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Migrants Allowed To Enter Train Station In Budapest; Germany Is Top Destination For Many Migrants; Parade Marks 70th Anniversary Of End World War II; Obama Secures Votes To Uphold Iran Deal; French Farmers Invade Paris With Tractor Protest; President Obama Addresses Climate Change In Alaska; Europe's Free Movement Agreement Under Pressure; Judge Orders Six Trials In Death Of Freddie Gray. Aired 3-4a ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hundreds of people storm the Budapest rail station after Hungary apparently changes course on its stance on migrants.
ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Show of force, China marks the World War II anniversary by flaunting its military might.
CHURCH: And we are live in Paris were farmers are staging a tractor protest. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and of course, all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
CHURCH: A dramatic reversal in Hungary where hundreds of migrants are now being allowed to enter the train station in Budapest. This is the moment they poured into the station after spending a second night sleeping on the pavement outside. Officials had insisted the migrants needed proper documentation before they could leave the country.
BARNETT: Let's take a look at scenes from inside the train station, really a mad dash to board trains that will take them away. An overwhelming number of people and you see it right there, the desperation to make it out of Hungary.
The country's prime minister is in Brussels set to meet with European Union members to talk about how to handle this crisis. Our Arwa Damon has speaking with many of these migrants in Budapest and joins us now over the phone with more information.
Arwa, I understand, considering this has just broken in the last hour you are heading to the scene right now. But surely this is a sign of Hungary bending to regional pressure to allow these migrants to board the train and not keep them in limbo.
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, it could be. We need to see how this plays out throughout the rest of the day and the coming hours how many of the migrants and refugees will be allowed to board the trains. Is this ongoing or will they briefly open it like on Monday and closed again the following day? How far are they allowed to go? For rules to be bent in a
cohesive and logical way will take an agreement between Germany, Austria and Hungary, and effectively it is going to mean throwing the Dublin regulation out the window are coming up with some sort of new version of it.
For those in the train station, based on what you're describing and having seen there, they are going to be hopeful they will reach their final destination, so many of them could not take it anymore.
When we left there last night people were beside themselves. They were emotionally exhausted. They were so distraught. They were unsure what to do. They didn't know how to live in limbo any more. They couldn't cope with it.
They couldn't cope with seeing their children sleeping on the street. They couldn't cope with the doubts they were beginning to have as to whether or not they should have gone on the journey to begin with.
People are going to at this stage going to be hoping that this is, perhaps going to be the final leg of their journey. But until we know that for certain we need to wait and see what happens to them.
It would not be the first time that the Hungarian authorities have pushed people along toward something and have it not be what they were expecting.
BARNETT: We know a large number of the migrants are from Syria, a country ravaged by civil war for four years now. You spent time speaking with many of these people. What were their feelings to the way they were treated in Hungary?
I know many are upset and very surprised and very unnerved by whey they felt was a very cold shoulder and why they feel that Germany is the place to go because they are welcoming them with open arms. What were they telling you about the experience has been like for them in Hungary specifically?
DAMON: Well, Errol, many of them will say that they went through a lot throughout this entire journey just to get this far and they will say that they can forget most of it but a lot of them can't get past how they were treated here.
They said they were made to feel like animals. They were herded around like sheep. That the conditions in the camp on the Hungarian/Serbian border were inhumane, which is why none of them want to report back to the camps to begin with.
They feel as if the Hungarian authorities and the police that were handling them did not consider them to be human. This country's current government is very right wing and it has undergone what opponents call an anti-immigration policy.
And the current government is really throwing this whole issue of migrants and refugees into the political spotlight and using it to try to distract from the government's other issues.
[03:05:04] On top of everything these refugees and migrants have been through now they are caught in the middle of Hungarian politics. That being said, there is a portion of the population that does not support what the government is doing and does not support the way the government is treating the migrants.
And they are coming out with bags filled of apples and diapers and water and handing things out and trying to help. But this is a country that is effectively hostile to the migrants and refugees, which is one of the main reasons why none of them want to stay here.
BARNETT: One of the most heart breaking aspects of that is there is so many children among the migrants, so many young and vulnerable people who didn't have a choice on where to be born and the situation to be end up in.
Arwa Damon reporting live from Budapest and the news now that these migrants will be allowed to board a train and make their way to Germany -- Rosemary.
