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GEORGE HOWELL, HOST: Scouring the sea for more debris, searchers look for crucial parts that might explain what happened to EgyptAir flight 804 while families still wait for answers.

Plus this --

HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Unlike Donald Trump, I will not pander to the gun lobby.

HOWELL: Hillary Clinton sends out a firm message after Donald Trump picks up a big endorsement. And the U.S. veteran who lost his leg fighting against now the invisible wounds of war by climbing the tallest peak on the planet.

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.

It is the fourth day of searching. Teams combing the Mediterranean looking for wreckage of the doomed EgyptAir flight 804 and so far they found very little. Some personal belongings, some human remains. Investigators hope that the plane's so-called black boxes will be found soon to bring some answers about what went wrong to this plane. French aviation officials say the plane was sending out automated messages indicating smoke near the cockpit which confirms the data seen in these screen shots.

The jet was heading from Paris to Cairo when it dropped off radar early Thursday morning and crashed at sea. Now we are hearing from the pilot while the plane was on an earlier leg of its last journey. This is a routine transmission with air traffic control as the flight headed through Swiss air space. Listen.

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HOWELL: The very latest on the investigation our Ian lee is following developments live in Cairo, Egypt, with us this hour. Ian, it's good to have you. Obviously, Egypt is taking the lead. What more do we know from their side of this, the focus of the investigation today? IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: George, we're hearing from Egyptian

officials, investigators are out there on the water. What they are trying to do is to get the exact coordinates of where all the wreckage is being found. They are trying to determine the size of the wreckage field where everything is. And then bringing it together.

Initially the wreckage is going to be transferred, we're hearing, to an Egyptian military base. And then from there once everything is gathered, it will be brought here to Cairo, taken to the Cairo International Airport where they will start going through it further and trying to get a better sense of exactly what happened and officials saying that they hope to have a preliminary report out within a month's time.

But really right now, the main part of the search is again, looking for the fuselage and voice recorders and data recorders, trying to see what more we can learn from that ACARS report which says it detected smoke. Was it a mechanical issue or was this a terrorist attack? Right now all theories are possible.

HOWELL: So few answers. So many families that are just waiting for some understanding of what happened to this plane. Ian, talk to us about what these families are doing, how they are dealing with what happened.

LEE: This has definitely been a tragedy. Not just for the families but for all of Egypt. I've spoken with a few of the family members. And when you do talk to them, they talk about the lives they lived. The co-pilot being described as the life of the party. I talked to a couple of uncles about him saying he was just a kind man who was looking forward to getting married. And today there will be a lot of funerals for the Egyptians who died in that crash, which is customary here in Egypt once they know that the person is dead, to have a funeral. At least within a few days after they -- they're certain of that. And they will be praying for those they lost, as well as taking condolences.

When the bodies are found, which could take some time, the Egyptian government says that they'll need to do DNA testing to make sure the bodies get to the correct family members, and then that could take up to weeks. Really could be quite some time before they are actually able to bury their loved ones. Remember, 66 people died in this crash from a dozen nationalities. So Egyptian officials again wanting to make sure the right bodies get to the right loved ones.

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HOWELL: CNN international correspondent Ian Lee live for us in Cairo, Egypt. We appreciate your reporting there, and we will stay in touch.

Now let's get some context on the status of this investigation. Aviation expert, Julian Bray joins us now to talk more about this situation. Julian let's, first, talk about the ACARS data. The information that we know right now, what could it possibly tell us?

JULIAN BRAY, AVIATION EXPERT: Well, it's very interesting. ACARS is rather like a list you prepare for your garage when you take your automobile in for servicing. And what actually happens is there are a series of sensors all over the aircraft. And when the aircraft is taking off, and when the aircraft is descending, ACARS springs into action. And on the a.m. band, will actually squawk out a series of messages. Each message is less than one second in length and basically it's a status of the plane. It will highlight any faults so immediately the plane arrives at its destination, airports, they can go and fix them. They've got a list, and that's what it does. It's purely for the engineers.

