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Plan to Capture Raqqa Will Overlap Mosul Offensive; Trump Hits Hard on Obamacare Cost Increases; Trump Campaign Premieres Nightly Webcast; Cleveland Wins World Series Opener; French Crews Dismantling the "Jungle"; Florida Agriculture Sector's View of the Election. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired October 26, 2016 - 00:00   ET

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[00:00:12] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour --

ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: Overlapping war as Iraqi-led forces push closer to Mosul -- plans to wipe ISIS out of Raqqa now being drawn up.

VAUSE: Down in the polls and looking at a landslide loss, Donald Trump has plenty of fight left in him. And he wants to duke it out with Vice President Joe Biden.

SESAY: Plus Cubs versus Indians. The drought will end for one of these cursed ball clubs. We're live at game one of the World Series.

VAUSE: Hello -- everybody. We would like to welcome our viewers all around the world. Do not adjust your set -- we are back together. I am John Vause.

SESAY: And I am Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

VAUSE: With the Iraqi-led battle for Mosul moving ahead of schedule and about to intensify, western defense ministers are moving ahead with plans to fight ISIS on another front. While meeting in Paris they discussed taking the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.

SESAY: The U.S. Defense Secretary says the battles for Mosul and Raqqa will overlap. And there is word now of clashes inside Mosul between ISIS and resistance fighters, as well as reports of new ISIS atrocities against civilians.

VAUSE: Michael Holmes is near the Mosul front lines. He joins us now live. So Michael -- the question now is one of timing. When will the Iraqi forces be likely to move into the city of Mosul?

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's a matter, John, of -- we've talked a lot about them trying to close that circle around Mosul. And the most forward of the Peshmerga positions is about eight to ten kilometers, six or seven miles from the outskirts of Mosul.

Now that sounds very encouraging. But that's not a uniform circle. There's still going to be a lot more advancing from the south to southeast and the east.

Near where we are, the town of Bashiqa, that crucial strategic town that Peshmerga fighters surrounded a few days ago, surrounded the town and surrounding villages, they have gone through some of those villages. They're still not through the town.

And what we've heard in the predawn hours here, it's just after dawn now, was several probably five or six very heavy aerial bombardments -- probably 500 pound bombs pounding that town. Obviously, softening up, hitting targets, Apache helicopters in the air now probably to take out more specific fighting positions. So we're expecting to see some advance on Bashiqa today.

Also small arms fire on several occasions. So they are engaging down there with ISIS fighters. It's an important town because it also then is on a road to Mosul, a crucial supply route, and also one that these forces will be heading up when they get to Mosul.

So it's a matter of continuing to tighten that noose. And they haven't surrounded the city yet -- John.

VAUSE: Ok. One of the issues here was raised by the British defense minister is a concern that ISIS fighters will actually manage to escape Mosul. This is what the minister had to say.

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MICHAEL FALLON, BRITISH DEFENSE MINISTER: We don't know whether they're going to fight to the death in Mosul or whether they're going to melt away as they did from some of their earlier cities that they had previously captured along the Euphrates.

But obviously one of the things we reviewed today is what we can do to better keep tabs on them, to share intelligence, and where we can ensure that they are, you know, properly detained and where they have committed crimes and they are brought to justice.

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VAUSE: Michael -- is there a way for coalition forces to make sure that the ISIS militants don't simply shave their beards, change their clothes and then blend in with civilians and maybe escape to Syria?

HOLMES: That is a risk. And it's happened before. And what they're relying on is in many ways locals pointing out those who are the bad guy, if you like. We've already seen the worrying development to the west of Mosul of ISIS fighters, their families, even leaders according to local tribal leaders in that area fleeing Mosul to the west across ISIS-held territory, which is yet to be sealed off and heading into Syria. So they're obviously heading across to Raqqa or elsewhere in Syria.

But in terms of blending in, it is a risk. And we've seen ISIS fighters stay back behind the lines all ready to pop up and cause problems, kill people. And that's a matter of the locals. They're relying a lot on local intelligence to point out those who do the blending in.

There's a great fear, actually because a lot of the ISIS fighters in and around Mosul and surrounding areas, they are locals. They're not all foreign fighters and the like. They are locals.

And one of the great fears is once this all settles down, whenever it does, that there will be revenge -- not Shia-Sunni, but Sunni-Sunni where local tribes will take revenge against those who turned to ISIS during this period -- John.

