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Trump to Speak on Immigration This Wednesday; Ceasefire in Colombia; Beyonce MTV Video Music Awards Performance Examined; Zika Virus in Singapore; Arrests Made in Shooting of Dwayne Wade's Cousin in Chicago; Brazilian President Defends Herself Against Impeachment Charges; Libya Forces Claim Gains Against ISIS; Kaepernick Stands By Decision to Sit During Anthem. Aired 3-4a ET
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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Donald Trump says he will deliver a major speech on immigration this week.
Plus, a new beginning, a ceasefire between the Columbian government and FARC rebels formally goes into effect ending decades of conflict.
Also, ahead, Beyonce steals the show at the MTV Music Awards.
Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom.
In the race for the White House, Donald Trump says he's about to make a major speech on immigration. The republican nominee has been under fire for his shifting tone on the issue. Now, he's tweeted that he wants a big crowd when he makes the speech Wednesday in the border State of Arizona.
Trump suggested that earlier this week, he would allow some undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. But he walked back those comments with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday and he had this to say on Iowa over the weekend.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: On day one, I'm going to begin swiftly removing criminal, illegal immigrants from this country.
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Including removing the hundreds and thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that's released into the United States and United States communities under the incompetent Obama/Clinton administration.
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CHURCH: Trump's vice presidential running mate is among those defending his immigration stance. Mike Pence told CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump's position has been consistent all along.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MIKE PENCE, INDIANA STATE GOVERNOR: Donald Trump will articulate a policy about how we deal with that population. But I promise you that he's going to remain completely focus on American citizens and people who are here legally and how we get this people working who people play by the rules.
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JAKE TAPPER, STATE OF THE UNION SHOW HOST: I don't understand --I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that you are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to before.
PENCE: Yes.
TAPPER: The idea is Mr. Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very force positions saying all 11 or 12 undocumented immigrants will be forced to leave the country. Now, you right this minute are not saying that that's the policy.
You're saying he's going to be unveiling in the next few weeks; it's 72 days until the election.
PENCE: Well, the way you characterize his position is one thing. I think he's been completely...
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TAPPER: We've just run the clip here.
PENCE: Jake, he's been completely consistent in the principles that he's articulated. Nobody was talking about illegal immigration when Donald Trump entered this campaign. He was attacked from day one for putting the whole issue of violence that he's derived from certain individuals that come into this country illegally on the table.
He's made it clear that we are going to secure our borders, we're going to build a wall and we're going to enforce our law in this country and stand up and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
But what you see going on right now and I think at a certain level it's very refreshing. Because it's the Donald Trump that I see every day. You see a CEO at work.
You see someone who's engaging the American people, listening to the American people. He's hearing from all sides. But I promise you he's a decisive leader, he will stand on the principles that have underpinned this commitment to end illegal immigration in this country. And that's what people would learn more about the days ahead.
But let's be clear, Hillary Clinton supports open borders and amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees in this country by 550 percent.
TAPPER: OK.
PENCE: You could not have a more clear choice.
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CHURCH: Mike Spence speaking there to CNN's Jake Tapper. And despite Pence's claim that Trump is remaining consistent on immigration, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus says Sunday that Trump is reflecting on his position.
Well, officials in Brussels say an attack on the National Institute of Criminology and Forensics was not terror-related. And said that say it appears to be a criminal act.
A car rammed through several fences before whoever was driving set fire to part of the building and then to the vehicle. Equipment in the institute's federal crime lab was damaged but there were no casualties.
Well, the Turkish military is conducting air strikes in Syria. And for the first time they are admitting that ISIS is not their only target.
State media reports that one strike near Jarablus killed 25 members of a Kurdish militia, the YPG. Turkey considered them to be a terror group.
In the same area Turkish-backed units of the Free Syrian Army are trying to clear villages of Kurdish forces.
[03:05:00] State media says that 13 such villages will quote, "cleanse."
Our Nick Paton Walsh is near the border.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: President Erdogan is clear in the speech in this bicycle (Ph) border in the city of Gaziantep that they will fight both ISIS and the Syrian Kurds that his military are now in confrontation openly with, quote, "same determination" saying, too, they've hunt out ISIS cells in this cells.
But really it appeared to the folks of the speech was to mourn those lives lost in the recent wedding bombing here that killed over 50. ISIS took responsibility for that and at the same time too, thank the city for the support they gave him during the recent failed coup attempt.
