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DNA Clue in Escaped Convicts Manhunt; Attorney Says Gene Palmer Didn't Know of Convict Escape; Fears Greece will Exit Eurozone; How ISIS Delivered Justice in Tal Abyad; Inside White a Supremacist Movement; Nikki Haley Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag from Capitol Grounds; Obama Trying to Make a Point Using "N" Word; U.S. Government Security Breach Larger Than Thought; South Korea's Samsung Medical Center Apologizes over MERS Handling; Karachi, Pakistan, Stifled by Heat. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired June 22, 2015 - 02:00 ET
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[02:00:29] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Investigators find a new clue in a cabin during a manhunt for two runaway inmates. And how frozen hamburger meat may have contributed to their escape.
ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: And ISIS used this cage to punish people for crimes as simple as playing cards. We'll take you inside a newly liberated city.
CHURCH: And why the heir apparent of Samsung has issued an apology over the deadly MERS outbreak.
BARNETT: We are you anchor team on CNN for the next two hours. Hello and welcome. I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for tuning from in the U.S. and around the world.
CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
It is 2:00 a.m. in Upstate New York where police have what they call a promising new clue in the search for two escaped murders.
BARNETT: A law enforcement source says investigators have found DNA from Richard Matt and David Sweat in a cabin in Owl's Head, New York.
The town's sheriff spoke with Alexandra Field.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: How confident do you feel about these leads?
KEVIN MULVERHILL, SHERIFF, OWL'S HEAD, NEW YORK: All options are open and all options are on the table. These are the best leads we've had since the escape.
FIELD: Are you confident they are here in your area, in your county?
MULVERHILL: They are here we're going to catch them.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: The latest search area is 20 miles or 32 kilometers from the Clinton Correctional Facility where the men escaped on June 6th.
Gary Tuchman is there.
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The people who live in the tiny hamlet of Owl's Head, New York, have never seen anything like this.
MAJ. CHARLES GUESS, NEW YORK STATE POLICE: We've developed evidence that the suspects may have spent time in a cabin in this area. We have law enforcement officers from around the state and around the nation here today searching for more evidence.
TUCHMAN (on camera): The break-in suggests the men need provisions and are desperate. That's what a source tells CNN. There's lots of police but they cannot patrol every trail. But we are where the men might be based on the DNA. The Adirondack Park is huge, a beautiful area in New York State, but this is the topography that the searchers are dealing with. These men could be anywhere. It's heavily wooded and there has to be a serious sense of alert for these police. Anytime they go in the woods, they encounter these men.
(voice-over): Everyone driving in the area gets checked, residents and news media.
(on camera): Hello, we are CNN. Do you need me to open my trunk?
UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Yes, please.
TUCHMAN: You want us to open our trunk.
(voice-over): Many residents have left and others refused to.
Shannon Hart visited cabins he takes care of not far from the one the escapees appear to have been in.
(on camera): Was there a concern about what you might find inside the cabin?
SHANNON HART, TAKES CARE OF CABINS IN ADIRONDACK PARK: No.
(LAUGHTER)
TUCHMAN: Not at all?
HART: Not at all.
TUCHMAN: How come?
(LAUGHTER)
You were armed? HART: I was armed.
TUCHMAN (voice-over): The cabin is up this road and into the woods. The closer you get to the cabin, the more weapons and law enforcement authorities you see.
Police are well prepared, well aware this could end violently in what has always been a peaceful small town.
Gary Tuchman, CNN, Owl's Head, New York.
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BARNETT: Another source says the tools Matt and Sweat used for their escape may have been smuggled into the prison inside a chunk of frozen hamburger meat. The men were in the Honor Block were allowed to cook their own food.
CHURCH: Gene Palmer was a guard in that Honor Block and he is on administrative leave for his possible role in the prison break. His attorney says Palmer didn't know about the inmate's plans to escape. Listen.
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ANDREW BROCKWAY, ATTORNEY FOR GENE PALMER: As a corrections officer, he is working in a really dangerous environment. So he used them as sources. So they would provide him information that he would in turn use to insure the safety of his co-workers and other inmates. But Mr. Sweat shared information with him that helped my client keep the facility safe and secure.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For at least a period of time, there was a trust between your client and these two men? Or am I going too far in saying that?
