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[08:31:51] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We are waiting on the labor department to release the May jobs report. We're waiting on it right now. We have Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans. You have the number. I have given you the opportunity. What do you have?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: It's a really light number, very low number. 38,000. They're telling me, 38,000 net new jobs and that's a disappointment. We had expected something more like a 140,000, 150,000, 160,000, 159,000 was the estimate there. So, 38,000 new jobs is a very, very small number.

Here's what I can tell you. I can tell you the unemployment rate is 4.7 percent, so it came down pretty sharply here.

But why that jobs number? Why that jobs number so weak? Thirty-six thousand Verizon workers were striking for six weeks. We have seen in the past when there's a big strike like that, it can lower the number artificially and then it pops back up.

So the important thing here is to think about the trend. The trend in the jobs numbers and what we've seen. So far, it's been about 215,000 net new jobs every month for the past year. This is a set back, only38,000 new jobs. But a decline in the jobless rate, that means there are enough people coming into the labor market to lower the jobless rate. And you probably see that Verizon strike really distorting the numbers.

No matter what on the campaign trail, you're going to hear people arguing about little nuances in these numbers and what they mean? I'd say, take the long view, 14.6 million jobs added by businesses over the past 74 months.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Great to get your context as always Christine. Thanks so much for that breaking news.

All right. Could the parents of the boy who fell into that gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo be charged? That decision is coming down possibly as early as today and what can we do to make sure this never happens again?

Also, on Sunday's Parts Unknown at 9:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN, Anthony Bourdain heads to Germany to the city of Cologne. He gets a lesson on how to drink beer and eat schnitzel like a local.

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ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CNN HOST: This is what I came here for though, surfboard sized slabs of veal and pork filled with many wonderful things, dredged in bread crumbs and fried in magical, magical beep fat.

Now that's a carnival I can get behind.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wow.

BOURDAIN: That is unbelievable.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Supposedly, you can split your schnitzel in half, take the other half home, and it's really good for breakfast. It's like the German equivalent of pizza in the morning.

BOURDAIN: Right. Which is a tradition I totally support.

Considering it's a beer drinking culture, at the end of the night, will there be two or three or five or 10 people all hanging out like way past the point that they should have gone home. Or does everybody reach a sensible point of intoxication and say, well, you know, what, I'll see you tomorrow?

You're forcing beers on us. I didn't order a beer, yet another one just keeps coming.

[08:35:01] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you know how to make it stop?

BOURDAIN: Face plant into my schnitzel.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's an easier way. Come here. Do this. That means, like, I'm done.

BOURDAIN: Yeah, but nobody's doing that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not yet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not doing that.

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ALYSIN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We could learn as really as today if prosecutors will charge the parents of that young boy who fell into that gorilla enclosure. This comes as zoo officials in Cincinnati beef up security around that gorilla exhibit.

[08:40:02] CNN's Jessica Schneider is live in Cincinnati for us. Jessica what is the latest there?

JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn the latest is that, Gorilla World will reopen on Tuesday. And when it does, visitors will see a brand new barrier that surrounds the exhibit itself.

Now, if you take a look at the side by side, you can see the difference. On the right is the old rail that was up on Saturday when this incident happened.

Zoo officials say the rail was about three feet high, but unfortunately, there was all that space in between the rail and the ground that that toddler slipped through. So on the left, the new design that visitors will see on Tuesday, zoo officials say it will be 42 inches high, about six inches taller than before, and perhaps crucially, it will have a knotted rope netting that no one can get through.

Now, the zoo stresses that the previous barrier it was secured and it was repeatedly accredited by the association of zoos and aquariums, but zoo officials do say they're putting in this new barrier because obviously, they think and they know that they need to take further precautions.

Now, in addition, right now, we're also waiting for the prosecutor's review of the police investigation. The police investigation wrapped up yesterday. And the prosecutor says that they could have their findings about whether or not to file any criminal charges as soon as today. So we will be on standby on it.

CAMEROTA: Thanks for the update. We know you'll be watching.

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CUOMO: All right. Even with issues like that all over our society, Harambe is now a household name. Why? For good reason? Maybe for bad reason as well.

We have two guys coming on to break it down, and they ain't afraid to tell it like it is.

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[08:46:25] CAMEROTA: It's a story everybody has been talking about this week, death of the gorilla Harambe.

So why is the story resonating the way it is? What is it about animals that causes such outrage, especially when you compare the reaction to stories involving people?

Joining us, two of our favorite CNNers, W. Kamau Bell, host of "United Shades of America" and Morgan Spurlock, host of "Inside Man".

So you guys have both really kind of made a living pulling back the curtain on social issues, cultural issues, controversial issues of our time. What do you make, Morgan, of this obsession with animals and in this case, Harambe the gorilla?

MORGAN SPURLOCK, "INSIDE MAN" HOST: Well I think it's not just animals. I think its animals in captivity.

