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[01:00:34] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN HOST: Hundreds of migrants challenge Hungarian authorities trying to block them from leaving the country.
A link to MH 370, French investigators say there is proof positive this debris is from the missing Malaysia airlines plane.
And Donald Trump, his pledge to the Republican Party how it will affect the 2016 presidential campaign.
From CNN World Headquarters at Atlanta, I'm George Howell. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
Good day to you and welcome to our viewers around the world.
Migrants on a path train in Hungary. They are still refusing to leave that train near Budapest, a train that they thought was headed to Germany. One family's so desperate, they even laid themselves on the tracks.
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HOWELL: What a desperate scene there. Hungary has responded to the migrant crisis by building a barbwire fence along its border with Syria. The people on that train though it was going to Germany, but then they were told that the train did not travel internationally. Police arrived in riot gear, hoping that migrants would leave. But they are refusing to leave out of fear that they will be put in refugee camps yet again.
The conditions on the train, conditions are miserable. High (INAUDIBLE) temperatures and very little food or water.
CNN's Arwa Damon went inside.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And Everyone flooded into the station, footed on to one of the trains. Their logic was that if they were allowing them into the station, then the road to Germany were they are all hoping to get must somehow be open.
This train is packed with people who don't really know exactly where it is that they are going. Some of them have heard that there are no international trains departing from this station. But they are still packed into these various different cars.
There is a very heartbreaking scene unfolding around this right now as this train has stopped at the station because there is commotion outside with the police. People don't know if they are going to be forcibly removed from the train. And this is the family that we have just been speaking to.
He said that they escaped death in Syria only to find it here. And they are so worried about the children.
We know that there is a refugee camp located maybe about 30 kilometers outside of Budapest. And that is why everybody is refusing to get off this train.
Now, on either side of this car that were in there are groups of man and youth who are holding on to the door handles because they are afraid that the police are going to try to come on board. Even they came here for a few hours. I mean, this is very, very difficult and especially hard for the mothers who are struggling when it comes to holding it together. They are exhausted. They are emotionally drained. Their nerves are afraid. Their kids will not stop crying. They are doing whatever it is they can to care for them. But it is so difficult (INAUDIBLE) in this train for about four hours, if not longer. And people right now are just trying to do what it is that they can survive to pass by.
There's two little girls that are sleeping on the floor right here. And it is very crowed, obviously. It is very hot in here. The kids are all thirsty. They are hungry. They haven't had food.
Police force outside were standing guard. And just for a while ago, came through an Arabic announced to everybody, ask them to get off the train, get on buses and go and report to the refugee camps to get registered and process. The problem is nobody here is going to do that. They don't trust the Hungarians. They don't believe that if they get in to the camp, they will ever be let out. And a lot of them are traumatized by what they already went through at one of the Hungary's camp that is located on its (INAUDIBLE) with a condition of absolutely in humane. And they were treated like animals.
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HOWELL: Arwa Damon reporting there. And photojournalist Christian Strive (ph) her apparently, they are unable to get off that bus - get off that train. If they get off, they will not be able to get back on it. And they recently ran out of battery power. So we will try to get more reporting from Arwa once she is able to.
Now, we go to the story of the little Syrian boy whose heartbreaking image that shock the world. It has become the symbol of the misery that many refugees are facing, fleeing Syria. The boy's father hoped to take his family to Canada far away from the war. But now, he is about to return back to Syria to bury his wife and two young sons.
CNN's Jake Tapper has more on this. But first, we do want to warn you, some of the images that you will see are disturbing.
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[01:05:24] JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): This image of his small silent body is too difficult for us to linger on. But it is too important to ignore. So here is another image, a better one of the boy on the beach.
Aylan Kurdi was a 2-year-old Syrian whose play was anything but small and silent as he fled his war-torn country with his family.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a human catastrophe.
