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Captain, Engineer Arrested in China Ship Capsize; ISIS Delivers Brutal Blow to Iraq Forces; MERS Outbreak in South Korea; Two-Drug Combination Could Mark New Era in Cancer Treatment; Number-Two Man in FIFA Implicated in Scandal; Top Man at TSA Reassigned After Agency Fails Security Tests; Bruce Jenner Tranforms to Caitlyn Jenner; Weather May Have Played Role in Capsized Ship; Iraqi Government Investigating Order to Retreat; Iraqi Air Force Struggles to Contain ISIS; Violent Crime on Rise in U.S. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired June 01, 2015 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:10] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Hundreds on board a tourist ship that sank in the Yangtze and the ongoing desperate search for survivors.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, a new treatment that could provide a potent weapon against cancer.

VAUSE: The Jenner former known as Bruce, the record-setting Olympian, transforming into a barrier-busting icon.

ASHER: A warm welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

We begin with breaking news from eastern China. The captain and chief engineer of a ship that capsized in the Yangtze River have been taken into police custody.

ASHER: State media reported the ship went down during a storm as it traveled from Nanjing to Chongqing with about 458 people on board.

VAUSE: Meantime, rescue crews are racing against time to find survivors. Only about a dozen people have been rescued and five bodies recovered.

Let's get the latest from senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson.

Ivan, why have the captain and the chief engineer been detained?

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Presumably because under their watch, this vessel carrying some 458 passengers and crew capsized and sank. And as a result, there's this, you know, desperate rescue effort to try to find anybody possibly alive. Now, the CCTV, Chinese state television reporter on the scene just reported live witnessing divers pulling a woman from this overturned ferry boat, a woman that the reporter said showed signs of life. That's an encouraging report from the scene, now that you have rescue crews frantically trying to reach people who are on board this ship that overturned now more than 12 hours ago.

The captain and the first engineer have reportedly, again, according to Chinese state media, said that a cyclone hit the ferry boat as it was on this 13-day cruise down the Yangtze River and that the vessel then overturned within the space of about a minute. Well, according to the meteorologists, there was indeed -- at 9:00, 10:00 local time on Monday, there was indeed a cyclone at strength level of 9.2, which would lend credence to the account given by the two of, now it appears, some 13 people rescued from this ferry boat, the captain and the engineer.

Now, we've also just gotten reports that the Chinese premiere, he has arrived on the scene to personally oversee some of the rescue efforts.

And we've spoken with relatives of some of the passengers on board this vessel. Now, they were predominantly, John, senior citizens who were on tourism trip. You could buy -- according to the website of the travel agency that apparently organized the trip, you could buy tickets for as little as the equivalent of $160 to go on a three-day trip traveling up the river from the eastern city of Nanjing to the central Chinese city of Chongqing. And the vessel had made about half of the voyage before this disaster struck.

We've also gotten reports that the Three Gorges Dam on the river, that it has reduced water flow within the past couple hours to help assist in the rescue efforts there.

Live images from the scene show that it is foggy, but it does not appear to be dramatically windy right now. It doesn't appear there's a lot of rain. But of course, the rescue efforts, very, very difficult. Some of the images we've seen of people literally trying to burn holes with welding torches through the hull of the vessel to perhaps reach anybody alive inside, hoping, praying that people could be trapped in air pockets long enough for them to reach other people that could perhaps be rescued. So a very desperate rescue effort underway.

VAUSE: Very quickly, Ivan, to the captain and chief engineer, is there any suspicion that they were negligent in their duty, some kind of criminal negligence here. They're among a dozen people who may have survived this out of 458. It sounds a lot like the sea wall ferry disaster of South Korea just a couple years ago when the captain and crew survived but 300 others died.

[01:05:10] WATSON: I think it's far too early to make any accusations. But the fact that the senior members of the crew have been taken into police custody, that does suggest that Chinese authorities at the very least are investigating them. And after all, they're in charge of the vessel. This is a large boat with hundreds of people on board. Four stories of decks, of cabins above water that has overturned. Again, they argue that there was a cyclone that hit, so perhaps there was some freak weather occurrence that could have capsized a vessel so quickly. But there are going to be a lot of questions about how a ferry boat of this size could have capsized without any of the passengers and crew, without more of them able to escape in time.

