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Trump Views GOP Contest Over, Cruz Not Giving Up; Leicester City Become English Premier League Champs; Aleppo Is Biggest Challenge in Syria Cease-fire; Teacher Protests in Detroit, Michigan; Venezuelans Facing No Electricity, Food Shortages; Dispute over Prince's Estate Growing Ugly; New Insight into America's Struggle with Obesity. Aired 2-3a ET

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[02:00:40] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN NEWSROOM.

Voting begins in just a few hours in the Indiana presidential primaries, and the results could be pivotal. Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz try to lock up votes across the state in competing rallies. Cruz is hoping to keep Trump from beginning enough delegates to clinch that nomination. Now, he described a confrontation with a Trump supporter at a campaign stop.

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SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You know, I asked him to name something he liked about Donald Trump. He said, well, he's going to build a wall. That's the main thing. I said, sir, are you aware that he told "The New York Times" editorial board that he wasn't going to build a wall, that he didn't mean anything he said on immigration, that he was just saying that to fool the voters? Sir, are you aware it's on tape? That "The New York Times" taped it. And they said they're happy to release it if Donald Trump gives his permission. If he didn't say that, if the tape proves his innocence, Donald Trump should want it released. Truth matters.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are building the wall. But I've got this guy Cruz, Lyin' Ted, Donald Trump has said he is not going to build the wall. I think he's crazy. Honestly, I think he's crazy.

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TRUMP: Lyin' Ted does not have the temperament to be doing this. He is choking like a dog because he's losing so badly. We have to put him away tomorrow, folks. We have to get out and vote.

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TRUMP: We have to get out and vote.

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CHURCH: CNN's Sara Murray reports that although Trump views the Republican contest to be nearly over, Cruz is not giving up.

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TRUMP: Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump is aiming to deal a death blow to Ted Cruz's presidential hopes right here in Indiana.

TRUMP: If we win Indiana, it's over. It's over.

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TRUMP: They're finished.

MURRAY: Trump holds a 24-point advantage over Cruz in the latest CNN/ORC poll of Republicans nationwide. Trump appears well positioned to pull off a victory in Tuesday's primary. He draws 49 percent support from Republican voters in Indiana, a 15-point lead over Cruz, according to a new "Wall Street Journal"/NBC News/Marist poll. But Cruz insists the race is much tighter.

CRUZ: We are neck and neck right now in the state of Indiana. So for anyone here, Hoosiers, this is an opportunity where the entire country is looking to the state of Indiana.

MURRAY: He and his surrogates are blanketing the Hoosier State today, holding ten events, and at one stop engaging in a debate with one of Trump's supporters.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trump. He's the only one that's going to put us where we need to be. What are you going to do about the second amendment?

CRUZ: This man is lying to you and he's taking advantage of you. If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn't have come over and talked to you. I would have told the folks over there go over and punch those guys in the face. That's what Donald does to protesters.

MURRAY: All, as the Texas Senator vows to stay in the race until Cleveland.

CRUZ: I am in for the distance. As long as we have a viable path to victory, I am competing to the end.

MURRAY: Meanwhile, Trump is still condemning the GOP primary process.

TRUMP (voice-over): I've been saying it's a rigged system. The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick. What's the purpose of going through the primaries?

MURRAY: And continued campaigning in colorful language this weekend as he criticized trade deals with China.

TRUMP (on camera): We can't continue to allow China to rape our country. And that's what they're doing.

MURRAY: But it's clear the GOP front runner is ready to make the shift to the general, taking aim at Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail today.

TRUMP: She's a disaster. E-mails. Bad judgment. Iraq, voted yes. Bad judgment. Libya, bad judgment. All bad judgment.

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CHURCH: Joining me now to talk more about the race for the White House is Republican consultant, Bruce Haynes.

Welcome. Thanks for being with us again.

BRUCE HAYNES, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Thanks, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Now, Ted Cruz says he's in the race as long as there's, in quotes, a viable path to victory. Now, we know Donald Trump's numbers show him about 15 points ahead of Cruz in the Indiana primary on Tuesday. So when you look at the math, is there any path left to victory for Cruz?