BROCKWAY: I think it's fair to say there was some level of trust but these are two psychopaths. They both committed murder. There is only so much you can trust. He trusted them to the extent they did give him reliable information that helped him protect other people and himself but it wasn't a blind trust.
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[02:05:20] BARNETT: No charges have been filed against Gene Palmer and his attorney says he is pulling cooperating fully. If there's any developments, we will bring them to you.
For now, we go on to other stories. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel in the Greek debt crisis. Eurozone leaders are making slow progress to a deal after wrapping up an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday.
CHURCH: Greece submitted a new proposal on economic reforms over the weekend which has received some cautious support from the country's international creditors. Greece's prime minister says it's now time for E.U. leaders to review
and possibly approve that proposal.
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ALEXIS TSIPRAS, GREECE PRIME MINISTER (through translation): We need to continue the negotiations for a few days, a few hours, the next two days and that's precisely because we don't want a fragmented short- term agreement. We want a long term and viable solution. After all, this I have a feeling to use a phrase normally used by E.U. officials, "The ball is in the European leaders' court."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CHURCH: Greece has one week to secure a new deal or risk missing a deadline to repay the IMF.
And Grexit, that is if Greece exits the common currency, would have devastating effects on Greece but it also poses threats to the Eurozone as a whole and spread financial instability and weaken other economies like Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
BARNETT: Some fear a post-exit Greece could forge ties with Russia or China. And immigration could be an issue as well. Desperate and impoverished people could cross into nearby countries needing aid and wanting welfare.
To get more on the crisis, let's bring in Linda Lavapolou (ph), live from Athens, Greece as we approach this deadline.
Linda, for the viewers who may not be following every twist and turn in this, we have seen so many make or break moments for Greece already how is this deadline different?
LINDA LAVAPOLOU (ph), JOURNALIST: It's a complicated story and gone on for way too long. As we approach the real deadline. There is only one deadline, June 30th, which is when Greece would find itself out of a bailout program and with no access to funding as it has no access to the markets. So now we're looking at the E.U., the creditors, Greece getting together to come up with a viable solution. This is what we're likely to see, we have a Euro group coming up tomorrow where details will be ironed out and more will become clear about what this possible deal would involve. We do have some of the first indications. It will include more austerity, something that the Greeks did not want to see.
But as the financial situation of the country has worsened recently, it is something that it will be very difficult for Greece to avoid. And then of course once a decision is reached, possibly at an E.U. summit this week, it has to be ratified and first it has to go to the Greek parliament. That's where we are likely to see more complications. The hard left of the government may not agree to these measures. The drama is not yet completely over and we still have to see how this is going to play out internally in Greece but also in the other European countries as well. BARNETT: I want to follow up with you on that point now that we
mentioned the internal Greek options. Some experts think if there is a default here it doesn't nicely equal a Grexit, but what are the implications for Europe as a whole.
LAVAPOLOU (ph): It doesn't necessarily amount to a Grexit, but it would depend how this is arranged. There are many technical ways of defaulting and we are not sure what this would entail in the case of Greece. But for Europe it can only be seen in negative terms. It is the first time we could see something like that in a European country. It would put into questions the ideas of European unity and solidarity. We are seeing Europe becoming more about finances than politics and the ideals it was built on. A possible Greek default would show that Europe is not what it was created to be.
[02:10:12] BARNETT: Linda Lavapolou (ph), live from Athens, Greece, ahead of what is another, but this one the important one, the Greek debt deadline.
CHURCH: After two years of ISIS occupation, the Syrian town of Tal Abyad is liberated. Kurdish fighters forced the militants out.
BARNETT: CNN was able to get into Tal Abyad. And residents are describing how difficult life was under ISIS control.
Arwa Damon has more on some place where ISIS delivered brutal justice.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We traveled to Tal Abyad with the YPG, the Kurdish fighting force, that's currently in control of the town. And in the hours we were there we were able to get a bit of an insight into just how chilling life under ISIS really was.
