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Protests in the U.S. as disturbing footage emerges of two deadly police shootings. Both men who are killed are African-American and their families
are demanding answers.
Taiwan bracing for a monster typhoon. Weather experts are calling it a near perfect storm. We'll tell you when it's expected to make landfall.
And the smartphone game with a real difference, turning your everyday life into a virtual battlefield.
We begin with two fatal police shootings in the U.S. in as many days. There's deeply disturbing video in both cases, and lots of questions are
now being raised. Here is what we know about the second shooting in Minnesota on Wednesday.
Lavish Reynolds, also known as Diamond, was a passenger in a car with a child and a man she describes as her boyfriend. Authorities say police
pulled the car over for a traffic violation. It appears that moments later a police officer shot the driver, 32-year-old Philando Castile.
His girlfriend started live streaming video on Facebook just moments after he was shot. Now, we are going to show you a part of that video, but we do
warn you it is deeply disturbing. She clearly wanted the public to witness what was happening.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LAVISH REYNOLDS, PASSENGER: Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back, and the police (EXPLETIVE DELETED). He's covered.
He killed my boyfriend. He's licensed -- he's license to carry. He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out his pocket and he let the
officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just
shot him in his arm. We're waiting for a back...
UNIDENITIFIED MALE: (inaudible)
REYNOLDS: I will, sir. No worries
He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over on Larpener (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand up!
REYNOLDS: You told him to get his ID, sir, his driver's license. Oh my god, please don't tell me he's dead (EXPLETIVE DELETED). Please don't tell
me my boyfriend just went like that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep your hands where they are, please.
REYNOLDS: Yes, I will, sir. I will keep my hands where they are. Please don't tell me this, lord. Please, Jesus, don't tell me that he's gone.
Please don't tell me that he's gone. Please, officer, don't tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: After this scene, Lavish Reynolds is ordered out of the car and continues to live stream. The video runs about 10 minutes in total and
ends with her saying that she's in the back of a police car.
The 4-year-old daughter, who witnessed the shooting, trying to offer some comfort. Police say they're investigating what happened.
Now, the family of Philando Castile spoke to CNN about his death. His uncle Clarence Castile was asked whether he's actually seen that video.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CLARENCE CASTILE, UNCLE: I seen a young man, helpless, shot for no apparent reason. I saw my nephew shot by a man clinging to his life, you
know? With no help. It was the most horrific thing I ever seen in my life. We hear about things like this happening all the time around the
United States and the world, you know, people being harmed and abused by people that we supposed to trust with our lives, people that are supposed
to...
VALERIE CASTILE, MOTHER OF PHILANDO CASTILE: Protect and serve.
CASTILE: ...serve and protect us, and they tend to be our executioners and judges and murders.
VALERIE CASTILE: I basically think that these things are happening because there is no checks and balances in the justice system and that a lot of our
African-American men, women and children are being executed by the police. And there are no consequences. So in essence I feel like it's
becoming more and more repetitive.
Everyday you hear of another black person being shot down, gunned down by the people that
are supposed to protect us. My son was a law-abiding citizen and he did nothing wrong. He had a permit to carry. But with all of that, trying to
do the right things and live accordingly by the law, he was killed by the law.
[08:05:16] CASTILE: And it's devastating to us all.
VALERIE CASTILE: I'm outraged.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: A mother speaking about the death of her son.
Now, as she indicated there, that shooting happened just 24 hours after another black man was
killed by police, spiking outrage nationwide. Alton Sterling was shot outside a store on Tuesday.
CNN's Nick Valencia takes us to Baton Rouge in Louisiana.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The outcry over Alton Sterling's death growing as this new cell phone camera captures a different angle of the 37-
year-old killing at the hands of police.
In the video, you hear the initial shots fired, then the camera jerks away, turning back to show Sterling on the ground bleeding from the chest.
SANDRA STERLING, AUNT OF ALTON STERLING: I was hoping that he died peacefully and instantly. No, he didn't. He suffered. He was reaching
out and talking. It killed me inside.
VALENCIA: Moments later, another officer reaches down and takes what witnesses later say is a gun out of Sterling's right pocket. That gun the
reason why police say they were at the scene.
DISPATCH: he pulled a gun on a complainant and told him he couldn't be around there.
VALENCIA: A source close to the investigation tells CNN the witness who called 911 said
Sterling was, quote, brandishing a gun, not pointing it at someone.
CROWD: Hands up.
CROWD: Don't shoot!
