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Nine Dead Including Two Children In South Dakota Plane Crash; More Than 50 Million People Under Winter Weather Alerts; Two Of Three Missing Children In Arizona Floodwaters Found Dead; Trump Faces Two Big Deadlines For Impeachment Proceedings; Hunt For Dangerous Teens Underway After Detention Center Escape; London Terror Attack Victim Identified As 25-Year-Old Jack Merritt; Biden Kicks Off Eight-Day "No Malarkey" Bus Tour; Senator Elizabeth Warren Gets Endorsement From Rep. Jan Schakowsky; Prince Andrew Accuser To Give Her First U.K. Interview; Police Uncover Plot To Start New Nazi Party In Italy. Aired 6-7a ET
Aired December 01, 2019 - 06:00 ET
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The plane crash in South Dakota has left nine people dead including the pilot and two children. It happened near the city of Chamberlain during a heavy snow fall. Three people survived the crash.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A very powerful storm is bringing heavy rain and snow and threatening travel from coast-to-coast.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now we're talking about 50 million people impacted by winter weather advisories and alerts.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Video shows bystanders using a fire extinguisher and a narwhale tusk to bring down the London Bridge knife attacker before he was killed by police.
Usman Khan was a convicted terrorist on parole who stabbed five people on Friday. Two of them fatally.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Twenty-five year old Jack Merritt, one of the two people murdered on Friday. The second person killed in the attack has not yet been named.
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CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: Well, good morning. We are so grateful to have you with us here. I'm Christi Paul.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell.
PAUL: Breaking overnight, nine people are dead after a plane went down in Chamberlain, South Dakota. Miraculously three other passengers survived this crash. We're still waiting on news though of their condition this morning.
SAVIDGE: The single engine aircraft crashed in blizzard-like conditions soon after it took off. It was en route to Idaho falls. The area was being pummeled by a snowstorm at the time of the crash. Visibility under less than a mile. Snow falling at about an inch an hour according to National Weather Service.
PAUL: Now Brule County state's attorney says there is -- Maule Rossow says two children and the pilot are among the victims. She also by the way praised first responders there thanked their efforts which was heroic as she calls this extreme weather conditions which is what really complicated the matter. We're going to update you more with that story as we get more details, of course.
SAVIDGE: That storm, of course, is creating havoc in South Dakota. It's part of a same or the same system that's (INAUDIBLE) and headed to the northeast right now. More than 50 million people are said to be under alerts. It has already brought heavy snow along the west and into the northern plains and Midwest. And as people continue heading home from the holiday, keeping clear the roads open is a struggle, it seems like this including cars getting stuck or sliding into ditches.
PAUL: CNN Meteorologist, Allison Chinchar tracking all of it for us here. So where is it now and what is the worst of it that people need to be aware of for today?
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. So the worst of it right now is really kind of hovered around the Great Lakes' region as it transition from the Midwest over into the northeast. The thing is it's not a very fast moving system so a lot of these same areas that got some snow yesterday in the Midwest are still getting it now, then you're going to slowly start to see the snow begin to push into some other regions.
Here is a look at what we are dealing with right now. You've got very heavy rain on the southern edge of this storm. Very heavy snow across portions of the Midwest. But look at these pink and the purple colors here. That is going to be an area of concern because that is the mixed precipitation. We've got a little bit of snow, a little bit of ice, sleet, even some regular rain all mixed in and that makes for very dangerous driving and even flying conditions as well.
You've got a little bit of that mix right here across portions of Michigan. But even farther to the east, states like New York and Pennsylvania also looking at a good glaze of ice coming down right now. This is not good for driving, not good for flying and that same system is the one that's going to transition into the northeast as we make our way in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Look at how far south some of that snow even extends down into the southern Appalachian Mountains. That is how cold it's going to get after this system continues to slide through. So even overnight tonight and overnight Monday night you're still going to have a lot of these same areas picking up some snow.
The heaviest snow is going to be mainly focused across portions of the northeast going forward. Widespread amounts of about six to eight inches. Some spots could pick up over a foot of snow before this system finally ends.
