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U.S. Stepping Up ISIS Airstrikes in Syria; Trumps Slams Graham, Gives Out Phone Number; How Trump Stands on Key Issues; Pope Urges Fight on Human Trafficking, Global Warming; Dash Cam of Bland's Arrest Raises Questions; Israel Developing "Iron Dome of the Underground"; Apple Shares Plunge. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired July 21, 2015 - 02:00 ET
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[02:00:12] PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR: Terrorist killed. The U.S. confirmed the death of a senior al Qaeda leader in Syria.
ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Republican rivalries heat up as Donald Trump gives out an opponent's private cell number.
NEWTON: Traffic stop goes wrong. A woman in this video was found dead in her jail cell not long after being arrested.
BARNETT: Hello and welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and those tuned in from around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.
NEWTON: And I'm Paula Newton. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM. BARNETT: The U.S. military is claiming a victory against terrorism,
announcing it has killed a veteran militant in Syria. Officials say that he led the Khorasan group that has been planning attacks on western targets.
NEWTON: The U.S. put a $7 million bounty on his head. A missile hit his vehicle in northern Syria earlier this month. ISIS is claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly suicide bombings in Baghdad. At least 18 people were killed late Tuesday in a commercial area. More than 43 people were wounded.
BARNETT: You can see the video here and the aftermath of that exPLOsion. Rows and rows of buildings just obliterated. Debris littering the streets. Another car bombing in southeastern Baghdad left two people dead and nine wounded.
NEWTON: The U.S. military says it is stepping up its airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria.
BARNETT: But officials are tightlipped about what they're aiming for.
Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, has more.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. aircraft continue pounding ISIS positions in Raqqa, Syria. But the most recent targets are mysterious. Blast walls like these have been bombed repeatedly in recent days. The so-called T-walls are barriers erected around command centers and buildings ISIS wants to keep secure.
LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: If you knock down a T- wall, the infantry can maneuver more freely.
STARR: Whatever the walls were protecting it was on the priority target list for war planes. Bombing the blast walls could open the way for ground forces, likely Kurdish, to move in, unthinkable just weeks ago. U.S. commanders now have a network of intelligence on the ground. They are getting targeting coordinates around Raqqa from the Kurds who are strategically positioned just north of the city.
HERTLING: They are heading with an assault force and good at coordinating U.S. Aircraft to go against ISIS.
STARR: These leaflets air dropped into Raqqa by the U.S. The message, "Freedom will rise," a not so subtle warning to ISIS, watch out.
Meeting with U.S. and coalition forces in Jordan, Ash Carter says in northern Syria, ground operations are extremely effective.
ASH CARTER, DEFENSE SECRETARY: They couldn't have done what they did without you. And your impact as air power wouldn't be lasting without them.
STARR: The U.S. intelligence community now watching closely for reaction from ISIS leadership.
It's been a year since this Abu Bakr al Baghdadi sermon surfaced with no new video yet to mark the end of Ramadan, questions about whether Baghdadi has bigger concerns about his safety.
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BARNETT: That was our Barbara Starr reporting from the Pentagon.
Now the U.S. says it's working with Iraq to uncover a drone that crashed in the desert south of Baghdad.
NEWTON: The Pentagon confirms that the MQ1 aircraft went down on its way to its recovery base. The drone was on an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission when it experienced technical problems. There were no weapons on board.
BARNETT: Let's go to Turkey now, crowds of mourners gathered to bury many of the victims from a horrific suicide bombing in the country. At least 31 people died in the exPLOsion on Monday. 100 others were injured. The victims were planning a trip to help rebuild the city of Kobani.
NEWTON: The Turkish prime minister says one suspect in the attack has been identified. Investigators are looking into that person's domestic and international terror links.
[02:35:07] U.S. officials, meantime, are piecing together clues on what may have inspired Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez to kill four U.S. servicemen last week in Tennessee. Sources tell CNN the motive increasingly appears to be terrorism based on his political and religious views. In writings dating back to 2013, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez made references to Anwar at Awlaki. And he conducted Internet searches on the subject of martyrdom days before his shooting rampage.
BARNETT: In recent, President Obama has ordered flags to be lowered Saturday to honor the Chattanooga shooting victims.
