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Rescue Operations for India Bridge Collapse Continue; Obama Hosts Nuclear Weapons Summit; French Protester Battle with Police; Obama Meets with China's President; Belgian Court Orders Extradition of Salah Abdeslam to France; Apple-FBI Dispute Latest; Supporters Rally on Behalf of Brazil's President; CDC Summit on Zika Virus in US. Aired 3-4a ET
Aired April 01, 2016 - 03:00 ET
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[03:00:00] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: The clock is ticking as rescue crews dig for survivors in Kolkata, India after a busy overpass collapse.
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: And in the U.S., the president meets world leaders to talk security. And there are also growing concerns about a nuclear ISIS.
ALLEN: Also ahead this hour, angry protesters on the streets of France clashing with police, throwing bottles, setting cars on fire. We'll tell you what that's about.
HOWELL: We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm George Howell.
ALLEN: And I'm Natalie Allen. Thank you for joining us. We're live in Atlanta. This is CNN Newsroom.
And we begin with the U.S. presidential race and the next big electoral contest. On Tuesday in Wisconsin, there's been a big shift among the republicans and Ted Cruz is leading in that state.
HOWELL: Right. In fact, the Fox Business Network survey released on Thursday shows Ted Cruz with a 10-point lead over Donald Trump, 42 to 32 percent. Only 19 percent of likely republican Wisconsin voters support John Kasich. This is the second poll this week with Cruz on top.
ALLEN: This comes as a very well-funded group supporting Kasich released a scathing Cruz attack ad.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Many just call him lying Ted. Lied about Ben Carson to steal a win in Iowa. Lies being the best for the GOP when polls show he can't even beat Hillary Clinton. His TV ad about John Kasich, lie. Stations had to pull it off the air. If Ted Cruz's mouth is moving, he's lying.
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ALLEN: Well, it's part of a $500,000 million campaign ahead of Tuesday's Wisconsin primary. Kasich said he had nothing to do with the commercial and is distancing himself from it.
HOWELL: Meanwhile, democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are looking ahead to New York's primary on April 19th.
ALLEN: They both campaigned in the state Thursday where Clinton holds a 12-point lead, but as CNN's Jeff Zeleny report she's not taking her home state for granted.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Now playing in New York, Hillary Clinton.
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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He goes around telling young people he's going to give them free college.
ZELENY: Versus Bernie Sanders.
BERNIE SANDERS, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Secretary Clinton has supported virtually every one of these disastrous trade agreements.
ZELENY: The democratic rivals dueling on their own turf for a whopping prize of 247 delegates.
SANDERS: I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
ZELENY: Their fight is also revolving around that other New Yorker, Donald Trump.
CLINTON: Just yesterday, Donald Trump said women should be punished for having an abortion.
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ZELENY: Both democrats seizing on his comments about how women should be punished for seeking an abortion. He rekindled his words but that did little to stop the firestorm. Sanders tweeted, "Your republican frontrunner, ladies and gentlemen, shameful." By now the Clinton campaign at hope to be focusing on Trump and republicans alone.
But at a rally not far from her Chappaqua home, Clinton found herself tangling with Sanders' supporters.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You win we lose!
CLINTON: Oh, I know the Bernie people came to say that.
ZELENY: As Clinton loyal was rallied to her aid.
(CROWD CHANTING) ZELENY: She had the last word.
CLINTON: What I regret is that they don't want to hear the contrast between my experience, my plans, my vision, what I know I can get done and what my opponent is promising.
ZELENY: But, as she shook hands an environmental activist clearly got under her skin. As captured in this video posted by Greenpeace and circulated by the anti-Clinton super PAC.
CLINTON: I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me.
ZELENY: It's a stark reminder that the democratic primary is also boiling hot. In the Wisconsin, which votes Tuesday, Sanders lead Clinton by 4 percentage points.
Here in New York, Clinton holds a 12-point lead, but she's not resting easy even just touching former President Bill Clinton to union holds across New York City. Before a nighttime rally in the Bronx, Sanders stopped in Pittsburgh.
Sanders: What an extraordinary turnout.
ZELENY: He lashed out at Clinton's support for trade agreements and ties to Wall Street.
SANDERS: I just don't know why Wall Street has not invited me to speak before them. You know, I've got my cell phone on. I'm waiting for the call.
ZELENY: Of course, Wall Street and income equality, two of the issues that are essential to this democratic primary fight and certainly here in New York.
Now one of the questions that's been asked about the Sanders candidacy is can he attract diverse set of voters?