TAPPER: And some world leaders are only now, finally, addressing the human toll of this humanitarian crisis of those fleeing the region that has been a source of heartbreaking images for years.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to ensure that people are treated correctly, with dignity, with their rights that are coming to them.
TAPPER: Before he made headlines, Aylan Kurdi was travelling with his 4-year-old brother and his parents in a small dingy from Turkey to Greece. It was their third attempt to cross in to Europe where thousands are being blocked by bureaucratic barriers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): It is about making decisions and those decisions must be made by the international community.
TAPPER: Migrants are dying as their fates lying in the hands of politicians overwhelmed by their masses and by politics by seemingly cold indifference.
In country such as Hungary whose leaders seem to have forgotten its own refugee crisis. In 1956, these desperate families are not welcome.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't come. Why you have to go from Turkey to Europe? Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
TAPPER: Aylan's father, Abdullah, tells CNN that a smuggler manning their boat from Turkey to Greece abandoned them and swam to shore when waves got rough. After they capsized, Abdullah said I tried to reach for my wife and children. I was in the water for 20 minutes.
Eight children and four adults drowned including Aylan and his brother and his mother. Families gathered to identify their love ones in Turkey yesterday.
Abdullah, the father, told CNN, everything I was dreaming is gone. Adbullah's sister who lives in Canada had been sending him money to help his family flee to Europe.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I shouldn't sent you the money to go.
TAPPER: She and their relatives knew the journey was risky.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: His wife told me, I'm so sacred of the water.
TAPPER: But the danger is out-wade by desperation. And thousands will continue to seek refuge in safer lands, if only they can be accepted.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't any family to drown anymore. I don't want to see it.
TAPPER: Jake Tapper, CNN, Washington.
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HOWELL: The photo of that toddler has prompted many people around the world to ask the simple question, what can they do about the refugee crisis? To learn more about how you can help, you can go to our impact your world website at CNN.com/impact. There, you will find links to groups that are working to prevent migrant deaths, helping to improve conditions in migrant camps and bringing healthcare and supplies to those who desperately needed. You can find all of that information there at CNN.com/impact.
In just a few hours-time, foreign ministers who are from the European Union will hold an informal meeting to discuss the migrant crisis. Hungary's prime minister spoke out on Thursday saying that all of Europe need to send a very clear message.
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VICTOR ORBAN, HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER: We have to register everybody. You know, it is another way to come through the green border going to railway station shouting and shouting the name of Germany and Chancellor Merkel and forcing the Hungarian police led them to go out of this country without registration. That is totally the European regulation.
If we will create an image or imagination or an impression that just come because we are ready to accept everybody, that will be a moral failure because this is not the pitch. So the moral human engage to make clear, please don't come. Why you have to go from Turkey to Europe. Turkey is a safe country. Stay there. It is risky to come. We can't guarantee that you will be accepted here. So morally, and that from human point of view, (INAUDIBLE) and keep the regulations that represents a human moral point also. Because we would not like to falsify the dreams of the people.
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[01:10:07] HOWELL: Victor Orban, Hungary's prime minister speaking there. But Hungary's former prime minister looks at the crisis quite differently. He is welcoming migrants into his own home. He spoke to our Christiane Amanpour about it.
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FERENC GYURCSANY, FORMER HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER: I do what I can do. For a while, we took foods and drinks to these people and it became very clear to the family that it is not enough. There are many, many family in a very bad condition. And we talked to our children and finally we decided that if we have opportunity, do have reactively figure a house according to Hungarian's standard. This is my task opening the house.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And what do you them? Do you cook for them? Do you wash and clean for them? What do you do?
GYURCSANY: You know, you can imagine the very (INAUDIBLE). We got the message. Some day we clean 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. That's dark, eight or ten or twelve people. We call couple of friends to help us, to bring them to my house and start to cook. And when they arrive, introduce to each other and it gives them some warm food, some drinks at the tables foods. I learned that chicken is the most favorite food for these kinds of people.
AMANPOUR: Didn't they even know that you are the former prime minister? Do they have any idea who is their host?
