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Protests Get Ugly Outside A Trump Rally In California; Air Strike On Syrian Pediatric Hospital Kills At Least 50 And The Last Pediatrician In The City; United Nations Labels Aleppo In A "Catastrophic" State With Cease-Fire In Danger; North Korea Sentences South Korean-Born American To 10 Years Hard Labor; New Details About Prince's Death Emerge; Georgia Man Sues Snapchat After Devastating Car Crash; Kenya Hosts First "Giants Club" Summit. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired April 29, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Protests turn ugly outside a Donald Trump rally in California. People flood the street and swarm the police cruiser.

Plus.

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PETER KING, U.S. HOUSE REPUBLICAN: I fully agree with John Boehner. And maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz.

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ALLEN: Ted Cruz compared to Satan. But this criticism isn't from the democrats. It's from his own party.

Also, major concerns about the cease-fire in Syria as air strikes bombard Aleppo, killing dozens of people. And one of those strikes hitting a children's hospital.

These stories all ahead here this hour. We're live in Atlanta. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen. You're watching CNN Newsroom.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump got a warm welcome from his supporters in California, but it was a very different story outside.

Protesters filled the streets, clashing with Trump fans who were leaving the rally. The raucous crowds smashed the window of a police car, and about 20 people were arrested. Trump is campaigning in California ahead of that state's primary June 7th.

Indiana voters go to the polls next this coming Tuesday. Trump's closest challenger

Ted Cruz is being compared to Satan by the former U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner, a republican.

CNN's senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta has that.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump is no longer alone in coining his own nasty nicknames for Ted Cruz.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So, we came up with lyin' Ted. L-y-i-n boom, hyphen.

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ACOSTA: Former House Speaker John Boehner had some choice words for Cruz this week telling college students at Stanford the Texas senator is hell to work with.

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JOHN BOEHNER, FORMER, U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER: Lucifer in the flesh. I have democrat friends and I have republican friends. I get along with almost everybody. But I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch.

TED CRUZ, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He allowed his inner Trump to come out.

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ACOSTA: Cruz, who clashed with Boehner during the government shutdown of 2013, rejected the former speaker's remarks while campaigning in Indiana, a state that's now a must win for him.

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CRUZ: He said something like he's the worst SOB I've ever worked with, something like that. But the interesting thing is he said "that I've ever worked with." I've never worked with John Boehner. The truth of the matter is I don't know the man.

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ACOSTA: But tell that to Boehner, who revealed two years ago, that Cruz was once his attorney.

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BOEHNER: Ted Cruz used to be my attorney a long time ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, is that right?

BOEHNER: Yes. He's a good guy. I may not always agree with him but he's a good guy.

(END VIDEO CLIP) ACOSTA: Cruz also threw cold water on the pact he announced this week

with John Kasich that was supposed to mean the Ohio Governor would no longer compete in Indiana.

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CRUZ: There is no alliance.

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ACOSTA: Moments after that comment, Kasich's chief strategist tweeted "I can't stand liars." The drama surrounding Cruz's campaign has taken some heat off of Trump, who is still trying to explain his comment that Hillary Clinton is playing the woman card.

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TRUMP: Nobody cherishes and nobody respects women more than Donald Trump. That I can tell you. I will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton is.

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ACOSTA: Joined by his running mate Carly Fiorina who once clashed with Trump herself, Cruz pointed to the GOP front-runners pattern with women.

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CRUZ: Donald has a problem with strong women.

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ALLEN: Joining me now is Philip Bump. He's a political reporter for the Washington Post. He is joining us from New York. Thanks for being with us, Philip.

PHILIP BUMP, WASHINGTON POST POLITICAL REPORTER: Of course. My pleasure.

ALLEN: First of all, I want you to listen to a clip from republican Congressman Peter King reacting to John Boehner's Lucifer comments. Let's take a listen.

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KING: I fully agree with John Boehner. And maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz. Listen, what John Boehner was most concerned about was Ted Cruz perpetrated a fraud and a hoax when he brought about the shutdown of the government on some kind of a vague promise that he was going to be able to take ObamaCare out of the budget or to end ObamaCare.

Ted Cruz knew it would never work. It was never going to work. But he went ahead and did it anyway, shut down the government, cost the government money, served no purpose whatsoever other than to boost his name identification. So, I agree with John Boehner on that.

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ALLEN: So, Lucifer enters the presidential campaign. Do you think criticisms like this will continue to hurt Senator Cruz?