[00:05:12] VAUSE: Yes. Ok, Michael -- thank you. Michael Holmes just after 7:00 in the morning as this military offensive moves into its second week. Thank you -- Michael.

SESAY: Well, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are making a play for voters in the must-win state of Florida. Trump is blasting news that premiums for Obamacare will go up an average of 22 percent next year.

VAUSE: The Obama administration says the increases will be largely offset by subsidies. But Trump again vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: It is the stupidity of our politicians who rammed this monster down our throats. And I'll tell you. From the beginning, I was against it. From the beginning, I said it wasn't going to work. And it didn't work. It didn't work. And it's going to get worse.

And Hillary Clinton wants to keep it. She wants to spend a fortune on it. She wants to keep it. And your numbers are going to get up, up, up. And it's going to get worse, worse, worse.

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SESAY: All right. Joining us now Wendy Greuel is a former L.A. City councilwoman and a Hillary Clinton supporter; and CNN political commentator John Phillips is a Trump supporter, talk radio host and columnist for the "Orange County Register". Yes, he does a lot.

VAUSE: Busiest man.

Ok. Let's talk about Obamacare because this is what Republicans have been looking for. It's exactly what they warned about, fewer choices, higher premiums. The problem though some have said Donald Trump doesn't seem to understand what Obamacare is. Listen to this.

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TRUMP: And I can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare. You folks, this is another group, is that a correct statement? You look at what they're going through, what they're going through with their health care is horrible because of Obamacare. So we'll repeal it and replace it.

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VAUSE: Ok. They came out and clarified that 95 percent of Trump's workers are not on Obamacare.

The other problem on the side for Hillary Clinton was essentially her response today. This is what she said.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Costs have gone up too much. So we're going to really tackle that. We're going to get co- pays and premiums and deductibles down. We're going to tackle prescription drug costs. And we can do that without ripping away the insurance that people now have.

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VAUSE: And Wendy, to you, isn't this -- confirms everything that Donald Trump has said. You've been there for a long time. If it was a problem then, why didn't you fix it then? How can we trust you to fix it now?

WENDY GREUEL, HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER: Well, she said from the beginning -- Hillary Clinton has said there are a lot of great things about Obamacare. There are some things that need to be fixed. And that she'll work with a bipartisan Congress and be able to make those changes.

Anything when you begin to implement it, as a first effort, oftentimes has things that you need to fix. She has talked about that.

As indicated in your story, the premiums that are going up, in fact are going to be offset by those subsidies. The 20 million people that now have health care and those that are up to 26 years old can now be on their parents' health care programs. So many people have been helped by this.

And she has admittedly said some things need to change. But you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. You know, there is going to be a lot of people that will be impacted if you go with Trump who says just throw it all out.

SESAY: John -- here is the thing there is no doubt this hike in premiums is a gift to the Trump campaign --

JOHN PHILLIPS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Sure.

SESAY: -- coming so close to the elections. But does Donald Trump have it in him to take what is a policy issue and make it into an effective political weapon? Can he even stay on message?

PHILLIPS: He should. And he should just use the words Democrats. We had a governor in the state of Minnesota, Mark Dayton, who is in charge of implementing Obamacare in his state. And he's saying it's strangling his residents and strangling his constituents. Bill Clinton during the campaign made comments that are similar to that. I also think it's important that there is a difference between having health coverage and having health care. Because a lot of the deductibles for people under Obamacare are so high, yes, on paper they have coverage, but if they want to go see a doctor, they can't afford that deductible, and they don't get treated. So the problem hasn't been fixed at all.

VAUSE: Ok. Let's move on. There was this incredible exchange just a few hours ago between the former House Speaker Republican Newt Gingrich who's very effective Trump surrogate and Fox anchor Megyn Kelly.

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MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS HOST: If Trump is a sexual predator, that is --

NEWT GINGRICH (R), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: He is not a sexual predator.

KELLY: Ok. That's your opinion. I'm not taking a position on it. I am not taking a position on it.

GINGRICH: You can't say that -- you could not defend that statement.

KELLY: I'm not taking a position on it.

GINGRICH: I'm sick and tired of people like you using language that is inflammatory that's not true. You want to go back to the tapes of your show recently. You are fascinated with sex and you don't care about public policy. That's what I get out of watching you tonight.

KELLY: Really?

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VAUSE: So John, is this how Trump supporters see it? Everyone who raises the concerns about these sexual allegations with Donald Trump, you know, they're fascinated with sex?

