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Fifty Years Since China's Chaotic Cultural Revolution; Police in Bangladesh Arrest Suspect in Hacking Death; Bomb Scare at Old Trafford; China's DJI On Cutting Edge of Drones; Trump: Brexit Wouldn't Hurt U.K.- U.S. Trade Talks; Trump On London Mayor: I Don't Care About Him; Trump Denies Working As His Own Publicist; Trump's Treatment Of Women Under Scrutiny; Human Trafficking Survivor Runs Record Triathlon. Aired 8-9a ET

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[08:00:27] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to NEWS STREAM.

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STOUT: Chaotic, violent and unpredictable -- just a few words to describe China's Cultural Revolution, which started exactly 50 years ago. It

culminated years of major political and social upheaval that tore families and entire communities apart, and unleashed neighbor against neighbor,

students against teachers, and children against their parents. All in the name of exposing and uprooting enemies of the Communist Party.

Now, homes were raided, possessions were destroyed, and those branded as enemies were humiliated and tortured. Millions were killed or placed in

prison camps. And painful memories from the era still resonate in China today. Victims are scarred and their torturers burdened by regret.

Now a former Red Guard describes to CNN the kind of mental and physical attacks she and millions of other teenagers inflicted on ordinary people.

Yu Xiangjiang (ph) and her classmates brought groundless accusations against a teacher who was sent to a cow shed. These are makeshift

detention centers where people were beaten and forced into manual labor. And years later, Yu managed to apologize to her teacher, but the damage had

already been done. She concludes her experience with this. Quote, "My generation drinking wolf's milk. We were born with hatred and taught to

struggle and to hate everyone."

Today, as the Chinese reflect on the legacy of the Cultural Revolution, a recent performance by a patriotic girl band in Beijing has sparked a huge

debate.

CNN's Matt Rivers has more.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Teenage girls belting out a song worshipping Mao Tse-Tung. Sounds a lot like it did 50 years ago this

week when the chairman launched the Cultural Revolution, ushering in a tumultuous decade, one where showing allegiance to the Communist Party

meant singing it out loud.

On this military base outside Beijing, these young performers called the 56 Flowers practiced old songs about Mao and new ones about President Xi

Jinping. The effect in the room is a distinct air of loyalty to party leaders past and present.

Chen Duang (ph), the manager, says the goal here is to put on concerts promoting socialist traditional values among the youth of today.

(on camera): Most of these girls are from poor families in far-flung provinces. And so this opportunity is one of the few they'll ever get to

travel outside of where they're from. Plus, they get free meals, free lodging, and they get paid about $450 USD a month. That money usually gets

sent back home.

(voice-over): But more than selling tickets or making money, their shows are meant to rekindle that revolutionary spirit. At this show in the Great

Hall of the People, the symbolic theater just off Tiananmen Square, a banner flashed behind the singers, reading, "Defeat the American invaders

and their running dogs." Some of the audience applauded but the performance was roundly criticized online, because it harkened back to the darkest

period of Mao's rule.

His Cultural Revolution was meant to rid the country of all things capitalist, but hundreds of thousands died in the ensuing violence and

chaos. Officially, the party has long denounced the Cultural Revolution, but critics say President Xi has taken a page from Mao's playbook,

consolidating power and demanding total party control over society.

But even in Xi's China, promoting the Cultural Revolution with elaborate stage shows is a step too far. So the 56 Flowers group took down its

website and social media accounts. For now, the music has stopped.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

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[08:05:03] STOUT: And let's show you a live picture from Beijing of what our coverage looks like there. You see the TV screen, which CNN is on

there, has been blacked out as China ignores the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution.

And some who survived the revolution were just children when it happened. Min Zhou is one of them. I spoke to her earlier and I started by asking

her about what she experienced as a 10-year-old when her parents were sent away to a labor camp.

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MIN ZHOU, SURVIVOR OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Well, thinking back, it was pretty tough. But during that time I remember I was feeling a kind of

free, because I was away from my parents, and also, I was the commander in my household. So the feeling was kind of mixed. On the one hand, I wish

my parents were around, but on the other hand, you know, I felt that I was a big girl. At that time my brother was 9 and my sister was 5. There's

three of us, you know, doing things kind of fun. And also my household, my house, six families moving in with a lot of children. So it's not like we

were orphans. We had company.

