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[05:00:17] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Large crowds gather of Catholics to give Pope Francis a rousing welcome as he arrives for a six-day visit in Mexico.
Plus, world powers agree, a pause in the fighting in Syria should happen, but Syria and Russia insist they will continue bombing terrorists. So, what kind of pause can it be?
And --
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HOWELL: New allegations in the poisoned water saga in Flint, Michigan. That state saying that officials there failed to act to stop the spread of Legionnaire's disease in the city.
From CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm George Howell.
CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.
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HOWELL: Good day to you.
We begin this hour with Pope Francis in Mexico City for his six-day visit there. He arrived Friday night to cheering crowds. Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, greeted the pope at the airport. They will meet again in a few hours for an official visit at the national palace. Later, Francis will celebrate mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
We expect the message of this visit will be about Mexico's violence, especially the trafficking of victims.
Pope Francis will also minister to the poor.
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PAUL VERA, BISHOP FOR SALTILLO ARCHDIOCES (through translator): He's come to give us an example, to the priests, to the bishops, to all Catholics, that we should all be present where people are suffering. That's where he wants to be present. The pope is telling us to get out of the temples. Go where the people are living under tragic circumstances. This is the great example he gives us.
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HOWELL: The pope's schedule is jam-packed. He's traveling to some of the spots hardest hit by crime including a stop at the U.S./Mexico border in the heart of cartel country.
Shasta Darlington has more on what we can expect to see over the coming days.
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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some surprisingly melodious parishioners gearing up for Pope Francis' arrival, a six-day trip that starts right here, the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, visited by millions of pilgrims each year who pray before a 16th century shroud that bears her image.
According to the chaplain, Pope Francis seeks guidance at the start of his trip.
"He's looking for her protection," he says. He's entrusting his whole trip to Mexico to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Pope Francis planning to visit some of Mexico's poorest and most violent corners, from Ecatepec, a sprawling suburb with the highest rate of killings of women, to Morelia, at the center of Mexico's narco war. Pope Francis chose this shrine because it's the most revered in Mexico, in much of the Americas. But it's interesting, talking to parishioners here, they say of course they want to hear his message of faith, but they're just as interested in having him shine a light on the problems of corruption and crime in Mexico.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Pues, que hable este --
DARLINGTON: "I would ask him to talk to authorities about the violence," says this woman, "especially the disappearances."
This man traveled on foot for five days to reach the shrine.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- porque este alli son lo mas que necesitan --
DARLINGTON: The Pope's going to visit the places where people need him most, he says, where he needs to motivate them so they don't lose faith.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Te acuerda que Dios esta presente --
DARLINGTON: But, here at the Basilica, faith runs deep. For these musical nuns flying in from Peru the message is simple: When the future seems uncertain and fear weakens your faith, believe in God.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Mexico City.
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HOWELL: Before arriving in Mexico, the pope had an historic meeting with the Russian patriarch in Havana, Cuba. This is the first time a Roman Catholic leader has met with the head of the Russian orthodox church since the two faiths split in 1054. The two men pleaded for the world to protect Christians against ISIS. They said the meeting was an indispensable example of hope and goodwill.
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FEDERICO LOMBARDI, VATICAN SPOKESMAN (through translator): A meeting of brothers. Pope Francis said we're brothers, we're baptized.
[05:05:01] We're bishops, we're Christians. It was a dialogue among brothers who understood very well about the problems of their churches and the world today, of which they want to serve together.
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HOWELL: The pope will spend his first full day in Mexico on Saturday, capped with a mass that he will celebrate at the basilica of Guadalupe. Stay tuned for coverage of his live visit right here on CNN.
Now to the war in Syria. France's prime minister says Russian warplanes must, quote, "stop bombing civilians in Syria for there to be any chance of negotiations and for peace." He, other world leaders and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are in Munich for a security conference held there. They've gathered just days after Kerry and fellow diplomats announced a pause in the fighting in Syria, to begin in a week's time.
