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Hillary Clinton Testimony Before Benghazi Committee; U.S. Commando Killed in Iraq Hostage Rescue; Leaders Ask Israel, Palestine to Tone Down Rhetoric Amid Violence; Hurricane Patricia Headed for Mexico; And Vladimir Putin reveals a possible change in strategy by Bashar al Assad. Video of Missile Strike on Hospital in Idlib; ; Glen Doherty's Sister Comments on Benghazi Hearing; Photographer Catches Plight of Refugees; South Korean Economy Struggling; Monuments Men Honored by U.S. Congress. Aired 2-3a ET
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[02:00:11] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Questioned for nearly 11 hours. Hillary Clinton's testimony on what she knew about the Benghazi attack.
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: U.S. Special Forces execute a daring mission to rescue hostages in Iraq.
ALLEN: And we're tracking a powerful hurricane as it bears down on the Mexican coast.
Also ahead, the monument men risk their lives to save priceless art during World War II. Perhaps you saw the movie. The real ones are honored in Washington.
Welcome to the viewers in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen.
HOWELL: Live from world headquarters in Atlanta, NEWSROOM starts now.
We start this hour with breaking news that we're following, a shooting on a college campus in the U.S. state of Tennessee. At this point, we understand that three people have been taken to hospitals.
ALLEN: Tennessee State College is located in the state capital, Nashville. Police say the shooting happened just before midnight local time. No word right now on any suspects or the victims' conditions or what led up to it. We're working the story. We'll update you on it as we get new information here to CNN.
After 11 hours of questions, criticisms and rebuttals, it appears not much new, after all that, was learned at Hillary Clinton's marathon congressional hearing. The hearing was to investigate Clinton's actions regarding the attack on that diplomatic in Benghazi, Libya.
HOWELL: As you'll remember, the U.S. ambassador and three other American diplomatic staff members were killed in the siege that took place on September 11th of 2012.
CNN's senior White House correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, has more. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: I would imagine I thought more about what happened than all of you put together. I've lost more sleep than all of you put together.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary Clinton stood her ground and kept her cool, testifying in front of the congressional committee investigating the Benghazi attacks. The hearing produced more fireworks than light on the 2012 terror strike in Libya that took the lives of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
REP. TREY GOWDY, (R-SC), CHAIRMAN, HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI: We're going to pursue the truth in a memory of those who lost their lives. We're going to write that final definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi
ZELENY: The account soon dissolved into a partisan argument. Chairman Trey Gowdy and his fellow Republicans pressed Clinton for answers about the e-mails.
GOWDY: It looked like certain things got straight to your in box. And the ask for more security did not.
CLINTON: Yes, personal e-mail came to my personal account. Work- related e-mail did as well.
ZELENY: This committee first discovered that Clinton used a private e-mail server, now subject of an investigation. Her long-time friend, Sidney Blumenthal, was a central figure. Republicans wandering why he had such access.
GOWDY: We heard e-mail after e-mail, about Libya and Benghazi that Sidney Blumenthal sent to the secretary of state.
You need to make sure the entire record --
(CROSSTALK)
REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS, (D), MARYLAND: And that's what I want to do.
GOWDY: Then go ahead.
CUMMINGS: I'm telling you, I move that we put into the record, the entire transcript of Sidney Blumenthal. If we're going to release the e-mails, let's do the transcript. That way, the world can see it.
ZELENY: But Democrats on the committee forcibly defended Clinton.
CUMMINGS: Here's the bottom line. This Select Committee has spent 17 months and $4.7 million of taxpayer money.
ZELENY: The day-long hearing was a spectacle with high stakes for Clinton's campaign.
Her husband sent their off from their Washington home, where he hunkered down to watch.
CLINTON: Even when we try to get it right, which we do try, sometimes there are unintended consequences.
ZELENY: There were plenty of props.
CLINTON: This pile represents the e-mails.
ZELENY: And plenty of posturing.
UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMAN: I'm not done with my question. I'm just giving you the courtesy of reading your notes.
CLINTON: That's all right.
ZELENY: Only occasionally did her frustration come through.
UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMAN: Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for their country. What they can't live with is when the government's not square with them.
CLINTON: I think the insinuations that you are making do a grave disservice to the hard work that people did during the course of some very confusing and difficult days.
UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMAN: Secretary Clinton, you said my insinuation. I'm not insinuating anything. I'm reading what you said.
CLINTON: I'm sorry it doesn't fit your narrative, Congressman.
Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ALLEN: Peter Beinart is a committal commentator for CNN and contributing editor for the "Atlantic" and "National Journal." He joins me via Skype from Santa Fe.
Thanks for being with me, Peter.
PETER BEINART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Thank you.
[02:05:] ALLEN: I want to get your assessment of Hillary Clinton, 11 hours before this hearing today. How do you think she withstood the scrutiny and the questions?
BEINART: I think she did well. Very few Americans will have watched this. What they will see is the talking heads talking about it. Not it itself. Maybe they see one clip or two. What matters is that the talking head consensus that she did well. That she was dignified. She showed a lot of perseverance, perhaps, in a subtle way, put to rest some concerns about her age, given the fact she managed to hold up so well for a long period of time. And the Republicans seemed partisan. The Democrats seemed partisan, too. But it made it feel like this was a political show, rather than a well-meaning effort. This actually ends up being the cap for what's been a good week or two for her.
ALLEN: Do you think she will see a bounce for her candidacy from this today or not?
BEINART: Yeah. I think so. I mean, look, with Biden getting out of the race and her doing well in that debate, I think we have a new conventional wisdom, which she is basically the de facto nominee already. That could change before this is all out. I think she has stabilized herself. The fact that Biden didn't run, the fact she did well in the debate, the fact she went through this. For Democrats watching this, they saw someone who they felt has -- endured an unfair witch hunt and responded with not only calm dignity. But Hillary Clinton, one of the things she's very good at mat mastering material. She is better in this environment than she is giving a stump speech. This is the environment that showcases her strengths, her command of the material, her sense of being in charge, her sense of being well- prepared, all of that came through.
ALLEN: Democrats were charging partisanship during the hearing. The Democrats saying the Republicans were blocking their legitimate inquiry. How do you think either side looks to the Americans after this day?
BEINART: I don't think the Democrats in Congress look all that great. They're not what mattered. It's fight between the Republicans and Hillary Clinton, the defendant. Everyone in Congress is unpopular. Especially for Democrats, watching Hillary Clinton, they will feel like she badgered, she was attacked, she was harangued, and held up well. And this will play into a narrative that they feel that Clinton had never been treated fairly by Republicans. And it will bond them to Hillary Clinton more.
ALLEN: Peter Beinart talking to us from Santa Fe.
Thank you, Peter.
BEINART: Thank you.
HOWELL: After weeks of saying no, we are hearing yes, that Congressman Paul Ryan will run for speaker of the House of Representatives. The Republican from Wisconsin says that he could be a unifying figure in Congress, after getting support from several groups of Republican lawmakers. His party and the full House vote for the new speaker next week.
ALLEN: Ryan, you may recall, ran unsuccessfully for U.S. vice president in 2012. He chairs the Ways and Means Committee. The current speaker, John Boehner, as we reported, has resigned.
An American commando was killed Thursday in an operation to rescue dozens of hostages in Iraq who face execution. The Pentagon says 70 hostages were freed, many of them Iraqi security forces.
HOWELL: The U.S. servicemember killed was the first combat death in Iraq since 2011.
CNN's Jim Sciutto has the latest details.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The deadly battle was the first time U.S. forces have engaged ISIS fighters on the ground in Iraq.
(SHOUTING)
SCIUTTO: In a joint operation with Kurdish fighters, U.S. Special Operations from the elite Delta Force raided an ISIS compound to rescue hostages believed to be in imminent danger of execution.
(EXPLOSION)
SCIUTTO: U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on makeshift ISIS training camps, staging sites and bridges in the area. And five helicopters brought in 30 U.S. Special Forces and 40 Kurdish fighters.
(GUNFIRE)
SCIUTTO: As they approached the walled compound, a firefight broke out. When the mission was over, the U.S. aircraft overhead destroyed the site.
U.S. forces were not meant to enter the compound of directly engage the ISIS fighters. When Kurdish forces were overwhelmed, the U.S. commander made the decision to enter the firefight.
The U.S. soldier killed was shot inside the compound.
