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Reports of Gunfire During Burundi Election; British P.M. Warns Against ISIS; Former Greek P.M. Unimpressed with Reforms; Adultery Website Hacked; Mark Fanning Talks Shark Attack; Violent Protests in Turkey Following Blast; Friend Says Abdulazeez Not Inspired by ISIS: Trump Tops Polls as Republicans, McCain's Son Criticize Remarks; U.S., Cuba Open Embassies; GPS Used in El Chapo's Escape; Former Chinese Top Aide Arrested. Aired 2-3a ET
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[02:00:31] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesters in Turkey hours after a deadly suicide bombing.
PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR: And we're learning more about the man who killed five servicemen in Tennessee. What he though about ISIS.
BARNETT: And after surviving a shark attack live on television, pro surfer, Mick Fanning, is back in Australia and says he doesn't have a scratch on him.
NEWTON: I'm Paula Newton. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.
BARNETT: We'll be with you for the next two hours. I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
This hour, we begin in Turkey where demonstrators and police clashed on the streets of Istanbul. The protesters say the Turkish government didn't do enough to prevent a suicide bombing which killed 31 people on Monday near the Syrian border.
NEWTON: Funerals were held for some of the victims. And we're about to show you images of the blast, which some viewers may find disturbing. But we are showing them to show the inhumanity and horror of this attack.
Arwa Damon reports.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Reality transforms in an instant. The suicide bomber detonates. Lives immediately lost. Screams and wails of survivors, some in shock, others crying out in pain. A resident describes how frantic individuals arrived desperately
searching for their loved ones.
This was a gathering of mostly Turkish activists for the Kobani reconstruction efforts. Kobani, across the border in Syria, where last month, predominantly Kurdish fights backed by coalition airstrikes against ISIS, eventually driving them out by leaving the town decimated.
The Turkish government insinuating this is the work of ISIS, revenge for the role Turkey is playing in the war on terror.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU, TURKISH PRIME MINISTER (through translation): Initial findings point to a suicide bomber in ISIS but it's hard to reach a judgment before investigation is concluded. ISIS does not only pose threat to Syrian people but also Turkey.
DAMON (on camera): The mood here is somber. Investigators are continuing with their work well into the night. Blood still staining the ground. It was only a matter of time before the violence in Syria spilled over across the border. And this is not the first attack. But this strike in particular is raising a lot of questions, especially when it comes to how the Turkish government is handling the threat posed by ISIS.
Arwa Damon, CNN, Turkey.
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NEWTON: A friend of the man who killed five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee says he was not you inspired by ISIS.
BARNETT: That friend tells CNN that Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez thought that the group is against Islam.
Drew Griffin has more from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: James Petty considered Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez a spiritual supporter in his conversion to Islam. They hiked mountains, played sports and slept over at Abdulazeez's home. He says he never once saw Abdulazeez angry and the only conversations they had about radical Islam was to oppose it.
JAMES PETTY, FRIEND OF MOHAMMAD ABDULAZEEZ: Like ISIS, any terror groups like ISIS.
GRIFFIN (on camera): What did he say?
PETTY: That it was a stupid group and against Islam. And not to even think about going towards them. And I felt that it was kind of in the sense it was not I'm in the group and don't do like me but this is not the way you should be going towards.
GRIFFIN: You felt that he truly believed in his heart at that moment that what ISIS is doing was wrong?
PETTY: Yes, I am.
GRIFFIN (voice-over): Petty describes Abdulazeez as more American than he was. And the self-described red neck Muslim also liked to shoot guns.
[02:05:00] PETTY: One day he said he had a gun and was showing me pictures on his phone and I'm like I never shot a gun before. And he wanted to know if I wanted to shoot that one. I said sure, I don't know why not. I never shot one.
GRIFFIN: If there was Achilles' heel in Abdulazeez's past, it was his marijuana use. They called him a pothead and he was trying to beat it. His parents were bothering him to make sure he wasn't smoking dope but that didn't make him depressed, it made him happy. In the last week when they saw him that he was the happiest he had ever seemed.
