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Hurricane Sandy Slams Cuba; Colin Powell Endorses Obama; Romney's Company to Outsource Jobs; International Opinion on Presidential Candidates; New Information on Benghazi; Spy Web Revealed; Sex Scandal Rocks the BBC; Kids Stunted For Live; Haitian Collects Paint For Poor
Aired October 25, 2012 - 12:00 ET
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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. We're taking you around the world in the next 60 minutes. Here's what's going on right now.
Hurricane Sandy gaining strength, moving quickly across the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea towards the Bahamas. The storm slammed into southeastern Cuba early today as a category two hurricane. Winds up 110 miles per hour. Trees are down. Power is out across parts of Cuba. A late season storm also brought heavy rains to Cuba's capital Havana. In Jamaica, sandy flooded streets, damaged homes, caused widespread power outages. At least one person was killed near Kingston. Another died in Haiti. Severe weather expert Chad Myers watching all of this, tracking the storm.
What do we think is going to happen? Where is it making its way next? Is it heading to the United States?
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes.
MALVEAUX: Yes, yes, yes.
MYERS: Yes, yes and yes, I'm afraid.
A couple of days ago -- we have all of our computer models running, the Hurricane Center does, 10 of them turning the storm out into the ocean. One model turning it back up toward New York City. We went, wow, 10-1. OK. Let's probably think the 10 is right. Not. It just -- hasn't how it happened.
Now, all these other models are turning the storm back toward the us. Not necessarily New York City. Anywhere from Canada to Washington, D.C., this thing could make landfall. But we wouldn't want any type of a landfall at 70 or 80 miles per hour anywhere from D.C. up through Massachusetts.
Now, it's not the perfect storm. It doesn't work that way. It's not a cold storm. It's not going to turn into a nor'easter, per say. But as a hurricane moves on shore, especially here in the Northeast, with cold air being dragged down into it from Canada, it could turn into a snowstorm as well, at least on the back side.
We are beginning to see the eye again. The eye went away as it crossed over Cuba. I saw 118-mile-per-hour wind gusts right there as it moved over the south coast of Cuba. There's Guantanamo Bay. Not that far away. But it did -- technically did a miss there to Gitmo.
Here we go here. The track is moving it very close to the Bahamas today and into Florida. The problem, it's already starting. The waves are going to be tremendous. The waves could be 20 feet along the coast of Florida. You need to be behind the sea wall. You need to be -- even through the parking lot. You can't be on the beach watching this storm. It's just too dangerous. The rip currents will just take you out. There's just no way to be surfing this yet. I know you want to get out there and do the waves. You can wait until the storm goes by. As the storm goes by, the waves will still be there, but the wind will be off shore and the rip currents won't be as significant. So that's at least something. Give it a couple of days to settle down.
And here's our cone now, Suzanne. Anywhere from the Carolinas all the way up even into Massachusetts or some computers taking it farther and farther. We talked about the models a little bit ago. Just give it a mention so I can show you because people love to look at these. We call them the spaghetti plots because they do eventually look like spaghetti. All week -- all week the storms continue to move this way into the Atlantic and die. Now all of the models are turning it someplace into the U.S. or even up toward Halifax, as far south as Norfolk, Virginia.
The model -- I think now -- now we know this is going to turn into the U.S. This is going to turn to a much bigger storm for Monday and Tuesday somewhere. Maybe even Wednesday if it's that far up into Halifax. It takes a little bit longer to get there, obviously. But an 85-mile-per-hour storm into New York City would be more deadly, would be more dangerous than even Irene from last year.
MALVEAUX: Wow.
MYERS: Which turned out to be a dud for the city, but turned out to be a huge flood problem for Virginia, and for Vermont and for New Jersey. And we could see a storm like this -- I know it's late in the season, but the water is still warm enough to make this storm generate. It went -- I was watch it last night from bed on my -- I was tweeting all night long.
MALVEAUX: Yes.
MYERS: It was like from 8:00 until 12:00. And this thing went from an 80-mile-per-hour storm to about a 115 as it left Jamaica and slammed into Cuba, and that was only in five hours. There's a lot of potential.
