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South Korea Military on High Alert after North Korea Missile Launch; Thousands Protest Trade Deal Between U.S. and EU; Memorial Service for Prince. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired April 24, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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[04:00:12] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN NEWSROOM ANCHOR: The South Korea military is on high alert after yet another Korean missile launch from North Korea.

In Europe, thousands of protests to propose trade deal between the United States and EU ahead of President Barack Obama's arrival to Germany.

And family and friends hold a private memorial service for Prince as hundreds continue to honor his memory, outside it's a state in Minnesota.

Live from CNN world headquarters here in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm George Howell. CNN Newsroom starts, right now.

A very good day to you. We begin this hour with the weapons test that North Korea is calling "A great success", that nations leader Kim Jong-Un was reportedly there to oversee the launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, that missile fired off the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula, and in response the U.S. quickly condemned that test urging the North Korea government not to destabilized the region. France, also weighing in calling on the EU to initiate their own sanctions against North Korea.

This latest missile test has South Korean officials keeping a very close eye on activities to the north of its border and our Paul Hancocks is following it all, live in Seoul, South Korea this hour.

Paula, it's good to have you, so North Korea calling this latest tests a success, but what are we hearing from officials in South Korea about it?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, George, it's interesting that we have heard from the joint team (ph) of staff on Saturday night when it happened, and they did say that this missile flew about 30 kilometers and they say for it to be considered a success traditionally but this type of launch to be a success. It has to fly back 300 kilometers.

Now clearly it was far short of the mark, but South Korean officials are not calling this a favor. So that significant in itself. The very fact that they don't know what the intended target was or the range was for North Korea but of course any individual test they do no matter what the act some, Pyongyang is learning a fair but from that.

I know you heard from statement media a KCNA as well say that they were trying to confirm the stability of the underwater ballistic missile launching system in the maximum depths of waters and they say that they believed this has enhance the capability of their navy. To as far as North Korea is concern, it was a great success.

We have the photos that they have published -- Kim Jong-Un the young leader looks extremely please with what has just happened in those photos. George?

HOWELL: Paula, I want to read the statement coming from the former DPRK ambassador, it says, "As long as the U.S. does not cancel it's nuclear war exercise with South Korea and its hostile policy against us, we will continue powerfully advancing our nuclear activity without arresting day." So, obviously we don't see the United States stopping with its responsibilities with South Korea when it comes to military connection.

What could be done then, from the United States perspective, from international perspective or with China that North Korea has long listen to it and pay attention to.

HANCOCKS: Well, North Korea has called for the drills to be finished and to be stop on a number of occasions that they dangle the caress of we will stop the nuclear test, that's nothing new and certainly the U.S. and South Korea until this point to have not pay any attention about, they just carry on the military drills which are near in the end of this point to, they end on April 30th.

We do know that the Beijing certainly its relationship with North Korea has changed quite significantly, it was a very close ally, now we have seen that it is clear that Beijing is loosing patience with North Korea, its not warned about this kind of test ahead of time. Pyongyang and Kim Jong-Un is ignoring Beijing's calls the restraint, and not to make the situation even worst and of course Beijing did support those very strong UN sanctions with propose back in March and of course it falls largely to China to make sure that they are implemented.

So, certain I think from Washington's point of view and from Seoul's point of view, they feel they have China on side and they feel that the Beijing has been keep embarrassed really by Pyongyang in past -- by continuing to carry out this nuclear test, satellite launches, claims of militarizing a nuclear weapon and of course now this ballistic missile from the submarine and not hitting Beijing's desire for them to stop. George?

[04:05:07] HOWELL: Our correspondent Paula Hancocks live for us in Seoul. Paula, thank you for your reporting today.

This test is raising concerns about North Korea's military progress. A former U.S. ambassador to South Korea explains that one major partnership is what it might take to slow down North Korea, listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CHRISTOPHER HILL, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA: Oh I think China and the United States are really in this both together surround and talked about what more China could do or what more the U.S. should do, I think the real question is what could they do together and frankly speaking out in China and the U.S. together to do a lot to just slay North Korea from doing this starting with the sanctions but also stepping up measures, perhaps even direct counter measures to slow down these programs.