NEWTON: Flags will fly at half staff at the White House, capitol and other government buildings on Saturday.
Donald Trump -- we knew this was going to happen -- drawing criticism after taking his feud with fellow U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Lindsey Graham, to a new level.
BARNETT: You can say a new low. At a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday with folks watching on national television, you had thousands of people there in the room, Trump gave out the Senator's private cell phone number.
NEWTON: Gave it out twice. And that's not the only spat he's got at the moment.
Dana Bash has the story.
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DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump unbowed by a barrage of criticism.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP GROUP: They say they didn't like the way, you know, I'm a little loud. I'm a little too strong -- they don't like it.
BASH: The reality TV star with a flair for drama took presidential politics to another level.
TRUMP: I see your Senator. What a stiff. What a stiff.
BASH: Responding to fellow Republican candidate, Lindsey Graham, saying this to CNN.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He is becoming a jackass.
TRUMP: I watch this idiot on television and he calls me a jackass.
BASH: Standing in Graham's home state of South Carolina, Trump retaliated by reading the Senator's personal cell phone number.
TRUMP: He gave me his number and I found the card. I don't know if it's the right number. Let's try it. 202 --
BASH: We asked why
(on camera): Why did you read Lindsey Graham's cell phone number?
TRUMP: So people can call him and he can get something done. But he won't be able to.
BASH: (voice-over): Graham now unable to be reached through cell, responded through his campaign manager, saying Donald Trump continues to show hourly he is ill prepared to be commander-in-chief.
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All this amid a back and forth with Iowa's largest newspaper, "The Des Moines Register," whose editorial board called for him to pull the plug on his bloviating side show. Trump shot back about the newspaper's sagging sells. He is buoyed by the personal warfare, and crowds like this. All told, 1100 people in the main auditorium and an overflow room.
Many at this retirement community waited in line for hours to get in.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's a doer.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think he's terrific. He tells the truth.
BASH: Not everyone is a supporter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He scares me.
BASH (on camera): But you are still here?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah. I want to see him. He's a celebrity.
BASH (voice-over): Despite causing so much controversy about John McCain's war service, some veterans here in military rich South Carolina came to hear him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He just disappointed me. I wasn't offended but disappointed.
BASH (on camera): It's not a deal breaker?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, not yet.
BASH: Why is that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Too far to go. He has tremendous background and a great ability to delegate. He can make a decision on the spot. But it also gets him in trouble.
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BARNETT: Again that was our Dana Bash reporting.
NEWTON: We want to take a look at where Trump stands on some of the key issues. On immigration, he said he would build a wall. To stop ISIS, he said he would bomb the oil fields to end the cash flow going to ISIS. On jobs, he said he could bring jobs back from China. And he promised to repeal and replace Obamacare and end the Common Core educational standard, which are highly controversial in this country.
CNN political analyst, Ron Brownstein joins me now.
Ron, at this point in time, let's look at what seems to be the Republican's worst nightmare what a Trump America would look like. Is that in keeping what some of what Americans want to hear on some of these issues right now?
[02:10:04] RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: There is a part of the Republican base that wants to hear it. We are unlikely to see a Donald Trump America. I think the clearest impact of the controversies is to narrow his base of support and put a ceiling on. That second, in the time he is commenting on public affairs over the course of his business career he has taken both positions on every major issue. It's hard to know where his center of gravity is. But having said that, he has evolved in this race into a fairly conventional, very conservative Republican. He is pretty much and down the line with conservative views expressed in vitriolic terms but he has skepticism of trade, opposition to Obamacare, that animate the most ideologically cutting edge of the Republican base.
NEWTON: For everyone who doesn't want to take Donald Trump seriously, can it be argued that in fact he is moving the Republican Party exactly where he wants them, that through all of this name-calling at the same time he is moving policy issues to where he wants them even if he doesn't become the Republican candidate or become president?
BROWNSTEIN: I think that's a really good point. What's happening is -- what Donald Trump is doing is energizing and coalescing a strain in the Republican Party. The Republican Party divides now almost exactly in half between a college-educated white-collar managerial side that wants someone to cut taxes, cut regulation and cut spending but not to usher in a revolution. The other half of the party is the blue collar and evangelical, Tea Party, rural. It is disaffected from many things in American life from the demographic change and the cultural change. They want someone to go to Washington to throw rocks through the window. And Trump is energizing that portion of the party. In the end he is unlikely to be the nominee but he is creating a dynamic in which the party is going to have to respond more to those sentiments than it anticipated when the campaign began. And that is a challenge in the general election.
