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Oscar Pistorius Out of Prison, Under House Arrest; Mistaken Identity Leads to Migrant Death; Liberal Party's Justin Trudeau Wins as Canada's New PM; U.S. VP Expected to Decide on Presidential Bid Soon; Donald Trump and Jeb Bush Argue Over 9/11; Lamar Odom to be Moved from Las Vegas; Typhoon Koppu Hits Philippines; Elderly South Koreans Make Trip to North Korea for Rare Family Reunion; Anti-Migrant Movement Growing in Germany; Latest "Star Wars" Movie Trailer Causes Frenzy. Aired 1-2a ET
Aired October 20, 2015 - 01:00 ET
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[01:00:37] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: And ahead this hour, after spending less than a year in prison, Oscar Pistorius will spend the rest of his sentence for killing his girlfriend inside his uncle's luxurious mansion.
SESAY: And sources say Joe Biden is drawing closer to a decision to run for U.S. president. But is time already running out?
VAUSE: Also ahead the "Star Wars" trailer is here and two months before the premiere, ticket buyers are already out feeling the force.
SESAY: Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Isha Sesay.
VAUSE: Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause. NEWSROOM L.A. begins now.
Almost a year to the day since former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to prison for killing his girlfriend and now he's back at home under house arrest. Pistorius was released from prison on Monday, a day earlier than expected, possibly to void the media.
SESAY: The Paralympic gold medalist known as the blade runner was found guilty of culpable homicide in the 2013 Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. He'll spend the next four years under house arrest.
VAUSE: CNN's David McKenzie live this hour from Pretoria, outside the home where Oscar Pistorius now currently resides. It's his uncle's three-story mansion in a very nice upscale neighborhood there.
David, Reeva Steenkamp's relatives say Pistorius is getting off lightly. Legally, is he?
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, no, not legally, John. Because pretty much the precedent here in South Africa, if you get a five-year or under sentence in this kind of case, you are let go into house arrest after a sixth of that sentence. And that's exactly what's happened. In fact it's already delayed. We were in this scenario in August, expecting Oscar Pistorius to be released from Kgosi Mampuru prison into this house behind me.
But, in fact, the minister intervened at the last minute and said it was too early. There were cries of political interference from the Pistorius camp and complaints obviously from the Steenkamp family that it's just too early in general to be released after killing a human being. But now he is in this house behind me enjoying a much plusher circumstances from his jail cell in the prison in Pretoria -- John.
VAUSE: Will he have to wear any kind of monitoring device as part of the conditions to his release?
MCKENZIE: Well, they haven't released all of the conditions. In fact that's generally kept private at least initially. We don't believe he will be wearing a monitoring device but he will be closely monitored. We do know he'll be under strict house arrest. This is not a release per se. It's a conversion of the sentence to a house arrest. He'll have to do community service certainly and he'll be spending much of his time in the house behind me.
He won't have access to firearms because of one of the convictions, and he will be regularly tested, we can presume, for drugs. So certainly its strict conditions but many in South Africa have complained given the level of violence against women that this sentencing has sent the wrong message. But again, it's well within the law here in South Africa.
VAUSE: Just curious, while he's under house arrest, will he be able to, say, write a book, his memoirs or be able to give TV interviews?
MCKENZIE: It's a very good question. In fact, we were looking at the law very closely to see if that is possible. There might be some pressure, frankly, financially, for Pistorius to try and give interviews, get a book deal. It's a little unclear in South African law because you can't benefit directly from the commission of a crime, but there's enough loophole there that probably he will be able to do something like that.
But there's also the ethical side as well. And Pistorius lawyers and extended family have been very careful to show that he is in fact abiding by not just the letter but also the spirit of the law. So I don't imagine anything is going to come out very soon but certainly he will want, at some point, the opportunity to tell his story.
But for the next -- you know, the foreseeable future, several years in fact, he will be mostly confined to this house behind me other than community service and other things of that nature. But, you know, South Africa has been riveted by this case, and they are riveted today. It was extremely surprising to all of us that he was released several hours early.
[01:05:11] The national police commissioners, the police service here didn't even know in fact that he was going to be released. So it was up to the prison itself that took that decision, again, I think, to avoid the intense media glare -- John.