Now ACARS has a limited range. It will work on land. Won't work in the middle of the sea and obviously there's a radius from various airports and various beacons. So it would appear that the plane was just beginning its descent into Cairo, it was just inside the Egyptian area of responsibility, if you like, and managed to get out those messages before everything went dead. So it's just starting its transmission. So the smoke alarms, although they are timed at a certain time, the smoke might have been there for, well, you know up to 30, 40 minutes because it's not real-time indication because all the messages are sent as one bunch, if you like, as it's entering into its final descent.

HOWELL: We mentioned before in our reporting, U.S. officials suggest that perhaps a bomb might have been involved in this plane going down. Egypt suggested that terrorism might be to blame. French officials saying at this point they're not ruling anything out. They're looking for this thorough investigation. But what we do know, the search is on for the fuselage and the flight data recorders. Explain to our viewers around the world how important these pieces of the puzzle are to answering some of the questions that we're all asking.

BRAY: Yes, we've actually reached very frustrating stage of any investigation, any search like this. We all want things to happen very quickly. Unfortunately, the officials and those doing the search have to do it meticulously. They have to map out the area, but first of all, they have to locate the actual aircraft.

Once they locate the aircraft, or the remains of it, or the fuselage, they then have to determine what happened to it because it won't be in one piece. It will be spread over an area. And we don't know how wide this area is. The only good thing if there can be a good thing, that particular part of the Mediterranean is fairly level. It's deep, but it's level.

If it's to the left, there are a series of underwater mountain ranges. That would make it exceptionally difficult. Now once they've located it, or bits of the fuselage, they will then map it and photograph it and they'll send down probes to actually have a look at it. Then eventually they'll send down underwater submersible, possibly with an operative inside, and he can literally cut away at the fuselage to get at those black boxes.

There are two. There's a flight data recorder and a flight voice recorder. The voice recorder gives you good 24 hours of chat on the flight deck and the cockpit, if you like, and the data recorder will tell you everything that's happening to that aircraft. Every relay. Every electrical relay that was switched or pushed, whatever, will be recorded on these discs. That's why we want to get this back.

Now to help us, there are locator beacons attached to these black boxes. As soon as they hit water, they start pinging out a sound. But the deeper it get, the harder it is to actually engage with this. And I think the battery life is said to be about 30 days, but they have been going -- they have been known to go on for longer, 60, 90 days possibly.

HOWELL: Certainly the clock is running you know, as the search continues. Julian Bray, we appreciate your insight, and we'll stay in touch with you as this investigation continues.

BRAY: Thank you.

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HOWELL: CNN's Becky Anderson sat down with Egypt's Foreign Minister. He stressed how crucial it is to locate the black box. These flight recorders, and how Egypt is relying on its international partners in this investigation. Listen.

SAMEH SHOUKRY, EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: Well primarily, it is location of the aircraft and the ability to extract from potentially very deep waters the black box and the data recorders. We do not, I think, have the technical abilities to operate in such deep waters whereas many of our partners might have this facility. And then, of course, various aspects of the investigation. And this will conform to international regulations where all who are involved, whether it is the producer of the aircraft, producer of the engines which is an American company, Pratton Whitney, or the nationalities of those who have lost their lives. So it will be conducted within the international rules that govern such investigations. And we rely on the close cooperation of our partners in this regard.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And the technical experts who might be willing to offer their help from the U.S. and France for example, you would be willing to engage with?

SHOUKRY: Of course, definitely. There are a lot of capabilities we have to take advantage of in forensic science, in ability to extract the parts and to reassemble the aircraft. Quite a burden and an arduous job but one that has to be taken. And i think the more that is expertise and knowledge and ability in this regard and the more collaboration, I think the better off for everyone to be able to come to a final conclusion.

HOWELL: More of Becky's interview. The full interview on "Connect the World with Becky Anderson" at 4:00 p.m. in London. 11:00 p.m. in Hong Kong only here on CNN.