CHURCH: Yes, let's go to the other part of the story. Germany is where many of these migrants hope to start a new life. And our Fred Pleitgen is in Munich with the latest from there.
And, Fred, it is significant that the images we've been seeing from Munich have been extraordinary and stunned the world, just the volunteers that have stepped up and the welcome that a lot of these migrants and refugees have received as been extraordinary.
Yes, there has been resistance in some parts of the country, but for the most part, Germany has really stepped up.
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it certainly has and I have to say that some of the volunteers who have been coming here and bringing a lot of the supplies and also manning and staffing the sort of makeshift welcoming and processing center in place here in the parking lot of the Munich railway station.
They have been frustrated by the fact that over the past day and a half there haven't been many people coming in any more. What happened was that on Monday they started expanding the facilities here at the Munich Railway Station.
It was a mix of the authorities and aid organizations as well as a lot of private volunteers and they kept building and building the capacity and then fewer and fewer people were coming. You had people staffing that area and giving up their private time to be here overnight and there weren't many people coming along.
The facilities are in place and a lot of the things have been put on hold, but there are certainly capacities here. And it is interesting to see the people who come here, many of them, of course, are very, very happy to finally be here in Germany.
It is where many people want to go. Last night I spoke to a young Syrian refugee who came here a month and a half ago and he told me about his reasons for why he left his home in Damascus to come here and start a new life in Germany. Let's listen in.
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HANI ZEILOUN, SYRIAN REFUGEE: It's not easy to be in a refugee shelter or they call it camps, but it's ephemeral. It takes 30 to 50 days in a camp. But after that, you will have a good place to stay it. You will have your rights and dignity will be, like, preserved and everything will be good for you.
And the German authorities make it a really good effort in giving us our rights and access to education, to basic needs that we may not be able to get to Damascus or in Syria. I think it may be, like hard, but we have to do this.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PLEITGEN: Now of course, it is still quite difficult for the authorities here because we have to keep in mind that it's not only here to the Munich Railway Station that people coming in, but it really is to all over the country that especially Syrians are fleeing to at this point in time.
If you look at the western part of Germany, the area around the city of Dortmund is one that really is a flashpoint where most of the shelters are way over capacity and they have had to shut down because there is not enough capacity there.
And what is also interesting, Rosemarie, last night we were at the first makeshift shelter that many of these people are brought to and you could see the authorities expanding that place.
You could see them put in new water lines to try and build in new showers to try and make that facility bigger because of the fact that there are so many people who are coming there and because that is straining the infrastructure at this point in time.
So it is even here in Germany still very much a work in progress, but there certainly is a process in place to try and get these people to some sort of accommodation as fast as possible -- Rosemarie.
CHURCH: Yes, that is the thing. I mean, we're talking about 800,000 people coming in. That is a lot of people to be absorbed into Germany. We will be watching this story very closely. Fred Pleitgen reporting live there from Munich, many thanks to you.
BARNETT: And as we've been reporting, tens of thousands of refugees have been risking their lives to reach Europe and many don't make it. We now know more about the family of a boy found dead on a Turkish beach.
[03:10:05] CHURCH: Now we are about to share too very disturbing photos and here we see the body of a young boy lying face down on a beach not far from the resort town in Turkey. A Canadian politician says his family was Syrian Kurds trying to reach relatives in Vancouver, Canada.
BARNETT: Now what we know that he is one of at least 12 refugees including his mother and brother who drowned when the group's boat sank on the way to Greece. The boy's father survived. On Wednesday, funeral vans carried away the bodies of those 12 refugees as the distraught families looked on.
CHURCH: It is a haunting image. We saw on social media a lot of people sharing the image. They want to see that as a turning point. They want see some changes in this. And there are ways that you can help the migrants. You can find out what you can do, just go to CNN.com/impact.
BARNETT: We move our focus to China now where President Xi Jinping says he will reduce the size of the country's military by 300,000 troops.
CHURCH: He made the pledge earlier today as China held a lavish parade in Beijing marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. He says the cuts show that China remains committed to, quote, "The path of peaceful development."
BARNETT: Let's bring in our Will Ripley. He watched all of this from Beijing. While it was quite a flex and a display of military muscle, while President Xi promoted peace which appears slightly contradictory. What were some of the major highlights as you saw them today?
