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Kenyan Building Collapse Proves Deadly; Surging Violence in Aleppo; Pentagon Disciplines MSF Hospital Attackers; America's Choice 2016; Nairobi Burns Tons of Poached Ivory; Case of Missing Mexican Students; America's Choice 2016 and the U.S. Presidential Race; Leicester City Football Club Beats Tremendous Odds. Aired 5-6a ET

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GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): A residential building collapses in Kenya's capital and hours later people are still feared to be trapped in the rubble there.

Plus, the U.S. and Russia cobble together a renewed truce for parts of Syria but the major city that still needs most of the help is left out and still under fire.

Also, this:

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DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's not the easiest entrance I've ever made.

HOWELL (voice-over): Shoving, shouting and insults, protesters descend upon a Donald Trump event for a second day in a row.

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

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HOWELL: A good day to you.

We begin this hour with the deadly building collapse in Kenya that killed at least seven people in that nation's capital. The 7-story multi-family house collapsed on Friday.

Search teams are now desperately trying to reach those who are feared buried in the rubble but the Red Cross says they have, though, been able to communicate with several survivors.

One Red Cross worker describes the scene as finding some hope in a sea of devastation. And then, look at this: dozens have been rescued. Among them, two

babies and several children. The cause of the collapse is still unknown but heavy rains and floods in Kenya's capital may have played a role.

CNN is live in Nairobi, Kenya. Robyn Kriel joins us on the phone, following developments there.

Robyn, it's good to have you with us. So we've seen these images from the collapse.

What can you tell us about where things stand now when it comes to finding survivors who may still be trapped in that rubble?

ROBYN KRIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's obviously a race against time, George, and, unfortunately, the rain has not abated throughout the evening. So the rain started yesterday afternoon very, very hard and it has continued throughout the night, which we understand has hampered rescue efforts as well as the traffic in that area has been really bad.

The rain has also slowed down the rescue personnel being able to reach the scene a lot earlier.

We do understand that the Kenyan defense force is at the scene and assisting; however, the problem is that Kenya does not have the equipment that might exist in other places that are used to dealing with earthquakes and landslides on a regular basis.

They don't have the (INAUDIBLE) equipment or the search and rescue dogs. They are trying as hard as possible but it is proving quite tough.

HOWELL: Robyn, what can you tell us about the situation for those people who did survive but are now left without a home?

KRIEL: Well, yes. The 7-story building obviously had a number of inhabitants in it and that's what part of the problem is. No one is really sure just how many people were inside that building, living there at the time of the collapse. So that's what Red Cross has been doing, is putting out different satellite stations, trying to map out just who might still be missing and figure out how many people could potentially be trapped inside.

For those who don't have a home to go to, there's also been appeals going out on social networking for help for those people. But a number of them are quite badly injured so they are at the hospital, two main hospitals in Nairobi, at the moment.

HOWELL: And we're looking at these images. It is a desperate scene there as these teams continue to look for survivors in all of that rubble. On the phone with us, CNN correspondent Robyn Kriel, on top of this story.

Robyn, thank you for your reporting. We'll stay in touch with you. Heavy rain and flooding may not have only contributed to the building collapse but it might have also impacted the actual search for the survivors. Derek Van Dam is here to tell us more.

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You know, George, there's such a high demand for housing in Nairobi that some property developers actually bypass building regulations. They cut costs and they want to maximize their profits, meaning they'll put a building just about anywhere they can in such a small amount space without doing the due diligence to see if this is a good area to actually build a 7-story building.

Well, unfortunately, this building that collapsed was on the edge of a river that was very prone to flash flooding that, unfortunately, took place and helped wipe out the bottom floors and the susceptible floors above it actually fell.

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VAN DAM: You can see the images coming out at Nairobi at the actual scene when daylight emerged this morning, early this morning; it's now just past noon, I believe.

Interestingly did a bit of research and the Architectural Society of Kenya says about 50 percent of structures in Nairobi are not even up to code. So you put a susceptible building like this in a low income area of Nairobi and you have all kinds of problems, especially when heavy rain events like this particular occurrence take place.

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VAN DAM: We could get anywhere between 50 to 100 millimeters of rainfall going forward. That means the flood threat is not over. We'll end with some of the images coming out of Nairobi. This was also the concern, George, that traffic jams actually led to a delay in the rescue efforts at the collapsed building. So it is all kinds of problems all around in Nairobi at this moment in time.