BUMP: Yes, I mean, I think that -- Senator Cruz is in a tough position in general. It doesn't seem as though he's likely to actually get the delegates he needs at any point at this stage given the fact that Donald Trump has suddenly started doing so well.

[03:05:05] This has always been the critique of Ted Cruz. This is why so few of his colleagues in the Senate have endorsed him. Is that he's simply not liked. And I think Representative King makes a point there which we've heard before, that Ted Cruz went out by himself, got this shutdown going, stood up to John Boehner and actually rallied John Boehner's core conservative house members against John Boehner, which is why John Boehner doesn't like him.

And, you know, I think that for a time period the republican establishment was so worried about Donald Trump that they were doing everything including embracing Ted Cruz, which none of them wanted to do, in order to try and stop Donald Trump.

I think one of the things that is changed here is because Donald Trump has gotten so close to this nomination that now I think people are dropping to some extent the pretense of ever having liked Ted Cruz.

ALLEN: Trump is continuing to rail against Clinton using the woman card. Does this hurt or help him with women voters, especially with Carly Fiorina back in the mix of joining Cruz?

BUMP: Right. I'm not sure Carly Fiorina adds much to the conversation quite frankly. I think Cruz is being very deliberate in picking her so that, you know, she ran for statewide office in California, people there know her better than they do other places. For better and worse. I'm not sure that helps him a whole lot.

But Donald Trump's comments absolutely do not do him any good. He tries to talk -- you know, it is very similar to what we saw him do with his comments about Mexicans earlier in the race. He says things that are not welcomed by Mexican people or in this case by women, then he claims that he's going to do well with those populations anyway despite there being no evidence of that.

His unfavorable ratings with women are much, much worse than his unfavorable ratings with men, including in the Republican Party. It's one of the reasons that he is where he is in this contest, because women simply don't want to vote for him.

Some do obviously, but much less so than men do. And if he keeps doing this, that's not going to improve with the general population.

If you look, no one -- if you compare where he is now in polling, post-ABC polling among white women, which should be a core republican constituency, he's doing worse than at any point we've ever seen an exit polling, which goes back to 1972. And that is a very bad position for him to be in.

ALLEN: Finally, I want to share this with you. Tuesday is the Indiana primary. The state's biggest newspaper is not endorsing any candidates.

BUMP: Right.

ALLEN: But the editorial board says "Although flawed, Kasich and Clinton offer best choices" and goes on to rail against Cruz, Sanders and Trump and declares, quote, "A president Trump would be a danger to the United States and to the world." Will this affect Indiana at all, where Kasich has in effect given up?

BUMP: Yes. I don't know. It's a good question. It's kind of a copout also to say you should vote for Clinton and Kasich but we're not doing an endorsement, you know, that's on them.

You know, my sense is that maybe they are trying to throw a bone toward this totally failed Kasich-Cruz alliance where Kasich is supposed to step out of Indiana so that Cruz could do better and then stop Trump from getting the delegates. I think maybe that's why they didn't do a strong endorsement. I'm not really sure why.

But, you know, I mean, I think that alliance thing has hurt Kasich. I don't think that his supporters are all going to Cruz, I think it's helping Trump as well. So, I think it is generally a mess and it's coming at a time when Donald Trump is doing better generally, which I think is a bad sign for the non-Trump forces.

ALLEN: OK-doke. We'll wait and see. We've got another Tuesday up ahead. Philip Bump with the Washington Post. Thank you so much, Philip.

BUMP: Thank you.

ALLEN: We turn to international news now. North Korea has sentenced a South Korean-born American to 10 years of hard labor for subversion and espionage according to China's state-run media.

Kim Dong Chul was arrested in North Korea back in October. During an interview with CNN in January, he admitted to gathering information about Pyongyang's nuclear program and military facilities.

CNN was not able to determine if he made that confession under duress. Here's part of the interview.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How did it work? How did you pass on the information that you collected?

KIM DONG CHUL, SENTENCED TO HARD LABOR IN North Korea (TRANSLATED): I bribed a local resident and had him gather important materials considered national secrets in this country such as military secrets, nuclear-related materials. I got these materials, hid them in my car, and secretly brought them to China, where I handed them over. Or I would go to South Korea and deliver them directly.

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ALLEN: Paula Hancocks is following the story and joins me now live from Seoul, South Korea. Paula, what more do we know about this man and his activities?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Natalie, when he spoke to CNN in January, he did say that he had been arrested in October 2015. He said that when he agreed to be a spy he had been approached by a conservative element in South Korea saying he was effectively spying for them, and that he had been asked to help destroy the North Korean system and spread propaganda against the government.