MALVEAUX: Chad, is it true that a late storm as well could be a lot deadlier, a lot more dangerous, late in the season?
MYERS: I would say an earlier storm, October 10th, that peak day with the waters the warmest, would be the most concerning. But I think people probably take it less serious. They think, oh, come on, it's November. It can't happen. There's not going to be anything bad. If you -- if you let your guard down and think that it's out of season, you're wrong. Look at the waves already. Look at the waves. Is that Miami?
MALVEAUX: Yes.
MYERS: Somewhere. Look at that.
MALVEAUX: Yes.
MYERS: The waves crashing on shore. That's why you can't even be on that little sea wall. You need to be behind it and in the parking lot. I don't even want you out there at all. Look at it on TV.
MALVEAUX: All right.
MYERS: Just watch some pictures on a web cam somewhere.
MALVEAUX: Take extra precautions. Thank you, Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
MALVEAUX: Presidential race, of course, now in the spring to the finish. Just 12 days to go until Election Day. For both the candidates, it's really all about the swing states. President Obama wrapping up a 48-hour marathon with stops today in Tampa, Florida, Richmond, Virginia, and Cleveland, Ohio. On the way from Richmond to Cleveland, he stops in Chicago to vote.
At his rally in Tampa, the President said Mitt Romney's policies have not worked in the past, not going to move the country forward. He revived his line and revived it. This line about Romnesia.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We joke about Romnesia, but, you know, all of this -- all of this speaks to something that's really important in this election. And that is the issue of trust. You know, when you elect a president, you're counting on someone you can trust to fight for you, who you can trust to do what they say they're going to do, who can trust -- that you can trust to make sure that when something unexpected happens he or she is going to be thinking about your families, your future. Trust matters. And, Florida, you know me.
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MALVEAUX: Mitt Romney focusing on the make or break state of Ohio today. He started with a rally just a short time ago in Cincinnati. Now his next stop is going to be Worthington and he ends today in Defiance, Ohio. Now, Romney revved up his supporters at his Cincinnati rally. A new poll showing President Obama with a five-point edge in Ohio, but Romney says the President has no plan to move Ohio and the country forward.
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MITT ROMNEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: The path we're on, the status quo path, is a path that doesn't have an answer about how to get our economy going, that doesn't know how to get the private sector to start creating jobs, or how to build more take-home pay. The path we're on has an economy growing more slowly this year than it did last year. And more slowly last year than the year before. The path we're on has the average income of an American family down by $4,300 per year over the President's term. The path we're on does not have new answers. The President has the same old answers as in the past. He wants another stimulus. He wants to hire more government workers.
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MALVEAUX: President Obama, today, picked up a notable endorsement. He is also going to bring out one of the big guns. Maybe the biggest gun on the campaign trail next week. For more on this, want to bring in our chief political correspondent Candy Crowley and also, of course, anchor of "State of the Union."
Candy, great to see you.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Suzanne. Good to see you.
MALVEAUX: A couple of things we noticed today making news. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announcing that he is also going to endorse President Obama again this go-round. Here's what he said this morning on CBS.
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COLIN POWELL, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Well, you know, I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012. And I'll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's an endorsement of President Obama for re- election?
POWELL: Yes.
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MALVEAUX: So, Candy, Powell, as former chair of the joint chiefs, also secretary of state, what struck me about his comments this morning was that he said, look, President Obama's got us out of one war, he's getting us currently out of another, and hasn't gotten us into any more wars. So it sounded like a dig, first of all, to President Bush, as the one who was essentially holding the bag when it came to the claim if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Do you think that Powell's endorsement now carries much weight?
CROWLEY: I don't think endorsements in general do, frankly. And I think the -- talking about the wars that he thinks President Obama has gotten us out of, et cetera, nobody dislikes war more than military men. So that doesn't really, you know, surprise me. But you're exactly right. He was secretary of state when the case was made to go into Iraq. A case that later proved not to be true.
So, I think that, you know, in answer to your -- the main question, endorsements just, at this point, I don't think do much for these candidates. It gets attention. And that's all they want at this hour. I don't think anyone looks at this and thinks, hey, Colin Powell's in, well, so am I. I think they think, right, voting is coming. I think it's about building up the excitement.
