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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Terrorists attack a police academy in Pakistan. Dozens of people are dead and more than 100 wounded.

Plus, scuffles break out as France prepares to demolish the massive migrant camp at Calais known as the jungle.

And later, this looks like a hell scape from another world. But it's actually sulfur set on fire. A toxic parting gift left by ISIS.

Hello and welcome to our viewers from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church, and this is CNN Newsroom.

Tensions are flaring in France's Calais migrant camp as authorities get ready to demolish it. Earlier, police and migrants scuffled after a group tried to push their way through.

The sprawling camp nicknamed "the jungle" has been occupied in some capacity for more than a decade.

On Monday, more than 2,000 people were evicted. But the city's mayor says as many as 6,000 others are still there.

And CNN's Melissa Bell joins men now with the latest from Calais. So, Melissa, some migrants in the camp are defying the evacuation orders as we saw there in those pictures in the hope that they will be able to travel on to the U.K.

But the camp is about to be dismantled. So what will likely happen to those thousands of migrants who are refusing to leave and what is the scene right now?

MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm going to show you, Rosemary, the sun has just risen over the jungle. We're really in the heart of it right now this morning. You can see all around that the structure of the camp itself, despite those 2,000 evacuations you mentioned, is still largely intact.

Migrants are just waking up, some of them warming themselves on fires. There are number of them are light around the camp this morning. Just behind them, you can see the white containers. Those contain the unaccompanied minors, some of whom have now been

registered. Four hundred went through those gates yesterday to have name tags put on them and to be kept here back in these containers.

Some of them will be relocated here in France, and others are still hoping to get to the United Kingdom.

And just to give you an idea of the scale of the thing, let's show you over on this side. Four square kilometers in all that housed, according to the NGO's 10,000 migrants until the evacuation began yesterday, but there are still thousands of them inside this camp.

Many of them determined, Rosemary, not to be evicted not to give up on that dream of getting to the United Kingdom. In fact, you can see the camp is within sight of that road that leads to the ferry terminal and on to the U.K.

Now as you mentioned, there were scuffles this morning, down in the queue. that is a queue that's been set up that's been organize for the last couple of days just down the road where the migrants can go voluntarily for the time being to take up the French government's offer of relocation to one of France's regions.

Two thousand three hundred eighteen migrants have done that so far. More have made their way towards that queue this morning. But the mood was angrier.

You saw those scuffles break out and that sit-in take place in the early hours of this morning, just in front of that hangar in which the migrants are sorted out and then put on the buses that take them to France's regions.

CHURCH: And, Melissa, you mentioned those migrants who reluctantly opted to settle in France, where will they be housed? And how will that process work? Will they be welcomed? What parts of France are we talking about here?

BELL: About 450 centers have been organized around France. Many of them are organize in partnership with the French state who is responsible for migrants here in France. That's one of the big differences with Germany where the regions are responsible for them.

Here it is the French state; it had to negotiate with the French regions in order to organize that these migrants should be dispersed around the French territory.

Four hundred fifty centers had been organized where the migrants are to be welcomed initially, taken care of by NGO's to help to their asylum applications, and then if those applications are successful they are to begin their new life in some of the French regions.

The trouble is, Rosemary, that those of French regions that haven't yet been used to dealing with migrants and the response has at the very least I think we can say been mixed. CHURCH: Yes. That is certainly the big concern. Melissa Bell joining

us there, live from Calais just after 9 o'clock in the morning. We will have more on the story a little later this hour. Many thanks to you, Melissa.

Well, Pakistan's Prime Minister is expected to fly to Quetta Tuesday where an attack on police cadets killed dozens.

[03:05:01] The six-hour siege began late Monday as cadets were sleeping in their barracks. Several militants forced their way into the training facility and then stormed the barracks.

They threw grenade and opened fire on the cadets. At least 59 people died. Security forces shot and killed one militant. Two other attackers blew themselves up.

And for the latest, we go to our Sophia Saifi in Islamabad. So, Sophia, the big question being asked right now is how these three men gained such easy access into the police academy to carry out their deadly attack, and what are authorities saying about that?

SOPHIA SAIFI, CNN PRODUCER: Well, Rosemary, these are questions that are currently being raised. There is an investigation that's been ongoing. When this attack took place last evening at around 9.30 in the night. It was cold, winter's evening. You know, dusk settles in by around 5.30. People sleep quite early in Quetta, even according to the homeowners.

