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Real Madrid win Champions League; No Plans to Relocate Rio Games; Greece Clears Migrant Camp; Anti-Immigration Violence around the World; Belgian Prison Guards on Strike; America's Choice 2016; Basketball Playoff Drama; Indy 500 Milk Tradition; Obama Drops a Beat. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired May 29, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Confetti in Madrid. Real beat their crosstown rivals, winning Europe's biggest football prize.

Zika sparks a medical disagreement. The World Health Organization pushes back against dozens of doctors, who are pleading to hold off the Rio Olympics.

And campaigning in the Golden State. Bernie Sanders pins his hope on a California primary victory, an unlikely path to the Democratic nomination.

Live from CNN headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm George Howell. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

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HOWELL: They did it again, Real Madrid and their fans, basking in the glory of the club's 11th Champions League title. The stars paraded that prize through the heart of the city. Listen.

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HOWELL (voice-over): Crowds waited all night to see their heroes, to see them lift this coveted trophy right there. Look at that.

But all of Madrid is not celebrating. Real beat crosstown rival Atletico Madrid on penalty kicks in the final. "WORLD SPORT's" Alex Thomas is live for us in Madrid following this -- Alex.

What a day for those Real fans.

How are the celebrations?

ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And what a night, really, as well, George. Yes, welcome to Madrid, the morning after. An amazing party for Real Madrid after they lift the most prestigious title in club football for the 11th time in their history.

We are at the Cibeles Fountain in Central Madrid, which saw tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands -- there's obviously no Madrid officials on a Sunday morning who can ask to confirm, turning out here to celebrate the team as it flew straight back from Milan where the match took place, having beaten their local rivals, Atletico, and they were greeted by hordes of cheering fans.

After I'd finished for the night, in order to get a few hours' sleep to come back and join you this morning, I walked past Real Madrid fans walking towards this plaza from all over the city, old and young, some as young as 2 or 3 years old, holding the hands of their parents; male and female.

For many young women, it was their night out to come and party here with their Real Madrid heroes. And when the team arrived in the early hours, 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning local time, they took a coach here, they paraded the college trophy in front of those fans and took the acclaim.

And then as I walked from my hotel this morning, George, it was that usual thing that, after crowds in a street, a rather odorous smell, it has to be said, without wishing to get too untactful about it, plenty of litter.

Leaf blowers out, road sweepers, it's a pretty efficient operation now at clearing up, having done it twice in three years, Madrid having beaten Atletico in the final two years as well ago in Lisbon. And now they've done it again here after the final in Milan.

So later on on Sunday here in Madrid, there will be another celebration, a more official parade of the trophy that went up on Madrid's Bernabeu stadium, where 80,000 turned up yesterday just to watch the match on a big screen. Tickets for that selling more than $100 on the black market, we're told, and they were delighted to watch their Real Madrid heroes beat Atletico on a penalty shootout after the game finished 1-1 in the normal 90 minutes. No more goals in half an hour of extra time.

So there was the penalty shootout, the winning goal, scored by star player Cristiano Ronaldo. And this is what the relative team managers thought of it afterwards.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Since I am a positive man, I have a such a fantastic team that has worked very hard, the message is this: we have worked. We have fought for it. And when you have players of such great talent, then you can manage something great like what we have achieved tonight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): What is clear for me is that no one ever remembers who came second. To lose two finals is a failure and I need to accept this moment, licking my wounds at home.

(END VIDEO CLIP) THOMAS: Now the interesting thing, George, is that Diego Simeone may have been heavily praised for the work he's done at Atletico and Madrid, a team with a fraction of the resources of one like Real Madrid or other European giants like Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Manchester United --

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THOMAS: -- but he wouldn't confirm in the immediate aftermath of yet another Champions League (INAUDIBLE) beat whether or not he would stay at Atletico Madrid.

We know that many big clubs around the world would love to have him as their manager. Maybe he's just taking time to reflect and he'll stay on with the Atletico project where he was a revered player and now even more revered as a manager that's brought so much success to the club.

It must be hard to take, two defeats in three years in that huge, huge game. As for his opposite numbers, Zinedine Zidane, who we heard from in that sound there, he will surely be confirmed as the Real Madrid manager for next season.

