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Over 100 Doctors Say Brazil Should Postpone Olympic Games Due To Zika Threat; U.S. War Vets Complete New Mission; Chaos On The Campaign Trail Outside Trump Rally In San Diego. Aired 5-6a ET

Aired May 28, 2016 - 05:00   ET

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[05:00:02] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: A new warning from more than 100 doctors why they say Brazil should put off the Olympic games.

And U.S. war veterans complete a new mission after passing through a different kind of battle field.

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.

Chaos on the campaign trail outside of the Donald Trump rally in San Diego California, things got ugly when his supporters and opponents went after each other. Take a look there. Police broke up the crowds, but it wasn't easy.

As scene there where 35 people were arrested. The presumptive Republican nominee had already left the event when those confrontations started. But our Paul Vercammen was there and has this report from the middle of it all.

PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: San Diego police and sheriff deputies and other departments had to respond in full riot gear after the trump rally ended. What happened is they gone through great lengths to seal off the anti-Trump demonstrators from the people leaving the convention center. But eventually they did start to blend together as they were both walking back toward parking areas, shouting matches and so, they were pushing, they were shoving. They were throwing things. They were punches thrown. There were arrest and then they moved in, in force.

Look behind me, you can see all of these officers in full riot gear, helmets on and visors down. They began moving everyone down Harvard Boulevard in San Diego. Not very far from the ocean at all, and it was effective because they took was rather large crowd at point and they thinned it out little by little not that they were in confrontations or shouting or skirmishes along the way. But eventually as it started to get darker they got to handle on things and they were able to disperse the crowd in a rowdy day in San Diego.Now back to you.

HOWELL: Paul Vercammen, thank you.

A couple of hours ago Donald Trump Twitted his thanks to the police their saying "Fantastic job on handling the tugs who try to disrupt our very peaceful and well-attended rally, great lead. Appreciate." Exclamation point from Donald Trump.

Trump also saying that just because California has been Democratic stronghold that it doesn't mean he can't win the state in November's general election. But first, he wants California to support him in next months primary voting.

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DONALD TRUMP, GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So get out and vote in a couple of weeks and get out and vote, because here's what I'm going to do and I'll tell you this right and I shouldn't say it because-- although Hillary's got bigger problem right now. But we're going to make a strong play for California.

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HOWELL: Both Democrats and Republicans. All are trying to make a strong play in that state. Hillary Clinton campaign in Silicon Valley saying the party will come together because she and Bernie Sanders are on the same page on the issues.

But Sanders told his supporters in the Los Angeles area, he is still in it to win it, listen.

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BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Brothers and sisters. We can win here in California. We can win in many of the other states coming up on June 7th. With your support we can go into the Democratic national convention with a great deal of momentum. And we can come out with the Democratic nomination.

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HOWELL: So the battle continues on the Democratic side of things. Joe Johns has more now on the showdown for the state of California.

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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: With Sanders keeping up the primary fight, Clinton is appealing to her rival supporters to unite behind her.

HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Whatever differences Senator Sanders and I have or our supporters have. They pale, they pale in comparison to our differences with Donald Trump. And what he represents.

JOHNS: But with the polls in California now neck and neck. Clinton's campaign is releasing three new TV ads emphasizing her record.

CLINTON: I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message.

JOHNS: Clinton is trying to bring the Democratic primary to a close so she can focus fully on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

CLINTON: And I'm not going to respond anything he says about me. I could care less what he says about me.

JOHNS: Clinton thought is not letting up in here criticism of Trump.

CLINTON: What he is saying is dangerous and divisive.

JOHNS: Calling a billionaire unqualified to serve his president.

CLINTON: Base on what we have already heard. Donald Trump is an unqualified looses cannon who cannot get near the most powerful in the world. It is up to us to say no.

[05:05:11] JOHNS: Clinton going on offense even as plays defense on her e-mails facing the new round of questions after the release of a state department inspector generals report concluding she violated the federal rules by improperly using a private e-mail server as secretary of state.

CLINTON: Well, I thought it was allowed. I new past secretary of state used personal e-mail. So yes I believe it was allowed.