So, we're being told that these three militants, like you said, just stormed in, they shot the policeman who was in the watchtower at the entrance of this police academy. And then went in and the siege lasted until the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Now one is now wondering in a city like Quetta, which has such a heavy military presence, how could these three militants, where they have come from, how could they have come in and conducted such a large- scale operation.

There were 700 cadets sleeping in there. And this is not a hospital. This is one of the largest military -- one of the largest police academies in the region. So, like you're wondering these are still questions that are being asked by authorities on the ground in Quetta. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Yes, indeed. A very worrying for them. Do authorities have any idea who was behind this deadly attack?

SAIFI: Well, they've -- the chief of frontier called, which is the paramilitary troops of the region have placed the blame clearly on a militant organization called Laskhar-e-Jhangvi.

Now Laskhar-e-Jhangvi is a military group that's based out of Punjab, it's known for attacking the Shia minority sect of Isla, the Shia minorities of the region. They are known for conducting their bloody attacks, especially in the city of Quetta. They haven't been very active in Quetta recently but it's not unusual

for them to operate in that area. And it's not unusual -- it is not unusual for them to have undertaken such a large-scale attack in that city.

CHURCH: All right. Sophia Saifi, reporting there from Islamabad where it is just seven minutes past 12 in the day there. Many thanks to you, Sophia, for keeping us up to date on the situation. I appreciate it.

Well, a developing story we are following. Kenyan police say 12 people are dead after suspected al-Shabaab militants attacked a guest house in the northeastern city of Mandera.

That's according to Reuters and local reports. And we will keep you updated on this story as we get more details in to us.

Well, the Iraqi-led offensive on Mosul is now in its second week. And coalition forces are making more progress than expected. A tribal leader says hundreds of ISIS fighters are fleeing to Syria. But there's still intense resistance from the terror group.

Peshmerga forces are fighting for control of Bashiqa, that's a town on a key ISIS supply route.

Now, Iraqi commander say 78 villages were liberated in the first week of fighting.

And our Michael Holmes is near Mosul, he joins us now with the latest, So, Michael, while this offensive is moving faster than expected, already liberating what, nearly 80 villages.

That rapid advance has left behind some ISIS fighters with deadly results which of course, begs the question, can the Iraqi military and Peshmerga fighters hang on to these towns once they've liberated them?

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And it's a fair question to ask, Rosemary. What has happened so far, is fighters who have been left in the wake of this rapid advance of popped up on occasion in a more of a harassing manner, but also occasionally in a deadly one, as well.

There is one village that Iraqi forces rolled through. We're told some 40 or so villagers who remained there had come out and actually cheered on the army as it drove through their village. But it didn't stay and didn't clear and didn't hold that village. They continued to the next town.

And after they gone through ISIS fighters who had remained hidden came out, rounded up those 40 people and we're told executed them. So, it shows the risks of that rapid advance.

Nevertheless, as you point out, it has been a week of dramatic, and significant advances by both Peshmerga, Kurdish forces and the Iraqi army, moving ever closer to Mosul.

[03:10:03] There have been enormous casualties on either ISIS side if you listen to the Iraqi military, they say nearly 800 ISIS fighters have been killed. And also been Peshmerga casualties and there have been Iraqi military casualties, as well.

We've seen some of the wounded with our own eyes. But the real thing is, the closer they get to Mosul and when that operation begins that's when the real fight begins.

Overwhelming force meets fanatical resistance. Coalition and Iraqi air power along with nearly 100,000 troops, Kurdish Peshmerga, the Iraqi army and several militias against perhaps 5,000 ISIS fighters. But those fighters have had two years to fortify their crown jewel.

In the first few days of the campaign, the attacking forces found dozens of tunnels, some of them nearly a mile long. They lost men to snipers and booby traps and they face for deadliest of ISIS weapons. Vehicles laden with explosives barreling through the dust.

Many ISIS fighters were taken out by missiles or coalition air power. Others found their target.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the campaign is progressing faster than expected, and in some places forward units are just seven kilometers from the outskirts of Mosul, but every village and every town has to be fought for.