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HOWELL: Keep in mind is already task within forcing foreign trade sanctions against North Korea.

The Germany Chancellor, Angela Mekel visited a sprawling refugee camp on the Turkish Syrian border. On Saturday, surveying the growing migrant crisis from the front line Saturday along with other EU leaders. This trip though comes amid criticism of the EU's deal with Turkey that is meant to stand the flow with migrants into Europe.

Nick Paton Walsh has the latest for us.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Alone this is about symbolism for Germany Chancellor, Angela Merkel wanting to be seen, to be seen and to be concerned about the human rights and living conditions of Syrian refugees here on the Syria and Turkish border area, because of course she is the key broker of the deal between the European Union and Turkey that will see thousands and many more refugees sent back from across the European Union here to Turkey in exchange for $6 billion Euros of aid and assistance to Turkey in dealing with their broad and injuring refugee crisis here.

And now, she's so responsible toward here a place called the NVIDIA (ph) temporary shelter. That is frankly one of the better shelters and provided for Syrian refugees here, it's not show of how long term the problems being here.

Nearly 500 of people living in that one shelter, where in fact pulling there and so as one intend of it's in absence and never seeing life outside of a refugee camp like that but a real concern is for the many others of 2.7 million Syrian refugees here in Turkey don't have living conditions like that.

Turkey's face a problem way in excess of the near (inaudible) so Syrian refugees, the European Union has have to do with since the summer. But Angela Merkel here with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey to show the essence of cooperation to perhaps in some way endorsed the kind of conditions that Turkey can provide here and it also remind yourself as well to that the European Union has a part of this deal, agree to accept nearly about 70,000 potentially to Syrian refugees resettlement across the European Union as well. But a lot of this is about symbolism but Angela Merkel has faced deep criticism at home for perhaps pushing human rights in terms of freedom of speech here in Turkey to one side to foster good relations with the administration of the President Erdogan being sure to be seeing here, to be concerned about those Syrian refugees will be sent back here as part of a deal, that she was the key broker around but still the problem here, injuring the bonds across the border, terrifying and the potential threats of future refugees in the months down the line.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Gaziantep.

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HOWELL: As Merkel visited the refugee camp there in Turkey, there are migrants along the Greek-Macedonian border who say that they are disappointed in the German Chancellor. They accused her of ignoring what they're going through. More than 10,000 people have been stranded there at that border since February and some migrants say they've been forgotten and that no one cares.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (In Translation): The meeting between Merkel and Erdogan is entailed for our benefits. They're exploring their own problems. I hope to solve their differences and so that Turkey can be in the European Union.

No one cares about us. All we want is to pass. I swear that's all we want. We don't want anything else. We didn't come here to cause problems or to become terrorists. We are just here to find safety and to look for a better life.

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HOWELL: The German Chancellor, certainly in the news this day also meeting with the U.S. President Barack Obama, who was headed to Germany in the coming hours for trade talks.

Ahead of Mr. Obama's visit, thousands of people rally against what some consider to be a very controversial plan or trade between the EU and the United States. It would create the world's largest free trade area. Supporters say that, that would result in more than a million jobs but critics still worry that would give make U.S. corporations too much power.

With more on President Obama's visit in Germany, our senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert is Southwest of Hanover this hour. Atika it's good to have you. So as this protest go what is the sense there on the ground? Are officials expecting more protests when the president arrives?

[04:10:07] ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: But we saw tens of thousands people come out yesterday, like police estimate somewhere around 30,000 coming out to protest against that. That's called the TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. A huge crowds, but we don't expect to see any of that today. Security is very tight in Hannover at the beginning of the world's largest industrial trade fare which Obama will be here to open. And so we won't be seeing any more of those protests. But clearly those again seek agreement have made their voices heard. And the biggest concerns for them is the synchronization of regulations between the EU and the U.S. market.