But there are complications. And chief among them, Russia is not letting up on its airstrikes against rebel targets in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Also, ISIS and other extremists are not party to these Syrian talks.
CNN's international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, joins us live now in Munich, Germany, with more on this.
Nic, good to have you. With so much happening around the world, what is the mood there among leaders?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Well, there's a lot of focus on Syria and the leaders here will look at Syria through this light, through the agreement that was made here at the international Syria support group that is designed to put a cessation of hostilities in place in Syria in a week's time. The reason that this got to that point, that talks got to that point,
was because two weeks ago, peace talks between opposition rebels represented by the high negotiating committee and the Syrian government, were brought together by the U.N. as the result of a U.N. Security Council resolution to begin talks. But because the Syrian government-backed by Russian planes were on a high-speed, high- intensity military offensive in and around Aleppo, including Russian bombing, those peace talks in Geneva were put on hold. That was the only way the U.N. could see to keep the talks alive because it was impossible, the opposition said, for them to come in and negotiate in good faith with the Syrian government about peace when there was such a high-intensity attack under way.
Now, the agreement here is that the cessation will come in in a week's time. There will be humanitarian access in the meantime. But in the meantime in that week, there's real concern that the Syrian government and -- backed by Russia continues and wants to continue with a strategic military offensive around Aleppo.
So, we heard today from the French foreign minister addressing that direct -- French prime minister, rather, Manuel Valls, addressing that directly to his opposite number in Russia, if you will, the prime minister there, Dmitry Medvedev.
This is what the French prime minister said.
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MANUEL VALLS, FRENCH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): Now, let me say as well to in all confidence and without any ambiguity to Dmitry Medvedev, that France respect Russia as well as interests and in fact the two presidents do speak to each other quite frequently, but we do need to have peace. We need to have negotiations, and for that, we need to stop bombings against the civilians.
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ROBERTSON: Now, I've talked to the Syrian opposition groups here, and they say they're hopeful about this new international agreement, but the test of it is going to be if Russia stops its bombing. Because if it doesn't, it's the status quo as it was two weeks ago which means how can anyone get into meaningful peace talks if there's a military offensive under way? So there is a lot of scrutiny on that. There was a hope in that meeting that there might have been some kind of language that said that Russia should back off on its offensive this week ahead of the cessation and hostilities in a week's time.
But I think we can certainly understand and take away from this right now that the international community and the task force, the military task force, or the cessation of hostilities task force that's been established as a result of the meetings here is going to pay a lot of attention to what happens in Aleppo this week. So, Russia will be under a huge amount of scrutiny along with the Syrian government about what they do on the ground in the light of a U.N. Security Council resolution that talks about a cease-fire and an agreement here that talks about a cessation in a week. The concern is, of course, that there is a military agenda playing out on the ground in Aleppo -- George.
HOWELL: And as that continues, there are so many people who are just trying to get out of harm's way. Again, Nic Robertson live for us in Munich, Germany, at these security talks that are taking place there.
Nic, thanks for your reporting there.
Syrian government forces -- they have made significant gains across the northern part of that country. Of course, with the backing of Russian air power.
[05:10:01] And CNN has gained unusual access to areas just north of Aleppo that have been taken back by the Assad loyalists.
Our Fred Pleitgen is in a town that endured years of fighting and has this exclusive report.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): "God, Syria, Bashar, and nothing else", these villagers chant in the pro- regime village of Nubl. The mostly Shia town was under rebel siege for more than three years. Fourteen-year-old Zalticar Ali Jaweeh (ph) lived through it and recalls the hardship.
"It was very tough," he says. "Many people got sick and the kids were very scared. But, after a while, we became numb to the fear."
The siege was broken by the recent government offensive north of Aleppo. Now there is food in the local markets and clearly a lot of support for the main backers of the Assad regime, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia.
(on camera): The people here in Nubl are keen to show their affection for Hezbollah, for Iran, and for Russia. They believe that throughout the years of siege, it's these groups who stood by them and insured this town's survival.