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's certainly is an interesting message when the theme of your event is peace and yet you are putting on display for the first time publicly some of the most high-tech weapons out of China that the world has ever seen.
You are talking about these missiles that are nicknamed aircraft killers because of the fact they can fly some 1400 kilometers and are capable of sinking a very large ship like an aircraft carrier.
Also on display in addition to the 12,000 troops marching in the streets there were Chinese made heavy attack drones that can be exported to other countries. There were tanks and other missiles, long-range missiles and the display of aerial force as well.
So why is China doing this? There are two messages that Xi Jinping, the president of China is trying to send. One he is trying to send a message to his own people that he is firmly in control of the country and that the country is stronger than ever.
This is, of course, coming at a time where some are starting to be skeptical about China considering that the economy has been slowing and the stock market has been volatile and of course, there was that deadly chemical explosion in Tianjin where 160 people died not too long ago.
And the message also, though, for the international community that China is ready to defend its interests throughout world. Nonetheless, though, the president is talking about peace, 70 years after Japan's defeat in World War II.
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XI JINPING, CHINESE PRESIDENT (through translator): The victory of the war of China, the war with resistance is the first ever victory at this grand victory, thoroughly breaking and destructing Japanese aggression into China. It resurrected China's foreign aggression and reached some China story and has long deep respect for people all over the world for striving for peace and it opened a path for the bright future of new China.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
RIPLEY: China has the largest military in the world, 2.3 million troops right now, but Xi Jinping did announce they are going to be cutting that number by 300,000. There will be 2 million troops, which still far surpasses the next largest army in terms of manpower, which is the United States -- Errol.
BARNETT: Will, what about the guest list, I guess, you could say. International dignitaries were there. But it was noteworthy that many high level figures from the west, Europe and the U.S. didn't show up.
RIPLEY: Perhaps the most high profile foreign leader to attend today was Russian President Vladimir Putin. We saw President Park from South Korea. North Korea also sent a high level delegation. There were 32 senior leaders from various countries in attendance today.
But you didn't see anybody significant in the leadership roles from the United States, from the U.K., from Australia, from Japan. A lot of these countries, these U.S. allies are certainly wary of this event and the symbolism behind it.
Afraid that, perhaps, by showing up they would be appearing to support an anti-Japan event, there have been programs. The only programs allowed on state TV here in China have been historical dramas and documentaries about the Chinese oppression by the Japanese imperialist during World War II.
And also some analysts are saying that the communist party is trying to play up its own involvement in the defeat of those Japanese troops although in actuality it was the nationalist forces, but the nationalist forces.
[03:15:09] So interesting historical, political, and of course, military aspects at play here. But a spectacular show and many people here in China are proud of the display, expensive, elaborate display that their country has put on today.
BARNETT: All right, Will Ripley live for us from Beijing with that. Thanks, Will.
CHURCH: We'll take a short break here, but still to come, hundreds of angry farmers are rolling their tractors into Paris making a mess of the morning commute. You can find out why they are protesting on the streets of the capital. That's still to come. BARNETT: Plus U.S. President Barack Obama has ramped up his visit to Alaska and says America must lead the way on one of the world's greatest threats. Stay with us.
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BARNETT: U.S. President Barack Obama now appears to have the votes he needs to prevent Congress from killing the Iran nuclear deal. A Democrat from Maryland Wednesday became the 34th senator to announce support for the agreement. That means Mr. Obama now has the votes to sustain his veto should Congress vote down the deal.
[03:20:02] And U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, America's lead negotiator with Iran blasted those who opposed it.
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JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Critics tell us over and over again you can't trust Iran. Well, guess what? There is not a single sentence, not a single paragraph in this whole agreement that depends on promises or trust, not one. The arrangement that we worked out with Tehran is based exclusively on verification and proof.
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CHURCH: But critics say the deal does precisely what it's supposed to prevent, give Iran a pathway to a nuclear weapon. Many Republican presidential candidates say if they are elected they will try to scrap it.
BARNETT: Now many French farmers are simply fed up and they are rolling their tractors through the streets of Paris this morning causing many traffic delays and backups as a result. More than 1,000 are expected in all in a slow-moving protest.