Other news we are following, two U.S. officials say the top Afghan Taliban leader has likely been killed in a drone strike. He was targeted while traveling in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. The White House is waiting for confirmation of the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansour. Our chief U.S. security correspondent, Jim Sciutto says his death may not necessarily disrupt Taliban operations. JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF U.S. SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: You see leaders

taken out by drone strikes in many countries frequently whether it's in Iraq and Syria or in Somalia in Yemen, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And these groups will very quickly pick another successor, another leader in their place and the groups will go on. And sometimes they won't be weakened. They will continue.

The hope here is that the leader is essential enough to the operation that it will at least affect operations for some time, but no one is under the impression, even U.S. officials, that by killing this man that it's the end of this organization. They know that this is a battle that might take years. And the fact is you have a strike like this but at the same time, the Taliban has gained enormous amounts of territory in recent months and years and they've been able to carry out numerous attacks in and around the country, Pakistan, Afghanistan, with great effect.

HOWELL: U.S. officials say a second man traveling in that same vehicle was also likely killed in the strike. ISIS is claiming responsibility for a suicide attack in Iraq. Security officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy outdoor market in Al Dujail just north of Baghdad. At least nine people were killed there. 22 others wounded. This video posted on social media is said to show some of the wounded being brought to a hospital.

In Syria, a top U.S. commander made an unannounced visit to the northern part of that country. General Joseph Votel met with U.S. special operations troops and the local forces that they are trying to train to fight ISIS. The visit was kept under wraps, and CNN was the only news team to accompany him. Votel is the highest ranking U.S. military official to travel into Syria during the ongoing war there.

5:14 on the U.S. east coast, good morning. And still ahead, U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton is blasting Donald Trump over guns. Why she says Americans will be less safe under Trump, coming up.

Plus, Donald Trump claims he's really rich, but it's really not that easy to find out just how rich he is. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: America's choice 2016. The race for the White House and Hillary Clinton is attacking Donald Trump on guns. The Democratic front-runner on Saturday accused Donald Trump of pandering to the gun lobby and said the U.S. faces a gun violence epidemic. Clinton was speaking at an event pout by the Trayvon Martin Foundation. That organization is named in honor and memorial of an African-American teenager killed in a fatal shooting.

CLINTON: Parents, teachers and schools should have the right to keep guns out of classrooms. Just like Donald Trump does at many of his hotels, by the way. This is someone running to be president of the United States of America, a country facing a gun violence epidemic, and he's talking about more guns in our schools. He's talking about more hatred and division in our streets. Even about more nuclear weapons in the world. That's no way to keep us safe. If you want to imagine what Trump's America will look like, picture more kids at risk of violence and bigotry. Picture more anger and fear.

HOWELL: The National Rifle Association announced their support for Donald Trump, but members of the gun rights organization seemed lukewarm about that endorsement. Listen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm officially announcing the NRA's endorsement of Donald Trump for President.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: that's an interesting question to ask here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess. Between him and Hillary Clinton right now, he's more pro-gun rights.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He would be the lesser of two evils.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Safer than Hillary.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The lesser of two evils.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't vote for myself.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Based on his past, he's done some assault rifle things that he's said he's against in the past but now he's kind of changing, which I feel a lot of politicians say that. So I mean I'm going to vote for him. At the same time, I don't fully trust that he says that. We all educate ourselves and we're allowed to change our minds.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE:I know he's said things in the past where he wasn't pro Second Amendment. Now he is. So you know we'll see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not sure if his record is too proven so far given the past ideas of his, but we'll see what comes up here soon.

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The only way to save our Second Amendment is to vote for a person that you all know named Donald Trump.

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HOWELL: When it comes to Donald Trump and his wealth, there have been many questions surrounding it and his financial assets. So CNN money looked into his latest federal financial disclosure form to find some answers. But as our Cristina Alesci reports, it is difficult to assess just how much wealth Donald Trump has.

CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT: It's Donald Trump's pitch to the American people. I've built a fortune for myself, and I can do it for the country, too.

