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Erdogan Blame ISIS for Bombing in Turkey; Brother of Omran Killed in Syria; Rio Brings Olympic to Close; Olympics Highlights; Inside Philippine's Quezon City Jail; Trump Position on Deportations "To Be Determined"; Clinton Campaign Addresses Clinton Foundation; Rio Closes 2016 Olympic Games, Japan Plans 2020 Games; People Return Home in Flood-Damaged Louisiana; Canadian Police Unit Adopts New Methods to Fight Sex Trade; A Look Back at Usain Bolt. Aired 2-3a ET
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[02:0034] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States, of course, all around the world. I am Rosemary Church. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
Turkey president says the suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding this weekend was carried out by a child, perhaps as young as 12. The blast killed 51 people and wounded dozens. Many of the victims were laid to rest on Sunday. Saturday's bombing is the deadliest in a year of terrorist attacks in the country. President Erdogan believes ISIS may be responsible.
Our senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, is joining us now.
Ben, this is a deadly blast. It is shocking announcement. To learn the suicide bomber was 12-year-old is hard to fathom. What more are we learning of this act.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we have not heard anymore from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about this bomber. Yesterday, he said he was -- he or she, we don't know if he's a boy or a girl -- between the ages of 12 and 14. He added it is not clear if the bomber it was carrying or was detonated by them or by remotely by somebody else. This certainly is reminiscing to the some of tactics were used by al-Qaeda and Iraq a few years ago. It may indicate that, as the terror organization loses more ground in Syria, which is 40 kilometers south of here, it may be switching its tactics, going to more desperate means to spread terror. Certainly terror is what happened about 10:50 on Saturday night where this bomb went off on a crowded road where people in this Kurdish working class neighborhood were having a wedding celebration. There were a band and dancing, and there were many people, many women and children in the spot where the bomb went off. We don't have precise numbers but all indications are the majority of the victims were women and children. If you go to graveyard, there are many new freshly dug and completed graves. We were there for the burial for one girl. People are simply devastated at this sort of bombing.
And keep in mind that Turkey is suffering from a series of attacks from the PKK, the Kurdish Workers Party, in addition to ISIS. On the 28th of June, that ISIS launched multiple attacks on Istanbul International Airport leaving 44 people dead. Here, Turkish police have in the past broken ISIS cells. Given the proximity to Syria, the fact that quite for quite some time the border between Turkey and Syria was porous, there is no doubt that there remain ISIS cells in the city -- Rosemary?
CHURCH: Ben, how are people across Turkey reacting, at an innocent occasion, to this bombing and what may this mean for other people living their lives going forward for Turkey.
WEDEMAN: This is the latest in a series of attacks. People are on edge. This is a country for the last couple of years have seen a series of bombing. In July of last year, there was that multiple suicide bombings outside the Ankara train station that left more than 100 people killed. Peace activists, for the most part. And that was also the work of ISIS. So people are worried and there is a certain amount of anger, and so many Kurds are angry that President Erdogan let this situation get to where it is, that he did not, in their opinion, crack down earlier and harder and not hard enough on ISIS.
And there is, for instance, in Turkish social media, some people are complaining that the level of coverage of this attack is not what it might have been if it had been on a different group of people, not Kurds, perhaps wealthy people. Nobody seems to be having a solution on how to stop this wave of terror attacks -- Rosemary?
[02:05:36] CHURCH: Ben Wedeman joining us there in Turkey. Just after 9:00 in the morning there. Many thanks to you, Ben, for bringing us up to date.
In nearby Iraq, a local governor says 36 people have been hung for taking part in a massacre that claimed the lives of some 1700 Iraqis military recruits two years ago. It took place at a prison on Sunday. The victims' families were there along with the justice minister and other officials. The killings become known as the Speicher Massacre, because they happened at Camp Speicher, a former U.S. base near Tikrit. Troops retook the base from ISIS last year. Before that, the victims' families waited nearly a year to find out what happens to their loved ones. We're told more executions are expected.
