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Mexico Offer $3.8 Million Reward for Escaped Drug Kingpin; Iran Nuclear Deal Faces Hurdles; Greek P.M. Faces showdown with Lawmakers on Bailout Deal; Early Reviews of Harper Lee's New Book; Iran Nuclear Deal Close; Shark Attack Victim Shares Story; Scott Walker Announces 2016 Presidential Run; Obama Makes Criminal Justice Reform a Priority. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired July 13, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:41] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A new incentive in the manhunt for one of the world's most notorious drug lords. A nearly $4 million reward.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, Twitter and the Iran talks. What we learned from President Rouhani's deleted and reposted tweet as negotiators inch closer to a deal.

CHURCH: And 55 years after the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee's new book is on sale. Lots of people can't wait to read it, but one critic calls it a mess.

BARNETT: Hey, there. A big welcome to our viewers in the U.S. And those tuned in from around the world. The team is back together. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

BARNETT: Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of Joaquin Guzman after his elaborate prison escape on Saturday. Officials released this recent photo of the notorious drug lord, known as el Chapo. It shows him with a shaved head and face.

CHURCH: Mexico's interior minister says prison officials must have conspired with el Chapo to help him break out. 49 people are being questioned and the director of the prison where el Chapo escaped has been fired.

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JOSE ANGEL OSORIO CHONG, MEXICO INTERIOR MINISTER (through translation): He must have been able to count on the complicity of the staff or officials of the prison. If these facts were to be confirmed this would be an act of corruption a lack of disloyalty and treason to the people of Mexico and to the members of the federal forces who, with dedication and commitment, risked their lives to capture him. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: And this is the second time Guzman has pulled off a prison escape. Authorities say they are using all possible resources to recapture him.

CNN's Nick Valencia reports.

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NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It may have been the most expensive and elaborate prison escape ever. 8:00, Saturday night, Joaquin Guzman, the most notorious drug lord in the world, takes his nightly medications at this maximum security prison west of Mexico City. After stepping to a shower, he enters a hole in the wall and there a ladder takes him to a tunnel almost a mile long and five and a half feet high, high enough for the man named el Chapo to stand tall. The tunnel runs from this desolate countryside, ending in this cinder block home, still under construction.

The daring escape marks the second prison break for el Chapo.

With his escape, local farmers fear the worst.

(on camera): Are you scared now that el Chapo has escaped?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

VALENCIA (voice-over): His 2001 escape was simpler. For a reported $2.5 million in bribes, he was smuggled out in a laundry cart.

During his next 13 years on the run, el Chapo's legend grew. His whereabouts were said to be an open secret even to Mexican authorities.

Millions of Mexicans believe him to be a Robin Hood figure. One story about him collecting all the cell phones in a restaurant for his safety and paying everyone's bill.

But authorities say the real el Chapo, one of the world's wealthiest, a billionaire, and in reality, a ruthless killer and one of the men behind the drug war that has left tens of thousands of his countrymen dead.

TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: These are people who have killed journalists, politicians, police officers, corrections officers, and then not just that person, but every member of their family, their parents, cousins and children. And often times, horrific deaths, dipping their bodies in acid, peeling their skin, dismembering them.

VALENCIA: U.S. officials say that el Chapo is responsible for about 25 percent of all the drugs in the U.S., including much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroine traffic. The city of Chicago has declared him public enemy number one, the man allegedly supplying 80 percent of the drugs on Chicago's streets. El Chapo was last caught in February of 2014. U.S. Marines tracked him to a condo in Mazatlan. Using infrared and body-heat scanners, they determined that everyone inside was asleep. Storming in, they found the half-naked Guzman with his beauty queen wife and an A.K.-47 by his side. Their two-year-old twins sleeping nearby. The world's most-wanted man surrendered without a shot fired. Nick Valencia, CNN, outside the prison, Mexico.

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[02:05:27] BARNETT: Earlier, CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke with James Dinkins about el Chapo's escape. Dinkins is the former head of Homeland Security Investigations.

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JAMES DINKINS, FORMER DIRECTOR, HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS: He's a very elusive character. Not only hard to track down but, as we're finding out, hard to keep in captivity as well.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, A.C. 360: Is it so much that he escaped or was allowed to escape? It seems impossible there wasn't a collusion of people inside this prison.

