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Violent Protests at Trump Rally in Costa Mesa, CA; Boehner Criticizes Cruz as Trump Rails Against Clinton; Bush Regrets Ending Presidential Campaign; Clinton Focus on Trump with Attack Ad; North Korea Sentence American to Prison; Syrian Cease-fire Hangs by Thread Following Pediatric Hospital Bombing; Comcast/NBC Universal Deal Could Reshape Entertainment Industry; DEA Brought into Prince Death Investigation. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired April 29, 2016 - 09:00   ET

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[02:00:44] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. We're live in Atlanta. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen, and you're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

It is 11:00 p.m. in Costa Mesa, California, where police have been trying to restore order outside a Donald Trump rally. Crowds of protesters filled the streets, some rocking police cars, smashing one's back window, and blocking traffic. We did see police putting several people in handcuffs. And there are reports of several fights breaking out. Trump is closing in on the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

We get more from CNN's Sara Murray on the campaign trail.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump is hoping to finish off Ted Cruz in the Hoosier state.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: If Cruz sneezes, if he just sneezes, his people leave him. Believe me. In the Senate, he's known as a liar. So we came up with Lyin' Ted. L-Y-I-N, boom, hyphen.

MURRAY: Knowing if Cruz can't stop him here, the odds of blocking Trump from clinching the nomination, slim to none.

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MURRAY: All as Cruz brushes aside Trump's criticism of his latest political ploy, choosing Carly Fiorina as his running mate before anyone's won the nomination.

SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), TEXAS & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald does one of four things. He yells, he screams, he curses or insults. I suppose you could start a drinking game on which one of the four Donald is going to respond to any given stimulus that might occur.

MURRAY: Cruz and Trump locked in a two-man race here. After John Kasich agreed to stop campaigning in Indiana in exchange for Cruz skipping Oregon and New Mexico. Today, Cruz is denying that Hail Mary pass amounts to an alliance.

CRUZ: There is no alliance. Kasich and I made a determination where to focus our energies, where to focus our assets, where to focus our resources.

MURRAY: While plenty of Republicans still have reservations about Trump, others are expressing strong concerns about Cruz.

Former House Speaker John Boehner blasting Cruz in an interview at Stanford University.

REP. JOHN BOEHNER, (R-OH), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: Lucifer in the flesh.

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BOEHNER: I have as many Democrat friends as I have Republican friends. I get along with everybody. But I've never worked with a more miserable son of a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) in my life.

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MURRAY: But Cruz appears unfazed by the criticism.

CRUZ: John Boehner had some interesting comments last night. He didn't abbreviate what he said. He was a little more expressive.

CARLY FIORINA, (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER CEO, HEWLETT-PACKARD: Paraphrase.

CRUZ: He allowed his inner Trump to come out.

MURRAY: Trump may be cleaning up in the primaries.

TRUMP: Because I'm winning by millions of votes.

MURRAY: But in the general his numbers with women could use some work.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Thank you so much.

MURRAY: And today, he repeated his claim that Hillary Clinton is only winning by playing the gender card.

TRUMP (voice-over): The primary thing that she has going is that she's a woman and she's playing that card like I have never seen anybody play it before.

MURRAY (on camera): Now, even though the Trump campaign feels they're pretty confident about their odds here in Indiana, they're not taking anything for granted. They're actually up with a new television ad that hits Ted Cruz on free trade.

Sara Murray, CNN, Evansville, Indiana.

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ALLEN: Joining me now is Philip Bump. He's a political reporter for the "Washington Post." He is joining us from New York.

Thanks for being with us, Philip.

PHILIP BUMP, POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON POST: Of course. My pleasure.

ALLEN: First of all, I want you to listen to a clip from Republican Congressman Peter King reacting to John Boehner's Lucifer comments. Let's take a listen.