A heartbreaking update to a story that's drawn an enormous attention around the world. The picture of a little boy covered in blood and dirt days after surviving an air strike in Aleppo has become the face of Syria's horrific war. His older brother, Ali, has died from the injuries he suffered in that air strike.
And for more, I am joined with Jomana Karadsheh, in Amman, Jordan.
Jomana, it is an image reminding the world of what's happening and another image of Omran's brother, who succumbed to his injuries. What more are we learning of the faith of this family in Aleppo? JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, according to rebel
officials from Aleppo, at about 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, Ali Daqneesh, the 10-year-old of Omran, he sustained the air strike on Wednesday. He was receiving intensive care and medical care for three days until he passed away on Saturday morning. The mother of the two boys remains in critical condition. She's at a field hospital in Aleppo where she's receiving intensive care. The rest of the family, Ali and Omran and his siblings remain in Aleppo where the humanitarian disaster continues, Rosemary, to unfold with the intensifying violence and the humanitarian situation in the besieged area.
According to activists, on Saturday, Ali Daqneesh was not the only child that was killed. At least four others were killed in an air strike in the Western Aleppo country site, according to these Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. They say 100 children -- Ali was the 100th child to die on July 31st and August 20th, really adding to that staggering death toll of more than 4,500 Syrian children who have been killed since the start of that uprising in 2011 and the civil war that followed in the province in Aleppo -- Rosemary?
CHURCH: Yeah, those images shocking and capturing the attention of the world. Many say, what will be done now.
Jomana Karadsheh joining us there from Amman, Jordan. Many thanks to you. Well, Rio said good-bye to the Olympics on Sunday. The closing
ceremony sent the games off with a flourish. Friends and athletes gathered in the Maracana Stadium. The act now officially belongs to Tokyo, host of the 2020 games.
Our Christine McFarland has been in Rio since day one. She is joining us now live.
Christina, it's all over now. How did the closing ceremony compare with the opening ceremony? And what were the highlights everyone talking about.
[02:09:53] CHRISTINE MCFARLAND, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, I was lucky enough to go to the opening and the closing tonight. The opening ceremony was a one big party that Brazil was able to deliver the Olympic Games with success. And the backdrop where the fact that Brazil taking the best medal count of these games. It was an extra special party. Some of the stand up of the night was just the music and colors and spectacles and what they had. It was good to see the athletes enjoying it as much as the crowd. Even though it was hammered down with rain, they were having a party. Simone Biles was carrying the flag and she kept on getting stopped by other athletes wanting to take pictures of her.
Hands down, the big talking point came not from Brazil but from Japan. The Japanese's prime minister, during the ceremonial hand over, arriving in the middle, dressed head to toe as Super Mario. No one was expecting it and it really got a standing ovation from the crowd and gave us a tantalizing look ahead of what we can expect in four his time.
A riot of color. I believe there were 14 carnivals of the night and everyone was dancing. It was a spectacular party.
CHURCH: Yeah, absolutely. What's everyone saying about the Rio Olympics overall after a tough start. There were some incredible moments of course. What were some of your favorites?
MCFARLAND: Well, it feels a long time ago reporting on the doping scandal that dominated in the build up and the crowd here to that. We had the green poll, who could forget that, and organization problems as well with the Olympic village and the Australian athletes. But everyone here were aware of what Rio and Brazil were up against with hosting these games, the economical, political backdrop and the turmoil. But I think the feeling now is one of celebration that they managed to pull it off.
My moment that will stay with me, there were two. I was getting to see Usain Bolt run and achieved that triple, triple and experiencing his magnetism. And Fuji taking their gold in rugby, a new sport. And it just proves the Olympics is not just about the big nations and the medal tally, but it's about the small ones as well and giving them a platform to shine.
CHURCH: Absolutely.
You have done a great job. It is just after 3:00 in the morning there in Rio in front of the Copacabana Beach. I am sure you won't miss those hours. We have another hour with you next hour, so stick around.
Thanks so much, Christina McFarland.
MCFARLAND: Thanks Rosemary.