(voice-over): The U.N. has strongly criticized the denial of aid to besieged areas in Syria, accusing government forces, some rebel groups, and ISIS of using food and medicine as weapons. The new agreement reached by world powers hopes to put an end to these tactics.
Aleppo's countryside is now one of the main battlegrounds in this brutal five- year civil war, as pro-government forces press an offensive backed by Russian air power, tens of thousands have fled towards the Turkish border. On our trip we saw scores of deserted villages, some clearly scarred by fierce fighting.
Government soldiers issues a strong warning to opposition fighters. Their families should encourage them to look for reconciliation, he says, otherwise they will be killed. They have no other options. But the opposition believes reconciliation is not on the government's
mind. They say they are simply being slaughtered as the Syrian military continues to push to try and retake the area north of Aleppo, in what many feel could be a crushing blow to anti-Assad forces.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Nubl, Syria.
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HOWELL: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.
Still ahead, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are at it again. And now, Mr. Trump is threatening to sue over it. We'll have that story.
Plus, people are dying in a U.S. city because of contaminated drinking water. Still ahead, a CNN exclusive. Find out why it took so long to declare this a crisis.
Stay with us.
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[05:15:36] HOWELL: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is threatening to sue his rival, Ted Cruz. Trump sent out this tweet threatening to take Cruz to court over whether he's a natural born U.S. citizen. That is if the Texas senator doesn't stop running negative ads against him. Trump is questioning Cruz's eligibility to become president since he was born in Canada. The Cruz campaign hit back, saying Trump needs to, quote, "go to the time-out chair and think about his choices."
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton just picked up big endorsements from newspapers in Texas and Florida. "The Dallas Morning News," "The Houston Chronicle" and "Tampa Bay Times" all said they support her but they don't love her. The Florida paper called Clinton an imperfect candidate with political baggage that would sink most other politicians.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders faced a tough crowd on Friday at a forum on race and economic opportunity. First, one panelist accused him of being afraid to say black. Then another man in the crowd yelled at him about Native American rights.
Attack ads are in full effect in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Ahead of that state's primary. CNN's Mary Moloney has this report.
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MARY MOLONEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After autographing a baby in Louisiana, Donald Trump pledged to go positive.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I won't use foul language. I'm just not going to do it.
MOLONEY: But less than 24 hours later, Trump threatened Cruz with a lawsuit, tweeting, "If Ted Cruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, I'm going to sue him for not being a natural born citizen."
Cruz returned fire.
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There's more than a little irony in Donald accusing anyone of being nasty, given the amazing torrent of insults and obscenities and vulgarities that come out of his mouth.
MOLONEY: In South Carolina, where voters will cast ballots later this month, the airwaves are plastered with spiteful ads.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time.
MOLONEY: This one backfiring on Cruz. His campaign pulling it after finding out this actress is an adult film star. Cruz's team is refocusing with a news spot spoofing the movie "Office Space."
RAP SONG: Damn it feels good to be a Clinton a shameless politician always plays her cards right --
MOLONEY: Hillary Clinton also in South Carolina.
HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm going to go after every single barrier that stands in the way of what Americans can do.
MOLONEY: Hoping the Palmetto State slows Bernie Sanders's momentum following his big New Hampshire win.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you, New Hampshire!
MOLONEY: The fight for the first-of-the-south primary will likely hinge on support from African-American voters who make up over half the Democratic electorate in the state. Clinton lost African- Americans in South Carolina to President Obama in 2008.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, South Carolina!
MOLONEY: But Monday, another president will be in South Carolina, George W. Bush, wanting to lift his brother, Jeb's, campaign.
I'm Mary Moloney reporting.
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HOWELL: A former top official with the Obama administration says Hillary Clinton should pull out of the presidential race, as the FBI investigates her use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. Lieutenant General Michael Flynn is the former head of the defense intelligence agency. He spoke earlier with our Jake Tapper.
