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President Obama Speaks in Hiroshima; Trump Wins GOP Nomination; EgyptAir Search Latest; US Has First Case of Superbug; Paris Protestors Clash with Police; Possible Brexit Examined. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired May 27, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: A historic moment in Japan. That's President Obama arriving with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Another step as he heads towards Hiroshima. We'll have the story this hour.

Also, Donald Trump hits the magic number. The billionaire gets one step closer to the White House after earning enough delegates to clinch the republican nomination.

And signals from the sea. Searchers may be getting closer to finding the main wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804.

It's all ahead to you this hour. Welcome to our viewers in United States and around the world. We're live in Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen. CNN Newsroom starts right now.

Thank you for being with us.

Barack Obama will make history in the coming hours as first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan. It's been more than 70 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city during World War II.

Right now, Mr. Obama is at a Marine Corps air station visiting with American forces. In Hiroshima, crowds have been gathering to protest his visit. A few hundreds have been protesting. U.S. officials say he will not apologize for the bombing.

Let's bring in CNN's Athena Jones; she is live in Hiroshima waiting for the president's arrival. Hello to you. And I'm wondering we have seen a few protesters, but what about the majority of the people? What do they think, Athena, abut this visit?

ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Natalie. The majority of the people that we've been hearing from our people who are happy to see the president making this historic and symbolic trip here to Hiroshima, as you mentioned the first sitting U.S. President to make such a trip.

We know he is not going to be apologizing, he is not going to focusing on the past or revisiting the decision to drop the atomic bomb here in Hiroshima, and then three days later in Nagasaki, 71 years ago. Instead, he'll be talking about his goal of promoting a world free of nuclear weapons.

This is something that has been high on his foreign policy agenda since the very beginning of his presidency. He delivered a speech back in 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic, talking about his goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

Acknowledging then and as he continues to do that it could take a long time that maybe something that has not happened in his lifetime. But we expect to hear him today talk about the real risks when it comes to securing loose nuclear material, and making sure that it does not fall into the hands of terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, and also combatting nuclear proliferation.

So, a lot of topics today but he won't spend a lot of time focusing on the U.S. -- what the U.S. did back in 1945, instead he'll talk about what needs to be done to achieve a world without nuclear weapons, Natalie.

ALLEN: And what else will happen during the ceremony, Athena?

JONES: We expect him to be on the ground here, the schedule, he scheduled to be here on the ground for just a little -- about an hour. So, he'll speak to the marines. Then come here to the peace memorial park. And we'll see him to lay a wreath here at the site with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, then deliver brief remarks, and then we'll see him leave and head back home.

This is something the president has wanted to do since 2009. He said on his first visit here to Japan that he hoped to one day have the honor and the opportunity to visit either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

And now with time running out, this is being his last G7 summit, likely his last trip to Japan, this is the time to do it. He is taking advantage of that. And so, we're all be closely watching. This is something that we've been waiting for. Natalie.

ALLEN: It will be a symbolic visit for sure. And we will wait and hear what the president had to say about how he felt during that time.

Athena Jones, traveling with him. Thank you so much.

Well, G7 leaders say a British exit from the European Union would be a global economic risk, that's just one of the issues they tackled at their annual summit this year in Japan. Of course, President Obama attending that as well.

A joint communique says economic growth is an urgent priority and the group is committed to free trade.

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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: ... in the E.U. has been helping to drive this process. Specifically on the E.U./Japan deal. Something worth 89 billion pounds to both sides.

I met yesterday with other E.U. leaders and the Prime Minister Abe in the margins of the summit where we committed to accelerating negotiations and getting this deal completed.

If we were outside the E.U. it would be far more difficult to achieve anything like this anything on this scale, anything as comprehensive. It is yet another example of the way the E.U. makes us better off.

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ALLEN: The leaders of the world's richest economies also pledged to do more to fight terrorism.

[03:05:09] On a day without a primary, caucus, or single vote cast, Donald Trump has managed to win the republican presidential nomination. He did it. Thanks to a group of previously uncommitted delegates who announced Thursday they are in his corner.

CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta is traveling with the Trump campaign.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: After shaking hands with some of the delegates in North Dakota who helped him clinch the GOP nomination, Donald Trump took note of who hasn't reached the finish line yet, Hillary Clinton.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Here I am watching Hillary fight. She can't close the deal. And that should be such an easy deal to close.

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ACOSTA: But the presumptive GOP nominee still has one other democrat on his mind, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Elizabeth Warren she seems to have made it her job?