U.S. forces have been in Iraq in a train, advise and assist mission. The Pentagon challenged today over the decision to participate in this operation.
[02:10:04] PETER COOK, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: This was a unique circumstance. This was a support mission, in which they were providing support to the Iraqi -- the Kurdistan regional government. And U.S. forces are not in an active combat mission in Iraq.
SCIUTTO: In the days before the raid, U.S. surveillance spotted mass graves dug inside the compound prompting immediate action. U.S. officials say 70 prisoners were rescued, 20 Iraqi security forces and ISIS fighters accused of spying. Missing, however, were the Kurdish captives they were sent in to rescue.
COOK: It's not clear who would be there. And so, that's one of the things we're going through right now, the debriefs as to who those folks were.
SCIUTTO: Jim Sciutto, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HOWELL: We turn now to the new attack in the escalating situation between Israelis and Palestinians. In the past hour, we got word of a stabbing in south Jerusalem.
ALLEN: The Israeli military says the attacker targeted a group of soldiers and stabbed one of them. The soldiers shot the attacker. No word on either person's condition right now.
HOWELL: European Union foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, says the quartet on Middle East peace will meet in Vienna on Friday. The group plans to urge Israeli and Palestinian leaders to tone down their rhetoric.
ALLEN: That's something U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is echoing. He and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Thursday in Berlin.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: And I would characterize that conversation as one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be some things that there may be, in the next couple of days, put on the table, which would have an impact, I hope, on the perceptions of everybody engaged that there is a way to diffuse the situation and begin to find a way forward.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ALLEN: Kerry plans to meet with other Middle East leaders this weekend, to talk about the conflict.
HOWELL: Switching now to weather, Hurricane Patricia has strengthened, now a category five storm and it is moving towards Mexico.
ALLEN: 166 miles per hour sustained winds.
HOWELL: That's dangerous.
ALLEN: The monster storm is expected to make landfall by midday Friday. It shows no signs of slowing down before then. So, this is a monster, as we said.
HOWELL: Absolutely right.
Let's turn to Karen MaGinnis with more about this in the Weather Center -- Karen?
KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We have a powerful hurricane, George and Natalie. Now, the winds are at 185 miles per hour. So, we got this advisory, just in the past hour or so. And this is just mushroomed to a category 5 hurricane. It rivals the hurricane we saw back in 1997. And that was Pauline. Pauline had winds up to 185 miles per hour. One of the most destructive hurricanes ever to make landfall, along this west coast of Mexico. So, from Puerto Vallarta, toward the areas that will pick up rainfall. And you night see some windy conditions. For the most part, we're looking to feel the effects of this most strong. It is a category 5. Here are the areas that have hurricane warnings out, as well as hurricane watches. Further to the south. That main impact what will the impacts be? Let me tell you what we're looking at. It looks like it's going to make landfall about Friday midday or perhaps towards the evening. Because it's such a strong category 5. We looked at it weakening to a category 4. Not that it would make much of a difference. We're looking at a possible hurricane making landfall in this vicinity. As it moves towards the north, making its way towards the north- northeast. And making impact with very heavy rainfall. How much rainfall? 10 to 20 inches. Mudslides, landslides, infrastructure damage. Power outages, as well. This is where people go to vacation. Puerto Vallarta, one of the areas that could be impacted for tourists and the residents there. We'll stay on top of it and bring you updates. Natalie, George?
ALLEN: That graphic behind you right there, shows the mess, that's coming, for sure.
HOWELL: Really tells it all. I've been through a category 3. I've reported on that. That's intense. A 5, I couldn't imagine. Pretty intense for folks.
ALLEN: It will be catastrophic. It will be.
[02:15:14] HOWELL: Karen, thank you so much.
ALLEN: Disturbing images show a Syrian hospital allegedly hit in an air strike. We'll have that story for you next.
HOWELL: Plus, Vladimir Putin reveals a possible change in strategy by Bashar al Assad. We're live from Moscow as CNN NEWSROOM continues.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley, with your CNN "World Sport" headlines.
It was a miserable night for British clubs, with Tottenham losing. While they didn't lose, Liverpool could only manage a 1-0 draw at home. The visitors take a first-half lead through a superb half- volley. And had the captain sent off for a second yellow card. Liverpool got back on terms, as it was stabbed in, following a free kick. And despite having the vast majority of chances, Liverpool couldn't force a winner. They have to wait for the first win.
