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Battle for Donetsk Airport; Pope Francis Vows To Meet With Victims Of Sexual Assault; Egyptian Presidential Election Free and Fair?; Heat Wave Strikes Europe; Leading Women: Padmasree Warrior; Inmarsat Releases Raw Data Of MH370; Schools Closed In Borno State In Wake Of Boko Haram Attacks

Aired May 27, 2014 - 08:00   ET

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now the satellite firm Inmarsat releases the data on missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

40 people die in a battle for control of Donetsk Airport in eastern Ukraine.

And why this Argentine model blames Google for ruining her reputation.

Malaysian authorities have finally released the satellite data from missing flight MH370. I am holding the 47 page document containing the communication logs between the plane and the satellite system of the British firm Inmarsat. But this is not the entire thing.

Now authorities say it is only intended to provide, quote, a readable summary.

Now some say that is not enough. And it's lacking important elements for accurate independent analysis.

Now let's take a closer look at the data itself. Now this is just one of the pages, lines of information. They all look like codes. And these are the handshakes, or the signals, between the plane and Inmarsat satellites.

Now the company used that data to calculate how far the plane was from their satellites.

So why does this matter? Because Inmarsat's data was used to focus the search for the plane in the southern Indian Ocean, a search that has yet to find any evidence of MH370.

And for a look at how Inmarsat engineers came to that conclusion from the data, CNN's aviation correspondent Richard Quest visited their offices in London for this exclusive report.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is Inmarsat. The company which for 35 years has been used by ships and planes to keep in touch. We were given exclusive access to the network's operations center.

(on camera): It's here in the satellite control room in London that you see the technology involved and you start to understand how they came to the conclusions. The satellite involved is Inmarsat 3F1, one of 11 satellites in the Inmarsat collection. It's in geo stationary orbit over the Indian Ocean. And it was to this satellite that MH370 sent the signals, the so-called handshakes.

(voice-over): Leading the team here was Mark Dickinson with his colleagues they dived deep into the data.

MARK DICKINSON, VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS, INMARSAT: There are three types of information that we. Messages from the ground station to the plane and back again that tells you the terminal is switched on and powered up and we have some time information and in addition to that there was some frequency measurements. QUEST: Timings told them the distance between the plane and the satellite enabling them to create the so-called arcs.

DICKINSON: We see how fast the plane can travel.

QUEST: They then factored in the frequency differences. Dickinson's team concluded that MH370 had to have flown south, in the opposite direction. It was a startling conclusion.

(on camera): What did you think when you got the data and you started modeling and you put it in and you suddenly realize where this plane probably went.

DICKINSON: Let's check in. Let's check it again. Because you want to make sure you come to a conclusion like that that you have done the right work. The data is as you understand it to be.

QUEST: Was there a moment of disbelief?

DICKINSON: Messages for six hours after the plane was lost is probably the biggest disbelief in terms of what you have.

QUEST (voice-over): Inmarsat quickly realized the analysis of data from MH370 to the satellite produced an extraordinary result and needed to be tested. So they ran the model against other planes which had been in the sky at the same time on the night and against previous flights of the same aircraft. Time and again they ran the model over dozens of flights and the planes were always found to be exactly where they were supposed to be.

DICKINSON: We don't have a reason why it shouldn't work for this particular flight when it works for the others and it's important that this isn't just Inmarsat activity. There is other people in the investigation, experts helping the investigation team who got the same data. They made their own models up and did the same thing to see if they get the same results and speaking for the teams we get roughly the same answers.

QUEST: The results of all this work led to dozens of search planes and ships being sent to the Southern Indian Ocean where, for weeks, they followed the trail to nowhere.

Inmarsat's calculations have been called into question. The families demanding the raw data.

DICKINSON: I think the data itself stand alone is fairly opaque and you can't draw too much from it. What is more pertinent is to see the messages and important bits of information and that's the job that we've been trying to do and explanation behind how the numbers are used.

QUEST (on camera): You are letting people make judgments on your work. You're not inviting them to redo your work.

DICKINSON: No. Re-do the work requires experts in many, many different fields.

QUEST (voice-over): Mark Dickinson recently returned from the rethink team. He knows the entire weight of this search rests on the Inmarsat data.

