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Huge Explosions Kill 44, Injure Hundreds In China; Truck Bomb Kills At Least 36, Wounds 75 In Baghdad; U.S. Army Chief Raises Option Of Ground Troops In Iraq; Republicans Attack Clinton Over Email Server; Bernie Sanders Leads New Hampshire Poll; Attorney: Cop Acted To Save Officers' Lives; Countries Manipulate Currency To Improve Trade; Expert: IAAF Lacks Drive To Clean Up Sport; Venting Online May Make Us Angrier. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired August 13, 2015 - 03:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Devastation, a pair of powerful explosions in Tianjin, China kills scores of people and injures more than 500.

Going down mounting evidence that an e-mail scandal is hurting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations.

Also ahead, the perils of the angry e-mail, why some say it will only make you angrier.

Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

We start in China where the death toll has risen to 44 after a series of massive explosions in the city of Tianjin. Thick, black smoke is still billowing from the site and firefighters have suspended their efforts to put out the huge fire.

They just don't know enough about what chemicals they're dealing with. It's not yet clear what caused the explosions but state media report the initial blast happened at a warehouse storing dangerous goods.

More than 500 people are injured and dozens of firefighters are reported missing. Many people were injured by flying glass as the explosion blew out windows for several kilometers. CNN spoke with one witness.

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VAFA ANDERSON, EYEWITNESS (via telephone): I'm about one to two kilometers away from the blast site and we woke up to the first blast and went to check out what was happening, of course, at the window and saw a huge explosion. We have line of sight from where it happened.

There are only a few buildings in the way. And the shock wave just blew through our apartment. It blew out the glass. It blew out the doors. It just knocked everything over. It knocked out the power. It has really damaged a lot of the buildings in my complex that were facing that side and other complexes that were facing other directions.

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CHURCH: And CNN's Will Ripley was one of the first international reporters to get close to the site.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When you look around at all the devastation here, it's really remarkable one just all the damage that was done to the convention center building, the windows and doors smashed in. Take a look at this car. It clearly caught fire.

The windows smashed. It's crumpled to bits and we are standing two kilometers from the blast site. We're not even close to the epicenter. That gives you a sense of how strong this was and how scary this was for the 15 million people who live here in Tianjin when they were jolts out of bed overnight.

A lot of the people in the apartment blacks we visited earlier, there are shards of glass piled up on the ground. And people didn't have time to put on shoes and they were barefoot going through this. That's why hundreds of people are in the hospital, a lot with cuts because of the broken glass.

There are helicopters in the air flying overhead and looking at that gigantic smoke plume, which you can make out in the haze in the distance. The fires have been burning since the initial chemical fire and the first explosion and second explosion and so on.

The air has a thick chemical smell and we actually feel it a bit in our throats. We wonder exactly what it is we're breathing in right now even though most of the people are not wearing masks, either they didn't have time to grab any or don't have any.

We saw police and medical personnel in masks. At the hospital it was an emotional and sad scene. We have security here telling us we need to move out of the way. That was an issue we ran into at the hospital. Security and onlookers were not happy. I was knocked off the air and surrounded by an angry mob.

These are people who have not slept. At least one man had a loved one who had died. And emotions are high right now. The grief is high and people are still trying to process all of this exactly what happened and why.

[03:05:09] Why was this huge city rocked by these explosions overnight? It's a question that investigators will be looking into as they try to assess the damage, try to treat the sick and the emotionally scarred, and try to figure out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. Will Ripley, Tianjin, CNN.

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CHURCH: Another explosion in the Iraqi capital. It happened in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Baghdad with the very latest. So Jomana, what are authorities and witnesses telling you about this deadly blast?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, Rosemary, what we know from security officials in Iraq is that at least 36 people were killed. And more than 70 others were wounded in this massive truck bombing attack that took place early this morning.

As you mentioned, in the eastern part of Baghdad in the predominantly Shia district of Sadr City at a vegetable and fruit market there, they expect the death toll to rise at this point. This happening at a time when this market is really packed, it's Thursday.

It's ahead of the weekend. They are in Baghdad and there is no claim of responsibility at this point. But this is one of the very -- while in Baghdad we have seen attacks and violence become normal. In the city people are used to bombings taking place, this kind of attack we have not seen in a long time in Baghdad specifically.

