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[01:00:14] ERROL BARNETT, CNN HOST: Ferguson on edge, one year after the police killing of an unarmed black teenager and the birth of a nationwide movement.

ZAIN ASHER, CNNI HOST: Plus, how Donald Trump is reacting from the firestorm from his latest controversial comments.

BARNETT: And something rotten in the state of theater etiquette, the Hamlet actress' plea to audiences.

ASHER: A very warm welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. We're your anchor team for the next hour. I'm Zain Asher.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

Protesters confront police in Ferguson, Missouri for a second night. Police say demonstrators threw frozen water bottles and rocks at them. At least nine people were arrested. Protesters are marking the one year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager who shot by a white police officer.

ASHER: And here as you can see in your screen, the mood there is clearly still very tense. Early, about 200 people marched from a church to the federal courthouse in St. Louis. Police arrested 56 protesters there. A demonstration began peacefully Sunday, but then turned chaotic when shots were fired. Listen to this.

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BARNETT: Our Jason Carroll is in Ferguson, Missouri right now. Last hour, he described the scene there.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We are on a street called West Florissant. And if I can show you what we are experiencing out here right now, on one side of street we still have a number of protesters out here. On the other side of street you can see still a significant number of member of Sgt. Louis County police as well as troopers trying to keep the peace. And for most of the night that's what happened out here. Actually, they were able to do that until at a certain point, a small number of protesters went into the middle of the street. They repeatedly received warnings, get out of the street. When that didn't happen, that's when law enforcement moved in and made several arrests.

Again, there were some tense moments at that point, some rocks and bottles were thrown. You can see from some of the tape I think that we were able to feed into to you, you can see exactly what happened as officers moved in and made those arrest. And then shortly thereafter, the protesters went about doing what they set out here to do, which was talking about their anger. And these people are angry. They feel as though in the year since Michael Brown's death, not enough has been done. They're looking for more change. They're not seeing that. And they're venting some of their frustration.

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BARNETT: That's our Jason Carroll reporting on some of the small possibilities of violence we saw Monday and to Tuesday morning. We'll ask Sara Sidner now, reports on Sunday evening's violence and how it echoed a year ago with key differences.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A barrage of bullets sent dozens scattering to safety, both protesters and police. And that included Ferguson's new interim police chief, forced to take cover as we were recording him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just want to be as patient as possible.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Gunfire.

SIDNER: The standoff between police and protesters suddenly dissipated after police say a shooting happened. This video from @searchforswag from twitter may disturb you. IT appears to show 18- year-old Tyrone Harris after allegedly exchanging fire with police.

JON BELMAR, ST. LOUIS CHIEF: The suspect engages them with gunfire almost right at the grill of the car, strikes the hood. I don't know if you see pictures of it yet. Three or four times, strikes the windshield I think four or five times. The plain clothes detectives returned fire from the inside of the van.

SIDNER: The chaos was a jarring reminder of what happened along the same street, west Florissant, exactly one year ago after the police shooting of Michael Brown, the police officer later cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury and the department of justice.

But this time, protesters acted differently, and so did police, saying it was criminals, not protesters creating the mayhem. Police say the suspect shot a plain clothes officer with a stolen .9 millimeter, as word circulated along with the video that the person shot was another black man, many left the scene, but some reacted in anger. On the other side of the street, police say bottles and bricks were being hurled at officers on the anniversary of Brown's death.

[01:05:05] BELMAR: It is truly a tragedy. There is a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that we don't have peace that prevails.

SIDNER: Sara Sidner, CNN, Ferguson, Missouri.

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BARNETT: Now we want to show you these live pictures coming in to us out of Ferguson, Missouri. Keep in mind, it's just past midnight there. We've been watching during Sara's report, and saw I think it is a similar scene to what she described from yesterday and the day before. There were some clashes with police, some objects it appeared, were thrown. One woman just a short time ago appeared to be struck in the face with some kind of canister that was thrown through the air.

ASHER: She's lying on the ground briefly.

