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Migrants in Hungary Face Misery; U.S.: Migrants Add to Security Concerns; Syrian Migrants Say to Stop Exodus, Stop Civil War; Yazidi Girl Meets Kayla Mueller as ISIS Captive; Kim Jong-Un Remains Solidly in Power through Brutal Treatment; Chinese Economy Continues to Weaken; Child Refugees Face Great Danger; New Details in Hunt for "El Chapo"; A Look at Presidential Race; The Popular iPhone in India. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired September 8, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:18] ROSEMARY CHURCH CNN ANCHOR: World leaders try to grapple with the growing migrant crisis in Europe and it is expected to be high on the agenda of a special U.N. conference later this hour.

Plus new details in the hunt for a drug kingpin. Why police hope a new clue leads them to the hideout of Mexico's notorious el Chapo.

Inside the regime. In a CNN exclusive, a defector linked to North Korea's elite tells us why Kim Jung-Un's inner circle is terrified of their leader.

You are with CNN NEWSROOM. Welcome to our viewers right across the globe. I am Rosemary Church. Thank you for joining us.

And we begin this hour in Paris where French president will open a special U.N. conference this hour. And Europe's migrant crisis expected to dominate discussions. The French president announced France will take in 24,000 refugees as part of the European Commission proposal to settle 120,000 refugees over the next two years. Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain will take in 20,000 refugees over the next five years from camps and countries bordering Syria, but not those who have already entered Europe. And Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will come up with another $3.4 billion in aid and support in addition to nearly $3 billion set aside. Even Venezuela is joining in. The president is pledging to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees.

But even as more countries agree to take in migrants, the situation on the ground is growing more desperate. Thousand of migrants continue to make their way through southern Europe trying to reach Germany but are getting slowed down in Hungary. Migrants there are waiting in holding sites where supplies are running low and so is patience. On Monday, some migrants had had enough. They clashed with police at a camp near the Syrian border. About 300 pushed through the police lines and tried to walk to Budapest. But hours later, they gave up their march and boarded buses that took them back to the camp.

Now the migrants in Hungary must wait in extremely uncomfortable conditions.

CNN senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon, is on the border and shows us the misery they're facing.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the reaction of a desperate people who just want to keep going, trying to force their way through the police line, but failed. They simply can't take the conditions here anymore.

This is what awaits them when they cross into Hungary. It is meant to be a holding site. But they end up waiting for days for the buses to arrive amid the filth with little to no shelter. And a small, local nonprofit to help. The tiny medical tent, a little boy who collapsed. Exhaustion and dehydration we are told.

Most are refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. They fled to save themselves and their children.

This man saw ISIS take over his city. His children exposed to rotting corpses of victims in the main squares. Still the boys are home sick and confused.

(on camera): Along the road he keeps telling his daddy, "I want to go home." All he can respond is, "God is good. The day will come when we will go back home."

His only memento from Syria, tightly wrapped in plastic, his barber kit. A trade he could no longer practice in Syria under ISIS. It was forbidden.

"You can't cut beard and your hair has to be one length," he tells us.

Home as they knew it is gone. It is what drives most to make the journey.

"I am an old woman. I ran from Assad's brutality," this woman shouts. And they put me here in the sun? I lost my home. My everything. All I have left are my sons."

DAMON: The injustice of all they have been through, boiling over.

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DAMON: They are both let on, but the bottleneck of humanity intensifies as others continue to arrive.

Arwa Damon, CNN on the Hungary/Serbia border.

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[02:05:12] CHURCH: Hungary's prime minister is among several European leaders opposing a European Commission plan to resettle refugees through the continent. And Victor Alban says those seeking sanctuary in Europe should be considered immigrants not refugees.

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VICTOR ALBAN, HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER (through translation): Those who get to Hungary are in safety. They're not running for their lives any longer. If they want to continue on from Hungary, it's because they want something else, a Macedonia, Turkish, Greek, or Hungarian life. But they do not want to. They want a German life. That's why they want to go there. This has the nothing to do with safety. It has nothing to do with the moral responsibility for the people running for their lives. This is why we do not regard them as refugees, but as immigrants. We understand them. The German life is surely better.