You know, I did an episode (inaudible) we're filming at the Detroit zoo, where I spend a lot of time with the gorillas and these are creatures that are very similar to us and lot of ways that people love.

I think on the heels of black fish, where you're seeing these animals in captivity where you see a gorilla like this that is, again, something so similar to us, that we do like so much. That people love because it's like, look how sweet they are. And these big crazy animals, but to see one get taken down in this way is tragic.

You understand why the zoo did it and you can -- I still, you know, I support the zoo's decision, but I think it was, it's still tragic nonetheless.

CUOMO: Is it still -- is it really just about the captivity, though, Kamau, because if we did a story about a dog that's lost and the owner needs help getting it back home, the coffers will be full immediately.

You do a story about people who need help ...

W. KAMAU BELL, "UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA" HOST: Yeah.

CUOMO: ... maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't.

BELL: Yeah we as -- the weird thing, we love to personalize animals and depersonalize people.

And so I think even with the zoo, there's a sense of like, oh no, the poor gorilla. The poor -- and we want -- there's a little boy in there. Like I'm ...

CUOMO: Yeah.

BELL: ... always going to choose people over animals.

SPURLOCK: Yes.

BELL: It's a high roll. I eat meat, too.

CUOMO: You don't eat people?

BELL: No I don't eat people. Yeah, I'm always going to choose animals -- people first. That is how I roll. Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, look, I think to be fair, we do see our viewers often reach out to help people as well.

UNIDENTIFED MALE: Sure.

UNIDENTIFED FEMALE: They do send money.

However, just for little context, 500,000 people have signed this online petition to somehow punish the little boy's parents or have there be some sort of repercussions because they feel there's been no justice for Harambe. And then, of course we do all sorts of terror ...

SPURLOCK: That kid is never allowed to go to a zoo ever again.

BELL: Yeah, exactly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's not allowed to leave the house again.

BELL: I think your kid fall into a gorilla cage ...

UNIDENTIFED FEMALE: Yeah.

BELL: ... you've probably been punished enough. I don't know if you need any extra punishment as a parent I fell like -- I get it, don't do that again. Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Right, that's a great point, because just watching the video is so traumatic even for us and we're not the parents. I mean those 10 moments -- 10 minutes of, like, blood curdling fear.

CUOMO Ten minutes. Yeah, I would be freaking out as a parent. And now I had a new baby, it's like the idea of like my small child getting ...

BELL: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

CUOMO: ... sucked into a gorilla pen. But again, it's like I don't still understand how the kid got into the gorilla pen? How did the kid fall in? What were the parents doing when this happened?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So there's that extra curiosity, there's that extra layer of trying to uncover how this happened. (CROSSTALK)

BELL: I mean you got kids, you know, you wake up someday like where did you go? I mean ...

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BELL: It's part of being a parent. And you get like five of those moments and then the sixth one, you're like, oh no, he's in the gorilla pen.

SPURLOCK: And look, there's no question that people can be highly empathetic and they would do the good stuff and it's often about helping those in need.

But there is something about animals that often gets immediately elevated. For example, you hear about a fight and one man hurts another man, nobody really cares.

When someone hits a dog -- I did a story once where this guy got bitten by a dog, he's reaching into a car arguing with someone, and this little dog came up and bit him and he like threw his arm like this, the dog went into traffic and got hit by a car and killed.

They tracked this guy down like he was a serial killer, found him and put him in jail because there was a dog involved. If he had done that with a human, sometimes it's not the same outrage. Why?

[08:50:04] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, no I hear you. There is that crazy paradox ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I kind of wondered ...

SPURLOCK: They'll say because the animals were innocent. That was they'll say to you. Well, this was an innocent gorilla. He didn't do anything. The dog did nothing wrong.

BELL: They get the little boy, well, his dad had a criminal record so he probably deserved to be on the gorilla -- what are you talking about?

SPURLOCK: Yeah.

BELL: It was kind of like ...

SPURLOCK: So that's the logic?

BELL: Yeah forget it (inaudible).

UNIDENTIFED FEMALE: Kamau, let me throw this out too because of some of what you covered in your shows this season on United Shades of Gray, you know, there was a blog ...

BELL: United Shades of America.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: United Shades of America. (CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now people are really tuning in. (Inaudible) right?

BELL: All right, Ana, it's a little window (inaudible).

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So we digress, very much so. It's such a good turn off the tracks.

OK. So, would somebody -- 500,000 people sign the gorilla petition. You look at a situation like Tamir Rice in Cleveland. There's a petition for justice for Tamir Rice. A 120,000 people have signed that one in the past 18 months. Why?

BELL: Well, a lot of that is also -- I mean, people like the Black Lives Matter movement is working for justice for people like Tamir Rice. However, it's easy to sign a petition. It's hard to get the work done.

It's I think there's a thing where an online petition goes around and people all go, oh, yes I will sign that petition and I'm going to sign it again with different e-mail addresses. When it actually it's like, what was that doing exactly?

