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Battle Against ISIS Intensifies in Libya, Iraq, Syria; Iraq Man's Mission to Rescue ISIS Sex Slaves; Trump Faces Damning Revelations on Trump University; Disgusting Reality Olympics Deal with in Rio's Water; : Rail Worker Strike Affects Travelers in France; Major New Clue in EgyptAir Search; Heavy Rain Triggers Dangerous Flash Floods in Germany, France, Austria; Chicago Janitor Lands Lead Role in Opera. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired June 02, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:42] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN NEWSROOM.

The battle against ISIS is intensifying with forces mobilizing in Libya, Iraq and Syria. They are targeting ISIS strongholds in Sirte, Fallujah and Raqqa. In Syria, thousands of U.S.-backed fighters are trying to cut off the terror group's access to land along the Turkish border.

Jim Sciutto explains the strategic importance of the Manbij pocket.

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JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are the U.S.-backed Syrian forces taking on ISIS in a critical new offensive. The target? The area of Manbij, ISIS's critical supply route to get arms and fighters into Syria and terrorists into Europe.

COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Once you cut off the supply line that ISIS has, you then make it very hard for is to sustain its recruitments, its current force levels and the ability to carry out attacks.

SCIUTTO: Some 4,000 Kurdish and Arab forces are joining the fight backed by U.S. Special Forces.

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SCIUTTO: The offensive is part of a larger strategy to isolate the terror group in preparation for one day retaking ISIS' capitol in Raqqa.

U.S. Special Forces, seen here in rare video, are embedded with Kurdish forces on Raqqa's doorstep.

LEIGHTON: The Special Forces that are working with the Kurdish and Free Syrian Army, and similar organizations, are basically teaching them how to stand and fight, as well as providing them with the tactical wherewithal on how to prosecute these kinds of counterinsurgency campaigns.

SCIUTTO: ISIS is under attack in Iraq, as well --

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SCIUTTO: -- where Iraqi forces are in the midst of a massive assault to retake Fallujah, just west of the capitol, Baghdad.

The force, a potentially precarious combination of Iraqi military units, Shiite militias, U.S. air power and Iranian forces, with reports that the commander of Iran's Quds forces is on the ground near the front lines.

(on camera): As Kurdish force fight ISIS close to the Turkish border, one coalition partner not comfortable with it is Turkey. It considers the Kurdish forces to be a terror group. Part of the arrangement is they will leave once ISIS is removed. But Turkey, not convinced.

Jim Sciutto, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: CNN producer, Jon Jensen, joins us from Abu Dhabi, with the latest on the battle for Fallujah.

Jon, let's start where things start militarily right now and what appears to be a lull in the fighting. What are you able to confirm on that?

JON JENSEN, CNN PRODUCER: Rosemary, it's been 11 days, essentially, since the battle to liberate the ISIS-held city of Fallujah. And right now, it seems like Iraqi forces have dug their heels in on the outskirts of Fallujah proper. In the initial few days of fighting, they made swift territorial gains in the suburbs, or the outlying villages, if you will. Rosemary, there are reports of shelling on the part of the Iraqis going inside Fallujah, so not exactly a lull. But they have stopped their initial advance into the city proper. And that may be, Rosemary, because of the stiff resistance they're getting from ISIS fighters on the ground there. ISIS has launched a very deadly series of counterattacks on the Iraqi forces. They're using a number of methods, including roadside bombs, suicide bombers and snipers. And we know a number of houses are booby-trapped. We also know there's a deep network of tunnels running underneath Fallujah that have given the Iraqis some pause and made them think, let's figure out what we do next before we advance.

CHURCH: On the humanitarian side, Jon, a major concern at this point that some 20,000 or so children are being held in Fallujah by ISIS fighters. What are you able to tell us about what's happening to those children? And what will likely become of them? [02:05:07] JENSEN: The humanitarian situation in Fallujah proper

right now is extremely dire. The 20,000 children you mention are part of an estimated 50,000 population of residents that are trapped inside Fallujah right now. The concern for the children is that they could be injured or killed in the fighting. Also, they could be used as human shields, possibly even forcibly recruited to pick up arms on the side of ISIS. This is one aspect of what the U.N. calls a deteriorating human catastrophe that could unfold in Fallujah and the coming days. We know that food is at a minimum in the city. Medical supplies are at a minimum. The city has been under siege for some six months. And, Rosemary, perhaps even worse, the U.N. is warning that the water supply in Fallujah could be contaminated. In the coming days, we could see an outbreak of cholera in Fallujah. Extremely dire, indeed.

