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Many Syrian Migrants Start Out in Turkey; Oscar Pistorius' Parole Put on Hold; Crippling Drought Hits Europe; Ashley Madison Hackers Reveal Customer Data; Former Subway Pitchman Jared Fogle Pleads Guilty; Thailand Police Believe 10 Involved in Bombing; People Warned Not to Travel to Bangkok; Car Bomb Explodes Outside Cairo; Fatal Shooting in St. Louis Triggers Unrest; Trump, Bush Hold Dueling Rallies; Donald Trump Talks Immigration Plan; Russia to Sell Missile Defense System to Iran. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 19, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:01] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: And Trump versus Bush. The two top presidential candidates hold dueling rallies in the key state of New Hampshire.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. A big welcome to our viewers in the states and tuned in from all around the globe. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

cThe Thai police chief says at least 10 people were involved in Monday's Bangkok bombing.

BARNETT: They also say the attack had been planned at least a month. Prior to that announcement, police were looking for three suspects. Thai police are asking for Interpol's help in this case.

CHURCH: Our Saima Mohsin joins us now live from Bangkok.

Saima, we are now learning, as we have just reported, that police in Thailand believe at least 10 people were involved in Monday's deadly bombing and it was planned for at least a month. How do they know this and do they have any idea, then, who these people are?

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: To be honest, I am not sure how they know that. We were working incredibly hard. A lot of updates Wednesday late evening, last night for us here coming from the police to myself and the team here. But we don't know how they know there are 10 people involved. I guess they are trying to figure out how someone could plan this kind of sophisticated bomb, how they could have made it, how they could have decide where had to put it and that's why they are deciding it is more than one person. They believe that the man in the yellow T-shirt was not operating alone. He had two accomplices at least inside the shrine at the time. If we show you around there, there is a barrier there. That's where the bomb went off. That man in the yellow T-shirt planted the bomb there. And in front of him, Rosemary, clearly on CCTV footage there are two men who stand up right in front of him one wearing a red T-shirt and one in a white T-shirt. The police spokesman believes they were two accomplices with him, standing around him to protect him and hide him while he was planting that bomb -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: And, Saima, Thai police have asked for help from the world's largest police organization, Interpol. What does that tell us?

MOHSIN: They are looking at every and any possibility. They have told us they are not -- still in the country. Have they left? They are looking for help not just from Interpol but any country that can help is what they said. They are grasping at straws because they still don't have a name. They still don't have identification, particularly of the main suspect in that yellow T-shirt. They released a sketch of him. That, I believe is based on various witnesses including the motor bike taxi driver that my team spoke to yesterday saying he picked him up a few hundred meters down this main road outside a hospital and took him to a park. He didn't speak to him but on the way he did speak on the phone. He spoke in a language that the motor bike taxi driver told us is not Thai and not English. So beyond that, if it is indeed a foreign language, they are looking at airport CCTV. They have used a lot of the CCTV that is around this city center but now they are look beyond that, around the area, other major areas in Bangkok and airport CCTV and asking every country that can help to do so -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: They have offered a hefty reward there. There is footage, at least. Let's hope that in some way they can find the suspects involved.

Saima Mohsin, reporting live from Bangkok, thanks to you.

BARNETT: Travel officials in Taiwan and Hong Kong are warning people not to go to Bangkok after that explosion.

CHURCH: But critics say it only hurts the people of Thailand even more.

CNN's Anna Coren reports.

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ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A family returns home to Taiwan after a holiday in Thailand ended in tragedy. This man told local media he and his daughters suffered deep injuries to their legs after an explosion at the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): My daughter and I dragged ourselves all the way to the Louis Vuitton shop on the corner. Both of our legs were bleeding and we couldn't move at all. Other people were yelling while carrying us.

[02:05:00] COREN: They are among scores of people injured in the blast that claimed at least 20 lives.

Taiwan is advising travelers against unnecessary travel to Bangkok. Hong Kong has issued the same warning to its residents. And Hong Kong's Travel Industry Council has cancelled tours to the Thai capitol until the end of the month.