GYURCSANY: Not at all. Not at all. It is not important in this case. There is two different story. On the one hand, I am a politician. I do my job. I hold some press conference as I did this afternoon. It has some communication and so on. This is like private story.
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HOWELL: But again, he dies not tell the people that he welcomes to his home that he is the former prime minister. Instead, he just cooks for them and welcomes them into his home. What an example he is setting.
This crisis, though, is putting the focus on the number of asylum seekers that are being accepted by European countries. Germany with more than 80 million people accepted the largest number of migrants in 2014. Sweden, Italy, Switzerland and France will also in the top five. Countries that received more than 1,000 applications but accepted a fewest asylum seekers include Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Cyprus. It is important to note that these countries received far fewer request than larger EU nations.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been criticized for not doing enough to help the migrants.
In the United Kingdom, nearly 13,000 people have sought asylum in the first part of 2015. But just over 4,000 were accepted. Mr. Cameron says Europe must attack the crisis at its root in the countries from which the people are fleeing.
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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We are taking thousands of Syria refugees and we will continue to do that. As I said yesterday, we keep that under review. But I also said yesterday, there isn't a solution to this problem that simply by taking people. We need a comprehensive solution. A new government in Libya. We need to deal with the problems in Syria. I would say that people are responsible for this terrible scenes we see. The people most responsible are President Assad in Syria and the butchers of ISIL and the criminal gangs that are running this terrible trade in people. And we have to be kind of tough on them at the same time.
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HOWELL: The British government is also under pressured to help Afghans who aide at the U.K. army in Afghanistan. The Afghan interpreter is among the migrants stock in Calais, France. They are trying to get into Britain through the channel tunnel. The man says he left his homeland because his life was in danger for helping the British army.
CNN's Phil Black reports.
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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): (INAUDIBLE) is one more lonely figure, a long way from his homeland. Exhausted and desperate, injured and limp because of his failed efforts to jump on trucks crossing the English channel. After travelling eight months from Afghanistan, he is not stranded here among the tents and scuala of what's known as the jungle. A camp for thousands of people who believe they will have a better life in the United Kingdom.
(INAUDIBLE) tells me he is different from everyone else in the camp. He is here because of his connection to the U.K. He says his work as an interpreter for the British army in Afghanistan has made him a Taliban target.
Is it safe for you to be anywhere in Afghanistan?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. In Afghanistan, impossible.
BLACK: (INAUDIBLE) says he fled after the Taliban came looking for him and killed his older brother.
How do they killed him?
[01:15:04] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They (INAUDIBLE). They shoot him in his chest.
BLACK: These men became friends through war. (INAUDIBLE) is a former British army officer who served two tours in Afghanistan. (INAUDIBLE) worked as his translator joining food patrols on the frontline. George says (INAUDIBLE) share the risk and save British lives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably most trusted guy we had. He saw himself very much one of the guys. And he is very (INAUDIBLE). He loved the British army. He loved the guys in the British army.
BLACK: In Afghanistan, (INAUDIBLE) says he applied officially a permission to move to the U.K. because of the Taliban threats. He says he was told he had have to wait indefinitely while his application was processed. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It shames me to some extent I think that we don't
know how to look after the people that supports us.
BLACK: The British government says it is grateful for the work of Afghan interpreters like (INAUDIBLE). And it has cared about their safety that has people in process is on the ground assessing threats that are made against them. But so far, of the former Afghan interpreters, they have kind intimidation reported that to those authorities, not one had being given permission to travel to the United Kingdom for safety.
The British government says its second program for helping Afghan serve those specifically still working with frontline forces in December 2012 has resulted in hundreds on interpreters and their families moving to the U.K. The government says it is not aware of any interpreters being killed for their work.
(INAUDIBLE) says she has evidence some have been murdered. And she is leading a court challenge against the government's policies.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The scheme available for former Afghan interpreters is much, much less favorable than what was available for the Iraqi interpreters.