Drew Griffin, CNN, Chattanooga.
Back to you.
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BARNETT: Now Abdulazeez's attack on the military has brought together veterans and civilians across the U.S. Armed volunteers are standing guard outside recruiting offices like this one. A former Marine decided to take the issue of safety into his own hands.
NEWTON: This is highly controversial right now. Abdulazeez murdered four Marines and three of them served multiple tours of duty. They were from different parts of the United States but united in military service. A public memorial will be held for Skip Wells in Georgia. He graduated from high school three years ago and joined the Marines last year.
BARNETT: We want to address another topic. In U.S. politics, Donald Trump has a wide lead among the Republicans running for president.
NEWTON: This story goes on and own, absolutely explosive. Some of thing in this poll comes after Trump's remarks over the weekend. He said Arizona Senator John McCain wasn't a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War.
BARNETT: Now those comments came out around the same time this poll was taken. Keep that in mind. But according to the ABC News poll, 24 percent of voters surveyed support Donald Trump, and it's almost double his closest rival.
NEWTON: Many are trying to parse what the poll numbers mean and if they are going to change again.
But many say that Trump's comments were offensive especially since he, himself avoided the draft with a few deferments, actually.
BARNETT: Important detail. You have Republicans and John McCain's son jumping to McCain's defense.
CNN Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, has more on that.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP GROUP: He's not a war hero.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump is overtaking the Republican presidential race. For that and everything else, he makes no apologies.
TRUMP (voice-over): I'm not a fan of John McCain. He's done a terrible job for the vets.
ZELENY: His spat with John McCain is escalating ever since he questioned whether the former POW in Vietnam was a war hero.
TRUMP: He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured, OK, I hate to tell you.
ZELENY: Jack McCain, the Senator's son and a Navy pilot, tweeted, "There are lines you do not cross. Trump crossed one." He told CNN that Trump disparaged the service of all POWs.
JACK MCCAIN, NAVY PILOT & SON OF JOHN MCCAIN: That's an inflammatory statement for someone who is trying to become the commander-in-chief of the United States military.
ZELENY (on camera): Do you think that is disqualifying?
MCCAIN: Nothing is disqualifying.
ZELENY: Even this?
MCCAIN: Even this. I hope his personality has shown through. Whether that was an off handed commend or not, there has to be soul searching.
ZELENY (voice-over): Senator McCain took the high road.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R), ARIZONA: I think he owes an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving their country.
TRUMP: He lost.
ZELENY: Most Republicans piled on Trump and rallied to McCain's defense.
JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: This is a legitimate hero that has served his country in lots of ways. And Mr. Trump knows that. He should just apologize.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO, (R), FLORIDA & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's not just absurd, it's offensive and ridiculous, and I do think it's a disqualifier as commander-in-chief.
ZELENY: But one candidate didn't join in. Ted Cruz blamed the media.
SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), TEXAS & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence. You want me to say something bad about Donald Trump. I'm not going to do it.
ZELENY: While the GOP establishment hope Trump goes away, voters we talked to New Hampshire and South Carolina were mixed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is not qualified to be president and his candidacy is all about Donald.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is fit to run for president but needs to watch what he is saying.
[02:10:02] ZELENY (on camera): The views of the voters are mixed. A sector is restless and angry and is happy to listen to someone brash and who is far from politics as usual. And that's what Donald Trump is giving them, more defiance that is dividing the GOP.
Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.
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BARNETT: You can see that division in the key papers.
NEWTON: You can.
BARNETT: "The Des Moines Register" in Iowa wants Trump to drop out of the race also.
NEWTON: After this editorial, no mystery as to how they feel. The paper called him, quote, "A feckless blowhard," and goes on to say, "Being electable is not the same as being qualified and Trump has proven himself not only unfit to hold office but unfit to stand on the same stage as his Republican opponents. The best way Donald Trump can serve his country is by apologizing to McCain and terminating this ill-conceived campaign."
We will hear more about that undoubtedly.
Now, more than 60 mayors are descending on the Vatican for an event on climate change and human trafficking. The mayors are expected to sign of declaration against modern-day slavery.