CHURCH: Here is how the medal table looks at the end of the game. U.S. finished with a huge lead, bringing in 121 total medals. Great Britain held the second. And Russia is all the way back to number four despite losing a third of his team in a doping scandal. And Germany in the top five.
South America first Olympic games went more smoothly than many people feared in the months leading up to them. For the most part, focused stayed on the competition, but there were plenty of drama on the sidelines.
Our Don Riddell looks back at all highs and lows of a memorable game.
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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR (voice-over): The Rio Olympics was far from perfect. Empty seats suggesting a lack of interest. Boxers and judges dismissed for debatable scoring. Troubled water that turned uncontrollable green. And American swimmers disgraced.
RYAN LOCHTE, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: The guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it, put it to my forehead.
I over exaggerated that story. LOCHTE: But there were so much more.
MICHAEL PHELPS, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: It is a dream come true. I am happy that I came back for one more.
RIDDELL: We crowned Michael Phelps in the pool. Usain Bolt signed off in Rio. We may never see their likes again.
USAIN BOLT, OLYMPIC RUNNER: The world has seen that you can do it the right way, and that's still important.
RIDDELL: Katie Ledecky redefined the concept of crushing the field and finished the best in the world. And Simone Biles took the sports of gymnastic to unimaginable heights. These are the stars of now and the future.
SIMONE BILES, U.S. OLYMPIC GYMNAST: We are all happy and excited.
RIDDELL (on camera): We'll be seeing you in four years?
BILES: Yes.
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RIDDELL (voice-over): It is about much more than simply winning.
Ground breaking achievements, unconditional inclusion, acceptance. The sheer joy of the refugee team in action was humbling.
UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: It was incredible for me.
[02:15:14] UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: She became the hope for a lot of people.
RIDDELL: For a new Olympic nation, Kosovo's first-ever gold medal was heartwarming.
UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: It was a historical moment.
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RIDDELL: The Brazilian Judoka (ph), who rose from the slums of Rio to stand on top of the podium, a powerful symbol of hope.
This was a game where athletes found a voice. As Olympic bosses dithered. A level playing field was demanded.
UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: Athletes have had their last straw. We are going to make our changes in the doping world.
RIDDELL: With a new Cold War simmering in the pool, America's Lily King became a poster child for clean sport, but her vilified Russian opponent showed a human side, too, conveying a love of her training home of five years, in America.
UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: They're so much easier than in Russia. Everybody is smiling.
RIDDELL: There was dignity at these Olympics. If you get knocked down, don't just get back up again, but help your opponents out, too.
UNIDENTIFIED OLYMPIC ATHLETE: That was another spirit in me. I feel that was God's spirit in me. I know it was.
RIDDELL: Rio still has its problems and the Olympics could not cure them all, but perhaps the games have shown us the way. The global community pushing each other and lending hands to those behind. The games still inspire and the games still matter.
Don Riddell, CNN, Rio.
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CHURCH: Some remarkable moments there.
Now that the Olympics in Rio are over, we are looking ahead to the game in Tokyo.
After the break, we go inside a Philippines jail as the war on drugs put more people behind bars.
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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This jail is so crowded that the guards tell me every single step is used as a place to sleep. (END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: And Donald Trump maybe revising a controversial position. What his campaign manager says. That's still to come. Stay with us.
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[02:31:04] CHURCH: The Philippines Senate has just wrapped up a hearing on the increase of anti-drug deaths in the country. More than 650 police killings have taken place since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in late June. Days before, the United Nations criticized Mr. Duterte's administration for its tactics. Now the Philippines foreign minister is reiterating the country's commitment to the United Nations after a threat from the president on Sunday.
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RODRIGO DUTERTE, PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT: I do not want to insult you, but maybe we have to separate from the United Nations. When were you here the last time? Never. Never. Except to criticize.
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CHURCH: The president's war on drugs has caused a spike on the number of inmates in the country's jails.
Senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, takes us inside one of the most over crowded facilities.
