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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different, they are dangerously incoherent.
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NATALIE ALLEN, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: That's not all she had to say, Hillary Clinton rips apart Donald Trump's foreign policy plans while he said she should be thrown in to jail.
A 7-year-old boy rescued after surviving nearly week in a forest in Japan.
And meet the real life Indiana Jones who has recovered thousands of artifacts worth millions of dollars.
These stories all ahead here and much more coming up this hour. Welcome to our viewers around the world. We are live in Atlanta. This is CNN Newsroom. I'm Natalie Allen.
The race for the White House is getting nastier between the candidates and their fans. Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed outside his rally in San Jose, California, Thursday, anti-Trump protesters set fire to an American flag and threw eggs at people leaving the venue.
Some small fights broke out and several Trump supporters were roughed up. Police say they made a few arrests. At one point, the protesters blocked traffic and jumped on cars. The police say there was no significant property damage.
Inside the rally, Trump took aim at Hillary Clinton for her scathing critique of his foreign policy and he said he ought -- she ought to be in jail over her e-mail scandal.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, we don't want to say lying Ted. I would love to pull it out and just use it on -- lying, crooked, Hillary.
(APPLAUSE) Love to say that. Because she is a liar. She made up my foreign
policy, Donald Trump is going to do this? I said, I never said that. Then Donald Trump is going to do that and a friend of mine was in the room and he said, you never said you were going to do that. I said, that's right, she makes it up. Now she is a bad person.
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ALLEN: Clinton says Trump's foreign policy idea are a mix of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. He spoke to a crowd of invited guests in San Diego, California Thursday, Clinton says a Trump presidency would be an economic catastrophe.
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CLINTON: This is a man who said, this is a man who said, that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia. This is someone who has threatened to abandoned our allies in NATO, the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before they strike us at home.
He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends including the British Prime Minister, the mayor of London, the German chancellor, the president of Mexico, and the pope.
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ALLEN: Clinton's supporters say her speech was the best for her campaign so far. Trump on the other hand said she did a horrible job reading from the teleprompter.
CNN's Brianna Keilar has more now.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton is ripping in to Donald Trump on foreign policy.
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CLINTON: He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia. The stakes in global state craft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels.
We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table, bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets, I'm willing to bet he is writing a few right now. But, those tools won't do the trick. Rather than solving global crisis, he would create new ones.
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KEILAR: Clinton contrasting her positions with Trump's but framing her objections to him as something bigger than a difference of opinion.
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CLINTON: He is not just unprepared, he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, responsibility and immense stability.
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Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different, they are dangerously incoherent.
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KEILAR: Her campaign, billing it as the major foreign policy speech of her candidacy, unveiling one of her main general election attacks on Trump.
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CLINTON: This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes, because it's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us in to a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.
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[03:05:08] KEILAR: Clinton rebuking the presumptive republican nominee for controversial comments he's made throughout the campaign.
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CLINTON: It also matters when he makes fun of people with disabilities. Calls women pigs. Proposes banning an entire religion from our country or plays coy with white supremacists.
America stands up to countries that treat women like animals or people of different races, religions, or ethnicities as less human.
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What happens to the moral example we set for the world and for our own children if our president engages in bigotry?
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KEILAR: And she accused Trump of lacking a plan to confront the threat posed by ISIS.
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CLINTON: He is literally keeping it a secret, the secret of course is he has no idea what he do to stop ISIS. Just look at the few things he's actually said on the subject. He actually said, and I quote, "Maybe Syria should be a free zone for ISIS."
Oh, OK. Let a terrorist group have control of a major country in the Middle East. Then he said, we should send tens of thousands of American ground troops to the Middle East to fight ISIS.
He also refused to rule out nuclear weapons against ISIS, which would mean, mass civilian casualties. It's clear he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. (END VIDEO CLIP)
ALLEN: Joining me now is Heather Conley from the center for strategic and international studies where she the senior V.P. for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic. She is also a former U.S. deputy assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell. Thank you for joining us, Heather.
HEATHER CONLEY, CSIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: Great to be with you.