A truck bomb, this kind of single deadly attack is something people say is reminiscent at the days of the height of the sectarian violence in 2006 and 2007. In recent weeks we have seen attacks. Just a few days ago, also, northeast of Baghdad in the province that Iraqi officials say they have, quote/unquote, "liberated" from ISIS earlier this year.

We have seen a number of deadly attacks taking place there, very high casualty figures, this sort of spectacular attack with big bombs ripping through markets and civilian areas, but at this point, no claim of responsibility for this Baghdad attack.

CHURCH: All right, Jomana Karadsheh joining us there from Imam, Jordan. In fact, many thanks to you for talking to us on the phone.

Croatian's prime minister says his government cannot confirm claims that ISIS militants have beheaded a Croatian hostage in Egypt, but he says the situation looks horrible. Tomislav Salopek was abducted outside Cairo in July 22nd. The Egyptian branch of ISIS demanded the release of all Muslim women from prison within 48 hours or they would kill their hostage.

The outgoing U.S. Army chief of staff is offering a candid assessment of the efforts to stop ISIS. Barbara Starr reports he is not ruling out the option of sending U.S. troops in.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. airstrikes over Syria trying to squeeze critical ISIS strongholds, in the west ramping up pressure in Aleppo, in the east, striking Raqqah, ISIS' capital. In Iraq U.S. officials say Iraqi troops may finally be getting ready to try to retake Ramadi.

But the top U.S. Army general did not mince words about any part of the effort. On getting Iraqi forces to fight?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It hasn't gone as well as we like it to.

STARR: On the overall situation?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think right now we're kind of at a stalemate.

STARR: And a warning the president's strategy especially in Iraq may need fixing raising the option of putting U.S. boots on the ground.

GENERAL RAYMOND ODIERNO, U.S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF: If we find in the next several months that we're not making the progress that we have we should absolutely consider embedding some soldiers.

STARR: As for U.S. training of Syrian rebels, a program now in crisis since the first unit disbanded before it could fight in the field?

ODIERNO: I think we have to learn some lessons from that and figure out how we can best employ them to ensure their survivability and their viability in the region.

STARR: But a caution about some suggestions from a top GOP presidential candidate.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (via telephone): I would go in and take the oil and put troops to protect the oil. I would go and take the money source away and they would start to wither and they would collapse.

STARR (on camera): When you hear Donald Trump say we should move in with troops and take their oil and bomb the Iraqi oil fields and take the oil away from is. Does anything like that even remotely have military utility?

[03:10:07] ODIERNO: There are limits to military power and so we can have an outcome, but again the problem we have had, do we achieve sustainable outcome? It's about sustainable outcome.

STARR: So you disagree with Donald Trump?

ODIERNO: I do. Right now, I do.

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STARR: But General Odierno did offer one caveat. If there was a direct ISIS threat to the United States, if it was imminent, then perhaps he could see an option such as Trump describes the use of U.S. military force. Barbara Starr, CNN, The Pentagon.

CHURCH: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he has cancer and it has spread to various parts of his body. Carter says a recent liver surgery revealed the disease. The 90-year-old is rearranging his public schedule to undergo treatment here in Atlanta. The local newspaper published this cartoon in honor of Mr. Carter. He was the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia before being elected president in 1976.

A new poll shows a majority of American voters think Hillary Clinton's e-mail should be subject to a criminal investigation. A Monmouth University survey shows 82 percent of Republicans, 23 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of independents favor an investigation.

It was conducted before Clinton announced she would turn over her private server to the Justice Department. The issue has become a prime target for Republican candidates.

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TRUMP (via telephone): I don't know, frankly, that she'll be able to run because it just looks to me that the whole e-mail thing is a very criminal situation and it could cause problems for years to come.

JEB BUSH, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would have thought that her campaign advisers would have said let's disclose everything and it looks like she is hiding. The FBI took it. It's different than disclosing it.

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CHURCH: Another new poll shows Clinton is now trailing Bernie Sanders in the key primary state of New Hampshire. CNN's Jeff Zeleny has the details.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Soaring summer for Bernie Sanders. He is front-page news today vaulting over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. His populous cry is catching on.

BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have a message to the billionaire class and that message is you can't have it all.

ZELENY: And his candidacy is taking off. For the first time, a new Franklin Pierce University poll shows him with a seven-point edge over Clinton. All this as Clinton faces new questions about the private e- mail server she used as secretary of state.

She agreed to surrender it to the Justice Department. It's given Sanders an opening to be a potential spoiler of the 2016 campaign and east not alone.

TRUMP: President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

ZELENY: Republicans have one of their own. In Iowa, Donald Trump is leading the pack. Our CNN poll shows with Ben Carson in second place. These spoilers are upending the race, sending establishment stars like Clinton and Jeb Bush to the back burner at least for now.

TRUMP: Jeb and Hillary on the same day, they said Donald Trump has too strong a tone. The world is cracking up and they're worried about my tone.

ZELENY: But instead of taking on Trump, Bush turned his attacks to Clinton last night in a speech on Iraq at the Reagan Library in California. BUSH: Where was Secretary of State Clinton in all of this? Like the president himself, she had opposed the surge then joined in claiming credit for its success.

ZELENY: Instead of challenging Sanders, Clinton is fixated on Bush and the GOP field.

HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have to draw a contrast with the candidates on the other side of the aisle.

ZELENY: While Trump is used to the spotlight, it's a new phenomenon -- calls himself a Democratic socialist. His rallies drawing more than 100,000 people in recent weeks are the biggest of any 2016 candidate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are they underestimating Bernie Sanders?

BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: People often underestimate me. I'm in the race to win.

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ZELENY: Now Bernie Sanders is smiling a lot these days. He is one of those candidates who is benefitting from an environment where establishment politicians are no longer as much in favor as they were, but it's a long, long road until those votes start in about six months. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: Coming next here on CNN, we are learning new details about the 49-year-old rookie officer who shot and killed an unarmed Texas teen including what he did before he joined the force.

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CHURCH: In the U.S. state of Texas, the rookie police officer who was fired after killing a black unarmed teenager is fighting back. Brad Miller's attorney says his client only acted to, quote, "save his and other officers' lives," but the police chief sees it very differently as CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Brad Miller's lawyer says that the Arlington's Police chief's biggest fears are getting paper cuts and protecting his six-figure salary. That is the reaction to the firing of the 49-year-old rookie officer who now faces possible criminal charges for the shooting death of Christian Taylor.

Miller's lawyer says the police chief is acting like a Monday-morning quarterback and that Officer Miller's decision was made in the heat of a violent confrontation to save his and other officers' lives.

Miller's boss was not convinced by Miller's reasoning to use deadly force the night he entered the car dealership and confronted Taylor without his training partner.

[03:20:09] WILL JOHNSON, ARLINGTON POLICE CHIEF: This fear and feeling of isolation was the result of his poor decision to enter the building without assistance.

LAVANDERA: Former Dallas area police officer and now defense lawyer, Pete Schulte says the chief's decision has stunned cops on the force.

PETE SCHULTE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It kills morale when you have officers who feel this is a rush to judgment. I have heard that officers think that the rookie was a scapegoat.

LAVANDERA: Brad Miller graduated from the Police Academy this past March and was in the final days of his field training.

(on camera): Before becoming a cop, Brad Miller spent five years working as a hairdresser in an Arlington, Texas salon. Two of his co- workers describe him as very kind, someone who would bring flowers on mother's day for the women in the salon.

But they also say toward the end of his time before joining the Police Academy he often talked about how much he wanted to be a police officer.

(voice-over): Adrian and Josh Taylor still question why Officer Miller fatally shot their brother.

JOSH TAYLOR, VICTIM'S BROTHER: He didn't do anything in that video that would sentence him to death or you know, anything -- maybe jail time, maybe or you know, burglary charge, probation.

LAVANDERA: Taylor's family says they are not looking at the shooting as a racial issue.

ADRIAN TAYLOR, VICTIM'S BROTHER: Every person's life matters. Yes, my brother was black. He can't help that. So we're going to trust in the system. Going to trust in God and just keep praying.

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LAVANDERA: Brad Miller will no longer be a police officer with the Arlington Police Department and he has to wait to see what a grand jury will decide if that grand jury will file any criminal charges against him. That is a process that will take several weeks. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Arlington, Texas.