This is not the news you want to hear if you are planning to travel today. Whether it's by road or especially if it's by air. Delays likely. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, big delays possible for Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and D.C. And one of the thing to notice, Martin and Christi, even out west as that next system comes in, also likely some delays in the west coast cities as well.
SAVIDGE: Allison Chinchar, no relief in sight for people who have got to travel today. Thank you.
PAUL: Yes. And since we're talking about travel let's go to CNN's Natasha Chen at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It is one of the busiest airports in the world regularly, but look at this. It's 6:00 in the morning and it looks like it is already pretty packed there, Natasha.
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NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Christi and Martin. A lot of people coming through, but the lines are moving and that is what their intention is to make sure people are not stuck in those long lines.
Right now we're seeing the signs behind them still say that the waits at all of these checkpoints are about 15 minutes and that there are lines on both sides of the escalator we are looking at so that's why it comes in waves. You might see some empty space here and then a moment later it will be packed full of people like we saw just about 20 minutes ago.
As Allison was saying, there are some delays across the country. We are seeing on the boards here just a couple of delays going to the west coast, the San Francisco area airports seeing a couple of hour delays. But other than that, looking pretty good right now.
We did talk to some travelers who are going to the Boston and New York areas where we are going to see that snow hit. They are unperturbed at the moment. They say that this is how they booked their flights initially, they had planned to get out early and they are used to the winter weather. They hope that it doesn't actually slow them down.
We're going to see how that goes as the day continues and, of course, we are also seeing even the TSA pre-check lines and the clear lines also longer than usual. You can see in the distance there, a lot of twists and turns to the general checkpoints.
So, this is definitely an expected busy day. The airport is prepared with a lot of staff. The airlines also have a lot of staff. Delta and American Airlines have also issued travel waivers especially for people travelling to and from the northeast and those Midwest regions where those storms are hitting. Christi and Martin, back to you.
PAUL: All right. Natasha Chen, thank you so much for the update. Good luck out there.
SAVIDGE: Meanwhile, a gruesome discovery in Arizona after two of three children have been found dead. The kids went missing after floodwaters swept up their car while it was crossing a creek on Friday. Four children and one adult managed to get out of that car. They were stranded on an island in a creek. They were rescued by a helicopter. Flood warning was in effect for that area at the time. Authorities continue to search for the third child.
Today is the deadline for the White House to decide if it's going to participate in the House judiciary impeachment hearing that is set on Wednesday. Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler invited the White House to send attorneys to the hearing but there is no indication they will.
PAUL: For weeks, remember, President Trump has complained that he has been excluded from the proceedings and that the process is unfair. He calls it a hoax.
CNN's Kristen Holmes is in West Palm Beach, Florida this morning. The president saying, Kristen, I know that he says he can't participate in the hearings because he is go to the NATO summit in London. But his -- he's thinking about his attorneys could certainly be there. So, is there any indication they will be?
KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Christi. Well, you're absolutely right. His attorneys could be there. And as of now, we are hearing from sources at the White House who say that it's unlikely that these attorneys are going to show up, that they are going to participate in the proceedings at all.
And I want to note here. There are two separate deadlines. You have the one today that you mentioned. This is just about that Wednesday hearing.
That hearing is essentially four legal scholars. We do not know who they are going to be who are setting up the historical context of impeachment looking at other presidential impeachments. So, it's not that strange that a White House counsel might not participate in that one.
But then there is this second deadline. That is next Friday. And that is for all of the impeachment proceedings as a whole, that is the deadline for the White House to decide whether or not they are going to be participants in this impeachment hearing. And, of course, those hearings are not, while the president is still at NATO.
And I want to point out, though, President Trump is only focused on this one hearing that is while he's at NATO. He was tweeting late last night.