The church bell rings again in a Christian town. Children thank their rescuers. But homes are ruined, streets littered with booby traps. For people returning home for the first time in two years, or escaping the brutal grip of ISIS, mixed emotions.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): "Well, we can't live there. No water, no electricity, damage everywhere and explosives as well. ISIS has yet again shown it is a resilient enemy."

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HOLMES: Its fighters penetrated deep into Kirkuk, a city under Kurdish control launching a fierce attack that went on for a day and left nearly 100 dead. An attack that quite deliberately drew Kurdish troops away from the front lines. No one expected this battle to be quick or decisive.

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ASHTON CARTER, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Mosul is going to be recaptured. It's going to be a difficult fight. We don't know exactly how the battle will go, but we know what the outcome is.

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HOLMES: But even the first week, in open plains and deserted villages, proved a hard slog. Defenses inside the city will be much tougher. Intelligence sources say ISIS has already begun to use civilians as

human shields. Many already executed and if hostage taking continues, air strikes will be difficult, sometimes impossible in the city.

Commanders here expect this campaign will last deep into the winter. If it does, the trickle of civilians already escaping Mosul could become a flood.

Aid agencies fear they will be overwhelmed by perhaps hundreds of thousands of desperate people. Maybe mixed among them ISIS fighters and suicide bombers.

And Rosemary, you mentioned that strategically important town of Bashiqa, and nearly about 20 kilometers from Mosul. Yesterday, Peshmerga fighters who had encircled they tried to do some probing into the town, they were pushed back by a vehicle borne explosive devices, cars, and truck bombs and also snipers.

We saw mortars and rocket being fired into the town yesterday, and today there has been aerial strikes on that town. We can expect probably that to get rid of some of those threats so the Peshmerga can move in and start to clear it of ISIS. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Our Michael Holmes keeping a very close eye on that rapid advance on Mosul, from his vantage point there near Mosul, just after 10 o'clock in the morning. Many thanks to you, Michael.

Well, this just in from Australia, four people are dead after an accident at the Dream World theme park in Queensland. It happened on the Thunder Rapids River ride. Police say two people were thrown from the ride and two others were trapped under a conveyer belt.

Park staff tried to save them, but there was nothing they could do. A criminal investigation is underway. And we will keep you updated on this story as we learn more information.

Well, ISIS militants set a sulfur factory on fire south of Mosul making it hard to breathe for people in the area.

ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And this is just one of the many ways that ISIS is trying to use, whatever it possibly can to try to, not only impede the advance of the security forces towards Mosul but also in doing so cause maximum damage and maximum impact on the civilian population.

[03:15:09] How firefighters are trying to put out the flames. That's still to come. Do stay with us.

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CHURCH: Just 14 days left until the U.S. presidential election. In a new CNN/ORC poll Hillary Clinton tops Donald Trump by five points among likely voters. Giving her a boost, younger people, women and minorities.

But as Jim Acosta reports, Trump insists it's all part of a phony media and a rigged election.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Don't believe the polls, Donald Trump says, believe him.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And watch the polls because this is part of the crooked system.

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ACOSTA: As Trump explained to farmers in Florida the latest election polls conducted by the mainstream news media are part of a bitter harvest seeding doubts about his ability to win.

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TRUMP: These are what they call them dark polls, they are phony polls put out by phony media. And I'll tell you what, all of us are affected by this stuff. And what they do is try to and suppress the vote. This way people don't go out and vote.

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ACOSTA: For Trump the polls are part of the conspiracy to deny him the White House, or as he described it roughly seven times in one minute - a rigged system.

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TRUMP: We are going to fix our rigged system. It is a rigged, corrupt, broken system. It's rigged, it's broken, it's corrupt, it's broken. They want me to take that back.

Let me tell you, folks, it's a rigged system. We're in a rigged system. We are in a broken, corrupt system. And Bernie Sanders was in a rigged system.

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[03:20:06] ACOSTA: The latest CNN/ORC poll finds Trump trailing Clinton by five points.

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KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: We are behind.

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ACOSTA: Trump campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway conceded what aides say privately, Trump will have to come from behind to win.

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CONWAY: Her husband campaigning for her. The current president and first lady, vice president much popular than she can hope to be, and she, but she is seen as the incumbent.

So, aren't manage going in we are behind one, three, four points in some of this swing states that Mitt Romney lost to President Obama. And our advantage is that Donald Trump is just going to continue to take the case directly to the people.