Believe it or not, he hadn't been before that game. He'd only taken over halfway through the season after the failure of Rafa Benitez, his predecessor. And then he oversaw the best run of results of any team in Spain since he took over, although it wasn't enough to overhaul Barcelona and win Spain's league title, lifting the Champions League trophy is more than just a consolation, though. It's a crowning achievement for a man who's now become only the seventh person to win this competition as both a player and a coach -- George.

HOWELL: It will be interesting to see how they shuffle the deck on this, how people move around. But again, Alex, what a moment for this team once again. Alex Thomas, thank you.

Now on to the Olympics. The World Health Organization says the Rio games should go on. It is rejecting a call made by more than 100 doctors to move or postpone the upcoming Olympics because of the Zika virus. Our senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, has details for us.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The World Health Organization is involved in a very public debate over whether or not it's safe to hold the Olympics here in Rio de Janeiro in August.

This coming after a group of about 150 doctors and medical researchers from around the world issued a public letter, challenging the WHO and saying it's simply not safe to hold the Olympics here. They must be either postponed or moved to another location, due to the threat of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

The physicians arguing that we don't know enough about the disease and that it would be irresponsible to welcome some 500,000 tourists from around the world here, where some of them could contract the disease and then bring it back to their home countries, where it could then potentially do great harm, particularly in poorer countries with worse health care systems.

Now the WHO has fired back, saying that Zika is being found in close to 60 countries around the world, and it is standing by its health care guidelines, saying that pregnant women should not come to the Olympics and adding that people who do come here should confine themselves to air conditioned residences at night. They should wear mosquito repellent practice safe sex because the virus is seen to be passed through sexual intercourse.

Not much to be said for the millions of Brazilians who live here, who are exposed to the mosquitoes that carry the disease as well as other diseases, such as dengue fever and yellow fever. So the debate continues to rage around this virus and its potential threat to the upcoming Olympics -- Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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HOWELL: Ivan, thank you.

The Russian Olympic Committee Says some of its athletes may have tested positive for doping. On Friday, the international committee announced 23 samples from the 2012 London Games tested positive.

Russian Olympic officials say eight of those belonged to Russian athletes from three different sports. No names have been released as of yet; 14 Russians also failed doping tests retroactively conducted on samples from the 2008 Beijing Games.

Now moving on to Iraq, pro-government fighters say that they have found underground tunnels built by ISIS on the outskirts of Fallujah. That nation's military has been engaged in an operation to retake Fallujah from ISIS for the past week now. They say the tunnels were used by ISIS to approach and escape from the front lines. The fighters are from the popular mobilization units, mostly Shiite paramilitary groups that are formed to fight ISIS.

Migrants by the thousands are being pulled from the unsafe boats that have been found in the Mediterranean Sea and right now the Italian navy are bringing hundreds of those migrants back to port.

You're looking at these live images from Italy at this hour, along with the bodies, also, of several dozen who did not survive. The Italian coast guard said Saturday it rescued almost 2,000 people within 24 hours.

It says, in all, this past week, some 14,000 people were saved from flimsy, overloaded boats that --

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HOWELL: -- were found at sea. Still, there are fears that possibly hundreds more migrants may have drowned. Across the Mediterranean, Greece has emptied a migrant camp at its border with Macedonia. The Idomeni camp once housed nearly 14,000 refugees and migrants but now it is a ghost town. CNN's Atika Shubert has this report for us.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the beginning of the refugee crisis, people would come here by train, by bus. That's actually the old train station there. But then the border slowly began to close. People were no longer able to walk across. So they began camping out here on the train tracks, on the fields nearby.

And actually, there used to be a number of abandoned rail cars here. People would camp inside. There was even a volunteer soup kitchen. But all of that now has been taken away.

SHUBERT: So we're right on the border now. And you can see some of the graffiti left behind by refugees. This is where, at the beginning, refugees would line up to cross the border. That's the IOM, the international office for migration, where refugees would register before crossing over into Macedonia.

You can see, it's completely sealed off. There's still Macedonian border police on the other side. And the great hope of many refugees is that if they waited long enough, they would then be able to cross into Macedonia and make their way across Europe.

Now, there were really the beginnings of a community here. There were barbershops. Other storefronts had opened. This was the Idomeni Cultural Center and it was really sort of a center for kids. You can see they still left their hand prints here. And all the countries that they wanted to get to, Germany, Greece, Canada, Spain, Norway, the U.S.A. and they still hope to get to, but their wait may be a little bit longer.