He said, "I will be representing our country in London at NATO, while the Democrats are holding the most ridiculous impeachment hearings in history. Read the transcripts. Nothing was done or said wrong. The radical left is undercutting our country. Hearings scheduled on the same dates as NATO!" So, again, there are more hearings. We know that the House is trying to get this done by Christmas, this final vote on these articles of impeachment should the Judiciary Committee decide to draft them. So, again, he will be at NATO that entire time. But whether or not the president wants this to move forward, it is going to move forward.
We learned last night that the intel committee that report that they were crafting to send over to the Judiciary Committee is finished. That will be ready for review by members tomorrow night and then the committee will meet on Tuesday to approve that final report. Remember this is the panel's findings in all the president's relations with Ukraine and it will serve as the basis of those articles of impeachment.
SAVIDGE: Kristen, you already mentioned the four academic scholars that will testify on Wednesday but Republican Congressman Doug Collins wants an extra witness to be called. Who does he want and will it be allowed?
HOLMES: Well, essentially right now, Republican Doug Collins wants more witnesses that are chosen by the minority, that are chosen by Republicans.
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So, when you look at this as a whole, you see legal scholars on one side or the other of this impeachment issue and if the majority is calling all of the witnesses, you're likely going to see them as pro impeachment. They are the ones who are going to break down why exactly this qualifies for impeachment proceedings for the Judiciary Committee to draft these articles of impeachment.
However, look at the minority. There are a lot of these legal scholars on the other side of the aisle who have written op-ed over op-ed and if I wanted our viewers to want to kind of see where the Republicans will go with this they should read David Rivkin. He is a con law right leaning -- writer here who does done several op-eds on the impeachment and sources tell me that he is actually advising a lot of these House members and senators on how to craft their own messages.
So this is the kind of person -- obviously we do not know who it would have been -- but the kind of person that they would want, somebody who supports that this is not right for impeachment.
SAVIDGE: Right messaging going on there. Kristen Holmes, thanks very much. Appreciate it.
PAUL: CNN's Errol Louis, CNN political commentator and host of the podcast "You Decide" with us now. Good morning to you, Errol.
ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Good morning, Christi.
PAUL: So, we were just talking about today's first deadline for the president to announce whether he's going to have attorneys or himself present talking to witnesses and whether he'll be involved in the hearings there at the judiciary committee.
There are two important headlines here that we need to point out as Kristen did. First of all, the president has repeatedly complained that he has not been part of the process. He has not been allowed nor his attorneys -- had his attorneys been allowed to be, but now he is also laying this groundwork that, one, he is going to be at NATO so he can't be here for part of it but he's framing it as, we don't want to legitimatize this scam, as he has called it. This hoax as he has called it. After all of the grumbling, after all of the complaining that he wants this to go forward, that he wants to have his say. Can he decline being involved in this and claim that he did nothing wrong?
LOUIS: Well, that apparently is his defense. Now if he were falling back to a different kind of a defense, Christi, saying, for example, yes, this is wrong, I'll never do it again, or I understand it was questionable behavior putting pressure on Ukraine and on the Ukrainian president, you might get one kind of an argument. But the president is insisting on saying, he did nothing wrong, just as we heard from Kristen, right? Where he is saying everything was fine, look at the transcript.
Well, people look at the transcript and everything is not fine. Not only are there impeachment proceedings going on but the poll suggests that a majority of the country thinks that he should be -- not only questioned but possibly removed from office. So, if he is going to take that attitude, I'm not surprised that he would decline to have somebody participate in the hearings. You certainly don't want to come in there with that kind of an attitude everything is fine, nothing was done wrong. I think that person would run into a buzz saw in the Judiciary Committee.
PAUL: Interesting article in "The Washington Post" this morning, Errol, comparing the president and what he is saying now to maybe something in the playbook of President Bill Clinton back in 1998. They said, "Then President Clinton survived his 1998 impeachment in part because the economy was roaring and because he appeared to many voters to be relentlessly focused on doing the business of the American people."
We saw that in the president's tweet. He said he is working very hard. He has gone to rallies and said I'm so busy, I'm working so hard for the American people. Will that argument work with the public?
