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Dallas Memorial Set Up for Slain Police Officers; Reactions to the Shootings Examined; Origins of Black Lives Matter Movement Noted; North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile from Submarine; Warsaw NATO Summit Ends. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired July 9, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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[04:00:16] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ACHOR: And welcome to our viewers here in United States and around the world. You're watching CNN live coverage. I'm Natalie Allen in at Atlanta.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ACHOR: And I'm George Howell live here in Dallas Texas and I want to give you a sense of the backdrop behind me here. You see this memorial that set up. There are two police cars. You can see this one here. There's another over there for the DART police.

This for the Dallas police depart, this representing these officers who were killed and there are flowers. There are messages to these officers, people honoring their lives, getting their lives killed in an act that is being called domestic terrorism.

A sniper ambushed these officers Thursday during a peaceful protest, where people were demanding answers after the police killing of two African-American men in two different cities this week.

The Dallas sniper also shot two civilians. Official say the gunman was the lone shooter. He is identified as a 25-year-old military veteran who served in Afghanistan. Police say they told him he was upset over recent shootings. Officers killed him after negotiation broke down. They failed during a standoff when he said that he had a bomb, had several bomb, in fact.

Meanwhile, protests in major cities continue to play out on Friday. We watched it play out in Phoenix, Arizona just few hours ago. Witnesses there say police used pepper spray on demonstrator there to clear the crowd.

You see this image there, one man down seemingly after pepper spray was used. Earlier, I talked with reporter Derrick Stall with CNN affiliate KPHO KTVK there in Phoenix about what he saw and heard there. Listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would estimate five or 600 people were out there maybe more, it's hard to tell sometimes when you are right in the middle of it all. You know, they kind of gathered up by city hall. And then there were a couple counterprotesters that showed up.

People was fine that Black Lives Matter. One guy had a circle with a red line through that. And people immediately got right up in their face. And it was sort of a standoff between protesters and counter- protesters. That calmed down. But then as protesters were kind of marching around downtown Phoenix, word got out that people were thinking of going onto the freeway. We have a couple freeways that entered right there in downtown. One is known as loop 202. The other is the famous I-10 freeway that searches across the United States.

People were thinking about going onto the freeway. And that's why these police officers made that dramatic stand and basically formed a human shield, kind of a human line at 7th Street and Fillmore.

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HOWELL: A busy night there in Phoenix, Arizona. But back here in Dallas, a prayer vigil was held Friday afternoon for the slain officers. The crowd actually cheering that Police Chief David Brown. Four of the murdered officers were members of the Dallas Police Depart. The fifth was with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit also known as DART here in the city.

During that vigil Chief Brown said that even though the sniper is dead, his department is still making sure that there are no co- conspirators.

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DAVID BROWN, DALLAS, TEXAS POLICE CHIEF: ... some of the suspects has revealed to us that this was a well-planned, well thought out evil tragedy by these suspects. And we won't rest until we bring everyone involved to justice.

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HOWELL: These five officers who lost their lives here in Dallas. They made an impact on their loved one, on their friends and many, many other people in the city.

Jean Casarez shows us who these policemen were.

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BROWN: We are reminded of the power of faith and the uniqueness that happens when we call on a higher power.

JEAN CASAREZ: An emotional prayer vigil in the city of Dallas as the community mourns the loss of five police officers. Among the victim, 43-year-old Brent Thompson, a seven-year veteran of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police. The father and grandfather was originally from Corsicana, Texas. Thompson traveled to and survived the most dangerous part of the world, helping bring justice to those that didn't have it.

According to his LinkedIn page, Thompson was chief of operations for a private military contractor in Iraq from 2004 to 2008.

[04:05:05] GARY THOMAS, PRESIDENT & EXEC. DIRECTOR, DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT: He was a dedicated officer, a dedicated to the safety of Americans all over the world certainly.

CASAREZ: 32-year-old Patrick Zamarripa also survived the odds of serving overseas only to be killed protecting his hometown. The Dallas police officer was deployed to the Middle East as a part of the Iraq War effort. Just this week, he tweeted out his love for our country. His brother Dustin Twitting "Love you brother, could be prouder, we'll see you again."

