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Gunfire as Ferguson Marks 1 Year Since Brown Shooting; Trump Faces Backlash on Megyn Kelly Comments; How People Cope with War in Syria; South Korea Says North Korea Will Pay Price for Land Mine Explosions; Taiwan, China Hit By Typhoon; Oakland Says Police Body Cams Worth the Cost; Controversy over Rookie Cop Shooting of College Football Player in Arlington, Texas; South African Migrants Dangerously Mine for Gold; Using Technology to Combat Modern-Day Slavery; Kim Chambers 1st Woman to Swim from Farallon Islands to San Francisco. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 09, 2015 - 02:50   ET

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[02:00:35] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Peaceful protests quickly turn ugly. Gunfire erupts in Ferguson, Missouri, as the city marks one year since the police-involved shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: U.S. fighter jets in Turkey to take aim at ISIS. But hear why some Syrians say it's not enough.

HOWELL: And a life underground. Tapping into a subterranean sea of gold. Why some migrants in South Africa say it's the worst job in the world.

CHURCH: Hello, everyone. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Thanks for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church.

HOWELL: And I'm George Howell. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

Good day to you.

We begin this hour with the breaking news out of Ferguson, Missouri. The sound of gunfire erupted during protests around the one-year anniversary of the police-involved shooting to death of teenager, Michael Brown. The St. Louis Police Department reports there was also an officer-involved shooting but no officers were injured.

CHURCH: We want to show you some video where you can hear shots being fired during an interview with Ferguson's interim police chief. Take a listen.

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ANDRE ANDERSON, INTERIM CHIEF, FERGUSON POLICE DEPARTMENT: -- explaining their rights and we want to be as patient as possible --

(GUNFIRE)

(END VIDEO CLIP) HOWELL: You hear it there in the background.

CNN's Sara Sidner was there when the shots break out. I spoke with her last hour and she says there may be people wounded. Listen.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): I was standing with the affiliate taking video of the chief talking, the interim chief, talking about how they want this to be peaceful and trying to be respectful but they did want to clear the street. As he starts talking about things being more calm and peaceful, shots ring out a few hundred yards from where the chief and officers and protesters were standing. You hear a burst of gunfire over and over again several shots fired. Just after that, we took cover and the police were there as well. And behind us there was another blast of gunfire. So two separate incidents. I was here and witnessed happening as people were crouched down behind cars as everyone in the street started running and police were told to get out of the street because they were in a bad spot with no cover.

We don't have confirmation whether or not someone has been shot but as I walked up to the scene where people were running, a police officer said that someone has been shot, back up. That is an officer, not an official word, but an officer on the scene that someone had got shot. We are trying to figure out if there are one or two or more people who ended up getting shot tonight. But there are definitely two distinct and different shooting scenes here and we're trying to ascertain right now.

What you are seeing is police standing in a line and people standing on the sidewalk. There were a few dozen protesters here, maybe 50 or a little bit less. Not a huge, huge crowd. Most of the crowd was at a concert tonight but that crowd stood in front of police. And down the street away from the crowd, where other people were gathered, the shooting -- the initial shooting happened.

HOWELL: Sara, all the things you are describing remind me -- and we are talking about the one-year anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting. I was there hours after the shooting, myself. And you hear the gunshots and you run for cover. I wanted to know the mood right now, is it similar to as it was last year? Are there more police out there than there are protesters or do you get the sense, from the sense we see from these images, that it's growing?

SIDNER: There were more protesters than police and then there were equal numbers more police coming with the help of St. Louis County and the Missouri Highway Patrol is out here assisting just like back a year ago. But it is a different scene.

I have been here for a week now. I stayed here for many months during the most tense times. It doesn't feel the same in the sense that there aren't as many people that are gathered and galvanized but there is still a lot of tension here and there are a lot of people saying that change has not happened fast enough although there has been change in the city. There has been visible change at the top in city government. The new interim police chief is African-American, the first time ever this department has had an African-American chief, although he is interim. A new city manager, who is the person that can hire the chief, and make some of the decisions that were upsetting the community about ticketing, that person is new. And interim city manager, who is African-American. And you have two people on the city council voted in after the Michael Brown incident, voted in this year, and they are African-American. You are seeing the city government reflect the population, which is 67 percent African-American.