CHURCH: So many concerns there.

Jon Jensen bringing us up-to-date on the situation in Fallujah from his vantage point in Abu Dhabi.

Jon, let's talk next hour and get more updates. Appreciate it.

The U.N. estimates ISIS is holding as many as 3,500 people, mainly women and children, as slaves. And the militants are using social media to sell and trade them online. Yazidi girls and women are commonly targeted for slavery.

Arwa Damon has the story of one Iraqi man who is risking his life to save them.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bidding opens at $9,000. The item for sale, an 11-year-old Yazidi girl, advertised as beautiful, hard-working, virgin.

The screen grab is one of many that Abdullah Shven (ph) keeps in his phone. He was a trade businessman with trade connections to Syria. When his family members were among the thousands captured, he began plotting to save them.

ABDULLAH SHVEN (ph), RISKS HIS LIFE TO SAVE ISIS SLAVES (through translation): No government or expert trained us. We learned to do it and gained experience.

DAMON: Now, he has people who troll these ISIS malls on social media chats, looking for any hint of victims' whereabouts.

(on camera): This is one of the sites or the ways that the bartering and trading for some of the Yazidi captives happens. In this particular case, the girl is being offered up for $10,000.

(voice-over): And that, a location, is a vital clue.

This is video from his most recent rescue, of a woman and her two sons. It took three months to pull off. It's moments like these that make it all worth it.

So far, he says, his network has freed 240 Yazidis.

He recruited cigarette smugglers who were sneaking produce in and out of ISIS territory. Sometimes the smugglers helped track the captives down. Sometimes the captives, like his sister, managed to reach out.

SHVEN (ph) (through translation): There was a wife of an ISIS fighter, who gave her a phone and said, maybe you will be able to save yourself.

DAMON: Abdullah was able to get her out, along with her youngest son, 5-year-old Saif.

SHVEN (ph): When Saif first got out, he was like a wild thing. We couldn't really talk to him. He was still applying to ISIS mentality, that everyone is the enemy.

DAMON: He is still not entirely recovered from the brainwashing.

SHVEN (ph): (through translation): They put this in their heads that there is nothing better than a gun.

DAMON: It's the older boys going through ISIS indoctrination that Abdullah is most worried about, concerned they're turning into time bombs that will kill their own people. World powers, he said, have an obligation to save them and the other slaves.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Northern Iraq.

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CHURCH: Tune in this Friday for Arwa Damon's reports on Iraq, investigating the atrocities and the suffering of the Yazidi women under ISIS rules. "ISIS in Iraq," Friday at 4:30 p.m. in London.

Al Shabaab is claiming responsibility for a deadly attack at a popular hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. At least 13 people and three attackers were killed in the siege Wednesday. Local media says two Somali lawmakers are among the dead. It began when attackers detonated a car filled with explosives at the gates of the hotel.

[02:10:02] Somalia says it's military has killed the man who planned last year's deadly attack on Garissa University in Kenya. The government says Special Forces took out the al Shabaab leader and 16 other militants Tuesday night. 148 people died when the terror group stormed the school in April of last year. A U.S. air strike killed al Shabaab's intelligence chief last week.

Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the U.K. the day after the country votes on its future in the European Union. Trump will travel to his golf resort in Scotland on June 24th. He says he supports Britain leaving the E.U. but he has not spent much time discussing the issue.

Meantime, Democrat Hillary Clinton is expected to challenge Trump's foreign policy and experience during a speech Thursday in California. Aides say she will criticize Trump's bigotry and fearmongering as a threat to U.S. national security. The speech starts a five-day campaign swing in California ahead of Tuesday's presidential primary.

The man who set up Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server when she was secretary of state will not testify in an ongoing lawsuit. Brian Pagliano is scheduled to be deposed next week. A conservative watchdog group is suing the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act. Pagliano accepted an immunity deal from the FBI and is cooperating with its investigation.

Donald Trump is on the defensive against a barrage of damning revelations about his now-defunct Trump University. He's trying to fend off claims from former students and teachers that the program was a scam targeting the elderly and poor. Hillary Clinton has taken notice.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tonight, Hillary Clinton in pointed and personal terms, unloading on Donald Trump.

