. this is a move of solidarity. filoni was in iraq during the height of the violence in 2006. his residence was bombed by a car bomb. no one was hurt there. he has been seen by vatican analysts as somebody who quote did not blink when bombs fell on baghdad. christians have come under the threat of violence. a difficult situation there. now they are sending in the religious freedom as he is being called to hopefully show s solidarity with the community there. we don't know what he will do when he gets there. >> what will he accomplish and what will he offer to help to solve this and the people