BARNETT: And that we do see a number of people that have been detained and cuffed. So there's potentially more arrests happening. But Zain, it speaks to the tensions that still exist and remain a full year from the deadly incident, and despite all of the government recommendations for change.

ASHER: Yes. Protesters there saying they want more significant changes. They've seen superficial changes, obviously. More African- Americans have been hired in the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, but they want deeper changes. They want actual, real change between the relationship between young black men in that community and the police officers that deal with them on a daily basis.

Of course, we're going to continue to monitor the situation near Ferguson. We will bring you news as and when it happens.

But we do want to go now to some other stories that we are following. Want to turn to U.S. politics. Donald Trump, of course, he is on the headline all the time. The U.S. Republican presidential candidate leading the pack of 2016 contended. And many supporters say what they like best about him, is about that he speaks his mind. He's very direct. He is very honest about what he thinks

BARNETT: However --

ASHER: There is always a but.

BARNETT: Some think his latest bubbles slip up could cost him the crucial women's vote. CNN's Sara Murray has more on that.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And I don't frankly have time for total political correctness.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER (voice-over): Donald Trump remaining defiant, now demanding an apology from FOX News Megyn Kelly.

TRUMP: The fact is she asked me very inappropriate questions. She should really be apologizing to me, you want to know the truth.

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEW ANCHOR: You call women you don't like --

MURRAY: An apology for a question during the first Republican debate that he thought was unfair, so unfair that he described Kelly this way.

TRUMP: You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.

MURRAY: Clearly the blunt GOP front-runner is showing no sign of moderating his tone, despite his push to court women and Hispanic voters, votes both to winning the White House in 2016. According to the Pew research center, women had favored Democrats candidate since the 1980s. Democrats also paired better with Hispanic voters.

In the 2013 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney won just 27 percent of the Hispanic votes. Some of Trump's rival worry the front-runner is already undermining the effort.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If I was a young woman or Hispanic watching this debate, I think I'd have been pretty turned off by Mr. Trump. And the question is, does it bleed over to all of us.

MURRAY: More of Trump's opponents piling on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For a lot of us, it's like watching a car accident instead of focusing on the direction we should be headed. That's the side you out there.

MURRAY: Carly Fiorina, the lone female GOP candidate in the race told CNN there was no misinterpreting Trump's comments.

CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The point is women understood that comment and yes, it is offensive.

MURRAY: In true Trump fashion, the mogul took to twitter to respond.

I just realize that if you listen to Carly Fiorina for more than ten minutes straight, you develop a massive headache. She has (INAUDIBLE).

Trump now trying to change the conversation on the attack again, this time against his top rival in the GOP field, Jeb Bush.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: My brother did this wrong and my dad did this wrong.

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BARNETT: Now, as for the woman at the center of Trump's latest dust up, FOX News host Megyn Kelly, she addressed the controversy on her show on Monday night. Take a listen to what she said.

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KELLY: Apparently, Mr. Trump thought the question I asked was unfair and felt I was attacking him. I felt he was asked a tough, but fair question. I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism. So I will continue doing my job without fear or favor.

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ASHER: Neither party is apologizing.

Meantime, Hillary Clinton, of course the Democratic front-runner in in this election, is dismissing Donald Trump as quote "entertainment." But she says that his remarks on women are certainly no laughing matter. She is calling him out for his comments and keeping the focus on Republican track record for women's issue. Listen to this.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What a lot of the men said on that stage in that debate said was offensive. And I want people to understand, if you focus on maybe the biggest showman on the stage you lose the thread here. The thread is that the Republicans are putting forth some very radical and offensive positions when it comes to women's lives, women's reproductive health, women's employment, women's opportunities, so I think, we will let the Republican, you know, go back and forth with each other. But I want to point out, there is really not that much difference in the policies that they are proposing when it comes to American women.

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[01:10:46] BARNETT: David Gergen joins us now from Harvard. He's our CNN senior political analyst.

And it is true, David, Donald Trump really has dominated all of the oxygen, all of the headlines for these past few weeks, but meanwhile there have been interesting movements elsewhere. I do want to address that with you here.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton did just released details on making college in the U.S. more affordable. A $350 billion plan, she says, will be paid for by taxing the wealthy. What do you think is her strategy there?