CHURCH: You know, the farmers are upset about falling food prices and cheap imports, which they say are threatening their livelihoods. Lawmakers agreed to an emergency release package in July worth more than $670 million, but the farmers say that is not enough.
Our Jim Bittermann joins us live now from Paris for the very latest on this protest. Apparently, Jim, $670 million is not enough. What would do it for the farmers?
JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they are saying 3 billion euros over the space of three years. That would help them out of what they feel is an unrelenting debt crisis that they are in, the pork farmers and beef parkers and milk farmers are finding themselves unable to cover their costs and make money at all.
And they are undercut by Spain and Germany and other places because they don't face the same kind of regulation that the French impose on the farmers. They'd like to see a change in the regulatory agencies and like to see some higher intervention prices for milk, things that will help them out of this real debt problem that they have. CHURCH: So given that, I doubt that the French government is going to go as far as 3 billion. What are they likely to do here? What is the compromise?
BITTERMANN: Well, I think the compromise will be somewhere in between those numbers. But the fact is, too, that there is a big European- wide summit coming up on Monday and this subject will be on the table.
I think one of the things that the government is going to do. This puts pressure on the government and then puts pressure on the European neighbors to do something at a European-wide level. And this protest today, which is a little bit late here.
This is the major ring road outside of Paris. We were expecting to see the tractors about now. But in fact they are running a little bit late. They are going to funnel through here.
There are supposed to be 5,000 or 6,000 farmers here some coming by buses and 1,500 tractors, which are tying up the traffic around Paris. And when they get here they will tie up the traffic within Paris. It's going to be kind of a massive demonstration and a lot of confused driving for a lot of people this morning.
CHURCH: Yes, and of course, the bind with that is that when you start doing that you lose a lot of the support from those people in their cars who can't actually get through. What is the support like? How many people? What sort of percentage of the population there are behind the farmers?
BITTERMANN: Surprisingly, there are about 60 or 65 percent, according to opinion polls that actually back the farmers in this because the French have a close affinity with their farmers. And they have a close affinity with food and there is a good deal of affection and romantic attachment to the land here.
And the farmers are respected. Something like this, though, will, as you very rightly observe is going to really irritation drivers and people who have to do commuting. But that is a small percentage compared to overall picture in France.
CHURCH: All right, reporting there, Jim Bittermann on the streets of Paris. We are expecting thousands more of these angry farmers on their tractors. We will keep an eye on what happens there on the streets as they make their way to Paris. Many thanks to you, Jim.
BARNETT: U.S. President Barack Obama is wrapping up a three-day visit to Alaska where he pushed for strong action against climate change. He spent much of his trip underscoring the effects of global warming on the region. He says what's happening is Alaska is a major wakeup call for the world and America must lead the way for change.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The good news is we've made a lot of progress in the last six years. But I'm here to tell you we got to do more. We got to move faster. We're not moving fast enough. America has to lead the world in transitioning to a clean-energy economy.
Now as we make this transition, we've also got to take more seriously or obligation to help those communities that are already at risk so they can become more resilient in the face of climate change. Some of it we're not going to be able to avoid.
The planet is already getting warmer and so, communities are already going to be affected. That's especially pressing here in Alaska.
CHURCH: Earlier in the day, the president spent the time chatting with fishermen and dancing with children.
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CHURCH: Obama tried traditional Alaskan dances with school children and he told them he had been practicing.
BARNETT: The president was also on the beach inspecting the day's salmon catch. The town is on Bristol Bay, set to be the biggest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.
CHURCH: So did his dance practice pay off?
BARNETT: He needs a bit more practice.
CHURCH: All right, coming up here on CNN NEWSROOM, pressure is mounting on European leaders to respond to the growing migrant crisis. We are looking at live pictures here I believe or is this taped -- no, this is taped pictures of people making their way once they've heard word that the train station had opened there in Budapest. We'll keep a very close eye on that story.
BARNETT: Also coming up, seven officers killed in a single month. What is behind the recent spate of police deaths in the states?
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BARNETT: Welcome back to our viewers in the U.S. and those tuned in around the world. This is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Errol Barnett.
CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. We do want to check the main stories we have been following this last hour and a half. Hundreds of migrants have been allowed to enter Budapest's main train station after camping outside for the last few days.