DICKINSON: I think everyone on the investigation team working with this understand what it means. It means this is data that we have for what's happened for those six or seven hours is important that we get it right and particularly trying for the families and friends of the relatives onboard to make sure that we can help bring this sad incident to a close.

QUEST: The Inmarsat data will guide the search for the foreseeable future. It's all they've got. Without it, there would be no search at all and the men in London are still sure they're right.

Richard Quest, CNN, at Inmarsat, London.

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LU STOUT: Let's go live to our Saima Mohsin now in Kuala Lumpur. And Saima, what are Malaysian authorities are saying about the release of the data and what it reveals?

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, to them, to me, to you it is just a bunch of numbers. In fact, that's what the department of civil aviation authority said this morning. I don't know how to read this data. We are no experts. And that's why it's been released out there for public consumption, particularly for the passengers' families to take it to their own individual independent experts as they've been pushing for for so many months now.

Just yesterday, I spoke to Hishammuddin Hussein, the acting transportation minister, talking to him about when this data will be released, because as you know we've been waiting a very long time for it, and if he had complete confidence in Inmarsat's satellite data that led to the search being made in the southern Indian Ocean.

This is what he had to say, Kristie.

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HISHAMMUDDIN HUSSEIN, ACTING MALAYSIAN TRANSPORTATION MINISTER: We made the decision based on their advice. So if their advice is not conclusive, then we get the other (inaudible) advisers why it's not conclusive. But until that data is analyzed, how are you going to see otherwise, because that's all we have?

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MOHSIN: And the Malaysian authorities fully admit that this is an unprecedented situation. It's a huge challenge for them. And frankly it's quite apparent they've been overwhelmed with the media inquiries, the response from passengers' families and they haven't at every point been able to cope with that or keep up to those kind of demands, Kristie.

LU STOUT: That's the reaction from Malaysian authorities to the data release, but what about the families? I mean, 47 pages of data finally after months of asking for it finally released today. But not all the raw data in there? So how are families of the missing responding to that?

MOHSIN: Yeah, it's a tricky one, isn't it? What Inmarsat is saying that they tried to be as transparent as possible and compile this in an accessible manner so that the layman can go take a read and perhaps take it to other experts.

What Sarah Bajak (ph), the woman who is really spearheading the campaign for this data to be released, for as much transparency as possible, is saying that she's not fully satisfied. And she doesn't feel that the omissions that are in this report are irrelevant.

So what Inmarsat has done, if I can explain, is that they've provided the relevant raw documents and data communication logs that they feel are the families will need that are connected to MH370. They haven't provided all the data communication logs that are linked to the comparisons with other planes that were up in the air that they've used to develop their theory and their strategy to find the plane.

Well, Sarah Bajak is saying is hang on a minute don't be so dismissive. If you're going to share something, share everything.

While other family members, Krisite, here in Malaysia who have been talking to me throughout the day since the data is released are saying, do you know what, we don't care about the numbers, what we want is the plane, what we want is our family members. And we don't want the authorities to only look in the southern arc, we want them to look elsewhere too and find the plane and our loved ones, Kristie.

LU STOUT: They want concrete answers. They want to find the plane. And the hunt goes on for MH370. Saima, what's the latest on the underwater search for the missing plane?

MOHSIN: Well, today is the last day for the Bluefin contract, that's the underwater search vehicle that's going around searching for these pings. So that contract will end. So this phase of the search effort ends.

And then we're being told that it could take a number of months for new contracts to be drawn up for the next phase. So there's going to be an effective pause in the underwater search now, Kristie, for a couple of months. And then we'll see another start up of the second phase of the underwater search.

So many more months to come before perhaps we'll have any solid evidence of what happened to Flight MH370.

LU STOUT: Wow, a pause in the search underwater that could last for months. Thank you very much indeed for that update. Saima Mohsin reporting live from Kuala Lumpur.

Now this is News Stream, and coming up we'll take you live to Ukraine where a violent tug of war continues over strategic parts of the east.

Plus, Pope Francis has not shied away from controversial topics so far as pontiff. And now he is confronting one of the Catholic church's biggest scandals head on. And we'll tell you what he said.

And a big announcement from Nigeria's military about the search for the more than 200 abducted schoolgirls.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now in Ukraine, there has been intense fighting at the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk.

Now government forces have been battling pro-Russia separatists after gunmen stormed the airport's terminal building on Monday.