40-year-old Michael Krol always wanted to be an officer and fulfill his dream when he joined the Dallas police force in 2008. Also killed Dallas police offer Lorne Ahrens, a 14 year veteran of the Dallas police department according to media reports.

And Dallas police Officer Michael Smith. Smith joined the department in 1989, according to his sister who spoke to CNN affiliates KFDM. Five officers lost their live, another seven were wounded. Including Officer MIsty McBride's, here family rushing to the hospital to be by her side.

HUNTER MCBRIDE, WOUNDED OFFICER'S DAUGHTER: That she can live on until tomorrow and I'm just glad that she's alive, really.

CASAREZ: Alive, but according to her father, requiring surgery.

RICHARD MCBRIDE, WOUNDED OFFICER 'S FATHER: She was shot in the arm and it broke her shoulder and she was shot in the abdomen. It went in one side and just out the other side.

CASAREZ: Still the McBrides know they are the lucky ones. Hunter telling her mother.

H. MCBRIDE: I love you and I'm glad you are here.

CASAREZ: Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.

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HOWELL: Jean, thank you. And Jean just to mentioned one of the officers killed in Dallas Patrick Zamarripa, he was a U.S. navy veteran and a father of two, he served three tours during the Iraq War. His family and friend are asking why this terrible act of domestic terrific terrorism took their love one.

Earlier we spoke with his father who had this to say to us.

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RICK ZAMARRIPA, FATHER OF OFFICER KILLED IN DALLAS, TEXAS: Well, first of all, my son Patrick, he was a very, very helpful young man. He was very giving. He would give his last dollar if he had it in his pocket if you need it. He would bend backwards to help anybody out. He's very patient. He was -- he would try to help anybody out the best he could.

If you need help, Patrick he would offer you help. Even though if he couldn't do nothing. He'd offer it to you. My son, he was, from day one, since he was born, he was a hero. He was my little and he was big hero. He big -- he's a big hero now. Yeah, he's going to be missed.

ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: You're incredible to share about your son. I mean, you know, you talk about him helping people and he served in Iraq, he served in Kuwait. He cared deeply about his country.

ZAMARRIPAL: Oh, yeah, he did. Oh, yeah. If -- he was mainly his sister, she was in the navy, too. She talked him into joining the navy and he loved it. He just loved being in the navy. That's where he liked being a police officer for the service.

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HOWELL: His live certainly has never forgotten.

Let's now bring in CNN Civil Rights Attorney Areva Martin joining us now via Skype live in Los Angeles. Areva good to have you with us. I just want to talk about something that really struck me when I arrived here in Dallas. A conversation that I had with a protester, who made this point. He said, look, you know, protesters can go and protest and still care for these individual officers out there that they are protesting. At the same time police showing they can hold the line, do their jobs, but, you know, when lives are on the line, step into action and put their lives at risk.

AREVA MARTIN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Yeah. I think, George, we saw that before the horrific shooting took place at the Dallas rally, we actually saw police officers and protesters talking and laughing together and taking pictures posting on social media, what we learned about the Dallas police department in particular is that this wasn't the first time. That there have been many protests in Dallas and the police saw. Some of the same officers that unfortunately lost their lives.

And then a part of those rallies. They had been really walking and marching hand-in-hand with the protesters. So I think we've seen something that is fortunate note about this, which is yes there doesn't have to be a separation between police and protesters that we can come together as the community.

[04:10:13] And police do their job and protesters do that which they believe is adjusting to do, which is standing up against police brutality.

I think what I've been moved most by George is just the outpouring of support. What happened to those officers, no police officer that puts their life on the line should ever be threatened and definitely not killed in the line of duty. So my heart goes out to those officers who gave their lives really protecting protesters.

But I think we are seeing -- and hopefully something really unique happening around this tragedy and that is having this field discussion about race about reforming the criminal justice system and about really addressing this horrific violence that has taken place over this entire week.

HOWELL: You know, I remember you bringing this up just the other day and we talked about this just a bit the last hour, but when it comes to this discussion about race and you were talking, you know, when it comes to the Black Lives Matter movement, not letting that movement get hijacked by the actions of this one deranged guy, you know, you see that with many different groups.