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CHURCH: Mr. Alban says Germany should be sending its money to countries like Turkey and Lebanon to keep refugees already there from heading to Europe. And he says he is open to a fair discussion of a quota system for refugees at some point in the future.

Some details on that European Commission plan to set country by country quotas, it's part of an effort to find a home for as many as 160,000 people seeking asylum. According to Reuters, the countries in red, will be called upon to do the most, especially Germany and France. You see that. The plan is designed to take pressure off Hungary, Italy and Greece. And states can buy their way out by paying a small percentage of their GDP.

The numbers of refugees and other migrants pouring into Europe are staggering. Worth remembering, each one of the thousand has a story.

For instance, Sarah is the name of the 3-year-old Syrian refugee you see on the left side of this picture. She is playing with a journalist in Budapest. She and her family are awaiting a train headed toward Vienna.

Here a young boy looks up at a volunteer who hands him a Bavarian pretzel in Munich, southern Germany. He arrived with his family at the main train station there.

Here, a man from Syria, falls to his knees on the island of Lesbos in Greece, crying out in what we assume is joy after successfully crossing from Turkey on a dinghy.

This one, a mother sits with her baby in the northern Greek village of Idamene, surrounded by police. She waits to pass into Macedonia.

And 5-year-old Dima, from Syria, shows off a toy panda at a refugee accommodation facility outside an exhibition hall in Munich.

All the men, women and children gazing ahead after arriving at the train station in Munich. German police say they are some of the 5,000 to arrive just on Sunday alone.

Well, as migrants try to find sanctuary, the United States may also take in some refugees. The White House is now saying it is actively considering a range of responses to the growing refugee crisis. But this massive exodus is not only a humanitarian nightmare, it's also raising major security concerns.

CNN Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is looking into that.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: More than 360,000 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean trying desperately to get to Europe. More than 10,000 already stuck on this Greek island. Another ship arriving with tales of death and fear.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We come to a small boats. So difficult. It means hundred about 99.5 is dead.

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STARR: And then another harrowing journey to a final destination. Thousand hoping to make it to Austria, Germany, France, or the U.K. on foot ---

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STARR: -- trains --

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STARR: -- and buses.

But growing worry about the unintended consequences of opening borders to those fleeing war and ISIS.

The risk to U.S. and European security and the stability of crucial allies in the Middle East.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lebanon and close allies of the U.S. like Jordan are creaking under the strain of literally of millions of refugees.

[02:10:09] STARR: The U.S. is under international pressure to take in thousand. But the risk that an ISIS militant could slip through remains the top concern.

MARK TONER, STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY SPOKESMAN: There's a lot of terrorist groups operating in that region that part of the world. We need to make sure that fundamentally that we protect the national security of the United States of America. So, any asylum seeker has to go through a thorough background check.

STARR: The potential threat may already be in the works. The American news site, "Buzzfeed," quoted a Syrian ISIS operative in Turkey saying he is working to sneak fighters into Europe. They're being smuggled into Turkey, he says, hidden among hundred of refugees, in cargo ships, the type of operation that can be tough to detect. REP. PETER KING, (R), NEW YORK: Especially when you have large

numbers coming into Europe, I don't know how the governments could really effectively monitor them. The potential for an attack has to be strongly considered.

STARR (on camera): U.S. officials say so far there is no specific intelligence indicating ISIS operatives have been smuggled in among the recent refugees. But as the crisis grows, so does the worry.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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CHURCH: British Prime Minister David Cameron says two U.K. nationals were killed by an RAF drone strike in Syria. The target of the attack was Riyadh Kahn, seen on the left in the ISIS recruiting video, Rahul Amin, on the right, was also killed in the strike. The pair were intending to kill British citizens.

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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Today, I can inform the House that in an act of self defense, and after meticulous planning, Riyadh Kahn was killed in an air strike carried out on the 21st of August by an RAF remotely piloted aircraft traveling in a vehicle in the area of Raqqa, Syria. Riyadh Kahn was the target of the strike, two others killed, one, Amin, has been identified as a U.K. national. They were ISIL fighters and I can confirm there were no civilian casualties.