ALLEN: First, I want to ask, how do you react when you hear Hillary Clinton attack Trump -- Donald Trump for his stance on nuclear weapons and NATO, praise the dictators and criticism of allies, does she have valid points?
CONLEY: Secretary Clinton gave a powerful speech and a real indictment about Donald Trump's contradiction of foreign policy, he is so difficult to analyze because we go from one issue to another, really contradicting decades of U.S. foreign and security policy.
It was an important statement. I think many republicans could have given this same speech to say that we have to stand with our allies, we cannot support cutting deals with the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and we have to lead. We can't hide behind walls. And so, I think, I think she gave a powerful statement today.
ALLEN: Well, what about our allies, as you mention, in Europe and Asia, how did they react to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton?
CONLEY: Well, I think there's been an evolution, our allies and let's be very clear, internationally people watch U.S. political dialog, debate, extremely closely. I think sometimes more closely than Americans do.
And so, they watch this debate and at first they thought, well, this is -- this is an anomaly, this won't happen and then through the course of the primaries when Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee.
Now allies are incredibly sober in their analysis, they are assessing what a future U.S. leadership will look like, or won't look like. They are having to change their own policy tactics in anticipation that there could be a very dramatic change in the U.S. foreign and security policy.
ALLEN: Yes, and with that, are you concerned that Trump's unconventional views may appeal to voters especially his followers?
CONLEY: Well, I think, we have to fully acknowledge that nearly 70 percent of voters through these primary process have selected candidates that are outside the Washington establishment, the so- called establishment, there is anger, there is fear, there is frustration at this political polarization, and I think we have to understand that message very clearly.
But when it comes to foreign and security policy, this is where the stakes are incredibly high, and statements from presumptive presidents have to be understood, they have -- they are heard, they are interpreted, our adversaries interpret them as do our allies.
So this could not be more serious, and we're not going to tweet our way through this policy. We have to have a sober analysis and think very clearly about the messages that we are sending.
And that's the problem, Donald Trump sends out highly contradictory incoherent messages that alarm our allies and in some ways encourage our adversaries.
[03:10:05] ALLEN: And what about Clinton's foreign policy, she has been criticized extensively for her support of the Libyan invasion and the war in Iraq, could her policies be considered dangerous at all?
CONLEY: Well, I think Secretary Clinton is going to be in the uncomfortable position in this campaign of being the hawk. Being very strong, stronger on defense issues than President Obama has been.
Her call for basically, a safety zone, a no fly zone over Syria, much more robust support to helping Syrian opposition help combat Assad. I think we've also seen much stronger support for NATO, for allies in Asia as well. She has a very forward leaning leadership position. And she has been a strong advocate for that.
It's interesting that now the republican nominee is actually, very much less of a hawk, and is advocating for an inward looking approach.
ALLEN: And finally, even if Trump hypothetical loses the general election, do you think he will have change today world's view of U.S. foreign policy at all?
CONLEY: He really has changed the dialog, the tenor, and he has raised profound questions about U.S. foreign policy that I think many believed were really above question. They have been part of our principled policy, and so, now these questions are open.
Some of them are legitimate. Our allies do need to contribute more to their security, to alliance structures, we can have an open debate about this, but when it comes to very cavalierly saying that we should, our allies should become, have nuclear weapons or we simply will cut a deal with the likes of Vladimir Putin, that crosses a line.
And I think it's going to be very important for whomever becomes president to reassert where U.S. foreign policy will be in the future. It's going to be very difficult, considering how angry and frustrated the American people are right now.
ALLEN: Exactly. Heather Conley, thank you so much, a former U.S. deputy assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell. Thanks for talking with us.
CONLEY: Thank you.
ALLEN: In Japan, a 7-year-old boy that was lost in a forest for nearly week was found alive and healthy. His parents say they left him on a mountain road as punishment for throwing rocks. But his father seen here says he is very sorry for losing his son.
For more on the story, we are joined by journalist Mike Firn from Tokyo. And, Mike, first of all, I want to ask you where was the boy, how did he stay alive and how was he found?
MIKE FIRN, JOURNALIST: Well, he was abandoned on a mountain road on Saturday evening, last seen around 5 p.m. And he walked for six kilometers through the mountains until he came to a self-defense force training camp and they have huts there that the SDF forces can sleep in when it's raining.