HOWELL: Goodness. Derek, thank you so much for being with us. Stay in touch.

VAN DAM: I will.

HOWELL: Following another story here on CNN, a car bomb east of Baghdad has killed at least 24 people, it's wounded 38 others. It struck a busy livestock market about 60 kilometers or 40 miles from the Iraqi capital. The bomb detonated late Saturday morning local time. There has been no claim of responsibility at this point.

Now moving on to Syria, the United States and Russia say they have reached an agreement on a renewed temporary truce for parts of that country where there has been heavy fighting. But the truce does not include Aleppo, where airstrikes and surging violence has killed several hundred people in the past week alone.

A U.S. State Department official says it's trying to expand the cease- fire to that city and other areas as well. Following the situation in Syria, CNN's Ian Lee is live this hour in Cairo, Egypt.

Ian, it's good to have you.

So what is the world to make of this cessation of hostilities, this temporary truce?

Is there still hope for that?

Or is it fair to say that it's no longer viable now?

IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: George, the special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said that it is hanging on a thread. Now if they are able, both the United States and Russia, to get those warring sides to at least have a cessation of hostilities, a cease-fire, if you will, that will be an important step forward.

But without Aleppo, part of that the violence in that city will continue; 244 people have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, of which 43 are children and 27 are women.

And so it is very important that they get Aleppo involved in the cessation of hostilities.

But the other important thing about this is getting humanitarian aid to people who are under siege. That is one thing that the Syrian rebels, the Western-backed rebels, have been complaining about is that during the past cessation of hostilities, which began in February, they're saying the aid that is needed hasn't been able to get to these places where it's so desperately needed.

HOWELL: Ian, the situation there in Aleppo but what about beyond Aleppo?

Are there other areas where fighting continues now?

LEE: Oh, again, according to the Syrian Observatory, we have seen fighting and violence really on this corridor from Damascus to Aleppo, going north along that main road there in the countryside and around the cities of --

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LEE: -- Homs, Hama and Idlib. Now part of this cessation of hostilities, the groups that are not involved are the Al Qaeda- affiliated Al-Nusra Front as well as ISIS. There has been continuing fighting against them.

Also, we're hearing from the Russian envoy to the U.N. in Geneva, saying that the Syrian government is preparing an offensive to retake the cities of Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor, Raqqah being the de facto capital of ISIS and Deir ez-Zor important for its oil fields.

Russia said they will be supporting them with airstrikes, although no timetable has been given for when that will begin or when they hope to retake those cities. HOWELL: So you say a focus now on Raqqah. Ian Lee, live for us in Egypt, thank you so much for your reporting.

The Pentagon is disciplining 16 military personnel over a hospital bombing in Afghanistan. It happened last year in Kunduz. The airstrike killed 42 people there. The target was a Taliban center 400 meters or about 1,300 feet away. U.S. officials say the punishments include suspension and retraining but no criminal charges.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The interpretation here, legal interpretation, and our understanding of this, the fact that this was unintentional, an unintentional action takes it out of the realm of actually being a deliberate war crime against persons or protected locations. So that is the principal reason why we do not consider this to be a war crime.

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HOWELL: The group that ran the hospital, Medecins sans Frontieres or Doctors without Borders, says the punishment isn't enough. Its operation coordinator told our Nick Parker they are out of proportion for the damage.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course we cannot be happy with solely this military investigation. As you know probably, we have been requesting since the following days of the -- after the attack that independent, impartial and international fact-finding commission would unite the event and to this -- (INAUDIBLE) investigation could never happen.

So today we remain with more again questions than answers. So it's a mixed feeling.

NICK PARKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Understood. As you say, it is rare that the United States would launch any kind of investigation into its military and, even rarer, which is the main point, that it would launch an independent investigation into military actions in a war zone. They have said that Medecins sans Frontieres did everything right in this situation and that it was a mistake.

Do you not have faith in the transparency of the Pentagon investigation?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What can I say?

It's not an independent investigation. Of course, an investigation was performed out of the land of command. But it's still an internal investigation, to us, performed by U.S. military, who were the perpetrator of the attack.