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CHURCH: Despite all coalition air strikes, ISIS can chalk up a victory in Syria. According to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS fighters seized the last major government controlled oil field. It happened during clashes over the weekend. The oil field is located northwest of the city of Palmyra, which ISIS controls.

For the four million Syrians who have fled their own country, stopping the civil war is the only real issue.

But as CNN military analyst and retired U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona told us a short time ago, there are no easy answers to this.

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LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: The goal was to train 15,000 Syrian rebels, they were going to be embedded, trained, sent back into Syria. The boots on the ground. Primary force to take on is. One of the solutions people talked about are to use the Kurd as boot on the ground. Kurds are a very effective fighting force. They were successful. Embedded with American air, backing them up. People said let's use that as the model. The problem is the Turks do not want that. We had to make deals with the Turks. Part of the deal with the Turks to use the air bases, which are important, is that we would not have the Kurds involved in any of the fighting against ISIS in that area that they want as a safe zone. So we are forced to rely on moderate Syrian rebels. That is just not working.

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CHURCH: Rick Francona there.

Amid fighting in Syria, one man sits at the head of ISIS and we have heard little about, Abu al-Baghdadi, on a personal level until now.

CNN's senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert, spent time with a young Yazidi girl named Zanot (ph), who was captured. Zanot (ph) says she ended up cleaning and cooking for al-Baghdadi. There she met another captive, American, Kayla Mueller.

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UNIDENTIFIED YAZIDI GIRL (through translation): When she came back to us, we asked her, why are you crying? And Kayla told us, Baghdadi said, "I will marry you by force. You are going to be my wife. If you refuse, I will kill you." When I heard what Kayla told me, I wanted to escape. I asked Kayla to escape with me but she refused. And she said, if I escape, they will behead me.

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[02:15:00] CHURCH: While we can't independently confirm all of the particulars in the girl's story, the family tells CNN some of the details match what they found out from government officials. ISIS says she was killed by a Jordanian strike inside Syria but officials in Washington say that's not true.

Zanot (ph) did, in fact, escape. And you can find out how and hear what else she had to say about being enslaved by al-Baghdadi, Wednesday, only here on CNN.

We have an exclusive interview with a significant North Korean defector who describes living in the Communist country as "hell on earth." That is next.

Plus more evidence of China's slowing economy. Imports/exports are down. Live to Beijing on the latest reaction on the financial markets.

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CHURCH: We are getting an inside perspective on life in North Korea from someone who used to live there. Despite a clash with South Korea and a snub from China, a defector says leader Kim Jung-Un remains solidly in power, using brutal tactics, including executions of senior staff.

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CHURCH: Despite a clash with South Korea and a snub from China, a defector says Kim Jung-Un power, using brutal tactics, including executions of senior staff.

Kyung Lah spoke to the defector for CNN. Here is her report.

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[02:20:11] KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To outside world, Kim Jung-Un, appears overly young, at times, a caricature. But to his people, there is little doubt about their dictator's capacity, says the North Korean defector.

"They are terrified," he says. "The fear grows more intense every day."

Fear that drove this defector to dare the harrowing escape out of North Korea.

He agreed to speak with us if we completely hid him in the shadows and altered his voice.

This defector, who worked among Pyongyang's elite, fears the regime would murder his family in the North or hunt him down.

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LAH: But he wants the Western world to know what life under Kim Jung- Un, is like.

(on camera): Do you think he is more of a tyrant than his father?

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: Kim Jung-Il didn't kill people in his inner circle. Kim Jung-Un purged many. Purging advisers like his own uncle. His former right hand man, executed. After that, I thought, I needed to hurry up and leave this hell on earth.

LAH: Is that how it feels look in North Korea, hell on earth?

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: Yes, of course.

LAH: You see the crowd cheering and crying as Kim Jung-Un, approaches. Do they believe it?

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: It's blind worship. Programmed to clap and cheer when they see him on TV. Upper-class elites don't believe it.