Now the website for the mayor of Donetsk says that 40 people have died in these gun battles, including two civilians and 31 people have been wounded.

Now a spokeswoman for the separatists says they now control part of the airport. Ukrainian forces insist that they are in control.

Now the man likely to serve as Ukraine's next president called the separatist fighters, quote, bandits and said that there would be no negotiating with, quote, terrorists.

Now CNN's Nick Paton Walsh joins me now live from Donetsk. And Nick, yesterday on the program, your reporting live on the battle for the airport as it was unfolding. What's the situation there now?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, today the level of destruction, casualties becoming slowly evident. As you said, the Donetsk mayor says 40 killed. We went to the morgue there was a large undignified, it must be said pile of militants' bodies there. Differing injuries, said the doctors, from bullet wounds to those from heavy weaponry.

Doctors saying 31 dead they counted. I saw myself amongst those dead one civilian woman who had received a very large head wound.

But we also learned that at that morgue, some locals had, in fact, turned up trying to identify the militant bodies and take them home, although there are reports from pro-Kiev authorities that amongst the injured there are, in fact, potentially foreigners, Russian citizens, too.

Another troubling development that shows you how the escalating here continues, not only were we at the airport and heard sporadic gunfire here and there around it -- not quite clear what that was from, I've must spoken to a spokeswoman for the separatists here. She says she learned online, not through direct talks, that there was some sort of window given today between noon and 3:00 this afternoon, which she says was from the government to allow what the government referred to as terrorists, that would be the separatists to leave the city.

Now obviously that deadline is now passed. It's just past 3:00 here in Donetsk. And they're concerned about the next phase potentially of the military operation here.

Finally, Kristie, I should point out a piece of breaking news we've just learned, the OSCE, that's the monitoring group which has been pretty much charged by everybody -- Moscow, Kiev, Washington, Brussels, in trying to monitor events on the ground here, provide an accurate picture to de- escalate the situation.

Well, they say that since Monday evening, 6:00, they've lost contact with a four strong team of theirs that was to the east of Donetsk going about their routine duties.

Now that's significant because last time the OSCE lost contact with some of their staff, they turned up in the separatist Slovyansk town being held by separatist militants there.

Now clear what's happened here though, Kristie.

LU STOUT: You describe the brutal aftermath of those clashes at the Donetsk International Airport, unrest there clearly escalating. What is the situation across the city, across the area there in Donetsk? Are people staying in their homes? Are people fearing for their lives and for their safety?

WALSH: No. It's -- the street below me as its ever been, really. This is the middle of a working day. People are walking around quite calmly. There's a sense in some places of shops closed and there is a sense, certainly, amongst the civilians who are milling around the remains of the two trucks blown to pieces by it must have been the Ukrainian military yesterday as they moved separatists around the city, that's where many of the casualties I spoke of earlier came from.

A sense amongst locals of shock. I think some anger amongst those who sympathize with separatists. And I think a city bracing for what may be coming ahead. We heard this morning a jet in the sky. That's often a sign of Ukrainian military moves. And there's a fear here that while the city felt that it escaped the unrest, life was carrying on as normal, that's changed. Now it is the focus -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Nick Paton Walsh reporting. Thank you very much indeed for that clear picture of the unrest there in Donetsk. Thank you, Nick.

Now Pope Francis is forging head on into a very, very thorny issue for the Catholic Church. Now the pope is now speaking out very frankly against allegations of child sexual abuse by members of the clergy. And he has announced plans to meet personally with the victims in the coming weeks.

Ivan Watson has more on the pope's strong words, which come on the heels of a three-day tour of the Middle East.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Pope Francis made big news after he departed the Holy Land on his flight back to Rome and to the Vatican. While speaking to journalists, he addressed one of the biggest crises that the Roman Catholic Church has faced in recent generations, that being the scandals of clerical sexual abuse, which he described, which he compared to a black mass.

Pope Francis said that he would meet with some victims of clerical sexual abuse as early as the first week of June. He went on to say that at least three bishops are currently being investigated by the Vatican right now. He did not explain what charges they were currently facing, or what crimes they were being investigated for.

He also went on to say that his former number two at the Vatican, the former secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, he was also currently under investigation for allegations of financial misconduct. All of these statements coming, of course, after the pope wrapped up his historic three day papal visit to the Holy Land.