Now, of course, when this interview took place there were North Korean minders there. It's not known if they were speaking under duress. The same when there was a press conference in March.

[03:10:04] He gave a public apology then and admitted to espionage. Again, we don't know whether or not that public apology and confession was made under duress. But it is following a pattern that we have been seeing from a number of American citizens being detained in North Korea.

It comes just a month and a half after an American student, Otto Warmbier, was sentenced to 15 years hard labor after trying to steal a propaganda poster in a hotel. Natalie?

ALLEN: And let's talk about the latest missile launches by North Korea. They just keep coming. What is the response to that?

HANCOCKS: Well, there's been condemnation across the board. There were two mid-range missile attempts on Thursday. According to South Korean defense ministry official, both of them failed.

A U.S. military official says they didn't get further than 200 meters from the launch pad. But the fact is that North Korea is not listening to international condemnation. President Park Geun-hye of South Korea on Thursday saying if they carry out a fifth nuclear test, which she believes they're preparing for, then there would be serious repercussions. Also the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has been talking about this.

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XI JINPING, CHINESE PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): As a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, China fully and comprehensively implements relevant Security Council resolutions. As a close neighbor of the Peninsula we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the Peninsula. Once it happens it would not benefit anyone.

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HANCOCKS: The U.N. Security Council also meeting on Thursday to discuss this. Natalie?

ALLEN: All right. Paula Hancocks there in Seoul for us. Thank you, Paula. We turn now to Syria and concerns the cease-fire there may be in danger of falling apart.

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ALLEN: Hearing a child there yelling get down, get down, get down tells you a lot, doesn't it? This video is said to be a fighter jet firing a missile on a pediatric hospital Wednesday in Aleppo.

That air strike killed at least 50 people including children. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry blames the Syrian government for this, while Syria and Russia blame U.S. forces.

Here's Nic Robertson with more. And a warning, his report contains disturbing images.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Syria's cease-fire is in tatters. The latest, an air strike on an opposition hospital in Aleppo. This one supported by Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross. Dozens killed, including children and at least three doctors. One of them, the last pediatrician.

So, severe the attack, the Red Cross issued a statement saying "The destruction of the hospital are putting millions at grave risk." The bodies, the grief piling pressure on faltering peace talks in Geneva.

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STAFFAN DE MISTURA, U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SYRIA: In the last 48 hours we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes. One Syrian wounded every 13 minutes.

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ROBERTSON: Three weeks of talks, 1,000 miles from the front lines. Little progress. The two sides using the cease-fire to talk about political transition. But accusations, not compromises traded.

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BASHAR JA'AFARI, SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. (TRANSLATED): The threats that emanated from the opposition who were here in Geneva before they sulked and got upset and left, these declarations were translated on the ground into attacks.

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ROBERTSON: The opposition for their part pausing their participation, blaming the government for renewed offensive. Making talks meaningless.

Within days of pulling back from the talks, opposition fighters last week on cease-fire shown here in their own propaganda video back to the battlefront. The U.N. Envoy urging Russia and the United States to step in again, save the cease-fire, save the talks.

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DE MISTURA: We need that to be urgently revitalized. And only the Russian federation and the U.S., as they did when they launched, suddenly everything related to the cessation of hostilities needed to come back again and re-launch it.

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ROBERTSON: In the meantime, the killing is escalating. No date set for the next round of peace talks. The U.N Envoy planning a visit to Moscow. Next week, urgency and peace both in short supply.

[03:15:12] Nic Robertson, CNN, London.

ALLEN: And again, the air strike that hit the children's hospital killed the last pediatrician in Aleppo.

ISIS is now making millions a month in Iraq by running car dealerships and fish farms. Iraqi officials say the terror group is turning to alternate sources of income because coalition air strikes have been hitting its financial hubs. Security experts once estimated ISIS earned close to $3 billion a year from oil and gas in Iraq and Syria.

We continue to learn more about the death of music icon Prince. Coming up here, what investigators say they found in his home and why federal authorities are getting involved with the case.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT REPORTER: Hi there. I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sport headlines.

The families of Liverpool football fans who died in the Hillsborough tragedy are pursuing high court misconduct action against the South Yorkshire and the West midlands police forces.