[02:05:08] HAYNES: It's a very, very narrow path. And it's a path that only ends in victory on the floor of an open or contested convention in Cleveland. Ted Cruz is a little bit like the goalkeeper. He's just trying to keep balls out of the goal. He's trying to stop Trump from getting enough delegates to win. He can't get enough delegates himself to win. Indiana, therefore, tomorrow night is going to be just crucial for Ted Cruz, if he doesn't stop Trump from getting a lot of delegates in Indiana it's going to be very, very difficult to keep him under that threshold of 1,237 delegates that it takes to be nominated.

CHURCH: What about beyond Indiana? How do you expect this Republican race to play out and how likely is it that Donald Trump will win the required 1,237 delegates and avoid a contested convention for his party?

HAYNES: Well, I've got bad news for everyone who's tired of all this and wants it to be over. It's going to go all the way to the finish line. And that finish line is California. Donald Trump holds commanding leads in winner-take-all states like West Virginia and New Jersey. There's 85 delegates there that he's going to get there. He's going to pick up a few delegates in some other states. So that's going to get him up over the 1,100 number with those. Then what does he get in Indiana? And California becomes the prize, 172 delegates. If he does well in Indiana, if he gets over 50 delegates in Indiana, he would need to win only half the delegates in California. And that's a very achievable proposition as big as his lead is in the polls.

CHURCH: When you do look at the math it is looking more and more likely that this will be a fight between Trump and Hillary Clinton. How's Trump going to counter all the experience and policy knowledge that Clinton brings to the table?

HAYNES: Well, all of that experience and policy knowledge didn't seem to do anyone a lot of good in the Republican primary, and it does seem to be the year of the outsider. Bernie Sanders has run a very close, very tight race against Hillary Clinton. A lot of Democratic voters are looking for an alternative to Hillary Clinton. Trump may run really well with some of them. And you know, Republicans are just kind of tired of beating up on each other. It's been a long, nasty primary. I think it's going to be time. They're going to come together and unite against what they see as the real threat to American prosperity, and that's Hillary Clinton.

CHURCH: We'll all be watching it very closely. Very interesting.

Bruce Haynes, thanks for joining us again. Appreciate it.

HAYNES: Thanks, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Now, while on the campaign trail in Indiana Ted Cruz's running mate, Carly Fiorina, apparently, slipped right off the stage. It happened as she was introducing Cruz.

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CARLY FIORINA (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE : The next president of the United States, Ted Cruz!

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CHURCH: There she went. Cruz didn't seem to notice Fiorina fall as he shook hands with the crowd.

But rival, Donald Trump, did.

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TRUMP: By the way, she fell off the stage the other day. Did everybody see that?

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TRUMP: And Cruz didn't do anything. Even I would have helped her. OK?

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CHURCH: The latest CNN/ORC poll shows a vast majority of Americans believe the stage is already set for the 2016 presidential election. 85 percent say Democratic front runner, Hillary Clinton, will likely be the party's nominee for president. The poll also shows a growing enthusiasm for her candidacy, up seven points since March. And on the Republican side 84 percent of voters say Trump will most

likely win his party's nomination, way ahead of both Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

And we will, of course, have much more on the race for the White House coming up later this hour. We'll take you to Indiana, where Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are locked in a tight race for delegates.

Leicester City has miraculously climbed all the way to the top of the English Premier League. They secured the title when second-place Tottenham drew against Chelsea Monday. Watch how the team reacted to the news.

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CHURCH: The team's fans are excited as well, and for good reason. They have waited 132 years to finally get a major championship. People are out in the streets celebrating an amazing fairy tale season.

And Christina McFarland has the view from Leicester.

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CHRISTINA MCFARLAND, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That is an Algerian flag that's just been waved in front of me in honor of Riyad Mahrez. Of course, the players themselves are not far away from here. They're at Jamie Vardy's house, about a 10-minute drive down the road. We heard that Claudio Ranieri has flown back to Leicester City tonight from Italy especially for this moment.

You can see just what it means to these fans.

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[02:10:10] MCFARLAND: There are no firm plans yet. We're not entirely sure what the official celebrations will be. We do expect there to be a victory parade on the streets of Leicester at the end of the season.

But as for the party here, it's going to carry on for some hours yet to come.

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MCFARLAND: A carnival atmosphere.