So, he found one of those that was unlocked and went inside and there was futon mattresses in there which he used, slept between two of them to keep himself warm. And there was a tap outside. So, he managed to find some water to drink, but no food, and he didn't manage to turn on the stove that was in there.
So, his temperature dropped significantly. He was found this morning just before 8 o'clock by three SDF members who went in to the hut to shelter from the rain, and they asked him his name, he said he was Yamato, and he said he was very hungry. So they gave him some rice balls to eat before he helicoptered to hospital.
Doctors there say that he is scratched, he is dehydrated, and he is slightly malnourished and his temperature has dropped quite significantly. But given what he has been through, Natalie, they say he is in pretty good condition.
ALLEN: Well, we heard his father say he is very sorry for the ordeal and what has happened. Is there going to be any kind of investigation or procedure before the boy is placed back with his parents?
FIRN: Well, he's got to stay in hospital for observation for the time being, he has been visited by his parents. And Japanese media reports saying that the police may charge the parents with negligence. This is certainly something that divided Japan.
We heard from one educated Nao Kiyoki (ph) on his blog saying that this was abuse call for a punishment by any other name. He said and it wasn't forgivable at all. But then another celebrity father of 13 nicknamed Big Daddy said that it's easy to use calm words to treat children who behave badly, in an ideal world, but in the real world, when it's very stressful, often parents find it very hard to do what they really should do. Natalie.
[03:15:04] ALLEN: Well, Thank you for bringing us the latest on the story, Mike Firn there from Tokyo. Thanks, Mike.
A medical examiner's office in the U.S. says a music legend Prince died of an accidental opioid overdose. The toxicology reports shows Prince gave himself Fentanyl, but it doesn't indicate whether he had a prescription. Fentanyl is the strongest opioid available in prescription form.
Prince was 57 when he died in his home April 21st. What were you doing when you were six? Probably not making bombs for
ISIS like this little girl. Her heartbreaking story of terror and survival is next.
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RHIANNON JONES, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: I'm Rhiannon Jones with your CNN World Sport headlines.
Novak Djokovic stretch out seven seat. Tomas Berdych on Thursday he reached the semifinals of the French Open for the sixth consecutive year. This is his 30th Grand Slam final four, his eighth Steffi Graf. Graf is still on target to win his fourth straight major title with what would be his first ever French Open title and complete a career Grand Slam.
As the excitement builds ahead of Euro 2016, which kicks off in France in just over week, there was one final warm-up match for England at Wembley on Thursday, and it was Roy Hodgson's man that edge past Portugal 1 nil.
Cristiano Rinaldo didn't feature in this one and his side played just under an hour with 10 men after Rinaldo sent off for a tackle on Harry Kane. Chris Smallings would get the lone goal in the 85th minute that seal the today victory for the hosts.
And with the U.S. Open fast approaching, it's no surprise this week's memorial tournament features a star-studded field. Fresh off his in Texas last week, Jordan Spieth managed a 2 under, 70 in the opening round.
Rory McIlroy also a recent winner in Ireland had an up and down round with 71. Well, Jason Daye fared much better, playing well both on the front and back 9 and within touching distance of the leader.
That's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Rhiannon Jones.
ALLEN: Egypt says that its armed forces have killed 22 militants in the Sinai Peninsula. A spokesman says the campaign involved army, navy, air, and police forces. He says they destroyed dozens of militant hide-outs and houses.
Egypt is trying to clear the north Sinai and create a stable environment for economic development.
[03:20:04] Security forces in Iraq, appear to be closing in on Fallujah, ready to rip it away from ISIS. This video from the Iraqi ministry it presents shows war planes bombing terror positions in Fallujah.
They are trying to smoke out the group's hiding places. A big concern is ISIS using civilians as human shields in the city. The United Nations beliefs around 50,000 civilians, including children are trapped there.
CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman is live in Baghdad right now. And, Ben, are there any efforts underway to try to help these civilians who may be trapped?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, when the operation began on the 22nd of May, the Iraqi government said they were establishing humanitarian corridors to allow the people to leave, which is all fine and good, but the problem is that ISIS does not want the people in Fallujah to leave, they want them there as human shields.