According to lawyers on Tuesday, the inquest jury found that the match commander on that fateful day, chief superintendent Dave Duckenfield, was responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence and that there were police failings. South Yorkshire police is yet to comment while west police confirmed it was aware of the proceedings.

The first round of the Europa League semis had been played with Liverpool in action on Thursday. The Red way to Villarreal who paid special tribute to the Hillsborough victims before the match for the game itself.

The Spanish team win 1-0, thanks to an injury time winner from the sub Adrian who top Denis Suarez as crossed. Both teams had earlier hit the woodwork. Still all to play for in the return at Anfield on Thursday.

In the other semi Shakhtar Donetsk of the Ukraine and Sevilla now the Spanish team, the whole is in fact playing out to an entertaining 2-2 draw. Shakhtar responding to an early goal by going 2-1 up before halftime.

But the defending Europa League winner Sevilla would not be denied, equalizing by a penalty with Kevin Gameiro with just under 10 minutes left to play. The second leg will also be played next Thursday.

That's a look at your CNN World Sport headlines. Thanks for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell.

[03:20:01] ALLEN: French police arrested at least 100 people when protests got out of hand in cities across the country, including Paris. Thousands of people hit the streets Thursday rallying against proposed labor law reforms.

Two dozen security forces were injured. Hotly contested reforms are aimed at making France a more business-friendly country. Critics say it will jeopardize workers' rights.

New details in the death of late music icon Prince. Investigators tell CNN there's no indication he had a valid prescription for opioid painkillers. The medication was discovered in his home and in his possession according to a law enforcement official.

We get more from CNN's Brian Todd.

BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just days before his death he pushed himself to perform, with two concerts in Atlanta. He'd suffered from a bad hip. Often seen carrying a cane. Now new information that Prince was also carrying some powerful pain drugs at the time of his death.

A law enforcement official telling CNN authorities found prescription opioid medication on his person and in his Minnesota home. The official says nearly a week before his death a reaction from the medication likely caused an emergency landing of Prince's private plane in Illinois, when the pop star passed out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's the nature of the emergency? What's the nature of the medical condition?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: An unresponsive passenger.

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TODD: The law enforcement official says in that incident Prince was treated for a possible overdose of the medication. He was later released from a hospital and returned to Minnesota. Opioids are effective for pain, but there's a prescription drug overdose epidemic in America that has experts worried.

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DANIEL LIEBERMAN, PAIN MEDICATION EXPERT: The biggest risk is overdose, causing respiratory suppression. We know that when they take these people become drowsy because they slow down the activity in different parts of the brain. If it slows down the breathing centers too much, people stop breathing and that's what kills them with an overdose.

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TODD: It's not clear where Prince got the medication and whether it was prescribed to him. Experts say there's an antidote to opioids called Narcan which could have saved Prince after the emergency landing.

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LIEBERMAN: It can reverse an overdose extremely rapidly. The key is, though, you've got to get the Narcan in them in time.

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TODD: Investigators have hinted there may not have been time to give Prince Narcan at the time of his death.

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JIM OLSON, CARVER COUNTY SHERIFF: All our officers carry Narcan. We've been carrying that for approximately two years. And that was not used at all.

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TODD: And there may not have been anyone else there to revive the pop star. The sheriff says Prince was alone inside his 55,000-foot home, Paisley Park, when he died. But at some point someone got there and called 911.

Regarding CNN's reporting on the opioids, we reached out several times to Prince's representatives for their response to that reporting. So far, they've given no response. We asked the medical examiner's office if Prince had any opioids in his system. They said so far they have no new information to give on that.

Friends and those who work with Prince have told news outlets they don't remember him being on any medication. His lawyer saying he was not on any drugs that would be cause for concern.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

ALLEN: Earlier I spoke with an expert on opioid overuse, Dr. Kennedy Kolodny says opioids have become a major killer in the U.S. and are highly addictive.

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ANDREW KOLODNY, PHYSICIANS FOR RESPONSIBLE OPIOID PRESCRIBING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: One of the major killers in the United States today, one of the leading cause of death in the U.S. is an overdose on an opioid because the opioids stop people from breathing.

ALLEN: And what are other effects of these drugs? I'm told people can feel really bad, feel scared, anxious, depressed, kind of freak out. What's the issue in this country with overprescribing and the side effects?

KOLODNY: So, the medical community has been overprescribing opioid pain medicines, and as our prescribing began to soar it led to parallel increases in rates of addiction and overdose deaths. And doctors are prescribing opioids to relieve pain.

