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Arthur Threatens 4th of July Holiday Plans; Tim Howard, America's New Sports Hero; What Happens to Soccer in U.S. After World Cup?; Immigrant Transfer to California Sparks Protest; Israeli Leader Condemn New Killing

Aired July 02, 2014 - 09:00   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now in the NEWSROOM, tropical storm threat.

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ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Arthur is just east of where we are right now, but we can still see and feel his reach.

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COSTELLO: Arthur getting stronger by the minute, expected to be a hurricane by the holiday.

Tim Howard, Mr. Invincible.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) again!

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COSTELLO: The secretary of defense, the man of the match, setting a World Cup record for most goals saved in a single game.

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TIM HOWARD, TEAM USA GOALKEEPER: Watching some of the scenes back home has been incredible and the feeling, the passion back home, it was second to none.

CROWD: USA! USA!

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COSTELLO: Plus border bus backlash. Hundreds of protesters blocking buses full of undocumented immigrants.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If these children were from Canada, we would not be having this interview.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I heard a boom first and then the fire just came out of nowhere.

COSTELLO: Caught on camera, a Philly food truck exploding.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have first-degree burns on my whole left side.

COSTELLO: Fire officials trying to find a cause this morning.

Also, bogus billing. T-Mobile under fire for charging hundreds of millions of dollars in fake fees.

Let's talk, live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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COSTELLO: Good morning, I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me.

We may -- we may be hours away from the first hurricane of the season, just in time for your Fourth of July holiday. Right now Tropical Storm Arthur is churning off the coast of Florida, and it could be a full-blown hurricane by tomorrow, as it heads up the eastern seaboard. Hurricane warnings are already in effect for parts of North Carolina, and AAA warns the biggest threat could be on the roads with hundreds of thousands of drivers on windy and rain-soaked highways.

Alina Machado live in Cocoa Beach, Florida, this morning with more.

Good morning, Alina.

ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. It's been a rainy, windy morning here in Cocoa Beach, Florida, thanks to Tropical Storm Arthur who, by the way, is just east of here. Not many people out here at the beach right now, except for the surfers. Take a look at all the people who are out there surfing right now, taking advantage of the rough surf that is being caused by Arthur right now.

We spoke to a surfer about why they're out here and take a listen to what he had to say.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course I'm going to be out here as long as it's not like really touching Florida and it's not dangerous for me to surf, then I'll come out here and surf, regardless if -- if there's a red flag or not I'll still be out here. I just love surfing.

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MACHADO: Now even though these surfers are out there, there is still danger in the water because of the threat of rip currents. That threat, by the way, is not just here in Cocoa Beach but all along the East Coast as Arthur continues to churn in the Atlantic -- Carol.

COSTELLO: All right. Alina Machado reporting live from Cocoa Beach, Florida.

For more on the storm's path and just who will get hit, let's check in with Indra Petersons. Good morning.

INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, so many people in the path. This is going all the way up the entire eastern seaboard.

And Carol, this guy has been strengthening quickly. The latest model runs have already said it's going to form into a hurricane even faster than what we thought just yesterday, 60-mile-per-hour winds. That's where we're at right now. 74 miles-per-hour. That's what makes it a category 1 hurricane.

Yesterday it formed into that tropical storm at 39 miles per hour. But there you go. Already expected to turn into a hurricane by tomorrow, even sooner now right off the Carolina coastline. The closest it's likely to get is right around Thursday evening in through Friday morning to land, that will be the closest it gets. There is a chance we could see landfall, you can see that cone of uncertainty, but right now it's remaining just offshore, will be the official forecast, where you'll feel those biggest effects right there.

Then it catches up with the jet stream, so notice how much quicker it does move as it cruises just south of the northeast. Those effects from the northeast will be minimal from the hurricane itself but the moisture will impact when it combines with the cold front that's out there. Then notice it dissipates into colder waters into a remnant low by Saturday so conditions will improve.

So who gets the heaviest rain? Eight inches of rain is possible, the bulk of it is offshore. Once you get closer to the coastline since it's far away, about one to two inches is what's expected. But as it makes its way closer notice by the time you get to the Carolinas, that's where you see the highest impact, about three to four inches of rain there. Also that's where that storm surge is going to be highest as well.

I think and that timing is going to be Thursday night in through Friday morning.

That's where you'll see that biggest impact, Carol. Northeast there's a cold front and you're going to see the rain but it's not really all from this hurricane.

COSTELLO: All right. Thank you, Indra Petersons, I think, at least.

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A proud U.S. team knocked out of the World Cup despite a show for the ages by goalkeeper Tim Howard. Howard stood on his head against Belgium making save after save after save, 16 in all, that would be a World Cup record. Howard was huge off the pitch as well. Just checked in with social media, somebody actually changed the WikiPedia entry for the secretary of defense, putting Howard's name and face on it.