But the main source of tourism in Thailand is, by far, from China. There were four million arrivals in the first half of this year and they poured over $5 billion into the economy.

The head of the U.N. World Travel Organization says terrorists are targeting places popular among tourists.

TALEB RIFAI, SECRETARY-GENERAL, U.N. WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION: The only way to counter that is not to let them win. The only way to do it is to be aware that this is exactly what they have in mind. They have in mind to hurt us, hurt our economy and the tourism industry. And by doing that they are destroying the livelihood of people and destroying some of the most cherished and some of the most worked for achievements of these societies. We should never allow that to happen. We should continue to travel to Thailand and other places because we need to prove that they cannot defeat us.

COREN: Taleb Rifai also says he is ready to take his family to Thailand immediately. But it remains to be seen whether other tourists will share that same confidence.

Anna Coren, CNN, Hong Kong.

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CHURCH: We turn now to Egypt where a powerful car bomb has exploded just outside of the country's capital of Cairo.

BARNETT: This massive explosion happened near a national security building and a courthouse. Egyptian interior officials say the driver parked the car in front of the building and was picked up by someone on a motorcycle before fleeing the scene.

CHURCH: Six policemen were wounded in that blast and are being treated at a local hospital.

Earlier, we spoke to Bill True (ph), a reporter from "The Times of London," who was jolted awake by the force of the blast.

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BILL TRUE (ph), REPORTER, THE TIMES OF LONDON: It was an enormous explosion heard across the greater capital several kilometers from the blast site, shaking people awake and smashing windows and damaging residential buildings near the actual bomb blast, in an area 10 kilometers north of the center of the capital in front of the security directorate building and nearby courthouse.

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CHURCH: Security forces have cordoned off the area around the blast zone and continue to investigate.

BARNETT: A fatal police shooting in St. Louis has triggered another night of unrest there. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

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CHURCH: Police fired smoke and tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters. Demonstrators had gathered where police shot and killed an African-American suspect earlier. Police say the 18-year-old pointed a gun at officers when they arrived with the search warrant. An investigation into the shooting is underway. This comes just over a year after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white officer in a St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

The police chief says the initial protests of the shooting were peaceful but that changed.

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SAM DOTSON, CHIEF, ST. LOUIS POLICE DEPARTMENT: Just as the officers were about to respond to make a few additional arrests the group marched into the central west end to Kings Highway, blocking Kings Highway, and ultimately back to the intersection of Paige and Walton. At that intersection of Paige and Walton, they blocked the intersection. As the officers approached them to ask them to leave the intersection, glass bottles started to be thrown at officers, bricks started to be thrown at officers. Officers had to use shields to protect themselves from the objects being thrown at them.

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BARNETT: The chief says a car was also set on fire and businesses broken into. This image shows police and firefighters at a burning building. There will be an increased police presence at the scene overnight in the overnight hours.

A wildfire in the U.S. state of Washington has killed three firefighters and injured four others. Washington's governor says the firefighters died while battling flames.

CHURCH: Authorities have evacuated that town near nearby Winthrop and other cities as wildfires close in. This summer, wildfires have burned 750,000 acres or 300,000 hectares in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana.

We turn now to the hotly contested political race for U.S. president. The top two Republican presidential contenders took jabs at each other as they hosted dueling town meetings in New Hampshire on Wednesday.

BARNETT: Donald Trump's and Jeb Bush's events were held at the same time and not too far apart.

But let's first go to CNN's Sarah Murray covering Trump in New Hampshire.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) [02:10:00] SARAH MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump held his first town hall since becoming a presidential candidate and he drew a big crowd, filling this room with about 900 people, just to pepper the GOP front runner with questions. And the questions ran from immigration to illegal drug use and whether he has too much hubris to be president.

Trump slammed Jeb Bush on Common Core, said he was a low-energy candidate, and even went after the crowd size at the Bush event tonight, evening going so far as to wonder whether Jeb Bush is electable. Take a listen.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Have I got under Jeb Bush's skin? I don't know. You mention the word skin. He said the other day, one of the dumber things I've heard ever in politics when talking about Iraq, that we, the United States, he said, have to show them that we have skin in the game in order to go into Iraq. We have lost $2 trillion, thousands of lives, wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place, and he is talking about we have to show them we have skin in the game.