[03:05:03] Well, at this rally behind me in the Bronx you can tell it's one of the most diverse rallies we've seen. So, for tonight, at least the answer is yes.
The Sanders campaign believe that going for the states play well to their strengths. They can attract a diverse set of voters. So, that's why the New York primary on April 19th is so important to how long this democratic race will go.
Jeff Zeleny, CNN, New York.
HOWELL: We are also following that major nuclear security summit in Washington. Leaders from Japan, from South Korea and the United States are pledging to stand together against North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
ALLEN: U.S. President Obama also met Chinese President Xi Jinping, China a key economic ally to North Korea. And Beijing has been criticized before for not doing enough to enforce Western sanctions against Pyongyang.
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BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: Of great importance to both of us is North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons, which threatens the security and stability of the region. And president Xi and I are both committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and full implementation of the U.N. sanctions.
So, we're going to discuss how we can discourage action like nuclear and missile tests that escalate tensions and violate international obligation.
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ALLEN: Alexandra Field is in Brussels live where there are growing concern of terrorism goin nuclear.
All right, Alexandra not ready for us yet. Can't hear us. So, we're going to go to Paula Hancocks. She's in Seoul, South Korea. She has been watching these meetings that are underway in Washington and she joins us now. Paula, hello.
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Natalie. Well, yes, those meetings really have been focusing on North Korea when it comes to the meeting between President Obama and the Japanese and South Korean leaders.
Now just in the past few hours also we've heard from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that North Korea has fired one more missile. This has been happening fairly frequently over recent weeks. A surface to air missile from the East Coast of the Korean Peninsula into the sea.
So, certainly this is one of the these things that leaders will be watching. They are focusing on whether or not the sanctions that have been taken against North Korea recently will be fully implemented.
Certainly all sides want to see that, President Obama saying he wants to restore a sense of stability and peace to the region. All three of those leaders agree with that.
And also President Park Geun-hye of South Korea saying that she wants to make North Korea understand that it cannot survive without giving up its nuclear program. Natalie?
ALLEN: What do we expect as far as these sanctions continue, Paula, what more, perhaps, can be done to see if they're having an effect on North Korea?
HANCOCKS: Well, I think the accepted person responsible or country responsible is China. The fact that they share that very large border with North Korea, the fact that most trade goes through, through China and the fact that much of the smuggling in the past has gone through that border.
So, clearly it's heavily up to China, not solely, to implement those sanctions, all cargo in and out of North Korea now must be inspected according to the sanctions.
And we have heard from President Xi through the Xinhua state-run news agency in China, saying that he's stressing all parties should fully and strictly carry out the U.N. Resolutions. Also calling on all sides to refrain from any rhetoric or action that could increase tension.
So, certainly, according to Xinhua news agency, the Chinese president is very clear that he wants full implementation of these sanctions. Certainly, Beijing surprise many by even agreeing to these sanctions in the first place.
But if fully implemented, according to experts, they could have an impact on the, on potentially on the missile and nuclear program, but of course it will be until the end of the year, they say, until we even know if they are having any kind of an impact, Natalie?
ALLEN: Thank you, Paula Hancocks, for us in Seoul, South Korea. And we will talk with Alexandra Field in Brussels soon here when we reestablish contact.
HOWELL: In Kolkata, India, a rescue operation is underway there. Rescuers is still digging through ruble. They are searching for people who could still be trapped under a highway flyover that collapsed. At least 24 people died there, 80 others were rescued from the debris. It is still not clear why that overpass which was under construction collapsed on Thursday.
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[03:09:58] SHIVAM SINGH, KOLKATA RESIDENT: A lot of people got buried in it. Because it is one of the busiest market of this area. So basically, we are trying to remove the debris and try to, you know, recover the bodies because I don't think many people are alive. Removing the boulders, whatever the debris are there, we are trying to remove them. We are pulling out cars from the debris and helping these people do their job.
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HOWELL: It is a desperate search there. CNN's Ravi Agrawal is live in Kolkata with developments. Ravi, you are in the middle of everything that's happening there. Can you set the scene for our viewers and tell us what is happening around you?
RAVI AGRAWAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, George. We're now into about 24 hours since the bridge first collapsed. You just heard some debris being unloaded behind me on one of the trucks. A lot of the disaster relief sort of authorities here are saying that they're not very optimistic anymore about finding any more bodies in the rubble, dead or alive.