LOUIS: It might. It would have to be adjusted just a little bit. Because what we see the president doing other than things like this NATO commemoration he is going to be attending he has done very little in the way of actual government work that we can see that is high profile. He has gone to a lot of political rallies and lash out at his critics. That is not what Bill Clinton did in 1998 impeachment.
I mean, what he did was focus on things that would actually affect people -- cheerleading from the sidelines about how well the stock market is doing doesn't really count. Ceremonial events overseas are more in the right direction but if President Trump wants people to see that he is doing the people's business he's going to have to get out there and do the people's business.
It's extremely hard to do so without any major legislation. Congress is in no mood to cooperate to say the very least. But if he continues to try and find something I think he might find his back into that Bill Clinton lane where people will say, well, look, let's get on with the business of the country while this impeachment is going on.
PAUL: All right. Errol Louis, always good to get your perspective, sir. Thanks for getting up early for us.
LOUIS: Thank you, Christi.
PAUL: Sure.
SAVIDGE: An outpouring of grief for one of the two people killed in that London terror attack. Coming up, what we are learning about the man who friends say was committed to social justice.
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PAUL: Also presidential hopeful Joe Biden spending the next week riding a bus through Iowa. Why he is calling it the "no malarkey" tour.
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PAUL: Breaking overnight there is a search going on right now for four teenagers who are considered to be dangerous. They escaped from a juvenile detention center in downtown Nashville. Please take a look at your screen. Those are the four that they're looking for right now.
SAVIDGE: The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department says the two of the teenagers are accused of murdering and the others have histories of armed robbery and gun arrests.
PAUL: Friends and family have identified the first of two people killed in Friday's terror attack on a London bridge.
SAVIDGE: Twenty-five year old Jack Merritt was attending an event where Usman Khan began his attack. The second victim, a woman, has not been identified and three people were injured in that attack.
CNN's Mark Bolton joins us now from London. Mark, what more can you tell us about the first victim?
MARK BOLTON, CNN REPORTER: Jack Merritt was British born 25-year-old man. He was born in Cambridge, studied law at Manchester University then returned to his home city to attend Cambridge University. He was course coordinator on a prison rehabilitation course, an event that was taking place at Fishmongers' Hall in the north side of London Bridge on Friday when the attack and the death of two people took place.
It started at Fishmongers' Hall and spilled out on to London Bridge as you see in those incredible scenes. His father, David, has spoken of him today saying he was a beautiful spirit, who always took the side of the underdog.
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Indeed friends talked of that saying he had a wonderful soul. There were prisoners at the rehabilitation conference who viewed him as a friend. One of them said he kept faith in me when society had abandoned me.
The other person killed, a woman, has yet to be named. Three other victims are in hospital receiving treatment. We believe they are all in stable condition. Now the assailant was a 28-year-old man called Usman Khan who hailed from Staffordshire in the midlands in England. He's known to the authorities and was tagged electronically at the time of the attack.
He was convicted of a foiled terrorist plot back in 2012, given a long sentence which was cut on appeal to 16 years. He only served half of that before being released. But he was known to authorities as far back as 2008 when one of his premises in Stoke was raided and computer files were seized. Here is what he had to say after that event.
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USMAN KHAN, SPEAKING IN 2008: I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge and all of the community knows me and ask they will know, if you ask them, they will know like these labels what they're putting on us, like terrorist, this, that, they will know I ain't no terrorist.
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BOLTON: Police believe this is still the act of a lone criminal Usman Khan. There is no evidence to suggest there is a conspiracy and other involved.
Of course, the general election is looming here. It takes place in less than two weeks in Britain so this has become a highly charged political event already.
The prime minister this morning, Boris Johnson, has said he will end the automatic release scheme which allowed Khan to be released just halfway into his 16-year sentence. The leader of the opposition said he wouldn't pledge to do that. He said he believed that individuals should be assessed solely on their own merit before release comes.
A highly contentious situation. The British terrorism threat level isn't where it's expected to be raised even though it was only lowered a month ago. Of course it's the NATO summit of leaders here this week in the U.K. capital so expect to see plenty more police on the ground.
