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California Wildfries Force Evacuations; GOP Candidates Jostle for Position Ahead of First Debate; Biden Considering Presidential Run; Memphis Cop Killing Suspedct Turns Himself In; Obama Climate Plan Facing Battle; Plane Part in France for Testing; Outpouring of Love, Grief in Death of Batboy; Zimbabwe Calls for Extradition of Lion Killer; Comedian Amy Schumer Joins Gun Debate. Aired 1-2a ET

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[01:00:11] JOHN VAUSE, CNN HOST: Spreading wildfires chase hundreds of California families from their homes.

The Republican presidential hopefuls make their pitch just days before the first major debate.

Grief and baseball. Saying good-bye to the little boy who died, doing what he loved.

Hello, everybody, great to have you with us. We'd like to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm John Vause. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

We start this hour in the U.S. in California where more than 9,000 firefighters are battling nearly two dozen wildfires across the state. The fires have scorched more than 134,000 acres or 54,000 hectares. The largest is the rocky fire, which tripled in size over the weekend. There are evacuation orders for more than 13,000 people. Thousands of buildings and homes are still under threat.

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I'm scared. I am scared. I really am scared. I don't want to lose my home. I don't want to lose everything that we have put into this community, you know. We moved up here. We bought a home. We paid it off. And now it's being threatened to be burned down.

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VAUSE: In some cases, crews are fighting fire with fire.

Details from CNN's Stephanie Elam.

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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fueled by lightning, gusty winds and low humidity. More than 9,000 firefighters on the ground and in the air, coordinating all available resources to battle the flames.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The term that I'm using is historic, and the reason I say that is there are firefighters that have 20, 25, 30 years on the job that have never seen fire behavior like we've seen the last couple days.

ELAM: The largest blaze, the rocky fire. It has torched some 60,000 acres in three counties just north of wine country. Only 12 percent contained, California fire officials say at least 6,000 structures are threatened. Crews on the scene scrambling to build control lines and maintain the perimeter. In some cases, this means setting fire to remove fuel for the inferno.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last night we burned out much of the grass so that by the time the actual wildfire burned there we have a much larger area to really make a stand.

ELAM: But the conditions are daunting, a severe four-year-long drought and the heat are a deadly combination. A U.S. firefighter from South Dakota was killed while working a fire. Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency and evacuations have been ordered for more than 12,000 Californians.

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VAUSE: Thanks to Stephanie Elam to that report.

Let's get the very latest now on this fire. Daniel Beriant is the chief public information officer with Cal fire. He joins us on the phone from Sacramento, California.

Daniel, what's the latest you have on the containment of these fires, in particular the big one, rocky fire.

DANIEL BERIANT, CHIEF PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, CALIFORNIA FIRE (on the phone): Well, the rocky fire still is at 12 percent contained. It did grow late this afternoon and in to the evening. Conditions here in California are so dry that it doesn't take much for a fire to spark. It doesn't take much for a fire to burn. And like it was said in that package, fires are burning at an explosive rate, because of our drought.

VAUSE: So there was expectation that conditions may ease going into the night, that it will get a little cooler, maybe a little more humid. Has that happened? And does that giving much relief to the crews out there?

BERIANT: Yes, we're hoping in the next couple hours that we are going to see continued temperatures like we did last night where temperatures went down. The humidity went up. That's when we able to make good progress. In fact, yesterday we went from five percent to 12 percent. We're hoping that overnight our crews will continue to be able to use the night to our advantage. Now this fire this afternoon was very active again, as it's been over the last five days. In the late afternoon, the early evenings is when this fire is really able to take off.

VAUSE: Daniel, do you have any time frame when you think this all may be under control? BERIANT: We're estimating that we'll have full containment of this

fire in another week or so. This fire, though, still has a lot of potential, but we have over 3,000 fire fighters on the front lines battling this fire not only on the ground but also notice air. We've been using military c-130 aircraft that we have modular firefighting systems on to help slow down these fires. And so, we brought in a lot of additional crews. But this rocky fire is only one of 21 major or active fires currently burning in California right now. So definitely a very busy time of year for us.