JOHNS: Sanders is taking aim at Clinton not over e-mails but her comments that she's zone up the Democratic nomination.

CLINTON: I will be the nominee for my party Chris. That is already done. In effect there is no way I won't be.

JIMMY KIMMEL, LATE NIGHT HOST: Does that make you mad seeing that?

SANDERS: Just a tinch arrogance there, I think.

JOHN: During an appearance when Jimmy Kimmel live Thursday night. Sanders also hit Clinton for refusing to debate him ahead of the California primary.

SANDERS: Well, I think it's kind of insulting to the people, the largest state in the United States of America are not to come forward and talk about the issues.

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HOWELL: CNN Joe Johns reporting there for us. Thank you Joe.

Bernie Sanders is also disappointed at the Donald Trump isn't going to debate him. The two have been talking about it, but now Trump believes it wouldn't be the right moves saying this "base on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and crooked Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win, and now that I am the presumptive Republican nominee. It seems inappropriate that I would debate the second place finisher.

For his part Bernie Sanders insist the debate could raise money for charity. And that it should happen.

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SANDERS: We have just heard that from at least two of the networks. I think ABC an CBS that they are prepared to sponsor that debate. And in fact, which I think is a good idea. I think Trump had a good idea, but some of the profits into charity. I guess the right idea, I think we have major networks that are prepared to do that. Mr. Trump let's do it.

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HOWELL: Oh, U.S. politics changes like the weather, the twist and turns. From more on the wild race on Hillary Clinton's disappearing lead in the polls. Be sure to tune in to political man with our own Jonathan Mann. He speaks with a horror writer who says the general election could be a real nightmare. That is Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in London, 10:00 p.m. at Abu Dhabi only here on CNN.

A group of health experts is calling for the Rio Olympics to be move or postponed. They say the health risk from he Zika virus are being taken seriously enough.

Our Senior International Correspondent Ivan Watson has more.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNTIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A group of more than hundred doctors and researchers have issued a public warning about health risks to the Olympic that are schedule to take place here in Rio in just over two months time.

The doctors writing that they are very concerned about the treats of the Zika virus. It's mosquito born disease that is still being investigated at this time. These doctors writing to the World Health Organization saying that the olympic should either postponed or moved to another place, warning that the risks of having a half million tourist coming here and then potentially brining the virus to other countries around the world to perhaps third world countries that don't have very good health care facilities that could be a major treat to global health.

Now this is coming in direct contradiction to advisories that have come from the World health organization and from the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC just on Thursday said "No, public health reason. There's no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics. The advisory was for pregnant women not to travel here and for people to use mosquito repellent to protect them from mosquitoes.

The WHO has also advice people not to go into poorer districts of Rio where there is more open water and could be more exposure to mosquitoes.

The city official says they are working hard to try to crack down on the mosquito population. And they say that here is the winter month here in the southern hemisphere that they are usually fewer mosquitoes at this time. But the debate between doctors and health officials is likely to continue.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio.

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HOWELL: Horrific story in Brazil is causing nationwide outrage. A young girl says dozen of men rape her when she visited her boyfriend's home, then posted the attack online.

[05:09:44]Plus, more than a week after EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from the Mediterranean, still no sign of its black boxes. Find out what Cairo is doing to find it before fall silent.

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

A very difficult and story to share with new of the outrage in Brazil, people are taking to the streets after a 16 year old girl says dozens of men raped her.

People there demanding justice for this teenager video of the alleged attack was put on social media. Protester say being born a woman means living in fear of being raped.

CNN's Shasta Darlington has this report.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brazilian police are searching for at least 30 people suspected in an alleged gang rape and for posting graphic images of the 16 year old victim on the internet. In the video and the photos, the girl is naked and unconscious. So these images had caused a nationwide backslash.

At a press conference on Friday police said they have identified four people including a man in the video and the girl's boyfriend.

ALESSANDRO THIERS, LEAD INVESTIGATORS CYBER CRIME UNIT RIO POLICE, (Through Translation): With the help of the general population which reacted in an unexceptional way by denouncing the video. We were able to identify some people.

