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US Zoo Forced to Kill a Gorilla When a Young Boy Falls intoIts Enclosure; Holiday Travel Expected to Be Heavy; UN Fears 700 Migrants Dead in Mediterranean Shipwrecks; Judge in UAE Expected to Announce Verdict for Three Men Accused of Supporting Libyan Militants; Johnyy Depp Facing Serious Allegations After Separating from His Wife; Daredevil's China Stunt Examined. Aired 3-4a ET
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[03:00:00] ERROL BARNETT, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: A U.S. zoo defends its decision to shoot and kill a endangered gorilla after a small boy falls into its enclosure.
ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: And three and half million Americans are expected to take to the skies over this holiday weekend, and the country's major airports knew they were coming but still are not managing the crowds very well.
BARNETT: Yes. We hope you're not stuck anywhere right now.
A big welcome to our viewers here in the States and those of you watching all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.
CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN Newsroom.
It has been a tragic week for migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa.
BARNETT: The U.N. fear at least 700 people may have died in three shipwrecks while crossing the Mediterranean. At least coast guard says more than 14,000 migrants were rescued in the past week.
Our CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joins us now live from Rome to discuss. And, Ben, we know that these migrants and refugees are fleeing various crisis at home, but how do they come to be on these barely sea worthy vessels?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Errol, it's important to keep in mind that really this voyage into the Mediterranean is really the last step in a journey of nightmares that we begins in their home countries.
They come across the Sahara Desert where there's a whole other system of human trafficking in place which is perhaps no less merciless than that they did exist on the coast of Libya. Once they get to Libya oftentimes they have to work to earn the money to collect, to pay for the journey into the Mediterranean.
For women, oftentimes that involves prostitution. Many of them are raped and sexually exploited. For the men, it's basically almost slave labor. Many of them are sleeping in warehouses with barely any sanitary facilities. They get by on almost no food as they wait for the possibility basically to earn the money to pay these human traffickers.
The human traffickers don't really give them a choice. Once they say, OK, your boat is ready. They go to the ports in various parts of Libya and oftentimes when they see the vessels they are expected to make this journey on, many of them say no, I don't want to go on it and they're at gunpoint forced to get on these boats.
Now the boats they never are intended to actually reach the shores of Italy or Southern Europe. Really, they're just seaworthy enough at best to get out into international waters where they - somebody on board is instructed on how to make a distress call to the Italian navy, the Italian coast guard or whoever.
So, it's a very difficult journey from a to zed and of course, what we're seeing so far this year, perhaps more than 2,000 people died in the Mediterranean, compared to 3,700 for all of last year. The authorities are expecting more such disasters to take place as the weather improves and the sea becomes calmer. Errol.
BARNETT: And that's what makes it more stunning, Ben, you do have the Italian coast guard saying they were able to rescue some 14,000, but we have hundreds missing, feared dead. The migrants know the risks of what could take place, but still as you say there, we expect more of them to take this same life threatening journey in the weeks and months ahead.
WEDEMAN: Indeed once they've gotten to Libya, really there's almost no going back. They can't afford to go back and so they must go forward. They earn their way.
But because of the underlying problems, the reasons why they came, whether it's economic hopelessness in Gambia or the war against Boko Haram in Nigeria or lifelong military compulsory military service in Eritrea. People see no other alternative than to try to get to Europe despite the risks. Despite the fact that all along the way in their journey to Europe, there's exploitation.
The very real possibility of death along the way. But they're desperate to make this journey and so it is. Now, European authorities are sort of at wits end trying to figure out how to deal with this.
We saw the E.U. working out this agreement with Turkey. But there's no agreement when it comes to Libya, which of course is in a state of chaos itself. Italian officials have been desperately trying to get the E.U. to get a unified position on how to deal with it.
[03:04:59] For instance, Matteo Renzi, the Italian Prime Minister's trying to put together, trying to convince European leaders to put together a fund to deal with how to house refugees, to how to rescue refugees and migrants.
But there's no agreement among European leaders, so the problem over the coming months is is probably only going to get worse. Errol.
BARNETT: Yes. It's a concerning situation all around and there's not one simple fix. It would need to be multifaceted. Ben Wedeman, live for us in Rome. Five past 9 in the morning there. Ben, thanks.
CHURCH: In the United Arab Emirates, a judge in the coming hours is expected to hand down a verdict in the case of three men charged with supporting Libyan militants. Two are dual U.S.-Libyan citizen and one is a dual Canadian-Libyan citizen. The could face up to 16 years in prison.
U.S. President Barack Obama has brought up this case with Abu Dhabi's crown prince.
