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Manhunt for Delta State University Shooter Over; Malcolm Turnbull Becomes New Australian Prime Minister; Thousands Attend Trump's Dallas Rally; North Korea Threatens Missile Launches; Hungary's Hard Line Stance on Migrants; Flash Flooding Kills at Least Six; 25,000 U.S. Firefighters Battle California Fires; Utah Hit with Flash Flooding; Delta State Suspect Dead from Self-Inflicted Gun Shot; Tehran Businesses Excited Iran Sanctions May Be Eased; . Aired 1-2a ET
Aired September 15, 2015 - 01:00 ET
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[01:00:09] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The university professor in Mississippi suspected in two murders has been apprehended. We will have the latest on the campus shooting.
Also ahead, Australia's new leader Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as prime minister and Tony Abbott has one last swipe at the media.
And thousands pack an arena for Donald Trump. Hundreds rally to dump Trump.
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VAUSE (on camera): Hello. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and ALL around the world. Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause. The second hour of CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.
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VAUSE: We will begin with that breaking news which we have been following in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The hunt for a university shooting suspect is now over. The Delta State University president confirmed on Twitter that police apprehended Shannon Lamb late Sunday night. Lamb had been on the run all day since police found a university professor shot to death in his office. Lamb is a teacher at the school and by all accounts a friend of the victim Ethan Schmidt, seen here in Facebook photos.
Lamb is also accused of killing a woman named Amy Prentiss about 300 miles, or 480 kilometers, away from that school. It happened earlier in the day. Lamb and Prentiss apparently lived together. Police have not disclosed a motive or what connection if any there was between Prentiss and Schmidt.
OK, we move on now. It is 3:00 p.m. in Canberra, Australia, where the country now has a new prime minister.
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MALCOLM TURNBULL, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: I, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, do swear that I will well and fully serve the people of Australia for the office of prime minister and that I will be faithful to their true (INAUDIBLE) Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Australia, so help me God.
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VAUSE: Well, Malcolm Turnbull there taking the oath of office just a short time ago, sworn in as 29th prime minister by the Govenor-General there. He won that position after ousting Tony Abbott from the leadership on Monday. Mr. Turnbull had been serving as Communications Minister; he says the government has not been successful in providing the economic leadership which Australia needs.
Let's go to CNN's Asia Pacific editor, Andrew Stevens, live for us this hour in Hong Kong. And, Andrew, as we look at the job ahead for Malcolm Turnbull, he's got to unite what has been a pretty divided party.
ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA PACIFIC EDITOR: It's a pretty divided political landscape generally, isn't it? That's the fifth time we have seen a swearing in of a new Australian Prime Minister in some five years, John. So it has been an absolute roundabout at the top for Australia.
Yes, Malcolm Turnbull does now have a big job of reuniting the party. There are leading members on the right wing of the party that do not trust his politics or his leanings, if you like. He's in support of action on climate change, he's in support of gay marriage; he's a small-L liberal when it comes to social issues. That is what he has to do, Malcolm Turnbull, has to do to pull the party together to present a united front as they go forward and basically set themselves to be elected at the next general election that has to take place before the end of next year.
And this is the underlying cause of all this political skullduggery, John, is that the Liberal Party, which in Australia is the conservative wing of politics, the Liberal Party did not think Tony Abbott was electable at the next general election. They think Malcolm Turnbll is. Whether they like him or not, he is gold dust as far as the electorate's concerned. At least that's their reckoning. So that is what they're going to do to go forward.
Tony Abbott after that vote in which he lost the prime ministership yesterday, a dramatic five hours in Australian politics, left parliamentary HQ without saying a word to reporters. He has been speaking today; he's been defending his record, saying he's been proud of what he has done in the two years he's been Prime Minister and looking at his record to say he's done a good job. But he did have a swipe, as you say, at the media. He had a lot of criticism of the media. There have been so many leaks during the Abbott reign, so many negative stories about him in the Australian media. Listen to what Abbott said.
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TONY ABBOTT, FORMER AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: Mostly sour, bitter character assassination. Pall-driven panic has produced a revolving- door prime ministership which can't be good for our country. And I fear for our media culture has developed that rewards treachery.
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STEVENS: That treachery is him referring to the number of leaks from his senior members of his cabinet about dysfunction within the cabinet, John. So, yes, he's got a big job ahead of him, Malcolm Turnbull. He's already faced his first Prime Minister's Question Time; it looked like it was softball stuff for him at the beginning, but it's certainly going to get harder as the opposition starts aiming for them as an election approaches.