TRUMP: Who Pocahontas? Well, no. She's...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Should you use that word?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Very offensive. Sorry.

TRUMP: Oh, I'm sorry about that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

TRUMP: Pocahontas, is that what you says? I think he is as Native American as I am, OK? That I will tell you. But she is a woman that's been very ineffective other than she's got a big mouth.

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ACOSTA: Trump is taking hits from President Obama who oversees warned world leaders are alarmed over the real estate tycoon's campaign rhetoric.

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BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: They're rattled by it. And for good reason. He does a lot of the proposals that he has made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude.

ACOSTA: Trump jabbed right back.

TRUMP: He is a president who has allowed many of the countries to totally take advantage of him and us unfortunately. And, he has got to say something. And it's unusual that every time he has a press conference he is talking about me.

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ACOSTA: Trump Also answered questions about comments made by his campaign chairman, Paul Manifort, who told the Huffington Post the New York billionaire won't select a minority or woman as his running mate because he doesn't want to be seeing his pandering. Not so said the candidate.

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TRUMP: We're looking for absolute competence, we're going to have many women involved and I think that you're going to that, you're going to see that very strongly.

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ACOSTA: And Trump signaled he is serious about winning over House Speaker Paul Ryan who still hasn't endorsed him. The two leaders spoke by phone overnight and are keeping the door open to working together.

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PAUL RYAN, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: It was a productive phone call, I guess we've had these conversations.

TRUMP: We'll see what happens. We had great conversations and we'll see what happens.

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PAUL RYAN, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: And even after all of that news, Donald Trump plans to hold another press conference on Tuesday to lay out details about all of the money he and his supporters have donated to veterans' groups.

Jim Acosta, CNN, Bismarck, North Dakota.

ALLEN: Hillary Clinton is reacting to Trump clinching his party's nomination with more attacks. Her comments came during a phone interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump says

outrageous things all the time. But today, he officially clinched the republican nomination. So, this is now as real as it gets. And this man who is an unqualified loose cannon is within reach of the most important job in the world.

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ALLEN: Joining us now, CNN political commentator and democratic strategist, Maria Cardona. She is also a Hillary Clinton supporter and super delegate. Thanks for being with us.

MARIA CARDONA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Thank you, Natalie.

ALLEN: Well, first off, Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump an unqualified loose cannon. We have heard that before from others in the season. She called him this before. So, going up against Trump in the homestretch with all of his one line zingers, when does she need to turn up the heat and really go after him with more specifics, what do you expect from her?

CARDONA: Well, I think what we should expect from her is that she is not going to let anything slide. And the big difference between Donald Trump and the republican primary process is that he was facing 16 pretty weak contenders who did not take him seriously at first and then suffered for it.

They did not have the guts to go after him from the moment that he burst on to the scene when he announced his candidacy by denigrating and insulting Mexican immigrants, calling them rapists and criminals and not even Jeb Bush whose wife is a Mexican said anything about it until like a month later.

The first one who said anything about it, Natalie, was actually Hillary Clinton. So, that tells me that she is not going to let anything slide. She is going to go at him. She is going to go at his lack of qualifications. At his dangerous economic policies. His incredibly dangerous foreign policies.

And she is going to essentially focus on the contrast and the choice that the American people have. Between him as she says, an unqualified loose cannon and I would add a 12-year-old bully stuck in the body of the republican nominee versus somebody who has 30 years of public service, who has focused on nothing but trying to make people's lives better.

[03:10:06] ALLEN: Right.

CARDONA: And Trump has focused on nothing except trying to enrich himself.

ALLEN: Yes. It will be interesting to see what she has in her Donald Trump playbook. Because it is going to have to be pretty fantastic because he has a way, nobody else in the republican side could come up with a playbook to take him down. So, but she is face a two front battle with Sanders still in the race.

Now that Trump has officially clinched could this allow Sanders to make up ground against Clinton nationally?

CARDONA: Well, I think it's very difficult for Senator Sanders to get off to the number of delegates or to essentially catch up with her in any way in the number of pledged delegates, Natalie. You know, we've talked about super delegates.

But really the big number that is important here is pledged delegates. And right now, you see Hillary Clinton who has one more contest, and has acquired about 300 more pledge delegates than Bernie Sanders, which by the way, is three times more than what Senator, then Senator Barack Obama had against then Senator Hillary Clinton.