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LT. GEN. MICHAEL FLYNN, FORMER DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTOR: I feel very strongly about this. Number one -- there's really two reasons why I believe this. Number one, the severity of the leaks of the classified material, so this special access program, the top secret, just the incredible level of classification that has been leaked through the use of a private server --
JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: What do you mean by leaked? You mean like --
FLYNN: I mean leaked in terms of just being passed --
TAPPER: OK, you don't mean getting out to the public. But you mean --
FLYNN: It's in the public now. It's in the public domain now because it was on a private server -- it was on a private server that's available to China, Russia and now what we're seeing in the open domain. So, that severity --
TAPPER: Just to clarify, you don't have any evidence that the Chinese or the Russians hacked her server.
FLYNN: No, but we know the kinds of targets that they go after on a routine basis. You know, I could give you an hour's worth of targets that we know that they have already hit that have been very publicly discussed.
[05:20:01] So, I mean, from the joint staff to central command to the army, they have hit a bunch of these things. So Hillary Clinton as the secretary of state is a target of those two adversaries.
TAPPER: But no evidence yet --
FLYNN: And the other point, Jake, is -- and the other thing that I think this is really important -- it's been stated that there are 100 FBI agents that are on this case, and yet we have the FBI director that has told us that in all 50 states, we have Islamic State cases ongoing. And I know the FBI is just overwhelmed with white collar crime, child pornography cases, transnational organized criminal cases, as well as the Islamic State. And now, we have to put another 100 agents on this case?
TAPPER: But isn't that a question of the FBI's priorities?
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FLYNN: It is.
Yes, so, imagine that. So if they -- if she were to step down and the --
TAPPER: They would keep investigating.
FLYNN: The nation would allow itself to back down a little bit and let this investigation run its course with her not in the limelight and making this such a big, big deal, I really do believe that the severity and the number of resources that are applied, despite what the outcome is, I just think the lack of accountability frankly in a person who should have been much more responsible in her actions as the secretary of state of the United States of America, this is not --
TAPPER: No, I get that.
FLYNN: If it were me, I would have been out the door and probably in jail.
TAPPER: But she and her supporters say this is an issue of overclassification.
FLYNN: No.
TAPPER: There are things that are classified now but were not at the time or, and you know this --
FLYNN: Yes, sure.
TAPPER: It's part of this tug of war over, for instance, if I were to e-mail -- if I were an intelligence official and I were to e-mail a WikiLeak that was published in "The New York Times" that is top secret even if it was in "The New York Times."
FLYNN: Overclassification or not, if it's classified, it's classified. And she knows better. She knew better in the roles that she has had both as a senator, both as a -- even back when she's married to the president of the United States and she's going to have privileged information in that regard, not only as the secretary of state which is part of the National Security Council, so she should know better.
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HOWELL: Not surprisingly, the Clinton campaign had a quick response to the general's suggestion. Spokesman Brian Fallon called the general's suggestion just silly and said previous secretaries of state handled their e-mails in the same way.
Listen.
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BRIAN FALLON, CLINTON CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN: I respect the general, but that's not going to happen. Look, this investigation, this review into the security of the e-mails should be allowed to continue without political interference and without side commentary from people that don't have an understanding of the fundamental facts. And just last week, you saw the same situation unfurl with former Secretary Colin Powell as well as former aides to Secretary Condoleezza Rice. In both of those two cases, you now have the same agency looking at their e- mails, personal e-mails, and saying that there is information that in retrospect they think should be treated as classified -- the exact same situation playing out in the two previous secretaries before Secretary Clinton.
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HOWELL: Now to give you a look at some key dates that are coming up on the presidential campaign calendar. Next up is the U.S. state of South Carolina, the primary there. Republicans go to the polls on February 20th, and Democrats a week later. Nevada holds its caucuses the same week. First Democrats meet on the 20th and then Republicans on the 23rd. And then on March 1st, it's Super Tuesday, primaries and caucuses will be held in 15 states and territories across the United States.