MALVEAUX: Purely speculative here, Candy, but go with me on this one.
CROWLEY: OK.
MALVEAUX: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, indicates, that she's stepping aside after an Obama term if the President gets another term. Do you think that because Powell has come out so strongly for him that he might get another shot to step in, an opportunity to vindicate himself in any way?
CROWLEY: I haven't the vaguest idea. I -- you know, I don't know if Colin Powell's even interested. I mean, he has an awful lot of things going on, in particular things that deal with education projects he's really into. We know that when he actually got out of the business, first military and then as secretary of state, we knew that that very much pleased his wife, who had been a military wife all her life. So, I don't -- I see that as a really long shot.
I also don't know that that's something, you know, President Obama will be looking -- there are a lot of people lined up for Hillary Clinton's job.
MALVEAUX: Oh, absolutely.
CROWLEY: So he would have to -- he'd have to stand in line with the rest of them. I'm not sure he wants to.
MALVEAUX: All right, let's talk a little bit about the impact of Bill Clinton. We learned obviously that he's going to be campaigning with the President on Monday in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. What do you make of the timing of this? These two emerging eight days from election day. Do you think it was smart to hold off and roll them out at the very end, or could they have been more effective together earlier in the game?
CROWLEY: I think this is smart. And here's why. Again, I don't think -- first of all, it's not a surprise that Bill Clinton is for Barack Obama this time around. And I think that now you have to remember all this early voting because the three places they're going to will all be involved in early voting. So it's not just about getting folks out on election day. So that that's Sunday and that Monday you're out there and saying, hey, you know, let's go out and get out and vote. I mean, Bill Clinton -- and it will be interesting to see where they take him, but I'm sure they're taking him to swing areas because he's very popular among swing voters.
So I think this is more about driving out this early vote that's going on in all three of those swing states. And I think you want to save those last couple of days for it to be your stage. Maybe with the guy that's on the ticket with you, but you want to make your own closing arguments. You don't want Bill Clinton making it for you. MALVEAUX: All right. Candy, good to see you, as always.
CROWLEY: Thanks, Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: This just in. former Vice President Dick Cheney, former President George H.W. Bush, they're going to be headlining major fundraisers for the Romney campaign. That is actually according to a source familiar with the events, telling CNN that Cheney, along with a talk show host, Glenn Beck, and entertainer Lee Greenwood, they're going to be attending this event in Dallas. And Romney attended two fundraisers with Cheney in Wyoming just this last July.
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan now campaigning this hour in Virginia. Now, Ryan is holding a rally. This is in Bristol, Virginia. He's expected to start soon. Of course, when he starts, we're going to take you live. You're taking a look at that picture there. And he's getting ready to speak shortly. We'll bring it to you live when it begins.
And, of course, it has all the makings of a movie thriller. A former Danish biker claims he infiltrated al Qaeda, helped the CIA kill a top terror suspect.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) is anything but the bad guy. You speak to workers and they say this is just the way of the world. China is an economic rival to the United States. It does export. It does manufacture. And, yes, it takes American jobs.
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MALVEAUX: An auto parts manufacturer in China is sparking a political firestorm here in the United States.
And --
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PSY, MUSICIAN (singing): Gangnam style.
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MALVEAUX: Seems harmless enough. The video. But it's banned in China.
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MALVEAUX: There's a city in China that's deeply involved in the U.S. presidential election. Most people living there, they don't even realize this.
Well, this is what we're talking about here. A two-hour drive from Shanghai, this is where the Chinese and American flags are flying over an auto parts factory. This factory is going to make parts that are now being made in the United States. The jobs are being moved to China by the company founded by, of course, one of those running for president, Republican Mitt Romney. CNN's Stan Grant has the story.
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STAN GRANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Do you know who Mitt Romney is?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no, no.
GRANT: You don't know Mitt Romney?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I don't know.
GRANT: They may not be up on American politics here, but these Chinese workers are in the middle of a U.S. political firestorm.
They're blamed for taking American jobs, shipped to China by a company started by Republican presidential candidate Romney.
