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Report: Clinton Steps Up Push for Millennial Voters; Officer Killed Weeks After Planning Comrade's Funeral; 103-Year Old Woman Votes for Clinton; Alec Baldwin Will Play Trump in New SNL Show; Two Minnesota Sisters Die in Seychelles Hotel Under Mysterious Circumstances; Isha Deselle Helps Homeless Seniors; Heckling Golfer Is Challenged to Make a Putt and Succeeds, Wins $100. Aired 3:30-4p ET

Aired September 30, 2016 - 15:30   ET

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[15:30:00] POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: In the final weeks of this election Hillary Clinton is stepping up effort for young voters. Polls show she is lagging behind in winning over this critical group and CNN's chief political correspondent, Dana Bash reports the Clinton camp is taking notice.

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DANA BASH, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: At field offices in 280 college campuses, millennials work the phones for Hillary Clinton.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was wondering if you would like to do some voter registration or a phone bank with us this weekend.

BASH: Young voters fueled President Obama's win, he got 60 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds in 2012, nearly 20 percent of the vote and now it could be growing.

LILLIE CATLIN, NORTH CAROLINA, YOUTH VOTE DIRECTOR, CLINTON CAMPAIGN: Young people could represent 25% of the vote.

BASH: Team Clinton is putting such a premium on directors in key battleground states, Lillie Catlin runs North Carolina and says social media is key.

CATLIN: We can't necessarily knock on every door, students move every year. So having those kinds of conversations but through your text list or through twitter.

BASH: still, polls show Clinton is underperforming with millennials so the campaign is deploying high-profile surrogates. Bernie Sanders is lobbying his army of young supporters.

BERNIE SANDERS, FORMER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is imperative that we elect Hillary Clinton as our next president.

BASH: Chelsea Clinton is hopscotching college towns. Why has it been so hard for your mom to do that? To get people your age to get behind her? CHELSEA CLINTON, DAUGHTER OF HILLARY CLINTON: Dana, thank you for including me in the millennial demographic, I'm just at the older end. If we think about the younger millennials, we think only about 55 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds who are even registered to vote at the beginning of 2016, so that says to me we just need to be doing a better job collectively on making the case of what's at stake in this election.

BASH: At East Carolina University in North Carolina we heard why it's been so hard. What is your experience on getting your friends on the Hillary Clinton train?

ANNIKEN WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT, COLLEGE DEMOCRATS, NORTH CAROLINA: It's been pretty difficult, especially because a lot of young people, especially here, were for Bernie Sanders.

BASH: One Sanders supporter challenged Chelsea directly saying the primary was rigged for Clinton.

ZACHARY PATE, STUDENT, EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: What moral ground does Hillary Clinton have to stand on to continue running as the Democratic nominee?

CHELSEA CLINTON: I would hope as someone who clearly is a passionate supporter of senator Sanders that you'll listen to him directly and not rely on me to make the case.

BASH: He really came to protest and walked out holding a sign for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. You don't think Jill Stein can win, can you?

PATE: I think we're going to establish party power and relevance for the Green Party by doing what we're doing.

BASH: Losing millennials to third party candidates is a dire concern for Clinton.

MICHELE OBAMA, FIRST LADY: If you vote for someone other than Hillary or don't vote at all then you are helping to elect Hillary's opponent.

BASH: For some, that's working. Eric Jenkins was a Sanders Delegate who told us Clinton's college affordability plan convinced him.

ERIC JENKINS, STUDENT, NORTH CAROLINA: Leveling out the cuts in colleges and states and also making the federal government match it four fold.

BASH: But stroll through campus, it's clear Clinton has work to do. Who are you going to vote for?

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Jill Stein.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Hillary Clinton.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: I'm undecided.

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HARLOW: Dana joins me now along with "Washington Post" reporter David Weiger.

Dana, that was a great piece, we don't hear from millennial voters enough. She's got 39 days to convince them to come out to vote and the enthusiasm gap, whether the campaign says it or not, is a real thing and you saw it there. How does she have to change her messaging, what she does, where she goes to do it?

BASH: They're definitely employing these high profile surrogates, you saw in the piece Bernie Sanders was out with Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire this week. President Obama and Michelle Obama are going to get out there big time, and appeal to this particular group and others but really have a focus targeting millennials.

The thing that they really are -- lots of things they're most worried about are the third-party candidates, you saw the one student who was for Jill Stein, in other parts of the country, even in North Carolina and the polls show Gary Johnson is drawing big time from younger voters. And that's why you heard Hillary Clinton herself say this week, Poppy, that if you vote for a Gary Johnson, the way it will shake out is she believes it's effectively a vote for Donald Trump.

So that's the message they're trying to get throughout along with the substance, things like her plans on college affordability which by the way she did with Bernie Sanders.

HARLOW: She did. Big time this week. Folks, millennials. Let's pause for a moment and listen to someone a little more senior. A 103- year-old woman voting for Hillary Clinton.