DARLINGTON: The 38 second video emerged at the beginning of the week and initially it was shared with vulgar jokes. Then it really did spark a backlash. In the video there are very disturbing close up of the woman's body and you can hear two men bragging about how at least 30 people have had sexual intercourse with her.

After the video emerge the girl went to the police and she testified to them that she had gone to her boyfriend house on Saturday in Favela in the western part of Rio. And that she woke up the next morning in a different house surrounded by 33 armed men.

THIERS (Through Translator): The victim says it was 33 people. Some other say 30, others 36. We still don't know how many people were involved. We have identified four people.

DARLINGTON: Brazilian took to Twitter and Facebook with agree messages using hashtag like "estupro coletivo" or gang rape. Also rape can't be justified. And they posted slogans and videos saying thing like we need to talk about the culture of rape. And it wasn't 30 against 1. It was 30 against all of us.

[05:15:04] Interim President Michel Temer also weigh in denouncing the incident as a barbaric crime and calling for an emergency meeting of security chief for all of Brazil states next Tuesday where he wants to discuss ways to fight violence against women.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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HOWELL: In Columbia, official say three journalists held by a Marxist guerillaa group a freed. Journalist were allegedly kidnap by a group called the ELN and held for nearly a week. Their releases were announce on Friday that one of the journalist went on to describe her ordeal.

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SALUD HERNANDEZ, JOURNALIST HELD BY COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA (Through Translator): And when they showed up things that you're going to stay with us a few days. They took all of my stuff and he said they're going to bring you some cloths and they brought me some. And I thought OK, if this is how it is, I'll stay a few days, and then five days past all of these and we moved from place to place.

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HOWELL: If the journalist were indeed kidnap, that could complicate the ELN peace talks with the government and march the two sides announce formal negotiation to end over five decades of conflict.

Egypt is finalizing a deal with a French company called deep oceans search to find EgyptAir Flight 804. The plane so-called black boxes are still missing more than a week after the A320 jet went down in the Mediterranean.

Meanwhile, Airbus says it has detected send the planes emergency locator transmitter.

CNN's Ian Lee has the very latest for us.

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IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What we are learning about is the emergency locator transmitter. A device which activates upon impact, it sends out a distress signal that can even be detected by satellites. There are three of them on board EgyptAir Flight 804. We don't know which one were detected. The transmission doesn't last long, only a few hours not days and it doesn't work underwater. It's likely this information isn't new to investigators given that (inaudible) window of operation. Egyptian official say, it will narrow the search area to five kilometers roughly 3 miles.

Meanwhile, a French vessel is still (ph) in the eastern Mediterranean. It'll operate special listening equipment to locate the ping from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders. It really is a race against time as the battery from the boxes last roughly 30 days. If they are unable to locate it in this timeframe, the search grows a lot of more difficult.

Another French ship is on standby to assist if they are able to find the black boxes. It operates a sophisticated underwater exploration robot and lifting mechanics. This will be crucial for retrieving the debris as it's believe to be a depth of nearly 3,000 meters. That's 10,000 feet.

Ian Lee, CNN, Cairo.

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HOWELL: Severe flooding is being blamed for the deaths of at least two people in the U.S. state of Texas. Heavy rains Thursday drench southeastern part of the state triggering flash floods. The water rose so high authority say one of the victims apparently drowned in the mobile home. Three people are still missing, dozens had to be rescued after they got trapped in cars and flooded homes.

If the bad weather Texas isn't finish, there is another storm threatening the southeast part of the United States.

And our Meteorologist Karen Maginnis is live at the International Weather Center, to tell us all about it, Karen.

KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, with the national holiday, a long weekend and people are headed toward the beaches. But across Texas especially eastern Texas. This is what we've seen staggering amounts of rainfall over the last several months.

You can see in our radar imagery the accumulation over the last several days. But we're looking at that to tamper off just a bit before returning. As we go into the work week, this is what we have seen over the last few hours. There you can see some the lightning associated with those storms. But it does looks like across the Midwest. We're not finish with that wet weather either.

And across Missouri the Colorado River was one of those areas, the Missouri River rather was one of those rivers and distributary that we're seeing extreme flooding from heavy downpours.