Our Jon Jensen has more.
JON JENSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Two years ago, father and son, Kamal and Mohammed Eldarat were successful businessman living in Dubai, both U.S. Citizens. Today, they're in prison in the UAE facing two criminal charges including engaging in hostilities in a foreign countries, that's Libya.
They're also accused of having ties to Libyan political groups associated with the Muslim brotherhood which the UAE has cracked on the past few years. The family denies the charges, saying both men were tortured into signing confessions.
Their daughter and sister Amal says this nightmare began in August, 2014. That's when security forces stormed into their villa without a warrant, she says, arresting both men and confiscating electronics. Both were then held incommunicado for several months.
Emirati officials have insisted the pair are being accorded due process and treated in accordance with international fair trial standards. But human rights group and the U.N. have challenged this case, siting credible reports of torture.
The State Department publicly has voiced concerns but stopped short of calling for a release. The family, while appreciative, says everyone could be doing more. We'll learn more about the men's fate on Monday when a court is expected to issue a final verdict. If convicted, the two could face 15 years in prison.
Jon Jensen, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
BARNETT: A major voice is leaving the Geneva Peace Talks aimed at ending the Syrian Civil War. The chief negotiator for the Syrian rebel groups said he resigned out of frustration over the lack of progress would die humanitarian situation in the country.
He called on the international community to follow through on achieving peace in the region.
CHURCH: In Northern Iraq, officials say thousands of Kurdish troops have launched an offensive near in ISIS near Mosul. Peshmerga-led forces aimed to disarmed the terror group from villages said to have Kurdish.
Local media report this comes ahead of a joint Iraqi-Kurdish offensive to retake Mosul. Mosul is of course Iraq's second largest city and was captured by ISIS in June 2014.
BARNETT: The U.S. Now has a third choice for president. Former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson secured the libertarian presidential nomination at the party convention on Florida on Sunday. His running mate is former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld.
CHURCH: With Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton viewed unfavorably by many voters, Johnson says his ticket could play a pivotal role in the November election.
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GARY JOHNSON, U.S. LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: At the end of the day, really we pulled from both sides and look, this is another voice at the table. It's arguably combining the best of what it is to be a democrat and the best of what it is to be a republican. Neither of which actually do very well at what they're supposed to be good at.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: Meanwhile, on the Donald Trump received a warm welcome in Washington just ahead of Memorial Day. A national holiday when Americans honor fallen members of the military.
The presumptive republican presidential nominee spoke at the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally on Sunday. The event pays tribute to prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action.
Scott McLean has the latest.
SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Donald Trump talks constantly about his support for veterans, but it is not often that he gets to speak to a large crowd of them directly. And here today, he seemed to get a good reception.
But in many ways this was a typical Trump stomp feet. He seems to take all the boxes talking about trade, about the second amendment, building support for our military and of course, veterans.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Our veterans have been treated so badly in this country. You have a secretary that last week said no the wait time doesn't matter. Forget about wait time. I know people and I've gotten to know so many vets and we just raised almost $6 million because for the vets because I didn't do a television show.
[03:10:05] I said let's do this and we're announcing on Tuesday all of the groups that we put up this money and we raise this tremendous amount of money because we love the vets.
(END VIDEO CLIP) MCLEAN: Now, that money he mentioned was raised a couple of months
ago when he decided to skipped out on a Fox News debate. But ever since then he has been dogged by questions about where exactly the money went. So, as you heard he has now promising a full accounting of that on Tuesday to try to put this issue to bed.
But Trump is also facing questions about comments he made last year about Senator John McCain who himself was a former Prisoner of War. Trump said "I like people that weren't captured." Now McCain says Trump should apologize on behalf of other POW's.
And then yesterday on CNN, former Senator Bob Dole who his himself is a Trump supporter also called on Trump to apologize. Today, we asked Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski whether or not he did plan to apologize and he said not that I'm aware of.
Scott McLean, CNN, Washington.
BARNETT: Now, Trump might be the presumptive republican nominee, but he's still ruffling feathers with his controversial comments. Earlier I spoke with CNN's senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein, about Trump's recent verbal attack on a U.S. federal judge who's hearing a lawsuit against Trump University.
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RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: To me it was comparable to the other moment where on the Sunday before Super Tuesday here on CNN, State of the Union with Jake Tapper, he would not denounce David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and kind of dance around that for several days.
I mean, why did Donald Trump feel it necessary. First of all, I mean, let's kind go back a step. In a speech in San Diego Friday night, he delivered an extended rant against a sitting U.S. federal judge who was hearing a case against Trump University.