STOUT: During the Cultural Revolution, you were young, you were on your own, you were vulnerable, and I can only guess you were also quite

impressionable at that age. Did you believe in the values of the Cultural Revolution? Did you believe that it would actually help bring about a more

equitable society?

ZHOU: Well, at that time I was too young to understand anything, but since its Mao's calling and also we saw so many, you know, big brothers and

sisters, those Red Guards, so we were looking up to them and then we tend to believe that they are doing the right thing and they are trying to, you

know, change the world for the better.

And not until when I saw my parents were called up for public humiliation, and then when they have to be forced to wear those paper, you know, tall

paper hat and then have the big ball hanging around their necks with their name on, as anti-revolutionaries and capitalist eroders, not until then

that I had any doubt that what people were doing was right.

STOUT: Yet you had doubt, but did you denounce what was happening? I mean, you were, as a child, watching your parents being publicly

humiliated. Did you dare denounce that or did you just pretend to play along?

ZHOU: Well, I -- I pretend to play along. I dare not to do anything the opposite, because we were too young. And then, also, you know, we were

excluded. All of a sudden we were kind of the party's prized children and dropped to the children of the enemy. So a lot of children don't -- did

not want to play with us, and we just played with other children of the enemy. So we were trying to avoid trouble.

STOUT: During the Cultural Revolution, you expressed that there was a sense of freedom you had as a child, but there was also, I mean, chaos as

well. There was no education. The Chinese universities were closed.

ZHOU: Yes.

STOUT: Books were burned. So what did you do for your education?

ZHOU: Well, we didn't do much, but at that time, you know, we was just playing and so we had a lot of fun playing on the streets. I did -- I did

have some books at home and I had, you know, the Red Guards didn't take away our turntable. So we have a turntable with all these records. So

that's where we can listen to some music and then listen to (INAUDIBLE) English as well.

The most humiliating experience was, you know, we ate in the state dining room. The dining room surrounding was all these posters, and a lot of

those posters have your father's name on it as anti-revolutionaries, all the biggest capitalist eroders, and then so -- so when we have that, we

feel very humiliated and dare not to say anything.

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STOUT: A mixed account of the Cultural Revolution from Min Zhou there.

Now, in the past hour we learned Iraq has launched military operation to retake the western town of al Rulba (ph) from ISIS. That operation is

under way in Anbar Province.

[08:10:00] The terror group is behind this escalating wave of violence in and around Baghdad. On Sunday, an attack on a gas plant near the Iraqi

capital killed ten people. Baghdad's governor Ali al-Tamini (ph) says the plant was inadequately protected and the elite response took just too long

to arrive. More than 100 people have been killed in recent attacks by ISIS.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a man over the hacking deaths of two LGBT rights activists that were killed last month in the capital, Dhaka.

And police say the suspect belongs to an Islamist militant group that has been linked to other machete murders. One of the victims was the editor of

the country's first LGBT magazine. At least atheist bloggers, secular writers and editors, have been hacked to death in just over a year.

Now Alexandra Field was in Bangladesh earlier this month. She's been following this story now from Hong Kong for us, and she joins us now. And

Alex, what more have you learned about the suspect?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, Kristie, it's frankly taken police weeks to even come up with a suspect and don't forget they

were looking for five or six men who were connected to the brutal murders of Tanay Mojumdar and Xulhaz Mannan, who were just lions in the LGBT

community in Bangladesh. Don't forget, this a country where gay sex is illegal. So these were activists who are at the forefront for the fight

for gay rights, for LGBT rights. They had received threats and then they were hacked to death together in an apartment in Dhaka, the capital of

Bangladesh.

Police believe they have one suspect now who may have been involved in these machete murders. They say that his name is Shariful Islam Shihab.