The question really now is where is the Turkish military and those Syrian rebels working alongside its moving inside of northern Syria.
Fast movements today. We've heard from the deputy prime minister the desire for them to move along the border toward the town called Marea that could potentially have a lot of the border in control of Turkey and those Syrian rebels are getting back from them.
At the same time too, they appeared to be moving southeast towards the city called Manbij. that's important because Syrian Kurds move in to recently flush out ISIS with American support. And now claims to have mostly left. Yet, those near it appeared to be clashes with this advancing Syrian rebel force and Turkish military, too.
Those clashes claim one Turkish life the previous night and also, today, we are hearing from Turkish's state media that an air strike may have killed 25 militants in that particular area, although activists are saying those people in fact civilians.
It's unclear really of what happened there. What is clear in that the Turkish military and those rebels working alongside them reports to be taking more and more villages hour by hour.
They are clearly in confrontation with those Syrian Kurds, but also receive American backing and this puts U.S. policy in a great dynamic here.
They've been backing the Syrian Kurds for quite some time in their fight against ISIS. But at the same time they've also been supported of the same Syrian rebels that the Turkish are now backing as well.
It's a very confusing dilemma of this war. It does suggests that this potential Turkish convention here is not over a matter of weeks but months. They are seeming to be wanting to take out a large amount of territory here. They have two adversaries. But many hope they would focus on ISIS.
But at the same time it does look like they have a broader threat that they see of the Syrian Kurds so they considered that terrorists may take up a lot of their manpower. Complicated and potentially dangerous times ahead here for Turkey. And President Erdogan's trip here is very much a sign I think of how important this military action is.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Gaziantep.
CHURCH: To the southwest now and mourners in the city of Aleppo with a target of barrel bombing Saturday. Activists say as many as 24 people were killed and 30 were wounded. They were attending a wake for several children killed in another bombing in the same area on Thursday.
Colombia's FARC rebels have announced a permanent ceasefire in their 52-year conflict with the government. The rebel agreed to a peace deal with Colombian officials in Havana last week. The agreement must be approved by a majority of Colombians in a referendum scheduled for October.
CNN's Patrick Opmann has more now on the lengthy negotiation that led to this peace deal.
PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Colombians take to the street to celebrate a long awaited peace deal. Colombia's President declared of five decades of bloodshed were over.
"Today begins the end of suffering, the pain and the tragedy of war," he said. From their juggle camps the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia known as FARC in Spanish battle the Colombian government and accuse of carrying out kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking to finance the longest running urgency in the western hemisphere. At one point, the Marxist guerilla has controlled an area the size of
Switzerland. But a string of military defeats, forced the FARC here to the negotiating table in Havana.
As many of the FARC leadership had million-dollar buddies on their heads. Cuba was considered neutral territory.
The grueling talks dragged on for nearly four years, until on Wednesday, they had a deal.
"I have the certainty that the agreement is the best possible agreement. We all wanted something more but the deal that we struck is the viable deal," said the Colombian government chief negotiator.
On October 2nd, Colombians will go to the polls to vote on the controversial deal. As part of the agreement FARC foot soldiers will leave the jungles and will enter society with training programs. If the group leaders admit to the crime they committed and pay restitution to their victims, they might avoid serious jail time. Something that the FARC insisted on from the beginning of the talks.
"We are considering going to jail," this FARC commander told me he will fight for justice doesn't deserve that. We don't act like a criminal terrorist group. We have a sacred fight.
[03:09:58] While the perfect observers say the Colombian government got the best possible deal.
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ADAM ISACSON, WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA SENIOR ASSOCIATE: It's the best you could do. I think that actually getting something better than this on the battlefield would have taken many more years and caused thousands or tens of thousands more lives.
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OPPMANN: Supporters and opponents of the deal are already in full campaign mode. While the majority of Colombians approved of the peace process still for many after after (Inaudible) taken over 200,000 lives to see the FARC leadership walk away free and form a political party. That's a pretty bitter pill up to swallow.
Still though, for many Colombians, the best opportunity at peace after a half century of war is an opportunity to refuse to let it slip away.
Patrick Oppman, CNN, Havana.
CHURCH: Five days after the earthquake in central Italy the hard hit town of Amatrice is turning into a demolition zone. There is little hope left of finding anyone alive in the debris. The critical 72-hour window for survivors has long past. Emergency crews are now focusing on recovering bodies there.