You talk about it in the political landscape. There are fringe groups there are radicals who will follow -- Democrats who will follow Republicans. They're always, you know, those odd apples in the bunch, but that can't, you know, hijack or overshadow the bigger movement.

MARTIN: Yeah, that's an excellent point, George. And I think we should note, Black Lives Matter was started by three women and one of those women, the co-founders came on today, one of the networks and talked about what that movement was started to do and how it's always been rooted in a nonviolent principle.

And when you think about the civil rights movement of the 1960's it was strictly about protests and raising awareness and changing policies but round and rooted in nonviolence. And that group, Black Lives Matter, no activists can control the actions of a lone actor like Micah Johnson.

And when someone who wants to spew that kind of hate and take those kind of hateful actions, there is really not much anyone can do when we saw that event though the finest police department in the country, Dallas. They weren't able to stop that kind of attack, but definitely the message of ending police brutality, and standing up for racial equality in the criminal justice system should not be lost because of the shooting of the five police officers. And we can mourn for those officers and continue to fight for justice in this country.

HOWELL: Areva Martin, joining us now live there in Los Angeles. Pretty late there in the night for you there in L.A., but we appreciate you taking time to be with us today on CNN.

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HOWELL: Speaking of Black Lives matter -- thank you, Areva.

MARTIN: Before the topic Black ...

HOWELL: Speaking also about the Black Lives Matter movement they -- I'm sorry, Areva, you were saying?

Martin: I'm just saying, this is such an important topic and I've been with it all week and just grateful to have an opportunity to weigh in on this and the hopefully be a part of what's going to be some positive movement in a direction that brings our community and our police department together for meaningful dialogue that will end the kind of violence that we saw this week.

HOWELL: Areva, sorry for clipping you there. That Skype audio is a little tricky for me on this end, but it's good to have you with us again tonight on CNN. Thank you.

Talking of the Black Lives Matter movement. They are condemning the killings that happened here in Dallas to these police officers, they're also calling for an end to police violence. Details on that, next.

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[04:15:24] RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR: Richard Quest and this is the top business headlines. There was a strong jobs report in the United States that's confirms the U.S. is headed for a major slowdown. U.S. Economy added 287, 000 jobs in June, that was a 100,000 more jobs than the market had been expecting and the best month of the year so far. Then employment rate actually tick up just slightly. It's a sign that more people are in the work force looking for jobs.

Wall Street staged its biggest rally of the week in response to the jobs numbers. Now rose 250 points and it's above 18,000 for the first time since the Brexit vote in the European Union. The European markets also may gain for the 40/100 finishing slightly higher for the week as a whole.

President Obama says the dooms day rhetoric surrounding Brexits over blown, The U.S president met the European Council President Donald Tusk at the NATO summit on Friday, and in an op-ed in the financial times, Mr. Obama wrote he is confident U.K. and the E.U. will be able to agree on an orderly transition to a new relationship.

The pound is now the worst performing currency in the world, sterling has fallen 12 percent against the U.S. dollar since the start of the year. Most of that drop of course, from the Brexit vote.

We are now up to date for the business headlines. I'm Richard Quest in New York.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to Dallas, Texas. I'm George Howell. And we are learning more about the gunman who killed five police officers in the deadly ambush that played out just a little less than a mile away from where we are right now.

Authorities say that he was the lone shooter. But they also want to make sure he had no accomplices. Seven officers and two civilians were also wounded in Thursday's attack before police killed the gunman.

He's been identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson. Authorities say he told police negotiators that he was upset about recent police shootings of African-American men and that he wanted to kill white officers. Following the shooting rampage, police found bomb making materials, they found ballistic vests and ammunition at the shooter's home.

Keep in mind, these protests began this week after two African- American men were killed by police officers in the states of Louisiana and in Minnesota. Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana shot Alton Sterling on several times on Tuesday after a homeless man called 911. A source says the man kept asking Sterling for money and Sterling brandished his gun. A 37-year-old. He was a father. The mother of one of his sons spoke with my colleague Don Lemon

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QUINYETTA MCMILLON, MOTHER OF ALTON STERLING'S SON: It's unbearable pain. And, especially been a mother with a teenage son and its like, you know, what's the best thing that you tell him besides I love you? And everything is going to be okay. We have to stay together. We have to pray together and honestly, that's what's really been keeping in camera focused with the help of my family as well.

