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GOP Presidential Debate Highlights; New Details in MetroJet Crash; European Leaders Meet to Discuss Migrant Problem; International Olympic Committee Calls for Disciplinary Measures for Drug Cheating; Netanyahu Meets with Obama; Unrest in Jerusalem, West Bank; China's "Singles Day" Smashes Sales Records; Justice Department I.D.s JPMorgan Chase Hackers; Tech Company Ages Prince George. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired November 11, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:07] TRUMP: Why does she keep interrupting everybody?

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yeah.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Donald Trump comes out swinging in the U.S. Republican presidential debate, but his opponents set out to correct his claims.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, after two years, the Syrian army says it's reclaimed a key military airport from is.

CHURCH: And later, it's the single biggest shopping day anywhere in the world. And Alibaba is smashing sales records on China's Singles Day.

BARNETT: Lots to get to over if the next two hours. A big welcome to or viewers watching from around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

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

More specifics, less insults. That's one way to sum up the latest U.S. Presidential Republican debate. The candidates arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday to lay out their plans for the country's economic future.

BARNETT: They all touted their tax reform proposals. Senator Ted Cruz vowed to abolish the IRS and Ben Carson explained his plan to eliminate all tax deductions and loopholes. But it was Donald Trump's stance on immigration that started the candidates taking shots at one another. Watch this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are a country of laws. We need boarders. We will have a wall. The wall will be built. The wall will be successful. And if you think walls don't work, all you have to do is ask Israel. The wall works, believe me, properly done. Believe me.

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MARIA BARTIROMO, DEBATE MODERATOR: Can you just send five million people back with no affect on the economy?

TRUMP: You have to bring people. You're going to have to send people out.

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BARTIROMO: What do you do?

TRUMP: We're a country of laws. We either have a country or we don't have a country. We are a country of laws. They're going to have to go out and they'll come back, but they're going to have to go out.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: 12 million illegal immigrants, to send them back, 500,000 a month, is just not possible. And it's not embracing American values. And it would tear communities apart. And it would send a signal --

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BUSH: -- that we're not the kind of country that I know America is.

And even having this conversation sends a powerful signal. They're doing high fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this.

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BARNETT: You can gage reaction there based on what the audience did. They clapped, they booed.

Ben Carson got some of the loudest applause of the night defending himself against criticism that he hadn't been completely honest about his past. Listen.

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DR. BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We should vet all candidates. I have no problem with being vetted. But I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that out there as truth.

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CARSON: And I don't even mind that so much if they do it with everybody, like people on the other side. But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that, no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video, where I came from, they call that a lie. And --

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Joining me now from Dallas is Republican CNN political commentator, Ben Ferguson.

Ben, Trump needed to look presidential, Carson needed to rally his base, and Bush basically needed to fight back. How do you think they did?

BEN FERGUSON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: If you look at Jeb Bush, it was probably another average debate, but he needs to be much bigger than average at this point. If you're a donor to him right now, you have to be a little worried that he's OK at this, but he's not great at it. And you've got to have a great night to surge in the polls and have a shot in this election. So I think from his perspective, I has a lot of work to do and a lot 06 pressure on him right now and we'll see how he can play this out moving forward. I don't think so you're going to have a lot of donors excited about tonight. I think Ben Carson tried to put some of his stuff behind him about his youth.

CHURCH: Let's look at some of that, because the focus of this debate, what was the economy, it was business, and on trade, the TPP came up, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a signature piece of President Obama's foreign policy. Listen here to a short exchange the candidates had.

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TRUMP: Almost everybody takes advantage of the United States, China in particular, because they're so good at it. They're the number-one abuser of this country. If you look at the way they take advantage, it's through currency manipulation. It's not even discussed in the almost 6,000-page agreement. It's not even discussed.

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[02:05:10] TRUMP: And as you understand, I mean, you understand very well from the "Wall Street Journal," currency manipulation is the single great weapon people have. They don't even discuss it in this agreement. So I say it's a very bad deal, should not be approved. If it is approved, it will be more bad trade deals, more loss of jobs for our country. We are losing jobs like nobody has ever lost job before. I want to bring jobs back into this country.

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY), KENTUCKY: Gerard, we might want to point out China is not part of this deal.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's true. It's true.

(APPLAUSE) BARTIROMO: That's right.

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BARNETT: Rand Paul makes a good point there, though, right?