TRUMP: I built a great, great company. Trump steaks, where are the steaks, do we have steaks? The winery. You see the wine. I've done great. And that's the kind of thinking you're going to have to need. ALESCI: But just how great has Trump done? The financial disclosures

he's filed with the Federal Election Commission may be long but they're short on specifics.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The form doesn't call for a great deal of detail. It allows you to report, for example, ranges of income rather than exact amounts, which is a little different than a tax return that you might file with the IRS.

ALESCI: But the government doesn't require Trump to release his tax records. The long disclosure document, which candidates must file is the only official window into Trump's wealth. The most recent filing lists assets of at least $1.4 billion from January 2015 through May of 2016. Excluding investments, it also includes at least $611 million in income, according to our tally. But it's hard to tell whether that income is actually flowing into Trump's pockets or into his company's coffers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He lists revenues rather than income. He has, for example, for his golf courses, golf related revenue. And so it makes it a little bit difficult to know, is that just the gross revenue of his golf course or is that actually the income to Donald Trump after you pay for all the expenses and running the golf course.

ALESCI: In the end, the distinction may not matter. At least to the government. The financial digs closure form is to find potential conflicts of interest. It's not a check on the candidate's math. And Trump's math has always been hard to verify, says author Tim O'Brien. Trump sued him claiming that O'Brien low balled his net worth. The case was dismissed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any time he estimates his own net worth he adds in this humongous figure for goodwill and branding. He says the Trump brand is worth x many billions and that's just Donald sitting around eating a cheeseburger saying I'm worth x billions of dollars.

ALESCI: Trump claims a net worth in excess of $10 billion. Forbes and Wealthex put it closer to $4 billion. We reached out to the Trump campaign but didn't get a comment. Short of an independent audit, all we really know for sure is this --

TRUMP: I'm really rich.

ALESCI: Cristina Alesci, CNN Money.

HOWELL: On the Democratic side of things, Bernie Sanders is in an increasingly bitter feud with the chair of the Democratic national committee. In an interview set to air on CNN's "State of the Union," Sanders said he favors Debbie Wasserman Schultz's opponent in their upcoming primary.

His campaign says the DNC has favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. Sanders added if he becomes President, he wouldn't keep Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair. Now Wasserman Schultz has responded to Sanders comments and said she remains neutral in the Democratic primary process. You can catch Jake Tapper's full interview later on "State of the Union" here on CNN.

Now an alert for our viewers in the United States, starting today, there is a multiday severe weather outbreak possible across the central part of the country. Our meteorologist Derek Van Dam is here to tell us about this, Derek?

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGST: George you know this severe weather outbreak is coming on the five-year anniversary of the Joplin, Missouri, tornado that took place on this date five years ago, 2011. It was an EF-5 tornado. Multiple vortex. It was one mile wide at its largest point when it crossed the southern portions of the city. Unfortunately 158 people perished. Over 1,000 people injured. And this was one of the most costliest tornadic outbreaks to occur in the U.S. history. $2.8 billion in damage.

Now that's not to say that today we're going to see that type of a setup, but it's definitely worth noting that five years ago, so many people's lives, so many families changed forever. Now take a look at this. We've got a very slow moving weather pattern for the next several days. That's going to set up this severe weather potential. It's really forming across the central U.S. the high plains. It will eventually shift eastward. More on that in just a minute.

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VAN DAM: We're tapping into this gulf moisture. Cool air settling in from the north. You know what happens when we get that clash of air masses. We get the chance of severe weather. So here it is broken down from Grand Forks, North Dakota, right through Lincoln, Nebraska, Dodge City, Amarillo to Dallas. Large hail, damaging winds and we can't rule out the potential of isolated tornadoes throughout the course of the day.

Now on Monday we see that impacting much of the same regions. A slight tilt to the northern periphery of this severe weather threat. So it will include the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. That is also including the extreme western sections of Wisconsin as well. Look out for large hail and an isolated tornado on Monday for this region.