A heroes welcome for Pope Francis on his first papal visit to the Holy Land. This three day tour, a delicate high wire act punctuated by bold moves.

The pontiff unexpectedly stopped at the Israeli built separation barrier, which encircles part of the town where Jesus Chris was born. He then made a gesture that delighted Palestinians.

MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI, PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ORGANIZATION: The pope did not put his hand only on a concrete wall, he put his hand on occupation. He put his hand on apartheid system, on a system of separation and discrimination and oppression.

WATSON: The next day in Jerusalem, Pope Francis laid his hand on another wall, the Western Wall, Judaism's most holy site. That visit followed by an emotional meeting with survivors of genocide at the Holocaust memorial. His Jewish travel companion says the pope brought Israel a message of friendship.

Is he a friend of the Jews?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Undoubtedly, a really friend of the Jews.

WATSON: And finally, a foray into diplomacy. Pope Francis invited both the Israeli and Palestinian Authority presidents to come to the Vatican in a clear effort to breathe new life into the faltering Israeli- Palestinian peace process.

He asked both leaders to join him in a prayer for peace for a region long associated with war.

In his remarks to journalists on his flight home, Pope Francis went a step further, explaining that this proposed meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian Authority presidents would be, quote, a meeting of prayer, not some kind of meditation, and that it would solely be about prayer and then everybody will go home.

Finally, he added, that he would like for a Muslim sheik and a Jewish rabbi to be present for this proposed meeting.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Jerusalem.

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LU STOUT: Coming up right here on News Stream, fashion model versus Internet giant. After the break, we'll tell you why a woman in Argentina says Google has ruined her life.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now Google is at the center of a heated debate on Internet freedom again. Argentina's supreme court will soon decide on a lawsuit filed by a fashion model. She accuses the search giant of ruining her reputation.

Rafael Romo has more.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a legal battle between a woman and the world's favorite search engine. Belen Rodriguez, a fashion model from Argentina, is suing Google. She says older images of her are being used by pornographic or sexually oriented websites listed in search results. Rodriguez says it has deeply damaged her reputation.

BELEN RODRIGUEZ, ARGENTINE MODEL (through translator): They have ruined my life and now say that what I'm asking for is censorship. It suits them, but not me. Truthfully for me, having to explain every day that I'm not a prostitute is a daily complication, as simple as that.

ROMO: The 29-year-old originally sued Google and Yahoo in 2006. In 2010 she was awarded a combined judgment against both search engines for 120,000 Argentine pesos, almost15,000 dollars, an amount that was later lowered to less than half by a higher court. The case is now in the hands of Argentina's Supreme Court.

MARTIN LEGUIZAMON, RODRIGUEZ'S ATTORNEY: First and most important of all, we want them to stop linking her to porn sites, which is what has been harming her and worries her the most. She has a family and young children. We are also seeking compensatory damages which is obvious because whoever harms somebody has to repair the damage.

ROMO: In a statement sent to CNN Google said, "search engines are neutral platforms that do not create nor control content on the web."

The Civil Rights Association of Argentina strongly agrees with Google's position.

RAMIRO ALVAREZ UGARTE, CIVIL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION OF ARGENTINA (through translator): Curiously, the authors of the content were not even called to testify and that's part of the problem. It's those creators of content who should be responsible. The problem, of course, is that sometimes is difficult to find them.

ROMO: Rodriguez says her rights as an individual should prevail.

RODRIGUEZ (through translator): First of all, I want to clear my image; let it be clear. Second, well, I want a precedent to be set so that this doesn't happen again. I'm in favor of freedom of expression, but not the kind of freedom of expression built on lies. I'm an ant fighting against a giant monster.

ROMO: A ruling by the high court is expected in several weeks.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still ahead in the program, a Nigerian official says that the military knows the whereabouts of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls. And we'll tell you what they plan to do about it.

And...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's outrageous, absolutely outrageous.

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LU STOUT: A grieving father's passionate plea for change after his son is killed in a mass shooting in California.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now in eastern Ukraine, sporadic gunfire can be heard for a second day at the airport in Donetsk, now government forces and pro-Russian militants have been fighting for control there since armed separatists stormed the airport on Monday. Our Nick Paton Walsh, he is in the area and has confirmed more than 30 militants have been killed.