So far, as you said, about 80 bodies have been rescued from the rubble. And really, the scope and scale of the devastation here is quite immense. This was an overpass, what Kolkatans call a flyover that cut through a very busy part of Kolkata, and about a 100 meter stretch of that overpass just gave way 24 hours ago, and it collapsed on a number of people who were working below that.
People who were selling food stuffs, other kinds of things, vendors, drivers. There were cars. You can still see, if I point to the overpass over there, you can still see that there's a truck crushed underneath that.
There are other cars around that that are still trapped in the rubble. Very difficult to get to those parts, and disaster relief authorities here have been working for about 15 hours now, but they're running out of hope.
HOWELL: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was, quote, "shocked and saddened." And the company that actually built that flyover they described it -- an executive described it as an act of God. But when it comes to the why and the how of this bridge coming down, this overpass coming down, who's pointing the finger at who at this point?
AGRAWAL: Well, it's turning into a political blame game of sorts. The party in power in the State of West Bengal, which Kolkata is the capital of, that party, the tune of (ph) Congress, they showed up here a couple of hours after the bridge collapsed and they made every effort at least publicly and visibly to try to and corral support to get disaster relief on board.
They're saying now that we didn't commission this project. It was commissioned by the previous government. Of course the previous government says it has nothing to do with it.
Meanwhile, the construction authority says that it was an act of God. So, a lot of fingers pointing in different directions. Some of it might also be because next week here in Kolkata, we are going to see state assembly elections. These are crucial elections that decide who is going to run this state.
It also has a national impact in terms of how many seats the ruling party gets in power in New Delhi. So, very consequential elections and a lot of fingers being pointed, but really, this is the scene of immense devastation, and this is where rescue efforts are ongoing right now. And hopefully they, they might be able to rescue more people.
HOWELL: So much happening there behind you. Very active scene, and certainly, the hope is that those teams there are able to find anyone else trapped under that debris.
Ravi Agrawal, live in Kolkata. Thank you so much for your reporting, and we will stay in touch.
ALLEN: We want to turn now back to the nuclear summit we were talking about a moment ago. In a few hours, world leaders will have a special session on the nuclear ambitions of ISIS militants. U.S. President Obama met with his French counterpart on Thursday. The two countries pledged to step up their efforts to fight terrorists.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: This is obviously an occasion in which we are deeply concerned
about nuclear security, making sure that nuclear materials don't fall into the hands of terrorists. But in the wake of the Brussels attack with our memories of the tragedy in Paris, we have not only great urgency around the nuclear issue but eliminating generally the scourge of terrorism.
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ALLEN: So there are concerns of, growing concerns of terrorism going nuclear. And our Alexandra Field joins us live from Brussels, Belgium with more about this very serious and terrifying thought there, Alexandra.
[03:15:05] ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sure, Natalie. It is serious. It is concerning. What it isn't, however, is new. And that's sort of the message that you get when you speak to officials here in Belgium. They say look, they know ISIS has an interest in nuclear sites. They know that militants are interested in procuring radioactive material.
So, what they'll tell you is that for the last few years they've been stepping up their efforts to try and secure these sites, to try and cut off potential access to these materials. But we have seen some very direct changes first on the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
We saw them step up security at nuclear sites in this country. And now following the Brussels attacks they say that they're trying to keep the highest level of security in place. And they're also carefully watching and closely monitoring anyone who could have access to those facilities or the materials inside.
This is the path of devastation. Death, left behind by Brussels bombers and brothers Ibrahim and Khalid Bakraoui. They attacked the airport and the metro. But how they considered even more. Did the Bakaraoui brothers have nuclear ambitions? Did they intend to build a dirty bomb?
Those are the kinds of questions that investigators are asking after recovering video from a safe house connected to the terror cell that carried out the attacks in Paris and Brussels.
A senior Belgian counter terrorism official tells us the video shows 10 hours' worth of surveillance on the home of a nuclear researcher. At times you can see him and his family going into and out of the house. Analysts suggest that the video might point to some kind of plot to kidnap the official in order to gain access to radioactive material.
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CLAUDE MONIQUET, EUROPEAN STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY CENTER DIRECTOR GENERAL: It's absolutely noticeable, it was a kind of phantasm in their brain in their head.
FIELD: The fact that this video has even made, how alarming is that to you?
MONIQUET: It is alarming for that this is alarming for the best and to address photo by the terrorist and not so far the nuclear in this field.
FIELD: Could a terrorist realistically carry out an attack by kidnapping one employee?