[01:05:09] VAUSE: Andrew, is it a problem for Malcolm Turnbull that he is essentially the richest politician in Australia? He's worth almost $200 million; he already has this tag of being an elitist.
STEVENS: It doesn't seem to be a problem at the moment. He is popular, broadly popular, but some people say he has shown his mettle in the real world, if you like, that he's not a career politician, that he actually got out there. He did, all his own, make a large fortune. He grew up in - he was basically raised by his father, so a single parent family there. He won scholarships to go to elite schools. He won a major scholarship to go to Oxford University to finish his law degree. So he certainly has the smarts and he's made a very successful for himself in politics - sorry, in the private sector. So now moving into politics, some people say, John, there's a grown up in charge. I've heard that line used.
VAUSE: Yes, OK, obviously the markets like it. The Australian dollar rose by 1.5 cents on the news that Turnbull was the new leader, so we will see where it goes from here. Andrew, thank you. Andrew Stevens live for us this hour in Hong Kong.
We will go to U.S. politics right now, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is rallying in Texas, trying to cement his lead in the latest polls. Trump told supporters in Dallas on Monday that he would keep jobs in the U.S. and keep illegal immigrants out. The billionaire real estate developer says he knows he will be the prime target for these Republican challengers in Wednesday night's debate right here on CNN.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So, the debate. I hear they're all going after me. Whatever. Whatever. The polls come out and we're really killing it. We are killing it. The silent majority; it's back. And it's not silent. I think we should call it -- maybe we should call it the noisy, the aggressive, the wanting to win, wanting to win.
(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the event. They marched from a nearby church to where Trump was speaking. One protest organizer called him a clown and they made pinatas for the presidential hopeful.
Trump's supporters waited for hours outside that arena in Dallas for a chance to see the candidate. Gary Tuchman asked some of them what they find so appealing about Donald Trump.
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): 75-year-old Carol Kohankie voted in her first presidential election in 1964. But she's never been as enthusiastic about a presidential candidate as she is about Donald Trump. And that's why she showed up incredibly early, waiting in the hot sun, to see him.
(on camera): You came about ten hours early to see Donald Trump. Have you ever waited in a line this long in your life?
CAROL KOHANKIE, TRUMP SUPPORTER: Once when I was 22 to see the Queen of England with the King of Norway Scotland. I was on a travel grant. Have not done it since.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): Hundreds of Trump supporters joined Carol hours early so they couldget good seats. People like Gene Lizco (ph) and his son Robbie.
GENE LIZCO (ph), TRUMP SUPPORTER: He's a man. This country needs a man to run it. He speaks the truth. You know, he speaks the truth.
TUCHMAN: And people like John Roves (ph).
(on camera): Before he announced his decision to run, who did you want for president?
JOHN ROVES (ph), TRUMP SUPPORTER: Previously we probably were looking at Rubio.
TUCHMAN: And what understand to Rubio in your mind?
ROVES (ph): Donald came out; just, we liked his message better.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): This 18,500 seat arena is the home to basketball's Dallas Mavericks and hockey's Dallas Stars. It's also a busy concert venue.
(on camera): But never before has a billionaire real estate tycoon and former reality show host who wants to be leader of the free world been the headliner here. This is a mega event and whether you think that's a good idea or not might have a lot to do with how you feel about Donald Trump.
(voice-over): The people here overwhelmingly think it's good.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) For Donald. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is not fired. He's hired.
TUCHMAN: To add to the festive atmosphere, one-wheeled Trump supporters rolled up.
(on camera): Are you spreading the word on your unicycle?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, there you go. I guess so. Big wheels for Trump.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): Lisa Shedd (ph) brought her 15-year-old son.
(on camera): So some of the stuff that Trump says bothers you.
LISA SHEDD (ph), TRUMP SUPPORTER: Yes.
TUCHMAN: But you're still supporting him for president.
SHEDD (ph): I am supporting him for president because I think he'll turn the country around.
TUCHMAN: But you'd like him to be more kind to certain people?
SHEDD (ph): Yes, I do.
TUCHMAN: Who are those people you think he needs to be more kind to?
SHEDD (ph): Women.
TUCHMAN: What do you think about what he said about certain women?
KOHANKIE: I'm not happy with him with him for that, but I'm not going able to change his response and nobody is perfect.
TUCHMAN: So you're willing to forgive that?
KOHANKIE: Yes.
[01:10:00] TUCHMAN: And you will support him for president?
KOHANKIE: Yes.
TUCHMAN: Unequivocal?
KOHANKIE: Yep.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): And after hours of waiting, Carol is one of the first let inside the stadium to see her candidate for president.
Gary Tuchman, CNN, Dallas.