They're also knocking down house standing buildings to make sure they don't topple during aftershocks. The disaster has claimed nearly 300 lives.
And as workers clear away the debris, the task of rebuilding is ahead.
But Frederik Pleitgen reports some of the affected villages are deciding whether to rebuild at all.
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The grueling work continues for Italian search crews still pulling bodies from the rubble. The whole communities have been shattered by the loss of life and infrastructure.
Massimo Pirozzi was in the hardest hit town of Amatrice when the earth begins to shake.
"It was my daughter's birthday, the day of the wake, he says, we'd organized a party. Five of the girls who were invited were killed in a quake. She had played with some of them the night before the disaster."
More than 200 people died in Amatrice alone.
Italy's Prime Minister has vowed to rebuild this ancient town but some of the smaller villages in this mountainous area may not so lucky.
This is Caprichia just down the road from Amatrice. Like so many villages in this area, this one has been evacuated after the earthquake. But the residence here faced a much more fundamental question and that is, whether they'll ever be able to return to their homes, whether this village will be viable in the future.
Rosalinde Santarelli is one of only 12 residents of Caprichia. She's been staying in this camper van since the quake struck after to enter any building because of frequent aftershocks.
"I don't think there will be a future, she says. Our village is poor. There are no people and no jobs. Amatrice is five miles away but there is nothing left of that."
As Rosalinde and the others surveyed the damage to their houses, Italy has some tough decisions to make; should villages like this one, with a tiny population in an area prone to earthquakes, be fixed? Or is it better, and safer, to abandon them?
"There are villages that were already empty before the quake," Rosalinde says. "There are almost no young people anywhere, the towns are old. I think now they will really depopulate."
For many tourists, villages like Caprichia epitomize the beauty of the Italian countryside.
On top of the horrible human toll this earthquake has caused, in the long run it may have accelerated the demise of a piece of this country's rich, ancient heritage, as well.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Capricia, Italy. CHURCH: Police search Los Angeles International Airport just a short time ago after receiving reports of an active shooter. It was a false alarm later determined to be quote, "loud noises." Travelers were evacuated then returned to be re-screened for security.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop that lifted about who hours ago. But that delayed and diverted a number of flights.
An early this month, report of a possible active shooter at New York JFK airport. And panic travelers running for cover. Those reports were also false.
Just ahead, the U.S. State of Florida is taking action to stop the spread of Zika. But some fear its method for fighting the outbreak could do more harm than good. We'll explain.
And the family of a young Chicago mother is grieving her death as police voice anger over the violence that killed her.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm frustrated. You should be frustrated. All Chicagoans should be frustrated.
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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with our CNN Sports headline.
So far the Premier League has been all about the teams with the new big day manager for making an instant impact on the league after Antonio Conte Chelsea and Jose Mourinho's Manchester United both secure their third win after three on Saturday and Sunday was Pep Guardiola's 10 with Manchester City.
And City had no problem handling West Ham at the Etihad. The City won 3-1. Raheem Sterling had a break for the afternoon with Fernandinho adding another spectacular head that they now move to three wins of its season joining Chelsea and Man United.
So, to La Liga where Barcelona continues that perfect start of the season. Barca face Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. And even Rakitic but the Spanish champion is ahead 21 minutes in despite with Suarez having chances in the dying minute, 1-0 is how that one ended.
And to the Belgian Grand Prix where Nico Rosberg was in a great position to retake the top of the driver standing from Lewis Hamilton but he had to stop from the back of the grid after a series of penalty.
Hamilton manages to get himself into his position meaning that he still have to lead in the overall standing.
Rosberg took the check of the flag; he wasn't expecting to see his team mate on the podium beside him.
And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.
CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
Forty one cases of locally transmitted Zika virus have now been confirmed in Singapore. Most of the cases were discovered among foreign construction workers in the southeastern neighborhood.
Government officials say none of those with the disease had recently traveled to Zika infected areas. Singapore's first imported case of the virus was reported in May when a man began showing symptom of returning from Brazil.
Well, the Zika virus is spreading in the United States. The State of Florida is fighting the outbreak with aerial spraying the pesticide. But some people have concerns that it could be hazardous.
CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has the details.
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Zika is spreading in south Florida and the stakes are high. When pregnant women become infected with the virus, their babies can be born with devastating birth defects.
That why health authorities have sprayed a pesticide from airplanes to kill the mosquitoes that carry Zika. But there is concern that the chemical being sprayed called Naled may also be harmful to unborn babies.