Of course here in the EU, regulations on environmental safety, food safety, other legislation, labor regulations for example are much tougher. And there's a lot of concern here that if regulations are brought to a U.S. level it's going to hurt the labor markets and other economies here. And so that's why you see those large protest.

But despite all that however, President Obama does remain a popular figure here in Germany and throughout Europe. So will be interesting to see what his reception is when he gets here.

HOWELL: When it comes to the relationship between these two leaders, they have definitely have their ups and downs. You know, a low point for sure was when it was revealed that the U.S. government had been tapping the chancellor's phone but then the two maintained close ties as Europe deals with a more aggressive Russia.

So, you know, how is this final trip for the U.S. President in Germany? How is he being viewed by Germans?

SHUBERT: You know, it's interesting but Markel and Obama have had -- their relationship has really evolved. When he first became president, Markel was reportedly looked a little bit skeptical of the new president. But in that time it's clearly grown quite a bit in part because of the many challenges they have faced dealing with President Putin in Russia. For example the Syria crisis, the refugee crisis as well.

And so we've seen President Obama speaking to a German newspaper here, Bill saying that he's learned a lot from Merkel and that she is the leader that he has worked with the longest. And so that he admires many of her integrity and her values.

So that sort of a warm relationship has really grown between the two. In terms of his reception here by the German public, he remains a great popular figure, you know, in 2013 he had that massive speech at Brandon Brigade in Berlin where thousands -- tens of thousands of people came out to hear him speak. So even with the protest against the trade agreement, even with the ups and down of Angela Merkel with her own voting public here, Obama remains popular.

We'll have to see what he says at his speech at the Hannover trade fair, but it will be about that German-U.S. partnership.

HOWELL: Atika Shubert, live for us at Germany this hour. Atika, thank you for your reporting today. And during the president's visit to the U.K., he sat down for an interview with the BBC. In a wide ranging interview, he gave his thoughts on what it will take to solve serious conflict. Listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: It is my view that it would be a mistake for the United States, for Great Britain, or a common nation of western states to send in ground troops and over throw the Assad regime.

But I do believe that we can apply international pressure to all the parties including Russia and Iran who essentially are propping Assad. As well as those moderate opposition that exist and may be fighting inside of Syria, to sit down at the table and try to broker a transition.

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HOWELL: While in the United Kingdom, Mr. Obama also held a town hall to connect with everyday Brits. He took questions on various topics from gay rights to his legacy and rejecting Islamophobia. The president also told his group of young leaders there that were gathered to keep up the good fight for change in the world.

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OBAMA: My primary message today is going to be to reject pessimism and cynicism. Know that progress is possible, that our problems can be solved. Progress requires the harder path, the breaking on barriers and building bridges and standing up for the values of tolerance and adversity that our nations have worked and sacrificed to secure and defend.

Progress is not inevitable and it requires struggle and perseverance and discipline and fate. But that's the story of how we want voting rights, and women's right, and workers' rights, and civil rights, and immigration rights and gay rights because of those who came before us often risk their lives to give us the chance to know something better.

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[04:15:10] HOWELL: Meanwhile, back here in the United States, Michelle Obama was addressing racism. On Saturday, Ms. Obama gave one of her final commencements speeches as first lady out of historically Black University in Mississippi.

During her address there she urged students use peaceful means when it comes to dealing with discrimination.

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MICHELLE OBAMA, U.S.FIRST LADY: Are you going to throw up your hands and say that progress will never come? Are you going to get angry and lash out?

Are you going to turn inward and just give in to the spare in frustration or are you going to take a deep breath, straighten your shoulders and lift up your head and do what Barack Obama has always done and he says when they go low, I go high that's the choice. Barack and I have made that's one has kept us safe over the years.

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HOWELL: When they go low, I go high. Wow! That's an impressive statement there. Ms. Obama will deliver two more commencement speeches in 2016, one in the Mexico and the other in the State of New York.