VAUSE: OK. Ivan, thank you so much.

Senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, live for us there in Hong Kong.

Later this hour, we'll have a closer look at the water conditions that could have played a role in the ship's sinking.

ASHER: John, want to take you to Iraq now where ISIS has delivered a brutal blow to Iraq's offensive. Security officials say a suicide bomber drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base near Samarra. The explosion killed at least 34 Iraqi police officers and wounded dozens more.

Here's our Barbara Starr with more.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Air strikes by Iraqi forces against suspected ISIS militants designed to show Iraqi forces in the fight.

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STARR: But disturbing signs even in government-controlled Baghdad, the reality is different.

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STARR: ISIS claimed responsibility for two hotel bombings in the capital, unsettling residents in a city ringed by 100 Iraqi battalions, as many as 50,000 troops according to U.S. estimates.

COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON, RETIRED, U.S. AIR FORCE: The fact is that ISIS has a lot of momentum right now. We're dealing with a central government that has in essence practically lost control over large sections of the country and large sections of its armed forces. It's a very dangerous situation to be in.

STARR: From Fallujah and Ramadi in the West and Baiji and Mosul in the north, U.S. military officials privately acknowledge in these Sunni areas, ISIS has gained ground and is not on the defensive, as the Pentagon has publicly said.

ISIS's stockpile of captured weapons provided by the U.S. to the Iraqis is growing, Prime Minister Haider al Abadi said.

HAIDER AL BADI, IRAQI PRIME MINISTER: (through translation): We lost around 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone. And we're going to lose more tanks and Humvees.

STARR: All of this raising urgency at the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA about what happens if they cannot win against ISIS.

ASH CARTER, DEFENSE SECRETARY: On the military side, I actually have asked my staff before I left to look at what we can do to increase our enabling of Iraqi forces.

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ASHER: That was our Barbara Starr reporting from the Pentagon.

A little alter this hour, we're going to have a report from Baghdad looking into the limitations of the Iraqi air force struggling to slow down the ISIS advance.

VAUSE: A new poll finds Americas are dissatisfied in the campaign against ISIS, as they were during the Iraq wars at least. A CNN/ORC poll shows 61 percent think the fight is going badly. And on the question of a home=grown threat, more than three in four polled think that Americans affiliated with ISIS could help launch a major attack on U.S. soil.

ASHER: Two people have died from an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea. They are among 25 people confirmed to have been infected. Officials want to ban people exposed to the virus from leaving the country to, of course, prevent it from spreading.

I'm joined now by Kathy Novak. She joins us now from Seal.

Kathy, we don't know much about this virus. It was obviously discovered back in 2012. But we know that it is primarily spread through contact with camels. Do we know how the two people who died got the virus?

KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Those two people were linked back to the original person who brought the virus back from the Middle East. He had been traveling in the Middle East, came back to South Korea, felt ill, was hospitalized and then was diagnosed with MERS. From there, other people came in contact with him. These two people who died actually share add ward in the same hospital as the person that is being called patient zero. A number of other people who came in contact with him or his family members and friends have also been linked back to this man and have been since diagnosed with MERS. But since then, there have been two additional people who did not contract the virus directly from him. That's becoming a growing concern here because it means it is indeed spreading beyond this initial person.

[01:10:10] ASHER: Kathy, we know that South Korea officials want to ban people exposed to the virus from leaving the country, which makes sense. What else are they trying to do in order to contain the virus?

NOVAK: Yes, that ban is being suggested by health officials to the government because, as you know, about 700 people are being quarantined at the moment who may have come in contact with anyone who may have been exposed. And we know one person brought the virus through Hong Kong to China. And Hong Kong and China are countries that experienced the SARS epidemic. So there is alarm there that another respiratory illness has been brought to China. Here in South Korea, they have been stepping up the action on the part of the task force that the government has set up making sure these people are now being quarantined to try to contain it and stop the spread beyond the people so far identified. We are being warned that there are people on watch and that health officials do expect more cases to come out now.

