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Fighting in Mosul; World Cup Bombing Scheme Thwarted; FBI Investigation into Clinton Emails; Italy Earthquake Examined; Migrants in France Relocated. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired October 31, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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NICK PATTON WALSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: ISIS is less than a kilometer away firing at Iraqi Special Forces position. This is a constant day in, day out.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM CO-HOST: Getting close as CNN's Nick Patton Walsh gets a disturbing view of the bloody fight to liberate Mosul from ISIS.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN NEWSROOM CO-HOST: The question of timing, why now? That's what many Democrats in the United States are asking as evidence comes to light that the latest e-mails in the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton were discovered weeks ago.

CHURCH: And watch where devastation but no deaths, we will take you live to Italy to find out what the country's strongest earthquake in three decades was not a killer.

HOWELL: A good day to you and welcome to our viewers around the world I'm George Howell.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church from CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, Newsroom starts right now.

The Iraqi army is making advances in their push to reclaim Mosul from ISIS. Paramilitary forces aiding Iraqi troops have liberated 20 villages west of Mosul.

HOWELL: Iraqi forces completely cleared ISIS out from one town to the south of the city. There are also reports that the terrorist group is forcing tens of thousands of civilians into the heart of Mosul and also using them as human shields.

CHURCH: CNN international correspondent Nick Patton Walsh joins us now live from Erbil. So, Nick, you have been embedded with Iraqi troops while you've been there. What have you witnessed on the frontlines and what impact as this offensive had so far on ISIS?

WALSH: Well, its broad transfer (ph) but the one particular area where we were at and that part of the eastern front on which the Iraqi military has just announced they're making a broad advance. We saw in that area the thin strip of land which the Iraqi forces have pushed into, pushing ISIS back that they're experiencing heavy resistance.

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WALSH: The last phase of lifting ISIS' dark curse from Iraq against him (ph) -- Trying to hit a spectral fleeting enemy lit only by the glow of Mosul's city limits...

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...barely two kilometers away.

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The Iraqi Special Forces trained by the U.S. target with a tank here, where they are attacked from during the day. Getting us to use Humvee's as cover when they move.

The commander, Major Salim (ph) has fought ISIS in Fallujah, Ramadi and now the end is near. Where did the artillery lands he asks, just visible in the distant lights of Mosul. This is the global tip of the sphere in the war on ISIS. Surging forward on a thin strip of land into ISIS territory.

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And as we see, in the same area with daylight facing constant counter attacks. Here they can see ISIS just beyond the berms.

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The incoming is from behind it. A truck that pops up, opens fire and vanishes.

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ISIS is less than a kilometer away firing at Iraqi Special Forces position, this is a constant day in and day out.

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Where is it moving, he asks?

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As fast as it emerged, the truck vanishes. Over here, there are yet tougher hours ahead. Darkness has just fallen. The sky is alight with ferocious fire power. ISIS have attacked berms. Suicide bombers. Rocket propelled grenades. It is constant, exhausting, closer and closer to the roof we are on. We simply do not know where in the town around us ISIS may have broken through.

The most intense attack we've seen so far towards this Iraqi Special Forces position, now (inaudible) move forward it seem to try and stop them from coming down the road.

[03:05:00] ISIS, despite being in their end days, still able to conjure the terror of omnipotence that began their savage rule. The wounded started come back but we cannot film them -- steady stream. The unit we were with earlier on the roof had been hit. Rockets struck many of them asleep tightly packed in a room. The blast killed 14 soldiers, many limbs tore clean off. Major Salim (ph) is shown the weapons of the dead. He pauses an emotion.

"You guys are heroes," he says, "and none of you should be affected by this. Those suicide bombers are nothing."

Two kilometers from Mosul city and seven left to the center to go.

Now Rosemary, obviously, in those circumstances, the information we get is on the ground from Iraqi forces. We're yet to hear official announcements about that one incident, but it does, from what we learned appears to be one of the worst mass casualty incidents that they have experienced so far in this Mosul offensive, a force which is frankly pushing very hard and fast towards ISIS' key front line. Part of that broader advance towards the (inaudible) we've been seeing.

These are troops who are in some degree, fronts of the world fight against ISIS. Right now kicking them out of that large population center of Mosul, difficult times then certainly. They have better equipment and supplies led by the U.S. Some of the training as well, but still, it's them every day that take the fight to this particular resilient enemy and we've seen for ourselves there exactly the human cost back in half, Rosemary.

CHURCH: And Nick, do they have more of an idea of how long it will take to eventually liberate Mosul and what impact has been made on the ISIS fighters so far? Do they know that?

WALSH: No, obviously, we don't get to see behind ISIS frontlines. We at times, particularly in a more (inaudible) advance we've seen ISIS fighters left -- their bodies left behind in the retreat, but it's hard to know the morale ISIS have. Clearly you can see from the exchanges towards the end of that report, their ability to project intense firepower, intense explosions, artillery, towards Iraqi forces.

The advance is still there and continuous. So yes, they are far from an enemy which seems to be crumbling and I think the broader issue now is as we edge closer and closer to the Mosul urban sprawl. Remember that report was filmed just two kilometers away from the roof where the last violence occurred. You can see the central TV tower that is the very heart of Mosul city itself.

They're edging slowly towards the urban sprawl. When they get there, though a whole new wave of fighting and violence occurs, much more complex for Iraqi forces and more deadly to the civilians who we know likely courts in the middle of this cross fire.

