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[01:00:04] JOHN VAUSE, CNN HOST: Cop killers on the loose, the manhunt for the suspect who gunned down a police officer.
ZAIN ASHER, CNNI HOST: And a humanitarian crisis at Europe's doorstep. We will hear from the men, women and children who are risking it all for a chance at refuge.
VAUSE: And the U.S. president visits a melting glacier to make his point about climate change.
ASHER: We want to welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. So glad to be with you in second hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Zain Asher.
VAUSE: I'm John Vause. CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.
A huge manhunt is underway in northern Illinois for the suspects in the killing of a veteran police officer. Police in Fox Lake are searching for three suspects described only as two white men and one black man. Helicopters have been flying overhead while police on the ground have tried to track them with sniffer the dogs.
ASHER: Officials say Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was chasing three suspects on foot. He was found with a gunshot wound and stripped of his gun. He is the fourth officer killed on duty in the United States in the last nine days now. Authorities asked residents to remain in their homes and their businesses and several schools are closed during the manhunt.
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SGT. CHRISTOPHER COVELLI, LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S JAIL: We're asking residents in the Fox Lake area to be on alert if they see anything suspicious, to dial 911 immediately. Anything out of the ordinary, anything they are not used to seeing in their subdivisions. No tip is too small.
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VAUSE: CNN's Ryan Young joins us now from Fox Lake, Illinois, not far from where the shooting happened.
So Ryan, exactly where have the police been focusing their search and do they believe all three suspects are still together?
RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, that's a great question. What we do know, we are behind their command center. And that is very close to where the shooting happened, about a half mile. The business that's right over my shoulder, that owner was telling us that they believe the officer was shot about, behind some businesses. And that the men ran in the direction toward some homes that is in the area.
Now, he described the area as having a marsh land, accommodation of woods and areas full of water. And of course, there are lakes here. So officers have been concentrating their effort around this area. And in fact, as far as we can see, we can see officers lined up. They are on aTVs, they have k-9 officers, we seen officers on horseback, there's obviously a concentrated effort in a neighborhood that's near here.
And you have to remember though that this is a vacation community. So there are people who live here year round. There are also people who only live here during the weekends. So these guys could have had numbers of places, numerous places to hide over the last few hours.
VAUSE: Ryan, officials have now identified the officer who was murdered, 30 year veteran and father of four. What else do we know?
YOUNG: They did. And of course, they said Officer Joe Gliniewicz who was known in this community as G.I. Joe, who was a married, father of four was shot and killed. A 32-year veteran. I can tell you a lot of people have been walking up to us and expressing disbelief about this officer being shot and killed (INAUDIBLE) a lot of people know him.
This is the community of ten thousands. So you can understand someone like this who plays a role with the high school students who was involve with explorers. You can understand the impact that it would have in a community like this. In fact, people have been lining up, near us with signs to show support for the officer.
VAUSE: Yes. He was close to retirement too, we're told. At this point, any indications of a motive at this point?
YOUNG: None whatsoever. We know he pulled up to check out three suspicious people who are not even sheriff. They have a better description of the men who were on the run. Once again, I will remind people, you have two with white males and one black male who took off after the shooting. We believe and have been told the officer's gun was with taken during this. So there is also that idea that they are armed and dangerous. But outside of that, they haven't shared any more information about what these men may look like. We do know that hard search is still continuing. Of course, you can look behind me. You can see how dark it is. The helicopter is still up we believe with all of the ATF, FBI and other units and SWAT teams. The night vision will have to be with deployed at some point to help them in the search for these three men.
VAUSE: Finally, Ryan, is it unusual for police not to give out more details about the three suspects or do they simply not know anymore? YOUNG: Well, you know, that is a great question. Of course, we don't
know if they are holding that close to this vest or if maybe this is one of the things where the officer was only able to give out a little information. Now, to give you an idea of this. There is an industrial area behind me, so a lot of businesses and maybe they were cable to capture on surveillance the three men running away. You can only hope that police have more information and they are not sharing it with us.
VAUSE: Ryan Young in Fox Lake. Thanks for being with us.
ASHER: Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz had deep ties to his community.
VAUSE: And he spent time working with high school students who are interested in careers in law enforcement.