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ACOSTA: But it's a case Trump sometimes mishandles, such as when he traveled to Gettysburg to lay out his vision for his first 100 days in office only to spend the first 10 minutes attacking the women who accused him of sexual assault.

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TRUMP: All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.

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ACOSTA: Just today, Trump brushed off one of his newest accusers.

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JESSICA DRAKE, TRUMP ACCUSER: He grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission.

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ACOSTA: Pointing out she starred in adult films.

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TRUMP: One said he grabbed me on the arm and she's a porn star. Now you know, this one that came out recently, he grabbed me and he grabbed me on the arm. I'm sure she's never been grabbed before.

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ACOSTA: And for republicans who were dissatisfied with the national news media, the Trump campaign is offering alternative programming. On Donald Trump's Facebook page his top advisers and even his campaign manager are offering their own campaign analysis. But Trump campaign official say don't call it Trump TV.

Jim Acosta, CNN, Tampa, Florida.

CHURCH: And both Trump and Hillary Clinton will be on the campaign trail in Florida Tuesday. The democratic nominee was in another battleground state on Monday, New Hampshire.

With polls showing her in the lead, Clinton has turned to helping democrats in tough congressional races. And that includes New Hampshire's governor who's running for the Senate.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Unlike her opponent she has never been afraid to stand up to Donald Trump.

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She knows he shouldn't be a role model for our kids or for anybody else for that matter.

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CHURCH: And Clinton got a boost from Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Senator from Massachusetts. Warren slammed Trump for calling Clinton nasty at the candidate's debate last week.

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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote.

(APPLAUSE)

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CHURCH: And while Election Day is November 8th, more than five million votes have already been casted early in absentee voting.

Joining me now from Miami is Marc Caputo. He is the Florida political reporter for Politico. Thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it. So, let's start with Donald Trump's chances in Florida. He says he can win that state, despite what some of the polls indicate. What's your take?

MARC CAPUTO, POLITICO POLITICAL REPORTER: Well, he can win it. The question is what's the probability? And right now the probability is pretty low. He's lost, I think about 10 of the past 11 polls almost in a row for the month of October. He's not showing any kind signs that he is changing the trajectory of the race.

And Hillary Clinton just appears to get stronger and stronger of the ground, she's got a bigger campaign staff. They are turning out the vote better than President Obama's team had in 2012, relative to this period in the election in Florida.

And she's also outspending a money on air waves. Florida is a very big state and you have to spend a lot of money on television sometimes to get your message across.

Obviously, Donald Trump is a little bit of different character but nevertheless, you got to start spending something and only recently has trump's campaign begun to do that. When you add all these factors together it's a pretty grim picture for Donald Trump.

True, it's not impossible but right now it looks less and less likely and every day that goes by that Donald Trump win in Florida becomes less likely.

CHURCH: And Trump has been campaigning there in Florida avoiding any mention of Marco Rubio, which is interesting, hasn't mentioned his name at all. The same cannot be said of President Obama.

Let's listen, for a moment to what he had to say about Rubio.

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BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: I agree with the U.S. senator, a republican, who, a while back said that we can't afford to give the nuclear codes of the United States to an erratic individual.

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By the way, you know who said that? Marco Rubio. He also called Donald Trump a dangerous con artist who has spent a career sticking it to working people.

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CHURCH: So, against that background, what are Rubio's chances do you think?

[03:25:02] CAPUTO: Well, you said the opposite of Donald Trump. In fact, in more ways than one he's got a better chance of winning Florida, Marco Rubio, does than Hillary Clinton, which had probably about two dozen polls all of which have shown Rubio in the lead.

I think one recently came out that showed he was tied but that's kind of an outlier. So, things have looked good for Marco Rubio despite looking so bad for Donald Trump. We are not used to that in Florida. We usually don't have split-ticket voting, but right now that's where the election appears to be going.

We understand that Florida doesn't have an Election Day. It has election days. We have been voting almost a month now by absentee, vote by mail ballot. So far, about 1.2, maybe 1.3 million Floridians have already cast ballots and maybe looking at electorate though, about nine million people.

We also had early in person voting and that just began on Monday and that affects probably the largest counties, and certainly the largest counties and the overwhelming majority of voters.