This is taped pictures here. We have seen them boarding trains but we are trying to confirm exactly where they're going. Now we have been told the station is closed to international travel right now. That is significant.
So it seems these migrants won't be leaving Hungary just yet. The government there had said the migrants needed proper documentation in order to leave.
BARNETT: China has been showcasing its military night with a lavish parade in Beijing. It marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Thousands of troops, 200 fighter jets, and 500 pieces of military hardware wound through the heart of Beijing during the celebration.
CHURCH: Hundreds of tractors are rolling through Paris right now. Thousands are expected causing some traffic headaches for the capital. French farmers are protesting plummeting food prices which they blame on foreign competition and cheap imports. Lawmakers offered a relief package in July worth more than $670 million, but the farmers say it's not enough.
BARNETT: Let's get you back to the migrant crisis now. It seems like every week brings a new tragedy or other major incident for those seeking refuge in Europe.
CHURCH: And after a while, it's easy to lose track, right. Let's look at key moments so far this year in the crisis.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Rescuers are combing the sea after a boat packed with migrants overturned between Libya and (inaudible). Authorities say up to 700 people were on board.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The number of fatalities has over 800, making this the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean that we have recorded.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've seen where the victims of this continental trade in misery end up in boats adrift.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There may be 6 kilometers between Turkey and Greece, but the journey is still very much a perilous one.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An estimated 3,000 migrants live in tents in Calais waiting for a chance to cross the English Channel.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They says they'll do anything because Britain holds the promise of a better future, something they are just not finding here in France.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got to distinguish genuine asylum seekers fleeing purse cushion from economic migrants seeking a better standard of living.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I say we are in third-world countries. Is this Europe? If this is Europe, we're going back to Syria.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The world finds itself facing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Macedonian police opened the boarder for a few at a time. People here are so angry and so upset. They can't believe this is happening to them in Europe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hungary is a sole country keeping law and order.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There appears to be no empathy here in Hungary.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They don't let us go.
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CHURCH: And of course the sheer number of migrants we're seeing is on a scale Europe hasn't encountered since World War II. The influx is so great it is raising doubts about a long-standing open border policy, known as the Shangan agreement. Now that agreement eliminated many of Europe's internal border controls.
BARNETT: But as the crisis keeps growing, some are questioning if that policy can survive. For more here's Isa Soares.
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ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They've escaped the horrors of war and persecution on boats, on crowded trains and on all fours crawling throughout night all in the hope of reaching the safety of Europe.
For many Hungary is the entry point to Europe's borderless zone, but as the number of migrants increases daily, some are questioning the very purpose of this European project.
[03:35:06] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We immediately need to close the Shangan (ph) area, which means we need to protect Shangan. We need to prevent the immigrants from coming here.
ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): If we are unable to agree on a fair distribution of refugees in Europe, then some people will start to call Shangan into question. We do not want that. We want a fair distribution of refugees and we won't need to discuss Shangan.
SOARES: Implemented in 1995, the Shangan agreement eliminated internal border controls, which allowed citizens from 26 member states to travel freely around most of Europe.
(on camera): Twenty years on and Shangan remains fundamental to the very idea of the European Union. It covers 7,721 kilometers of land borders. What it does, it allows 400 million E.U. citizens to travel and work and live in any of these countries without the need of special formalities like visas and paperwork, no red tape.
Trade and security between these countries also shared and as you can imagine they benefit greatly from it. But with the rise of ISIS and migrants arriving from Africa as well the Middle East, a borderless Europe is exacerbating the crisis.
ROBERT OULDS, DIRECTOR, THE BRUGES GROUP: There is a growing pressure welling up amongst the population and politicians that see the ideas between the union are actually causing problems and will create difficulties so in time this could be one of the issues that really does shatter elements of the European Union. SOARES (voice-over): At a time when Europe is calling for integration, physical divisions are going up from Hungary, Bulgaria, Calais to (inaudible). Fences or walls of barbed wire are being built. It's an image that takes the continent back to 1999 when the last border fell right here in Europe. Isa Soares, CNN, London.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BARNETT: Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, manhunt in the United States. The search for three suspects on the loose after a police officer was killed.
CHURCH: We are seeing more and more stories of police officers killed in the U.S. What is behind the recent surge?
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CHURCH: You are back with us. Three suspects remain on the loose in the U.S. after a police officer was shot and killed on Tuesday.
