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Philippines President Compares Drug War to Holocaust; Tributes Pour in for Shimon Peres; Investigation Begins Over Cause of Hoboken Train Crash; Donald Trump to Be Tougher on Clinton in Next Debate; Tensions Rise Over Pakistan-Indian Border. Aired. 8:00a-9:00A ET
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[08:00:19] IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong, welcome to News Stream. World leaders gather in
Israel to pay tribute to Shimon Peres, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is laid to rest.
The controversial president of the Philippines may have made his most inflammatory comment
yet. Rodrigo Duterte makes a comparison to Hitler.
And how Hillary Clinton is courting Millennials. A group the Democrat's nominee is struggling to reach.
Tributes are pouring in for former Israeli leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres,
who has been laid to rest in Jerusalem. He passed away at the age of 93 after a stroke. His career spanned decades. He served as president, prime
minister, defense minister, foreign minister, and he was a founding father of the state of Israel.
Several world leaders gave eulogies. U.S. President Barack Obama said his optimism made people not just honor him, but love him. And former U.S.
President Bill Clinton praised him as Israel's biggest dreamer.
Heading into the ceremony at Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands with Mahmoud Abbas, the
president of the Palestinian authority. He later gave a eulogy.
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL: Shimon lived a life of purpose. He soared to incredible heights. He swept so many with his
vision and his hope. He was a great man of Israel. He was a great man of the world. Israel grieves for him. The world grieves for him. But we
find hope in his legacy, as does the world.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WATSON: Now let's bring in our CNN's Oren Lieberman. He's joining us live from our
Jerusalem bureau.
Oren, why is it that people are referring to Shimon Peres as the last of Israel's founding fathers?
OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: He's the last of that generation. He's been in public service, public life for so long,
more than half a century, more than 70 years that he dates back to the founding of the state. The founding of
the state of Israel back in 1948, even predating that. And it's such a rare opportunity, such a unique opportunity, to have someone who not only
has that length of history in the public eye, but who also dates back to the beginning of the state, be it Israel or any other state.
And over that time, of course, not only has he met so many world leaders, he's met ten different U.S. presidents, but he's also learned and
been able to learn, been able to evolve as a leader.
He didn't start as the dove, the two-state solution proponent that he turned out to be. He began as a hawk. He began as pro-settlements, but
over a career watching the Middle East change he came to believe that dialogue and that peace was the only option with the
Palestinians and with all of Israel's neighbors.
His hope, his optimism was something that so many talked about. The words "dreamer" and "vision" were used often in the eulogies for him, not
only from Israeli leaders and his children, but also from President Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton, who considered him dear friends.
So many world leaders in attendance, so many with so much respect for Peres, for his ability to think positively, even if he had suffered defeat,
even if current times were dark, he believed there was always a brighter future ahead and he dreamed about it and he worked very hard up until the
very end to make those dreams come true.
WATSON: Now, Oren, you really bring that home, the length of his public service when you mention the fact he's known ten U.S. presidents.
Part of his legacy is also that he negotiated the Oslo peace accords. So how do you think
Shimon Peres would have viewed that rare handshake between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, and the current Israeli prime minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu?
LIEBERMANN: I think Peres would have very much smiled knowing that would happen. He believed that small gestures could lead to big
agreements. And they could lead to major changes. So I think that would have made him very happy, even if current prospects for a two-state
solution, or even the peace process itself are very stagnant.
The Oslo Peace Accords were his big accomplishment, that will forever link him, the Palestinian president Mahmous Abbas. And I think he would
have been happy about that, too, even under so much criticism of the Accords and so little hope currently in what their dream was actually being
fulfilled, he still believed in the Oslo Accords, he still saw saw hope there.
And that is his legacy, I would say certainly in the western world, of carrying peace forward, of carrying the hope of Israelis and Palestinians
living together, not because they have to, but because they want to and because they can.
In the Arab world, his legacy is a bit more complex, and that's because he has such a long history. He was, when he began, a man of war.
He was a hawk. He was pro settlements, and that won't simply be forgotten, it won't simply be erased. That is being very much remembered, although
some also eulogizing the fact that he was a man of peace and towards the end of his career, certainly the last decade or two, he did everything he
could to make a two-state solution a reality.
WATSON: OK, that's Oren Lieberman live from Jerusalem. Thank you very much, Oren, on the farewell to an Israeli leader.
