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Typhoon Meranti Causing a Lot of Damage; Trump and Clinton Medical Details; Powell Rips Trump & Clinton in Leaked E-Mails; U.S. and Russia Extend Cease-Fire by 48 Hours; North Carolina Football Player Charged with Sexual Assault; Charles Mulli from Orphan to Kenyan Philanthropist. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired September 15, 2016 - 00:00   ET

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[00:00:11] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour --

ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: Assessing the damage after typhoon Meranti slammed into China with torrential rains and winds up to 238 kilometers per hour.

VAUSE: A former U.S. secretary of state in controversial e-mails. This time it's Colin Powell and the stolen e-mails which reveal what he really thinks of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

SESAY: Plus the doctor is in as both presidential candidates release medical details with Trump taking a swipe at Clinton's stamina.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I don't know, folks. Do you think hat Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this? I don't know.

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VAUSE: He's back.

Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm John Vause.

SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay.

NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

VAUSE: China has issued its highest storm warning for typhoon Meranti which made landfall in Fujian Province Thursday morning. Heavy rain and dangerous winds bringing fears of flash flooding and mudslides and will likely disrupt travel for millions celebrating China's mid-autumn festival.

SESAY: The powerful storm first struck Taiwan with torrential rain and wind faster than a Formula 1 race car. Nearly a million homes lost power.

VAUSE: CNN's Matt Rivers is live in the city of Xiamen (ph) not far from where Meranti made landfall. So Matt -- it made a landfall just a few hours ago. What are conditions there like at the moment and what are the concerns moving forward?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the conditions right now are actually quite lovely compared to what they were just a few hours ago. The storm actually moved through this area relatively quickly. We're right on the coast. Xiamen is actually a city that is just an island. To get where we are you have to cross a bridge.

While the storm came through though, it was incredibly brutal. The winds were up to 175-mile-an-hour gusts and you can see the damage behind me. Trees like this knocked over all over the city. Scenes like this repeated time and again. This is a road that certainly doesn't look like one any more.

And then if you will follow me over this way you can see that it's villages like this here -- this is a smaller, poorer neighborhood here in Xiamen that doesn't have the kind of infrastructure that the wealthier neighborhoods have.

So you can see right here many of the roofs are built with those aluminum sheets. They fly off immediately in winds like that. So this is the concern here moving forward for authorities is neighborhoods like this one, both in Xiamen and in the surrounding areas. If there are going to be casualty numbers and those numbers have not yet been released by the government. But if there are casualties, if there are deaths it is likely they're going to come from places like this -- John.

VAUSE: One of the other issues that they have right now. Apparently there has been some fairly extensive damage to the power grid and there's concern that it could be damaged as the typhoon moves further inland.

RIVERS: That's right. And we saw that first hand in our hotel. Basically, as soon as the typhoon made landfall, the power in our hotel immediately cut out. Thankfully we had a backup generator and we could still use a little bit of our equipment. But for the vast majority of people in this area they remain without power. Over a half million people at this point -- that is just one estimate. It's likely higher than that. And how quickly that power can be restored remains to be seen.

We have been out on the streets for six hours now and we have not seen one cleanup crew that is addressing any sort of electrical issue. You have trees down, branches down. You've got roofs that blew over. There is wires all over the place. And so first, you're going to have to make sure that the live wires on the ground are going to remain off until they can be repaired and then you have to bring the grid back up. So there is a lot of work that's left to be done here in order for all of these people affected by this to go back to some sort of normalcy. VAUSE: Ok. Matt -- thank you. Matt Rivers, live this hour with the

very latest from Xiamen -- not far from where Meranti actually made landfall a couple of hours ago.

SESAY: All right. Well let's bring in meteorologist, Derek Van Dam now who is tracking the storm from the International Weather Center for us. Derek -- good to see you.

At this stage what does Meranti look like now? How dangerous is it?

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, the storm, Isha is quickly disorganizing but at its strongest it was only 10 kilometers per hour weaker than the strongest landfalling typhoon which was Haiyan in the Philippines back in November of 2013. When it made landfall across the South East Asia coast in China, the Fujian Province, 230 kilometers per hour sustained winds and wow, did it cause some trouble.

[00:05:03] Look at these images. This is coming out of Taiwan. Remember it impacted this region with extremely high waves. That is a wave that is roughly over 45 feet or let's say 15 meters -- impressive stuff.