And in the course of that ramp -- rant, he felt compelled to point out that the judge, who was born in Indiana, a graduate of Indiana University, undergraduate in law school, a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled narcotics issues was a quote, "Mexican." That was how Donald Trump described him.
You know, that kind of racial coding and racial signaling has been central in many ways to his appeal. And, you know, it has worked for him to this point. The problem I think he's got is that as you look at the general election electorate he's hoping to be defined I think most thing in other ways as an outsider, as a business guy bringing a kind of turnaround acumen the government and economy.
But he, as I think been tattooed for big portions of the American electorate with this kind of image of fermenting racial backlash and those kinds of comments really showed that he is either unable or unwilling to move beyond that.
BARNETT: Some say this is why Speaker Ryan has held back his official endorsement of Donald Trump. He's waiting until he behaves a bit more presidential. How long do you think Speaker Ryan can continue to hold back his endorsement?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, first of all, I don't think there is some other Donald Trump, right? I mean, the idea that there's a pivot to a presidential Trump I think has really been exploded week after week, but certainly this week the sitting republican Latina governor of New Mexico and made these extraordinary comments about the judge.
He is what he is and that appeal to a certain segment of the party. You're seeing republicans essentially capitulate, right? Marco Rubio this week, you know. And there are hard races all of the time but the level of personal belittling that Trump and Rubio engaged in this is almost unprecedented. I think perhaps unprecedented in American primary politics.
And there was Rubio today on CNN, you know, essentially throwing in the towel and saying almost short of running for vice president, I will do whatever he wants.
In a binary system like we have we don't have a multiparty system, there's enormous pressure on everybody to fall in line. And certainly there's no republican in the leadership of the Republican Party that wants Hillary Clinton to be president.
But I think Paul Ryan sees Donald Trump as kind of an existential threat to Ryan's vision of the party. Ryan sees himself as an air to Jack Kemp. The idea that conservatives can go in and compete with their ideas in any community in the country in Hispanic and African- American communities.
And I think he worries that Donald Trump will define the party in a lasting way as a party of racial backlash and that is a very dangerous proposition electorally if there are no other reason in a country where 30 percent of the voters in this election might be non-white.
For comparison, when Ronald Reagan was first elected, it was 10 percent.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BARNETT: And that CNN's senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein, speaking with me earlier.
CHURCH: And as you heard in Scott McLean's report just a moment ago, one of the Republican Party's most respected members is backing Trump. Bob Dole, who ran for president in 1996, told CNN that Trump has his support, but he adds, the billionaire should apologize for some of his past comments.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BOB DOLE, FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE: When Donald Trump clinched the republican nomination, that was an easy call for me.
[03:15:02] And what's a life-long republican supposed to do? Support the opponent? Now I've seen candidates come and go and I think, you know, this is a real phenomenal with Trump doing what he's done from scratch. So, I applaud him for that.
But I don't applaud him for the insults and I, as a supporter, I would like him to issue a blanket apology or individual apology.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: Dole also suggested a running mate for Trump. Former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich.
BARNETT: Now a zoo in the U.S. is defending its decision to kill this endangered gorilla. The reason it says with workers had to use lethal force.
CHURCH: And danger is rising in Texas. Why thousands of people are rushing to higher ground to get out of harm's way.
BARNETT: Also coming up, actor Johnny Depp faces some serious allegations days after separating from his wife, Amber Heard.
Stay with us.
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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines.
We start with more reflections on Real Madrid's records extending 11th European Cup victory. On Sunday, Los Blancos passed in the glory of their sons, he came out and the thousands to celebrate the dramatic penalty shootout victory over bitter local rivals Atletico.
The players may have little sleep but Zinedine Zidane team were wide awake to witness these scenes of agitation as they paraded on an open top bus.
It's been a dramatic weekend of racing at the Monaco Grand Prix on rainy track ended with Lewis Hamilton back on the top step of the podium after eight years after his last win on the famous Old streak circuit.
It was a very close battle with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo but the defending driver's champion was able to hold on to the win. That puts Hamilton into second place at 82 points in the standing just 44 behind team-mates and rival Nico Rosberg.
In Sunday, saw the hundredth running of the famed Indy 500 race in Indiana with an estimated 350,000 people packing to witness the all once again truly the largest single day sporting event in attendance.
And those fans witness history's Ricciardo on the lead becomes the rookie to win the event since 2001. You may recall Rossi made the switch from F1 to Indy cars just this past season.
[03:20:00] And that's the look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.
CHURCH: A zoo in the United States is defending its decision to shoot and kill an endangered gorilla to save a little boy.