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REP. PETER KING, (R), NEW YORK: I fully agree with John Boehner. And maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz. Listen, what John Boehner was most concerned about was Ted Cruz perpetrated a fraud and a hoax when he brought about the shutdown of the government on some kind of a vague promise that he was going to be able to take Obamacare out of the budget or to end Obamacare. Ted Cruz knew it would never work. It was never going to work. But he went ahead and did it anyway, shut down the government, cost the government money, served no purpose whatsoever other than to boost his name identification. So I agree with John Boehner on that.

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ALLEN: So Lucifer enters the presidential campaign. Do you think criticisms like this will continue to hurt Senator Cruz?

BUMP: Yeah, I mean, I think that -- Senator Cruz is in a tough position in general. It doesn't seem as though he's likely to actually get the delegates he needs at any point at this stage given the fact that Donald Trump has suddenly started doing so well. This has always been the critique of Ted Cruz. This is why so few of his colleagues in the Senate have endorsed him, is that he's simply not liked. And I think Representative King makes a point there which you've heard before, that Ted Cruz went out by himself, got this shutdown going, stood up to John Boehner and actually rallied John Boehner's core conservative House members against John Boehner, which is why John Boehner doesn't like him. And I think that for a time period the Republican establishment was so worried about Donald Trump than they were doing everything including embracing Ted Cruz, which none of them wanted to do, in order to try and stop Donald Trump. One of the things is because Trump has gotten so close to the nomination that many people are dropping the pretense of having ever liked Ted Cruz.

[02:05:54] ALLEN: OK, good. Trump is continuing to rail against Clinton using the woman card. Does this hurt or help him with women voters, especially with Carly Fiorina back in the mix joining Cruz?

BUMP: Right. I'm not sure Carly Fiorina adds much to the conversation quite frankly. I think Cruz is being very deliberate in pick her so that she ran for statewide office in California, people there know her better than they do other places, for better and worse. I'm not sure that helps him a whole lot. But Donald Trump's comments, absolutely done do him any good. He tries to talk -- you know, it is very similar to what we saw him do with his comments about Mexicans earlier in the race. He says things that are not welcomed by Mexican people or in this case by women, then he claims that he's going to do well with those populations anyway despite there being no evidence of that. His unfavorable ratings with women are much, much worse than his unfavorable ratings with men, including in the Republican Party. It's one of the reasons that he is where he is in this contest, because women simply don't want to vote for him. Some do obviously, but much less so than men do. If he keeps doing this, that's not going to improve with the general population. If you look, no one -- if you compare where he is now in polling, post-ABC polling among white women, which should be a core Republican constituency, he's doing worse than at any point we've ever seen an exit polling, which goes back to 1972. And that is a very bad position for him to be in.

ALLEN: Finally, I want to share this with you. Tuesday is the Indiana primary. The state's biggest newspaper is not endorsing any candidates. The editorial board says "although flawed Kasich and Clinton offer best choices" and goes on to rail against Cruz, Sanders and Trump and declares, "A president Trump would be a danger to the United States and to the world." Will this affect Indiana at all, where Kasich has in effect given up?

BUMP: Trump is continuing to rail against Clinton using the woman card. Does this hurt or help him with women voters, especially with Carly Fiorina back in the mix joining Cruz? I don't know. It's a good question. It's kind of a copout also to say you should vote for Clinton or Kasich but we're not doing an endorsement, that's on them. My sense is that maybe they are trying to throw a bone toward this totally failed Kasich-Cruz alliance where Kasich's supposed to step out of Indiana so that Cruz could do better that & then stop Trump from getting the delegates. I think that's why they didn't do a strong endorsement. I'm not sure why. But I think that alliance thing has hurt Kasich. I don't think his supporters all going to Cruz. I think it's helping Trump as well. It is generally a mess and it's coming at a time when Donald Trump is doing better generally, which I think is a bad sign for the non-Trump forces.

ALLEN: Okey-doke. We'll wait and see. We've got another Tuesday up ahead.

Philip Bump with the "Washington Post." Thank you so much, Philip.