BARNETT: Now the search has been called off in the immediate vicinity of Fox Lake. This is in Illinois meaning the suspects may have left the area, but the man in charge of finding them says some progress is being made.
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GEORGE FILANKO, LAKE COUNTY MAJOR CRIME TASK FORCE COMMANDER: New leads are coming in, every several minutes from a variety of sources. Social media, phone calls, individuals from the community walking into the police station lobby.
We've got approximately 125 to 130, local, state, and federal officers out in the community following up on these leads. So we feel like we are making some progress. Unfortunately, we haven't apprehended anyone.
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BARNETT: And those of you following the news will know that the U.S. has seen a rise in police deaths over the past few weeks.
CHURCH: And experts say it's changing how police behave. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Lt. Joe Glieniwicz gunned down while on patrol in Illinois. Texas sheriff's deputy, Darren Goforth, dies in a hail of 15 bullets. Louisiana State Trooper Steven Vincent shot in the head and taunted after stopping to help a stranded motorist.
Cold blooded murderers that add to a horrifying recent pattern, seven law enforcement officers shot to death in a month, 24 officers shot and killed so far this year across America.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In every instance it's an act of cowardice.
TODD: The motivation behind the attacks may be buried, but the high number has prompted the attorney general to issue a stern declaration.
LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: The targeting of police officers is totally unacceptable and we will continue stand up for the safety of our officers wherever they serve.
TODD: Police union officials and law enforcement experts say several factors have formed a perfect storm of hostility toward police, Eric Garner's death, and the killing of Walter Scott, shot in the back by a South Carolina policeman have fanned the anger against cops.
(on camera): Is police behavior a factor here?
RON HOSKO, LAW ENFORCEMENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: Police behavior is unquestionably a factor. We are in an era of cell phone video that is ubiquitous. Mistakes, heavy handedness by the police we can be expected to be elected and retransmitted many times.
TODD (voice-over): Police advocates say a saturation of media coverage has contributed to the spike and they believe civil rights groups bear some responsibility. That chant from Black Lives Matter protests angered police officers.
HOSKO: We heard the chants just this weekend after the death of Deputy Goforth down in Texas. Chanting in what sounds like a pro- police-attack posture.
TODD: DeRay McKesson from Black Lives Matter says the recent killings of police are upsetting but shouldn't be politicized.
DERAY MCKESSON, ACTIVIST, BLACK LIVES MATTER: The only charged rhetoric is accountability for the police that has refused any attempts to be accountable for the things that happen to them.
TODD: Now police advocates say officers may be more hesitant to respond strongly to threats like in a case in Alabama where a detective says he didn't want to be the next cop scrutinized in the media.
JIM PASCO, FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: The perpetrator took the officer's weapon and pistol whipped him almost to death with it.
TODD (on camera): Responses to crime scenes may be slower while officers wait for a second car to get there. But that may only be possible in larger cities. In smaller towns they don't have the manpower and police officers will have to patrol alone and remain vulnerable. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
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CHURCH: Protesters took to the streets of Baltimore, Maryland on Wednesday during a pretrial hearing over the death of Freddie Gray. Gray was suffered a fatal spinal injury after being placed in a police van five months ago. His death sparked days of unrest.
[03:45:09] BARNETT: Now a judge ruled Wednesday that all six officers in question will get separate trials, but denied the request for the case to be dropped. The defendant argued that she used over the top rhetoric when she announced charges against the officers. The six officers face charges ranging from assault to murder and have all pleaded not guilty. Their trials are scheduled to begin in October.
CHURCH: All right, we turn to the weather now and a chill is in the air for parts of the northwest U.S. and even some mountain snow in a few spots. We turn to our meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri, who joins us. There is going to be some snow?
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: In the higher elevations. It's a Labor Day holiday weekend in the U.S. You have camping plans and hiking plans, it's a little early. Good news when it comes to getting wet weather in a fire-hit area across the northwest.
We'll watch as we take look at it on water vapor imagery, very easy to pick out here. That's where the showers will stream in. We go in for a closer perspective. Mt. Rainier, 6,000 feet or higher, a dusting and over the Olympic mountains as well.