VALENCIA: His violent death sparking protests across the country on Wednesday from
Ferguson to Philadelphia. Some protesters arrested for blocking the entrance to a major freeway.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We must love and support each other.
VALENCIA: Sterling's family meeting with Louisiana's governor who turned over the investigation into the Justice Department and the FBI.
UNIDETIFIED MALE: I have very serious concerns. The video is disturbing to say the least.
VALENCIA: Just hours earlier, Sterling's 15-year-old son Cameron weeping uncontrollably at a press conference. The teen crying out -- I want daddy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want daddy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: Now as we heard from Nick Valencia, both shooting sparking outrage across the United States. Joining us now with more is CNN's Ryan
Young. He's been monitoring the police shooting in Minnesota.
Ryan, let's just talk about what we know happened because the man who is shot did have a license to carry a gun. He did have a gun in the car, but
he made it very clear to the police that he had a gun and he was reaching when he was shot. Is that right?
RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's what we have learned from the video because you can hear Diamond, his fiancee, explaining on that live
Facebook feed the events that happened. I mean, you really have to sort of commend her for how calm she was during that initial part. I don't even
think she thought his condition was as serious as it turned out to be because she said he was shot in the arm. And we know obviously he died
from his injuries.
But she talks about the idea that she said, he told you he had a gun, he has a permit for the gun and he was reaching for his license. And anybody
who has a permit for their weapon will tell you, if you're pulled over, or you encounter an officer, you're kind of told in these classes to tell the
officer, hey, I have a weapon on me so there's no surprises.
And she's saying that happened. And we know then the officer apparently reacted and opened fire.
So not sure what happened in those seconds before, because obviously we don't have video of that but it calls a lot into question.
STEVENS: And what are the police saying so far?
YOUNG: Well, they're not saying much. So they've read a short statement, an outside agency is coming in to do the investigation. But you obviously
know people on the ground are very upset.
This video lasts some 10 minutes. And you see the range of emotion. And in fact after he is shot and you see that gun pretty much held through the
window as the officer is going with that exchange back and forth with the girlfriend or fiancee, there's a lot of questions about why didn't they
render aid? Why didn't they once they shot him pull him out, try to give him CPR?
We do know at some point someone captured video of officers trying to revive this man, but there is a lot of questions about what happened in
the sequence of events right after that shooting.
We do know this is the first shooting in the 30-year history of this police department. There's also no body cameras in this police department. So
there's probably no audio or video of those initial seconds of this traffic stop apparently for a taillight that led to the shooting, which is a very
confusing and very upsetting for a lot of people. Hashtags have been created. And obviously this video has been watched millions of times
across the world.
[08:10:14] STEVENS: As you say, confusing and upsetting for not just people across the U.S. but people across the world watching that video.
Ryan, thanks so much for that. Ryan Young, joining us with the very latest from those shootings. And of course we'll continue to cover this story and
bring you updates as we get them.
We want to turn now to Taiwan. It's bracing for a monster storm. We're talking about a super typhoon. It's got Nepartak. ITts got sustained
winds of up to 280 kilometers an hour, that's what we know so far. Now, residents in Taiwan are getting ready. Troops have been mobilized
throughout Taiwan ahead of that typhoon.
Well, officials say that they're worried about wide-spread flooding, particularly on the island's eastern side. W
Well, Nepartak is expected to make landfall now in a matter of hours. Let's go to Chad Myers. Chad, you're looking at the storm obviously.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes.
STEVENS: There's talk that this is a near perfect storm, that's what it's been described by as some meteorologists.
MYERS: Sure.
STEVENS: What do they mean by that, Chad?
MYERS: It means the storm, Andrew, was not affected by land. So it was a perfect circle. At least for a while back out here. Getting a little bit
influenced now by the northern island there, Luzon, getting a few little spots where it's not perfectly circled. But what we have here when you
have that type of circle, when you have that type of in-flow and outflow you get a storm that literally breathes in the air and exhausts the air,
breathes out the air on top. So you have this perfect circle here and that's the eye at 270, as you said, almost 280 kilometers per hour.
So here is the real problem with the storm. It is going to impact a very rugged terrain, almost 3,000 meters in most areas here along the spine of
Taiwan. So the eastern parts of Taiwan will feel the impact from this storm. And that's where the rain is going to pile up.
And Andrew, the rain could be a meter deep. You put a meter of water on top of a mountain, it's going to rush back down into the ocean and wash
away villages.