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BARRY RYAN, ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMORY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR: It's essentially a neurotoxin and can result in unborn children, in particular having neuro developmental problems.
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COHEN: The European Union has banned Naled insecticide. And in Puerto Rico, where Zika has been rampant, people have demonstrated against Naled, a type of organophosphate.
[03:20:05] The mayor of San Juan filed a lawsuit against the Center for Disease Control to prevent spraying, saying "There have been recent findings linking the presence of organophosphates and behavior problems in babies whose mothers were exposed to this type of chemical during their pregnancy."
The CDC and the Environmental Protection Agency say Naled is safe and the best option for killing these mosquitos. The CDC points out the Naled has been used extensively for years and years in the United States.
That's just two tablespoons are used over the size of a football field. "The small amount does not pose a health risk to people," according to the CDC. So, who's right? Will Naled help stop babies from developing birth
defects or could it harm them? Experts say dozens of studies have shown that when pregnant women are exposed to Naled their children are more likely to develop behavior problems.
But for the most part, those studies were done in agricultural areas where families live near spring for many years. They say the risk are much smaller in Florida where the Zika spraying have been done only four times.
Dr. Barry Ryan at Emory University had done some of that research and he supports the spraying.
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RYAN: Zika is a real problem. Children who suffered from this would not be able to cope with the real world. They will never recover from this.
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COHEN: He said, Naled then carry risks but not nearly as big as the risk posed by Zika.
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporting.
CHURCH: Chicago police have arrested two brothers in the shooting death of NBA's star Dwyane Wade's cousin, Nykea Aldridge. Authorities say the pair are each charged with first degree murder and first degree attempted murder.
Aldrige was caught in the crossfire while she was pushing her infant child in a stroller Friday. She was shot in the head and the arm.
The Chicago police superintendent says the suspects are gang members where on parole for gun violence at the time of the shooting.
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EDDIE JOHNSON, CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT: Derren Sorrells was involved in a murder not only while he was on parole but while he was wearing a home monitoring bracelet.
I want all of you to think about what I just said and asked what that tells you. It should tell you that it's time to stop talking and to get serious and take action when it comes to how we sentenced our repeat done offenders.
I'm frustrated and you should be frustrated. All of Chicagoans should be frustrated.
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CHURCH: The family of Nykea Aldridge held a vigil to celebrate her life Sunday. Aldridge had four children.
Her mother spoke to CNN about how they are coping with her death.
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DIANE ALDRIDGE, NYKEA ALDRIDGE'S MOTHER: Oh, they miss their mom. They want their mom. It just hurts to hear kids say they want their mom and their mom won't be in their lives anymore, only through spirit, only to -- only to pictures. That's a only way they can know their mom for the rest of their lives. The only thing they have to go is what they had.
It is just hard breaking. Oh god, heartbreaking. And I am truly, truly from the bottom of my heart, I forgive them. I forgive them. I can't bring her back but I will forgive them.
And I just pray to God that they pray to God to ask for forgiveness for what they've done, they have taken a person's life senselessly. And I just love her.
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CHURCH: Dwyane Wade has spoken out about his cousin's death on Twitter saying, "These four kids lost their mom for no reason, unreal, enough is enough."
Well, a Florida woman says the day she was pulled over by police was the day that saved her life.
CNN's Victor Blackwell has the story of an officer who went above and beyond the call of duty.
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BRIANA BYRNES, PULLED OVER BY POLICE: I saw an officer pulled behind me, I moved over to the lane hoping that he would past me but he didn't.
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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN'S NEW DAY SHOW HOST: When then 31-year-old Briana Byrnes was pulled over on that August now a year ago, she had no idea the traffic stop would change her life.
Martin County Florida Sheriff Deputy Justin Albauer stopped Brianna from swerving out of her lanes.
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JUSTIN ALBAUER, MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT DEPUTY OFFICER: Her hands were shaking that you could tell she's that normally nervous.
BLACKWELL: And as deputy Albauer would soon learn she had good reason to be nervous.
ALBAUER: After a brief conversation, she just -- she just came clean.
BYRNES: I had two bags of heroin and paraphernalia. ALBAUER: I've never had it where somebody opened and says, you know, I had narcotics in the car.
[03:25:01] BLACKWELL: Briana says, she explains her years long struggle with opioid dependency and that she and her mother spent the day calling detox centers but it had no luck getting into one.