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HOWELL: Then the fatal shooting of Philando Castile. His fiance captured the moments of that shooting after the shooting on Wednesday in the sober of the St. Paul Minnesota.

[04:20:02] In a live Facebook video post that many people saw on social media. She says that a police officer shot Castile after pulling him over for a broken tail light and he went to reach for his wallet after being asked for identification. We heard from Diamond Reynolds on Friday.

Here is what she had to say.

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DIAMOND REYNOLDS, FIANCE OF PHILANDO CASTILE: This is about all of the families that have lost people. In this thing that has happened in Dallas, it was not because of something that transpired in Minnesota today. This is bigger than Philando. This is bigger than Trayvon Martin. This is bigger than Sandra Bland, this is bigger than all of us. So, today I just want justice for everyone, everyone around the world.

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HOWELL: CNN this day has also been following these protesters who marched peacefully in various cities across the United States on Friday, one day after this deadly police shooting that played out here. They chanted Black Lives Matter, but also condemn the attack that took the lives of five police officers here in Dallas.

Randi Kaye has more on the movement that began with a simple hashtag.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Black Lives Matter.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Black Lives Matter.

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What started with a hashtag has turned into a rallying cry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Black Lives Matter.

KAYE: The goal, to shine a light on racial injustice. MICHAELA ANGELA DAVIS, CULTURAL CRITIC WRITER: This is a generation that wants to dismantle structural racism. This is the generation that wants to get at the core of it. That wants to get at the systemic problem.

KAYE: The Black Lives Matter movement was born after the shooting death of Florida Teen Trayvon Martin, when his killer neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was cleared of any wrong-doing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We, the Jury find George Zimmerman not guilty.

KAYE: After Trayvon, the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police gave rise to more voices of protests. There was Eric Garner in New York.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shut it down, shut it down.

KAYE: And Michael Brown in Ferguson, where the movement really began to take hold.

OPAL TOMETI, CO-FOUNDER OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER: The people, the local neighborhood in Ferguson were willing to call attention to the issues, right? They're willing to put their lives on the line for Michael Brown and for their own future.

KAYE: Then 12-year-old Tamir Rice who only had a pellet gun was killed by police in Cleveland.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The young man pulled a weapon out and (inaudible) when the officer fire.

KAYE: Activists say the list goes on, Tony Robinson, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Grey. In most incidents the officers were not indicted, fuelling the anger and amping up the message.

ASHLEY SHARPTON, MARCH PARTICIPANT: They need to take care of our country. The police ought to protect us and then you can make sure that insuring that.

KAYE: There are now dozens of Black Lives Matter chapters across the United States and while some believe the movement has actually incited violence and worsened race relations, its founders disagree.

TOMETI: The reality is this is a peaceful human rights movement led by incredibly courageous black people. I think we are demanding justice and freedom for our people.

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HOWELL: We'll have more here from Dallas, Texas after the break. But for now we go back to my colleague Natalie Allen at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta following another story.

ALLEN: Thanks, George. North Korea has launched a ballistic missile from a submarine, this according to the South Korean military. U.S. Strategic Command say they also detected that presumed launch. They say it happened off the coast of Sinpo there in Eastern North Korea.

Let's go now to our Matt Rivers in Seoul. The question is, Matt, was it successful?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, defense officials here in South Korea say, no this was not a successful test. It happened around 11:30 in the morning here local time. And while officials would not comment beyond saying that it wasn't a successful test, local media here in South Korea is reporting that though the missile left the submarine, it was launched from and made it about 10 kilometers into the air. It only moved forward about just several kilometers before actually exploding midair, then of course, making it a failed test.

Now, this is the second such submarine based test, submarine launch ballistic missiles test that has failed after the North Koreans had a similar failure in April. That would be two failures this year. In April, that missile only traveled about 30 kilometers before failing and those two just part of the general broad swap of provocations from North Korea, of course, starting back if January, when it conducted its most recent nuclear test and also launching several other times of missile tests throughout the years.

So, these test this morning, just the latest, Natalie, on what's been a very tumultuous and busy year for Pyongyang.