And have you got any idea just how far away from these fires right now is considered safe, I guess, for the residents who live in that part of the world?

BERIANT: We've evacuated thousands of residents throughout that fire area. Many of them put under advisory notice that they may have to evacuate in the near future, though, right now over 13,000 people are under an evacuation order or in an evacuation advisory area. So a large amount of people right now being threatened by this fire.

[01:05:19] VAUSE: And given the conditions out there, we know California's been struggling with this terrible drought for the last four years, what's concern for the rest of the fire season in California?

BERIANT: We're only in August. And historically in California, it's September and October when we see the largest and most damaging wildfires. So to see us already this busy is definitely concerning. We've already responded to well over 1500 more wildfires this year-to- date than we would for the same time period in an average year. So we continue to be ready, and we're asking the public to do their part to help us prevent sparking fires in the first place.

VAUSE: Daniel Beriant with Cal fire, we appreciate you being with us. We appreciate the update, thank you.

BERIANT: Thanks.

VAUSE: OK. Let's get a lot more now on natural weather conditions of firefighters are going to be battling over the next couple of days. Ivan Cabrera, our meteorologist is with us here.

So we heard there from Daniel, full containment still about a week or so away which is stunning when you think about that.

IVAN CABRERA, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. And it's scary. It continues away what is going, though. We went from five to 12 percent. So, they are going in the right direction. So hopefully that will continue to increase here.

VAUSE: It's not an upward trend. They had five, they have 12, they were back a little bit and now they're back up to 12. So, it is still close.

CABRERA: And essentially because the fire's behaving unlike what 20 and 30 year old veterans have never seen before. So, they give you a projection but then they have to recount that and revise it because the fire just get out of control very quickly.

Daniel was in Sacramento. Then this is a state capital of the California. The fire is now almost as big in square mileage as the entire city of Sacramento. If you can believe that, 62,000 acres. This is the perimeter here that we're working up in Lake County, Rocky Fire. You can see this has grown, a tripled in size over the last several days. And you can appreciate as we spin this around, the terrain here. Some terrain inaccessible because it's so steep in here. So they have to rely on the c-130s and the helicopters to drop fire retardant and water on this fire here and hopefully they'll be able to make some progress here.

As far as of the latest numbers, again, 12 percent containment, 6300 structures threatened. We had started with only a couple of hundred. That is certainly a scary stamp and that's what we have, obviously, a mandatory evacuation. We don't want people hurt. Their properties can burn, but if we can save lives that's the important part here.

Hundred percent severe drought, 71 to extreme and 46 exceptional. He mentioned that in the '80s, in the 1990s, we had never seen this many fires. So far in the year between 2000 and present, we have seen more fires than in those two decades. So we're above average, obviously. And because of a four-year drought. We've had four seasons now, four rainy seasons that have not been very rainy here in California.

All right. Let's talk about the local forecast here. Again, humidity goes up through the overnight hours as those temperatures cool down to the dew point. We get more moisture in the atmosphere, or at least right at the (INAUDIBLE) there. And then during the afternoon as we heat up, we go right back in the other direction. So that is not going to good as temperature get back into the '80s.

And I think in fact over the next couple of days, we are actually going to get a little warmer. We had caught a break. We had been in the 100s. We're back in the '80s. And now, John, as we get you into Wednesday and Thursday we'll have temperatures into the lower 90s. So hopefully they'll be able to get some containment.

There is that chunk of window through the overnight hours or at least taking control things a little bit better because the temperatures are lower and the humidity is higher. But as you mentioned, what we need is rain, and we're not going to get it.

With the plague of rain in Tampa and other parts they're not going to get t.

VAUSE: And with the play of rain and the temper and Florida on the past --

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CABRERA: Absolutely.

VAUSE: Ivan, thank you.

We will go to U.S. policies now with the race for Republican nomination for the presidency is gaining momentum. A highly anticipated debate is just days away. But there was a preview of sorts in New Hampshire on Monday night.

Mary Maloney reports most of the candidates showed up except the front runner.