CHURCH: China has allowed its currency, the Yuan to fall for the third day in a row. The central bank set the rate more than 1 percent lower versus the U.S. dollar. Critics say China is artificially manipulating its currency to make exports cheaper. But the bank says market forces are driving the change.

Our Anna Coren is following developments from Hong Kong and she joins us now with more. So Anna, what are analysts saying about what this tells us about China's economy right now? ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Look, a lot of analysts believe, Rosemary, that basically the Chinese economy is suffering, that it's actually a lot weaker than what official figures suggest, hence the devaluing of the Yuan.

Weakening the currency, as you say, it makes exports a lot more cheaper and certainly a lot more competitive and a report last week showed that exports were down 8 percent. This is something that is certainly front and center of the Chinese government's mind.

But this is only one thing that is going to stimulate the economy and there are real concerns as to whether the government has this situation under control. Obviously their goal this year is for 7 percent growth. But after the devaluing of the currency, and even before that there were concerns as to whether they will actually reach that.

There are serious question marks, Rosemary, about the economic data coming out of China. People now seriously are questioning it. Of course, the official word from the Chinese government is that they are simply allowing market forces to play a role in the value of the Yuan.

This is something of course that the United States and the IMF, the International Monetary Fund has been pushing for some time. So they see themselves as, perhaps, loosening its grip on the Chinese currency exchange, but obviously, Rosemary, analysts reading it a little differently.

CHURCH: Indeed. Anna Coren watching this very closely from Hong Kong, many thanks to you.

China is not the first country accused of manipulating its currency to improve its trade prospects. CNN's Richard Quest explains how the two are linked.

RICHARD QUEST, CNNI HOST, "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS": The world of trade is all about sending your goods to different parts of the world. And in doing so, you can use the currency to undercut each other. So, we have the Yuan in China, which has been devalued by several percent.

This will give those goods and services coming out of China a competitive advantage in the rest of the world. They will be cheaper. We've seen something similar in 2010 with the Brazilian Real where the level was high and the finance minister said he was worried about a currency war.

So what happened of course they had to manage the currency down so they, too, could take advantage of more exports.

[03:25:07] Now you have the European Central Bank with quantitative easing which is a negative for the euro and European exporters hoping to take advantage of the currency to do business.

What's on the knock-on effect here you go to the Scandinavian countries and the Swiss who have negative interest rates because they have to accommodate the currency. And into all of this, you have the U.S. dollar, mighty as she sails.

But that high level of the dollar means U.S. exports are more expensive and of course, who wins? Just about everybody else. Richard Quest, CNN, New York.

CHURCH: And now it's all perfectly clear, right? Next here on CNN, a national poll shows Hillary Clinton trailing Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. Should her campaign be concerned? We will talk to a Democrat and a Republican strategist after the break.

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CHURCH: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and of course all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Want to check the headlines for you this hour.

A massive chemical fire is still burning in the Chinese city of Tianjin after a series of explosions in the warehouse district overnight. At least 44 people are dead and more than 500 are injured.

[03:30:02] China's state news agency says dozens of firefighters are missing. Authorities don't know what caused the explosions.

A truck bomb exploded in a crowded market Baghdad's Sadr city District killing at least 36 people. Iraq Ministry of Interior says 75 others are wounded. Sadr City is a Shiite area and the Sunni militants of ISIS have claimed responsibility for attacks in the past.

The latest CNN/ORC poll shows that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are leading U.S. presidential candidates their parties in Iowa, a key early nominating state. Trump has an eight-point lead in the Republican field and Clinton has a 19 point lead over Bernie Sanders.

Meanwhile, another poll shows Hillary Clinton lagging behind Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. And earlier I asked two political strategists about the impact of the poll and the issues surrounding the election.

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CHURCH: Joining me now to debate the issues confronting U.S. politics right now, Democratic strategist, Joe Lestingi and Republican strategist, Bruce Haynes. Thank you, Gentlemen, for being with us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thanks for having us.

CHURCH: Of course, two political outsiders, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are attracting a lot of attention away from the candidates who were supposed to be the leadership nominees. Joe, one poll shows Bernie Sanders actually in the lead. Is it time for Hillary Clinton to be panicking about that and the e-mails?