BUMP: Thank you. ALLEN: Well, former Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush,

says he has no regrets about ending his campaign. He spoke with CNN special correspondent, Jamie Gangel, in his first interview since dropping out. She asked about his reaction to Ted Cruz's choice of Carly Fiorina as his running mate.

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JEB BUSH, (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR & FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Picking a candidate that is talented, tough, you know, she takes on Trump really well I think and she takes on Hillary Clinton very well as well, someone who's got a proven record and who's been vetted as a candidate, I thought was a smart move by Ted Cruz.

JAMIE GANGEL, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: You didn't think that Donald Trump was ready to be president. But if he is the nominee, apart from whatever else you think might happen, whether he would beat Hillary or not, will you support him?

BUSH: I don't think he's a serious person.

GANGEL: You haven't changed your mind.

BUSH: No. I've seen nothing -- the speech, recent speech about foreign policy was -- you can't -- I don't know which Donald Trump to believe, the one that read from a teleprompter a speech that was inside the lines or the one that wants to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it? The idea that a president should be unpredictable is not really the way history has been written.

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[02:09:52] ALLEN: Jeb Bush has endorsed Ted Cruz for president, but he has not actively campaigned for him.

Well, meantime, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, is focusing on Donald Trump. On Thursday, her campaign released a new attack ad about the Republican front runner.

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TRUMP: Total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

(voice-over): When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: You say you would even go further than waterboarding? Is that right?

TRUMP: Absolutely.

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ALLEN: Interesting music there. Clinton aides tell CNN her campaign is spending little time on

other opponents. That's because her Democratic challenger, Bernie Sanders, would need to take 57 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination, which is exceedingly improbable. Despite the odds, Sanders is still rallying supporters and pledges to take his movement to the Democratic convention in July.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I), VERMONT & DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, our job is not just to revitalize the Democratic party, not only to open the doors to young people and working people. Our job is to revitalize American democracy.

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ALLEN: For more on the race to the White House, you can always visit our website at CNN.com/politics.

The U.N. Security Council is working on a response to what appears to be North Korea's latest missile test. The launches on Thursday failed but still sparked international outrage and a blunt warning from China, North Korea's main backer.

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XI JINPING, CHINESE PRESIDENT (through translation): As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula. Once it happens, it would not benefit anyone.

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ALLEN: We're also learning that North Korea has just sentenced a South Korean-born American to 10 years of hard labor for subversion and espionage, according to China's state-run media.

Paula Hancocks joins us live with more on those stories from Seoul, South Korea.

Paula, hello.

Let's first talk about the sentencing of the South Korean-born American. Has he been identified?

PAUL HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Reporter: Natalie, yes. He's Kim Dong Chul. CNN actually spoke to him back in January in Pyongyang. Then in March, there was a press conference where he gave a public apology, admitted to espionage, which he had admitted to us back in January as well. Of course, it's not known whether he was under duress for either the interview with CNN or for this public press conference. It's not known whether they were his words or words given to him by North Korea. But we do know now from Xinhua, China's state-run media, that he has been sentenced to 10 years hard labor.

It's just the latest in the long list of American citizens who have been detained and then charged in North Korea. It comes just on the back of a U.S. student as well, Otto Wemby (ph) who was recently sentenced to 15 years hard labor. So certainly a pattern has emerged and the pattern is being followed once again by Pyongyang.

ALLEN: Also, Paula, we talked about the latest missile test. North Korea continues to do this despite sanctions and international pressure. What has been the response and what did they try to do?

HANCOCKS: They attempted two mid-range missiles, one Thursday morning, one Thursday early evening, according to South Korean defense ministry officials, both failed. But the fact that they tried to so close together is fairly significant. The fact that we have seen such a relentless amount of missile tests and nuclear tests and nuclear facility tests from North Korea since the beginning of the year really, the expectation is that it was ahead of the worker's party Congress, which is just one week ago now. It's expected to be a chance according to experts for Kim Jong-Un to show exactly what he's achieved, to try and strengthen his position among the elite, among the military. Although one South Korean government official did tell me recently that the leadership is believed to be unshakeable at this point -- Natalie?