Whereas like a lot of stuff with Tamir Rice with Black Lives Matter like, you know, you have to go actually out and do the work. You have to actually show up in place. So I feel like -- I feel confident in that, but I do feel like people love to show their support for petitions like, I don't like this group -- I don't like what they did to this gorilla.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah. I get a -- do you have a gorilla ribbon yet? That's what I want.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So Morgan, your new season ...

SPURLOCK: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... premiere is happening ...

SPURLOCK: Tonight, 10:00.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are we going to see?

SPURLOCK: Tonight, we dive into the world of gambling. And so I go to Las Vegas. I'd live as a high roller and show you both the amazing, exciting side and the dark side.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're a wheel -- did you do the full wheel thing?

SPURLOCK: I went full wheel, I was living -- I was in the high roller's suite like it was -- I was fully wheeled up at The Palms in Las Vegas. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And how sweet was it?

SPURLOCK: It was pretty sweet. Then you start to talk to the people who are, you know, very addicted to gambling and you see the lives that it can destroy around the way.

Because what we get sold is this amazing colorful idea of, you're going to go, this is your chance, you're going to hit big. This is going to change your life forever. And that happens to such a small amount of people, but that's what everybody banks on. That's why they go to Vegas.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right, real fast, polar bears in Alaska coming up on your show.

BELL: Oh yeah. Also, and just nice segue, I actually ate whale in Alaska.

SPURLOCK: (Inaudible)

BELL: Yeah, yeah. Exactly, you know, you've been there. So yeah, actually, yes I got to hang out with the Inupiat people and actually and sample some whale and whale blubber.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you can see ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That sounds fascinating.

SPURLOCK: Did they get you on that Eskimo ice cream thing and they like, oh you know, what you call that? Have it here and they give you the whale fat with the horrible berries.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Gross.

CUOMO: I want none of that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You did out of curiosity, didn't?

Tune in tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern for the season premiere of Morgan Spurlock's "Inside Man" and then you can watch W. Kamau Bell's "United Shades of America" this Sunday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN.

CUOMO: All right, about caring about others, how about this story? A man with a knife, a little girl in danger, and a police officer going beyond the call of duty. The story is next.

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[08:57:07] CUOMO: All right, this story is about an Oklahoma City police officer who's quick thinking and heroic actions saved a little girl's life. Just honored with a Medal of Valor given to him by President Obama.

CNN's Ed Lavendera tells us how this hero cop definitely went beyond the call of duty. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

ZOEY KEATING: He is my superhero.

DAVID HUFF, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE OFFICER: Oh, thank you, sweetheart. That is so sweet.

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Why do you say that?

Z. KEATING: Because he saved me. And he saved the day.

HUFF: Wow.

LAVANDERA: David Huff hasn't seen Zoey Keating in three years.

HUFF: Thank you. Thank you so much.

LAVANDERA: The day they met was captured by surveillance cameras in this Oklahoma grocery store. A man named Sammie Wallace had snatched 2-year-old Zoey from her mom's shopping cart.

ALICIA KEATING, ZOEY'S MOTHER: I started screaming, "Somebody please help. This man has my baby".

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is 911. How can I help you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need police here immediately.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's someone with a knife holding a little girl hostage.

LAVANDERA: Within minutes, Midwest City police officers David Huff and Darrell Miller calmly walked in to this frantic scene.

HUFF: He was in this manic state where he was basically just blurting out statements.

LAVANDERA: Huff and Miller were trained hostage negotiators. The next 34 minutes and saving Zoey would be the ultimate test.

HUFF: I said, Sammie, look, I was like, she's not scared of you. She's not even crying.

LAVANDERA: Then Wallace threatens to kill Zoey and starts counting down from 60.

HUFF: The only way I know that Zoey's not going to be in danger when the shot's fired is if the barrel of my gun is touching his head.

He got down to five, and I took -- I ended up taking one large step and had to do it.

Wallace collapses. But watch Huff's reaction.

HUFF: I was angry that he made me do it. And at that point, I thought that Zoey had already been cut or stabbed and that I waited too long. They finally came around and said, she don't have a scratch on her. And that was the best part.

Z. KEATING: My superhero.

HUFF: You were the sweetest thing. You're going to ...

LAVANDERA: David Huff is proof, not every superhero wears a cape. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Oklahoma City.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God. What a story, and to have the video and to watch how they -- how calmly they had to do that that terrible outcome. Oh, my God.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I didn't brace for his reaction.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right, great for the little girl, but just horrible to watch.

CUOMO: Most men and women deal with the best and worst of humanity on a regular basis. You know, he had to do this, which is should be the last thing in the world anybody ever wants to have done it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And you could see his reaction.

CUOMO: And then he gets to also to be with this little girl who would never been there if it wasn't for him.

[09:00:10] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my gosh. All right, thanks so much for joining us. Have a great weekend.