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MARY MALONEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): One by one, Republican hopefuls marched across the New Hampshire's stage at the voters' first forum and took a class photo of sorts. Fourteen of the 17 candidates appeared either in person or remotely to take question and give their pitch to voters.

CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We talk a lot at election time. But somehow we never solve these festering problems.

MALONEY: As candidates crowd the field, perhaps the elephant in the room was the one who didn't attend, Donald Trump.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't debate. I created tremendous jobs. I built a great company.

MALONEY: The bombastic businessman is leading in the GOP pack in recent polls with 26 percent, more than double the support of former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Protecting the homeland is the first duty of the president of the United States.

MALONEY: And Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is not too late for America.

MALONEY: Trump's position means he'll be part of the first Republican presidential debate. Only the top ten candidates are allowed in Thursday's debate. Eight spots appear set New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Ohio governor John Kasich, and former Texas governor Rick Perry are likely vying for the final two spots. FOX will decide who is in and who is out based on average of polls standings. But if the voters' first forum is any indication, this class plans to increase rhetoric and keep the race for president interesting.

[01:10:21] SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Here's my foreign policy, a clenched fist and an open hand.

MALONEY: I'm Mary Maloney reporting.

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VAUSE: And because of his poll numbers, Senator Lindsey Graham probably won't be there on Thursday during that prime time debate, but he did get the biggest laugh on Monday at that forum when he insisted he could bite democrat front runner Hillary Clinton.

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GRAHAM: I'm fluent in Clinton speak. You want me to translate, Jack? When he say, Bill says, I didn't have sex with that woman, he did. When she says, I'll tell but building the pipeline when I get to be president means she won't. And when she tells us, trust me, you have all the emails that you need, we haven't scratched the surface. So I understand this crowd and I can beat them.

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VAUSE: Donald Trump, though, has dominated the conversation. And that poses a challenge to his rivals as they head into Thursday's debate.

CNN's political analyst Josh Rogan has some perspective.

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JOSH ROGAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: All the other candidates on the stage have to make this basic choice. Do they go after Trump or do they try to ignore him. The way the debate is set up is if your name is mentioned, then you get a chance for 30 seconds to respond to every mention. So you'll have some candidates like Rick Perry who challenged Donald Trump to a pull-up contest last week who will take this strategy of just going at Trump and see what happens. Then you'll have other candidates like Ted Cruz who will try to avoid any interaction with Trump at all because he doesn't want to be in Trump's prospect (ph). That's why you see him resorting to things like shooting machine guns with bacon today.

VAUSE: I wonder if this type of format, though, does it actually work against Donald Trump. A candidate gets a certain a time to speak, and then they have to shut up. They have to listen. And they may not get the last word in. That doesn't seem to be very advantageous to Donald Trump.

ROGAN: Well, if there's one thing we've seen about the primary debates is that the rules go out the window, and usually when somebody speaks up, they let them finish their thought. So, it's going to be upon the moderators to try to wrangle these ten different personalities into their boxes. But it's really, no one really expects that that's going to happen. So what we're going to see is over the course of the two hours people challenge the rule, people challenge the challenges to the rules. And ultimately it's going to result in what is going to be TV mayhem.

VAUSE: And you talk about the strategy that some will engage. You said about the air time with presidential. Don't engage with Donald Trump. The old saying, if you ignore a bully, they'll leave you alone, but that doesn't apply to Donald Trump because he just doesn't quit.

ROGAN: Well, that he has nothing to lose. And for him, every attack is a positive, and every attack against him is also a positive. So there's really no strategy. You saw one of the leading advisers to one of the candidates tweet yesterday that how do you prepare for a NASCAR race when you know one of the drivers is driving drunk.

VAUSE: I guess that's also the added disadvantage, if you like, if they do try to take on Donald Trump they risk offending the people who really like Donald Trump, the supporters out there right now.

ROGAN: Well, yes. So you have a segment of the GOP, a base that is vying for those Trump votes. And that's why you see people on the far right like Ted Cruz really avoiding getting in to a Trump because they're going after the same voters. You have a lot of establishment candidates who are actually looking to appeal to a different part of the electorate. So they have more of an incentive to go after Trump.