NEWTON: And the Republican party things he is an enemy but we are not talking about Hillary Clinton right now. I know you have a theory about him tapping into what Nixon called the silent majority.
BROWNSTEIN: It emerged in an intense racial tension time in the United States. And Richard Nixon talked about white middle class voters who were, you know, felt overlooked by the focus on youth protests on inner city protests and the sexual revolution that America is going through. And Donald Trump who cited that phrase in his bigger speech in phoenix is trying to appeal to that same sentiment. The core of his support are working class white voters. He was 33 percent among those who didn't graduate from college and they are feeling they are being economically, demographically and culturally eclipsed by changes in America. When he talks about taking back America he reflects that sense of embattlement and defense of nationalism that is manifest in skepticism about immigration and trade. And even though he is unlikely to be the nominee he is energizing that portion of the party in a way that the eventually nominee is going to have to respond to. And that is going to make the general election more complicated.
NEWTON: Everyone who said that Donald Trump would be a joke on the campaign trail, the joke is on them.
Ron, appreciate it.
BROWNSTEIN: Thank you.
BARNETT: And now to something we talked about this time yesterday, the Vatican's conference on human trafficking and global warming.
NEWTON: The pope is urging the world to take action on both issues and he is explaining why they are linked.
Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, has her story.
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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mayors and governors from around the world applaud Pope Francis as he signs a declaration calling for bold action on modern slavery, part of a two- day Vatican summit on climate change and human trafficking. A conference paper explains that global warming is one of the causes of poverty and forced my graduation and Pope Francis sees the two issues as interconnected emergencies.
[02:15:13] POPE FRANCIS (through translation): It's not a green encyclical. The social life of people, we cannot separate the care of the environment. One of the things we notice the most when the environment, the creation is not well cared for is the disproportionate growth of cities. It's as if the heads, the big cities get bigger but with rings of more poverty and misery.
GALLAGHER: Rome's mayor faced it head on.
IGNAZIO MARINO, MAYOR OF ROME (through translation): Slavery still exists despite the fact that it is illegal and punished in most countries. It assumes many forms and affects people of many ages, sex and background.
GALLAGHER: Pope Francis hopes that the United Nations will take a strong position on trafficking and has great hope on the Paris summit in December saying that he hopes that a fundamental basic agreement is reached.
Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.
(END VIDEOTAPE) NEWTON: The CNN Freedom Project continues to join in the fight against human trafficking and a new documentary called "Children for Sale" spotlights crimes that are happening in the United States. We should say, just a few miles from here.
BARNETT: That's right. In the clip, you are about to see here, actress and activist, Jada Pinkett Smith, introduces us to a sex trafficking survivor and listen why she explains that American strip clubs are sometimes fronts for brothels.
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JADA PINKETT SMITH, ACTRESS & ACTIVIST: To me coming up being an independent woman was being educated and being able to stand on your own and it shocked me that these days, to be the independent woman and getting the lifestyle you want, you get on the stripper pole.
RACHEL, STRIPER: I don't remember a time in my life where I didn't know what sex was.
SMITH: Rachel's journey into the life started very early.
RACHEL: I do think it does go back to being abused young -- at a young age. At the age of 7, I was introduced to pornography.
SMITH: Like thousands of children each year, Rachel was sexually abused and didn't get the help she need.
RACHEL: I'm from a small town in Georgia. As the years past I continued a destructive lifestyle that everybody ignored. She is just rebellious. She just has problems.
SMITH: Her destructive lifestyle soon landed her in a strip club.
RACHEL: For me it took about a year and I started being exploited by the club management. I was told you can make more money this way.
SMITH: This way meant giving the men much more than a lap dance.
RACHEL: The club that I worked at, I would tell anyone it's a modern- day brothel. You would come in and they would say, oh, I would want an African-American girl. I want a small girl. I want a girl who looks underage.
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BARNETT: And we invite you to join us all week for an in depth look at the global problem. Watch the documentary "Children for Sale," Wednesday at 8:00 p.m., in London, 9:00 central European time, on CNN international.