Do you like America?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just so-so.
GRANT: Just so-so?
The American flag flies proudly here, but it's equally a symbol of Chinese power. It's one of the China homes of Sensata Technologies, an auto parts manufacturer owned by Bain Capital.
Workers in Freeport, Illinois, say this is where their jobs are going. Some are camping in tents, protesting the plant closure of the Sensata plant where they've worked for decades.
One-hundred-seventy jobs will be lost. The workers say they suffer while the company profits from cheap Chinese labor.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: November 5th is scheduled to be my last day after 33 years.
GRANT: Here, Sensata is anything but the bad guy. You speak to workers and they say this is just the way of the world.
China is an economic rival to the United States. It does export. It does manufacture. And, yes, it takes American jobs, however unfair that may seem back in the states.
It's determined by the market, this worker says. Job goes wherever labor is cheaper. It makes sense.
Workers say they enjoy good conditions here, regular eight-hour shifts.
How much money do you earn in one month?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a secret. GRANT: It's a secret.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it's a secret.
GRANT: You can you see where the money goes, though. Changzhou near Shanghai is a thriving city of five million people. Shoppers hit trendy new malls wearing the latest fashion. American business has been good for these people.
Back in Freeport, the future is not so rosy. Look around. There's no guessing who they blame. Mitt Romney left Bain Capital seven years before it bought Sensata, but this has become an embarrassment all the same.
Outside the Sensata factory, we meet some American workers in China on rotation from the U.S. They're aware of the row over jobs. Right now, just happy to be working themselves.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I enjoy my job.
GRANT: But for how long?
Stan Grant, CNN, Changzhou, China.
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MALVEAUX: You should also know that, according to "The New York Times," President Obama as a former Illinois state senator had as much as $100,000 in the state retirement plan that contains shares in Sensata Technologies.
We have heard Americans sound off, but what are people telling us from around the world about the U.S. presidential candidates? Well, CNN set up a camera, an open mike in the middle of Islamabad, Pakistan. Here's what they have to say.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My message to the U.S. presidential candidate is this. That please change your foreign policies, especially against the Muslim world. We are not terrorists.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Obama or anyone else, we want peace.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't care whoever coming or not. Just stop screwing with our country and our lives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I personally liked an American President like Obama to win this election.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is not clear. He is not clear on Israel policy. He is not clear on Middle East policy. He is not clear on Pakistan policy. He is not clear on Afghanistan policy. What he wants to do? He doesn't know. I think you should try Mitt Romney.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The war against terrorism or whatever they think should be stopped.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're (INAUDIBLE) Obama's policies. We're not very happy with whatever America has been doing, worldwide, to all of us.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think he needs to change his attitude towards us or he needs to go. Their foreign policy sucks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want peace in the whole world that there should be no drone attacks and no NATO forces in our country because it's Pakistan, not the country of the Americans.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not terrorists. I think you are terrorists in the name of you are killing innocent people by drones.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They must realize that we are going to have friendship with you, but don't kill us. No, we are not going to turn back. You think you are going to have friendship with us? No, not at all.
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MALVEAUX: Universally critical of the U.S.
The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, of course, a critical issue in the race for the White House. Well, now, CNN is finding out more about who actually might be behind this, the very latest from the State Department.
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MALVEAUX: The U.S. government is now drawing the clearest link yet between the deadly attack on the American consulate in Libya and al Qaeda. We are talking about, of course, the machine gun and rocket assault that happened on September 11th in Benghazi. Four Americans killed, including the U.S. ambassador in Libya, Chris Stevens.
Well, who knew what, when, just a part of this criminal investigation. It's become one of the most angrily debated questions in the Presidential election.
Want to talk about this new al Qaeda connection with our foreign affairs reporter, Elise Labott.
Elise, good to see you. First of all, U.S. intelligence officials now say that they've got -- they had signs of al Qaeda involvement, but now they're even more convinced. Why such a strong case now? What have we learned?
ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, we've been reporting over the last 24 hours, and our intelligence correspondent, Suzanne Kelly, and producer Pam Benson have been told that they believe -- we had early signs early on that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, this al Qaeda affiliate that's been operating in North Africa was involved. But now we have new information that al Qaeda in Iraq, that's the group that was in Iraq and had been weakened over the last couple of years, was also involved in this kind of group of insurgents and extremists that launched this attack against the consulate.