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RULINE STEININGER, 103-YEAR OLD VOTER: I never thought I'd vote for a woman for president but I'm glad the time has come.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You made, it!

STEININGER: Do I have an audience?

POLL WORKER: You do. It says Democratic party, that's what you want?

STEININGER: Yes.

POLL WORKER: You have to put in the box.

STEININGER: This is the most important election I have that ever voted in.

POLL WORKER: And now you're about to drop it in.

STEININGER: Oh, I sure am.

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HARLOW: There you have it. 103 years old and going strong.

Guys I want to pivot and talk about plans for Saturday night. Are you watching "Saturday Night Live"? You will have a new Donald Trump, one performed by Alec Baldwin. Let's look.

So, Dave, you just wrote a great piece entitled "Can "SNL" take down Donald Trump? Is it going to try?" in the "Washington Post." What do you think is the material already written for him after a week like this?

DAVE WEIGER, REPORTER, WASHINGTON POST: We know they've been testing it and we know the staff watched the debate and is going to mirror that in Alex Baldwin's words. A parody obviously but mirror what Trump did. Had the show premiered before the debate it might have been more critical but what I've noticed in comedy in general and with comedy writers for SNL too, is a worry that over the last year Donald Trump wasn't taken seriously.

He was a funny character insulting people who couldn't possibly win. Hillary Clinton was a familiar character who is power hungry and needed a parody. We've seen a lot of places in comedy but "SNL" too, people worrying they made Trump too likable, Hillary too unlikable and I don't think they'll skew their jokes to switch the election but I think that unconsciously has become part of the conversation in the writers' room.

BASH: Except they had Donald Trump as a guest host so they contributed to that, right?

WEIGER: They're very aware of that.

BASH: I can't get the image of him singing "Hotline Bling" by Drake and doing that dance "Out of My Mind". We will never un-see that.

HARLOW: Well, they do have a lot of power, right, Dave? You have six to seven million viewers on average per Saturday night for "SNL" not to mention all the clips you've seen online. And it was not just one or two folks who left the 2008 campaign season who said it was Sarah Palin not Tina Fey who said "I can see Russia from my house."

WEIGER: There is real awareness among "SNL" alumna, people who can speak about how the show affected culture but there's a real awareness that Will Farrell's impression of George W. Bush made him seem more likable than Will Farrell even wanted. And the Tina Fey thing was almost a correction of that.

Horatio Sanz was on the show for a while said basically they made up for what they did with George W. Bush with the Tina Fey impression. And you mentioned the Trump appearance last year that was very controversial. Members of congress met with NBC executives to protest that unsuccessfully.

And that cast a shadow, as does Jimmy Fallon's interview with Donald Trump this month where he tousled his hair. I have heard a lot of people in comedy say that was really a pivot moment where they thought, people will look back at us -- and not like they had one meeting where they decided this.

But a lot of people independently saying we look back at comedians and say did we really let this happen? We enabled this because we thought he was

funny?

HARLOW: Dana, David, thank you, we appreciate it. We'll be watching for sure Saturday night. Coming up next, mystery in paradise. Two American sisters found dead in their hotel room in a resort in the Seychelles. Their family in Minnesota desperate for answers, details in what we have just learned in this case ahead.

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HARLOW: A family desperate for answers after two American sisters vacationing at a luxury resort off the coast of East Africa are found dead.

Here's what we know, Robin and Annie Korkki were found unresponsive in their villa in the Seychelles. Police say the bodies showed no signs of violence and now just-released preliminary autopsy results deepen the mystery. Our correspondent Rosa Flores is following the story. Rosa, these are young women from Minnesota. What do we know about them and what does the autopsy tell us now?

ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, Poppy, what we know right now from authorities is that they do have the autopsy report and that autopsy raises more questions than it does answers about what happened to these women. Here's what we know from authorities. They say this autopsy shows that the older sister, Robin, died from acute pulmonary edema and the younger sister, Annie, died from acute pulmonary and cerebral edema.

These women were found in their villas by hotel staff so this really is very confusing for the family, of course, who wants to know what happened to them. Here's what we know about when they were seen last according to police the night before these two women died. They were seen by hotel staff heavily intoxicated, hotel staff to police helped them to their villa.

According to police the next morning resort management found the two women. According to investigators, they're looking into what happened to these women, they've collected what they call specimens from their villa to examine for toxicology purposes but they're not telling us more and, Poppy, very confusing for the family. We've talked to the family and they tell us they're trying to get more answers from investigators and they have not gotten more answers. Poppy?

HARLOW: Tragedy, thank you. We'll bring more on the Korkki sisters, of course, as straight as we have it.

Straight ahead, it was a moment you had to see to believe. An American fan got caught heckling the pros at this year's Ryder Cup. Their response, challenge him. Come on the green and make the putt yourself. Guess what? He sunk it. That quote/unquote amateur golfer joins me live next. [15:45:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARLOW: It wasn't quite a hole in one but a golf fan turned heckler just hit the putt that he will be talked about, I guarantee you, for the rest of his life. During a practice-round at the Ryder Cup an American fan was heckling Rory McIlroy and his teammates, McIlroy kept missing the putt and that's when the North Dakota man stole the show. To raise the stakes a European golfer offered David Johnson $100 if he could make the putt.