But for Brianna it wasn't just that deputy Albauer allowed her to tell her story. It was that he listened.
BYRNES: He was there to help me. And he did just that.
ALBAUER: I don't judge anybody.
BLACKWELL: Briana was arrested that night. And just before Albauer took her to her cell.
ALBAUER: I let her know that she could call me if she needed to and I wish her the best of luck.
BLACKWELL: After short stint in the county jail, Briana checked in a drug rehab program and then a halfway house send the drug court program. And as she tries to turn her life around, she never forgot about that night she was pulled over here.
Brianna who says she is now drug-free eventually reach Albauer at the sheriff's office and passed along a letter.
BYRNES: Deputy Alabuer, this time a year ago, you forever changed my life words cannot express how thankful I am for you. Ever since that night you made me realizes that I have a great purpose here in life.
ALBAUER: I stopped and pulled over and read it and it's a -- yes, it hit you.
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BLACKWELL: Victor Blackwell, CNN, Stuart, Florida.
CHURCH: Great outcome there. We'll take a break here, but still to come, one Italian couple faced a devastating turn in their wedding plans. The choice they made for themselves and their village.
And U.S. medics lending their expertise with Iraq and the war against ISIS, how they are saving lives against all odds. That's still to come, stay with us.
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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers here in the United States, and of course, all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
I want to update you now on the main stories we've been following.
Turkeys media say units of the Free Syrian Army have cleared terrorists out of 13 villages in the border region. Turkish forces are supporting the FSA and carrying out air strikes around Jarablus. They helped retake that city from ISIS in the past few days.
In the race for the White House, Donald Trump says he will make a major speech on immigration this Wednesday. He tweeted Sunday, it will be hell in Arizona and promised big crowds.
The republican has face criticisms this past week for shifting stance on immigration.
Brazil's embattled President Dilma Rousseff takes the floor Monday to present her defense to the country's Senate against impeachment charges. Ms. Rousseff was suspended in May on allegations of corruption and mismanagement of Brazil's finances. She says she had done nothing wrong.
In central Italy, family members said good-bye to loved ones their lost in the earthquake in state funerals over the weekend. But in another part of the quake zone, one couple took a major step towards their future together.
Atika Shubert has this story.
Ramon Adazzi is nervous. He is getting married today and his wedding has just ripped. He's trying on a backup but he's not happy. And he's also worried about aftershocks.
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RAMON ADAZZI, GROOM: You can know, you can know earthquake just and only if you -- if you feel it, if you feel it. And there is no word to describe it. You can't do nothing. I remember that day when earthquake hit us that I called my friends she was -- she was at her house.
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SHUBERT: Ramon was supposed to get married here in the village church of Acquasanta Terme, right in the heart of Italy's quake zone.
But Father Giovanni told him no, absolutely not. The alter is covered in rubble, there are cracks running up the wall and its century frescoes not torn open and crumbling.
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ADAZZI: When Don Giovanni tell me that the church is unsafe I talk with my wife and say I want to celebrate my wedding over there because they need to -- a moment to think of -- to the other things, you know?
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SHUBERT: Instead, the wedding will happen here in the open area of the village plaza with the mountain standing witness.
All good and well, but Martina, his bride, was not so sure getting married in a village damage by the idea is such a good idea, especially with heavy aftershocks continuing to this day. "Well, at first I was shocked, she said. We've been organizing this for more than a year. Of course, I was worried and nervous and I didn't want to create even more problems for the village. But everyone has been so welcoming and wonderful," she says.
"Soon it's time." Martina's father carefully escorts her to the village, where Ramon is waiting and beaming his wedding suit, freshly repaired.
The band begins to play the wedding march and the bride walks down the aisle as the village cheers.
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ADAZZI: I love to see that all people. I know that people are -- everybody are beautiful people and everybody loves me so why I take my wedding in other city.
SHUBERT: The sun shines and the earth stands still. Today at least, this mountain village scarred by disaster can enjoy a quiet moment of peace and joy.
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Atika Shubert, CNN, Acquasanta Terme, Italy.
CHURCH: Very special there.
Well, Libyan forces say they are closed to recapturing the coastal city of Sirte from ISIS. Militants had been pushed back into a small residential area. At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed Sunday and more than 150 wounded.
ISIS used multiple suicide bombs to try to stop Libyan from advancing.
Kurdish forces are gaining ground against ISIS in Iraq. They play a critical role in the drive to retake Mosul by the end of the year. But this has never been their fight alone.