PAUL: Very good point. All right. Mark Bolton, we appreciated the update. Thank you.
BOLTON: Pleasure.
SAVIDGE: (INAUDIBLE) the lawyer who represented Khan in the terror cases that he is completely shocked by what Khan did. He says that Khan had matured in prison and no longer seemed aligned with a radical ideology.
PAUL: CNN obtained a letter written by Khan in 2012 requesting access to a program specialized in deradicalization of terror suspects. The lawyer says circumstances within the prison prevented Khan from ever meeting with anyone from that program.
SAVIDGE: Joe Biden has some somber words for voters in Iowa saying, we have to restore the soul of American. What else he is saying on the "no malarkey" bus tour. That is next.
PAUL: And Britain's Prince Andrew he has been dealing with a lot of fallout of his disastrous TV interview. Now, his accuser is responding. What she has to say about his denial.
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You have to restore the soul and there is no place where the soul resides more clearly than a rural and suburban and rural America.
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PAUL: Twenty-six minutes past the hour right now. Day two of Joe Biden's eight-day "no malarkey" bus tour through Iowa.
SAVIDGE: If you're keeping track at home. CNN Arlette Saenz was there as the bus rolled out with the presidential hopeful on board.
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ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Joe Biden kicked off what he is calling his "no malarkey" bus tour. It's going to take him across the state of Iowa over eight days to 18 counties as he tries to meet one-on-one with voters. Now, Joe Biden, right now, is leading nationally. He is the front-runner in most polls but here in Iowa it's a little bit of a more mixed race.
Pete Buttigieg recently was shown as the leader here in the state with Joe Biden battling it out for second between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. And I caught up with Biden in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and asked him about what this bus tour means. Take a listen to what he had to say.
Is this bus tour going to turn things around for your campaign here in Iowa?
BIDEN: I think our campaign is going fine, and I think it's going to be help. We're going through the rural states. We've got to earn their votes. We've got to show up. That's what I'm doing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Vice President, can you win the nomination without winning in Iowa?
BIDEN: Yes, but I'm going to win Iowa.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are you telling voters about why you want to be president?
BIDEN: You got another hour?
SAENZ: Now one main focus of this trip is trying to put Biden in front of as many voters as possible. His campaign sees his ability to connect with people as one of his key strengths heading into the Iowa caucuses. Now as for why the bus tour is called the "no malarkey" bus tour, Biden says that it's because the other guy, referring to President Trump, is all lies.
Arlette Saenz, CNN Denison, Iowa.
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SAVIDGE: Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren picked up an endorsement from a fellow Democrat yesterday while she was campaigning on Chicago's north side.
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REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL): I'll be honest with you. I will, at the end of the day, if it's necessary, support whatever Democrat is nominated to be president, but -- but I will. We have to do it.
So the magic of this next sentence. The woman I believe will be not only the best president, but the woman I believe is the most likely to lead us to victory in 2020, my candidate, Elizabeth Warren!
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PAUL: Now at the rally, Warren talked about the economic struggles facing middle class Americans. She said working a full-time minimum wage job in America will not keep a mother and her child out of poverty.
SAVIDGE: The senator also defended her proposal to make tuition free at colleges and universities.
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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: For me, a big part of this what fight is about is to say that the billionaires, the millionaires, have got to pitch in a little more so that every kid in this country has an opportunity for great education.
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And, look, if there are people running for president, do you think it's more important to protect the two cents of the millionaires and billionaires? I'm ready to have that fight.
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PAUL: Yes. Some of Warren's fellow candidates disagree with her education plan. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, for instance, was questioned the need to provide free college for everyone rather he suggests making higher education more affordable.
SAVIDGE: Britain's Prince Andrew, he's been dealing with the fallout from what you may remember that disastrous interview he had with BBC and his relationship that he had with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, his accuser is responding. We'll tell you what she has to say.
PAUL: Also, 19 people are under investigation in Italy this morning after being suspected of wanting to start a new Nazi party. More details on that ahead.
