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Charleston Shooting Victims Remembered; Crowds Gather Outside Church To Show Support; 911 Caller Speaks Out About Tip Call; Reports: Explosion, Gunfire Outside Afghan Parliament; EU Official: Greek Proposal "Good Basis For Progress"; A New Blueprint For The Battle Against ISIS; A Young Man Driven By Hate; Japan Votes To Ease Dancing Ban. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired June 21, 2015 - 03:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Trying to heal. The Emanuel AME Church reopens after the shooting on Wednesday. An emotional service shows the wounds are still fresh.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Every victory counts, the fight against ISIS may be taking a turn for the better. We will bring you an exclusive report on the progress made so far.

CHURCH: And let's makes a deal, the Greek government offers new proposal to cut its debt in a last minute effort to avoid default.

Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. Your last hour of the day with us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

Prayer, healing, and support, that was the focus Sunday as the city of Charleston mourned the victims of last week's mass shooting.

CHURCH: It has been five days since nine people were gunned down at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church. Thousands of people took part in a sunset march across the city's longest bridge in a sign of solidarity and resolve.

BARNETT: Meanwhile, the confessed gunman, Dylann Roof, is behind bars. Sources say he told investigators that he wanted to start a race war. Prosecutors may seek the death penalty. But members of the church where the shooting place are pouring their energy into healing and supporting one another.

CHURCH: The nine victims were all devoted to the church and to their families.

BARNETT: CNN's Andy Rose gives you a closer look now at how they were remembered on Sunday.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDY ROSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Church bells rang throughout Charleston on Sunday morning, a sign of solidarity with Emanuel AME Church. Emanuel's parishioners held their first service since a mass shooting left nine church members dead on Wednesday. Inside the theme was healing, not hate.

REVEREND NORVEL GOFF SR., EMANUEL AME CHURCH: We have shown the world how we as a group of people can come together and pray and work out things that need to be worked out.

ROSE: Emanuel's pastor, the Reverend Clemente Pinckney, was one of the shooting victims. His chair draped in black during the service. The Reverend Norvel Goff led the congregation.

GOFF: Through it all, God has sustained us and has encouraged us.

ROSE: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley attended. Reverend Goff thanked the community for its support including police. Earlier Sunday, victim, Cynthia Hurd's brother said he felt joy following the tragedy.

MALCOLM GRAHAM, BROTHER OF CYNTHIA HURD: She is at peace. She lost her life in the church and today she celebrates.

ROSE: Referencing the racist motives behind the massacre, Reverend Goff said that time to address problems like that is in the future.

GOFF: And now it's a time for us to focus on the nine families.

ROSE: I'm Andy Rose reporting.

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CHURCH: Condolences have been pouring into Charleston from around the world.

Right outside the church, flowers and notes have been piled up and people gathered to sing and pray. CNN's Nick Valencia has more.

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NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Today was just another example of this community's integrity and grace dealing with extraordinary circumstances in stride. We saw hundreds fill the pews of Emanuel AME Church. Outside, more of the same, hundreds braved the heat to come out to show their respect to the nine innocent lives who were lost.

Let me show you exactly what we mean. This memorial started as a bundle of flowers at the corner behind the crime scene tape. As soon as the street was opened up you saw people come from all over, not just here in South Carolina but all across the United States.

We spoke to a couple who came from as far away as France to pay their respects to what happened here on Wednesday night.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are here to join the people of this church and the United States to give praise to God and welcome his people who are now with him and we know that only love can drive out darkness. Only love can drive out hate. That's why we are here.

No matter where we come from, no matter where we are, but we have just to keep praying and to ask for God healing and to keep strength in this difficult time.

[03:05:07] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We pray for the past whoever passed away and all of the members. To us, it's very touchy and that's what we're here for. And I hope that God will bless them and the family members as well.

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VALENCIA: The messages of healing apparent, people have written messages here. Some saying love wins, hate will not conquer. R.I.P. to those victims. And these conversations have just begun.

The hope in this community is that this unity which is so apparent here, that it doesn't just last for the day, that this continues to be something that people talk about long after the cameras leave.

There is a lot of healing still yet to be done, but those conversations here are just beginning. Nick Valencia, CNN, Charleston, South Carolina.