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DAVID JOHNSON, HECKLER AND AMATEUR GOLFER: Yes!

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

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HARLOW: Ha, ha. Joining me is the man himself, Dave Johnson who made the clutch shot. How you feeling today?

JOHNSON: I'm feeling well today, thank you for asking. Thanks for having me.

HARLOW: I'm so thrilled for you. What an amazing moment.

[15:50:00] You say somehow it just fell in. Come on, mine would have been way in the trap --

JOHNSON: I'm sorry I missed it.

HARLOW: You said it just fell in, but I tend to think you practiced this?

JOHNSON: I can't hear you, I'm sorry.

HARLOW: Oh, no. You can't hear me. Can you hear me now? One, two, three.

JOHNSON: Are you there?

HARLOW: I'm here.

JOHNSON: Yes, what was the question.

HARLOW: All right good. Yay, we have you back. You said somehow this shot just fell in, is that right?

JOHNSON: It is right. Yes. I -- I managed to get a read that I thought was the correct read. I was told by afterwards by both Rory and Henrik that it was probably the worse read I could hit but for some reason it went it. I hit it just hard enough I guess.

HARLOW: I guess you did. Hey, what was the response from Stenson and McIlroy, what did they say? JOHNSON: It was wild. From the video from I believe Rory's caddy

took when you could see the guys falling to the ground a little bit. Laughing in shock. It was just a cool moment. So fun to relive it as I can hear it in the back ground.

HARLOW: Hey, any endorsement? Any endorsement, any sponsorship offers come your way, my friend?

JOHNSON: There has not been, no. Unfortunately, I'm certainly open to the idea.

HARLOW: Clearly you are. We will give them your phone number after the segment.

JOHNSON: All right.

HARLOW: You got the $100 cash prize. But I heard you didn't accept it right away.

JOHNSON: The $100 check has been signed and stored away safely.

HARLOW: Who are you going to heckle next?

JOHNSON: You know I think I'm best just to enjoy some golf.

HARLOW: I think -- I think that's a good -- a good point. Thank you for being with us. Incredible moment. One you will show to your kids and grandkids, no question. Have a great weekend.

JOHNSON: Thanks. Thanks for letting me. Appreciate it.

HARLOW: Of course.

Now to this week's CNN Hero. More than 25 million senior citizens live in poverty and a segment of this population is especially fragile, easily falling

outside of any financial safety net into homelessness. Our CNN Hero is shining a light on this forgotten group.

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ISHA DESELLE, FOUNDER, TURNING POINT CENTER, HOUSTON: When you are older living on the street, it's a very scary place. You are much more vulnerable. The people who are in between the ages of 50 and 62, society -- they need help. It is like you don't exist. And that's wrong

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HARLOW: To see how she is lifting the elderly out of homelessness to give them new beginnings go to CNNheroes.com. We'll be right back.

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HARLOW: He was an army veteran and wrote a guide book on how to bury his comrade and then he ran into danger on a day he wasn't even supposed to be doing his job. Our Ryan Young reports.

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CHIEF TERRY ZEIGLER, KANSAS CITY POLICE: I heard something to my right yell, no. And I said I've got to say this and I've got to say this quick, Brad Lancaster is dead.

RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In May Kansas City Police Detective Brad Lancaster was fatally shot. Captain Robert Dave Melton not only served in the police honor guard --

ZEIGLER: He put that whole plan together. I mean, it was beautiful. The way the casket enters the stadium and the fly over of helicopters that was Melton's idea.

YOUNG: Melton's research went into a manual, a how to of sorts for handling future plans for any fallen officers.

ZEIGLER: He said put it on the shelf hope that we will never use it again. Less than two weeks later we were pulling the book off the shelf and this time it was his.

YOUNG: More than a thousand including officers from other departments from across the country filled the stadium to pay their respects to another fallen officer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Chief Zeigler, that being me having to get that flag.

YOUNG: Captain Melton had responded to a call about a drive-by shooting. Something he wasn't required to do in his current administrative position.

ZEIGLER: I was doing captain promotions and so he went out to the field.

YOUNG: And as he got of his police car.

ZEIGLER: And then they said Melton's been shot. He was wearing his vest, he always wears his vest, that doesn't matter he got shot in the head. At that point -- whew.

YOUNG: Household both mom and dad were police officers, sacrifice is a word never used lightly. Small moments are cherished. He was a veteran of the army who served in Iraq and Afghanistan where he earned a bronze star. A father of five with another baby on the way.

OFFICER ZETA BATES, WIFE OF OFFICER MELTON: In those seconds it took for them to tell us he was gone -- my entire life changed. His kids' lives changed. I would never wish this on anybody.