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[08:00:00] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream.

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LU STOUT: Now President Trump is set to speak in just a few hours where he is expect to decertify the Iran nuclear deal. Despite sanctions on

Pyongyang, a CNN exclusive shows how North Korean seafood is still being sold in China.

And the allegation against Harvey Weinstein continues to mount. Police in the U.K. are now investigating an alleged assault involving the Hollywood

heavyweight.

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LU STOUT: U.S. President Donald Trump is going after key aspects of his predecessor's legacy including the Iran nuclear deal and Mr. Trump's

signature Health Care Act raising questions about that laws feature and the health insurance of millions of Americans.

Now in the coming hours, Mr. Trump is due to speak. Senior U.S. officials say that he is ready to decertify the Iran nuclear deal. An Obama error

agreement that Mr. Trump calls quote, an embarrassment, that despite evidence suggesting Iran has upheld it's under the deal to limit its

nuclear program.

Now on Thursday, the speaker of Iran's parliaments into the country is ready for all scenarios regarding the agreement. And for more on this,

here is Robyn Curnow.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered

into. Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In 2015, the Obama administration along with five other world powers, made a landmark deal with Iran to limit its

nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of more than a $100 billion worth of sanctions.

But there was a catch, Congress passed a law that requires the deal to be re-certified every 90 days and that deadline is up on Sunday.

TRUMP: You'll be hearing about Iran very shortly.

CURNOW: Trump hinted that he will not recertify the deal because he thinks it's a bad one that doesn't cut on missile testing, while also claiming

that Iran isn't complying with the terms of the agreement, even though the IAEA said they are. Even so, some of Trump's top officials have advised

him not to dump the deal.

JAMES MATTIS, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: Absent indications to the contrary is something the president should consider staying with.

CURNOW: Other countries that signed on to the deal agree, saying the benefits of the deal outweigh the potential consequences of the U.S.

pulling out.

SIGMAR GABRIEL, GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through a translator): Our big concern is that the security situation would get worse if the U.S. rejects

the Iran nuclear deal and not better.

SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through a translator): We think this program is really one of the most important achievements of the

international community and that its implementation makes a contribution to reinforcement of nuclear nonproliferation regimes.

CURNOW: Iran says they'll be no renegotiation. At the United Nations last month, the Iranian president gave a stern warning to the U.S. to keep its

end of the bargain.

HASSAN ROUHANI, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through a translator): If the new officials in the United States believe that the violation of the Iran deal

over in Tehran, Iran then you can say that they are completely and absolutely mistaken, they're replace equations.

TRUMP: And everyone in this room...

CURNOW: If Trump is decides not to recertify the nuclear deal, the next step falls to Congress. Less than 60 days to consider re-imposing nuclear

sanctions on Iran. Robyn Curnow, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Russia state news agency reports that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke to his U.S. counterpart telling him Iran abides by all its

commitments on the Iran nuclear deal. Now let's go over to Nic Robertson now.

He joins us live from Moscow and Nic, to clarify here, Trump is not going to scrap the deal which is something he promised on the campaign trail but

he's going to decertify it and put it to Congress. What does that mean, what happens next?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, every three months -- every quarter of the IAEA which is the International Atomic Energy Agency who are

responsible for sort of overseeing the terms of the deal -- with terms of Iran's compliance, issues a report and their report, the most recent report

was August 31st.

The one before that, June 2nd, the one before that in February, and going back until this agreement began, have indicated more or less that Iran has

been in compliance and so the report at the end of August indicates that again.

So what the IAEA does is test whether or not Iran is complying and their report indicates that they are. However, it then under the conditions as,

Robyn Curnow, laid out in that report, it goes the U.S. president to take that box as well.

[08:05:00] And President Trump has certified or recertified the deal twice and it appears this time, despite what the IAEA is saying, he won't be

doing that. And that means, as Robyn as reporting that this will go to Congress.