There are about 40 guys, and we believe that there's some in al Qaeda in Iraq, some in al Qaeda in the Maghreb and also some from this affiliated group, Ansar al-Sharia. So, a real loosely band of extremist groups.
MALVEAUX: What is the significance of that when have you these different branches of al Qaeda coming together for one attack? Does that seeming even more ominous, more dangerous in terms of a national security perspective?
LABOTT: Well, there's no evidence to know -- to see that all of these groups are kind of operating in coordination with each other.
You remember that, in the war in Iraq, a lot of foreign fighters from Libya went from Libya to Iraq to fight against U.S. troops there, so it's possible that some of them came home, they have a cousin that's in a different group and, so, there's no indication that there's one big group working together, but it does show that these al Qaeda affiliates -- we used to be real worried about the al Qaeda core in Pakistan, but now you see this proliferation of groups throughout the Middle East, and al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula in Yemen, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
It just shows that this proliferation of groups is also very threatening to U.S. security interests.
MALVEAUX: So, Elise, we know there's at least one suspect that's in custody in Tunisia, believed to be involved in that attack.
Does the FBI or CIA, do they even have access to them? Are they able to interrogate or question this suspect and learn any more information about what has happened?
LABOTT: Well, we're talking about this guy whose name is Ali Ani al- Harzi and he is being held in Tunisia. He had left Libya for Turkey, was picked up there, and then handed to the Tunisians, and the U.S. does expect to have access to him at some point.
They're talking to the Tunisians about this, negotiating with the Tunisians, but there's also negotiations within the United States about various intelligence agencies, the FBI -- the FBI leading the investigation.
Certainly, the CIA and other intelligence agencies want to be in the room and have access to him, too, but they do think at some point they'll be able to question him.
MALVEAUX: All right, Elise Labott. Thank you, Elise. Appreciate it.
Danish secret agent, a pretty blonde and a plot to capture or kill one of al Qaeda's most wanted. It is a story that is stranger than fiction.
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MALVEAUX: It was a mission of American-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, to rage a violent jihad against the United States, but it was his mission to marry a Danish woman with the help of a Danish double agent that led to his downfall.
Al-Awlaki was actually killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen. That happened September 2011.
Well, now, double agent Morten Storm is detailing the spy web that led to his death. CNN international correspondent Nic Robertson reports from Copenhagen.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Meet Agent Storm, Morten Storm.
PIERRE COLLIGNON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, "JYLLANDS POSTEN": He is very a likable person, and he seems to me like a chameleon.
MAGNUS RANSTORP, RESEARCH CHIEF, SWEDISH DEFENSE COLLEGE: He has really been a double or triple agent, so to speak.
ROBERTSON: A former biker, he became a militant Islamist, visited Yemen several times and befriended a man who would become one of al Qaeda's most wanted, cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Then he changed sides and turned secret agent. Storm says he worked for the CIA and Danish intelligence services.
RANSTORP: It's such an unusual story because it is so rare that two services completely mishandle, misjudge him.
ROBERTSON: In the movie, James Bond never gives up his secrets, but Storm is telling it all to the Danish newspaper, "Jylllands Posten."
COLLIGNON: He called our main number and got started to explain his story.
We were all a bit scared that this could be some kind of a weird threat.
We did set up the first meeting one night in a -- on a dark parking lot.
ROBERTSON: A story that includes his part in a CIA plot to track down al-Awlaki by finding him a young, blonde, European wife.
ROBERTSON: Storm says he was paid a quarter of a million dollars to set up al-Awlaki's wedding.
He describes meeting a man he calls a CIA agent at this hotel in a Copenhagen suburb, June 9th, 2010. He says the agent gave him a briefcase. It was locked. He asked for the combination. The agent told him 007.
Storm says he opened the case. Inside, he found $250,000 in cash.
To back up his claims, Storm not only had a photo of the case of cash, but this matchmaking moment.