CNN's Arwa Damon met two men who chose to leave their homes far away from the conflicts and treat wounded fighters.
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[03:35:07] ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's early morning and the Kurdish Peshmerga are launching a major push into ISIS's controlled villages.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're looking for a place to set up our medical triage area.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have five dead, eight wounded.
DAMON: John Reed and Pete Reed (Ph) are two Americans on the medical frontline.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. We have two casualties. Let's treat them appropriately. Stop blaming leverage. Get him on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ETA! ETA! Jack, black box! Black box!
DAMON: It's a chaotic are frantic effort on this day, compounded by a language barrier, different culture and significant lack of resources.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I need four (muted) plastic.
DAMON: John, a trained emergency medical technician from Syracuse, New York, is volunteering. Pete, of Bordentown, New Jersey is a former marine turned medic who works with a nonprofit providing medical training and assistance.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Move, move, move!
DAMON: There is no advanced warning when a casualty is coming in. No time to prep before the next one arrives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The toughest thing about being out here as a combat medic is when your patients don't live.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, man, stay with us! Come back to us, man, come on!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sometimes, you know, we can't fix everything. So, I think that's the hard part for you personally. You know you want to save everybody but you can't.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a breakdown in communication between us, coalition forces, Peshmerga. It's difficult when you're trying your best to work on someone but just the rest of the system isn't there or it's not working properly.
DAMON: They both say they had comfortable happy lives at home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here. Right here.
DAMON: Was it a guilt?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guilt or sense of purpose. Sometimes there's overlap somewhere in the middle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can help people at home for sure and I do and I feel -- I feel good for what I do there but here that feeling is much greater.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get two feet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Peshmerga need significant help. They need training. They need an actual combat medical unit. People are throwing ammunition and guns at this place all day long. And that's not saving lives. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I think of ISIS, I think of, you know, Khmer
Rouge, Nazis. I mean, there are few times in history there's such a black and white good versus evil situation. They've been carrying this war in this region on their backs with not nearly enough support.
And people back home are upset about shootings and things like that and ISIS is involved there. And they don't have a clue what it's like a day here or a day in Baghdad or in Syria. It's pretty horrible.
DAMON: Arwa Damon, Wasit (Ph), Iraq.
CHURCH: We'll take a very short break here. But still to come, an NFL quarterback staging a protest on the national stage. We will explain why it is causing a heat of controversial. We'll be back in a moment.
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CHURCH: Two United Airlines pilots had been arrested on Scotland suspicion they were under the influenced of alcohol. Police tell CNN the arrest happened at Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
An airport spokesperson says the pilot were at the aircraft when they were arrested but couldn't confirm reports they were in the cockpit. The airlines say the pilots have been removed from their flying duties.
But another scary plane incident over the weekend, in the southwest U.S. a Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing Saturday after a dramatic engine failure. And these are images from the plane. It was diverted to Pensacola, Florida on a flight from New Orleans to Orlando.
Passengers on board describe a harrowing experience.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I thought it was an attack or that the plane was going to go down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It felt like half of the plane almost like capsize on the other side.
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CHURCH: Happy to say no one was hurt in the incident and the passengers were flown to Orlando after a few hours delay.
NFL quarter Colin Kaepernick is standing by his decision to sit during the U.S national anthem in protest. That's him number seven before a pre-season game on Friday. The gesture has infuriated some fans leading them to post videos of the quarterback's burning jersey.
But Kaepernick says he won't stop protesting until this change. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLIN KAEPERNICK, NFL 49ERS QUARTERBACK: I'll continue to sit I'm going to stand with the people that are being oppressed. To me, this is something that has to change. And when there is significant change and I feel like that flag represent what it is supposed to represent in this country is representing people the way that it's supposed to, I'll stand.
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CHURCH: Kaepernick's teammates on the San Francisco 49ers say they support his decision even if not all of them or agree with it.
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NAVORRO BOWMAN, NFL SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS LINEBACKER: Talking about, you know, Colin going what he believes in and want to break it down even more. Colin has the right, you know, to do whatever he wants to do and value to his opinion. You know? We're focused on him keeping this team together not letting any type of cancer or anything to get in between us.
BRUCE MILLER, NFL SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FULLBACK: We're a family and we are not always going agree in the locker room outside locker room fans, players. So, we're not -- we're not always going to agree or disagree but we are family in here and we're going to support every guy just the same.