I love that. Tim Howard's face also on Mt. Rushmore, all four faces in stone, "In Tim We Trust." His face, name and signature on the dollar bill. And watch out Hillary Clinton, looks like Howard for president. The campaign is heating up.

CNN's Chris Cuomo talked with the man of the match, Tim Howard, this morning. Chris joins us from Brazil.

He's just amazing.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY: Hey, Carol. I felt we liked Tim Howard. Why would you wish any politics on him, the poor guy.

COSTELLO: I know.

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CUOMO: As you may be able to see, there is a small number one on my chest. Why, you may ask? No, not because we only scored one goal but because of the one team, one nation that certainly took hold as America fell in love with soccer finally and also because it is the number worn by Mr. Tim Howard.

Now I have the blessing of having great bosses who sent me to the World Cup and positioned me in the stadium right by Tim Howard, and I got to see the play that will become the stuff of legends, certainly of history at the World Cup. And he also became the personification of why the country fell in love with the team. Hard work, understated, lives a good life, is all about his team, and now he is the newest face of Captain America.

He gave an interview to "NEW DAY" this morning, fresh off the game, here's what he had to say.

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CUOMO: The reason you stayed in the match was because of you, whether you like to have it on your shoulders or not. Did you feel that you were having a special game?

TIM HOWARD, GOALKEEPER, U.S. SOCCER: I think sometimes as a goalkeeper, you just feel in rhythm, and that was -- that was -- I felt like that for most of the season and certainly in the last couple of weeks, I've felt good. The game has slowed down for me. I'm seeing things much earlier. My reactions have been very quick. And so yes, it felt like that but I'm also very weary in those moments, knowing that when the big, bad wolf is knocking at the door that he could at any time enter. So I was worried that the levee would break.

And so I'm just trying to organize as much as I could which is why my voice is gone and make the saves that I was capable of making.

CUOMO: I was surprised how much coaching you do during the game. You were trying to organize the defense differently. So what are you going to do with this? You're man of the match. You say it's the worst award you've ever been given but you're the man of the match. They're framing you up as Captain America. You're defined as the secretary of defense on WikiPedia.

You, my man, are popular. What are you going to do with all of this? How are you going to handle it?

HOWARD: Take it in stride, you know. I'm going to go home and I'm going to relax and hide away, you know, hang out with the kids, get some more tattoos, you know, just be me.

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CUOMO: You know, look, I know the temptation is to take some time, figure out what you want to do. You talk about being 35, like you were 55, but I have a different suggestion. I say don't take the time. I say seize the moment and commit to stay with the team for the next World Cup because they need you, my brother. They need you.

Are you ready to commit to the one nation, one team?

HOWARD: I'm not, no. I mean, right now emotions are high, you know, and that's never a time to make an important decision, so I'll speak to the important people who matter, you know, in this process and take my time and figure it out. So it's a long four years but also this team is very talented and very young, and so it's exciting.

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CUOMO: Hey, I pushed him. I pushed him. I'll tell you something. For me it was never about what happened here at the World Cup. The U.S. played over its head, it wasn't even supposed to get out of the group of death. Belgium is a very strong side. Nobody is shocked by this outcome. They're just shocked by how close the U.S. made it and for how long.

But, Carol, I think what we have to remember is, all across the country after that match yesterday kids were running around, they were playing soccer and they were dreaming of being the next Tim Howard. And that is the impact that you really wanted to see come out of this tournament. So you got to call that a victory by any score.

COSTELLO: Absolutely. And we hope it's a lasting impact as well.

Chris Cuomo, many thanks to you.

Back at home, fans of the U.S. team kept hopes alive throughout the match with Belgium.

Crazy, right? They're chanting -- they're chanting "I believe that we will win." That chant ringing out at watch parties across the nation.

But will the World Cup groundswell turn casual soccer fans into committed fans?

Let's talk about that with Ed Foster Simeon. He's the president and CEO of the U.S. Soccer Foundation.

Welcome, sir.

ED FOSTER-SIMEON, PRESIDENT/CEO, U.S. SOCCER FOUNDATION: Good morning, Carol. COSTELLO: Good morning. I'm so glad that you're here with me this

morning. I appreciate it. So first question, what has Tim Howard done for the sport of soccer?

FOSTER-SIMEON: Tim Howard has put a face -- for the national team. He's done something historic with 16 saves, the most saves in World Cup in nearly half a century. You know, Tim is an incredible athlete, an incredible player, and incredible representative of what the spirit of the U.S. team is.