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CHURCH: To another story we are following, the intense manhunt for two escaped prisoners has just shifted to an area not far from the maximum security prison they escaped from.

BARNETT: Police set up a command post in Owl's Head, New York late Sunday night to search for Richard Matt and David Sweat. The mountain area is popular with hikers and police are using all-terrain vehicles to get around there.

CHURCH: They are searching west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York and tactical units from Vermont, which is a neighboring state are helping New York officers.

BARNETT: Over the weekend, the search was focused on another area, Allegany County, New York, that is southwest of the prison.

CHURCH: And police were led there by a 911 call. A woman said she thought she thought she may have spotted Matt and Sweat near her house. Sarah Blazonis, from CNN affiliate, Time Warner Cable News, Buffalo has more.

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SARAH BLAZONIS, TIME WARNER CABLE NEWS REPORTER (voice-over): Not too many people trek through this field along county Route 20.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In ten years I've seen two people walk down through there.

BLAZONIS: Brandy Thompson is not likely to forget the most recent two. She was leaving her barn on Saturday afternoon when her dog began barking in the direction of the train tracks behind her house.

BRANDY THOMPSON, MAY HAVE SPOTTED ESCAPED CONVICTS: A man with a scruffy beard and hoodie was working up the tracks. My dog started barking and he pulled up his hoodie and did not want to be seen.

BLAZONIS: Thompson said he wasn't alone.

THOMPSON: A bigger build, darker black, brown hair with a buzz cut and they both immediately went down the other side. They looked very dirty like they have been out there for a while.

BLAZONIS: As soon as she saw them, she says she noted the resemblance to Richard Matt and David Sweat. Thompson called 911 and says within 8 minutes police were at her door and the search began. It brought more than 300 members of law enforcement to look by ground and air for the escaped convicts.

THOMPSON: I can't never be sure. I was so far away from them. It did resemble them.

BLAZONIS: The heavy police presence including what Thompson said was outside her home scaled back on Sunday. Like many we spoke to, Thompson says that the search's end does not necessarily ease her mind.

THOMPSON: I felt the safest in the county for 24 hours and now they're gone and not so much but a little bit more at ease that they didn't see nothing. There is a loaded 30.06 on the kitchen table.

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CHURCH: Real concern there. That was Sarah Blazonis from CNN affiliate, Time Warner Cable News in Buffalo.

BARNETT: All right, we are now following breaking news now out of Afghanistan where we are getting reports of loud explosions followed by gunfire outside the Afghan parliament in Kabul.

CHURCH: Now it's not clear what caused that blast or if anyone was hurt. Reuters reports the blast happened during a live TV broadcast and the lawmakers were seen leaving the building.

BARNETT: For the latest developments, we turn to Nathan Hodge. He is a senior Afghan correspondent at the "Wall Street Journal" who joins us over the phone from Kabul. So what can you tell us on what's unfolded there in the past few hours?

NATHAN HODGE, SENIOR AFGHAN CORRESPONDENT, "WALL STREET JOURNAL" (via telephone): About an hour ago or just over an hour ago there was a blast outside of the Afghan parliament building. Police officials tell us that the blast happened outside the parliament and the police forces quickly cordoned off the scene. We don't have any immediate information on any casualties, but we do know from eyewitnesses that the explosion shattered windows and surrounding buildings and smoke can be seen rising above the scene.

We have also heard reports of gunfire erupting outside of the parliament building. This is all occurring on a day when lawmakers were nominating Afghanistan's new defense minister.

[03:10:05] We have been tracking these developments and trying to get a handle on how serious the attack is, but it is happening around a secure building in Kabul. But one that's a very prominent target.

BARNETT: And Nathan, we are also looking at some of the first images we are getting out of this breaking situation and we can see some smoke billowing into the sky. Walk us through the events as you know they took place.

Was it explosions followed by gunfire and what do we know of the parliament members? Are there any still in the building unable to get out or has everyone been evacuated?

HODGE: Well, it had to have been a fairly large explosion. It could be heard across town and it occurred just outside the parliament according to the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. Eyewitnesses we were able to reach on the phone said that gunfire and possibly rocket- propelled grenade fire could be heard shortly thereafter.