He is 37 years old. They say he's part of the group Ansarullah Bangla, which they define as a home-grown Islamist militant group. We should point

out that we have spoke ton terrorism experts and analysts in the region who say that this group is connected to al Qaeda and it was the Bangladeshi

chapter of al Qaeda which came out online after the deaths of these two men to claim responsibility for that killing.

Police only have this suspect at this point. They say that they are talking to him, that he is providing information. They can hold him for

interrogation for up to three days. They're hoping, of course, that this arrest could lead to the detention of other suspects involved in this case.

But they say this network that he's involved in, Ansarullah Bangla, also has other member who have been arrested connected to the other machete

murders which we've seen unfold across this country, not just in the last year but really the last two or three years now, Kristie.

STOUT: And because of that, Alex, we know it is so dangerous to be an activist, a secular intellectual or blogger in Bangladesh today. So what,

if anything, is in place in terms of security to protect people who are most at-risk?

FIELD: You know, it's a good question, Kristie; it comes with a controversial answer. Because then that question is put to government

officials, they have often responded by saying that it is incumbent on the victims here to be more careful about what they are saying. Bangladesh

does have blasphemy laws, so if you assault or offend religion, you can be charged. You can even be imprisoned. Of course, it is not anyone's right

to take justice into their own hands, as we've seen in these machete murders over the last year or so, but that has been the response from the

government, that people need to take some measure to protect themselves.

However, that's an answer that's not satisfying to a lot of people. One, because it places blame on victims, but, two, because we have seen the

targets of these attacks seemingly widened. This is not just focused on the most vocal secular or atheist bloggers now. The targets have expanded

to include the activists in the LGBT community, academics, and religious minorities, people who have not been nearly as outspoken as that half dozen

or so bloggers who were initially targeted in these attacks, Kristie.

So when we talk to people in Bangladesh, they're telling us that they feel that they could be targets for simple things that they put online or on

Facebook or because of the way in which they've chose to live their lives or express themselves. They feel that the threats are just much more

pervasive and that there really is no measure of protection without more prosecutions and more convictions.

STOUT: So there may have been arrests but the threat is certainly growing. Alexandra Field reporting for us live. Thank you, Alex.

Now let's stay in Bangladesh now. We've learned that a total of 65 people have been reported killed in lightning strikes across the country in just

the past the few days. Most of the deaths, they happened in rural areas in the north and central part of the country.

And CNN's Chad Myers joins us now with more. And, Chad, what is going on there? How could there be so many deadly lightning strikes in one country

in just a matter of days?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, it is the deforestation to make farmland that has been blamed for many years of this. The trees should be

the tallest object in a forest. Well, you cut those tall things down, the tallest person or thing in a farm field is the person standing there

farming. So there have been big storms over the area in the past couple of days.

Now just in general, there should be 20 to 30 strikes per year for every kilometer, 20 to 30 for just a square kilometer in this area. This is kind

of a lightning capital of the area. And we've seen this for year after year.

[08:15:03] Look at the lightning deaths in 2012. 319 people died in Bangladesh alone from lightning strikes. Last year, 274. So this is

unusual for just a three-day period, but not unusual for Bangladesh.

If you have trees, the trees collect the lightning. It's the highest object. That's where the lightning want to strike. The leader strike, the

return stroke, from the trees, rather than the person down at the surface. So you cut the trees down and you become the highest thing out there.

In general, you have a 1 in 12,000 chance of being struck by lightning. Now, I find that disturbing, because that doesn't seem like a high enough

chance. I would like 1 in a million chance. And honestly it is 1 in a million if you are inside a home. If you're outside and not paying

attention, that's where the strikes occur. 95 percent to 90 percent, though, of the people do survive a lightning strike, especially if someone

there to restart your heart. If you're all by yourself, your heart stops because of the jolt of lightning, then you're going to be done. Five

deaths so far this year in the U.S., Kristie.

STOUT: Yes. And the argument against deforestation just grows bigger. Chad Myers reporting; thank you, Chad.

MYERS: You're welcome.

STOUT: It was a very scary moment for football fans. Coming up in the program, we got more on the bomb scare that saw thousands cleared from the

Old Trafford Stadium.