MURRAY: And Donald Trump gives a little hint of what to expect from him later this week. And his next stop is Alabama and he is expecting tens of thousands of people to show up there. An aide to the campaign says they are moving the event to a football stadium.

Sarah Murray, CNN, Derry, New Hampshire.

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CHURCH: As we reported, U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, held a town hall meeting just down the road from Donald Trump's event on Wednesday. Bush used that opportunity to attack the billionaire front runner. Listen.

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JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: People are going to vote for a conservative leader that's done it, not talked about it, and I have a proven conservative record, consistent proven conservative record. When no one was watching. Long-time proven conservative record. Mr. Trump does not have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican. He has given more money to Democrats than he's given to Republicans.

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BARNETT: And still, Donald Trump is leading in the polls among Republicans. Since Donald Trump announced his campaign in late June, he has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading national polls. And now for the first time in a CNN/ORC poll, his gains have boosted him enough to be competitive in the general election. Take a look at this. Our poll showing Hillary Clinton is just six points ahead of Trump. A dramatic tightening since July. Last month, she was ahead by 16 points. CHURCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo had a chance to interview Donald Trump

before his town hall meeting in New Hampshire. The Republican billionaire defended his controversial immigration plan calling it, quote, "the right thing to do." Take a listen.

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST, NEW DAY: Immigration, you have people in the GOP worried that you're going to alienate -- excuse the pun, the Hispanic population.

TRUMP: I have to do the right thing. Chris, I have to do the right thing.

CUOMO: Pulling the birthright exception that may be constitutionally dubious. You shouldn't be taking such an extreme position. What do you say?

TRUMP: I have to do the right thing. This country is to politically correct, no one wants to take a stance on anything. I'm the one that brought up -- I took a lot of heat. You gave it to me, too. You were one of the leaders that first week and week and a half after I made the announcements. And a lot of people, including yourselves, were not reading it the way I said it, and that's now fact. I have been complimented by some of the people -- because I brought up the thing of illegal immigration. I bet you wouldn't be asking that question if I had not put that in my opening statement.

CUOMO: You certainly changed the nature of the dialogue. I'll give you that. And I would never certainly take you out of context.

TRUMP: I know. I know. I'm saying many people did.

CUOMO: Would you then go --

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TRUMP: At some point -- look, at some point, we have to be honest with ourselves. It's called -- now they like to use the word "undocumented" because it's more political. I don't use that word. They are illegal immigrants. They came over illegally. Some are wonderful people and they have been here for a while. They have to go out.

CUOMO: How do you do it in a practical way? You can round up 11 million people.

TRUMP: At some point, we will try to get the good ones back, the good ones. There are a lot of good ones.

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CUOMO: That's a mixed message. You say you are going to get rid of whole families. Then you say you want them back.

TRUMP: They're illegal. We have a country. We have to have a border. We have to have a wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I get a kick out of people who can't negotiate --

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CUOMO: They are not going to pay for a $4 billion wall. Why would they say yes?

TRUMP: They make a fortune with us. Our companies are moving into Mexico more than any other place right now. We're losing our industry and business to Mexico. Their leaders are smart as hell. I mean, 300,000 -- I looked at your show. 300,000 births this year, illegals in our country. That means we picked up 300,000 people that are going to get Social Security. You have people on the border and they walk over and have a baby, and now we are supposed to --

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[02:15:23] CUOMO: The citizenship for those babies you would revoke it --

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CUOMO: -- now and retroactively?

TRUMP: Number one, the 14th Amendment is questionable about whether someone can come over, have a baby, and immediately that baby is a citizen, OK?

CUOMO: The court has pretty much said --

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CUOMO: -- this is a minority legal opinion you are talking about.

TRUMP: Chris, there are many people that totally feel that --

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CUOMO: They want it that way.