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PAUL: Well, 34 minutes past the hour right now.
And in Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters are thanking the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed a bill into law supporting helping their movement.
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Hundreds of demonstrators are expressing their gratitude by marching to the U.S. consulate. Many waved American flags, others held signs supporting the U.S. president. Chinese officials have condemned the new U.S. law and threatened countermeasures.
SAVIDGE: The public disgrace of Britain's Prince Andrew over his link to convicted child sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is about to grab headlines all over again.
Monday, the one who claims Epstein set her up with Andrew to have sex when she was a minor gave her first United Kingdom interview. Andrew was recently asked about Virginia Roberts in his now notorious interview with the BBC, and that didn't go well.
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EMILY MAITLIS, BBC NEWS HOST: One of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts, has made allegations against you. She says she met you in 2001. She says she dined with you, danced with you at Trump Nightclub in London. She went on to have sex with you in a house in Belgravia belonging to Ghislaine Maxwell, your friend. Your response?
PRINCE ANDREW, DUKE OF YORK: I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.
MAITLIS: You don't remember meeting her?
PRINCE ANDREW: No.
(END VIDEO CLIP) PAUL: Virginia Roberts will respond to Prince Andrew's claim that he didn't know her. She will do so in a BBC interview. Here's a preview.
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VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE, PRINCE ANDREW'S ACCUSER: He knows what happened. I know what happened. And there is only one of us telling the truth.
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PAUL: We spoke to our CNN Royal Commentator, Victoria Arbiter about the situation.
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VICTORIA ARBITER, CNN ROYAL COMMENTATOR: Each week, you think how much worse can it get, and then, boom, it implodes yet again.
Now, Prince Andrew, I think, approached that original interview hoping to set some damage control, hoping to distance himself from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Unfortunately, in that interview, he showed pure arrogance entitlement, he didn't mention the victims, he didn't show any remorse over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, hence, the dramatic fallout that we have seen.
But, on Monday, we are going to hear from Virginia Roberts directly. And what I will say about Virginia Roberts is she has maintained her story for years. It is the same story every time she has repeatedly said that he knows what happened. He needs to come forward. He needs to tell the truth. So if it does later transpire that he was, in fact, lying in his interview with Emily Maitlis, things are going to get a whole lot worse.
I'd be very surprised. I thought it was rather optimistic actually in Andrew's statement that he said he is stepping back for the foreseeable future. I don't see him ever being able to reenter royal life for a number of reasons. First of all, his patronages are dropping like flies. Normally, charities are clamoring for royal patron. But, clearly, the wrong royal patron is worst than no royal patron. There are military branches now that are starting to say they want him stripped of his honorary titles. It's all just completely combusted.
And I think for Prince Andrew to try and make any kind of return to public life would take a major, major turn in public opinion. It's just not going to happen. People didn't like Prince Andrew very much before. They really don't like him now.
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SAVIDGE: By the way, that BBC interview with Prince Andrew's accuser will air with on Monday.
PAUL: 19 people, 19, are under investigation in Italy after police uncovered a plot to create a new Nazi party. After a series of raids at the homes of the suspects, officers found firearms and propaganda celebrating Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler.
SAVIDGE: This is just one example of the rise of the far right across Europe, which tens of thousands have been rallying against.
CNN Contributor Barbie Nadeau explains.
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BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: This is some of the paraphernalia found by police during a two-year investigation into a pro-Nazi group in Italy. Police seized a stash of items, including pistols and rifles, as well as swastikas, Nazi flag, books and pictures of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Police also found this, a sticker showing the group's symbol. They call themselves the Italian National Socialist Workers Party. 19 people are being investigated following a series of raids across the country. Police say the group used social media and chat groups to recruit new members.
The investigation comes on the heels of rising far right hate across Europe. Earlier this month in Italy, 89-year-old activist and holocaust survivor Liliana Segre was given full police protection after receiving around 200 pieces of anti-Semitic hate mail a day. Just last week, street signs dedicated to Italian-Jewish scientists and doctors who died in the holocaust were defaced in Rome.