Malaysian authorities and the British firm Inmarsat have finally released satellite data on Flight 370, it's what led them to search for the plane in the southern Indian Ocean. Now passengers' families have questioned that the plane actually went down there. They now hope to use the raw data to get an independent review.

India's new prime minister Narendra Modi sat down for talks today with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. It was a closely watched meeting between two long-time rival nations. Mr. Sharif said the talks went well and the countries have a historic opportunity to improve relations.

Li Na is out of the French Open in the first round. Now Li won the year's first grand slam in Australia and won this tournament back in 2011, but she crashed out against Kristina Mladenovic of France, a player ranked just 103 in the world.

Now it has been over a month-and-a-half since more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by militants. And so far, there has been little progress trying to rescue them.

But now Nigeria's military has announced that it knows where the girls are. An official said information on their whereabouts can't be released, but that the military is working on securing the safe release of the girls.

Now for more on the military's claim and the reaction to the news, let's take you live to Abuja. Our senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is there. And Arwa, what do you make of this announcement from the Nigerian military?

ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, I think it needs to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, especially given how wavering the government has been on some of the information that it's putting out. But those comments coming from the country's defense chief.

We, since those comments came out yesterday, have been trying to make phone calls reaching out to various spokespeople with no luck whatsoever to try to get more information as to exactly what this comment means. Do they have a specific location, or have they managed to pinpoint all of the locations, or as some sources are telling us are these just leads that they have to where the girls may possibly be?

The U.S. for its part saying that they don't have any solid evidence about the girls' location, but they do have information about where they might possibly be.

Again, a lot of effort, a lot of efforts being concentrated on all of this aerial surveillance operations ongoing.

Of course, launching a military operation at this stage of the events, chief says, is off the table, because of the potential risk that could pose to the girls.

Two Boko Haram informants that we spoke to last week said they had no doubt in their minds whatsoever that Boko Haram would not hesitate to use these girls as human shields.

Negotiations also phenomenally challenging, given that Boko Haram is not a top-down organization and that the girls most likely have been spread apart between the various cells. Each cell has its own leadership.

So even if the girls have been located, bringing them back home safely is going to be very, very difficult, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Boko Haram still at-large.

Arwa, what does this mean for the scores of schoolchildren across Borno State, what does it mean for them?

DAMON: Their lives have been completely altered, not just recently because it is this issue, the crisis of the kidnapped schoolgirls that has thrown Boko Haram into the spotlight, but the terror campaign that they've been launching has been filed for years now, especially in the three states in the northeastern part of the country. And they have managed, Boko Haram has managed to impact just about every single aspect of life.

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DAMON: Children still play in the yard, but the classrooms are hauntingly empty. Boko Haram wants to end western education. Here, it seems, they've succeeded.

For the last six weeks, all public schools in Borno state have been ordered shut down.

64-year-old Kondidi Boka (ph) has been a guard at this school for three decades, experiencing nothing as horrifying as the day five gunmen drove through the gate.

He describes how a group of teachers were sitting under a tree. The gunmen opened fire. One teacher was shot, dragging himself into a classroom. He died before help could arrive.

This was one of three schools attacked by Boko Haram on the same day around a year ago. Mollam Yusuf is the principal of one of the others.

MOLLAM YUSUF, PRINCIPAL: Yeah, actually, classes were in session, students were around, teachers were teaching in the class.

DAMON: Suddenly, the gunmen arrived.

This is the school's examination room. And there were four women in here at the time of the attack. The gunmen just storming in and opening fire indiscriminately. Here, we were just told, are some of the holes left by the bullets. Three of the women were killed almost instantaneously, the fourth managed to escape with some wounds.

It's a sickening tactic, made worse by the frequency of attacks.

The Nigerian Union of Teachers says more than 170 state educators and staff have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno State alone, punctuated by the terrorist group's kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok more than a month ago.

YUSUF: As of now, we cannot say Boko Haram has won.

DAMON: Yufus is undeterred. He says with each attack it's even more important that education doesn't end.

YUSUF: So as teachers, we take it upon ourselves to continue going to our schools to educate our young ones so that they should not partake in this issue of insurgents.

DAMON: Back outside, children crowd around our camera.

Are you upset that school is closed?

The response? A resounding yes.

"I want to read," one says.

Another adds, "I want to get educated and enjoy life."

For now, a future stolen by Boko Haram.