They are actually probably looking forward to civilian casualties, so they can show them as a sign of oppression, in their opinion by the Iraqi government of the Sunni population of Fallujah.
But what we know is that the situation of the civilians in Fallujah is dire, it's not as disastrous. We just heard the United Nation high commissioner for refugees that those people who have -- those few people, about 867 families was the number we heard day before yesterday, was that they are coming out exhausted, pale, and dehydrated, that it's been months since any real food supplies have reached the city of Fallujah, and it's last September when the Iraqi army started to build up its forces around the city in anticipation of this offensive.
So, until ISIS is crushed in Fallujah, the situation of those civilians in Fallujah is going to be very difficult, and in fact, dangerous, it's an open war zone. The Iraqi military is bombarding the city with artillery. There are daily air strikes, and we don't have any precise numbers as far as civilian casualties and fatalities go. But whatever it is, the number is set to rise. Natalie.
ALLEN: Absolutely how horrifying for the people stuck in the middle there. Any idea once this operation gets underway in full force, how long it might take?
WEDEMAN: No idea whatsoever. Keep in mind that this is the first city that ISIS was ever able to take over back in January, 2014. They have had two and half years to dig trenches and tunnels and lay IEDs, roadside bombs and boobie traps.
Many of the ISIS fighters in Fallujah are from Fallujah itself. Some of them have experienced fighting the Americas from the time that they were there. So this could be a long battle.
Keep in mind that the last major city that the Iraqis were able to retake from ISIS was Ramadi, also in Anbar province. That operation began on the 25th of November of last year, and it wasn't really until the first week of February of this year that the city was completely cleared, so this operation could go on for weeks, if not longer.
ALLEN: My goodness. And what would it mean though, Ben, if Iraq was able to get Fallujah back from ISIS?
WEDEMAN: Now, assuming that the Iraqi army and the militias involved in this operation can avoid any sort of atrocities, abuse of the civilian population in Fallujah, it could be of great symbolic significance. Iraq, within the last year, has been able to retake Tikrit, Baijib,
Ramadi, a series of cities that ISIS took over. So, it would be significant in that sense and also it would also free up the road between Baghdad and Jordan.
So, symbolically and in practical terms, it would be of a huge significance. Natalie.
ALLEN: All right. Ben Wedeman, live for us there in Baghdad. Thanks, Ben.
The horrors of ISIS in Iraq, forced one young Yazidi girl to do a job that her mom hopes she'll forget. ISIS made the child one of its bombmakers when she was six.
Arwa Damon has their story from Northern Iraq.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Ashia (ph) quite twirl the end of her braid as we try to talk to her. Under ISIS captivity the emir had ordered to assemble bombs. Her mother Deline cradling her younger says, Aisha barely speaks and is now afraid of strangers.
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[03:25:01] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): The work to make the bombs was at the basement of the building we were in. They took my daughter from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m.
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DAMON: Aisha was only 6 years old at that time, ISIS threatened to kill her if Aisha refused to obey their orders. Aisha finally speaks.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): We were in a place and they would dress us in all black and there was a yellow material and sugar and powder and we would weight them on a scale and we would heat them and pack the artillery.
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DAMON: And ISIS militant would then place the wires to complete the bomb. Their family were among thousands of Yazidis captured by ISIS. The last time Deline (ph) says she saw her husband, his arms were in the air, and he was being marched away.
Deline (ph) was sold and raped regularly, she did not resist, the children's lives were at stake. But she also that she had to escape before Ashia turns of age, where ISIS would consider her suitable for marriage.
Finally, their captor left for an operation giving Deline the temp to call a relative who was already smuggling captive Yazidis out of ISIS territory.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): I beg Abdullah does he have to hurry up get us before my daughter turns eight because they will take her.
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DAMON: Deline (ph) told us she can only hope that one day perhaps Aisa (ph) will forget she wasn't ISIS's slave and will know what it is to be happy. As for her, it's too late.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): My husband is always on my mind. I'm always aware that he's not with me, so I cannot forget what we went through.
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DAMON: Arwa Damon, CNN, Dohuk, Northern Iraq.