This is Christina McFarland, from the champions of the English Premier League in Leicester.

(END VIDEOTAPE) CHURCH: How about that? Well, the Foxes have shocked the football world. When the season started, their odds to win the league were at 5,000 to one.

Our Don Riddell takes us through Leicester's journey to the top.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: It is a football fairy tale that is already folklore. Leicester City's astonishing win against all the odds Premier League title. Analysts have spent many months now debating how the Foxes were able to stun the big guns and take the bookies to the cleaners.

And there are good reasons for their success. A brilliant scouting system that unearthed hidden gems like Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, old school tactics and brilliant management from Claudio Ranieri. And we can also look at some key moments when they kept the dream alive.

Look at this. Nobody cares who's top of the table after just one game but maybe the signs were there all along. The Foxes thrashed Sunderland 4-2 and on that evidence it looked like they might be good enough to avoid relegation. But let's be honest, not many of us were thinking much bigger than that at the time. Fast forward to the last week of October. Up until this point, Leicester had been playing well but they hadn't managed to keep a clean sheet. That concerned the manager, Ranieri. So he incentivized his team with a pizza party and it worked, 1-0 against Crystal Palace moving them to fifth in the league. Just three points off the top. They've had 14 more in the league this season, no doubt keeping the local delivery boys on their toes.

So with the defense all shored up the Foxes set about really make the feathers fly. But they slowed down around New Year. By January, their critics were all expecting the wheels to finally fall off. So they went to Tottenham and beat them with a late header from Robert Huth with Spurs turning out to be their biggest rivals, that was crucial as they opened up a seven-point gap on the Londoners. But nothing said we mean business quite like Leicester's stunning 3-1 win at Manchester City in February, Huth scoring twice, Mahrez also got on target, and Leicester were five points clear of the table with 13 games to play. And they just kept going and going and going. And arguably, the result that signals they were now destined for the title came in the middle of April against West Ham. Jamie Vardy had been sent off. There was late drama at both ends. But a last gasp penalty from Ulloa Joa (ph) gave them a commanding eight-point lead. Now it is all over with two games to spare. Leicester City are Premier League champions. Whoever would have thought it?

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CHURCH: Our Don Riddell reporting there. Truly, a season to remember.

We'll take a short break here. But coming up, the schools in Detroit, Michigan are broken. Why the classrooms were literally empty Monday. Plus --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): If they're of a mind to continue breaking this truce, armed opposition and factions have a right to respond to that aggression.

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CHURCH: Warring sides in Syria speak out about their battle for the city of Aleppo. We're back with that and more in just a moment.

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[02:17:36] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The U.S. and Russia have agreed to add more personnel in Geneva to help enforce the fragile cease-fire in Syria. The biggest challenge appears to be extending the truth to include the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has seen a sharp escalation of violence recently.

Global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, reports.

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ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fresh air strikes pummel rebel-held areas of Aleppo, still reeling from last week's hospital attack. Chilling video footage captures the final moments for Aleppo's last pediatrician, among 50 killed, when the U.S. says the Syrian regime deliberately targeted the medical facility.

JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: The attack on this hospital is unconscionable under any standard anywhere. It has to stop.

LABOTT: Acknowledging the Syria conflict is out of control, Secretary of State John Kerry is in Geneva --

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LABOTT: -- in a desperate push to salvage a crumbling cease-fire and restart peace talks.

KERRY: An ongoing process that relieves the people of Syria from this devastation, from this day-to-day killing machine that is being unleashed by the Assad regime.

LABOTT: Local truces announced last week by the U.S. and Russia did not include Aleppo, where hundreds of civilians died in the last week alone. Russia continuing to support the regime's campaign to retake Aleppo and strengthen its hold on northern Syria.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once you encircle Aleppo they would think that they could squeeze it and therefore eventually take it over as they have other areas they've besieged elsewhere.

LABOTT: But today, the Syrian opposition vowed to fight back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): If they are of a mind to continue breaking this truce, armed opposition and factions have a right to respond to that aggression.

LABOTT: And its biggest backer, Saudi Arabia, said the world will not stand idly by.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is happening in Aleppo is an outrage. It's a violation of all humanitarian laws. The world is not going to allow them to get away with this.