BARNETT: You have California Governor Jerry Brown and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh are expected to attend.
The pope is expected to make a statement in about two and a half hours from now. He has proven himself to say exactly what he thinks and feels. As soon as that takes place we will bring it to you.
The CNN Freedom Project is dedicated to shining a light on modern-day slavery. And the latest is a documentary called "Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking" Jada Pinkett Smith talks to a person who was lured in by someone who she thought was her friend.
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JADA PINKETT SMITH, ACTRESS & ACTIVIST: Sasha Ray was born and raised in Florida. But the time she was 14 she was constantly being teased at school.
SASHA RAY, FORMER MODERN-DAY SEX SLAVE: I was picked on a lot for being black. I had really, really dark skin, I guess.
SMITH: She felt alone at home and at school and that's why when an older classmate offered friendship, she jumped at it.
RAY: I thought she was like my best friend. I could tell her anything. One day she asked if I wanted to skip school and have fun, you know, so we went to this barbershop. She introduced me to these guys.
SMITH: Sasha Ray's new friend had just led her to the man who would eventually become her trafficker.
RAY: We talked about how we were going to make money. How it was going to be easy. We weren't going to have to depend on nobody. It was all fun and good and stuff and so I fell for it.
SMITH (on camera): Was there any kind of grooming process like when this first started? Or it's just something that just happened and he was just expecting you to learn on the way?
RAY: He slowly brought it on when we got closer. He usually did it out of the back of the barbershop. And he had people that were with the post office, mailmen came in. Mailman came in and paid their money to him. Came back there to me.
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NEWTON: Join us all this week for an in depth look at this global problem and watch the documentary, "Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking," at 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. in London, European time, only right here on CNN.
Now China is cracking down on corruption. Up next, details on the arrest of Ling Jihua, a former top aid to former Chinese President Hu Jintao.
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NEWTON: Very historic moment for the United States and Havana. You do hear protests though as Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodriquez Parrilla, raised the flag in Cuba's embassy in Washington on Monday. With that, the U.S. and Cuba resumed diplomatic ties after 54 years of Cold War animosity and distrust.
BARNETT: Parrilla met with Secretary of State John Kerry who welcome what he called a new beginning. And while some are praising this milestone, other's remain critical.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would argue that our policy for the last 50 years has been a miserable failure and made no difference in Cuba. I believe having normal diplomatic relations gives us an opportunity to communicate our concerns about human rights or drug interdiction or environmental issues.
ORLANDO PARDO, CUBAN BLOGGER: I was there in the State Department today. And the secretary of state of the U.S., John Kerry, and it was changeful, the Cuban councilor was saying that Cuba has gained in many ways and the U.S. has to give back Guantanamo and for so many decades of U.S. embargo. When he was asked by a correspondent about the freedoms in Cuba, and he said that freedom in Cuba arrived in 1959.
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NEWTON: In Havana, the U.S. embassy was opened on Monday. Kerry will raise the American flag in Havana next month.
[02:20:] BARNETT: We have a few new wrinkles to tell you about in the prison escape of Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman. He escaped his cell through an elaborate tunnel a week ago.
NEWTON: The pictures were incredible. Officials now believe that his accomplices used a global positioning system, or GPS, to help with their plan.
And as CNN's Polo Sandoval reports, they may have even done a dry run at another prison.
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POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): 14 months before Joaquin Guzman pulled off his escape from a prison, his organization may have been rehearsing with a separate jail break. A Mexican newspaper snapped these photos of a tunnel leading to a prison in el Chapo's home state of Sinaloa. Mexican officials say it was used in the escape of three inmates accused of trafficking weapons and drugs, at least one with ties to the Sinaloa cartel, a drug organization notorious for subterranean smuggling. This 2014 jailbreak and this month's el Chapo escape are similar. They started at construction sites and ended behind prison walls.
This engineer has worked on some of Mexico's largest tunneling projects and says digging such a precise path takes manpower and technology as well.