The Republican candidates will face off tonight in their South Carolina debate. And afterwards, our panel of experts will weigh in. That is Saturday night starting at 11:00 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 4:00 a.m. in London only here on CNN.
All right. Time to talk about some cold weather that is invading much of the East Coast this week -- Derek Van Dam.
DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Seventy million Americans currently under a wind chill warning or advisory. This is extremely dangerous. A lot of people very vulnerable to cold weather like this. And we just have to, you know, give warning to people as they head outside this weekend.
HOWELL: For sure.
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[05:26:47] HOWELL: That is telling. Derek, thank you.
VAN DAM: Thanks, George.
HOWELL: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. We'll be right back after the break.
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[05:30:15] HOWELL: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Good to have you with us. I'm George Howell.
The headlines:
In just a few hours' time, Pope Francis will have an official visit with Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto. During his trip to Mexico, the pope is expected to deliver messages of hope and solidarity to victims of drug violence, trafficking and discrimination.
Farmers battle police in Athens, Greece. They are angry about pension reform plans and say that the proposed changes would lead to tax hikes and increased Social Security contribution. The E.U. and the IMF have demanded Greece reduce pension spending by 1 percent of GDP this year. Anti-government demonstrators march in Bahrain's capital on Friday,
the fifth anniversary of the country's Shiite uprising. The majority of Shiite Muslims have been demanding more rights from the Sunni monarchy since the Arab spring erupted in 2011.
A pause in fighting in Syria's civil war is set to begin within a week's time. Top diplomats from the U.S., Russia and other nations all announced that they have agreed to a cessation of hostilities, but complicating the situation, Russia which backs the Syrian government says it will continue to bomb rebel targets in Aleppo.
The number of refugees and other migrants crossing the Mediterranean has fallen somewhat in February due to bad weather. That is according to the International Organization for Migration. Nevertheless, it says more than 83,000 people have made the journey so far this year. But only around 5,000 of those arrived in February. An estimated 83,000 refugees landed in Europe so far this year. The E.U.'s military force is trying to curb the flow of migrants making that dangerous journey by sea into Europe by targeting human traffickers.
Phil Black has been on a war ship off the Libyan coast to find out more about the mission.
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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We've been at sea in the Mediterranean with Italian and Spanish naval forces for five, six days now. This is part of the E.U. naval operation against people smugglers operating out of Libya. We started when we were first transferred to the Italian aircraft carrier, Cavour. It is the command ship for this entire operation. It is big. It's pretty new, and it's really very impressive.
From there, we came here to the Numancia, the Spanish frigate. In pretty big seas, we've been carving through the south of the Med. These conditions here have been too big, the swell too rough, the winds too strong for people smuggling boats to put to sea.
So, in the meantime, the crew of these vessels, they need to train. And so, we witnessed the marines aboard the ship conduct a boarding exercise. The marines are the ones responsible for approaching, making the initial approach to the migrant vessels, giving a security assessment, making sure that there is no threat.
During our time at sea, we spent a lot of time clambering in and out of helicopters. Aboard the helicopter here on the Numancia, we were able to get very, very close to the Libyan border. Through the haze, you can see the Libyan coastline in the distance, with 12 nautical miles away at the very edge of Libyan territorial waters. This is as close as these forces can get to where the people smuggling operations are based.
Living aboard a frigate built in the 1980s, the late 1980s, it takes some getting used to, but it's also really good fun -- at least for a few days in the way that we're doing it. But you get a real sense of what a challenging environment this would be to live in in the long term.
So, it is, of course, incredibly narrow. The confined space, we got lost a few times. Actually, we're on the wrong deck. The hallways narrow, passing people all the time.
Buenos dias.
We were warned that the single most dangerous thing aboard the ship are these narrow, steep ladders and stairs that separate the decks. And this is where they control the ship. And it's a pretty extraordinary view.
To get a sense of where this ship has been operating, where we are, what we're waiting for, this is a map of the southern area of the Mediterranean. I'm not allowed to show you the area that shows the coast of Libya. But the people who run the operation, they talk about the Lampedusa triangle.