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DEVAN ARBAY, MENTORED BY LT. JOE GLINIEWICZ: Lieutenant Gliniewicz was a person who truly take care about his community. He was always involved with community event, village events, et cetera. He truly loved his job. He loved doing things for the explorers and his explorers was a huge part of his life. He really dedicated hundreds of thousands of hours in (INAUDIBLE) the Fox Lake community, the Illinois law enforcement explorer and the national law enforcement explorers.
The program really teaches the explorers anything from law enforcement, whether it be a traffic stop, first aide training, building searches, domestics, et cetera, everything basically. And it truly will give them the opportunity to see if it is what it is like. And events like this will truly alter the opinions of some. But for me, it truly makes myself want to be a police officer more and more and fulfill his important work and continue to do what he did.
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[01:05:43] ASHER: Authorities in San Antonio, Texas are closely examining two amateur videos that appear to show police officers shooting and killing a man.
VAUSE: One of the videos which we are about to show you was shot on a cell phone from a distance. And it appears to show the shirtless suspect Gilbert Flores with at least one of his hands in the air when he was shot last Friday. His other hand is obscured by that utility pole.
ASHER: The Bexar County sheriff office said that Flores, pictured here in this mug shot from a previous arrest, was armed with a knife and was resisting arrest when deputies showed up to investigate a domestic violence call. Now, here's that video of the shooting. Now we warn to warn our viewers that some of you may find this very disturbing.
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ASHER: Now, two CNN analysts say that we shouldn't rush to judgment, but they have different opinions as to which side maybe in the wrong.
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TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: I think we need more details of this and put it in to full context. My understanding is the officers were responding to a family disturbance where a woman with and child had been injured, possibly by this individual. And they were bleeding. And if he's out there with a knife and if he is resisting arrest, we see one hand go up and wave around but we can't hear the audio. We don't know if he is actually signaling that he is surrendering or if he is taunting the police. And we can't see whether he has a knife in his left hand. So I'd like to see the other video. I don't think we need to rush to judgment right today and say that is it. It looks horrible and these officers are guilty. I want to see more about it.
JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST: Certainly we can wait and no one wants to rush to judgment. This is unsettling. I get and understanding. So if he was taunting, let's say that. Say that he saying the worst possible things, that's not the standard. The standard is does he represent an imminent threat, an imminent danger? Are you in fear for your life?
And so, we can talk about the 18-month-old in the house that apparently was harmed. The woman in the house that had an injury to her head. Everything that preceded the video. But when you are in a court of law, you judge it by your actions at the time. Were these officers in reasonable fear for their life? That's what the viewers need to evaluate and that's what a jury if it comes to that needs to evaluate. And by that standard, I'm very troubled and deeply disturbed that he was shot and killed under those circumstances.
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VAUSE: Authorities have not released the second video. But the county's district attorney says it has a better view of what happened.
We move now on to Europe's migrant crisis. The Hungarian prime minister is heading to Brussels Thursday to discuss the issue with EU leaders.
ASHER: Meantime, anger and frustration is building in Budapest.
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ASHER: Hundreds of migrants rallied Tuesday after authorities shut down the city's main train station, preventing them from boarding trains to Western Europe. Now, just a day earlier, Syrian and Iraqi refugees were allowed to board trains.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We hardly been eaten for five days. Not food. No sleep. No place to sleep. No anything. We have a ticket (INAUDIBLE).
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VAUSE: The train station later reopened, but only those with proper documentation were allowed to enter. Hungary insists it is enforcing the EU rules.
In a separate incident, passengers on Eurostar trains had their trips delayed for a number of hours after police say they there were trespassers on the French side of the euro tunnel Calais. Some passengers were sent back to their departure stations. The port city of Calais has been dealing with a surge of migrants trying to access the Euro tunnel to reach England.
ASHER: Meantime, several hundred migrants boarded a train in Macedonia Tuesday night headed for the Serbian border. From there, they crossed in to Serbia on foot. Many of the migrants and refugees are fleeing the war in Syria. Macedonia is one of the many stops as they make their way towards Western Europe.
Now, the U.N. estimates up to 3,000 migrants will likely cross in to Macedonia every day in the coming months.
[01:10:12] VAUSE: The European Union is under increasing pressure to deal with this unprecedented flux of migrants.