[00:10:00] PHILLIPS: Oh, I love the cat fight. And I think we have a -- there is a case to be made that the media certainly has been much tougher on Donald Trump than it has on Hillary Clinton.

But what you just saw play out your screen is the battle that is going on within the Fox News Channel right now. Megyn Kelly is the woman that current Fox executives see as being the future of that network. And Newt Gingrich represents probably a large portion of the current audience and the Sean Hannity wing of the network.

What we saw tonight was the battle I'm sure that is going on in the corporate boardroom right now in Fox News as to which direction the channel is going to go in.

SESAY: Wendy, when women voters look at that, they think what?

GREUEL: They think that Newt Gingrich is from the past, that he is just like Donald Trump in his statements -- he's pointing his fingers. It's kind of like Donald Trump saying "nasty woman". I mean women respond to that where he is just going after in that way.

And I would disagree. I think Hillary Clinton for 30 years the media has gone after her. So she has had her own challenges with them going after her. But she and her supporters would not have that kind of exchange. And I think Newt Gingrich really lost it and lost a lot of respect from women and a lot of Republicans too.

VAUSE: And would you say he is the heir apparent of the Trump movement but we'll wait and see on that one -- less than two weeks to go.

Vice President Joe Biden and Donald Trump might actually be putting the gloves on.

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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The press always asks me don't I wish I were debating him. No, I wish I were in high school. I could take him behind the gym. That's what I wish.

TRUMP: Did you see where Biden wants to take me to the back of the barn -- me. He wants it. I would love that. I'd love that, Mr. Tough Guy. You know, he is Mr. Tough Guy. You know what he is Mr. Tough Guy? When he is standing behind a microphone by himself.

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VAUSE: Ok, yes. Look, Biden was commenting on Donald Trump's "Access Hollywood" tape and the crude comments he made about women. But really John -- is this where this campaign is at -- two geriatric men, they got to go toe to toe behind the gym or the barn?

PHILLIPS: Well, I don't think if they got into a fight it would exactly be Frazier-Ali.

VAUSE: No.

SESAY: But is this where they should be two weeks before --

GREUEL: No. And I have to say, you know, being a woman and have been an elected official, women would not be talking like that. They're talking about the issues. Hillary Clinton is talking about the issues. And I think it, you know, makes the argument always more women should be in elective office.

SESAY: Hear, hear.

GREUEL: And be able to do that. So I think I'm looking forward to two weeks from now when we can go back to talking about issues.

VAUSE: Speaking of big hitters, speaking of women -- Oprah Winfrey, she has finally come out and endorsed Hillary Clinton.

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OPRAH WINFREY, TALK SHOW HOST: There is not a person in this room who hasn't been in the same conversation where people say I just don't know if I like her. She's not coming over to your house. You don't have to like her. You don't have to like her. Do you like this country?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I hear you.

WINFREY: Do you like this country? You better get out there and vote.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love this country.

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VAUSE: Wendy -- Oprah said that she waited this long because she didn't think she would be heard. Really -- Oprah Winfrey not being heard? Why has she waited this long given the full throttle support she had for Barack Obama, you know, back in 2008?

GREUEL: Well I think, again, there is a lot of noise. And in the last couple of week, some endorsements like that are pretty major, I mean particularly Oprah Winfrey. And I think the timing is right no matter when it happens. And Oprah went to talking about that you don't have to like her. But what you want to know is that she is going to lead this country.

And I think when you look at polls today are showing that people believe that Hillary Clinton can run this country and can be our representative across the world. And that Donald Trump is not the person we want to see.

VAUSE: Hillary has Oprah, Montel, Sally Jessie Rafael, Jerry Springer. Let's get the Ouija board and find out which way Morton Downey Jr. is coming down.

You guys have Scott Baio, and the "Duck Dynasty" guys. I think it all balances out at the end of the day.

PHILLIPS: And one of the Baldwins.

VAUSE: Ok.

GREUEL: Which one?

SESAY: Wendy, John -- thank you.

VAUSE: We'll get to you next hour. So you guys are going to stick around.

SESAY: Yes, indeed.

VAUSE: Ok.

SESAY: Well, Donald Trump is denying he has any interest in starting his own television channel should he lose the election.

VAUSE: But his campaign is posting a new nightly webcast on his Facebook page -- that's sparking a lot of speculation, Trump TV is actually coming to a television near you.