And Obama as you know ended up getting the nomination because he arrived at the convention with more pledge delegates than Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton will arrive at the convention with more pledged delegates and three million more votes than Bernie Sanders. And that is what is going to help her clinch the nomination with the help of the unpledged delegates or super delegates as they call it.

ALLEN: Could a Sanders/Trump debate be a detraction, be a disruptor, that a scene that the Clinton team would want so much to see on the national stage? Those two candidates and she is not there?

CARDONA: Well I think what we have to look at is whether this is even, has a smidgen of reality in actually happening. And I really don't think that it does. This is something that Donald Trump put out there because it's what he does, Natalie. To distract us from the fact that he has absolutely zero credible or sane ideas on how to deal with America's problems.

I think it's interesting fodder to talk about. But again, it's a huge distraction from the fact that Donald Trump really has nothing but empty, dangerous rhetoric to offer the American people.

ALLEN: Well he does have the entertainment factor when he goes on.

CARDONA: That's true.

ALLEN: And we'll see how she stands up against him in that. All right. We thank you so much for joining us, Mara Cardona. Thank you.

CARDONA: Thank you, Natalie. Great to be with you.

ALLEN: Hillary Clinton is pushing back against the report saying she did not follow the rules when it comes to using here private e-mail server for government business. Clinton told Wolf Blitzer that she thought she was allowed to use a private server when Secretary of State. She also said the rules were not clear and that she is not the first one to do it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CLINTON: This report makes clear that personal e-mail use was the

practice under other Secretary of State. And the rules were not clarified until after I had left. But as I've said many times, it was still a mistake. If I could go back I would do it differently. And I understand people have concerns about this. But I hope voters look at the full picture of everything that I've done.

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ALLEN: The State Department spokesman said Thursday that Clinton staff didn't fully understand how much she relied on personal e-mail.

Next here, angry demonstrators clash with riot police in Paris. We'll tell you what's sparking the protests.

Also, no antibiotic will kill it. And now a patient in the U.S. has been diagnosed with a super bug. We'll tell you why doctors fear it could spread. That's coming up.

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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines.

It looks as though Jose Mourinho is new Manchester United boss, despite no official line from the club or the man himself. Reports in the U.K. suggest the deal is being done between arguably the world's largest football club and the so-called special one.

The Portuguese is set to replace Louis Van Gaal. He was sacked earlier this week after winning the FA Cup at the weekend. A weekend football is clearly a very long time.

Maria Sharapova may be serving a doping suspension but 10 week from the start of the Olympic Games her road to Rio could be opening on Thursday. The five time major champion is named to represent Russia despite a positive test from meldonium at the start of the year. She was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation in March.

However, Russian tennis officials are hoping to resolve Sharapova's situation in the next week.

As for the actual tennis being played at French Open and the top half of all the draw, the big names have cruised through their opening matches. Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal needed less than two hours to dispatch Argentine Bagnis and report his 200th Grand Slam victory.

The world number one Novak Djokovic also had little trouble in his second round match, beating Belgian Steve Darcis in straight sets.

And that's a look at all of your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

ALLEN: This is Paris where police and protesters clashed during labor reform rallies Thursday. Demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at officers. They fired back with tear gas. Police told CNN more than 18,000 demonstrators were at the rallies.

The protesters are angry at a reform bill that gives employers more flexibility to hire and fire and weakens the power of unions.

Here is more from CNN's Kelly Morgan.

KELLY MORGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Scenes that are becoming all too familiar in Paris, angry demonstrators clashing with riot police. Tear gas fills the air, so too projectiles. The violence comes after a second day of nationwide strikes protests. But this is just the latest wave of anger.

French demonstrators have been up in arms for months now over propose reforms to labor laws which will make it easier for employers to hire and fire staff. The government says the plans are vital in tackling the country's 10 percent unemployment rate.

Unions and workers though, describe it as an attack on democracy. This anger is largely over the prime minister's decision to invoke a rarely used constitutional clause to bypass parliament, forcing the bill through.

Demonstrators have mobilized around the country with transport strikes and to blockades at oil refineries and to nuclear power stations. Triggering fuel shortages and bringing much of France to a standstill.

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ANTHONY LE BORRE, UNION REPRESENTATIVE (TRANSLATED): We do not want to paralyze France. That's not the primary objective. We have demands and we want to be heard. There is a government who wants to pass a law by force, giving an impression that this is no longer a democracy.