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DAMON: And so, Kristie, while right now the focus really is on trying to rescue those kidnapped schoolgirls, Nigeria really needs to be looking towards a long-term military operation that is going to involve the cooperation of its neighbors and also of the international community to eradicate Boko Haram once and for all.

LU STOUT: And Arwa, it is just heartbreaking just looking at the video of the empty schools across Borno State, all because of the unchecked threat that is Boko Haram.

Arwa Damon reporting live for us from Abuja, thank you.

Now we are learning more now about the 22-year-old who police say went on that deadly rampage in a California college town Friday. Now a friend says Elliot Rodger recently complained to his landlord that his two roommates were too noisy. Now police say Rodger fatally stabbed both of them in the apartment they shared. A third man was also killed there. Rodger then gunned down three other people before killing himself.

Now the University of California at Santa Barbara is in mourning for Rodger's victims. A memorial service will be held later today. And two young women outside a sorority house and a young man at a deli, they were killed in that attack. And that man's grieving father is now on a mission to stop gun violence. Kyung Lah reports.

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RICHARD MARTINEZ, FATHER OF CHRISTOPHER MARTINEZ: Our son, Christopher Martinez, and six others are dead.

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was an extraordinary moment when you walked into the news conference.

MARTINEZ: They talk about gun rights. What about Chris' right to live?

LAH: Very unexpected.

Why did you do that?

MARTINEZ: To honor the memory of my son. To make it try to mean something. That's why I'm here. If there's all these things in the media about the shooter and there's nothing about the victims, then it sends the wrong message. And the people need to understand that real people died here.

LAH: Chris Martinez was just 20 years old, an English major at UCSB. He went to the Ivy Deli Mart to get a snack Friday night when the gunman opened fire. The boy who loved sports as a child dreamed of being a lawyer like his father.

MARTINEZ: He's our only child. And he died on Friday. I'm 61 years old now. I'll never have another child. And he's gone.

You're sitting out there safe in your family room with your children safely around you, and I'm telling you, they walk out on that street, it can happen. It's happened far too many times now.

LAH: Yes. I don't know how many mass shootings I've covered. I don't know how many parents I've interviewed, who have been in the position you've been in.

How do you make that difference?

How do you, as one parent, make that difference?

MARTINEZ: I can anticipate that the NRA and some of the gun people are going to be saying it's the rants of the grieving father. He's just emotional and we shouldn't be listening to him. But in fairness to me, I think I can be both emotional and rational at the same time.

LAH (voice-over): Martinez is a veteran, has owned guns, but wants to know why a mentally unstable man legally owned three semiautomatic handguns and hundreds of rounds.

MARTINEZ: Where is the leadership?

Where is the fricking politicians that will stand up and say, we need to do this, we're going to do something?

Those gutless bastards have done nothing. And my son died because of it. It's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous.

LAH: He's talking about Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children, six adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary. President Obama pushed for tougher federal gun control laws, expanded background checks, that failed in the Senate, despite huge public support.

MARTINEZ: My kid died because nobody responded to what occurred at Sandy Hook. Those parents lost little kids. It's bad enough that I lost my 20-year-old, but I had 20 years with my son. That's all I'll ever have, but those people lost their children at six and seven years old.

How do you think they feel?

And who's talking to them now?

Who's doing anything for them now?

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now in the world of engineering and technology, there are few women as influential as our latest Leading Woman. Padmasree Warrior. As Cisco's chief technology and strategy officer, her mission is to be at the forefront of tech innovation. But as Nina Dos Santos found out, that wasn't always her path.

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NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Cisco Systems Chief Technology and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior says that her job is like looking into a crystal ball to see the future.

PADMASREE WARRIOR, CISCO SYSTEMS: I've been in the tech industry almost for 20 years, but I feel right now it's probably the most significant time in this industry, not at least the pace of change so fast, but the magnitude of change is huge. So I think that combined makes it even more complex to keep up with how quickly things are changing, but how much they are changing.

DOS SANTOS: Warrior is considered a change agent turned an innovator in her industry. Among her accolades, being named Forbes as one of the world's 100 most powerful women.

WARRIOR: I made a lot of changes in my career and in my life. I'm a chemical engineer. My degree is in chemical engineering and I now run an Internet technology company, which really has nothing to do with chemicals.

At no point in my life have I waited for the perfect job to show up. There is a perfect fit for me. And I tell people when you're looking for opportunities, or when I'm recruiting people, don't look for here's the role, here's the person, it's a perfect match, because there's no such thing.