So, if you imagine the coast of Libya down here, there is Tripoli on the eastern side of the map. To the left, heading towards the border with Tunisia. It is from here, they say, this stretch of coast, the boats leave and head out north. That's the triangular shape heading more towards the center of the map.
[05:35:00] So, today as the ship has been plowing through seas much bigger than what you see here now, this is pretty flat. The winds are pretty gentle by comparison. They've come down a long way.
This, the crew believes, makes it more likely that you're going to see some sort of migrant boat movement. But where we've been positioned for a couple of days now, we've been holding a pattern to the northwest of Tripoli, probably just to the northwestern side of the Libyan coast in international waters, waiting here in a position the crew believes is beyond the detection of the people-smuggling crews and operators back on the Libyan coast itself.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will arrive at 15 nautical miles.
BLACK: This is one of the marines stationed aboard a 50-caliber weapon trained on the side. He is looking out and ready for the possibility of some sort of attack from a smaller vessel. What the commanding officer describes as asymmetrical terrorist attack.
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HOWELL: Phil Black reporting there for us.
The United States is deploying additional Patriot missile systems to South Korea. The U.S. military says it is a move meant to counter North Korea's recent provocations and to promote peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region. The Patriot system can defend against incoming missiles as well as aircraft.
Now on to Venezuela where three people have died from complications linked to the Zika virus. The country has now 319 confirmed cases of Zika. Meanwhile, the world health organization says potential vaccines have
emerged to fight the virus, but large-scale trials are at least a year and a half away.
Brazil is also battling the Zika virus. And now, that carnival has come to an end in Rio de Janeiro, the fight against the virus is now entering a new phase.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports it involves hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the carnival ends, here comes the parade. A total of 220,000 Brazilian troops, that's 50 times more than you see here due Saturday to go door to door for a week, making a lot of noise about Zika. In their sights, ignorance and the pools of stagnant water mosquitoes breed in. It's a massive urgent task. So, why not earlier?
GENERAL LUIZ EDUARDO RAMOS, BRAZIL ARMY: First of all, the whole world know you have carnival, OK? Not only because that, you have to take a little bit of time to prepare ourselves. The soldiers, before they received lectures about how to proceed, how to behave, when to go to approach the Brazilians' houses or the civilian population, how we have to say to them, so you need a little bit of preparation.
WALSH: Now, this massive mobilization isn't going to make a dent, really, in Brazil's stagnant water mosquito problem, but it might get Brazilians who still aren't listening to pay attention to the threat of Zika, but possibly most importantly, the outside world. The Brazilian state is doing everything it can to combat this outbreak.
Here's one place they're needed most badly but may be least welcome. One of Rio's many favelas, actually, this is among the less cramped ones, but imagine trying to eradicate all the water pools here. Andre is a local activist and not a fan of the police who often come here to pacify all the developers who gentrify.
(on camera): If the army came up tomorrow, what could they do to help? Are they going to be welcome in a place like this?
(voice-over): "This aid coming from the military is just for show. It's aimed at worried tourists thinking about coming to visit during the Olympics. It's an artificial action, and that's something the Brazilian government does quite often."
Yet the disease is real and took Samuel out of action for six days of aching joints, red eyes and rashes. His focus now, protecting little Arthur (ph).
"It's really complex, especially for children," he says. "I use a mosquito net to protect him, but mosquitoes constantly breed in this heat. In the rain like we had yesterday, a lot of people leave receptacles out. Rain gets in them. The mosquitoes breed, nobody pays attention, and we get sick." (on camera): Drainage ditches like this that take away the rain don't
really solve the problem. A mosquito really only needs a capful of water to breed. We learn of a young mother living here who had Zika when pregnant, and today near her term was rushed to hospital. Her family, though, wanting privacy.