Forming a fascist or Nazi party has been a crime in Italy since 1952, but possessing historical Nazi propaganda is not. Police say the investigation continues.
Barbie Latza Nadeau for CNN, Rome.
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PAUL: Breaking overnight, CNN confirming now ten people have been injured, two of them critically, after a shooting in the central business district of New Orleans.
SAVIDGE: Yes. The call of the disturbance came in at around 3:30 local time and police are investigating. There are conflicting reports as to whether anyone has been taken into custody. That shooting was in the area of Canal Street, again, in the City of New Orleans.
PAUL: And we'll keep you posted as we get more information on that this morning, of course.
So as we count down to America's game between Army and Navy, we meet a West Point football player who's going to be serving in a branch of the Army you may not even know exists.
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SAVIDGE: The U.S. Military Academy, otherwise known as West Point, builds the future leaders in the Army.
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But the question is how do the young men and women exactly decide what they want to do when they want to leave?
PAUL: Yes. Coy Wire is here with one cadet who chose to blaze his own path. Did he kind of create this?
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Well, no. As a football player, he is making a first here. So at West Point, you have to wait until your fourth year on campus to decide where you're going to branch. Some choose infantry. Others choose engineering. But you have Malik Herbie Hancock who is doing something that no other Army football player has done before. He is fighting for our country on the cyber front.
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MALIK HANCOCK, ARMY RUNNING BACK: I noticed since I came here, I wanted to the computer science stuff in that aspect and then I knew there was like a cyber branch from day one coming into the army, and that's why I (INAUDIBLE) what I wanted to do. And then also the ability to play regional (ph) football was just like, I couldn't say no to that.
LT. COL. RAY BLAINE, DIRECTOR OF CYBER RESEARCH ACADEMY: The cyber branch is the newest branch in the army created in 2014. Really, it was created by the Army to address the newest demand of warfare, cyber space.
There are soldiers that are fighting on the ground right now across the world. But I guarantee you, there are soldiers fighting in cyber space that are engaged right now and that's not going to be stop.
When cadets show up at West Point, very few typically know much about computer science or cyber, and that's changing. It's starting to make its way into high schools.
HANCOCK: Even in high school, I was always like that unorthodox or like divergent thinker-type, more or less. And then people are like, oh, why would you want to go to West Point? It's so uniformed and like structured. And I kind of was like, no, I think that the Army, they likes diversity and they like different thoughts because they all want to make great leaders. And so I was like, oh, the cyber branch is a perfect branch for that too.
BLAINE: West Point athletes are unique. Being an athlete anywhere, a college student, it's difficult. Being an athlete and a college student at West Point is extremely difficult.
JEFF MONKEN, ARMY HEAD COACH: They have a lot of responsibilities. The academic requirements, the physical requirements, the professional standards here, playing football, there is a lot. It takes a lot of self-discipline on their part to be able to manage all of it, but it also takes a lot of mental toughness.
HANCOCK: When I first got here as a freshman, we picked majors going into there. And you're asking the upper classmen, hey, like what major should I choose and all that. And I was already, again, like set on computer science. And they're like, oh, no, like football players don't pick computer science, like what are you doing? I feel like every major is hard. It's just like I'd rather struggle doing something like that, I have a true passion for.
Yes, there will be long nights staying up, but like at the same time, I would rather be up struggling on a problem like with computer programming than it would be typing a long essay.
BLAINE: And that's why I think that the athletes that do well and graduate do so so well in the Army and they become such good officers because they learn to manage their time incredibly well. It's such a valuable skill.
MONKEN: I think cyber is probably a perfect fit for Herbie.
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WIRE: I love it, Herbie Hancock. And what a special young man, like the many young men and women that we highlight in the buildup to the Army/Navy game every year. That game is just two weeks away.
Bit you heard them say in that piece that being a student athlete anywhere is difficult, but then at our service academies, it's such more responsibility. I have such admiration being around those young men and women in the past several years.