But at this point in time, there are plenty of people who say these are superficial changes and not changes that make a difference on the ground. We will have to find out who it is that is responsible for the shooting. At this point, we don't know. But we heard many, many shots ring out tonight.

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[02:06:16] HOWELL: While Michael Brown's death sparked demonstrations around the United States, it also created a new generation of activists.

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(MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to look up Ferguson, go look up Ferguson, and they sent a picture of Mike Brown.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Someone just got shot. Another brother just got shot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That led to a chain reaction.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The scale has increased exponentially.

(MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were there for three days and it changed my life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I and other folks planned on staying there for days. We ended up staying there for months.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was a surreal experience, seeing the tanks and the tear gas and the SWAT teams. A lot of the relationships that you see now were built in the crucible of tear gas and rubber bullets in Ferguson.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This moment in Ferguson was actually about a larger conversation in black America.

(MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If they thought that their militarized overreaction would quell the fire, what they did was build life-long relationships and a solid, sturdy commitment for justice. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're seeing a lot of new people and we're

seeing folks who have been doing this work for years coming to the organizing work in different ways and recognizing this is a different moment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to embrace every member of our community.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's happening right now is it's continuing, it's rolling and rolling and it's picking up more people.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have to continue to be on the streets. I think that folks have seen so many creative and bold actions have happened during this time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are attempting to build a movement that is the opposite of everything that the American system represents.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not interested in gradualism when it comes to our basic right to live. Right. We want it today. We wanted it yesterday. We wanted it decades ago.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I never imagined we would be in this moment in my life. So anything is possible. I think if we run a good campaign and I think if we challenge and push, I think we could win certain reforms. I do.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HOWELL: You can find out more about Ferguson, Missouri, and what has changed there, from politics to the grass roots movements that you have heard about there that are active around the country, you can also stay on top of the most recent updates all available to you at CNN.com.

CHURCH: We will continue to follow that story and bring details on it.

But we want to turn to U.S. politics. And U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, is facing backlash about his recent comments about FOX News host, Megyn Kelly.

HOWELL: We're hearing as Donald doubled down, in fact, he was already under fire for going after Kelly during the Republican debate last week. And now critics believe he suggested that she was tough on him because she was hormonal.

Here's what Trump had to say to CNN's Don Lemon on Friday. Listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION (voice-over): She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions there, was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: And Trump is standing by his words. In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday, he said that his statements about Kelly were misunderstood. He also says her questions were unfair. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: She was very angry because I bested her with a question that was an unfair question. She was very angry. When I was speaking about it on a CNN show, by the way, which was interesting, but I was speaking about her, I said blood was pouring out of her eyes, which is a very common statement, and I said the same thing about Chris Wallace.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST, THE LEAD: That's right. You did.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: But I said the very same thing about Chris Wallace --

(CROSSTALK)

TAPPER: And then you said -- you said there was blood coming out of her wherever.

TRUMP: I said -- no, and blood was pouring from wherever because I wanted to finish the sentence. I wanted to get off of the whole thing and get back on the subject or jobs or whatever we were talking about right after that. I didn't say anything because I didn't finish the thought. I was going to say nose and/or ears. It is a common statement. She had great anger when she was questioning me, especially since I mentioned the Rosie O'Donnell statement, which was, by far, the loudest applause of the entire day of all of the speakers. I think you would agree.