BLACK: The British government argues the security situation in both countries is different and says it is being selected about which Afghans should leave because it doesn't what it take too many of the brightest causing a further brain drag in a country ravish by decades of war.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If those brains are going to be killed by the Taliban because of their result of the work they have done to the U.K. government, I find that extremely unconvincing.
BLACK: (INAUDIBLE), this isn't illegally sure. He just doesn't understand why those he risks his life to help have left him behind.
Phil Black, CNN, Calais, Golden France.
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HOWELL: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM.
One piece of the puzzle is solve. Coming up, how a medical device help investigators identified the first tangible clue in one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
Plus, a U.S. clerk chooses jail time over giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples We will look into that story next.
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[01:21:48] HOWELL: Welcome back.
Guatemala has sworn in a new president following the resignation of Otto Perez Molina. The country's former vice president Alejandro Maldonado is the country's new leader. The abrupt leadership change comes amid a bribery scandal allegedly connected to Mr. Perez Molina. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he is now behind bars awaiting a court hearing. The former president denies any wrongdoing.
Now to France where investigators say an airplane wing's left that was found on the French island, the Reunion Island, is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. This flaperon was found washed ashore back in July. Since then, it has gone through extensive testing in France.
Our Jim Bitterman has the latest from Paris.
JIM BITTERMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: First (INAUDIBLE) is certain about this because of the endoscopic examination. An endoscopic is a kind of thing you may have heard of. It is a kind of thing that doctors use to look inside the human body. And in this case, they have used that one to look inside the flaperon, that bit of the plane that they discovered off Reunion Island. And inside that flaperon, they found identification numbers, three identification numbers that passed those along to the Spanish subcontractor that actually made this part of the plane by the subcontractor. And the subcontractor got back to them and said, yes, indeed, one of the numbers matched MH 370.
So they are now confirming, the prosecutor is now confirming that this air flaperon did come from that plane and that basically confirms that the plane crashed.
Now, in terms of the investigation and the question about why this plane went down, it probably does an advance too much, it does how investigators know about the drift patterns of debris in the Indian Ocean. It may keep for them looking around on islands and what may out in Indian Ocean that could have a debris from this plane washing off on their shores.
But basically, it does an advance it too much. It doesn't serve the answers to the question that everyone wanting to know is what exactly caused the plane to go down.
Jim Bitterman, CNN, Paris.
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HOWELL: Clear skies there in the French capital, but now let's talk about the Ukrainian capital, (INAUDIBLE).
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Not clear skies in the Ukraine at the moment. About 15 to 20 percent of their yearly average rainfall, that is what seems like this. There have been forest fires in and around Kiev. Some of which you can see here with our draw footage. Fire destroyed about 30 hectares of forest around the capital leaving that picked phase across the capital city. Take a look at the photo of Kiev. And you can just see well of the
quality of the air in the capital city of Ukraine. Unfortunately not looking too good. Fortunately, the weather is starting to play along. But as you can see, plenty of spot fires across Ukraine and dotted around the capital. But there is a cold front moving through. So that has helped raised the humidity levels, also brought in a bit of cool weather across portions of Ukraine including Kiev.
Take a look at this. Here in London, Paris, and Berlin, you are certainly feeling the effects of this cold front. Temperatures only about upper teens for the start of your early weekend. And you can see how that cool weather progressively moving eastward. Eventually, impacting the eastern portions of Europe, but not before a few more hot days. Look at (INAUDIBLE) and Budapest temperatures in the middle on upper 20s as well as the middle 30s as well, the further east you travel.
Take a look at this. I want to end with this. We have monsoon moisture moving in across the four corners of the United States. Look at the thunderstorms that have flared up across the Phoenix, Arizona where you gently more rain to come. And I say this because we have had a sandstorm, also known as (INAUDIBLE) that's formed in that area, forms some down drops of thunderstorm picking up that dry desert sand and kicking it into these out floor boundaries or raw vortexes and it leaves scenes like this.