VAUSE: David, thank you. David McKenzie live for us on a Tuesday morning there in Pretoria just after 7:00 a.m. David, thank you.
And Isha, we should make this note. Of course, you know, Pistorius is not in the clear yet. The prosecutors are still appealing his sentence for culpable homicide. They believe it should have been murder. They go back November 3rd.
SESAY: And if there's a curtail, he goes back for much longer.
VAUSE: If there's a trial. Going to be tough, they'll have to argue there was an error in law, which is a pretty high bar.
SESAY: Yes. Certainly is. But --
VAUSE: But not clear yet.
SESAY: Yes, early November that case will go to trial.
Now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning people not to take the law into their own hands. This comes after an Eritrean migrant was beaten by a mob.
VAUSE: He was mistaken for an attacker during a shooting rampage on Sunday.
Phil Black has more now and we have to warn you, some of the video in his report is graphic.
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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the floor of the bus station, the man under the white sheet is the dead Arab Bedouin shooter. He had attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife and a gun, then took that soldier's gun to fire into the crowd, wounding 10 others. And the terror that followed bringing about yet another death.
This security video shows the panic of people running from the shooting. In the upper right of your screen, you can also see a man crawling away. Moments later, he's shot by a security guard who mistakes him for a second attacker.
Gripped by fear and rage, the crowd turns on the wounded man. This video shows people kicking him as he lays injured and bleeding.
Break his head, a man is heard screaming repeatedly.
He later died in hospital. Turns out he was not a terrorist, not involved in the attack at all. Police identified him as a 29-year-old Eritrean migrant. Police say they're now trying to find those who beat him. The spokesman adding, "The police see this in a very severe light and will not allow people to take the law into their own hands."
But terror attacks are designed to instill extreme fear and rage. And in the death of this Eritrean migrant, this terror attack achieved its goal, another innocent victim.
Phil Black, CNN, Jerusalem.
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SESAY: For more including the fallout from the migrant's death let's go to senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman.
Ben, good to have you with us. You're there in East Jerusalem. How are people where you are reacting to the killing of this innocent Eritrean migrant?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, on the Palestinian side, which is where we are, there's not a lot of attention to that. They are more concerned with the current situation. For instance, right behind me is a checkpoint that's been installed just a few days ago. And the installation of all these new checkpoints, roadblocks, closures has created havoc when it comes to the residents of this city on both sides of the line, so to speak.
Now yesterday, for instance, there was an incident where a woman from East Jerusalem died on her -- when she got to a hospital after she'd been delayed for a very long time at one of the roadblocks. So there's anger over that situation for Palestinians, what goes on within Israel itself. The case, the very unfortunate case of this Eritrean migrant. That is kind of a different area where there's not a lot of focus at the moment -- Isha.
SESAY: Ben, let me ask you this. Is the killing raising concerns about vigilantism amid the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians?
WEDEMAN: More than anything, it has many people concerned about the fact that people increasingly are worried that those who have weapons and those around them may take the law into their own hands. And you've had a variety of statements by Israeli officials essentially saying if you have a weapon and you think there's a terrorist, kill him. Now even the Israeli police in theory, their rules of engagement in situations like these is not to kill somebody unless there's immediate threat.
And in some cases, I mean, for instance, look at the case of this Eritrean migrant. In no -- no one alleges that he had a weapon of any kind. Now the security guard who shot him, but then, of course, he was essentially, according to the terminology being used in the Israeli media, he was lynched. And the question is, where do you draw the line? And at the moment, given the atmosphere, it's very likely that there will be similar such incidents.
[01:10:07] So there's a lot of soul searching this morning about rules of engagement. Who should be punished. Perhaps the culpability of politicians who are in some of the Israeli papers they're accused of inciting this kind of violence -- Isha.
SESAY: CNN international correspondent Ben Wedeman joining us there from Jerusalem where it's just ran 10 minutes past 8:00 in the morning. Ben, we appreciate it. Thank you.
VAUSE: Canada's Liberal Party has won big in the country's national elections. Justin Trudeau is now poised to become the new prime minister. Trudeau is the son of a former prime minister. He's just 43 years old and will be the second youngest PM in Canadian history.
SESAY: Mr. Trudeau jumped into the lead in recent weeks, riding a wave of anti-conservative sentiment. In his victory speech, he praised his party's optimism.
