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Dramatic 911 Calls Released in Gorilla's Death; Concerns About Polluted Water at Rio Olympics; NBA Finals Tonight: Warriors Versus Cavs Game 1 at 9PM ET; CDC Director on Zika Cases in the U.S. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired June 02, 2016 - 06:30 ET
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[06:33:08] ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to your NEW DAY.
This morning, we are hearing the dramatic 911 calls released moments after a 3-year-old boy fell into this gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo. Now, one of the recordings really paints the horrifying picture as the mother helplessly watched the 450-pound animal take hold of her son and drag him through the water.
CNN's Jessica Schneider is live in Cincinnati for us.
Jessica, these calls definitely paint a clear picture about what happened.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They do, Ana.
A flurry of 911 calls came through on Saturday. The most chilling from the mother of that 3-year-old boy as she told dispatchers she could barely stand to watch that uncertain scene unfolding.
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MOTHER: Hi. My son fell in the zoo exhibit at the gorillas. The Cincinnati Zoo, my son fell in with the gorilla. There's a male gorilla standing over him. I need someone to contact the zoo, please.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The mother of this 3-year-old calling 911 amid helpless horror and attempting to console her son from afar.
MOTHER: OK -- be calm! Be calm! Be calm!
DISPATCHER: How old --
MOTHER: Be calm. He's grabbing my son.
I can't watch this. I can't -- I cant', OK, I can't watch.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my God!
SCHNEIDER: Six 911 calls from the scene depicted desperation of everyone standing above the gorilla moat. Bystanders watching powerless for ten tense minutes. CALLER: The baby is still in the water and the gorilla had it, but it
had -- it slammed it against the wall earlier.
DISPATCHER: OK, can you -- is any of the zookeepers next to you right now?
CALLER: Oh, God. Oh God. He's got his pants. He's taking the baby.
DISPATCHER: OK, ma'am, listen to me. .
CALLER: He's taking the baby. He's taking the baby into the cave. Oh, my God.
SCHNEIDER: This caller describing something we can't see on video. Harambe taking the toddler even farther into his habitat, possibly part of the danger prompting the dangerous animal response team's decision to shoot and kill Harambe.
[06:35:07] One eyewitness explaining exclusively to CNN what she saw.
EYEWITNESS: It was a child who cannot endure him running across the rocks and grabbing him by one foot. It was absolutely horrific. And no mother should ever have to watch that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my God!
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SCHNEIDER: And the Cincinnati Police Department investigation continues this morning. It will all be reviewed by the county prosecutor's office. The focus of this investigation, what exactly were the parents of that 3-year-old boy doing in the minutes just before he came face to face with Harambe? Alisyn?
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, there are still those questions that people are really anxious to figure out.
Jessica, thanks so much for that.
Also, more trouble for Brazil. Two months out from the Rio Olympics, there is a new problem. Not Zika. We'll tell you what it is, next.
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CAMEROTA: Growing concerns about Rio just nine weeks before the start of the Olympics. Several Olympic teams voicing fears about the water and the health effects from raw sewage and pollution.
[06:40:04] CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Athletes training for peak performance. Members of the German Olympic sailing team preparing for what will be the first Olympic competition in this class of sailboat.
On the surface, the view of the coast of the Olympic host city, pretty spectacular, but the sailors are trying hard to stay out of the water.
VICTORIA JURCZOK, GERMAN OLYMPIC SAILOR: We don't want to swim in it.
WATSON: They say the bay here is terribly polluted.
(on camera): You hit garbage out here?
JURCZOK: Yes.
WATSON: What kind of garbage?
ANIKA LORENZ, GERMAN OLYMPIC SAILOR: A lot of plastic bags, but I've also hit a chair or some wood.
WATSON: Furniture?
LORENZ: Yes.
WATSON (voice-over): This is the kind of stuff they're talking about.
(on camera): Look at this trail of garbage. Flip flops, tennis shoes, blocks of wood on the surface of Guanabara Bay, very close to where the sailors and athletes are training.
(voice-over): Rio has been struggling with its notoriously polluted waters for decades. We caught up with the city's mayor at the opening of a brand new sewage treatment plant. It's aimed at providing modern services to hundreds of thousands of residents of Rio for the very first time.
(on camera): Do you think the water is going to be safe for the Olympic athletes?
EDUARDO PAES, MAYOR OF RIO DE JANEIRO: Yes, I mean, we had -- first thing because where in the Guanabara Bay, the sailing is going to happen, it's the cleanest area of Guanabara Bay, the entrance of Guanabara Bay.