CLINTON: He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Thank you very much.

ZELENY: Seizing on the latest controversy surrounding her GOP rival. This time, the business practices of Trump University. Clinton urging supporters in Newark to put her over the top in the final wave of primaries.

CLINTON: New Jersey, you have the chance to decide the nominee of the Democratic Party next Tuesday.

ZELENY: Until Tuesday, Clinton has a five-day fight for California on her hands, trying to ward off a Bernie Sanders victory. A new poll tonight shows Clinton with only a two-point lead.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I), VERMONT & DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you, Monterey.

ZELENY: Camping out in California all week, Sanders is taking delight in Clinton's decision to head west and join him on the campaign trail despite her insurmountable lead in delegates.

SANDERS: I'm shocked. You know why? You told me the campaign was over. I wonder why Secretary Clinton and her husband, Bill, are back in California. ZELENY: Sanders is making the argument the race is not over.

SANDERS: It was lost. It was all over. I guess Secretary Clinton is looking at polling that would suggest otherwise.

ZELENY: But Clinton is only 72 delegates away from clinching the nomination, according to a CNN estimate. That includes super delegates who can change their minds until the convention.

SANDERS: They're going to say the nominating process is over. Secretary Clinton has won. That's factually incorrect.

ZELENY: Yet, the race between Clinton and Trump is passing Sanders by. The question is not whether she goes to the convention, but how she arrives, on a winning streak or with growing unease about her candidacy.

CLINTON: I'm going to work hard. I want to be a Jersey girl.

ZELENY: New Jersey's own Jon Bon Jovi said the time is now for Clinton.

JON BON JOVI, SINGER: I hope that soon we will all be calling her Madame President.

ZELENY: First, she will have to win the daily headlines battle with Donald Trump.

Today's topic, newly unsealed documents in a lawsuit against Trump University.

CLINTON: His own employees testified that Trump U. was a fraudulent scheme, where Donald Trump enriched himself at the expense of hard- working people.

ZELENY: Flying to California today, Trump was unusually quiet, as Clinton increasingly tries to take a page from his "flood the zone" playbook.

CLINTON: It's important that we recognize what he has done because that's usually a pretty good indicator of what he will do. We see someone who is unqualified and unfit to be president of the United States.

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[02:15:00] CHURCH: Joining me now is CNN political commentator, Maria Cardona, a Democratic strategist and super delegate supporting Hillary Clinton; and CNN political commentator, Kayleigh McEnany, who is a Trump supporter and conservative columnist.

Thank you both for joining us.

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CHURCH: Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal will not go away. And now we hear the guy who set up the server will take the Fifth. Invoking the Fifth Amendment, what does that tell you, Kayleigh?

KAYLEIGH MCENANY, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: To me, it speaks to what's going on for a listening time with the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. The, basically, attempt to cover up. We saw Hillary Clinton supposed to leave the State Department and preserve her e-mails. She deleted 30,000 of them. She didn't have classified information to she didn't send and receive classified information. She's changed that language three times. It's an attempt to cover up what was a violation of the law. Many say there are provisions under the espionage act that she violated. And I think the State Department report last week spoke for itself. She covered things up. At worst, it was lying, at best, it was incompetence.

CHURCH: Maria, is it a cover-up?

MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: No. Absolutely not. Hillary Clinton and her campaign and her office at the State Department have been nothing but open on this. And in fact, Hillary Clinton has made herself available for interview with the FBI who is the one who is going through the process of focusing on the national security review. Let's remember that the I.G. report was simply a procedural review, and what it stated, unequivocally, is that the way that the State Department keeps records is antiquated at best. The rules were blurry. No one knew what they were. Past secretaries have done the same thing, as far as keeping a personal e-mail address. She erased 30,000 e-mails. Those were her personal e-mails. Had she been at the State Department when she turned over her professional e-mails, she would have to choose which was going to be handed over or deleted.

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CARDONA: That is the focus of this. It has nothing to do with national security.

CHURCH: On Wednesday, Clinton attacked Donald Trump in a way that some have suggested is straight out of his playbook, having a go at his university, calling him a fraud. What impact is this likely to have in and will she keep hammering this? Will it have any impact do you think, Maria?