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JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADIAN LIBERAL PARTY LEADER: This is what positive politics can do. This is what a positive, hopeful -- a hopeful vision and a platform and a team together can make happen.
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SESAY: Just 43 years old. Well, the Liberal Party's win blocks a fourth term for conservative prime minister Stephen Harper who's held the job for 10 years. There are no term limits in Canada.
VAUSE: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce any time now whether or not he will seek the Democratic nomination for the White House.
SESAY: The vice president trails in the polls behind Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders but as Jim Acosta reports he has some strong motivations to run both political and personal.
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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Democratic sources tell CNN Vice President Joe Biden is believed to be on the verge of making his move.
JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm the late Joe Biden.
ACOSTA: Every time Biden steps up to the microphone, all of Washington is hanging on his every word.
BIDEN: I've been in a meeting with the president on another matter for the last two hours.
ACOSTA: The latest tea leaves, Biden said to be meeting with advisers tonight as his team is setting up interviews with potential campaign staffers. Biden has also personally spoken with the powerful president of the International Firefighters Union, Harold Schaitberger. A source familiar with the phone call said Biden told Schaitberger Friday that his decision is imminent. The two talked strategy and Biden sounded like he's running.
SEN. CHRIS COONS (D), DELAWARE: It is getting late in the fall and I think we'll get an answer relatively soon. ACOSTA: But Biden has defied the expectations for a decision before.
First it was the end of summer, then the first week of October. And the first democratic debate on CNN. What's the hold-up? Delaware Democratic Senator Chris Coons says Biden is still grieving the loss of his son Beau who urged his father to run.
COONS: Well, I think the Vice President is deeply torn. He is trying to honor the wishes that Beau expressed to him in his last days. But I also think as a father myself, that the depths of grief that I've heard from him and his family are just -- are stunning.
ACOSTA: Biden once again spoke about Beau Saturday night.
BIDEN: As my son Beau used to say, just keep moving forward.
ACOSTA: A new CNN-ORC poll finds Biden would trail Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. And Democrats seem to be losing patience. Less than half say Biden should run, down from August.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Have you made your decision yet?
ACOSTA: But speculation is running rampant. Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle tweeted his own source says Biden will run. Boyle tells CNN, "If he didn't run, it would be pulling back from a decision that's already been made." The White House is fielding questions on the matter every day.
JOHN EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I know there's plenty of speculation about the urgency of the political calendar. That we are, as the weather outside can attest, that we are now into the fall, and that's when more of the country's attention and more of the debate focuses on who the next president might be. But ultimately this will be a decision for Vice President Biden to make.
ACOSTA (on camera): But sources close to the vice president say he has not made a formal decision yet. Several Democratic sources say Biden must make a decision by this weekend when the party holds a dinner for democratic candidates out in Iowa. The vice president also has to dance around Hillary Clinton's testimony before the Benghazi committee this week. Any sign that Biden is trying to capitalize on that would likely backfire.
Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.
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SESAY: Now one of the worst days in U.S. history is at the center of a feud between Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.
VAUSE: This has been going on for days. They've been sparring online and on TV over the 9/11 terror attacks.
CNN's Dana Bash has the details.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A political duel about America's catastrophe on 9/11/2001 playing out in a 2015 way, on Twitter. Donald Trump tweeting today at Jeb Bush, "I'm fighting to make sure it doesn't happen again. Jeb is too soft." That, after Bush had tweeted, "Donald Trump talks about foreign policy as though he's still on 'The Apprentice.'"
[01:15:10] At issue, Trump's suggestions that Jeb's brother, George W. Bush, could have done more as president to prevent the September 11th terror attacks.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Don't blame him or don't blame him but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.
BASH: It's a delayed Trump response to one of Jeb Bush's most passionate moments at CNN's debate last month.
TRUMP: It was such a disaster those last three months that Abraham Lincoln couldn't have been elected.
JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You know what, as it relates to my brother, there's one thing I know for sure, he kept us safe. I don't know if you remember --
BASH: Trump is now even suggesting he could have stopped the 9/11 hijackers from getting into the U.S. in the first place.
TRUMP: I'm extremely tough on people coming into this country. I doubt that those people would have been in the country.