FERGUSON: Yeah. And look, if any other candidate said this on stage, besides Donald Trump, I think it would be a massive blow to their campaign. But Donald Trump seems to be able to say things that have nothing to do with a massive 5,000 page bill and be able to get away with the fact that there's nothing in this bill that deals with China, but he sounded good on China so his supporters are going to say we still like him anyway. I don't know if it's going to hurt him that much. I think if it was anybody else on stage that was corrected like he was corrected by Senator Paul, it could have been devastating. But, again, Donald Trump can be the Teflon candidate. He can bring things up that don't have anything to do with the bill, yet he's still there in second place or first place.

BARNETT: But there was another weak moment for Trump. You had many candidates interrupting each other for airtime, but Donald Trump was actually booed after saying, "Why does she keep interrupting," referring to Carly Fiorina. Do you think that seemed a bit sexist?

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BARNETT: And it's debates like this on substantive issues that will help him cement more serious following if he can do that in the next few months.

FERGUSON: Absolutely.

BARNETT: Ben Ferguson, always great to get your insight. Joining us today from Dallas, our CNN political commentator.

FERGUSON: Thanks.

CHURCH: On to global issues now, and in the fight against ISIS, it looks like Syria's army has made a break through, pushing the terror group out of a key military airport in Aleppo province according to state news. The airport had been surrounded by ISIS for the last two years.

BARNETT: An army spokesman says hundreds of ISIS militants were killed and the strategically important areas near the airport were reclaimed.

We're getting new information about the investigations into MetroJet flight 9268. Immediately after the jet went down, Egyptian state security interviewed every person involved wither the airliner before the crash, and that includes the caterers. This is according to am employee at the Sharm el Sheikh Airport. That person also said security is tighter for workers than it is for tourists.

CHURCH: Meanwhile, the U.S. crash investigators will soon examine the engines from the flight. The airplane was made in Europe, but the engines were built in the U.S.

For the latest on the MetroJet investigation, let's turn to CNN's Ian Lee, live from Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt.

Ian, when will the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board likely go to Egypt and take part in this investigation? And just how significant is it that Egypt has decided to invite them?

IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is fairly significant. These engines were made in the United States, so the national transportation safety board is coming over. They're going to be looking at them seeing if they could have been the reason why this plane went down. But we haven't heard when or where yet they will be inspecting these engines. There is talk that this plane is going to be moved from the crash site to Cairo. They'll start re-piecing it, reconstructing it, so investigators can look and see exactly what happened. We don't know the makeup of this investigative team from the United States. It could also have some people from the FBI involved, as well. They could offer these skills in other areas, too, including identifying what that loud bang was on the voice reporter right before the plane crashed.

[02:10:25] CHURCH: We have learned, as well, immediately after crash, Egyptian authorities apparently moved quickly to interview every person that had had contact with that plane before it went down. That is not what we heard initially or was it? So why are we hearing this now, do you think?

LEE: Well, I talked to this person who works at the airport and we are learning, really, what happened in the hours between the plane crashing and that information being released to the public. The state locked down all information about that plane. They seized and locked the CCTV, the scanners and sensor at the airport to make sure nothing could be tampered with, nothing could be changed and that they could look at it as quickly as possible. They went through and interview from the person that checked them in to the person that handled their bags as well as the caterer and anyone, really, who had any access westbound any interaction with that plane. They interviewed them individually to make sure that they could get as much information as possible and help move this investigation along.

CHURCH: Ian Lee reporting there live from Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt. Many thanks to you.

BARNETT: There are no survivors after a small plane crashed into a small apartment building on Tuesday in the U.S. state of Ohio.

CHURCH: Authorities say it clipped electrical wires before it crashed and burst into flames. So far, we know the pilot and co-pilot are dead and local media are reporting nine people on board the aircraft were killed.

BARNETT: Now, the Federal Aviation Administration says the twin engine maybe was approaching a regional airport when it ran into trouble. No one on the ground was hurt. The cause of this crash is still under investigation. Now, the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean is

skyrocketing, and in just a few hours, leaders will meet to discuss how to slow the problem. A live interview with the International Organization for Migration is next.

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[02:15:46] KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley, with your CNN "World Sport" headlines.