Atika Shubert has our report.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the surge of refugees and migrants now reaches northern Europe, Germany has offered to take 800,000 refugees, four times the amount last year. German chancellor Angela Merkel made clear on Tuesday she expects the rest of Europe to do the same.
ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): Instead of accusing each other, I think we should work on a joint asylum policy in Europe just like we discussed with Spain. We must change something. This includes the so-called hotspots registration centers which need to be set up quickly. They must be operated by the EU overall and this includes the safe countries of origin and the possibility to send people back to make clear that economic reasons do not count, and this includes the fair distribution within the European union.
SHUBERT: So will Merkel be able to rally Europe? She began by effectively flouting EU law last week as thousands masked in Hungary, Germany announced it would allow Syrian and Iraqi refugees to apply within Germany for an asylum and would not send them back to the first EU country they entered. That decision has forced neighbors like Hungary to deal with the surge in arrivals rushing to get to Germany, often illegally.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The problem is that they don't follow the rules from the moment they enter the borders and wouldn't go to the places where we would be able to provide that. They go to the railway stations and demand free leave to Western Europe. Again, this is impossible.
SHUBERT: According to EU law, all refugees must apply in the first EU country they step foot in. For most that means the frontier state of Greece and Italy, then crossing illegally through Austrian and Hungary to reach the most popular destinations, Germany and Sweden.
For the most part, the public is behind Merkel's welcome. Local football clubs hoisted welcome banners over the weekend. Villages held refugee welcome parties for newcomers. A recent news poll estimated that 60 percent support Merkel's warm welcome for refugees.
But there have also been clashes with local residents, unhappy with the new arrivals, fearful of the financial and social burden they may bring. Some of Merkel's critics say her steps are simply a delayed response to the overwhelming public acceptance of refugees and rejection of violence.
Still Merkel has dared to do what no other EU leader has done -- bend the law to quickly give a safe haven to more of those in desperate need in the hopes the EU will step up to the plate.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Berlin.
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VAUSE: Men, women and children are among the thousands of migrants and refugees making the journey to Europe. And as Arwa Damon reports, they are hoping for a better life than the one they left behind.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The flood of humanity making its way across Europe is mostly made of refuges. From the war zone that are Iraq and Syria. They are the father who carry his daughter on his shoulders because back home she was his princess and he just wants to give her that back again.
They are the mother with the law degree who cries every time she talks or even thinks about her children that she had to leave back home, making the trek on her own in hopes that they will be able to join her.
They are youth, students, groups of young men who also want to bring their families over to Europe, who are looking for opportunities that no longer exist for them in their respective countries. Things like job, education and just the chance of living a dignified and respectable life.
They are people fleeing violence over which they have no control. People who don't want to die. Who don't want to watch their children die. So, yes, parents make the impossible decision of bringing over their little ones, their babies because as they keep telling us, if they were to stay back home, they believe they would end up dead. So why not take the chance and try to make it to Europe?
They are people from as far away as Myanmar and Afghanistan, from various African nations, who are fleeing abject poverty, corrupt and oppressive regimes. There are people of different backgrounds, from all walks of life, who share one thing in common -- a belief, a dream that Europe will offer them a future, any future.
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[01:15:17] VAUSE: That perspective from our Arwa Damon.
We are going to take a short break. But when we come back, limited hope that made of assistance fear in Asia's stock market. Ahead, we will see what is driving the volatility which is spreading around the world.
Also, Pope Francis rocks the Catholic Church again announcing a new policy on abortion. Those details also when we come back.
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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Time to talk weather. Perdam Javaheri for CNN weather watch. We will start you around the western United States where Tampa and San Francisco, after some morning clouds and get the winds out there as well as kicking up a little bit about 21 degree. And Dallas will make it up into 30s. The shower is finally working the way back towards the northwestern U.S. for more than 30 active large fires. Still in place and a few thunderstorm activity reports on a various states from (INAUDIBLE) out towards Denver on the ice, (INAUDIBLE) with the weather pattern and across that region. We got a monsoon enhanced for this time of year.