ASHER: South Korean officials came under fire for how they handled this outbreak in the early stages. Let's hope they can contain it.

OK. Kathy Novak, live for us in Seoul. Kathy, thank you so much for bringing the story to us.

VAUSE: What seems to be good news now, a two-drug combination could mark the beginning of a new era in cancer treatment. An international study found the drugs can empower a patient's own immune system to recognize cancer cells and destroy them.

ASHER: It sounds very promising.

Here's our Fred Pleitgen with details.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Advanced melanoma is responsible for thousands of deaths around the world each year.

Pam Smith was diagnosed with skin cancer for the third time. It seemed she'd run out of options. Then she was offered a chance to take part in a new therapy.

PAM SMITH, CANCER PATIENT: The drugs have shrunk the tumor from nine millimeters down to four millimeters. Afterwards, they found light lesions on my lungs. Even they have shrunk now to tinier than a pinprick. Every time I go to the hospital now, they give me good news.

PLEITGEN: It's called immunotherapy and essentially teaches our immune system to attack cancer. In this case, the combination of two drugs were used in an international study which paid for by the drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Anne McCarthy, of Cancer Research U.K., explains how it works.

DR. ANNE MCCARTHY, CANCER RESEARCH, U.K.: One of them stops the cancer cells from hiding from the immune system. It almost unmasks them and unveils them. The other one works by giving our immune system a boost which means we have more immune cells to target these newly uncovered cancer cells.

PLEITGEN: In almost 60 percent of cases, the disease was held in check or tumors shrank.

MCCARTHY: It's offering new hope to patients with advanced melanoma, something that is massively needed. In general, it is exciting and this new result is very, very encouraging.

PLEITGEN: Even better news, the treatment could work against other forms of cancer as well. But scientists caution a lot more research needs to be done.

(on camera): Many of those who took part in the study had major side effects and the drugs didn't produce the same positive results in all participants. But those involved in the study believe there is a chance that immunotherapy could revolutionize cancer treatment.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, London.

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ASHER: We take you to the soccer world now where there are reports that the number-two man in FIFA has now been implicated in a scandal rocking the sports world. "The New York Times" and "Reuters" report that FIFA secretary general, Jerome Valcke, transferred $10 million to another official back in 2008.

VAUSE: Jack Warner, he is among 14 FIFA officials charged in the ongoing bribery investigation. The indictment does not say Valcke knew the money was being used for illegal purposes. Valcke has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

ASHER: Meanwhile, Prince Ali of Jordan says he hopes FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, will take responsibility for the scandal.

VAUSE: Yeah. And in an exclusive interview, the former FIFA vice president told our Christiane Amanpour --

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ASHER: Your sarcasm there.

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VAUSE: -- he would have resigned if he was in Blatter's position.

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[01:15:00] PRINCE ALI OF JORDAN, FORMER FIFA VICE PRESIDENT: I was obviously totally surprised. And I think it's sad for the world of football because so many great people out there working for the benefit of the sport. But for sure, obviously, if I was in his position, I would have immediately resigned and probably more so ages ago, because at the end of the day, this happened under his watch.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And what do you think? As you say it happened under his watch, what do you think about his defines in the face of these indictments? He's called it a little storm, not a hurricane. He's called it a hate campaign by the West, by the United States and Britain. Sour grapes, almost.

PRINCE ALI: Yeah, I think that that's sort of rather ridiculous. This kind of politicking is, again, one of the things that is really damaging for the sport as well.

(END VIDEO CLIP) ASHER: Prince Ali actually lost his bid last week to replace Sepp Blatter as the president of FIFA. Blatter ended up being re-elected to a fifth term.

VAUSE: Caitlyn Jenner introduces herself to the world. When we come back, the debut. The Olympic gold medalist set another record.

ASHER: Plus, #TSAfail is the butt of many jokes. But a new report on what screeners let through airport security is certainly no laughing matter. We'll have details coming up.