Now, at one point, up to 14,000 people were camped out here and they lived in tents like this. And in some cases here, it's almost as though people were simply sitting here and then they just picked up and left their lives behind. Shoes, clothes, tins of food, toys, even baby strollers I've seen here. And all of this now is being completely dismantled.

If you look here, in fact, there are bulldozers moving away much of the tents. And all of this will soon be cleared.

Now, all the refugees should be moved to safer places, better camps with more secure facilities. But there's still a real sadness here, even as the cleaning crews come in, because it's the feeling that all their hopes have now been abandoned -- Atika Shubert, CNN, at the Idomeni border crossing in Greece.

(END VIDEOTAPE) HOWELL: Tempers flared in Melbourne, Australia, over a hot-button issue, the topic of immigration of rival groups of demonstrators clashing in the streets. Dozens of police tried to keep anti-racism and anti-immigration protesters apart. But they kept trying to find ways to get back at each other and scuffle. Sky News Australia reporter Jackson Williams has this story for us.

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JACKSON WILLIAMS, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA: Police knew rival protest groups would be gathering here, two groups with very differing views on multiculturalism. Police say the violence here today wasn't isolated to one group. They have condemned all involved.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am really disappointed. I think that Coberg (ph) is a fantastic place to be. We worked really closely with the council. And I think that some of those arrangements made this not as bad as it could have been.

Unfortunately, we are starting to see more and more of these protests in the street.

WILLIAMS: Seven people were arrested here, five for their behavior while two others were arrested for possessing weapons. Police say only three people received minor injuries. And they say that is a reflection of their preparation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We did have a large number of resources today and that was as a result of the planning. So as predicted, we were able to deal with the violence as it occurred. And more importantly, we were flexible enough in our deployment.

WILLIAMS: The local Greens (ph) candidate was due to speak at the (INAUDIBLE) rally. She pulled out, citing safety fears. Her party's leader, Richard Dinatale (ph), says the violence is unacceptable.

Police will set up a task force to investigate today's event. They say the violence is simply unacceptable. And all those responsible will be brought to justice.

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HOWELL: That was Jackson Williams of Sky News reporting.

And in Germany, a politician known for speaking out against immigration is facing backlash from anti-fascists. An angry activist threw chocolate cake at the chairwoman of an opposition group during a party meeting on Saturday. Look at that. The politician has been criticized for her anti-migrant comments in the past --

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HOWELL: -- saying that Germany should limit the number of refugees it lets into the country. This is CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, lightning strikes in France and

Germany, injuring more than a dozen people, including children.

Plus: Bernie Sanders, he has his sights set on California, ahead of that state's crucial primary. That story and the latest on the U.S. presidential election as CNN NEWSROOM continues.

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HOWELL: At least 14 people were injured by lightning strikes in both France and Germany. Eight children and three adults were hurt when lightning hit a park in Paris. Three of the children suffered life- threatening injuries. Two others are listed in critical condition.

In Western Germany, lightning hit a youth football match. Three adults were severely injured there and 29 children were sent to the hospital as a precaution.

Let's bring in our meteorologist, Karen Maginnis, at the International Weather Center.

Karen, lightning strikes.

KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, it did. And one of the important reminders is that when you do see a thunderstorm or hear --

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MAGINNIS: -- the thunder rumbling, that lightning is not too far away. And don't seek cover underneath of a tree, because it conducts lightning.

That is a very strong temptation to do but, actually, you should seek shelter inside of a building.

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HOWELL: Well, our friend and co-anchor, Natalie Allen, you know, she is headed out that way. So feel bad for the timing for her but she has a positive attitude about it. She won't miss a beat, I'm sure.

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HOWELL: All right, Karen, thank you so much.

The prison guards in Belgium have been on strike for more than a month and it is an apocalyptic situation, according to at least one prison official. This is a country that is still recovering from terrorist attacks. CNN's Erin McLaughlin has details for us.

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ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The rioters you see here are not criminals, they're the men responsible for guarding them.

Belgium's prison guards trashed the country's justice ministry, part of a weeks-long strike meant to protest budget cuts and working conditions.

KOEN GOENS, BELGIAN JUSTICE MINISTER (through translator): Our culture of dialogue is being severely damaged.

MCLAUGHLIN: The situation more desperate by the day, compounded by a country still reeling from terrorist attacks.

Inside the prison, shaky cell phone footage widely seen on social media reveals utter chaos. The strikes mean staff shortages. The police and army have been called in, but guards say they don't know what they're doing.