NEWTON: A traffic stop escalates into a heated showdown and an arrest. We are just getting a look at this dash cam video as police investigate the mysterious jail cell death of the driver.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [02:23:08] NEWTON: In Texas, the arrest video of a woman who later died in police custody is raising more questions about what happened. The dash cam video shows a tense confrontation between a state trooper and the driver, Sandra Bland. She died three days after her arrest.
BARNETT: We at CNN have watched the video closely released by the Texas Department of Transportation and we noted there are irregularities in what was released. We don't know if it has edited but what you are about to hear is a tense exchange between the officer and the driver.
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UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: You mind putting out your cigarette, please, if you don't mind?
SANDY BLAND, DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY: I'm in my car.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: You can step out.
BLAND: I don't have to step out.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Step out of the car.
BLAND: Why am I --
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Step out of the car. Step out of the car.
BLAND: You do not have the right to do that.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: I do have the right.
BLAND: I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Step out or I will remove you.
BLAND: For a --
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Step out or I will remove you. I'm giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car now or I'm going to remove you. I'm going to yank you out of here.
BLAND: You going to yank me out of my car, OK. All right. Let's do this.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: We're going to.
BLAND: Don't touch me.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Get out of the car.
BLAND: I'm not under arrest.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: You are under arrest.
BLAND: For what? For what?
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Get out of the car. Get out of the car now!
BLAND: Why am I being apprehended? Why am I being apprehended?
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: I'm giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car! I will light you up! Get out! Now!
BLAND: Really for a failure to signal.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Get over there. Yeah, let's take this to court for a failure to signal, yep.
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[02:25:15] BARNETT: Just to clarify, he name is Sandra Bland. You heard the officer say, "I will light you up." The district attorney says a grand jury will ultimately decide whether what happened in the jail cell was a suicide or a homicide.
CNN's Ryan Young has been closely following this story and has more on her mysterious death.
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RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT; We got access to Sandra Bland's cell, number 95 and see where authorities say she hanged herself inside that cell. As you walk through you got a sense of what she was dealing with for those three days.
BLAND: For a failure to --
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Step out or I will remove you.
YOUNG (voice-over): For the first time, we are seeing police dash cam video of Sandra Bland's arrest.
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: You're going to yank me out of my car? OK.
BLAND: You are going to yank me out of my car?
YOUNG: Pulled over for failing to use a turn signal, you can hear the tense interaction between the two.
ELTON MATHIS, WALLER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: We have procedures in place and he did not comply with those procedures. One of those procedures is letting the individual know in terms of what action is going to be taken.
YOUNG: But what it doesn't show is a struggle captured by a witness with a cell phone showing Bland pinned to the ground and screaming she is a victim of excessive force.
Bland was arrested and brought here to the jail and three days later found dead hanging from her cell. Video inside the jail shows no one walking along the hall to enter or leave the cell before she was found dead.
(on camera): This is cell number 95 where Sandra was staying those three days. The food is still sitting here. The bed is still in the same arrangement but there is attention being paid to the trash bag like this one and this trash liner. This trash liner is what was used to string up here and for Sandra Bland to hang herself.
R. GLENN SMITH, SHERIFF, WALLER COUNTY, TENNESSEE: There were four female inmates three and a half feet across from her. They gave statements. Nobody did anything to her.
YOUNG: Right.
SMITH: And based on that, it's an absolutely tragic incident here of her committing suicide.
YOUNG (voice-over): But state officials and the FBI are investigating the case and the district attorney is treating her death as a murder investigation. And Bland's family says the 28-year-old would not have taken her own life.
UNIDENTIFIED SISTER OF SANDRA BLAND: Seven days later, I still don't know what happened to my baby sister.
YOUNG (on camera): This remains an active and involved investigation. You can split this into two separate incidents. What happened at the traffic stop and what happened at that cell, a lot of people are calling for the DOJ investigation and the FBI and Texas Rangers are investigating to see what happened here but this is far from being over.
Ryan Young, CNN, Prairie View, Texas.