What it means in the broader picture which is heard from President Putin's spokesman here, Dmitry Peskov say look, if the United States breaks --

tries to break out of this deal and that is not quite what Trump is doing here that it creates that level of uncertainty.

If they break -- if they break out it reduces the stability and reduces predictability throughout the world, it increases the chances for more

nonproliferation agreements to be broken for more countries to try to start nuclear weapons.

So this is the context, the Russians are viewing it and it's very much the context of all the other signatures to the JCPOA, the joint agreement on

the plan of action for Iran's nuclear program, they all agree that the program should stay in place. So it delivers a degree of uncertainty.

LU STOUT: Trump is going against evidence preferred by the IAEA is going against strong opposition from European allies as well as fellow

Republicans to do this. So why does President Trump want to disavow this deal?

ROBERTSON: Against the advice of a senior -- senior executives and secretary of state, the secretary of defense, will see this is a very, very

important deal and you know, President Trump is going to put it in his own words, in a speech later today.

And he's expected to say that he doesn't feel as we've say before that he doesn't think that Iran is keeping to the spirit of the deal because the

evidence seems to point that they are keeping to the terms of it, broadly speaking.

So, they certainly, on the outside in the way that this had being read around the world, it's being read that President Trump has made very strong

anti-Iranian statements, anti-nuclear deal statements during his campaign to become president.

And now his following through on that and it would be judged in Europe and Russia, and China as a decision that potentially has negative consequences

not just for the United States but for all players in the nuclear nonproliferation field.

LU STOUT: And the final question for you because this is part of a greater trend that we have seen from the U.S. president. President Trump has

boasted about his ability to make deals.

But we've seen already his ability to withdraw from a number of deals like the TPP trade pack in Asia like the Paris climate accord and now putting

this Iran nuclear deal and question. Why is he doing this? What motivates him in general?

ROBERTSON: You know, it certainly appears that what he's doing is trying to sort of keep good to his word on the campaign trail and he believes that

you know, the people that elected him, want him to do this because that's what he campaigned on.

What appears to be finding is the ability -- his ability to maneuver on these massive global issues is somewhat more limited when he gets in the

White House.

The decision that he appears to be about to take not to recertify is a sort of a constrained version of what he appeared on the campaign trail to want

to do with the -- within the JCPOA, so it does very much appear that Trump as we know is trying to keep his base supporting them on the issues that he

campaigned on, on the world stage.

However the assessment is that this may keep his base onboard but it is -- but it is damaging to the United States position in the world that this

allows other actors like Russia for example to have a greater role in global affairs that ground is being seated by the United States because of

these decisions President Trump is taking to keep his base onboard.

But we will hear from him later today and undoubtedly, he -- we will hear his rationale for why he wants to make this decision outside of the U.S.,

this is broadly speaking how his actions are being read, he's trying to keep his base onboard.

LU STOUT: All right, Nic Robertson reporting live for us from Moscow, thank you for that. Now President Trump is also -- he is pushing to

dismantle major parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Now the White House says, it's ending key subsidies to health insurer and that follows a number of failed attempts by Republicans in Congress to

entire repeal Obamacare. Joe Johns look at what it all means for Americans in their healthcare.

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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Trump upending the health care market, scrapping critical subsidy payments to insurers that help nearly 6

million lower income Americans pay for health care. The payments, which will cost the federal government about $7 billion this year, set to end

immediately.

[08:10:00] Without the subsidies, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that exchange premiums will rise 20 percent next year and increase the

national deficit by $194 billion over 10 years. The move could force many insurers to flee the marketplace entirely.

TRUMP: We pay hundreds of millions of dollars a month in subsidy that the courts don't even want us to pay, and when those payment stops, it stops

immediately.

JOHNS: President Trump has threatened to end the subsidies for months, but lawmakers in both parties have urged the administration to continue the

payments in the short term to stabilize the markets, the White House declaring Thursday that the government cannot lawfully make the cost

sharing reduction payments.