Now, the good news is, if there is any, is that most of the people live on the western side of Taiwan, not on the eastern side. It's so rugged on the
eastern side that it's tough to live there.
Now, there are villages along the shore, but most of the people live along the western coast. And this storm isn't really going to impact
significantly Taipei.
Back up to the north, that's where the bulk of the people here, the bulk of the population -- one thing I'm very concerned with, though, is after it
goes over Taiwan and does the damage, does it stop over China and make more significant rain, more significant flooding in a country that is already
flooded from the storms in the past couple of days -- Andrew.
STEVENS: Yeah, absolutely. Talking about the flooding worst flooding in the century in some
parts of China.
Chad, thanks very much for that, Chad Myers. And of course we'll continue to monitor the storm as well, the progress of that storm.
Now, the mood is tense across Bangladesh as people mark the close of what's been a violent Ramadan. Security remains tight in the capital Dhaka where
terrorist killed 23 people at a cafe last Friday. 100 kilometers away, a new attack. Police say gunmen stormed the checkpoint near a prayer
gathering of more than 300,000 people.
Three people died, 14 police officers were wounded.
For more, let's go to Alexandra Field. She joins us from Dhaka. What do we know so far about
this second attack, Alex?
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: well, Andrew, officials here in Bangladesh
are saying that those 300,000 people who had gathered there in prayer on this holiday eve were the likely targets of this attack; however, a
security check point about a kilometer away from where these people had gathered to pray was the barrier between the gunmen and the
people there.
We know, according to officials, that this group of assailants came armed with explosives and
guns. Two police officers losing their lives, another woman killed as well as an attacker. Officials say that the group of assailants ended up
surrounded in a house. The four remaining attackers are now in custody.
Andrew, officials say it's too soon to tell exactly who was behind these attacks. We know that ISIS had called for attacks during the month of
Ramadan. We also know that ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack right here in Dhaka, just 100 kilometers south of today's attack just last week.
That's the place where 23 people lost their lives. The target very different there. That was a group of foreign Muslims largely some 23
people in an ex-pat enclave, a diplomatic enclave. They were out to dinner. Today's, attack focused very much on this group that was there for
prayers, a day that is supposed to be a celebration.
There is already a somber pall cast over the day, given last week's attacks. We're hearing from people today who went to other services, that
they have seen a higher level of security because of what seems like this ever present threat right now, Andrew.
[11:15:13] STEVENS: But the last day of Ramadan, Eid, Muslims being targeted clearly there, Alex. And as you say, just less than a week after
this attack on foreigners in the capital. What is the government saying? How is it reassuring Bangladeshis that they are capable of dealing with
this sort of terror?
OK. Sounds like we lost Alex there, some audio problems. Apologies for that.
But we'll move on. You are watching News Stream. We're going to a short break. When we come back, the United Kingdom may be heading towards
another female prime minister who is favored to win as the Conservative Party holds the second round of its leadership vote.
And the father of a British soldier killed in Iraq speaks out after the inquiry on Iraq delivers a harsh verdict on the former Prime Minister Tony
Blair as well as Britain's role in that war.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
STEVENS: A bit of a clear night here in Hong Kong. Welcome back. Your watching News Stream.
Britain's conservative party is right now holding a second round of voting to choose the next prime minister. There are -- excuse me -- there are
three candidates left standing in the race after the first vote. The home secretary Theresa May, pictured here, is so far
leading and leading pretty well, too. Now conservative PMs are narrowing the field down from three -- after this vote there will be just two left.
Let's go to CNN's contributor Robin Oakley. He joins us now from outside the parliament. Robin, Theresa May has been seen as very much the favorite
in this. Has that dynamic changed at all?
ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: Not really, no. But it was a very impressive performance by her in the first round, nearly 100 votes
clear of the nearest challenger. And she is clearly building on support. She's very much seen as a safe pair of hands. I think we can reckon that
of the two names to go forward, one will definitely be her's.
And the names go forward after this process to the 150,000 conservative members in the country who will have the final say. That, of course, is
where Theresa May's problem may come in because the activists in the country are largely supporters of Britain leaving the European Union and
she was a voter for remain.
In second place to her, Andrea Leadsom who was a strong campaigner for leave and the third name is that of Michael Gove. And Andrea Leadsom now
is facing two threats. One is that some of the stuff that she's been putting out on her CV and some of the claims she has made about being a
city hotshot in the past are unraveling a bit. It doesn't seem as though she managed big funds or big teams
in quite the way her supporters have been suggesting.