Now looking a little bit closer, you can see our high resolution computer models really showing the thunderstorms popping up by about lunchtime and into the evening hours today. So look out, Oklahoma City. Dallas into Wichita. Even further north, you can see how those thunderstorms pick up in intensity later in the day. On top of that, we have heavy rainfall that could lead to localized flash flooding across central Texas. Remember this particular area has had a lot of rain this spring.

Taking you to the other side of the world, another region that's had a significant amount of flooding. We've had Cyclone Roana, that's impacted this region. Take a look at this, parts of India, almost 20 inches ever rain leaving scenes like this. You can actually see the cyclone and the damage unfortunately that took place here. Bangladesh and the coast of Myanmar so vulnerable to cyclones George because they rest at such a low level to the sea. So not a lot of topography to help block storms of this magnitude. HOWELL: Derek Van Dam, thank you.

5:26 a.m. on the U.S. east coast. And next, we continue with our coverage of the EgyptAir plane crash investigation. We take you live to Paris for the latest on what French officials are finding out.

Broadcasting live in the United States and around the world this hour, you're watching "CNN Newsroom."

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

U.S. officials say a drone strike has likely killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The White House is awaiting final confirmation of Mansour's death. President Obama authorized the strike near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. ISIS claiming responsibility for a suicide attack in Iraq. Security officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy outdoor market just Al Dujail just north of the city of Baghdad. At least nine people were killed. 22 others wounded.

In Bangladesh, 500,000 people are in emergency shelters following a deadly cyclone there. The tropical cyclone Roanu slammed the coastal areas on Saturday killing more than 20 people. The storm uprooted trees, damaged homes and caused landslides.

EgyptAir says it is still too early to know what brought down flight 804. They stressed that smoke alerts on board aren't enough to paint a full picture of what happened on that plane. The Egyptian military shared what little debris they recovered so far on Saturday. You see images here. Search teams are still searching for the plane's all- important data recorders.

Our Max Foster is live at Charles de Gaulle airport following this investigation. Max, good to have you with us as well. French officials are taking part in this investigation. What more are we hearing from them?

MAX FOSTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're hearing very little and that's the news vacuum which is frustrating families here. French families of the passengers so much. Nothing really since those signals released to the media and the French officials confirmed them. And that's another frustration from the families here that they had to go to the officials to get this information confirmed. They didn't hear it from the media.

French officials hands are somewhat tied because this investigation is very much being led by Egypt. And there the French investigators, for example, aviation investigators are just assisting in that broader investigation, having to wait for this information from Egypt. And Egyptian investigators saying this is very early stages of an investigation. The preliminary findings won't be released formally for some time. But that's a great frustration here. And yet a lot of pressure on the airport to justify security measures so they've invited local media in to show they're doing as much as they can in terms of screening. Extra intelligence officials have been brought in but that wasn't in response to the downing of the aircraft because, still, those are just missing passengers officially, we haven't had any French victims yet, but a lot of pressure on the airport to justify the levels of security here, which are very, very high after a series of incidents across Europe. And every time security has been ramped up here.

But some concern that staff here may be open to radicalization. Lots of them have lost their (inaudible) last year lost their security passes because there's been concern about radicalization. But no evidence that there's any sort of flaw in the system here because we don't know what brought down that aircraft. It could have been anything from a small technical flaw to a bomb. Everything is being considered, George:

HOWELL: And Max, good that you point that very important point out that this is not in response to the downing of this plane but rather, precaution taken after what happened there in Paris. After what happened in Brussels. Talk to us about -- a little more about what they're doing to make sure they know who the people are, what the backgrounds are of the people who have access to these planes.

FOSTER: Well there are 86,000 people who have these security passes, many of them are private contractors as well, so the question has been asked about the whole screening process.

What they due point out here is that physical screen applies to staff as much as it does to passengers. But the broader concern is obviously whether or not - you know always a concern in security measures isn't necessarily the physical screening. It's the human link here. And who has access to the aircraft and what their motivations might be.

So very much should that idea about bringing intelligence officials, very much based on what are the motivations of passengers and staff here at the airport.