LABOTT (on camera): The Israeli newspaper "Ha'aretz" is reporting president Assad has used chemical weapons against is. This follows reports the regime has used chemical agents against civilians since the cease-fire started. ISIS has also used chemical weapons on the battlefield in Aleppo. All very terrifying for civilians as the battle for Aleppo intensifies.

Elise Labott, CNN, Washington.

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[02:20:12] CHURCH: A jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $55 million to a woman who says the company's products caused her cancer. She and hundreds of other people say Johnson & Johnson did not adequately warn them about cancer risks from talcum powder. Earlier this year, a jury awarded $72 million to the family of a woman in a related case. In total, the trial involves nearly 50 plaintiffs.

Well, most of the school teachers in Detroit, Michigan, stayed away from their classrooms Monday. They staged a mass protest because they have not been paid.

Scott McClain has more on a school district at breaking point.

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SCOTT MCCLAIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's teachers calling in sick, but it's the school system that's really ailing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The future of Detroit is as much at stake here as the future of the school system.

MCCLAIN: Detroit public school teachers protesting Monday, calling in sick en masse, forcing all but three schools in the district to close. The issue -- money. Not enough to pay some teachers in July and August.

UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER: We have already worked. So we continue to work, it will be like we are working for free. What profession works for free? MCCLAIN: The school district is deeply in debt, $515 million so far.

And will run out of funds on July 1st, unless the state legislature steps up with more cash and quickly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Michigan legislature understands the urgency and importance of the reform legislation that is before it.

MCCLAIN: It's not the first sick-out in Detroit. In January, teachers walked out over poor school conditions. In some cases, there were rats, cockroaches, black mold, and even crumbling ceilings.

This time, teachers have had enough.

UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER: We have reached a breaking point. Enough is enough.

MCCLAIN: The district says this latest walkout doesn't help. In fact, it will cost them $2 million in state funding. Instead it wants the community to put pressure on lawmakers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The DFT called for a sickout. I'm calling for people to call Lansing.

MCCLAIN: Teachers are expected to be back in class Tuesday.

In Washington, I'm Scott McClain.

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CHURCH: Puerto Rico's economic footing is getting unsteadier by the day. The island failed to come up with a $422 million bond payment it was supposed to make on Monday, resulting in a default of about $370 billion. Big as that is, it's dwarfed by the nearly $2 billion the U.S. territory will owe on July 1st. Puerto Rico's governor is urging the U.S. Congress to allow a restructuring of Puerto Rico's debt. In all, it owes its creditors more than $70 billion.

Venezuela's economy is on the brink of catastrophic failure. Low oil prices have been particularly crippling. Two years ago, Venezuela exported $75 billion worth. Barclays projects just $27 billion in 2016. Making matters worse, the IMF projects inflation will hit 481 percent this year, and the currency has plummeted in value. It takes 1,125 Bolivars to make up one U.S. dollar at the unofficial rate. Just a year ago, 258 Bolivars were equal to a dollar.

There's now an electricity crisis in Venezuela and the government is take drastic measures to cope. Rolling blackouts and shortened work weeks are now in effect in certain areas.

And as Paula Newton reports, people are also facing food shortages.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even in the driving rain, Venezuelans started their day in search of food expecting to see the usual grim queues that form at government stores. Not today. The only stores with affordable food are shut. "Closed for the national workers holiday," the sign explains. It says "Sorry" and "Thank you."

People walked away empty-handed but full of dread, wondering where their next meal might come from.

I asked Julian Perez what he needs.

JULIAN PEREZ, VENEZUELAN CITIZEN (through translation): All the basics. I have nothing at home. Sometimes I go hungry. Who can say that we the people aren't hungry right now? "

NEWTON: And here's the thing, these people aren't allowed to come back tomorrow. Food is rationed here, doled out according to the last number on your government I.D.

Carlos Chivinos explains his turn is today. His number is 5,

(on camera): Cinco.

CARLOS CHIVINOS: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

NEWTON: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

He's saying just today and Wednesday can he buy things. And because it's closed today, he's out of luck.

[02:25:09] (voice-over): So, too, is this woman. With two children and one on the way, she is raising her kids with no food in the cupboards and barely any in the fridge.