[02:14:20] ALLEN: All right. Paula Hancocks, we know you'll be covering that event when if happens as well. Thanks. Live from South Korea.

An air strike on a hospital kills 50 in Syria, including children. What this could mean to the country's fragile cease-fire. That's when we come back. Also, a story that could only be described as bizarre. When we

come back, why U.S. police say they shot this man dressed in an animal costume.

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ALLEN: Welcome back. The fragile cease-fire in Syria hangs on by a thread after a deadly air strike in Aleppo. The bombing at a pediatric hospital killed at least 50 people. Witnesses say a fighter jet dropped the missile late Wednesday night. It's not clear who carried out the strike.

Nic Robertson has more about it.

And a warning for you, his report contains disturbing images.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR (voice-over): Syria's cease-fire is in tatters. The latest, an air strike on an opposition hospital in Aleppo. This one supported by Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross. Dozens killed, including children and at least three doctors, one of them the last pediatrician. So severe the attack, the Red Cross issued a statement saying, "The destruction of the hospital are putting millions at grave risk."

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ROBERTSON: The bodies, the grief piling pressure on faltering peace talks in Geneva.

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UNIDENTIFIED U.N. ENVOY: In the last 48 hours we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes. One Syrian wounded every 13 minutes.

[02:20:10] ROBERTSON: Three weeks of talks 1,000 miles from the front lines, little progress. The two sides using the cease-fire to talk about political transition, but accusations, not compromises traded.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): The threats that emanated from the opposition who were here in Geneva before they sulked and got upset and left, these declarations were translated on the ground into attacks.

ROBERTSON: The opposition, for their part, pausing their participation, blaming the government for renewed offensive, making talks meaningless.

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ROBERTSON: Within days of pulling back from the talks, opposition fighters last week on cease-fire shown here in their own propaganda video --

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ROBERTSON: -- back to the battlefront.

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ROBERTSON: The U.N. envoy urging Russia and the United States to step in again, save the cease-fire, save the talks.

UNIDENTIFIED U.N. ENVOY: We need that to be urgently revitalized. And only the Russian Federation and the U.S., as they did when they launched, suddenly everything related to the cessation of hostilities needed to come back again and re-launch it.

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ROBERTSON: In the meantime, the killing is escalating. No date set for the next round of peace talks. The U.N. envoy planning a visit to Moscow next week. Urgency and peace both in short supply.

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ROBERTSON: Nic Robertson, CNN, London.

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ALLEN: You really feel for those family members.

Up to 16 members of the U.S. military expected to be disciplined over their role in an air strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last year. At least 42 people were killed. According to two U.S. officials, the military personnel are not expected to face criminal charges. But a top special operations commander will likely be fired. The U.S. President has apologized for the air strike, saying it was a terrible mistake.

Now to a bizarre incident in the city of Baltimore. And a warning, some of what you're about to see is graphic. Police shot and wounded a man dressed in an animal suit after he walked into a local TV station with what appeared to be explosive devices. We're told he demanded the station report on a government conspiracy before being confronted by law enforcement.

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T.J. SMITH, SUPERINTENDANT, BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT: Those devices were actually chocolate candy bars wrapped in aluminum foil with wiring connecting each of them. The wire was also running down the sleeve of his jacket into his hand, basically emulating some type of detonation-type device. So it does not appear that this was a device capable of actual explosives, but the appearance of it was to be an actual explosive-type device.

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ALLEN: We've learned that a man claiming to be the suspect's father spoke with a local TV station. He said his son had a nervous breakdown. The man is recovering from his injuries, and so far he's not been charged with anything.

A big deal may soon dramatically reshape the entertainment industry. Comcast/NBC Universal is seeking to acquire DreamWorks Animation, the maker of popular films such as "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda." The deal worth $3.8 billion.