So let's highlight this particular area, the Fujian Province, and moving to the Xiamen region where Matt Rivers is located. You can see this particular region is very susceptible to storm surge. Of course, that threat has passed but the low-lying nature of this region makes it very vulnerable to typhoons of this magnitude.

But as we work our way inland -- this is the other concern as well. Look at the mountainous terrain across this part of the world. So going forward I really do anticipate mudslides and landslides to be the major concern.

Rainfall totals for the Fujian Province running along the east coast could immediately exceed 250 millimeters and, by the way, there is yet another tropical storm forming in the western Pacific -- John, Isha.

SESAY: Oh dear, it just doesn't seem to end.

VAUSE: Yes. Another bad weekend ahead.

Thanks -- Derek.

SESAY: Derek -- thank you.

VAUSE: Could this be a Trump surge just eight weeks before the presidential election? New polling in two key states have good news for the Republican nominee. The CNN/ORC survey of likely voters in Ohio has Trump up five points over Hillary Clinton -- 46 to 41. It is closer in Florida where Trump leads Clinton -- 47 to 44. That is within the margin of error.

SESAY: Well those numbers aren't likely to make Clinton feel much better but her physician says she is recovering well from her bout with pneumonia. Her campaign released new details from her doctor Wednesday. She says Clinton is healthy and in excellent mental condition.

VAUSE: Trump shared a letter from his physician on Wednesday with TV host, Dr. Oz.

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DR. MEHMET OZ, TV HOST: If your health is as strong as it seems from your review of systems, why not share your medical records? Why not --

TRUMP: Well, I have really no problem in doing it. I have it right here. I mean -- should I do it? I don't care. Should I do it?

It's two letters. One is the report and the other is from Lennox Hill Hospital.

OZ: May I see them?

TRUMP: Yes, sure.

OZ: So these are the reports from --

TRUMP: Those were all the tests that were just done last week.

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VAUSE: Joining us now is Mo Kelly. He is the host of "The Mo Kelly Show" and "The Mo Kelly Experience" radio programs in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mo -- thanks for coming back in.

MO KELLY, RADIO HOST: Thank you for having me.

VAUSE: Ok. We're going to have to wait until Thursday here in the United States for the Dr. Oz episode to find out what was actually in those letters and what Dr. Oz has to say.

But you know, this does smell of a political stunt by Donald Trump. You know, on the one side you have the Clinton campaign which really seems to be taking this seriously releasing a lot of detailed information about her current physical health. Trump though releasing a few details on a TV show hosted by a doctor who's been berated by Congress as a guy who, you know, sells sham products (inaudible). So this does seem kind of dubious by the Trump camp.

KELLY: Well, there are two things you could recognize from this. Donald Trump one, has been consistent in everything that he does. He plays to the cameras and makes sure that he is a showman.

And also secondarily, there are two standards here. You have Donald Trump who is willing to just giving a television presentation of his medical records yet at the same time there has been more, I'll say, consternation surrounding Hillary Clinton's health and she is giving more information and also more tax information. They are looked at as widely two different people as far as the expectations.

SESAY: Yes. This is about the appearance of being transparent, I think people would say.

I mean Donald Trump -- I mean we all know he has this love of fast food. I mean he has made no secret of that. We've seen the pictures of him with KFC and pictures of him with McDonald's. I mean he loves the stuff. So, you know, it shouldn't come a surprise that as part of this disclosure, if you will, today we find out that he is over weight, right.

We don't know how overweight. I mean at some point he said he was 236 pounds during the Oz taping. At other points there are reports that he said he was 276. Either way, he is not exactly the epitome of health which is what he's been pushing to the voters.

KELLY: No and we shouldn't have to diagnose from a distance. We know that he is at least moderately overweight. Can we get some information about his blood pressure or cholesterol levels? He admitted to taking a statin. So that is something that he is at least mildly concerned with. And you have someone who would be the oldest president in the history of the United States if he is elected.

This is necessary information. This goes back to FDR in 1944. The power and health of the nation is sometimes aligned with the health of the would-be leader. So if Donald Trump is not of the health that he is alleging then the American people need to know that. Obviously he is asking Hillary Clinton to release that information. He should be -- has to do the same.

VAUSE: There was another clip, a brief one released from the "Dr. Oz Show" and Donald Trump very happy to boast about his stamina.

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OZ: Let's talk about stamina.

TRUMP: Yes.