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FOSTER: And they have shown that they are across this by taking away security passes of individuals who they think not just are radicalized but who or open to radicalization as well. So the messaging that they are doing all they can in terms of security in case it does indeed turn out this was terror related.

HOWELL: CNN's Max Foster following the investigation live at Charles de Gaulle airport in France. Max, thank you for your reporting there in Paris.

Officials say just before this plane dropped off the radar, a series of alerts indicated a number of problems on board. Earlier our Jonathan Mann asked safety analyst (David Susi) what this data means. (DAVID SUSI), SAFETY ANALYST: This ACARS data, some people are saying

they don't know why they have it yet, but it is legitimate from what I can see. It's definitely valid information and I need to take a look at it.

So when you take a look at this data though what it tells me is that the first warning that came out was about the sliding window and that the sliding window anti-ice is what had failed. Right after that, the same window has another failure which would indicate some kind of crack or that it came loose. Then the third thing that happens is the window behind it actually starts to fail. Then the lavatory shows signs of smoke. Following that is smoke down in the E&E, the electronics bay.

So all of those things are co-located. Now here's what gets strange. The very next thing that happens is that the spoilers start to fail. The spoilers are way out on the wing on the back. But what I suspect is that the controller for those spoilers is also in the same area of these windows and the circuit breakers. So it would make sense and indicates there may have been something that initiated with the failure of that window on the right-hand side.

JONATHAN MANN, HOST POLITICAL MANN: So it's almost as if it was an attack on the neurological system. You get a good enough whack in the head you'll have trouble potentially moving your fingers and toes. Have you ever seen another example of this in another crash investigation?

(SUIS:) You know, I really have. There's been a couple of other -- not in an accident investigation but in looking at the failures of the aircraft itself. These glass windows are you know they're actually plastic windows that have a glass layer of them. But when they're stacked together, they have a layer of gold inside that's used as a heater to keep the ice from building up to defog the window. There's a lot of current going through these windows. So I've seen these before fail and they cause a crack because they delaminate. So that's a problem that's occurred in the past as well with other aircraft.

MANN: Could that cascade into the kind of catastrophe that Egypt 804 endured?

(SUIS:) You know it would be very strange if it was, I've actually experienced this myself when flying in a Boeing aircraft, but a very similar design in the window where the window cracked during the flight. These windows as I said are laminated so they're designed to take this kind of thing and they're designed you can hit them very hard with a large object at a high speed and it still wouldn't rupture the window. So it's difficult for me to say that something like that would occur and cause a catastrophic failure. It seems like there was something else going on as well.

HOWELL: CNN, Safety Analyst David Susi speaking with Jonathan Mann. Now while not conclusive, the data is the only meaningful evidence that investigators have so far. Officials hope the plane's black boxes will piece things together when they are found. Many experts think that flight 804 may have been tampered with prior

to takeoff, but that hasn't led to any clear idea of who might have done it, if that is indeed the case at all. Our Tom Foreman shows us how long a list of possible suspects could get.

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At the time this plane went down there should have been two people in the cockpit, five crew members in the cabin, three security people we've marked in red here, and 56 passengers. They all have to be looked at by investigators.

But let's sweep this plane back to the gate at Charles de Gaulle before it took off and look at this area right around it. Who had access to this plane? First of all, there were people on the ground who were doing basic maintenance and care, the ground maintenance crews. They have to chalk the wheels, hook up fuel lines, things like that.

There were luggage handlers who had to put bags on and off. There were cleaners who may have had to come on and tidy up a little bit. There were caterers who had to put food and beverage on board and there were gate crews who had to check tickets and where people were seated. All in all, easily 35 people who had access to the plane, direct access, on the ground.

If you expand it just a little bit, let's say we include the plane next to it or the plane over here, those areas where you have people who can walk over and just 100 steps or maybe even less, this number jumps up. You could easily triple it to more than 100 people.

And if you go to the whole airport and anybody who has some sort of security badge here that gets them into a secure place, then it goes wild. This number jumps to 86,000 people who have some sort of access at that airport.