UNIDENTIFIED CIVIL ENGINEER: The first thing was they must do is get the location and then start digging in that location with topographic equipment that is so accurate. SANDOVAL (on camera): So el Chapo had to do was find the exact
coordinates of that shower and the experts would do the rest?
UNIDENTIFIED CIVIL ENGINEER: Exactly.
SANDOVAL (voice-over): The civil engineer says the easiest part of the dig probably came at the end.
UNIDENTIFIED CIVIL ENGINEER: They have all the plans they could find the pipeline who goes right under the el Chapo shower.
SANDOVAL (on camera): And Mexican authorities are interviewing the supervisor of the prison. Investigators believe he may have given away unauthorized access to the prison plans. But he has been added to the list of seven prison employees connected with the escape.
Polo Sandoval, CNN, Mexico City.
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BARNETT: Outgoing FIFA President Sepp Blatter is setting up a special task force to deal with corruption and bribery allegations.
NEWTON: Before he could make that announcement, a British prankster threw a stack of fake cash. Blatter made it clear there is a lot he wants to get done before his time is up.
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SEPP BLATTER, FIFA PRESIDENT: My duty and mission now is to defend the institution, FIFA and not to defend myself. I can defend myself. I don't need help with that. But FIFA and I'm happy today, the executive committee together with the confederation they have said, yes, president, we will help you.
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BARNETT: Now Blatter also announced his replacement will be announced in a special legislation on February 26th. Four of the six football confederations have asked him to consider running but he hasn't made a decision just yet.
NEWTON: In China, a top aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao is facing prosecution over alleged corruption. Authorities arrested Ling Jihua after expelling him from the Communist Party.
BARNETT: Accepting bribes and trading power for sex are some of the accusations against Ling. The arrest comes amid current President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption.
Our senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, joins us live from Beijing with details on this.
Ivan, President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweep continues. What is Ling Jihua accused of doing? IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: He's accused of
violating Communist Party discipline and rules. He is accused of accepting enormous bribes through his family. He's accused of seeking benefits for his wife's businesses and then in a bit of a contradiction here he is accused of, quote, "committing adultery with a number of women and trading his power for sex." So he has been under investigation since December but now stripped from the Communist Party and under arrest.
He could have been described under President Hu Jintao as being a chief of staff. This is a formerly immensely powerful Communist Party official at the top of the Chinese pyramid of power brought down and facing perhaps a life sentence or worse in Chinese prisons as a result of this anti-corruption drive led by the current leader, Xi Jinping.
[02:25:24] BARNETT: Let's talk about that. Ling was Hu Jintao's right hand man and observers wonder if it is more about Xi Jinping's consolidation of power than stamping out corruption.
WATSON: There have certainly be -- there's been speculation and suggestions and accusations from some observers this is more of a witch hunt and an example of Xi Jinping going after rivals and basically trying to remove them. But the fact is that the anti- corruption drive is popular with many Chinese who have seen the leadership in this country, top officials amass enormous wealth and corruption is something that he bangs on about. In the case of Ling Jihua, this is somebody who was behind the scenes a lot in the previous administration but he gained notoriety in 2012 when his son crashed a Ferrari in Beijing and ended up killing himself and severely injuring two women and it was very clear that any reports about this deadly accident were then scrubbed from the internet and from media reports as well. It's almost impossible to find a picture of this mangled Ferrari. That has become one of the many symbols for some Chinese of the huge wealth that some of these so-called tigers in the Communist Party, the wealth they amassed for themselves and their families. Another thing, his wife ran what was described as a non- governmental organization called youth business China. She was the founder of it. We have called a couple of the offices around the country and at least two of the offices say their offices have been suspended. Perhaps another casualty in the anti-corruption drive that ended in her husband's arrest -- Errol?
BARNETT: Ivan, live in Beijing. Ivan, thanks.
NEWTON: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still to come, British Prime Minister David Cameron has a message for anyone even think about joining ISIS.
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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: If you are a boy, they will brainwash you and strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you.
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[02:31:14] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: A warm welcome back to viewers in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.
PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Paula Newton. We want to update you on our top stories this hour.