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VAUSE: Donald Trump was also the topic of conversation during Sunday night's question and answer part of the Miss America pageant. One of the judges asked Miss Alabama, Meg McGuffin, why Trump was leading by such a large margin. McGuffin used her time to issue a warning to the Republican Party.
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MEG MCGUFFIN, MISS AMERICA CONTESTANT: I think Donald Trump is an entertainer and I think he says what's on a lot of people's minds, but I think that the Republican Party should be absolutely terrified of all the attention that he's taking from incredible candidates like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie who could absolutely do the job as President of the United States. And if I were a Republican I would absolutely be terrified of that.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
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VAUSE: A short time ago, I spoke with CNN political commentator Tara Setmeyer and asked her if the Republican Party really should be terrified.
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TARA SETMAYER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I don't know if it's at a terrified. I think it should be a wake up call. It really should. For the people in Washington and what they've been doing and are -- the lack of leadership and the disappointment that the American people who voted these folks I,n in a wave election - you know, the American people voted in Republicans because they were upset with the disaster of the Obama administration and what the Democrats have done in power, and what has the Republican leadership done? They've rolled over, and they haven't stood up for anything, and they have not lived up to the any of the promises that got them elected.
So the electorate is upset with them, and they're just fed up. And they're so fed up that they've allowed someone like Donald Trump, who is an entertainer -- I agree with Miss Alabama and I agree with Carly Fiorina and a lot of the other folks who say this guy is not a serious politician; he's an entertainer. Just look at the rallies. Look at the way he speaks. He speaks in platitude, in generalities. He says -- call people names and people love that because it seems to breathe kind of the lowest common denominator of some things, like a talk show. And they want to see what he's going to say next versus will this guy be a good legislator? Will he be a good executor? Will he be a good president?
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VAUSE: You may not have heard this, but we're actually hosting the Republican debate on Wednesday, and so be sure to tune in to watch it as they face off. Watch that debate live Wednesday night starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time here in the U.S. and 11:00 p.m. in London. You can get up early 6:00 a.m. Thursday in Hong Kong and you will find it only here on CNN.
Meantime on the Democratic side, front-runner Hillary Clinton made an interesting comparison of all the Republican candidates. On Monday she was speaking at a Women for Hillary organizing event at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, when she remarked there's really no different among any of those Republican candidates except for maybe one little feature.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is somewhat entertaining. Their flamboyant front-runner has grabbed a lot of the attention lately. But if you look at the policies of all of them running, they're pretty much the same. They're Trump, just without the pizzazz and the hair.
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VAUSE: Clinton's main Democratic rival made the rounds in Virginia Monday. Bernie Sanders is trying to improve his lead over Clinton in states besides New Hampshire and Iowa. During a sit-down university at - interview, rather, at the University of Virginia, Sanders gave an interview to explain the differences between himself and the Democratic front-runner.
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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hillary Clinton and I have some strong disagreements. I mentioned a moment ago, I want to see the minimum wage raised over a period of years to $15 an hour. She has not been clear on that. I am opposed to the construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Hillary Clinton has not voiced an opinion on that. I believe we should expand Social Security benefits, not cut them. Hillary Clinton doesn't have a position on that.
So I think it is fair to say that we like each other, we respect each other; we have different opinions on some of the major issues facing our country.
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VAUSE: In the latest CNN/ORC poll, Clinton leads with 37 percent with Sanders 10 points behind on 27.
Now to renewed fears over North Korea and its plans for long range missiles. North Korean state media is saying, quote, "The world will clearly see a series of satellites soaring into the sky." South Korea, it says, it is watching closely. And the U.S. State Department says any satellite launch with ballistic missile technology would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Kathy Novak is in Seoul, South Korea; she joins us now live with more on this. So Kathy, what is the evidence they have and how can they tell if North Korea is actually inching closer to this launch?
[01:15:01] KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, these are the latest reports coming out of the state news agency, KCNA, quoting an unnamed senior official with the -- a senior aerospace official, John, as saying that North Korea is in the final stage of developing the satellite. Now, North Korea says that any satellite development would be for peaceful purposes, but analysts widely say this is often a very thinly veiled test of ballistic missile technology, which you as you mentioned would be in violation of United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
And the fears are around the fact that a major anniversary is coming up next month in North Korea on October 10th. It marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Worker's Party of Korea and there are wide speculations that it will take some kind of provocative action, be it a long range missile launch or even another nuclear test.
I just spoke to the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, and here's a little bit about what he had to say about it.