[04:25:10] ALLEN: And we certainly know how much the government wants to be able have that technology, to be more of a force. But have they had anything to say before the government has not always been current on whether their tests are successful or not. This is the second failure.

RIVERS: Yeah, that's true. It was back in April, actually. Well, for this particular test, it will take -- typically what happens is the North Koreans will release some sort of article or statement or something through state media about 24 hours or so after a test is launched.

But given that this is a failure, it's kind of up in the air in terms of what the North Korean government will say. Sometimes they actually say that it was a success. Even though you have South Korean officials saying that it wasn't. Other times they ignore it completely.

So in terms of what the North Koreans will do in the coming days in terms of acknowledging this particular test really unsure. But we do know if anything we can count on is that the regime at Pyongyang can be unpredictable.

ALLEN: Sure, Matt Rivers for us there in Seoul, thank you, Matt.

After a quick break, hear the latest on the investigation of the deadly ambush of police officers in Dallas, including new details about the man who was behind it.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Natalie Allen live at CNN center Atlanta.

[04:30:06] HOWELL: I'm George Howell live in Dallas, Texas this hour. The United States certainly mourning the loss of five officers killed in the line of duty, killed in the deadliest assault on American law enforcement since 9/11.

And now we are learning more about the suspect behind this terrible act of domestic terrorism. Police say the 26-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, that he was the only shooter. Police killed him with explosives and when police searched his home, they found bomb-making materials. They found ballistic vests, rifles and ammunition. Detectives also found a personal journal about combat tactics.

And the United States President Barack Obama, he is set to travel here to Dallas early next week. The President is in Europe right now for a NATO meeting but will return on Sunday, one day earlier than planned.

Our Martin Savidge, has the very latest on the Dallas investigation.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You get the cop down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's four cops down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Four?

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDNET: Terror in Dallas Thursday night as gunshots rang out at the end of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Assist officer. Shots fired ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Code three. Stay off the radio, officer down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got a guy with a long rifle. We don't know where the hell he's at.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of a sudden I saw and heard six to eight shots. It looked like two officers went down. I'm screaming, "run, run, run, active shooter, active shooter."

SAVIDGE: In the initial chaos officers believe there was more than one gunman. But sources now tell CNN there was only one 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson. There's amateur video captures the shooter darting behind a column opening fire on officers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Move back. Get back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's shooting right now.

SAVIDGE: police later cornered the gunman in a parking garage where they attempted to negotiate. After several hours, negotiations broke down. With officers in grave danger and the suspect hold off police sent in a lethal robot.

BROWN: We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was.

SAVIDGE: The shooter was killed in the explosion. In all, five officers were killed and seven others wounded. Two civilians were also hurt.

DART Officer Brent Thompson recently married to a fellow transit officer. And Dallas Police Officer Patrick Zamarripa, a father of two and navy veteran just two of the victims. Misty McBride, another DART officer who was shot in the arm and abdomen but survived.

H.MCBRIDE: I said that I love you and I'm glad you are here.

SAVIDGE: Here in the Dallas Suburbs, police cars surround the shooter's home in Mesquite, Texas. Neighbors say Micah Xavier Johnson lived with his mother and kept to himself. Officials tell CNN that he served in the U.S. army reserves as a carpentry and masonry specialist. And he had a short deployment in Afghanistan.

BROWN: The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. The suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We refuse to not love our brother and sisters.

SAVIDGE: This afternoon, crowds gathered for a prayer vigil in Dallas, only few blocks from where the ambush occurred, cheering for the police chief.

BROWN: We need citizens to show officers that they appreciator their sacrifice.

SAVIDGE: In Washington, the attorney general calling for peace, too.

LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I urge you to remember, today and every day, that we are one nation. We are one people and we stand together.

SAVIDGE: And President Obama calling the ambush a calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.

BARACK OBAMA: U.S. PRESIDENT: Anyone involved in these senseless murders will be held fully accountable. Justice will be done.

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HOWELL: That was my colleague Martin Savidge reporting there for us.

Let's now bring in Sharay Santora she was a witness to these terrible shootings that took place here in Dallas. And you were also there with a group of protesters. Just talk to me about that, you know, the fact you were there with the group of protesters. Everyone heard the shots ring out. People ran. Officers pushed people out to safety and now we are here this memorial in front of police headquarters to remember these five officers who were killed.