Sad note from the world of football. The Dutch icon Johan Cruyff has been diagnosed with lung cancer. The news was confirmed in a statement on Cruyff's official website saying the cancer was found in recent tests in Barcelona. The former European footballer of the year will have treatments for the disease in Spain.
And the NFL has extended its agreement to hold regular season games at Wembley Stadium, at least two games through 2020. Jacksonville will play annually at Wembley. And the NFL has also agreed to extend the deal through an additional five years through 2025.
That's a look at all of your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
HOWELL: Now, to the war playing out in Syria. Russia said it carried out 53 combat missions in Syria, in the past 24 hours. The defense ministry says it has detected more ISIS targets than the U.S. originally reported.
ALLEN: And U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet with Russia's foreign minister in Vienna Friday with Syria at the top of the agenda. The U.S. has said in the past, it thinks Russia's involvement only complicates the situation.
HOWELL: Following it all, our senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance, joining us live from the Russian capital.
Matthew, good to have you with us this hour.
So Russia and the United States are set to talk in Vienna. That's next. This is after the Russian president met with Basher al Assad. What are we learning about that meeting?
[02:20:20] MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's interesting because that meeting was kept under wrapping until it was over. We heard about it in the morning. It was an overnight meeting. Only in the morning, did Russian state television broadcast images and announce this had taken place. Even then, we only got very glib remarks, both from Putin and from Assad about what they discussed. Assad thanked Putin. Putin talked about how Syria was standing against terrorism.
But over the past 24 hours, there's been a bit more detail coming out from Vladimir Putin about the substance of what was discussed. And we're starting to see crystallized the beginnings, perhaps, of Putin's diplomatic plan to try to bring to an end the fighting in Syria and find a political solution to that crisis. He's been speaking at the discussion forum, a discussion group in the south of Russia, bringing in academics from around the world. He said, at that forum, that the Syrian government would be ready to work with other opposition groups on -- with opposition groups on the ground, in a coalition against Islamic State. He told the forum that he asked President Bashar al Assad how he would view such a force during that meeting that he had in the Kremlin the night before. He said he answered positively. That's something the Russians say they are now considering, how they can take that moving forward.
Vladimir Putin also spoke about a number of other issues relating to Syria at the forum. He accused the Americans and the West, in general, of playing a double game, by supporting what he called some terrorist groups and opposing other terrorist groups for their own political ends. But he also, again, took the opportunity to call on the West and the United States, specifically, to join with Russia, in some kind of coalition, to fight against terrorism and to fight against Islamic State. He appears to be holding out the olive branch of negotiations over Syria at the moment. HOWELL: Matthew, it seems that the Russian president, signaling that
a political solution could be a possibility, but it would include Bashar al Assad. That is not what the West seems warm to. But we will continue to follow this.
Matthew Chance, live for us in Moscow. Matthew, thank you.
ALLEN: Now, on the ground in Syria. We have a story we want to warn you contains disturbing images. A Syrian humanitarian organization has posted video of what it says is the aftermath of a missile strike on a hospital in the rebel-held city of Idlib.
HOWELL: The Syrian-American Medical Society, which runs the hospital, says Russian warplanes were responsible. Moscow denies targeting civilians in its Syrian raids.
Nick Paton Walsh reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Warplanes has just struck and missed in rebel Idlib. Aide workers are out and say, run, the plane is coming back.
(EXPLOSION)
PATON WALSH: This aide worker from the Syrian Civil Defense Unit runs inside the hospital. One of his colleagues dead. Five injured. A dozen total dead.
The Syrian-American Medical Association, who run this hospital, told CNN it was targeted by Russian jets in, quote, "a double-tap," one strike and another, to catch the first responders.
Russia denies targeting civilians.
"In the first attack," this local man says, "thank god there were no injuries." Then, the warplane turned around and, that time, all of the people were gathered and it shot two missiles again."
It is the third report of hospitals hit in the offensive in and around Aleppo in the week.
Not far west of Aleppo, the same rescue group find what they say is an unexploded cluster bomb, markings visible.
Russia denied using cluster munitions.
But two appeared to crash through this roof, into this home, making the holes beneath this boy's feet.