Venezuela is sitting on the world's largest proven oil reserves, but it can't stock the nation's refrigerators.

"This is all I have," she tells me as I asked about milk. "When I find it," she says, "they have milk."

And even at six months pregnant, sometimes with a child on each hand, she lines up for as many as 18 hours to find anything to eat.

Janet de Bolivar shows us all she has, too. She says it took her three weeks of queuing to stock this much at a shop that would have normally taken about an hour.

This is not the worst of it for this family.

Janet introduces us to her daughter, Yasday (ph), who explains the country is out of medicine too and there's no line you can wait in for that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): Cancer waits for no one. I'm worried about my own health and the health of so many others going through this right now.

NEWTON: Yasday (ph) is holding unfilled prescriptions for chemo. And she says no doctor, no hospital can tell her when she'll get treatment. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): It pains me to see

Venezuela in the state it's in right now, but what really makes my heart ache is the thought of not being here for any daughter tomorrow.

NEWTON: Three generations of Bolivars are counting on things to change in Venezuela, but like so many on this day, they cling to patience, hope, and very little else.

Paula Newton, CNN, Caracas.

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CHURCH: Polls are just hours away from opening in Indiana. What's being considered a do-or-die contest for Republican Ted Cruz. The latest on the primaries, that's coming up.

Plus, Turkish lawmakers threw punches and water bottles at each other during a very heated discussion. It was all captured on live television. We will tell you what sparked the brawl.

And a new study is explaining why the biggest losers, unfortunately, have more to gain when it comes to weight. Back with that.

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[02:30:32] CHURCH: The U.S. presidential candidates are hours away from crucial primaries in Indiana. Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are both hoping to hang on. But a new CNN/ORC poll shows Cruz way behind Trump nationally. Nearly half of those polled support Trump, with Cruz trailing at 25 percent, and John Kasich at 19 percent. On the Democratic side, Sanders and Hillary Clinton are just eight points apart.

Our Dana Bash talked with Cruz about the delegate count.

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DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump only needs 47 percent of remaining delegates to win the nomination outright. You need 132 percent. So will you support his candidacy if he, Donald Trump, gets the delegates before Cleveland?

CRUZ: Dana, nobody's going to get to 1,237. I'm not going to get to it. But neither is Donald Trump. I'm encouraged that conservatives will come together, especially Governor Mike Pence.

BASH: What makes you so sure he won't get the delegates? Getting 47 percent of the remaining delegates isn't inconceivable at all.

CRUZ: Well, he hasn't gotten 47 percent to date. That's better than he's done. And I'll tell you --

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BASH: But he sure did well last week. CRUZ: You're right. He did well in his home state. And he did well

in the adjoining states. He won five states last week. But in the preceding weeks I won five states in a row. Starting with Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, then Colorado, then Wyoming. 1.3 million people voted in those states. And buying, I earned more votes in Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York.

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CRUZ: Now, I get that the media found New York the most important election in the history of the universe --

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BASH: Well, also Pennsylvania. I mean, that was a place. But do you see -- you're a data-driven campaign.

CRUZ: Yeah.

BASH: Do you see hard data that really is driving this message that you have that he's not going to get the delegates need?

CRUZ: Absolutely. And I also -- I know the Republican Party. We are not -- the choice that Indiana faces tomorrow is who we are and which direction do we go.

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CHURCH: Now, as you just heard, Ted Cruz insists no one will get to 1,237 delegates before the Republican convention in July.

CNN's Tom Foreman takes a closer look at the delegate count and what could happen at a contested convention.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Take a look at the latest delegate count here and you can see how Donald Trump is closing in on the winning number. He only needs 235 more delegates to clinch the deal. But Ted Cruz is very effectively winning the shadow primary, this effort to make sure that more of the actual people filling the delegate roles are his loyalists. He did it again in Arizona and Missouri and in Virginia this past weekend.