BASH: For the record, the 9/11 Commission said only two of the 19 hijackers overstayed their visas, but others gamed the immigration system. The commission also said the attack was a shock, but should not have come as a surprise.
Still Jeb Bush's campaign thinks Trump's latest rant handed them a winning issue.
BUSH: Next week Mr. Trump is probably going to say that FDR was around when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It's what you do after that matters and that's the sign of leadership.
BASH: Jeb Bush's aides knew his brother's legacy would be a challenge, especially Jeb Bush's position on the Iraq war, which he bungled early on. But 9/11?
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I can hear you.
BASH: This was not something Team Bush ever dreamed would be re- litigated, but they're happy to do so, using it to broaden criticism of Trump as commander-in-chief.
BUSH: It looks as though he's not taking the possibility of being president of the United States really seriously. BASH: The Bush campaign is even asking for donations with this e-mail
saying, "Donate $5 and fight back against Donald Trump."
DR. BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The fact of the matter is --
BASH: Meanwhile, another Bush presidential rival, Ben Carson, also insists he would have handled 9/11 more effectively by cutting oil purchases from Arab states, forcing them to turn over the al Qaeda leader.
CARSON: It would have had a major impact on their finances. And I think that probably would have trumped any loyalty that they had to people like Osama bin Laden.
BASH: Dana Bash, CNN, Washington.
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VAUSE: Well, still to come here on NEWSROOM L.A., a group of young hackers claim to have accessed the e-mails of two high-ranking U.S. officials. We'll tell you what they say they found just ahead.
SESAY: Plus, Lamar Odom is on the mend and sources tell CNN the former NBA player may soon be on the move. Do stay with us.
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[01:21:36] VAUSE: Former NBA player Lamar Odom is making some progress. So much so sources close to Odom tell CNN he will soon leave Las Vegas to continue his treatment here in Los Angeles.
SESAY: CNN has acquired new photos of Odom at the Love Ranch. It's unclear exactly when the pictures were taken but employees at the Nevada brothel say they found him unresponsive in his bed before he was rushed to a hospital.
CNN's Paul Vercammen has more on Odom's recovery.
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PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sources tell CNN indications are Lamar Odom is getting closer to leaving Las Vegas to recover in Los Angeles, and the "Los Angeles Daily News" citing multiple sources familiar with the situation says Odom has started physical therapy. He's showing marked improvement with his breathing, vision, and the ability to have simple conversations.
Odom is slated to begin physical therapy that will show whether the 35-year-old former basketball player can walk.
Odom wound up here in the intensive care unit at Sunrise Hospital after being found unconscious and vomiting pink fluids at a desolate brothel last Tuesday. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Someone just came up to me and said that he
apparently had some cocaine on him, he did this on Saturday.
VERCAMMEN: Both 911 calls and sheriff's comments revealed Odom may have used cocaine before heading to the Love Ranch, and may have taken as many as 10 Reload sexual enhancement pills. Over the four days at the ranch, he spent $75,000, the brothel's owner said on two women.
Jim Harrick, one of Odom's mentors and former coach at Rhode Island, has stayed in contact with Odom's estranged wife, Khloe Kardashian. Harrick says doctors told Odom's family Lamar's heart would have stopped if he was not a professional athlete.
Odom won two NBA championships for the Los Angeles Lakers, but perhaps reached greater fame or notoriety when he married into the three-ring multimedia extravaganza that is the Kardashian family.
LAMAR ODOM, FORMER NBA PLAYER: I want to hang out forever. I want to get married right now.
VERCAMMEN: And with all things Kardashian, posts of Odom's brothel collapse got so blown up online that it was difficult separating fact from fiction. But the fact is, Odom is getting better and might soon be leaving Las Vegas.
Paul Vercammen, CNN, Las Vegas.
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SESAY: It's very good news to hear that he's on the mend. It really is.
Now a group calling themselves CWA taking credit for hacking into the private e-mail accounts of CIA director John Brennan and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
VAUSE: The group has been tweeting out information it claims to have gathered, including Brennan's application for security clearance. The alleged hackers say they're all under 22 years old.
CNN Money's Laurie Segall spoke to them in their only recorded interview. They seem to be disguising their voices as they describe what they apparently did.
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UNIDENTIFIED ALLEGED HACKER: Social Security numbers, plans talking about Iraq and Syria. There was a lot of, I guess, private information really. He's pretty stupid really.