Police in Istanbul, Turkey, clashed with protesters. An attack near the Syrian border killed 31 people. At least 100 people were wounded.
Pope Francis is expected to make a statement at an important conference hosted by the Vatican in about two hours from now. More than 60 mayors from around the world will take part. The mayors are expected to sign a declaration against modern-day slavery.
BARNETT: There are reports of gunfire in Burundi as controversial presidential elections get under way. The incumbent is running unopposed for a third term. His decision sparked months of instability and violence in the Central African nation.
NEWTON: We want to get an update as the polls have opened.
And I'm joined on the phone by a journalist, Julia Steers, who is in Burundi's capital.
Julia, in terms of the polls opening, I know there has been violence overnight. What is the situation now?
JULIA STEERS, BURUNDI JOURNALIST (voice-over): Well, the polls opened at 6:00 this morning about two and a half hours ago and things got off to a very slow start here. They opened about an hour late and now --
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NEWTON: I believe we have lost Julia Steers here, who was in the capital there.
A crucial election going on there as you know, Errol. The president there against everyone's wishes, said he wanted to try and run for that third term. He has continued to run. The opposition has boycotted the election. They had violence overnight and the real fear now is that there is that risk of civil war breaking out in that country. We'll continue to update on that situation and make contact with Julia again.
BARNETT: Many people are staying away from the polls because of the fear. So we'll want to watch the situation closely to see how the vote gets underway today. The British Prime Minister David Cameron is stepping up efforts to
prevent the nation's youth to join terror groups.
NEWTON: This has been controversial. He announced new measures targeting the spread of extremist ideologies on home soil.
Senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert, has more on this new strategy.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The masked military known as Jihadi John is the poster boy for all that has gone wrong in Britain's attempts to keep young Muslims from turning to terror groups. A shy London teenager before he left for Syria and became the masked murderer featured in the gruesome videos from is.
Now Britain's prime minister is vowing to crackdown on the extremist ideology that enables groups like ISIS.
DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Here's my message to any young person here in Britain thinking of going out there. You won't be a valued member of a movement. You are cannon fodder for them. They will use you. If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you.
SHUBERT: Hundreds of British men and women are believed to have joined the terror group and others like it in Syria and Iraq. Cameron is vowing to crack down on people who spew hate. In his speech, he used the word kafar (ph), for disbeliever, to make his point.
[02:35:12] CAMERON: This means confronting groups and organizations that may not advocate violence but do promote other parts of the narrative. If you say, yes, I condemn terror but the kafar (ph) are inferior, then you, too, are part of the problem.
SHUBERT: But Cameron risks alienating British Muslims many of whom feel targeted by British security services as they try to distance themselves from groups like ISIS.
And support for groups like ISIS is most prevalent online where extremism is hardest to tackle. That is how so many, including these three schoolgirls from London, were lured to ISIS last year. To those men and women, Cameron had this message.
CAMERON: I know that as long as injustice remains, you may feel there's no place for you in Britain. But I want you to know that there is a place for you and I will do everything I can to support you.
SHUBERT: It may take more than a prime minister's speech to win hearts and minds and defeat extremism.
Atika Shubert, CNN, London.
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NEWTON: The Greek government plans to vote Wednesday on new reforms. The banks opened on Monday for the first time in three weeks but withdrawals are limited to $450 a week. And Greece has made billions of payments to two of its major credit force the international monetary fund and the European Central Bank.
BARNETT: But Greece's former finance minister is unimpressed. He conceded that Greece did in fact make mistakes in bailout talks but says most of the blame for the country's economic woes falls on its creditors.
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YANIS VAROUFAKIS, FORMER GREEK FINANCE MINISTER: If you look at the way they have behaved from the very first day we assumed power on the 25th of January to last week or so, I think that close inspection is going to reveal the truth of what I'm saying. They were far more interested in humiliating this government and overthrowing it or making sure it overthrows itself in terms of its policies than they were in an agreement that would, for instance, ensure that they would get most of their money back.
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NEWTON: What he is talking about there is many say last week's third bailout agreement now imposes ever tougher terms on Greece than the deal that was proposals just earlier this year.