ANWAR AL-AWLAKI, U.S.-BORN TERRORIST: This recording is done specifically for sister Amina at her request and the brother who's carrying this recording is a trustworthy brother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE), brother. It's me, Amina, and I just want to tell you that right now I feel nervous and this is very awkward for me, so I just tape this just to see that you can see how I look.
COLLIGNON: When I watched this tape of video marriage proposals from an al Qaeda leader and this woman's answers, I thought, well, this story is impossible to deny.
ROBERTSON: Storm says the CIA sent him to Vienna to meet Amina, the Croatian convert to Islam. He gave her a suitcase with a secret tracking device in the handle and got her to Yemen to meet al-Awlaki. He has the hotel bills to prove it.
COLLIGNON: They are paid by a company that we know is a Danish secret service company.
ROBERTSON: And there is more. Storm hoarded a trove of documents, including secret coded communications with al-Awlaki, even this, a photo he says that shows him with his intelligence handlers in a hot tub in (INAUDIBLE).
His revelations, however, are not to everyone's taste.
RANSTORP: It brings danger to, I think, Denmark. It also exposes the very essence of intelligence services and that is means and methods. They never discuss means and methods.
ROBERTSON: So far, U.S. officials here in Denmark have offered no explanation about Morten Storms' claims and certainly no acknowledgment of the CIA agents he claims to have met, Michael, Alex, Jed, and George.
Storm says his final mission was to take a USB thumb drive to Yemen for al-Awlaki. Inside it a CIA tracking device. He handed it off to an al Qaeda courier. Within weeks, al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike.
A week after al-Awlaki was killed, Storm was angry with the CIA. He felt they had let him down. Danish intelligence agents convinced him to come to a meeting here, the Marion West Hotel on the seventh of October of 2011.
Storm was recording the meetings. He met with a CIA agent named Michael. Michael told him, President Obama knows about you, that important people are aware of what you are doing and we are grateful. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): It's against your honor as Americans, as the super power of the world ...
ROBERTSON: The recordings reveal Storm wanted credit for killing al Al-Awalaki, but Michael told him a parallel operation was responsible. The meeting was a watershed.
RANSTORP: They lost control of him and they now have to sort of sweep up the mess that he has left behind.
ROBERTSON: Now, Storm is in hiding. CNN has been in contact with him.
COLLIGNON: He realizes, of course, that he is in danger, but he also strongly believes that he has been in danger for years and his analysis is that going public is not worsening his security situation.
ROBERTSON: But his life as a double agent is surely over.
Nic Robertson, CNN, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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MALVEAUX: He was an icon in the U.K., but now an investigation of this late TV star threatens the image now of the BBC. Police say he might have molested as many as 300 children.
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MALVEAUX: Sexual abuse scandal is rocking the BBC. It is growing, now, even bigger.
Scotland Yard just revealed the number of people allegedly molested by BBC star Jimmy Saville is about 300.
Saville was like a British version of our Dick Clark. He died a year ago at the age of 84.
Well, he allegedly molested children for almost 40 years at hospitals he visited and on BBC property.
Now, the allegations, they're shocking the country, but some BBC executives, rather, they're not all that shocked because they have heard about the abuse claims last year on their own documentary about him.
Dan Rivers has the story.
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JIMMY SAVILLE, DECEASED BBC STAR ACCUSED OF CHILD MOLESTATION: We're already. Here we go for a warm-up right now.
DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You might not have heard of Jimmy Saville, but in Britain he was a household name, a BBC TV presenter, disk jockey, charity fundraiser, eccentric, yes, but a pillar of society, even knighted by the Queen for his good works.
But now, his image is utterly shattered. After his death a year ago, dozens of women and some men have come forward to say they were sexually abused by him when they were children.
The claims were first recorded by a BBC reporting team who were preparing an expose on their own star.
KARIN WARD, ALLEGED VICTIM OF JIMMY SAVILLE: He promised me that if I gave him oral sex that he would arrange for me and my friends to go to television center and to be on his television show.
RIVERS: But what makes this story even worse is that the BBC then axed this damning report from its "News Night" program, instead, airing a glowing tribute to Jimmy Saville, the day after Christmas.