ALLEN: On Friday, we'll have more of Arwa's reports on Iraq, investigating ISIS atrocities and the suffering of Yazidi women under ISIS rule.
ISIS in Iraq airs Friday at 4.30 in the afternoon in London.
Next here, floods in Europe, the rising waters now creeping towards the home of the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. How officials are protecting the Louvre. We'll have a live report.
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ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers from around the world. This is CNN Newsroom. I'm Natalie Allen. And here are our top stories.
Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump's ideas on foreign policy are dangerously incoherent and he does not have the temperament, she said, to be president. She made the remarks in San Diego, California Thursday. But Trump says Clinton is the one with bad judgment and he says a history of lying.
A boy lost in a Japanese forest for nearly a week has been found alive. A doctor said the boy was in good condition for someone who had gone a week without food. He added the 7-year-old only had mild dehydration and malnutrition.
Five U.S. soldiers are dead, four other missing in a flood in Fort Hood, Texas. Their vehicle overturned while crossing a flowing creek. Officials say three other soldiers are in hospital after they were rescued.
Deadly floods are also making havoc across Europe. Ten people are reported dead in Germany after heavy rains this week. One person also confirmed dead in France. That road washed away there in Germany.
Water is even closing in on the Louvre in Paris after parts of the Seine River overflowed its banks. Officials are moving artworks as a precaution and closing the museum on Friday.
The French government said it will declare a state of natural disaster.
Causing all kinds of issues there in the capital, CNN's Jim Bittermann is there for us. Now he's on a bridge overlooking the majestic Seine River which is just creeping higher and higher. Jim, hello.
JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Not so majestic this morning, I must say as looking a little wild out there on the Seine this morning, the river is flowing very quickly, there's a lot of debris in the river, this has been the last couple of days here that have been really dramatic.
And in fact, the Seine has risen about a meter in the last 24 hours. That's to say three feet in 24 hours. So, it's rising quite rapidly, it's supposed to crest a later on in the day today.
I just wanted to show you the Louvre to show you what the problem is over there. You can see the Louvre been in the background is very close to the river. And the river is rising and there's a number of works of art that are stored down in the basement, as well as some that are just on display in the basement.
The real principle works of course are on the upper floors, but they lose the Louvre today, so the employees can be put to work. Moving what is down in the basement up to higher ground so that it's not damaged at all by the -- by the flood waters, if in case, if in fact they do make it, inside the basements of the Louvre.
Now just about the same thing is happening just across the river here at the Musee d'Orsay, this is another museum (Inaudible) here in Paris and there as well, there are works of art and other things stored in the basement and the employees have been pressed in to service today to bring those works of art and other things up higher.
It's a kind of maddening situation for people and you can see just behind me here, this boat right here is the, this is a restaurant boat, it's now floating very high, it was normally accessible by foot. You couldn't possibly get there by foot today not even with waiters.
And there is a lot of debris caught up around it. I wonder as we were watching these trees and whatnot are coming down river. Also it's all sorts of furniture and refrigerators and all kind of things floating down the river and hitting the various boats that are tied to the -- tied to the docks here. So, it's going to be a real problem to clean these by yourself, Natalie.
ALLEN: Right. And beyond the river there, what about the traffic flow in the city, and public transportation. Has that also been effected.
BITTERMANN: Kind of a mess, Natalie. In fact, the RARC, which is one of the main commuter lines here that carries about half a million people a day in and out of Paris. It has been practically entirely shut down the line, in fact runs just about under where I am standing.
And of course, the water, the Seine has flowed into the lines underground. They have to close down a couple of metro stations as well the subway system here in Paris, and it is creating a nightmare for traffic as people have turn to driving into Paris, and of course, the roads are just clogged with cars.
[03:35:03] So, that's really effected people as well. I think in general, there's going to be a lot of people here affected.
Now up river, just behind me here by 30 or 40 miles, there's been a number of towns very severely affected. They have had to evacuate 20,000 people in total. People are now living in schools and gymnasiums and other places and on cots and whatnot, and they leave their houses because they are without electric.