Take a look at his cool video coming out of Phoenix. Well, not so cool, of course, if you live there. Unfortunately, a hampering some of the air travel on to that particular city. And yes, well, it is an amazing thing. But that has not something that mixes well with the flying airplanes and kind of dust in the. And well, that is known as a (INAUDIBLE), George.
[01:26:02] HOWELL: Really (INAUDIBLE) when you see the coming of the --
VAN DAM: It is. But they are very common. So it does happen in Phoenix. It happens in all other parts of the Middle East and into Saudi Arabia as well.
HOWELL: Derek Van Dam, thank you.
VAN DAM: Thanks, George.
HOWELL: The vice is building for the latest Star Wars movie which is still three months away. Fans lined up in cities around the world for a chance to buy the first toys and action figures from the (INAUDIBLE). So far the action figures are causing the most excitement because they actually speak the lines from the film. Fans are now analyzing every word spoken looking for any clues they can find about the top secret story line of that movie.
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Donald Trump, he has sworn off a third party presidential bid. The Republican candidate pledges his allegiance to Republicans as he climbs a new poll. But another opponent is not far behind.
Plus, what's next for a U.S. clerk drawn in jail after she refused to give marriage licenses to same sex couples. The story ahead.
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[01:30:58] HOWELL: Welcome to our viewer s in the United States and around the world. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. Good to have you with us. I'm George Howell.
The headlines this hour, a standoff near Budapest right now. Live pictures where migrants are refusing to get off a train they thought was heading to Germany. Police arrived in riot gear on Thursday hoping the migrants would leave, but they are refusing, out of fear they will be put in refugee camps.
French prosecutors confirm a wing flap found on Reunion Island is from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The Boeing 777 disappeared in March of last year with 239 people on board. The flaperon washed ashore in July and has gone through extensive testing.
The Guatemala president, Perez Molina, has resigned amid allegations of corruption. The former vice president, Maldonado, is the new leader. Mr. Molina denies any wrong doing but is behind bars this hour as he awaits a court hearing.
In the United States, an about-face of sorts by the current Republican presidential front runner. Donald Trump now promises to not run as an Independent candidate if he doesn't win the party's nomination for the White House. While the Republican National Committee is happy with this pledge, at least one candidate running alongside Trump questions his loyalty.
Dana Bash has the story.
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DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After what sources say were several intense weeks of private consultation and consultation and cajoling --
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Here's your pledge.
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BASH: -- the Republican Party chair got Donald Trump to pledge allegiance to the GOP.
TRUMP: So I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principles for which it stands and we will go out and fight hard and we will win.
BASH: Sources say getting Trump to promise not to run as an Independent has been leading Republican goal since the bombastic billionaire refused to do so during the last debate. (on camera): What changed over the last several weeks since you
didn't want to raise your hand?
TRUMP: I think the thing that changed is I went to number-one place very quickly after I signed and after I, in this building, notified that I would be running for president. I think the biggest thing is I went early to number one and the RNC has treated me with great respect. So that was very important.
BASH (voice-over): As Trump's popularity rose, so did Republican angst that if he didn't get the nomination he would run as an Independent, siphoning votes from the GOP, making a Democratic White House win much easier.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus slipped into the Trump Tower for a 15-minute meeting to seal the deal and slipped out with no comment.
That the Republican chair flew to Trump's turf speaks volumes
(on camera): Why did you have Reince Priebus come in here? He didn't go to the other 15, 16 candidates, but he came here.
TRUMP: Well, the chairman asked if he could come up. You saw him. He was here a while ago. I was greatly honored that he did come up frankly.
BASH (voice-over): To be sure, the pledge has political benefits for Trump, too who was hammered as a fake conservative. Making this promise could help expand his support in the party faithful and avoid problems in South Carolina's primary where the promise is required.
But the pledge is not legally binding. Even sources close to Trump admit he doesn't have to stick to it.
JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: This is not a guy who's a conservative.
BASH: Jeb Bush, who's aggressively questioning Trump's conservative credentials, jabbed the front runner in a tweet, noted he has voted Republican since '72.
TRUMP (voice-over): The economy does better under --
BASH: And Bush's super PAC is also getting in on the action, posting a video drawing similarities between Trump's views and those of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Those at the top have to pay their fair share.
TRUMP: Some people are not doing their fair share.
(END VIDEO CLIP) BASH (on camera): Even though the pledge is not legally binding, Trump said he sees no circumstances where he will tear up the pledge. But he, of all people, knows how unpredictable politics is and we know how unpredictable Donald Trump is.
Dana Bash, CNN, New York.
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[01:35:] HOWELL: A new national poll shows Donald Trump dominating fellow candidates but another Republican is making gains. The Monmouth University poll released on Thursday shows the real estate mogul with 30 percent of support. That's a new high for Mr. Trump. Support for Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, has surged to 18 percent, also a record for him. In a head-to-head matchup, Republicans picked Carson over Trump 55 to 36 percent.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he would not hesitate to run for president next year, but he says it depends on whether he and his family will have the emotional energy for a campaign run after the recent death of his son, Beau.
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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Can I do it? Can my family undertake what is an arduous commitment that we'd be proud to undertake under ordinary circumstances? But the honest to God answer is I just don't know.
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HOWELL: A new development in the e-mail controversy surrounding Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. A former U.S. State Department staffer, who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server, said he will not testify before Congress about it. Bryan Pagliano told lawmakers that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. Clinton's presidential campaign said he was encouraged to testify because he has done nothing to hide.
Standing her ground lands her in jail. Cheers outside of a Kentucky courthouse after a judge holds a U.S. county clerk in contempt of court for failing to issue marriages to same-sex couples.
Plus, there's a possible break in the search for three cop killers in the United States. That story ahead.
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[01:40:15] HOWELL: Welcome back. New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady will be free to start the new season next week. A U.S. judge threw out his four-game suspension saying he found significant legal problems with the investigation. The NFL suspended Brady for his alleged role in the so-called Deflategate scandal. His team was accused of using under-inflated footballs to get a competitive edge in a championship game last season. The NFL is appealing that ruling. After an outcry from gay marriage advocates, a U.S. county clerk is
sitting in jail. Her decision not to issue marriages to same-sex couples landed her behind bars on Thursday. Kim Davis has been ordered to stay there until she decides to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
Alexandra Field has the story.
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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In one Kentucky, County, same-sex couples denied marriage licenses.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why are you not issuing marriage licenses today?
KIM DAVIS, ROWAN COUNTY CLERK: Because I'm not.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Under whose authority?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Under whose authority?
DAVIS: Under God's authority.
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FIELD: Tonight, the clerk who's refusing to issue those licenses ordered to jail because of it. A federal court judge holding her in contempt of court, a decision met by wild cheers from marriage equality advocates.
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FIELD: The same ruling ignited equal passions from those who backed the Rowan county clerk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I support Kim Davis. I think you are going to see God's people rise up like they never have before. And I think her going to jail, I think they woke up a great sleeping giant.
FIELD: Kim Davis was tearful on the stand, testifying that her religious beliefs and her conscience make her unable to follow an August 12th order from the same court to issue the licenses in accordance with the Supreme Court's historic marriage equality ruling earlier this summer. Davis is currently appealing the order to issue the licenses in a higher court.
In an earlier statement, Davis, who's been divorced three times, said, "To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue, it is about marriage and God's word, it is a matter of religious liberty protected under the First Amendment."
While considering whether to charge Davis with contempt, the court rejected the argument she was unable or physically unable to comply with the court's order to issue the licenses. Judge David Bunning saying, "Our system of justice requires citizens and elected officials to follow the orders of the court."
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition from Davis to enable her to refuse to issue licenses while the appeals process continues. Despite that, her office continued to refuse license couples.