[04:35:00] SHARAY SANTORA, DALLAS SHOOTING WITNESS: It's still very difficult, I finally got some rest and I woke up this morning and realize that it really happened.

When we got there, it was amazing the outpouring of love that we had from everyone involved. There were people who were waiting at stop signs and stop lights to be able get through, who were getting out of their cars and joining the people that were marching.

The officers they were there they were hugging. They were taking photos with us. They were hand shakes and high fives and there was a lot of solidarity from what my family and I saw and from what we felt. It was literally a real life "Kumbaya moment" that you couldn't believe unless you were there.

HOWELL: And then the gunshots.

SANTORA: And then the gunshots. The first set that we heard, those of us who were towards the front but not directly in the front of the group, we slowed down a little bit. We got a little quieter. And then the second set of shots rang out, a few second later, we realized it was gunfire.

Immediately, everybody started to clear the streets. There was a man came back down, he was holding like a large cross saying, "Run, run, there's an active shooter, get out of the way". Dallas police officers immediately began to rush toward the sound of the shots. As soon as they cleared the road, the Dallas police -- the vehicles that were in the area came barreling down the street toward the sound of the shot. And it was continuously get out of the way, go for cover. They were pushing us to go one to two blocks away, and take cover allowing time to get everything under control.

The protesters, all of us, together, we were continuously saying, calm down, stay calm, don't run, take cover, but don't run. And you always have a few people that run. There were a few people that fell. They didn't get trampled. They got picked up and carried along with the rest of the group. It was -- it was nerve-racking. It was such a disappointment. People were angry and frustrated at that time not only because shots were fired because we knew that people who weren't there. People who didn't feel what we were feeling, people who didn't see what we were seeing would immediately begin to jump and take side and start blaming people and not understand whoever did this, it wasn't the feeling. It wasn't the purpose of that day.

HOWELL: Well, you know, we've heard, you know, just a moment ago from the Police Chief saying this guy that he, you know, was angry with the Black Lives Matter movement. That he was angry with white people. That he was just angry with many different things, and then he did not associate themselves with any particular group.

But I want to ask you, given what he did, given the fact that now we're in this situation, you know, where there are five police officers who are no longer with us, is the city coming together? What sorts of conversations have you heard?

SANTORA: Personally, I've stayed away from the news, but from previous experience here in Dallas, we tend to band together here at Dallas.

HOWELL: But rather than news, these people that you know that conversations -- and you heard people talking about?

SANTORA: I received a lot of messages saying that we're with you, what do you need? What's next? What do we do next? Where do we go from here? And so far, I've just told them, continue to pray if you pray. If you don't love, start. Keep your ears opened. When you hear that we're going to stand here. We're going to pray, we're going to shout praises of love. We're going to do things to show people we are here and we don't know what to do. But we're here, then join, don't just stand on the side lines.

HOWELL: Sharay Santora, thank you so much for taking time with us today.

SANTORA: Thank you

HOWELL: We'll go back to you guys in Atlanta.

[04:39:04] Thank you, George. NATO leaders meeting in Poland have announced additional troop deployment. Why that will likely upset Russia. That's coming up next here. We'll have a live report from Poland.

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ALLEN: We'll be back to Dallas live in just a moment. But right now, we want to take a look at other news we're following around the world.

In Poland, NATO's 2016 Warsaw Summit continues. This a day after alliance members pledged to deploy four battalions to Poland and the Baltic states. U.S. President Barack Obama announced a battalion of U.S. troops oare roughly 1,000 personnel would be sent to Poland on a rotational basis. NATO leaders also discussed the U.K. Brexit referendum with many downplaying its impact on the alliance.

For more on the summit and these moves we are seeing by NATO into Poland, our Nic Robertson joins us to explain it for us. Hi there, Nic.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yeah, hi there Natalie. The Brexit issue was a very important one. It is a very important one to President Obama because the economic downfall can be felt around the globe and President Obama. When he got here, is his first meeting, Friday, was with the presidents of the European Council and the European commission.