TAPPER: Mr. Trump --

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[02:11:05] CHURCH: As for the target of those comments, Megyn Kelly, she is taking it all in stride. She spoke out for the first time on Sunday.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm a big girl. I can take it. As I say, I understand why people get upset because the stakes are very high here. We're talking about the Oval Office. And they really like the candidate they like. And they don't want to see the candidate take any hits. You know, that is the way you feel and get to feel if you are just a voter as opposed to the journalist. We're not allowed to feel like that or allowed to take those considerations into mind when we craft these debate questions. We have to hit them as hard as we can so the voters can figure out who's our guy. Right? The Republicans are trying to figure out who is our guy or gal.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HOWELL: Megyn Kelly said she felt her question to Trump was fair. She also says Trump will get over it and, quote, "We'll be fine and so will America."

CHURCH: A group of U.S. lawmakers, who could cast key votes soon on the Iran nuclear deal, are in Israel. 22 Democratic members of Congress met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the Iran nuclear agreement.

HOWELL: The Israeli prime minister is trying to convince them to vote against it. The fact-finding trip is sponsored by a pro-Israel lobbying group opposed to the nuclear deal. 36 Republican lawmakers are set to arrive in Israel later today.

CHURCH: The United States has deployed half a dozen F-16 war planes to a Turkish air base near the Syrian border to help in the fight against ISIS. The fighter jets left from Italy on Sunday. Using Turkey's bases will help make the strikes against ISIS in Syria faster by reducing flight times.

HOWELL: The U.S. mission to NATO confirmed the move in a Sunday tweet. It says that Turkey agreed to let the U.S. use its air bases and air space last month when the country officially entered the war against ISIS.

CHURCH: Neighboring Syria has been ravaged by civil war for several years. For many Syrians, their hope is fading that the U.S. airstrikes will make a difference in the overall fight against ISIS.

HOWELL: CNN travelled to Damascus to see how people are coping with the war in the capital city. Here's our Fred Pleitgen.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: As America ramps up its air campaign against ISIS with additional jets taking off from a Turkish air base, many people we speak to here in the government-controlled part of Damascus, first of all, believe that these airstrikes will make little difference and many also feel that America's actions in Syria are aimed against the Assad government.

PLEITGEN (voice-over): "America always helps the terrorists," this man says. "They're hiding behind them. America wants to change things but doesn't do it openly."

"Airstrikes are not enough," this man adds. "Whenever the U.S. hits ISIS, they just go underground."

(on camera): What you would usually find here in the past in Damascus is that people were optimistic that the civil war would be over very soon. When you speak to them today, they are more cautious. Many could not fathom that groups like ISIS could make it to Damascus. But many people we spoke to say they believe the conflict will go on for a very long time. (voice-over): "Everything is possible in this country nowadays," this

woman says. "You can't say that something will definitely be avoided but we hope we can continue to stop ISIS."

(on camera): When you go through the streets of Damascus you can tell that people are trying to keep an air of normalcy. The cafes are full and people are out. But you can also feel that people know exactly what is going on the battlefield. They keep track of things and keep up to date. Many of them say they hope that there will be some kind of negotiated solution to this conflict.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Damascus.

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[02:15:05] HOWELL: Be sure to stay with CNN all week. We will have more of Fred Pleitgen's rare look inside Syria. That country has been engulfed in war now for more than four years.

CHURCH: Violent clashes broke out in southern Turkey Sunday as pro PKK supporters tried to prevent security forces from entering their neighborhood.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

(GUNFIRE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: Riot police fired tear gas while protesters fought back with petrol bombs. Violence has erupted in Turkey since the PKK Party accused the government of violating a 2013 cease-fire last month. Now, the Turkish military then launched an air campaign against the party after a wave of attacks.

HOWELL: Early Sunday, thousands gathered in Turkey's capital and called for an end to hostilities and urging peace talks to be resumed as quickly as possible.

CHURCH: We'll take a short break here. But still to come, South Korea promises a strong response against North Korea after two soldiers are wounded by land mines. We'll have a live report from Seoul. That's still to come.

HOWELL: Plus, it was the most powerful storm to hit anywhere this year so far. When we come back, details on the deadly Typhoon Soudelor.

CHURCH: And later this hour, a woman from New Zealand makes history. You'll hear what Kim Chambers has to say moments after finishing a 17- hour swim.