Here's CNN's Richard Quest.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS (voice-over): Coming to the big screen near you, NBC Universal, DreamWorks Animation joining forces.

CARTON CHARACTER: This is going to be fun. We can stay up late swapping manly stories. And in the morning I'm making waffles.

QUEST: It's a merger of epic proportions, $3.8 billion.

CARTON CHARACTER: Whoa.

QUEST: A bold move, taking on the king of family entertainment. (SHOUTING)

QUEST: For DreamWorks, the end of a story about adventure and intrigue in the search for a suitor.

CARTON CHARACTER: Work for me and all your dreams come true. Respect. Power.

CARTON CHARACTER: Banana!

CARTON CHARACTER: Banana!

QUEST: Now as this merger comes together, one final hurdle before it reaches the screen, the regulators.

CARTON CHARACTER: Perfect.

CARTON CHARACTER: Really?

CARTON CHARACTER: No. Again.

(SHOUTING)

QUEST: Will the regulators scuttle this deal or will it be a fairy tale ending with a marriage at the end of the year?

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[02:25:15] ALLEN: We'll let you know.

Richard Quest reporting for us there.

An exciting ride on a rollercoaster in Texas took a terrifying turn for a 6-year-old boy and his father when the boy's seat belt came undone.

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DELBERT LATHAM, FATHER OF CAISSON: No. Here we go.

KAYSON LATHAM, RIDING ROLLERCOASTER: My seat belt.

DELBERT LATHAM: I got you. You're fine. You're fine. I promise. OK?

KAYSON LATHAM: Ow.

DELBERT LATHAM: I got you.

Hey, you're fine.

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ALLEN: With words of reassurance, Delbert Latham put an iron grip onto his son, Kayson, for the rest of the ride. He posted the video on Facebook and says the ride's operator admitted it's happened before. The amusement park later removed the malfunctioning car from the roller coaster and checked all the seat belts. And that little boy just loves his daddy even more now.

New details have emerged about the death of music icon, Prince. Coming up here, more information on what investigators say they found in his home, and why federal authorities are getting involved with the case.

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[02:29:47] ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. We're live in Atlanta with CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen.

Here are our top stories.

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ALLEN: Officials tell CNN investigators have found no proof Prince had a valid prescription for opioids found in his home. CNN has also learned the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will aid the investigation into the music legend's death.

Our Brian Todd has more.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just days before his death, he pushed himself to perform, with two concerts in Atlanta. He'd suffered from a bad hip, often seen carrying a cane. Now new information that Prince was also carrying some powerful pain drugs at the time of his death. A law enforcement official telling CNN, authorities found prescription opioid medication on his person and in his Minnesota home. The official says nearly a week before his death, a reaction from the medication likely caused an emergency landing of Prince's private plane in Illinois, when the pop star passed out.

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911 OPERATOR: What's the nature of the emergency? What's the nature of --

CALLER: An unresponsive passenger.

(END AUDIO FEED) TODD: The law enforcement official says in that incident Prince

was treated for a possible overdose of the medication. He was later released from a hospital and returned to Minnesota.

Opioids are effective for pain, but there's a prescription drug overdose epidemic in America that has experts worried.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: The biggest risk is overdose, causing respiratory suppression. We know that when they take these people become drowsy because they slow down the activity in different parts of the brain. If it slows down the breathing centers, people stop breathing and that's what kills them with an overdose.

TODD: It's not clear where Prince got the medication and whether it was prescribed to him. Experts say there's an antidote to opioids, called Narcan, which could have saved Prince after the emergency landing.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: It can reverse an overdose extremely rapidly. The key is, though, you've got to get the Narcan in them in time.

TODD: Investigators have hinted there may not have been time to give Prince Narcan at the time of his death.

SHERIFF JIM OLSON, CARVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, MINNESOTA: All our officers carry Narcan. We've been carrying that for approximately two years. And that was not used at all.

TODD: And there may not have been anyone else there to revive the pop star. The sheriff says Prince was alone inside his 55,000- foot home, Paisley Park, when he died. But at some point someone got there and called 911.