LAH: This number is quite high?

(voice-over): Seoul National University interviewed 146 North Korean who defected in 2014, the most extensive research conducted with defectors. The defectors perceive internal support was highest in 2012 when Kim-Jung-Un took control. But they believe that support has steadily dropped during his reign.

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: New leader.

LAH (on camera): New leader?

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: New Leader.

LAH (voice-over): Can the new leader earn trust from his elites after the purges, he asks? They could be feeling anxious. Their loyalty weakened. It's already happening, believes this defector.

UNIDENTIFIED DEFECTOR: (through translation): I can tell you for sure, upper-class North Koreans don't trust Kim Jung-Un.

LAH (on camera): Do you see the regime lasting?

(voice-over): "There is no collapse of North Korea while Kim Jung-Un is alive, says this defector. "North Korea will not collapse as long as Kim Jong-Un lives."

Kyung Lah, CNN, Seoul.

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CHURCH: Thai police say a suspect arrested in connection to last month's deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine confessed to possessing banned explosives. He was arrested last week near the Cambodian border and was said to be carrying a piece of paper with a chemical formula for explosives. Police also issued two new arrest warrants for suspects wanted in the bombing, bringing the total number to 11. Police have a sketch of one of them. There it is. The other is an unnamed male foreigner who was seen on surveillance video at a department store.

New trade figures show China's economy continues to weaken. Both imports/exports fell sharply for the month of August. And that could drag down world financial markets.

Let's look at the Asian markets specifically. Trading is done for the day in Tokyo. And Sydney, you can see there. The Nikkei in Tokyo was down more than 2 percent. Nearly 2.5 percent. In fact, Australia ended the day up 1.7 percent. We see shanghai, heading up three- fourths of a percent. Hang Seng moving in similar direction.

For more on the latest trade numbers, let's bring in CNN Asia-Pacific editor, Andrew Stevens. He joins us live from Beijing.

Interesting seeing that drop for the Japan's Nikkei. Is that linked in any way to the weakening trade figures from China?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: Certainly, doesn't help. It's a confused picture. Look at Australia, the market up. Australia, Australia's economy is linked to what is happening in China through its raw resources, a lot of which go to China. So Japan obviously sees China. And China is indeed a very important trade partner with Japan. So when the numbers come out of this, weakening imports, in particular, it is a worry. Not just to Japan but to many, many economies, which have ever-growing links to their exports going into China.

Numbers have been inflated by the fall in commodity prices. So it costs China more to import, import which, which tends to sort of change the dynamic a little bit, Rosemary.

But the bottom line here is that import numbers clearly show the Chinese economy is weak. The export numbers are not strong either. They're still contracting, down by 6 percent. It points to a picture, another in the steady drum beat of bad news out of China.

[02:25:] CHURCH: Significant drop in imports, isn't it, more than 14 percent? What impact will that have around the globe?

STEVENS: Well, it just goes to -- into the bigger picture, which we now clearly see, a global economy slowing. It's not just China. It is also the European Union and Japan. The U.S. continues to grow. So when we see these imports from -- from China, the numbers there, falling sharply, it just continues, or just, sort of adds to that mix of a weakening economy. China's nearby neighbors, obviously, tend to feel a lot of the heat from China's slowdown because their links are so much stronger. Interestingly, exports from the Southeast Asian countries into China are holding up better than expected. As are exports going to the U.S.

So it is a cloudy picture at the moment. Very difficult to put a finger on exactly the depth of the slowdown at the moment. But very clearly the general picture is a weakening Chinese economy, which is leading a weakening global economy -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. We will keep an eye out for the European markets opening next hour to see whether these numbers have any impact on that.

Andrew Stevens, reporting live from Beijing, many thanks to you.

Tibet is marking 50 years since it became an autonomous region.

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CHURCH: China's leaders were on hand for the celebration at the Patala Palace in Tibet's capital city, Llasa. 20,000 people were expected to attend the ceremony and parade. Meanwhile the Tibetan government in exile says Beijing is rewriting history, disputing the claim Tibet has always been part of China. And state media reports a top Chinese official said today they will continue to crack down on separatists. As thousand of migrants stream into Germany, how does the country plan

to deal with them all? Up next, we go to Munich for the details. Back in a moment.