CARDONA: Absolutely, she's going to this. It's not only dangerous in terms of rhetoric, not only divisive and bigoted, but he has defrauded many, many people who have looked to him for the kind of guidance that he says he has in terms of being a fabulous businessman. I think this goes to the heart of what he says is one of the biggest reasons why he thinks we should trust him to be commander in chief. And that's his business acumen. That business acumen is nothing but a fraudulent scheme --

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CARDONA: -- which I think is going to be a very bad issue for him.

CHURCH: Kayleigh?

MCENANY: He has 300 companies. He's employed 250,000 people over the course of his career. This is one company, and a few people were upset by the product put forward. Meanwhile, there's 19,478 pages of positive reviews of Trump University, people who were satisfied, people who said they have incalculable results after the fact. So I think voters care more about his overall picture as a businessman than one piece of litigation in a California court with a bunch of holes of it.

CHURCH: Kayleigh McEnany, Maria Cardona, thank you for joining us.

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CHURCH: U.S. President Barack Obama is getting more involved in the presidential race, with some new shots at Donald Trump. He spoke to a crowd in Indiana on Wednesday, a town that's made a remarkable recovery from the recession of the late 2000s.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Republican nominee for president's tax plan would give the top one-tenth of 1 percent -- not top 1 percent -- top one-tenth of 1 percent, a bigger tax cut than the 120 million American households at the bottom. It would explode our deficits by nearly $10 trillion. I'm not making this up. You can look at the math.

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OBAMA: That will not bring jobs back.

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OBAMA: That is not fighting for the American middle-class. That will not help us win. That is not going to make your lives better.

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OBAMA: That will help people like him.

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[02:20:00] CHURCH: Well, there is a polluted reality for Olympic athletes headed to Brazil. Many will be forced to compete in water that looks like this. What is being done to clean it up? That's still to come.

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CHURCH: Brazil's famous white-sand beaches hide a disgusting reality that many Olympic athletes are trying to deal with. We've been showing you the horribly polluted bay sailors have to use.

Now, Ivan Watson shows just how deep the problem goes.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Athletes training for peak performance. Members of the German Olympic sailing team preparing for what will be the first Olympic female competition in this class of sailboat. On the surface, the view off the coast of the Olympic host city, Rio de Janeiro, pretty spectacular. But the sailors are trying hard to stay out of the water.

UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: We don't want to swim in it.

WATSON: They say the bay here is terribly polluted.

(on camera): You hit garbage out here?

UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: Yes.

WATSON: What kind of garbage?

UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: A lot of plastic bags. But training partners of us also hit a chair or some wood.

WATSON: Furniture?

UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: Yes.

WATSON (voice-over): This is the kind of stuff they're talking about.

(on camera): Look at this trail of garbage, flip-flops, tennis shoes, blocks of wood on the surface of the bay, very close to where the sailors and athletes are training.

(voice-over): Rio has been struggling with its notoriously polluted waters for decades.

We caught up with the city's mayor at the opening of a brand-new sewage treatment plan. It claims to provide modern services to hundreds of thousands of residents of Rio for the very first time.

(on camera): Do you think the water will be safe for the Olympic athletes?

[02:25:16] EDUARDO PAES, MAYOR OF RIO DE JANEIRO: Yes. We had, first thing, because where in the bay the sailing is going to happen, it's the cleanest area of the bay, the entrance of the bay.

WATSON (voice-over): But people who make a living in Rio's waters disagree with the mayor. We don't get far in Menendez's (ph) boat before the motor stalls. The propeller, tangled in a plastic bag. Travel a little further and we find this.

(on camera): It smells awful here. And not just like mud at low tide, but something far more toxic. And the fishermen we're with say this is basically raw sewage that has washed down out of the city. WATSON (voice-over): The untreated waste of millions of Rio's

residents that do not have modern sanitation. It all drains into canals like this, where local fishermen moor their boats.

(on camera): How is the fishing?

(voice-over): "We don't fish here," he says.

(on camera): Impossible?

(voice-over): "Look at Rio now," he tells me. "We will host the Olympics. But we don't even have a basic sewage system."

The pollution here, one of the sad realities facing residents and now athletes at the upcoming Olympics.

But these German sailors say they're willing to risk these dirty waters for their shot at Olympic glory.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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CHURCH: CNN's "State of the Race" is just ahead for our viewers in Asia.

Coming up for everyone else, a major break in the search for EgyptAir flight 804. Stay with us for that and more.