DINKINS: This one, I think relied less on bribing his way out and a lot more traditional means. You know, this is somebody who really perfected the tunneling system not only to bring drugs into the United States but that's how he evaded being captured for 10 years is through tunnels. It's not surprising that, you know, in a second captivity in a maximum security prison he resorted to what he knew best and that is heavily engineered construction tunnel and popping up under the floor of his cell. It's quite amazing.

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CHURCH: Mexico's interior minister says he was wearing a monitoring bracelet and was under 24-hour surveillance when he escaped.

BARNETT: Just stunning.

It is early morning in Vienna and in Tehran. All eyes on those two cities as we inch closer to a possible deal on Iran's nuclear weapons program.

CHURCH: Diplomatic sources tell us the agreement could be imminent. The last major stumbling block appears to be the arms embargo against Iran.

Global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, explains how big of a hurdle that is and tells us about other issues complicating a potential deal.

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ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Grim faces among world powers as nuclear talks hit a snag. After 18 days of marathon negotiations, world powers had hoped to announce the deal Monday. Secretary Kerry predicted the end game.

JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: I think we are getting to real decisions. So I would say we have a few tough things to do.

LABOTT: Europe's top diplomat gave a thumb's up as Iran's president praised his negotiators for reaching the peak of victory, even posting tweeting, suggesting that the deal was done, and he deleted it, adding an "if." His foreign minister signaled no deal. New hurdles put the agreement just out of reach.

JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, PLOUGHSHARES FUND: This is a detailed 100-page document. And this sequencing and details of how the work is done is important at this point. While they're making history, they don't want to make mistakes.

LABOTT: Still on the table, how much assess inspectors will have to Iranian military bases to answer questions about Iran's efforts to build a bomb, how much advance nuclear research Iran can continue to do while the deal is in effect, and Iran's demands to lift a U.N. arms embargo, a move Russia, an arms supplier of Iran wants, but one the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called a red line.

GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: Under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missiles capabilities and arms traffic.

LABOTT: Even as Iran marches toward a deal --

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LABOTT: -- on the streets of Tehran, the chants were "Death to America and Israel."

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LABOTT: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed what he called a procession of concessions to Iran in Vienna.

Elise Labott, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: Joining us now is Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund.

Thank you, sir, for talking with us.

The Iran nuclear talks appear to be close to a deal. What is your understanding of what the main sticking points are at this sometime and how might they be overcome?

PHILIP YUN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PLOUGHSHARES FUND: Yes, right now, it's all about, right now, the sanctions and the timing related to that. On one hand the opening position of the Iranians is when the deal is done they want the sanctions lifted right away. The United States and world powers the position is when you have done everything we will lift sanctions. Now it's somewhere in between about the time, when is it going to happen? Who gives up what, when? So that's what this is all about right now. And the main sticking point has to do with the lifting of the arms embargo. That covers nuclear weapons related material and conventional weapons. And the Iranians want all that lifted and the United States and others are saying not so fast. We want to have better assurances. That's one area. The other one is prior military activity, which this is what the -- what Iran has done in terms of prior nuclear weapons related research and they want a full disclosure. This is something that the Iranians have said all along they have never done. But from our understanding it's something they have done in the 2000s which means they would be caught in a lie. And the supreme leader has said having nuclear weapons is against Islam. For him to admit they are doing something on the nuclear side is a loss of face.

[02:11:07] CHURCH: They are two pretty big issues, aren't they?

YUN: Right.

CHURCH: From what we're hearing this Iran nuclear deal is about 100 pages long. That's a very long deal. And we're talking about a lot of detail. What do you think will be included in this deal and how do you think it will look?

YUN: From the United States and the world powers, basically distinguish the nuclear threat. It will block all of Iran's pathways to a nuclear weapon and will have stringent inspection regimes to prevent a sneak-out or covert activity where they are making material in areas we know they are doing. Those are two things as well as past nuclear activity. Those are things we have to have and for the Iranians it's a relief of sanctions as soon as possible from their perspective.

CHURCH: And very quickly, how likely is it that the deal will be made soon, will be reached and approved by U.S. Congress.

YUN: So what we're seeing right now is the announcement could be happening at any moment. We are hearing rumblings that something is imminent. In terms of Congressional approval, you know, the Congress has every right to have full input. They will have 60 days to approve, disapprove or do nothing at all. There will be a vigorous debate on this. But I think in the end that Congress will decide this is ultimately in the best U.S. interest. The deal will deal with the nuclear threat and have very stringent inspections and verifications and I think in the end it's something that the United States and the world powers and the Congress will decide is in U.S. interests.