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MARK LIPPERT, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA: We will remain vigilant. We are always working with the government of South Korea to provide a robust deterrent, to remain vigilant on threats, and to ensure that other allies in the region, as well as the U.S. homeland, are protected by threats posed by North Korea.
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NOVAK: Now, South Korea says it is watching the situation closely and neither South Korea nor the United States will comment specifically on the intelligence that they have around the possibility of a rocket launch.
But analysts at the organization 38 North have been analyzing their own satellite imagery and have been pointing to upgrades at the launching station in North Korea and saying that North Korea is -- has upgraded that launching pad, that there is some support structure that it has finished, but also saying that there no concrete signs that a rocket launch is expected on October 10th. John.
VAUSE: I mean, what are the options here if this test launch does go ahead? Because, you know, they have launched these ballistic missiles in the past and there has been a lot of tough talk and there has been sanctions put in place. And the North Koreans go yeah, whatever, and they keep doing it. So is there anything that the west, the South Koreans and the Americans, could do differently this time?
NOVAK: Well, that's the big question, and we heard Mark Lippert there saying that both the United States and South Korea remain vigilant, that they have this strong alliance in place. But if we just look to last month, John, we had this escalation in tensions on the peninsula where North and South Korea went as far as to exchanging artillery fire across the border and that led to high-level talks that ultimately were able to diffuse the situation.
But part of the fear around the fact that this anniversary is coming up and that some kind of provocation is expected is that, if that happens, that it's likely to derail any of this progress that has been made in these recent talks. Out of the talks, we heard that family reunions are due to take place at the end of October. Now, you can imagine, if North Korea does take any provocative action, the United States and South Korea indeed will be under pressure to respond, and that may derail any of these plans for family reunions. So that's part of the fear, John.
VAUSE: OK, Kathy, thank you. Kathy Novak live for us Seoul, South Korea.
Official break here on CNN NEWSROOM. When we come back, Hungary taking a hard line against refugees. This is a live look at the scene right now at the Hungarian/Serbian border where there's tough new measures for anyone who tries to get through that new border fence. That's up next.
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[01:20:44] PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. Thanks for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell, with your "CNN World Sport" update.
We start in Switzerland where the U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has warned more charges are possible. This as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at the highest level of world football.
Meantime, on the field of play, in the English Premiere League where champions Chelsea had more than a keen eye on the West Ham-Newcastle on Monday. The Hammers' attempt to win a first point at home this season under slam and billage (ph). Well, big smiles at least in that part of east London. The home team wins it by two goals to nil, can move to fifth place. The Magpies were utterly toothless. The Frenchman Dimitri Payet with the first goal of the game thanks to a stylish finish. But he wasn't done there yet. He gets the second, 2- 0, West Ham. As a result, Chelsea stays out of the bottom four.
And the European Champions League is back featuring max day one. And we see the talented offering of Italian champ from last year's final Juventus facing perennial tournament underachievers Manchester City on Tuesday for whom star striker, the Argentine, Sergio Aguero, is out due to an injury. The Citizens may have had a great start for a new Premier League campaign with fives wins for five, but despite spending untold millions, they've never progressed beyond the last 16. That's something they desperately want to put right.
Thanks for joining us. You're bang up to date. That's your "CNN World Sport" headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.
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VAUSE: Hungary's hard line against refugees and migrants just got even tougher. The prime minister says anyone who crosses the border from Serbia illegally will be deported or jailed. And that's the scene there right now; it's 7:22 in the morning there and you can see that razor wire fence which they have built. And a government spokesman saysnearly 10,000 people crossed into Hungary on Monday alone.
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ZOLTAN KOVACS, HUNGARIAN GOVERNMent SPOKESMAN: (INAUDIBLE). It also means that the official and legal way to entire Hungary and therefore the European Union regains order (ph). That's all we ask for the migrants, that they should apply the international and European law and (INAUDIBLE). And they should come through the legal and official process.
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VAUSE: Meantime, Germany says it may take in one million migrants this year alone. The country's interior minister about 10,000 people are coming into the country every day. That's why Germany has put temporary border patrols into place. Germany is pushing for a joint asylum policy with all the E.U. nations taking in a specific number of refugees and migrants.
The U.N. Refugee Agency says Macedonia is also dealing with a record number of migrants. About 8,600 people crossed the border from Greece over the weekend. Ivan Watson is there.
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IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is the border between Greece and Macedonia, an informal crossing point in which they have been streaming through by the thousands. More than 8,600 people in a single 24-hour period.
Hi. Where are you from?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Syria.
WATSON: Syria? Where are you going? Finland.
OK. So you hear that these people are identifying themselves as Syrian refugees saying they are either going to Finland or Germany. We've heard many people say that they want to go to Sweden as well.