JOE LESTINGI, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: No, I don't think so. This has been one poll and that's correct. In 2004, Howard Dean had his day in the sun as well. The poll is out of New Hampshire which is next to Bernie Sanders' neighboring Vermont up there. They know Bernie very well up there. The liberal base is very invested in him.

So seeing a surprise bump up there is nothing new. And if you look at the way the campaign has progressed, Hillary hasn't really started campaigning yet. There is not any major media buys yet. The campaign on the Democratic side has been slower than that on the Republican side.

No debates or anything like that yet. Hillary will close the ground quickly, surpass and push towards the nomination. Bernie Sanders will not be our nominee.

CHURCH: All right, we'll come back and talk about the e-mails in just a moment. But Bruce Haines how damaging is this for the Republican Party and how sustainable is this Trump surge because he's out there. He's the loose cannon. He's taking the attention off Jeb Bush who was really for a lot of Republicans, supposed to be the guy who was going to be nominated by the Republicans. So talk to us about how long that can go on for without really taking a toll on the party.

BRUCE HAYNES, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think if you look at it, it can go on for a long time. You've got Donald Trump. He's leading in the state polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina, and he has access to a politician's best friend in a long campaign and that is ready money.

He can spin. He's got big staffs of credible operatives in these states. He can go on a long time. I think whether it's damaging or not depends on does Trump mature as a candidate?

Do his views become more well better formed and does he continue to draw people into the conversation that Republicans would like to have as opposed to one that sounds shrill and angry or does he continue to go off on a negative track.

The last few days, I think we've seen parts of Trump try to moderate his message a bit. He's promised to come forward and talk about some concrete policy proposals and some things that people would like to hear. So we'll see.

The good news, the difference for Republicans and for Democrats is we have a deep bench here. We don't just have Jeb Bush. We have John Kasich who is rising to the top of polls now in New Hampshire. We have Marco Rubio with an outstanding story, personal story, and conservative credentials.

CHURCH: But they are getting overshadowed, aren't they?

HAYNES: They are getting overshadowed in August. It's a long campaign, but they're not completely getting overshadowed. We are seeing John Kasich's poll numbers in New Hampshire, for instance, take a huge leap. Jeb Bush is certainly holding steady. Rubio is gaining ground and Trump's numbers are beginning to slide.

CHURCH: Jeb Bush must be a real disappointment for a lot of Republicans. That's what the polls are showing. They're going you're not living up to expectations here. We're going to move our support and go to Trump.

HAYNES: I think that they are very different candidates. I'm not sure they were going to get the same voter. In a large field like this you don't win with 50 percent. A Republican is going to win Iowa with something like 35 percent.

CHURCH: Joe Lestingi, Democrats had hoped Hillary Clinton's e-mail cycle will go away but it certainly hasn't, has it? It's actually getting messy now.

[03:35:04] How worried are Democratic strategists about where this is going and what impact it could have on her campaign?

LESTINGI: Yes, I mean, I will say it is darkest before the dawn. And what she did today by turning over the servers to the Justice Department and signed the affidavit that she had turned everything over. She is putting it out there on the line saying I have cooperated and given them everything they want and putting it all up for review.

I think this is going to be a slow turn but a big turn on the corner that will finally put this to bed. If the Justice Department doesn't have anything they can work with which I believe that Hillary believes they don't. It will be something that falls off the front page for a while.

CHURCH: Bruce Haynes, is this e-mail saga of Hillary going to fall off the front page? Is it going to be put to bed by this?

HAYNES: Not at all. She's turned everything over. Now the question is what is in she turned over and analysis of that. And if you are Republican when you look at this, the problem with Hillary Clinton's campaign is not something that is coming from the outside.

It's not Obama's policies or the Sanders' energy and big crowds. The problem with Hillary Clinton's campaign is her worst opponent is Hillary Clinton and she's kind of losing to her. It's her e-mail server and her e-mails that have been deleted.

And you know it's her remarks that have gotten her in hot water from time to time. You know, Republicans look and see that Hillary Clinton may not be the insurmountable candidate after all. She may be similar to the one that lost in 2008 to Barack Obama.