Now just to northwest of Houston, we saw in the last day or so where the amount of rainfall in the past 24 hours in Brenham was about 17.5 inches of rainfall or about 450 millimeters. It is the wettest calendar day on record ever.

And for the capital city of Austin, Texas 24 hour rainfall toward there just under 9 inches and then there's another system to worry about.

[05:20:03] This one tropical depression number two, we just got our update from the National Hurricane center and the latest advisory poorly organized satellite imagery not showing really a clearly defined eye.

We're not looking at a huge system, but what could be dangerous is as we head towards the weekend, the longest South Carolina Coast but not just there but elsewhere across the Deep South is a rip current the other people refer to it as a rip tide but it's really known as a rip current. That's very dangerous for swimmers also the heavy down force could see possibly some trees going down as well.

So watch out for all of those potentials as we head into the next day or so. Probably it will become a tropical storm in the 12 to 24 hours and could produce between two and four inches of rainfall or 50 to about 100 millimeters. Not a good weekend to go to the beach.

HOWELL: It's the holiday weekend ahead, a tough weather there on the Southeast Coast and, you know, I got friends and family back in Austin and they are dealing with lot of rain in them. Yeah, water. Thank you so much Karen.

The Pentagon says air strikes have killed more than 70 ISIS fighters in Falluja.

Iraqi forces launch an operation to recapture the city form ISIS at the start of this week. They scored their first significant victory on Thursday where they retook a town 10 miles away about 16 kilometers from the city. Iraqi officials say hundreds of people have fled to Falluja so far as one woman who escaped to explains conditions in that city are dyer.

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UNIDENTFIED FEMALE (Through Translation): We've been trapped for three years. We ate rotten eggs and they move us from one area to another. We drink hot water and ate unfresh food and we were content and we thank God. We only want an end to our plate. Do you believe that the price of a sack of flour reach a thousand dollars? A handful of rice is sold at $40 and it is hard to find.

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HOWELL: Iraq's military says, it evacuated 760 people who have fled Falluja on Friday.

In Greece, Russia's president gave his sharpest warning yet that Romanian and Polland could face retaliation for hosting a U.S. missile shield. Vladimir Putin spoke at a news conference in Athens with pre Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Mr. Tsipras said E.U. sanctions against Russia are not in the best interest of European security. U.S. insists the missile is not a threat to Russia. Later Saturday, Mr. Putin will visit a thousand year old Russian monastery in Greece.

The U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is congratulating Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko on the release of Nadiya Savchenko. The Ukrainian pilot had been in a Russian jail for two years before being pardoned and released on Wednesday.

She spoke exclusively to CNN's Matthew Chance and talk of her political ambitions.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The defiance seems undeemed by nearly two years behind Russian bars.

"I'm free", the former Ukrainian army pilot screamed at the cameras but also sorry, she added for the mothers who's kids will never return from the front lines. Nadiya Savchenko has long been a symbol of Ukrainian national resistance but in the CNN interview, one of her first after her release in a prisoner swap, she spoke of ambitions to be its national leader.

Are you of course now a national hero in Ukraine, you also already a member of the Ukrainian parliament the Rada. But what are your political ambitions? Do you have your eye on the presidency of the country?

NADIYA SAVCHENKO, UKRAINIAN SERVICEWOMAN (Through Translation): I see myself as military person but if the people need me to be a president, I will be a president. In order to benefit Ukraine, I can do anything, both in battle and in politics.

CHANCE: This is a fatal incidents' at the height of the battles in Eastern Ukraine. If Savchenko was found guilty in Russia of directing mortar fire against the group of pro-Russian rebels accompanied by a Russian television crew. The Russian reporter and sound engineer were both killed. In what critics described as the show trial that followed, Savchenko always pleaded innocent. The defense team arguing, she'd already been captured when the attack took place but the court still sentenced her to 22 years. The Kremlin says the prisoner swap was only approved after President Putin heard an appeal for clemency from the widows of the dead Germans.

Announcing your pardon President Putin of Russia that said that he hoped the gesture that would be expect towards easing tensions in the conflict zone, do you think it is? Do you think it's a step in the right direction?