So, more and more ballots are being cast as these polls are coming out. So, whoever is kind of in the front, or doing better, in the polls, while those ballots are being returned, it's safe to assume that they are probably winning those folks, as well.

So, right now when you put everything together it looks like Marco Rubio is going to be the republican choice in the United States Senate of Florida, but right now it looks like Hillary Clinton is going to be the choice for president, obviously she's a democrat.

CHURCH: Yes. And various polls are showing that, aren't they? That Hillary Clinton gaining support. And as this has been happening, we are hearing more and more from the Trump campaign about the likely repeat of the Brexit factor. Where, of course, we know in Britain the polls got it wrong.

A lot of people very surprised by that. Trump himself suggesting this could very well happen and he could win because there is this hidden Trump vote there. Do you see any hint of that? Is there any path to victory for Trump when you look at the numbers and the math here?

CAPUTO: Well, again, I think there is a path to victory. But the question is, how wide is the path and how easy is the path? And right now the path is narrowing and it's becoming more difficult.

It's certainly I'm not a Brexit expert. I don't want to leave my end of the pond too much. But I do understand that were more polls showing that the leave faction might win than currently polls show that Donald Trump might win.

So, if he is going to compare himself to the Brexit vote, they are right now in the polling nationally and in Florida is more unanimity and the survey is about Donald Trump losing than there was about the certainly of the Brexit vote. So, I'm not sure it's an apples to apples comparison.

CHURCH: Before we go I do want to ask you this, Trump of course has been slamming the media throughout his campaign and encouraging his supporters to boo the media, and now they are doing their own nightly broadcast.

Let's just take a quick look at that and you can see a Trump adviser hosts the show, there is another adviser, as well as campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on the right.

And when you look at it, it actually looks like mainstream media. It averaged 40 to 60,000 views low by TV standards, good for Facebook, though. Some fan critics have said this is a preview to Trump TV and the backup plan perhaps if the presidential bid fails. What are your thoughts on that when you look at this?

CAPUTO: It could very well be. We have heard this stuff for months. And so far everything that Donald Trump has done has not dispelled the notion, or the rumor or the idea that he may wind up going into his own media empire.

I mean, he is -- he is kind of his own media and, you know, as we have heard from Marsha McLean many years ago, the media is the message, and certainly Donald Trump is his own message. It wouldn't surprise me if we didn't wind up with Trump TV.

CHURCH: All right. Marc Caputo, great to talk to you. Thanks so much.

CAPUTO: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

CHURCH: And we'll take a short break here. But still to come, the battle for Mosul is just ahead on CNN Newsroom. The mesmerizing scene of purplish skies is anything but pleasant, in fact what ISIS is burning that is suffocating people south of Mosul.

We're back in just a moment. [03:30:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Time to update you on the main stories we have been following this hour.

Pakistan's Prime Minister is flying to Quetta in the coming hours where terrorists killed at least 60 people at a police training facility.

Gunmen stormed the barracks late Monday, while hundreds of cadets were sleeping. All of the militants died in the six-hour assault.

The Iraqi-led offensive to take Mosul back from ISIS is in its second week. And there's fierce resistance. Peshmerga forces are fighting for control of Bashiqa, a town along a key ISIS supply route.

And Iraqi tribal leader says hundreds of ISIS fighters are fleeing in to Syria.

Student protest leaders say 27 anti-government demonstrators were hurt in clashes in San Cristobal, Venezuela. The opposition is protesting the suspension of a referendum drive to force President Nicolas Maduro from office. The two sides will meet Sunday for talks mediated by the Vatican.

Well, people in Calais, France, have scuffled with police as authorities get ready to demolish the so-called "jungle migrant camp." More than 2,000 people were sent to temporary shelters on Monday. The city's mayor says as many as 6,000 remain in the sprawling camp.

And Josie Naughton is the co-founder of Help Refugees and joins me now from CNN's London bureau. Good to be talking with you. And of course...

JOSIE NAUGHTON, HELP REFUGEES CO-FOUNDER Hi.

CHURCH: ... as we've been reporting, thousands of migrants are defying the evacuation order. They are staying put at that camp, referred to as "the jungle," but it's about to be dismantled. So, what are you expecting will happen to the 6,000 or so migrants who are refusing to leave there? And how does your organization plan to respond to this?