CHURCH: We will be watching very closely and we'll have that as soon as it happens on CNN.

Philip Yun, thank you. We appreciate it.

YUN: Thank you.

BARNETT: To the other big story we're following, Greece's prime minister is facing a showdown with lawmakers over a bailout deal that is harsher than the one they've rejected for months now. Alexis Tsipras agreed Monday to tough new reforms, including pension cuts and higher taxes, all in exchange for a bailout of as much as $96 billion.

CHURCH: Now he has to convince parliament to put those reforms into law and pass them by Wednesday. It's quite the deadline.

BARNETT: And that is no small feat.

For the latest developments we turn to Elinda Labropoulou, who joins us live from Athens.

Elinda, and Prime Minister Tsipras is under incredible pressure to convince lawmakers to accept the deeper austerity measures. But this deal is worse than the one he walked away from a few weeks ago. This is a political disaster for him.

ELINDA LABROPOULOU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It has been but he is going to say this is the only deal available and all the other alternatives were worse. Greece was really facing an exit from the Eurozone at the time a financial disaster. So what Mr. Tsipras is trying to convince lawmakers is that what has to be done is the package of measures to be voted in to bring stability back to the country and enable the banks to be re-open. The banks have been closed over two weeks and it's not clear when they will open again. We expect that if these measures are voted in, and we expect they will be, the European Central Bank will take this as a signal that a deal is in the making, effectively, and reopen the banks and increase liquidity to the banks up to a certain point.

This really the is most difficult thing for the economy right now. While these talks have been going on, the economy has been standing still. This is one thing that the prime minister must focus on. He has doing that and he will deal with the consequences and there will be many political consequences for him at a later stage.

[02:15:20] BARNETT: And this is the new Greek reality for people. Times will continue to be tough. So what about the follow through? Let's go beyond Wednesday once the reforms are adopted, the follow through on pension cuts, land registration reforms, that's all going to take time. Meanwhile, your average Greek citizen will be financially strained.

LABROPOULOU: You're absolutely right about that. This is not the deal that any of the Greeks were hoping for. They were hoping for a package of measures that maybe would come with austerity but at the same time promote more growth. In the long run, this may happen. At the moment there is a whole issue of trust with the government that has been promising certain things for years of governments that have been promising to deliver reforms that the creditors never saw. As a result, Greece is now being kept on a very, very tight leash until showing that it's able to pass these reforms. At the end of that, there is some promise of debt relief in different forms and just breathing space. But it looks like Greece will have to stick to its course in order to see the other side of that. And that will come with a lot of pain for the Greek people.

BARNETT: The key word is "pain". Another tough week ahead for the Greek people.

Elinda Labropoulou joining us live from Athens. Thanks very much.

Rosemary?

CHURCH: Take a look at this. Investors in the U.S. cheered the news of a Greek bailout deal. The Dow jumped 217 points putting it back in positive territory for the year.

BARNETT: Two people are feared dead after a plane crash in the U.S.

CHURCH: But a teenager also on that plane has been found alive. Her amazing story. That's next.

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[02:21:02] CHURCH: In the United States, a teenager has been found alive after surviving a plane crash in Washington State.

BARNETT: You wonder how this was possible. Authorities say this 16- year-old girl was flying in a small plane with her grandparents when it crashed on Saturday night. The girl told officials the plane flew into clouds and into the side of a mountain. She was able to get out and walked for two days following a creek that led her to a hiking trail.

CHURCH: Unbelievable. She eventually came to a highway where a passing driver picked her up. Officials believe her grandparents did not survive the crash.

BARNETT: Bookstores around the world, particularly here in the U.S., are opening their doors in the wee hours so readers can pick up the sequel to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."

CHURCH: Earlier reviews reveal Lee's new book has a shocking twist for one of the best-loved characters from "To Kill a Mockingbird."

CNN's Claire Sebastian looks at the controversy over "Go Set a Watchman".

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REECE WITHERSPOON, ACTRESS: Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining car window with a delight almost physical. Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia's hills recede and the red earth appear.

CLAIRE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)): The first words of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman," read by actress, Reece Witherspoon, an early task of what was actually one of the first drafts of "To Kill a Mockingbird," one of the world's most beloved novels.