DOS SANTOS: Vital advice from an exec who says that the best career advice she's ever received is this.

WARRIOR: I was sort of like a manager early in my career. And I was really thinking about taking the next step to become a director. And I was hesitating -- am I ready for it? Is it too much responsibility? My son was very young. And, you know, my husband worked. And so we had both of us working and a young son at home.

And I was thinking about it a lot. And I wasn't ready to commit. And my boss at the time, who was making me the offer, said to me, you know, sometimes when there's a door open you just have to push through and walk in. I actually used that as an advice that I give people now.

DOS SANTOS: At Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California, we were there during a quarterly meeting with her teams.

WARRIOR: Hello, everyone.

DOS SANTOS: Part update on business and also a forum to showcase employees.

How difficult is it to manage so many people on so many different issues?

WARRIOR: It's actually a lot of fun, I think.

I would say to people who are making the choice to decide between an individual contributor role or a managerial role or a leadership role is make sure you build a good team. I think first thing is to comfortable in your own strength and never be intimidated to hire people smarter than you are to work for you, because ultimately you learn from them and actually your team will be able to perform better.

DOS SANTOS: Would you describe yourself as a role model for future female engineers?

WARRIOR: That's a big word. And if feels presumptuous to say that I'm a role model.

But in as much as I can be a person that people can look up to and say, yes, I want to be like you, I want to achieve the successes you have had, I consider that -- if that's what the definition of role model is, I would love to be seen in that way.

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LU STOUT: And you can find out more about Padmasree Warrior and other women at the top of their fields. Just go over to CNN.com/leadingwomen.

Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come, some dramatic pictures from North Dakota as severe weather makes its way across parts of the United States. We'll have your world weather updates.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now the White House is red-faced after accidentally revealing the name of the CIA's top intelligence official in Afghanistan to thousands of journalists. Now the name was included on a list of people who were at a military briefing for President Obama during his surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday.

Now the White House then scrambled to issue a revised list without the CIA officer's name on it.

Our White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski joins us now live from Washington. Michelle, this is a stunning leak. I mean, how did it happen?

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It's kind of complicated the way this happened. You can kind of see how it all evolved, basically.

There is this pool reporter for the president's trip to Afghanistan and when he -- they landed on the ground he wanted to know who all would be briefing the president on operations there in Afghanistan. So he asked a White House staffer to provide that list -- this is all standard practice.

Well, that White House staffer then asked a member of the military for a complete list. Got it. Gave it to the reporter without apparently scrutinizing it. The reporter then sent it out to the entire press pool list, some 6,000 journalists and then realized, wait a minute, on that list is the name and title of the top ranking CIA officer in Afghanistan.

Well, the reporter says that he, then, asked the White House staffer is this OK, how did this happen? And that the staffer said, well, it came from the military so it should be fine, only realizing later that this was not fine by any means, essentially blowing this CIA operatives cover, blown by his own government, Kristie.

LU STOUT: How far did the leak go? And is this CIA officer, this chief of station in Afghanistan, is he or she in any danger?

KOSISNKI: Yeah, I mean, by nature to have thousands and thousands of people -- and these aren't people who have undergone background checks or really much vetting at all, these are reporters all over the world who were a part of this press pool. So that's not the kind of information you want being spread that far and wide. And sure, there's always an element of danger there.

So even though there's been no official word on what is next for this CIA official, known as the station chief there in Afghanistan, it's pretty much common knowledge that he's not going to be able to do that job anymore. His cover is blown.

So there's no imminent physical danger that anyone is knowing about or talking about at this point, in fact the White House isn't making an official comment on this incident, nor is the CIA, but you don't want this situation to stand. Something has to change there just because of this leak that seems to have been an honest mistake, but one made on a couple of different levels.

I mean, first of all, the military staffer didn't notice that he was sending out this list with that name and title clearly available. And then the White House staffer didn't notice it, gave it to the press. It was the reporter, only, who -- you know, it came to his attention and he was the one who really blew the whistle on the mistake, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Michelle Kosinski reporting live from the White House. Astonishing story there. Thank you.