So, of course, how can we have faith in the investigation?

PARKER: And your response to the punishments that were announced? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The reaction is that it's out of proportion decisions, I mean, the -- there was a destruction of Iranian hospital. There was death for 42 people, wounding of dozens of staff and (INAUDIBLE) services for the local population had been stopped for one day to another.

So, of course, it's a very mixed feeling that these admitted, these punishments are to us completely out of proportion to everything we face on the ground.

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HOWELL: Still ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM, hundreds of people came out to disrupt a Donald Trump speech in the state of California. We'll show you what the candidate had to do when protesters blocked his motorcade. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: America's choice 2016 and, for the second day in a row, protests turned violent at a Donald Trump event. The Republican front-runner was set to give a speech at California's Republican convention but protesters blocked his motorcade, forcing him to walk to the venue's back entrance. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty has this report.

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SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tensions rising in California. A large group of demonstrators flooding streets outside the California Republican Convention, protesting Donald Trump's appearance.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That was not the easiest entrance I have ever made.

SERFATY: The front-runner's motorcade dodging the crowds, Trump forced to enter and exit his speech on foot to avoid protesters.

TRUMP: We went under a fence and through a fence. And, oh, boy, it felt like I was crossing the border.

SERFATY: The protests occurring a day after hundreds of demonstrators clashed with Trump supporters outside his rally in Costa Mesa, all this as Trump sells his candidacy to GOP insiders in California, one of the last primary states on June 7 that could play a decisive role in delivering Trump the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.

TRUMP: We have far more votes than anybody else, far more delegates than anybody else and we're going to hit that number I think quite easily.

SERFATY: As Trump focuses on closing out the race in California, Ted Cruz is slogging it out in the trenches of Indiana. His campaign sees Tuesday's primary as crucial to blocking Trump's path to the nomination and pushing the race toward a contested convention and the senator is pulling out all the stops.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think Governor Mike Pence is an optimistic, positive, unifying force.

SERFATY: Cruz picking up the support today of Indiana Governor Mike Pence.

GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), INDIANA: I am not against anybody, but I will be voting for Ted Cruz.

SERFATY: But Pence's endorsement lukewarm.

PENCE: Whoever wins the Republican nomination for President of the United States, I am going to work my heart out to get elected this fall.

SERFATY: Also offering plenty of praise for Trump.

PENCE: I particularly want to commend Donald Trump who I think has given voice to the frustration of millions of working Americans with the lack of progress in Washington, D.C.

SERFATY: Trump, who also courted and hoped for the endorsement of Pence:

TRUMP: I have met with him. He may not endorse. I don't think he will endorse anybody actually and he may endorse us.

SERFATY: Not letting enough for Cruz.

TRUMP: Have we branded this guy or what? He probably -- I see him walking into these beautiful corridors in Washington. The guys said, hey, Lyin' Ted. How you doing?

SERFATY: But is saving his fiercest fire now for Hillary Clinton, intensifying attacks on his potential general election rival.

TRUMP: No, Crooked Hillary. She said very strongly, I --

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TRUMP: -- don't like the tone of Donald Trump. The tone. Now, she is there shouting all night long, reading off teleprompters.

SERFATY: And taunting Clinton over Twitter, calling her the most dishonest person to have ever run for the presidency and one of the all-time great enablers, as Trump adopts a softer tone against Bernie Sanders.

TRUMP: I really want to beat her more than Sanders. (END VIDEOTAPE)

HOWELL: John Kasich says that some people may be born gay, speaking at a town hall event in San Francisco. The third-place Republican presidential candidate was pressed on the subject by a questioner that sexual identity is determined at birth and not a lifestyle choice. Here's part of Kasich's comments.

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GOV. JOHN KASICH (R), OHIO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I believe in traditional marriage. I just went to a gay wedding. A buddy of mine just got -- went and got married. My wife and I went to the wedding, it was great, it was fine.

QUESTION: But do you feel -- do you not --

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QUESTION: -- some people are born gay?

KASICH: I'm not going to get into all the analysis of this or that. I'm not going to --

QUESTION: It's not analysis.

Are people born gay?

MODERATOR: Our next question --

KASICH: You know, sir, probably.

I mean, I don't know how it all works, OK?

I mean, look, are they?

In all probability they are, OK?