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[01:20:16] ASHER: Welcome back. Well, it was an embarrassing day for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. The top man at the TSA has just been reassigned.

VAUSE: It comes after an under cover investigation after they found agents were able to sneak mock explosives or weapons past TSA screeners almost every single time.

Here's Rene Marsh.

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RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION & GOVERNMENT REGULATION CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): TSA officers failed 95 percent of the time during undercover operations designed to test their ability to detect explosives and weapons at airport security checkpoints.

CHAD WOLF, FORMER TSA OFFICER: These are anomalies that TSA screeners and/or their equipment should locate and at least flag for additional screening.

MARSH: Teams with the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office posed as passengers and attempted to pass through checkpoints with mock explosives and weapons. A government official with knowledge of the results says TSA failed 67 out of 70 tests.

WOLF: To miss 67 out of 70 different instances is extremely alarming and I would say even dangerous.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am putting a detonator into the plastic explosive.

MARSH: CNN was there in 2008 for a similar covert operation. That time, it was TSA testing its own officers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can't see it.

MARSH: At the checkpoint, the tester is wanded and patted down where the fake explosive device was concealed, but the screener missed it. It's not until the tester lifts his shirt up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, I see it now. MARSH: The Department of Homeland Security says it, quote, "immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions, several of which are now in place."

WOLF: Is it the technology that's failing or is it the screeners themselves not following proper protocol? If TSA's screening equipment is failing and not doing the job, that's a larger systemic issue that TSA needs to address.

MARSH: Rene Marsh, CNN, Washington.

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ASHER: Certainly not very reassuring.

We want to tell you about a story everybody has been talking about. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, has introduced herself to the world on the cover of "Vanity Fair," and she's certainly getting a very warm welcome.

VAUSE: In fact, a record setting one. Jenner reached over one million Twitter followers in a little more than four hours.

Here's the details now from Randi Kaye.

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BRUCE JENNER, FORMER OLYMPIC GOLD SWIMMER: Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie.

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Caitlyn Jenner talking about her former self, Bruce Jenner, opening up about her transition during this two-day photo shoot with Photographer Annie Liebovitz for "Vanity Fair's" July cover.

JENNER: Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets. As soon as the "Vanity Fair" cover comes out, I'm free.

KAYE: This is the cover Caitlyn is talking about, a very different cover than Bruce Jenner's 1982 "Playgirl." We last saw Bruce back in April when he sat down with Diane Sawyer, his last interview as a man.

JENNER: My brain is much more female than it is male. It's hard for people to understand that. But that's what my soul is.

KAYE: Bruce had been taking hormones, had his body hair removed, his nose fixed and his trachea shaved. But it was his facial surgery back in March that completed the transition and Caitlyn's new look.

JENNER: I was probably at the games because I was running away from a lot of things. Very, very proud of the accomplishments. I don't want to diminish that accomplishment.

KAYE: That accomplishment landed Bruce Jenner in the history books. He broke the world record in the 1976 Olympics winning the decathlon at just 26. He was the guy on the Wheaties box. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ANNOUNCER: Wheaties is the breakfast of champions.

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KAYE; In this extensive 22-page cover story, Caitlyn reveals that during speeches given after the Olympics, she'd wear a bra and panty hose under her suit. Caitlyn also shares she suffered a panic attack the day after that ten-hour facial feminization surgery, thinking to herself, "What did I just do to myself."

(on camera): The article also reveals Caitlyn Jenner hosted girls nights where she could dress and feel like a woman. Even her daughter, Cassandra attended, telling "Vanity Fair," it felt like they could just be girls together.

(voice-over): To those who think this transition is a stunt for TV ratings, Caitlyn says think again.

JENNER: It's not about the fanfare. It's not about people cheering in the stadium. It's not about going down the street and everybody giving me a that-a-boy, Bruce, pat on the back. OK? This is about your life.

[01:25:15] KAYE: A life to be lived now as Caitlyn Jenner.

She posted this on Twitter, "I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her, me."

Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.

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VAUSE: And the reaction to Jenner's transformation has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. She'll receive the Arthur Ash Courage Award.