Russia has dismissed claims they're involved in a wide-reaching state sponsored doping program in sport. They also added the accusations are not backed up by any clear evidence. Now the Olympic Committee is asking the IAAF to start proceedings against athletes accused of doping. They're also calling for five Russian athletes and five coaches to be given lifetime bans.

Wolfgang Niersbach will keep his place on the FIFA committee despite the chairman resigning over bribery allegations. He quit over a $7 million payment to FIFA. The money was allegedly used to bribe officials to vote for Germany's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. This forced the world manager to assure fans this won't affect the national team.

Turning our attention to the Premier League now, no shock Chelsea's troubles are continuing. They've been fined $75,000 over misconduct. West Ham has also been charged. $65,000 for them. It all relates to when the two sides played last month. Both teams admitted failing to ensure players acted in an orderly way.

And that is it for all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

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BARNETT: Now, deaths at sea are also at record levels this year with more than 3400 reported missing or dead. A German think tank estimates it will cost $22.5 billion for Germany to house all the migrants and refugees already in Germany or those heading there, as well. As we say, this problem continues to get worse.

Joel Millman is the senior spokesman for the International Organization for Immigration. He joins us via webcam now from Geneva to talk about all of this.

Currently, cash and other aid from Europe, to certain African nations, is on the table. It will be discussed today. But how effective could that even be? Is that enough to stem the tide?

JOEL MILLMAN, SENIOR SPOKESMAN, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR IMMIGRATION: Well, we've been saying now for almost a year that cash, of course, is helpful. Any aid is helpful. I think the interpret community recognizes that and I think that's on the agenda in Malta is to begin to think of ways not to rely on the combatants in the conflict itself, but the outside community to sort of pressure cease- fire and a political realignment, because otherwise people will just keep coming years and years from now.

BARNETT: And the problem is so massive, so vast, it appears it needs to be address on several levels, the diplomatic level, the economic level. Some kind of deal hopefully will be struck between the governments of Europe and North Africa and the Middle East where everyone is coming from. How much of a focus do you think should be placed on the human traffickers, those making thousands of dollars from desperate people, sending them literally into harm's way?

MILLMAN: Well, you know, the International Organization for Migration is no fan of traffickers or smugglers. However, we are realistic and we understand the war on drugs has been fought for almost 50 years in the U.S. with little to show for it. And there's almost the same kind of syndrome in the war on people trafficking or smuggling. The fact is, there's no large organization, there are a lot of opportunists, and a lot of people who come out of other smuggling networks, tobacco, weapons, prostitution, there's all kinds of things that small groups and criminals focus on. It may have shifted to this no non-passive group of people. Exerting too much effort on trying to eradicate these small groups operating up and down the coast of many nations seems counterproductive. It's important to keep in mind the human tragedy and what's happened with passengers. It's not an effective way to stop this flow.

[02:20:07] BARNETT: We'll see what comes of this meeting today.

Joel Millman is the senior spokesman for the International Organization for Migration.

We appreciate your time today. Thanks for joining us.

MILLMAN: Thanks, Errol.

CHURCH: We'll take a short break here. Still to come, one of sport's most powerful voices, the International Olympic Committee, speaks out on Russian doping allegations. What they have to say, that is next.

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BARNETT: The International Olympic Committee has called for disciplinary measures against athletes and coaches who violated doping rules in the wake of drug cheating allegations.

CHURCH: That could include stripping the participants of medals and banning them from competitions. Meanwhile, the World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended the Moscow lab used for anti-doping tests, but the Kremlin has called the allegations for cheating groundless.

BARNETT: Russia's sports ministry said it was open to closer cooperation and the head of the agency insisted it was doing a good job. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NIKITA KAMAEV, RUSSIA ANTI-DOPING AGENCY (through translation): I believe that problems obviously exist, but Russia is on the path to clear its name and change. This is a trend recently. It is strange to talk about that for me, as if I am praising myself, but according to objective facts, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, based on the criteria suggested by the national agencies, by the international agency itself, operates totally nowhere else with their criteria and fights doping effectively enough.

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CHURCH: Track and field's governing body has given Russia until Thursday to respond to the allegations. It will discuss further steps on Friday.

BARNETT: CNN's Alex Thomas explains what makes these doping charges different and the impact on the sport.