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VAUSE: Josh Rogan there speaking to us in the last hour.

A major new challenger could soon join the Democratic race. Vice president Joe Biden is considering a run. It wouldn't be his first presidential campaign. But as Jeff Zeleny reports, there is growing support for him to try again.

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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm Joe Biden. I'm looking for a job.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Looking for a job, but the question for Joe Biden is, which one? He is long eyed the presidency and is still considering joining the 2016 race.

The summertime speculation has suddenly hit full boil over whether he'll challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. One factor weighing heavy. His son beau Biden urged his father to run before dying of brain cancer in May. And now, one of Beau Biden's close advisers is joining a grassroots movement called draft Biden. And the vice president is holding political meetings of his own with his old network of supporters to see if there is interest in backing a new campaign.

Questions about Clinton's candidacy hang over the Biden boom. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed only 37 percent viewed Clinton as honest and trustworthy while 57 percent did not. For Biden it was the reverse, 58 percent found him honest and trustworthy, 34 percent did not. New Hampshire Democrat Mary Carey Foley is all but begging Biden to run.

[01:15:02] MARY CAREY FOLEY, LONGTIME FRIEND OF BIDEN FAMILY: Hillary does have a problem with trust in this country right now. And I do believe that when and if he decides to run, Joe will add a new dimension to this race.

ZELENY: Biden has run for president twice before. He has never ruled out a third time. If he did, the gaffes would follow him into the race. Like this famous expletive right before President Obama signed the healthcare law. He told CNN's Gloria Borger last year he would make his own decision.

GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Will you run if she runs?

BIDEN: Absolutely. That's not the reason not to run or to run. The question is, am I convinced I am best positioned of anyone else to lead the country.

ZELENY: But Clinton has a big head start. She is airing her first TV commercials tomorrow.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I believe that when families are strong, America is strong. It's your time.

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VAUSE: Jeff Zeleny there with that report.

Two young children, a boy and a girl have been killed at a circus after a tent collapsed in New Hampshire Monday night. More than a dozen people were hurt. Authorities say about 100 people were inside the tent watching a performance when a severe thunderstorm with strong winds and large hail ripped through the area.

A short break. But when we come back, American war planes providing cover to U.S.-trained rebels in northern Syria. This comes as a new U.S. intelligence assessment has a troubling view of the current state of ISIS.

And in the Netherlands, homes are flooded in the wake of two collapsed cranes. We'll have the moment it happened after the break.

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[01:20:08] VAUSE: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM.

The man accused of gunning down a police officer in Memphis, Tennessee has turned himself in. Police have been looking for Tremaine Wilbourn since the shooting on Saturday night. He surrendered to federal authorities on Monday. Police say Officer Sean Bolton interrupted a drug deal when he approached an illegally parked car that Wilbourn was in. Officers say they were not going to rest until they found the man who shot their comrade.

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TONEY ARMSTRONG, DIRECTOR, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE POLICE: This has been an exhaustive search, boa both physically and mentally. We have literally -- this has been a round the clock investigation. We've always been one step behind him, where we one step ahead of him. I think he felt the walls closing in and that it would be in his best interest just to turn himself in.

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VAUSE: Wilbourn is expected to be arraigned later today. A classified U.S. intelligence report paints a grim view the war with

ISIS, suggesting the group may be just as strong now as it was a year ago. That despite thousands of airstrikes. It comes as U.S. war planes provide air cover for American trained rebels in Northern Syria.

Barbara Starr has more now from the Pentagon.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Smoke rising from a U.S. airstrike in northern Syria, launched to protect American- trained rebels under attack from an Al-Qaeda-linked group. The first strike since President Obama approved air cover to protect rebels under attack from any group. Al-Qaeda, the Assad regime, or ISIS, a hint of the expanded mission in the works for days.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think we have an obligation to support those fighters when they go in.

STARR: But what if the Assad regime attacks the U.S.-backed rebels?