BOLTON: Now critics say, the Cincinnati Zoo didn't have to kill the animal. But the zoo says the situation got so dangerous it was really the only choice.
CNN's Jessica Schneider explains.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A day of panic and desperation at the Cincinnati Zoo.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Speaking a second run to Cincinnati zoo. And this is in a gorilla cage and a 3-year-old child has fallen into the gorilla cage.
SCHNEIDER: A 4-year-old boy slips into the zoo's gorilla habitat and over a moat wall, suddenly, Horambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound gorilla approaches the boy. His mother watches in horror at what happens next.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy's right here.
Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody, just calm down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ok. Everybody back up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy loves you. I'm right here.
SCHNEIDER: The young boy screams and the urgent calls to 911 can be heard on this bystander video. Horambe drags the boy around the moat and up the ladder for a total of 10 minutes as the zoo's dangerous animal response team anxiously decides what to do next.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KIMBERLY O'CONNOR: WITNESS: The little boy himself had already been talking about wanting to go in, go in and get in the water and his mother's like, no, you're not, no, you're not.
I don't know if the screaming did it or too many people hanging on the edge, if he thought we were coming in but then he, you know, pulled the boy down further away from the big group.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The gorilla has the child and he's dragging him around the pen.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SCHNEIDER: Officials considered the incident very threatening, deciding Horambe must be taken down immediately.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
THANE MAYNARD, CINCINNATI ZOO DIRECTOR: The reason that tranquilizing was not chosen is in an agitated situation, which to me it was, it may take quite a while for a tranquilizer to take effect. But certainly at the instant he will be hit, he would have a dramatic response. He don't hit any false over. If will take a few minutes.
The child wasn't under attack but all sorts of things could happen in a situation like that. So, he certainly was at risk.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SCHNEIDER: They say their only option, a rifle. Horambe was shot and killed. The child was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have rescued the child. Children have been notified for a trauma.
MAYNARD: It's a sad day all the way around. The right choice was made. It was a difficult choice.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SCHNEIDER: Horambe was a western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species. The zoo had hoped he would eventually father other gorillas.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love this zoo. It's very friendly and everything is beautiful here but when you see something like that and have the disappointment because how do -- what do you say to your grandchildren?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BARNETT: Jessica Schneider reporting there. You might imagine PETA is not happy about this.
CHURCH: Yes.
BARNETT: Here's what the animal rights organization had to say, quote, "Even under the best circumstances, captivity is never acceptable for gorillas or other primates. This tragedy is exactly why PETA urges families to stay away from any facility that displays animals as side shows for humans to gawk at." End quote.
CHURCH: All right. Let's move to the weather now. And flooding has claimed two more lives in Southeastern Texas since torrential rains fell Thursday. At least six people have died there in flood-related incidence.
BARNETT: Police are searching the Brazos River west of Fort Worth for a 10-year-old boy who fell into the waters. People living along that river have been told to evacuate.
CHURCH: And now our meteorologist, Derek Van Dam joins us now with details on this and is there any end in sight there?
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: There isn't. Unfortunately, the bull's-eye for rainfall, heavy rainfall over the next week is right centered over Central Texas. Once again, you know. So, these guys weren't getting a break and it's unfortunate.
You know, put this in perspective, guys. Los Angeles receives about 15 inches of rain annually, that's roughly 280 millimeters in two days alone. Central Texas received 19 inches and just under 500 millimeters.
BARNETT: Wow.
DAM: Right? So, that's in two days they received an entire city's annual rainfall and some. Unbelievable. Take a look at this. We zoom into the region that have the excessive rainfall. This is Brenham, Texas. They set the wettest calendar day on record.
By the way, this is just outside of Houston in Washington County, that is an area where many swift water rescues took place.
[03:25:00] This is also putting it into further perspective. That amount of rainfall is equivalent to 260 billion gallons, that's also equivalent to filling roughly 375,000 Olympic swimming pools. Wow.
All right, guys. There's plenty to talk about here because the flood threat is ongoing. Just because it's not raining this very moment in time doesn't mean the water's receded. That's going to take some time. And as I mentioned before, there's more rainfall coming.
Look at our high resolution radar imagery going forward. We've got really a heavy rainfall just outside of the Houston region. And that's going to bring the potential for more flooding this week, especially as we head into Friday, or rather Wednesday through Friday, that's when we expect some of the heaviest of rainfall to take place.
Now, another part of the world that seen excessive rainfall is across Southern China. This particular region has been prone to landslides and mud slides lately.
Of course, this is the onset of the East Asia rainy season also known as the plum rains which coincides with the ripening of the plums over this part of the world.