(voice-over): No one is around to tell us who was held here or what horrors transpires at the Tal Abyad prison. There is a stench of sewerage. On one floor, splotches of red.
A scrap of paper, an idea about what is considered a crime under ISIS. In this case, taking God's name in vain. Among the many draconian directives of ISIS rule.
Another forbidden act, smoking.
(on camera): This is the first time in two years that cigarettes are being sold in the streets of Tal Abyad. This man is saying and this is the first shipment brought in.
(on camera): (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
DAMON: He is saying that there is a cage at the round-about down the street they would put people in as punishment.
(voice-over): We are taken to see it and told the story of a man who spent three days here for playing cards, also banned.
The streets of Tal Abyad also very clean. ISIS order perpetrators of crime to pick up trash.
At one of the ISIS security offices, the black flag dominates every wall, showing who is in control. And we find a handful of blank pads of official forms on an office shelf.
Shuttered store front after store front is painted red with a word (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE), meaning it was claimed as property as the Islamic State.
(on camera): There is a group of men back there who don't want to appear on camera. They have relatives in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. But they were told about how retched life under their rule was and how they didn't dare stand up to them and no one dared to speak out. But they chose to continue living here. What they have here is everything they possess in life and trying to survive as a refugee is too difficult. And all of them then pointed to this round-about. This was called the round-about of death. It was here that ISIS carried out its executions.
(voice-over): The remnants of life ISIS plague this town where it seems that reality was worse than what most could ever imagine.
(on camera): ISIS may have been driven out of Tal Abyad for now but the fighting across Syria is still far from over and the future of so many still remains uncertain.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BARNETT: That was a look at life under ISIS. But with the militants largely gone, the journey for locals to normality is long one.
CHURCH: Arwa spoke to residents about life after ISIS and learned they are still feeling the impact of those two years physically in the form of explosive traps and psychologically.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DAMON (voice-over): A certain unease emanates from the adults, anger in their voices, their answers short and sharp.
This man says ISIS forced him to purchase from them black clothing for his little girls.
The three say they were sometimes scared. Now they are just enjoying being outside without head scarves and they want to go back to school.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CHURCH: Arwa's exclusive view inside the city of Tal Abyad concludes tomorrow right here on CNN.
BARNETT: Now the U.S. state of South Carolina takes steps to remove a symbol that divides many in that area, a Confederate flag. Details on the debate surrounding it after this short break. Stay with us.
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[02:18:48] BARNETT: U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday. That's where he will deliver the eulogy at the funeral for Reverend Clemente Pinckney, on of nine gunned down last week at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
CHURCH: The first lady and Vice President Joe Biden will attend the funeral. One other victim is being laid to rest this week.
BARNETT: The first black woman elected to Congress is returning donations to Earl Holt. Earl Holt is the white supremacist whose writings reportedly inspired the admitted shooter, Dylann Roof. Spokesman for Representative Mia Love (ph) said she would return the donations that Holt made to her campaign.
CHURCH: Holt has made doe neighs to Republican presidential candidates, Rick Santorum, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. They are all donating money to the Mother Emanuel Hope Fund to assist the families of the victims.
Earl Holt is the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist movement.
BARNETT: And the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies the CCC as a hate group.
Senior investigative correspondent, Drew Griffin, has more on the movement.
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[02:20:04] DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Council of Conservative Citizens believes whites are under attack, that whites need to wake up before the race is destroyed. On its website, it listing black-on-white crimes, it says, go unreported. Points of view almost identical to the so-called manifesto and reasoning on the website owned by the Charleston shooter, justifying an attack on black people, praying in a church.
This is one of the movement's rallies posted on the Internet.
And the man speaking, Kyle Rogers, is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leader in the CCC movement.
KYLE ROGERS, COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS: There is only one argument that they use for every single cause on the left wing, and you saw it right here with the protesters one side, same message. Every single person that yelled something negative said exactly the same thing. It's the argument of a 3-year-old, you're racist.
GRIFFIN: Rogers runs a flag-selling website which includes rebel flags and Rhodesian flags and other flags associated with segregation. In speeches, he urges followers, no backing down to what he calls the left-wing media.