MARK TONER, DEPUTY U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: We've cautioned Syria in the past not to engage U.S. aircraft, and the Syrian regime would similarly be advised not to interfere with new Syrian forces.

STARR: The strikes her in Northern Syria is the area in U.S. crosshairs. Airstrikes are being used to shut down the last major border crossing into Syria near Aleppo to keep fighters and weapons from getting to Raqqah, the ISIS stronghold.

LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: They are seeing more and more difficulty of getting their fighters into northern Syria.

STARR: Despite pure fighters, a classified intelligence assessment bleakly concludes ISIS is as strong as it was a year ago when airstrikes began. But it is no longer making huge advances on the ground. The number of fighters down slightly to 20,000 to 30,000. The Pentagon says that is progress.

But, in Iraq, even as the U.S. struck a facility making vehicle-borne bombs, the defense intelligence agency has its own grim assessment. One official saying, quote, "the situation between Iraq between Iraqi security forces and ISIL is in stalemate."

After nearly 6,000 airstrikes and a year in bombing in Syria and Iraq, fundamental questions of whether the strategy will ever be successful.

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VAUSE: That was Barbara Starr reporting in from the Pentagon.

We should add, though, U.S. military officials have long said that airstrikes alone would not be enough to defeat ISIS. Let's hope they were right.

At least 20 people have been hurt, some seriously in a construction accident in a Dutch town south of Amsterdam.

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VAUSE: The two massive cranes were moving part of a bridge when they came crashing down on homes along a canal. Town officials say it's still unclear if anyone is trapped in the wreckage. Search dogs have been brought in to look for victims and plans, there were plans to work through the night as well. The Dutch safety board is investigating.

The American civil liberties union has filed a law suit against a Kentucky sheriff's office after a video shows a deputy hand cuffing an 8-year-old boy.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can do what we've asked you to or --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That hurts!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sit down in the chair like I've asked you.

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VAUSE: The ACLU says the incident happened last fall at an elementary school in Covington, Kentucky. The lawsuit says the child here is ADHD, was not listening to instructions from his teacher and was removed from class. The suit goes on to say the school resource officer, whom we are not naming, put handcuffs around the child's upper arms to restrain him. The children's law center says this happened to another child as well and says they were being punished for behavior related to their disabilities.

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RICKELL HOWARD, CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: We would like for them to change their policies and practices. So this never happens to another child in elementary school again. Number two, we would like for proper training for these school resource officers on de-escalation techniques, especially when they're dealing with children request disabilities.

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VAUSE: The school district which is not named in the lawsuit told local media that the resource officers are there for the safety of the students and staff and quote "are not call withed upon by school district staff to punish or discipline a student who engages in a school-related offense."

CNN has been unable to get comment from the officer in that video or anyone who meeting representing him.

A short break here often CNN. When we come back, President Obama calls his new climate plan a major step in the fight against global warming, but critics say it's a grab for clean power. And also, the search for MH 370. We will tell you why the son of one

passenger says finding the plane will just not be enough.

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[01:30:00] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. The second half of our second hour, you are watching CNN NEWSROOM live all around the world. I'm John Vause. Let's check the headlines.

In California, thousands of firefighters are battling about two dozen wildfires across the state. The fire has scorched more than 134 acres, or 54,000 hectares. The largest is the Rocky Fire, still only 12 percent contained.

A forum in New Hampshire offered a preview of this week's debate between the Republican candidates for the U.S. presidency. 14 of the 17 candidates took questions from the moderator, but the front runner, Donald Trump, wasn't there.

The other story is a field of debris after a circus tent collapsed late Monday. Two people are dead, both of them children. A number of others have been hurt. About 100 people were there inside that tent watching a performance when a severe thunderstorm rolled through the area.

In India, a government spokesman says severe flooding has killed at least 178 people in recent days. At least 10 million have been affected by the rising waters. The rains come from a cyclone that made landfall in neighboring Bangladesh last week.

President Obama is unveiling his plan to fight climate change and it's taking aim at coal-burning fire plants.