More rainfall to come in excess of 200, perhaps even 400 millimeters of rainfall.
The difference between the topography in China compared to that in Texas, Texas is very flat, very vast open landscapes. This area is mountainous. We're talking about Southeast China.
So, when we get this heavy rainfall it soaks into the soil. It doesn't take long for gravity to ultimately win. We see that slope failure, mud slides and landslides like this.
Take a look at this video coming out of Southern China. This is astounding footage captured on somebody's cell phone camera. And you can see that moment as a landslide itself, gravity taking over, sliding right across a roadway in that region.
Fortunately, no one was injured. However, in this recent heavy bouts of rain there have been over 74 fatalities in China and over 300,000 people evacuated from their homes. So, millions and millions of people feeling the effects of mother nature across the world.
CHURCH: That's terrifying footage.
BARNETT: Yes, those landslides so powerful.
DAM: It is very powerful.
BARNETT: All right, Derek, thanks very much.
CHURCH: Thanks very much, Derek. I appreciate it.
BARNETT: Now we want to show you some video. This is no one's idea of smooth travel, surely. Spending more time waiting in line than in the air. Why flying into and out of major U.S. airports has become such a trial.
CHURCH: And Donald Trump says ISIS has made millions of dollars from Libyan oil. Our Nick Paton Walsh went to Libya to find out if there's any truth to that. What he did find. We'll have that for you when we come back.
[03:30:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BARNETT: Welcome back. To those of you watching here in the States and all around the globe, it's your last half hour of CNN Newsroom with us today. I'm Errol Barnett.
CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. Time to check the headlines for you this hour. The U.N. says at least 700 migrants may have died at sea trying to reach Europe from Africa in the past.
Most were on three boats that capsized within days of each other. Italy's coast guard says about 14,000 migrants were rescued last week.
BARNETT: Heavy rain is bringing disaster to China. In this video you see a massive landslide as it happens. Another slide trapped 36 people inside their homes until authorities could rescue them. The rain is also causing flooding that's killed at least eight people.
CHURCH: In n0rthern Iraq, officials say thousands of Kurdish troops have launched an anti-ISIS offensive near Mosul. Peshmerga-led forces aimed to dislodged the terror group from villages said to have been Kurdish.
Local media report this comes ahead of a joint Iraqi-Kurdish offensive to retake Mosul. Well, Iraq's military says they are steps closer to retaking Fallujah
from ISIS. Early Monday, the military announced its forces and Shia militias have seized a key town just 10 kilometers southwest of the city along with several villages in the same area.
BARNETT: Now a senior militia leader said a Fallujah assault could come very soon stressing that civilian safety is a top priority. He said they're delaying attacking the city itself to get civilians more time to get out.
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HADI AL-AMERI, BADR ORANIZATION LEADER (TRANSLATED): One of the obstacles delaying the assault on Fallujah is our concern over the safety of civilians in Fallujah. We have urge the people inside Fallujah to leave the city to spare them and we will do our utmost to protect them.
We may even delay the assault on the city for several days to give people more time to leave.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: Despite those words, the United Nations has warned tens of thousands of people are still trapped in Fallujah as bombardments by the Iraqi military intensify.
BARNETT: We're turning our attention now to ISIS in Libya. Civility has alluded that country ever since the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. And now it's become the talking point in the U.S. presidential race.
Candidate Donald Trump says ISIS makes millions of dollars each week selling Libyan oil.
CHURCH: But that is not true. ISIS does not control any Libyan oil fields but it wants to. Nick Paton Walsh reports from a major and vulnerable Libyan refinery.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A distant speck from up here. But this is Libya's shimmering prize, oil worth billions. But part paralyzed by government infighting. And now most troublingly in ISIS's crosshairs.
This is the Mellitah refinery which pumps gas direct among the Mediterranean seabed to Italy. It's up fit fences for one plant worker points out what he says is a militant stronghold in a hotel just down the coast. The sea's pretty much open here.
On this Getty, the graffiti says that God is great but you don't want to just rely on him. NATO have expressed concerns ISIS is trying to get its hands on boats to fashion some sort of crude, pirate navy and in a place like this, so vital to Europe's energy. You can see how worrying that must be when you have this much shoreline to try to defend.
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MOHAMMED ARAB, SPC SECURITY: Too many faces here. Sometimes attacks come from the sea. Otherwise, maybe it comes from land. You don't know how is it.
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WALSH: ISIS have already hit some facilities in the east. But damage in oil fires caused visible from space in these NASA images.