And now shift gears to a contemporary leader in the Philippines who is developing a very different reputation for himself in office. He has made
a bizarre comparison that some view as Rodrigo Duterte's most inflammatory remark yet.
The tough talking Philippine President talked of Adolf Hitler, saying he's be happy to kill millions of drug addicts just as Hitler massacred
millions of Jews.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RODRIGO DUTERTE, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES: Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now, there is 3 million drug addicts. I'd be happy to
slaughter them. At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have, you know, many victims would like to be all criminals to finish the
problem of my country.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WATSON: Since Duterte's election, a bloody crackdown has spread through the Philippines. Police say they've killed more than 1,000
suspects in this war on drugs, all in self-defense. Some people have taken the law into their own hands with dozens of vigilante murders. The bodies
of victims left on the streets next to signs accusing them of drug crimes.
A senate committee is investigating these extrajudicial killings and was led by one of Duterte's
fiercest critics, but Senator Leila de Lima was recently removed from that position and now she says she fears for her life.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the U.S. is going to sharpen its military edge in the
Asia-Pacific region. The declaration comes as China continues to make its neighbors nervous by developing what most analysts agree are military
installations on disputed reefs in the South China Sea.
And North Korea continues testing ballistic missiles. Ash Carter calls Asia the most consequential region for America's future and says
there will be a boost in military investment, including cyber capabilities.
Now let's move to the race for the White House. Donald Trump is sharpening his attacks on Hillary Clinton as he prepares for the next
presidential debate, and as Chris Frates reports, it could get ugly.
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DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The Clintons are the sordid past. We will be the very bright and clean future.
CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The presidential race is getting personal, Donald Trump hinting that he's considering bringing up
Bill Clinton's infidelity the next time he faces off with Hillary Clinton on the debate stage.
TRUMP: Well, she was very nasty to me, and I was going to do it, and I saw Chelsea sitting out in the audience and I just didn't want to go there.
FRATES: The thrice-married candidate telling reporters he's not worried about this attack inviting scrutiny of his own marital history,
like his well-documented affair with actress Marla Maples while he was married to his first wife.
TRUMP: I have a very good history. I guess, I mean, they can do it, but it's a lot different than his. That I can tell you. I mean, we have a
situation where we have a president who was a disaster, and he was ultimately impeached over it, in a sense, for lying. So, we'll see whether
or not we discuss it.
FRATES: The plan, an attempt to fight back against Trump's own controversial comments about women, detailing talking points obtained by
CNN this week, encouraging Trump's surrogates to drop names from Bill Clinton's past, like Monica Lewinsky.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you, as someone who presumably wants more women to run for and win office and high office, feel any obligation, if Trump
brings up your husband's past, to speak out against a spouse's indiscretions or past being brought into a campaign like this?
CLINTON: No. Look, he can say whatever he wants to say, as we well know. We have seen it in real time over the last many months. And I'm going
to keep running my campaign.
[08:10:09] FRATES: Trump's also standing by his claim that he did a service to the country by leading the birther movement.
TRUMP: I was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job.
FRATES: And going a step further, saying he's proud of his effort, while reiterating a false claim that Clinton questioned the president's
citizenship when she ran against him in 2008.
TRUMP: I'm the one that got him to put up his birth certificate. Hillary Clinton was unable to get there, and I will tell you she tried; and
she was unable to do it. And I tried, and I was able to do it. So I'm very proud of that.
FRATES: All this as Trump's foundation faces renewed scrutiny this morning, saying the New York state attorney general's office, "The
Washington Post" reporting that the charity never obtained a certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public.
The Trump campaign has not responded to the paper's request for comment.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WATSON: Now, let's move to Washington, that's where Chris Frates joins us live.
Now, Chris, we know that Donald Trump has argued that he won the debate earlier this week with Hillary Clinton. There's been a lot of
discussion about that. Are you getting any sense of how he's going to prepare for round two when he gets back on stage with his Democratic rival?
FRATES: Yeah, Ivan, that's a great question. And that's one that the Trump campaign itself is starting to ponder. In fact, some aides kind of
floating an idea of overhauling that debate process, because after you remember the debate ended, there were a lot of people close to Trump,
inside the trump campaign, you know, making the point that he didn't practice in
that traditional way, you know, he didn't study policy books, he didn't go one on one, that it was kind of free flowing and led by him. And that
really angered Trump.
In fact, there was a message earlier this week on a call from the campaign to the surrogates
who were out there representing Trump to stop talking about how Trump didn't win and to be more
high energy, as one source put it, and to kind of make the points that Trump thought he did well with, which was hitting Clinton for being a 30-
year politician and the secretary of the status quo.