Why does this matter? Let's bring out Virginia and talk about it. Donald Trump won handily here over Cruz, more than 2-1 in the vote. This past weekend, the party selected 13 at large delegates, people to fill the jobs. They have to reflect the state vote on the first vote at a contested convention if it comes to that. The breakdown would be sort of like this. But Cruz so effectively stacked this group with his loyalists that if you get past that first vote they can be expected to change their votes like this and, suddenly, Cruz would be dominant and Trump could lose a state that he already won. This is the real Cruz strategy right now. But he is running out of time and space to make it happen. 80 percent of the Republican vote has already happened out there. Donald Trump has won handily. Only 10 states remain, the ones in yellow here. Coming up immediately

is Indiana, of course, tomorrow. That's one of 150 delegates that will be decided over this next month. And next month after that there will be about 300 decided, the biggest one being California out there. If Donald Trump gets more than half of all those delegates in those remaining 10 states, that's it. It won't matter what Cruz did to work on a contested convention. There may not be one and it could be all over.

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CHURCH: Tom Foreman there.

Well, it is a very tight race between the Democrats in Indiana. Just hours before that state's primary. Although he's narrowly trailing Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders vows he will not back down.

Jeff Zeleny has more now from Indianapolis.

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[02:35:05] SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let us tomorrow have the biggest turnout in Indiana history.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bernie Sanders is firing up voters today across Indiana. He's asking Democrats to put the brakes on Hillary Clinton's march to the nomination.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Whoa.

ZELENY: But she's already moving on.

CLINTON: We cannot let Barack Obama's legacy fall into Donald Trump's hands.

ZELENY: On the eve of Indiana primary, Clinton is looking ahead to a fall match-up with Trump and to primary contests down the line. Visiting Appalachia today, Clinton talked trade with Kentucky steel workers.

CLINTON: But I don't believe that we should be subsidizing in effect the rest of the world. We've got some cards to play. And we need to play those cards.

ZELENY: She's won 5 out of the last 6 contests and is crushing Sanders in the hunt for delegates.

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ZELENY: Sanders is increasingly showing frustration, not only at Clinton --

SANDERS: When we talk about a rigged system, it's also important to understand how the Democratic convention works. ZELENY: -- but Democratic rules, particularly super delegates or

party officials who also have a say.

SANDERS: It makes it hard for insurgent candidacies like ours to win. But you know what? We're going to fight for every last vote.

ZELENY: That fight is getting harder, and his battle to win the nomination more uphill. Clinton is about 200 delegates shy of the magic number of 2,383. Sanders needs nearly five times that many pledged and super delegates.

The Sanders campaign is digging in, today accusing Clinton of running a money laundering scheme, citing a "Politico" report that only 1 percent of the $61 million raised by the victory fund is actually going to state parties. The Hillary Clinton dismissing the attack as desperation.

Trump is following Sanders' words carefully and plans to use them against Clinton.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Bernie Sanders said she shouldn't be allowed to run, that she's not capable. And what he said is incredible. It's a sound bite.

ZELENY: We asked Sanders whether that bothered him.

SANDERS: No. The Republican Party and Trump have the resources to do all the opposition research they want on Secretary Clinton. They don't need Bernie Sanders's critiques of the secretary.

ZELENY (on camera): Bernie Sanders campaigning strong in Indiana until the very last minute here, firing up the crowd, trying to hope to turn this momentum around. Hillary Clinton has won five of the last six contests. Bernie Sanders believes a win in Indiana could at least slow her march to the nomination.

Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Indianapolis.

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CHURCH: Coming up next hour, we will speak to Democratic strategist, Joe Lestingi, about the chances of Bernie Sanders taking the Indiana primary.

Now to a political argument that escalated quickly and violently. Take a look.

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CHURCH: Believe it or not, those are Turkish lawmakers fighting after a heated debate over changes to their constitution. Members of the ruling and opposition parties jumping on tables and throwing punches. This aired on live TV on Monday. They're arguing over whether lawmakers should continue to be immune from prosecutors. Another session also ending in violence last week. Stay tuned for that.

The court battle begins over Prince's estate. Ahead, brothers and sisters quarrel over the money and the music the pop star left behind.

Plus, a new study is shedding light on the struggles of obese people and how their bodies fight against weight loss. We'll explain.

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[02:12:22] Well, the dispute over Prince's fortune is growing ugly. A judge has appointed a special administrator over the estate. But the sibling rivalry behind the scenes of Monday's court hearing was not so civil.

Brian Todd explains.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't block the entrance.