[00:10:00] OZ: You use that word a lot. You made it an issue in this campaign. You argue that a president has to have a tremendous amount of stamina. If elected at age 70, you'll be the oldest person to ever enter the Oval Office. Why do you think you have the stamina for the job?

TRUMP: Yes. Just about the same age as Ronald Reagan and Hillary is a year behind me. I would say, just based on my life, I mean I've had -- I actually and I don't know if this makes -- I feel as good today as I did when I was 30.

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VAUSE: This is a big issue for Donald Trump because just a few hours after that he went after Hillary Clinton and her lack of stamina.

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TRUMP: It is hot. And it's always hot when I perform because the crowds are so big. These rooms were not designed for this kind of a crowd. I don't know folks, you think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this? I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so.

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VAUSE: I guess we can take away from that the uncharacteristic restraint that we saw from Donald Trump.

KELLY: Relative --

VAUSE: No criticizing Hillary Clinton and her medical condition. But we're back to name calling now?

KELLY: Not only that Donald Trump does have the benefit of not having that negative optic of stumbling. We can say it is a conspiracy theory up until you have actual evidence of there something not quite right with Hillary Clinton. Whether it is chronic or whether it was just a singular incident of pneumonia -- time will tell.

But he has a pass because we don't have that type visual evidence. If something else were to happen to Hillary Clinton we will look at this altogether differently and less of a conspiracy. But yes, you can trumpet the idea that you have great stamina if you are giving 20- minute speeches and nothing is physically wrong with you. But let's not diagnose or think of that as actually indicative of great health.

SESAY: Let's talk about the polls because new polling shows the race tightening in a number of swing states.

Let's bring up John King's analysis of the numbers as he breaks it all down for us.

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JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF U.S. CORRESPONDENT: Two new CNN polls in two of the biggest battleground states in presidential politics and the one headline, "momentum for Donald Trump".

First let's look at Ohio -- among likely voters a five-point Trump lead, 46 to 41, over Secretary Clinton; the third party candidates getting a combined 10 percent.

What is driving this? Here's one key factor. In recent weeks we have seen in other battleground states Hillary Clinton on top among college-educated white voters. Traditionally Republican voters but she has been leading in other battleground states -- not in Ohio. Trump leading 47 percent to 38 percent among white college grads, and look at this, trouncing her among the white working class -- white non-college graduates -- by 30 points there.

Watch that as we watch other battleground states coming ahead.

One other key point, Hillary Clinton needs to run it up among women. The Republican candidate, as Donald Trump is here in Ohio, generally wins among men. Look at this: only a two-point lead for Clinton -- 44-42 percent among women. That is a problem for Secretary Clinton in battleground Ohio.

Let's move down to Florida now and take 29 electoral votes, the biggest prize of the toss-up states out there on the table, and this one is within the margin of error so you could call it a statistical tie. But advantage Trump -- 47 percent to 44 percent; the third-party candidates getting a combined 7 here. And we see some of the same factors including this education.

Again in North Carolina and Pennsylvania recently, Clinton has been winning among white college graduates; in Florida Trump wins by eight points. And look at this, wow, 64 to 25 among white non-college graduates. Donald Trump running up the white vote, his movement is growing support among college graduates quite significant.

And one other quick point if the president is struggles in a state the Democrat trying to succeed him struggles as well. In both Ohio and Florida, yes, 48 percent approve of the President but a majority disapproved of his job performance right now. If the President is under water as the pollsters call this, Secretary Clinton struggles.

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SESAY: So Mo, is this just a growth spurt for Trump or is this something more?

KELLY: He had a good week -- I will say he had a good two weeks. Part of that is because of the negative optics with Hillary Clinton. But let's not forget when you talk about polling that's almost like trying to -- it's not analogous to a 110-meter hurdle race and you are trying to talk about how someone does in a 100-yard dash. It's a different metric. It's not a good way to measure it.

Donald Trump maybe doing well in the polls this week but it doesn't mean anything when you talk about Electoral College. He can win Ohio, he can win Florida but unless he wins Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nevada he still doesn't have a path to 270. This is much ado about nothing.

SESAY: All right.

VAUSE: 50 elections come November, not one. Obviously it's going to be a big day. Mo -- thanks for being with us.

SESAY: Thank you. Appreciate it.

KELLY: Thank you for having me.

SESAY: All right.