NAUGHTON: Hi, there. Thank you so much for having me on. I think there's been a bit of misrepresentation in the media. I don't think there is going to be like a huge battle or the people that are refusing to leave.

Two thousand left yesterday because that was kind of the capacity at which the French could take people and we're expecting more people to leave today.

In fact, this morning there were guess of people from really, really early, really calm just waiting to be registered and taken to their new accommodations. In terms of us, as an organization, we've been providing people with

backpacks, helping them to pack up their belongings giving them as much information in their languages as much and just helping them to get through the process of moving on.

[03:35:00] CHURCH: All right. Well, I mean, that is reassuring, isn't it, because when we're talking about 6,000 migrants who still remain there, there is much concern because there have been some scuffles between the authorities there and the migrants who certainly have been lined up there.

So, you are saying your sense is that this is going to move very smoothly?

NAUGHTON: I think it's also important to remember that a lot of these people are in fact refugees, they're fleeing war and conflict, they're incredibly vulnerable. And the organization, perhaps, of the eviction could have been done a little bit better.

They could have worked with the refugees for a longer period of time prior to the eviction so people were assigned a bus, assigned a time rather than having to be to sort of cattle gridded into registration queue.

I think that's what part of the problem has been. There's also been a huge amount of media descending upon the registration point which is also sort of raised tensions and made the area a lot more difficult to be controlled.

As an organization, we're massively concerned for the welfare of the children. We were promised as of yesterday there would be a safe space, an accommodation for the unaccompanied minors.

There are nearly 1,000 of them so that they could be registered and then either come to the U.K. if they had a legal right or remain in France. But unfortunately that didn't happen yesterday, and in all the chaos went incredibly worried that some of those unaccompanied children would go missing. The youngest of them is 8 years old.

CHURCH: Yes, that is a real worry. You are talking about 1,000 children and there was a sense that they are not getting the security that they need.

But as we're talking, we are looking at these live pictures from that migrant camp. It's just 9.36 in the morning there in Calais.

NAUGHTON: Yes.

CHURCH: I want to ask you, what are the migrants from the camp saying are the major concerns that they have about leaving this camp, and how worried are they about how the people of France will receive them? Because some of the locations they'll be sent to, those French people are not used to migrants in any way.

NAUGHTON: I think the refugees that I speak to are -- they are excited to start their new life. No one wants to be living in that camp. They are of course apprehensive about where they are going to be going. I think they would have loved to have a bit more information about what lies in front of them, what the process is going to be, where they are going to be sent to.

But on a whole, I think people are ready to start their new lives. I think we really have to try to remember that these are vulnerable people who deserve protection and they need to be treated as human beings.

CHURCH: Yes, good point. Josie Naughton talking to us there from London. Many thanks to you.

NAUGHTON: Thank you very much.

CHURCH: Thank you for your organization and what they are doing there. I appreciate it.

NAUGHTON: Thank you. Thank you.

CHURCH: And if you are interested in finding ways to help you can visit helprefugees.org.uk.

Well, south of Mosul the skies are dark and the air heavy with toxic fumes. ISIS fighters set fire to a salt factory before fleeing and has made breathing extremely painful for people living and working in that area.

Senior international correspondent Arwa Damon reports.

DAMON: It could almost be waves rippling against a shoreline on another planet. Neon stream catching the light, but this hauntingly beautiful scenery is toxic. The yellow rock formations are raw sulfur, crumbling and melting under intense heat. It may look volcanic, but this is man-made.

When ISIS withdrew from the sulfur factory, they placed explosives inside what was a massive mountain of sulfur as well as placing explosives over an expanse of around 4.5 kilometers of this factory, sending toxic, poisonous fumes into the air.

Hundreds of people living in the area had to seek medical attention for trouble breathing, burning eyes and choking. Hospitals ran out of oxygen.

I have no idea how the vast majority of these workers out here are able to deal with the smell and the burning in one's eyes without having proper protection. Most people out here don't have gas masks on but they are working tirelessly to try to bring this under control.

Across this other worldly landscape there are bulldozers, firefighters trying to stifle the flames with loads of dirt. This is a battlefield that has no walls or boundaries.