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think her strategy is two-fold. One is there is definitely concern in the United States about the cost of university and the debt that students are taking with them when they leave. And it will suppresses her chance to take the jobs they want. There is over $1 trillion in the outstanding student loan debt. Now, it is more than --it's bigger than the credit card debt in the United States.

So it's a serious problem. And she's trying to present an answer that she hopes will get bipartisan support. There is, of course, in the middle of a campaign and the beginnings of the campaign, there's a heavy political element, what she's doing. The coalition that has won two elections for Barack Obama is heavily dependent upon in getting the votes of the young, the millennial generation. He was -- and Barack Obama was exceptionally successful in doing that.

But a number of them haven't been able to get jobs, and their belief in the Democratic Party has slip. And Hillary Clinton is trying to rally the millennials as an important part of her coalition going forward.

BARNETT: And maybe we'll see Hillary Clinton getting specific now. Because in a way, this presumptive nominee is being challenged by Democrat senator Bernie Sanders. And he is doing what Barack Obama did years ago. He is gathering huge crowds in stadiums, something like 28,000 for example in this past weekend. And he's much more progressive than Hillary. He also is providing details on platforms to address racial inequality. I'm just wondering if you think he is quietly inching ahead of Hillary while we all pay attention to Donald Trump.

GERGEN: I don't think he's inching ahead of Hillary. If you look at the national polls, she's still 40, 50 points ahead of him. What he is doing is gaining on her significant in critical early states especially in New Hampshire. He lives next door in Vermont. And if he were to beat her in New Hampshire or if he were to beat the expectations, it's worth remembering history again.

This happened to Lyndon Johnson when he was a sitting incumbent and someone to his left, well to his left, Eugene McCarthy ran against him, didn't beat him in New Hampshire but came close enough that it put a torpedo below the waterline in a Lyndon Johnson ship. And Johnson pulled out, didn't run, and that's what brought in Bobby Kennedy. And the question with Bernie Sanders is, if he does well enough in these early stages, is that going to bring in Joe Biden, the vice president? That would be a much more serious threat to Hillary Clinton and it would be divisive for the Democratic Party. She profoundly hopes that he will stays at the sidelines. But the more Sanders pecks away at her the chances of Biden getting in and do go up.

BARNETT: So let's jump back to the Republican side now. Because many established Republicans, they are upset that Donald Trump is able it to dominate the headlines considering he is yet to provide policy specifics and details. He has said recently that it is coming, but we are more than a year away from the general election. The nomination process reach side to end in few months. How specific do -- does he need to be here in the next few weeks and months, though, in order to kind of maintain or at least gain legitimacy.

GERGEN: He is going to need to drill down and begin to answer questions about what would he do in Iraq? What would he do with Iranian agreement? What's he going to do with Israel and Egypt and so far and so on? And what's he going to do to grow the economy? He is going to need to come up with some of those.

It's interesting, Errol, that after all the hoop-de-do in the last few days after the debate and afterwards which was all about the antics, the behavior of the abortionists and narcissism that we saw and yet he is still standing in the polls and doing pretty well in the polls we have seen so far.

He has now moving. He said his campaign has now said we're going to start to issue position papers. They weren't saying that, you know, two weeks ago. They're looking at like moving toward a little more conventionality. And there are reports, he is thinking now of saying that he would not run as a third-party candidate.

That would be a serious signal. If he said I'm taking that off the board, because that's really what has, you know, made Republicans very fearful. He would be getting the third party candidate, the kind of support he's been able to generate, it would wipe out Republican chances to win the White House next year.

So they want to keep him off third-party ticket. If he pledges not to go third party, that would signal he's much more serious about winning this nomination, and it's going to be an all-out fight. He's not going to go away quickly.

[01:15:50] BARNETT: Very Interesting. Either way, though, I think we will remember this as the summer of Donald Trump.

CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, thanks for your time joining us from Boston.

GERGEN: Thanks, Errol.

ASHER: And yet Trump has certainly changed the dynamics of this race.