If patients take an opioid repeatedly, whether they're taking it over and over again to relieve pain or whether they're taking the drug repeatedly for recreational purposes, if you take a highly addictive drug frequently, there's a very good chance that you can become addicted to that drug.

Now, when somebody takes an opioid, it can give pain relief or it can even cause good feelings like euphoria. But once somebody gets addicted to the drug, they have to continue taking the drug simply to avoid feeling awful. Somebody who's used to taking an opioid and runs out or is unable to maintain their supply, they can experience a flu- like illness.

[03:25:01] But they also experience very severe anxiety. It feels like a panic attack. People feel like they're losing their mind, like they're going out of control. A sense of impending doom. It's one of the reasons why we see people do very desperate things to maintain their supply once addicted.

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ALLEN: Dr. Andrew Kolodny there from Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.

An orphaned rhino gets a new chance at life.

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ROBYN KRIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, they're trying to emulate exactly what Ringo would be experiencing in the wild with his mom. He would allow to cool down and also to avoid sunburn.

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ALLEN: Coming up, our Robyn Kriel there spent the day with Ringo and meets the baby rhino's new adoptive father. They're kind of alone in the world together. That's next.

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ALLEN: And welcome back to our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen. You're watching CNN Newsroom.

Here are our top stories. About 20 people have been arrested outside a huge Donald Trump rally in Costa Mesa, California. Scuffles broke out between demonstrators and Trump supporters. Yikes. Leaving at least one man bloodied. Police in riot gear tried to restore order. One group smashed out the back window of a police car.

North Korea has sentenced a South Korean-born American to 10 years of hard labor for subversion and espionage. According to China's state- run media during an interview with CNN in January, Kim Dong Chul admitted to gathering information about Pyongyang's nuclear program and military facilities.

[03:30:06] But CNN was not able to determine if he made that confession under duress.

An air strike on a pediatric hospital in Syria has killed at least 50 people and the last pediatrician in the city. The United Nations says the situation in Aleppo is now catastrophic and the cease-fire is in danger.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry blames the Syrian government for the attack, which it denies.

More now on the U.S. presidential election. Democrat Hillary Clinton looking past primary season now and ahead to the general election.

And as CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports, she's got one opponent in her sights.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton exhaling after one long fight. Preparing for another.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you so much!

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ZELENY: For the second straight day she's off the campaign trail, taking a break and writing her game plan for the fall. That plan revolves almost entirely around Donald Trump. Aides tell CNN the campaign is spending little time on any other opponent.

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TRUMP: Everything I say I'm going to do, folks, I do. OK?

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ZELENY: Her campaign releasing this video today. Offering an early look at their strategy. Clinton is playing up Trump's greatest hits. Closing with this message. Stand together to stop Donald Trump.

The writing is on the wall with democratic delegates and super delegates. Clinton is just 215 shy of crossing the threshold. Sanders is behind by nearly 1,000. The Sanders campaign is laying off hundreds of workers. Downsizing from 1,000 at the peak of its success to about 300 now. Sanders still rallying supporters today in Oregon.

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BERNIE SANDERS, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is one thing that Secretary Clinton and I do agree on. We must not have a republican in the White House. (END VIDEO CLIP)

ZELENY: The Clinton campaign is already eyeing these general election battlegrounds. But Trump saying today he'll fight hard in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. Long in the democratic column.

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TRUMP: I'll be encamped in Michigan because I think we can win it. So, we're going to win states that nobody thought were winnable as a republican.

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ZELENY: Democrats disagree. But the Clinton campaign is bracing for Trump to start using Sanders' attack lines against her.

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TRUMP: I'm going to be taking a lot of the things that Bernie said and using them. When he said bad judgment, I said sound bite.

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ZELENY: Sanders is pressing forward. If not to win to influence the party's agenda. Jane Sanders speaking to Wolf sided with Clinton in Trump's ongoing attack over gender.

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JANE SANDERS, BERNIE SANDERS' WIFE: She's hard-working. We just different on ideas and solutions for the future. But to demean her that way, it's just not acceptable.

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ALLEN: Jeff Zeleny reporting there. The next democratic and republican primaries are coming up Tuesday in Indiana.

Well, a wave of severe weather tore through the Midwestern United States Thursday afternoon. Check out this from Indiana. A tornado briefly touched down in Boone County and brought along some heavy hail with it.

The National Weather Service estimates that winds reached 100 miles per hour, knocking down trees and damaging several homes and some buildings.