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MORGAN: Neither side is budging in what has become a standoff.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): The bill is going head. They haven't changed their minds and neither have we.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): I know that if everyone goes home it means we will have lost. So we just have to hold out.

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MORGAN: Endless general strike it reads. Not a good sign as France prepares to host the European Championships in just two weeks.

Kelly Morgan, CNN, London.

ALLEN: Protests are also continuing on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.

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[03:20:08] ALLEN: They're mainly students. They want increased government funding for struggling schools. Just one item on a long list of this country's problems.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): All the universities like the Central University of Venezuela are always on strike because employees are not getting paid.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): This is a peaceful march. We just want to pass and continue our protest so the government realizes what they're doing to us. With these long lines, no food, and insecurity in Venezuela.

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ALLEN: People are fed up with President Nicholas Maduro and the world's highest inflation rate expected to hit 481 percent this year. Protests are happening every day as the government rations food and other basic necessities.

The United States has discovered its first known human case of a superbug, one that cannot be killed by known antibiotics. In light of the discovery, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned more must be done to develop new drugs.

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TOM FRIEDEN, U.S. CDC DIRECTOR: We know now that the more we look, the more we are going to fine. The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. We need to do a very comprehensive job protecting antibiotics so that we can have them and our children can have them.

We need to make new antibiotics but must have better stewardship and better identification of outbreaks. We will lose these miracle drugs. The medicine cabinet is empty for some patients. It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.

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ALLEN: This superbug is a rare kind of E. Coli bacteria which typically targets the intestines. It's also been identified in Europe, China, and Canada. U.S. authorities are scrambling to investigate and ensure it doesn't spread.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more on the bacteria and on the patient who's involved.

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN'S CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: All we know at this point is that this woman is 49 years old. That she is from Pennsylvania. She was seen in a clinic. She wasn't in a hospital. She was seen in a clinic and she was found to have these bacteria, an E. Coli bacteria that does not get killed by any existing antibiotic.

She hasn't traveled from overseas recently so this does not appear to have come from another country. And now the focus for researchers is going to be what do we do about this? How do we prevent this particular bacteria, which is resistant to antibiotics from spreading.

And where are the new antibiotics going to come from, where are they going to come, when are they going to come?

Again, I think medical officials for some time have been anticipating a day like this. So, there's been various strategies in the works. But as things stand now, there is a bacteria out there that doesn't respond. We just got to make sure it doesn't spread. And that we have more, more tools in the toolbox as soon as possible. Back to you.

ALLEN: On top of the story for us. Well, Derek Van Dam is here. Because he is on top of the severe weather going across the U.S. Central Midwest I guess.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, that's correct. We had over 100 tornadoes this week alone. And we came across some incredible dash cam footage from a police officer's vehicle. You have to see, wait, rather, hear.

ALLEN: Hear.

DAM: What I'm talking about. Listen. Wow, now that is some incredible sound on tape. If you ask me. Sops. Known in our industry.

ALLEN: I understand. The nice officer is there no expletive.

DAM; That's right. That's right. Either that was bleeped out. You know, that shock wave from the thunder actually knocked the dash cam off the gentleman's windshield.

ALLEN: Oh, my.

DAM: If you didn't get a chance to see or hear it. Take a listen one more time.

DAM: OK. So, what exactly is thunder. I'm so glad you asked. Let me answer that question for you at home. Thunder is a shockwave just like the shock wave that knocked the dash cam off of the police officer's windshield off his vehicle.

Basically you can't have thunder without lightning. And once lightning actually forms. It actually super heats a column of air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's warmer than the surface of the sun. There's tons of pressure. Extremely high temperatures within that column of air. And eventually it just can't take it anymore.

So, it explodes. It reverberates in all directions. We hear the resulting shock wave which is thunder. There you go. Little meteorology lesson for you. Also a little bit of tidbit, water cooler knowledge for you.

Did you know you can calculate the distance between yourself and an approaching thunderstorm by counting the seconds between a lightning flash and clap of thunder? You divide that by five and that equals the number of miles away between you and the thunderstorm.

So, for instance if you count 10 seconds between a lightning flash and clap of thunder, divide that five you get a thunderstorm that is two miles away.

[03:25:05] Well, there is various types of lightning. Inside clouds. Cloud to cloud, or cloud to ground. We've all seen it. And we've all heard the resulting thunder as well.

But take a look at this. Do you know that there has been over 35,000 lightning strikes across the Central U.S. just within the past two hours? Unbelievable stuff. This is all part of a large storm system that has wreaked havoc across the Central U.S. As we talked about a moment ago, over 100 tornado thousands.