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[02:25:00] ALEX THOMAS, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: You might be thinking, oh, no, not another sporting scandal, but this crisis is different because it directly affects the action. We did a quick straw poll on Twitter asking do you have trust in track and field. Over 1500 voted and 75 percent said no. And it's hard to blame you. It needed a TV documentary to prompt the World Anti-Doping Agency to set up an independent commission to look into Russian athletics.

DICK POUND, WADA COMMISSION CHAIR: We have found cover-ups. We found destruction of samples in the laboratories. We found payments of money to conceal doping tests.

THOMAS: Russia stands accused of state-sponsored doping. The ultimate sanction would be a ban from next year's Rio Olympics. Here is food for thought. Russia topped the medals tape at the 2013 athletics championship. It was only ninth this year, perhaps a sign the doping ban is working.

It will be the IAAF that will decide Russia's fate. Sebastian Coe has only been president since August but has been at the IAAF since 2003. Amid accusations he was sleeping on the job, he's desperate to look forward.

SEBASTIAN COE, PRESIDENT, IAAF: I will do anything it takes to create and return our sport to being a responsible, transparent, accountable sport that is responsive.

THOMAS: And as a former Olympic champion, Coe knows only too much the biggest victims are the clean athletes who want a level playing field.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is probably the biggest scandal the sport has ever faced.

THOMAS: And it's been called the tip of the iceberg. So all sports in all countries need to take a good, hard look at themselves.

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CHURCH: We'll take a very quick break here. Still to come, we are halfway through the world's biggest shopping day of the year and it is already breaking reports. We'll have a live update on China's Singles Day frenzy.

Back in a moment.

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[02:30:16] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A warm welcome back to all our viewers from around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Errol Barnett. Now updates on the big stories we're following.

The Republican candidates touted their tax plans in the latest U.S. presidential debate. Ben Carson accused the media of lying about him. Ben Donald Trump called out Carly Fiorina, asking "Why does she keep interrupting." And Jeb Bush and John Kasich blasted Trump's immigration plan.

CHURCH: The International Olympic Committee issued a warning on the doping allegations involving Russia. It said if athletes and coaches were proven to have cheated, it will be stripped of medals and banned from future Olympics. Track and fields governing body has given Russia until Thursday to respond.

BARNETT: These two men in Virginia are accused of plotting a race and hate war against blacks and Jews. Authorities say they planned to rob a jewelry store and kill a jeweler to finance plans to bomb churches and synagogues. A third man is accused of planning to go help in the jeweler's murder.

CHURCH: Audience members challenged Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Washington sponsored by an American liberal think tank.

BARNETT: The prime minister answered questions about the settlements issue and Israeli accountability in peace talks with the Palestinians. The prime minister also showed his appreciation to the United States for its commitment to Israeli defense.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: We have to pay for defense. Defense is very, very expensive. In fact, it gets more and more expensive all the time. So the principal way by which we pay for our defenses is by growing our economy. And the other, I have to say, is the generous sport that we are getting from the United States of America and yet I had a wonderful discussion with President Obama, how to secure that assistance for the coming decade. Thank you, America. And thank you, President Obama.

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CHURCH: CNN correspondent, Oren Liebermann, joins us live from Jerusalem.

Oren, we are used to seeing a lot of tension between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama. But this meeting was very different. We heard there from the prime minister a real effort to reach across that gap between them. What's going on here?

OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Iran nuclear deal and that public spat, that's all over. The Iran nuclear deal is done and now Prime Minister Netanyahu has switched his focus to the future. He addressed a critical crowd, a crowd critical of him trying to answer some of that criticism and try to mend fences not only with President Obama in these meetings, but with an American Jewish community that was very split because of this public debate. So it was very much Netanyahu and President Obama trying to make it appear or reassure everyone that even if these two leaders don't like each other, the countries are very much working together.

CHURCH: And, Oren, while this all played out, the troubles continued back in Israel with more violence between Palestinians and Israelis. What is the latest on that?

LIEBERMANN: We've seen this wave of violence continue almost with a slow burn. Jerusalem has been relatively quiet over the last few weeks. Most of the tension has been in the West Bank. But yesterday was one of those flare-ups in Jerusalem.

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LIEBERMANN (voice-over): Tensions rising in the aftermath of an attack in Jerusalem. Unrest hitting the city once again.

Police say two young boys, around 12 and 14 years old, tried to stab a security guard in east Jerusalem. One suspect taken to the hospital in critical continues and the second held down by train passengers until police arrived.