[05:25:12] SAVCHENKO (Through Translation): If president Putin said this was a gesture, it is not going to help. It is a threat that the rest of the steps will depend on them. Whether this will help to resolve the conflict, I hope it will. I hope this will help to reach and compromise by all parties.

CHANCE: Back in Ukraine, the release of a war hero is a rare political victory for the country's president. Seen by many frustrated Ukrainian thus unable to implement reforms and criticized by political opponents for giving too much away in negotiations with Russia.

Do you think you'd make a better president in the currently Petro Porshenko?

SAVCHENKO (Through Translation): It's a good question. Our people are not afraid to criticize the president unlike in Russia. Once I have done something and I'm able to tell someone that I have done better than you, then I will be able to criticize them but now, I'm not going to say if I'm going to better than someone. Time will tell.

CHANCE: And time will tell also if this defiance Ukrainian will be as potent as a politician that she was a prisoner.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.

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HOWELL: 5:26 on the U.S. East coast and still ahead. Britain's future in the European Union is dividing voters. The issue also dividing Britain's businesses as well. We explain why some saying it would be huge mistake to leave the world's largest single trading block.

Plus, an investigation into America's aging and overcrowded airports in serious need of upgrades. Next, are the problems a re getting so severe. Live this hour to viewers in the United States and all around the world, you are watching CNN Newsroom.

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[05:30:21] HOWELL: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the around the world. You are watching CNN Newsroom. It is good to have you with. I'm George Howell.

With the headlines we're following for you this hour. Chaos outside of a Donald Trump rally in San Diego California. Things got ugly when pro and anti-Trump people got too close to each other. It happened after the presumptive Republican nominee had made his speech and left the convention center.

Police broke up the crowd, 35 people were arrested. The upcoming Rio Olympics, dozens of doctors and professors are calling for the games to be called off or postponed due to the medical risks from the Zika virus. But the World Health Organization and U.S. health officials say there is no reason to chance the events -- change rather, the events location or timing.

The effort to retake Falluja from ISIS, U.S. military says strikes in recent day had killed more that 70 ISIS fighters in the Iraqi City including the ISIS commander there. Iraq announced an operation to recapture Falluja from ISIS just last weekend.

A court in Argentina has convicted 15 former South American officials of conspiring to kidnap and kill opponents in the 1970s and 1980s. A former Argentine dictator, Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced to 20 years. Operation Condor was carried in six countries to eliminate leftists (inaudible) I should say.

In another half hour or so, demonstrators who want Britain to remain in the European Union will hold a rally in London. G7 leaders issued a warning on Friday on the impact of a British exit from the E.U. on the global economy wrapping up their summit in Japan they said "A U.K. exit from the E.U. would reverse the trend towards greater global trade and investment, and the jobs they create, and is a further serious risk to growth." The official statistics watchdog in the U.K. is criticizing the vote lead campaign. It says, it is misleading voters by claiming the Britain pays more than $500 million to the E.U. each week and it says, "The continuing use of a gross figure in a context that implies it is a net figure is misleading and undermines trust in official statistics."

Again, Britain go to the polls on June 23rd, that is the big date to determine this issue and voters are divided and so do our businesses as we found.

CNNMoney Europe editor, Nina dos Santos went to the factory floor to find out exactly why.

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NINA DOS SANTOS, CNNMONEY, EUROPE EDITOR: Assembled in Britain by German company invested the trains all over the world. These signal boxes of the embodiment of what the E.U. means to business. Unfitted (ph) access to the largest single trading market anywhere on the planet.

JUERGEN MAIER, CEO SIEMENS U.K.: The first thing is that quite simply we've access to a huge market. The biggest in the world, 500 million people, that helps our business here in the U.K.

The second is, we want to have influence from the U.K. through the European Union to make sure that the standards and the regulation that is set for us manufacturing here suits us and works for us.

And the third is really, really crucial and that issue is that we want to participate in European wide research programs that help us set what future industries are going to be.