Democratic leadership blasting the decision as a spiteful act of vast pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class before

insisting that President Trump will pay a price for this decision.

House Speaker Paul Ryan applauding the move while Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tweeted, cutting health care subsidies will mean more

uninsured in my district. POTUS promised more access, affordable coverage. This does opposite.

It comes hours after the president signed an executive order allowing people to buy cheaper, more basic plans, something experts say will drive

up the cost of premiums for sicker patients.

TRUMP: This will cost the United States government virtually nothing, and people will have great, great health care.

JOHNS: President Trump legislating through executive order despite repeatedly attacking his predecessor for doing the same.

TRUMP: You have a president that signs executive orders because he can't get anything done.

Right now Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats.

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LU STOUT: That was Joe Johns reporting there. Mr. Trump also face criticism for pointing out Puerto Rico's leaning financial crisis is

largely of its own making and declared bankruptcy months ago.

But San Juan's mayor slammed President Trump saying, tweets like that at this time making it sound like a, quote, hater in cheese. It has been

three weeks since hurricane Maria struck and people still don't have fuel or clean water. Leyla Santiago has this look at their situation.

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LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The destruction, a constant reminder, Maria's eye was here just 24 hours. Three weeks later Puerto Rico is

unrecognizable. But for us, this is familiar.

We were here in Quebradillas just four days after Hurricane Maria struck. When we arrived, a woman, a complete stranger, embraced me in a way I will

never forget.

Desperate, she explained no one else had been to her town since the storm. No one else had come to see if that mountaintop community had even

survived. Her name is Brenda.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

SANTIAGO: We wanted to find her again to find out how she's doing. That's her right there. That's her. She recognizes us immediately. The mayor,

she tells us, brought a box of emergency food.

The neighbors all shared it. There's nothing left now. The president has said that he's doing an A-plus job in recovery efforts. How would you

grade him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. No. No way.

SANTIAGO: What grade would you give it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll give it a D. We have not seen anything.

SANTIAGO: It's hard for them to give the U.S. government a good grade when they still don't have power or water, more than 80 percent of Puerto Rico

no electricity. Maria left these mountains scarred. Mudslides are closing off entire communities across the island.

So this is as far as I can get in this part of Anasco. There's a whole community back there. You can see that there's water that's taken over the

road. There's mud, trees down, making it difficult to reach this community, so we're going to have to go by foot in order to get to them.

Along the way, we meet David. He's a veteran, an orange farmer from the neighboring town who just wants to help. He hiked in with a full crate of

water and ice. So right now you having to walk through all this, why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For the people.

SANTIAGO: The people, that's what makes it so hard for him. At 70-years- old, he's one of the few reaching the people in this community that he loves.

A half hour hike through an area once plush now stripped of leaves and color. We learned one helicopter landed here since the storm. But bottled

water is running out along with the food for Josean (ph), 5- month-old, completely unaware of the reality surrounding him.

[08:15:00] She's worried about the milk and the water for him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

SANTIAGO: Mom tells me it's only enough for another week and a half. She needs more. She needs more power. She needs another helicopter to land

here soon.

A third of the island doesn't have clean water. As we move to another part of the island, we spot help. What are you guys doing down there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're headed out to a store right now.

SANTIAGO: Are you bringing supplies?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we're (Inaudible).

SANTIAGO: In Utuado, the interior, the director of emergency management tells us they've been able to reach everyone here, his challenge,

communication.

So this is what they -- this is what they've been given out here. OK. It's got a number. It's got a Web site. But in an area where there's no

cell service and there's no Internet, that's the problem.

He insists help is flowing. But it's not what we found when we talked to (INAUDIBLE) up the road. Her home battered by Maria. The floors still

wet. No power here either.

I noticed she doesn't have a roof. But I also noticed that flag she's flying. The reason, she says...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

SANTIAGO: She says that's their salvation. Among the devastation, the desperation, she says she flies this flag with pride, waiting for help to

arrive. Leyla Santiago, CNN, Puerto Rico.