And we do have a programing note for you, for U.S. viewers, in particular Donald Trump is going to be a guest on "NEW DAY" tomorrow. That's 7:00 a.m. eastern, right here on CNN.

BARNETT: Now, when's the last time you've Googled something?

ASHER: Every minute.

BARNETT: Not exactly. And the culprit giant is now going under a face lift transformed an umbrella company, Dubbed Alphabet. Alphabet will be led by Google's cofounder's Larry page and Sergey Brin.

ASHER: So the new parent company will oversee Google and several spin off companies, each with its own chief executive. For Google, that's Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of product. He has been the company's most visible executive recently. Page, that is the new company will be free to take risk and develop their own brands.

Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, a violent day in Turkey. Next, we'll show you the attacks that rocked parts of Istanbul.

ASHER: And later, a disaster emergency in the U.S. state of Colorado, the latest on the pollutants that turned this once-clear river yellow. That's coming up.

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[01:21:05] BARNETT: For the first time since the Fukushima four-and- a-half years ago, Japan is rebooting its nuclear power industry.

ASHER: That's right. (INAUDIBLE) electric power's Sendai number one reactor in Southern Japan was restarted just a few hours ago. Now all Japan's nuclear plants were taken offline after a series of meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011, triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

BARNETT: Now we want to get you new information on two terror attacks in Istanbul Turkey. A bomb exploded near a police station early Monday morning. Hours later, gunmen opened fire. Police then shot back. In the end, two attackers and one other person were killed.

ASHER: And later on in the day there was actually another attack, this one at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul.

BARNETT: And the CNN's Barbara Starr reports, the attack may have been a response to the heightened U.S. military presence there in Turkey.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Gunshots rang out near the U.S. consulate in Istanbul as Turkish police quickly blocked off the area after two women staged an armed attack. Turkish authorities said the women were part of a left-wing militant group.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The policeman was shouting drop your bag. Drop your bag. And the woman was saying I will not surrender. I came to avenge the attack in Sirk. I will avenge the attack in Sirk. The police warned her again, drop your bag or we will have to shoot you. And the woman said shoot.

STARR: The consulate issued an emergency message warning U.S. citizens to stay away from the area and to exercise caution near large gatherings. It all happened at the first of the heavily armed U.S. f- 16 fight others arrived in Incirlik, Turkey. Those planes now ready to begin airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. Airstrikes in Northern Syria will be aimed at killing ISIS. But they will also support Kurds, known at YPG, something Turkey opposes.

HENN BARKEY, WILSON CENTER: The only effective force against ISIS in Syria has been the YPG. It is unlikely that the United States will stop fighting with the YPG and won't stop its alliance with them.

STARR: U.S. authorities tell CNN they will send additional helicopters into Southern Turkey very soon to be on standby if any U.S. pilots go down. But until those arrive, the U.S. is willing to take the risk with the rescue helicopters they already have in the region.

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BARNETT: That was our Barbara Starr reporting there. Meanwhile, inside Syria, the al-Nusra front says it's pulled out of

some front-line positions against ISIS. The Al-Qaeda link group has seeding the fight against ISIS north of Aleppo to other rebel groups there.

ASHER: Al-Nusra front says it is unhappy with Turkey's plans to set up a buffer zone in the area. The group says Turkey's aim in the region is to serve its own national security rather than fight against Syria's Assad regime.

BARNETT: And one thing we have to keep in mind that for four years now, the war in Syria has just been brutalizing the country's population.

ASHER: That's right. And CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Syria's capital, Damascus, with the look at life for the civilians' dealings with the growing fear, shortages, and heartaches.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Syrian military appears to be increasingly strained after four years of this ongoing civil war. And even president Bashar Assad has acknowledged that at times the military will have to retreat from certain areas to make sure that they can shore up more important places.

About the developments on the battlefield are also causing a strain here in the capital of Damascus. What we're seeing is severe shortages, for instance, of fuel. It takes an hour to two hours to actually get gasoline at gas station. Also, there are power cuts throughout the city various times during the day.