DOS SANTOS: With 14,000 staff across 13 factories like this, Siemens is one of the largest global firms operating inside the U.K. And when it comes to these views on Europe, turns up it's not alone. Of those (inaudible) 78 percent of international companies said they believe the so-called Brexit would be bad for business. But again to jeopardy, there are almost $40 billion worth of (inaudible) direct investments that flows into the country each year.

And Siemens views also echo those a big British business too. A recent survey showed that CEOs of 93 percent of U.K. listed firms reckoned that the U.K. was better off remaining inside the E.U. But smaller industry it seems sees more value in independence with 42 percent of its process saying that they would vote to leave.

Take Britain's oldest salmon (inaudible) Forman & Sons which has export 90 percent of their fish no none E.U. market but still has to contend with cumbersome rules and regulations.

LANCE FORMAN, OWNER, H. FORMAN & SONS: We take the huge amount of red tape and bureaucracy. And one of the ridiculous thing was we had to do last year, we spend thousands upon thousands of pounds printing new packaging for smoked salmon so that it had a warning assigned printed on the back saying, "Contains Fish."

[05:35:14] DOS SANTOS: From the production line polling booth offer his business big and small will not see eye to eye when it come to the E.U. But the one thing they do want is clarity. They'll get that up to June 23rd.

Nina dos Santos, CNNMoney, (inaudible).

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HOWELL: On adjacent balconies in London the battle over a possible Brexit, it is playing out in full display on one balcony a red banner says, "Vote Leave" but on the balcony just next door there is a white banner that adds the words, "if you want to cut workers right" while the dueling residents may disagree or whether Britain's should stay in the E.U. or not they do agree on one thing the country faces a very critical crossroads.

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TONY BARNETT, FAVORS BRITISH EXIT FROM E.U.: This is the most important political decisions -- that we're going to have in Great Britain. You know for an awful long time and I don't know what's going to happen future means very important. I'm favor strongly about it so I put it up.

FRANK CHALMERS, OPPOSES BRITISH EXIT FROM E.U.: Our neighbor Tony who lives on the adjoining balcony erected this massive "Vote Leave" placards and very kindly said he was going to paid her up. So my wife and I said then, well, being actually for remaining in the E.U. although I don't think it's upon to see it. We give him a bottle of wine and said we would offer alternative poster.

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HOWELL: They disagree but it is quite a healthy debate there happening in this London suburb of Gospel Oak, which until now had not been viewed as a key battle ground in the June 23rd referendum.

So this is a long holiday weekend to the United States and one of the countries busiest times of travel for the year. It also highlights how desperate American airports are for upgrades. Places that we're once symbols of pride, they are now causes for embarrassment as CNN Rene Marsh reports.

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RENE MARSH, CNN CORRSPONDENT: Long line.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We we're just in security for almost two hours.

MARSH: Missed flight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two and a half hours really and still wasn't enough. MARSH: And frustrated passengers. It's become the standard of airports nationwide but the trouble facing America's Airports goes far beyond the security checkpoint.

KEVIN BURKE, AIRPORT COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL: People going to the airports that have built in this 50s to 60s to 70s, so the airports structures of they are accommodate.

MARSH: Decades ago when U.S. airports we're build. They were more than 62 million travelers. Today that number has grown but capacity has not. More than 750 million passengers are expected to fly this year. Presidential candidate on both sides agree donations airports are not ready for the 21st century.

CLINTON: I'm tired that we don't have a single airport in our country that's considered at the top 25.

TRUMP: You look at some of our airports, its third word.

MARSH: Also in need of updating the FAA's air traffic control system. Doug Parker is the CEO of American Airlines.

DOUG PARKER, CEO, AMERICAN AIRLINES: Our flight times and what we schedule our times to be are longer than it would be if we had a more efficient and traffic control system.

MARSH: Airports like New York LaGuardia and LAX in Los Angeles have ranked to some of the countries worst in the past because of outdated terminals.

MARY GRADY, LOS ANGELES WORLD AIRPORTS: These terminals are old there kind of fallen apart and we really, really, really needed to upgrade them. But that's difficult to do when you really constraint first their space.

MARSH: Funding is finally coming through in some major city but at smaller airports like Kansas City which lacks amenities and space for passengers, they're still looking for the cash.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have no aircraft for example that are now flying in the Unites States. Where gates that don't accommodate an A380, somebody has to pay for that.