Zika hitting hardest areas where the day's burden is already enough.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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HOWELL: Still ahead, a CNN exclusive: a county worker in the United States tells us dozens of deaths from poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, could have been avoided. That story is next.
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[05:43:17] HOWELL: For the first time, we are hearing from the mother of one of the gunmen behind the Columbine school massacre. Dylan Klebold and his friend, Eric Harris, murdered 13 people at Columbine high school almost 17 years ago. After the massacre, they then killed themselves.
In her first television interview, Sue Klebold says she overlooked possible warning signs that her son was troubled, thinking that it was just teenage angst, and she says she is haunted by memories. Listen.
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SUE KLEBOLD, COLUMBINE SHOOTER'S MOTHER: I just remember sitting there and reading about them, all these kids and a teacher. And I keep thinking -- constantly thought how I would feel if it were the other way around and one of their children had shot mine. I would feel exactly the way they did. I know I would. I know I would.
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HOWELL: Klebold's book about the ordeal comes out next week. Her publisher says she will donate the profits to charities devoted to mental health issues.
Now on to Flint, Michigan, where the poisoned water system in that city has caused outrage across the country. We've been reporting for weeks now on this manmade disaster. A switch in the city's water supply to save money exposed thousands of people to lead and other toxins. Concerns were raised almost immediately, but officials waited 18 months to finally react.
Meanwhile, people started getting sick and dying from Legionnaire's disease. A county worker tells CNN exclusively that those deaths could have been avoided.
Here's CNN Sara Ganim.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) [05:45:00] SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the summer of 2014, people in Flint started dying in what would become one of the worse outbreaks of Legionnaire's disease in U.S. history.
JIM HENRY, DIRECTOR, GENESEE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: We're suspecting the city of Flint water supply.
GANIM: After the city began drawing from the highly corrosive Flint River, brown water started flowing from taps.
HENRY: That was the big red flag.
GANIM: Eventually, toxic lead would be discovered. But that summer, the county health director hadn't found the source of the legionnaire's disease, which by that point was already killing people. So, we got in touch with the CDC.
(on camera): When you reached out, what did you expect to happen?
HENRY: We expected that we would have a team of people that would help us identify the source of this bacteria, the source of this illness, to stop it.
GANIM (voice-over): But that didn't happen. The Centers for Disease Control, the federal agency tasked with investigating outbreaks, didn't show up. And the county health director, Jim Henry, says Michigan state officials purposely kept them away.
HENRY: Our whole team was angry. It was -- you could see that it was an intentional, deliberate method to prevent us from doing our job.
GANIM: According to CDC protocol, a state must invite the CDC to investigate an outbreak. And Michigan did not do that.
HENRY: The state stopped the investigation by prohibited us to communicate, they prohibited communication between the Centers of Disease Control and Genesee County Health Department. They prevented that team to come here and help us find the source.
GANIM: Legionella thrives in warm weather and Henry says he was racing against the clock trying to prevent another outbreak from happening the following summer. Still hoping the CDC would come and pinpoint the cause.
HENRY: It was infuriating.
GANIM: Michigan state officials did provide assistance but never found the cause of the outbreak. The state would not agree to an interview, saying only this, we were able to meet the epidemiological case investigation need in the county. CDC was a part of these conversations as they were involved in many aspects of the investigations.
But the CDC tells CNN that it felt a comprehensive investigation was warranted and offered to further assist Michigan. In this case, Michigan felt that they had the skills and resources needed to perform the investigation themselves.
As the weather warmed in 2015 just as Henry had feared, there was a second wave of cases. But to Henry's astonishment, the state had already declared the Legionnaire's outbreak over.
(on camera): When you read that, what did you think?
HENRY: It must be a mistake. We had two new cases in June, we had multiple cases, and to determine the outbreak over must have been some sort of mistake.
GANIM: That's what you thought at the time?
HENRY: That's what I thought at the time.
GANIM: What do you think now?
HENRY: It was intentional, to stop the investigation. That would implicate the Flint water system in this outbreak.