That decision is now the subject of intense scrutiny. The BBC is in turmoil as it investigates itself and it's still not clear why the program was axed.
George Entwhistle who has been in charge for less than two months insists there wasn't, saying Saville was the one covering things up, not his BBC colleagues.
The BBC's boss from 2004 until last month was Mark Thompson. He is about to become the head of "The New York Times." On October 13th in a statement he claimed, "During my time as the director general of the BBC, I never heard any allegations or received any complaints about Jimmy Saville," but now his story has changed.
He is now admitting he was told the BBC was investigating Jimmy Saville by a colleague at a party. He then reported that conversation to other BBC managers and was told the story was not going to run, quote, "for journalistic reasons." He insists he handled the matter properly.
The claims against Saville will remain only claims since his death precludes any prosecution, but the BBC says similar claims of sexual harassment against other current employees, some famous, are also being investigated.
Bad news for "The New York Times," bad news for the BBC and perhaps more bad news yet to emerge. The number of victims coming forward is growing every day.
Dan Rivers, CNN, London.
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MALVEAUX: The Muslim holy holiday of Eid begins tomorrow, and while there might not be celebrations in Syria, there is something else that might happen, a ceasefire.
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MALVEAUX: A ceasefire in Syria -- that is hard to believe. It might actually happen, though, at least for a few days. And only with some conditions.
So the Syrian government today said that the military, it's going to stop fighting. You're not going to hear all the shelling that's happening beginning tomorrow morning and lasting until Monday. Now, that was a deal that was brokered by U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. A ceasefire during this weekend's Muslim holiday. On Syrian state TV a short time ago, the government said there will be a military response if rebel fighters attack. Also on state TV today, rebel prisoners were shown walking out of jail. It is a prisoner release that the Syrian government says is a goodwill gesture.
Well, the pope's former butler is expected to be moved from house arrest to a Vatican jail cell. That is happening today. Paolo Gabriele, he was convicted earlier this month of stealing confidential papers from Pope Benedict's private apartments and leaking them to the media. Well, he was sentenced to 18 months, and Gabriele's attorneys, they decided not to appeal the sentence. But he could still ask the pope for a pardon.
And we take freedom of speech for granted here, but a Chinese artist and a dissident who says that he loves to irritate the Chinese government is doing it again. He's going to do something kind of bizarre.
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AI WEI WEI, CHINESE ACTIVIST: Gangnam style. Gangnam style.
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MALVEAUX: So, who is this guy? He is Ai Wei Wei. He's a well-known artist, a filmmaker, a government critic who was thrown in jail in China last year. Well, he's now out of prison, apparently going "Gangnam Style," you know it, dancing, rapping to the YouTube video there. He says that he and his friends, they're just having fun, but China's Internet censors are not really amused by all this. The video has been removed from many China-based video hosting sites.
And millions of children, they are threatened by it, a condition that is called stunting. We're going to tell you what that is and what can be done about it.
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MALVEAUX: Want to tell you about a hidden tragedy that is affecting children around the world. It is called stunting. It is a developmental disorder that dramatically limits a child's physical and mental growth. The cause is simple: it's malnutrition in the first three years of life. One hundred and sixty-five million kids under the age of five are affected; most of them are in Asia and Africa.
David McKenzie, who traveled to Kenya where one in three children suffers from this devastating condition.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Driving deep into Samburu land in northern Kenya. This is an enclave of the Turkana, pastoral people barely surviving. Grammy Award winning artist, Angelique Kidjo, made the journey to witness what UNICEF is calling a silent tsunami -- hunger.
MARGERY KABUYE, UNICEF: She can't go through this again. She has to eat well.
MCKENZIE: Ingamoni (ph) is 21 months old, but he can't walk or even crawl. He's afflicted with stunting.
KABUYE: She has to receive something today. We have to give her something today for her to eat and for her kids to eat.
MCKENZIE: Stunted growth is caused by a lack of key nutrients or immunizations in the first two years of a child's life. Stunted children are smaller. They don't live as long. They can have serious cognitive impairment and are more susceptible to disease. It's devastating millions of families in Kenya.