We're getting an unfiltered view of both candidates from a former top diplomat. Colin Powell has blunt words for Clinton and Trump in private e-mails that had been leaked.

VAUSE: Brian Todd reports the leak is intensifying concerns about hackers trying to influence the presidential election.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The politically savvy former secretary of state tears into Donald Trump. Colin Powell saying of his fellow Republican, quote, "Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah". Powell calls the birther movement which Trump once helped lead racist.

[00:15:05] But Powell doesn't spare Hillary Clinton either in e-mails slamming Clinton for her handling of her personal e-mails while she was secretary of state.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone.

TODD: Powell wrote quote, "Everything HRC touches, she kind of screws up with hubris." And saying in 2014 quote, "I would rather not have to vote for her: unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational." But he also calls the Benghazi event quote, "a stupid witch hunt".

An aide to Powell confirms the2 e-mails are accurate but won't comment further. Powell's e-mails were stolen, posted to a site called DCLeaks, which is affiliated with recent hacks of high-profile figures.

Was Powell targeted by the same hackers who hit the Democratic National Committee who U.S. officials believe to be Russian? According to evidence assembled by the cyber security firm, ThreatConnect, there is a strong connection between DCLeaks and a well-known hacker called Guccifer 2.0.

RICH BARGER, CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, THREATCONNECT: We've established Guccifer 2.0 as a likely outlet for Russian influence. And so in this example we have Guccifer 2.0 engaging with another journalist and trying to bait them into writing a story about some leaked content. We have Guccifer 2.0 sharing credentials to private content on the DCLeaks Web site.

TODD: That means Guccifer, who analysts believe is tied to the Russians, wouldn't be able to provide a password to DCLeaks without a connection to them.

The Powell e-mails, first reported by BuzzFeed and the intercept are notable because Powell has not yet publicly endorsed either candidate -- his opinion, generating buzz in the campaign's final weeks. This is the latest in the steady drumbeats of hacks of American politicians that are believed to have been carried out on behalf of Vladimir Putin.

If true, what's his motive?

FIONA HILL, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: This is basically putting out there for the American public, for the world and also for Russian, very important, domestic political audience look at what is happening in the United States. Do you really think that this picture that we're seeing here is any better than any of the other systems around the world? And what gives these people who are engaged in this kind of dirty politics the right to make pronouncements on our political systems?

TODD: Is DCLeaks.com the site that posted the Colin Powell e-mails really connected to Russian intelligence. DCLeaks describes itself as the work of American hacktivists.

Vladimir Putin himself has denied any connection to hacks of the Democratic Party. And Putin's spokesman has come out and said that the accusation of Russian interference in the U.S. election is an example of quote, "Russophobia".

Brian Todd -- CNN, Washington.

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VAUSE: And of course Donald Trump has tweeted. He said this a short time ago on Twitter. "I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Disaster. We can do much better."

Here we are.

SESAY: We waited for the response.

VAUSE: Took it longer than we thought actually.

SESAY: Then it came.

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SESAY: All right. A quick break here on CNN NEWSROOM.

When we come back -- why food and medicine still isn't making its way into Aleppo more than 48 hours after the Syrian ceasefire began?

VAUSE: Also ahead, a new film tells the story of a Kenyan author who grew up to build a business empire. We'll talk to the man who is now saving thousands of children from the misery he escaped.

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VAN DAM: An area of disorganized thunderstorms off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina has formed into tropical storm Julia. This is something we need to monitor for the next several days to come because it is not going to move from its current position any time soon. So the potential for this to intensify is definitely there.

65 kilometers per hour, sustained winds -- the main threats going forward, at least for the next 24 hours, will be the potential for heavy rainfall and strong gusty winds especially right along the coastal areas of South Carolina specifically into the Charleston region.

You can see our high-res forecast radar across that area still showing showers and thunderstorms through the course of the early weekend. Rainfall totals across this area could easily exceed 150 millimeters thanks to the slow movement of this tropical storm. Let's talk of other areas in the United States. We have temperatures in the lower 30s across the Deep South -- Atlanta, 33 degrees. If you're traveling to Los Angeles, 22. New York very comfortable 23 degrees with sunshine overhead, giving you a taste of fall across the New England Coast.

Belize City will top 31, Havana 32, Kingston, Jamaica 32, San Juan, Puerto Rico expecting a few showers by the afternoon. Inland communities of Brazil in the 30s, cooler as you head towards the coast, Rio at 27.