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HOWELL: Now turning now to the Democratic side of the presidential race, the Bernie Sanders campaign has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee. It claimed the party blocked the campaign's use of a critical voter database. And the Sanders staffer improperly accessed data from the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, is responding to the latest round of attacks from Donald Trump.

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HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HOWELL: Just a little later this hour, you will hear more from that interview and what Clinton says she plans to do to defeat Donald Trump, here on CNN NEWSROOM.

In the coming days, jokes, jabs and much more is expected in Washington as celebrities, as journalists and politicians all attend the hottest political roast in that city. It's the White House Correspondents Dinner and this will be President Barack Obama's last appearance as the U.S. president.

But as Sara Murray reports, one controversial figure is apparently trying to avoid the political scorching.

Guess who?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amazing.

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to Nerd Prom, the one weekend a year when celebrities flock to D.C. for a weekend of parties with the Beltway elite. But this year one celebrity guest won't be making the trip: GOP front- runner Donald Trump.

As Trump recently explained to "The Hill," "I was asked by every single group of media available to mankind. But I've decided not to go.

"Do you know why?

"I would have a good time and the press would say I look like I wasn't having a good time."

Trump was probably referring to that time he came as a guest of "The Washington Post" in 2011 and appeared unamused to find himself the butt of many jokes.

SETH MEYERS, COMEDIAN: Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke.

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MURRAY (voice-over): President Obama, having just released his long- form birth certificate at the insistence of critics, including Trump, dug in even deeper.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald.

And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like did we fake the moon landing?

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MURRAY (voice-over): Just days earlier, Trump boasted about the role he played in urging Obama to release the form.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You raised this, saying the president should release this.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have done a great service to the American people. I got him to release a birth certificate that he should've done three years ago.

MURRAY (voice-over): The issue clearly got under Obama's skin.

OBAMA: We do not have time for this kind of silliness.

MURRAY (voice-over): But by the time Nerd Prom rolled around Obama got the last laugh.

OBAMA: And, all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.

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OBAMA: For example -- no, seriously. Just recently, in an episode of "Celebrity Apprentice..."

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OBAMA: -- at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks and there was a lot of blame to go around.

But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so, ultimately, you didn't blame Lil' Jon or Meat Loaf.

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OBAMA: You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.

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OBAMA: Well handled, sir, well handled.

Say what you will about Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring some change to the White House. Let's see what we've got up there.

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MURRAY (voice-over): Even though Trump insists he enjoyed the dinner, it certainly didn't appear that way, says former senior White House advisor, David Axelrod.

DAVID AXELROD, FORMER SENIOR ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: There were a series of devastating jokes and everybody was looking at Trump, who seemed mildly irritated by them and, by the end, kind of walked out of the thing and didn't hang around.

MURRAY (voice-over): In just five short years, how things have changed. Trump began doling out checks to GOP causes and landing speaking spots at conservative functions. Now, he's the GOP front- runner and it appears the joke is on Washington.

TRUMP: A lot of people have laughed at me over the years. Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.

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HOWELL: That was CNN's Sara Murray reporting there for us.

And don't forget to join CNN for our special coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, beginning Sunday at midnight London time, only here on CNN.

Still ahead on NEWSROOM, why Kenya is planning to incinerate millions of dollars' worth of ivory.

Plus: a new twist in the disappearance of dozens of Mexican students more than a year ago. A top criminal investigator now under investigation himself.

Live across the United States and around the world this hour, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

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HOWELL (voice-over): Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, you are watching CNN NEWSROOM and it is good to have you with us. I'm George Howell. The headlines we're following this hour:

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HOWELL: Kenya is about to start the largest burn of illegal wildlife products in history. In Nairobi National Park the president will light a match to a massive stockpile ivory tusks and rhino horn. It's a dramatic way of getting people to pay attention to the severe poaching crisis there.

CNN's Robyn Kriel has this report for us.

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KRIEL (voice-over): A heavy burden for Kenyans to bear. Never has the continent's poaching epidemic been so visceral than this endless train of elephant tusks, forming something of a graveyard to the world's iconic endangered species.

And soon this will turn into a crematorium: 12 piles of ivory and rhino horn will be set ablaze in the largest burn of illegal wildlife products in history.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a pumping station. There we've got a mixing tank, where we'll be mixing kerosene and diesel, 50 percent each. And then we'll pump it down individual pipes to each tower. We call these ivory towers.