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TRUMP: No, I have no interest in Trump TV. I hear it all over the place and I have tremendous fan base. We have a tremendous base. We have the most incredible people. But I just don't have any interest in that. I have one interest and that's on November 8th.

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[00:15:00] SESAY: And for more, we're joined now by CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter. Brian, as always -- good to have you with us.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Thank you.

SESAY: On Monday, the online program "Live from Trump Tower" played on Donald Trump's Facebook page and it gave a boost to ongoing speculation that Donald Trump is interested in launching Trump TV. So is this week's offering a test drive?

STELTER: Well, there are two pieces of this. There is the campaigning of the next two weeks, and this campaign ad running on Facebook, masquerading as a newscast. But then there is what happens after Election Day. And it does sure feel like a prototype or a preview or a pilot of what a Trump TV network or streaming service could look like. I mean you see it there on screen now.

They've been doing these pilots where they have talking heads. They have hosts. They take questions from the audience. It kind of -- there's a little bit like a low-rent version of cable news. And it does add to the speculation that if Trump loses after Election Day, he will go ahead and launch some sort of media venture.

SESAY: All right. So, you know, it makes sense. One could see the value post-election of launching this kind of enterprise. What's the value of this "Life on Trump TV" right now? Is this an attempt to circumvent traditional media organizations?

STELTER: Well, right now it's therapeutic. It's reaching a relatively small audience, but it's reaching Trump's loyal fans who are working for him, who are volunteering for him, who are calling friends and neighbors to promote Trump. So, it's reaching a base that is feeling frustrated.

They're reading all these headlines, seeing all these stories about Trump being behind Clinton in the polls. They don't want to believe it. And so the Trump broadcasts are giving people an alternative.

Now I would argue that that's actually a problem. That's bad for these voters. There is a lot of misleading information out there right now about what the polls say about what is going on in the campaign.

But taking that aside, taking the echo chamber risks aside, these broadcasts can empower the voters, can create more enthusiasm for Trump's campaign in the final two weeks.

SESAY: Yes. Well, Trump's running mate Mike Pence had this to say about the nature of Trump's relationship with the media. Take a listen.

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GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Donald Trump has received a majority of the media coverage, but 91 percent of his coverage has been hostile.

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SESAY: Brian -- this kind of I guess poisoning of the well, if you will, depending which side of the street you're on --

STELTER: Yes.

SESAY: -- this sense of, you know, the media being against Trump and the kind of reinforcement of this message -- where does that take us the day after November 8th?

STELTER: I've been thinking a lot about that. You know, Pence is citing a study by a conservative media watchdog group who say 91 percent coverage was hostile. I think if you or I were to do that study we wouldn't find the number to be such a high proportion. I think that watchdog group is probably coming from a very clear point of view when they made that conclusion.

SESAY: Finally, I do wonder whether it is also a sign of things to come, this live from Trump TV and the possibility of a Trump TV in the aftermath of this election. Is this where we're going where politicians look to circumvent institutions that would hold them accountable and challenge them? Is this the future?

STELTER: This is. I think -- I was going to say it's the future, but it's starting to be the present. Hillary Clinton's campaign has a podcast that reaches voters directly. What Trump is doing on Facebook is several steps beyond that, though. It's laying out a template for the future -- ways for him to reach his fans.

But I would point out -- right now it's relatively small. He is reaching tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands and certainly not millions of people with these live broadcasts. So there is an issue here about the echo chamber or you can call it the filter bubble.

Right now that bubble is very, very strong. If you don't want to get outside it, if you won't want to hear an alternative point of view, you don't have to. And I would argue that has some detrimental effects for voters.

SESAY: I would argue it has some detrimental effects for society and democracy as a whole going forward.

Brian Stelter -- appreciate it. Thank you. STELTER: Thanks.

VAUSE: Ok. Short break.

When we come back, game one of the World Series is now in the record books. We'll go live to Cleveland for the details of what was a shut- out.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: To the Americas we go. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri here for CNN Weather Watch.

And notice this big area of high pressure across really the western portion of the United States, the intermountain west part of the southwest. High pressure trying to reestablish itself after a couple of days of soggy weather while across the Midwestern U.S. we're getting some wintry weather across the northern portion of the state of Michigan.