And Twitter has been abuzz with people showing their support. Lady Gaga tweeted this, "Caitlyn, thank you for being a part of all of our lives and using your platform to change people's minds."

ASHER: And the head of GLADD says, "By sharing her journey with the world, Caitlyn Jenner is accelerating acceptance of transgender people everywhere."

And Valarie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama, tweeted, "Nice to meet you, Caitlyn Jenner. The brave choice to live as your authentic self is a powerful example to so many."

VAUSE: OK, we have this just in to CNN. Britain's press association is reporting former liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, has died at his home in Scotland. His death is not believed to be suspicious, but still, not yet clear how he died. Kennedy lost his seat in parliament's constituency in last month's general election. He had been a member of parliament for more than 30 years and was just 55 years old.

We'll take a break. When we come back, the Iraqi air force stretched to its limits. We'll look at the challenges they now face and the ongoing challenges in the fight against is.

ASHER: Plus, an alarming statistic in the United States. Violent and deadly crimes on the rise. We'll have details on the other side of this break. Stay with us.

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[01:30:28] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back. You're watching CNN newsroom live all around the world. I'm John Vause.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Zain Asher.

30 minutes past the hour. Let's give you a quick check of your headlines.

In China, the country's premiere is now at the scene where a passenger ship capsized in the Yangtze River. The ship's captain and chief engineer have been taken into custody. Both claim the ship went down after being caught in a cyclone. 458 people were on board. So far, at least 12 have been rescued and five bodies recovered.

VAUSE: There are reports that FIFA's secretary general, Jerome Valcke, allegedly transferred $10 million from the Swiss-based association to another FIFA official back in 2008, and that official, former FIFA vice president, Jack Warner. He's among 14 officials charged in the ongoing bribery investigation. The indictment does not say that Valcke knew the money was being used for illegal purposes.

ASHER: Plus, an internal investigation found the TSA let weapons and explosives through airport screening areas in 95 percent of the undercover tests. The department's acting chief is being reassigned. And they've directed the TSA to make immediate changes. The full report is due out this summer.

VAUSE: A two-drug combination could mark a breakthrough in cancer treatment. An international study found the drugs can empower a patient's own immune system to recognize cancer cells and destroy them. The combination stopped skin cancer from advancing for almost a year in 58 percent of the cases in this study. But more than half of the patients did suffer severe side effects.

ASHER: Let's get more now on the capsized ship in China. Bad weather may have played a role in the sinking. Heavy storms were reported in the area where the ship went down.

I want to bring in CNN Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera.

Ivan, wouldn't they have known this type of weather system was moving into the area. I'm wondering if this could have been avoided in any way.

IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yeah, we don't know if they had weather instruments or what kind they had across -- inside the ship. But the captain certainly will plan out and take a look at what's going to be happening over the next few days with meteorological charts certainly.

Now, when we talk about a cyclone here, I don't want folks to get confused. It's not a tropical cyclone. It's not a tornado thing. It's a storm system rolling through the area. When you hear about numbers like seven, eight, nine, those are signals that signify what kind of winds you would be expecting. If there was a signal eight or nine, that would relate to winds anywhere from 80 to 100 kilometers per hour.

Look at the explosive thunderstorm activity. This is where it capsized there. And this is the satellite I'm showing you when it happened, a 12-hour loop. Certainly we had torrential downpours here. I think the key will be significant winds coming out of the storms which churned up the seas. I think that likely will have play add significant role. Investigation has to take place. Visibility may have also been an issue as well. 62 millimeters, that's significant rainfall in just a matter of time.

This is happening because this is the time of year where we have this front essentially that sets up across China. It extends from the Chinese provinces, crosses the East China Sea and heads up into Japan. And it rains buckets this time of year. And it doesn't end until late summer here. So we continue with the rainfall.

Now, over the next few days, we heard about the fog and some light rain out there. I think the heaviest of the rain will begin to push to the south along with the very gusty winds as well. There you see some of the wind gusts. If you get caught in one of those thunderstorms, you could be seeing wind gusts in excess of 80 to 100 kilometers per hour. That would be enough to get a boat, especially a small one, into a heap of trouble there. There's the front going a little bit further to the south. So the heaviest rain will go in that direction -- Guys?