COSTELLO: OK. So now you have a star that everybody knows. He's the hero to many Americans, many youngsters, but how do you build on that momentum when Howard plays for a team in England? It's not like fans can go buy a ticket to his games.

FOSTER-SIMEON: Well, you know, the growth of soccer in the United States is not contingent on any one player or any one person. It's been growing from the grassroots up, and that's the beautiful thing about the game. What we're seeing today is the continuation of America's embrace of the game of soccer.

We have a generation of young -- of young people who grew up with this as their game, as their primary sport, so they have a relationship with the game, so it's not about any one individual. It's about, you know, the game and its relationship with the players who played it throughout their life.

COSTELLO: Well, I don't know, I think you do need a star, and then you need an awfully good PR campaign to promote your sport and Tim Howard seems to have given you that, so how do you build on that?

FOSTER-SIMEON: Well, you know, the U.S. Soccer Federation has done a fabulous job of promoting the game, promoting the World Cup, promoting the U.S. national team, and at the U.S. Soccer Foundation, we're a legacy of the 1994 World Cup, and it's been our mission to help grow the game over the past 20 years.

We've invested over $60 million in programs and field building projects in all 50 states and we're continuing to work to grow the game to introduce the game to young people who don't have the opportunity yet to play.

COSTELLO: Well, still, you know, MLS games are broadcast in the United States but the ratings aren't so great. Any idea how they could be improved?

FOSTER-SIMEON: Well, I think that when you have an exciting event like the World Cup, where you have players like DeAndre Yedlin who's going to be playing -- who plays in MLS. You have Clint Dempsey, you have Michael Bradley who play in MLS, you know, people see these athletes play on the World Cup stage and it makes them interested in what's going on in MLS.

They also see the passion around what goes on at a soccer game. The fan engagement, how passionate it is, the intensity, the excitement. So I think more people will at least sample MLS and I think the game -- the league has been growing and expanding so I think the future is very bright.

COSTELLO: I hope you're right because it was exciting to watch.

Ed Foster-Simeon, thanks so much for being with me this morning, I appreciate it.

FOSTER-SIMEON: Thank you.

COSTELLO: In other news this morning, Iraq's prime minister is offering a shocking deal in an effort to stem the violence with militants. In a televised address, Nuri al-Maliki declared amnesty for all Iraqi tribes that fought against the government, but this amnesty would not be for those who killed Iraqi forces.

Amid the turmoil, al-Maliki also hopes Iraq's parliament can choose a new president and prime minister the next time it meets.

Still to come in the NEWSROOM --

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you going to come over and steal my car? Are they going to take --

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COSTELLO: Protesters block a highway and turn back busloads of undocumented immigrants. We'll tell you about this tense showdown in Southern California next.

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COSTELLO: Checking some top stories for you at 15 minutes past the hour, two people are in critical condition after a food truck explosion was caught on tape in Philadelphia. CNN affiliate KYW reports that a mother and her 17-year-old daughter were inside that truck when it exploded.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I heard a boom first and then the fire just came out of nowhere.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The whole house shook like an earthquake.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was walking and literally missed a step one foot to another. I mean, it rocked me.

CHIEF INSPECTOR SCOTT SMALL, PHILADELPHIA POLICE: It appears preliminarily that the cause of this explosion was a propane tank.

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COSTELLO: As you heard, investigators think one of the truck's two propane tanks exploded. Investigators are combing through the wreckage to confirm that that's true. The alleged leader of the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi

due in court this morning. Ahmed Abu Khattala's detention hearing will take place just blocks from the White House. Khattala is charged in the attack that left four Americans dead, including ambassador Christopher Stevens. Prosecutors say they expect to add more charges against him soon.

The chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase says he's been diagnosed with throat cancer. Jamie Dimon made the announcement in a memo to employees and shareholders. He says the cancer was caught early and is limited to one area. Dimon will undergo about eight weeks of treatment. He plans to keep working but he will reduce his travel schedule.

Three busloads of undocumented immigrants on the last leg of a journey to a border patrol facility in southern California. They were moved to relieve overcrowding at border facilities in Texas. But the bus never made it to the destination.

Stephanie Elam shows you why.

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, it was quite the scene out here as it became a shouting match between people out here protesting illegal immigration and the few people who showed up to show their support for the people on the buses.

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CROWD: USA! USA!

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Chants of "USA" gave way to a heated shouting match outside of a U.S. border patrol facility in southern California.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are not born here. They are not born here. Go back to Mexico.

ELAM: Holding signs that said "return to sender" and "stop illegal immigration," about 100 protesters blocked the road as three busloads of undocumented migrants approached the center where the immigrants detained in Texas and then flown to California, would be processed by customs and border patrol.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are obstructing the roadway.