GANIM (voice-over): By summer's end, four more people would die, including 58-year-old Deborah Kidd. Her son Troy says she got sick after visiting the E.R. for a migraine. She didn't know there were high levels of Legionella in the hospital water supply. His family is now suing the hospital and the state.
TROY KIDD, MOTHER DIED OF LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE: I think it's a cover-up. I think it stinks. I think they knew there was something more going on than what they wanted to really let on.
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HOWELL: That exclusive report by CNN's Sara Ganim reporting for us.
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For seven generations, a London family has been the tailor to the stars. And chances are you've seen some of their work in some of your favorite movies. Find out which of their famous outfits went missing, next.
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[05:52:53] BLACKWELL: Now to a story about a family of tailors who have been helping to create movie magic for seven generations now. The Angel family is one of the world's biggest providers of costumes to the film industry, from recent Oscar nominees "The Bridge of Spies" or "The Danish Girl" or classic like "Star Wars," you've likely seen their magic at work.
CNN's Nima Elbagir takes us to the Angel family's breathtaking London warehouse.
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NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The warehouse at Angel's Costumiers.
TIM ANGEL, ANGEL COSTUMES: We create worlds. We make-believe. We've got a huge dressing-up box.
ELBAGIR: This is just part of the 8 1/2 miles of clothing rails stored here, housing the imaginations of some of the most famous directors, writers and designers in the world.
ANGEL: This is one of my favorite films, which was "Where Eagles Dare." It's got a little label here, I think, that will probably say "Clint Eastwood."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got company.
ELBAGIR: For seven generations, Tim Angel's family has been making costumes worn by some of the most beloved characters on the stage and screen.
ANGEL: "Fiddler on the Roof," which we did and "The King and I", which we did. "Star Wars" was one. We work on "Game of Thrones." "The Danish Girl."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The only person who made sense of me.
ELBAGIR: These rails play host to a multitude of worlds including Mars.
ANGEL: I loved "The Martian." when they were doing that, the costume team would come in here to get inspiration for what they did.
ELBAGIR (on camera): This is "Shakespeare in Love," Joseph Fiennes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The kinks to show for it.
ELBAGIR: Just feeling this, the detail is extraordinary.
ANGEL: And this was "My Week with Marilyn."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is my special pleasure to introduce a woman who clearly needs no introduction.
ANGEL: She has a bottom.
ELBAGIR: Michelle Williams had to have a false bottom.
ANGEL: Well, yes, because Marilyn Monroe had a very narrow waist and big hips.
ELBAGIR: Yes.
ANGEL: I presume.
ELBAGIR (voice-over): It all adds up to an awful lot of work. But even the simplest concepts still need an intricate attention to detail.
[05:55:04] One of the film's Angels worked on recently is "Lady in the Van."
ANGEL: This is Maggie Smith from "Lady in the Van." It all looks believable, and my mother-in-law's boots.
ELBAGIR: Even with a meticulous organizing system, things still go missing including one of the most iconic costumes of all time. Obi- Wan Kenobi's robe turned up one day out of the blue.
ANGEL: It was a monk's robe that had been hide out for dress parties.
ELBAGIR (on camera): So someone inadvertently hired the original Obi- Wan Kenobi --
ANGEL: Not just one person. I think loads of people.
ELBAGIR (voice-over): Angel says they never know whether the film they're working on will be successful, but often, it's enough just to know they've played their part in making movie magic.
ANGEL: We're working in a make-believe world. We're working with people that are larger than life, and it's great. You know, you still get star struck.
ELBAGIR: Nima Elbagir, CNN, London.
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HOWELL: So much to see in that warehouse.
Now, talk about a fan. Kanye West is being offered $10 million to sell his new album, "The Life of Pablo," to only one person. That person happens to be embattled former pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli who is currently facing charges of security fraud. Shkreli once paid $2 million for the only copy of an album by Wu-Tang Clan. No response yet from Kanye West.
We thank you for watching this hour. I'm George Howell. More news after the break.
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