This is an improvised journey people are on. This is not a formal route. It's been kind of cobbled together and the Greek and Macedonian authorities, for example, have been allowing it to take place, allowing these people to move through as swiftly as possible, to move them on to their next destination.
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Most of the people we've spoken with began their international journey by boat, by small, unsafe, overcrowded smugglers' dinghies traveling from the Turkish coast to Greek islands. And that's where tragedy struck before dawn on Sunday when one of these vessels overturned. At 34 people drowned, among the victims 15 children, four of them were infants.
Now for those who have made it here to Macedonia, the next leg of the journey will likely be aboard a train that will travel the length of Macedonia and to the next country on the migrant trail, and that is Serbia. A challenge will now be posed as some European countries have announced that they're going to tighten restrictions on their borders. And we're getting warnings that as those policies get put into place, we could start to see bottlenecks at border crossings like this one where people once moved quite smoothly by the thousands, we could start to see build ups of migrants and refugees.
Ivan Watson, CNN, at the Macedonian border with Greece.
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VAUSE: Updating some breaking news now out of the U.S. At least six people are dead, seven others missing, after flash flooding swept through a small town on the Utah-Arizona border. We're hearing the victims in Hildale, Utah, are others and their small children.
Chris Walef is a resident of Hildale. He joins us on the line. Chris, can you describe for us what happened with this flash flooding?
CHRIS WALEF, HILDALE RESIDENT (on the phone): You know, yesterday it just seemed like a normal day. You had a 50 percent chance of rain. Throughout the morning there was no rain. About 5:00 it started to just hail and blow and the rain started to come down. I believe it lasted for about a half hour or 45 minutes. Typically here when it starts to rain and flood, it's kind of an exciting time. People go out in the streets and they splash in the water and my wife just happened to go out and get the kids at this time, and she got trapped just right in front of one of the floods. There was a car that was turning off and it had gotten stuck there and just doesn't seem like an intense situation because the area was flooding there. And typically it doesn't flood heavily. And she was (INAUDIBLE) and it just escalated quickly, and rescuers came and were able to get women and children out of the vehicles safely. And later we heard they got the vehicle caught in the flood and (INAUDIBLE) just shocked right now.
VAUSE: So we understand that, among the dead, as we said, mothers with their kids. So it's believed they may have been vehicles at the time of the flooding and that's how they died?
WALEF: From what I understand there were two vehicles involved. There was a friend of mine on Facebook that put a post that she had seen the vehicle trying to make it across and then the wall of water just pushed them off the edge apparently.
VAUSE: How quickly did the water come up? Some people have described it just like a wall of water flooding through the town.
WALEF: Yes, it's somewhat slower and then it escalated real quick, for sure. Like I said, it happened within a half hour or 45 minutes. It was just gone and then suddenly --
VAUSE: And so the situation right now is that the water has completely receded? WALEF: Yes, it's still flowing in places but it's pretty much, yes, completely receded. And I just got a message from some friends looking for 300 volunteers to help sort through the debris; they're trying to find some of the missing people, from what I understand. That's why I'm trying to have that now and going to the fire station and see if there's anything I can do to help.
VAUSE: Are most people heading out to try and help? Is it that sort of small-knit community?
WALEF: I would think so. I haven't gone out yet, but the message has been going out to people and I'm sure there's a lot of volunteers. There's a lot of good people here.
VAUSE: Chris, wie'll leave you to go do that. Chris Walef there on the line there bringing us the very latest from that small town hit by flash flooding, six people - at least six people dead. Seven others are missing at this hour. Among the dead, mothers and their children. According to Chris, a resident there, they seem to have been in vehicles when those vehicles were swept away. When we get more on that story, we will bring it to you.
But in the meantime, coming up next here on the CNN NEWSROOM, heartbreak in northern California as some residents return to find their homes ravaged by a raging wildfire while thousands of more homes remain under threat.
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[01:33:11] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause. The headlines this hour.
Malcolm Turnbull is the new prime minister of Australia. He was sworn in a short time ago and replaces Tony Abbott who served just two years as prime minister before he was ousted in a leadership challenge on Monday. Mr. Turnbull must now unite a divided party before the next election.
North Korean state media say the country is close to launching a new satellite and suggesting a long-range rocket launch as well. South Korea's defense ministry says it's watching closely. The North is expected to stage a rocket launch next month for the 70th anniversary of the Workers Party.
Mexico's foreign minister says six of its citizens are unaccounted for after Egyptian security forces attacked tourists in the Western desert. The minister says two Mexicans were killed and six others are in hospital but 14 Mexicans were on the list of names on that tour. Egypt has said the tourists were mistaken for terrorists.