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WATSON: This is a performance being staged for us at the Quezon City Jail in the Philippines capitol, Manila. We've been invited here to take a look at some of the exercises that this very overcrowded detention performs every day with its inmates. It's built to house around 800 people. There are more than 4,000 incarcerated here, awaiting trial. Take a look.
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WATSON: Now we're going to take a look at the conditions that the inmates here are living in.
(on camera): So sir, this is one of the cells?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.
WATSON: Come on in here.
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WATSON: Excuse me, sorry.
There is barely room to walk here.
Take a look at these incredibly crowded conditions. 85 adult males living in, sleeping in this small room. Tuberculosis is in this jail facility. There is a separate tuberculosis ward where there are more than 70 patients currently living in isolation.
This jail is so crowded that the guards tell me every single step is used as a place to sleep.
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WATSON: Hard to believe this jail is now accepting as many as 30 new prisoners a day. That's because the Philippines' new president, Rodrigo Duterte, launched a deadly new war on drugs. Since it started a month ago, police have arrested nearly 9200 suspects. Almost all of the hundreds of additional detainees brought here in the last seven weeks are facing drug charges.
As we're leaving, I want to finish with one astounding statistic. At any one time, there are only 20 guards between the outside gates and the interior that are on duty for a population of more than 4,000 detainees.
Ivan Watson, CNN, reporting from the Quezon City Jail in Manila.
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CHURCH: Donald Trump may be backing away from his hard line stance on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The Republican presidential nominee met with the Hispanic Advisory Counsel over the weekend. "Buzzfeed" reports Trump said he wanted a humane and efficient way to work with undocumented immigrants. "Buzzfeed" interpreted that as a path towards legalizing some of them.
Dana Bash asked his new campaign manager about whether Trump will revise his position.
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[02:25:18] DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, let me play something from what Mr. Trump has said previously. Listen to what he said back in November.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: We can have a deportation force. And you're going to do it humanely.
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TRUMP: They're going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they're going to be brought back to that country. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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BASH: Does Donald Trump still support that, a deportation force removing the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants?
KELLYANNE CONWAY, DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MANAGER: What he supports, and if you go to his convention speech of a month ago, Dana, what he supports is to make sure that we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for well-paying jobs, and that we are fair and humane for those who live among us in this country.
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CONWAY: And as the weeks unfold, as the weeks unfold, he will lay out the specifics of his plan that he will implement as the president of the United States.
BASH: Will that plan include a deportation force, the kind that he -- you just heard in that sound byte and that he talked about during the Republican primaries?
CONWAY: To be determined.
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CHURCH: Well, the campaign of Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, dismissed the possibility of a change in Trump's position.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign is addressing cause for the Clinton Foundation to stop accepting foreign and corporate donations immediately. The foundation has said it will ban such donation if Hillary Clinton wins the White House. There has been increasing scrutiny of access to Clinton through the foundation. Campaign manager, Robby Mook, spoke with Dana Bash.
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BASH: But if this is the right policy now, why not do it now? Why wait until the idea of her being president? And why not do it when she's running for president?
ROBBY MOOK, CAMPAIGN MANAGER, HILLARY FOR AMERICA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Well, the foundation is doing an enormous amount of work and it takes time when you are in a number of countries around the world to retool and refocus the mission and adapt. As you said, they receive a great deal of funding through these streams and it will just take some time for them to readjust.
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CHURCH: Recent e-mail disclosures from Clinton's top aids have added to questions about ties between the foundation and the State Department while Clinton was secretary of state.
Well, the Rio games are now in the past and Tokyo has taken the Olympic flag for 2020. Ahead, a look at the plan so far.
Plus, Canada's indigenous community has been hit hard by sex trafficking. What police are doing to help the victims. That's coming up in CNN's "Freedom Project."
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[02:31:06] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A warm welcome back to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I am Rosemary Church.
I want to update you on the stories we have been following this hour.
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CHURCH: Brazil has bid farewell to the Olympics after more than two weeks of competition. The closing ceremony brought fans and athletes together one last time.
But it's on to Tokyo now on the 2020 games.