One of the other things that's also happened is with the pace that ISIS has been going. And with the gains of ISIS has been making against the Syrian military, there are also a lot of internally displaced people coming to the population centers, some of them near the Mediterranean coast which is a stronghold of the Assad regime, but also due to the capital of Damascus.

You're seeing people, especially minorities who are coming from places like Palmira, also from some other towns that have recently been taken by ISIS and putting a big strain on the Syrian government to try to make sure that these people find a place to stay, that they have enough food, water and medication. But of course, also on the many aid groups that are working here in the Syrian capital and in other parts of the country as well.

Nevertheless, we don't get the sense that the people here believe that the regime is on the verge of collapsing. It appears as though while there have been setbacks most people here in Damascus believe that Bashar al-Assad is not going away anytime soon.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Damascus.

(END VIDEOTAPE) BARNETT: Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, details of a police shooting at a Texas car dealership that left this unarmed 19 year old football player dead.

ASHER: Also ahead, another first in space, this one involves what's on the menu. We'll have details just ahead.

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[01:29:51] BARNETT: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. Thanks so much for staying with us. I'm Errol Barnett.

ASHER: And I'm Zain Asher to give you the headlines.

[01:30:00] At least nine protesters are under arrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Police say demonstrators threw rocks and frozen bottles of water at them during protests on Monday night. A local official declared a state of emergency earlier on. The latest tension comes one year after the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, shot by a police officer.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Japan is rebooting its nuclear power industry for the first time in four and a half years. The Sendai number-one reactor in southern Japan was restarted about four hours ago now. All of japans' nuclear power plants were taken offline after a series of meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011. That was triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

ASHER: Attackers set off a bomb and later opened fire at a police station in Istanbul, Turkey. Three people were killed, including two attackers. Later, two women attacked the U.S. consulate in Istanbul. One was arrested, the other is still being sought. No one was killed.

Want to go now to Arlington, Texas, where police are asking the FBI to help investigation the deadly the shooting of an unarmed African- American teenager by a white officer, who was actually in training.

BARNETT: This incident happened at a car dealership. 19-year-old Christian Taylor was shot multiple times by Officer Brad Miller after police got called to a possible burglary.

Ed Lavandera has the story.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Erratic behavior with a fatal outcome. Security cameras captured 19-year-old Christian Taylor as he drives his car up to a car dealership. The sophomore football player at Angelo State University stumbles around, then tries to damage property, first trying to punch through a car window, then jumping on the hood, breaking the windshield.

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POLICE DISPATCHER: He broke into possibly a Ford gray colored Mustang. (END AUDIO FEED)

LAVANDERA: Over a loudspeaker system in the parking lot, the security company tells Taylor he's being watched. And after he starts destroying the car window, Taylor's been told that police have been called to the scene.

In the edited video provided by the dealership, Taylor heads back to his vehicle. He then breaks through the gate, drives his Jeep through the glass onto the showroom floor.

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POLICE DISPATCHER: I just saw a guy in the building who has a hat on.

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LAVANDERA: Arlington police are called to the scene and an altercation ensues. According to Arlington police, Taylor is tased by one officer. The other officer draws his gun and fires four times.

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POLICE DISPATCHER: We got shots fired.

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LAVANDERA: That officer, 49-year-old rookie, Brad Miller, was still under supervised field training, having just received his badge in March. Miller shot at Taylor four times, landing shots in the next, chest and abdomen according to the medical examiner.

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POLICE DISPATCHER: Notify Internal Affairs please.

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LAVANDERA: The FBI is assisting in the investigation and Arlington police are not required to wear body cameras. And CNN has learned that there are no cameras inside the car dealership showroom.

WILL JOHNSON, CHIEF, ARLINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT: I can guarantee you that we will have a thorough investigation. If this was not justified or authorized under the law, there will be consequences.

LAVANDERA: Meanwhile, Taylor's family struggles for answers, questioning why the unarmed teen was killed.

ADRIAN TAYLOR, FATHER OF CHRISTIAN TAYLOR: Shoot an unarmed man? And you trained to take down. As a police officer, you're trained to take down men with your hands. You have your tasers and your clubs, whatever there is. An unarmed 19 year old, and you shoot to kill.