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LU STOUT: Such a heartbreaking tableau there. And turning now to Washington where Facebook Executive Sheryl Sandberg made the rounds this

week, as the company investigates Russian linked ads that ran on the platform during the 2016 campaign.

Sandberg make the House Intelligence Committee where lawmakers are concerned about Russia's use of social media to influence the election.

In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Sandberg would not say whether the Trump campaign and Russian groups targeted the same users but insisted

Facebook did it's best in dealing with the problem.

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SHERYL SANDBERG, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, FACEBOOK: We were looking at this, you know, certainly not as early as we would've liked because we wish

we had found it before it ever happened but as early as we heard any rumors, we started our investigation.

So if you think about 2015 to 2016, the threats most people were worried about are hacking, taking down accounts, getting interior in our accounts

and sharing all of it.

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LU STOUT: Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook there. Now, Russia's efforts to meddle in the U.S. politics weren't just done through Facebook and Twitter.

CNN investigated a Russian linked account posing his part of the Black Lives Matter Movement and found it used Instagram, it used, Tumblr,

YouTube, even Pokemon Go, to try to create conflict in real life.

Now, it was done through campaign that was called Don't Shoot Us, which accounts on several social media sites. It feature video and photos of

alleged police brutality and urged black Americans to protest.

Don't Shoot Us publicized protest near Black Lives Matter events and even try to use Pokemon to popularity by creating a contest urging players to

visit places where these alleged events happened and to name captured Pokemon after the victims. You are News Stream.

Still to come right here on the program, we have an exclusive report by CNN. China says it is enforcing U.S. sanctions on North Korea that

includes a ban on North Korean seafood but we'll show you the reality on the ground.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong in a Friday night, welcome back this is News Stream. Now North Korea has once again threatened the

U.S. territory of Guam.

The North Korean Central news agency says Pyongyang is moving its hand closer to the trigger for self-defense including a possible salvo of

missiles into the waters near Guam.

It says the U.S. military drills to South Korea only harden its determination to tame the United States with fire. The latest warnings of

Pyongyang follow weeks of rising tension and they could escalate further when the U.S. and South Korea hold joint naval exercises beginning on

Monday.

The U.S. has been telling China, it has to do more to reign in North Korea and to enforce U.N. sanctions. And China says, it has but now in this

exclusive report, it looks like that there are ways around it. Matt Rivers travelled to China's border with North Korea to find out how that's being

done.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When on the hunt for illicit North Korean goods, it's best to head to Northeast China. Driving along the North

Korean border, we had for Hunchun, a city known for buying and selling North Korean seafood.

There we quickly found the street filled with seafood markets recording on our cell phones to avoid being spotted by the Chinese police. In just the

second store we tried, we saw this. The shop owner said she got a fresh shipment of North Korean crab in just the night before.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through a translator): These are smuggled from North Korea.

RIVERS: Two doors down, more crab still illegal. Those big hairy crabs are from North Korea. We got smuggled in them a few days ago -- smuggled

in because a few weeks ago, 7,000 miles away, the U.N. Security Council has new sanctions on North Korea that included a total ban on seafood export.

They are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the regime. China was the biggest buyer but that was supposed to stop two months ago and to a

large extent, it did processing centers here closedown. People lost their jobs but clearly it hasn't stopped completely. One woman even told us how

the crab was being smuggled in.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through a translator): People bag them up and float them across deliver into the border. We are worried about it.

RIVERS: So part of the reason that that smuggling can happen is because most of the land border between China and North Korea -- looks like this is

pretty open right on the other side of that river right there, that's North Korea.

You can see it probably wouldn't be that difficult to get across. CNN can't determine how much crab is still being sold, the scale of it all.

The Chinese government would not comment for this story but consistently say that they enforce all sanctions but the Trump administration says

Beijing is not doing enough. They want tougher sanctions.