Japan's prime minister and the country's first female governor were in Rio for the handover of the summer Olympic Games to Tokyo.
Will Ripley is in Tokyo with more on the Olympic planning.
Will, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stole the game dressed as Super Mario. What can we expect four years from now?
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wow, if the prime minister dressed as Super Mario, it could be an interesting and exciting Tokyo 2020 game. That image is going viral. Most Japanese did not get to see it. People were running for cover with their umbrellas to get to work and stay dry as opposed to stopping and watching the ceremony throughout the city.
I will tell you, people are, of course, looking forward to the showcase on Japan and Japanese technology and innovation. This is expected to be one of the most futuristic Olympics, doing everything from super fast bullet trains, super translation technology, robots doing everything from driving taxis to directions to giving directions.
But there are also serious concerns about how Japan will pay for this. The multi-billion price tag has continued to grow. They have to throw out the first stadium design, one, because there is a controversial over how it looked, but also because it was going so far over budget. Two of the previous Tokyo governors had to resign over funding scandals.
I asked one of the executive directors a short time ago, this afternoon, if Tokyo 2020 has bounced back from all of that.
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UNIDENTIFIED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JAPAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: With that, you know, positive wind behind us. We are going to make the most innovative games ever.
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RIPLEY: One interesting thing, Rosemary, Tokyo is putting a lot of focus in the infrastructure they are building for the Paralympics games as well, because this is a country with an aging society, a shrinking workforce, and the average age continues to rise dramatically. So the Paralympics facility will be of great use for the 2020 games and senior citizens who will be using that as well.
CHURCH: That's interesting. A lot of the problems for these countries that host the game is the amount of money that they spend and whether there is future use of these structures.
But I did want to go back to this problem and this challenge of trying to keep everything under budget because really the cost is being enormous and people in Japan are angry about that, aren't they?
RIPLEY: They are, and rightfully so, when you look at the fact that the public debt of Japan is twice the size of its economy. There is still expensive ongoing Fukushima clean up effort under way and people's salaries have been stagnant and the economy has been in the doldrums for many years and people are looking at the price tag and wondering why does it have to be this expensive. Even with Japan reusing some of the summer Olympic infrastructure from 1964, still, the costs are enormous. When I spoke with the Tokyo's governor a short time ago, she said she's basically an accountant, going line by line, going over everything, trying to get the cost under control.
[02:35:44] CHURCH: That's the biggest challenge right now.
Will Ripley reporting for us from Tokyo. Just after 3:30 in the afternoon. Many thanks.
Well, an update on the catastrophic flooding in the USA, in Louisiana now. More than 60,000 homes have been damaged. Many people are returning to find there's just not much left.
CNN's Polo Sandoval has more from the flood zone.
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UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: This is where the kitchen was right here. The water got up to about 2.5 foot in the House.
POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Step through the door in the city of Gonzalez and you'll see what hundreds of homes in southern Louisiana look like today. A bare interior stripped of any comforts of home.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: We had to gut everything totally in house.
SANDOVAL: LeBlanc only saved what he and his son could carry out as the water approached his doorstep last Sunday. Most of it was left behind, had to be discarded and now sits soaked on the front lawn.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: It happened fast. And it's sad. You do what you got to do. We saved a lot. Thanks to him and my brother, they put everything adds high as they could.
SANDOVAL: LeBlanc saved his family and the small irreplaceable items, including his mother-in-law's album.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: Her stuff she kept in this blue tote. I said we're not going -- we need to get that. So I felt bad the next day. Because I didn't want to destroy it. And I said I'm going back. I don't care how deep it is to get her things that she wanted.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: This is a damn shame.
SANDOVAL: LeBlanc used his cell phone to capture that return home along with his son.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: I didn't remember it was his birthday because all the trauma that was going on.
(SINGING) SANDOVAL: There was time for a brief celebration amid the heartbreak though.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: I sang "Happy Birthday" to him while we were standing in the water in the hall.