[03:39:52] And this is just one of the many ways that ISIS are trying to use whatever it possibly can to try to not only impede the advance of the security forces towards Mosul but also in doing so cause maximum damage and maximum impact on the civilian population.

If this is a sign of the length ISIS will go to out here, it's terrifying to imagine what it plans for Mosul itself.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Mishraq, Iraq.

CHURCH: Four people are dead and more than a dozen wounded after violent demonstrations in the capital of the Central African Republic.

Gunfire rang out as U.N. peacekeepers and armed forces tried to break up protesters. They are demanding the United Nations mission leave the CAR after failing to protect the country. The mission has faced growing distrust recently over allegations of sexual abuse by foreign peacekeepers.

Well, women have come out once more to oppose new proposals to clamp down on Poland's already restrictive abortion law. Hundreds of women marched in protest Monday in cities throughout Poland.

Earlier this month, the Polish parliament rejected the government's initial plan for a near total ban on abortion after tens of thousands of women demonstrated against it.

Coming up next on CNN Newsroom, hear the story of a man who left his lucrative career to change the lives of orphans with a little bit of magic.

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CHURCH: The CNN Freedom Project is dedicated to shining a light on human trafficking and ending modern day slavery. Today, we meet a former banker who left his high-paying job determines to help young orphans around the world and he's using a little bit of magic along the way.

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[03:44:56] ANDREW STEIN, ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN: To me, magic is a tool. Magic is a way to make children around the world laugh. It's a way to make children feel like they have the ability to do anything in the world.

My name is Andy Stein. And I'm the founder and the executive chairman of the Orphaned Starfish Foundation. I'm a recovering banker. Sixteen years ago, I was one of the top flyers in the United States on Continental Airlines.

And I decided to go to every country manager at the bank and said if you want to come and pitch me business, you have to buy me an orphanage, two hours in schedule and let me play with some kids.

And that was going to be my salvation for these trips. And that's what happened. I'd spend a half day with them. I make balloon animals, I do magic tricks, I help with their homework. I just show them that someone cares about them.

It wasn't a Jerry McGuire moment that made me leave banking to come to Orphaned Starfish and do it full time. I started in Chile, then it was Brazil, then it was Panama, then it was Mexico. The third time back in Chile the nuns took me aside and they said look, "Tiyo Mago," uncle magician."

I don't know if you know what happens here, at the age of 18 by law these girls are considered adults and they have to leave our little home. And 100 percent of these girls become prostitutes or live on the streets.

So, we sat down and we had a discussion, what would be the best way out for these girls? And we determined that education and job training was going to be the way out. So, I went back to New York.

I convinced the law firm that had made the most money off of me the year before to create a 501c3. And I went to family and friends to raise about $40,000. And we built the state-of-the-art computer center in the orphanage itself.

Six months later, I went back and it was magic. The younger kids became the top of their class. The older kids learned how to use Microsoft Office, they learned how to use the keyboard, they learned how to use the internet. They had a skill.

The Orphaned Starfish Foundation now has 50 computer centers in 25 countries around the world and we now help over 10,000 orphans, victims of abuse, victims of trafficking and victims of poverty worldwide.

When I go back and talk to my old friends in banking, and people ask me if I miss the toys and I miss the big house and I told them I don't miss it really at all.

There's magic in the world. You can make more of a difference than you can possibly imagine. I have the very incredible feeling of knowing what I was put here to do and having the ability to do it.

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CHURCH: Truly inspirational story there.

And a newly formed tropical cyclone has millions of people on alert in eastern India. Our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has been keeping a very close eye on this from the International Weather Center. So, you have been watching a system there, haven't you? And this is what we are seeing.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, you know, Rosemary, this storm system too, it's not very impressive on satellite imagery, but the officials in the states of Odisha and into Pradesh are taking this seriously.

In fact, some 3,000 firefighters are on standby right now. They have especially equipment in place from saws, and also boats, just in case they have trees or power lines coming down or any water rescues would very necessary. With a very slow moving storm system at this point locked in across the northern tier of the Bay of Bengal.

But you notice it spins up compact storm system. We know millions reside right there across coastal portions of Odisha. And this particular storm system slated to come ashore some time Thursday into Friday. But it takes that ominous track that wants to parallel the coastline.

So everyone could be impacted by this as the storm system approaches this region. And of course, when you think about this portion of the world, statistically we get about five tropical disturbances in the northern portion of the Indian Ocean. Two of which reach typhoon strength.