(on camera): Harper Lee wrote while living on this stretch of road in New York's Upper East Side in the 1950s. For almost six days, "Go Set a Watchman" may reset her legacy. Its release may redefine her legacy. (on camera): Maria Mills is the author of "The Mockingbird Next Door," the story of 18 months spent living at close quarters with Harper Lee, who had, by then, moved back to Alabama with her sister, Alice. She says she never expected Lee to publish again.

MARIA MILLS, AUTHOR: No, Harper Lee, herself had said to a friend, there were two reasons. One was she wouldn't want to go through all that publicity again for all the money in the world. Two, she had said what she had to say in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

SEBASTIAN: She didn't need to say it again. "To Kill a Mockingbird" sold more than 40 million copies to date, becoming a 1962 Hollywood hit.

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GREGORY PECK, ACTOR: You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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SEBASTIAN: Now generations have faced to a new side to their favorite characters. Early reviews revealing Atticus, the lawyer, who heroically defended a black man, had racist leanings. One reviewer calls it the toppling of idols.

MILLS: People have such deep feeling for those characters and are anxious to know what has become of them 20 or so years later and, at the same time, people have their ideas of what should have happened to those characters.

SEBASTIAN: Still, curiosity is making this the publishing event of the year. Harper Collins says it's the most pre-ordered book ever. Is it at the top of the Amazon best-seller list and boxes are being kept under extra security at this Barnes & Noble in New York. The company expects it to be the number-one seller of 2015.

Harper Lee, now 89, is living in an assisted care facility after a stroke. A new chapter in his literary career is just beginning.

Claire Sebastian, CNN, New York.

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CHURCH: As you heard, not all the hype is flattering. NPR's book critic went with this scathing headline: "Harper Lee's "Watchman" is a mess that makes us reconsider a masterpiece."

BARNETT: Wow. Maureen Corrigan says the book is, quote, "A troubling confusion of a novel politically and artistically beginning with its fishy origin story. Allegedly, it's a recently discovered first draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird, but I'm suspicious. It reads much more like a failed sequel."

[02:25:] A U.S. policeman turned in his own son after suspecting he was building bombs for ISIS inside this home. We'll bring you details on the alleged terror plot when we come back.

CHURCH: Plus, a teenager adapts to life without his left arm. He shares details about the shark attack that left him without one of his limbs. We're back in a moment.

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BARNETT: Welcome back to our viewers here in the U.S. and those watching around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. It is time to get to the main stories we are following this hour.

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of this man, Joaquin Guzman, after his elaborate prison escape on Saturday. Officials released this recent photo of the notorious drug lord. Mexico's interior minister says Guzman was wearing a monitoring bracelet and under 24-hour surveillance when he escaped.

[02:59:28] BARNETT: New York City agreed to pay $5.9 million to the estate of a man who died during a scuffle with police officers last July. During an encounter with the officer, Eric Garner was wrestled to the ground and put, as you see here, while he was held in what was described as a choke hold. Garner repeatedly yelled, "I can't breathe" and he died a short time later.

[02:30:00] CHURCH: In the U.S. city of St. Louis, at least six protesters were arrested Monday. It happened two days after a police officer shot a 16-year-old claiming he feared for his life after the teen stole a gun. The incident is under investigation and the officer has been placed on leave.

BARNETT: All right, we have this information just in to CNN. As the world waits for any news on a historic deal on Iran's nuclear weapons program, we hear now that there will be a very important meeting in Vienna in the coming hours.

Our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, joins us live.

We're all waiting to see if there will be a final deal on Iran's nuclear program.

Nic, good morning to you. What is the latest information we have?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Events appear to be unfolding here. The E.U. foreign policy chief, her spokesman tweeted this morning saying there would be a final plenary session of the participants in the talks here, the p5+1, the E.U. and E.U.3 taking place here in about two hours' time and that will be followed by a press conference. So it appears that things are drawing to a conclusion here. Talks went late into the night. The P5+1 went into the early morning hours. And the E.U. high foreign policy chief herself, so the impression has been created this morning in two hours' time that there will be a final meeting of that group and followed by a press conference. And we're certainly not hearing at this stage of anyone walks away from this situation.

We knew going into last night that there were sticking points that we were told these could be bridged by tough political decisions. Everyone has come a long way, we're told in these talks. The idea was the tough questions would be addressed last and that certainly appears to be the case. Tough issues pushed into the night late last night. And we're told to expect the final session followed by a press conference -- Errol?