And what some of the campaign aides are toying with right now is maybe bringing in somebody
like governor Chris Christie. You know, he was a former rival to Donald Trump, but they've also been
long time friends. And he's known in the inner circle as one of those guys who can be essentially brutally honest with Donald Trump and Donald Trump
listens to him and there's a feeling that maybe that's what Donald Trump needs kind of going into this next face-off with Hillary Clinton, Ivan.
WATSON: Now, this talk of possibly targeting Hillary Clinton by talking about her husband's very famous infidelities, I mean, I'm a child
of the '80s in the U.S., Chris, I grew up hearing about Donald Trump and his own sex scandals and infidelities. Wouldn't this be a case of the pot
calling the kettle black?
FRATES: Yeah, a little bit. I mean, you're exactly right. And remember, Donald Trump tried
this last December during the primaries, you know, Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump, calling him sexist, and Trump fired back by bringing up
these infidelities and they didn't seem to work then.
And if you remember, you know, Donald Trump married three different times, his divorce from his first wife, Ivana, huge tabloid fodder out
there in the New York tabloids, you know, the best sex I ever had was the headline from his mistress, Marla Maples.
I mean, this is not something that really plays to Donald Trump's strengths. But when he was asked that question, he essentially just said,
well, Bill Clinton was president. It's different, he did a horrible job.
But there is a question about how well this works for Donald Trump, particularly, Ivan, if you look at the politics of this, right. He is
lagging with women in some polls by 20 points and there's a question about, you know, does this really bring women on to your side if you're attacking Hillary Clinton for her husband's infidelities, when, in
fact, she's done nothing wrong here, Ivan.
WATSON: All right, Chris, following the Trump campaign, thank you very much.
FRATES: You're welcome.
WASTSON: Now, Hillary Clinton is trying to build support among younger voters. And she teamed up a former Democratic rival to try to win
them over. Dana Bash has that part of the story.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm a volunteer with Hillary from North Carolina here in Pitt County.
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: At field offices and 280 college campuses, millennials work the phones for Hillary Clinton.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was wondering if you would like to come out and do some voter registration or a phone bank with us this weekend?
BASH: Young voters fueled President Obama's wins. He got 60 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds in 2012. A demo that was nearly 20 percent of the votes
now could be growing.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Young people could represent 25 percent of the vote.
BASH: Team Clinton is putting such a premium on millennials, they hired youth directors in key battleground states. Lillie Catlin runs North
Carolina and says social media is key.
LILLIE CATLIN, NORTH CAROLINA YOUTH VOTE DIRECTOR FOR CLINTON CAMPAIGN: You know we can't necessarily knock on every dorm or (inaudible).
And so, it's, you know, having those kinds of conversations, but through our text list or through Twitter.
[08:15:03] 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.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (D) FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is imperative that we elect Hillary Clinton as our next president.
BASH: Chelsea Clinton is hop scotching 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, HILLARY CLINTON'S DAUGHTER: Well, Dana, thank you for including me in the millennial demographic. I'm just in the older end.
If we think about the younger millennials, we think only about 55 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds were 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 in getting your friends on the Hillary Clinton train?
ANNIKEN WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT, COLLEGE DEMOCRATS AT NORTH CAROLINA: Well, it's been pretty difficult, especially because a lot of young people,
especially at EC were for Bernie Sanders.
BASH: One Sanders supporter challenged Chelsea directly, saying the primary was rigged for Clinton.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What moral ground does Hillary Clinton have to stand on to continue running as the Democratic nominee?
C. 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 really think Jill Stein can win, do you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 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.
MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: If you vote for someone other than Hillary or if you 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.
ERICK JENKINS, EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY STUDENT: 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 MALE: Jill Stein.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hillary Clinton.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm undecided.
BASH: Dana Bash, CNN, Greenville, North Carolina.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WATSON: You're watching News Stream. Coming up in the program, tensions between India and Pakistan rising to a level not seen in years.
Find out what's behind the latest flare-up and what's at stake.
And they are homeless and at risk of becoming severely ill. It's a situation facing those who survived North Korea's devastating floods.
You'll get an update on that later.
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WATSON: Welcome back to CNN. I'm Ivan Watson live in Hong Kong.