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[02:30:15] CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to you all. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

I want to update you on the main stories we've been following this hour.

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CHURCH: Now, we could -- we're going to follow this story, now, from France. Travelers in France are facing train delays and cancellations because of a rail workers strike. The walkouts started Tuesday evening. And we are monitoring the situation across the country, including a train station in the port city of Le Havre in France, where protesters are facing off with police.

CNN'S Erin McLaughlin is there and joins us now, I understand.

Have we got to Erin? Do we have Erin with the latest? Yes.

Erin, you're there with us. Tell us, what is the situation there right now?

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Rosemary. Just to let you know where I'm standing, I'm in La Havre, France, an industrial town to the north of the country. We're here on the train tracks, just outside of the city's main train station. At present, tensions here seem to be easing. Police are moving back that way, as are the individuals who were striking, about a couple hundred union workers. A short while ago, stormed the train tracks and there was a very tense standoff between the police and the striking union workers. Police were firing a heavy amount of tear gas at the union workers. The union workers were responding with firecrackers. They were screaming. Many police, not enough justice. They were screaming at French President Hollande.

What is unfolding is one of many strike actions to take place in France in recent weeks. Union workers, very upset about a series of proposals or proposals, laws that have been introduced here in France that would change labor laws in this country, making it easier for companies to hire and fire employees, as well as cut backs on overtime pay, which has infuriated union workers, calling for strikes across the country. As I mentioned, one of many strike actions to take place in this town alone today, for instance, which has the largest port for containerships. That has been shut down for 24 hours. Containerships, cargo is not being offloaded or loaded on the ships. We're seeing rolling strikes across the nuclear energy facilities here in France, meaning that there would be power outages in certain parts of France, as well. All part of this ongoing action to try and stop the legislation from going forward, but so far, it's not been effective. The government says it is committed to seeing the legislation go through.

CHURCH: Given that, it doesn't look like this is going to end anytime soon. What will it take to bring this to a close? Any effort to bring the parties together at this point?

MCLAUGHLIN: At the moment, one of the main unions calling for this action, as well as others, they're not really talking with the government. Both sides say they are open to talks. And the government strategy is seeming to be focused on approaching individual sectors within France to try to reach a settlement with individual sectors in order to avoid a coalescing of a nationwide strike ahead of Euro 2016, the Euro football championships, expected for France next week. And a big concern in all of this is how the strikes could potentially impact the Euro 2016 championships, especially when you consider many of the actions -- as you see, we are standing on train tracks -- effecting transportation, air travel, ships, as well as trains. Fast trains being -- many fast train services being affected here within the countries as well as trains out of France to areas such as Italy and Spain. It's a big source of concern ahead of the football championships. And some 2.5 million people expected to be in France to enjoy those festivities. And it is a big source of concern for the government.

[02:35:48] CHURCH: Yeah. A real worry, for sure.

Erin McLaughlin joining us from Le Havre, in France, where, as Erin reported there, tensions have eased at this point, after some real problems there. We'll keep an eye on that and bring you up-to-date next hour. Many thanks to you, Erin.

We could be closer to finding out what happened to EgyptAir flight 804, thanks to a major, new clue. Signals apparently coming from the jet's all-important flight recorders could be the key to unlocking the mystery of what happened to the Airbus A320 and the 66 people onboard.

Here's Brian Todd.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A breakthrough, but no answers in the search for EgyptAir flight 804, the doomed plane that dropped from the sky two weeks ago. French investigators say they are focused on a small area of the Mediterranean Sea after detecting an underwater signal from one of the plane's data recorders, those so- called black boxes. The ping was picked up by specialized locater equipment onboard a French vessel. While the signal may have narrowed to search, the clock is still ticking. Investigators have been looking for the boxes and the fuselage for 14 days. The pingers emitting those signals from the boxes die out in about two more weeks. Deep sea search experts say finding their location and retrieving the boxes quickly is crucial.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The next step is to find the wreckage. You know, do a survey of the debris field.

TODD: That won't be easy. The black boxes could be at a depth of almost two miles below the surface. Egyptian authorities say a specialized ship equipped to retrieve them is on the way. That ship has a remotely-operated vehicle with manipulator arms that can pick up the boxes. But it won't be on-site for almost a week.