But Southern Oregon a frost advisory, 0 to 2 celsius so getting a chill in the northwest. A week ago, Seattle was 85 Fahrenheit dropping down to the 60s. Here goes the trend. A mild set up on coastal California and the pattern remains cool for much of the northwest.
But in El Paso, Texas, 99 consecutive days, temperatures at 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Toasty stuff in Southern Texas and watching a storm system dropping out of the north sea causing flooding in Southern Norway. The storm swept through and major flooding in town.
This is what is left of a grocery store as the flooding took place in the past 24 hours. Leave you with the weather anomaly of the day. Oftentimes people ask what is the difference between a hurricane and typhoon? It is based on where it is.
We had a hurricane named Kilo that crossed the International Date Line that became Typhoon Kilo. It has happened three times in 2015. That is a record. We have had a hurricane that moved over the dateline and become a typhoon, a neat sight to see that.
CHURCH: Why do they have two names?
JAVAHERI: It's just different parts of the world have different ways of observing a cyclone down in Australia. Now we have one that has done both.
BARNETT: I always learn something.
CHURCH: Professor, thank you.
BARNETT: Thanks very much. A new study by a team of international scientists have found that there are roughly speaking, 3 trillion trees on earth. And to illustrate how staggering a number that is, look at this graphic.
CHURCH: That is a three followed by 12 zeros. That's more than the number of stars in our galaxy and the number of cells in the human brain.
BARNETT: If this calculation is correct --
CHURCH: Which I'm sure it is.
BARNETT: I'm not going to check the numbers myself. There are 420 trees for every living person on the planet.
CHURCH: We'll take a break here. But still to come, a U.S. mayor extends an arm to shake a hand, but gets a cold shoulder instead. The awkward moments are coming up next.
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CHURCH: A very woolly sheep in desperate need of a haircut finally got fleeced. This is Chris the sheep before his makeover. Hikers in Australia discovered him.
BARNETT: That's right. Animal welfare experts were worried he wouldn't make it through the summer. They send out an SOS to help trim him. They trimmed more than 40 kilograms of wool. That would be a new world record.
CHURCH: And there he is, a much lighter and cooler version of himself staring out the window.
BARNETT: Thinking to himself I wish I had that jacket back, that wool coat. Everyone can relate to, this you stick out your hand and they ignore you, they diss you.
CHURCH: It actually happened to Chicago's mayor this week. CNN's Jeanne Moos shows us that moment and other memorable handshake snubs.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is what a nice warm handshake looks like. And this is the handshake from hell, the dreaded snub that happened at a town hall meeting about Chicago's budget on Monday.
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel extended a hand to a voter who disagrees with his policies. The man reportedly said I don't want to shake your hand and kept both of his firmly fixed on his phone.
Sometimes politicians snub each other. For instance, when the candidate in red reached out to shake the hand of San Antonio's mayor after a radio debate, the mayor first ignored the hand and gave the challenger a piece of her mind, angered about what she thought was a personal attack on her family.
But more often than not snubs are unintentional. President Obama didn't mean to ignore the Irish prime minister's hand once he did what could the prime minister do but inspect his nails.
(on camera): Sometimes folks get all shook up over perceived snub, but an unshaken hand can be deceiving.
[03:55:05] (voice-over): Case in point, the time President George Bush hosting a summit, but other world leaders didn't want to shake his hand. This was the snub that wasn't. Earlier that morning --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How you doing?
MOOS: President Bush had already shaken and held their hands. Even on late night comedy shows, did guest, Rob Rigle diss Conan's sidekick, Andy Richter? Rigle wriggled out of it calling it unintentional.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rob looks at Andy like I'm going to give it to you and then --
MOOS: There's a big difference between a diss and a plain old miss.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You missed me.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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CHURCH: Cringe worthy.
BARNETT: Before we go, I want to show you a whale who wanted some attention. The governor of Connecticut was promoting his state's tourism and local aquarium when Juneau snuck up there and the whale checked out the crowd.
CHURCH: Juneau is an internet sensation known for being inquisitive and playful.
BARNETT: What is going on? I don't know why I gave him an accent. There you a light way to end our day.
CHURCH: Thanks for watching CNN. I'm Rosemary Church.
BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. "EARLY START" is next for those of you in the states. For viewers elsewhere, stay tuned for more CNN NEWSROOM.
CHURCH: Have a great day.
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