VAUSE: Of course, we should note, this is a couple days it takes to go from Nanjing to Chongqing. One of the reasons why so many people were below decks is because the weather was bad, which is why it's so difficult to locate survivors. They are pulling people out, though. There are reports --

ASHER: 12 people rescued so far.

VAUSE: -- one survivor out from the capsized hull.

Ivan, thank you.

CABRERA: Thank you.

ASHER: Thank you, Ivan.

VAUSE: We go onto Iraq now. The battle against ISIS. The government there is investigating who gave the order for troops to retreat from Ramadi last month. [01:35:13] ASHER: Critics have said that the troops lacked the will

to protect the key city. But the speaker of Iraq's parliament tells CNN they were following a direct order. It's unclear exactly where that order came from.

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SALIM AL JABOURI, IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT SPEAKER (through translation): The military command present was speaking about the collapse in the Army and made a decision in a clear way to give the order to pull out. After that, Ramadi fell. And even the prime minister, and he's the general commander of the armed forces, was not aware of the orders dealing with pulling out. That led to a big question mark for us. Who has an interest in a direct way in the army not confronting ISIS. After that ISIS entered Ramadi and controlled it directly.

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VAUSE: And questions over the chain of command isn't the only challenge confronting Iraq's military.

ASHER: Right. Arwa Damon reports on the struggles the air force faces as it confronts an enemy that is constantly adapting.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Locking in on a single vehicle, the aircraft fires. In this case, a successful strike. But watch this other video. A direct hit to the front of the vehicle. Then, two men hiding in the bed of the truck jump out. Iraq's strike capabilities limited in their strength. And its air force, being rebuilt effectively from scratch, has just around a dozen fighter jets to cover multiple front lines with ISIS that stretch across at least a third of the country.

(on camera): We were just in the operations room where we were told that so far on this day there have been no air strikes. That is simply because of the weather. There is yet another sand storm blowing through. ISIS does take advantage of that. ISIS is fully aware that even with coalition support, there's still very limited air capabilities. So when launching an attack on a significant target, ISIS will open multiple fronts knowing they can't all be covered at once.

(voice-over): The coalition strikes are capable of significant damage. But when it comes to an adoptable entity like ISIS, even that can be mitigated, says Lieutenant General Anwar Hamed (ph), commander of Iraq's air force, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym, Daesh.

LT. GEN. ANWAR HAMED (ph), COMMANDER, IRAQI AIR FORCE: They using some civilian vehicles, they having themselves. They are moving, they are hiding themselves. They are using the new technical call. Sometime they are moving without any weapons.

DAMON: This is imagery from Samarra. Operators watch the aftermath of a strike on a single vehicle. "They are coming back. There are about 20 coming from the other side, one says." The suspected ISIS fighters swarm around. "We killed six of them in that strike. They came back to pick up the bodies." Under surveillance, the bodies are loaded and eventually driven off.

(on camera): Were you watching ISIS advance to Ramadi.

HAMED (ph): Yes.

DAMON: But if you saw them advancing on Ramadi, why was there no strike?

HAMED (ph): We saw them and we attacked them and we fight, we killed high numbers of them.

DAMON: How were they able to come from these open roads into Ramadi? That's what I don't understand.

HAMED (ph): I don't know. Believe me, they're hiding themselves in civilian vehicles. Now they are not moving with the convoy. It was many vehicles.

# (voice-over): It's painfully clear that the air campaign, coalition and Iraq, is barely causing ISIS to falter.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.

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VAUSE: Take a short break here in CNN NEWSROOM. When we come back, some of the biggest cities in the United States are suffering an increase in the number of violent crimes. We'll explain what's behind that.

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[01:42:31] ASHER: Welcome back, everyone. One American tourist on safari in South Africa is dead after a lion attack.

VAUSE: The lion park in Johannesburg say the woman and her companion were on a self-drive tour with the windows down in their vehicle and that is against the park rules. Paramedics were called, but they couldn't save her life. The woman's companion was hurt also trying to help her, but he is expected to live.