But the heat is on across the eastern third of the country with the northwest getting in on a cooler temperatures, first time in about four months for them. And also watching a couple of hurricanes. Ignacio (ph) working its way just north of the Hawaiian Islands. Hemena (ph) back behind it. Isn't this gorgeous, just absolutely symmetrical feature across this region? Category three storm system. Fortunately, another one that will turn and move over open waters eventually interacting with cooler waters and weakening as well. So the story remains safer as far as the Hawaiian folks across that region. But thunderstorm is expected to arrive in (INAUDIBLE), makes it about to 31 degrees, Caracas about 32 degrees with the weather expected this time of year, of course. Keep track local activity. We don't see much of it right now, but the heat, tremendously building across this region to leave to some thunderstorm activity. (INAUDIBLE) will shoot for 34 degrees.
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[01:19:29] ASHER: After a few harrowing trading days in Asia, stock markets there are showing some positive signs.
VAUSE: A little. There's still a lot of uncertainty, though. Reports on Tuesday show a slowdown in Chinas economy. But look at the number with now. Australia coming back from a big loss earlier in the day now off on positive territory a little. Nikkei also up by a half of one percent. Shanghai Composite, I think that is a little slow because latest numbers that we are getting from the Shanghai stock exchange Web site, they are actually heading down in to negative territory by almost half of one percent and Hong Kong down by a third of one percent. It is all over the map.
Fears over China also hit Wall Street hard. The Dow Jones industrial, the Nasdaq, S&P 500, all closed down about three percent on Tuesday.
[01:20:12] ASHER: CNN's Asia pacific editor Andrew Stevens is joining me live now from Hong Kong.
So Andrew, obviously, the numbers are showing some positive signs right now. But if you look more broadly, the Shanghai Composite is down, well, almost 40 percent since mid-June. China has taken so many measures to try to prop up the market. Why do those measures not seem to be working overall?
ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: Well, I guess the short answer is they are not taking enough measures, Zain. Even though, as you point out, they have taken many, many measures. There's a suggestion, it's hard to get completely accurate read on this because the government and authorities don't signal exactly when they are in the market and how much they are buying. They give broader indications like they are instructing their pension funds and their insurance funds to buy in the market and taking various other measures.
And they have had limited success in the past when they have done a sort of full-court press, if you like, on the markets. They have eased the pressure back. The selling has come back in. Remember, a lot of the investors in the Shanghai stock market saying people who borrowed money near the top of the market to get in sort of cheered on, if you like, by the Chinese government, which was very, very akin to see a big stock market bounce because there wasn't any real other investment opportunities in China. It made people feel good.
But that bubble deflated when the Chinese leadership stopped taking in new measures to push things up. It has been a pretty rapid burn since then. Down 40 percent since then. I can tell you that the Shanghai markets now down about six-tenths of one percent.
What is interesting is a lot of commentary that is now suggesting that the Chinese have sort of given up, the authorities have given up in propping up the market. So they are going to let the market decide where it should be on its own like regular markets. And we have seen quite a lot of volatility today. It was down four percent in one stage. And was down now about two-thirds of one percent.
ASHER: Yes. And Andrew, I do want to talk about the Australia GDP because you got those numbers out. How is China's economic slowdown affecting its neighbors, do you think?
STEVENS: It is affecting everyone, Zain. Such a powerful economy, China is. And it sucks in so many imports, not just from Australia but from everywhere. As you out, particularly from Asian neighbors. That is Australian GDP. This is another great snapshot to show you the impact of the China slowdown on a country like Australia which does send a lot of iron ore. its copper, its resources generally to China.
The prices of those resources have collapsed, down 70 percent for iron ore which is the key ingredient in steel, if you like. And that's the result there. The mining industry tries to slows the economy slows down. Growth at just a fifth of one percent as you see there in the second quarter of 2015. You have to go back to 2011 to find growth like that in Australia.
Remember, this is an economy that hasn't had a recession for 24 years. Many people call it a miracle economy and a lot of that had to do with the fact that China was buying its resources. China is buying a lot less now and that is the result. So China is having an impact on Australia by the source that having an impact on many, many other economies. And virtually every economy in the world, ports at least something to China.
ASHER: Yes. Including the U.S. markets. We have seen Dow Jones down about 11 percent since May in some of the past three months. So clearly having an impact globally as you mentioned.
OK, Andrew Stevens live for us there. Thank you so much -- John.
VAUSE: Thanks, Zain.
Guatemala's president has been stripped of his immunity and could face prosecution on corruption charges. Congress took the unanimous vote on Tuesday. The president, Otto Perez Molina, and his close aides are accused of receiving bribes in exchange for lowering taxes on companies importing products in to the country. Mr. Perez Molina denies the charges. There are weekly protests demanding his resignation but he insists he will not step down.