Several wind and hail reports. This is fairly common though this time of year. The Central U.S. also known as tornado alley sees upwards of 276 tornadoes on average for the month of May. So, nothing out of the unusual. Now it's not only the severe weather threat with tornadoes and hail.

There's been the concern. It's been the extreme rainfall. Get a load of this. Sixteen inches in a 12-hour period for Washington County leaves flooding scenes like this. Take a look at these visuals coming out of the region. People submerged in vehicles. Plenty of swift water rescues. Taking place.

That is unbelievable. And by the way, Natalie, that its what -- 16 inches of rain in less than 12 hours looks like. It completely stalls out people's vehicles and roadways. Scary stuff.

ALLEN: Yes.

DAM: Mother nature. Giving out -- that's all.

ALLEN: Yes.

DAM: Just really giving it to us.

ALLEN: And cars shouldn't be traveling in that.

DAM: Drown into that. Turn around and don't drown. That's the National Weather Service's motto.

ALLEN: Derek, thank you.

DAM: All right.

ALLEN: All right. Also news that we are following -- new developments in the search for lost EgyptAir Flight 804, searchers may be closing in on the airplane. We have that in a moment. Plus, as Britain's way of Brexit we'll meet one farm family who relies

heavily on the European Union, but it's split of whether to stay or leave.

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ALLEN: Thanks for staying with us. This is our last half hour. You are watching CNN Newsroom. Thank you for watching from the U.S. and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen. Here are our top stories.

Barack Obama will head to Hiroshima soon after meeting with U.S. troops at a marine corps air station Japan. He said his visit to meant to honor those killed in World War II and a chance to pursue a world where nuclear weapons are no longer necessary.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg there, the ambassador to Japan with the president.

Donald Trump now has more than enough delegates to clinch the U.S. republican presidential nomination. A group of previously uncommitted delegates pledge their support Thursday. Trump says he's thrilled that he guaranteed the nomination before democrat Hillary Clinton got there.

Iraqi forces and allied militias are celebrating their first significant victory as they battle ISIS around the city of Fallujah. They've retaken the nearby town of Karma. The victory means most of Iraq east of Fallujah is under Iraqi government control.

A show of support for the Taliban's new leader, with Taliban commanders pledging their allegiance to Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada. This amateur video shows him the U.S. drone airstrike killed previous leader Mullah Mansour in Pakistan on Saturday.

We turn now to the search for missing EgyptAir Flight 804. France just announced an underwater search operation for the jet will begin soon. France is also sending a ship equipped with devices that can locate the plane's black boxes.

Meantime, Egypt state media report signals have been detected from one of the jet's emergency locator transmitters.

For more now here is Nic Robertson in Cairo.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: So, this is really going to speed up the search for the missing plane right now, going from an area we were told just two days ago, by an EgyptAir official an area they were searching the size of Connecticut. This narrows it down to a circular radius of about three miles, about five kilometer.

What the head of the investigation told state media is that, Airbus contacted him. They told him that they picked up a transmission from the ELT, Emergency Locating Transmitter on board the aircraft which had transmitted a signal by a satellite which gave the location, or more precise location will impact the water. On board an Airbus A320, there were normally three of these ELTs, that

designed to be to trigger and send out a signal once they impact land or water. So, normally the batteries on these devices last for about 48 hours.

We are getting the information now, seven days, more than seven days after the crash took place. Not clear why there's been a delay. However, it will speed up the investigation. Now the acoustic detection devices can be much more precisely lowered into the Mediterranean Sea. And they will be listening for the pings from the transmitters, the beacons that are on the black boxes.

Of course, the clock ticking there. Those black box transmitters, beacons transmit for about a month. So that should much more quickly speed up the search trying to find the missing aircraft.

Nic Robertson, Cairo, Egypt.

ALLEN: Hundreds of people gathered outside Cairo's opera house Thursday to remember victims of the EgyptAir crash. Friends, families, and colleagues of passengers held candles, and laid flowers near a banner showing the number 66. Victims photos were arranged to make the number.

The French ambassador to Cairo offered his condolences.

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ANDRE PARANT, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO CAIRO: I think it was necessary for all those who are hurt. Lost someone, a friend, or a beloved one in the crash. To have a moment to share their sorrow and to receive some a message of sympathy and compassion.