"It came and hit, for the first time," he says. "The warplane shot a missile that had cluster bombs. It came on to us. None of us were injured. But our neighbor was injured. And two women were killed."
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, southern Turkey. (END VIDEOTAPE)
ALLEN: Little boys reporting on war. That shouldn't be happening.
[02:25:09] HOWELL: When you look at what's behind them, yeah.
In Sweden, a masked man carrying what appeared to be a sword killed a teacher and a student at a school on Thursday.
HOWELL: Police are investigating whether he had links to right-wing extremist groups. Before the attack, he posed for this photo, wearing a mask and a helmet.
A student describes what she saw.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT (through translation): He came upwards, walking like a soldier, kind of, with a sword in his hand.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER (through translation): It was a sword?
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT (through translation): Yes, I think it was a sword. It was quite long.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER (through translation): What did he look like?
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT (through translation): He had a mask, wearing black clothes. He had blue eyes. He has lenses, with black around his eyes. That's how he's described.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HOWELL: Two people were wounded in the attack. Police shot the man. He later died. The prime minister called it a dark day for Sweden.
ALLEN: In Mexico, police have discovered a tunnel believed to have been used to smuggle drugs into the U.S. Police say it connected Tijuana to San Diego. It is at least 800 meters long, half a mile, and had lighting, ventilation and metal tracks. Police say they arrested 16 people and confiscated 10 tons of suspected marijuana. Two government sources tell Reuters the tunnel belong to gangs led by escaped fugitive, Joaquin Guzman, known as el Chapo.
HOWELL: These sophisticated tunnels.
ALLEN: A lot of them apparently.
HOWELL: Absolutely. And police have been called in after the telecom website was hit by what it calls a significant and sustained cyber attack. The U.K. company says there's a chance that hackers gained access to customers' credit cards and bank details. The phone and broadband provider has more than four million U.K. users.
ALLEN: You really can't have an 11-hour congressional hearing without -- (CROSSTALK)
HOWELL: That was a long hearing.
ALLEN: -- without heated words.
Next, more of the contentious exchanges from Thursday's marathon Benghazi session with Hillary Clinton.
HOWELL: Plus, CNN has an exclusive interview with the sister of Glen Doherty. Her reaction to Hillary Clinton's testimony as this broadcast continues around the world this hour on CNN International and CNN USA.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[02:30:59] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: And welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen.
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: I'm George Howell. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
The headlines we're following this hour, Israeli police say they shot an attacker who stabbed a soldier south of Jerusalem. It's the latest in a wave of stabbings in Jerusalem and the West Bank. There's no word on either person's condition at this point.
ALLEN: Hurricane Patricia is now a category five monster, taking dead-aim at Mexico's southwestern coast. The storm is one of the most powerful to hit in years. It's clocking 188-mile-per-hour sustained winds. Mexicans are bracing for rain and strong winds.
HOWELL: Dangerous storm, indeed.
Police say three people have been shot on the campus of Tennessee State University. That's in the state capital of Nashville. We just got this photo in from the scene. Police say all three victims have been taken to the hospital. No word yet on their conditions or any suspects.
ALLEN: In Washington, U.S. Republicans grilled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an 11-hour hearing on the 2012 Benghazi attack.
HOWELL: While Clinton calmly took responsibility for the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, there were shouting and finger-pointing during Thursday's hearing. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
REP. TREY GOWDY, (R-SC), CHAIRMAN, HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI: We're going to write that final, definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues. But make no mistake, we are going to do it, nonetheless.
REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS, (D), MARYLAND: Last weekend, the chairman told the Republican colleagues to shut up and stop talking about the Select Committee. What I wanted to know is this -- and this is a key question. Why tell Republicans to shut up when they are telling the truth?
HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: I'm here. Despite all of the previous investigations and all the talk about partisan agendas, I'm here to honor those we lost, and to do what I can to aid those who serve us still.
REP. MIKE POMPEO, (R), KANSAS: I get asked constantly, why has no one been held accountable? How come a single person did not lose a single paycheck? Connected to the fact we had the first ambassador killed since 1979. How come no one has been held accountable to date?
CLINTON: The personnel rules and the laws that govern those decisions were followed very carefully.
POMPEO: Yes, ma'am. I'm not asking what ARB did. I'm asking what you did.