ROGERS: Just got to stand up to them. Don't go on the defensive. Always be on the offensive when you talk to the other side.
GRIFFIN: But today, at his home outside Charleston, he was anything but a firebrand racist. Instead, he hid behind his door.
(on camera): Kyle? Drew Griffin with CNN. How you doing?
ROGERS: (INAUDIBLE)
GRIFFIN: Can we ask you a question about the flags you sell? You can't say anything to us, Kyle?
(on camera): Rogers instead handed us a pierce of paper telling us to contact this man, Jerod Taylor, a spokesman for the movement, which condemns the shooter, but not what the shooter may have learned from the CCC website.
[01:40:08] JEROD TAYLOR, COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS: So what Dylann Roof found are facts, facts that are hard to find because they're essential taboo in the United States today. So we have absolutely no apology for publishing the facts.
GRIFFIN (voice-over): The fact is these white supremacists live mostly on the Internet. They blog and share their views that whites are being overtaken by blacks, Hispanics and Jews. And they all deliberately stop short of inciting any calls for violence.
BOB WHITTAKER, COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS: Like any other human being, I don't like the idea of somebody marching in and shooting people.
GRIFFIN: Bob Whittaker has been in the white supremacist organization for decades, and he says the shooter's actions are intolerable, but so are the actions of so many other shootings where blacks kill whites.
WHITTAKER: There are going to be a large number of murders this week, I can tell you that.
GRIFFIN (on camera): But there are very few murders where the shooter seems to want to start a race war, which is what he reportedly told police. Very few shootings like that. And very few shootings where a young, white kid, from a very white neighborhood --
(CROSSTALK)
WHITTAKER: Now wait a minute.
GRIFFIN: -- goes down to Charleston, South Carolina, into a very black church and kills nine people.
WHITTAKER: Yeah. So what am I supposed to do about it?
GRIFFIN (voice-over): Drew Griffin, CNN, Charleston.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CHURCH: The debate over the controversial Confederate flag has gone on for decades in the United States.
BARNETT: Now, in the wake of last week's massacre in South Carolina, its removal may become a realty. On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from capital grounds.
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NIKKI HALEY, (R), GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA: We are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it's time to move the flag from the capital grounds. 150 years after the end of the civil war, the time has come. There will be some in our state who see this as a sad moment. I respect that. But know this. For good and for bad, whether is it on the state house grounds or in a museum, the flag will always be a part of the soil of South Carolina.
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CHURCH: Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, applauded Haley's move in a tweet, saying that the flag's removal is long overdue. Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, tweeted as well, giving kudos to South Carolina leadership for doing the right thing. On Monday, Bush also reiterated that as governor of Florida, he sent the Confederate flag to a museum.
BARNETT: Now the Confederate flag debate has a top lawmaker in Mississippi calling for changes to its state flag. The Confederate battle emblem is incorporated into the top left corner of the Mississippi state flag.
CHURCH: The state's house speaker, Phillip Gunn (ph), says that the Confederate flag has become offensive and needs to be removed from the Mississippi flag. He said, "We must always remember our past but that does not mean we must let it define us."
[02:25:14] Meanwhile, retail giant Walmart tells CNN it will stop selling Confederate merchandise in its stores and website. The decision has some Walmart shoppers react.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It does show a part of our history and I do think we should value that part of our history.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a southern company. It's a slap in your face to pull out anything that is anything southern pride.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BARNETT: Reuters is reporting another retailer, Sears, will remove sales of Confederate flag merchandise by third parties on its online marketplace. It does not sell Confederate flags at its stores.
Now, President Obama is speaking candidly about race in the wake of that shooting in Charleston.
CHURCH: The country's first black president used the "N" word during a podcast to explain there's more to be done to combat racism.
Michelle Kosinski reports.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (voice-over): Racism, we are not cured of.
MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president with one word in a comedian's garage hits more bluntly than any speech.
OBAMA (voice-over): And it's not just a Matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a Matter of overt discrimination. We have -- societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.