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SESAY: Well, sources confirmed both accounts were indeed hacked but CNN cannot independently verify the documents that have been leaked. The breaches are under investigation.
Facebook is stepping up its security efforts to warn users who may be the target of a government-sponsored hack.
VAUSE: OK. The company's chief security officer says Facebook constantly monitors for potentially malicious activity but they decided to give an additional warning when they believe a nation is behind an attack. He says these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others.
[01:25:11] You know you're in trouble if North Korea is coming after you on your Facebook page.
SESAY: I know. What do you say when you get that notice?
VAUSE: Like, what did I do?
SESAY: Well, yes.
VAUSE: Sorry, North Korea.
SESAY: The U.S. teenager whose school science project was mistaken for a bomb got to meet President Barack Obama at a White House event.
VAUSE: Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. A teacher there thought it may have been an explosive device. President Obama praised the teen for his project, invited him to a White House astronomy night.
SESAY: The two shook hands at the event as the president made his way through the crowd of guests on the South Lawn.
A night he will surely remember.
VAUSE: Yes. Absolutely. Good night for him. What is he, 14 years old?
SESAY: Still to come on CNN NEWSROOM, war tore them apart. But now lucky families in North and South Korea will get a chance to reunite for the first time in more than 60 years.
VAUSE: Also ahead a slow-moving storm in the Philippines claiming more lives. We'll have the very latest on Typhoon Koppu just ahead.
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SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.
VAUSE: And I'm John Vause. Just gone 10:30 on a Monday night here on the West Coast. We'll check the headlines this hour.
[01:30:00] VAUSE: Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is now under house arrest in South Africa. He was released from prison on Monday serving less than one year of a five-year prison sentence. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide in the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
SESAY: In Canada, the Liberal Party has easily won a majority, making Justin Trudeau the next prime minister. He's promised to fix the poor relations with the Obama administration and pull Canadian forces out of the fight against ISIS.
VAUSE: CNN has acquired new photos of Lamar Odom at the brothel in Nevada. It's unclear when they were taken. Employees found him unresponsive last week before rushing him to hospital. He'll soon leave Las Vegas and will continue his treatment in Los Angeles.
To the Philippines now where hundreds of thousands have been impacted by a deadly slow-moving storm. At least 12 have been killed by Typhoon Koppu, which has weakened to a tropical storm.
SESAY: That number could rise. Tens of thousands of people are displaced. Some towns are cut off by flooding and landslides.
VAUSE: CNN Matt Rivers covering the story live from Hong Kong.
Matt, the real danger now not necessarily the wind but the rain, and there's a lot of rain.
MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. It doesn't seem to want to leave this poor island that's been devastated for several days now. Of those 12 people who died, several did die as a result of drowning. Several others dying in separate landslide incidents. And they are just several of the hundreds of thousands of people who have been negatively impacted by this storm. We're told by federal officials that nearly 300,000 people have been impacted by this storm. Whether that be through electricity outages, damage to their homes or even being forced out of their homes. Dozens of evacuation shelters have been set up. As of last night, there were 70,000 people staying in those. That's last night local time. They woke up this morning and have no homes to go back to as of yet as they wait for those floodwaters to begin to recede. That may not happen for some time.
VAUSE: A few more days in front of them yet. This is looking to be one of the most costly natural disasters that's ever hit the Philippines. How widespread is the damage?
RIVERS: The damage ranges from coast to coast. Really, central Luzon, in the provinces there, have seen the brunt of the damage from this storm being in the valleys next to the rivers. The rivers over swelling their banks. We have seen 400 -- excuse me, 500 or so different sections, different neighborhoods being affected by these floodwaters. The federal disaster officials say that's just what they've counted so far. They can't even make it to all the places that have been affected so far because of floodwaters or landslides blocking certain roads. What we know of the disaster zone so far isn't really a complete picture. That won't happen until several days after this storm leaves the area.
VAUSE: Matt, thanks for the update.
Matt Rivers live this hour in Hong Kong.
SESAY: Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us with the latest on this storm. Pedram, how long is it going to stick around?