25,000 firefighters in the U.S. are battling fires raging in the California. They are mainly focus on the Valley Fire, which has consumed 61,000 acres west of the city of Sacramento. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Thousand of people have been displaced.
CNN's Stephanie Elam has the details. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TAMMY MOORE, FIRE SURVIVOR: Save 20, 25 homes. From what I understand that are gone.
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's one thing to hear your neighborhood was burned down by a wildfire.
MOORE: My house is up here to the left, or was.
ELAM: It's another thing to see it.
MOORE: There's nothing there.
ELAM: Tammy Moore was working Saturday night when the Valley Fire exploded, devastating the communities of Middletown and Cobb. The people in the small, rural towns had to scramble to get out safely.
Moore has owned this home for is a years. It's where she and her ex- husband chose to raise their daughter. The burnt out swing, a totem to years gone by.
[01:35:12] ELAM (on camera): What is it like to actually see it with your own eyes?
MOORE: So much worse than I thought. I expected it to be bad. I didn't expect to see everything gone.
I wouldn't want to come back. I don't want to rebuild here. After seeing everything like this, maybe other people would feel differently, I don't. I feel lick this is -- there should be like a zombie coming out from the tree.
ELAM: What comes next?
MOORE: What's next? I don't know. Tomorrow.
ELAM (voice-over): The fire didn't discriminate, taking out home after home, car after car. But yet, it was still selective in Middletown, sparing a fence here, a handcrafted wood chair there.
BRANDON DAWSON, FIRE SURVIVOR: That line, I just built this fence right here. Oh, my god.
ELAM: Brandon Dawson's mother bought this home 23 years ago when he was just 6 years old. He and his family had warning that the flames were coming so they grabbed as many personal items as they could. But there was still some things that just didn't fit in their cars.
Dawson's mother hoped this cast iron tub would protect a few more memories.
DAWSON: She put the trunk in there and covered it with wet blankets and tried to hope for the best. And not looking good.
ELAM (on camera): I know you saw a picture, I know you saw it on TV, but to actually stand here now?
DAWSON: I'm devastated.
ELAM: And yet, the Valley Fire spared one keepsake, a sign over the front entrance that reads "This is where I belong."
DAWSON: When we come home, this is our sanctuary.
ELAM (on camera): Going to take that to your mom?
DAWSON: I'm totally taking this with me.
ELAM: Both Tammy and Brandon are staying at the fairgrounds with their family. It's basically a tent city. Lots of people evacuated many of whom have lost their homes are staying there until they can figure out what their next moves are going to be.
Stephanie Elam, CNN, Middletown, California.
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VAUSE: We have update on a breaking news story in the shooting of that professor at Delta State University in Mississippi. We're now hearing from police there that the suspect, Shannon Lamb, who is believed to be behind the shooting of a professor there at the university, as well as another woman earlier in the day, appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. That is coming from our affiliate KHBS. But the police chief in Bingham has actually said that this man on your screen right now, Shannon Lamb, the suspect in possibly two murders earlier on Monday has actually died of self- inflicted gunshot wounds. It's believed he is suspected in the shooting of Ethan Schmidt, a professor at the Delta University there, Delta State University, shot him in his head in his office. And now from the police that it's believed that Shannon Lamb, the main suspect in this, has killed himself.
We also have breaking news from Utah. Six people are dead. Seven others are missing after flash flooding there near the Arizona border. We have new video now. The water washed away two vehicles with 16 people inside. All the victims are mothers and small children. The flooding started with heavy rain in the canyons above Hildale, Utah.
Let's go to Pedram Javaheri.
We heard from one of those residents saying the water came up quickly, 20, 30 minutes, and now it's gone.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: That's the way it happens. Utah is a more beautiful state in the U.S. When you look at the national parks, only two other states have more national parks than this part of Utah. On the border of Utah and Arizona, Hildale and, to the south, the landscape. You have Butte, Mesa, quintessential southwestern United States landscape. The rivers nearby. We have hills, mountain tops nearby. They stream? Right near the town of 2900 people. You go in for a closer look. Perfect scenario to pun funnel water in and that's what happened here as far as getting two to four inches of rainfall that came down in a very short time period. In the summer months, the cumulous clouds, average cumulous clouds, carry 15 to 30 million gallons of water. You can imagine all of that coming down to buttes, mesas, sandstone, sand cliffs, very little will be absorbed. Just north of the city, rainfall rates, two to four inches per hour. Certainly something that led to this disastrous scenario playing out over in southern Utah.