(on camera): Are they losing crucial time while the vessel moves into place?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. At this stage, there's no reason to wait. There's assets in the area that are capable of performing the next stages of the search. You know, it's critical to get an ROV on the wreck site.

TODD (voice-over): Egyptian and French investigators insist they have the best companies with the most advanced technology deployed in the search. But experts say even if the pingers are located, the black boxes could be separated from them and could be somewhere else.

U.S. officials have said they were working under the theory that a bomb brought the plane down. But investigators say they are not ruling anything out. And so far, no group has claimed responsibility.

Finding the black boxes could unlock the mystery.

MICHAEL GOLDFARB, FORMER FAA CHIEF OF STAFF: The flight data recorder says so much about the performance of the aircraft, that the calculation that it was catastrophic failure, or a bomb, can be answered there. The cockpit voice recorder is critical because the crew's last 30 minutes of the flight was recorded. Was there any sense of stress of alarm?

TODD: The difficulty of finding the black boxes underwater is leaving some aviation experts to call for deployable black boxes, data recorders mounted near the tail that pop off after a crash.

(on camera): But right now, deployable black boxes are used primarily in military aircraft. They are known to work. The U.S. Navy says one deployable black box from a fighter jet was found on a beach six years after the plane crashed and the box still worked.

Brian Todd, CNN, Baltimore.

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CHURCH: CNN safety analyst and former FAA safety inspector, David Soucie, joins me now.

David, thank you for talking with us.

But how likely is it, do you think, that this signal is actually coming from one of the black boxes?

DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST: Well, it's very likely that it is and that is because the signal seems to have come in a long period of time. I was hesitant at first, because during the MH370, Malaysia Airlines, they received the signal off of the bat when they first started looking at the aircraft, like they did with this one, as well. But it kept changing and moving and had strange signatures. This one doesn't appear to have that. There's no reports of it being that way. I think they're on to it this time.

[02:40:02] CHURCH: That is encouraging. Once the recovery team gets to the source of the signals deep in the Mediterranean Sea, how hard will it be to retrieve the black box, if that's what it is, and get the data off and be able to read and determine what happened here?

SOUCIE: The first challenge is getting it out and untangled from the debris. A lot of times the box is mounted in a place where -- in the tail, where it can come forward and be entangled in debris from the aircraft. That's a very big challenge in itself. But other times, it is ejected somewhat. It's much heavier than anything else on the airplane, so it's ejected and sitting beside the wreckage or in front of the wreckage. That can be less challenging.

Now, once they bring it out, they have to be cautious. If they bring it up too quickly, out of the water, if there's a crack or water that's gotten inside, the pressures of bringing it up to sea level can cause it to crack components inside. It has to be maintained in a pressure-type vessel until they determine that and bring the pressure down slowly.

And the thing third thing, what can we tell, how quickly can we get the information off? These are solid-state digital devices. It's very stable. There's not much chance that it's going to lose data. It's pretty much available in this box. Very few times has it actually been damage beyond the point where you can get data about the flight rate of the aircraft. There's literally hundreds of pieces of information that come off of that box. So, they'll be able to determine fairly quickly what happened on that airplane. CHURCH: Just very quickly, we're almost out of time, do they need

both boxes to get the full story or will one be sufficient to tell us what happened here?

SOUCIE: We like to think of the data recorder as being what happened and will tell you specifically what happened on the aircraft. The flight control moved or whatever happened. The "how it happened" comes from the voice data recorder, from the cockpit voice recorder, and that's equally important. They really play together.

CHURCH: All right. David Soucie, thank you for talking to us. Appreciate it.

SOUCIE: Thank you.

CHURCH: Next hour, we'll have a live report on EgyptAir flight 804.

Well, rivers are overflowing their banks as bad weather moves through Europe. The details on the deadly flooding still to come.

Stay with us.

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[02:45:49] CHURCH: Heavy rains have triggered flash floods in parts of France, Austria and Germany in the past few days. German police say the high water killed at least four people after a river turned into a torrent in a Bavarian town. Three women died when their ground-floor apartment flooded. Police say they later found another woman's body.

Our Meteorologist Allison Chinchar joins us with more on this.

Just horrendous when you hear this. There's nowhere to run in these flash floods.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: No. Some of the towns, you hear go to higher ground. But for some, that's not close by. That's not really a viable option. And unfortunately, they're going to get more rain over the coming days.