But work your way down into Cleveland, Ohio. Game 2 of the World Series is in effect there on Wednesday evening. 7:08 eastern time is when the game is expected to begin. But notice the temperatures of 8 degrees. The game actually moved back a couple of hours earlier than it was originally scheduled to be played because rain showers expected to move across Cleveland later on in the evening. Some of the fascinating setup there with wet weather expected to move in so the game has been altered just a little bit.

And you notice the conditions out across the western United States. Rather nice from San Francisco to Los Angeles, 21-degree afternoon setup for you. While in Vancouver, B.C. some rain coming in. Here is the disturbance responsible for that. Multiple areas of active weather beginning to roll in across western United States and southern Canada here -- should really keep it active with high elevation snow.

Very blustery weather as well for Seattle, Portland, and in particular, northern California could get really the highest end of the rainfall associated with that setup.

And the Caribbean -- this is what it look likes -- scattered showers across this region.

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VAUSE: The Cleveland Indians are off to a great start in baseball's World Series, beating the Chicago Cubs 6-0 in game one. Catcher Roberto Perez hit two home runs to take the Indians to victory.

SESAY: The Cubs blew a golden opportunity to get back in the game with the bases loaded and no one out in the seventh inning. But they just could not score.

VAUSE: Let's go live now to CNN Sports' Andy Scholes. He is in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a seven-game series. A lot can happen but boy, what a start for Cleveland. ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS: Absolutely -- John. You know, you couldn't

have scripted it better if you're an Indians fan here in Cleveland. It was an electric night here in downtown Cleveland. It was the first ever time they've ever hosted game one of the World Series.

And like you said, everything went right for them tonight -- their ace starter Cory Kluber on fire to start this game. He struck out eight batters in the first three innings. That was a World Series record. And, you know, many expected him to have a good night. He is the Indians ace.

The unlikely hero, as you talked about, Roberto Perez, the catcher for the Indians. He is the nine-hole hitter. He's not supposed to do much. He only hit three home runs all season long, had two in this game. Indians win in a shut-out, 6-0.

Very good sign for the Indians because out of the last 13 World Series, the winner of game one has gone on to win 12 out of 13 times. Some excited fans driving by, as you can see right now.

And interesting notes -- they've actually moved up the first pitch for game two. They're expecting rain here in Cleveland tomorrow night. So they moved up the first pitch an hour so they can hopefully get most of the innings in before the rain starts.

VAUSE: Yes. Andy -- this is an incredible story for Cleveland. This is a city that was called mistake by the lake in the 1970s. But, you know, it had a horrible history with professional sports. But just a few hours before this game began the Cavaliers were taking their NBA championship rings before their first game of the season.

[00:25:05] SCHOLES: Yes, John -- you know, Cleveland was the center of the sports universe tonight because right next door -- we're at Progressive Field where the Indians play. Right next door the Cavs got their championship rings just about an hour before first pitch for game one of the World Series. It was their first championship Cleveland has celebrated in 52 years. So, an awesome night here in downtown Cleveland for both -- the Cavs ended up beating the Knicks handily too in their season opener. So, all around a perfect night if you're a Cleveland fan here between the Indians and the Cavs.

VAUSE: Six to go. And of course, a lot more details coming up in "WORLD SPORT" later this hour. Andy -- thanks so much. Appreciate it.

SCHOLES: All right.

SESAY: Time for a quick break now.

Just ahead on CNN, kidnapped on the French Riviera -- a luxury hotel owner is dragged into a car and spirited away.

SESAY: Also, a symbol of Europe's migrant crisis is being torn down in France. But what will happen to those forced out of Calais' jungle camp?

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VAUSE: Welcome back -- everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay.

The headlines this hour:

The U.S. Defense secretary says the offensive against ISIS will move ahead on two fronts. Ash Carter says the battles for Mosul and Raqqa, Syria will overlap. That word as sources say resistant snipers inside Mosul are hitting the militants from rooftops.

VAUSE: Meantime, the U.N. says it's receiving reports of ISIS atrocities against civilians.

[00:30:00] A U.N. human rights spokesman says the terror group reportedly has massacred scores of people around Mosul in the past week.

SESAY: Investigators in Australia is trying to determine what caused a ride at a major theme park to malfunction. Four adults were killed on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld. Police say two rafts collided, one flipped over, throwing two victims off and trapping four people beneath it. Two girls survived the accident.

VAUSE: Apple's annual sales have fallen for the first time in 15 years. The company says demand is down in China and iPhone sales have been sluggish for three consecutive quarters. Apple is expected to unveil updates to its Mac products later this week.