SANDOVAL: Dad fashioned a cake out of whipped cream and few cookies. Like many families on his block, LeBlanc has help from friends and coworkers and neighbors.
UNIDENTIFIED FLOOD SURVIVOR: I'm living in my camp. It's going to be rough for the next two months. But all of us are safe. We're alive.
SANDOVAL: Even with those helping hands, he says it will be weeks, perhaps months before he turns his house into a home again.
Polo Sandoval, CNN, Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
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CHURCH: Meteorologist Karen MaGinnis is here with us.
It is heartbreaking too see what people are dealing with. And it is extraordinary. Talk to us about the weather going forward and what's happening with some of this water and where it can go?
KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It cannot go anywhere. It is like in a bulb. The ground is so saturated and a lot of the heavy rainfall that we saw earlier where they saw almost a year's worth of rainfall of a short period of time, over a couple of days, well, that kind of settles in and a lot of this were actually going to make its way to other areas. But, it is so locked down and it was a thousand years. I want to show you what we can expect as we go through time. This is a short range computer model. Here is where most of that moisture is. Nothing is significant and that is as we start to look that three to five days outlook. On the border of maybe two or three inches of rainfall. I say that because when you need time to recover and getting resources back together, any rainfall is problematic. People are still shifting through their belongings. We saw about 30 inches of rainfall or about 1200 millimeters of precipitation. You heard earlier about the tropical system that's moving across Tokyo. Yes, it made land fall. We are supporting this of 95 kilometers an hour. It is weakening. What will be impressive is that we'll see staggering rainfall totals here on the order of maybe 200 millimeters. The ground is saturated as well. Mud slides and landslides is certainly a possibility and down power lines and some of the rainfall totals is just about 160 millimeters in some areas. Looks like the computer models are saying maybe we are going to the next five days and we may see another tropical system. That one is so crazy acting up. It is hard to say.
[02:40:35] CHURCH: Absolutely.
Thank you for keeping an eye on that.
MCGINNIS: Thank you. CHURCH: We'll talk again next hour. Many thanks, Karen.
Canada's indigenous women are a frequent victim of the sex trafficking. How one community is facing this crisis. That's still to come, ahead.
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CHURCH: All this week, the CNN "Freedom Project" explores the problem of sex trafficking in Canada's indigenous communities. Indigenous women frequently become victims of the trade. And in Winnipeg, an elite police unit has adopted new tactics to come to their aid.
Our Paul Newton has the story.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see him talking to her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 3:00, 4:00 in the morning, you'll see them out here.
KIRK CHAPPO, WINNIPEG POLICE DETECTIVE: A lot of people here struggle with many different things.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see older men sitting in cars idling.
CHAPPO: Nobody wants to be over here doing what they have to do.
DEBBIE CUMBY, COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKER: Come here.
How you doing?
PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Words of comfort and support. This is in Winnipeg.
CUMBY: Did you sleep yesterday?
[02:45:14] NEWTON: Debbie Cumby is a community outreach worker.
CUMBY: I'll talk to you later.
CHAPPO: You want a ride home or anything?
No? You OK? You need anything else?
NEWTON: Kirk Chappo is a police detective, part of an elite unite trying to counter sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
CHAPPO: This is our regular route. We drive in this area and the other areas that have high levels of expectations.
NEWTON: They are both leading a transformation, a new way to fight human trafficking. The approach firmly focused on victims and most of the ones they need here come from Canada's minority indigenous community. CHAPPO: Two women are walking westbound. They are going to be at the
crosswalk shortly.
NEWTON: We ride along and absorbed officers meeting two women that possibly victims.
CHAPPO: Passenger door has closed and they are heading westbound.
NEWTON: What's different here? The intent. They are not out to prosecute but to protect, and trying to understand how and why these women are being sexually exploited.
CHAPPO: The misconception is that a lot of people have is they want to be out there but they truly don't want to be out there.
NEWTON (on camera): They don't have a choice.
CHAPPO: They don't have a choice.
NEWTON (voice-over): Law enforcement officials acknowledging the history of biases and racism.