Let's take a look. Here is a look at the river. You expect to have water in the river. What you don't expect is over here, on the roadways, on the pavement, the sidewalks, where people would be. That's not where the water is supposed to be. But that's the case in Paris. Here is a look at the portion of Bavaria. That makes it difficult to clean up. Here's a look at some of the three-day totals we've been experiencing. This is just in three days. 160 millimeters, not out of the question for cities in Austria. But it wasn't the only place. We know of heavy flooding in France, Germany. And look in Belgium. Again, picking up over 100 millimeters of rain.

And the key thing to note is, it wasn't just in the last three days. All of May has been very wet. In fact, take a look. This is the wettest May on record for Paris. The average, 65 millimeters. This particular May, 172. That makes it the wettest May on record. But also, the second-wettest month, only behind July of 2001. Impressive stats. Unfortunately, it's going to continue. We have this upper- level low that's just kind of sitting here. Because it's doing it, it's dumping rain over the same portions over and over and over again. It's acting like a stalled front where it does not move. You see the rotation from the low. It's hitting the same places, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, stretching back into Switzerland and Italy and portions of Austria as well. And, again, a lot of the areas going to continue to get more rain. And it's not just flooding rains. We have the threat for severe weather, too. Things like strong winds, large hail. Also isolated tornadoes will not be out of the question.

Unfortunately, Rosemary, it's not just the threat of flooding but they have the severe elements to go along with it. For a lot of the towns, even though they may get 50 millimeters, that, on top of what they've already had, makes the flooding risk that much higher.

CHURCH: Too much, too much to deal with right?

Allison Chinchar, let's talk about the weather next hour. Appreciate it.

CHINCHAR: Thank you.

CHURCH: More than two dozen young women say they were sexually assaulted at a concert in Germany. Police say the alleged attacks happened at a big outdoor music festival. Police have arrested three Pakistani men but as many as 10 men may have been involved in those assaults.

Campaigners that want Britain to leave the E.U. say if the Brexit happens, there will be new rules for anyone trying to move to the U.K., including a requirement to, quote, "speak good English." The "Vote Leave" team says the migrant influx is putting a strain on public services. Britains will vote in a referendum in three weeks.

Coming up next, a janitor in Chicago is living his dream to become an opera star.

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KEENAN KYLE, JANITOR & OPERA STAR: It's quiet up here. You get a chance to think about the music, study, sing the words. It's great. I like it. This is where I do most of my practicing.

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[02:49:55] CHURCH: After the break, how this hard worker is hitting the high "Cs" on the international stage.

Back in a moment.

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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHURCH: A janitor in Chicago has landed a lead role in a Scottish opera production. His journey to the international stage hasn't come easy.

As WLS reporter, Frank Matthews, shows us, this singer's persistence and hard work has paid off.

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FRANK MATTHEWS, REPORTER, WLS (voice-over): Keenan Kyle says he doesn't mind the word "janitor" because that's what he is, five nights a week, here at Channel 7. But this is just a small part of this 27- year-old Chicagoan's life. He is more than anything, an opera singer.

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KYLE: I have three jobs. I'm a vocal coach. I am a maintenance man at "ABC News." I do visual merchandising for a department store. And I sing opera on the side.

MATTHEWS: He teaches voice on the fine arts building on south Michigan Avenue. That, and his two other jobs, add up to 90 hours a week. Then, he has to practice his opera.

KYLE: It's a lot of sleepless nights and a lot of long days. But it all pays off in the end because you get to do what you love, music.

MATTHEWS: He has met with considerable success. Last year, he performed in Italy. And this summer, he goes to Glasgow, Scotland, for one of the lead roles in "La Boheme."

But until there's opera career success, life is a tight squeeze and mopping floors is part of getting there.

[02:55:22] KYLE: It's quiet up here. You get a chance to think about the music, study, sing the words. It's great. I like it. This is where I do most of my practicing.

MATTHEWS: Keenan was raised on the south side. He went to Morgan Park High School and Columbia College. Music has been his life. You have to wonder, what is his quest?

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KYLE: My quest is to go overseas and blow up and be able to come back here and sing for the Lyric, the Met, and sing opera for the rest of my life.

MATTHEWS: From the Chicago's children's choir at age 8, to his impossible dream.

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(END VIDEOTAPE) CHURCH: How about that? His tenacity certainly paying off there.

And thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

We have much more news for you, still to come. Stay with us.

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