So we started wondering what about here in the United States? How many people have a badge that lets them go into some sort of secure zone in one of our airports somewhere coast to coast? Turns out last year homeland security gave us a number. 3.7 million

people. That's a lot to keep track of.

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HOWELL: CNN's Tom Foreman explaining that.

Just in here to CNN, the Iraqi military is warning residents of Fallujah to, "leave their areas and head towards safe corridors." That warning is said to be a precursor to a military operation to retake the Anwar province city from ISIS. An Iraqi military spokesman said on T.V. final plans and preparations are in place to liberate Fallujah. The military has told families that are unable to escape to raise white flags above their homes. This is a situation we will, of course, continue to follow here on CNN.

Ahead this hour -- a young man is tasered more than a dozen times by police, even though he is handcuffed. It's all captured on body cam video. And now his family wants police to face charges. Plus, he is nearing the top of the world. Why that's only half of this

man's inspirational story. You're watching "CNN Newsroom."

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HOWELL: In Sri Lanka, officials say at least 71 people are dead following days of torrential rains there and mudslides. The death toll is expected to rise. Rescuers are searching for more than 125 missing people. Sri Lanka's military is air dropping supplies to the affected areas. Australia, Japan and Nepal are among countries supplying aid there.

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HOWELL: The weather system that brought those floods to Sri Lanka turned into a cyclone that hit Bangladesh. Tropical cyclone Roanu battered coastal areas there on Saturday killing at least 21 people. Storm surges and heavy rains inundated low-lying areas and caused landslides and powerful gusts of wind. Sent property, trees and electrical poles flying. Officials say the death toll there is expected to rise.

In Costa Rica, a volcanic eruption near the capital of San Jose. And you can see here, a heavy grey veil of ash blankets entire towns.

Volcanologists say it is the most powerful eruption event there in 6 years. Smoke and ash are choking people caught in its path, and the wind is blowing these clouds west toward more populated areas.

In the United States, the state of Georgia, newly released police video, bodycam video is revealing the final moments of a young man's life. The video shows sheriff's deputies tasering Chase Sherman multiple times, even though he was in a car handcuffed with his hands behind his back. He stopped breathing and died at the scene. And now his family wants charges brought against the sheriff's deputies that were involved.

Megan Packer with CNN affiliate WGCL has more on this story. And we do want to warn you, some of the images you'll see are disturbing.

MEGAN PACKER, REPORTER, WGCL: This just released body cam video shows us an up-close look at the struggle between Coweta County deputies and Chase Sherman.

POLICE OFFICER: Stop fighting. Stop fighting.

PACKER: The video is from November 20th, 2015. 32-year-old Sherman was with his parents and fiancee driving on I-85 when his mother called 911 for help when she said her son was freaking out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's crazy. On some kind of drugs.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your son?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. And we're driving a rental car, a Patriot. And we just -- Chris. Chris. PACKER: The deputy's body camera showed the interaction in the back

seat of the family's rental car on the side of the highway, including using tasers on the man.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're not going to shoot him. You hear me?

UNIDENTFIED MALE: Do you understand this is for our protection? Right now he is being combative. He tried to take my taser away from me ma'am

UNIDENFIED MALE: Taser. Taser. They taser him again. A man who is handcuffed, laying down being crushed by a 200-pound man.

PACKER: Sherman's parents and their attorneys spoke about the video this afternoon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He ain't breathing, he ain't breathing, he ain't breathing.

PACKER: The video that goes on to show deputies pulling Sherman out of the car.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He says, I quit. And these dirty dogs didn't know when to quit.

UNIDENFIEID FEMALE: I miss my son. Every day. Every day I cry for him. He should still be here with us.

HOWELL: That was Megan Packer with CNN affiliate, WGCL reporting for us.

Chase Sherman's family says they'll seek federal charges if state prosecutors decide not to charge the sheriff's deputies in their son's death.

This is "CNN Newsroom." Sill ahead. He lost a leg in war. Why that only encouraged this former soldier to scale heights that most of us only dream about. Stay with us.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS: Hi there, I'm Patrick Snell with your world sport headlines. Starting off in England where Manchester United made it a record equaling in 12 F.A. Cup triumph after beating Crystal Palace 2-1 in a dramatic final on Saturday at Wembley.