I don't want it to be a race thing. It can happen to anybody. I want everybody to be protected by law enforcement. LAVANDERA: Ed Lavandera, CNN, Arlington, Texas.

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ASHER: Reaction from the boy's parents.

We're going to take a break on CNN. When we come back, migrants, desperate, cross the Mediterranean. Up next, you'll learn about one refugee who traveled through 10 countries, 10 countries, in hopes of finding a better life for his family.

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[01:37:08] ASHER: Welcome back, everybody. So we talk about the migrant crisis in Europe a lot, but it is crucial to remember the human aspect of that crisis. On Monday, the Italian Coast Guard said it helped rescue more than 1500 migrants off the Libyan coast. The Italian navy released this video of one of the rescues where 775 migrants were picked up. That includes women and children.

BARNETT: We don't have details on precisely where these migrants are from. Typically, you find them coming from North African nations. The IOM, the Organization for Migration, says more than 2,000 migrants and refugees have died trying to reach Europe by boat so far this year.

ASHER: And even though we don't know where a lot of these migrants are from, it's important to remember that many are fleeing violence and poverty in their home country.

CNN spoke to one Syrian refugee who had hopes of reaching England.

BARNETT: He did, but he said he got only as far as France after traveling through 10 nations.

Our Kellie Morgan has more.

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KELLIE MORGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A Syrian father of two shows us where he sleeps in Calais' so-called Jungle. These are his only belongings. So different from what he had.

ABU MOHAMMED, SYRIAN REFUGEE (through translation): I owned my house, also in Damascus. I had a happy life.

MORGAN: Now, Abu Mohammed, which is not his real name, says he lives in fear of the Syrian government and ISIS.

MOHAMMED (through translation): Our home is destroyed. We spent a year with Daesh. We escaped from them. There were too many restrictions. Even in religion. For them, it's just a cover.

MORGAN: Raqqa remains the capital for the Islamic state and is a target for coalition air strikes. MOHAMMED (through translation): Today our children have lost their

smile. They only know fear, the sounds of bombs, explosions. Today they live in terror.

MORGAN: Abu Mohammed fled Damascus on July 1st. He crossed into Lebanon and a day later arrived in Turkey where he stayed for two weeks before boarding a boat bound for Greece. After four days in Athens, Abu Mohammed crossed into Macedonia where he took a train to Serbia before walking to Hungary. He then boarded a train to France, arriving in Calais 28 day the after he left home.

MOHAMMED (through translation): We got lost at sea. We nearly drown. We encountered gangs, bandits.

[01:40:10] MORGAN: After traveling more than 5,600 kilometers, this is not the destination Abu Mohammed envisioned.

MOHAMMED (through translation): Here at the camp, we sleep on the ground. There's nothing else. They offer us only one meal a day. Some charities offer us some help, nothing else. We have to queue up for the bathroom. We have to be there between 12:00 and 3:00 or you miss out.

MORGAN: He hopes to get to the U.K., just 33 kilometers across the English Channel. So close but very far.

MOHAMMED (through translation): I'm not worried about my own life, but the future of the young children who need education. Education is important, especially for Muslims. It is the path to paradise.

MORGAN: A path that, for now, remains closed.

Kellie Morgan, CNN, Calais, France.

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ASHER: The things that people are willing to risk and sacrifice for that chance at a better life.

BARNETT: Incredible.

ASHER: Amazing. It touches me.

On to another story we are following. The governor of Colorado has declared a state of emergency. It comes after an accident last Wednesday that led to what's being called a devastating release of contaminates that turned the Animas River basically from clear to yellow.

BARNETT: A crew from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mistakenly spilled an estimated three million gallons of pollutants from a suspended mine into the Animas River. Authorities are still working to discover just how polluted the river is.

Our Pedram Javaheri joins us with more. The Animas River. We talked about this last hour. There are people

still taking part in recreational activities on that river. How safe or unsafe is it? Do you even know?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: The EPA has been pretty quiet about it. But the understanding so far is that they were out there trying to fix a leak that had been happening. A worker pushed a backhoe and loosened sediment and uncorked this mine that had been abandoned since the 1920s. It came all the way down the Animas River.