And there appeared to be additional armed men and attackers involved. Perhaps what happen in many of these situations is complex attacks it usually begins with a large bomb, a car bomb or some other kind of -- or suicide bomb followed by attackers wearing suicide vests who have assault rifles and other weapons.

It's unclear how many attackers are involved. We have an initial claim of responsibility from the Taliban. This is a breaking situation that we are trying to get a sense of how many casualties may have occurred and whether or not there are lawmakers who may have been trapped in the building.

But as far as we know, all Afghan lawmakers have been rescued or taken out of the building. But again, we are trying to reach as many people as possible to understand the situation as it unfolds.

BARNETT: Nathan Hodge with the "Wall Street Journal" speaking to us from Kabul, Afghanistan, the site of an explosion outside parliament followed by gunfire.

Nathan, I want to explain to our viewers that we are seeing video from inside the parliament building. Unclear if this is live or taped from earlier. But we can see people milling about and walking around parliament what as to be a very smoky interior.

But no sign of security officials, people moving out of that room. You're telling us that the Taliban have given this initial claim of responsibility. How many attacks in and around Kabul have the Taliban successfully implemented just this year? It seems as though this is not uncommon.

HODGE: Well, we've seen good number of attacks in recent weeks. There was a pretty serious attack on the palace that claimed the number of lives of Afghans and internationals. More recently in Kabul in the center of the heart of the diplomatic quarter about a couple of weeks ago.

There was also a fairly major attack on a guest house that touched off an hour's long gun battle. We have seen a fair number of these kinds of attacks over recent months in the capital and in the countryside as well out in the provinces of Afghanistan.

There is a feeling of insecurity in the northeast province. We have seen districts come under very heavy attacks from Taliban insurgents than the government having some difficulty holding some of the districts there.

This has been a relatively violent year for Afghanistan. Civilian casualties have been high and we can see by the situation today in Kabul, the fighting has not been limited to the provinces. Many of the attacks have occurred in the capital itself.

BARNETT: All right, Nathan Hodge with the "Wall Street Journal" speaking to us from Kabul. We'll let you go so you can speak to your contacts and assess the situation there as we look at these images coming into CNN right now after this explosion and gunfire outside of the Afghan parliament on a day they were to review the nomination of a defense minister.

The Taliban now is giving an initial claim of responsibility. We'll continue to track this breaking story and update you on it throughout the day.

Now Greece is running out of time to reach an agreement with its creditors. Officials are meeting in Brussels later today and truly this is a last ditch effort to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debts.

Greece risked financial prices that could force it out of the Eurozone. The country needs to make one bundle payment by the end of the month, which includes a payment to the IMF as well as 2 billion euros in salaries and pensions.

[03:15:05] Then in July, Greece will have to repay the IMF on the 13th and the European Central Bank on the 20th. It's bailout agreement will expire on the 30th and once again by the end of the month, it must pay 2 billion euros in salaries and pensions.

CHURCH: But there is some good news for the debt-strapped country, an EU official says the country's latest proposal was a good basis for progress in talks among euro leaders. Over the weekend, the prime minister presented a new proposal to the country's creditors.

I want to bring in Nina Dos Santos for the latest on the Greek debt talks. Nina, what was likely in that proposal from Greece and how might it help avoid default for the country? NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At this stage, Rosemary, we don't exactly know what was included in that proposal, but we have a fair idea based on the indications that we have been getting over the last few days as each side made clear where the red lines are.

You'll remember that the Greek government says that touching pensions, cutting back on those key pensions that as you pointed out they have to pay by the end of the month was one point of intransigents.

The other thing that may well really clinch the deal for both sides is this issue of debt relief if indeed the Greek government can . Effectively, write down some of the debts. This country at the moment doesn't have a hope of paying that back even if it manages to pay the IMF by the end of this month, it also has 6 billion euros to pay in the next two months to institutions like the ECB.

So what we've seen over the last weekend or so is a bunch of frantic negotiations and phone calls between the prime minister of Greece and in particular the leaders of France and also Germany.

And what we're hoping later today is that the Greek government will manage to at least this is what the leaders of France and Germany are hoping, will manage to have some concrete negotiations based on this proposal.