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We're finally seeing some changes in the forecast. In the last hour, we're actually seeing a speed progression as far as forward progression of this storm. It's sped up about two kilometers per hour. It's starting its progression away from the Philippines. We'll show you what's occurring. Incredible landscape, incredible terrain when it comes to the Sierra Madre. Storm system came in from the south, impacted the mountainous region and worked its way to the north. And one of the cities, it's about a four-hour drive north of Manila. The rain is on the order of 945 millimeters. That's 37 inches or ten more inches than what we saw as far as maximum rainfall across South Carolina just a couple of weeks ago. Tells you the tremendous amount of flooding taking place here. That's equivalent to 14 billion gallons of water. You'd have to take that water and you'd be able to fill up some 21,000 swimming pools. That's an Olympic-size swimming pool. How much water has come down across this community? Look at the mountains. Certainly going to be problematic. To the north, massive area of high pressure. This area of high pressure has essentially created blocking pattern where the storm system has been very slow to exit the picture. That's why this is such a big story across this region as we're seeing the tropical rains persist for a couple of days. With the forward progression that was good news. The rainfall models here as far as the next couple of days have increased up to 250 millimeters potentially on top of the 900 millimeters that has come down in a few of these spots. Certainly a dangerous scenario when it comes to the potential for landslides to take place. The storms will begin to move away from the islands. Approaches Taiwan by the time we get to Wednesday into Thursday. A weak tropical storm. Certainly the story that's really taken its time. We know now 21 storms so far in the northern hemisphere in 2015 that have been category 4 or category 5. That's an all-time record when it comes to how many storms you'd see this time into the season. Look at the warm water temperatures. El Nino, the convection associated with the warm waters over portions of the Pacific had a lot to do with the large storms. You look out toward the Western United States. Rainfall totals for October in cities like L.A., on through Las Vegas and Phoenix. They've been over 100 percent of normal. Some areas, in the case of Las Vegas, 182 percent of normal for how much rain has come down. Certainly seeing a pattern shift when it comes to the expected rainfall with an El Nino season and it looks like it's beginning to initialize.
[01:36:04] VAUSE: We'll need a few more days of that above average rainfall to make up for the drought the last four years.
SESAY: You'll need a lot more than two more days in Los Angeles.
VAUSE: Exactly.
SESAY: Pedram, thank you.
VAUSE: Pedram, thanks.
JAVAHERI: Thanks, guys. VAUSE: A short break here. When we come back, a few families from North and South Korea will share a cherished and rare moment. You'll hear from one man who will reunite with his sisters for the first time in 60 long years.
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SESAY: Good to have you with us, everyone. Chinese President Xi Jinping will address the British parliament Tuesday afternoon. He and his wife arrived Monday and spent the night at Buckingham Palace as a four-day state visit got under way.
VAUSE: Went to London to visit the queen. There's a lot of pageantry planned for this. The focus will be on commercial ties between the two countries. Multibillion-dollar deals are expected to be signed during this visit. Critics urge the U.K. of putting China's human rights record on the back burner.
[01:40:13] SESAY: In the coming hours, families will reunite for the first time after decades of being separated by war.
VAUSE: About 100 elderly South Koreans are making the trip to the North to see their relatives. For many, this could be the last time they get to see each other.
SESAY: Kathy Novak is live in Seoul with more on these reunions.
Kathy, these reunions are so rare and incredibly emotional for these separated family members.
KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are very rare, Isha. Altogether less than 200 families will be taking part in these reunions at the resort in North Korea. It will be happening over a period of six days.
I met one man who will be among them.
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NOVAK (voice-over): Somewhere past the high rises, beyond the busy streets of South Korea's capital, behind the barbed wire, An Yun Jun (ph) knows his sisters are out there.
"Just by looking in that direction, I remember their faces," he tells me.
He has no photos, only memories.
When he was 18, to avoid being drafted into the North Korean military, he fled quickly. He didn't even say good-bye. Now at 85, he lives in one of the most connected cities in the world, and he can only imagine how different life is for them.
If he could just call, this is what he would say.
"I would ask my younger sisters to forgive me. I left them with all the responsibilities," he says. "My heart is breaking. I abandoned them."
After almost seven decades, he can finally tell them in person. An (ph) has consistently applied for the chance to reunite since the program began in the 1980s. About 130,000 people in South Korea have tried. Only about 4,000 families reunited. Tens of thousands died waiting.