As you can see. Our meteorologist Derek Van Dam following this for us. And yes, 'tis the season.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: 'Tis the season. We're actually lower in terms of the sheer numbers of tornadoes we should have had in the month of April. But I'll show you a graphic on that in just one moment. But the image you saw just one moment ago of the tornado in Boone

County, that has been estimated at an EF-1.

You remember that scale goes from EF-0, meaning Enhanced Fujita scale, 0 being the weakest of tornadoes, to EF-5 being the most destructive, the most catastrophic tornadoes that are out there. This is also called a rope tornado, by the way. And, well, pretty interesting because it has a very narrow wind field. But they can be some of the most destructive as well just because it's so concise and so concentrated where the strong winds are.

But those things typically are only a few hundred yards really in diameter. Now, take a look at this. We typically, during the month of April in the United States, have 155 tornadoes up until this point in time. We have only had 83 tornadoes so far.

So, we're actually far less than what we should be this time of year. So, we've got some making up to do, I would say, in terms of the severe weather threat. And guess what. Today's the day. We have another chance of severe storms from Oklahoma City to Dallas, Shreveport, all the way southward into San Antonio.

[03:35:01] Cannot rule out the potential of isolated tornadoes once again. I feel like I'm starting to sound like a broken record here. Another day, another chance of tornadoes. So watch out.

This is all part of a larger storm system rotating across the four corners. And that's going to draw on a significant amount of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing the potential of flooding once again to the Houston region. More on that in just one second.

And on the back side of it, cold enough for snowfall into the Colorado Rockies once again. Here's a larger picture. This storm system really separates the cold air to the north and the warm humid sticky almost summer-like temperatures across the Deep South. We are going to sizzle here in Atlanta, in fact. We'll talk temperatures in just one second.

Here's our chance of severe weather. Eastern and central Texas stretching into the Oklahoma Panhandle. And there's the snow just outside of Denver. We've got an extremely saturated environment. Remember the flooding a few weeks back near and around the Houston area? Well, add another two to four inches of rainfall on top of the saturated environment. That means the potential for flooding exists once again.

That is why the National Weather Service has issued flood watches for that area. We also have flood watches near the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Remember there's the potential for even localized heavier amounts, four to six inches potential for that area.

Look at this. We could be measuring snowfall in feet, not inches around the Colorado Rockies. What a pity that most of the ski resorts are already closed. That's just for my own personal sake. But we have winter storm warnings across that region. There is, look at the snowfall from Pueblo to Aspen as well as the Denver region. Look at this roller coaster of temperatures for Denver we should be 65 degrees, only 36 today.

ALLEN: Gosh.

DAM: Yes. We'll end up the week, though, next week in the upper 70s. So, any snow that does fall will melt very quickly.

ALLEN: And you know what? Houston needs a break.

DAM: Houston needs a break. They have had so much rainfall this month that you know, they're just recovering from all the flooding they had two weeks ago.

ALLEN: All right, Derek, thank you.

DAM: All right.

ALLEN: A man in the U.S. is suing Snapchat for a car crash. He is blaming it on a photo filter. We'll explain that next.

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ALLEN: A man here in the U.S. State of Georgia is suing the popular app Snapchat for a car crash that left him with traumatic brain injuries. He's also suing the driver, a teenage girl who he says was using a speed filter on Snapchat while driving. That filter shows how fast you're moving.

And the lawsuit says she was going nearly twice as fast as the speed limit. After the crash, he posted this picture on the app with the caption "lucky to be alive." CNN was unable to reach the teen, and a Snapchat spokesman said the app has always included a warning not to use it while driving.

We want to talk about this case now. Joining me from New York is CNN legal analyst, Danny Cevallos. Danny, thanks so much for joining us.

DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Thank you.

ALLEN: Well, here's another one that involves a use of social media while you're in your car. How culpable, Danny, is Snapchat in this suit and how culpable is Crystal McGee, the young woman?

CEVALLOS: The driver is clearly much more culpable as the driver of a car that caused an incident -- an accident. But in cases like this, often when you have such serious injuries, the insurance policy of the driver just isn't enough to cover all these damages, so you see these creative lawsuits.

And that's exactly what this is. The theory of liability that the mere existence of an app on your cell phone is somehow makes the company liable for a driving accident is a stretch to be sure, because an app has so many lawful uses. This is an instance where it might have been used unlawfully. But probably not the fault of Snapchat.

ALLEN: Is that a defense you believe they will use?