That's been put forward over the course the weekend with the finance ministers of the other 18 countries that share the euro as the single currency before the culmination of an emergency summit, which is set to take place later on through the course of the day.

But of course, we are getting very, very close to the June 30th deadline, that Errol just pointed out, is when Greece's official bailout expires and then it is going to take a number of days to disburse the money we are talking about here.

We are talking about several billions and you can't transfer that necessarily in one day. So this is why these talks have taken place crucial. I want to point out that there is a discrepancy in the way the Greeks view this situation and the way other countries view the situation.

If you take a look at the recent polls here in Greece and this is just exemplified by the fact that we had a lot of people in the streets of Athens over the weekend supporting the government's anti-austerity start.

The 85 percent of Greeks polled say that they still want to stay inside the Eurozone despite the fact that they don't want the same austerity that the creditors would like to see dictated on the table according to them.

However it's going to be very difficult to sell debt relief, writing off that Greek debt to other European countries. For instance 51 percent of Germans say that they think perhaps it would be better if Greece were to leave the Eurozone as a whole. And Angela Merkel as well as other Eurozone austerity strapped countries like French and Spain, Portugal and Ireland that have been their own bailouts, they are going to find it hard to sell the idea of letting Greece off the hook for billions of debt when their countries had to swallow the pain.

CHURCH: We'll be watching closely to see what comes out of this summit. Nina Dos Santos, always a pleasure talking to you and getting your perspective on this. Appreciate it.

BARNETT: If Greece exited from the single currency, it would have devastating effects on Greece itself, but it also possess threats to the Eurozone as a whole. It could result in a spreading financial crisis and weaken other laden vulnerable economies.

We are looking Portugal, Spain and Italy. Some say that Greece could force closer ties with Russia or China, and that would upset the geopolitical balance of Europe in the west and immigration could be an issue. Floods of Greeks battling homelessness and more would cross into neighboring countries needing aid and wanting welfare. We'll keep watching this.

CHURCH: We want to take a break for now. Just ahead, the militants have been driven out, but the damage left behind is overwhelming. Arwa Damon takes us through Tal Abayad in Syria.

BARNETT: Plus the latest threat ISIS poses in another part of Syria, in the ancient city of Palmyra.

CHURCH: And the toll taken by MERS is growing, we will have the latest from South Korea. We are back in a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. ISIS has reportedly planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of Palmyra in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it is unclear whether the militants plan to destroy the Roman era ruins or keep government troops from advancing.

BARNETT: Now ISIS took the city over last month. Palmyra is a UNESCO world heritage site. Meantime, ISIS militants have been resilient and resourceful, but a new coalition strategy against them just might be working. Kurdish fighters recently recaptured the strategic border town of Tal Abyad.

CHURCH: CNN's Arwa Damon was among first journalists to visit the city. This week we will bring you her exclusive reports on how the victory at Tal Abyad may be the blueprint for defeating ISIS.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Even members of the YPG, the Kurdish fighting force that we were speaking to were expressing just how surprised they themselves were at how quickly they were able to move through such vital terrain. (voice-over): For two years, ISIS reigned with impunity over this rural landscape, a vital frontier to defend and supply its stronghold of Raqqa now beaten back.

[03:25:06] (on camera): There was a coalition air strike he was just saying, on that side of this underground tunnel that goes around the entire village. ISIS had moved into this particular area about two years ago.

This obviously dug out with heavy machinery about three feet three inches, a meter wide and pretty high as well. And then you can see the metal ceiling roof that was put into it running throughout. ISIS tunnel is fairly crude, but still highly effective when it comes to giving them freedom of movement throughout the entire area.

This is the road that runs parallel to the Turkish border and berms like this one had cut it off completely. This is just one of ISIS's many defenses they had put into place. What he is saying is that the air strikes that happened here were key. They took place just a few days before forces advanced into the city and they were highly effective.

(voice-over): In just four weeks the air strikes allowed the YPD to advance some 80 kilometers, 50 miles taking over key territory, including the town of Tal Abyad, cutting off the supply routes.

When the coalition against ISIS was formed we were the only force that was committed in the fight against ISIS, commander of the Tal Abyad front says the coalition saw this and coordinated with us. He won't disclose specifics.