ASHER: On the heels of protests and rioting in major U.S. cities and anti-police protests nationwide, statistics show that violent crime is on the rise in the U.S.

VAUSE: CNN's Miguel Marquez takes a look at the trend in the U.S.

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MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Protests and rioting in Baltimore and Ferguson -- (SHOUTING)

MARQUEZ: -- anti-police demonstrations from New York --

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MARQUEZ: -- to California --

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MARQUEZ: -- and now worrying indications violent and deadly crime in some places on the rise.

In New York, a brazen scene. Police now seeking this man who fired off several rounds in Brooklyn's Bushwick (ph) neighborhood a 50-year- old man shot twice but survived.

And one of the nation's latest murders. This weekend, a 23-year-old from the Bronx in New York.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I saw a brother on the floor with a big hole where his heart should have been just pumping blood.

MARQUEZ: Police grappling with increased crime, worse in places like Baltimore that has seen so much protest and violence in recent weeks. The month of May in Baltimore, the deadliest in 40 years.

In Houston, murders up 54 percent year to year. In Chicago, murders and shootings up. In New York, where crime overall is also done, murders up nearly 20 percent. In Milwaukee, says the "Wall Street Journal," murders up a staggering 180 percent this year. The paper also says in Los Angeles crime is down, but in the South Central Precinct, shootings up 100 percent. And in St. Louis, next door to Ferguson, Missouri, reports of 70 homicides this year, up more than 30 percent.

Peter Moskos is a former Baltimore cop and current professor of policing.

PETER MOSKOS, FORMER BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICER & PROFESSOR, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: If there's a national mood that starts to see police as the bad guys, police as the enemy, responsible for these problems, it makes it a hell of a lot harder to police. One way cops deal with that is they just -- they stop policing those people.

[01:45:07] MARQUEZ: One example, New York City sharply limited the controversial police tactic of Stop and Frisk. At its height in 2011, nearly 700,000 mostly black and Latinos stopped and searched. So far this year, just over 11,000 total, but gun crimes in New York now up. Are increases in gun crimes tied to a sharp decrease in Stop and Frisk?

MOSKOS: It's entirely possible that stopping hundreds of thousands of people, which has moral and constitutional and legal questions, that is quite possible that it has a strong deterrent effect on people carrying guns. If we give that up and people start dying again, then we have to come up with a Plan B.

MARQUEZ: Miguel Marquez, CNN, New York.

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VAUSE: A Canadian judge is ordering three tobacco companies to pay $12 billions of dollars in damages in two lawsuits. Smokers who developed cancer and emphysema would each be awarded up to $80,000.

ASHER: The lawsuits claim the tobacco companies didn't do enough to warn customers about the dangers of smoking. The companies say they're going to appeal the ruling.

VAUSE: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Abercrombie and Fitch was wrong to deny a Muslim teenager a job because he violated the store's dress code.

ASHER: The court said the company failed to accommodate her religious needs, even if she didn't explicitly say why she wore the head scarf. Abercrombie and Fitch's lawyers say there was no way to know for certain if she didn't spell it out. This case has been closely watched by other retailers that have so-called "look" policies for employees.

VAUSE: When we come back, a big week here at CNN. We've been on the air for 35 years, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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ASHER: We're celebrating.

VAUSE: Boy, are we tired. Ahead, we'll look back at one reporter who's been here for almost all of it, and she's had a pretty good time throughout.

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[01:50:] VAUSE: Welcome back. The city of love is breaking up with a popular tourist attraction. Paris city officials have begun removing 45 tons of the love locks.

ASHER: Since 2008, tourists from around the world have placed locks on the bridge, including myself when I was very young. Some throw the key into the river symbolizing their eternal love. The weight of all those locks is causing the bridge to buckle. So they say they've got to go. There's mixed reaction.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It presents your love for each other. So we lock it on the bridge so that one would be together forever.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And strong.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And strong. It's quite a good thing to have Paris. People laughed when they heard we were coming. They said make sure you go to the bridge to put the lock.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If it's not good for the bridge, maybe they should take them down. There's so many wonderful things to see in Paris, I think it will be just fine.