CEVALLOS: Yes. They're going to use causation, first of all, because they're going to say that our -- the app as it's designed didn't cause the accident. Yes, the plaintiff alleges, there's a feature that allows you to put the speed at which you are traveling on the app. But there are many lawful uses for that.

You could be on a bus. You could be on a train. You could be in a plane. So, there are many uses that are lawful for that. Even though teens or other adults may be incentivized to use it while driving, that's always been a problem with cell phones. Whether it's text messaging, making a phone call.

And that mere fact alone hasn't made cell phone companies or service providers themselves liable when people are wrongfully on the phone and cause an accident.

ALLEN: Yes, and Snapchat argues its warning not to snap and drive covers it against prosecution of this sort, but is it doing enough to protect its users and other road users?

CEVALLOS: Well, on one side of that argument a warning alone will not automatically exonerate a company who creates an unsafe, dangerous product. But on the other hand, in a case like this, that warning is a fact that helps Snapchat in addition to the much more important fact, which is its app has so many lawful uses that the fact that it could potentially be misused does not by itself make Snapchat liable.

After all, kitchen knives have very many valuable uses to humanity and just a few highly illegal uses, like stabbing people. That doesn't make kitchen knives unsafely designed or negligently designed.

This is going to be a very difficult case to hold Snapchat liable. But it appears at this point it's going to be a very easy case comparably to hold the driver liable.

ALLEN: Thank you so much. CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos for us. Thank you.

Amazon investors have another reason to smile. The online retailer has posted a profit for four quarters in a row. Shares in the company surged as much as 12 percent in afterhours trading following the news. Strong retail sales and growth in its cloud business contributed to the gains.

A big deal may soon dramatically reshape the entertainment industry. Comcast NBC universal is seeking to acquire DreamWorks animation. The maker of popular films such as "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda." The deal's worth $3.8 billion.

Here's CNN's Richard Quest.

RICHARD QUEST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS HOST: coming to the big screen near you, NBC Universal, DreamWorks animation joining forces.

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QUEST: It's a merger of epic proportions, $3.8 billion.

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QUEST: A bold move, taking on the king of family entertainment. For DreamWorks the end of a story about adventure and intrigue in the search for a suitor.

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QUEST: Now as this merger comes together, one final hurdle before it reaches the screen. The regulators.

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QUEST: Will the regulators scuttle this deal or will it be a fairy tale ending with a marriage at the end of the year?

ALLEN: Well, our next story will make a great movie. Still ahead, our Robyn Kriel and an orphaned baby rhino. Robyn's baby-sitting one of Africa's most endangered animals. And that's next. We're live in Kenya.

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DAM: Yet, another late season snowstorm for the Colorado Rockies. It's a pity that most of the ski resorts are closed already. Look at the storm just rotating across the four corners. We'll see snowfall as far west as Utah, but certainly centered over the foothills and the mountains of Colorado, where we could easily experience several inches of snow before it's all said and done.

Look at the watches and warnings across this region not including Denver although they could pick up a couple of inches of snow. It's really focused on the higher elevations where we could be measuring this snowfall total by the end of the weekend and in feet, not in inches.

Here's the forecast for the rest of the United States. New York, 14 degrees. If you're traveling to Atlanta, shorts and t-shirt weather, 31. Los Angeles a little on the cool side, 19 degrees with partly cloudy skies for you.

Taking you through the course of the weekend for the major cities along the East Coast. Washington we cool off for the weekend, but rebound quite nicely by Sunday. Here's New York City's forecast. We do have a cool down in store for you, 11 degrees.

Take a look at Central America, where temperatures remain in the middle 30s for Belize City as well as Kingston, Havana, mostly sunny with a daytime high of 33. Our drought continues for Venezuela. Although some good news, rain is in this forecast.

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[03:49:58] ALLEN: Welcome back. Kenya is hosting the first giant's club summit, a meeting of African leaders focused on tackling poaching of the continent's giant animals. And to coincide with the event, the largest ivory burn in history will be held in Nairobi Saturday.

More than 100 tons of ivory from some 15,000 elephants will be destroyed.

For more let's go to CNN's Robyn Kriel who joins us now live from Nairobi, Kenya. And, Robyn, these ivory burns bring a very powerful visual that killing elephants just for their tusks has just got to stop before we lose them.

KRIEL: Well, that's exactly the Kenya wildlife service's message, Natalie, is that these tusks are only worth something, this ivory and rhino horn which is also being burned in this burn on Saturday is only worth something when it's on a live animal.