TRUMP: Amending is too big a deal. I would be in my second term and eighth year by the time -- assuming everything went smoothly because to amend the Constitution --

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CUOMO: Takes a long time.

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TRUMP: I believe you can win it legally, OK? I believe you can win it legally.

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BARNETT: There was much more discussed in that conversation. For those of you viewing this from outside the U.S., you can see the full interview when we air it in a few hours. 7:00 p.m. if you're in Hong Kong. Noon if you're in London. Right here on CNN.

CHURCH: The U.S. has its objections, but Russia is moving forward with an arms deal. What weapons like this could mean for the U.S. and Iran's air space just ahead.

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[02:20:32] BARNETT: Many are paying tribute to an elderly scholar who spent decades preserving Syria's cultural history and died protecting it. Syria's antiquities director says that ISIS beheaded Khalid al Asaad for refusing to give up the location of treasures. Al Asaad was a former general manager of antiquities in museums in the ancient city of Palmyra.

CHURCH: The terror group now occupies Palmyra and its ruins that date back 2,000 years. An expert talked about al Asaad's contribution to the area.

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ERIN THOMPSON, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART, JOHN JAY COLLEGE: He was beloved by many. He had 11 children. And many former students and colleagues are on social media mourning his passing now. He was born near the ancient site and worked on it for his entire life and was really a key figure in opening the site to tourism and giving a boost to the local economy.

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CHURCH: Messages are pouring in on social media honoring al Asaad. One wrote, "Thank you for your bravery, Doctor, in the face of these monsters." And another posted, "He paid with his own life for the love and respect for the culture and the history of mankind." Khalid al Asaad was 82 years old.

U.S. officials are expressing concern tat Russia is ready to sell an advanced air defense system to Iran.

BARNETT: This comes as they question Russian President Vladimir Putin's motives.

Barbara Starr brings us this story.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On parade in Moscow, the advanced S-300 missile defense system. Its next stop may be Tehran.

JOHN KIRBY, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: We are making clear our objections to any sale of this missile system to Iran for quite some time and we'll continue to monitor it closely.

STARR: In Iranian hands, the S-300 could mean U.S. and Israeli war planes likely could not sneak undetected into Iranian air space if they wanted to bomb Iran's nuclear weapons sites. Bombing the S-300 radar and missiles first, gives the Iranians warning an attack is on the way.

While the U.S. says the sale is legal under U.N. resolutions, the State Department is not backing down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to know more about this proposed transfer to determine whether any domestic sanction proms may be implicated.

STARR: Secretary of State John Kerry raising concerns with the Russians that Revolutionary Guard commander recently traveled to Moscow. The U.S. doesn't know if he was there to finalize the deal.

MICHAEL O'HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: The air space will be more tense and filled up with more radar beams, if you will, invisible, and yet ever present, and they will be -- they will be radar signals we can't easily stop or evade.

STARR: Russian meddling in the Middle East and Europe, infuriating to the U.S.

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STARR: This comes as 5,000 troops from the U.S. and NATO are conducting the largest airborne training exercise in Europe since the Cold War, making sure they can jump into a battle under fire and fight together.

LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Along with diplomatic tools and economic tools, I think Russia certainly has the message.

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STARR: But with Russian-backed violence in eastern Ukraine escalating, Putin may not be listening. He has been busy, polishing up his action-man image with a new adventure, descending in a submersible mini sub in Crimea, the territory occupied by the Russians for over a year.

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CHURCH: That was Barbara Starr, our Pentagon correspondent reporting.

BARNETT: Let's check other news now. The data recorder belonging to a passenger plane that crashed in Indonesia this week is still missing but the plane's voice recorder has been found. The Tragana Air flight crashed Sunday during a short domestic flight, killing all 54 people on board.

CHURCH: A deputy director for the search-and-rescue agency said that both recorders were found, but corrected that Wednesday.