BARNETT: That moves to the mistakes as well. Some say if they would have gone on earlier on, the austerity measures wouldn't have been so intense.
If you are cheating on your wife and using the Internet to do it, you'll have a bad week because hackers are threatening to name millions of members of a website committed to adultery. Details on that after this.
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[02:41:24] NEWTON: One Egyptian police woman is taking a very hard line against sexual harassment. She was on duty outside a Cairo movie theater on the final day of the celebrations marking the end of Ramadan.
BARNETT: In a video that is going viral she is seen dragging a man into theater and shocking him with an electric rod and slapping him. Listen to this.
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NEWTON: There have been so many reactions to this. The details of the crime are not clear. While some praise the use of force against harassers, others questioned it as the suspect appeared to be cooperative there.
BARNETT: We didn't see what happened before the video began to roll. But to see a female cop really do what she did.
NEWTON: Absolutely.
A dating website that caters to married people looking to cheat on their spouses. I have to talk about this right now? (LAUGHTER)
Really? It says pants down.
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BARNETT: Hackers claim they have broken into this online system. They are threatening to reveal the names and sexual fantasies of the site's 37 million customers.
Randi Kaye has the details.
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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you ever used this website to hook up you might have explaining to do.
ANNOUNCER: Office romance too risky? You should have used AshleyMadison.com.
KAYE: The website, AshleyMadison.com, helps arrange sex partners so married people can cheat. Those cheaters have been exposed. A hacking group calling itself The Impact Team says it stole personal information, including names of 37 million Ashley Madison subscribers, and for an hour and a half, several thousand people were viewable online.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not going to be home for dinner, sorry.
KAYE: Ashley Madison's slogan is life is short, have an affair. Just imagine what kind of personal information the clients may have shared. Sexual preferences, fantasies, fetishes all from people looking for sex who never dreamed that such data could get in the hands of hackers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a good example of what type of naiveness there is in the market around personal data, setting yourself up for blackmail, humiliation, and public relations nightmare.
KAYE: Avid Life Media, which owns Ashley Madison, released a statement promising it has once again secured the site and removed any personally identifiable information about its users published online.
(on camera): The hackers may be trying to punish the cheating website, which they say charges users a $19 fee to delete personal information that is not deleted. Users almost always pay with credit cards. The purchase details aren't truly removed as promised. The hackers say Ashley Madison netted $1.7 million in revenue in 2014 just from the charges its customers pay to delete their data.
(voice-over): The Impact Group is now threatening to release customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching real names unless Ashley Madison is taken offline permanently. A manifesto posted online called users "cheating dirtbags" and warns that "a significant part of the population is about to have a very bad day including many rich and powerful people."
Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.
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[02:45:20] NEWTON: We're going to let that package speak for itself.
Ivan Cabrera is here.
IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST. We better.
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CABRERA: That's a good idea.
NEWTON: You are here with weather. Torrential rains in China.
CABRERA: Yes. China has been getting hit hard in the last few weeks. Wait until I show you some totals. The pictures coming out of China as the rains have been relentless here. The high water rescues as result of numerous days now of just incredible rains that extend not just from China but all the way into Japan. 100 to 300 millimeters of rainfall and we'll get specific there. Look at that. Just a river taking over there. When you talk about currents there people get in trouble very quickly and it's very difficult to get them to safety. A lot of them there needing assistance from officials there. Unfortunately, I think we will continue to see these scenes over the next few days. More rain is on the way. Incredible scenes there.
Back to the weather maps here. It's not just Japan, 100 to 200 millimeters of rainfall. When you see the reds, high cloud tops and the downpours are relentless. In 24 hours in parts of China, 383 millimeters of rainfall. That is 15 inches of rain in a day. There is no way you can drain that water in time. The rivers and streams are involved. We have a low on top of us that developed on the frontal boundary. That hangs out for a couple of months in fact. And we'll continue to see more heavy rain along that boundary with accumulations rivaling what we have seen in the last 24 to 48 hours. That means 100 to 300 millimeters of rainfall not out of question for the same area. That's going to be a big problem here. As we look to the east we are in typhoon season. I think we have one here. The latest advisory still has this as a tropical storm. I don't think is it a tropical storm any more. I think we have a typhoon. It is Halola. I think it will make a run for Japan in about five to six days. And we'll keep you posted. It has a lot of water to get through before it hits land masses.