And from helping to save lives to collecting biological samples at sea, we'll hear from the leading drone maker DJI on the endless applications for

drones.

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STOUT: All right. Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching NEWS STREAM.

And now to the bomb scare at the home of English Premier League team Manchester United. A suspicious item saw the area cleared and it turned

out to be a security training device left behind from an exercise earlier in the week. It cost authorities and fans a lot of time, and it cost the

club a lot of money. Now, the fake bomb was found inside the stadium just before kickoff.

Let's go straight to CNN's Christina MacFarlane; she is at Old Trafford in Manchester for us. And Christina, yes, a sigh of relief. This is only a

training device. But why was it left behind?

CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's the question everyone is asking today, Kristie. This was a major operation underway yesterday.

75,000 fans evacuated and sent home, sniffer dogs sent into the stadium behind me, and then bomb team deployed to take out a controlled explosion

of the device. It all amounts to an extremely embarrassing and costly exercise for Manchester United Football Club.

And before I get to that point, I just want to show you the back pages of some of the British tabloids today. "The Daily Mail" saying "Bomb Blunder"

in big words across the back, and the back page of "The Times", "Fast on the Final Day".

But that question you ask is the one that has been concerning people most here out in Manchester today.

[08:20:01] How did it -- how was it possible that this device wasn't found in the four days it was left in the stadium? And, in fact, it was only

picked up just half an hour before the match was due to start. Now, that's a question we asked the Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd, this morning, and

here is his response to that and his response to the news that it was a false alarm.

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TONY LLOYD, GREATER MANCHESTER MAJOR & POLICE COMMISSIONER: The events of yesterday, Sunday, has revealed that there is a gap in the security, and

that gap has now got to be recognized. That gap has now got to be filled to make sure that -- that in the event of somebody trying to place a

device, that that will be discovered.

Obviously in the end it's about the professionalism of the club like Manchester United to make sure that the public has the reassurance that

they can go a football ground, a sporting ground, and be safe. In that way, I'm calling on the club to make sure there is proper independence in

their inquiry. I think there is the call to the world football to examine security and keeping people safe is more important than three points in a

football match. More important than money (ph) in actual fact, but we've got to get it right.

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MACFARLANE: So not ideal in these circumstances, but there is a chance for lessons to be learned here and Tony Lloyd, as you heard there, calling on

the clubs themselves to respond to this, to make sure something of this nature never happens again and to tighten their security controls.

STOUT: Absolutely. It was a huge disruption for the club and the fans. Christina MacFarlane reporting for us live from Manchester. Thank you.

Now Manchester United still have one Premier League game left. But for champions Leicester City, it's party time. In the next few hours they're

planning to show off their new trophy through the streets of Leicester from an open-top bus. Now, thousands of fans are expected to attend. The Foxes

were of course crowned English champions for the first time, beating 5,000- 1 odds.

And do stay with CNN for a live report on the celebrations to come in Leicester. Alex Thomas will be there all day enjoying the party. And you

can see him on "World Sport" in about 20 minutes from now.

Now the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, is in Beijing and he just tested out his company's latest $1 billion investment. Now, Cook tweeted this picture.

You can see him catching a cab with Didi Chuxing's president Jean Liu. The ride-hailing company is an Uber rival. Now, not much else is known about

Cook's China trip, but he is expected to try and boost flagging sales there. Apple just experienced one of its worse quarters in China. It's

also likely that Cook will address Apple's relationship with government regulators. Several apps including iBooks, iTunes Movies, and Apple News

are all blocked in China.

Most of us are used to seeing drones that look like this. But industry leader DJI says drones could look very different in just a few years, and

consumers could play a big role in how they evolve. Now Andrew Stevens took a trip to DJI's headquarters.

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ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In the world of tech innovation, China, many would argue, is a follower. But there's one field where it is

undeniably a leader -- drones. We've come to the home of the world's biggest commercial drone developer, DJI, to find out what's the next big

thing in an industry where literally the sky is the limit.