ASHER: In Lebanon, clashes broke out Tuesday between anti-government protesters and police sparked by a garbage collection crisis. The so- called quote "new stink campaign" is calling for a change in leadership saying the trash problem reflects the government's failures. So far the government has not offered concessions and there's no resolution in sight.
VAUSE: The pope is making headlines again announcing that priests everywhere will be authorized to forgive women for the sin of having an abortion if they confess.
ASHER: Now, the policy applies during the church's year of mercy. That begins in December.
CNN's Delia Gallagher has more from Rome.
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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The change by Pope Francis has made it easier for a woman who has had an abortion to return to the church. Previously, under church law, abortion carried with it an automatic excommunication, a ban which could only be lifted by special permission of a bishop. But now the Pope says that special permission is no longer necessary and any priest can absolve a woman of the sin of abortion in confession.
The Pope has not made a change to church teaching on abortion. It is still considered a moral evil and it still carries with it the penalty of excommunication. But he has streamlined the process temporarily to allow women who are seeking forgiveness to be reinstated to the Catholic Church.
This move is made in anticipation of a special year of mercy established by Pope Francis set to begin on December 8th of this year and running through November 20th of next year. And the duration of this special concession is for those states. But many at the Vatican expect it will continue even afterwards.
The significant step is the latest in a series of moves by Pope Francis to encourage those who may have stayed away from the Catholic Church because of its moral rules to be welcomed back.
Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.
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[01:26:16] VAUSE: Pope Francis will be visiting the United States in the next couple of weeks. So it will be interesting to see how this plays out when he arrives.
ASHER: Yes. And abortion a key issue especially with Planned Parenthood controversy.
VAUSE: Absolutely.
A short break here. When we come back, two political rivals in the U.S. Republican presidential race are on the attack. The latest in Trump versus Bush just ahead.
ASHER: And a county clerk is defying the U.S. Supreme Court. We will tell you what she refused to do and why.
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[01:30:13] VAUSE: Welcome back. Thank you for staying with us. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live in the United States and across the world. I'm John Vause.
ASHER: I'm Zain Asher. Let's give you the headlines.
Police in northern Illinois are searching for three suspects in the shooting death of a police officer. The suspects are described only as two white men and one black man. The victim, Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz, was a veteran officer of more than 30 years and the father of four sons.
VAUSE: Hungary's prime minister will travel to Brussels on Thursday to discuss the migrant crisis with E.U. leaders. Hundreds of migrants and refugees are made it to Germany but many more are stuck in Budapest after authorities stopped them from boarding trains for Western Europe. Hungary insists it is enforcing the E.U. rules. ASHER: A quick check of the stock markets. Asia-Pacific stock
markets are having an up-and-down day. Worries over China's economy. Let's look at the numbers. Shanghai is down one-third of 1 percent. Nikkei flat. And Hang Seng down a half percent.
VAUSE: Let's go to the 2016 Republican presidential race. And in this crowded field two candidates, in particular, are getting quite nasty.
CHURCH: CNN's Sara Murray has the details on the latest round of Trump versus Bush.
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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER (voice-over): Floundering in the polls, Jeb Bush firing off his harshest attack so far, using Donald Trump's own words against him in this YouTube video.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: My views are a little different than if I lived in Iowa.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Partial-birth abortion?
TRUMP: I'm very pro choice.
MURRAY: In an interview with CNN, Trump dismissing that attack.
TRUMP (voice-over): One thing I will say, he mentions the fact that I was at one point Democrat. Well, in New York City everyone was a Democrat, whoever wins the Democrat primary is automatically -- that's -- there was almost no election because the Republicans hardly exist in New York City.
MURRAY: But Bush isn't limiting his attacks to the web. He's also taking it to the campaign trail.
BUSH: Look at his record of what he believes. H supports Democrats. This is not a guy who's a conservative. Using his own words, it's not a mischaracterization. It came out of his own mouth.
MURRAY: So much for the low-energy candidate.
TRUMP: Jeb Bush is a low-energy person. For him to get things done is hard. He's very low energy.
MURRAY: Bush trying to show he has a sharp edge, retaliating against Trump for an onslaught of attacks via Instagram, the latest showing Bush complimenting Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton.