KOSINSKI: The shock value lost on no one. But the White House denies that that was his intent, that it was even planned, says it just came out.
JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The president was merely making an argument in an informal setting.
KOSINSKI (on camera): He had to know that this was going to get reaction right?
EARNEST: I don't think he was surprised by that, but I do think it has prompted careful consideration of what exactly he said.
KOSINSKI (voice-over): It's the latest of several strikingly yes motional statements after the Charleston shootings.
OBAMA: Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.
I refuse to act as if this is the new normal.
KOSINSKI: This may be the first time since the Trayvon Martin shooting three years ago that the president spoke directly, personally enough that it was controversial.
OBAMA: If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
KOSINSKI: President Obama has long fielded the criticism, including in the black community appearing reluctant to speak forcefully on race. He campaigned on trying to move the national conversation beyond race.
OBAMA: There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asia America. There's the United States of America.
(APPLAUSE)
OBAMA: The legacy --
KOSINSKI: As for the surprise over hearing the president say the "N" word, he did write it and refer to it more than a dozen times in his book "Dreams from My Father" how growing up shaped his private views on race, more of which we're hearing now.
(on camera): Some analysts say it is about time we hear President Obama speak so directly on this issue. And of course, not everybody's happy that he decided to use the word, and we're also hearing from people who say that they're surprised people are surprised by it. It's hard to imagine, though, that the president didn't think about the provocative power of using that word when he decided to, even if it was on the spot. I mean, this is a word that we don't even feel comfortable using when we're talking about that word. It's clear, though, that this kind of discussion is exactly what the White House wants.
Michelle Kosinski, CNN, the White House.
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CHURCH: A small plane registered to Oscar-winning composer, James Horner, has crashed, killing the pilot. We don't know if Horner was flying the plane. The FAA says the crash happened Monday morning near Santa Barbara in California.
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BARNETT: Horner won two academy awards for the movie "Titanic" and has been nominated 10 times for films like "Brave Heart," "Avatar" and "field of Dreams."
We'll be right back.
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[02:33:01] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our viewers here in the U.S. and those tuned in from all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.
ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rosemary Church. Time to update you on our main stories this hour.
Police in Upstate New York say they have an important new clue in their search for two escaped killers. A source says investigators have found DNA from the men at a cabin in the town of Owl's Head. Richard Matt and David Sweat broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6th.
BARNETT: Eurozone leaders are making slow progress to a Greek debt deal. Greece proposed new economic reforms over the weekend, which received cautious support from the country's international creditors. Greek has one week now to secure a new deal or risk missing the June 30th debt repayment deadline to the IMF.
CHURCH: A trial date of October 13th has been set for the six U.S. police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. He suffered a spinal injury while in police custody in Baltimore, Maryland. His death sparked sometimes violent protests that led to a city-wide curfew.
BARNETT: A massive breach of U.S. government computers is now believed to be four times larger than originally thought.
CHURCH: Earlier, Washington said four million current and former federal employees had their information hacked.
BARNETT: But now the number is 18 million. Investigators blame China for the hack but China denies any involvement.
CHURCH: We do want to bring in David McKenzie live from Beijing. He has the latest on the China hacking story.
Talk to us about the latest on this. We know that the United States and China meet this week. U.S. officials are saying they plan to raise concerns about hacking. How is China likely to react to that?
[02:35:00] DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, at least they are likely dismiss the allegations particularly the latest around the 18 million or so bits of personal information on servers of the Office of Personnel Management of the U.S. federal government that appear to have been accessed by hackers. China has repeatedly said in the case of this and previous hacking accusations they have nothing to do with it as a state actor and they call the allegations explosive and counterproductive. I don't believe that China's position will soften at all on. This China has wanted to come to the table and discuss with the U.S. ground rules of cybersecurity. But since the Justice Department of the U.S. indicted several People's Liberation Army officers in alleged hacks those talks have been off the table. At this stage, we are in an awkward phase of finger pointing and denials -- Rosemary?
CHURCH: It is interesting, isn't it? And there appears to be a reluctance of sorts on the part of the United States to blame China publicly for any cyber breach. Why is that?