NELE SCHEERLINCK, BELGIUM'S FEDERAL AGENCY FOR NUCLEAR CONTROL SPOKESWOMAN: No, I don't -- you can kidnap a person, but that does not mean that, it's not that simple that you can just hold a gun to a person's head and force your way in, into a nuclear facility.
There's multiple barriers. Identity checks, physical barriers that prevent someone from getting in, in that kind of way, so I don't think that's very realistic.
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FIELD: In 2014, someone inside the nuclear power reactor in Dell, Belgium sabotaged a non-nuclear part of that plant. Also that year, a terrorist opened fire on a Jewish museum in Brussels. After those incidents, security around Belgium's nuclear facility was stepped up.
According to Belgium's Federal Agency for Nuclear Control following the Paris attacks, armed guards were assigned to protect the facilities in line with practices at other nuclear power plants in Europe. And in the days after the Brussels bombings, four employees had access to various facilities taken away, part of a policy of constant monitoring.
But some of the measures recognized in a recent report from Harvard's Kennedy School saying "Belgium has made some of the most substantial nuclear security improvements in the world." The country had been criticized for failing to strengthen nuclear security sooner.
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ROBERT DOWNES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: No one is suggesting that Belgian nuclear security is compromise or that there is a set of new threats there that Belgium can't cope with. Really, though, the question is whether nuclear security in Belgium is as good as it can possibly be.
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FIELD: The investigators might never know whether the Bakraoui brothers intended to build the dirty bomb or what methods of destruction they may have consider. Only the damage left behind.
And Natalie and George, in terms of that decision to revoke the access of four employees that in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks, the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control says that decision wasn't necessarily connected to the attacks themselves.
They say this is a process that is continually ongoing. They're always watching and evaluating employees.
However, they do say that in one of the cases, one of those four cases, that employee's access was revoked after colleagues reported that this person had what was described as an inappropriate or unusual reaction to the images of the attacks that the whole world was seeing on that morning just last week. Natalie, George?
ALLEN: Curious. All right, Alexandra Field for us there in Brussels. Thank you.
HOWELL: You're watching CNN Newsroom, Still ahead, anger boils over into violence in France as these protesters tell the government its plans for a labor reform will do more harm than good. Full details straight ahead.
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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines.
Qatar has been accused of using forced labor at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha. One of the main stadium for the Word Cup in 2022. The accusation comes from a human rights group Amnesty International. This is the first time that claims have been made about conditions at official World Cup project sites in the Gulf state.
The group accuses FIFA and the Qatari authority of ongoing indifference and mistreatment of laborers. In a response, FIFA said in a statement that it was fully aware of the risks facing construction workers in Qatar but remain convinced that the unique attraction and visibility of FIFA World Cup globally is a strong catalyst for significant change.
The United States Women's Team may well be reigning world champs at the moment, but five members of their all-conquering squad in Canada last year have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. soccer federation for alleged wage discrimination claims. They're paid less than half their male counterparts.
There was also shock last for India in the Twenty20 cricket World Cup on Thursday. The host were heavy favorite heading into the semifinals against the West Indies. But Lendl Simmons stole the show with an 83. Note the Indies took the win with two goals remaining and will now face England in the final, that's in Kolkata on Sunday.
And that's a look at all your World Sport headlines. I'm Kate Riley.
HOWELL: Welcome back.
We take you to France where protests turned violent Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets angry. Some held makeshift shields that read "kill capitalism." And others set cars and trash cans on fire, all because of a proposed law that is supposed to jump start the economy. But protestors argue it's all at the expense of workers' rights. The city of lights illuminated by flares, a major European landmark
off limits as thousands of people filled the streets of Paris Thursday in protest over labor reform proposals. Riot police and tear gas in the city of Gwen (ph) as rallies turned ugly.
Nationwide, more than 100 people were arrested after clashes with law enforcement. The French government says it can boost employment and the country's economy by making it easier for companies to lay off workers and reduce hours. These demonstrators say that's nonsensical.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): It's ridiculous. We're moving backwards year after year, reform after reform. It's always in the wrong direction. A reform nowadays has a completely negative connotation. When I was young, a reform meant something good. It would improve things. But today, it's the opposite.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We're here to fight for our rights. Otherwise we'll lose everything. For us who are quite old, it's OK. But the worst is for our children and grandchildren. They'll be left with nothing.
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[03:25:03] HOWELL: Protest organizers claim 1.2 million people turned out to voice their disapproval of the measures which would also compromise France's statutory 35-hour workweek.
Officials figures put attendance closer to 400,000. But what isn't debatable is the strength of feeling among sections of French society about the possible changes which are due to be voted on within weeks.