ALAN ONKELINX, MEMBER, BELGIAN REGIONAL PARLIAMENT: The odor. The odor.

MCLAUGHLIN: The smell?

ONKELINX: The smell. It's very bad. Our visit, shocking.

MCLAUGHLIN: Lawmakers show us photos of one of the prisons on strike. 10 out of 100 guards remain, charged with the care of more than 1,000 prisoners.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Normally you have to go out a little bit better than you were. now if you left them in this condition, it would be worse and radicalism also.

MCLAUGHLIN: Radicalism is now even more of a concern. After all, it was in a Belgian prison that the key figure behind the Paris attacks is believed to have been radicalized.

Outside the Andenne Prison, the situation is tense. Striking guards stand in protest. They say they're not hopeful.

MARC PEETERS, STRIKING GUARD (through translator): We're on strike because the minister of justice wants to change our way of working. Belgian's prisons are overcrowded, even the new buildings. This prison is overcrowded by 15 percent. In Belgium, the average is 20 percent. It's unimaginable.

When people began to strike, they were angry, but it's getting worse.

MCLAUGHLIN: Some say this couldn't come at a worse time for Belgium. And it's not just the prison system that's troubled, the police have been plagued by reports of --

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MCLAUGHLIN (voice-over): -- intelligence failures and the courts are struggling as well.

The president of a Brussels tribunal says the system is overwhelmed and cost cuts are to blame. He says he's worried about the long-term impact.

JUDGE LUC HENNART, PRESIDENT, BRUSSELS COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (through translator): When there is mistrust in the system, we create more terrorists. A citizen which does not trust the state will find alternatives like terrorism. It's urgent to wake up the judiciary so that it functions well.

MCLAUGHLIN: An ominous warning and now a prison crisis Belgium can ill afford -- Erin McLaughlin, CNN, Brussels.

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HOWELL: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. 2016 has been a year for party outsiders in the race for the White House. The U.S. Libertarian Party is hoping, well, that that trend continues. We will look into whether it can challenge the Republicans and the Democrats -- next.

Also, the NBA playoffs: the Golden State Warriors needed a win Saturday against Oklahoma City.

Did OKC steal their Thunder?

We'll bring you the highlights, coming up.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. It is good to have you with us. I'm George Howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour.

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[04:30:35] HOWELL: America's choice 2016: Bernie Sanders is battling it out for California, ahead of that state's primary on June 7th. And despite trailing far behind Hillary Clinton in the number of delegates, the Vermont senator says the Democratic nomination is still his for the taking. CNN's Dan Simon has the latest for us from California.

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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bernie Sanders doesn't really seem to care that Hillary Clinton has what appears to be an insurmountable lead when it comes to the delegate math. He's campaigning hard in California. He had this event in Santa Barbara City College. He has a few others today.

He is calling California the most important battle in this primary season. Right now the polls show a statistical dead heat. Secretary Clinton's lead has now essentially vanished.

One of the lines that seemed to draw the biggest applause had to do with Donald Trump. As we know, Bernie Sanders challenged Donald Trump to a debate. Trump seemed open to it, then changed his mind. This is what Sanders had to say.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VT., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump initially said yes, then he said no, then he said yes, then he said no. So I think for a guy who changes his position so many times, I would hope he would change it one more time and say yes.

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SIMON: Now if somehow Sanders can win the primary on June 7th in California, it would certainly strengthen his argument that super delegates should come over to his side. Of course, that is a farfetched scenario. The more realistic scenario is that it would give him more leverage when it comes to the party's platform at the convention in Philadelphia -- Dan Simon, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.

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HOWELL: Dan, thank you.

Donald Trump sprinkles the word "huge" into campaign speeches all the time, so it's no surprise that he's looking for a huge place to speak when he accepts the Republican presidential nomination.

The party's convention will be held in July in Cleveland and sources tell CNN Trump's campaign is considering using one of the city's biggest sports venues. Trump has said he wants to add a Hollywood flair to the convention.

A campaign adviser says it's going to be a, quote, "big production" and that Mr. Trump will be quote, "intimately involved."

Cleveland officials are also worried that the trend of sporadic violence that's been seen at Trump rallies might follow him to the convention there. CNN's Brian Todd explains how officials are scrambling to beef up that city's police force ahead of this big event.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bottles and rocks thrown at police, protesters stomping police cars, smoke grenades, violence and chaos erupt outside a Donald Trump rally in Albuquerque.