Rainfall is across areas of North Carolina. The historic fire is one of the fastest growing fires in 30 years across the state of California. A lot of what's going on here has to do with incredible terrain the firefighters are dealing with as essentially you look at this landscape. I want to lay the land over this region of California. As you bring in the mountains and hilltops the well-known valleys and mountain ace cross this region of California exacerbate the problem. You have fires that are developing further downstream. They heat the landscape directly above them. As the gasses and smoke rise you're igniting additional fires farther upstream. We've seen this in the year 20__ so. You had at one point fires traveling 101 miles per hour. Fires unlike people actually travel much faster on upstream scale than they do going back downhill because they're able to heat up the landscape ahead of them. When they get to the top they slow down. 62,000 acres consumed in the lake keen fire. This particular fire has consumed twice the size of the city of San Francisco. Over 9,000 structures now threatened by the images are just staggering because you know the numbers here. Fire consumed about 30 acres per hour at the peak of the fire from Saturday into Sunday when the containment was down to zero percent. Not far away the Butte Fire consuming over 70,000 acres of land. This particular one has received some rainfall in recent days. Containment up to 35 percent.
Thunderstorms over Utah causing the flooding. Scattered in nature over California. That is a concern here. Rainfall not heavy enough to not really improve over the Butte Fire. We do think the Valley Fire will get in on rainfall sometime Wednesday morning into Wednesday afternoon. The forecast for the Butte Fire sees and shows something you don't want to see. When you look a t the Valley Fire it does look like more rain will be headed in that direction in the next couple days -- John?
[01:11:56] VAUSE: At least it's rain.
JAVAHERI: At least it's rain. We'll take it.
VAUSE: Pedram, thank you.
An update now on that breaking news about Shannon Lamb, the suspect in two homicides. Getting word from police that his vehicle was spotted pulled over near Greenville. They saw Shannon Lamb run into the woods. Soon after that, officers report hearing a single gunshot and then they found Lamb's body. So the main suspect in two homicides apparently shot himself and is now dead.
With that, we'll take a short break. We're back in a moment.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [01:45:36] VAUSE: Welcome back. Update now on that breaking news out of the United States. The suspect in Monday's deadly Delta State University shooting is dead. At a news conference just a short time ago, police say Shannon Lamb appears to have shot himself. The police chief says officers spotted Lamb pull over into some woods and then he ran into the woods and they heard a single gunshot. Lamb had been the subject of a day-long manhunt since the murder of a professor on campus. Police also believe he shot and killed a woman he was living with in another town earlier on Monday.
Financial news now. Wall Street will being looking to change direction when trading gets under way later today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 62 points Monday. That's about a third of a percent. The NASDAQ and S&P 500 were all off as well.
Let's look at the Asia-Pacific markets. Hong Kong down by a third of 1 percent. Shanghai down by just over 1.75 percent. Nikkei up by .75 percent. Australia, the markets down. Maybe that has something to do with the new prime minister, Turnbull. Who knows? Down by almost 1.25 percent. We should say the dollar was up on the news that Turnbull was the new prime minister.
Later today, the U.S. Senate may decide whether to move ahead with the final vote on the Iran nuclear deal.
As Fred Pleitgen reports from Tehran, businesses there are excited that sanctions may soon be eased.
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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Times are busy at Shaipor (ph), Iran's first website for classified ads. The firm says the amount of users increased fifteen-fold in just the past year. CEO and founder, Reza Ababian (ph), says since the nuclear agreement, many potential investors have been calling.
REZA ABABIAN (ph), CEO & FOUNDER, SHAIPOR (ph): Everyone is young, or you know, close to 60 percent of the population is over 30 years old or around 30 years old. And it's young people tech savvy, they like to learn new things and adopt the new technologies. So because of all these things it makes a very attractive market.
PLEITGEN: Economic optimism is the gripping Iran these days. While it's fledgling tech firms are looking for start-up funding, more traditional industries like the automakers are badly in need of investment to modernize their production lines. And its financial sector is waiting for foreign capital to come in. The going, still pretty slow at the Tehran Stock Exchange.
(on camera): As you can see the trading floor is somewhat old school here. And so far, since the nuclear agreement, Iran's stock exchange has declined considerably, but financial analysts believe that in the long run sanctions relief will do a whole lot to boost Iran's financial sector.
(voice-over): With massive oil and grass reserves, a well educated population, and a market with more than 80 million consumers, Iran seems poised for big economic growth when sanctions are lifted.
The question is how fast that growth will materialize, says Ramin Radie (ph) of the investment firm Turquoise Partners.