You are watching CNN Newsroom. And still to come this hour, music legend Prince was celebrated in a private memorial some fans even received the special gift from his family and friends.

Plus Hillary Clinton is coming out swinging but her punches they're not aim the Bernie Sanders.

Stay with us.

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[04:20:38] HOWELL: The remains of music legend Prince have been cremated. Family, friends and band members held a private memorial service. His publicist says his final resting place will not be revealed.

Since Prince died on Thursday at his Minnesota home, families and friends, many people have been gathering outside and on Saturday family and friends of the musician. They gave admirers about a dozen purple boxes with special items inside.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was in your box?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, I have just -- it looks like it came from his home. I'm just going to, you know, keep it that but it's just a booklet and then for some reason, to me, this is my personality so well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is beautiful.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hold that for us so that we can see it. There we go. And then what did you get in your box?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is amazing because you can see there I have things out there. I pursue body building and I pursue, you know, wait with the and for -- it's like the first nevi (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It seems like -- if for him, have you given me a tank top, you know, he's amazing.

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HOWELL: The cause of Prince's death, still under investigation, remains unknown.

America's Choice 2016, the race for the White House, five states are going to the polls on Tuesday for primary elections.

Republican and Democratic candidates face big contest in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Thirty-eight delegates had stake for Republicans in Maryland and 95 plus 23 superdelegates for the Democrats.

Pennsylvania is another big prize, though, with 71 delegates for the Republicans and 189 delegates plus 21 superdelegates for the Democrats.

All of the voting on Tuesday is happening in the North East and that is where Republican Donald Trump and Ted Cruz -- that's where they're campaigning very hard this weekend.

Trump wants to keep a momentum up from his huge victory in New York and he's facing criticism now after a top advisor was caught on tape saying that Trump's private persona is different from the "part" that he plays publicly. Rival Ted Cruz assize on that saying that the man who dubbed him is lyin' Ted, he's a phony. Cruz is also coming off a win on Saturday hitting up 19 of Maine's 20 delegates.

And on the Democratic side of things, frontrunner Hillary Clinton started avoiding criticism of her rival Bernie Sanders and instead, she is now going fiercely against Donald Trump, but that hasn't stop Bernie Sanders from going after the former Secretary of State.

CNN's Chris Frates has more for us.

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CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bernie Sanders is back to criticizing Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail hitting her during several stops on Saturday in Maryland and Delaware.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I-VT) DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Our last reporting period, our Super PAC reported 25 million and special interest $15 million from Wall Street alone. And on top of that she has given numerous features to Wall Street, the $225,000 on speech.

FRATES: Clinton meanwhile campaign on a smaller scale Saturday holding a conversation with workers in Connecticut. Later she held her rally in Rhode Island.

In recent days, she's largely avoiding hitting Sanders and focused her fire instead on Donald Trump.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Loose canons tend to misfire and what we have with him is the loosest of all canons. FRATES: She released the video urging voters to remember his controversial positions as he starts to pivot towards the general election and that follow the shot she took at Trump in Pennsylvania, which she criticizes proposal to temporary banned Muslims from entering the country.

Sanders' is lagging Clinton in Pennsylvania by almost 30 points according to a new poll there. Sanders' holds events today in Rhode Island and Connecticut, where Clinton also campaigns this afternoon.

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HOWELL: That was Chris Frates there for reporting for us from Washington.

It's 4:24 on the U.S. East Coast. And still ahead this hour, revisiting Nepal one year after a devastating earthquake, there're thousands died in the 2015 quake and Nepal's capital was left in ruins. So, how is that nation recovering? An update ahead.

Plus eight family members shot dead in a small U.S. town. The killer or killers still on the run. An update on the manhunt.

[04:25:01] Live from Atlanta and around the world this hour, you're watching CNN Newsroom.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, you are watching CNN Newsroom, it is good to have you with us. I'm George Howell.

The headlines this hour.

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HOWELL: North Korea, claim leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw the test firing of a ballistic missile from a submarine, calling the launch "successful." But South Korea said that the missile only flew about 30 kilometers. That's about 18 miles.