Let's turn to China now where angry Tianjin homeowners confronted Tianjin's mayor demanding that the government buy their homes. Last week's explosions have contaminated the area, making it unsafe to live there. The mayor said there will be no leniency for those responsible for the blast. [02:25:13] BARNETT: Hazmat workers are trying to clean up a

dangerous mix of toxins left behind. Chinese state media report executives of the chemical warehouse used political connections to gain government approvals for the site. At least 114 people died in the explosions.

Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, the latest on the migrant crisis.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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DAMON: That's the boat that we were filming.

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BARNETT: Our CNN crew is there for the dramatic moments at sea as the Turkish Coast Guard catches up with a boat full of Syrian migrants heading for Greece.

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BARNETT: A warm welcome back to our viewers here in the states and those tuned in from around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. We want to update the main stories this hour.

A spokesman says Monday's Bangkok bombing is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism. "Time Media" read the statement just a short while ago.

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UNIDENTIFIED NEWS ANCHOR: Security has collaborated with intelligence agencies from aligned countries and have come to the same preliminary conclusion that the incident is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism and that Chinese terrorists were not the direct target.

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[02:29:59] CHURCH: Thailand's police chief says at least 10 people were involved in Monday's Bangkok bombing and that the attack had been planned for at least a month. Prior to that announcement, police were only looking for three suspects. Thai police are asking for Interpol's help in the case. 20 people were killed and at least 120 wounded in Monday's bombing.

BARNETT: A powerful car bomb has exploded in a Cairo suburb wounding six police officers. It happened near a national security building and a courthouse. Just before the blast the driver of the car jumped out and was picked up by someone on a motorcycle.

CHURCH: Nine protesters are under arrest and there's an increased police presence in St. Louis, Missouri, after a fatal police shooting. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of demonstrators. They threw bottles and bricks at officers. A car was set on fire and businesses were broken into.

BARNETT: Archbishop Desmond Tutu will remain in a hospital as he receives an antibiotic treatment. He was admitted Monday for an undisclosed inflammation. He's battle prostate cancer for years. He has also wrestled with a persistent infection in recent weeks.

CHURCH: We turn now to the deepening migrant crisis in Europe. In about an hour from now, a number of European ministers will begin a day of meetings to try to get human smuggling under control.

BARNETT: First, the ministers will head to the channel tunnel in France and will discuss Britain and France's cooperation in illegal immigration.

CHURCH: Turkey has become the jumping off point for migrants from Syria. Migrants risk their lives to find a new home across the sea.

BARNETT: It's not far but it's dangerous.

CNN's senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon, has more.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A rubber dingy packed with migrants takes on the Coast Guard, ignoring the Coast Guard's warning, glaring spotlight and orders to return to shore. Then, lost from view.

Just before dawn, we are on the same waters.

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DAMON (on camera): (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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DAMON: That's the boat we were filming.

(voice-over): The Turkish Coast Guard asks our captain for help, towing the migrants to shore. They are Syrians, shouting they don't have a motor anymore and want to return to dry land.

"Help us, help us," the men cry out as our captain tosses a rope. The Coast Guard had chased them for two hours and finally, the migrants say, threatened to sink their boat if they did not drop their motor. Then the Coast Guard towed the dingy as close to shore as their ship would allow.

60 migrants crammed together, clutching their life vests and inner tubes, their faces telling of tragedy and dejection, but also the relief of still being alive when so many have perished.

On shore, most disappear in to waiting taxis. One young man bitterly says, "If death wasn't chasing us, we would not be trying this."

All night they had been aiming for the twinkling lights of the Greek's of Kos in the distance, their gateway to Europe, now a dream left for another day.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Turkey.

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CHURCH: And I want to show you this video from moments ago, in fact. Look at this. Another example of a cruise ship landing in Greece carrying hundreds of migrants. This one in the port city. Hundreds on the top there. But you can see if you take the broader shot there, this is about four levels of people all there on that cruise ship. Keeping an eye on this story.

BARNETT: Oscar Pistorius will remain in jail now that his parole is on hold.

CHURCH: On Wednesday, South Africa's justice minister ordered it to be reviewed saying the decision on his release came too early. The Olympic athlete has served 10 months for culpable homicide in the killing of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

BARNETT: For the latest on all of this, let's bring in David McKenzie.