French President Francois Hollande says he won't stand for reelection if he can't reduce unemployment to below the current 10 percent. But his detractors argue his methods will do more harm than good.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We've had enough. If it's a law and he pretends to represent the left. The future for the years when we see our youth in universities having to sit sometimes on the floor. Even my dog has a blanket to lie on. It's not OK. The youth are told to study for years but what for? What for if it's to end up unemployed or working at supermarket?
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HOWELL: Strikes across the country disrupted transport and forced the closure of schools in addition to France's most famous attraction, a towering challenge for a president and the government already under intense pressure.
ALLEN: The ex-wife of the world's most wanted man is speaking out. The new details we're learning about the leader of ISIS. That's coming up next here. You're watching CNN Newsroom. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. You're watching CNN Newsroom live from Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen.
[03:30:00] HOWELL: And I'm George Howell.
Here are the headlines we're following this hour. Emergency officials in India say at least 24 people are confirmed dead after a highway overpass collapsed onto a busy marketplace in Kolkata. Eighty others were rescued from the debris. It is not clear, though, why this overpass which was under construction collapsed on Thursday.
ALLEN: A Belgian court has ordered the extradition of Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam to France. Abdeslam became the most wanted man in Europe after the November attack that killed 130 people. Police in Belgium captured him two weeks ago. Unclear when the transfer will be carried out.
HOWELL: At least 14 people are dead after suicide attacks in two separate areas at Northern Iraq. Officials tell CNN six Kurdish police were killed in Makhmur which a car bomb exploded Thursday there.
Another bomb went off in a nearby village targeting the main Peshmerga camp. Eight people were killed and ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
ALLEN: We are learning new details about the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. His former wife gave an interview about their rite marriage and says she was shocked when she found out what he had become.
HOWELL: In fact, she eve described the ISIS chief as a quote, "family man."
CNN's Brian Todd has the story for us.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A new warning from top U.S. officials to the terrorist leader of ISIS - we'll find you.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's days are numbered.
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TODD: President Obama's anti-ISIS envoy says Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is most likely hiding in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqah, Syria. Could U.S. intelligence have just picked up crucial information on Baghdadi from his ex-wife? Saja al-Dulaimi has just given a videotape interview to a CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why did you leave? SAJA AL-DULAIMI, ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI'S EX-WIFE: I wasn't happy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you love him?
AL-DULAIMI: No.
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TODD: Al-Dulaimi says it was a traditional arranged marriage after her previous husband had died. She said she was married to Baghdadi for just a few months in 2008. At that time, Al-Dulaimi says he was a university lecturer who went by a name Hisham Mohammed.
She says she didn't know he had terror connections at that time even though Baghdadi had been held by the Americans at Camp Bucca years earlier.
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MIA BLOOM, "BOMBSHELL:WOMAN IN TERROR" AUTHOR: It is conceivable he was living a double life, and the fact that he didn't tell her anything and he was mysterious was because she was not privy to the real side of him. The mujad (ph) side of him.
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TODD: Saja Al-Dulaimi says she was shocked when she later found out her ex-husband is the most-wanted man in the world. Baghdadi is said to have sexually assaulted American captive Kayla Muller repeatedly, according to U.S. officials. But in her interview, al-Dulaimi describes him as a quote, "family man."
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AL-DULAIMI (TRANSLATED): He was the children's ideal father. The way he was with children, he was a teacher. You know how teachers are, he knew how to deal with children better than how to deal with the mother.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you dare have discussions with him?
AL-DULAIMI (TRANSLATED): no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not?
AL-DULAIMI (TRANSLATED): He has a mysterious personality.
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TODD: She says their relationship was shallow, that Baghdadi would boss her around. Al-Dulaimi says his other wife whom he'd married first, resented her. After just three months of marriage, she says, she left him, but not before becoming pregnant with the terror leader's now 8-year-old daughter, Haggar (ph).
CNN is not revealing her face. Analysts believe that she may be in danger.
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BLOOM: I think that these children are very much in danger, if not just from agents of al-Baghdadi who might try to kidnap them, also people who are opposed to ISIS who may try to use them against Baghdadi.
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TODD: Saja al-Dulaimi's other children are from other husbands. As for the 8-year-old daughter she had with Baghdadi, al-Dulaimi says the terror leader did tell her he would take the child back if she remarried, which she has.
U.S. Intelligence officials aren't commenting on any insights they may have gotten from this interview, but one counterterror official told us the account that Baghdadi is a bad husband should come as no surprise.