SESAY: All right, well, France is following through on its vow to demolish the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle.

VAUSE: Crews began tearing down tents and shacks on Tuesday where thousands of refugees have been living in limbo for years.

We get details from CNN's Melissa Bell.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For months, the threat had hung over the camp. Tuesday the clearing began. As the diggers got to work on the edge of the Jungle, some of its women protested.

(on-camera): It was amid a heavy police presence that the dismantling of the Calais Jungle finally got under way. Delayed by several hours, it will now continue say local authorities until every last tent on this camp has been cleared.

(voice-over): And it may not take that long. Already thousands of migrants have left. Many of the Jungle's homes lie empty. Its shops padlocked, its restaurants boarded up. The Jungle has become in parts a shadow of its former self.

Some, though are, holding fast, refusing to give up on their dream of getting one day to the United Kingdom. And like many, Aziz has seen it all before.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The jungle never going to be finished. I've seen the same situation in 2007 and back in 2016 in same situation. Nothing will be happen. People are going to move from here, three months, or three weeks, one month, it's going to be the same thing again.

BELL: As the demolition of its edges continues, the resistance from within the camp grows in the shape of fires. Migrants burning what little they had to signal how little they want to leave.

Melissa Bell, CNN, Calais.

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SESAY: Well, Lucie le Carpentier is a legal adviser for Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors without Borders. She joins me now from Calais.

Lucie, thank you so much for being with us.

First of all, will you set the scene for us? What is happening there at the migrant camp right now?

LUCIE LE CARPENTIER, LEGAL ADVISOR, MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (via telephone): Well, you know, over the last two days, people have started leaving the camps. More than 3,000 adults have been living the camps. And some like half of the population is still in the camp. So we still have to see what will happen in the coming days.

SESAY: You've worked primarily with minors who are living there in that environment. What has this process of relocation been like for them?

LE CARPENTIER: Well, the process with minors has been very concerning. First of all, because over the last few weeks an unaccompanied minors, there should be around 1,200 in the jungle. They received no information at all from the government authorities about the solutions that will be offered to them once the camp is dismantled. So there has been a lot of anxiety among them.

And, secondly, over the last two days they have been processed. Some of them have been registered and processed for a warehouse. But our main concern is that while appearing to be registered, some of them have been rejected, turned away from the queue by authorities just based on their physical appearance because they judged the way they looked, they were not minors.

So they were turned away without any sort of, any form of review or possibility of, you know, asking someone to review this arbitrary decision. It's very concerning because some of them still find themselves in the jungle, sleeping in tents, and this is (INAUDIBLE) tensions are rising. And we don't know if the next day will come or not. It's very concerning for their protection.

SESAY: I think many will find it surprising, Lucie, to hear that children aren't being prioritized in this registration and relocation process, and that special arrangements aren't being made for them.

LE CARPENTIER: Well, unfortunately, it's not surprising when you think that over the last months, both the British and French governments have known the fact that these children staying in the camp without any sort of protection, without anyone to -- any sort of safe place to resort to go sleep to at night.

So, unfortunately, it's just in the same vein as what we've seen over the last few months. But what is very concerning right now is that some of them might also just flee because they've lost all trust in authorities.

[00:35:03] SESAY: Yes, yes. I mean, that is a great fear here that some children will be lost through this process.

What is your understanding of where they've been relocated to in the case of those who make it through this registration process? And what provisions exist for them when they get to these new areas of France?

LE CARPENTIER: For those that have been registered and add through the process have been going through container camp which is on the jungle. So they are still on the jungle, but they are staying in a container camp. And then afterwards they'll be going for interviews with both the British and the French authorities to determine whether they can go to the U.K. to join their family, whether they can stay in France. So it's a lot of uncertainty for them.

SESAY: Yes, it is very worrying indeed.

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Go ahead, Lucie. Those staying in France?

LE CARPENTIER: Excuse me, those staying in France will be sent to some centers, but so far we've had little information about the centers because I think it was a bit of a last-minute plan, let's say.

SESAY: All right. Lucie Le Carpentier with Medecins Sans Frontieres really breaking down the information gap that exist for those being relocated from the Jungle there in Calais.

Thank you, Lucie.

VAUSE: There is still no sign of a high profile kidnapping victim who was taken on the French Riviera. 76-year-old Jacqueline Veyrac owns the five star Grand Hotel in Cannes.