MARSH: In the US funding comes from airlines, states, local municipalities and the federal government but it's a much simpler funding process in other parts of the world. In South Korea Incheon International consistently rank as one of the best in the world. It's heavily funded by the government. There's entertainment, high end retail and computer stations, shower, spas and on site hotel, full stage performances and the terminals are massive.

The Congress regulates the tax capped at $4.50 on passenger airfare and a $9 tax for round trip. That money goes to airport for construction project but the fee hasn't been raised to account for inflation 16 years. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not a fair fight. Their governments recognize the importance of airports, our government says it does but they need to show it by increasing funding for us and looking at us as an economic engine for local communities.

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[05:40:03] HOWELL: CNN Aviation correspondent Rene Marsh there reporting for us. Airport council international says the U.S. needs to invest and estimated $75 billion over the next five years to compete with other airports around the world.

A potentially nasty celebrity divorce to tell you about on the horizon, a judge in Los Angeles granted actress Amber Heard a temporary restraining order requiring her movie start husband Johnny Depp to keep his distance. Heard claims that Depp had been physically and verbally abusive. She filed for divorce this week. Depp's legal documents say that the allegations are all and attempt to get money. The couple married in February of last year.

It is a battle between two Madrid squad, the price, the champion league title. We have a pre-game analysis from Milan.

Plus, five people have died trying to climb Mt. Everest this season but these U.S. veterans swore to keep going. Their stories still ahead.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to Newsroom. I'm George Howell.

Manchester United has named a new manager. Jose Mourinho signed a three year contract. The Portuguese national has managed three other major European teams including Real Madrid and most recently London's Chelsea Football club. Mourinho is considered one of the most charismatic figures in professional football. Known by many as both the special one.

It is an all Madrid final for the champion's league title. Real and Atletico will compete for Europe's football, its biggest crown on Saturday. It is the second time in three years the two teams are meeting in the finals.

[05:45:12] CNN's Amanda Davies sets the scene ahead of the game.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN CORRESPONDENTS: It's virtually impossible to look ahead to Saturday's final without looking back to Lisbon two years ago when Atletico in Madrid saw victory snatch from their grasp in time added on. The coach Diego Simeone has been desperate to play down took of revenge. It's a new opportunity he says. And as far Captain Gabi is concerned, it's a new improved athletic.

GABI, ATLETICO MANDRID MIDFIELDER (Through Translator): The past doesn't count for anything now. Neither all the times we beat in Real Madrid or what happened in the last champion league final in Lisbon. It neither matter, everything is in the past. For now on, you'll only going to value us by what we do on Saturday. We have the feeling and the experience that we can beat Real Madrid and we we're going to try to do that.

DIEGO SIMEONE, ALTLETICO MADRID MANAGER: The best thing this group has is to insist re-prepare, get up, return to work, reinvent ourselves, change footballers but not change the structure, not change the system, not change the identity, not change the commitment and when you repeat, repeat, repeat in our insistent in what you believe you can do it.

DAVIES: Real Madrid and their fans have been sweating on the fitness of Cristiano Ronaldo after he leave had a training with thigh injury earlier this week he insist he's fully fit and you have to say he looks pretty lively and Zinedine Zidane says he's not the only one rearing to go.

ZINEDINE ZIDANE, REAL MADRID MANAGER: When the match begins I would definitely feel much more tensed, but that's to manager's job and I like it. I like the pressure. I have experience this as a player but it's very different from for us manages. Carlo Ancelotti told me that before the final enlistment (ph), he said to me hopefully one day you'll experience it for yourself as a coach. And how here we are, we're ready to play. I can't tell what will tomorrow. When you start a game especially in final it's 50-50, there is certainly no favorites here.

DAVIES: For all their geographical proximity this is the final between two clubs that are worlds apart. In European pedigree style and ethos, it was Real Madrid's claiming European crown number 10 two years ago, but after leaving Lisbon as looses Atletico are determined to make Milan their moment.

Amanda Davies, CNN, Milan.