BARNETT: Hopefully, it weakens, but that is not usually the case over bodies of water.
Ivan, thanks a lot.
A champion surfer lives to tell the tale. You're about to hear it. Mick Fanning describes what it was like when he was almost eaten by a shark.
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[02:51:47] NEWTON: Errol, it took an extra day and a playoff round and we finally have a winner from this year's British Open.
BARNETT: That's right. American Zach Johnson came out on top to win the claret jug and he was clearly emotional when he spoke with reporters. Listen.
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ZACK JOHNSON, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I feel honored to be a part of the history of this game. And you know, to don my name on that trophy, especially with the names before me, is -- is humbling it's the only word that comes to my mind.
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NEWTON: I watched this live today it was extraordinary to watch the three-way playoff. He won by a single stroke. So gracious and what a spectacular end to that event. Just amazing.
BARNETT: Wonderful. Good for him.
Professional surfer, Mick Fanning, is back home in Australia after a run in with a shark that was seen live around the world on television.
NEWTON: You can't get enough of that video. The 34-year-old fought off a shark while competing in the final leg of a world tour event.
He spoke to reporters on his return to Sydney.
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MICK FANNING, PROFESSION SURFER SURVIVED SHARK ATTACK: To walk away from a shark attack with not a scratch on you, it's a miracle really. You know, I spoke to different people. I had dinner with a guy who had been attacked three times. And you know, there's just like -- yeah, you don't know. You count your lucky stars and if there is someone looking after us, thanks.
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BARNETT: You bet. And if you can believe it, Fanning said that the shark encounter will not keep him from pursuing the sport that he loves.
David McKenzie has more.
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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The terrifying moments of a great white shark attack unfolding on live TV. Mick Fanning, one of surfing's greats, stalked off the coast of South Africa.
FANNING: He came for me and I sensed something behind me. And then all of a sudden I just jumped on my board and you know, I just was like, OK, something's going on. And I felt myself being dragged under by my leash. And then next thing I know, I saw this fin and it came back around and went again at my board and, yeah, and there was, like, a rush. Me or the shark.
MCKENZIE: Half way around the world, Fanning's mother watched the attack live from Australia.
ELIZABETH OSBOURNE, MOTHER OF MICK FANNING: I just couldn't believe what I was seeing really. And I realized then it must be a shark attack and I just -- I was absolutely terrified. I thought we'd lost him.
MCKENZIE: Instead of swimming away, Fanning turned to face the sedan- sized shark and swung a few punches.
FANNING: If I'm going to go down it's with a fight.
MCKENZIE (on camera): Mick Fanning says it was up to the shark whether he lived or died.
For pro surfers, surfing is like a religion but this put his life in focus.
FANNING: Waking up this morning, I spoke to family and friends and cried a little bit. Yeah, it's just -- you know, it's -- I don't know. You never know, like, you just lucky -- you just think whatever god threw out there. Or just say thanks for looking after me.
[02:55:20] MCKENZIE (voice-over): The attack has rattled the pro surfing community that this story could have ended so much worse. Fanning just wants to get home to Australia to give his mom a hug.
David McKenzie, CNN, Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa.
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NEWTON: Fanning's close encounter has brought out amateur comics. This me with the sharks got nothing.
This posed by Josie in Australia has the hash tag, sharksgotnothing and legendaryeffort.
BARNETT: And in Jurassic World, this comes with the hash tag sharkwhisperer. There also tweets, from the shark's point of view, here's one, "Tried to help a drowning surfer back to shore and got punched in the nose."
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NEWTON: And one more, "Hey, Mick Fanning, was just trying to get an autograph. Didn't mean to frighten you."
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BARNETT: He is safe and sound but what a trip. NEWTON: I relate to how he terrified his mother.
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