David, during the Pistorius trial, the questions were surrounding whether he would receive fair treatment and be seen equally under the law. Now that we have a sense of what is happening behind bars, how does it look?

[02:35:00] DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Certainly, Errol, this statement and movement by the prison boss who is the minister of justice and correctional services is a dramatic U-turn and it means that Oscar Pistorius will be behind bars for some time longer. We don't know quite what. But while he has been 10 months in prison, it's been difficult to get any sense of what's happened. But we got a rare look inside Oscar Pistorius' life in that maximum security prison.

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MCKENZIE (voice-over): A pre soccer matchup of Oscar Pistorius and a Czech mob boss. They shared a prison wing for a time. This cell phone footage, a rare look inside of Pistorius' 10 months locked away until now.

UNIDENTIFIED INDEPENDENT PRISON INSPECTOR: It feels unbelievable.

MCKENZIE: Their job is to listen to prisoner concerns. They talk to more than 40 a day. One of their assigned inmates, Oscar Pistorius.

VIOLET NGOBENI, INDEPENDENT PRISON INSPECTOR: First time I went to see him, he said, I won't want to talk to anyone.

MCKENZIE (on camera): Just a few days ago, they went behind the prison walls to meet with Pistorius for the final time. They say his demeanor has changed.

NGOBENI: Now we can sit down and discuss and laugh at the same time.

MCKENZIE: Their manager, at the Independent Judicial Inspectorate, sees hundreds of prisoner complaints each day. He saw more than a few from Pistorius.

MURASIET MENTOOR, JUDICIAL INSPECTORATE FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES: He complained about bath.

MCKENZIE (on camera): He wanted a bath.

MENTOOR: Yeah. So the services provided him with a bath. And he couldn't shower. He also had a complaint about his bed.

MCKENZIE (voice-over): A world class athlete, Pistorius complained about gym equipment, too. It was installed.

And while most prisoners complain about the food, it is rarely because of fear.

MENTOOR: Oscar was worried the food in the prison might be poisoned.

MCKENZIE: So Pistorius would only buy food from the prison store, he says.

In this overcrowded prison, 50 inmates often squeeze in to a single cell, sharing one toilet and a basin.

NGOBENI: Always fighting. Always fighting for food, for bath.

MCKENZIE: But Pistorius had his own cell for his safety because high- profile prisoners have been attacked here before.

MENTOOR: If you are a high-profile inmate, people will take advantage of the situation.

MCKENZIE (on camera): They will target you?

MENTOOR: They will target you, that's correct.

MCKENZIE (voice-over): Taking every precaution to keep South Africa's disgraced icon safe.

David McKenzie, CNN, South Africa.

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MCKENZIE: The question is did he get or has he gotten preferential treatment in the prison? It's complicated. As a high-profile prisoner he could be at risk in the general population and prisoners of that nature have been attacked before. But when we asked them whether his complaints were seen to more quickly than other prisoners, the answer was an emphatic, yes -- Errol?

BARNETT: David McKenzie with insight into the prison life of Oscar Pistorius. Thanks.

CHURCH: After what has already been a long and hot summer, parts of Europe are now in the midst of a crippling drought.

And our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now to talk about that.

For a lot of us, it's weird to talk Europe and drought.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I'm seeing some of the numbers and it's comparable to southern California as far as the severity, the extent and the cost to farmers. $2.5 to $3 billion of losses are expected in California because of the drought. In Germany and Poland the numbers are close because of the lack of production this year and the heat. And want to show you what is happening with video coming out of Poland. That is Warsaw in the background. What you are seeing are the lowest river levels since the 1800s in Poland. Water levels are so low that officials have put out over 100,000 square feet of trash because of the drought in place there. We know the wheat is limited. Asparagus and apples could cost the farmers millions of dollars. We go down the longest river in Poland and the perspective is dire when you look at how long they have had observations for the river gauges and it's among the lowest since the 1880s. But high pressure is large and in charge. And we talk about it. It causes the air to sink. It dries it and compresses it and warms it. And this is March 2015. And Germany what you're looking at, dry to moderate drought in place. You fast forward to May, it drops to severe to extreme. And then exceptional enters the picture in the top of the charts in the droughts. That is what is happening over portions of Germany. The wheat production is 30 percent less. A serious concern for feed for cattle and livestock over this region.