A second attack minutes later near the old city. Police say a Palestinian pulled a knife, running to two security guards who shot and killed him.

Most of the attacks and violence in the West Bank with near daily clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces.

On Sunday, a disturbing video of a woman approaching a security guard and as she's checking her I.D, she pulls out a knife and attempts to stab him. The guard shot the woman, sending her to the hospital.

The timing of the attacks has led to heavy restrictions around the Palestinian neighborhoods around Jerusalem, including vehicle checkpoints and I.D. checks.

Palestinians say these are blank measures that make life difficult for hundreds of thousands. Israel says they're necessary for security. Much of the violence has been caught on tape, like this incident last

month of surveillance video released by Israeli police when a Palestinian man rammed his car into people and attacked them with a machete.

Leaders on both sides unable to put an end to this wave of violence now well into its second month.

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[02:35:14] LIEBERMANN: For the month of October, nine Israelis were killed, 72 Palestinians were killed, some 38 whom Israeli officials say were carrying out attacks. And, Rosemary, were seeing this violence continue into this month. There have been days of relative violence, but often those are dashed quite quickly.

CHURCH: And we heard President Obama talking about support of the Israeli leader when they met on this issue.

Oren, many thanks to you, bringing us up to date on the situation from Jerusalem.

Myanmar's pro democracy leader is requesting a joint meeting with the military chief, the parliament's chairman and the country's president. Aung San Suu Kyi is confident her party will win enough support to form a new government and she's made it clear she'll be in charge.

BARNETT: The election commission says the party's won 163 of the 182 seats declared so far. Military leaders annulled election results back in the 1990s, but Suu Kyi and a presidential spokesman say that won't happen this time.

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UNIDENTIFIED MYANMAR PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN: In the 1990s, there was no constitution, but today, we have the 2008 constitution which granted peaceful transition of the power to the winning party on the election. And the most important thing that the president is already said they will respect the decision made by the Myanmar people. So the situation is very different than in 1990 and 2015.

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CHURCH: And final election results are expected within two weeks.

BARNETT: Let's get you to China now. What started as a day for lonely singles to treat themselves -- that's a great idea -- is now the biggest shopping event in the world.

CHURCH: November 11th is Singles Day, and sales have topped last year's record total of $9.3 billion. Yes, I said billion. China's e- commerce leader Alibaba says it made more than $5 billion in the first 90 minutes alone. Basically, this has become China's version of Cyber Monday.

BARNETT: CNN's Matt Rivers is covering the shop-a-thon live from Hong Kong and joins us live to talk about it.

Matt, even though I'm not single any more, I would like to participate in this. You spend a day buying gifts for yourself. How did this take day off? Alibaba itself played a huge role in that, right?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And really, frankly, it has to be more than single people only shopping at this point. The figures that we've seen so far today are absolutely staggering. The latest figure that we got just about an hour or so ago, so far today there have been over 10 billion dollars in sales. And that is with looking at the clock roughly about eight hours or so left. So it's already passed the record, set to go even further in setting a new report.

As far as how we got to that point, it really started with Alibaba and coming into and embracing this idea several years ago. Really, the idea has been around for the best part of 20 years in terms of single people treating themselves, but it really turned into this online extravaganza when Alibaba entered the fray.

That said, there are other online retailers that engage in this online shop-a-thon, if you'll call it that. But Alibaba does account for about 75 percent of the total online sales.

BARNETT: And Alibaba itself wanted to make sure everyone got into this. There was a huge Singles Day event, some kind of four-hour TV event with celebrities and stars drumming up support. And Alibaba is an online portal for all these sales. Is it having a cultural impact?

RIVERS: I think what you're really seeing here is the manifestation of the growing Chinese middle class. Frankly, there is more disposable income for these people to spend. Over the last 10, 15 years, you've seen an exPLOsion in the amount of money they have to spend. Shoppers today spent over $200 U.S. and that shows people have a little bit of money to spend. And when you see the amount of people that are shopping, the amount of people that are spending money, it might not have started with anything culturally significant. But it has evolved into this countrywide trend, similar to Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States. Although the sales from Singles Day are far more than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. It really has turned into its own beast, to be sure.

[02:40:17] BARNETT: And I think that point will surprise a lot of people.

Quickly, before we go, Alibaba took a huge hit after its massive IPO this year. Surely all of this news today is welcomed and making it a better investment now.