And here, a bit further south along the border, the city of Dandong is the perfect place to see how China props up the regime economically and against

U.S. wishes. This is all legal. Trucks loaded down with goods, everything from food to solar panels rumble across the Yalu River into North Korea

each day.

Total Chinese exports to North Korea are up around 30 percent this year. North Korean laborers work in Chinese factories and send their wages back

to the regime and then there's this. A particular sticking point for the U.S. and a place the Chinese government does not want journalists to film.

These huge oil tanks storing the fuel that is sent across the border each day, this facility right here is really the embodiment of the disagreement

between Beijing and Washington. The Trump administration does not want oil running through its pipelines to North Korea.

But so far, Beijing is not willing to totally do that. China has only agreed to limit oil exports in line with current U.N. sanctions. Beijing

fears that an embargo could help cause the regime collapse and lead to a surge of refugees its over border.

[08:25:00] In the meantime, back in Hunchun, U.N. mandates feel pretty far away. You can book a table at a local restaurant and take out your very

own North Korean crab. Clear sanctions violations served up hot and fresh. Matt Rivers, CNN, Hunchun, China.

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LU STOUT: Sometimes that fight against modern day slavery can made looking at the past for inside on how to bring it to an end today. Lynda Kinkade

shows us some students are learning lessons from the great emancipator himself, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's summer but this is no break. The subject matter, ending slavery. Now in its fifth year, the Students

Opposing Slavery summit or SOS provides teenagers actionable skills for how to start human rights campaigns in their own country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What I would do in order to bring it back to my school, probably like start a club or something. And we can spread

awareness to my school because I'm sure a lot of other students in my school don't know about these problems.

KINKADE: The setting for the summit is equally impressive. Known as Lincoln's Cottage, this is where President Abraham Lincoln spent his

summers when he needed a break from the White House.

And even more significantly, this is the place where President Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, a landmark piece of legislation

setting the path to free slaves.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Lincoln wants to declare that all slaves everywhere shall be free.

KINKADE: Erin Carlson Mast is the Executive Director at Lincoln's Cottage. In preserving this cottage there was an inclination to bring Lincoln's

legacy into modern times.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Lincoln said that the fight for freedom was unfinished. And so we see doing things like making sure we have slavery

free rugs part of carrying out that unfinished work.

KINKADE: As this summit was taking place, in another part of D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson outlined the global response to human

trafficking with the release of the U.S. government's Trafficking in Persons report. It ranks every country's response to the problem.

REX TILLERSON, SECRETARY OF STATE: It is our hope that the 21st century will be the last century of human trafficking and that's what we are all

committed to.

KINKADE: And perhaps nowhere where you'll find more commitment to the future of freedom than with this makeshift group of idealistic classmates

gathered in a historic cottage. Lynda Kinkade, CNN, Washington.

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LU STOUT: Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking for a second chance but the accusations of sexual misconduct just keep coming. The question is,

whether more could have done years earlier to protect some of the victims.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.

In the coming hours, U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce he will decertify the Iran nuclear deal, an Obama era agreement that Mr. Trump

has called an embarrassment. Trump's move will give congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions.

Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg said Thursday that Facebook and congress will release data on Russian ad targeting next month. However, she would

not reveal whether the Trump campaign and Russian-linked groups targeted the same users on Facebook. Lawmakers are looking at Russia's use of social

media to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

North Korea has once again threatened the U.S. territory of Guam. The North Korean Central News Agency says Pyongyang is moving its hand closer to the

trigger for self-defense, including a possible salvo of missiles into the water near Guam. This comes ahead of next week's joint military drills

between the U.S. and South Korea.

The investigation to alleged sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein now spans two continents. Police in London are looking into a

case that dates back to the 1980s, while the New York police are reviewing claims by women who were interviewed in a New Yorker expose, and the

accusations just keep coming. Jason Carroll reports.