The second problem she faces is that Michael Gove in third place with 48 votes in the first round to her 66 is one is of the arch campaigners and
manipulators and schemers in the Conservative Party. He of course is the man who, by deserting David Cameron and going for the leave campaign saw
David Cameron off and then scuppered Boris Johnson's chances, the favorite, for the conservative leadership by stabbing him in the back and saying he
wasn't up to the job.
Now, Michael Gove's campaign manager has written to some of Theresa May's supporters saying it's a big risk for the country having Andrea Leadsom on
the voting sheet going out to the Conservative members, she's not go the experience and suggesting that Theresa May's supporters should lend their
votes, at least, to Michael Gove and this to stop Andrea Leadsom being on the voting paper going for the activists, Andrew.
[08:21:05] STEVENS: It just -- the wheels within wheels within wheels, it just keeps going on and going on, doesn't it, Robin. Thank you so much for
that.
Robin Oakley joining us live from Westminster.
Now, one of the three candidates -- of those three candidates, I should say, none is making real front page news today. Instead, the focus has
been on this man, the former British prime minister Tony Blair, a man now fighting to defend what many would say a legacy in tatters. Following that
devastating critique from a long-awaited inquiry on the Iraq War.
The Chilcot report says that the prime minister relied on flawed intelligence in the run up to the 2003 invasion. It also says that he
failed to exhaust diplomatic options.
Well, Blair says he stands by his decision, but he does take responsibility for any mistakes. That's done little to change the attitude of loved ones
of British soldiers who were killed in that conflict.
As one father tells our Isa Soares, he wants Blair to face trial for war crimes.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Peter Brierley has waited seven
long and painful years for this moment.
PETER BRIERLY, FATHER KILLED: ...show that it's true, that he did mislead on the legal advice.
SOARES: Now, with the Chilcot report in hand...
BRIERLY: He could have had that on his vehicle and he would not get killed.
SOARES: He says he can breathe a little easier.
BRIERLEY: I've always said Tony Blair is a war criminal.
SOARES: What he feels is an anger but disdain. After all, Tony Blair was the man who sent his 28-year-old son, Lance Corporal Shaun Brierly to war.
A radio systems operator, Shaun died in a traffic accident in Kuwait in 2003, because, his father says, his Land Rover wasn't equipped properly.
BRIERLEY: They were driving in pitch black in the desert and hit some debris in the road, which would have been shown up by the headlights had it
been equipped properly. The Land Rover turned over and Shaun was thrown out.
SOARES: It's this memory of how his son died that Peter had to live with for 13 years. He's been comforted by the letters he received from his
son's old colleagues.
BRIERLEY: We got a letter from a lad who served with him and this one said, "Shaun really looked after me. It was my first time away from home.
Sometimes I would end up sitting in the corner crying."
Sorry.
"Shaun was like a dad to me." He says, "and Shaun got me through all that."
SOARES: In this father's eyes, Shaun was a gentle giant whose life was taken away by a man who sent soldiers to war unnecessarily.
Peter, let me tell you what Tony Blair said. The decision I took, I took in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of the
country.
Do you truly believe that?
BRIERLEY: I don't believe that at all, no. If that had been the case, then he wouldn't have agreed to go to (inaudible) to go to war.
SOARES: Now that this report is out, you've been waiting for it for seven years. Can you look to the future?
BRIERLEY: This report is the future. Eventually after what was said, we can go no further. Hopefully that day will be be in court and in prison.
SOARES: In the meantime, Shaun's father refuses to succumb to hate.
BRIERLEY: I don't hate Tony Blair, just hate is an emotion if you live with it -- if you live with it long enough it will actually destroy you.
SOARES: Isa Soares, CNN, London.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Going to change gears now and look at this picture behind me. This was the scene in Rio de Janeiro. Angry demonstrators they are taking
to the streets, protesting the millions of dollars spent on the Olympic Games while the country has cut funding through education and health care.
Rio's state governor declared a state of emergency last month just to get enough funding for
the games themselves.
Now, it does seem like an endless stream of trouble for Brazil on top of a serious cash problem, it is still struggling with pollution, the Zika
outbreak, of course, and political chaos. And now, with weeks to go, until the start of the Olympic Games themselves, it's security forces have to
train for a worst possible case scenario.
Nick Paton Walsh reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Rio dealing with the unthinkable -- a terror attack on the subway. Brazilian special forces
move in, the gunman taken down. This drill bolstered by training from French SWAT team specialists and a little drama.