It's raising serious concerns as Trump readies for the biggest political event of the summer, the Republican Convention in Cleveland.

JIM BUEERMANN, FORMER POLICE CHIEF: I think the people in Cleveland are thinking about this. And there's no doubt in my mind that they are having lots of meetings, doing lots of planning.

TODD (voice-over): For months, observers have worried about violent protests at both party conventions, first in Cleveland, then with the Democrats in Philadelphia.

After scenes like this, there are new concerns about Cleveland's readiness. The city has about 1,200 police officers, but CNN has learned they're actively recruiting officers from other cities and hope to have at least 4,000 officers on the streets for the convention.

They have ordered 2,000 new sets of riot gear, including body armor, hard-knuckle gloves and batons. But the head of Cleveland's police union says it's not getting there fast enough.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We still don't have the personal safety gear that we need. I'm concerned that we're not going to have enough time to adequately train with the equipment.

TODD (voice-over): But city officials are confident.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have to tell you, we are prepared.

TODD (voice-over): Cleveland officials tell CNN they will set up steel barriers and they have a special route for protest marchers laid out. It swings about 1,000 feet from the convention --

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TODD (voice-over): -- venue, Quicken Loans Arena, at the closest point.

To counter the kind of violence that sometimes plague Trump events, the Secret Service is on the ground in Cleveland and Philadelphia, setting up security perimeters around the convention centers.

We're told law enforcement is working confidential informants, monitoring communications, social media messages.

Who are they looking for?

BUEERMANN: Are there anarchists in the group that may attempt to either agitate the participants, who are there simply to express their First Amendment rights, or assault the police?

TODD (voice-over): And one former Secret Service agent says there's a hidden threat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My biggest concern would be a hacker organization taking down the grid or hacking into a critical system and disrupting the event from 2,000 miles away. TODD: Cleveland city officials respond to that criticism by telling CNN they've spent a year and a half preparing for this. They say they'll have all the equipment and all the security officers they need on the streets in time for the convention and they say they're ready -- Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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HOWELL: While the Republicans and Democrats are still more than a month away from picking their presidential nominees officially, the Libertarian Party is selecting its standard bearer later on Sunday and it is holding its national convention in Orlando, Florida.

Third parties have rarely done well in U.S. presidential elections but a recent poll shows nearly half of registered voters say they would consider a third-party candidate over Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson says he is ready to take on Donald Trump. Listen.

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GARY JOHNSON, U.S. LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: You know, I really don't even want to comment on Donald Trump. I really don't. I really think that when Donald Trump talks about deporting 11 million illegal immigrants, that's just wrong.

When he talks about building a fence across the border, that is just wrong. When he talks about killing the families of Muslim terrorists, that is just wrong. When he talks about free market but he's going to force Apple to make their iPads and their iPhones in the United States, that's just wrong.

When he talks about a 35 percent tariff, that's just wrong. When he says he's going to bring back waterboarding or torture or whatever is taken, that's just wrong.

He's just wrong.

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HOWELL: As the Libertarian presidential nominee back in 2012, Gary Johnson netted less than 1 percent of popular vote and that was the party's second strongest showing. CNN's Victor Blackwell tells us more about what the Libertarian Party stands for.

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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thousands are gathering for the Libertarian convention this weekend in Orlando, voting for their presidential nominee, hoping their pick is a viable alternative for dissatisfied voters.

But who are they?

JOHNSON: Fiscally conservative, socially liberty. And hey, when it comes to these military interventions, I'm a real skeptic. BLACKWELL: Gary Johnson, former New Mexico governor, the front-runner for the Libertarian nomination.

JOHNSON: I am all about smaller government. I think government tries to do too much and in the process it taxes too much. Living your life, personal freedom, I think most Republicans fall in that category. I think most Americans fall in that category.

BLACKWELL: The platform a mix of ideas from each side of the political aisle. Pro-gay marriage and decriminalization of most if not all drugs in favor of slashing government benefits and reducing economic regulations. Their appeal taking hold.

The party says they are seeing a 30 percent spike in membership. And the new poll shows Johnson with 10 percent support across the country. He needs just 15 percent to earn a spot at the national debate podium next to the Republican and Democratic nominees.

JOHNSON: Just appearing in the polls I think has a self-fulfilling prophecy of what is this guy really saying?