BARNETT: So this new information is encouraging as we approach Tuesday morning. Monday we essentially didn't hear from any of the negotiating sides, none of the diplomats other than the final sticking points appear to center around the arms embargo, the U.N. Security Council resolution limiting the country's ability to trade and sell arms. Tell us what you understand the final few sticking points to have been these past few days.

ROBERTSON: That is one that came up in the past week or so and really caused these talks to blow through several deadlines. What Iran wanted before it was willing to sign an agreement was a lifting of an arms embargo. The U.N. resolution came into being specifically to bring Iran to the negotiating table here. The Iranians said they viewed the arms embargo as something separate to the nuclear situation and they weren't going to sign unless they got that arms embargo lifted. That was a red line for the U.S. negotiators. But what we know that happens here after an agreement assuming there is an agreement coming up here, after that agreement it goes to the U.N. Security Council to draft a new resolution. It was in the terms of the new resolution that Iran would be looking to hear that that arms embargo is lifted. Part of what we are hearing is they want to be treated equally and with respect. The art of any negotiation is that both sides walk away with something they can sell to their populations and that they don't feel that they've had, if you will, to concede too much ground publicly. It was in the terms of the new U.N. Security Council legislation that Iran would listen to see it got what it wanted. And we were talking about the PMD, the possible military dimensions. What does that mean? What or has Iran used the nuclear technology to try to develop a weapon. There were outstanding questions on that and the feeling was that Iran hadn't answered those. And the intent on answering those contentious issues was something that for the U.S. negotiators was a litmus test on Iran's commitment to keeping a new deal.

BARNETT: Nic Robertson live for us in Vienna, where the announcement has been made that a final session between negotiators is to take place here within the next two hours. Approaching what could be an announcement of a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program. We'll continue to watch this.

Nic, thanks very much.

[02:35:08] CHURCH: A man in the U.S. State of Massachusetts is charged with plotting to bomb crowded places like schools for ISIS. Sources say, his father, a Boston police captain, turned him in.

BARNETT: He apparently had partially constructed devices there in his home.

Our U.S. justice correspondent, Evan Perez, has more.

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EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: The FBI describes a chilling plan to carry out terrorist attacks inspired by the Boston Marathon bombings. Alexander Sikilo (ph) was arrested in July after obtaining four or five firearms. He's the son of a Boston police officer who officials say turned him in. The FBI says he's a Muslim convert who in recent months became obsessed with ISIS. According to the FBI, an undercover informant recorded conversations in which he planned various attacks. He wanted to use assault rifles and bombs to attack a university campus, targeting college dorms and a crowded cafeteria. His plan included pressure cooker bombs like those used in Boston. They would be packed with nails and ball bearings. He also allegedly wanted to carry out executions of students and broadcast them on the Internet. According to the FBI, when they searched his apartment, he already had several partially constructed Molotov cocktails.

Evan Perez, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: We'll take a short break. But still to come, one young beach-goer is showing his resilience. This 16-year-old lost his arm in a shark attack. A month later, he is bouncing back in a big way. He shares his story just ahead.

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[02:39:53] BARNETT: It has been four months since a moment on a beach on the Carolina coastline took a terrible turn for Hunter Treschl. In a flash, the U.S. teenager lost his left arm in a shark attack.

BARNETT: Now he is sharing a harrowing experience that he insists will not change his future.

Here's CNN's Anderson Cooper.

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HUNTER TRESCHL, SHARK ATTACK SURVIVOR: My cousin, grandma and I had been on the beach and were playing in the sand and I went in to wash off the sand.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, A.C. 360: How deep in the water were you?

TRESCHL: Like two or three feet.

COOPER: You weren't swimming? You waded into the water?

TRESCHL: I waded into the water and maybe up to like here and crouched down and was getting ready to go back in.

COOPER: When was the first time you realized something was near you or going on?

TRESCHL: Right, so I took one more step forward and I felt something big move against my ankles and calves and I was like I'm getting out of here.

COOPER: You felt it under the water?

TRESCHL: Yeah. It just jumped out of the water and grabbed my arm. I think my hand was still in the water.

COOPER: It jumped out of the water to get you.

TRESCHL: It was out of the water.

COOPER: You looked down and saw the shark on your arm?

TRESCHL: That's all I remember of seeing of the shark is its head.

COOPER: How big was it?

TRESCHL: My cousin was close to me and said it looks six, seven feet, maybe eight.

