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Woman Shot By Police Inside Dallas Love Airport After Opening Fire Inside Airport; Pope Apologizes To Indigenous Canadian Abuse Survivors; U.S. Assessing Whether To Declare Monkeypox Outbreak A Public Health Emergency; Sixth Co-Defendant In Central Park Jogger Case To Be Exonerated. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired July 25, 2022 - 13:30   ET

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ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST: Just into CNN, we are following reports of a shooting at Dallas Love Field Airport. Officials just gave an update.

I want to get right to Ed Lavandera in Dallas.

What'd we learn, Ed?

ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, or good afternoon, Ana.

Scary moments for passengers at Dallas Love Field Airport. The area you see behind me there's where people get dropped off. That is where the immediate ticket counters,

Of course, Southwest Airlines, one of the prominent airlines that flies out of Dallas Love Field.

Dallas police chief a short while ago briefed reporters on what happened.

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He said a woman was dropped off 11:00 a.m. Central time, walked into the terminal, went into a bathroom and changed clothes, perhaps putting on a hoodie or something some sort of change of clothes. Emerged from the bathroom and started firing.

Listen to a little bit from the police chief here who just briefed reporters. They did not take any questions, but this is what he told us a short while ago.

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EDDIE GARCIA, CHIEF DALLAS POLICE Chief: She produces a handgun and begins firing. At this point, we don't know where exactly the individual was aiming. The most of what we're seeing now, she was aiming at the ceiling.

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LAVANDERA: We're told by Dallas police that, as the woman started firing, a Dallas police officer then shot the woman in the, as they described it, the lower extremities. That woman has been taken to a nearby hospital.

We don't know the extent of those injuries. We don't know the motive here, as well.

The FAA has issued a ground stop here at the airport. Everything is basically at a standstill. We are told no one else was injured. This is not an active shooter situation -- Ana?

CABRERA: OK, so not an active shooter situation. Let's emphasize that.

Ed Lavandera, thank you.

Pope Francis is in Canada today to make amends for past abuse at Catholic-run schools, specifically those attended by indigenous children in various parts of the country.

Moments ago, the pope apologized to native leaders for what happened over several decades. Thousands of children died from neglect or abuse at these Catholic-run schools, while thousands more had their native culture erased.

CNN's Paula Newton is with us now from Edmonton.

Paula, his is a powerful visit. I know the pope's visit stirred up mixed feelings. How is it being received?

PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. You could see the indigenous peoples just moments ago, as you said, taking in the apology. They were solemn but you could see a lot of them were already retraumatized.

Of course, they want to hear this from the pope, but they want the Catholic Church to do so much more.

The pope himself has called this a first step. But it is, in fact, a rare and singular moment that the pope, in his current health condition, has come to Canadian soil, indigenous community, in a powwow to deliver these words of apology.

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POPE FRANCIS (through translation): First step of this pilgrimage amongst you is, again, to ask for forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry.

I ask for forgiveness for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the palace that oppressed the indigenous peoples.

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NEWTON: You know, the pope didn't get through his speech ask that apology before there was spontaneous applause. As I said, though, Ana, there was a lot of spontaneous emotions. Well, we could see how upsetting this apology was for these people to actually hear it.

And, again, to make that point, Ana, that this was about, even in the pope's words, cultural destruction.

These were catastrophic consequences for the indigenous peoples here, not just among individual family trauma, but the fact their language, their culture was completely wiped out, especially in these residential schools, most of them run by the Catholic Church.

I want to note, we already have reaction from one indigenous group, saying, look, they take this as a first step, but they want action.

Ana, what does that mean? It is not just about reparations but it is about opening fully those records that the Vatican still has.

And understanding what happened in those institutions and the fact that children are still missing, their whereabouts unknown -- Ana?

CABRERA: Paula Newton, thank you for that reporting.

Back in the U.S., a raging wildfire near California's Yosemite National Park is exploding in size, forcing thousands to evacuate.

Cal Fire battalion chief said the behavior of the Oak Fire in Mariposa County is unprecedented. Adding, it is moving so fast with such intensity, it makes response time extremely limited. The wildfire is just 10 percent contained.

It comes as more than 60 million people are under heat alerts across the northeast, the central plains, even the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures are forecasted to be 10 to 20 degrees above normal through at least Friday.

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Still to come, the monkeypox outbreak across the U.S. Cases are rising, and now, the World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency. How concerned should you be? That's next.

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CABRERA: Welcome back. Concern about monkeypox is growing rapidly among health officials. The U.S. is assessing whether to join the World Health Organization and declare an outbreak a public health emergency.

Monkeypox was first identified here in the U.S. two months ago. And federal health officials say there are likely more cases that are being reported.

CNN's Elizabeth Cohen joins us now. [13:45:01]

Elizabeth, does the U.S. have a handle on monkeypox?

DR. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: If you look at it this way, you'd say they don't. The cases are rising. They are going to go up before they come down.