But as Jim Acosta shows us, it's already facing an uphill battle.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pointing to wildfires raging out of control, droughts crippling the West, and the threat of thunderstorms, President Obama offered his remedy to the planet's weather worries.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If we don't get it right, we may not be able to reverse. I believe there is such a thing as being too late.

ACOSTA: The president's proposal dramatically curbed carbon emissions by nearly one third by the year 2030. The White House says the climate change data is undeniable, noting 14 of the 15 warmest years have come this century.

OBAMA: I don't want people's lives disrupted and this world more dangerous because we didn't do something about it. That'd be shameful of us.

ACOSTA: It's a legacy-defining issue President Obama has chased since he was a candidate.

OBAMA: This is the moment when the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begins to heal.

ACOSTA: But Republicans charge the unilateral changes through the EPA will kill jobs and drive up energy costs.

REP. MITCH MCCONNELL, (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: I'm not going to sit by while the White House takes aim at the lifeblood of our state's economy.

JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: For the first time, they've extended this to require states in a very coercive way.

ACOSTA: Democrats sense a potent issue, labeling GOP Republicans as climate deniers.

SCOTT WALKER, (R), WISCONSIN GOVERNOR & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you look at the last 15 to 20 years, I think most scientists, regardless what they believe is the larger question, would say that there hasn't been a notable change in recent times.

ACOSTA: Last year, Donald Trump tweeted, "This very expensive global warming bull has got to stop." With that kind of opposition, the White House is bracing for challenges that could last for years.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I have no doubt that special interests and the politicians who are in their pockets will fight tooth and nail against this specific rule.

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VAUSE: Senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, reporting in there.

The largest U.S. territory is now officially in default. Puerto Rico did not pay $58 million in debt that was due at the close of business on Monday. It's the first default in the island's history. The commonwealth's debt is as big as the state of New York, but the economy there is more than 17 times smaller. Puerto Rico's governor says the island's economy is in a debt spiral.

The number of deaths in New York's outbreak of Legionnaire's disease has risen to seven, according to the mayor's office, who says all the victims are older adults with other medical issues. At least 81 people have been sickened since the outbreak began late July. It is a flu-like bacterial the infection and spreads through mist.

The first banker to be tried in connection with a global conspiracy to fix global interest rates has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 35 year old Tom Hayes was convicted of eight counts. The charges centered around rigging the LIBOR used to finance mortgages and other products. It's worth trillions of dollars.

A warning from the International Olympic Committee, zero tolerance for any athletes found guilty of doping. New and widespread allegations are casting doubt on medalists not just from Olympics but world championships. And according to British and German media, a third of those who won medals from 2001 to 2012 had abnormal test results. And out of 5000 athletes, 800 had suspicious samples. To be clear, those results do not prove doping.

[01:35:14] International officials will meet in Toulouse, France, to discuss the airplane part which may have come from Malaysia Airlines flight 340 that was found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. And now it's in France for testing.

Details from Rene Marsh.

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RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION & GOVERNMENT REGULATION CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Reunion Island shore line is being searched, inch by inch. Every object that washes ashore, scrutinized by investigators looking for parts of the missing Malaysia Airliner. The hunt for even more aircraft debris has now expanded to nearby Mauritius Island.

CNN on board a boat with volunteers, looking for anything floating at sea that could belong to a plane. So far nothing, as promising as this find, which officials now confirm is a piece of a Boeing triple seven's wing.

LIOW TIONG LAI, MALAYSIA TRANSPORT MINISTER: It is a Boeing triple seven part. But whether it is MH 370 has yet to be verified.

MARSH: Wednesday, investigators had begun running tests to verify if it's part of the missing plane. The French lab where the flaperon will be examined has sophisticated equipment and experts to quickly identify which plane it belongs to. The paint is one of the many things they will examine.

Steve Wang's mother was on board the plane. He tells CNN's Will Ripley he still listens to her last voice mail. But even if this is confirmed to be part of the missing plane, Wang says it won't bring closure.

STEVE WANG, MOTHER WAS ON MH370: I think the only closure will come at the time when they find the plane and find everybody and find the truth.