Brian Todd, Washington.
HOWELL: The legal fight between Apple and the FBI over the terrorist phone has put another company, this time an Israeli tech firm, into the spotlight.
ALLEN: Neither that security company nor the FBI are talking about what could be a big break in the crucial investigation.
Oren Liebermann is in Tel Aviv for us.
OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Four months after the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the iPhone 5c, one of the shooters remained a critical but inaccessible piece of evidence.
An ugly legal battle between the FBI and Apple suddenly ended when the FBI found a different way to get into the iPhone. An Israeli newspaper citing industry sources said the company that did the work was called Cellebrite.
[03:35:00] Cellebrite's offices are here behind me in this high tech park just outside of Tel Aviv. Now neither the FBI nor Cellebrite will comment on the company's involvement. But Cellebrite specializes in mobile device data extraction and decryption, phone hacking. And that's exactly what the FBI needed in this case.
We reached out to Cellebrite and the FBI repeatedly. Cellebrite didn't return our calls and the FBI wouldn't comment about the company. The FBI has said only that they used the, quote "outside company."
But the FBI signed a $200,000 contract with Cellebrite the same day the FBI announced it had gained access to the content in the shooter's phone. Shares of Cellebrite's parent company, Sun. At a tech conference in 2014, Cellebrite's forensic technical director, Yuval Ben-Moshe told CNN about their work.
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YUVAL BEN-MOSHE, CELLEBRITE FORENSIC TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: We allow a law enforcement have a deep and detailed access to a lot of information that is on the mobile device, and then it allows them to deduct who did, what, when, which is the essence of any investigation when you look at it.
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LIEBERMANN: Cellebrite's technology isn't just a hack on an iPhone. Critics say it's a hack on privacy. Ben Moshe says his company has been challenged in court.
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MOSHE: You got to make sure that whatever you bring into court can stand there and can stand any cross examination. There are very, very strict rules and guidelines with most of the countries. And we meet them. We meet those to the best of our knowledge.
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LIEBERMANN: To learn more about mobile device security we meet Michael Shaulov. He is a mobile technology expert at Check Point, an Israeli cyber security firm. What are the weak points of an iPhone or any mobile device that you could access the phone through?
MICHAEL SHAULOV, CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHONOLOGY EXPERT: When you connect the cable to the phone and then you can get abuse all kinds of protocols that the iPhone can communicate with their laptops. And then using by hijacking or by manipulating those protocols you can actually unlock the phone.
LIEBERMANN: If I give you my iPhone, if I hand it to you how long will it take to you hack this iPhone?
SHAULOV: It will probably take me faster to hack your phone when it's actually in your hands rather than you give me the phone. It's much easier to conduct a social engineering attack basically to send you something that you will click on and you install something on your phone rather than I will try to actually guess or break your pass code.
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LIEBERMANN: This is the flip side of the startup nation, innovation used to build security now used to exploit vulnerabilities. Is Cellebrite the company behind the U.S. government's iPhone hack? They will not say, but notably the company that sign the FBI contract and was enthusiastically touting its technology not long ago has now gone silent.
Oren Lieberman, CNN, Tel Aviv.
ALLEN: Well, the southeastern United States is taking a beating from some violent weather. Tornadoes, hail, and flooding have been pounding hard of the region. There's one right there.
HOWELL: That's right. The National Weather Service says a suspected tornado was spotted near New Hope, Mississippi. A local emergency management official tells CNN there are reports of downed trees and roof damage, but so far no injuries.
ALLEN: Let's check in with our meteorologist, Karen Maginnis. This is your top story, I would presume.
KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is. And the severe weather season is on us and across the southeast. The violent weather is taking shape across the deep south. This is a multi-day event.
New Hope is just about in this vicinity where you see this tornado icon. Now the local National Weather Service office will have to send out people. They survey the damage. They look at the extent of damage, the type of damage that's done, and then they give a value to that tornado, meaning enhanced fajita one through five.
And so, we'll look at this, but go ahead and take a look at the damage. This out of Mississippi, New Hope, there were downed trees, they were down power lines, and amazingly enough no reports of any injuries from this touchdown.
You can imagine just how frightening it was as this came towards the evening hours. But not just there, also at Riceville, this in Northern Alabama, where some of that severe weather is shifting a little bit farther to the east and to the south, here's Huntsville, here is Birmingham, sort of just to the south of Huntsville, Alabama.