CLINTON: I followed the law, Congressman. That was my responsibility.
UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMAN: Libya was supposed to be -- and Mr. Roskam pointed out -- a great success story for the Obama White House and the Clinton State Department. And now, you have a terrorist attack. It's a terrorist attack in Libya. And just 56 days before an election. You can live with the protest about a video. That won't hurt you. But a terrorist attack will. So, you can't be square with the American people.
CLINTON: I thought more about what happened than all of you put together. I've lost more sleep than all of you put together. I have been wracking my brain about what more could have been done, or should have been done.
GOWDY: Madame Secretary, he had unfettered access to you. And he used that access, at least on one occasion, to ask you to intervene on behalf of a business venture. Do you recall that?
CLINTON: You know, Mr. Chairman, if you don't have friends who say unkind things privately, I congratulate you. But from my perspective --
(CROSSTALK)
GOWDY: I would like to think I don't correct them.
CUMMINGS: I move that we put into the record, the entire transcript of Sidney Blumenthal. We're going to release the e-mails, let's do the transcript. That way the world can see it.
GOWDY: Why is it that you only want Mr. Blumenthal's transcript released? Why don't you want --
(CROSSTALK) GOWDY: The survivors, even their names? You want that released?
CUMMINGS: But let me tell you something Right now --
(CROSSTALK)
GOWDY: The only one you've asked for is Sidney Blumenthal. That and Miss Mills.
CUMMINGS: That's not true.
[02:25:07] GOWDY: That's two out of 54.
(CROSSTALK)
GOWDY: If you want to ask for some fact witnesses --
(CROSSTALK)
CUMMINGS: You said from the beginning, we want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, why don't we put the entire transcript out there and let the world see it. What have you got to hide?
UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMAN: No one recommended closing but you had two ambassadors making several requests. And here's what happened to their requests. They were torn up.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HOWELL: There were props, there were finger pointing, there was a lot of shouting, as you heard there, but during the hearing, Clinton said that the American deaths in Benghazi, that they impacted her deeply, and that she was there to honor their service.
ALLEN: As you know, four people died that day, Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, along with CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
Kate Quigley is Doherty's sister. And she gave Anderson Cooper her impressions of the hearing today.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KATE QUIGLEY, SISTER OF GLEN DOHERTY: Over all, you know, I thought she did a fairly good job answering some of the questions. As expected, a lot of the real answers that we're looking for were kind of brushed off or not answered in the detail we would like. In general, it was what I expected it to be.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR, A.C. 360: You met with this committee on Benghazi last year. What do you make of the accusations that some of them made that it's not really a fact-finding mission, that it's politics at play, out to get Secretary Clinton?
QUIGLEY: Yeah. I think the word Benghazi is politically motivated. There was grandstanding today. When I met with the committee, I really found them to be on a fact-finding mission. The facts speak for themselves. A decade after the worst attack on American soil, on 9/11, there was another terrorism attack on the same day, there were warning signs. And to add insult to injury, this cover-up. And a lot of the questions are still unanswered.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HOWELL: We have been covering this story from the very beginning. And we have coverage on our website. You can get all of that information, at CNN.com.
ALLEN: Former Subway sandwich's pitchman, Jared Fogle, has agreed to a plea bargain. He will pay $1.4 million in restitution. $100,000 for each of his 14 victims.
HOWELL: He will plead guilty to child pornography and has to spend 5 to 12 years in prison for photographing and paying minors for sex. Fogle became the face of the popular sandwich chain after losing over 200 pounds on what he called the Subway diet. The company cut its ties with him as allegations broke this year.
ALLEN: Up next, we will have the latest on Europe's growing refugee crisis. We'll head to the new front line of the migrant trail.
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[02:41:34] HOWELL: We turn our attention to the migrant crisis in Europe, and the country on the front line, the country of Slovenia. Police say 12,000 refugees arrived within a 24-hour period. That's the biggest number in a single day. Thousands have been streaming in from Croatia since Hungary closed its boarders last week.
ALLEN: And they're getting the runaway. The crisis has overwhelmed many of the Balkan States. Slovenia is asking other E.U. nations to contribute police forces to help control the crowds.