Their futuristic flagship store in Shenzhen is a monument to just how far and just how fast drones are developing. In December 2012, the company

launched its breakthrough Phantom 1 drone, without a camera. Just 3.5 years and three months later, the Phantom 4 drone can produce this -- high

definition video live streamed onto your smartphone or tablet from a distance up to five kilometers. And users will tell you it's simple to

operate.

DJI leads the pack with an estimated 70 percent of the world's commercial drone market, currently worth just over $3 billion. Within five years,

that could explode to $27 billion, say market experts.

MICHAEL PERRY, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, DJI: Very excited about the future and think we'll continue our monumental growth.

STEVENS (voice-over): Michael Perry heads up Strategic Partnerships for DJI.

(on camera): Michael, in ten years' time, what do you think that drone's going to look like?

PERRY: Well, I think there's a wide variety of possibilities, and the form will follow the function. It depends how people start incorporating it

into their daily lives, but overall we hope to see units are lighter, smaller, easier for people to use.

STEVENS (voice-over): Quantum leaps in drone technology may now be a thing of the past. Camera navigation systems will continue to improve, although

already some of the industrial drones can fly to within centimeters of their target.

[08:25:02] Battery life is extended and sensors are already being built in so drones automatically dodge objects both on the ground and in the air.

The real breakthroughs now are what the technology will be used for.

PERRY: One of the most exciting ones for us recently was we saw a team of whale researchers use our systems to fly over whale pods and collect their

snot so that they can do advanced analytics to determine their health.

STEVENS: Those researchers, the Ocean Alliance, call it the Snot Bot -- a drone that gathers mucous from a blowing whale. And that's just one out-

of-the-box application. DJI has developed a model that can accurately spray crops in difficult to reach areas. It's also talking to Europe's

biggest emergency response network about how to use drones in search and rescue, fire fighting, and surveillance.

The options, say Perry, are limitless.

PERRY: We've put the technology out there and what's been really exciting is the creativity and innovation that people bring to their platforms.

There are a million different use cases.

STEVENS: For DJI, their challenge is to continue making drones easier to use so that the next generation can be captured all over again by the

wonder of flight.

Andrew Stevens, CNN, Shenzhen, China.

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STOUT: You're watching NEWS STREAM.

And still ahead -- Donald Trump's past is causing him some new trouble. The report that's raising questions about his behavior with women.

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STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching NEWS STREAM and these are your world headlines:

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STOUT: Now Donald Trump says U.S.-British trade relations will not be hurt at all if the U.K. decides to leave the European Union.

[08:30:04] It's a clear break from U.S. president Barack Obama who warned that an E.U. exit would push the U.K. to the back of the queue for trade

talks.

But while Trump praised Britain as a strong ally, the Republican presidential hopeful had some not-so-kind words for the new mayor of

London. Take a listen to what he had told ITV about Mayor Sadiq Khan who has criticized Trump for saying Muslims should be temporarily banned from

entering the U.S.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, when he won I wished him well. Now, I don't care about him. It doesn't make any difference to me

about him. We'll see how he does. We'll see if he's a good mayor.

QUESTION: Are you offended by what he said?

TRUMP: Yes, I am, because he doesn't know me, never met me, don't know what I'm all about. I think they're very rude statements and frankly, tell

him I will remember those statements, they're very nasty statements.

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STOUT: Trump is also fighting a "New York Times" report about his past treatment of women. The report says that he made unwelcome romantic

advances and constantly made comments to women about their looks.

Phil Mattingly joins us now from CNN New York. Phil, what more have we learned about Trump's behavior with women and what are Trump's allies

saying about it?

PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well the pushback is strong, Kristie, and there's a recognition inside Donald Trump's camp that this is serious

problem for them. Now, throughout the primary process, every time Donald Trump was attacked, it appears his numbers would go up, but he's targeting

a different part of the electorate now, an electorate not so committed to the Trump candidacy, and that's why these attacks, and that are coming from

all sides, Kristie, matter.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.

MATTINGLY: Donald Trump facing a not-so-subtle critique Sunday from the man he's campaigning to replace.

OBAMA: It's not cool to not know what you're talking about. That's not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That's just not knowing what

you're talking about.