TRUMP: We recognize the commitment of someone who has devoted her life to public service. I want to say thank you to Secretary of State Clinton and President Clinton.
MURRAY: Trump hitting his opponent on Twitter today calling the latest shot from Bush another weak hit from a candidate with a failing campaign. "Will Jeb sink as low in the polls as others that have gone after me?"
The escalating battle between Trump and Bush, as Carson quietly surges. The retired neurosurgeon, suddenly tied with Trump in Iowa, rallying the state's evangelical voters.
DR. BEN CARSON, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & RETIRED NEUROSURGEON: We have to stop listening to people who say we cannot talk about God, we cannot talk about our faith.
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ASHER: That is our Sara Murray reporting there.
VAUSE: In the state of Kentucky, a county clerk is defying the Supreme Court. Kim Davis refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses because it violates her religious believes.
ASHER: A landmark ruling in June made same-sex marriage legal. On Monday, the high court denied the request for a delay while her appeal plays out. Despite all of that, she is still not backing down.
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KIM DAVIS, COUNTY CLERK: I want you all to know we are not issuing marriage licenses today --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why?
What appeal is left?
DAVIS: -- pending the appeal in the Sixth Circuit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've been denied.
What's the appeal, the Sixth Circuit?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That order is you are supposed to issue marriage licenses today.
DAVIS: And we are not --
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Supreme Court denied your stay.
DAVIS: We are not issuing marriages licenses today. I would ask you all to --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why? Why are you not issuing marriage licenses today?
DAVIS: Because I'm not.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why? Under whose authority? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Under whose authority.
DAVIS: Under God's authority.
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ASHER: She is pretty adamant there.
[01:34:47] VAUSE: The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion in federal court asking a judge to hold Davis in contempt of court.
A short break. When we come back, Barack Obama exploring parts of action Alaska, and a firsthand look at what he says global warming has done to the state, and his new warning when we come back.
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ANNOUNCER: It's now firing up at maximum thrust. And lift off. For the 500th time, from the Gagarin start, a rocket roaring into the air.
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ASHER: So it begins. The new crew has just blasted off for the international space station. Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, and Andreas Morganson of the European Space Agency, and Aden Avitov (ph) of the Kazakhstan Space Agency launched from Kazakhstan a while ago.
VAUSE: It will be a little crowded up there. For the first time since November 13th, nine astronauts will be calling the space station home. There's usually a crew of six.
ASHER: U.S. President Barack Obama got an up close and personal look at the affects of global warming. It is the second day of Mr. Obama's Alaskan trip. His mission is to highlight climate change as an urgent threat. He taped an episode for a "Survivalist" reality show and spent some time on a boat touring Resurrection Bay, taking a look at the glaciers there.
VAUSE: The president also hiked through Alaska's glacier. It has melted 305 meters or 1,000 feet in the last 10 years.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is one of the most-studied glaciers because it is so easily accessible. What it indicates because of the changing patterns of winters with less snow, longer, hotter summers is how rapidly the glaciers receding. It sends a message about the urgency we are going to need to have when it comes to dealing with this because obviously when the glaciers erode that's also a sign of the amount of water that's introduced in to the oceans, rising sea levels and the warming is generally having an impact on the flora and fauna of this national park.
(END VIDEO CLIP) [01:40:17] VAUSE: Nowhere else is feeling the impact of climate change more than Alaska, which is why the president is making his unprecedented three-day visit. But Alaska is more dependent on oil. 90 percent of the state's government revenue comes from taxing oil. About a third of jobs are related to the petroleum industry. Perhaps there's no better example of the balancing act between fighting climate change and the need for economic development.
David Biette is the director of the Polar Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
David, has President Obama hit the mark on this trip or is he just using Alaska for the background visuals to push for action on climate change at the summit later this year?
DAVID BIETTE, DIRECTOR, POLAR INSTITUTE, WOODROW WILSON CENTER: I think he hit his mark on the climate change as he set out to do. I was surprised to hear him talk about energy and the need for working with Alaska natives and the people of Alaska for their economic development. It is a tough balancing act as you mentioned.
VAUSE: The criticism around the trip is there are two Obamas here. The climate change warrior and then oil baron Obama happy to keep the oil pumping.