Here's Riceville, there's the cell that was the problem maker that produced the tornado there. Also, no reports of any injuries. Amazingly enough, but numerous reports of very high water. And now we shift that focus a little further to the east. And some reports we've just gotten another update on the computer models, and we were looking at four to six inches just to the south of Atlanta, now it looks like that has changed again.
This weather system seems to be falling apart. That's not to say we won't see more in the way of severe weather, because we certainly could. And this should materialize on Friday through the Carolinas, South Georgia, and then into the Panhandle of Florida and maybe even into Alabama.
Well, just when you thought spring was here, because we're seeing the springtime system, here's a little clipper system. Clipper because it moves very fast. That's the good news.
[03:40:02] But the clipper's going to usher in much cooler air, not necessarily going into Friday, but when you look at Saturday and Sunday, these temperatures are going to be well below normal. Don't put away those coats and sweaters just yet. Back to you guys.
ALLEN: That's not an April fool's joke there?
MAGINNIS: No, it's not. That's to say April is fickle, for sure. HOWELL: Karen, thank you so much.
Award winning architect Zaha Hadid has died. Coming up, her innovative designs that amazed and inspired people around the world.
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ALLEN: Tens of thousands of Brazilians are showing support for their embattled President Dilma Rousseff. They rallied in 17 states in the nation's capital Thursday as lawmakers consider a request to impeach Rousseff. She says efforts to remove her from office amount to a coup.
HOWELL: In the meantime, Brazil's Supreme Court has dealt a temporary victory to her mentor, the ex-president there, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The justices removed the corruption investigation from the lower court judge who have seen as a crusader against graft.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hosting a Zika action plan summit on Friday. Their aim is to come up with a coordinated response to deal with the growing threat from that virus.
ALLEN: CDC says active Zika transmission has been identified in 39 countries and territories worldwide. A health alert was issued after the first Brazilian Zika case was confirmed in May of last year.
HOWELL: In South Africa, scientists are working overtime in the only level four biosafety lab on the continent. But their mission to fight the virus like Zika also takes them to some very unusual places.
David McKenzie has this report for us.
[03:45:00] DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The hazmat suits and respirators make for a difficult descent. It's much- needed protection against what we could find in the cave below.
We're following some of the world's most highly trained virus hunters in search of disease carrying bats. So, they have to crawl through the narrow gaps into the different chambers because in each chamber there could be a different type of bat which could have different viruses.
And in this cave, there are thousands. Each one with the potential to carry rabies, Marburg perhaps even Ebola.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is another male.
MCKENZIE: Some of the world's most severe but least-understood viruses.
WANDA MARKOTTER, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA PROFESSOR: Even with ebola, there's not a direct link between the human outbreaks from the bats. We see some evidence in the bats, and we see human outbreaks but we can't say that bat cause the human outbreak.
MCKENZIE: So, so much is still unknown. MARKOTTER: So, a lot is still unknown.
MCKENZIE: So, they study diseases here in bat populations before the potential human outbreaks.
MARKOTTER: Otherwise you just react before they did, a lot of people did like we did in the Ebola outbreaks.
MCKENZIE: So, if you just react, it's often too late.
MARKOTTER: And your response is late. So, this is an adult.
MCKENZIE: This is some remote cave outside just miles away Johannesburg, a city of four million. So close to human habitation this type of monitoring and prevention is critical.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In this lab, we're working with the most dangerous pathogens known to humans.
MCKENZIE: Disease detection that exist. Thank you this, a fully- enclosed pressurized safety lab. The only one of its kind in Africa. With the highest level of precaution must be taken researchers train for a year just to step inside.
Here they aren't surprised that the recent outbreak of Zika, a virus once thought to be remote and isolated.
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NANCY KNIGHT, U.S. CDC COUNTY DIRECTOR: We have a global world. So, these emerging viruses, while we may find them here in Africa, they may impact the populations here, the people here, and the animals here, and they may impact populations in other countries.
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MCKENZIE: Outside the cave, blood and saliva samples are taken and the bats are marked before being released back into an environment that seems increasingly primed for outbreaks.
David McKenzie, CNN, Hotrum Cave, South Africa.
ALLEN: What an assignment for David there.
HOWELL: Yes.
ALLEN: Well, one of the world's most innovative architects has passed away. Zaha Hadid is known for her unconventional sweeping designs that dazzle the eye and the imagination.
HOWELL: They are indeed beautiful. The curves, the architecture just beautiful.
Hala Gorani has a look at the incredible mark that she made on modern architecture. HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Zaha Hadid's work can be seen in
cities around the world, from Manhattan to Miami, Morocco and Moscow. She was known for her curvy, dramatic and contemporary designs. Among her most famous building the London Aquatic Center built for the 2012 Olympic Games.