COOPER: Was it holding on to you?

TRESCHL: For a little while, it was, and it slid off and took my arm with it.

COOPER: Was there pain?

TRESCHL: Not at the time, no. It just felt cold. It was pain but nothing like you would expect.

COOPER (voice-over): Hunter made it back on the beach but was losing massive amounts of blood. Witnesses describe blood-red waves washing ashore.

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CALLER: He got his arm bit off.

911 OPERATOR: Are you with the person now?

CALLER: My husband is. He's got it wrapped up in a towel as tight as he can.

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COOPER: Did you realize it had taken the arm?

TRESCHL: Oh, yeah, I realized. People were freaking out and I was lying on the beach and my arm is elevated like this and it was bleeding a lot and there was bone sticking out. So, yeah, I didn't want to look at it.

HUNTER (voice-over): One man tied on a tourniquet before paramedics arrived. The heroics of strangers bought him some time but it didn't completely stop the blood loss.

TRESCHL: It was a pretty artery in the arm that had been severed.

COOPER (on camera): Were you worried about losing too so much blood you could die?

TRESCHL: Yes, at that point, I was. I was asking the EMTs like every two minutes.

COOPER: You were asking him --

TRESCHL: Am I going to die?

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TRESCHL: He was like, you just asked me that. I said, man, you just have to say that, otherwise, I'm going to freak out.

COOPER (voice-over): As Hunter was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, he didn't know he was the second shark attack victim on that stretch of beach. 90 minutes earlier, 12 year old Kirsten Yow was bitten in shallow waters two miles away.

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CALLER: The left arm is completely missing and a bite to the left leg, weak pulse.

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COOPER: This chopper was sent in to air lift Kirsten to the hospital. Hunter actually saw the helicopter fly overhead 90 minutes before he was bitten and never thought it could be a first shark attack victim or he would soon suffer the same fate. Both lost an arm but both survived.

COOPER (on camera): Good.

TRESCHL: I'm getting better.

COOPER (voice-over): Just a month after the attack, Hunter is fighting for his old life back. He will get a prosthetic limb but has to wait until his wound is healed. The shark took his dominant arm so Hunter has to learn how the do everything again, from he beloved Frisbee to practicing for a driving test with his mom.

He can play video games using a foot pedal that takes the place of his left hand. Hunter is determined no it to let it slow him down.

TRESCHL: Beforehand, I had dreams and aspirations. There is no reason that should change. It's strange to think that people would be like let's forget everything I wanted to do and mope and lay down.

COOPER: It would be understanding, though, to mope.

TRESCHL: It would be. But I've never been the type to get down about things.

COOPER: Do you find your balance affected?

TRESCHL: A little bit but it's not as bad as you might thing.

COPPER (voice-over): Never the type to get down about thinks, including the animal that took his arm.

(on camera): Does it change the way you think about sharks?

TRESCHL: Not really. They are the top of the food chain in the ocean and humans are not used to being below anything on the food chain.

COOPER: Would you go swimming again in the ocean?

TRESCHL: Yes.

COOPER: You would?

TRESCHL: Yes. I happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

COOPER: A lot of people would want to kill sharks or hate sharks.

TRESCHL: I would have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting bit by another shark.

COOPER: You should start playing the lottery.

TRESCHL: I did just buy a scratch off ticket when I got back.

(LAUGHTER)

TRESCHL: I didn't win anything though. It was unfortunate.

[02:45:18] COOPER (voice-over): Anderson Cooper, CNN, Colorado Springs.

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CHURCH: What an inspiration.

BARNETT: He can joke and laugh about it and he is resilient, too.

CHURCH: Yeah.

BARNETT: Quite impressive.

CHURCH: Remarkable.

BARNETT: Want to show you new this. This is a new look at Mexico's so-called fire volcano that has been spewing smoke and ash and forced hundreds of residents to flee. Some nearby villages are blanketed in thick coats of ash. The volcano was active in January and February as well.

CHURCH: And our meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri, joins us now with more on this volcano.

It's just amazing, the images are incredible and people are having to evacuate.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yeah. Guys, we often talk about volcanoes and scientists know of 1500 active volcanoes around the world. But only 16 are worthy of study in light of what they have done in the past. We have Aetna, Mt. Rainier, Colima, is 15 out of 16 in the most serious. This is something that people are taking seriously. We'll show you what is happening as far as the graphics. This one volcano has erupted on the order of 30 times since 1585 and you look at the numbers. We saw an eruption in January and another in February, picked up intensity in the early portion of July. At this point, still active and has the potential to be similar to what occurred in 1913 because of the constant motion in the vicinity of this volcano but also have a hurricane off shore pushing everything offshore when it comes to the ash. Something worth noting there.