RIVERS: Absolutely. And something investors are watching, Alibaba stock is down 20 percent year-to-date. Investors are looking at this as perhaps a springboard to further rebound, although getting shoppers to go online and buy things when the discounts are as steep as they are today is one thing. Whether those shoppers are come back two, three, four weeks from now when those discounts disappeared, wasn't that the question that remains to be seen. BARNETT: CNN's Matt Rivers live for us in Hong Kong. Matt, thanks.

CHURCH: Authorities warn the thick haze shrouding a large area of northeastern China could hang around until Saturday. It's disrupting traffic and flights, among other things. As you can see there, look.

BARNETT: This started over the weekend as the weather got colder. The city started to burn coal to get warm. Farmers are adding to the haze by burning straw after the autumn harvest.

CHURCH: In India, smog always seems to be a concern. But this week, the threat could be worse.

Our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has been following this.

How bad is it there?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Conditions are right off the top of the charts when it comes to the air quality, similar to what we're seeing across portions of China in particular. When it comes to the most polluted cities on our planet, the top 20, China does not even make that list. In fact, 13 of the top 20 are centered over portions of India. The pollutant is very, very high in this area. The northern tier of the subcontinent. But this particular week, for five days, we have the Festival of Lights well known, one of the more prominent festivals across India that folks are celebrating and they're lighting a lot of fireworks and fire crackers and millions and millions of candles to warm off evil spirits. But you take a look at what occurred last year and this was the scene as far as looking at Delhi from above, from an aircraft. Tremendous pollutants locked in place there. We have very stagnant weather involved there, as well. Negative, from 300 to 500 air quality. This is a pattern that will continue with a lot of people in a celebratory mood. Look at the weather pattern, still toasty outside. By Friday, 36 degrees to 17 degrees around Mumbai. So certainly a pattern that is conducive for stagnant air here and going to keep conditions hazy in this region of India over the next couple of days.

Severe snow across parts of the U.S. and blizzard conditions. Potential for isolated tornados across the southern U.S. You can see that widespread across the Western U.S. Winds could be up to 50, maybe 60 miles per hour. Could be airport delays. 20 million people warned of this severe weather ahead of them in this region.

And we'll leave with this video. This coming out of China near the Inner Mongolia region. You're looking at not just snow, but rhime ice (ph). You have to have moisture locked into the air, but it only freezes on contact with an object, in this case being the branches. Makes a spectacular sight across parts of China.

BARNETT: And that is rhime ice (ph)?

JAVAHERI: That is rhime ice (ph).

BARNETT: Interesting stuff.

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BARNETT: Pedram, see you next hour.

The Justice Department says it has identified the people involved in hacking JPMorgan Chase last year, affecting tens of millions of customers.

CHURCH: Until now, nobody knew who did it or why, as our John Vause reports.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prosecutors say it was securities fraud on steroids. Never before have hackers hit an American bank this big or this hard.

The U.S. Justice Department says last year three men hacked JPMorgan Chase, stealing the personal data of more than 80 million customers. The attack so big, investigators first thought it was state sponsored. Possibly linked to the Kremlin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: By any measure, the data breaches at these firms were breath taking in scope and in size.

[02:45:09] VAUSE: Officials say it was all part of a scheme to manipulate stock prices, what's known as pump and dump. Investors are encouraged to buy shares to inflate their price and then sell when they peak.

The two Israelis and one American allegedly made more than $100 million, hiding their scheme behind 75 shell companies, employing hundreds of people.

Federal agents say the hack on JPMorgan was a fact-finding breach. Together, specific information on people and moves on the stock market. But they didn't stop there. Prosecutors say, in all, seven major banks were hacked. The three men ran an online casino. They laundered money around the world, even ran an illegal Bitcoin operation. Lawmakers describe it as a brave new world of hacking for profit.

John Vause, CNN, Los Angeles.

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CHURCH: Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, Prince George is a cutie now, but what about when he's older? Scientists reveal what they say the future king of England will look like as he ages.

Back in a moment.

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JAVAHERI: Good day to you. Pedram Javaheri for CNN weather. This is "Weather Watch."

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[02:50:58] BARNETT: This is my favorite story. Check this out. One company says it's created the world's first true jet pack, and is assigned to show it off in grand fashion by having its CEO fly around the Statue of Liberty in New York. Jet Pack Aviation says it's been working on this product for the last ten years.