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BARNETT: And, unfortunately, we can report on another police investigation, this one in the U.S. state of Ohio. An unarmed black man was fatally shot by a white officer during a traffic stop. According to the police, the officer pulled over 43-year-old Samuel Debose for driving without a front license plate on Sunday. There was a struggle between the two and police say Debose drove away. The officer then fired once, hitting Debose in the hair.
NEWTON: Family and friends of Debose held a rally Tuesday demanding answers. Police say the officer who works for the University of Cincinnati was wearing a body camera at the time and he is on paid administrative leave. Video will not be released until the investigation is over.
BARNETT: Technology is outpacing the laws to control it. Coming up, how a U.S. teenager's college project sparked a federal investigation. Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [02:32:36] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back. To those of you tuned in the states and the around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.
PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Paula Newton. We want to bring you up to date on our top stories.
The Pentagon says it has killed a veteran terrorist leader in Syria on July 8th. He was the leader of the Khorasan group, an offshoot of al Qaeda that had been planning attacks on Western targets.
BARNETT: Two British men are being held on terror charges in London right now. The uncle and his nephew were accused of planning to join ISIS in Syria. The nephew was also allegedly planning to attack U.S. military personnel inside the U.K. by running them over with his car.
NEWTON: Greek lawmakers are voting today on a second package of reforms. The bill includes new E.U. rules that guarantee bank deposits of up to 100,000 Euros and it implements civil justice reforms designed to speed up court cases and reduce costs. Live pictures there. We expect some results on that vote in the next few hours.
BARNETT: Israel is racing to develop an anti-tunnel device to find Hamas tunnels being dug from Gaza to infiltrate Israel.
They call it the Iron Dome of the Underground.
Oren Liebermann reports.
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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This could be a video from last summer's Gaza war, militants in a tunnel but it's not. Hamas is building new tunnels and finding them has become a top priority ever since the Gaza war. Along the border with Gaza, Israel is testing a new tunnel detection system working with the United States.
Major Magr Nir Pellet (ph) says it is a dangerous game of underground hide and seek.
MAJ. MAGR NIR PELLET (ph), IDF: Every time that we find that there is a new tunnel that previous method didn't manage to find, we test ourselves and analyze that case and find a new method to find the next one.
LIEBERMANN: During the war, Hamas militants launched surprise attacks from tunnels that crossed under the fences into Israel. They destroyed more than 30 tunnels. The IDF says there were nearly 60 miles of tunnels along the Gaza border.
[02:25:07]Captain Daniel Elbow (ph) took us into one of the tunnels. Israel intelligence knew Hamas was building tunnels but had trouble pinpointing them. When the soldiers stepped into the tunnels they were stunned by the construction.
(on camera): There's a lot of room here once you get rid of the claustrophobic feel to move quickly here. Someone could run easily carrying weapons. And there is enough room for a motorcycle and the surface is flat enough that you can move quite quickly.
CAPT. DANIEL ELBOW (ph), ISRAELI IDF: The next tunnels will be at least as good as this one. And Hamas did not stop the digging process.
LIEBERMANN (voice-over): Tunnels experts say tunnels are not just a tool of the past, they are a battleground of the future.
ATTA SHEMACH (ph), TUNNEL EXPERT: It's going to be our problem for the -- at least five decades from now. One of the main tools to a struggle and to be a -- let's say kind of a fair fight, it's to go underground.
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LIEBERMANN: Israel won't say much about the tunnel detection system but the IDF is constantly working on improving the system. Before the Gaza War, the IDF developed Iron Dome. Now they are testing the Iron Dome of the Underground to protect against tunnels.
Oren Liebermann, CNN, south Israel.
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NEWTON: Now video of a handgun firing from a drone has gone viral and has sparked a federal investigation in the United States.
BARNETT: That's right. Take a look. The gun appeared to be shooting on private property in Connecticut. So far officials cannot see any law on the books has been broken. But the FAA is looking into this.
NEWTON: In the video, clearly, it would get your attention. The father of the 18-year-old student says his son created it for a college project. No one was harmed. No charges have been filed. Drones fall into a gray area legally.
BARNETT: But a drone with a gun sounds like a bad idea.
Heavy rain flooded Mumbai on Tuesday.
We have our meteorologist, Ivan Cabrera, joining us to talk about what is happening.
IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Drones are helpful in the weather. We can get a scope --
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BARNETT: Just don't put a weapon on them.