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VAUSE: With the ceasefire in Syria mostly holding, Russia and the U.S. have agreed to a 48-hour extension.

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MARK TONER, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: Despite sporadic reports of violence, as a whole, the arrangement is holding and violence is I'd say significantly lower in comparison to previous days and weeks.

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SESAY: Well, the ceasefire was also supposed to pave the way for humanitarian aid to reach more than 250,000 people in Aleppo. So far that hasn't worked out. The U.N. is still waiting on the security guarantees it needs before it sends food, fuel and medicine into the city.

VAUSE: CNN's military analyst Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona joins us now from Fort Orford in Oregon. Colonel -- thank you for being with us.

If the U.N. and other groups are not able to deliver that aid especially to places like Aleppo, will that undermine the ceasefire?

LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Sure. That was one of the key points that Secretary Kerry was after when he agreed to work with the Russians. I think that was one of the deciding factors to do what most people feel is a little distasteful.

As you know there is a lot of pushback in the U.S. military and the Department of Defense to the Secretary of State's proposals to work with the Russians. The President is, of course, going to overrule that but the key thing is to get humanitarian aid into these cities.

VAUSE: The ceasefire as we've been told does not apply to the jihadi groups. Russian quarters claim to have killed about 250 ISIS (inaudible) near Palmyra. They also say they prevented a major offensive to retake that town. What do you make of those claims?

FRANCONA: I think that is probably valid. You know, the Russians are authorized to be striking those targets and that area is, you know, an ISIS stronghold. And they're going to have to clear that area before anybody makes any move on Raqqa especially from the south. So I think the Russians are adhering to the agreement there. But

there are other areas of the country in which they're not adhering to the agreement. But I think the more egregious violations are those conducted by the Syrian air force. They're still using those barrel bombs against civilian targets in areas in which there is no ISIS or designated terrorist present.

But, you know, the Syrians regard anybody that's opposing the government to be a terrorist. So the Russians are going to have to weigh in with the Syrians and have them comply with the terms of this agreement if it has any chance of success.

VAUSE: As we extend the ceasefire for another 48 hours it is moving closer to that seven-day threshold where the U.S. and the Russians, I guess in theory at least, will start working together targeting groups like ISIS.

[00:25:02] Is there a wider concern here that those operations, if they go ahead, could reveal to the Russians essentially intelligence gathering by the United States? How they actually go about finding their targets, and they could have problems elsewhere in Europe and maybe other parts of the world?

FRANCONA: Yes. We're going to be revealing sources and methods. There's no way to get around that. And when we tell the Russians what we believe the locations are, they're going to tell us what they believe as well. But they will able to see where we believe and where we will know that those opposition groups are allied with the United States are because we're going to put them on a "do not bomb" list.

But I guarantee you, John, that list is going to find its way to Damascus very, very quickly. And if this agreement fails the Syrian Air Force will know exactly where to go to kill all of those rebels that we've been supporting.

VAUSE: Very quickly, you mentioned the rift which is growing between the State Department as well as the Pentagon. There are some military commanders who essentially have not really indicated they are on board with this plan to carry out the joint operations. Eventually if they are ordered by the President, they will, but what does that say to you about the current state of play?

FRANCONA: Well, I think we're very concerned about the damage that the Russians are doing with basically dropping gravity free-fall bombs. I mean we -- virtually every weapon we drop is precision- guided against a validated target.

What the Russians are doing is just dropping huge amounts of munitions without any guidance at all. They are killing so many civilians. They're causing so much infrastructure damage and it rankles the American military people to be placed and working with these same kind of people.

VAUSE: Ok. Colonel -- thank you very much. Colonel Rick Francona giving some analysis there. We appreciate it, sir. Thank you.

FRANCONA: Good to be with you.

SESAY: Time for a quick break.

A U.S. college football player accused of rape has turned himself in. But the alleged victim says authorities and the school waited way too long to take action.

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[00:30:20] SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles, I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: And I'm John Vause.

Let's check the headlines this hour.

Typhoon Meranti has made landfall in China's Fujian Province. Meteorologists predict the storm will bring heavy rain and flooding to the east over the next 48 hours. The powerful storm first battered Taiwan with dangerous winds and torrential rain.