BIETTE: I wouldn't call him an oil baron. I think he goes to the all of the above. All of America's energy asset and use them as we can. Alaska has it and there are potential reserves off the coast of Alaska and he wants to look at that. It's not going to increase how much we use. There's only a finite amount in the world and we can use and it is going down. If it is profitable for the company they will do it. It's not unleashing untold amounts of oil on the world.
VAUSE: Isn't the problem that if all
BIETTE: Admiral Plap (ph), who heads our program, said we need about six but I'd take one. I was impressed to hear the president say we do need to get more ice breakers. That was great. Remember, the Russian coast is half of the arctic. Ours is a sliver. With increased traffic on the northern sea route in Russia and going through the Bering Strait, the United States is going to have to step up its game as far as ice breakers go for search and rescue, managing traffic, managing the ports, all of the stuff that needs to happen. The ice can come suddenly and we need a way to get there.
ASHER: David, good to speak with you. Thank you for coming in.
David Biette, the Woodrow Wilson Institute, joining us from Washington.
BIETTE: Thank you.
ASHER: Parts of the United States are dealing with the hottest start to September in decades.
Joining me now is Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. Pedram, it is not just the United States. People have extremely hot
temperatures in Eastern Europe, in some cases 10 above normal.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, so we are talking 18 or 19 above normal with Celsius. This hour, looking across the United States, the temperatures are impressive. Warmer in Chicago than in Charleston, South Carolina, right now. So it kind of tell you --
VAUSE: That is just weird.
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JAVAHERI: It is a little unusual. Your warmest temperatures in Chicago in the first week of September since the 1980s.
We will break down what's happening. Pick your choice. Balmy set up. Buffalo, New York, it is warm wither in buffalo than portions of Tennessee at this hour. It shows what we are talking about. Washington, D.C. warmer than Atlanta. Panama City is cooler than places such as Chicago. We will show you what has happened. In recent days a shot of autumn-like temperatures dropped in to the picture. Look at the warming trend. Tremendous rise in the temperatures against the warmest week in temperatures for Chicago since the mid-80s. Atlanta also cooled off. The temperatures coolest we have seen on Sunday and in the mid-70s. And warmed up to July and August-like temperatures. Climate lodge speaking is when you expect the warmest temperatures. September meteorological autumn starts and meteorological spring in the southern hemisphere. High pressure large and in charge. Heat index through the roof around Washington. Mid- 90s, Chicago 90 degrees. This summer has been cool in Chicago. Three days at 92 degrees Fahrenheit. We will look at the temperatures in the mid-90s for the first few days of September and above average for much of the eastern half of the United States. Trends looking like this, a little cooling trends and rebounds for next week in to New York City.
Leave you with this, couple of images out of Germany. Two fatalities next door in France with severe storms over the region. Some changes across Europe. Some cooler temperatures coming in the next couple of days. Finally relief for Europe, not necessarily in the United States on the east side at least.
[01:45:32] VAUSE: OK.
ASHER: Some like it hot.
JAVAHERI: Some like it hot, yeah.
VAUSE: Thank you, Pedram.
JAVAHERI: OK.
VAUSE: Women marked and forced to sell sex. When we come back, a sex trafficking survivor raising money to help other victims to have their brandings covered up for good.
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PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sports headline.
England's football transfer window closed on Tuesday but the fallout will continue from the deal that never was. Manchester United have categorically denied they were at fault at the collapse of Rial (ph) moved to Madrid. And a report that the $44 million deal would also single out Costa Rica keeper, Kala Navas (ph). Rial (ph) had accused their rivals of holding up the exchanging documents for eight hours on Monday.
Meantime, United has confirmed that Anthony Mascow (ph), the world's most expensive team footballer, has signed for a league in Monaco on a four-year contract with an option for a third or one-year extension. The fee reported to be at around the $55 million mark. The teenager becoming United's third most expensive signing ever.
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has scraped the 2020's game logo after claims of plagiarism, and will start the selection process for a new logo. The CEO of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee says he was confident the current logo is an original design but the Olympic Committee decided to follow the suggestion to drop the logo because of allegations it was too similar to the design used by someone else.
That's a look at the CNN World Sports headlines. Thank you for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell.
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[01:50:00] VAUSE: We go now to the CNN Freedom Project, our effort to shine a light on human trafficking. This week, how some women have been branded with tattoos by their traffickers and pimps.