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CABRERA: I just want my packages delivered. That's terrible. Let's talk about the rainfall. It's incredible. Sometimes you don't get enough rain and you have problems in India with the monsoon, you get too much and you get the flooding. We're in that right now, torrential downpours in Mumbai. High water rescues underway in some pockets and the rain is going to continue to come on in. Anywhere from about 45, 47 to 104 millimeters of rainfall. Two to four inches in the last couple of days. But that comes on top of two to four inches the day before that and the day before that. And you get the idea. This is the pattern that will continue to be the pattern from the Arabian Sea. And this western flow into Mumbai. Torrential rain in the next 24 to 48. This is the time of year we do this and we're going to do it very well over the next few days across the interior states heavy rain as well. Up to 150 millimeters are not out of the question.
In Europe, do you see the problem here? We have no clouds across portions of central and southeastern Europe. A few fair-weather clouds. The heat is relentless. The storm track is well to the north. The temperatures in the upper 30s as we head through later this afternoon. Paris in the upper 20s and showers in the forecast for the southern part of France and that is important later on today. Could be talking about downpours and the potential for thunderstorm activity. The legs rested on Tuesday were bag in the Tour de France. And that is going to be for today with temperatures in the mid-20s by the time we get into the afternoon hours. We'll still in the mid-20s with showers and thunderstorms beginning to bubble up. We'll have to watch that.
Had to throw in the Tour de France there.
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NEWTON: You are a cyclist.
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BARNETT: Let the viewers know.
CABRERA: I did 200 miles this year, and I think I'm Chris Froome.
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BARNETT: That's exciting.
CABRERA: I did.
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BARNETT: You got the get up and everything.
NEWTON: Still standing.
CABRERA: Yes, barely.
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BARNETT: All right, Ivan, thanks. We'll see you later.
NEWTON: Thanks.
Now, an impressive earnings report from Apple boasting nearly $50 billion in sales but investors weren't pleased. Coming up, we'll explain why shares took a tumble.
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NEWTON: Workers in New York may get their wish. The state's Wage Board will discuss the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. That's an increase of 70 percent.
BARNETT: So far, it only affects fast-food workers. But Governor Andrew Cuomo says this is the first step in raising the minimum wage overall in the U.S. Only Los Angeles and Seattle have raised their minimum wages to $15 an hour.
Shares in Apple plunged after hours, even though the company reported $49.6 billion in revenue in the third quarter.
NEWTON: Apple sold 47.5 million iPhones. Fewer than expected. And the company didn't reveal sales data for the Apple watch.
Joining me now is Shara Tibken, a senior writer for CNET News, who has covered Apple extensively, and joins us from San Francisco.
Shara, with revenue of $49 to $50 billion, why are some down beat on these numbers? It's what any other company would die for?
SHARA TIBKEN, SENIOR WRITER, CNET NEWS: Yeah. For Apple, it wasn't the blowout that everybody has come to expect. Ever since they launched the iPhone 6 they have been reporting crazy quarters, tons of demand for their new phones. This time they didn't sell as many iPhones as everybody was expecting and their forecast for the current quarter was a little bit weaker than what analysts are look for.
BARNETT: Let's get into the why there. 47.5 million phones sold in the recent quarter. That's a 35 percent jump from last year. Apparently people are spending more per device than before. But just explain why that enthusiasm is expected to top out now.
[02:45:09] TIBKEN: So this quarter is always Apple's weakest. It's kind of in between the dads and grads season and the back to school season. And the biggest thing that hurts the quarter every time is that people know there is a new iPhone coming in September. If you are looking to buy a new phone it doesn't make sense to purchase a new iPhone even if you want the iPhone 6 in September it will be cheaper with the new one coming out. That is something that has always really hurt Apple. Their predictability has worked against them. The hope was this time that China and maybe some of these other markets would kind of lessen that difference a little bit. But, you know, it just wasn't quite as good as what Wall Street is expected.
BARNETT: And we are expecting that the iPhone 6S is a nominal upgrade. And now the Apple watch is in another category. They don't report its numbers the same way. But Tim Cook suggested that says that it could save the company in the holiday season.