UNIDENTIFIED POLICE ADMINISTRATOR: There is bias in the police service. We recognize that there's bias. We certainly have taken steps to address it. We have a team dedicated just to outreach, just to being out there and trying to get to know who is out on the streets and trying to establish a relationship with them.
CUMBY: It will be a busy night.
NEWTON: To do that, they've team with community workers like Debbie, once a trafficking victim herself. She explains outreach is neither quick nor simple.
CUMBY: We are controlled by our traffickers. A lot of people calling them boyfriends or drug dealers and you owe money and you have a choice. You get beaten or killed or you have to work.
JENNIFER RICHARDSON, TRUST EMPLOYEE: We'll get started. I think we have about 68 kids that are missing this morning.
The new approach on the streets of Winnipeg is supported by the government. Jennifer Richardson runs this trust and uses strategies to combat sexual exploitation and sex trafficking with children.
Crucially, the local government has committed more than $10 Canadian each year to fund it, a huge sum for a population of only a million people.
This ground breaking endeavor focuses on prevention, intervention and legislation, while trying to tackle the issue of indigenous people, a small population, represents more than three-quarters of all of human trafficking victims. Both independent and government studies of detail poverty, addiction, family violence and sexual abuse as key factors. RICHARDSON: When you look at the level of violence and the level of
drugs, it is like mental terrorism. The kids are just acting out what they are engaged in.
NEWTON: Back with Detective Chappo, we learned the two young women they approached are indigenous. Police will now follow up.
CHAPPO: Copy that.
NEWTON: That's a different and revolutionary approach here in Manitoba. A first in Canada, it uses targeted funds but also words and deeds and training to help fight human trafficking in a whole new way that prioritizes the need of victims.
CUMBY: You be safe.
NEWTON: Paula Newton, CNN, Winnipeg.
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[02:53:16] CHURCH: Usain Bolt is the fastest man ever. He's one of the greatest athletes ever lived electronically times, and possibly, one of the greatest athletes to have ever lived. His legacy is secure after another sterling performance in Rio.
Don Riddell looks back at the Lightning Bolt.
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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR (voice-over): On the greatest danger stage in the world of sports, Usain Bolt has been the biggest star. The Olympic Games have never seen anything like it. Total domination in the sprint event for three consecutive games. Some athletes may play it down but not the man himself.
USAIN BOLT, OLYMPIC RUNNER: Awesome. That's my word. That's my one word I always use. These games are awesome.
RIDDELL: He's been rewriting the record books since sweeping the 100, 200 and sprint events in Beijing. Both repeated in London and again in Rio. Signing off his Olympic career with an unprecedented triple- triple, it's unlikely we'll see his like again.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Usain Bolt is the greatest track and field athlete of all times.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I cannot think of another athlete since Muhammad Ali that captured the public's imagination.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) RIDDELL: It would also be hard to imagine anyone submitting a legacy in a shorter amount of time. Nine gold medals, both won at his last three Olympics, he was on the track for a total of less than two- minutes, transcending his sports to become a global icon and a national hero in Jamaica.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Truly humbling to be here and be present for this moment. It is a true honor to see him run.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He lifted the sports and brought all these people here. All the world has seen that you can do it the right way.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Especially since we know it was his last Olympic. It was great to be here to see him.
[02:55:11] RIDDELL: In a troubled era for athletics, Usain Bolt has became its shining light, ruthlessly crushing his rivals and laughing all the way to the finish line, and the bank, too.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Absolute game changer. We talk about coming to the tracks. He has fans and he's truly a legend in the making. You know I am so grateful for that and what he's doing for the sport, but athletic as a whole.
RIDDELL (on camera): Tonight, we have seen Usain Bolt write another page of history of his remarkable Olympic career. Now, it is over. He says he will return after the world championships next year. He will celebrate his 30th birthday this Sunday knowing that he's the greatest. It is a title that will likely never be surpassed. And make no mistake, he will be profoundly missed.
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CHURCH: He certainly will.
Don Riddell there.
Thanks for your company. I will be back after the break with more news from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
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