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ALLEN: We turn now to the search for a lost airliner. CNN has obtained new images of debris being analyzed in connection with missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The debris was found in Mozambique by a South African tourist. MH-370 disappeared in March 2014, with 239 people on board.

It was flying from Malaysia's capital to Beijing. Australia has announced the piece found in Mozambique and two from Mauritius will be taken to an Australian lab for examination.

The G7 warns against the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. World leader a so-called Brexit would be a big problem for global growth. London's new mayor isn't a fan of a possible Brexit either.

[03:35:03] Sadiq Khan says a vote to leave would send a message that Britain wants to stand alone. He explains some of his other concerns.

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SADIQ KHAN, LONDON MAYOR: Well, the national polls are very close. I think that that is too close to call. What's clear from polls in London, is that the majority of Londoners want to remain in European Union. I'm worried, though, about low turnout. I'm worried about the campaign being negative putting people off. Taking part in the referendum vote.

So, what a high turnout in London particularly in England who see the benefits of cultural exchanges. Student exchanges. Fashion in London. That's being an open city. So, between now and June 23rd I'll be trying to persuade Londoners, why it's in our interest to remain in the European Union.

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ALLEN: As the mayor said the vote is next month. And right now, polls are split.

CNN money Europe editor, Nina dos Santos meets one family of farmers, who despite receiving half their income from the E.U. - are divided on how they'll vote.

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NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPPONDENT: After 10 years of marriage, three kids and growing family business, Carrie and Chad Cryer have started to have their differences.

CARRIE CRYER, BRITISH FAMILY: You'll be saying I told you so.

CHAD CRYER, BRINKWORTH DAIRY CO-FOUNDER: Yes, I'm not like that.

DOS SANTOS: Their beef not with each other but over Brussels, which Chad believes has sown the seeds of unfair competition.

CHAD CRYER: I'm going to be voting out because I think the E.U. favors large business and big business, and I don't think that it is really the way farming in this country should be going.

DOS SANTOS: Well, as Carrie credits the E.U. with access to a larger market and essential funds for upgrading their facilities.

CARRIE CRYER: I'm going to be very thankful if Britain will stay in the referendum. I think that farming will do better if we stay in. I think that there is more support from the European governments for farming than there is from the U.K government.

DOS SANTOS: Across the British isles, agriculture is an emotive issue. About 70 percent of the land mass is dedicated to it. But as it is a fact that only employees about 1 percent of the work force. And for that 1 percent Brussels provides a financial life line.

For farms like this that's equivalent to almost half of their yearly income in the form of subsidies. The E.U. may sound like a cash cow, but subsidies don't go far. Especially in the dairy section where a collapse in milk prices has sent more than half of the U.K. dairy farmers out of business since 2000.

And to keep the farm going for a fourth generation, the Cryer's have had to diversify into higher margin products like cheese, yogurt, and honey. And as irony would have it, it is a trip to the European parliament who receive an award for their prized Wilshire loaf that left Chad cheesed off.

CHAD CRYER: I went there with an open mind. But I made up my mind while I was there, a voice in Europe is too divided. We can never vote together as a block as French and the Germans do. And it's for that reason that I think we should renegotiate somehow. And the only way to do that is to come out.

DOS SANTOS: Whether the U.K decides in favor for pastures new, or stays with the herd, the effects of that decision will live on in the next wave of Cryer's. What do they make of that?

CARRIE CRYER: Sophie, do we think we should stay in Europe or do you think we should go out? Your mommy's team or daddy's team?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess we should which is ever best for farmers.

DOS SANTOS: Nina dos Santos, CNN Money, Wilshire, England.

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ALLEN: Someone needs to ask the cows as well. Well, Iraqi forces celebrate a victory in the fight for Fallujah. We'll have that coming of next. And the tide could be turning against ISIS in another province.

Plus, he suffered senseless cruelty. But nine years later, the Iraqi boy known as Youssif considers himself lucky. Arwa Damon has followed his story for many years. And she will tell us how he is doing next.

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ALLEN: U.S. Military denies suspicions that its Special Forces are in the thick of the fight against ISIS in Syria. The press says these pictures show U.S. forces operating north of Raqqa. The Pentagon insists they're not engaged in combat.

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PETER COOK, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: They are not on the forward line. They are providing advice and assistance. And again, I'm not going to get into details. But that mission has not changed. Their role has the not changed. They are not leading this fight. They are supporting those forces that are at the leading edge.

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ALLEN: Questions were also raised because the U.S. forces appear to be wearing the insignia of the main Kurdish force in Syria.