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MARSH: Malaysian officials and French investigators met today in Paris ahead of Wednesday's tests, which could ultimately determine if this is the first piece of tangible evidence connected to aviation's biggest mystery.

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VAUSE: That was Rene Marsh reporting there.

And Boeing and U.S. transportation experts are expected to look at the flaperon at that lab today before Wednesday's testing gets under way.

In India, 11 people are dead, seven more are hurt after a residential building collapse in Mumbai. Officials do not believe anyone is trapped in the rubble. Local officials say the 56 year old building had been declared unsafe and residents had been notified. Another building in the same district came crashing down last week. Nine people died in that collapse.

In the United States, there's been an outpouring of love and grief in Kansas for a young batboy who died over the weekend. Kaiser Carlyle was accidently hit in the head by a practice swing in Wichita. The 9- year-old was wearing a helmet but was gravely injured. His family and teammates say he loved his job.

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ADAM ANDERSON, COACH: He came down to the ball park, he put on his uniform just like all of us. He had a smile on his face and he was a little ball of energy every single day.

CHAD CARLILE, KAISER'S FATHER: He loved it, as a family, and he told me, he's, like, dad, this is so awesome, you know, and the glow, and I just want everyone to know that there is no kind of remorse or anger towards what happened.

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VAUSE: And there was a moment of silence for Kaiser at the stadium where the baseball tournament was being held. Organizers have decided that they will not be using batboys or batgirls for the rest of the season.

A short break. When we come back, airliners have had too many close calls, and now the government is warning law enforcement agencies about the dangers of drones.

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[01:42:17] VAUSE: Marital update now. People getting divorced everywhere. Country music singer, Reba McIntire and her husband are calling it quits. They said they've been separated for a few years, Blackstock is McIntire's manager. They plan to continue working together, awkward. They have one son together. It doesn't stop there. Another celebrity duo going separate ways, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issues a warning about drones has been issued to law enforcement agencies. They said drones could be used for terrorism.

As Pamela Brown reports, the notice was prompted by too many close calls.

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The warning about drones detailed in a Department of Homeland Security bulletin to police comes on the heels of a series of close calls between unmanned aircraft and passenger planes. Overnight, the pilots of a shuttle America flight reported seeing a drone near the wing just as it was landing at New York's JFK.

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CONTROL: Flight 5911, continue straight ahead on Bravo and monitor ground to the left.

PILOT: Bravo. That drone is on the edge of the runway.

CONTROL: Say again.

PILOT: That drone is on the edge of the runway.

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BROWN: Sunday's incident was the third in three days over New York skies. Drones coming dangerously close to planes.

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PILOT: About a mile back there was a drone flying just under the southwest side of this abandoned airport here.

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BROWN: On Friday, the crew of Delta 407 with more than 150 on board told air traffic control it spotted a drone as it was over an old airfield where drones are not allowed.

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CONTROL: Where did you say that was?

PILOT: I would say about 100 feet below the right wing.

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BROWN: That same day, a JetBlue flight was surprised by a drone passing just below its nose.

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PILOT: It was one of those four-bladed drones, but the color or direction, I'm not sure, ma'am.

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BROWN: Today, New York Senator Chuck Schumer said he's had enough and wants the Federal Aviation Administration to require all drones to carry software that keeps them out of the way of planes.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D), NEW YORK: You can build into the software of a drone at nominal cost a program that doesn't let them fly in certain places within two miles of an airport, over the Empire State Building or the Pentagon. It's cheap. It doesn't interfere with hobbyists and others who want drones or need drones, and it will help solve the problem.

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[01:45:06] VAUSE: Well, Delta and American Airlines say they will no longer allow certain big game trophies on their planes. They won't transport lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies. The announcement follows international protest over the killing of a famous lion named Cecil.

Zimbabwe officials are calling for the extradition of the American man accused of killing Cecil. Now they say a second man was involved in a second illegal hunt.

Details from David McKenzie.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Zimbabwe officials have named a second American they say was involved in an illegal hunt earlier this year. They've pulled in the safari owner and arrested him and put him in for questioning and they say a Pennsylvania doctor was involved in this hunt but haven't accused him of anything directly.