SESAY: Officials say masked men grabbed her as she was getting into her SUV outside a pharmacy in Nice on Monday. According to CNN's affiliate in France, BFM, witnesses said the kidnappers gagged her with a cloth and forced her into a white van. Veyrac got away from an attempted kidnapping in the same spot three years ago.

VAUSE: A Canadian nurse is charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in Ontario. The 49-year-old is accused of poisoning eight elderly people over seven years at an assisted living home. The victims were between 75 and 96 years old. Police would not discuss a possible motive.

SESA: We're going to take a quick break now. And one of Florida's biggest industries is suffering.

Next our own Richard Quest hits the road to find out how the U.S. presidential election could impact the crucial state's bottom line.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: In 14 days, we are going to win the state of Florida. And we are going to win back the White House.

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VAUSE: The U.S. presidential race few states are ever as important as Florida. Polls show the state is leaning towards Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

SESAY: Florida has 29 electoral vote, a huge prize. If Trump loses there, he faces the extremely unlikely chance of getting the 270 electoral votes he needs to claim the White House.

We have to go back to 1992 and Bill Clinton to find the last president to be elected without Florida.

[00:40:00] VAUSE: Florida also has a $4 billion agricultural industry and its farmers are keeping a close eye in this election.

SESAY: Yes. Our Richard Quest visited an organic orange grove to find out how the election could impact business.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The orange groves at Uncle Matt's Farm stretch as far as the eye can see. Acres of green. They don't look like ripe oranges yet. It will be some weeks before they can be picked. But Ben is ready and he has been at the job for years.

(on-camera): Where did this organic push come from for Uncle Matt's company? Where did it come from?

BENNY MCLEAN, PRODUCTIONS MANAGER, UNCLE MATT'S ORGANIC: Well --

QUEST: You don't just wake up one morning and say I'm going to start an organic fruit company.

MCLEAN: Well, Matt, my youngest son, the company is actually named Uncle Matt from him rallied the whole family and he asked my dad. We all called him Pappy. He said Pappy, can we grow organic citrus in Central Florida?

You know, and my dad kind of bowed his neck up at Matt. He just said, Matt, what do you think we did for 150 years? Nobody ever told us it was organic. That's the way we used to grow it.

QUEST: Was it a bit like having to learn to walk again?

MCLEAN: A little tougher than that. No. It was a big challenge.

QUEST: Did you have to be convinced first of all?

MCLEAN: Well, when my dad told me it could be done, that's all I needed.

QUEST: Yes, but did you have to be convinced that you wanted to do it?

MCLEAN: Oh, yes. You know, if you're in agriculture, you love a challenge.

QUEST (voice-over): Whether you're an organic farmer or a conventional grower, the big problem remains greening. It's a disease that affects the orange trees themselves. And it seems no one is immune.

MCLEAN: You see the phase is showing in the leaf?

QUEST: Yes.

MCLEAN: OK, that's typical of greening. That's what you see.

QUEST: It's affecting the immune system of the tree. But it's not affecting the fruit?

MCLEAN: Well, it does. But it's in a small way, OK.

QUEST: But it's still -- the fruit can still be picked?

MCLEAN: Oh, yes, you can still pick it and eat it.

QUEST: It's very serious.

MCLEAN: It's very serious, Richard. It can literally wipe this industry out, OK. Not just because we're organic. It's the conventional boys got the same problem.

QUEST: What for you is the biggest issue in this general election.

MCLEAN: In this general election? Richard, I'm going to put it to you this way. Regardless of who wins, I don't think they're going to solve greening. And my biggest problem right now in the citrus industry is we don't have a cure for greening.

QUEST: How are you going to explain this election to your 12 grandchildren?

MCLEAN: Well, it's going to be written in the history book. I've never experienced anything like this. And we're all going to learn as we go. You learn to adjust, Richard, whether you like it or not.

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SESAY: Our Richard Quest finding --

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VAUSE: Wise words at the end. You learn to adjust whether you like it or not. Given how this election is shaping up, you know, maybe that's something people should listen to.

SESAY: Yes, but no signs of that on the horizon.

VAUSE: Not yet. Give it time.

SESAY: Our thanks to Richard for that one.

VAUSE: He likes the car.

SESAY: He does like the car. I'm sure he likes the oranges as well. Well, thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. A live edition of "World Sport" is up next. And then we'll be back with another hour of news from all around the world. You're watching CNN.

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