The U.S. official called it "provocative but not a threat." When it comes though to North Korea, much of the world is certainly concerned about all the recent military test and it's forcing many questions now. Many countries are asking whether Pyongyang is a legitimate danger to them. But one question that hasn't gotten much attention is why is all this happening now?

[04:30:13] CNN's Will Ripley looks at what may be driving North Korea's latest efforts.

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's important to keep in mind the timing here and the context of what's happening inside North Korea. We are just a couple of weeks away from one of the country's most important political gatherings in 35 years. It's the Workers Party Congress, the first since 1980. The last time they held a Workers Party Congress, the North Korean President and Founder Kim Il-sung appointed his son Kim Jong-il as his successor.

And this time around, the founder and president's grandson, the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is expected to reshuffle party leadership and perhaps consolidate his power, making him even more powerful in that country. So, all of this military activity we've seen in recent months may be attempts by the leadership, by the supreme leader, to project strength, to show force ahead of this political gathering. That's the message for his domestic audience and also for the international community as well.

And we've seen a lot happening this year. There was that H-bomb test, that reported H-bomb test in January, then one month later, a satellite launch. I was just in North Korea last week for that attempted missile launch from a mobile launching device on the nation's most important holiday, the Day of the Sun, but that launch attempt according to the U.S. and South Korea failed.

Now, we see this apparent submarine launch and there is even speculation among many putting the South Korean government that North Korea could be preparing another nuclear test, again ahead of this Worker's Party Congress, a very important political gathering and an opportunity for the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un to show his strength to the people in his country and the rest of the world sending a very ominous message at an important time.

Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

HOWELL: Now on to Ecuador where the death toll is rising. More than a week after a powerful earthquake that rocked that country, officials say at least 654 people have now died from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck on April 16. More than 12,000 people are injured and 58 are still missing. Ecuador's president has raised taxes to boost reconstruction efforts there.

This weekend, we are remembering yet another deadly earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal last April. It destroyed Nepal's capital city and it left thousands injured and even homeless. So, how are people dealing with it now? How are they fairing?

CNN's Moni Basu went back to Kathmandu for this update.

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MONI BASU, CNN SENIOR ENTERPRISE WRITER: Sadly the earth's rumbling seems so fresh. In parts of Kathmandu and in towns and villages around the Nepalese capital, the rubble of buildings still lay strewn on the street. Piles of debris were stacked high.

I was driving back one day from the outskirts of the city when suddenly my eyes fell on this large field filled with tents. I was told later that it had become sort of an official tent city with an office there. There were 500 tents, 2,000 people still living there. There's no electricity. There's no running water. And people there are just eking out an existence.

One man I spoke with actually in one of the larger tent cities told me that he was going with a delegation to speak to the Nepalese prime minister. And I asked him, what will you say to the prime minister? And he looked at me and he said, "Help us."

In Durbar Square, there are many old temples and palaces. This is where everyone who visits Kathmandu, this is one of the first places people go to. And it was shocking last year when many of them came crashing down. There's been very, very little recovery work done there, reconstruction work done there.

And first thing I thought of when I went back to Durbar Square this time and saw all those damaged buildings and the debris and the piles of bricks, I thought of them as national festering wounds for all the world to see.

I had covered the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and went back a year later. I was reminded of Haiti when I went to some of the tent cities, the makeshift camps. And you know, in Haiti, people -- thousands and thousands of people made those tents their home. They became permanent homes for people. They lived there for years and years.

[04:35:00] If you only hope that the Nepalese people fare better than the Haitians and that their recovery doesn't take as long, but, you know, a lot of people I spoke with say that they don't think their country will ever be the same again.

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HOWELL: Now to a developing story that we are following here on CNN, a solar-powered plane is now one step closer to circling the globe. The Solar Impulse 2 landed in California just a short time ago after two and a half days flight across the Pacific, a long flight there and was piloted by a Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard and he now joins us on the line from Mountain View, California.