You know what is happening in California. I want to show you Nevada. This is out of Lake Mead. Satellite imagery from July 2010, Las Vegas in the left corner of the screen. And watch Lake Mead shrink. With Vegas on the left-hand side and Vegas expanding in population and you go from 2000 to 2015 and you see Lake Mead become considerably smaller. The drought situation in California, Nevada and Germany as well.

[02:40:52] BARNETT: Enough drought to go around, I guess.

CHURCH: Yes.

JAVAHERI: Looks that way.

BARNETT: Pedram, thanks.

JAVAHERI: Thank you.

BARNETT: Now, he gained fame by losing weight, eating Subway sandwiches, becoming a poster boy for the fast-food chain.

CHURCH: He is admitting to paying for sex with underage girls. The plea deal and his punishment. We're back with that.

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CHURCH: Hackers have followed through on their threat to release a whole lot of data from the website, Ashley Madison. It's a site that makes no secret about what you're signing up for.

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BARNETT: And that is one of their commercials. The website's slogan is "Life is short, have an affair."

Well, now, millions of cheaters have been exposed. Databases of names, e-mails and sexual preferences are making their way to main stream websites.

Our Laura Segall did some digging.

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[02:45:00] LAURA SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ashley Madison is site devoted to the wandering eye. Everyone who is thinking about having an affair can go on the site, sign up, and find someone else who is interested. At the end of the day, it has millions of users. So a lot of people are interested.

About a month ago, hackers threatened to release a lot of personal information. They said they were able to breach the servers and get sensitive user data and said, "If you don't shut down the site, we're going to post all of this data." Hackers made good on the promise and decided to do a huge data dump, 10 gigabytes on the dark web. 33 million accounts, 36 million e-mails addresses.

So when we're sorting through the data, we saw 15,000 dot-gov, dot- military e-mail addresses.

You have to take that with a grain of salt because a lot of people make up their e-mail addresses when they're signing up for the site because it's a sensitive site.

What they can't make up was also released, which is payment information that reveals telling things, like your home address, your phone number.

They were also able to get internal data from the company. We are looking at bank account information and internal memos.

I spoke to one security expert and he said hackers essentially owned the server. They did a ton of damage.

So who is behind this? We don't know a lot about the group claiming to take credit. It's called The Impact Group. They said these people are immoral and Ashley Madison promises to keep their data safe and they are not doing that. They said, quote, "Find yourself in here, learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it."

So what's next for Ashley Madison? Right now, the company is doing damage control and trying to find the people behind this hack. They haven't been able to do that. Representatives from Ashley Madison have said, "Whether or not you believe in what we do and what we stand for, hacking is a criminal act and this is personal information that has been put out there on the web, ripe for identity left, and at home, there might be some people to see if their significant other is on this site."

When we look at the site, they claim to have 40 million users. We don't know if that is necessarily true. That is a lot of people using a site devoted to infidelity.

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BARNETT: That's an important point Laura just made.

CHURCH: Yes.

BARNETT: There is a lot of heartbreak happening as people wonder, is my partner or spouse on there? And some are finding the truth. It's a shame.

CHURCH: Yeah. It's very unfortunate. Extraordinary, really. And the advertisement --

BARNETT: It's sick, isn't it?

CHURCH: Yes.

BARNETT: Moving on here, the Subway restaurant chain has stores in 110 nations. Many of you may know Subway's former pitchman, Jared Fogle, who got famous after losing weight after eating their sandwiches. Now he faces prison time on child pornography charges.

Ryan Young has details.

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RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 15 years, Jared Fogle was one of America's biggest pitchman. But the cameras were not welcome after the father of the two pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography.