But Dolores remains off shore and we are following this. In southern California, the storm will track west of the Baja Peninsula. Some of the models guide next Monday into next Tuesday. Could bring decent rainfall into central California if it remains put. Something worth noting there.

Also watching Typhoon Nangka. Could be the strongest typhoon since 2004. So watching this could get up to a category 3. Tremendous wave height associated with this. This is the model depiction of wave heights. That is 15 meter high water. That is 40 to 50 foot high waves as it nears land. It could be destructive on the coast and tremendous heat in Beijing as well. Temperatures in the 40s Celsius. The pools jam packed. That is the hottest weather they have seen. Plenty of extremes to tell you about in the world of weather.

BARNETT: Wow.

CHURCH: And that pool is jam packed, shoulder to shoulder.

JAVAHERI: You would think it would be a little hot when you are that close together.

BARNETT: All right, Pedram, thanks very much.

CHURCH: Thank you.

BARNETT: A lot more news still to come. Another Republican throws his hat into the U.S. presidential race.

CHURCH: And there is something weird about his official logo. We will tell you about it when we come back. Stay with us.

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[02:52:23] BARNETT: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has officially entered the Republican race for president.

CHURCH: Walker made the announcement to a roaring crowd on Monday. Listen.

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SCOTT WALKER, (R), GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: After a great deal of thought and a whole lot of prayer, we are so honored to have with you join with us today as we officially announce that we are running to serve as your president of the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

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CHURCH: And that makes him the 15th GOP presidential candidate and he's emerged as a formidable opponent to Jeb Bush.

BARNETT: Analysts call Walker one of the most recognizable and polarizing governors in the U.S. In his second term, Walker rose to national fame by taking on the unions in Wisconsin. The efforts nearly ended his political career, though. In 2012, Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election.

And there's also this. Take a close look at the letter "E" in Scott Walker's campaign logo. Some say it looks like the "E" from America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses Company. Tweets angry, aimed towards this. The company says, quote, "We don't endorse any political candidates."

CHURCH: They tweeted this to CNN, "We think that Scott Walker's logo is hilarious, #logate." And told one follower, "We are not cruising for a legal battle."

BARNETT: Their thing is glasses, not comedy, of course.

(LAUGHTER)

CHURCH: Seems that way.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton gave the first major economic policy speech of her candidacy.

BARNETT: The Democratic candidate laid out her plans to increase middle class wages. Clinton also targeted top Republicans and, as Scott Walker, just joined the race, she took the opportunity to slam the GOP candidate in her speech.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: And I will fight back against efforts across our country to undermine worker bargaining power. You know, Republican governors like Scott Walker have made their names stomping on workers' rights and practically all the Republicans candidates hope to do the same as president. Well, I will stand up to these attacks. If we want to get serious about raising incomes, we have to get serious about supporting union members. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: The Pentagon could soon lift its ban on transgender people, openly serving in the U.S. military.

[02:55:01] BARNETT: Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday, saying, in part, "We have transgender soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, real, patriotic Americans, who I know are being hurt by an outdated, confusing inconsistent approach that's contrary to our value of service and individual merit."

CHURCH: One of those who served with honor under the old policy is former Navy SEAL Christian Beck. Beck is now running for Congress in Maryland's fifth district.

BARNETT: U.S. President Barack Obama is making criminal justice reform a priority for his final months in office.

CHURCH: He took a big step on Monday by commuting the prison sentence of 46 drug offenders and he plans to review sentencing laws and review punishments for non-violent crimes.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These men and women were not hardened criminals but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years. 14 of them had been sentenced to life for non-violent drug offenses. Their punishments didn't fit the crime. And if they had been sentenced under today's laws, nearly all of them would have already served their time.

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CHURCH: One woman whose sentence was commuted is also the mother of an NFL player.

BARNETT: Demariuo Thomas posted this image of his mother, saying, quote, "God is good. Great news today. My best lady comes home November 10th. God bless," end quote. Christina Smith has been serving 20 years in prison for cocaine possession.

CHURCH: Wow.

You have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. More of the world's biggest stories after this short break. Stay with us.

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