HOWELL: Wow.

CHURCH: Details on that when we come back.

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[02:20:32] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The South Korean military says that North Korea will pay a, quote, "harsh price" for landmine blasts last week that injured two soldiers.

HOWELL: The United Nations says North Korea planted the mines along the South Korean patrol route in the Demilitarized Zone, which separates North and South Korea.

CHURCH: CNN's Kathy Novak joins us live from Seoul with the latest.

Hi, there, Kathy. Talk to us about what South Korea means when it says harsh price, and talk to us, too, about the fallout from this event.

KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: South Korea is taking this very seriously. This was an incident that happened at the heavily militarized DMZ on Tuesday, Rosemary, that left two South Korean soldiers seriously injured. One lost a foot and the other had parts of both of his legs amputated.

This announcement was made this morning that both the United Nations command and South Korea are blaming North Korea.

And here is what Major General Ku Hong-mo, of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, had to the say about it.

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MAJ. GEN. KU HONG-MO, SOUTH KOREA JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (through translation): We strongly condemn this cowardly act which is a violation of the arms agreement and the nonaggression agreement between the South and the North and unthinkable for a normal military.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NOVAK: Now as we've been talking about, South Korea has been warning of harsh consequences. What form that is likely to take remains to be seen. The vice minister has been talking on affiliate YTN here in Seoul and he is saying it would be whatever this harsh retaliation would be would be something that would hurt the North Korean military and satisfy the South Korean public. That is interesting because when people here are talking about the need to retaliate and to not be intimidated by North Korea, it's hard to say exactly what the South Korean military is able to do. But there is pressure on the defense forces here to satisfy that public demand that South Korea basically not put up with intimidation from North Korea -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: So we don't know what exactly that harsh price will be. But if we're guided by what has happened in the past, what could we assume may be meant by the use of that sort of language?

NOVAK: Well, we often talk about the fact that North and South Korea remain technically at war, but when it comes to violent altercations, they happen relatively occasionally, Rosemary. If we look back in 2010, there was the torpedoing of the South Korean navy that was then blamed on North Korea, and what happened then in retaliation was economic sanctions that North Korea continues to demand be lifted rather than a military retaliation. And later in the year, there was provocation as well. So we'll be watching to see what happens. But so far, we haven't heard from the North Korea side. And of course, watching from more from South Korea -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: CNN's Kathy Novak joining us live from Seoul in South Korea. Many thanks to you.

HOWELL: We move on to Taiwan and China. Both countries are coping with the aftermath of the Typhoon Soudelor. China state TV reports 14 storm-related deaths, many from mudslides or people trapped in collapsed buildings.

CHURCH: Before Soudelor hit China, it killed at least seven in Taiwan. Hundreds of others are hurt. Many communities are suffering devastating landslides right now.

HOWELL: This amateur video shows an apparent twister. You get a sense of how strong that storm was. The typhoon was one of the strongest storms anywhere in the world so far this year.

CHURCH: And of course, the storm is no longer a typhoon. But, of course, it's still posing a lot of problems.

We have our Pedram Javaheri here to talk us through that.

It has been devastating for the region, hasn't it, Pedram?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yeah. This is going to continue for a couple days. And oftentimes we see a storm make landfall, and two or three days later, middle of the night, you see the landslides. That's a concern right now. But you think about where it made landfall in Taiwan, Taiwan is one of the highest number of -- has some of the highest mountains in the world when it comes to an island. Pretty impressive. All the storms, of course, interacting with the mountains, causing tremendous flooding. I want to share the numbers out of Taiwan initially. The numbers upwards of 50 inches in Taiwan over the past weekend. If you compare that to Seattle, 38 inches is what they average in a year. So you see how some of the numbers shape up and causing a loss of life when it made landfall on Saturday morning. And moves in to eastern China. The moisture is spreading from Hong Kong toward Shanghai. That's where we expect the heavy rainfall in the next couple days. Could see up to eight inches of additional rainfall west of Shanghai. So certainly a dangerous scenario when it comes to flooding in a densely populated area.