There are still about 20,000 homes without electricity. So, there is a number of effects of this that are really going to have, provide a real problem for a lot of people to recover from. And the extent of the damage is going to be very severe.
The government said this is a natural disaster. Yesterday, that helps them release funds to the people that are victims of this. And so, it's going to be, have a fairly long lasting effect, Natalie.
ALLEN: Jim Bittermann for us there on the banks of the swollen Seine River. Thank you, Jim.
Well, meteorologist Allison Chinchar joins me now with more. And as we just heard from Jim, Allison, it's not just Paris, it's regions of France and even into Germany, so a lot of countries being affected here.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. And Belgium and Austria. Again, because the system that's causing all of this is a very big system and it's just not moving. So, some areas are getting it a little bit earlier than others. Now some of the others are started to see the delayed effects. And unfortunately, there's even more rain on the way.
So, let's kind of take a look at what the forecast entails. Now here is a look at why we have had such bad flooding in Paris. On average, they pick up about 65 millimeters in the month of May.
This May, 172, that breaks the all-time record for rainfall in the month of May. It's actually the second wettest calendar month on record, only behind July of 2001, that was back when the Seine flooded as well.
And it's not just the rivers in Paris. Take a look at this map of France in general, you can see a lot of oranges, yellows and reds. Those are all the rivers that are at flood stage and flood danger. Major flood stage would be the red color that you can see here, and here again, these are the impacts that we are seeing with this. Again, it's not just one, two, or a couple of dozen homes that are
being flooded, we are talking hundreds if not thousands of these homes that are now underwater. Again, here is a look at Paris, again, there is the main river. These are sidewalks and roadways that people normally travel on that are entirely impassable at this point.
And again, the problem with that is, as Jim pointed out as well, are a lot of the transportation lines that go along here, this is the metro transit line, this is the main thorough fare and you notice not only does it run through Paris, but it hits a lot of the big tourist attractions.
The Eiffel Tower, we're talking the Louvre, the Notre Dame Cathedral, all along this line. So, again, it's not just impacting the local but also a lot of the tourists that might be in there.
And again, it's this low pressure system that's been sitting here and it's not moving. And again, that is causing some problems, we're talking an additional 50 to 100 millimeters of rain are expected.
And unfortunately, Natalie, we're not expecting much relief until the middle portion of next week. So, it's going to be several more days of rain and then the delayed effects that you see from a lot of the rivers and streaks -- streams and creeks, excuse me, that could last for at least a couple more weeks.
ALLEN: Oh, my goodness. So, big area effected and we're all watching our Paris, because everyone walked probably along the Seine and can appreciate, it doesn't look normal, does it?
CHINCHAR: No.
ALLEN: All right. Allison, thank you.
All right. The Brexit, is it upon us? The debate is intensifying. During a heated interview on British television Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron was repeatedly pressed about his position to keep Britain and the European Union.
As Nic Robertson reports the political stakes are incredibly high for Mr. Cameron, as the referendum draws closer.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Have you made the promise, and again it's a promise that cannot be fulfilled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Under fire, and under pressure.
DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: I don't accept that, I think it remains the right ambition for Britain.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Three weeks to voting, British Prime Minister David Cameron on his first Brexit live TV debate.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You seriously think it can be fulfilled. Why should we stand in European Union, how can it be fulfilled?
CAMERON: Because there have been years and they will be again, where people from Britain choose to go to work overseas. And now the European countries...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How it happened any single European will promise you.
CAMERON: It happened when I first set out of the ambition.
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ROBERTSON: In a week, when his own cabinet ministers in the leave campaign laid big leaks on the notorious leader's over his failure to curb immigration and other of his own MP's accuse him of lying to beat alpha Brexit vote. This primetime Q&A, a chance to fight back his biggest punch, connecting with economic fears of a Brexit.
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[03:39:57] CAMERON: If you don't have a strong economy, you can't have the health service that you want. You can't have the school that you need, you can't have the public services you want and this would be an act of economic self-harm of the United Kingdom doing it to ourselves.
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ROBERTSON: Moderator and audience questions as close to a face to face debate with leave campaign opponents as Cameron has agreed to. But even so, got questions about them.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you still think that Boris Johnson would make a good prime minister.