India says it's negotiating with Pakistan to secure the release of an Indian soldier captured in
cashmere. It says the soldier inadvertently crossed into the Pakistani administered side of Kashmir. This comes amid tensions between the nuclear
armed countries.
Just a day ago, India said it carried out military strikes across the line of control to root out terrorists. Pakistan disputes that, saying two
of its soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire.
For more let's bring in my old friend, Mallika Kapur, she has reported extensively from the region. Hi there, Mallika.
Now, first of all, why should we all be concerned when these two neighbors start shooting at each other across the line of control?
MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You're right, we should be very concerned. Why should we be so concerned? Well, the main
reason is, remember both these neighbors have nuclear arms and that is the real reason to be concerned over here.
Now, of course, everyone is hoping that it doesn't get to that and it stops at saber rattling, you know. But imagine the impact if either of the
countries were to let this escalate into nuclear war. We're looking at a combined population of 1.4 billion people, and if either side were to use
even just a part of their nuclear arsenal, the impact would be catastrophic. Imagine the loss of life. We would see millions of people
lose their lives. We would see an impact for generations and generations to come. Imagine the impact on human life, on the environment, on the
atmosphere, on agriculture, the economic fallout.
This is something that would impact the region for generations and generations to come.
So, because India and Pakistan both have nuclear capabilities, this is the reason to be really
alarmed.
WATSON: Now, of course, this latest ratcheting up of intentions, this comes after these two
historic rivals enjoyed kind of a warming up of their relations in recent years. Could these latest kind of crisis threaten some of those gains that
were made?
KAPUR: It most certainly could. And you're right, that we did see a lot of gains over the last couple of years, and we did see both sides
warming up to each other.
Remember when Prime Minister Modi got elected in 2014, he invited the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration ceremony and he
came.
And just last year Prime Minister Modi called on -- dropped in at Lahore to wish Nawaz Sharif a happy birthday.
So we have seen both sides swarming up to each other. We've seen a couple of years of relative peace along the line of control, even on the
social front we've seen, you know, air links and train links between the two countries, connecting the two countries. We've seen people get much
closer.
And, yes, this does, this latest ratcheting up of tensions does threaten that. Prime Minister Modi could take this further on various
levels. He's already called -- he said he won't be attending the SARC (ph) meeting and other countries have decided to pull out, as well, which is one
way of diplomatically isolating Pakistan.
He says he's going to review Pakistan's status as most favored nation, so that's going to impact trade.
He said he's going to look at the Indus water treaty again, which is an agreement which allows India and Pakistan to share waters in the Kashmir
region, so that is under review, as well.
There are some reports saying that Prime Minister Modi may look at air links between the two countries, as well. So there could be some serious
social fallout as a result of this, which would impact the common man on both sides of the border.
WATSON: OK, well, let's, of course,hope that calmer heads prevail.
That's Mallika Kapur live explaining us a little bit more the context of this deeply worrying
conflict. Thanks, Mallika.
Now, Saudi Arabia is criticizing the new U.S. law which allows families of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue the kingdom. The
law would allow American courts to seize Saudi assets, to compensate the faimiles if the kingdom were to be found culpable.
The Saudi foreign ministry has released a statement saying the bill will have a, quote, negative impact on all nations. U.S. President Barack
Obama had vetoed the bill, but the U.S. congress voted to override that veto.
Federal investigators are on the scene of a deadly commuter train crash in Hoboken, New
Jersey. The train's event recorder has now been recovered and could provide more clues about what exactly went wrong. One person was killed
and more than 100 injured when the train barreled through the terminal during Thursday morning rush hour.
Our Jean Casarez has more.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tonight, investigators are looking for clues as to what caused a New Jersey transit train to plow
through a major station concourse during rush hour.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard a bomb-like explosion.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It sounded like nails, like, on a chalk board. You know what I mean, and then just followed by a deafening silence.
CASAREZ: A train employee says the train hit a safety bumper and went airborne.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It went up and over the bumper block, through the depot, and came to rest at the wall by the waiting room.
CASAREZ: Officials say one woman, believed to be seen in this video, was killed standing on the platform.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I ended up stepping over a dead woman's body. That bothered me. I backed up and looked. I said, what the? And nothing you
can do for her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It just didn't stop. And just got thrown around. Lights went out. I think the roof caved in on the train.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone that was standing in the vestibules between the first and second car flew over into the first car. And many
people were, like, thrown. And there was a lot of blood.