TIBKEN: Yeah, they are trying to build inventory and trying to get more of these out there because they think it's going to be the perfect stocking stuffer. If you think about it most people have phones a lot of people have tablets and computers. So if you are looking to buy an electronic gift for someone, a wearable does make a lot of sense. But the problem for Apple and the smart watch market is finding a good reason to have one of these. But if you are buying it as a gift for someone else like your nieces or nephews, your children, your parents, it's easier to say, oh, yeah, you know, I'll get them this. They'll find a reason to use it.
BARNETT: And there are some studies out showing that early adopters are happy with the device. But how many find it functional and worth the money. Quickly in the minute left, iPhones are outselling Samsung devices in South Korea. How significant is that?
TIBKEN: That's crazy. You know, Samsung has been struggling for the past year. They have had a lot of issues getting people to buy their devices. But this happening in their home country is a very big deal for them.
BARNETT: All right, Shara Tibken, joining us from San Francisco, thanks for your time today.
TIBKEN: Thanks a lot.
BARNETT: Appropriate for some, but no apps or wearable devices for you?
NEWTON: I wear a traditional watch. I can't even handle this.
BARNETT: A U.S. restaurant owner is getting grilled online for this. Watch.
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DARLA NEUGEBAUER, OWNER, MARCY'S DINER: I turned around, slammed both hands on the counter and pointed at the child and said, this has got to stop.
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BARNETT: What has to stop? And why? Answers after the break.
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[02:52:04] BARNETT: Question for you. You're at a restaurant enjoying this great food and someone's baby won't stop screaming. What do you do?
NEWTON: You bite your tongue, enjoy your food. And apparently, glare at them. That works.
BARNETT: That could have happened. In one incident in Maine, the owner of a restaurant took a different approach.
Here's Jeanne Moos.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There's nothing appetizing about a cry baby in a restaurant. But here at Marcy's Diner in Portland, Maine -- a crying 21-month-old has provoked an outcry all because owner, Darla Neugebauer, did this.
NEUGEBAUER: I slammed both hands on the counter and pointed at the child and said this has got to stop.
MOOS: That's not how the toddler's mother remembers it. Tara Carson told WCSH that the owner was --
TARA CARSON, MOTHER OF TODDLER: Screaming in her face like shut the hell up. I was in pure shock. I had never seen behavior like this before.
MOOS: The stories diverged in other ways.
NEUGEBAUER: After 40 minutes of screaming, I had had enough.
MOOS: But the mother says the toddler was crying and not screaming for a little over 10 minutes, not 40.
The owner had asked the parents to take the child outside at least once before, but the mom says it was raining.
The parents vented their anger on the Marcy's Diner Facebook page, "The owner is an absolute lunatic. May karma bite you in the (EXPLETIVE DELETED)."
In her F-bomb-laced responses, the owner called the toddler that monster and the beast.
The back and forth prompted a deluge of comments, though way more sided with the owner. The morning show chewed over the topic.
NEUGEBAUER: And her parents said, are you screaming at a child? Yes, I am, and she shut up.
MOOS: So far, the egg seems firmly on the grill rather than on the owner's face.
Jeanne Moos, CNN --
NEUGEBAUER: This has got to stop.
-- New York. (END VIDEOTAPE)
NEWTON: Here's the thing. You know, here's the thing, though, beyond the fact that you should have taken the child outside of the restaurant.
BARNETT: Agree with you there.
NEWTON: But I have children. You do not have children. Do you feel that -- people who don't have children have, like they've had it with people taking liberties with their children and having them wreak havoc?
BARNETT: And I think parents of young kids are used to the screaming and the noise. And they tolerate it more. That diner is a small place.
NEWTON: Exactly. And all the -- that's what I mean. You wonder why it wouldn't dawn on the parents. We have a horror -- on a flight.
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BARNETT: Don't take that baby on a plane.
NEWTON: No place to take a child.
BARNETT: Much less tolerant of a baby on a plane.
[02:55:06] NEWTON: This is a baby that doesn't scream. His father has called him a monkey.
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Prince George is celebrating his second birthday in private. Kensington Palace did give us a photo.
BARNETT: A toothy smile there. The image taken on July 5th. The photographer also photographed Princess Charlotte following her christening.
NEWTON: You can see a gallery of photos on CNN.com.
He is adorable and, as his father says, a complete monkey.
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You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Paula Newton.
BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett.
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