Their own propaganda showed a wide scope of that vision. This attack on an installation in the eastern town of Ras Lanuf.
[03:35:00] They want to control the industry and its potential billions, yet have so far mostly disrupted production and some little panic in the U.S. presidential race.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ISIS is making millions and millions of dollars a week selling Libya oil. And you know what, we don't block aide, we don't bomb. We don't do anything about it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALSH: Trump is wrong. ISIS haven't made much money yet and don't control any oil fields but their attacks are costly towards left of the crumbling Libyan state. Bringing the closer the day ISIS could seize control of refineries and sell fuel on the black market.
The oil is a thriving black market trade in Libya's oil. These boats evidence of that tankers used to try and ship Libya's black gold. An infrastructure here that ISIS could so easily use, whether they get their hands on key refineries.
Europe watching the slow collapse just across the water.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Milletah, Libya.
CHURCH: The United Kingdom's top economists have weighed in on whether Britain should leave the E.U. Nearly 9 out of 10 said leaving would damage Britain's economic future. More than 600 economists opposed.
BARNETT: Supporters of an exit say it would cut red tape and free the U.K. to negotiate its own trade deals. As the referendum nears, the E.U. is trying to bolster its image.
Erin McLaughlin shows us what they're up to.
ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is Europe. The European Parliament that is. A performance meant to entertain and to educate. One of many activities across the European capital.
European leader say they realize they have an image problem. many of their citizens could leave don't know how the politics work. So, once a year they open it up to the general public.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. I think there is a huge distance between citizens and the various institutions.
MCLAUGHLIN: Do you understand how European politics work?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not really, no.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When people don't know how it works, they will -- don't understand why it's important.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MCLAUGHLIN: Officials say lack of understanding is a threat to the union's very existence. They're worried about the rise of Euro skeptic far right parties across the continent and of course, the looming British referendum on E.U. membership.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Does Europe deserve its own superhero? I think so.
MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think that a lack of understanding of E.U. institutions is sort of fuelling that debate in the U.K?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes, absolutely. I think that there is a huge amount of ignorance about the European institutions about what they do.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MCLAUGHLIN: This is the room where 28 heads of state or government meet to decide on critical issues from the economy to foreign policy. With the U.K. referendum the question now, will the U.K. give up its seat at this table?
Erin McLaughlin, CNN, Brussels.
CHURCH: And now an update to a kidnapping we told you about earlier. Mexican football player, Alan Pulido, has been rescued.
BARNETT: Now authorities say he was kidnapped Saturday night in northern Mexico after leaving a party with his girlfriend. Pulido is a striker for the Greek team Olympiacos.
CHURCH: America's airports are not making the gray why you won't find entertainment and amenities like this if you're flying in the States.
[03:40:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BARNETT: Now, many Americans are traveling for the Memorial holiday weekend. But catching a flight in the states can just be miserable.
CHURCH: Sure can. And it's not just because of those awful cues for security checks.
As Rene Marsh reports America's airports are lagging behind the rest of the world.
RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Long lines.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were just in security for almost two hours.
MARSH: Missed flights.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two and half hours really and so it wasn't enough time.
MARSH: And frustrated passengers. It's become the standard at airports nationwide. But the trouble facing America's airports goes far beyond the security checkpoint.
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KEVIN BURKE, ACI-NA PRESIDENT & CEO: People are going through airports that are built in the '50s, the '60s, to '70s. So, the airports structures are they are can't accommodate.
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MARSH: Decade ago, when U.S. airports were build there were more than 62 million travellers. Today, that number has grown but capacity has not.
More than 750 million passengers are expected to gather fly this year. Presidential candidates on both sides agree the nation's airports are not ready for the 21st century.
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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm tired that we don't have a single airport in our country that's considered in the top 25.
TRUMP: If you look at some of our airports, it's third world.
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MARSH: Also in need of updating, the FAA's Air Traffic Control system. Doug Parker is the CEO of American Airlines.
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DOUG PARKER, AMERICAN AIRLINES CEO: Our flight times and what we schedule our times to be are longer than they would be if we had a more sufficient air traffic control system.
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MARSH: Airports like New York's La Guardia and LAX in Los Angeles have ranked as some of the country's worst in the past because of outdated terminals.
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MARY GRADY, LOS ANGELES WORLD AIRPORTS: These terminals are old, they're kind of falling apart and we really need to upgrade them but that's difficult when you're really constrained for space.
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MARSH: Funding is finally coming through in some major cities but at smaller airports like Kansas City which lacks amenities and space for passengers, they're still looking for the cash.
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PARKER: We have new aircraft, for example, that are now flying in United States where gates that don't accommodate in A380. Somebody has to pay for that.