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HARVEY WEINSTEIN, AMERICAN FILM PRODUCER: I'm not doing OK. I'm trying. I got to get help, guys. You know what, we all mistakes, a second chance I

hope, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): No problem.

WEINSTEIN: Thanks, guys. You know I have always been loyal to you, guys, unlike most (bleep) treat you like (bleep). I have been the good guy.

JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Harvey Weinstein now asking for a second chance, this as another prominent actress has come forward

alleging she too was victimized by Weinstein. Kate Beckinsale who is now 44 posted her experience on Instagram, saying when she was 17, she was invited

to a hotel to meet with Weinstein.

I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him.

After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning, I left uneasy, but unscathed.

Beckinsale says years after the alleged incident, she continued to reject Weinstein's advances and as a result, she says, her career suffered.

Beckinsale's fate is the reason why Hollywood insiders say so many kept quiet for so long. They say for a time, Weinstein could make or break

anyone.

CYNTHIA LITTLETON, MANAGING EDITOR, VARIETY: You couldn't work in Hollywood and not know the stories and the reputation.

CARROLL (voice-over): Take Gwyneth Paltrow. She came from a lineage Hollywood family and in the 1990s, she was dating Brad Pitt, but that

didn't allegedly stop Weinstein. Paltrow told The New York Times, Weinstein made sexual advances toward her when she was 22.

Pitt, she says, confronted Weinstein. Paltrow continued to work with him, winning an Academy Award for "Shakespeare in Love" under his then company

Miramax. Pitt also worked with Weinstein for years in films like "Inglourious Basterds" and "Killing Them Softly." Why?

LITTLETON: Even Brad Pitt at the point as when he was a marquee star, to stand up and say I'm not going to work with Harvey Weinstein would be

damaging to his career.

CARROLL (voice-over): A-lister Ben Affleck now facing questions about what he knew about Weinstein. Weinstein was key to Affleck's rise to fame and

cast him in "Good Will Hunting" and "Reindeer Games." Affleck released a statement saying, what can I do to make sure this doesn't happen to others.

Actress Rose McGowan suggested in tweets that Affleck did know about Weinstein and that she had told him about her experience with him.

Affleck's spokesperson did not return our calls.

LISA BONNER, ENTERTAINMENT ATTORNEY: This is a situation of power and influence and fear of reprisal.

CARROLL (voice-over): The casting couch not a new concept. Actress Jane Fonda says she found out about Weinstein about a year ago, and she's

ashamed she did not speak out.

JANE FONDA, ACTRESS: It has happened to me. It has. I only met Harvey when I was old, and Harvey goes for young because that's more vulnerable, you

know, but it's very, very common.

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[08:35:00] LU STOUT: That was Jason Carroll reporting there. An accuser of Weinstein, actress Rose McGowan, has joined a boycott of Twitter. It

temporarily suspended her account after she broke the rules by sending a tweet that included a private phone number, but women were quick to

rallies. Several celebrities came out in support of McGowan and the hashtag "women boycott Twitter" quickly became viral.

McGowan embraced the boycott tweeting this, "at midnight we rise." Now, she directed some of her other tweets at the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, saying

this, "I told the head of your studio that HW, meaning Harvey Weinstein, raped me. Over and over I said it. He said it hadn't been proven. I said, I

was the proof."

Amazon and Weinstein Company are partners in two upcoming television series. Weinstein denies any allegations of non-consensual sex.

Firefighters are far from containing one of the deadliest wildfire outbreaks in California history. The death toll has now climbed to 31.

Entire communities are now in ruins and there is no rain in the forecast for the next week. Calistoga is one of the cities affected. It is under a

mandatory evacuation order. Dan Simon is there.

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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're on the front lines as firefighters try to keep another town from burning.

The fire is coming up this hill. You can see the flames below us. The smoke is billowing.

AMY HEAD, CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION: Wildfire towards you two or three feet.

SIMON: In the hills above Calistoga, it is a race to keep up with the flames.