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CHURCH: And the 49ers released a statement saying Kaepernick has every right to do what he did and the league clarifies are encouraged but not required to stand during the anthem.
All right. Turning to the weather now, and the tropics near the U.S. is starting to come alive with multiple storms. Our Pedram Javaheri joins us now to explain what is happening. Of course, we shouldn't be surprised.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, because of the time of year, absolutely is. You know, Rosie, we've gone 10 years now without a major hurricane of category three or four or five making landfall in the U.S. So, it has been a long time since the major storm has come ashore, and at this time it looks like it will take a little bit longer.
But if you take a look at the water temperatures, it really is incredible. Because low 80s and mid-80s into the 90s Fahrenheit right on the immediate coast. Those are among the warmest water temperatures that you'll ever see this time of the year that warm. I'm talking about 31, 32 Celcius if you're tuned in outside of the United States.
[03:44:56] But take a look at this. The peak season for tropical activities, the late August, early in mid-September, you typically see really the storm begin to pick up not only in intensity but also in coverage. And there are four of them at this point at least activity. It's a combined too as a tropical depression nine. We have eight after the Coast of the Carolinas, Gaston which is a major hurricane moving away from the United States. And then another area of interest within tropical thunderstorm there developing at the Coast of Texas.
But this point we are waiting for letters H and I. So, the Hermine and E and the next two storms in line. This could be Hermine sitting right there at the western corner of Cuba.
And the initial indications are this storm will head over to the north over the next couple of days from Wednesdays into Thursday night. Could end by say Tampa northward into the Big Ben of Florida should be a tropical storm.
Again, a lot of heat in the ocean there but when it comes to what's going on above the storm, there is windshields, there is dry air. So they're all really begin to shred this storm apart from the top down.
And notice the rainfall is not going to be limited. Plenty of rainfall potentially up to 10 inches into some of these areas that really could see some significant flooding risk over the next couple of days.
Now, here is what it looks like with tropical depression Ian and this could be in the next in line there. And it's falling apart just a little bit but the indications are we will get up to a tropical storm status, it will brush by the Carolinas, again move away from the United States.
So, a couple of close calls and of course there is still a few days left. So, it's worth noting that all storms it could change and also in their speed and direction. But here is the last one, hurricane Gaston category.
Look at this, it's sitting there it's absolutely stationary. At this point it will veer away from Bermuda and work its way out towards the ace or its way out there across the central Atlantic. So, we get four areas of interest and at this point again, all of them wants to make indirect to land if that all.
CHURCH: Right. That's how we're luck.
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JAVAHERI: Just so we're lucky but it won't happen too often.
CHURCH: We're about to see.
JAVAHERI: But yes, we'll go before (Ph) it, but hopefully, we won't have any direct impact.
CHURCH: All right. Hopefully, we can keep that happening, right?
JAVAHERI: Yes.
CHURCH: All right. Thanks so much, Pedram. Always a pleasure to chat. Well, Beyonce delivers a smashing performance at the MTV Video Music
Awards and Kanye West goes unscripted before presenting his new video. Those stories and more highlights of the night. Still to come. Stay with us.
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JAVAHERI: Pedram Javaheri. Weather Watch time
Right now the last couple of weeks of summer, right. If you a look some summer variety storms scattered about across the eastern half of the United States, the western U.S. remains rather calm.
Look at this, area of disturbance tropical depression nine watching it very carefully across western areas of Cuba and its produced a lot of rainfall in the last couple of days as it moves over a Gulf of Mexico that is just absolutely teaming with tremendous heat here.
The forecast would want the storm to strengthen. Fortunately, we have winds aloft or above the storm that are beginning to really shredded it apart. So that will limit how strong it gets. But a lot of rainfall headed towards the Big Bend of Florida and even eastern Florida gets some enhancement and the moisture coming off across this region and that will produce a lot of thunderstorms as well.
So, flooding concern really the main threat at this point across that region. There is another storm we're watching, this is tropical depression eight. So, this is particular one is not impressive on satellite imagery.
We do think this particular storm will also want to kind of veer away from the eastern U.S. coastline. The Carolina coastline there could get some heavy rainfalls out of this and certainly some damaging winds on the immediate coast. The main threat there in the next couple of days.
Temperatures looking over the 30s around the coast of say New York towards Atlanta. Denver at 28 degrees, San Francisco, not a bad day at 20 or so degrees. But the heat eventually will spread into the central U.S. and the heat wave will be in the work across that area
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CHURCH: The biggest names in music to send it on New York City Sunday night for the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Beyonce took home the moon man for the biggest award of the night and video of the year for music video formation.