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MARSH: In the U.S., funding comes from airlines, states, local municipalities, and the federal government but it's a much simpler funding process in other parts of the part.
In South Korea, Incheon International consistently ranks as one of the best in the world. It's heavily funded by the government. There's entertainment, high-end retail and computer stations. Showers, spas and on-site hotel. Full stage performances and the terminals are massive.
Congress regulates a tax capped at $4.50 on passenger air fare and a $9 for round trips. That money goes to airports for construction projects. But the fee hasn't been raised to account for inflation in 16 years.
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PARKER: It's not a fair fight. Their governments recognize the importance of airports, ours government says it does but they need to show it by increasing funding for us and looking at us as an economic engine for communities.
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[03:45:08] MARSH: Major airports like La Guardia and LAX are finally investing billions of dollars into renovating their airports. The problem is for small and medium size airports that aren't hubs, they may not get the same sort of support from airlines and they may not have access to a lot of local funds.
So, they are still dealing with old infrastructure that cannot meet capacity needs. A lot of airports want to see that passenger tax increase but airlines don't like the idea because it would make ticket prices look a lot more expensive.
Congress has the power to increase that tax but so far they have not.
At Reagan National Airport, Rene Marsh, CNN.
CHURCH: Let's turn to Hollywood news now and the separation of stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is growing increasingly acrimonies. The 30-year-old Heard filed for divorce Monday and got a restraining order against 52-year-old Depp.
Joining us now to explain what's going on is senior editor of In Touch Weekly, Kim Serafin. Always good to talk with you.
KIM SERAFIN, IN TOUCH WEEKLY SENIOR EDITOR: Thank you so much.
CHURCH: Heard has filed domestic violence allegations against Depp. But to complicate matters, two of his former ex's say he's not capable of such behavior. So, what is going on here?
SERAFIN: Yes. I mean, this has kind of thrown everyone for a curve. Because nobody had ever thought this about Johnny Depp and now of curse Amber Heard did filed for divorce on Monday and then Friday she showed up to court requesting this order protection as restraining order.
She had bruises on her face, she had provided some photos that also showed some bruises on her face. She alleges that they got into some alteration, some fight last Saturday and that he allegedly threw a phone at her. And then also in her application, she alleges that there had been verbal and physical abuse for the four years of their relationship.
So, I think a lot of people were just shocked to hear this because you know, you wouldn't expect this from Johnny Depp. And as you did mentioned, his ex did also, there's a letter allegedly from his ex, Vanessa Paradis, who is the mother of his two children where she says these claims are outrageous.
His daughter, Johnny Depp's daughter also did a post on Instagram also defending her father. But, of course, you know, this could potentially stick and we don't yet have a response from Johnny Depp yet.
He's been in Portugal with his band performing. His lawyer did put out a statement saying that Amber was attempting to secure a premature financial settlement to their divorce by these allegations of abuse, and that she was maybe -- was the negative press that she was getting because of the divorce filing encouraged her to do this.
Because she did file for divorce just three days after Johnny Depp's mother died. So, there is so many different things going on and this is going to be a long, drawn out saga for sure.
CHURCH: yes, absolutely. We'll be hearing lots more on this. I want to turn to the weekend Box Office now.
"X-Men" was at number one. But Johnny Depp's "Alice Through the Looking Glass" did not do very well at all. What is being said about that? SERAFIN: Yes, it's interesting. It's kind of a low key Memorial Day
weekend. As you mentioned, "X-Men" did come in number one for the four-day weekend as predicted to make 80 million domestically. but it had been people thought it might make 85 million to 100 million. So, performing a little bit below expectations. It didn't get great reviews.
But, yes, "Alice Through the Looking Glass." So, this is the sequel to the to "Alice in Wonderland," of course. Did not get great reviews but then also compounded but the fact that there was all this negative attention around Johnny Depp.
I think a lot of people think that certainly played into this. Expected only to make about 35 million, way below expectations for the four-day weekend. So, not great news for "Alice Through the Looking Glass."
And again, I think a lot of people think that obviously all of the PR that Johnny Depp was getting leading up to this did not help the movie.
CHURCH: No, it wouldn't think so. And just very quickly, this weekend kicked off the summer movie season. What all can we look forward to?
SERAFIN: So many great movies coming up. There's of course lots of sequels, lots of blockbusters. "Suicide Squad," the D.C. comic movie that is one that people are tweeting about a lot. I think that's the most tweeted about movie. You have to wait till August for that one.