CHURCH: All right, Bruce Haynes, Joe Lestingi, very interesting debate there. We'll see what happens, watching very closely. There's no doubt that U.S. politics is extraordinary, definitely for those of us not from America. Thanks to you both.

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CHURCH: And if you haven't already, be sure to head outside for a spectacular light show. The Persied meteor shower is streaking through northern hemisphere at this very moment.

And amid allegations of a wide spread doping cover up, the vice president of the world governing body of athletics is speaking out to CNN. Our exclusive interview, that's next.

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CHURCH: If you are in the northern hemisphere be sure to look up at the sky, celestial fireworks await you, the annual Persied meteor shower will fill the heavens with up to 100 shooting stars per hour. These are images from Europe and North America. The best time to see them is before dawn in the northeastern sky. This year's shower coincides with the new moon.

And Derek Van Dam is here to talk about this. We are not overstating this at all, are we?

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Can I say that we have the best writers in the business. Celestial fireworks lighting up the sky, I wish I could claim that one. It's good and it's true. This is some of the best meteorites -- shooting stars. I should say that we will be able to see this year because it is coinciding with a new moon.

We don't have the full moon washing out the sky. There are better viewing areas than others. Let's point that out for the viewers. Look at the visuals behind me. This is an image from NASA.

This is the earth at night and we look at Europe and North America and you can see Chicago and Detroit, New York, Washington, D.C. and Mexico City and Orlando and Miami, those areas are going to be very difficult to see the Persied meter showers at the moment because the city lights are going to wipe out the visibility.

But if you can get away from the city, take you lawn chair and you will see upwards of 100 shooting stars per hour. This is one of the best of the year thanks to this coinciding with the waning crescent moon right now. We are currently at the peak.

If you are tuning in in the United States along the east coast you have good viewing capabilities tonight. Over the four corners region and Mexico and Texas, unfortunately, some cloud cover obstructing your view.

I want to take you to Argentina, Buenos Aires, a spectacular part of the world. Unfortunately, much of it is inundated by flooding at the moment. They have nearly quadrupled their monthly rainfall average for August when this should be the dry season for this part of Argentina.

You can see on the graphic here behind me that August should only see about 63 millimeters for entire month. But Buenos Aires clocked 223 millimeters from Thursday into Monday. And most of that rainfall fell in two different events, two 24-hour rainfall events that clocked in over 200 millimeters.

The low pressure system moving through the area will continue with the bouts of heavy rain for Northern Argentina. But we are focusing on this region that will experience a significant amount of rainfall going forward with 100 to 150 millimeters of rainfall.

Some of the models have picked up over 350 millimeters in a few separate locations thanks to pulses of energy in the area. Look at the footage coming out of parts of Argentina. The flooding is inundating businesses, households and I think there is a shot of a church there, difficult scenes. That's going to mean a big cleanup effort going forward.

CHURCH: It certainly will. Derek Van Dam, many thanks to you for taking us through all of that. Appreciate it.

One of the experts behind allegations of widespread doping in athletes says that the governing body lacks the drive to clean up the sport. Last week, "The Sunday Times" newspaper revealed details from a leak of blood test results from 5,000 athletes.

[03:45:06] Anti-doping expert, Michael Ashenden, examined the data and says hundreds of suspicious results were not followed up on. In an open left to IAAF presidential candidate, Sebastian Coe, he asked does it pursue the anti-doping mandate with the same single-minded all- consuming dedication that athletes adopt in their pursuit of winning.

Based on what I saw in the leaked database, my view is no. Sebastian Coe is branding the duping allegations, a, quote, "declaration of war on athletics." The VP of the International Association Of Athletics Federation sat down with our Amanda Davis for an exclusive interview.

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AMANDA DAVIS, CNN SPORT CORRESPONDENT: How bad a state is athletics in?

SEBASTIAN COE, VICE PRESIDENT, IAAF: It's in a strong state.

DAVIS: People are talking about it as a sport in crisis.

COE: This is not a crisis. This is a very strong sport. Our sport is about a great deal more than doping, but no change is not an option now. We need to do things definitely.

DAVIS: Can you categorically state there was no cover up from the IAAF?

COE: What I can tell you is every reading that was taken was followed up and acted upon. You know we chased some of the biggest names out of the sport and that doesn't come without a cost, but we are prepared to do it. This is not a war we can allow ourselves to lose.