PAUL: And I love what he says, look, if I'm going to struggle and I'm going to have a hard time, I want to do it for something that I'm passionate about. That's life. That is such profound goodness right there.
WIRE: Yes, such wisdom coming from him, and that they're just special young men and women that are so selfless. I mean, their thought is all of us, not themselves.
SAVIDGE: And cyber warfare especially is something that -- it dominates the home front here. I mean, that's what they're out to protect.
WIRE: Yes. You typically think CIA, FBI, but now, we're thinking cyber soldiers, our Army, our Navy. They're going to be -- this in the past half decade here, they're going all in on this and they have to.
PAUL: They have to.
SAVIDGE: Great story. Thank you, Coy, very much.
PAUL: Thank you, Coy. All right. SAVIDGE: Crank it up, the Abba, because next, Bernie Sanders is the dancing queen of the 2020 campaign trail.
PAUL: And, listen, how a call for help with a flat tire turned into a race against time for these troopers to save a life.
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PAUL: The death of a parent is obviously a trauma that leaves a lifelong impact on children. After losing her dad when she was 14, one of this year's top ten CNN heroes struggled with depression into her late 20s and then she finally got help. Well, nearly two decades now, Mary Robinson has dedicated herself to making sure other children don't lose years of their lives to unresolved grief.
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BELLA: My name is Bella and my dad died.
MARY ROBINSON, CNN HERO: Kids in grief are kids at risk.
JADEN: My name is Jaden (ph) and my mom died.
ROBINSON: Time does not heal all the wounds. Time helps but it's what you do with that time. And what you need to do is mourn.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When you hear other people's stories, it kind of brings comfort.
ROBINSON: So that's why a place like imagine exists to give children a place to mourn their loss and find out that they are not alone.
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PAUL: Mary has provided free year-round help to more than 700 grieving families. Go to cnnheroes.com to vote for her for CNN Hero of the Year or any of your favorite top ten heroes. And be sure to watch Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa live as they name the 2019 CNN Hero of the Year, CNN Heroes, an All-Star Tribute, next Sunday at 8:00 P.M. here on CNN.
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SAVIDGE: Not often you can say this and mean it, a 2020 campaign trail surprise this week. Bernie Sanders has sold, and I'm talking with a Capital S.
PAUL: Our Jeanne Moos has a look at the candidate dancing like nobody is watching.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know how Bernie Sanders could get a little grouchy?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we could keep that down a little bit.
MOOS: Well, now, you can't keep him down.
This is the story of Bernie's night as a not quite two months after his heart attack. The sound of the temptations moved him on to the dance floor. And Bernie invited woman after woman to take a spin, even if this one shyly resisted his attempt to twirl and even when he tried to stop, one after another, they kept cutting in, flashes popping as they scored dancing selfies.
Would Bernie have been tempted to get down to the temptations before he his heart attack?
Those who cover him say he is a more light-hearted humorous man after the health scare. Sure, he's not the only one burning up the dance floor. Mayor Pete Buttigieg's supporters have gone viral with a Panic! at the Disco dance.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's all part of the Mayor Pete's Strategy to get a negative percentage of the black vote.
MOOST: Nothing strategic about Bernie's dancing. He was pounced on by 23 women and one guy as the Four Tops put it -- neither could Bernie.
Jeanne moos, CNN, New York.
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PAUL: That's a good one, Jeanne Moos.
So this is an act of human kindness, it's also a life-saving one. This happened early Tuesday morning. A medical team was racing to Chicago Hospital with a critical delivery, a heart for a transplant.
On the way though, they got a flat tire. So these two Illinois State Police troopers, they took over. The hospital says there's a four to six-hour window where a heart can be used for surgery and the medical team had already been traveling for three. So the troopers stepped up, they helped finish the delivery. That special cargo giving the medical team a lift and making sure that patient got the new heart just in time. Kudos to them and thank you for what you do.
SAVIDGE: Absolutely.
Stay with us. The next hour of NEW DAY starts right after this break.
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