JOSH MINKLER, U.S. ATTORNEY, INDIANA'S SOUTHERN DISTRICT: This is about using wealth, status and secrecy to illegally exploit children.

YOUNG: According to court documents, Fogle traveled from Indiana to New York at least twice to have sex with minors. In 2012, at the Plaza Hotel in New York, documents state Fogle had sex with a 17-year- old prostitute and later asked her to introduce her to more girls. Documents say Fogle told her he would accept a 16-year-old, the younger the girl, the better.

DOUG CARTER, INDIANA STATE POLICE: I cannot think of anything more repugnant than sexually victimizing a child.

JARED FOGLE, FORMER SUBWAY PITCHMAN: I'm Jared, the Subway guy, and this is my story.

YOUNG: The 37-year-old's squeaky clean image now erased. His wife, in a statement, saying she is leaving him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Remember Jared from Subway?

YOUNG: Fogle first became Subway spokesman in 2000 after claiming to have lost 245 pounds from eating Subway sandwiches and exercise. From there, it was hard to miss Jared on TV.

FOGLE: What is that?

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YOUNG: Appearing in hundreds of commercials with big-name stars, helping Jared Fogle to earn an estimated $15 million, but that came to an end, when Russell Taylor, the head of the Jared Foundation, Fogle's charity, was arrested this year. Agents said Taylor used cameras to capture unknown images of unknowing minors changing clothes, showering and bathing in his home, and then he distributed the images to Fogle and others.

As part of a plea deal, Fogle must pay $100,000 to each of the 14 victims, who were either secretly photographed or paid for sex, and spend between five and 15 years in prison.

[02:50:00] (on camera): Jared Fogle became famous for being a Subway pitchman. It is believed that his estimated worth is $15 million. But in this case, you can see how some of this was laid out.

His wife says she is going to leave him after all these allegations are coming out. And Subway is no longer associated with Jared Fogle.

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CHURCH: Ryan Young reporting from Indianapolis.

And we will be right back.

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BARNETT: What was supposed to be a quick stop for a snack turned into a robbery attempt on a Nashville woman, but she was not giving up without a fight. And some good Samaritans stepped in to help.

CHURCH: Erika Lathon reports that while everyone waited for police to arrive, the victim had a special message for the suspect.

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ERIKA LATHON, REPORTER, WZTV (voice-over): A quick stop between appointments.

TEMPRA MOSKEY, ROBBERY VICTIM: Came out, unlocked my car, set my purse here.

LATHON: When she turned around --

MOSKEY: Saw the gentleman with my purse, scarf and Krispy Kremes taking off.

LATHON: Much of what happened next is captured on cell phone video.

GREG MABEY, HELPED RESTRAIN SUSPECT: You aren't going to get hurt. You need a witness. I'll give you money and everything.

[02:55:02] MOSKEY: The video tells it all. I had to chase him. And I remember thinking, if I can run fast enough and yell loud enough, people will help me.

MABEY: I heard this lady screaming for help, somebody help me, please help me.

MOSKEY: Sir, don't ever do that again. In the name of Jesus, you don't have to do that. If you would have asked me for anything, I would have helped you. All of these people would have helped you. You don't have to do this.

LATHON: The good Samaritans held the man until police arrived. He is a suspect in four robberies, including two purse snatchings.

MABEY: He tells me, I'm just having a bad day. I said, yes, but you are in trouble. I said, we can't let you go.

LATHON: On Wednesday, Tempra made another stop at the Tiger Mart on Wednesday.

MABEY: It's good to see you.

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MOSKEY: Thank you. Thank you so much.

MAYBE: You're welcome.

LATHON: This time, she has the doors locked, and a story --

MOSKEY: Thank you so much. Thank you.

LATHON: -- she will never forget.

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BARNETT: Wow. A story of folks doing good.

CHURCH: Yeah.

BARNETT: That was Erika Lathon in Nashville. CHURCH: I don't think he will do that any time soon.

BARNETT: I hope not.

CHURCH: And you have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. I'll see you folks next week. Rosemary joins you next hour. Stay tuned to CNN.

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