KRIEL (voice-over): It's the ivory of around 8,000 elephants; combined with the rhino horn, this bounty would be worth an estimated $172 U.S. million on the black market.

The potential income that could be generated from this sale has been difficult for many cash-strapped African governments to accept, money that could be put perhaps towards conservation. But Kenya believes it's worth absolutely nothing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From a Kenya perspective we are not watching any money go up in smoke because, from our perspective, there is no intrinsic value. Kenya believes that the only value of the ivory is tusks on a live elephant.

KRIEL (voice-over): It's a practice that goes back to 1989; a Kenyan invention to deal with the severe poaching crisis.

Today, a new crisis looms: a growing Chinese economy and appetite for illegal wildlife products and now audience to reach.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They never saw the 1989-1990 crisis. They were not subjected to the pressure that we brought on the world's markets in those days. So we have to do it again and that's what we're doing.

KRIEL (voice-over): A record number of rhinos were poached in Africa last year, around 1,338. And contributing to the stockpile, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its tusks.

KRIEL: Each pair of these tusks tells an individual story of an elephant's life. And you can tell just what kind of life it was by the grooves and markings that you can see here. You can tell its approximate age and oftentimes how it died as well.

There are these huge tusks that weigh up to 110 pounds each. And then there are those, tiny tusks belonging to babies, never given the chance to mature or live.

KRIEL (voice-over): The fire could for last up to a week. But organizers hope its image and stigma will be burned into memory forever -- Robyn Kriel, CNN, Nairobi, Kenya.

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HOWELL: And CNN will cover the torching event, beginning at 1:00 pm in London, only here on CNN.

In South Africa, that country's high court says the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, should face more than 700 corruption and fraud charges. Prosecutors dropped the accusations back in 2009 before Mr. Zuma's election. The high court called that decision irrational. The country's --

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HOWELL: -- opposition leader agrees.

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SOUTH AFRICAN OPPOSITION LEADER: We've always maintained that the decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma was irrational and should not have been discontinued and we welcome the fact that those (INAUDIBLE) must be continued. And Jacob Zuma must have what he's always wanted, his day in court.

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HOWELL: Now prosecutors have to decide if they will reinstate those charges against the president. He has denied all allegations. And that is just one of the many scandals Mr. Zuma has weathered. There have been other corruption charges but they've all been dismissed in the courts.

In 2006, he was tried and acquitted of raping a young female family friend, who was HIV positive. Zuma was criticized further when he said he showered after the encounter to, quote, "minimize the risk of contracting the disease."

And recently, South Africa's highest court said Zuma defied the constitution, spending millions of state funds to upgrade his private home. He's been ordered to repay $15 million.

The head of Mexico's criminal investigations agency is under investigation himself now. An independent human rights panel wants to know why he did not initially disclose that he had been to the site where a charred bone fragment was found.

As CNN's Rafael Romo reports, the fragment belongs to one of 43 students, who went missing more than a year ago.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Speaking Spanish).

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SR. LATIN AFFAIRS EDITOR (voice-over): This is the video at the center of the controversy. It shows the director of the Mexican criminal investigations agency arriving at the crime scene on October 28th, 2014.

Thomas Zeron, seen here in a blue shirt and black baseball hat, was investigating the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher's college. There's just one problem: Zeron never mentioned this visit to a river in Guerrero State in his official report.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Speaking Spanish).

ROMO (voice-over): Carlos Verestein (ph) is a member of an independent panel of investigators established by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He says the work of forensic experts, photos and videos taken that day were not included in the official investigation.

Far from clarifying the situation, the explanations given so far by Mr. Zeron clearly show that his behavior goes against basic investigative international standards, Verestein (ph) says. But Zeron defended his actions, saying nothing significant was found on the 28th.

"As I have demonstrated, my presence at that location and time in broad daylight and witnessed by representatives of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights as well as tens of journalists, was legal," Zeron said.

The Office of U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights says it was not at the river that day. The Mexican attorney general's office has opened an investigation into Zeron's behavior and the way he and other investigators have handled the case of the missing students.