This MAXXI Museum in Rome. This colossal cultural in Azerbaijan's capital. And Cincinnati's contemporary art center. The design that jump started her career and the first museum in the U.S. designed by a female architect.
Born in Baghdad, she knew since she was a little girl that she was destined to build great things.
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ZAHA HADID, ARCHITECT: I always wanted to be an architect, since I was maybe I don't know, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. I can't remember now. I think I saw a show in Baghdad which intrigued me.
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GORANI: Hadid grew up in Iraq studied math in Beirut and left for London in the early 1970s to pursue her dream. She graduated from London's prestigious school of architecture and established her own firm in 1979.
She went on to design boundary-pushing structures all over the world. And not just buildings, Hadid came up with furniture, even shoes. Her critics described her as the Lady Gaga of architecture, and she won numerous awards worldwide for her work.
Most notably, in 2004, she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor.
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HADID: It's a wow honor and it's fantastic day for me and it was a great day for me.
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GORANI: Hadid also said as a non-British woman in London, she felt like an outsider at times, but add sometimes this worked in her favor, helping her break ground in a male-dominated field.
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HADID: I used to not like being called a woman architect. I'm architect, I'm not just a woman architect.
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GORANI: Zaha Hadid, a deem commander of the British empire and one of Time Magazine's most influential people. Her legacy lives on within many skylines around the world. [03:50:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
MAGINNIS: Hello, eaveryone. I'm CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis. This is your weather watch.
In violent storms across the southeastern United States between Atlanta and Birmingham. Numerous reports of high winds, hail, heavy downpours and now we're receiving some reports of some tornados, especially in northern Alabama.
Take a look at the overall forecast as we go into the next 24 hours or so. We'll see a little bit of snow wrapped around the great lakes, a little leftover snowfall across the interior west. But the southeast continues to see some of that wet weather. It looks like the really strong storms will diminish, and we'll see a replacement where temperatures are going to be a little bit on the cooler side.
Look at the snowfall all the way from the Dakotas into the upper great lakes region, into the eastern great lakes and maybe some sections of northern New England as well. How about some temperatures in Denver. Mostly sunny, about 9 degrees, Chicago, showers on the way, New York, 22, thunderstorms in the forecast there.
Miami 31. Los Angeles, sunny and comfortable. High temperature around 18 degrees. A little bit further to the south, Havana partly cloudy, 32. Bliss City, sunshine and 32 degrees expected there. And most of the activity we will be will be in South America with thunderstorms in Brazil.
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ALLEN: And welcome back. The next big prize of the U.S. presidential primary season is up for grabs next Tuesday. Republicans and democrats in the State of Wisconsin go to the polls.
HOWELL: That's right. On the republican side it is winner-take-all. CNN's Zain Asher tells us that's one reason why Wisconsin matters.
ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDET: All eyes on Wisconsin, famous for its beers, bratwurst and cheese curds. Democratic or republican candidates are descending on the badger state ahead if its April 5th primary.
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[03:55:08] TED CRUZ, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Wisconsin is a battleground.
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ASHER: With 42 delegates up for grabs, the stakes are especially high for republicans. Ted Cruz has picked up the endorsement of Wisconsin's Governor, Scott Walker, himself an early casualty of the republican race, while former Wisconsin Governor Tony Thompson is backing John Kasich.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TONY THOMPSON, FORMER WISCONSIN GOVERNOR: Wisconsin is a very independent state.
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ASHER: They're hoping to stop frontrunner Donald Trump's momentum before the race heads to Trump's home state, the New York primary on April 19th.
On the democratic side, the 86 pledge delegates at stake are crucial for Bernie Sanders hope of making up ground on Hillary Clinton's big delegate lead.
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BERNIE SANDERS, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We think we do have a path toward victory.
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ASHER: Wisconsin could also prove key in November's general election. While its home to the republican leader in Congress, Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, President Obama won the state in both 2012 and 2008.
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THOMPSON: Wisconsin is one of those states that you really don't know how the people are going to vote.
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ASHER: And state officials are expecting a huge voter turnout, saying they could see the state's biggest number of voters for a primary in 36 years.
Zain Asher, CNN, Atlanta.
HOWELL: Wisconsin on Tuesday, we will have to wait and see. We thank you for watching this hour. I'm George Howell.
ALLEN: I'm Natalie Allen. Remember to connect with us anytime on Twitter. Early Start coming up for viewers in the U.S.
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