German officials have foiled a plot to attack refugee shelters. 13 suspected members of a far-right movement are accused of planning to set fire to refugee homes.
HOWELL: Authorities say concerns over these types of attacks has grown sharply, as record numbers of migrants are arriving in the country.
Photographer Marko Risovic has captured photos of refugees along the Serbian/Croatia border. Very powerful images.
ALLEN: He shares the stories of all of the people who are desperately seeking a better life and finding so much hardship along the way. Here it is.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARKO RISOVIC, PHOTOGRAPHER (voice-over): I am in a city in the western part of Serbia, on the very border with Croatia. The scenes at the border are very chaotic. It's not an actual border crossing, like crossing where you have cars and you have a checkpoint. It's open now, only for refugees. So, the infrastructure is really bad, the fields, all around. Too many people are there.
Last night, the pressure but around -- there's many families with small children. They're trying to warm themselves. They're all sleeping on the ground. During the night, usually the police is not letting people cross. In the morning, people want to start going further. The police was unable to stop all of the refugees. At some point, the police let all of them at that moment to pass. And the cycle continues.
Usually, when it's your family, they're just normal people. A couple with children were forced to leave their home country, Syria, and want to go to Germany. When they were crossing the sea, the boat began to sink. They were really afraid. They almost died there in the water. I asked, do you expect it to be better than in your home country? And she just smiled and she said, no. There is no place like home. There with his family. He lost his legs due to the conditions in his country. It was car bombed. He was forced to leave. And he hopes for a better future for him and especially for his children. He told the story to me. He said, I lost my life along the way. I asked him, how does he know he will manage to find his wife? He says he is desperate. He hopes my message may be how, in this process, that maybe somebody can recognize him.
The situation is really bad. But they are a strong will. They are all relieved that they are going towards something better. The hope in all of them, it's very strong.
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HOWELL: This ongoing war in Syria, we cover all the political angels that are happening, we show you the video of the bombs hitting the ground, but when you see the still images that take you into the lives of people trying to find a safer place.
ALLEN: Really powerful photographs.
HOWELL: From Marko Risovic.
ALLEN: Thanks for those, Marko.
South Korea was once a global powerhouse of economic growth. Now, its economy is struggling. The central bank says the country's GDP is growing. But experts say there's a lot of recovery ahead.
HOWELL: Asia's fourth-largest economy takes a hit after the MERS epidemic this summer. Exports are falling. That slowdown is taking a heavy toll on the country's elderly population.
ALLEN: CNN correspondent, Kathy Novak, shares some of their stories.
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KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This small shop is all this woman has. But she hasn't seen a customer in two years.
"I feel that my generation is being forgotten," she says. "I worked really hard. And I've been so diligent. But somehow, I ended up here."
Here, living alone, among the stock with barely enough money to feed herself, getting more and more depressed.
"I tried to kill myself next to my husband's grave. Someone discovered me and I survived."
It's a situation her social worker says is all-too common. The elderly suicide rate here is the highest among developed nations. This is the generation that helped rebuild the economy from the ruins of the Korean War. Now, about half of South Korea's elderly live in relative poverty.
This pastor runs this mobile soup kitchen every Saturday. He blames the problems on the slowing economy. And he says the old social structure where children look after their aging parents has broken down.
"I think there's a growing number of homeless elders because sons and daughters and our government are not taking good care of them," he says.
South Korea has only had a pension system for less than three decades. The government says because of that, some are being left behind.
(on camera): Last year, more benefits were extended to the poorest of South Korea's elderly but they still only receive under $200 per month. And many agree that's simply not enough.
(voice-over): The population here is aging. In just 15 years, a quarter of the people are expected to be over the age of 65, putting enormous pressure on the economy and forcing more to join these food lines.
Kathy Novak, CNN, Seoul.
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HOWELL: We have an update to breaking news we are covering. Police say one person is dead after a shooting on the campus of Tennessee State University, in Nashville, Tennessee.
ALLEN: Two others were hospitalized. We don't know their condition. Police say the shooting happened after an apparent dispute over a dice game. No word right now on any suspects. We'll continue to bring you more information as we get it.
A short break here. We'll be right back.
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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) [02:51:12] KAREN MAGINNIS: Hello, everyone. I'm Meteorologist Karen MaGinnis.