SESAY: The U.S. and Russia are extending the ceasefire in Syria another 48 hours. U.S. says there have been violations on both sides. But a monitoring group says no deaths have been reported. The U.N. is still trying to get security assurances so it can deliver aid to people trapped in Aleppo.

VAUSE: Hillary Clinton's doctor says she is healthy and in excellent mental condition. Her campaign released new details, Wednesday, after she was diagnosed with pneumonia. Donald Trump shared a letter from his physician with TV host Dr. Oz. Only his members say Trump reveal he doesn't exercise and would like to lose 15 pounds. What that's been in kilograms.

SESAY: Now a U.S. college football player accused of raping another student has turned himself in. But the woman accusing him says she's angry over the way authorities and the school had handled the case.

VAUSE: Prosecutors charged Allen Artis with sexual battery and assault, both misdemeanours seven months after the alleged attack. The woman says Artis pinned her down and raped her at an apartment on the University of North Carolina's campus. The district attorney says a felony investigation is underway. Artis has not responded to the allegations.

SESAY: Ambrosio Rodriguez is a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. He also led Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit at the Riverside County District Attorney's office right here in Southern California.

Mr. Rodriguez, thank you so much for joining us.

Delaney Robinson's alleged assault took place in back in February, and yet here we are in September. And the district attorney's office says the lab results are pending and the investigation is still ongoing.

Does that match -- does that timeline match your knowledge of investigations into allegations of rape on college campuses?

AMBROSIO RODRIGUEZ, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: No, not necessarily. These kind of cases are extremely difficult to prosecute simply because you have a he said/she said situation in which his version of events especially given the fact that he is innocent until proven guilty make it very difficult for the district attorney's office to prosecute these kind of cases.

As far as the fact that the toxicology report has taken so long seems hard to believe these reports, or these lab results usually take about 30 days to get back to the investigating agencies as to whether or not there -- the level of alcohol involved. That's in a person's blood stream.

SESAY: There are many aspects of this case that are troubling including the way Delaney Robinson says she was treated during the investigation. She said she was asked, quote, "humiliating and accusatory questions" by the investigators including what she was wearing, did she lead him on and had they hooked up before.

Meanwhile, she says the interviews with her alleged attacker took a completely different tone. She says they told him, don't sweat it. Just keep on living your life and playing football. All of which paints the picture of rape not being taken seriously.

I mean, what's your experience when you've encountered school officials under these circumstances?

RODRIGUEZ: There's -- I think that half of the --- and I watched her press conference. I think half of the questions that were asked by the police were appropriate.

That is, did she know him? How much she had to drink? Whether or not they had any kind of sexual relationships before this alleged incident. The other questions were not appropriate at all.

As to the way he was question, whether or not the police were trying to build a rapport to try to get him to kind of good cop him into making statements that could be used against him, that could have been part of it as well.

I think the bigger problem in this case like we see in all these university sexual assault cases is the competence of the police agencies that patrol these universities.

The fact of the matter is no one who goes into the police academy has their dream to work as a police officer at a university. They have bigger dreams.

The top police departments get the best recruits. The best recruits end up becoming detectives. And being a detective in a sexual assault unit like Los Angeles, or any major metropolitan area, you have to be the best of the best because of how complicated these cases are and how difficult they are to prove.

And I don't think you have that in most universities. I don't care how elite the university is. You're not going to attract that kind of police officer to work for you.

[00:35:06] SESAY: So in the absence of criminal charges, Delaney Robinson took advantage of North Carolina law, and she filed two self- sworn civil warrants against her alleged attacker for misdemeanor assault on a female and misdemeanor sexual battery, which a magistrate issued.

What are her chances in court?

RODRIGUEZ: Well, I mean, I see this more as a political statement than really a criminal case. The standard of proof either in a felony or misdemeanor is the same. It's beyond a reasonable doubt. And she would still rely on the district attorney's office to prosecute this case and take it to jury.

This is a very difficult case to prove. That's why the district attorney's office didn't file it. All she has from what we see in her press conference is her word and we have a report from a nurse practitioner.

SESAY: And we have pictures, we have pictures as well.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, right. But a picture doesn't really mean anything unless it can be given the proper context. And right now, it just says that she has a bruise and that's it.

There's no DNA. There's no touch DNA. We have no evidence. And I think we would have known by now whether or not there is even any evidence that they had sexual intercourse vis-a-vis DNA evidence, right? Because a sexual assault exam, they do vaginal swabs and general swabs in order to see whether DNA has been left behind. And that kind of DNA is very telling in a situation like this.