WATSON (voice-over): But people who make a living in Rio's waters disagree with the mayor. We don't get far and fisherman Felipe Fernandez's boat before his motor stalls. The propeller tangled in a plastic bag.
Travel a little further and we find this.
(on camera): It smells awful and not just like mud at low tide, but something far more toxic and the fishermen we're with says this is basically raw sewage that has washed down out of the city.
(voice-over): The untreated waste of millions of Rio's residents who do not have modern sanitation. It all drains into canals like this where local fishermen moor their boats.
(on camera): How's the fishing?
(voice-over): "We don't fish here," he says.
"Look at Rio now," he tells me. "We will host the Olympics, but we don't even have a basic sewage system."
The pollution here, one of the sad realities facing residents and now athletes as these upcoming Olympics. But these German sailors say they're willing to risk these dirty waters for their shot at Olympic glory.
Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Ivan Watson, thank you for that piece. You now understand a situation that before was just mystery.
All right. So coming up, championship rematch, the Warriors and the Cavs. The man on your left, the young upstart star, the man on your right, the physical phenom. It could be the highest rated NBA Final ever. What to watch for?
The bleacher report is next.
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[06:47:23] CUOMO: What will happen the second time? The Cavs face the Warriors in the NBA Finals again. They're trying to bring that elusive championship home to Cleveland.
Let's get to Coy Wire. He's got more in this morning's bleacher report. How do you see it, my man?
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: I think I'm going to pull for those Cavs even though the Warriors are 2-1 favorites, Chris. The defending champs all time are just 6 and 7 when two teams face in the consecutive years in the finals. So, could this be the year for Cleveland?
They haven't won a pro-sports championship there in 52 years. So, they're hungry. They fell just shy last year. Remember, LeBron didn't have Kevin Love, didn't have Kyrie Irving. Both were out with injuries. This year, they're full throttle.
But so are the Warriors. They set that all-time regular season wins record but what would it matter if they were to be defeated in the finals by the Cavs? After all, guys, the ring is the thing.
Let's check out tale of the tape. Two best players going toe to toe. LeBron's sixth straight final appearance. He's won two. Curry has one. Curry's won the last two league MVPs, but LeBron has four.
Combined, guys, they make $60 million a year in endorsements. This is going to be a hot one. NHL Stanley Cup final, Penguins/Sharks. Game two overtime. Sidney
Crosby wins the face off, slanged it to (INAUDIBLE), Sheary with the plank. Oh, that's game. That's right.
Twenty-three-year-old rookie Connor Sheary brought up from the team's AHL affiliate midway through the season, now two goals and two Stanley Cup Final games. Game two hero, too.
Penguins take the 2-0 series lead. Game three, Saturday in San Jose.
All right. This just in, folks, 7'1", 340-pound NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is on the loose. He's posing as a driver and preying on unsuspected Lyft customers. He's got a plethora of costumes and aliases. He's coming for you.
Here's the video.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can't get out of the car.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, NBA LEGEND: Are you not entertained? Do you not recognize what I have done as Laker?
Rolling on Lyft on my roster. We don't eat pasta. We're watching our cars --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's terrible.
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WIRE: The whole video is a must-see. We tweeted it out, guys. I don't know how Shaq fits in a car and it's hilarious. Good stuff.
CABRERA: Do his passengers know it's Shaq that they're riding with?
WIRE: There are a couple who genuinely had no clue. I don't know how. But it is funny, must-see stuff, guys.
CUOMO: I like him with the dreads.
CAMEROTA: I like him with all of that.
CUOMO: I like him with the big fro, too.
CAMEROTA: I do, too. That's fantastic.
The carpool karaoke works for everybody.
[06:50:01] That is a funny shtick, regardless of who does it. It's so good.
WIRE: Yes, Pierre from France says oh la la --
CUOMO: Look how scared she looks.
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CUOMO: I don't know, the hands down like that. They don't even know what they're looking at.
CABRERA: Some Friday eve laughs for you this morning. Thank you, Coy.
All right. A serious issue we're going to talk about next, the threat of Zika, growing here in the U.S. How concerned should you be and the head of the CDC is going to join us with what you need to know, next.
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CABRERA: If you think the Zika virus is only a threat in other parts of the world, think again. A baby girl was just born in New Jersey with Zika-related birth defects and now there's evidence that mosquitoes in the southern U.S. are active and ready to go to spread this disease.
Joining us now, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director for the Centers for Disease Control, who has brand new numbers to share with us regarding the spread of Zika this morning.
Dr. Frieden, thanks so much for joining us.
Let's be clear. There are still no cases that we know of, of the transmission of Zika from mosquitoes here in the U.S., but we do know there's a growing number of people who have the virus after traveling elsewhere. What are your latest figures?