The red devils trailing 1-0 before Juan Mata leveled to take it into extra time. And that's when Jesse Lingard struck a superb shot to make it 2-1 United. A win made more impressive by the fact that his team were down to ten men at that point having had defender Chris Smalling sent off. It's also the club's first piece of silverware since legendary former manager, Alex Ferguson retired three years ago.

To Paris for an emotional fond farewell to French football for Ibrahimavic in the Coup de France. It was the Swede's last match ever for Paris St. Jermaine. (inaudible) faced the 10 time winners (inaudible) and you won't be too surprised to hear he would score, not once but twice. His first from the penalty spot before he would turn provider for (inaudible) before notching up another one for himself. In the end, final score, 4-2 PSG.

And Rory McIlroy has a three-shot lead but round three of the Irish open not yet in the books. Rory was at 9 under par after 15 holes due to the fact bad weather earlier twice forced play to be suspended. Danny Willett, the masters champ, is at 6 under par but will be frustrated by the fact he had three bogeys on the front nine holes.

Thanks for joining us. There's a look at your world sport headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom" I'm George Howell. His name is Chad Jukes. He was maimed for life in Iraq but now the former U.S. soldier is approaching the summit of Mt. Everest. Jukes and his team are climbing to benefit veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Here's his inspiring story.

CHAD JUKES: Personally, I have lived with PTSD, as have many of my soldiers with whom I served. I'm here to try and help the American public realize that this is a very serious issue, and we need to do everything that we can to address it. That's Mt. Everest. Knowing that I'm here to climb Mt. Everest was overwhelming to look up at the peak and think, wow, I'm going there.

Most of the foreseeable challenges that I could have climbing Mt. Everest with a prosthesis I've been able to mitigate through experience and planning. I'm very proud of the work we've done raising awareness. While climbing this mountain.

HOWELL: From inspiring to a story that might just creep you out a little bit. If you have a fear of spiders, well, maybe you want to turn away for this story for a moment.

A flight from the Caribbean to Canada turned into a wild ride for many passengers when a couple of stowaways were found crawling around the cabin. Creepy, crawly, hairy stowaways. CBC reporter Salimah Shivji reports, they were very unwelcome.

SALIMAH SHIVJI, CBC REPORTER: It's the stuff horror films are made of. Stuck on a plane for hours with tarantulas on the loose. But imagine living it. Catherine Moreau and her family did.

An hour into a flight home from Punta Cana, she felt a tickle on her leg. She looked down and saw it. A tarantula climbing up her leg. Moreau's daughter (inaudible) lost it. My heart stopped when I saw it, and I screamed bloody murder she says. So did the whole plane when they realized the tarantula wasn't travel alone.

Sheer panic as passengers raised their feet off the ground for the three hours left in the flight to avoid the two tarantulas. One was caught by Moreau's fast-thinking husband. The only other at landing. This entomologist guesses they were Hispaniolan giant tarantulas common in the Dominican Republic, possibly stowed in someone's carry- on.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They can be aggressive. So if you try to catch it or if you put a pen on it or just poke her, it will rise up, the side of its body and show both teeth.

SHIVJI: But he says don't worry. A tarantula's venom isn't strong. Air Transat says there cabin crews are trained to prioritize safety. In a statement they wrote, in the case at hand, which is an unusual and isolated event, our staff reacted promptly and efficiently. That's not how Moreau saw it, she wants more from the company, a refund for the return trip. She said it's the least Air Transat can do to make up for a flight from hell.

HOWELL: That was Salimah Shivji reporting from the CBC. The fear of spiders is one of the most common phobias. Some people can't even stand to see pictures of them. And let's all thank our producer Nick Best, for teeing up that story. Kind of creeping me out before my flight today.

That wraps up this hour of "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, "Best of Quest" starts in a moment. Thank you for watching CNN. The world's news leader.