MATTINGLY: The presumptive Republican nominee coming under fire amid new allegations of inappropriate behavior with women. Dozens of women

revealing to the "New York Times" accounts of quote, unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, and unsettling workplace

conduct.

TRUMP: Nobody has more respect for women than I do.

MATTINGLY: A defensive Trump lashing out on Twitter, slamming the report as a lame hit piece, dishonest and a witch-hunt. Trump's allies offering a

defense.

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R), ALABAMA: People have not expected purity on his part. What they're concerned about, they're deeply concerned about, is

this somebody strong enough to take on Washington?

MATTINGLY: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus acknowledging it's an issue he'll have to confront, but won't change the voters' decision.

REINCE PRIEBUS, CHAIRMAN, RNC: These are things that he's going to have to answer for. All of these stories that come out and they come out every

couple weeks -- people just don't care.

MATTINGLY: Trump also denying reports that he used to pose as his own publicist in the 80's and 90's, under the names John Miller and John

Barron.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's somebody that has a lot of options, and frankly, he gets called by everybody. He gets called by everybody in the book, in

terms of women.

MATTINGLY: Despite previously admitting using both pseudonyms.

QUESTION: Is the campaign seriously claiming that that isn't Mr. Trump?

PAUL MANAFORT, CAMPAIGN CONVENTION MANAGER, DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT: I could barely understand it. I couldn't tell who it is. Donald Trump says

it's not him, I believe it's not him.

MATTINGLY: Trump's latest controversies amid continued efforts within the GOP to mount a third party candidate to derail him. Nebraska Senator Ben

Sasse and Mark Cuban both declining the job.

PRIEBUS: They could try to hijack another party and get on the ballot, but look, it's a suicide mission for our country.

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MATTINGLY: And Kristie, those efforts for a third party bid, the window is pretty much closed right now, so good news for Donald Trump there, but on

the issue of women, one the Clinton campaign has made very clear they plan to attack him on repeatedly, his advisors saying they plan to put out in

public a number of different women who worked for Donald Trump over the years who've been elevated to high-level executive positions under Donald

Trump and are very complementary of his time as their boss. That's something to keep an eye on going forward, Kristie. They recognize this

could be a real problem for him in a general election.

STOUT: This is going to be a point of attack. So does this mean that voters will judge Trump on his past, on his comments about women, and his

personal life? And could this ultimately determine the race?

MATTINGLY: Historically, yes, the answer is yes here, Kristie. But I think the interesting element of this, and Donald Trump's advisers I think

acknowledge, they're trying to get their head around the fact that this is an unorthodox candidacy up to this point. Issues that should have taken

down a traditional politician, a traditional candidate, simply haven't harmed Trump. On some cases, they've actually helped him. But I do think

the key point here Kristie is, Donald Trump is no longer playing just to the Republican primary electorate. He's playing to independents. He's

playing to disaffected Democrats. These are people that might not have the same willingness to accept Donald Trump's flaws or (inaudible) or areas of

criticism that the primary voters were so dedicated to his candidate up to this point have been. Kristie --

[08:35:08] STOUT: All right. Phil Mattingly reporting live from New York. Thank you, Phil.

Now as for the Democrats, they are preparing to face-off tomorrow in Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Kentucky in hopes

of pulling out a win there. Rival Bernie Sanders is behind the overall delegate count but he has been on a winning streak. If Clinton took

Kentucky, it could help dampen some of his momentum. Now remember, you can always get the very latest on the presidential race by logging onto our

website. Just go to cnn.com/politics. You'll find results and upcoming contests state by state.

After the break, a CNN freedom project report. You'll meet a brave woman who is rebuilding her life one step at time.

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STOUT: OK. Now news just in to CNN -- a 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Tokyo. This took place just minutes ago. Japanese national broadcaster

NHK says that there is no tsunami warning. An earthquake struck just north of the Japanese capital and we'll have much more on the earthquake as we

get information to us right here on CNN.

Now, Norma Bastidas thought that she was going to Japan to realize her dream of becoming a model, but instead, she became someone's property.