What, they're hoping this won't happen, but preparing in case it does. The threat against the Brazilian Olympics always hanging somewhat in the
background. On display to the media to show that a country virtually with no history of dealing with terrorism is vigilant enough to hold a safe
games.
LIETENANT GENERAL LUIZ LINHARES, BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE: There is not a specific threat and you have to prepare for great spectrum of
threats.
WALSH: Are you screening the names of people who bought tickets?
LINHARES: Always. Always. Not just us, we have this relation with other countries they are helping us about this. They are screening the names,
they are screening the people who are visiting us.
WALSH: This is the contradiction here in Rio with just weeks to go until South America's first Olympics. One western counterterrorism official told
me, yes, the games are a potential target because they are a huge international sporting event and ISIS do have foreign fighters still on the
loose but at the same time also maybe they're not. Brazil lacks the extremist networks that terrorist rely upon to launch such an attack.
There has been one odd threat, however, one French ISIS fighter tweeting after the Paris attacks
that Brazil was next. Several ISIS fighters seen in their propaganda speak Portuguese and they've launched a telegram channel in that language spoken
in Brazil.
Brazil's intelligence agency said in April that the threat and the number of Brazilians influenced by ISIS ideology had increased in recent months,
while also insisting the games were not threatened.
A country struggling with difficult balance between vigilance and a warm welcome headed into the unknown.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: You're watching CNN News Stream. Still to come, U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump heads to Capitol Hill. And already
protesters are gathering after he expressed some kind words for some dictators.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(HEADLINES)
[08:31:42] STEVENS: Now the U.S. has imposed new economic sanctions on North Korea's leader and 10 other regime officials other human rights
abuses. The United States's move is significant because this time the Obama administration sanctioned Kim Jong-un personally. He says Kim is
ultimately responsible for inflicting, quote, "intolerable cruelty and hardship on his own people."
Donald Trump's comments about the North Korean leader have raised eyebrows on the campaign trail. CNN's Randi Kaye now takes a look at what Trump has
said about Kim Jong-un as well as other dictators.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are some of the most powerful and dangerous dictators around the world, and Donald Trump seems to be
impressed. Sure, he called North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un a maniac but also called his killing of his political rivals amazing, adding, you have
to give him credit.
TRUMP: He goes in and he takes over. He's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean this guy
doesn't play games.
KAYE: Kim's uncle was accused of turning on the government. He disappeared suddenly and was later executed. Still, Trump has said he have no problem
speaking with Kim Jong-Un.
Then, there is Russian President Vladimir Putin. He and Donald Trump have enjoyed a bit of a bromance for months, Putin calling Trump bright and
talented. Trump calling Putin highly respected. And when pointedly ask, about allegations that Putin has had journalists and political opponents
killed, Trump defended him.
TRUMP: He's running his country and at least he's a leader, you know, unlike what we have in this country.
KAYE: Trump has also shown confidence in Muammar Gaddafi, even though the former leader of Libya once criticized the U.N. and vowed to die as a
martyr rather than lose power.
In 2011 Trump said in a video blog that Gaddafi was slaughtering his citizens and that the U.S. should knock him out but later changed his tune.
In February at a debate long after Gaddafi was shot dead by rebel forces, Trump stunned many when he applauded the former dictator's regime.
TRUMP: We would be so much better off if Gaddafi were in charge right now.
KAYE: The two have a history. In 2009 Trump allowed his West Chester Estate to be rented to the Libyan leader so he could stay outside in a tent. Even
sacrifice a live lamb while in New York for the U.N. General Assembly.
Gaddafi ended up not staying there but its Trumps tells it, Gaddafi paid him a fortune.
Trump has admired the tactics the Chinese government for its handling of the 1989 crackdown in Beijing Tiananmen Square. Hundreds possibly even
thousands of students were killed calling for a more democratic government.
In 1990, Trump told "Playboy Magazine" "They were vicious, they were horrible but they put it down with strength" that shows you the power of
strength.
At a Republican debate this year, Trump again called the crackdown horrible but went on to refer to the protests as riots which is exactly the word the
Chinese government used to characterize them.
Governor John Kasich took a shot at Trump on the issue, saying "The Chinese government butchered those kids".
Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:35:04] STEVENS: Coming up on the show, most games encourage you to stay indoors, but one mobile game has its players running around and
exploring the real world by turning real life locations into a virtual battlefield. Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
STEVENS: Welcome back.