(on camera): Regarding CNN's reporting on the opioids, we reached out several times to Prince's representatives for their response to that reporting. So far, they've given no response. We asked the medical examiner's office if Prince had any opioids in his system. They said, so far, they have no new information to give on that.

Friends and those who work with Prince have told news outlets they don't remember him being on any medication. His lawyer is saying he was not on any drugs that would be cause for concern.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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ALLEN: I'm joined now from Atlanta city, New Jersey by Dr. Andrew Kolodny. He's president of the group Physicians for Responsible Opiate Prescribing.

I want to begin with you what does it say to you that Prince had opioid painkillers when he died, he had Percocet on him and more of the drug at home? DR. ANDREW KOLODNY, PRESIDENT, PHYSICIANS FOR RESPONSIBLE OPIATE

PRESCRIBING: I can't really comment about Prince. What I can tell you is that the United States is in the midst of a severe epidemic of opioid addiction. And when I use the term "opioid," I'm talking about prescription pain medicines that come from opium. Drugs like Percocet, which contain Oxycodone and Vicodin. I'm also talking about drugs like heroin which are very similar to the prescription opioids. We have an epidemic in the U.S. Of people who've become addicted to these drugs, and we have an epidemic of overdose deaths. So thousands of Americans are dying every year from overdoses on prescription opioids.

ALLEN: Well, Prince had that emergency landing in his private plane on his way home. He was reportedly unresponsive. This drug can cause suppression of breathing, is that correct?

[02:35:06] KOLODNY: Opioid drugs, drugs which come from opium, drugs like Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, and heroin, if you take too much of an opioid it slows down your breathing, and if you take enough of it you'll stop breathing. And that's one of the major killers in the United States today. One of the leading causes of death in the U.S. is an overdose on an opioid because the opioids stop people from breathing.

ALLEN: And what are other effects of these drugs? I'm told people can feel really bad, feel scared, anxious, depressed, kind of freak out. What's the issue in this country with overprescribing and the side effects?

KOLODNY: So the medical community has been overprescribing opioid pain medicines, and as our prescribing began to soar it led to parallel increases in rates of addiction and overdose deaths. And doctors are prescribing opioids to relieve pain. If patients take an opioid repeatedly, whether they're taking it over and over again to relieve pain or whether they're taking the drug repeatedly for recreational purposes, if you take a highly addictive drug frequently, there's a very good chance you can become addicted to that drug. Now, when somebody takes an opioid, it can give pain relief or it can even cause good feelings like a euphoria. But once somebody gets addicted to the drug, they have to continue taking the drug simply to avoid feeling awful. Somebody who's used to taking an opioid and runs out or is unable to maintain their supply, they can experience a flu-like illness. But they also experience very severe anxiety. It feels like a panic attack. People feel like they're losing their mind, like they're going out of control, a sense of impending doom. It's one of the reasons why we see people do very desperate things to maintain their supply once addicted.

ALLEN: Well, you sure highlight the problems with this drug.

We very much appreciate you joining us. Dr. Andrew Kolodny, president of the group physicians for responsible opioid prescribing.

Thank you, Doctor.

KOLODNY: Thank you for having me. ALLEN: Well, a man in the U.S. is suing SnapChat for a car crash

that caused him a brain injury. He's blaming the crash on a photo filter. We'll explain next.

Plus, our Robyn Kriel has a close encounter with an orphaned baby rhino. Baby-sitting one of Africa's most endangered animals. That's next.

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[02:41:20] ALLEN: The tiny kingdom of Swaziland is reportedly getting ready to propose legalizing the international trade in rhino horns. It is expected to bring up the plan at a major U.N. meeting on wildlife trade later this year. South Africa recently dropped a similar proposal. In 2015 more than 1,300 rhinos were killed in Africa for their horns. Ad the number has been rising ever since. Since 2008 the total has reached nearly 6,000. Today three of the world's five rhino species are considered critically endangered. All because some people, mostly in Asia, want the rhino horn, which really has no particular benefit to humans. It's just a false belief.