The storm may get them but it really doesn't take much to cause significant damage just based on the heavy population density across this coastal region of the Indian subcontinent.

And I just want to show you exactly what we're talking about when it comes to this region of the world. Because we know very much they are prone to severe river flooding across this part of the world. From places such as, China, out towards India. They top the list with almost five million people exposed to river flooding.

So you get heavy rainfall. It's a problem. And when you look at the Bay of Bengal, a lot of people are surprised to learn that 8 of the top 10 deadliest storms on our planet have formed in the Bay of Bengal. Many of them have impacted places like Bangladesh and some of them certainly places such as India.

So, a storm system, even if it is not a significant weather maker could play a large role across this region just based on the amount of people it could impact and the amount of water in the forecast over the next several days.

And again, it will approach land sometime this week. Now speaking of water across this region, the monsoon season, the withdrawals certainly in place. There is the white hash line they are showing you exactly where we should be climatologically.

And we are up to par with exactly where we would be. And you take a look at places such Allahabad, a very lush landscape right now as the monsoon season has come in. Just below average as far as rainfall expectations.

[03:49:58] The past six seasons you see a couple of years in the surplus department, a couple of years very low. This particular year not too bad. And officials there are saying that they expecting to be a great harvest going into the drier winter months here as we pick up some decent water in the monsoon season, Rosemary. So not a bad set up across that region.

CHURCH: Yes. I love it when you end on good news.

JAVAHERI: I try. CHURCH: We don't get a lot of that, too.

JAVAHERI: Very true.

CHURCH: Thanks, Pedram. I appreciate it.

Well, it was one of Donald Trump's most talked about comments at last week's presidential debate.

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CLINTON: Assuming he can't figure out how to get out of it but what we want to do is to replenish...

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TRUMP: Such a nasty woman.

CLINTON: ... the Social Security trust fund by making sure that...

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CHURCH: Well, now Clinton supporters are turning those words into a battle cry for their candidate. Back in a moment with that.

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CHURCH: U.S. President Barack Obama took some tough hits from his harshest critics on Twitter. The commander in chief read mean tweets about himself on the late night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live. But it wasn't all bad from Mr. Obama. He did managed to slip in a quick joke about Donald Trump.

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BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: I just found out my daughter shares a birthday with Obama, puke. Barack Obama dances like how his jeans look. You know, this jeans thing, this is so old. Been years ago. Come on.

President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, exclamation point at real Donald Trump. You know, @realdonaldtrump, at least I will go down as a president.

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CHURCH: Well, the U.S. Presidential debates are over, but there are moments that will long be remembered like when Trump called Hillary Clinton a nasty woman perhaps.

[03:55:04] Well, now her supporters are embracing that label. Here's Jeanne Moos with that.

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Four little words.

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TRUMP: Such a nasty woman.

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MOOS: Thrown back into Donald Trump's face.

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WARREN: Get this, Donald, nasty women are tough!

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MOOS: Hillary supporters put on their nasty t-shirts.

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WARREN: Nasty women are smart.

MOOS: They put on their make America nasty again hats.

WARREN: And nasty women vote.

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MOOS: No wonder Hillary's laughing. First there were the remixes. Then there were the jokes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes, so nasty. Also, quick reminder, no one respects women more than me.

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MOOS: And then came a merchandise from the such a nasty woman throw pillow to the I'm with that nasty woman t-shirt. SNL made this joke.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go to Hillaryclinton.com and buy a limited edition nasty woman mug.

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MOOS: Soon, someone was selling a copy of the SNL mug on Itchy. Singer Katy Perry campaign for Hillary in a nasty woman t-shirt bought at this web site. Its creator had it on-line before the debate even ended. She sold 10,000 items.

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WARREN: We nasty women are going to march our nasty feet.

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Hillary fans can carry their nasty stuff in this nasty is the new black back tote.

Jeanne Moos.

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TRUMP: Such a nasty woman.

MOOS: CNN.

ALEC BALDWIN, ACTOR: Such a nasty woman.

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MOOS: New York.

CHURCH: How's that for branding. Thanks so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to connect with me anytime on Twitter @rosemarycnn. And the news continues with Hannah Vaughan Jones in London.

Enjoy your day.

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