ASHER: I think what's really startling is the types of pollutants, the types of contaminates in that river.

JAVAHERI: Yeah. We've had evidence that some arsenic is in it, some lead, copper, zinc in it. And you're talking about a prominent part of Colorado. We'll show you what's happening. We know rafting, kayaking, fly-fishing, one of our viewers, Tom Bartels sharing a photo looking out his back yard, the Animas River, and this is called "The River of Souls." It was one of the favorite things for people to go fishing down around this river. But you see the after perspective. Here is the before perspective of what occurred here in recent days. We know New Mexico areas have issued a state of emergency there as far as New Mexico's water, parts of it being contaminated. It flows down. The San Juan River will be contaminated. In the four corners area, that pushes in the southeastern portion of Utah. Now we're talking about Lake Powell being impacted. A lot of water from Lake Powell is given to Arizona but water from Lake Powell goes into areas around Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles. So now we introduce Nevada and California into the mix, unless there is some kind of a stop here to what's occurred in the last couple of days.

BARNETT: And freshwater's becoming more and more valuable.

JAVAHERI: Especially in those states.

BARNETT: The southwest.

ASHER: When you think about where the contaminates in that river are going to spread to, so many other states, beyond Colorado.

JAVAHERI: Yeah.

BARNETT: Pedram Javaheri, thank you. We'll see you next hour.

Now New Zealand is in the process of picking out a new flag for the nation. Their current banner looks too much like Australia's if you think about it. Both feature the Union Jack.

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Which is which here?

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ASHER: Close. A panel tasked with picking the new design received more than 10,000 suggestions. They've narrowed it down to 40. Many share some very familiar themes with more than half featuring the silver fir.

BARNETT: You see some examples there. The panel will be announced the finalists next month. Those designs will be put to a public vote.

What we didn't see there was a stick figure riding a horse. Didn't make the cut.

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BARNETT: I don't know why.

[01:45:07] ASHER: You can't be too creative with the flag.

BARNETT: That's very true.

Now an interesting request from British Benedict Cumberbatch. He no longer wants to be filmed. What?

ASHER: He told his cumber babes that.

BARNETT: Cumber babes, what's that?

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You'll understand after the break.

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ASHER: Some breaking news for you. This just in to CNN. Reuters is reporting that Greece is very close to reaching a deal with international creditors on a multi-billion dollar bailout.

BARNETT: This is a very important development because this accord will basically keep Greece inside the Euro Zone and avert bankruptcy. It's just broken in the last few minutes. We'll get you more on it as it develops over the next few hours.

ASHER: We are watching vegetables in space. It is a first for the astronauts on board the international space station. One of the goals is to figure out how to grow food on spacecraft for future long-term missions. The first crop is red romaine lettuce. I'll have some of that, please.

BARNETT: OK.

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BARNETT: Tested here on earth, the plants were checked for safety. Half of this harvest will be sent back to earth for testing. They will clean it with citrus acid food wipes before eating.

Do you want some?

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[01:50:12] ASHER: Maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe later.

Astronaut Scott Kelly announced on Twitter, quote, "Tomorrow, we will eat the veggie harvest. But first, "let us" take a selfie." Get it? Lettuce -- let us -- lettuce.

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BARNETT: Yes, I got it.

ASHER: I find these things funny.

Another story we're watching, a very polite plea from British actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, please stop filming him during his performances. He is in "Hamlet" in London.

BARNETT: The actor addressed people saying how distracting the red lights are on cell phones during the performance and is asking fans to please stop recording.

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, ACTOR: It's not fine. And there's nothing that's supportive for that. And I can't give you what you want to get, which is a live performance. Please don't, it will get strict. They will have devices to detect people and evict them. I don't want that to happen in what's a wonderful thing.

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ASHER: When you think about it from his perspective, I think the most valuable thing for an actor is concentration. You have to be able to concentrate. If you can't concentrate, your performance may end up suffering.