We're closely watching what happens with Hurricane Patricia. This could be one for the record books, especially for the West coast or the southwest coast of Mexico. Its impact is going to be extreme over 24 to 48 hours, with the potential of mud and landslides. Very heavy rainfall. We're looking at potential for coastal beach erosion, as well. Over the next 24 hours, it is expected to make landfall somewhere, between Puerto Vallarta in its wake. Some places could see 20 inches of rainfall. So, flooding, a huge issue here, as well. And speaking of flooding, we could see that across the south-central United States. A weather system sweeps through. That taps that Gulf of Mexico moisture. Some showers and thunderstorms, and localized flooding, as we go all the way through the forecast. Look at the rainfall totals that we're expecting. Six to 10 inches in some cases. And area has seen exceptional drought. We saw rainfall move in. That broke the drought. The heavy rainfall on the way. Looks like flooding is a problem.
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ALLEN: The U.S. Congress has awarded its special award to World War II volunteers call the Monuments Men, the men and women were responsible for protecting Europe's cultural heritage from destruction. Of the nearly 350 original members, only six are alive today from that time, and most were museum curators, educators or artists.
HOWELL: One of the surviving Monuments Men told Congress, they were willing to put their lives on the line for the cause.
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UNIDENTIFIED FORMER MONUMENTS MEN: The mission was dangerous. Two Monuments Men were killed in combat to protect works of art. Opposing months of the war. What this small group discovered was nothing less than the greatest plunder ever perpetrated in the history of civilization.
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HOWELL: They saved history. The Monuments Men helped recover more than five million pieces of art and other treasures that were stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Hollywood actor, George Clooney, brought their story to the big screen last year in a movie based on their exploits.
ALLEN: We have another film to share with you. Nothing like that. This film was found in Idaho. It's about parachuting beavers. It's being called a rediscovered classic.
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ANNOUNCER: Now, into the air, and down they swing, down to a scream or a lake. (END VIDEO CLIP)
HOWELL: An Idaho historian uncovered the 1950s footage of the wildlife experiment. Beavers were packed into travel boxes and dropped from a plane. The Fish and Wild Game folks believed all of the beavers survived that jump.
What do you see when you see a beaver falling from a box?
ALLEN: What do you do if you're camping and suddenly a beaver falls?
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HOWELL: And from flying through the air to digging a hole, Jeb Bush is courting a controversy over a caped crusader.
Jeanne Moos explains.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just as "Supergirl's" new show is about to premiere, she exploded onto the stage of presidential politics.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Are you sure you're bullet-proof?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: I hope so.
MOOS: Bullets may bounce off Supergirl, but Jeb Bush shot himself in the foot answering this question.
[02:55:13] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is your favorite superhero?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: We're going down. Brace for impact.
MOOS: Jeb should have stuck with his first answer, which was Batman.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Oh, come on.
MOOS: But instead, he brought up the young female caped crusader, who can lower a crashing jetliner to a safe landing, reminiscent of Miracle on the Hudson.
JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: I saw there's -- "Supergirl" is on TV. I saw that when I was working out this morning, there is an ad promoting Supergirl. She looked pretty hot.
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MOOS: Now "hot" is a term that presidential candidates usually apply to, say, the weather, rather than a 27-year-old actress.
Even Jeb didn't need x-ray vision to see --
BUSH: That will make news. MOOS: Wrote one commenter, "Ugh, the woman is about the same age of
his children, what a creep," versus the counter argument, "So he said that TV's 'Supergirl' is hot. What's wrong with that?"
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: To be a superhero, you need a crime. There's a car chase on the 112 freeway.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: I can do a car chase.
MOOS: Maybe Jeb should follow the lead of Donald Trump. When it comes to superheroes --
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Mr. Trump?
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Yes?
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Are you Batman?
TRUMP: I am Batman.
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MOOS: But Supergirl and Jeb Bush have one thing in common --
BUSH: Let me show you something.
MOOS: -- both have a penchant of unbuttoning their shirts to reveal their true selves.
Jeanne Moos, CNN --
BUSH: Pretty hot.
MOOS: -- New York.
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ALLEN: Melissa probably has Jeb Bush to thank for her career now.
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Thank for watching. I'm Natalie Allen.
HOWELL: And I'm George Howell.
More NEWSROOM after this.
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