SESAY: Well, Ambrosio Rodriguez, we really appreciate you coming on and giving us some expert's insight. Thank you so much.

Rodriguez: Thank you.

VAUSE: And we'll take a short break.

When we come back, a wealthy Kenyan businessman who grew up as an orphan is now rescuing thousands of children from the life he escaped. We'll talk to him, next.

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SESAY: An upcoming documentary film tells the story of a Kenyan businessman who is helping to give thousands of children a better life. Charles Mulli grew up in poverty after his parents abandon him. But he got an education and went on to build a profitable transportation company.

VAUSE: He then dedicated his life to helping the thousands of children orphaned in Kenya. He created the Mully Children's Family Foundation which has now helped more than 12,000 children.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He needed to sell everything and start helping the poor in the society. The children were abandoned.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you let go of what you hold dearly. And how do you decide when to share your love?

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SESAY: Welcome. It's so good to have you here with us.

Charles, you, yourself, had a difficult childhood and it took a huge amount of effort to become a success, which you did.

Why did you decide to give all of that up so that you could help Kenya's street children? Why not just decide to keep the life you had and do this on the side?

[00:40:00] CHARLES MULLI, CEO, MULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY FOUNDATION: Well, having gone through tumult, difficulties, abuse, and then after sometimes when I got up and started a business out of the business that I acquired all the wealth that a man really could have, I flashed back a long time ago when I was abandoned by my parents and all the people around me.

They rejected me and they couldn't listen to me in anyway. And for ten years, I went through difficulties and scavenging food from the dust bin and mostly begging and had deliver all these kind of problem, that made me really, to change, my world view.

SESAY: When you suddenly found yourself the father of all these children, watching the film, which is an incredible film, I should say, it feels like -- I mean, it feels like it happened overnight. Suddenly you were father to all these extra children.

What was that like, what was that like for you and your wife?

MULLI: Of course, it is really a great thing, ever. In one's person's life because caring for all these kind of children, abandoned children, children who have really mental illness and drugs addiction, prostitution, street children, open of this -- really, it's the greatest ever, ever greater thing to do in one's life. And so, for me. I have felt like there is nothing else that I could do better than that one.

SESAY: But it must have been difficult at points. I mean, what were some of the challenges you faced?

MULLI: Of course, it is very difficult. It is, of course, very challenging because of the behaviors of the character of the street, and then having all the street gangs be able to breakthrough and to convince them to follow me, to really to create that environment of a family, it's not easy. It's really very difficult.

But, however, the challenges of course are there to sharpen our life. And all these children are like when you look for gold down the deep, you have to dig so deep, so that you can give the gold.

And, you know, having these kind of children who are not really good and who are never good and to bring them, to rehabilitate them, give them number one, food, then you provide shelter, a place where they can stay, education, water, and health and mentally, counseling them, loving them the best of all, but it is a big challenge.

SESAY: Did you ever think about just quitting? Did you ever think about say, you know what, this is too difficult, it's too hard. I'm going to go back to my old life. I'm going to go back to making money?

MULLI: Well, you know, mine is a very unique call. And God called me and gave me this vision. Having been gone through turmoils, problem. And that difficulties with all the abuse that I faced during my time, I felt like, yes, I'm going to do something.

This something special is really to bring up these young people, give them food, give them education, mentor them, and then they become great men and women in our continent in Africa, in the world.

You know, one of the thing I am so concerned is about the future generation. The future generation who will never be able to be stable unless we put effort this moment now. And time is now to be able to change them through helping them, support them, equipping them, empowering them. And the women that we also help. Young women, there's been so much abused, to be able to put them on the high level so that they can have a voice.

SESAY: And be heard.

MULLI: Yes.

SESAY: Well, Charles Mulli, it's incredible work that you are doing. I know that all the kids call you Daddy Mulli.

Daddy Mulli, it's just incredible. You are making the world a better place. Thank you for coming in to speak to us.

MULLI: Thank you so much for having me here. And have a wonderful time. And CNN, you know, is really wonderful. One of the best, you know, resources of information.

SESAY: Thank you.

MULLI: Everywhere.

SESAY: We're going the use that in a promo. Thank you.

VAUSE: Absolutely, we will. (INAUDIBLE), Daddy Mulli.

Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay. He's a special soul.

VAUSE: Yes, totally.

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