CASAREZ: Train workers and bystanders rushed to the scene to help passengers trapped inside the mangled, severely damaged train cars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were kicking out the windows and trying to get off the train.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Someone had -- his eye was gone. And he had only one side and all the blood everywhere.
CASAREZ: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says the train was traveling at excessive speed.
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: This train came in at a high rate of speed into the station and crashed through all of the barriers, bringing
it right to the interior wall.
CASAREZ: Investigators focusing on the train engineer who was pulled from the train unresponsive.
BELLA DINH-ZARR, NTSB: The engineer, as you may know, was injured. He's been released from the hospital, and we will be interviewing him.
CASAREZ: We learned from the National Transportation Safety Board that this train in particular did not have positive train control, which is
an advanced technology which can actually anticipate that an accident is going to happen and has the train stop, literally, in its tracks to avoid
an accident.
Now, at this point that technology is being required by congress through an extension to not have to be on trains until 2017, and the New
Jersey transit train did not have it.
Additionally, the female victim, the one female victim, has been identified as a 34 year old woman. Her name is Fabiola Bittar de Kroon,
and she most recently worked for SAP in Brazil.
Back to you.
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WATSON: Coming up on News Stream, we take a look at the history and symbolism of Mt. Herzl, the site where Israeli leader Shimon Peres has been
laid to rest.
And it could be a second catastrophe for North Korean flood survivors, hundreds have to face a harsh winter without proper shelter. An update
next.
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[08:31:27] WATSON: Now, overlooking the ancient city of Jerusalem, the national cemetery on top of Mt. Herzl, it holds special significance.
And our Becky Anderson, she takes a look back on the site that is now the final resting place for Shimon Peres.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The body of Theodore Herzl is flown to the Israel that was his dream as the father of modern Zionism.
BECKY ANDERSON, HOST: Herzl didn't die in Israel. Israel wasn't a state in 1904.
DORON BAR, PRESIDENT, SCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: That's right.
ANDERSON: He was reburied here.
BAR: That's right.
ANDERSON: Why?
BAR: After the establishment of the state of Israel, they wanted to bring his remains to Jerusalem and to use this symbol of nationhood that
will be part of the landscape, the newborn landscape.
ANDERSON: And hence the name Mount Herzl.
This is a site rich in symbolism.
BAR: The reason people are buried here is because they are Jews and Israelis, and that's a connection that is very powerful here in Mount
Herzl.
ANDERSON: This is a hilltop cemetery. What's the significance?
BAR: That's the highest point in western Jerusalem. There is a connection, a very powerful connection, between his tomb and Jerusalem.
ANDERSON: And how important was Mount Herzl to Shimon Peres?
BAR: I think the place was very important for him. For example, at the eve of the day of independence each year when there is a ceremony, he
came here as the president, as a prime minister, as a minister, for many, many, many years.
Herzl is buried on the top of the mountain, of the peak, on the summit. On the slopes of the mountain we have this military cemetery
facing Jerusalem, western Jerusalem, and between the two sections we have the greats of the nation section, and the politicians are
connecting Herzl and the fallen soldiers.
BILL CLINTON, FRM. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The American people mourn with you in the loss of your leader.
ANDERSON: In 1995, he stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. President Bill Clinton at the
funeral of Peres' predecessor Yitzhak Rabin. And over his many years in Israeli politics, was often seen accompanying world leaders, paying their
respects.
BAR: I think he believed that them coming to jerusalem, coming to visit Jerusalem, coming to visit the Mount Herzl, was very important for
him.
ANDERSON: And as he stood with them once, so they will stand with him again here for the last time on Mount Herzl.
Becky Anderson, CNN, Jerusalem.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WATSON: Now let's shift our focus to the Korean peninsula, that's where aid agencies say
that North Korea's flood survivors are in desperate need of help. It's been a month since devastating floods killed hundreds and destroyed the
homes of some 70,000 people.
The Red Cross warns the possibility of a secondary disaster is very real if survivors don't get shelter and aid soon.
Many of them are still homeless and they are at risk of disease when winter sets in.
So, to get more on this situation let's go to our meteorologist Chad Myers. Chad, good to see you. What's the weather forecast for the many
people whose homes were destroyed in these floods?
[08:35:00] CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is in a continental polar area, so this is going to get cold. I mean, we are going to see
temperatures like Vldivostok, Russia here in just three or four weeks. We will be down below zero for morning low temperatures just by the end of
October.
And if there aren't structures, aren't roofs, aren't building, aren't significant insulated places for
people to shelter, this could be another disaster in the making.