VAUSE: A practice they use to show how they own the women.
And Sara Sidner spoke with a survivor who raised enough money to cover her own branding and is helping others to do the same.
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JENNIFER KEMPTON, FORMER SEX SLAVE: I have been kidnapped, held hostage. I have been sold. It happens on every street, in every city, in every country. And it happened to me.
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Jennifer Kempton's story starts like so many victims of sex trafficking a dysfunctional family, abuse, neglect and rape by the time she was 12.
KEMPTON: That emotionally destroyed me. And then the years that followed just added to that. I had a series of very abusive relationships. Eventually falling in to the hands of the one I thought was my saving grace. And was going to give me that love I always looked for.
SIDNER: Her so-called saving grace was a trafficker named Salem.
KEMPTON: Shortly after being together, he introduced me to I.V. drug use.
SIDNER: Drugs and sex trafficking often go hand in hand. Traffickers intentionally get their young victims hooked on drugs as a way to control them and eventually force them into prostitution.
KEMPTON: I was told I had to use my body to take care of us now and I started dancing at the strip clubs. I wasn't making as much as he wanted me to. He approached me with the false hope that I could make three times as much money in one hour by just doing simple massages. Needless to say, on the way to my first massage client, I was told I had to do whatever the man asked of me.
SIDNER: That was Jennifer's entrance in to the dark underworld of sex trafficking where she was battered, bruised and branded. Salem owned her. As proof of ownership, he had his name tattooed on her body multiple times. He eventually sold her to a gang that branded her again. She wound up spending more than five years on the streets of Columbus.
KEMPTON: A miserable existence.
SIDNER: By her 30th birthday, she'd had enough.
KEMPTON: I was so lost. I tied a rope around my neck twice and hung myself from one of the rafters in the basement. I was so done with being used and abused and the addiction and I was done with all of it.
SIDNER: Jennifer didn't die that night. The rope broke and, in that moment, she found a reason to live.
KEMPTON: God came to me and spoke to me and he said, I have a purpose for you and it's not to die in the basement of a crack house.
SIDNER: Getting out wasn't easy. As hard as she fought against drug addiction and emotional stress, the tattoos were a constant reminder of her years in slavery.
KEMPTON: The horror, the misery I lived in, the rapes I went through, and the men I was sold to, I was reminded of al of it every time. I finally earned enough money to get my first of four cover-ups. It was so liberating to take his name off of my body and have what I want there. But I still had these other three tattoos, one on my neck and one above my groin that actually said "property of Salem." And one of my back. So no matter what way I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw one of those tattoos.
She told me she saw it and it made me sick that my trafficker labeled me in that way as his property. She immediately took a picture of it and sent it to a family member of hers and that family member agreed to sponsor me to have the rest of my cover-ups done. And that started Survivors, Inc.
SIDNER: Through Survivors, Inc., Jennifer offers help to women in recovery who want to cover up their brandings. Women like Angela Ritter, branded by the drug dealer who trafficked her, eager to put that part of her life behind her for good.
ANGELA RITTER, FORMER SEX SLAVE: Finally, I'm going to be me again. I'm not going to belong to anybody but God. And that's how it is supposed to be.
I can't even put words to the excitement and the joy and anticipation.
[01:55:07] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nice to meet you.
RITTER: Nice to meet you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready to get tattooed?
KEMPTON: I'm ready.
What it's going to be like in the morning to wake up and look at myself in the mirror and not see that.
All right. Let's do this.
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ASHER: Be sure to join us tomorrow for part four of Sara Sidner's special reporting. You will hear more about Angela Ritter's surgery as she gets ready to cover up her branding. And meet the tattoo artist helping in the fight against human trafficking.
VAUSE: You can learn more about the CNN Freedom Project on our website CNN.com. You'll find other stories of other sex trafficking victims and how businesses are joining the fight to end modern-day slavery.
ASHER: That does it for this hour. Thank you for being with us. I'm Zain Asher.
VAUSE: I'm John Vause.
CNN NEWSROOM continues next with Errol Barnett and Rosemary Church. They will be with you after a very short break.
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[02:00:07] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: From Greece to Germany, the migrant crisis is taking its toll on Europe. You are looking at live pictures from Budapest.