"Words cannot express how happy I am. I feel like I am meeting people who came back from the grave."
He'll have to condense a lifetime of stories into the handful of hours they'll have together.
(on camera): And your son?
(voice-over): He's taking his son with him.
(on camera): Do you think your sisters also have grandchildren?
(voice-over): "Maybe they will bring photos," he says. "I hope they bring their husbands."
This letter from the Red Cross confirming he'd been selected was the first news he's had of his family, and it wasn't all good. His two brothers were never found, and his youngest sister passed away in 1983.
"She was so young," he says.
Still, he's grateful he will see the two sisters he has left. Preparing gifts for a bittersweet reunion. When he leaves he will say good-bye knowing it's almost definitely for the last time.
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NOVAK: And there are restrictions to the gifts these people can bring for their families in North Korea. The people from South Korea have been told they may want to think about items such as vitamins or winter clothing. Some will be bringing cash in U.S. dollars, up to $1500, with the understanding it's very likely the North Korean authorities will take at least some of that money -- Isha?
SESAY: Kathy, you talk about restrictions. How freely can the family members speak when they finally meet?
NOVAK: Well, not very freely at all, frankly. This will all be closely monitored for the most part. It will be taking place in large group halls. There has been some time set aside in the program for what is being call individual meetings. We'd expect that that is also being monitored because of, of course, the North Korean regime wouldn't want the South Korean families to be talking too much about life outside of North Korea, what it's like here. Certainly not inviting their family members to come and join them here in South Korea. That was also part of the briefing that some of the South Korean families were given before they set off on this journey. There will be questions they'll simply not be able to ask. We heard from Mr. An (ph). He wants to know how his sister died and
how his parents died. There's no way of knowing whether what his sisters will be telling him is in fact the truth -- Isha?
SESAY: These stories are so incredibly painful.
Kathy Novak from Seoul, South Korea. Appreciate it, Kathy. Thank you.
[01:45:02]VAUSE: As the huge numbers of refugees and migrants have streamed into Germany, an anti-migrant movement has become even stronger.
SESAY: CNN's Atika Shubert reports from Dresden where people are voicing their anger in weekly protests.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Every Monday night, in Dresden, thousands come out to protest. Their message, "No more refugees, Germany is full." The protests are organized by Patriotic Europeans Against Immigration. Their protests have persisted and grown, fueled by public fears that Germany is not prepared for the more than a million asylum seekers expected to arrive this year. More than half of respondents in a recent poll said they now believe Germany has, quote, "too many refugees."
Tomas is one of them. He fears Germany's traditions are being eroded by Muslim migrants.
"Every Monday night," he told us, "we come to gather peacefully. We are not Nazis. We don't want to be labeled as Nazis or painted into the right wing corner. We just don't want to become strangers in our own country."
On Monday night, police estimated 15,000 came out to protest against refugees.
(on camera): And this is the counter-protest. Several thousand people very noisy crowd, with signs that say "Refugees welcome."
(voice-over): It's a smaller, but noisier crowd heckling their right wing opponents.
The Dresden protests are attempting to echo the weekly anti-Communist demonstrations here that eventually brought down the Berlin Wall and reunited the country.
But many in the crowd listened with growing discomfort at the angry speeches directed against migrants.
"It is a pity for Germany and the German people what's being says here today," this man told us, "as if they represent the people." What they are saying is in complete contrast to what people here demonstrated for 25 years ago. It's enough to make me cry," he says.
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SHUBERT: Protests or both sides insist they'll press on with their demonstrations through the winter marking a public divide that runs deep. But the numbers show that fear and anger towards refugees is a political reality that cannot be ignored.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Dresden, Germany.
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SESAY: Tensions clearly running high.
VAUSE: Germany isn't the only country in Europe dealing with this issue of refugees and migrants. And it's split. A lot of people don't want the refugees coming in, and others extending the hospitality and saying they've got to have somewhere to go.
SESAY: Many saying this is a test for Europe to reveal their character. What they are about and what they stand for.
Shifting gears, the new "Star Wars" trailer has fans young and old feeling the force.
VAUSE: Really?
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SESAY: Just ahead, a look at what's causing the buzz coming right up.
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[01:49:35] KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley, with your CNN "World Sport" headlines.