Endless fuel in the form of dry trees and brush make it a daunting task.

HEAD: It's really steep. It's rugged. There's a lot of thick vegetation. There's wind. The fire is blowing everywhere.

SIMON: Controlled burns like this one are meant to block the fire from advancing, but a half mile down the road, the fire has done just that,

inching down this hill towards the community.

The team puts it out. They're exhausted. They use fire hoses as rope to make it back up the hill.

We find this firefighter trying to catch his breath.

DAVID ALLHISER, CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION: Very sporadic, erratic fire behavior. That's about it.

SIMON: How difficult has it been the last couple of days?

ALLHISER: It's been busy. That's (INAUDIBLE).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is absolutely the worst fire I've ever seen in California. Biggest because of the amount of people that are affected. You

have whole swaths of neighborhoods that look like a bomb has gone off. It looks like we've been bombed.

SIMON: The fire swept through so quickly here, residents say they didn't have time to grab even the most basic belongings.

MARISSA CRUZ, FIRE VICTIM: I took a photo of my brother and me. I lost my brother 11 years ago and I wanted to make sure I had a photo of us.

SIMON: Marissa Cruz, trying to keep the loss of her three-bedroom house in perspective.

CRUZ: This is all just stuff, you know. At the end of the day, just stuff. But man, the smell is terrible.

SIMON: Back on the line, crews working overtime with little or no sleep.

SHELBY CHARLEY, JR., CALIFORNIA DEPARTMETN OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION: I had about an hour of sleep last night.

SIMON: You're not been able to really get any rest?

CHARLEY: No. You have to keep up with the fires so that way you can try to save homes, property and lives.

SIMON: The number of those said to be missing continues to fluctuate, but right now it stands at about 400, a scary number to be sure, but

authorities hope it will be pared down as people report that their loved ones have been found safe. Dan Simon, CNN, Calistoga, California.

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LU STOUT: You're watching "News Stream." Coming up, the U.S. is pulling out of yet another international organization. Why? The Trump administration is

taking aim at UNESCO, next.

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LU STOUT: Israel says it plans to withdraw from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization commonly called UNESCO. It

follows the U.S. pulling out of the organization saying UNESCO has an anti- Israel bias.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls that decision courageous and moral. UNESCO is known for naming places with cultural importance as world

heritage sites. The U.S. secretary general says U.S. choice is a great loss.

At a signing ceremony, you have just one job. It's a critical job. So, you think it would be impossible to forget the reason everyone is gathered in

the room around you. But it can and it did happen to President Trump. Jeanne Moos has that.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He came, he spoke, he forgot to sign?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He will signing an executive order. Looks like maybe he was busy talking and now they're directing him back to remind him.

MOOS (voice-over): There is really only one main thing you have to do at an executive order signing ceremony and the president forgot until Vice

President Pence tapped him.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, everybody.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, you need to sign it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most important thing.

TRUMP: I'm only signing because it costs nothing.

MOOS (voice-over): The president wrote his signature while critics wrote jobs. One pretended to be the secretary of state. OK, Mr. President, I'm

ready to take the IQ test when you are.

MOOS: Now, let's not forget, this forgetting the sign at a signing ceremony has happened before. Back in March, the president was supposed to sign two

executive orders on trade, but he was in a hurry to leave as reporters peppered him with questions.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were you trying to do that, Mr. President? Is that you intention, Mr. President?

MOOS (voice-over): Again, it was VP Pence who reminded him he had to sign the orders. The president gestured to the vice president to go get them.

They ended up getting signed elsewhere. Of course, if there is no on-camera signing, then there are no documents for internet photo shoppers to doctor

with nicknames like dotard (ph) and rocket man.

GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you all very much.

MOOS (voice-over): But there are worse things than leaving prematurely. At least, President Trump didn't get locked in. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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LU STOUT: And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere, "World Sport" with Alex Thomas is next.

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