Of course, they're still trying to extradite Dr. Walt Palmer for killing Cecil the lion. It's probably unlikely they'll manage to do that. And there is some sense that politics is playing a role here. Zimbabwean and U.S. relations are in a tense period. There are questions about why they are naming a second American now so many months after this event allegedly took place.

David McKenzie, CNN, Johannesburg.

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VAUSE: Still to come, U.S. presidential hopeful, Ted Cruz, uses a gun to cook bacon.

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[01:50:31] VAUSE: And welcome back. A new voice is joining America's gun control debate. Comedian Amy Schumer appeared with her cousin, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, on Monday as he unveiled new legislation to combat gun violence. The actor says it's time to put an end to these tragedies which happen too often.

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AMY SCHUMER, COMEDIAN: When I heard about this news I was completely devastated, and I wanted to just go down to Louisiana. And then I was angry. My heart goes out to Jillian and Mayci, to the survivors, to the families, and everyone who is tied to this tragic, senseless and horrifying actions of this man who shouldn't have been able to get his hands on a gun in the first place. I'm not sure why this man chose my movie to put an end to these beautiful lives but it was very personal to me.

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VAUSE: The gunman killed two people and injured others during a showing of the new movie "Train Wreck". It happened last month.

Wednesday marks five years since a mine collapsed in Chili and trapped 33 men underground.

Jorge Galleguillos was one recued and he says he can't shake the experience from his mind, and he recounts the moments in a new CNN documentary. Here's a clip.

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ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That morning, is there something different?

JORGE GALLEGUILLOS, CHILEAN MINER (through translation): The mine was rumbling. There were large crashes in the ceiling and on the floor in several places.

FLORES (voice-over): Jorge says he's been complaining for weeks but continues working at the mine, because there are few options for a miner like him, older, not in the best of health.

Just before lunch, Jorge asks the mine's driver to take him to the surface for a spare part. The two men don't know it, but around 1:40 --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a crack, it was almost like a warning crack. It sent just a wave of dust through the tunnel.

FLORES: On their way back down in the truck, Jorge notices something very strange.

GALLEGUILLOS (through translation): I would describe like a wide butterfly fell, like a piece of paper, shooting like this, not straight down.

FLORES: Most likely, it's a bit of white quartz, chipped off by the pressure of shifting rock. But in local culture, a white animal is a sign god is present.

UNIDENTIFIED MALES: Then there was a second crack which sounded like the entire mountain had just collapsed upon them.

FLORES: What did you see?

GALLEGUILLOS: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FLORES: Lots of dust, you couldn't see anything?

GALLEGUILLOS: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FLORES: Like a rumbling? GALLEGUILLOS: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FLORES: Like an earthquake?

GALLEGUILLOS: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FLORES: Your driver told you this is it?

GALLEGUILLOS (through translation): At that moment, I saw my six-day- old grandson in my arms and my mother right in front of me.

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VAUSE: A sneak peek there of our documentary, "A Miner Miracle." Viewers in the U.S. will be able to watch it Tuesday at 9:00. And for international viewers, it will air at various times on Saturday and Sunday, only here on CNN. There are some incredible images now of a famous Australian stuntman

pushing himself to a new level. Take a look at Robbie Madison catching a wave. That is not a surfboard. It's a motorbike. He fixed skis to the tires. It's compelling to watch, oddly enough. So, there he goes.

Speaking of oddly compelling to watch, Texas Senator and U.S. presidential hopeful, Ted Cruz, has released a video showing some unusual cooking skills. He doesn't use a frying pan. He has something a little more powerful in mind. Take a look.

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SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), TEXAS & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Of course, in Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks.

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CRUZ: There's grease coming down.

Machine gun bacon.

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[01:55:07] VAUSE: There you have it. President Ted Cruz.

Thank you for watching. I'm John Vause.

CNN NEWSROOM continues next hour with Errol Barnett. Thanks for watching. I'll see you tomorrow.

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[02:00:04] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Volunteers continue to search small islands for any debris that might be from MH370.

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