If I'm the nominee, I'm going to be the only candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.

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HOWELL: That was Victor Blackwell reporting for us.

Analysts say the Libertarian ticket could siphon votes from both Democrats and Republicans who don't like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

In the NBA playoffs, Oklahoma City had the chance to knock off the Warriors Saturday. But they ran into some record-setting shooting instead. Basketball playoff drama coming up.

Plus, we explore one of the mysteries of sport. Why the Indy 500 winner is rewarded with, well, a bottle of milk on the head.

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HOWELL: In the NBA Western Conference finals, the Golden State Warriors have forced a game seven against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Warriors were once down three games to one in the series before leveling the score on Saturday. Patrick Snell has more for us.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was quite simply a must-win game six for defending NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors.

This in Saturday's Western Conference final showdown in Oklahoma City. Steph Curry's Warriors had set the superb regular season record of 7-3 victories but a post-season defeat against the Thunder was certainly not the script they had in mind.

The Warriors of course more dependent than ever on that man, Curry, and he did not disappoint, triggering a quite superb fourth-quarter comeback here. At one point his team were 8 points adrift, but the Thunder, who took a 3-2 series lead, just had no answer down the stretch to deny the reigning league MVP another victory point.

All of a sudden, it was 99 apiece, 29 points on the night for Curry. Klay Thompson's contribution, though, highly significant as well. He recorded a game high 41 points, including an NBA playoff record, 11 3- pointers. The Warriors go on to seal a vital 108 points to 101 victory. The series now level at three apiece. And lying in wait in the finals for the winner, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

KLAY THOMPSON, GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS: I should have at least 13. So I missed some wide-open looks early. But I had no idea what the record was. I didn't even know I had 11 threes.

I was just trying to be aggressive, whether that was getting to the rim or getting a good shot from beyond the perimeter and feels good to own a record but I'd feel much better if we close them out on Monday and play with the same toughness and resiliency we did tonight.

SNELL: The excitement and the tension man and he says, the series now returns to California's Bay area for the winner-takes-all game seven showdown, which will indeed play out on Monday night -- Patrick Snell, CNN, Atlanta.

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HOWELL: On a much more somber note, a player for the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans has been fatally shot in the state of Texas. The agent for Bryce Dejean-Jones said he was shot after mistakenly entering the wrong Dallas apartment.

Police say a resident told them that --

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HOWELL: -- he fired at Dejean-Jones after he broke into his apartment early Saturday. His agent implied that the player thought that it was his girlfriend's apartment in the same complex. Police didn't say if charges would be filed against the shooter in this case.

The 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race begins in a little less than eight hours. The winning driver will receive nearly $3 million and a bottle of milk over the head. Don Riddell looks into the origin of one of the most unusual traditions in sport.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's one of the most prestigious motor races in the world, 200 laps at the track, 500 grueling miles of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, also known as the Indy 500.

They've been racing at the iconic Brickyard track since 1911. And this year marks the 100th running of the event. It's steeped in history and it holds one of the most unusual celebrations in all of sport.

When you've been racing hard for hours on end, you're going to want a drink. And if you've just won the Indy 500, you're going to want to celebrate. But they don't give you an adult beverage like a bottle of champagne to mark the occasion at Indianapolis. No, they're full-on dairy. In Victory Lane, you're going to be handed a bottle of milk.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No matter who you meet at some point in the conversation, they're like, you guys drink the milk, right?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it started with Louis Meyer, way, way back in the day. He won the race and it was just like in his head, all he wanted was a big glass of milk.

And so he gets in Victory Lane and he chugs the milk.

RIDDELL (voice-over): That was in 1933. And when Meyer drank it again three years later, a tradition was born.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Before the race, they come up to all the drivers and ask you, what type of milk do you want?

Do you want 2 percent, you want skim, you want buttermilk?

Which is what Louis Meyer had, buttermilk, which does not sound very good on 100-degree day.

RIDDELL (voice-over): Graham's father, Bobby Rahal, won at Indy in 1986 and he's hoping it will be the drink of choice for him on the 30th anniversary of his dad's achievement. And those who've indulged in the iconic celebration say that you've got to make the most of it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They keep it in a nice little cooler, ice cold, so when you drink it, it's not like warm milk or anything like that. It's very cold and tastes great. You have to take, you know, your fair share of sips, because you may never get that opportunity again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Getting handed that glass of milk is such a significant sign that you (INAUDIBLE) this is really it.