Now, time for your global weather forecast. Reports of severe weather in the United States again, some stunning pictures from North Dakota, I believe. Mari Ramos, she joins us with that from the World Weather Center -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it was a huge tornado in North Dakota just less than 24 hours ago, Kristie. The severe weather again, and I'll show you that in just a moment, this time in Texas.

But let's go ahead and start with this tornado near Waterford City.

This is a still image, pretty impressive in itself already as you can see here. What do you do when you come face to face with something like this? This is what one lady did, listen.

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DONNA VELAZQUEZ: Oh, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. Father, god in heaven, lord Jesus, lord Jesus, lord Jesus. Oh, my Jesus.

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RAMOS: Yeah, praying sounds like a good idea. They have no place to take cover in the house that they were in.

You know, no one was killed in this tornado, but nine people were injured, one person seriously. Very scary situation.

The thing to do when you see a tornado, when you see this kind of severe weather, is take cover immediately, an interior room in your house, it should be in a house. It should be in an interior room without windows, maybe a bathroom or a closet and try to get something to cover your head. And in my own house, our kids put on their softball helmets whenever we have to take cover from a tornado. Very scary stuff.

And remember, tornadoes only happen in the U.S., it can happen pretty much anywhere around the world.

There were two tornado reports yesterday, that one in North Dakota, and then this one in Sterling, Texas. There is the potential for severe weather yet again across parts of Texas. We can see this line of storms that's moving through here. Just in the last hour or so, there was a tornado warning on that northeastern side of Houston, Texas. And that has since expired. No reports of serious damage as of yet, but we're following up on that even as we speak. So we'll keep you posted on that.

This is going to be the area to watch for the potential for severe weather and heavy rain. Large hail and maybe those strong winds. And it moves even into northern parts of Mexico, so definitely something to keep an eye on.

Of course, this was a big holiday weekend here in the U.S. And it kind of marks not the official start of summer, but the unofficial start of summer. Once we get through Memorial Day weekend, people in the U.S. think, well, it's summertime, it's hot, it's time to get out and time to go around. This is a little bit of a funny story, kind of, but I don't know.

Look at this video. I don't know if this would be my kind of beach going activity.

This is in Marquette -- it's not Lake Michigan, this is Marquette, Michigan -- a lake normally very, very cold even at this early time of year, but look at all the ice that's on the lake even now.

Normally there would be ice, but farther out. The lake has 25 percent more ice this time of year than it normally has. People were still out and about.

Temperatures were relatively warm. I'm sure not as warm as they would be in Florida, for example, but relatively warm. But I don't know if I would go into that very icy water.

Come back over to the weather map. Scattered rain showers across the eastern half of the U.S. And it will remain hot. And remember that potential for severe weather I was telling you about.

Very quickly switching continents now across Europe. We continue reporting on this very intense heat across this eastern half of the country. It has been so prolonged that we begin to look at the possibility of starting to have some problems here for people, because when -- you know, the problem with heat waves it's not that it's going to be hot one or two days, but when you have this continuous time. It's already been over a week across parts of Eastern Europe where the temperatures have been some 10 degrees above the average.

This is when it begins to become dangerous for people's health, especially if you don't have air conditioning or a way to continue cooling down. That is a huge, huge concern across those areas.

This is what I wanted to show you, right over here. Again, we'll start to see a little bit of moisture move in, temperatures relatively cooler, but the humidity level is going up. So it's still a concern.

And then heavy rain across the central portion of the continent and then back over toward France and even into parts of the UK. That will still be a concern. At times, some of those storms could be strong, so the potential for some isolated severe weather is there.

And we've been talking about the hot temperatures also here across northeastern China, not as hot today in Beijing as it was yesterday, but still we're looking at temperatures well above the average for this time of year as you can see from that list, Kristie. And as we head through the next couple of days hovering, just kind of flirting there with that 40 degree mark, that's pretty impressive for Beijing this time of year this early on. So definitely something to watch.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that'll be a scorcher there in Beijing. Mari Ramos there, thank you.

And now the public is getting its first look at a rare litter of white tiger cubs in Austria. Let's look at the video and coo.

Here is the adorable four girls and one boy that came into the world April 25 at a zoo in Kernof.

Now spokespeople say that this is the first known case of five white tiger cubs being born in a single litter in Europe.

Now the zoo, it actually specializes in white colored animals. In fact it has snow leopards, and along with that critter there, even albino Kangaroos.

I've got to bring up some video of that one as well.

Now that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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