We have had 15 named storms. 10 is considered normal. Supertyphoons, winds at 240 kilometers an hour or stronger, is something you would typically see once this time of year, but we have seen it five times in the first eight months of the year. This year, the numbers are high for this early.

[02:21:17] HOWELL: Wow.

CHURCH: Unbelievable. HOWELL: Pedram, thank you so much.

CHURCH: Pedram, appreciate it.

Thousands of migrants in South Africa make their living underground putting themselves in danger to find illegal gold.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: To really get a sense of this, we have to go underneath with the illegal miners to see what it's like.

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CHURCH: Our David McKenzie goes with some of these workers and shares their story. That is next.

HOWELL: Plus, could body cameras save American police forces in conflicting versions of deadly encounters? One city says yes and has the data to back it up. That story as this broadcast continues worldwide on CNN International and CNN USA.

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[02:30:25] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Good to have you with us. I'm George Howell.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Rosemary Church. It's time to update you on the main stories we're watching this hour.

Tensions are high in South Korea as that country's military warns the North will pay, a harsh price for a landmine blast in the Demilitarized Zone that wounded to South Korean soldiers. North Korea has yet to comment.

HOWELL: European monitors are investigating the apparent deliberate torching of their armored vehicles in eastern Ukraine. This happened early Sunday in Donetsk. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says four vehicles were set on fire. No one was injured.

CHURCH: American football legend and sportscaster, Frank Gifford, has died. He was the face of the New York Giants during their glory years in the 1950s and '60s. He helped the team win five Eastern Conference titles and won National Football League championships. Frank Gifford was 84 years old.

HOWELL: And we are monitoring the breaking news out of Ferguson, Missouri, where gunfire erupted during protests on the one-year anniversary of the police-involved shooting of teenager, Michael Brown. The St. Louis Police Department reports there was an officer- involved shooting. There were no officers injured in that shooting.

Michael Brown's shooting was one of several incidents that reinvigorated the debate in the United States over police body cameras.

Business correspondent, Samuel Burke, takes a look at one American city says that says the pricey cameras are worth the cost.

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SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is policing in Oakland, California.

UM: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

UM: 226.

UM: Hey, hey, hey.

BURKE: This arrest, captured by our camera, and by a police body camera.

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(SHOUTING)

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: Relax. Relax.

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BURKE: All of the city's 500 patrol officers are required to wear one.

SEAN WHENT, CHIEF, OAKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT: I think now, a lot of us wouldn't be comfortable going out on the street without it.

BURKE: Police in Oakland started wearing body cameras in 2010, long before the controversy surrounding the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

(CHANTING)

BURKE: In the aftermath of Ferguson, this question caught fire, should every cop in America wear a body camera? Amplifying that debate? The death of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and now Samuel DuBose.

MARK O'MARA, ATTORNEY & CNN LEGAL ANALYST: If there wasn't a video available, I do not believe we would have had an indictment.

BURKE: The officer pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and involuntary manslaughter in the July shooting death of DuBose. It was a body camera from Taser International that captured the incident. Best known for its stun guns, Taser said its sales on cameras are up 154 percent this year.

LUKE LARSON, TASER INTERNATIONAL: We now have over 190,000 cameras in the field. The body cameras are the fastest growing part of the business today. BURKE: Body cameras can cost anywhere from $400 to $1,000 depending

on the maker, and storing the video can cost more than the cameras themselves.

WHENT: Cloud storage for a department this size would run $600,000 to $700,000 a year.

BURKE: For now, Oakland is saving money by storing footage on its own servers.

WHENT: Five years into the program, we're still less than the million dollars spent on it. But to see the kind of reduction of complaints in uses of force and lawsuits is probably paying for itself.

BURKE: For Oakland, body cams are worth the cost. Oakland says use of force is down 70 percent in the last four years and complaints against officers down 60 percent since 2012.