RIDDELL (voice-over): There are some dos and don'ts when it comes to Victory Lane. First, make sure you have some kind of actual milk and something that looks like milk, too.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I actually kind of joked to them once and said I'll take chocolate milk if I win and -- because I'm a chocolate milk addict. And they didn't find that too funny.

RIDDELL (voice-over): It certainly wasn't funny in 1993, when Emerson Fittipaldi completely broke with tradition and drank orange juice instead, promoting the Brazilian citrus industry. Racing fans booed Fittipaldi for many years afterwards.

And if you are sticking with tradition, you might want to think twice about pouring it all over your head.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After the race, it's media interview after media interview, satellite media tour, you know, you're sitting in a chair doing interviews with a camera until about 9:00 pm at night. And the race is over at 2:00 pm. So the milk's sitting on there for a good 6- 7 hours and by the end, mixed with sweat, not many people were too fond of the smell.

RIDDELL (voice-over): So at Indianapolis, it's not always the sweet smell of success; oftentimes it's a little sour. But the winning drivers wouldn't have it any other way -- Don Riddell, CNN.

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HOWELL: The U.S. president, Barack Obama, had several memorable moments during his recent trip to Asia, including this, where the president dropped a beat. A female audience member rapped a few lines for him. You'll meet the Vietnamese rapper -- next.

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HOWELL: Let's talk space. Astronauts on board the International Space Station are creating a brand new room. They're working on an inflated section -- you see it here -- known as Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. If this works, this type of module could someday be used as a habitat on Mars. It's about the size of a camping tent, though. NASA scientists tried to blow it up on Thursday but there were glitches with the fabric. Hopefully that thing will work out, though.

Getting a super-sized dragon boat onto the water is never an easy task. But I want you to take a look at this image right there in the middle of the screen, that silver there.

Look at that. Look at all the people that are involved. It's 78 meters long. It took 1,600 men to walk it an hour, one kilometer to the river in Southwest China. Local officials say the Guinness Book of World Records (sic) is considering it as the world's longest wooden dragon boat. It will be rowed by 180 female paddlers at the Dragon Boat Festival next month.

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, busted out a beat during a town hall event in Vietnam when an audience member introduced herself as a rapper and as it turns out, she is known as the queen of hip-hop in Vietnam. And Jeanne Moos has this report.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): We've seen him dance with Ellen, tango in Argentina and sing at the Apollo.

But in Vietnam, President Obama got serenaded.

SUBOI, RAPPER: I am a rapper here --

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Oh, you're a rapper?

SUBOI: -- in Saigon, Vietnam.

OBAMA: Oh, yes?

MOOS (voice-over): It took a nudge from the president...

OBAMA: Why don't you give me a little rap?

Let's see. Let's see what you got.

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MOOS (voice-over): And even help with a little beat boxing.

OBAMA: Do you need like a little beat?

SUBOI: Vietnamese or English?

OBAMA: In Vietnamese, of course.

SUBOI: In Vietnamese?

MOOS (voice-over): Her rap was about people with money and big houses.

But are they happy?

SUBOI: (Speaking Vietnamese).

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SUBOI: (Speaking Vietnamese).

My name is Suboi, by the way.

OBAMA: Well, that was good.

MOOS (voice-over): She wasn't just some random audience member. She is known in Vietnam as the queen of hip-hop. Her name, Suboi, comes from the nickname Su and her tomboy style. She's got music videos and tens of thousands of fans.

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MOOS (voice-over): She's been in movies and performed on "Vietnam Idol."

No wonder she wasn't nervous rapping to the president.

SUBOI: Actually, I was shaking. I was so excited and overwhelmed. A lot of like serial type, like me, Asian rappers, they looking at the cute girls and, you know, people don't --

OBAMA: Is that what they're thinking?

MOOS (voice-over): Suboi says she taught herself English rapping along with Eminem.

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MOOS (voice-over): He curses so much, she says that's why her English is bad and rude.

And how does she rate President Obama's beatboxing?

OBAMA: Do you need like a little beat?

SUBOI: He tried it.

MOOS (voice-over): Hey, beats beating this box -- Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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HOWELL: She can flow with the best of them but she's not that impressed with the president's beatboxing.

Thanks for being with us. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'll be back after the break with more news from around the world. Thank you for staying with CNN, the world's news leader.