Bertrand, it's good to have you with us.

BERTRAND PICCARD, SOLAR IMPULSE 2 PILOT: It's a pleasure to be here in Silicon Valley which is the center of innovation and to arrive here with the first airplane that can fly forever with absolutely no fuel.

HOWELL: It's amazing. Bertrand, we're look at an image right now of your plane flying right alongside the Golden Gate Bridge. What a moment that had to be.

PICCARD: That was incredible. You know, for several hundred years, it was boats coming from the west that were arriving and see the Golden Gate like the symbol of freedom in America. And today, it was the solar airplane that flies with no fuel. And it's a new era. It's not science fiction. It's today, it exists and clean technologies can do the impossible.

HOWELL: It is a moment of marvel. Certainly, this moment quite a success and hopefully many more successes but there have also been setbacks. Just talk to us about what has been your journey with this new technology? PICCARD: The journey started 17 years ago after my flight around the world nonstop in the balloon. I was afraid of being short of gas, short of fuel during this 20-day flight nonstop, and I made a promise that I would fly with no fuel around the world in a solar airplane.

So of course in the beginning, people tell you it's impossible, people laugh at you, it's difficult to find a partner, difficult to find a team. So it's true that 16 last years were more difficult than the flight itself. The flight for me was the accomplishment of this vision, this dream I had. And for the entire team, it's a moment of pure elation because we can prove the credibility and reliability of these clean technologies and the renewable energies.

Howell: Can we -- I want to show this. We're looking here right now at the world and we're looking at your trek so far. You started in Abu Dhabi and that is where you're expected to end. Talk to us about the plan to get back to Abu Dhabi.

PICCARD: Yes, the first half of the flight of around the world, that was from Abu Dhabi to India, to Myanmar, to China, to Japan, to Hawaii and now, to North America. And we will now cross the United States in the next weeks to arrive in New York. We take turns with my partner Andre Borschberg.

And after that, it will be the Atlantic. I dream of course of flying New York to Paris in Solar Impulse then we will cross Europe, the Mediterranean, maybe make a stop in Egypt and finish hopefully next June or July in Abu Dhabi. And that will be the first solo flight around the world with no fuel at all.

HOWELL: New York to Paris, man, that's one of my favorite legs to make there. I'll have to watch your journey as you do that for sure. But I want to point this out, it is amazing technology, but one challenge is that you need almost perfect weather to fly in it. What were the conditions in China? Talk to us about the challenges that you experienced there and how do you overcome that obstacle?

PICCARD: We have a very big team of weather specialists, people who simulate on the computer all the flights depending on the turbulence, the weather, the sunshine, and so on. And this is why sometimes we stay stuck for a certain time. In China, we were stuck for three weeks before we could continue because of bad weather.

But don't forget one thing, when the Wright Brothers were flying IN 1903...

HOWELL: The Wright Brothers.

PICCARD: ... they had the same problem.

HOWELL: Yeah.

PICCARD: The Wright Brothers, they could fly alone with good weather very slow, a little bit like Solar Impulse today. But we have to open the way, show that it's possible to move ahead and to do much more with these clean technologies. And I hope that Solar Impulse is like a signal to the world that clean technologies can do the impossible. And if they carry an airplane day and night with no fuel.

[04:40:02] Of course they can be used everywhere for electric mobility, insulation of houses, LED lamps, smart grid, you know, light structure for everything that moves to save energy. And this is really the living proof that it's possible and I hope enough people will understand it and will really go into this clean tech revolution.

HOWELL: The pilot of Solar Impulse 2, Bertrand Piccard on the phone with us. Bertrand we wish you to continued safety and we leave you with that image there of the plane flying by the Golden Gate Bridge. What an impressive journey.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to Newsroom, I'm George Howell. Friday's adoption of the Paris Agreement tackles climate change and rising temperatures, but new studies reveal how urgent that matter really is. And to talk more about it our meteorologist Derek Van Dam is here.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: George, you know, the Paris Agreement is trying to get the countries to come together, to hold that increasing global temperature below 2 degrees. But they are also striving to pursue those efforts to limit up to 1.5 degrees, but there's -- now this new research has come out talking about the difference between a 1.5degree world and a 2 degree warming the world and I'm going to show you what that is because it's quite astounding to see what this means for certain parts of the world.