WHENT: Not only do I think the officers behave better, I think the people on the other side of the camera behave better as well. It has a civilizing effect on both sides of the camera.

BURKE: The Obama administration is pushing for more body cameras and offering federal funds, a potential windfall for companies like Taser and rival, Digital Ally. Stock prices are surging.

LARSON: We believe in the next few years that every police officer will be wearing this technology.

BURKE: Body cameras also raise tough questions, catching people's most vulnerable moments. Just how much does the public have a right to see?

LIBBY SCHAAF, MAYOR OF OAKLAND: Cities are continuing to struggle with this issue around technology. We have a lot of data. And it gives us an opportunity for a level of transparency. But it also had great privacy implications. You could allow the media to view the footage but not show the footage. That is a policy that we are contemplating right now.

[02:35:20] BURKE: While Oakland's mayor says they are not a silver bullet, the police chief says that the body cams are here to say.

WHENT: We're getting to a point where there's a public expectation of this. And I think in a few years, it will be standard issue everywhere.

BURKE: Samuel Burke, CNN, Oakland, California.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHURCH: Certainly a matter under debate right now.

Want to move now, and in the U.S. state of Texas, questions still swirl around the shooting death of an unarmed teenager by a rookie policeman. Now we are getting to see what happened moments before the college football player was killed. His father says his son may have been breaking the law but the police should not have used deadly force.

Nick Valencia has more.

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NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Newly released security camera footage shows the moments before 19-year-old Christian Taylor was shot and killed by a police officer in Arlington, Texas. That footage shows Taylor showing up just after 1:00 a.m. on Friday to the car dealership. He tries to break into one of the cars. When that doesn't work, he gets on top of the hood of the car and smashes his way into the windshield. He retrieves his own car, forces his way into the lot, and eventually crashes into the front entrance of the dealership. When the police arrive, they say a struggle ensues after Taylor refuses commands to surrender. One of the officers tazes Taylor and the other draws his weapon and fire. And the officer who fired the fatal shot, 49-year-old Brad Miller, who is a rookie officer who had just finished his cadet training in Marsh and was still under field-supervised training. That officer has not spoken yet to investigators, and according to the police chief, that is routine during officer-involved shootings. Police chief, Will Johnson, saying there will be a full, comprehensive and thorough investigation, and if it is found this shooting was unjustified, there will be consequences against Brad Miller. Now adding to this confusion was there were no body cameras on the officers, there's also no dash cam footage, so no additional footage of what happened during the shooting. The police chief in Arlington has called in the FBI to participate with the investigation.

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HOWELL: We want to tell you about a story in New Mexico. A hiking trip that came to a tragic end after a family got caught in blistering hot weather. Authorities say a mother, father and child, who were French citizens, were hiking in the White Sands National Monument. Temperatures there can top 37 degrees Celsius, or about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Very, very hot there.

CHURCH: It is. And the mother felt ill. She turned back and died on the way to the family car. The father and son walked on completely unaware that she had collapsed. When authorities found her body, they searched her phone and realized she was not alone. They later found her husband, who had also died, and their son, who miraculously survived that heat. Such a tragic story.

HOWELL: Truly is.

The Italian Coast Guard says 233 migrants were rescued at sea from two boats on Saturday. The migrants were taken to the southern island of Lantadoosa (ph).

CHURCH: We don't have details on where the migrants were from. The International Organization for Migration says more than 2,000 migrants and refugees have died trying to reach Europe by boat so far this year.

Thousands of migrants in South Africa are taking incredible risks to make a meager living mining for gold.

Our David McKenzie takes us underground to show us the terrifying conditions.

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MCKENZIE (voice-over): Blessing Odobu (ph) fled Zimbabwe to seek his fortune here in South Africa. But he has been cursed with perhaps the world's worst job.

BLESSING ODOBU (ph), MIGRANT: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MCKENZIE: An undocumented migrant, Blessing earns his living in the one place the police are too afraid to follow. They are the illegal miners of Johannesburg, tapping into a subterranean city of gold.