Kenya is hosting this year's Giants Club Summit, a meeting of African leaders focused on tackling poaching of the continent's giant animals. Poaching has led to more orphaned animals across Africa than ever before. The epidemic has left many orphaned animals.

And here's Robyn Kriel to talk about it.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You sweet thing.

ROBYN KRIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Baby-sitting a rhino is remarkably similar to baby-sitting a baby. A day-long cycle of eat, play, sleep, repeat. With the occasional rather squeaky temper tantrum thrown in when he gets hungry.

Abandoned by his mother at two weeks old, Ringo was nearly dead when he was rescued by rangers at old Pejita Conservancy in central Kenya, a major reserve for the endangered animal.

(on camera): He feeds three times a day on this formula of baby formula and white oat.

Let's go see your friend.

(voice-over): Now Ringo has several adopted parents who work round the clock to keep him safe and sleeping like a baby.

(on camera): Is he sleepy?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah. He want to sleep. And then you can scratch him more.

ALLEN: Oh, he likes to be scratched?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

ALLEN: Oh.

Tell me how it makes you feel when you hear of a rhino like Ringo being poached.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seeing Ringo, how I play with him, and then I just am like thinking what about Ringo being poached one day? It would be very sad for me.

KRIEL (voice-over): Ringo's favorite time of day, say his keepers, is bath time.

(on camera): So they're trying to emulate exactly what Ringo would be experiencing in the wild with his mum. He would wallow to cool down and also to avoid sunburn.

(voice-over): But with his mom gone, this rare baby southern white rhino has found fatherly love in something even more rare. Sudan is the only male northern white rhino left on the planet. The hope is that is he will teach Ringo to be more like a rhino and less than a human. And the baby rhino has taught the old one a thing or two.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact we've got a small rhino who's beginning to interact with him is psychologically I think good for Sudan. And secondly, we've seen his demeanor and his kind of appetite for life, if I can put it that way, improve since Ringo appeared on the scene.

KRIEL: One isolated, the other abandoned. The two rhinos have found companionship in one another.

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[02:45:02] ALLEN: Sad but very sweet, and we wish Ringo all the best.

A man in the U.S. is suing SnapChat for a car crash. We'll ask our legal analyst how liable the popular app may be.

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ALLEN: A man here in the U.S. state of Georgia is suing the popular app SnapChat for a car crash that left him with traumatic brain injuries. He's also suing the driver, a teenage girl, who he says was using a speed filter on SnapChat while driving. That filter shows how fast you're moving. And the lawsuit says she was going nearly twice as fast as the speed limit. After the crash, he posted this picture on the app, with the app "Lucky to be Alive." CNN was unable to reach the teen, and a SnapChat spokesman said the app has always included a warning not to use it while driving. We want to talk about this case now. Joining me from New York is

CNN legal analyst, Danny Cevallos.

Thank you so much for joining us.

DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Thank you.

ALLEN: Well, here's another one that involves a use of social media while you're in your car. How culpable, Danny, is SnapChat in this suit and how culpable is Crystal McGee, the young woman?

[02:50:10] CEVALLOS: The driver is clearly much more culpable as the driver of a car that caused an incident -- an accident. But in case like this, often when you have such serious injuries, the insurance policy of the driver just isn't enough to cover all these damages, so you see these creative lawsuits. And that's exactly what this is. The theory of liability that the mere existence of an app on your cell phone is somehow -- makes the company liable for a driving accident is a stretch to be sure because an app has so many lawful uses. This is an instance where it might have been used unlawfully. But probably not the fault of SnapChat.

ALLEN: Is that a defense you believe they will use?