And that is why they're insisting on destroying this ivory, these rhino horns and other various contraband, wildlife-trafficked product that they've seized in this gigantic burn. That is why it is happening.

And it will be a spectacle definitely, Natalie. President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's President will light the flame on Saturday morning. About 12 tires of ivory and rhino horn and other illicit wildlife goods that has been seized will be lit on fire using more than 20 -- 20,000 liters of diesel and kerosene mixed together.

So, it's going to be a spectacle. As you've said, a number of African leaders as well as even some celebrities have turned out to watch this ivory burn. They are at the giant's club summit right now. And the message that is being sent is this is worth nothing if it's not on a live animal.

ALLEN: Exactly. Those piles of tusks, you know, those are all animals that are gone. I hope it's a huge spectacle. And it goes viral on YouTube and on cnn.com. Thank you, Robyn.

I want to ask you also about another endangered animal. You mentioned the rhino. And you got to hang out with a little orphan baby rhino. Tell us about that.

KRIEL: Well, around 1,300 African rhino were poached on the continent last year alone. And yes, as you said, we did get Ringo, named after Ringo Starr, who has been -- he's obviously the Beatles' drummer, who's been outspoken against rhino poaching. Here's that report.

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KRIEL: Baby-sitting a rhino is remarkably similar to baby-sitting a baby. A day-long cycle of eat, play, sleep, repeat. With the occasional rather squeaky temper tantrum thrown in when he gets hungry.

Abandoned by his mother at two weeks old, Ringo was nearly dead when he was rescued by rangers at old Pejeta conservancy in Central Kenya, a major reserve for the endangered animal.

He feeds three times a day on this formula of baby formula and white oat. Let's go see your friend. Now Ringo has several adopted parents who work round the clock to keep him safe and sleeping like a baby. Is he sleepy?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. He wants to sleep. And then you can scratch him more.

KRIEL: Oh, he likes to be scratched?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Another there. Brush him more.

KRIEL: Oh. Tell me how it makes you feel when you hear of a rhino like Ringo being poached.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seeing Ringo, how I play with him, and then I just am like thinking what about Ringo being poached one day? It would be very, very sad for me.

KRIEL: Ringo's favorite time of day, say his keepers, is bath time. So, they're trying to emulate exactly what Ringo would be experiencing in the wild with his mum. He would wallow to cool down and also to avoid sunburn.

But with his mom gone, this rare baby southern white rhino has found fatherly love in something even more rare. Sudan is the only male northern white rhino left on the planet. The hope is that he will teach Ringo to be more like a rhino and less like a human. And the baby rhino has taught the old one a thing or two.

RICHARD VIGNE, OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY CEO: The fact we've now got a small rhino who's beginning to interact with him is psychologically I think good for Sudan. And certainly we've seen his demeanor and his kind of appetite for life, if I can put it that way, improve since Ringo appeared on the scene.

KRIEL: One isolated, the other abandoned. The two rhinos have found companionship in one another.

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[03:55:03] ALLEN: What a sweet story, Robyn. And the little baby seemed to be nuzzling the rhino there, the rhino, the thorn, the father. But it's so sad that they're kind of alone in the world and here's this grownup male that has a friend with the little one, and I'm told a horrible thing that happened a week before you were there, that a female rhino was poached. What do you know about that?

KRIEL: Well, just a week and a half before we visited Ringo, tough day at the office looking after a six-month-old baby rhino there. But a week before we arrived, a female heavily pregnant black rhino on that same conservancy which is heavily guarded, which they spend millions of dollars a year for security and anti-poaching techniques, was killed for her horn.

And in fact, her stomach was actually cut open to remove the baby. She was heavily pregnant we're told. And it was done in a full moon by poachers. They are still trying to figure out who was behind that, Natalie. So, it just really highlights the plight of rhinos on this continent.

ALLEN: It's just horrible. Just horrible. Thank you for your story. That was uplifting, amid the troubles that these animals face. Robyn Kriel for us there in Nairobi. Thanks, Robyn.

Well, people are jumping off China's sometimes scary sky walk, but it's OK. Sixteen contestants are participating in a three-day low- altitude parachuting competition. They're performing stunts after taking their leaps.

That gives me the heebie-jeebies. The Yuanduan skywalk is the longest glass walkway in the world and is more than 718 meters, or 2,300 feet high.

Thanks for watching CNN Newsroom. I'm Natalie Allen. Early Start coming up for viewers here in the U.S. For viewers elsewhere around the world, stay with us for CNN Newsroom with Hannah Vaughan Jones in London.

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