BRIAN TODD, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prince's only full sibling, Tyka Nelson, arrives in court for hearings over the pop star's $300 million estate, proceedings which have already gotten very messy.

A source with firsthand knowledge of the discussions telling CNN the initial meeting between Prince's siblings was contentious and ended in shouting. On Monday, Tyka Nelson was on one side of the courtroom. Lawyers for Prince's half-siblings were on the other.

Making this potentially more contentious, his sister claims Prince did not have a will.

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TODD: Tyka Nelson is maneuvering with five half siblings of Prince over how to divided estate. One of them claims the singer had a vault at Paisley Park.

ALFRED JACKSON, HALF-BROTHER OF PRINCE: We've seen the vault door but we never entered.

TODD: There are conflicting reports as to whether the vault has been opened yet. A lawyer for Prince's half-brother denies it.

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TODD: It's rumored to have enough of Prince's unreleased music to put out one album every year for the rest of the century.

Prince's half-brother says he wants to release it.

ALFRED JACKSON, HALF-BROTHER OF PRINCE: Let people know how great he really is. TODD: But it's now up to a special administrator.

Four years ago, Prince made what now seems like an eerie remark about his unreleased songs in an interview with ABC's "The View."

PRINCE, SINGER/MUSICIAN: One day, someone will release them. I don't know that I'll get to release them.

TODD: Meanwhile, Prince's personal chef says during the last weeks of his life, the star had lost his appetite, that he ate less and drank less water.

Ray Roberts told the Associated Press, quote, "It felt like he wasn't himself probably the last month or two. I think he was just struggling with being sick a lot."

Roberts says that was unlike the healthy vegan he knew, who loved roasted beets and Minestrone soup.

The mystery surrounding Prince's death plays out against the backdrop of a seemingly ugly family dispute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A sudden windfall can make people do things they might not otherwise do. I think grieving has a big effect on it. Emotionally, people are surprised, particularly when somebody famous dies young. They might not have had a chance to say whatever they wanted to say. They may be force to sit in a room with people they don't like.

TODD (on camera): Prince's half-brother, Alfred Jackson, says he and Prince had lost touch with one another. Jackson told CNN he found out about the singer's death the same way the public found out. Jackson says he was hurt when he wasn't invited to the private memorial to say good-bye to his younger brother.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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[02:45:08] CHURCH: Scientists have done groundbreaking research, giving new insight into America's struggle with obesity.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look at me. I'm ashamed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's nothing to be ashamed of.

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CHURCH: That is season eight of NBC's "The Biggest Loser," a popular U.S. reality TV show about extreme weight loss. Now 14 of the show's contestants are the focus of a new study that can pinpoint why many of them regained much if not all of the weight they shed. Now, it's not that they gave up or that they're lazy. It turns out their bodies fought back against the weight loss and made it nearly impossible to keep off those pounds. And the same may be true for tens of millions of dieters.

Dr. Lee Kaplan is joining us to talk more about this. He is the director of the Obesity Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Mass General Hospital in Boston, and does obesity research at Harvard University.

Thank you, sir, for being with us.

Now, should any of us be particularly surprised to hear that rapid weight loss doesn't last? What was your reaction to this study? And how has it advanced our knowledge about obesity and how to fight it?

DR. LEE KAPLAN, DIRECTOR, OBESITY METABOLISM & NUTRITION INSTITUTE, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: I think the key thing with this study is it confirms what many of us working in the field already know, which is that if you merely cut the number of calories your body just wants to get back to where it started. Our bodies defend a certain amount of fat. That's our fuel supply. And we want to make sure that we keep an adequate fuel supply. And obesity happens when the body wants to keep too much of the fuel supply. It will defend that.

CHURCH: So your area of expertise is the body's metabolism. So explain to us, metabolisms of the contestants of "The Biggest Loser" slowed radically after they lost all the weight, they never recovered, and tell us the best way for people to get their metabolic rate to work more efficiently and burn the necessary calories. We're all looking for that solution, of course. We want you to answer that and give it to us.