Here is really the Hoeryong City right here along the Tun (ph) River. This is where most of the disaster happened because of the rain that came
in from an old tropical cyclone called Lionrock. Lionrock collided with a front and a low and put a lot of water along that river front, right in
that river basin. There was so much water that even tens of thousands of hectares of crops, corn and rice and beans and all the things that these
people will need for the rest of the winter were destroyed, almost ready for harvest, completely destroyed three weeks before harvest season.
So, this is what Vladivostok looks like -- we don't have a lot of data out of North Korea, I should expect, but Vladivostok only just a few
kilometers away, all the way down to about five degrees Celsius for this average morning low temperatures in October, and then it goes all the way
down from there, where the morning low temperatures can be down to 16 below.
I mean, think about that if you don't truly have a big shelter over your system. They lost their coal, they lost their rail, they lost the
potential to move things in when the railroad was destroyed.
Now, as of yesterday, it was announced that the railroad is back in business. The rails are back moving again, so they are able to get more
and more equipment and more and more, of course, food stuffs and clean water back into this area.
It is forecast to be above normal for the rest of the winter, but what's above normal, Ivan, when you're talking either minus 15, above
normal is minus 12, but that's still really cold, it's still going to be winter. It isn't going to be doing anything that's slightly above normal
temperatures won't do anything for those people.
They desperately need help. The Red Cross and the Red Crescent already know it. We talk with them -- seems like we talk to them daily,
about this rescue.
So, finally now with the rail back in, they can move a lot of things back in, hopefully, getting those people back on their feet.
WATSON: All right, that's Chad Myers. Thanks for the update.
Never easy to get information out of North Korea. You've got a lot there, appreciate that.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are the faces of India's future. Every morning, the big, bold, block letter facade of the Newtown School beckons
students to start their day.
Architect Abin Chaudhuri sees this design as a way to set precedent for the rest of India's future.
ABIN CHAUDHURI, ARCHITECT: India has a very rapid (inaudible) happening. And the quality of architecture is limited. Good architecture
can transform a life, transform human livable conditions. And that makes a state ahead.
[08:40:03] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Since 2005, Chaudhuri and his team have been injecting new life into India, helping cities like Kolkata find its
contemporary voice beyond its colonial roots.
So, the approach when it came to designing this school was to create a building that was instantly recognizable. Now affectionately known around
the city as the ABCD school, the exterior is just a preview of the innovation that lies inside.
SUNIL AGARWALSEN: The biggest challenge in India is to introduce kids to the school and enjoy coming to the school. We thought that we should
have a curriculum in which the learning is hands on. We meet our challenges by improving upon the technology part of it.
Like, we are refocused on using technology in the school. And that you're doing (inaudible).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The school, only one year old, was built here right outside of Kolkata in one of India's new, smart cities, the aptly
named Newtown.
UNIDENITIFIED MALE: It is not a (inaudible) India old city (ph). It is a smart city in the making, a bit of greens, a bit of smartness, and bit
of IT, and plenty of everything for everything.
UNIDENITIFIED MALE: The plan is for nearly 100 of these smart cities to be developed all over India, acting as a test case for the country's
future. Features like increased connectivity with a 10.5 kilometer wi-fi zone, smart LED street lights and a 480-acre green ecopark aimed to turn
Newtown into a desirable destination for India's top talent.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not a very rich country. We are a poor country, but to understand how (inaudible) how many (inaudible) use of
technology, we bring the best quality.
Newtown cannot be emphasized as a singular point. It needs to be respected for the legacies like Calcutta's legacies, how it has grown up.
It cannot take away the culture part of people. You can't avoid how people are living here. At the same time, you can understand that, demand a
future. (inaudible) you don't miss opportunity.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's an opportunity and a future future you can see these students are ready for.
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WATSON: Now, space exploration history has just been made because an epic 12-year pursuit
of a comet has ended. The Rosetta orbiter crash landed into comet 67-P just minutes ago.
It followed comet 67-P for over a decade getting insights into how comets are made and how they move. Rosetta found 16 organic compounds on
comet 67-P. Scientists say some of those form the building blocks of life.
And if you've ever wondered what a comet sounds like, turn up your TV now, because Rosetta managed to capture the song of comet 67-P. Take a
listen.
If you're wondering, scientists say that sound is caused by an electric current moving on the atmosphere of the comet.
And that is News Stream. I'm Ivan Watson. World Sport with Alex Thomas is next.
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