Here, the U.S. can say that its strategy has delivered a blow to ISIS. But the battlefield is vast and the blueprint for success hardly easy to replicate.

(on camera): One of the biggest challenges the U.S. and the coalition will face in trying to replicate the strategy, if that is even possible, is trying to find similarly reliable partners on the ground elsewhere in Syria and Iraq.

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CHURCH: Arwa Damon with that exclusive report. We'll take a short break, but still to come, as Charleston mourns the victims of last week's shootings, investigators are taking a close look at a racist manifesto posted online by the gunman. We will tell you what it said.

BARNETT: We'll also bring you more from the emotional service inside the church where the shooting took place. Stay with us.

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BARNETT: Welcome back to those of you tuned in from here in the U.S. and all around the world. This is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. We want to check the main story this hour. In Charleston, South Carolina, thousands of people marched across a city bridge in a show of solidarity after nine people were killed last week inside the Emanuel AME Church. Earlier in the day hundreds of people packed the church for its first service since the massacre.

BARNETT: Right now, police are intently searching an area near an upstate New York prison for two killers who escaped from there more than three weeks ago. Officers shifted their focus late Sunday night and set up a command post with all-terrain vehicles in a popular mountain town.

CHURCH: In Afghanistan, a car bomb exploded outside the Afghan parliament in Kabul followed shortly by gunfire. Police say all parliament members were evacuated unharmed. At least 19 people were reportedly hurt. The Taliban have claimed initial responsibility for that attack.

It was an emotional day in the city of Charleston, South Carolina in the aftermath of a church massacre that left nine people dead. As the sun set, thousands of people marched across the city's longest bridge. The gathering was a show of citywide solidarity and resolve.

BARNETT: On Sunday, crowds gathered outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was the site of Wednesday's murders. The 21-year-old Dylann Roof has confessed to the shootings and he reportedly told authorities that he wanted to start a race war.

CHURCH: Well, now investigators are looking hard at a racist manifesto posted on his web site. CNN's Alina Machado has more.

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ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Even though that manifesto surfaced online over the weekend, the focus here in Charleston remains those nine lives who were lost in this terrible, terrible tragedy.

The manifesto is about 2,000 words long and it has very inflammatory language, not just about blacks, but also about other minorities. The manifesto was published on a web site that was registered to Dylann Roof.

And in this, the manifesto talks about a possible turning point, citing the Trayvon Martin case as a catalyst for change with Roof and perhaps what fueled what happened.

And also talks about why Charleston was chosen as a target. I want to read part of it to you. The manifesto ends with, "I have no choice. I am not in the position to alone go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is the most historic city in my state and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to whites in the country.

We have no skin heads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world and I guess that has to be me."

CNN has not been able to independently confirm that, in fact, Dylann Roof was the author of that manifesto, but it was, again, published on a web site that was registered to him. We do know the FBI is carefully looking at that document.

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CHURCH: And meantime inside the Emanuel AME Church on Sunday, the focus was on healing. Worshippers fought back tears but promised to come back stronger than ever.

BARNETT: This was the first service since Wednesday's massacre. Although nine of their congregation died in act of pure hatred, the message on Sunday was one of love.

[03:35:02] Here is a look back at some powerful moments from the service.

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REVEREND NORVEL GOFF, EMANUEL AME CHURCH: It has been tough. It's been rough. We've some of us have been downright angry, but through it all, God has sustained us. There's a time and place for everything. And now, it's a time for us to focus on the nine families.

I know I'm right. I want to say to the citizens of Charleston and visitors, thank you for being whom God has called you to be. Thank you for your flowers out front. Thank you for the cards and the e- mails and all the acts of kindness and finally I want to say thank you to law enforcement.

I got no problem in doing that. I want to thank them. Respect gets respect. A lot of folks expected us to do something strange and to break out in a riot. Well, they just don't know us. And we are going to hold our elected officials and others accountable to do the right thing.

The blood of the Mother Emanuel nine requires us to work until not only justice in this case, but for those who are still living in the margin of life, those who are less fortunate than ourselves, that we stay on the battlefield until there is no more fight to be fought. And for that, we say thank you.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg today just ratified the extension of economic sanctions against Russia. The sanctions were imposed after Russia annexed Crimea and a Malaysia Airlines flight was shut down over Eastern Ukraine.