KAPLAN: I'm not sure I'm going to be able to answer all of that immediately. But what I'll tell you is the key to losing weight and keeping it off is to convince our bodies that they want to lose the weight, that they don't want to have so much fat. Getting to the point where you have obesity in the first place comes from the fact that whatever's going on in our environment, and there are lots of things doing, that is telling the body that they need to store more fat than necessary. What happens once you decide you want to lose weight, if you merely try to lose weight by eating less and exercising more, your body doesn't know that it's supposed to lose weight. It knows that you're trying to make it lose weight. It thinks that's starvation. So it tries to push back to the original weight.

CHURCH: Then how do you convince your body that that's what you're trying to do? What's the key there?

KAPLAN: That's the $64,000 -- billion-dollar question. I think that -- we know certain things do it. For some people, not when they eat less but when they change the quality of the food that they eat, maybe less fat, less sugar, or that they get more sleep or that they decrease their stress or they exercise a little more. That changes the body's whole metabolism in a way that it wants to lose the weight. Drugs that cause weight loss dot same thing, as does bariatric surgery. These are not solutions for everybody but they give us a clue as to how it occurs.

CHURCH: You've given us some food for thought definitely. Dr. Lee Kaplan, thank you so much. We're all still looking for the solutions here. Thank you.

KAPLAN: Indeed. Thank you.

CHURCH: Looks like quality of food and good sleep is a good start.

And CNN reached out to NBC about the study. Producers of "The Biggest Loser" say the show's lead medical doctor is evaluating the study's findings. And they added, quoting here, "We have comprehensive procedures and support systems in place which we routinely reevaluate to ensure all contestants receive the best care possible," end of quote there.

Let's take a break here. Still to come, you can play it, and now you can carry it. It's the woman card. Next, in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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[02:53:28] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The stars came out for the MET gala in New York. And as usual, the red carpet was full of edgy and eye-popping looks. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wore matching metallics. And that's Madonna in black lace and head jewelry. Believe it or not, that's pop star, Katy Perry. We'll bring her up in a minute. Almost unrecognizable. We're told she bleached her eyebrows to help transform her look. And fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg, put butterflies in her hair. You be the judge on that one. And actress, Lupita Nyong'o, showed off a towering hairdo. Look at that. And Emma Watson was in black and white, but she was thinking green. Her gown was made from recycled plastic bottles.

And this from the over-burdened world of U.S. politics. Instead of just playing the woman card, now you can own one.

CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on how Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is cashing in on attacks by rival Donald Trump.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you think that Donald accusing Hillary of playing the woman card is all talk --

TRUMP: The only thing she's got going is the woman's card.

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: -- the woman card.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: -- woman card comments.

MOOS: -- check out the actual woman card Hillary's campaign is sending out to anyone who donates. When Trump first said it last week --

TRUMP: The only card she has is the woman's card.

MOOS: -- Hillary fired back.

CLINTON: If fighting for women's health care is playing the woman's card, then deal me in!

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[02:55:02] MOOS: That line ended up on a card the campaign says brought in $2.4 million in donations in three days.

And then there were a bunch of Internet jokes. This one was captioned, "When you're trying to use you your #womancard to get into the subway."

One cartoonist portrayed Trump as the Joker.

This woman card entitles you to longer bathroom lines.

And this mock ATM card pretends to give women only $78 when they try to withdraw 100. Unequal pay.

Stephen Colbert opted to pull out --

STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, COLBERT REPORT: The man card. OK? Allows you to explain things to women about women.

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MOOS: But there's something I wish someone would explain to me.

(on camera): Can't we all at least agree on whether or not to use an apostrophe?

TRUMP: The only card she has is the woman's card.

(voice-over): She's playing the woman's card.

(on camera): It is the woman's card and she plays it.

CLINTON: The, quote, woman card.

MOOS (voice-over): Well, you can quote a writing expert as saying drop the apostrophe.

UNIDENTIFIED WRITING EXPERT: There's no correct answer, but the common usage would suggest that similar to the race card that it be the woman card.

MOOS: The woman card -- don't leave home without it -- whether you're Hillary or the Donald.

TRUMP (voice-over): She's playing the woman's card, and it's like give me a break.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN -- CLINTON: Deal me in!

MOOS: -- New York.

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CHURCH: And we'll go with the woman card. I've got mine somewhere around here.

We're back in just a moment. You're watching CNN. Don't go anywhere.

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