Now, if you've always wanted to be a Pokemon trainer, this new smartphone game lets you catch them all in real life. Pokemon Go uses augmented
reality to place creatures in real locations so all you have to do is walk around town and capture them.
But do watch where you're going, please. After game featured a police station in Australia's Poke stop, police asked players to stop hunting
actually inside the police station itself.
All players had to do is stand outside the building to get their items.
Now, the company that created Pokemon Go also made another GPS-based mobile game called Ingress. And this one is so addicting that hundreds of people
regularly cross countries just to play and compete against each other.
Kristie Lu Stout explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This looks like an ordinary fountain in a Hong Kong park, but it's actually a battlefield and
players are fighting for control of it right now in the mobile game Ingress. The game mixes the physical world with the virtual. It uses a
smart phone's GPS to map game locations on to real places.
In the game, this fountain is a portal and so is this sign. Players must be next to these locations in the real world to capture them.
The developer of Ingress says they want people to see their surroundings in a different way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are trying to get people mobile. We are thinking that making
people outside and notice that the world is not like you imagine. It's there, but sometimes people just, you know, never notice it. We are kind
of trying to light up those type of hidden gems in the world.
LU STOUT: These players are all part of a special event called an anomaly being held in Hong Kong. Some of them even flew in from China or Japan to
take part.
Players are divided into two factions and compete to take over as many portals as possible for their team before the end of the day. Now, players
often go to extreme lengths to capture portals.
UNIDENTIIFIED MALE: The top of the Canberra House (ph) in the capital building in Australia. I've gone to top of that just to capture the
portal, come across people who have sailed down cliffs just to get portals.
LU STOUT: Others sacrifice luxuries.
UNIDENTIIFIED MALE: I've lost out on a massage in a resort, a five-star resort in order to go hardcore on a portal that was about three kilometers
away.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And left me alone.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Getting a massage in a five-star resort.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sure, lovely.
LU STOUT: Developer Niantik Lab (ph) says if you combine the distance walk by Ingress
players it would go to the Earth to the sun and back again. For some, the key attraction isn't hiking to little known areas, it's meeting fellow
agents and making real world connections.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because of this game, I explored a lot of places, been to a lot of places, met a lot of people that I would not know if I weren't
playing Ingress. We built a community in Hong Kong. We built pretty much everything from scratch just because of the passion of this game.
[08:40:03] LU STOUT: Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, Hong Kong.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Now, in the U.S. presidential race, Barack Obama says no one has ever been more qualified to be president than Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump calls her crooked and a liar, but there's one thing that no one can dispute: as Jeanne Moos reports, Clinton has a habit of bobbing her
head a lot.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SEN. COREY BOOKER, (D) NEW JERSEY: You know the number one reason.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Nod, if you agree -- Hillary Clinton is a nodder.
BOOKER: ...elections have consequences.
MOOS: And we don't just mean nodding to music, we mean nodding while listening to others.
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, (D) MASSACHUSETS: For rich guys just like Donald Trump.
MOOS: Especially when they're praising her.
BOOKER: We can celebrate her. We can love her. But if we don't vote for her...
MOOS: She can even nod...
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Instead of the folks you disagree with.
MOOS: And scratch her nose at the same time. Hillary has been nodding so vigorously lately...
OBAMA: Everybody can tweet, but nobody actually knows what it takes to do the job.
MOOS: Even a big-time Democrat like David Axelrod tweeted -- someone has got to give Hillary Clinton an alternative maneuver to the bobblehead nod.
Did he say bobblehead?
BOOKER: Determined to do something, to call somebody.
MOOS: By the way, the makers of the bobblehead say that Hillary and the Donald are
neck in neck in terms of sales. It's a statistical dead heat.
Hillary has been bobbing her waythrough debates...
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
CLINTON: Thank you. Me, too. Me, too.
MOOS: The only sure fire way to restrain her head bob is a direct compliment.
OBAMA: Why we need Hillary's steadiness and her level-headedness and her brilliance...
MOOS: Pundits have taken note of the nodding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at her go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at her keep nodding. This is not doctored video. We didn't slow it down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: wow, she is nodding up a storm.
MOOS: But what is she supposed to be doing with her head? If she stopped nodding we would probably call her a stiff. At least she doesn't nod off
to sleep.
OBAMA: She was the Energizer Bunny.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Still going.
OBAMA: Hillary is the Energizer Bunny of head nodding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It keeps going and going.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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