DR. THOMAS FRIEDEN, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL: For the U.S., first off, as you say, we have not yet seen in the Continental U.S., the mainland, any spread of Zika, but we've begun to see spread of other viruses that are spread by the same mosquito, the first case of dengue in Florida.
[06:55:03] This shows that mosquito season is here, summer is heating up and so is Zika. We now have more than 1,000 cases of Zika in Puerto Rico that are confirmed and reported. We've seen cases throughout the U.S. we have 341 pregnant women who have evidence of Zika infection in the U.S. including Puerto Rico. So, this is a serious problem.
There are some things you can do to protect yourself. Most importantly, if you're pregnant, please don't travel to a place where Zika is spreading.
CABRERA: I want to ask you about the case of the baby born with microcephaly, a birth defect, smaller heads, smaller brain, neurological problems. What do you know about that particular case?
FRIEDEN: We don't comment on individual cases, but what we see with Zika is a range of problems with the infant. From very severe problems to milder problems and we still don't know for infants born with a normal sized head if they'll have other brain development problems and we may not know that for months or years.
That's why the plain truth here is that we have to protect pregnant women. That means if you're pregnant, don't travel to a place that has Zika. If your partner is pregnant and you have traveled, use a condom. And for places where Zika is spreading, do everything possible to control mosquitoes and reduce the risk to pregnant women.
CABRERA: Quickly, when it comes to pregnant women, if you are infected with Zika while pregnant, are you guaranteed to have a baby with these types of problems?
FRIEDEN: Many women have given birth to babies who appear to be normal. We may not know for months or even years whether those baby has other problems, but it does appear that the highest risk is in the late first or early second trimester. But there's still a lot we're learning about Zika. Every day, we're learning more so we can protect women more effectively.
CABRERA: Just last week, you were saying here in the U.S., we are likely to see hundreds of thousands of cases of Zika within a year. Are we ready for it?
FRIEDEN: Well, the major risk within the United States is in Puerto Rico, where they have a real challenge and we need to do everything we can to support them because they have had many, many infections that are similarly spread within the continental U.S. or mainland, we're primarily going to see travelers, as we're seeing now coming back with Zika, because there are tens of millions of people who go to places where Zika is spreading.
And there are some places in the southern U.S. and Florida and Texas and elsewhere where we've seen single cases, that's been the most common pattern with similarly spread viruses or in three different communities we have seen clusters of Zika infections -- of other infections that are spread like Zika, so that's what we might see with Zika.
CABRERA: The money to provide resources to combat this disease is being held up right now in Congress, more Washington gridlock. We know the president has asked for nearly $2 billion in money to help toward Zika efforts. Right now the Senate is considering $1.1 billion. The House has their own bill, that some $622 million.
How much money is really needed and what can't be done without the money?
FRIEDEN: It's so important that we begin the long-term work now to protect pregnant women better, to better understand what Zika does in pregnancy. To come up with better ways to diagnose the infection, and ultimately to come up with a vaccine to protect women from this infection and reduce the risk of microcephaly from Zika.
In the end, Congress did the right thing with Ebola and I'm hopeful that in the end, they'll do the right thing with Zika. But the sooner we get started on these long-term projects, the sooner we can protect women better.
CABRERA: Dr. Thomas Frieden with the CDC, our thanks to you this morning. We appreciate it.
FRIEDEN: Thank you.
CABRERA: We're following a lot of news this morning. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump not pulling any punches. Let's get to it.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Do you really believe that Hillary is presidential?
I look extremely presidential.
HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump is a fraud.
TRUMP: Hillary Clinton lies. I mean, she lies.
CLINTON: We see someone who is unfit to be president.
TRUMP: Crooked Hillary. She doesn't know what the hell she's doing.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We can't put up walls around America. We're not going to round up 11 million people.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's kind of scary. I've never experienced anything like this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's awful.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It has not stopped rising at all. It's coming up so fast.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where are we going to do? What are we going to do?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's grabbing my son. I can't watch this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The child's life was in tremendous jeopardy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The gorilla is the true victim here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's 400-pound gorilla and 40-pounnd kid. My heart sunk when we heard that gunshot.
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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.
CUOMO: Good morning. Welcome back to your NEW DAY.
Ana Cabrera, good to have you here as always. If you thought the attacks between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
could not get uglier, you were wrong, my friend. Trump taking off the gloves after undergoing a day of intense scrutiny himself. He's slamming Clinton's foreign policy record insisting she has, quote, "no actual talent".
CAMEROTA: OK, Clinton firing back, accusing Trump of being a fraud for ripping off students in his now defunct Trump University.