Iraqi forces battling ISIS around Fallujah are celebrating their first significant victory.

The troops and their militia allies have retaken the town of Karma, that's just 16 kilometers from Fallujah. This map shows how the offensive is unfolding. Iraqi forces are pushing towards Fallujah from the south, the east and west.

Hundreds of families are fleeing, they're fighting their move into territory under the control of Iraqi security forces. And Iraqi lieutenant says they received more than 500 displaced people on Thursday alone.

We want to now update you on a boy named Youssif. He was doused in gasoline by masked men and set on fire during the Iraq war. And he has shown extraordinary courage in the face of senseless cruelty.

And in this exclusive update, Arwa Damon continues to follow along and check up on her friend.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Look at you. You got so big.

Youssif has the grown in numerous ways. He has been a hero for many over the year. Superman is his.

YOUSSIF, IRAQI BOY: I did a project in my English class. And so, each person got to choose one super hero.

DAMON: Do you identify with him?

YOUSSIF: Yes.

DAMON: In what sense?

YOUSSIF: I try to fit in with everyone.

DAMON: And is that still hard for you?

YOUSSIF: Not really because now I make friends easily.

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DAMON: Youssif was 4 years old when masked men attacked him outside his Baghdad home.

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DAMON: We reported his story. The outpouring of support came from across the globe. And Youssif and his family ended up in Los Angeles. Where his parents heard their son laughs and sleek for the first time in the months since the attack. Where strangers gathered in prayer on the beach, moving his mother to tears.

He has since undergone multiple surgeries, the memory of Iraq and the evil he experienced all but erased.

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DAMON: You were saying you don't remember anything about Baghdad?

[03:45:01] YOUSSIF: Yes, I don't. I don't remember my family that much. Only my grandparents.

DAMON: In many ways he is just like any other teen. Obsessed with soccer has loads of friend. And still wants to become a doctor to help others. But he knows he may not see his homeland in his lifetime.

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DAMON: You have been following the news about what is happening in Iraq with ISIS?

YOUSSIF: yes. I feel really bad for all the people. And all of those kids and stuff. It's like -- those terrorists aren't Muslims. They're just extremists.

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DAMON: We still can't disclose his father's with son's identity for the security of the family back in Iraq.

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YOUSSIF: I'm trying not to read and see what is going on. Because whatever I see is sad there. Everything is just sad.

DAMON: And life as a refugee is never easy. Wisam (ph) was only been able to find a part time job and is looking for more work.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At the same time. As you see, like so many people looking for a job. It's not only me.

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DAMON: They're all profoundly aware that they are fortunate to have survived and escaped the war zone. Thanks to the kindness of strangers who continue to finance Youssif's medical care.

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YOUSSIF: I was starting to have like one so close to the finish line.

DAMON: And you are starting high school?

YOUSSIF: Yes, I am really excited too.

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DAMON: Arwa Damon, CNN, Los Angeles.

ALLEN: How about Youssif. My goodness. If you would look to help Youssif and his family, they have set up a go fund me page. You can find the address on Arwa Damon's Twitter page @arwacnn.

Still have goose bumps from that story. CNN Newsroom will be right back.

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DAM: It doesn't look like much now. But this little cluster of clouds across the Atlantic Ocean could potentially develop into our second named storm system of the year.

This is moving into relatively warm waters. Light areas of wind shear, and light steering winds as well. That's why the National Hurricane Center has an 80 percent chance of development at least in terms of a tropical depression to perhaps a tropical storm. So we'll monitor that closely for the coast of Carolina and then -- Carolinas and into Georgia.

It's very hot over the eastern half of the United States. We continue to tap in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. This is setting up the perfect ingredients for severe weather once again, Kansas through Oklahoma and into Texas. An area that's been hit with over 100 tornados through the past week.

Look at the forecast for the afternoon, Denver, 15. Showers for you. Chicago, scattered thunderstorms. Stretching right into the Dallas Fort Worth region. Atlanta, 31, New York City, 29. Along the West Coast, temperatures in the lower 20s.

Here is our large area of disturbed weather across the plains. Again, the potential for tornados exists once again. And severe weather not the only threat we have the potential flash flooding, once again, from Texas to Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and parts of Kansas.

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ALLEN: Well is it true? Some people say couples who sweat together stay together. Now one American entrepreneur is putting that mantra to the test. He says he was sick of meeting dates over drinks and coffee.