RAMIN RADIE (ph), CEO, TURQUOISE PARTNERS: I can't predict what will happen within the next year. But I can guarantee that within the next five to 10 years Iran will be one of the fastest growing economies in the world given the potentials.
PLEITGEN: Investors will need patience. Despite a massive increase in traffic, Shaipor (ph), for example, isn't making money yet.
ABABIAN (ph): We have been in the business for three years now, since our launch. And we still have no revenue. So we are trying to, you know, create the culture in Iran, buying and selling second-hand goods that exist. The culture exists. People like to buy new stuff.
PLEITGEN: A lot of pioneering work is necessary to bring Iran's economy up to speed. And the hope that the momentum brought on by the nuclear agreement won't be reversed.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Tehran.
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VAUSE: Still to come on CNN, holograms helping to keep alive the memories of celebrities. Coming up, how one very live politician might need his own hologram.
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[01:50:00] PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. Thanks for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell, with your "CNN World Sport" update.
We start in Switzerland where the U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch warned more charges are possible. This as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at the highest level of world futbol.
Meantime, on the field of play, English Premiere League where champions Chelsea had more than a keen eye on the West Town New Castle on Monday. The amateur attempt to win a first point at home this season. Well, big smiles in that part of east London. The home team wins it, 2-0, to move to fifth place. The Magpies were utterly toothless. The Frenchman got the first goal of the game thanks to a stylish finish. But he wasn't done there. He gets the second 2-0, West Ham. The result, Chelsea stays out of the bottom four.
And the European Champions League is back featuring max day one. And we see the Italian champ from last year's final Juventus (ph) facing perennial tournament underachievers Manchester City Tuesday for whom star striker, the Argentine, Sergio Guerrero, is out due to an injury. The citizens may have had a great start for a new Premier campaign with fives wins for five, but despite spending untold millions, they never progressed beyond the last 16. That's something they desperately want to put right.
Thanks for joining us. That's your bang up to date. That's your "CNN World Sport" headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.
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VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. Whitney Houston may be gone but she is far from forgotten. And her hologram -- yes, a hologram -- will go on a concert tour next year.
And as our Jeanne Moos reports, the special effects may soon extend to the political area.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The next time Whitney Houston opens her mouth on stage --
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MOOS: -- she may be a hologram on a world tour. And she may not be the only celeb making America holographic again. Remember the Mike Jackson hologram --
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MOOS: -- at last year's Billboard Awards? Or the Tupac hologram --
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MOOS: -- from the Coachella Music Festival?
Now it's Whitney's turn to return to the stage.
ALKI DAVID, CEO, HOLOGRAM USA: At the center of it is going to be holographic presentation of Whitney in her very famous outfits, her famous songs, interacting.
MOOS: The CEO of Hologram USA says Whitney will look real enough to almost touch.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We should let her rest in peace.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Creepy.
DAVID: It's not creepy. It's entertainment. It's fantastic entertainment.
MOOS: Whitney Houston's estate, led by her sister-in-law, Pat, gave the hologram tour its blessing.
(on camera): But you don't have to be dead to be turned into a hologram.
(voice-over): Here at CNN, we've had our share from an election night correspondent --
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: We beamed you in.
MOOS: -- to the performer, Will. I. Am.
WILL. I. AM., RAPPER: I'm being beamed to you like in "Star Wars."
MOOS: Now who else could you turn into a hologram who might even trump Whitney Houston?
DAVID: We are in talks with a very -- a very likely candidate for the presidency.
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MOOS (on camera): Oh, my god. You're going to project Donald Trump all over the place?
DAVID: I never said that. I never said that.
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MOOS: You are. You're going to project Donald Trump.
DAVID: I never, never, ever said that. I never said that.
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[01:55:] MOOS: Who else would allow themselves to do that?
(voice-over): If a deal is signed, they would use a technique called tele-presence to project a candidate live to multiple locations.
DAVID: Donald, I never said a word.
MOOS: Asked if Trump is interested, a campaign spokeswoman said no. But it sure would be fun to see a reality star turned -- virtual reality?
Jeanne Moos, CNN --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Donald Trump is a hologram.
MOOS: -- New York.
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VAUSE: She's probably right.
A Chinese woman is recovering after doctors surgically removed a six karat diamond from her intestine. Police in Thailand say 39-year-old confessed to stealing and swallowing the diamond almost 300 U.S. Dollars. She switched it with a fake at a jewelry fair and it showed up on an x-ray after she was detained Thursday at Bangkok Airport. Surgeons had to go in and get that diamond. She could face three years in jail for the theft. Diamonds are not a girl's best friend every day.
Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause.
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