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HOWELL: So how exactly do the teams and the championship league stock up? Here's a look here at Real Madrid and Atletico in Madrid by the numbers. Real is the most valuable football team on the planet Forbes magazine says it is worth $3.6 billion that dwarfs Atletico 15th on that Forbes list with a value of more than $630 million. Real also has the highest paid footballer and in Christiano -- Reynaldo I should say, he made $53 million in salary and bonuses this year that's not including his lucrative endorsements. Koke meanwhile is Atletico's highest paid player. He's annual salary is more than $14 million. On the field Real has won a record 32 La Liga titles to Atletico's 10.

[05:48:34] Five people had died trying to skill Mt. Everest this season, but these U.S. veterans climb on. Their story next.

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HOWELL: It has been a difficult climbing season on Mt. Everest. Five climbers have died but there are also stories of triumph. Among them, a group of American soldiers and military veterans who are on a mission in their quest to summit. CNN's Robyn Curnow has their story.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Conquering Everest says this group of U.S. soldiers and veterans is like being in combat. It's about the mission, team work and the fact that you might not make it back. Harold Earls and Chad Jukes have does make it back from the top of the highest peak in the world.

What was is it like at the summit?

CHAD JUKES, USX PRESIDENT: For me, honestly it was -- that we gather the perfect time. We got there 7:40 a.m. and we got to walk for sunrise and see this shadow of Mt. Everest casted down on unto other mountains which was pretty amazing.

CURNOW: They say this was one of the toughest expeditions they have faced. Harold Earls describes extreme weather that made it the same terrifying.

HAROLD EARLS, USX CO-FOUNDER: Yeah, on the way back down. We were in just some incredibly intense winds and storm which make for very difficult coming back down. Not sure but actually got snow blind at one point. We were trading goggles back and forth. It was just a very intense moment.

CURNOW: "It was exhausting." Says Chad Jukes.

JUKES: I faced very steep odds descending and very hostile conditions including jet stream winds. It were probably over a hundred miles per hour.

CURNOW: For Jukes, this journey was particularly tough because in 2006 his leg was amputated below the knee after an IED attack on his U.S. Army convoy in Iraq.

I mean, I can't imagine how much more difficult it is to climb Everest with a prosthetic leg. I mean, what were the challenges you have to get over as you went up and came down?

JUKES: You know what, it's funny, as some people will comment that they are so amazed that I could - that I have climbed Everest with one leg but you know, I'll say, how else I'm going to climbed it, I don't have the options climbing would do.

CURNOW: There are military training resilience and a knee to send a message with this mission kept them going.

EARLS: Our true mission in cost is trying to help our soldiers back home. It definitely there is a post-traumatic stress (inaudible). It's a pretty big issue in the military and I thought we really want to focus on. You know, we wanted to use Everest as means of highlighting that and really getting that in front of our nation, in front of our nation's leaders.

[05:55:07] CURNOW: Talking to CNN from a tent high up on the mountain, Harold Earls was still reflecting on the dangers he and the team had just faced.

EARLS: We're on this in massive bridge especially like a chimney, this rock like a chimney I got step. When you climbed down this rock, in our 20,000 feet is appear over the chimney the step and looked down and really there are bodies piled up to the bottoms where they are fallen, you know, thousands of feet down below.

CURNOW: More than 200 climbers have died on Everest. Most bodies are left on the mountain. It's just too dangerous to retrieve them. For this team making it back with part of their mission talking about their fight for military veteran suffering from PTSD is the next part.

Robyn Curnow, CNN.

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HOWELL: Inspiring their mission carries on, speaking of death deifying mountaineering. We end the show of what maybe the queasiest trip to school that you will ever see. This is the trip that children make in a poor region of Southwestern China. They are climbing shaky vine ladders, up a sheer cliff face to get home from their classes.

Look at that it is so stomach turning. They only do that twice a month. A photographer tag along after experiencing this so called sky ladders for himself. He said that it was indication of China's wealth gap. My goodness that image I mean. I understand why they only do that twice to get to school.

My goodness, that rap this hour of CNN Newsroom, I'm George Howell at the CNN Center at Atlanta.

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