Parents are demanding answers from authorities. They marched on the streets of Mexico City again this week, holding banners with pictures of the missing and chanting, "Where are our children?"

Out of 43 students who are missing, the remains of only one have been positively identified. Zeron says those remains, a bone fragment, was found the next day on the 29th -- Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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HOWELL: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. And still ahead, the Democratic presidential front-runner, Hillary Clinton, you'll hear how she is responding to the latest attacks from Donald Trump and how she plans to defeat him. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: America's choice 2016 and the U.S. presidential race: Donald Trump is increasingly focusing his attacks on Hillary Clinton and he's repeatedly criticized the Democratic front-runner for sending e-mails on her private account while she was secretary of state.

Clinton says those e-mails were not classified at the time but Trump is clearly hoping his new favorite nickname for Clinton will stick. Here's what he had to say.

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DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When I can focus on Hillary, as I say, Crooked Hillary, when I focus on Hillary, she'll go down easier than any of the people we just beat.

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HOWELL: And Clinton is responding to Trump's attacks. She gave CNN her first interview since winning big in last Tuesday's primaries. Our Jake Tapper began by asking her what she thought about Trump's speech on foreign policy. Here's what she had to say.

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HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I certainly read about it. And I think it's quite concerning. His talk about pulling out of NATO, his talk about letting other countries have nuclear weapons, which runs counter to 70 years of bipartisan national security policy, his idea that he -- quote -- "has a secret plan" to get rid of ISIS, that he's not going to tell anybody, I find it disturbing because I -- you know, as a senator from New York for eight years, as secretary of state for four years, I know that the stakes are high, that we face some real challenges and dangers in the world.

And I don't think loose talks about loose nukes, I don't think turning our back on our strongest allies, I don't think pretending you have some sort of secret plan is a very smart way to go forward in leading the world, which is what we must do.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: On some issues, it seems like he's going to run to your left, on a populist left and one of them might be the use of force and military intervention and whether it's Libya or Iraq, what will your response be when he says Hillary Clinton is part of the group that gets but into these wars?

CLINTON: Well, look, I think that I'm always someone who uses military force as a last resort. It's not a first choice.

As secretary of state, I talked a about smart power, about diplomacy and development. I'm the one who put together to coalition that imposed sanctions on Iran, brought them to the negotiating table, which led to putting a lid on their nuclear weapons program. And that's exactly what we need to do, because there was a real potential that military action might have been taken in order to try to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

So, when you have somebody who says he's going to be tough and he's going to get results, but he doesn't tell you how he's going to do it, I think we will have a lot to contrast with.

TAPPER: He also said that, if you were a man, you would be at --

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TAPPER: -- 5 percent in the polls. What did you think when you heard that?

CLINTON: You know, I don't respond to his attacks on me. I think it's kind of silly. I was elected to the Senate twice from New York. I was someone who got more than 18 million votes the first time I ran. I now have two million more votes than Donald Trump has, more than 12 million votes to his 10. So it doesn't really square with reality.

What I worry about is the way he attacks all kinds of groups of people. And I want to be their spokesperson. I'm going to stand up for them.

Attacking me, demeaning me, talking about playing the woman's card, well, there are a lot of women out there who are really struggling, women working on minimum wage, working not being paid fairly, women trying to balance family and work and finding it really, really hard, women who are worried about security in their neighborhoods, women who have a lot of legitimate concerns.

And as I said Tuesday night, if playing the women's card means standing up for the concerns that women have and that they express to me, then deal me in, because that's exactly what I have always done for decades, what I will do in this campaign.

TAPPER: He has taken politics to a new place with his negative branding of people, whether it's saying that Jeb Bush is low-energy or talking about Lyin' Ted Cruz.

And for his supporters, it's really worked. He has lately taken to calling you, I believe, corrupt Hillary. And he's had some rather personal and pointed tweets.

Have you learned anything from watching the way that Republicans dealt with him in the primaries that will inform how you will deal with such an unconventional candidate?

CLINTON: Well, remember, I -- I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.

I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me. He can say whatever he wants to say about me. I could really care less. I'm going to stand up for what I think the American people need and want in the next president.

That's why I have laid out very specific plans. There's nothing secret about what I want to do with the economy, with education, with health care, with foreign policy. I have laid it all out there. And he can't or he won't. I can't tell which.