ELAM: The move is an attempt to ease the badly strained border patrol efforts in Texas.

ELLEN MEEKS, PROTESTING THE MIGRANTS ARRIVAL: I just wish America would be America again because it's not, and it's just not pointed to the Hispanics. It's everybody needs to go through the legal ways.

ELAM: The union for the border patrol agents is concerned about the influx of migrants to a facility used to temporarily hold smugglers along the nearby interstate corridor, not processed 140 people every 72 hours. RON ZERMENO, BORDER PATROL AGENT: My concern is they're eating in the

same holding cells somebody setting five feet away using the bathroom.

ELAM: Ron Zermeno is a border patrol agent here as well as a union official. He says processing migrants instead of enforcing the borders is only making the situation worse.

ZERMENO: The cartels are taking advantage of these people that are coming across. The smugglers are directing them, saying go to that border patrol agent on that hill and turn yourself in. As soon as they see the agents occupied with a group of 20, 30 people, the smugglers are then running their illicit drugs and they're running around it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Send them back.

ENRIQUE MORONES, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, BORDER ANGELS: If these children were from Canada, we would not be having this interview.

ELAM: But Enrique Morones argues this is a humanitarian issue as these families, some with young children, flee violence in their native countries.

MORONES: Their parents have had enough. They are saying if I don't send my child north they are going to die. They're sending their children north. Let's welcome them here in California. Let's show the world that we really know how to treat our children.

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ELAM: Unable to pass, the buses eventually backed down the street and headed to another facility about an hour and a half away from here. Gone from this location for now but still in the United States, and the next group of 140 migrants is expected to arrive here on the Fourth of July, Carol.

COSTELLO: Stephanie Elam reporting.

"Documented" is the story of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. He is living in America illegally and about to risk everything by going public. "Documented" airs Saturday night, 9:00 p.m. on CNN.

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COSTELLO: The situation is growing more tense in the Middle East, the Palestinian teenager was found dead, some say in retaliation for the deaths of those three Israeli teens. Whether or not that's true, people are angry as CNN Atika Shubert found out earlier today.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Things are tense at the moment. I'll spin the camera around very briefly here. Ooh, excuse me.

(END VIDEO CLIP) COSTELLO: Atika was in the middle of a live report a few hours ago, people started using stun grenades on an upset crowd, as I said, it's all over the possible revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager one day after the bodies of three missing Israeli teens were discovered. The Palestinian teenager was kidnapped in Jerusalem later and an hour later a boy's body was found in a forest.

Now, police are being asked to use the greatest speed to figure out request f the two are connected.

Our senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joins us from Jerusalem with more.

Good morning, Ben.

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

We're basically in the same spot Atika was earlier in the day. There's still this tense standoff between residents and the Israeli police. It's gone a little quieter, keeping in mind it's late in the afternoon in the month of Ramadan so many people are fasting, but it's still extremely tense. Now the boy you referred to, he is 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Hadir (ph), lived just around the corner from here. The family has a video from a closed circuit television system where you clearly see two men stepping out of the car and basically pushing this young man into the car.

And, of course, as you mentioned, his body was discovered hours later in a forest in West Jerusalem, apparently his father went to identify the body, but the body was so badly burned he couldn't. They brought the mother in a little bit later, and with DNA checking, they discovered that was indeed the body of the boy. It's a given in this part of town, that this is a revenge killing.

Last night, in fact, I was on Jaffa (ph) Road in West Jerusalem, where I saw a crowd of well over 100 Israelis chanting "death to the Arabs." I've spoke to one of the men in the crowd who told me after the sun goes down, we're going to attack them. So it's extremely tense in Jerusalem at the moment -- Carol.

COSTELLO: How is Israel reacting? I mean the government?

WEDEMAN: As you can see -- the government, Prime Minister Netanyahu apparently contacted the head of the police and said this case should be solved as quickly as possible. There's been condemnations of the killing of this young boy from the prime minister, from various figures in the Israeli government and also, of course, from Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Ben Wedeman reporting live from Jerusalem this morning -- thank you.

Still to come in THE NEWSROOM, they're the men and women who keep the White House running and we know just how much money they'll take home.

Christine Romans has the numbers for you. Hi, Christine.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. Twenty-two of them make $172,000 a year but there say pay gap that exists between men and women. I'll break down the numbers for you after the break.

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COSTELLO: Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thanks so much for joining me.

Checking some top stories at 29 minutes past the hour. An important warning for parents. Graco has agreed to recall nearly 2 million infant car seats because of a problem with the buckle. Apparently, some parents had to cut the harnesses to get their kids out of the seat. The models in question were made between 2010 and 2013. The company and the government argued for five months before this recall was finally announced.