So if you are tuning in this morning or perhaps this evening, West Africa, South America, into Southeast Asia, this will impact you and let me explain why. We have a difference here between that 1.5 half to 2 degree warming world to see heat-related extremes beyond some of the higher end of the extremes that we would anticipate from the climate change and global warming going forward.

We could see heat waves last longer and become more frequent for instance.

[04:45:01] And the dry spells meaning drought conditions comparing from 1.5 to 2 degree warming world, that would've cover a significant larger area. So this is going to impact crops. For instance, corn, wheat, rice, some of the staple ingredients for our meals, and a lot originates into South East Asia, West Africa, and parts of South America.

Just take a look at this, for example, this is in India and you can see the extreme drought conditions that they are dealing with at this very moment in time. Temperatures are running 10 degrees Celsius above where they should be this time of year. Look at this over eastern and central India, 48 degree temperature on Saturday, that's 118 degrees Fahrenheit. By the way, it's no wonder that the India meteorological department has put in place India heat wave warnings for that particular location. The heat will continue. You factor in the humidity and it feels like the middle 40s as you step outside. Now, it's not only the subcontinent of India that's feeling the effects of drought and heat wave conditions, we bring you into the Philippines now where you can see just entire crops decimated by the lack of rainfall and the extreme temperatures that they've experienced from Davao northward into Luzon. We have dry spells and drought conditions across this area. It really began several months ago and it really intensified into March and into April where we continue to see below average for this regional. I'll leave with you a satellite leap across the nation's capital of the Philippines, Manila, it is high and dry. We expect these conditions to continue especially going forward. We are coming off of a very strong El Nino, George, and this impacts the world's weather conditions like that in the Philippines and in India as well.

HOWELL: Derek Van Dam, thank you very much.

And now to a story that we are following in the U.S. state of Ohio, a horrific crime, eight family members killed in multiple locations. Each had been shot in the head. CNN's Nick Valencia looks into the search for killer or killers who are still on the run.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I need help from the FBI ...

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is difficult to hear.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, her brother (inaudible) is dead.

VALENCIA: The sound of agony as a relative discovers members of her family have been murdered in cold blood.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ma'am, you got to tell me what's going on.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's blood all over the house.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My brother-in-law is in the bedroom and it looks like they have beat the hell out of him.

VALENCIA: The ruthless killings, apparently calculated attacks in four separate homes. Police tells CNN they believe the suspect or suspects were familiar with the victims. The seven adults and one 16- year-old apparent targets. But why? Police have not released a motive or named a suspect.

For this tiny town of about 2,000 people in Southern Ohio, the senseless nature of the slayings is simply too much to understand.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just unbelievable really, this has taken place.

VALENCIA: Phil Fulton was pastor to some of the victims.

PHIL FULTON, PASTOR: I think maybe the most disturbing detail in all of this is the fact that one of the victims was killed next to her four-day-old baby.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I cannot believe how anyone could kill a mother with her four-day-old baby in her arms. It's -- That's out of my realm of thinking that anyone could do that. How heartless.

VALENCIA: With no official leads, late Saturday, an Ohio businessman offered $25,000 of his own money to help catch the killer or killers. Jeff Ruby has no connection to the family but says that he wanted to get the word out to find the person or people responsible for this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just stay out of the house. Don't let anyone go in there, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. We've got deputies on the way, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right, thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're welcome.

VALENCIA: Nick Valencia, CNN, Pike County, Ohio.