CEVALLOS: Yes. They're going to use causation, first of all, because they're going to say that the app as it's designed didn't cause the accident. Yes, the plaintiff alleges, there's a feature that allows you to put the speed at which you are traveling on the app. But there are many lawful uses for that. You could be on a bus. You could be on a train. You could be in a plane. So there are many uses that are lawful for that. Even though teens or other adults may be incentivized to use it while driving, that's always been a problem with cell phones. Whether it's text messaging, making a phone call. And that mere fact alone hasn't made cell phone companies or service providers themselves liable when people are wrongfully on the phone and cause an accident.

ALLEN: Since SnapChat argues its warning not to snap and drive covers it against prosecution of this sort, but is it doing enough to protect its users and other road users?

CEVALLOS: Well, on one side of that argument a warning alone will not automatically exonerate a company who creates an unsafe, dangerous product. But on the other hand, in a case like this, that warning is a fact that helps SnapChat in addition to the much more important fact, which is its app has so many lawful uses that the fact that it could potentially be misused does not by itself make SnapChat liable. After all, kitchen knives have very many valuable uses to humanity and just a few highly illegal used, like stabbing people. That doesn't make kitchen knives unsafely designed or negligently designed. This is going to be a very difficult case to hold SnapChat liable. But it appears at this point it's going to be a very easy case comparably to hold the driver liable.

ALLEN: Thank you so much.

CNN legal analyst, Danny Cevallos, for us.

Thank you.

We turn to sports news now. Leicester City is tantalizingly close to become the most unexpected champion ever in the English Premier League. Some fans may attribute the club's success to the team's manager. Some credit the players.

But as Christina McFarland explains, the key to their unthinkable rise may lie in a higher power.

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CHRISTINA MCFARLAND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Leicester City's improbable rise to the top of the Premier League has stunned the footballing world. While pundits in Europe grapple to understand the secrets of their success, here in Thailand, the home of the club's owners, football fans believe it's more to do with spirituality than skills and tactics.

(on camera): For the past three years, monks have been traveling from the temples here in Bangkok all the way to Leicester City football grounds to bless the pitch and share sacred fabrics with the players. And one monk is credited with turning the club into an unstoppable force.

(voice-over): Prapra Monkalajan (ph) is the assistant abbot at the local Buddha temple and has traveled around several times to the club at the request of the Thai owners. Recently, he gave this unbeatable fabric to the team, which is said to give good karma. He recalls how the players were somewhat taken aback by their first meeting with the monks.

PRAPRA MONKALAJAN (ph), ABBOT, BUDDHA TEMPLE (through translation): Well, they are from different regions. They're not Buddhists. And therefore during our first meeting they were a bit indifferent. But Mr. Vichai, he wanted blessings for the club and each individual player.

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MCFARLAND: The sight of monks at the Kipau Stadium in a season where Leicester City have roared from the bottom to the very top of the Premier League has drawn much attention to the club and their unconventional Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

MONKALAJAN (ph) (through translation): He never intended to change the way a Premier League club was run. All he wanted was for his team to be confident. But Mr. Vichai is a good Buddhist and wherever he goes he never forgets about Thailand.

[02:55:06] MCFARLAND: And that's something the Thai people here have taken to their hearts. Many of them switching from the traditional giants like Manchester United and Liverpool to follow the fairy tale, meaning retailers have completely sold out of the Leicester Blue Shirts.

UNIDENTIFIED LEICESTER CITY FAN: It means a lot for us. This is the first time that a team owned by Thai people could be the champion. And I think they're going to win. And look at us. We have a great monk. We have monks who bless them.

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MCFARLAND: If karma takes Leicester City all the way to the Premier League title, one wonders what it will do next season when the Foxes step up to take their place among Europe's elite in the champions league. The answer to that lies in the heart of the temple.

MONKALAJAN (ph): It's up to them. If they continue to uphold the law of karma, it will be their power. If they still have consciousness and good intention and determination to do good deeds, power will remain with them forever.

MCFARLAND: Christina McFarland, CNN, Bangkok.

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ALLEN: I'll be right back with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM right after this, including a Donald Trump rally that got violently out of hand. Much more in just a moment.

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