April Miller testified she's been barred three times by Davis from receiving a license to marry her partner of 11 years before the judge ordered Davis taken in to custody by the U.S. Marshals.
APRIL MILLER, DENIED MARRIAGE LICENSE: We did not ask the court to imprison Miss Davis. That was not the sanction that we sought. And I think it is unfortunate that she is there. But the judge did what he felt was necessary in order to gain compliance.
FIELD: Alexandra Field, CNN, Ashland, Kentucky.
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HOWELL: In Texas, a former police officer is back in the United States after held in an Indonesian jail for more than a month. Vontray Clark (ph) arrived in Austin on Thursday where he was charged with capital murder in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Indonesian police arrested Clark last month acting on a request from the FBI.
Now to the state of South Carolina. A suspect in the Charleston church killing could face the death penalty if convicted. A prosecutor in the case says the shooting deaths of nine people in June was, quote, "The ultimate crime which calls for the ultimate punishment." She says some of the survivors and relatives of the victims' don't believe in the death penalty, but others think it is entirely appropriate.
Police north of Chicago are hoping surveillance video will help them to find three cop killers.
CNN's Ryan Young updates the investigation.
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RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A potential break in the search for three cop killers.
GEORGE FILENKO, SHERIFF, LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: We have retrieved, as late as last night, what we believe is some significant video. There was video turned in to us last night from a private residence.
YOUNG: That homeowner says the video shows three people matching earlier descriptions of what is believed to be the suspects. Officials with Homeland Security are analyzing the video.
Police also confirming tonight the gun belonging to Joe Gliniewicz was found near his body.
FILENKO: The gun has been recovered.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE QUESTION)
FILENKO: Everything at the scene has been recovered and turned over.
[01:45:06] YOUNG: According to a source, the gun had been fired, but it's unclear if Joe Gliniewicz or one of the suspects pulled the trigger. What is clear? The three suspects, described only as two with white men and one black man, are still on the run.
A frantic search overnight turned out to be a hoax after a woman claimed to see two of the suspects. She said she was having car trouble when a white and black man tried to enter her vehicle, the tip adding to the frustration of 100 officers who spent five hours searching a nearby corn field. She later admitted she made it up.
FILENKO: TIED up a number of resources, including my detectives who were called in and put on standby.
YOUNG: Fellow officers have vowed not to stop searching after losing one of their own. And all are standing by Joe Gliniewicz's wife and sons who remembered him at a memorial on Wednesday night.
WIDOW OF JOE GLINIEWICZ: Joe was my best friend and my world, my hero, the love of my life for the last 26 and a half years. My world got a little bit smaller with his passing. He will truly be missed by all of us. Thank you, everybody.
YOUNG: Ryan Young, CNN, Fox Lake, Illinois.
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HOWELL: Ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM, a former sex trafficking victim gets a new lease on life. See how a catering company is helping to lift her up. It's a CNN Freedom Project special report.
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DON RIDDEL, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hey, I'm Don Riddel with your CNN World Sports headlines.
We are almost certainly going to have some new faces at the European football championships next summer. Let's start with Iceland. They beat the Netherlands, 1:0. In qualifying in Amsterdam, a second half penalty. Iceland now on the brink of qualifying for a major tournament for a first time. Wales haven't been in a major tournament since 1958. That long draught looks like it will soon be over after their 1:0 win in Cyprus.
It feels like there has only been one sports story in the U.S. today, Deflategate. A federal judge has nullified the NFL's four-game suspension of New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady. He is now cleared to play in their first regular season game next week. But Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL will appeal Judge Richard Bunning's (ph) decision to nullify that suspension. Brady can play during the appeal.
The head of a cycling team says they were very close to pulling out of the Spanish race after two of their riders were injured by television motor bikes and forced to pull out themselves. The riders were both sidelined after crashing with the bikes. And feeling pressure from his team, emergency measures have been introduced to protect the cyclists for the rest of the tour.