(on camera): To get a sense of that, we have to go underneath with the illegal miners to see what it's like.

(voice-over): Squeezing down coffin-sized tunnels, it's a terrifying descent into hell.

And Blessing does it each day.

"When I came to South Africa," he says, "I never thought I'd have to do this to eat."

It's dangerous work. And miners die all the time, mostly forgotten. Every one of them has lost a friend.

[02:40:09] RESPECT MAYO (ph), MINER: I don't like it down here.

VALENCIA (on camera): Why not?

MAYO (ph): It seems it's like --

(CROSSTALK)

VALENCIA: It's scary?

MAYO (ph): Yeah, I'm scared about the stone. And sometimes you go --

VALENCIA (voice-over): "Sometimes the mine shakes and the rocks fall, says Respect Mayo (ph). "They fall down the shaft and hit us."

It's hard to believe that anyone would take risks like this just for a few dollars a day.

(SHOUTING)

VALENCIA: But on the ragged edges of Johannesburg, there are few opportunities. Half of South Africa's youth are unemployed at illegal migrants are at the bottom of the pile. So they swarmed into the abandoned mines that once helped build this city.

Blessing says he has been robbed at gunpoint for his gold. And they kill underground for just a sack of stone.

"We are always going down in twos," he says. "I work with a friend. But when we go down, we find other people working there. Even now, there are people doing this job even deeper than us."

And going up is harder than coming down. But offers some relief.

(on camera): You can just imagine after hours or days, being underneath here, trying to carry up rocks. It's just a thankless job.

(voice-over): Zumazuma (ph) means take a chance, and Blessing and Respect (ph) gamble everything to survive in what has to be the worst job in the world.

David McKenzie, CNN, Johannesburg.

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HOWELL: Just seeing David there, I mean, you really get a sense of how difficult that is.

CHURCH: Hard conditions.

HOWELL: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. Human trafficking is a multi- billion-dollar business. Ahead, we'll show you how one organization is using technology to combat modern-day slavery.

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[02:45:37] CHURCH: CNN's Freedom Project is dedicated to shining a light on human trafficking and its multi-billion-dollar business.

HOWELL: One organization is using technology to turn the tide on the fight against modern-day slavery.

Our Maggie Lake has the details.

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MAGGIE LAKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Behind a locked door in a secret Washington, D.C., location, workers patrol a front line in the fight against human trafficking.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: National Human Trafficking Center, how can I help you?

LAKE: It's one of America's uncomfortable truths. In almost every state, both affluent and poor, human trafficking exists.

Bradley Myles runs Polaris, a non-profit company that operates the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

BRADLEY MYLES, CEO, POLARIS PROJECT: One of the functions of the national hotline is people call in with tips. And lots of people are comfortable calling a non-profit like Polaris because we're not the government or law enforcement. When they call us, their voice is not recorded as part of a federal case.

LAKE: Polaris had independence but it lacked the resources to keep up with increasingly sophisticated criminals. That is, until a series of introductions began to tip the scales. In 2006, Polaris teamed up with Marc Benioff's, cloud software company, salesforce.com.

MYLES: Our partnership with Sales Force started with realizing that with every hotline we receive we need to collect great data on that call. So we built out a whole customized system with Sales Force support of call tracking, data collection on the calls.

LAKE: Data mining firm, Palantir, was next with a $1.5 million donation.

Google joined forces, giving the Human Trafficking Hotline a prominent displaying its search engine.

And communications specialist, Twilio, created a code called Be Free that allows victims to text message for help.

Thanks to these high-tech partnerships, Polaris now has a real-time picture of trafficking in the U.S. It tells a chilling story.

MYLES: An image within seconds, like this, will pop up.

LAKE (on camera): It is everywhere.

(voice-over): It's uncovered nearly 20,000 cases of trafficking over seven years, many of them minors.

(on camera): Could we be looking at a situation where big data actually helps you get the big fish, not the individual one guy, but sort of the regional person who is really driving this?