Earlier, I spoke with Bill Hershman, who is chairman of the American Theater Critic Association. And explained that Cumberbatch's request is very reasonable. Listen.

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BILL HERSHMAN, CHAIRMAN, AMERICAN THEATER CRITIC ASSOCIATION: As texting has become very popular, the barriers have dropped, and I think there are a lot of people who feel like they are entitled to do whatever they want. I should also point out that in the hamlet situation it's a little different in the fact that there are many, many, many people coming to see this show with no interest to "Hamlet." They are coming to see the star. They are coming without the history or the etiquette. You are getting people new to the theater, people who think they're at a movie or at a concert where much of this is perfectly all right or considered OK.

But, no, I don't think it's reasonable for audiences to feel that they can impose themselves on the situation. And I think it's very reasonable of actors to ask them to stop.

As you may know, here in the United States recently, the actress, Patti Lupone, saw someone texting on the front row all through the first act of the show. When this person started up again in the second act, she went to the audience, picked up the phone and took it offstage.

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ASHER: I think Cumberbatch's request is reasonable.

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BARNETT: Enjoy the show.

Bush versus Clinton. We're still months away from determining if the two biggest names in U.S. politics will face off at the ballot box in 2016.

ASHER: On Monday, they went head to head on Twitter.

BARNETT: It all began innocently enough. Hillary's campaign tweeting a link to her education plan.

ASHER: Jeb Bush's campaign responded with a tweet trying rising student loan costs to the Obama administration.

BARNETT: Clinton then shot back by giving Bush a failing grade on college affordability during his time as Florida's governor. Some zings back and forth.

ASHER: Yeah. Bush retaliated with this, rearranging Clinton's campaign logo, implying that her presidency would lead to higher taxes.

BARNETT: Meantime, while they were having a Twitter spat, Donald Trump is leading in the polls and never seems content.

ASHER: Jeanne Moos takes a look at why he rarely looks happy.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He is Trump- zilla, crushing the competition in his shadow as the media shine lights on him. So why was he looking like Trump the grump in his first big debate?

Listen to Dan Hill, a man who reads face.

(on camera): What struck you about Mr. Trump?

DAN HILL, FACIAL CODING EXPERT, SENSORY LOGIC, INC: First of all, the guy hardly smiles. He may be the unhappiest rich man in America.

MOOS (voice-over): Even when he talked about fun.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: It's fun. It's kidding. We have a good time.

MOOS: He didn't look like he was having a good time.

(on camera): Did he smile at all, Dan? Does he ever smile?

HILL: He only smiles when he's making a sarcastic comment.

TRUMP: Only Rosie O'Donnell.

(CHEERING)

MOOS (voice-over): Facial coding expert, Dan Hill, expected Trump to show anger, glinting eyes and pressed lips. And in that sense, the unsmiling Donald is totally on message.

[01:55:09] HILL: You can argue that not being content is his whole message.

MOOS: Of course, Trump's defenders, like these sisters in this video, who have become a hit on the Internet, say everyone's picking on him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Leave Donald Trump alone! Leave Donald Trump, leave him alone! Period!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Bye!

MOOS: Tell that to cartoonists who can't get enough of his hair and pursed lips.

HILL: What I really was surprised by is the guy pouts. He is someone who has an upper chin rising and the corners of the mouth go down drooping in sadness. He's a cross between Peter Finch on "Network" saying, "I'm as mad as hell."

PETER FINCH, ACTOR: I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

HILL: -- and Leslie Gore saying it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

(SINGING)

MOOS: In this case, it's the Republican Party crying.

(SINGING)

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN --

TRUMP: Because our leaders are stupid!

FINCH: And I'm not going to take it anymore!

MOOS: -- New York.

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(LAUGHTER)

ASHER: You hear that? Leave Donald Trump alone!

BARNETT: I heard the message.

(LAUGHTER)

The message of those ladies.

ASHER: Thank you so much for watching, everyone. It was fun being with you. I'm Zain Asher.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett.

Zain, you have a great day.

ASHER: Yeah, you bet.

BARNETT: Bye.

Rosemary Church joins me next in the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Have a great day.

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