Even after she regained her freedom, she struggled to cope with the trauma from her time as a captive. She took up running to recover and she

recently set a Guinness world record. Kyung Lah has more in our special "CNN Freedom Project Report".

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The miles don't matter to Norma Bastidas. They gather and pool like the rain she pushes through, the tears she so

often sheds.

NORMA BASTIDAS, HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR: I have been a (inaudible) athlete in breaking records, but there was some part of me that not a lot

of people knew that I was a survivor of sexual violence and human trafficking.

LAH: Born to a desperately poor family in Mexico, Norma's father died when she was 11. So when a friend told her about a modeling job in Japan, she

says she saw it as her big break in a lifetime of dark clouds.

BASTIDAS: I remember my mother saying, I'm afraid, but I can't stop you because this is the only chance. You know? And we all desperately wanted

it to be true.

LAH: It wasn't. Bastidas says the agency delivered her to a members' club who told her she must repay all the money it took to bring her to Japan as

an escort.

BASTIDAS: You cannot go to the police. I cannot go home until I pay my debt.

LAH: And that left her, she says, vulnerable to all kinds of abuse.

BASTIDAS: I was (ph) dragged on my way home from the club, dragged and beaten. Nobody wanted to help me because I had been a bad girl so I had no

value.

LAH: After several years, Bastidas managed to pay off her debts and leave. She later married, moved to Canada, and had two children. For years,

Bastidas says she numbed the pain by drinking, but she realized if she was going to do more than just survive with her children, she would need to

thrive.

BASTIDAS: So I started running because I didn't want them to hear me crying at night.

LAH: Six months later, to everyone's astonishment, Bastidas qualified for one of the world's most prestigious race events -- the Boston marathon.

BASTIDAS: I just became an incredible runner because of the incredible amount of stress that I had to manage.

LAH: Then she had her big idea. She would break the world record for the longest triathlon in history, and she would do it to send a message.

[08:40:08] BASTIDAS: I designed the triathlon to follow human trafficking smuggling route.

BRAD RILEY, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, IEMPATHIZE: They didn't quite get it, and then I was showing them all those clips --

LAH: Brad Riley of the anti-slavery group, iEmpathize, soon joined Norma's team. He organized permits and coordinated operations for the record-

breaking attempt. He also documented her journey in a film called, "Be Relentless".

BASTIDAS: I wanted to look like Angelina Jolie but I think I look more like (inaudible) the wrestler.

(ph) Water eating my gums, too, destroying the inside of my mouth -- it was very painful. That was probably one of most painful things I've ever done.

LAH: The journey took 64 days. All told, Bastidas wracked up 3,762 miles, shattering the previous Guinness world record. Along the way, there were

roadside accidents, malfunctioning GPS', and constant inclement weather. But for Bastidas, this was a test that had little to do with punishing

waves or pounding the pavement.

BASTIDAS: As an athlete, I was celebrated because I break world records. But as a survivor of human trafficking, I was shamed. Living large, by

being as big as I can be, I've empowered every single victim. I ran the last two miles with survivors of human trafficking. The healing comes from

seeing every single one of those young girls being unbroken. I just want them to be proud of me. I want to do them proud.

LAH: And for every step she takes, every mile she ticks off, Norma Bastidas is proving that somebody once trapped in a nightmare can now live

out her dreams. Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.

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STOUT: What an incredible woman. We will have more on her and her story on Tuesday when Kyung Lah looks at the almost superhuman way that Norma is

coping with her own ordeal and raising awareness for other victims at the same time.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In 2014, Bastidas set out to break the Guinness record for world's longest triathlon. Over the course of several months,

she ran, biked, and swam more than 3,700 miles. Traveling from Cancun, Mexico to Washington, D.C., following a known route of human trafficking

victims.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Human trafficking is what happened to you. It's not who you are.

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STOUT: And we will bring you that story at this time on Tuesday. It's all part of CNN's "Freedom Project" series -- "Surviving to Thriving", all this

week on CNN.

And that is NEWS STREAM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. "WORLD SPORT" with Amanda Davis is next.

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