BARNETT: The measures target Russia's banking, oil and defense sectors and will continue until January 31st of next year. Pro- Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops have renewed the fighting violating the Minsk ceasefire agreement. Two more people have died of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare reported those latest MERS deaths. That brings the death toll to 27. Officials also confirmed three new cases bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 172.

CHURCH: Now this comes just days after Thailand confirmed its first infection. It became the 26th country to report MERS cases since the disease was identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012.

BARNETT: The heat has turned deadly in parts of southern Pakistan as the hottest temperatures in more than a decade are being recorded. Meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri, joins us now with details on this. It's more than just the temperature we're reading as well. The feeling of heat is higher than what we're seeing.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, the humidity is pretty high and you know, Ramadan is taking place, Muslims around the world, over 1.5 billion of them observing Ramadan and this is actually coinciding with the longest day of the year.

Imagine going without food or water from 5:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night and the temperatures are around 40 degrees Celsius. It is a dangerous situation and the timing is rough. Ramadan is observed based on the lunar calendar.

For the first time since the 1980s it's in alignment with the longest day of the year. Here is the perspective as far what we are dealing with and you know the warmest temperatures, the longer days and the more fasting for these people making it very, very challenging.

The human body does a fantastic job of cooling itself. You sweat and it evaporates it, but in Pakistan the humidity is around 95 percent to 100 percent and in the peak season, latter portion of June and middle portion of July not helping with the humidity and the moisture content, really not evaporating off your skin.

You look at the observations, 58 Celsius which is 136 degrees Fahrenheit. Extremely dangerous scenario, we know over 140 lives lost because of the heat wave. The pattern is expected to improve but it will take a couple weeks to get the monsoonal moisture to come into place.

The high pressure in the southeastern United States, same story out of the southwestern United States, some of the hottest temperatures of the year, officially the first full day of the summer season upon us and look at the temperatures, it's 110 in Phoenix Fahrenheit.

We are talking into the mid-40s Celsius. We have around a heat advisory in place over this region. In the United States one every nine day a child loses their lives because they are left in cars. It takes 2 minutes to increase the temperature 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's a great insulator that lets the radiation come in through the windshield and traps it inside your car. People think I can run into the post office.

BARNETT: They run a quick errand.

JAVAHERI: It is tempting to want to leave the kids it's so much work to get the car seat off. But 2 minutes, 15 degrees.

CHURCH: Never do it.

BARNETT: All right, Pedram, thanks a lot.

CHURCH: Want to turn now to Japan where dancing in a club after midnight could get you arrested.

BARNETT: Surprised to hear that, but look, this soon could change as Will Ripley reports, lawmakers have voted to ease the country's long- standing dancing ban.

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[05:30:00] WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the non- stop scramble of Tokyo's Shibuya crossing people don't think twice about dancing in the streets. But late night dancing in clubs has been outlawed in Japan for almost 70 years.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's crazy. Don't make any sense. It's a dance club.

RIPLEY: Like the classic fairy tale, Cinderella, dancing past a certain hour has long been risky in Japan. Bars and nightclubs put up these signs trying to avoid problems with police who call the clubs magnets for drugs, violence and sex crimes.

(on camera): For years Japanese dance clubs have been forced to go underground because of a law dating back to 1948 that forbids dancing in bars, clubs or public venues after midnight or 1:00 a.m. What that means is that everything you are seeing in this room right now is technically illegal.

(voice-over): Japanese lawmakers voted last week to relax the dancing ban, a law going back to the American occupation after World War II. Police looked the other way for decades, allowing Japan's dance scene to thrive.

But high profile drug cases and a brawl five years ago led to a surge of arrests in club raids. It's wrong, she says, we need to dance. The new law says clubs can't be too dark an attempt to discourage crime. And until changes take effect next year, after hour dancing like this is against the law.

(on camera): Do you worry about police coming here and arresting people?

(voice-over): Of course, I worry about it every day. I have been worrying for 30 years says this club owner. He spent 21 days in jail for violating the dancing ban. Morata is part of a movement demanding change, 150,000 people signed a petition to lawmakers.