The pop super star also stole with a jaw dropping 16-minute performance.
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Kanye West hits the VMA stage with an improvised and at times rambling speech. The rap star then introduced the video for his new single fade; he called his latest creation a quote, "Peace of my Art." It was big night for Rihanna. She received the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award performing a total of four time during the night to mark her achievement.
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Kim Serafin joins me now, she is the senior editor for In Touch Weekly magazine. Great to see you.
So, of course, had the MTV Video Music Awards the big prize belong to Beyonce but everyone loves to talk about the big spectacles, what tops everything, was it Beyonce?
KIM SERAFIN, IN TOUCH WEEKLY SENIOR EDITOR: Oh, yes. This is certainly Beyonce's night. Clearly she won video of year. She won that female video. And then she had that performance and that hadn't really been announced but it was leaked yesterday that she would be maybe performing that she's in secret rehearsals.
And this was an amazing performance. I mean, it's kind of like a mini concert that she did. She just covered the entire stage. She did kind of a couple of songs, of course, ending with the "Formation." And she looked amazing. She just dominated the stage and really she stood out.
And then a way Rihanna also who performed every five minutes, it felt like. Rihanna did I think four performances. So, I think even one of the comedian Kim feel (Ph) who are kind of doing commentary during the show made a joke saying it was the Rihanna featuring the VMA's.
But it really was the Rihanna and Beyonce show featuring the VMA's because it's just really was all about the two of these amazing women all night long.
CHURCH: It certainly looked that way. And Kanye West got, what, four minutes of the words to do whatever he wanted, did he use his time wisely, what's being said about that?
SERAFIN: Yes. This is funny because we didn't really know exactly what Kanye was he's going to do but he always makes this scene. Although this was actually kind of demure for Kanye, for Kanye's style and he's been in the feud with Taylor Swift so people were waiting to see what he would say about her. He did kind of make a joke saying people have been coming at him and saying take Taylor down and he said, I love you all, that's why I called Taylor.
So, he got into that little dig at Taylor. And then he introduced his own video that he was doing. But it was interesting, because he went on, you know, talking about people being shot in Chicago and his -- people he idolizes like Disney and Steve Jobs and himself.
So, Kanye, you know something is going to happen when you have Kanye speak and just give him to stage. So, but he's done a nice job. And I thought he's a little bit more contained than he normally is.
CHURCH: Yes. And of course, it has been 10 years since Britney Spears has performed at the VMA's. Well, they put her right after Beyonce, how did that go? That's pretty tough act to follow, isn't it? SERAFIN: Yes. You know, it's how Britney hadn't performed for, as you
mentioned in 10 years. And she's been kind of a staple for the VMA' for so long, we all remember whether it was her with the python or her kissing Madonna. I mean, she really defined so many memorable moments of the VMA.
So, there were so much build up and lead up to this. And she's of course been doing her show in Las Vegas. So, she's been performing. But even she said she was a little nervous. And it is. You know, everyone was watching to see how this was going. She looked incredible. I mean, she looked like the same girl that we saw 10 years ago and many years ago performing.
[03:55:04] There's always been questioning about whether Britney is singing or lip-synching. So, f course, people factor that in and wonder she is singing or lip-singing, but it's fine because she really did a good job. And there was again so much build up to this.
And you're right. It's hard to perform after Beyonce. Anyone would have a tough time. But I think she did a great job. And it's great to see her. And if you think about the Britney of who we remembered from what, 2008, 2009, she turned her life around and she looks great.
CHURCH: Yes, the critics have always been tough on her. Kim Serafin, always a pleasure to chat with you. Thanks so much. Kim.
SERAFIN: Thanks so much.
CHURCH: OK. How about this story. Six scientists have returned to civilization after living in a mass simulation habitat for a year on a Hawaiian volcano.
Volunteers from France, Germany, and the U.S. lived in an isolated dome set in a Mars-like environment about 2,500 meters or about 8200 feet above sea level. They only ventured out for simulated space walks dressed in mocked space suits.
The experiment was intended to study the effects of isolation will eventually help create guidelines for future mission to Mars. Great stuff.
And thanks to your company. Early Start for our viewers here in North America. And for from everyone else, stay tuned for more news with Max Foster in London. And you have yourself a great day.
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