CHURCH: And Errol wants one of them and so do I.

BARNETT: Absolutely.

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CHURCH: The jet pack can reportedly stay airborne for up to ten minutes and reach altitudes of over 3,000 feet. The developers say it's the only true jet pack, according to the developers, because it can do vertical takeoffs and landings. It uses kerosene instead of rocket fuel. And it's more compact than other models.

BARNETT: Certainly, massively expensive, as well.

That will bring the price down.

CHURCH: It can be argued that most people in the Western world have probably seen the cherub face of Britain's Prince George.

BARNETT: But have you wondered what he would look like when he's older? Scientists are on the case.

Zain Asher shows us their predictions.

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Britain's Prince George, he's probably the most recognized toddler in the world. But what will he look like in the years to come?

New state-of-the-art computer software predicted the future face of the prince at age 7, at 20 years old, at 40, and at 60. Perhaps he'll be King George VII by that time.

This system, developed by British scientists, analyzes facial features like nose length and width and distance from the eyes, and combines it with visual cues from parents and other relatives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: About 32 to 40 facial features we take from the face. And we use these facial features, we map it into the machine and then we produce the age. So what we've done is in the case of George, we've taken his picture and then we have taken facial features and then aged him. We've also, in some experiments, what we've done is we've taken the parental information and then also applied the parental information and aged it, as well.

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ASHER: Experts at the University of Bradford aged George's little sister, Princess Charlotte, from 2 up to 60 years old.

The software assumes a natural age progression, but the scientists say the results are about 80 percent accurate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's very, very difficult to say this is what the person is going to look like because there are other things that can come into. There's environmental issues, there are dieting habits, you know, for people, so all these things actually can aid the age, you know, of people very fast.

ASHER: While Prince George is only 2 now, scientists are confident you're looking at a face fit for a king.

Zain Asher, CNN, Atlanta.

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CHURCH: Well, I'm not so confident. I think maybe --

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CHURCH: Just look at his dad and you'll see how he's going to look. He looks exactly like his dad did when he was that age. Might be more reliable.

BARNETT: Technology.

Tim Ferris has made a fortune as a life hacker, someone who uses special strategies to be more efficient. The fan of automation says he has techniques to quickly master new skills.

CHURCH: Ferris is featured in our weekly series, "The Trip that Changed My Life." He is what inspired American author, entrepreneur and tech investor, Tim Ferris.

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TIM FERRIS, TECH INVESTOR & AUTHOR: Traveling gives you a different lens through which to view the world. Travel is the force multiplier, if you put yourself deliberately in situations where you're uncomfortable.

My name is Tim Ferris. I am author of "Wear our Workweek" and a podcast known as "The Life Hacker." My main financial gig is angel and tech investor.

I decided to go to Japanese class to be with my friends. I was offered a chance to go to this sister school in Tokyo. And I had never really spent any time outside the U.S. I ended up the only American in a high school of about 5,000 Japanese students. Lived with a Japanese family. And it was a huge shock. I read comic books under my desk in Japanese with an electronic dictionary and that's how I learned Japanese.

I developed these close friendships through judo. We went to the first judo tournament and I got destroyed. I was beaten in seven seconds in one match by a guy who was much smaller than me. And then I realized that I need to up my game, so I found another school called judo -- so it's like a cram school for judo. If you want to be with the best, that's where you go. I remember the first day I was so demoralized and so demolished and so exhausted and I went back a second day and slowly but surely got a little bit better and better and a little bit better so I could hold my own. Then I went to my second judo tournament and I steamrolled through everybody and won the tournament.

[02:55:20] What was so beautiful about the experience, I got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I've used that as a way to design my life. A lot of people say, you'll never get accepted by the culture. And my response is always, you have to speak the language. Language forms the thought which forms the beliefs and behaviors which form the culture. It's that simple.

There are many reasons that I love Japan. It's a clean, external manifestation of my own OCD, which is great. I hate clutter, and I really like minimalist aesthetic. So you go to a place like Tokyo, which is a big, crowded city, and it's clean. There is beautiful design all over the place, great food. These traditions that have existed for thousands of years, I've traveled 40 plus countries to this point.

If there was one trip that had, across the board, an enormous impact on every aspect of my life, it would be that first trip to Japan.

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[03:00:11] CHURCH: Fight night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.