But you also have Jason Bourne coming out Matt Damon returns. So, I think a lot of people are very excited to see that one. "Independence Day," another big blockbuster. So, we'll get the aliens coming to earth and earth fighting back from at the aliens.
And then of course you have a lot of great family movie. "Finding Dory," I think this is the one everyone wants to see. I don't think this is just a family movie. I can't wait to see "Finding Dory.". Of course, Ellen DeGeneres is back.
This is I think the second most tweeted about movie that's coming. But I think a lot of people really want to see this one to see Ellen DeGeneres back. And then of course you have a lot of comedies, as particularly the all-female "Ghostbusters" remake. And this one is another that's getting a lot of attention. Some negative attention.
[03:49:59] There's a lot of comments about the trailer that is up online. It was kind of poorly received but a lot of controversy around it. But this one I think a lot of people want to see Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, this female cast of the "Ghostbusters" remake should be really great.
CHURCH: Lots of great movies to look forward to. Kim Serafin, always a pleasure. Thanks so much.
SERAFIN: Great. Thanks so much.
BARNETT: Now, a daredevil hit the bull's-eye with his latest stunt over The Great Wall of China. Watch him turn into a human arrow, next.
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DAM: Flooding rains has been a major weather story over the past two days and across the United States. This coming out of the Carolinas. We've had the remnants of tropical depression Bonny that continues to run parallel with the Carolina coast. And moving northward, actually in a northeasterly direction, set to impact some of the major cities along the East Coast.
But not as a major tropical system, just more of a nuisance with heavy rainfall anticipated across this area. And you can see that spreading the nation's capital into Norfolk, Philly, New York, as well as Boston going forward.
Now, it's not only the East Coast that's getting inundated with heavy rainfall. It's been Houston, Texas. In fact, take a look at this image. A gentleman actually walking some of his horses just outside of the Houston region where they had monumental rainfall totals across this area.
Unfortunately, there is more rain to come. It does appear that Houston should stay dry at least for the next forcible future but as we head into the middle into the end of the work week that's when the rain should start to settle in again. Now this is already very wet environment, so flash flooding still a possibility.
We also have the possibility of severe weather on Monday. This time across the high plains. That's where we have the potential of large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornados.
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BARNETT: All right. We want to show you this daring feet by someone who's difficult to describe. Jeb Corliss the so-called human arrow jumped out of a helicopter and flew through the air extremely fast to hit the target over The Great Wall of China.
The American has been referred to as a base jumper, a wing suit pilot, a daredevil, also crazy. Reports say he jetted about 200 kilometers per hour, that's equal to 124 miles an hour to pull off this stunt.
CHURCH: And this appears to be the moment he hits the bull's-eye. Corliss later explained his inspiration for doing this.
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JEB CORLISS, HUMAN ARROW: One of the oldest forms of human competition is archery. You know, people have been archery for thousands of years.
[03:05:04] I thought how amazing would it be to take archery, this ancient, you know, competition, and bring it into modern times, you know, where the human being becomes the arrow and we basically punch through miniature small bull's-eye, you know. And I thought, you know, is it even possible, could a human being in a wing suit travelling at a 120 miles an hour after getting out of a helicopter one mile away from their target, could they hit an apple- sized target with a GoPro, and that was the idea.
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BARNETT: I love his intensity. Corliss says his feet was a decade in the making.
CHURCH: Well, about 29,000 people ran in the Rio marathon and half marathon on Sunday. Probably the closest thing to a warm up the city will get before the upcoming Olympics.
BARNETT: Everything went up for that a hitch, though. Many people have been questioning is the city can handle the Olympic Games where the Sunday's runners were impressed with what they saw.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): Rio de Janeiro is marvelous. you can't help but be amazed by a run land, it's the smoothest landscape. It is so real. Only in Brazil and even better that it is in Rio de Janeiro.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The city is marvelous. It hits us being all this. When we arrived on the edge, nearly stopping, you look up at all of this and it is so good. Amazing.
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BARNETT: And I just quickly want to say, Rosemary, these are my last few days with you as I take a dream job in D.C. But it's been a real pleasure to be by your side here on this program.
CHURCH: Oh, and it is been such a pleasure having you as well, but we've got one more night.
BARNETT: Yes, we do.
CHURCH: Don't you're not running away on me yet.
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BARNETT: Just a bit more to come.
CHURCH: OK. And thank you so much for watching CNN. I'm Rosemary Church.
BOLTON: And I'm Errol Church. Please do continue to connect with us on Twitter anytime. Early Start is next for those of you here in the States.
CHURCH: And for everyone else, stay tuned for more from the CNN Newsroom. Have a great day. BARNETT: See you.
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