Now the artists and deejays will be able to work safely, he says. More great artists will be able to come here. He says Japan's war on dance is finally over. The victory dance will keep going long after the clock strikes midnight. Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

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BARNETT: More to come for you here on CNN. It was a dramatic finale at the U.S. Open.

CHURCH: We'll tell you which golfer took home the title if you don't know already. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

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CHURCH: Masters champion, Jordan Spieth, has claimed the U.S. Open title. The 21-year-old finished at 5 under defeating fellow American Dustin Johnson by one stroke. Spieth is the youngest U.S. Open champion since Bobby Jones in 1923 and the sixth golfer in history to win the U.S. Open and the Masters in the same year.

Tech giant, Apple is singing a new tune about its payment of royalties to artists after being called out by singer, Taylor Swift. In a recent blog post the musician threatened to keep her wildly popular album "1989" off Apple's new streaming service. She was mad about Apple's plan to withhold royalties from artists during a free trial period for customers.

BARNETT: The company responded in a series of tweets, quote, "Apple Music will pay artists for streaming even during customers free trial period. We hear you @taylorswift13 and in the artists, love Apple. Swift tweeted saying she is elated and relieved to Apple's decision.

CHURCH: A powerful young woman. And I spoke with Kim Serafin earlier. She is the senior editor for "In Touch Weekly" and I got her take on Taylor Swift's advocacy for artists and their work. Take a listen.

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KIM SERAFIN, SENIOR EDITOR, "IN TOUCH WEEKLY": This is something she talked about before. She wrote an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal". She pulled her music off Spotify. She basically wants artists to get paid for music. Music is a commodity and she even ends this letter to Apple saying we don't ask you for iPhones for free, please don't ask us for music for free.

CHURCH: Good point. Want to move to the movies too because "Jurassic World" is still dominating at the box office. What are the numbers and the reviews? And the movie "Inside Out" how is that doing?

SERAFIN: Yes. "Jurassic World" dominating the box office and the world again. This is a huge movie and people love it. It's the second film in its second weekend to make over $100 million domestically. So I mean, this is just a huge, huge picture even bigger than anyone expected it to be making this much money. It just beat "The Avengers" ten-day total in terms of the money it's made in 10 days. It's going to continue to dominate the box office. And yet "Inside Out" this is a Pixar movie and usually Pixar when they open a film that is usually number one. This ends their domination of that number one spot. But $91 million is not bad for a Pixar film and got fantastic reviews.

CHURCH: Yes, pretty incredible numbers there and just want to finish. We have seen father's day come and go. In the midst of that, celebrities were out there celebrating their fathers. Tell us what everyone was doing on that day.

SERAFIN: Yes, it is really nice to see celebrities posting pictures with their own dads when they were younger. Beyonce, Hugh Jackman, and Blake Lively posted a picture of Ryan Reynolds and her new child. And you had Kylie and Kendall doing a tribute to Caitlyn Jenner, which was nice. We have a bunch of those on our website.

[03:55:01] A lot of the celebrities coming out there and honoring their dads and it's a nice way to say, look, celebrities love their dads just like everyone else. Even Kensington palace put out a photo with the princess and their dad, Prince Charles. So I thought that was really nice.

CHURCH: Very special day and very important to mark, how special to dads that are out there. Kim Serafin, always a pleasure.

SERAFIN: Thanks so much.

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CHURCH: We are about to get an unprecedented view of our own planet. On Tuesday the European Space Agency will launch its Sentinel 2 satellites into orbit. It's the first optical imaging satellite and the most comprehensive earth observation effort ever launched.

BARNETT: It sounds fascinating. Sentinel 2 will be sent into space by the Vega launcher rocket about 55 minutes after liftoff the satellite will separated from Vega and will be released into orbit. It will provide unprecedented images of earth and gather information on forestry and pollution.

The Dalai Lama marked his 80th birthday on Sunday. He celebrates the date on the Tibetan lunar calendar.

CHURCH: The Nobel laureate vowed to continue to work for religious harmony.

Thank you for watching us here on CNN. I'm Rosemary Church.

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CHURCH: Have a great day.

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