MYLES: What we're able to do is when you have a single national center that's looking at the 60,000 foot-view of all of it at once and piecing together the pictures, you begin to see patterns and trends. We can say there are 25 distinct types of trafficking that exist in the United States. We are now able to understand those trends and fight the crime type by type. What we want people to realize is, stay alert, stay vigilant. Know that you are probably encountering this stuff more than you think you are. And know that a national hotline exists. You could be the thing that makes the difference in one person's life because you are the one who took the moment to notice and took the moment to make the call.

LAKE (voice-over): Maggie Lake, CNN, Washington.

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HOWELL: Very important stories to tell.

All this week, the CNN Freedom Project will focus on what the business world is doing to combat modern-day slavery. And you will also hear from a former child slave and from the former CEO of the famous modeling agency on the issue.

CHURCH: We will take a very short break here. But still to come, a New Zealand swimmer goes down in the history books. Up next, you will hear the incredible story of her 17-hour swim. Can you believe that? Details ahead.

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[02:53:22] CHURCH: "I can't believe I did it" -- that's what this New Zealand woman said after making history. Kim Chambers was the first woman to swim from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco.

HOWELL: Look at that. Imagine the focus there.

She swam about 48 kilometers, or about 30 miles, in about 17 hours, and she avoided hypothermia, exhaustion, and sharks in the water. Amazing.

Our CNN affiliate KPIX has this story.

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UNIDENTIFIED KPIX REPORTER (voice-over): A warm welcome home for Kim Chambers and her first step on land in over 17 hours.

KIM CHAMBERS, SWIMMER: I'm completely overwhelmed. This is something I wanted for so long. And I can't believe I did it.

UNIDENTIFIED KPIX REPORTER: Her hands shook and eyes glistened as she described her brutal 30-mile ocean journey minutes after she ended. In fact, she had doubts she would be able to finish what she started.

CHAMBERS: It was a really tough swim. Sorry. So I was pretty ill in the middle of the night. And I couldn't keep any food down. So I thought my swim was over because I need to feed every 30 minutes and I couldn't take anything down.

UNIDENTIFIED KPIX REPORTER: Kim's spirits were kept high by the crew that followed her the entire way, starting from the Farallon Islands at 11:00 p.m. Friday night until 5:00 p.m., when she reached the Golden Gate Bridge.

On the boat, her mother, who flew in from New Zealand to stay by her daughter's side the whole way.

JOCELYN CHAMBERS, MOTHER OF KIM CHAMBERS: I was just amazed at how she had such mental fortitude and physical determination to finish. She was freezing cold. You could tell that. She is exhausted. She has aches and pains. But she wasn't giving up. I totally admire her. She's an inspiration. [02:55:12] UNIDENTIFIED KPIX REPORTER: Only four others have

completed the swim. Kim is the first woman to do it.

CHAMBERS: This is what happens when you are scared of big dreams. You just do them and then this happens.

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HOWELL: Good on her. What an amazing accomplishment.

CHURCH: It will take her a while to really digest what she achieved there.

HOWELL: It really will. Amazing.

According to her website, the back story here, she started swimming just six years ago as part of rehabilitation from an accident where she nearly lost a leg.

CHURCH: Wow.

The Australian government is issuing a warning about the country's most famous condiment, Vegemite, that sticky brown, salty paste that most people find unpleasant. I personally adore it as an Australian.

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It is meant to be spread on toast with a little butter.

HOWELL: But officials say large quantities are being used to make sort of a homemade alcohol or moonshine because it is full of yeast. This is apparently becoming a big problem in remote rural communities. There are even calls for Vegemite restrictions but some say that would be un-Australian.

What do you think?

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CHURCH: I never imagined Vegemite being used for an alcoholic substance. It's extraordianry.

HOWELL: Someone was thinking of something and there you go.

CHURCH: Always thinking outside the box.

HOWELL: We thank you for watching this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.

CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. I'll be back after the break with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Do stick around.

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