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ROBERTSON: Boris Johnson, the flamboyant former London mayor, a former university drinking buddy of Cameron's, favored to be the next prime minister. As the Brexit vote become the vote of confidence in Cameron's leadership that's dividing his conservative party.
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CAMERON: The question was, do I think Boris should be the next prime minister. I'm saying I'm not going to...
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A good one.
CAMERON: I said, he's been a great mayor of London, he's got plenty of fuel left in the tank and I'll let other people decide. And that's as far as I'm going to go.
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ROBERTSON: Among Cameron's conservative party calls for a vote of no confidence have been growing. To trigger such a vote, 50 of his MPs would have to be on board. Cameron is confident he can win, however. And has said, bring it on. Reality is, even a win would leave him wounded and vulnerable.
Johnson has pushed for the pair to go head to head live on TV. But don't hold your breath on that. With the polls as close as they are, and no knockout blow this round, Cameron can't afford that kind of gamble.
Nic Roberson, CNN, London.
ALLEN: Violent crime threatened to scare off tourists for the upcoming Rio Games.
Up next, we will see what police are doing to make people safer in the Olympic city.
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ALLEN: For the first time in Olympics' history, a team made up entirely of refugees is going to compete in the Summer Games. The International Olympic Committee compiled a short list of 43 athletes and in the coming hours the IOC will announce who gets to be on the official team competing in Rio de Janeiro. The IOC president says they will compete under the Olympic flag.
The specter of rampant violent crime is also a potential threat to the Rio Games, police say they are trying to crack down, but some tourists and even Olympic athletes are worried.
CNN's Ivan Watson reports from Rio.
IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Gun battles in the Olympic city. A clash between police and gangs in one of Rio de Janeiro's impoverished favelas with civilians caught in the middle.
Urban warfare in densely populated communities where parents struggle to keep their children safe. This woman says two bullets flew in to a children's recreation center. When armored personnel carriers and police special forces move in, they trigger more gunfire, it's not exactly what you'd expect in the host city of the upcoming summer Olympics.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): Today, we live in the middle of a crossfire, caught in a war that is not our own. (END VIDEO CLIP)
WATSON: Luisa Cabral is a well-respected community activist in one of Rio's biggest favelas. She says the war between the police and the gangs is getting worse. She argues that the upcoming Olympics won't make any impact on the violence here.
The authorities in Rio insist they have a plan for keeping the games safe, by deploying some 85,000 police and soldiers across the city. But these days, even members of the Olympic teams are getting caught up in the violence.
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MAX GROY, GERMAN OLYMPIC SAILING TEAM TRAINER: I went to the gas station and I was just meters away and a gunfight started. So, all of a sudden, everyone was running at the gas station and hiding behind things. So, I thought, well, that might be time to lay flat in the motor boat and hide as well.
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WATSON: Part of the problem is that there are effectively two systems of law and order in Rio. Police keep control in the a affluent parts of the city but up the much poorer hill top there's a very different group in charge.
This young drug trafficker is trying to illustrate the complete different set of rules that exist up in the favelas. Brazilians call it a parallel state, there are communities where the gangs control the area. And where the police rarely go in without weapons. You don't want the Olympics?
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): It's not that I don't want it, but I don't see the advantage to corrupt Olympics, there's no investment, the rich people just use the games to steal from the Brazilian people.
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WATSON: A drug dealers deep skepticism of the Olympics and the view that's also shared by many of the ordinary Brazilians we've met here. And perhaps it's understandable.
Given the frightening conditions many of the residents face in this troubled city, shear survival more important than bronze, silver, and gold.
Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
ALLEN: His missions have names like operation lost treasure and the mummy curse. Meet the real life Indiana Jones, next on CNN Newsroom.
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CHINCHAR: I'm meteorologist Allison Chinchar. This is CNN Weather Watch.
The big story across the United States is the flooding that has been occurring over Texas for the last several weeks and in some areas months.
Here's a look at the water vapor imagery, again, you can kind of see just all of that moisture that's just sitting over the same spots that's being pulled in from the Gulf of Mexico. Because here's the low, and as it begins to shift a little further east, it's able to pull up all of that warm, moist air from the gulf.