The reason he wanted to understand the way that they will do their negotiation with Britain. Almost - he also met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the margins of some of the other meetings here. He wanted to and did appear to get assurance this will be done transparently, expeditiously without rancor. And that's very much what he wanted to hear. But of course, a large part of the discussions here about what to do about Russian aggression, that's building up, the forces building up along the eastern borders of NATO, all the way from Kaliningrad in the North where Russia has installed a missile system that integrate air, sea and land missile systems in a way that it hasn't done.

The same in St. Petersburg, the same in premier that the annex from Ukraine just two years ago. And also now saying the same thing in Syria to the south where Russia has its forces of course on the border there with NATO allied Turkey. So there's a concern. So what we heard yesterday from the NATO leaders was a commitment to send additional troops over and above the 40,000 heel-to-toe rotation that they committed last year. Then 4,000 additional troops to the East of Europe to the Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and here to Poland, and of course if you say president Obama outlining the thousand of those troops for that battalion would be coming here to Poland to form that force.

This design now not just to give these Eastern European States reassurance that NATO is behind them, which was the key of the summit in Wales two years ago.

[04:45:01] But to send actual deterrence signal to Russia that NATO will is allies are indivisible in standing up to the potential threat, that the consideration that Russia may decide to move into one of the smaller or cross the border into one of the smaller NATO nations here. Natalie.

ALLEN: Yeah, and Nic, Russia's response to all of this has been that the west is starting a new Cold War. What's been their reaction?

ROBERTSON: Yeah, the president Medvedev said that back at the beginning of the year, that he said that he found what NATO was doing, what was agreed in Wales, to the rotation 40,000 troops, pre- positioning of military equipment in East of Europe. He found that unfriendly and said it was appear to be a slip towards the Cold War. Dmitry Peskov the Kremlin spokesman just in the past couple of days said that Russia would be watching very closely what happens in Warsaw and what NATO decide.

He said that, you know, why aren't we using the political channels? And of course, that is a message coming from here, coming from the NATO leaders, Jens Stoltenberg the chief of NATO here has said that he doesn't -- NATO doesn't want and it's not intending to slip towards a Cold War. That's not the intention. The doors for diplomacy with Russia are being left opened. But the concern is that Russia's actions are worrying NATO's eastern alliance members and that something needs to be done and is now being done on a military front to send a very clear message to Russia. Because the feeling of NATO is, that's the language that Russia really understands, less the diplomacy. The door opened for that, however, still Natalie.

ALLEN: All right, Nic Robertson following a rainy Poland as you head to follow the meeting in Spain. I hope the weather picks up there. Thanks a lot, Nic.

Well, super typhoon has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves from Taiwan towards China before it weakened. The typhoon killed at least three people and injured more than 140. But those cars the storm battered Taiwan's eastern coast, leaving a path of destruction more than 16,000 people were forced to leave their homes. Hopefully they got out of those cars as well. Ferocious winds, flooding, massive waves have come with this storm.

Our meteorologist Derek Van Dam is here to tell us what next? It looks like it might be Southeast China.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Southeast China is in the path of the storm but its much weaker storm, Natalie. So, the worst of this typhoon is over. It's been downgraded to a tropical storm as you mentioned. But I want to show you the video the moments that the strongest part of the storm struck.

Look at this, gentleman, trying to hold glass windows from shattering in front of him, trying to save this place. Look at those winds, ferocious, probably the understatement of the year I should say. Wow, unbelievable. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to be if conditions just like this?

Now, take a look at my graphics behind me, I mean, that wind resulted in taking motorcycles and vehicles and SUVs and tossing them around like they're toys. Unbelievable, I mean, look at the damage in Taitung City in Southern Taiwan, almost catastrophic for that area. But fortunately, this is a very resilient country in terms of typhoon destruction.

Now, look at the invisible satellite. They were a very well defined high with this storm as it made landfall early Friday morning, local time. 240 kilometer per hour sustained winds. 150 miles per hour for our domestic viewers but this is all that's left. The mountainous terrain of central Taiwan really eroded the storm very quickly. It's now making landfall across southeastern China.

The main threat going forward will be the potential of flooding and landslide across this particular region as it continues to dissipate and moves inland across the area. Look at these rainfall totals, 555 millimeters. That's almost 22 inches of rain and also 24 hour period. So, a lot of rain in a very short period of time.