World rugby says Craig Juber was wrong to award a late penalty against Scotland in Sunday's World Cup quarterfinal defeat by Australia. Scotland were leading when he was ruled deliberately off sides. The governing body said because Australia's Nick Fipps touched the ball the appropriate decision should have been a scrum to Australia for the original knock-on. Australia won by a point. The ref has not been selected to officiate in this weekend's semifinals.
FIFA's executive committee is meeting in extraordinary circumstances in Zurich on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the UEFA president is still trying to clear his name having been suspended for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee. He says it is shameful these being dragged through the mud and insists he's the only one that can restore FIFA's credibility.
The final game of the Premier League was played Monday with stoke winning at Swansea. A fourth minute penalty. Converted by stoke as they sent the Swansea goalkeeper the wrong way. It's Stoke's third straight Premier League win.
I'm Kate Riley, and that's a look at all your sports headlines. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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VAUSE: There it is. The trailer for the latest "Star Wars" movie. The trailer came out just a few hours ago. It's causing its own frenzy all by itself.
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SESAY: The trailer was broadcast during "Monday Night Football" and the Internet has exploded. Everyone speculating frame by frame.
For more on the hype, let's bring in Rebecca Sun, the senior reporter for the "Hollywood Reporter."
I'm in a frenzy.
VAUSE: I'm mildly interested.
Not a bad trailer, though. Kind of did the job. A bit of excitement n buzz. Didn't give too much away. They sandwiched two halves of a football game around it, which is weird.
REBECCA SUN, SENIOR REPORTER, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: A little corporate synergy, owned by Disney, both entities.
VAUSE: What did you think?
SUN: It was great. I thought it was really -- you feel the goose bumps of the iconic John Williams score. It didn't give away any plot details, which is not surprising. More snippits and endless things to speculate. More voice-overs. But saw Carrie Fisher for the first time.
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VAUSE: What happened to the hair?
SUN: That's just a bad call.
SESAY: I think --
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SESAY: It's hard to recognize her without it.
I think what is remarkable here is how they have managed to tease out this -- the hype, if you will. The publicity. Going from Instagram to the little snippets. Incredible how this has been carried out.
SUN: It's brilliant. They did teasers to the trailer over the past day or so. So they showed like 10-second trailers of the minute and a half trailer they just showed during "Monday Night Football." Social media trending with releasing the poster.
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VAUSE: Absolutely.
SUN: It worked out.
VAUSE: Let's take a look at the poster. We can get more clues about the movie. You look closely at the poster. No sign of Luke Skywalker. He wasn't in the trailer. And there looks to be like a death star, the third death star. They've gone back down the death star way. Really?
SESAY: What do you mean really?
SUN: That's not necessarily surprising. The death star being the ultimate representation of the evil empire. If the empire is coming back, you know, now so many years after the original trilogy. They built it. Is it bigger and badder than before?
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SESAY: Your brother is a massive "Star Wars" fan. What is he most excited about?
SUN: I have to tell you right after the trailer aired, I texted my brother and said, did you watch it. He said, duh, I put on a diaper beforehand just in case.
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SESAY: How old is your brother?
SUN: He's a 30-year-old man getting married next month.
VAUSE: He so hates you right now.
SUN: He told me to give him a shout-out.
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Daniel, this shout-out is for you.
[01:55:15] SESAY: In the diaper.
VAUSE: In the diaper.
SUN: Sorry to his fiancee.
(LAUGHTER) VAUSE: They had fun with this on the poster on Twitter. Look at the movie posters they put out. One was the sign wars at various places in the poster.
SESAY: Newman was up there.
VAUSE: Also, one I found funnier was the Jar Jar Binks. All Jar Jar all the time. The reason I found this interesting, Jar Jar symbolized everything wrong with the previous installment.
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VAUSE: And if you look at this trailer, they go to great lengths to avoid that problem.
SUN: Absolutely. This is totally harkening back to the original trilogy. No mention of those movies that came out in the late '90s, early 2000s. I think that's deliberate.
VAUSE: Thank you for that. Rebecca, thanks for coming in.
I'm John Vause.
SESAY: I'm Isha Sesay. Thanks for watching. Stay with us.
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[02:00:08] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: From the big house, to a luxury estate, it's house arrest for Oscar Pistorius.