MCKENZIE: It is this particular cyber breach. You are right about that. The Obama administration and the Justice Department made specific accusations with that they say is specific evidence. In this case it's been more from anonymous officials, legislators saying this is a massive breach and the state actor of China is responsible, partly, they say, based on that information wasn't floating around after the hack on the black web, is so-called black web for sale. If you are going to steal information and not sell it it's probably for espionage. But there has not been much more released from cybersecurity firms or the U.S. government that point to more concrete evidence. That could be because of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and others. The Chinese may say because there isn't evidence. But at this point, it's finger pointing from both sides -- Rosemary?
CHURCH: We will watch to see what comes out of this upcoming meeting between U.S. And many Chinese officials.
Many thanks to you, David McKenzie, reporting live from Beijing.
BARNETT: The heir apparent of South Korea's Samsung group is apologizing for the outbreak of MERS in his country.
CHURCH: Jay Lee said the Samsung Medical Center failed to stop the MERS virus from spreading. About half the cases have been traced back to that hospital.
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JAY Y. LEE, VICE CHAIRMAN, SAMSUNG MEDICAL CENTER: (through translation): Our Samsung Medical Center was unable to stop the MERS influx and its spread and caused too much suffering and concern to the public. I bow my head in apology. We have failed to live up to the expectation and trust of the public.
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CHURCH: I want to bring in Kathy Novak for more on this apology. She joins us live from Seoul.
Kathy, this is a big deal in South Korea not only because of the apology but because this is first time we have seen Jay Y. Lee speak publicly for the company. Tell us what was said.
KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A deep apology, Errol. And the reason that Lee is in that position is because his own father is hospitalized at Samsung Medical Center since he suffered a heart attack. What Lee said was he does understand a bit of the suffering of the families. He gave condolences to those affected, especially those who lost loved ones. He said he promised to work towards supporting a vaccine and medication for MERS. It doesn't exist right now.
After the MERS outbreak in completely over, the hospital is planning a complete overhaul of its operations -- Errol?
BARNETT: But the overhaul won't come until the outbreak is over. They said they'll make improvements but is it clear how the virus continued to spread. How can they make the changes if they don't know that yet?
NOVAK: The outbreak at Samsung has been linked to one person, who had contact with the index case that came back with the virus from the Middle East. And they spent several days in the emergency room. The WHO found that CCTV footage show this man was in the emergency room several days, symptomatic, and in the process, likely infected a number of people. About half the cases came from Samsung and exposed others. The World Health Organization said it's a structural problem across South Korea's health care network. These are things Samsung will have to look into, but other hospitals around the country -- Errol?
[02:40:50] BARNETT: I remember you telling us about doctor shopping, quite common in South Korea. So many aspects of the health care system that needs reform.
Kathy Novak live for us out of Seoul, South Korea. We appreciate it. Thanks.
CHURCH: We'll take a quick break here. Still to come, not much relief in sight. Pakistanis sweltering in record heat. What's making it worse? We'll look at that ahead.
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CHURCH: Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, is stifling with a record- breaking heat wave.
BARNETT: Incredible number of power outages are preventing people from cooling their homes and businesses.
As Saima Mohsin reports, hospitals are crowded with victims of heatstroke.
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[02:44:50] SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Hundreds of people have been rushed to hospitals across Pakistan's largest city, suffering from heatstroke. But, not all survived, including this 3-year-old boy. He should be playing in the sunshine, not dying from it.
Hospitals across Karachi are overwhelmed and overcrowded with the living and the dead.
"This is a horrific experience," said this office worker. "It's like a flame is traveling with me when I ride my motorbike. I feel I will stop breathing at any moment."
Officials advise people to stay indoors and avoid the heat. Daily power outages have been exacerbated with the grid crumbling under the demand in the soaring heat.
"It is very hot," says this shopkeeper. "I should have stayed at home. But when I go home, there's no power there."
The wealthy survive the heat using back-up generators. Others make due with more basic methods to keep cool. People telling me on Twitter they have been without electricity up to 15 hours a day, not just in Karachi but in other parts of the country, too. (CHANTING)
MOHSIN: The heat wave has coincided with the testing Muslim month of Ramadan. Millions of people across the country are fasting from sunrise to sunset, a very long day in the summer months. Islam advises only those fit enough to do so should fast.