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[02:31:06] CHURCH: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church. We want to update you on the main stories we are watching this hour.

South Korean officials say the North has agreed to resume family reunions for those separated by the Korean War. 100 people from each country are to take part, which is scheduled to take place October 20th and 26th. The last reunions were held in February 2014.

Italy's top court says it overturned American Amanda Knox's murder conviction because of glaring errors and deplorable carelessness. It said there was no evidence linking Knox and her then-boyfriend to the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox and her boyfriend were convicted twice and acquitted twice.

Hundreds of migrants clashed with police at their holding site in Hungary, fed up with harsh treatment and lack of support. About 300 pushed through police lines and tried to walk to Budapest. They later gave up their walk and rode buses back to their camp.

Germany says the influx of migrants will change the country in the coming years. Chancellor Angela Merkel also warns Germany can't keep up with the pace of refugees crossing the border and needs to slow down. Even so, the country remains committed and pledged $3 billion in support. It's also initiating plans to deal with thousand of people arriving every day.

Senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert, has more from Munich.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They keep coming, thousand every day at the main train station in Munich, often greeted by locals or welcoming volunteers. It's no wonder Germany is the preferred destination for so many refugees.

Not everyone in Germany welcomes newcomers. Early Monday morning, a fire burned down a shelter for 80 refugees. Five were treated at hospital. It took 150 fire fighters to put out the blaze, raising fears of another arson attack on immigrants. In fact, as the number of refugees arriving climbs, so do the number of attacks. According to the interior ministry, more than 340 incidents this year, from vandalism to arson.

On Monday morning, German chancellor, Angela Merkel, rallied the nation to take the refugee crisis with pragmatic compassion.

"We will need voluntary support," she says. "We already know we need 10,000 volunteers to help. This crisis is going to change our country. But I think we are up for the challenge," she said.

In her speech, Merkel outlined a plan to deal with the crisis. An additional $3 billion now set aside, bringing it to $6 billion allocated to house, feed and find jobs for 800,000 refugee applicants. 150,000 temporary homes still need to be built.

(on camera): As you can see, refugees already coming across here. This is the reception center that German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she wants to see more of. You can hear the warm welcome they're receiving.

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But Chancellor Merkel also said those who are fleeing war and persecution will be given refuge here. On the other hand, those deemed to come from safe and politically stable countries will be returned home.

(voice-over): For now, that distinction is lost on the thousands arriving here every day. They're just relieved to have a safe place for the night, for thinking about what happens after tomorrow.

Atika Shubert, CNN, Munich.

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[02:35:04] CHURCH: Amid the tide of human misery, it has been images of children which have been the hardest to look at. Children dazed, confused and scared. Herded into camps or scrambling on to trains. Toddlers crying in their mother's arms, reminders of families leaving one danger behind to face another. Like the family of the 2-year-old buy who washed up like a piece of driftwood on a Turkish beach. They were trying to escape the war in Syria.

It is difficult, of course, to comprehend what these migrant children are going through unless you lived it yourself.

Earlier, we heard from Dr. Vinh Chung, who was 3 years old when he fled Vietnam after the Communist takeover.

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DR. VINH CHUNG, CHILD REFUGEE WHO FLED COMMUNIST VIETNAM: When I saw the photo of the little boy, face down, washed up, it was really chilling. I knew that that could have been me. Because in 1979, when my family fled Vietnam, I was 3 years old. We were crammed in a boat with 83 other refugees. Had no food, no water. We were literally dying. We fortunately had a different outcome.

I think that we need to realize that we, as individuals, are capable of making significant differences. In my life, we had the World Vision ship that came and rescued us. And then after that, there was a small church in a little town called Port Smith, Arkansas, that opened up the doors and sponsored my family. Complete strangers who gave money, food, shelter to my family. So, sometimes we look at this problem, it just seems so large, we may

feel hopeless. But, I want everyone to know is that we are all capable of making a change in the lives of individuals.