So, as CNN Money's Samuel Burke reports that led to a dating app to connect fitness buffs.

SAMUEL BURKE, CNN MONEY BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: You know that feeling when you lay eyes on someone for the very first time. But what if it is on a date where you are all sweaty and gross. That's exactly the premise of dating app Meet me Outside.

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ROB HAND, MEET ME OUTSIDE CO-FOUNDER: Typical dating is nerve- racking. Actually sitting down face to face interview style doesn't help alleviate any of that nervousness or anxiety. On Meet me Outside we give you potential matches every 24 hours, base on your active interests like, running, hiking, biking, weight lifting, rock climbing.

And once a couple matches they can chat. And from there we also show you activities that are nearby that you can suggest as date ideas.

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BURKE: Co-founder Rob Hand designed the app for people who are passionate about a healthy lifestyle. So, we came to the great, well, almost outdoors, to meet up with Bridgette and Todd on their first date.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm hoping it will be really fun. It will be funny. And I hope that I am better at rock climbing than he is.

TODD CARSON, MEET ME OUTSIDE USER: I really like to meet someone that, you know, I have similar interests in, and don't have to require alcohol to get the conversation going.

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BURKE: Revenue from the mobile dating market is expected to hit $415 million in the U.S. alone by 2017. And plenty of startups want a piece of the action.

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BURKE: How much do people have to pay to use the service?

HAND: It's completely free.

BURKE: How are you making money then?

HAND: We hope that will make money off the advertisements of the businesses that we're promoting as first dates.

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BURKE: That's a very different approach from Tinder which has ads and premium tier with more than 1 million paying members. Last quarter, it helped parent company match notch a 24 percent rise in revenue to more than $260 million.

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BURKE: Who is your typical user of this app? Is it like a hard-core outdoor person?

HAND: It's everyone and in between. We have some people that are -- very earth-centric like to be outdoors and be into nature. And we have some people that are really into fitness.

BURKE: So, how is the date going?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's going pretty well. This is definitely a good workout.

BURKE: Who is the better climber?

CARSON: Her for sure. She's been doing it. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't feel my arms.

BURKE: All right. I'll let you keep climbing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. Thanks.

BURKE: Do you worry that your competitors might just be able to copy the same exact thing you're doing and set people up on activity dates?

HAND: You know, I don't. We are getting that second generation of people who are moving past Tinder that are looking for something that really pertains to their lifestyle.

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BURKE: Tinder has 80 percent of the market eating into the share of big names like OK Cupid and Match.com which once dominated. So, was it love at first climb?

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I like that he was a great guy. It's really nice. Very funny. It's really good guy.

BURKE: And a second date?

CARSON: I'm pretty hungry right now. I might ask her to go get some food.

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ALLEN: Hey, it's worth a shot. Anyway to find love. Well, hopefully there is an app like that for football fans. Because millions are anxiously awaiting this weekend's Champions League final. It takes place Saturday in Milan, between Madrid rivals Atletico and Real Madrid.

Atletico is looking to avenge what happened in the 2014 final between these two teams when Real won 4 to 1.

Did you know this championship game is the most watched annual sporting event on the planet? Its global audience even dwarves the Super Bowl. Say it is not so.

Well, Amanda Davies runs the numbers.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN SPORTS PRESENTER: Football versus American football. The Champions League against the Super Bowl. So who wins? Well, there is only one for global TV audience around 350 million people tune in to the Champions League final. With just about 150 million for the Super Bowl.

And the Champions League reaches more countries. It is beamed to over 200 around the world compared to around 180 for its American rival.

[03:55:07] When money talks it is the American version of football that its sitting pretty. Worldwide broadcasting rights for the Champions League are worth $1.6 billion. That's small change when you compare it to the $3 billion that U.S. heavy weights, NBC, CBX and Fox pay for the Super Bowl.

The NFL could also charge $4.5 million for just 30 seconds of TV commercial time at Halftime. But in the world of social media, European football is the big winner. Real Madrid's 89 million likes on Facebook are 10 times greater than the Dallas Cowboys.

And Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo, eclipses them both on his own. With two Champions League titles, he's amassed 112 million Facebook likes. Tom Brady has one million likes for each of four Super Bowl rings.

And in terms of the Halftime entertainment, it definitely is fair to say, there is only one winner.

ALLEN: And that's CNN Newsroom. I'm Natalie Allen. For viewers in the U.S. Early Start is next. For other viewers around the world, stay with us for another hour of CNN Newsroom.

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