Rain is expected to bring some respite but not for long. The heat is expected to return with a vengeance.
Saima Mohsin, CNN.
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BARNETT: Ominous point to end on there.
For more on this and the smog in Chile, we bring in Pedram Javaheri.
What can you tell us about the heat?
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: More heat is on the way. But the children across this region and people take this for granted but children face a disproportionate impact. Their body creates more heat and sweats less and dehydrates more rapidly as well. You look at the mosques in portions of Pakistan and this is what it looks like as people try to find relief from the heat. Temperatures in the 120s Fahrenheit. And the monsoonal rains what they look for as far as relief coming in the next couple months. I want to take you to Chile. We talk about pollution in China and Los Angeles. We have the Andes Mountains and a bowl-shaped valley here. The pollutants have been trapped and they have not seen rainfall since the 24th of March. And as you would imagine the air quality index is 190. In the unhealthy to very unhealthy in recent days and officials took some 20 percent of the vehicles off the roads and shut down over 900 factories to avoid this from happening. But with the stagnant air in place, a lot of wood burning taking place and creating the pollutants that are not going anywhere any time soon.
But this particular image from Wrigley Field in Chicago. Some mammatous clouds that roared through the Midwest in the last several hours. 12 reports of tornados in that region.
And Scott Kelly sending out this image. Thanking Rosemary Church for bringing this to my attention. And Scott Kelly tweeted saying he had never seen red auroras before. The most common color is green where the particles from the sun interact with the oxygen and the purples and violets. Reds are the rarest of the type. And impressive auroras in the mid latitudes as well in the coming couple of days.
More news with Errol and Rosie coming up shortly.
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[02:53:20] CHURCH: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are traveling to Germany on Wednesday at the invitation of the country's president. BARNETT: This will be the royal couple's fifth state visit there and
comes 50 years after Her Majesty's first one back in May 1965. The 89-year-old monarch and the duke made visits in 1978, '92, and 2004.
CHURCH: There is speculation that this three-day trip may be the queen's last overseas state visit. She turns 90 next year.
BARNETT: This is my favorite story of the day. If cats have nine lives, a flight school mascot may have used up one of them.
CHURCH: At least one. She was an accidental stow away on an ultra light airplane.
Jeanne Moos has more on the felines terrifying flight.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is a story of an instructor and a passenger on an ultra light airplane when suddenly the cat is out of the bag or at least out of the win. No one noticed at first. The two were flying over South America when the pilot did a double take.
(on camera): There's a moment when your eyes go up.
UNIDENTIFIED PILOT: The whoops moment.
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MOOS (voice-over): As in whoops, how did I miss the cat asleep or hiding in the wing when during the pre-flight check? She was the flight school's mascot and now fur blowing in the wind, she earned her wings.
(on camera): Was she meowing?
UNIDENTIFIED PILOT: The most powerful meow I've heard.
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MOOS: She may have been a no-name cat before but now they're thinking of calling her Stow Away.
(voice-over): Not since cats parachuted --
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[02:55:08] CHURCH: -- in a Swedish insurance company ad has an airborne feline been such a hit online. And those were fakes, special effects. This was the real thing.
The pilot immediately headed back to the airport. This was no "Twilight Zone" episode where William Shatner saw a
monster on the wing, pulled out a gun, got sucked out and shot it.
The goal here was to not freak out the cat.
Commentators wondered why the lady didn't reach out and take a hold of it once they touched down. The answer was obvious. They didn't want the cat to do what she did when the pilot reached for her on the ground.
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MOOS: But up there, high above earth, Stow Away must have thought she crossed into --
ANNOUNCER: "The Twilight Zone."
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MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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CHURCH: That poor cat.
BARNETT: If it fell, it would have landed on its feet --
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-- but it would have been a hard landing.
CHURCH: Technically.
And you have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.
BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett.
More of the world's biggest stories after this short break. Stay with us.
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