So we're going to talk about what we want to do for the country and he can continue on his insult fest, but that's the choice he's making.

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HOWELL: That was the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton there, speaking with our own Jake Tapper.

Leicester City is standing on the doorstep of history. We will discuss their improbable run to the top of European football. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.

Leicester City Football Club will play for the English Premier League title on Sunday. At the beginning of the season, their odds to win were at 5,000:1. But they're here now and have just one more team between them and history.

The bad news, though, is that the team is storied Manchester United. Leicester City versus Manchester United seems more like a David versus Goliath match-up if you look at the club's histories and not the current standings. United have won a record 20 English League titles, more than any other club.

But while Leicester have none so far, they're on course for their first league title in their 132-year history.

Look at their revenue: Manchester United earned $574 million last season. Leicester City's revenue: about $151 million. United also has the largest stadium. Old Trafford seats more than 75,000 people; Leicester's King Power Stadium just 32,000 fans.

Manchester United also rules social media with 7.5 million Twitter followers. Leicester City has a little more than half a million followers and climbing.

Leicester City has strong ties to Thailand, thanks to its owner, who grew up there. His company, King Power, is on the front of Leicester's jersey and now it's hoping to create a new wave of star footballers. Our Christina Macfarlane visited Thailand to see how the club's success is inspiring young players.

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CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is what effect Leicester City's success is having on the other side of the world, thousands of children, patiently queuing for the chance to become the club's next Thai star of the future, hoping one day to wear the King Power blue shirt.

It's part of the "Foxes" new reality TV show in Thailand, taking place all over the country under the watchful eye of the team of scouts. It's just one example of how the club's Thai owners are giving back to their homeland.

MICHOK RASDRANUWAT, CREATIVE DIRECTOR "GOAL" (through translator): The owner of Leicester City is Thai and this is such a good opportunity to be able to see Thai's play in the U.S. Premier League. The show is just the first step to give Thai players that opportunity.

MACFARLANE: It's not the only place the owners are making an impact. In August, Leicester City are rumored to be sending a team of coaches to help the national team qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

If anyone knows about succeeding against the odds, it's Leicester.

PEERAPOL "CHAMP" EUARIYAKUL, TV HOST, "HOT SHOTS BY CHAMP": Good scout, great analysis can mean more than splashing hundreds of millions of dollars or pounds if the Thai football can take something from Leicester. I think they have the edge.

MACFARLANE: Thailand's top sports presented Champ Euariyakul has seen first hand how the club's success is changing attitudes across the country.

EUARIYAKUL: The problem with the Thai society is that, sometimes we're too humble. And when we said I have this dream to become the best player in the history of the game, people will say, you know what, you're too cocky.

But now, (inaudible) has shown. If Leicester can win the English Premier League, the --

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EUARIYAKUL: -- number one league in the world, then why can't Thailand qualify for the World Cup?

MACFARLANE: But if Thailand doesn't succeed in the upper echelons of the game, it's here at the grass roots level, the real work needs to be done.

Acadena Bangkok has been running a football education program here in the city's biggest slum for the past two years. The goal is to help these kids play their way out of poverty by providing a pathway to a footballing future.

CHARLY NOMDEDUE, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, ACADENA BANGKOK: With these things today is to help them to have like a structure. They need to arrive on time, have the good food, sleep good. That's what difficult to implement here because they are living in the slum and so the condition around them are not really good for that.

It's possible for me to see them in the Premier League Spanish into about three years.

MACFARLANE: Really?

NONDEDUE: Yes. MACFARLANE: There may only be one Leicester City shirt I a sea of Barcelona, Man United and Liverpool, but there's no doubt who they all want to be.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jamie Vardy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jamie Vardy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jamie Vardy.

MACFARLANE: If the club's influence continues to filter down from the top of the Premier League to a slum in the backstreets of Bangkok, it could be the beginning of a new era for football in the land of (INAUDIBLE) -- Christina Macfarlane, CNN, Bangkok.

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HOWELL: Children in Thailand pulling for Leicester City all the way. We'll have to see what happens.

We thank you for being with us at this hour on CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta. For our viewers in the United States, "NEW DAY" is next and for other viewers around the world, ""AMANPOUR" starts in a moment. Thank you for watching CNN, the world's news leader.