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ASHER: Officials estimate more than 700,000 locks will have to be removed. VAUSE: End of an era in Belgium. The phone operator there has

dismantled the last of the country's phone booths on Monday. The company was allowed to remove them because the government says there's no need to maintain them. That's all because of the cell phone. Almost no one was using the good old phone booth. Only about 16 minutes worth of calls each month were being made from there. There it goes.

ASHER: All right. Celebration time. This week, CNN is celebrating a big birthday, 35 years on the air.

VAUSE: From wars to presidential elections to royal baby births, CNN has been there for it all. How much do you know about the network? You can test your knowledge on our website.

ASHER: There will be questions like, who was the first guest on "Larry King Live." Multiple choice, was it Dick Clark, Mario Cuomo, Don Rickles or Frank Sinatra.

VAUSE: I'm going to say Cuomo.

ASHER: Cuomo?

VAUSE: We haven't looked at these. Our producers --

ASHER: I'm just told by our producer that you are correct.

VAUSE: Thank you very much.

This is your turn. October 14th, 1987, was it Princess Diana's wedding to Prince Charles, the rescue of Baby Jessica or the "Challenger" exPLOsion.

ASHER: I'm going to guess the stock market crash.

VAUSE: I'm going to say Jessica, too. And it was Jessica.

ASHER: OK, I was wrong. OK.

Head to CNN.com and try yourself. You can see the highlights of some of CNN's defining moments.

Almost all of those 35 years, one reporter has covered the serious but most silly moments on CNN. ASHER: From traffic cones to war zones, to war zones, to calling a

president by the wrong name to his face, our very own Jeanne Moos takes a look back at her 34 and a half years on CNN.

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TED TURNER, CNN FOUNDER: Hi. I'm Ted Turner.

JEANNIE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Amid all the hoopla of CNN celebrating 35 years of itself, came this quiz question.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Richard Roth is the longest-serving on-air personality currently at CNN. Who is second?

Yes?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Larry King.

MOOS: Come on. Larry and his suspenders left CNN over four years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jeanne Moos.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Correct.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, look at you.

MOOS: Look at you. Look at me. I'm the one who's been at the network 34 and a half years, arriving at CNN for my first job in TV in New York.

Like my friend here.

Those pigs would prove prophetic. Animals have been a highlight of my CNN years.

(on camera): Have you ever committed adultery?

(voice-over): Some reporters pull out all the stops. I pulled out sharp objects at the Sword Swallowers Convention.

(on camera): No, no, no. I don't want to -- oh. He didn't want to but he did a great job.

(voice-over): In the early days of CNN, people called us chicken noodle news. I split my time covering both the silly and the serious.

(on camera): I'm Jeanne Moos, reporting live from the United Nations.

(voice-over): I've worn a lot of different hats, mostly to keep my hair down.

(on camera): And the wind just blowing it up.

(voice-over): One of my hairiest moments was when I mixed up an ex- president with a then current one. (on camera): President Reagan -- sorry -- President Nixon.

RICHARD NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I've been called worse than that.

[01:55:10] MOOS (voice-over): I got to pick a lot of my stories. Whimsical ones, like the life of a traffic cone, how they give up theirs to protect ours. And they spend their lives getting laid over and over.

(on camera): What is the life span of a cone?

(voice-over): Over the years, I've probably done thousands of MOS, man-on-the-street interviews.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You, on a world's most famous streetwalker.

MOOS: And while other reporters are out risking life and limb, I just risk limb.

(on camera): Seems to like to be mocked. OK, just kidding.

(voice-over): Jeanne Moos, still at CNN.

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ASHER: She's had a front row seat to all. She's seen so much in her time.

VAUSE: She was at the Tiananmen Square crack down in China. From a wide variety of stories.

ASHER: Thank you so much for watching, everyone. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: And I'm John Vause.

Errol Barnett and Rosemary Church will be up next with the latest news from all around the world.

You are watching CNN, 35 years young.

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