DAVIS: How much is a successful world championships dependent on a successful Usain Bolt?

COE: We need Usain in the same way that you know, in the '60s and '70s boxing needed Muhammad Ali.

DAVIS: Somebody who is giving Usain Bolt a run for his money, how damaging would it be if a two-time drug cheat broke Usain Bolt's world record?

COE: I am not going to sit here and say I'm anything other than queasy at the thought that athletes who serve bans for a serious infringement going on to win championship titles. I don't like it. That's a very personal view.

DAVIS: Should he still be racing?

COE: Yes because he is eligible to.

DAVIS: Should he be eligible to?

COE: I have always believed that lifetime bans for serious infringements are what we should have pushed for. I also accept because I live in the real world, that legally, that would not hold. That train left the station. So he is eligible to compete and he should be respected for fact that he is eligible to compete.

DAVIS: You broke three world records in 41 days. Is it a sad indictment of where the sport is now that if you were to have done that this week that would have been put down to one thing?

COE: Might well have been. And that is why I think moving to an independent anti-doping system is the next stage in really removing the perception, not the reality, but the perception that there could be conflict and there could be cover up.

DAVIS: Was it ever leveled at you?

COE: Yes, of course. I came from nowhere to break three world records. Of course, people wanted to suggest that this wasn't done on anything other than hard work and natural talent. But sadly, that is the world that top athletes in any sport live in.

DAVIS: Were you tempted though?

COE: No, of course not.

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CHURCH: Sebastian Coe with our Amanda Davis there.

Don't press send. A psychology professor explains why online venting may be bad for our health and gives some ways to control that anger. Back in a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Some remarkable video of a shark off the coast of Mexico gives new meaning to the words "great white." This is deep blue, thought to be the largest great white shark ever filmed.

You can see just how big she is as she swims right up against a cage full of divers. She is estimated to be 20 feet. That's more than 6 meters long and 5,000 pounds.

Researchers estimate she is least 50 years old and also pregnant. The researchers who filmed deep blue are tracking pregnant great whites to protect their nursery grounds. How about that?

Have you ever been so worked up about something that you fired off an angry e-mail to get it off your chest? A psychology professor says that may not be the healthiest thing to do and venting in general, not just online, only makes us angrier. Listen.

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CHURCH: Joining me now is professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, Brad Bushman. Thank you, sir, for talking with us.

BRAD BUSHMAN, COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: My pleasure.

CHURCH: Now you say writing angry e-mails makes us angrier. Don't hit the send button. That part makes sense to me. But why is it not a good idea to write out that anger in an e-mail?

BUSHMAN: Expressing anger keeps the anger alive. It's like using gasoline to put out a fire. It feeds the flame. It keeps arousal levels high and keeps the angry feelings hot. So it's just a very bad way to get rid of anger and aggression to express it or to vent it.

CHURCH: So you're not really in favor of venting. You say it makes us madder and meaner.

[03:55:05] But why not just write them down somewhere safe and never send it just get it off our chest. Surely that's good advice. Isn't that part of the human condition, getting rid of it so we can move on?

BUSHMAN: I'm not sure that anger is something that we need to get rid of. Anger is an approach, motivation. It motivates us to do something. Most of the movements in the world have been motivated by anger such as the civil rights movement or the women's vote movement.

But anger is not like a foreign substance that we need to get rid of it. People assume that their only two options with anger, you express it or you stuff it inside and both of those options are not good for your health.

They both can lead to cardiovascular disease but venting can lead to anger against others. But trying to understand -- if you are writing in an attempt to understand what made you angry and understand your feelings, that's OK.

But if you're just expressing it to try to get it off your chest, that will probably just make things worse.

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CHURCH: Good advice there. That was Brad Bushman, psychology professor at Ohio State University. He gave suggestions for reducing your anger. And you can delay your actions by counting to ten or even 100 if you are particularly angry.

Try to relax and take deep breaths or listen to calming music and one that may not be obvious, eat healthy food. Our brains need fuel to exercise self-control. There you go.

Thanks for your company. I'm Rosemary Church. "EARLY START" is next for viewers in the United States and for those of you elsewhere, stay tune for more CNN NEWSROOM. Have a great day.

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