And that's just fuelling a lot of those showers and thunderstorms that are taking place over that area. Again, here is a look at the forecast rainfall, notice again, especially along the Gulf Coast.
We're talking about areas of 50 to 100 millimeters of rain. But some areas now that the low is beginning to shift a little bit east, we are now starting to see some of the higher mountains over towards Louisiana and towards Mississippi.
It's the only system, we have system moving into the Midwest. This will end up bringing a little bit of severe weather also, and as it pushes in towards mid-Atlantic by the end of the weekend, it will also bring some severe weather chances to cities like Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and also into Baltimore.
Dallas forecast for Friday, high temperature of 26 degrees. Scattered showers and thunderstorms, will top out at 27 in Chicago, 23 in New York with at least a few isolated showers. Showers and thunderstorms will continue. In Havana, high of 32.
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ALLEN: If you think hunting for lost treasure and recovering dinosaur bones sounds like something out of a movie starring say Harrison Ford, think again. It's all part of the job for Special Agents working for the U.S. government. What a job. Here's a look at what they do.
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BRENT EASTER, SPECIAL AGENT: We are in a constant game of cat and mouse with people trying to smuggle things into the country.
My name is Brent Easter. I'm a Special Agent with homeland investigation out of New York and I have been described by some as a real life Indiana Jones. We investigate cultural property, or antique crimes.
What you got is an 11-headed Tang Dynasty sculpture that I can call this any kind of culture profit that you can think of ranging from dinosaur bones to holocaust art to an ancient statue out of Babylonia or Somalia.
Basically what we do in a nutshell, is we try to find lost and stolen things. We give them back and go after the bad guys that took those things. Over the past 10 years, I've been lucky enough to really worked these cases and developed an expertise.
And during that process we really evolved how we do these investigations. We went from seizing them and repatriating them to a new model where we actually try to disrupt and dismantle. Transnational criminal organizations that are dealing in this ballistic cultural property.
One of the first cases that helped us evolve would have been Operation Lost Treasure, that was a case in which we identified a transnational criminal organization that was obtaining looted and stolen antiquities from the Middle East and we go to see that these network was dealing in stuff that was being from museums in Western Europe.
The network was involved in Egyptian stuff that was stolen was Bridge Museum smuggled artifacts from Afghanistan, smuggled Egyptian artifacts and a head of stardom which was recently returned to Iraq.
Lost treasure rolled in to mummy's curse and then the big one that we've been currently working on is Operation Hidden Idols. In Operation Hidden Idols we have seized approximately $150 million worth of antiquities, thousands of antiquities from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, all over Asia.
[03:54:55] And the investigation isn't over. And the case isn't over. So, we anticipate that this operation will continue to go on for some time.
One of the things we have been able to do is over the past 10 years, identify people that can help us in every aspect of this trade. So, when you want to talk about people inside of the restoration part of this, or someone inside the smuggling network or someone inside the dealer network, or someone inside the auction house network, we've got people who are assisting us in every phase of the network now.
And that's really allowed us to make these cases evolve from the seasoned repatriate to current prosecution model. Calls for properties is one of our least renewable resources. Once it's gone it's gone. When a piece comes out of the ground, you lose the context that might tell us an entire story about how those people have once lived.
I can't even better -- when I put it off the cup but you may not know whether a pot was meant to piss in or to mix wine. You're going to lose the context if you don't study it as it's coming out of the ground for a study of where it's being found.
When you deal with people's gods their religion that a possible ancestors, those are important things, and you are giving back a part of a person's culture and part of their identity and that's an important thing to do.
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ALLEN: Sounds like he is the right man for that job.
Well, thank you for watching this hour. I'm Natalie Allen. The news continues in just a moment, with my colleague, Max Foster. He'll be in London.
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CLINTON: Making Donald Trump as our commander- in-chief would be a historical mistake.
TRUMP: Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail.
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MAX FOSTER, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: America's leading candidates for president square off in a war of words that won't end soon.
[03:59:59] Massive downpours across a widespread flooding across France and now threaten the Louvre. A live report is straight ahead from Paris.
And in Japan, smile of a huge sigh relief after a week alone in the forest. This little boy is found --