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CHURCH: You can learn how you can make a difference in the lives of the refugees. Just go to our website at CNN.com/impact.

New details in the hunt for a drug kingpin. Up next, the public officials charged in el Chapo's escape from a Mexican prison and why police hope a tweet leads them to his hideout. We are back in a moment.

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[02:40:26] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. There has been a giant drug bust in Bolivia. Police there say they have confiscated 1.5 tons of marijuana. Rows upon rows of it formed into bricks. Anti-drug officials say that the drugs were found in a trailer truck. Officials say the pot came from Paraguay and was bound for Argentina and Chile.

Four more Mexican officials charged in the el Chapo's July prison escape. Two members of Mexico's intelligence agency and two prison guards are accused of not alerting others to the drug lord's breakout.

Meanwhile, authorities are investigating a geo-tagged tweet and photo from el Chapo's son.

Brian Todd has more.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sources tell CNN this seemingly harmless photo could be a tantalizing clue, a brazen taunt, or a brilliant diversion in the search for the world's most wanted man, Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman, believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. The photo was reportedly tweeted by Alfredo Guzman, the 29-year-old son of the brutal leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel. That is Alfredo in the center, flanked by two men. Their faces are obscured by oversized emoticons. Now, a Mexican official tell CNN the man on the left is believed to be el Chapo.

A former DEA official agrees.

MICHAEL VIGIL, FORMER DEA OFFICIAL: It looks to be Chapo because of his cleft right under his lower lips looks very similar in both photographs.

TODD: In English, the caption reads, "Comfortable here. You already know with who."

And the photo is tagged with the location, Costa Rica.

A Costa Rican official says his government doesn't believe that el Chapo is there. And others point towards a city near el Chapo's base in Mexico called Costa Rica. But experts say it could be another trick, a fake location designed to mislead police.

VIGIL: This will cause, you know, the Mexican government to react to the photographs and take resources from the area where he is actually at and move them someplace else, which gives him a little bit more freedom of movement.

TODD: Michael Vigil says if the photo was recent and really was posted by Guzman's son, it would leave him vulnerable to being tracked by law enforcement. But experts say el Chapo is notorious for playing cat and mouse with police, and is known to change his appearance. And in July, he escaped through a high security Mexican prison through this elaborate tunnel.

Years earlier, he slipped away from police who had him cornered through a different tunnel hidden under his bathtub. Now, authorities are likely expanding their search for el Chapo, focused not only on his son, but also tracking his wife, Emma Cornel, a former beauty queen said to be seen here in photos posted in Mexican media. Coronel is a U.S. citizen and gave birth to Guzman's twin daughters near Los Angeles in 2011. A Mexican official says her phone was one of the leads used in el Chapo's capture in Mazatlan last year. There is now enormous pressure on the Mexican government to find him again.

(on camera): If they ever close in on el Chapo, do you think he will be taken alive?

ARTHUR RODERICK, FORMER U.S. MARSHAL: Well, if he is in Mexico and the Mexican military closes in on him, I think there will be a fight. And I'm sure he'll end up like Pablo Escobar, shot in the exchange of gunfire.

TODD (voice-over): But it will likely take a massive and well coordinated operation to find el Chapo and corner him.

(on camera): It is believed he likely is hidden out in Sinaloa State, where he authorities say he has a criminal infrastructure of corrupt officials who are sympathetic to him, and local residents who consider him a Robin Hood-type hero. They are known to tip off el Chapo when authorities approach.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: Guatemalan voters are heading back to the polls next month for run-off election. Comedian Jimmy Morales is the front-runner in the presidential race. But because no candidate got the 50 percent- plus-one needed to lock up the presidency, a run-off election will be held October 25th. Now it all comes on the heels of former President Otto Perez Molina's resignation and corruption scandal. He remains in custody.

On this, the day after the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., it's the unofficial end of summer, the unofficial real beginning of the U.S. presidential race.

Brianna Keilar takes a look at the candidates trying to shore up support and the man who could shake things up.

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A campaign tradition, presidential hopefuls out on the trail to mark Labor Day.

JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm hot. I acknowledge that. I'm mad. I'm angry.

[02:45:14] KEILAR: Joe Biden giving a fiery speech in Pittsburgh as he addressed union leaders in the sweltering heat.

BIDEN: Why in god's name should a man or a woman work in the steel mill making $50,000 a year, pay at a higher rate than some one who makes tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street? I mean, I'm serious.

KEILAR: Biden is not a candidate, at least not yet. But he sure sounded like one.

(on camera): Sound like you have a rationale for running?

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BIDEN: I'm going to run part of this parade.

KEILAR (voice-over): Biden might be encouraged to get in the race by a new NBC News/Maris poll that shows he stacks up better against Donald Trump and Jeb Bush than Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa.

That's where Hillary Clinton tried to shore up support on this holiday.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I will do what needs to be done to turn this country around so it starts producing more opportunity once again.

KEILAR: The new poll shows Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is closing in on her fast in Iowa. He is beating her soundly in New Hampshire where he campaigned to day.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Our campaign for president is seeing, in New Hampshire and in Iowa and all across this country, a great deal of energy.

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KEILAR: On the Republican side, voters frustrated with politics as usual are flocking to nonpoliticians. Donald Trump, though out of sight this holiday weekend, is still dominating in the polls, consistently the leader in both early contest states. In Iowa, renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, has a solid hold on second and Governor Scott Walker, once leading there, has fallen well behind. GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R-WI), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In the end, what

people are looking for, somebody who has been proven. We saw like we saw today, went up and down hills and around mountains and corners. In the end ups and downs in the campaign.

KEILAR (on camera): Walker has fallen off the political podium as so many establishment candidates have in this summer of Trump that seems to be moving into the fall.

Brianna Keilar, CNN, Pittsburgh.

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CHURCH: We'll take a very short break, right here. Still to come as Apple gets ready to roll out its newest products, we'll look at an exPLOsion of other Smartphone use in India. Back in a moment.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. I'm Patrick Snell with your World Sport headlines.

Starting off for the race for France 2016, the three-time European champs, Germany, with a giant step towards qualification, winning against Glasgow Monday. Thrilling match. The Scots battled hard. They found themselves 2-1 down, until James McCarthy makes it even there. When you have somebody by the name of Thomas Mueller on your team, you know the next goal is not very far away. The Bayern Munich man has already scored twice. Here it sets up for the win at 3-2 Germany.

And we know her sister, Venus, is standing directly in the way of Serena William's bid for the calendar slam in the U.S. Open. They will meet in the quarterfinals matchup on Tuesday. But Victoria Azarenka could be the bigger threat in Serena's march for the title. The two-time runner up in three of her fourth U.S. Open quarterfinal after a 3 and 4 win over the United States on Monday. The Belarusian is a former world number one, and seeded 20 at this year's Open.

Meantime, the women's second seed, Romania's Simona Halep is moving on. Halep breaking Germany 10 times on route to a three-set win that lasted the better part of three hours. Halep has reached the quarters in all four majors.

You're now up to date. Thank you for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell.

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[02:51:36] CHURCH: Just look at that. Several people were injured in vehicles damaged over the weekend near Naples, Italy, after the hailstorm. Some of the hail measured more than five centimeters, about the size of a ping-pong ball. We have our Pedram Javaheri joining us here in the studio to talk

about that.

It sounds big, doesn't it? There has been much bigger than that, right?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Much larger. And they're traveling 75 miles, 120 kilometers per hour. This has potential for significant damage. In the U.S., every year, a billion worth of damage to prompt or agricultural industry from this. We have seen them as large as 10 inches in diameter. Now talking larger than grape fruits, close to volleyball sized.

CHURCH: Volley ball sized, whoo.

JAVAHERI: That particular hailstone is actually preserved right now in a freezer in the U.S. state of Colorado. It was in South Dakota and occurred 2010.

CHURCH: It wasn't a one off. It was a whole lot?

JAVAHERI: Whole lot, close to that size. That one particular one, measured largest in the world. Interesting stuff there.