The good news is we talked of the flooding just west of Shanghai lately. That area will not be impacted by the heavy rainfall going forward. That means the region just west of Shanghai will be spared the worst of the flooding. So look towards the Fujian province for the heaviest of rain going forward here, Natalie.

ALLEN: All right. Derek thanks you very much. We will have more of our coverage of the Dallas shootings. Authorities say the gunman was a lone shooter, but they are not sure if he may have had help planning his attack.

We're back live in Dallas in moment. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[04:51:04] DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Don Riddell with your CNN World Sport Headlines.

Roger Federer is out of Wimbledon, the seven-time champion was within touching distance of the final, but he let his advantage slip and was beaten in five sets by Milos Raonic. The big serve in Canadian will now play in his first major final.

And it will be a massive occasion because he's going up against the home favorite and former champion Andy Murray. Scottsman made pretty light work of his semifinal against Tomas Berdych. Defeating his opponents in straight sets and with Novak Djokovic and Federer out of the way. Murray (inaudible) chances. The big things have been expected af Roanic for awhile. Now is his chance to justify the height..

The mens finalist on Sunday on Saturday, it's the defending champion Serena Williams against Angelique Kerber in the ladies final.

And quite bizarre scene at the Tour de France today as the peloton was brought to a stand still on stage seven in Pyrenees. The inflatable marks are noting that there was one kilometer to go. Collapsed on top of the riders who had to navigate their way under the saggy contraption like kids in an adventure playground, for most, it was just inconvenient. But the British rider Adam Yates fell badly and cut his face. Steve Cummings won the stage.

And that is a quick look at your Sport Headlines. I'm Don Riddle.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN. We are live in Dallas, Texas, and learning more about this targeted attack on police officers that played out on city streets just less than a mile from where we are standing now. Five police officers killed in the line of duty.

The mayor of Dallas says the gunman, 25 years old Micah Xavier Johnson, that he was the only shooter. But they don't know if he had accomplices and are investigating that. Officials say he was armed with at least two weapons when he opened fire on police and as protesters marched peacefully through the streets.

During the standoff, that standoff lasted for hours. He told police negotiators that he was infuriated by the deaths of African-American men at the hand of police officers. Officers used a bomb rather that was delivered by a robot that went in and killed him after those negotiations failed.

It is calm here on the streets of Dallas this day, but we have seen protests and marches across the United States after a week of police shootings. Thousands of people gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, where CNN headquarters is located blocking streets, even going, you know, throughout that area.

Polo Sandoval reports on Friday's peaceful protest there. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, peaceful yet tense is one way to describe what took place on the streets of Atlanta Friday evening. It all started as a peaceful march to the streets of downtown.

[04:55:03] However, authorities quickly sealed off the route to some of these protesters thousand of them were taking as soon as they were heading towards the Interstate.

Authorities basically creating what was a human chain here. Uniforms shoulder-to-shoulder here keeping some of these protesters from making their way onto the interstate as the mayor of Atlanta said, the main concern here is they don't want anybody to get hurt, whether its police officers, protesters especially some of the people who are simply out for a drive. So, that's one of the reasons why things did escalate a bit at during the early evening hours.

That's when you basically had authority, troopers, police officers facing off with some of these demonstrators as well. But I have to say, what was interesting is there were actual conversations that were happening between law enforcement and some of these demonstrators as well at the head of the line. People were having conversations. In fact, there were some individual that would actually go up to troopers, shake their hands and say thank you for their service.

So, it's interesting dynamic on the streets of Atlanta. Authorities will be on high alert throughout the weekend. They do say that they will be taking a more tactical approach for future demonstrations in light of what happened in Dallas. Back to you.

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ALLEN: Yes, in Georgia, when I was coming to work just a few hours ago, the police still had all of the intersections getting onto the interstate blocked, numerous police cars. It's quite difficult getting into downtown making sure the folks are safe. It's nice to see their support.

I'm Natalie Allen at CNN center in Atlanta. Thanks for joining us at this hour.

HOWELL: And Natalie, thank you, I'm George Howell here in Dallas. We will continue our especial coverage of the shooting aftermath here after this short break.

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