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[04:50:36] PATRICK SNELL,CNN, ANCHOR: H i there I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sport Headlines with real Madrid warming up for the champion leagues semi final showdown with England's Manchester City with a three to win on a league on Saturday, the same day also seeing a victory for their opponents in the Premier Leagues throughout the show to see the 19-year-old Nigerian striker Kalaji (inaudible). He'd already earned a penalty from which the blues with (inaudible) ahead before eve and grabbed two goals of his own, so by the way have conceded four goals in each of their last three games.

We look forward through to the Europa League semis they'll play against Spain via round next week in that first leg, but they've been told to setback after learning that to (inaudible) is being investigated by UIFA this after a reportedly failing a drugs test now if true, a French flag couldn't miss the European championships in June.

And the formula one circuit returning with the Russian gram pre in Moscow, that's next week. In the meantime a chance for formula E fans to check in on Lucas di Grassi's progress if the South American could not shop a third win of the current season while the Brazilian recently disqualified in Mexico, he bounces back in style though winning two on the track now after his latest triumph in the French capital this is in local Paris Street Circuit, di Grassi has indeed record a third victory of the campaign.

Thanks for joining. Thanks for hanging up today to look at the sports headlines, I'm Patrick Snell.

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HOWELL: An advisor for Donald Trump is walking back controversial comments he made about the Republican frontrunner, Paul Manafort told a meeting of the Republican National Committee on Thursday that Trump had a different public and private persona. He said the Trump would shift his image to appeal to different groups of voters. He earlier tried to clarify those comments to CNN, listen.

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PAUL MANAFORT, POLITICAL CONSULTANT: Mr. Trump would be speaking not different the messages and not different beliefs, but he will be speaking in different settings nowhere was I talking about there being a different Donald Trump. What I was talking about is there being a different environment where different parts of the message would be presented in a way that was different from a campaign rally.

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HOWELL: Paul Manafort there. Now to the Democrats, the delegate-rich state of Pennsylvania is just one of five states with nominating contests on Tuesday and the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is playing to her ties there. CNNs, Rachel Crane has this story.

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RACHEL CRANE, CNN, CORRESPONDENT: After winning big in New York, Hillary Clinton is now focused on Pennsylvania. Touting her ties to the Keystone state.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I was in Scranton, I was baptized in Scranton. We spent Christmases, we spent summers...

CRANE: Reminding voters of her roots here.

HAZEL PRICE: This is our girl. This is our girl doing well.

CRANE: No one remembers better than Hazel Price, the 91-year-old who's been on the scene since Hillary's birth even longer.

PRICE: Her mother and I shopped for maternity clothes together and I was there at her christening. I held her after her christening day.

CRANE: The Rodham family lived in this house next toward of the Price's. And THOUGH Hazel hasn't seen Clinton in the past few years, she still remembers summers when Hillary's father would bring his family home to Scranton.

[04:55:05] RICE: This is a picture of Hillary and my children at a birthday party in my backyard. She was sagacious and gracious and a little bit stubborn. But really lovable, she really was.

CRANE: Hazel says this coal mining town is where Clinton's values come from.

PRICE: It's given her the background that most of us have and that her father had before her and that's to be a strong person, to not take a back seat, to answer truthfully, and to be right upfront not to be afraid.

CRANE: A thought echoed by the current mayor of Scranton.

WILLIAM COURTRIGHT, (P) MAYOR, SCRANTON: When you talk to her, it's just as if I was talking to a neighbor, you know. Just like another Scrantonian to me.

CRANE: Despite poll showing to Clinton has a double digit lead over Senator Bernie Sanders, Hazel says support here for Clinton is not as strong as it was in 2008. Though she'll be voting for Scranton's girl on Tuesday and has some words for her critics.

PRICE: Put it up or shut up. Put up that she did this or shut up and walk away. So far they have said a lot of things which haven't proven any.

CRANE: Rachel Crane, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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HOWELL: Better ask this hour of CNN Newsroom and I'm George Howell at the CNN Center at Atlanta. I'll be back after the break with another hour of news from around the world. Stay with us.

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[05:00:00] HOWELL: North Korea fires a missile from a submarine raising concerns over just how advanced that nation's launch capability is becoming.