Also covering some severe weather to tell you about across India. Tremendous lightning strikes over the past couple days. Left some fatalities over the region. Strikes around the world. Highest concentration. Center of your screen. Democratic Republic of Congo, lightning capital. 160 strikes a square kilometer. Eastern India, southern India, 20, 30, square kilometer. Comparable to the eastern side of the United States. Show you video. Flooding taking place across the region of India. We know heavy rainfall happened in fact with all the storms in recent days, Sunday into Monday. We know of 28 fatalities. All from lightning strikes. 19 across the state. That's down across the southern portion of India. That is an incredibly high number. Think about it in the United States. Watching this. There are 50 fatalities per year in the United States and India. 2014, there were 2500 lightning strike fatality. Think of this part of the world. Monsoons beginning to dwindle. A lot of farmers. One in every four person in the work force across India works in the agricultural industry. Rainfall, thunderstorms. People being outdoors and exposed to it. Becomes dangerous scenario. Here the green line indicates what is normal for monsoon in India. Couple spikes in the blue lines that are above normal. Generally, 14 percent. Below normal for the monsoons across India. Certainly big story developing. How it is impacting a lot of people over that region.

Also watching the weather pattern. The pattern impacted a lot of people in Europe. We have had major summer heat so far this summer. The temperature trend beginning to cool. Jet stream taking a nose- dive. This time of year, we watch for very, very powerful storms that work their way through the Mediterranean. Watching the storm system some time Wednesday afternoon that has what we call a hurricane characteristics across the Mediterranean. Know what happened here if you watched this program over the last several weeks, several months, of course, with the migrant routes across portions of the Mediterranean, this storm Wednesday afternoon could go over some of the direct routes with hurricane force wind. So, a story we will be following in the weather department.

CHURCH: A lot of the people have had to deal with so much at this point.

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CHURCH: And they have the weather. Of course, the winter.

JAVAHERI: The winter, the weather pattern quickly becomes more active.

CHURCH: Pedram Javaheri, always a pleasure to talk to you. We'll talk again.

JAVAHERI: See you next hour.

CHURCH: Thank you.

Well, it is that time of year again when Apple introduces its latest products. There are enough rumors and hints online to give us an idea of what to expect coming to the Apple stores. The company will most likely upgrade its iPhones, most likely introduce a new Apple TV and launch an iPad Pro.

Apple's IPhone may seem to dominate the world, but that's not the case in India. They're too expensive for most on the subcontinent.

Malika Kapur reports on what Indians use instead.

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[02:55:38] MALIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Village life in India, looks like this. Or, like this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

KAPUR: India is one of the world's fastest-growing cell phone markets. Mobile phones are everywhere. In cities. In villages.

(on camera): Five, six years ago, just a handful of people in this village of 20,000 people used a mobile phone. Today, every second person is using a mobile phone. Not a simple phone. They're using Smartphones.

(voice-over): Not iPhones though. They're too expensive.

We drop in at a village phone shop to ask what is popular.

PAWAZ KHAN, PHONE STORE OWNER: Micromax.

KAPUR: It is Micromax, says the store owner, Pawaz Kahn.

It's because it is so affordable. A Smartphone costs around $30. But home-grown Indian product, it is currently the tenth-largest Smartphone maker in the world. In India, it's grabbed 19 percent of the smart phone market, quickly closing in on Samsung's 24 percent.

It is successful because it is understood what the Indian consumer needs.

"Price tag aside, it has a long battery life. "If I charge it once, it lasts me two, three days," says this fruit trader.

Important for people on the move and important in areas where power outages are common. That is almost all of India.

The other attraction, according to Kahn, almost all my Micromax Smartphones have a dual SIM function, which allow users to have multiple networks.

(on camera): Another good reason to use Smartphones, social media. This guy is on Facebook.

(voice-over): He tells me young people in the village use it to connect with each other, to share pictures, for instant messaging.

It's a good way off to kill time, and it doesn't cost much.

Malika Kapur, CNN, North India.

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CHURCH: Many thanks to you all for watching. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back after this short break with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Don't go anywhere.