NIMEORI EWOI, MOTHER (through translator): It's hard raising a child because of the way this place is. If it was just starvation, we would be able to survive. But when a child is sick, then we can't cope because we keep going to the hospital.
MCKENZIE: She says they've run out of food aid and repeated cattle raids and droughts have decimated their livestock.
(on camera): When times are tough, they depend on ela mash (ph), this wild fruit, but it has very little nutritional value, especially for children. A third of kids in Kenya are stunted and that has huge implications for the country.
MCKENZIE (voice-over): The Kenyan government estimates that malnutrition will cost its economy $38 billion in the next two decades.
KABUYE: Stunting is permanent. So if the child is stunted, that means they'll grow up to be a stunted adult. We were looking at the stunted children who are not even able to perform well in school. Then that means we will not be able to raise up a society that is actually very well educated.
MCKENZIE: Despite the huge human and economic affect, critics say governments and aid organizations aren't doing enough to get crucial nutrition to children at an early age when stunting can be prevented. For an African artist like Kidjo, it's deeply disturbing.
ANGELIQUE KIDJO, UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: Sometimes I get angry and frustrated, I really do, because there are solutions. But the way of using the solution is always too much wrapped in political reasons. I know the resilience of my people, and I know that if we empower the people, we educate the women, Africa will be transformed within 10 years. And the fact that we are not -- the leaders of Africa are not making prompt changes fast enough for the people is something that is just -- I can't take it. It just eat me from inside.
KABUYE: We're still the same community. We still have children who are stunted and children who are not stunted.
MCKENZIE: Tragically, the solutions to stunting are simple -- breast feeding, immunizations, adequate nutrition and access to health care. Where governments have failed, some others are succeeding, organizing women's groups to educate each other about raising healthy children. The knowledge transforms the lives of these mothers and their families. But for Ingamoni (ph) and millions of other children, the knowledge and help came too late.
David McKenzie, CNN, Marti, Kenya.
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MALVEAUX: He is a man with a mission. He wants to brighten up the world. And what do we mean by that? Well, literally brighten it up. We're going to show you how you can help.
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MALVEAUX: A young Haitian man, he was so inspired by the colorful homes that he actually saw on a visit to south Florida -- you know those homes -- he decided to start a paint charity. Now, the paint he collects in Atlanta goes to beautify communities actually in the developing world. See why he says a coat of paint actually matters.
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MALVEAUX (voice-over): Rony Delgarde wants your paint. He already has three storage units full, but he's still collecting more.
RONY DELGARDE, FOUNDER, GLOBAL PAINT FOR CHARITY: Paint, oh.
MALVEAUX: Delgarde is the founder of Global Paint for Charity in Atlanta. He picks up paint donations from homeowners and businesses who want to recycle their paint. They're happy to donate it, and Delgarde is thrilled to get it.
DELGARDE: Wow.
ED SPENCER, GLOBAL PAINT DONOR: We're cleaning out part of our basement to put some other things in there, and we had this paint and we didn't know what to do with it.
MALVEAUX: Delgarde's obsession with paint began 12 years ago when he came to the United States from Haiti.
DELGARDE: Look at those stars. My first day of the United States, oh, thank God. I landed at Miami International Airport. I saw so many beautiful painted house in Florida. The people paint their house yellow, red, white, blue. Wow. Just so much paint in this country. I said, well, when I get money in this country, I'm going to buy paint and take paint back home. MALVEAUX: And from that idea Global Paint Charity was born. Delgarde collects people's leftover paint, reprocesses it, and ships it to organizations in developing countries.
DELGARDE: For every gallon we recycle, we can change people's life in Africa, we can change people's life in Haiti, all over the world, and to beautify their homes, beautify their communities, and change the world with one gallon of paint at a time.
MALVEAUX: And that's exactly what he's done, donating 6,000 gallons of paint so far to Haiti, Kenya, and Uganda. He's recently returned from Equatorial Guinea, where he donated 200 gallons of paint to an orphanage for children who lost their parents to HIV AIDS.
DELGARDE: We look at schools, hospitals, churches, and family homes who are not painted. And they touch my heart to see the (INAUDIBLE) on the walls.