But there's great hope that we will get a handle on monkeypox. It requires doctors learning how to recognize it, which is harder than you might think.

Most of them have -- the vast majority have monkeypox. It also requires testing, which is greatly improved. 80,000 per week. That's the capacity in the U.S. And, most importantly, requires a lot of vaccines. That's where we are hurting.

Let's take a look at Minnesotan numbers, then we'll look at the vaccines. 17,000 cases worldwide. Almost 3,000 in the U.S.

In the U.S., 99 percent report male to male sexual conduct. It doesn't need to be intercourse. Prolonged-to-skin contact. Those numbers you see there are probably way, way higher in reality.

Now, let's take a look at vaccinations. So 300,000 doses have been distributed. And 1.5 million people are eligible for the vaccine, and each person needs two doses.

You do the math, and you see we just don't have enough vaccines. That number is getting higher all the time -- Ana?

CABRERA: The head of the CDC says she anticipates more infections in the coming weeks. What would it take for the U.S. to declare a public health emergency for monkeypox? And what would that do?

COHEN: It might not take much. We think of COVID as -- we're in the public health emergency still. COVID was obviously huge. They declared it, for example, H1N1 flu in 2009, a smaller outbreak. Or Zika years ago.

So let's take a listen to what the secretary of Health and Human Services said on CNN earlier today.

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XAVIER BECERRA, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: COVID and until we declared a public health emergency and started to enact the emergency authorities, we could not require states to provide us data. We need the states to help us understand that the scope and depth of the problem.

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COHEN: As Mr. Becerra eluded to, if you declare a public health emergency, states have to turn in certain data. That's been a huge problem. It is hard to fight a growing virus when

you don't have a good handle on data. That will be one of the benefits of declaring a public health emergency -- Ana?

CABRERA: Elizabeth Cohen, we know you'll stay on top of it. Thank you.

COHEN: Thanks.

CABRERA: A warning now to competitive chess players out there. Watch your fingers if you ever play against a certain robot.

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CABRERA: I'm not sure if you could tell there, but this is a 7-year- old boy in Russia who just had his finger broken by moving too quickly against his mechanical opponent.

Bystanders trying to help the boy, trying to get his finger out of the robot's grip. Well, despite the painful injury, which required a cast, the boy did finish the tournament the next day.

Coming up, the story of a woman stabbed by a 100-pound sailfish, and she lived to tell the tale.

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CABRERA: We're back with new developments in the Central Park jogger case. A sixth co-defendant who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge will be exonerated today.

If you remember, this case shocked New York in 1989, when a white woman was raped and beaten and left for dead in Central Park.

Five teenagers were convicted, after giving false confessions elicited by police. They were exonerated in 2002.

Let's get to CNN correspondent, Jean Casarez, now.

Who is the sixth co-defendant? And why is he being exonerated now?

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ana, we all know of the Central Park Five. They had trials, were convicted, exonerated.

But then there was supposed to be a sixth trial and his name was Steven Lopez. He was a defendant. He was charged with the rape of that Central Park jogger but also charged with robbery of another jogger, a man.

And according to the legal documents, on the eve of his trial, in 1990, the district attorney's office at the time said, look, we'll offer you a deal. You plead guilty to the robbery of the male jogger and we will totally dismiss the rape of the female jogger.

Fifteen years old. He said, OK, he signed it, he served between three and four years.

Well, now Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, is saying, number one, his constitutional rights were violated at that time.

Here is what is written in legal documents, that he went to an interrogation room after 20 hours in a cell. His parents were there. He was a minor.

His mother spoke no English at all. His father a little bit of English. There was no interpreter.

They questioned him for two and a half hours. It was not recorded, audio or visual. Then gave him a statement to sign, and he did.

And that was a violation of constitutional rights on many levels.

As far as the plea deal, they said there was a violation of that because they didn't tell him you can never appeal it because you lose all your appellate rights, but that was never told to him.

So now the district attorney is wanting the judgment vacated, the indictment dismissed in its entirety after so many years.

CABRERA: Wow, what a story. That's a story that just -- it's not over, clearly.

Jean Casarez, thank you.

Now to this shocking story. A woman is recovering after being stabbed by a 100-pound sailfish, like the one seen here.

The 73-year-old woman was on a boat with two other people a few miles off the coast of Florida when a sailfish began to charge at the boat.

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The fish jumped out of the water, stabbed the woman in the groin area. She was airlifted to the hospital.

Thankfully, we're told she is now in good condition.

Take a look at this incredible video.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE)

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CABRERA: This is off the coast of Plymouth, Massachusetts, where you can see a whale breach right on to the bow of this 19-foot boat. Thankfully, no one was injured here. The boat only had minor damage.

Officials are using this to remind people interactions with whales can be dangerous and to keep a distance of at least 100 yards from any visible whales at all times. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York.

The news continues with Alisyn and Victor right after this.

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