Those are the headlines. I'm Don Riddel.
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[01:50:39] HOWELL: The CNN Freedom Project is shining a light on sex trafficking as a special series this week. And as you can imagine, survivors often face a challenging road to recovery. To be successful they need good, long-term jobs but many employers shy away from hiring them.
CNN's Sara Sidner introduces us to one catering company that's not afraid to give these victims a fresh start.
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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Andrea Cafwy (ph) has a great job at a successful catering company in Columbus, Ohio.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph), FORMER SEX SLAVE: It is such an awesome place. It is not just a place of business but I feel like we are family here.
SIDNER: That's because Freedom a la Carte is more than your run-of- the-mill business. Every employee here is a victim of sex trafficking and for most of them it's the first real job they've ever had.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): I had a pretty extensive record, so it's hard. Nobody wants to hire a felon or anybody with a criminal background. So I feel blessed to get the opportunity to work here.
DEBORAH QUINCI, EXECUTIVE CHEF, FREEDOM A LA CARTE: Andrea, do you want to work a wedding on Sunday?
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): Yeah. I always work on Sunday.
QUINCI: Some of them have been arrested 30-plus times. So nobody would give them this opportunity. We teach them skills. A normal job like everywhere else. They are written up if they are late a few times. So we prepare them for the world.
SIDNER: Deborah Quinci is the executive chef at Freedom a la Carte.
QUINCI: This is what we need to work on tomorrow.
SIDNER: She calls it "cause cuisine." She left a high-profile, lucrative catering career to help sex trafficking survivors in Columbus. QUINCI: My whole idea when I joined Freedom was to bring beauty.
That's what I did. Threw catering parties for people. Surrounded myself with beautiful things all the time. So when I started Freedom, I thought it is time for beauty, a change from the ugly past.
SIDNER: Andrea's past is indeed ugly. Lured in to a life on the streets at just 17, she wound up addicted to drugs, sold for sex and branded by her trafficker.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): He had this guy that does tattoos come over and he had him do a tattoo on me. It had a heart and said "J.R.," for Junior, to let it be known I was his.
SIDNER: Her branding is gone, thanks to Survivors Inc., a charity that raises money for survivors to get their brandings covered up with tattoos of their choosing. The organization started in September of 2014. Andrea was the first recipient.
She's in a good place now. Sober, free and working at Freedom a la Carte since February. She says it has changed her life.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): Nobody taught me how to cook. I didn't have anybody to teach me how to cook. I didn't know how to cook. I was nervous to come in here. Like I said, think lies I told myself, I'm not good enough, you can't do this. But I learned a lot since being here.
QUINCI: I'm a mother and I have a heart of a mother. I think they feel that compassion. I'm also strict like a mother would be but with love.
SIDNER: Most of these women have never had that before. Andrea says it is what keeps her going.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): Without her support, I'd probably be still out there. I wouldn't have been able to make it without all of the support I have. Yeah.
There's help out there. Sometimes that's really hard because a lot of people don't know that. I didn't know that. I didn't know to get the help. I also didn't think I was worth it. I think that it's important to know that we are worth it.
SIDNER: For Andrea and the rest of the women who work here, Freedom a la Carte is just a stepping stone to bigger and better things.
[01:55:09] QUINCI: Our whole goal is to give them another job besides Freedom a la Carte but it is very hard because I get very close to the ladies and I don't want to give them up.
SIDNER: But she may have to say good-bye to Andrea just the same.
ANDREA CAFWY (ph): I already have another job. So, yeah, it feels really good. It feels really good not to be judged for my past.
(END VIDEOTAPE) HOWELL: Business owners doing what they can to help these victims to move forward in their lives.
You can learn about the CNN Freedom Project on our website, CNN.com. You'll find stories there of other sex trafficking victims and how businesses are joining the fight to end modern-day slavery.
We thank you for watching this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta.
NEWSROOM continues right after the break with my colleague, Natalie Allen. Stay with us.
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