CHURCH: All right. Nick Patton Walsh, who was embedded with Iraqi forces there, reporting live from Erbil in Iraq where it's just after 10:00 in the morning, many thanks to you Nick

HOWELL: Now on to Saudi Arabia, officials say that they have busted two separate terror cells that were plotting attacks.

CHURCH: Authorities arrested four Saudi nationals who had ties to ISIS and four Pakistani nationals from a cell that they say had planned to bomb a World Cup qualifying match earlier this month in Jeddah.

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MANSOUR AL-TURKI, SAUDI INTERIOR MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON (TRANSLATED): The security follow up, with the grace of God has led for the over throw of a terrorist cell based in Shaqra district using it as a base for its terrorist operation and working on targeting security men.

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CHURCH: The Arab world's poorest country has been embroiled in a devastating conflict since 2015.

HOWELL: In fact, caught in the crosshairs are millions of innocent people, men, women, children, many of them on the brink of starvation. CNN's Muhammad Lila has this report for us. But before we share the story with you, we do warn you that many of the images you'll see in this report are graphic.

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MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are the shocking images showing what life is like in parts of Yemen. This is 18-year-old Saida Baghili, so malnourished she can't even stand on her own.

Mr. McGoldrick, thank you for taking the time to talk to us today.

James Goldrick is the U.N.'s Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen. We spoke to him about the crisis getting worse by the day.

On a scale of one to ten, how bad is this crisis right now?

JAMES GOLDRICK, U.N.'S HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR YEMEN: I mean, it must be there a nine because we are seeing every single day things getting worse. The fact is Saudi (inaudible) working. The fact that the health and social services are collapsed. We have a cholera outbreak. We have a massive malnutrition program here.

[03:10:00] LILA: That malnutrition has now left nearly one and a half million children in danger of starving according to the U.N.'s latest figures. And in a country of 26 million, nearly half can't survive without some kind of outside assistance.

It's all the result of this, 19 months of air strikes that have crippled the economy and infrastructure. The Saudi-led coalition behind the airstrikes says their goal is to reinstall the internationally recognized government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who fled when Houthis militia overran most of the country.

Over the weekend, an air strike targeted this prison killing more than 68 people. The coalition saying it was being used as a military command center, something the Houthis denied. And like with so many world conflicts as these two sides fight, its innocent civilians like Saida who are suffering the most.

If you had a chance to broadcasts one message to the entire world, what would you say right now?

GOLDRICK: We don't set it certain and we don't set on the bigger ways how to funding in your ability to address those issues. There's going to be a lot more (inaudible) and threat to this country. (ph)

LILA: And that's why the U.N. is now sounding the alarm, warning that much of the damage that's already been done is irreversible and pleading for the international community to start paying attention.

GOLDRICK: It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be quite -- but we have to do this because the people of Yemen have suffered long enough over the last 19 months and we cannot forgive ourselves and we have an obligation to make sure that we address those needs better.

LILA: And speaking of addressing those needs, the U.N. says they're able to provide minimal assistance to 8.5 million people, but their real concern are the many more millions who still need help. Muhammad Lila, CNN, Abu Dhabi.

HOWELL: Muhammad, thank you. The conflict has also unleashed a cholera outbreak across Yemen. The World Health Organization says the number of cases has ballooned now to more than 1,400 cases in just the past three weeks alone.

CHURCH: Much of the country's infrastructure is destroyed and that's created a water crisis for millions of people.

ABDULKARIM AL KAHLANI, YEMEN MINISTRY OF HEALTH (TRANSLATED): The main cause at this stage is water contamination. About 70 percent of Yemenis currently don't have access to clean drinking water and therefore are at a much higher risk of contracting disease and likelihood of contamination is very high.

IBRAHIM AL HAIMI, WATER AND SANITATION CORP SANAA: Before we pump water to residents we have a lab staffed with highly experienced teams that tests the water for chemical imbalances and germs and after we are confident it is safe, we pump it to residents.

CHURCH: The World Health Organization says it needs more than $20 million to get the outbreak under control.

HOWELL: Now to Turkey, police there have detained the editor of a nearly 100 year-old secular opposition newspaper on Monday morning. This is another move on the crackdown of government critic -- critics rather, one that also saw more than 10,000 public service fired for their alleged connection to Fethullah Gulen -- you see him here. He is the U.S. based cleric that the Turkish authorities blame for the failed coup attempt back in July.

CHURCH: A new legislative decree deigned to fight terrorism is fueling the actions. Officials also shutdown 15 Kurdish media companies and gave the president authority to appoint all university heads. HOWELL: The story we're following in central Italy rattled yet again. We take a look at the damage from this latest powerful earthquake, the strongest to hit that country in decades.

CHURCH: Plus, the man in charge of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign goes on the offensive as the e-mail controversy again stalks the Democratic candidate. We are back in a moment with that and more, just over this,

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT REPORTER: Hi, I'm Patrick Snell with your World Sport Headline.

Lewis Hamilton keeping his hopes alive in the race for the Formula One driver's crown after winning the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday. The Brit has had a series of poor starts recently, very nearly does again here in the Mexican capital. From pole position, the defending champ after a swirl off the track crossing across the grass but this time it doesn't cost him dear. Hamilton holds off the challenge of the points leader and teammate Nico Rosberg, tying (inaudible) record of 51 wins in the process.

It is a huge career breakthrough win for the Slovakian Dominika Ciblkova. The WTA final from Singapore, the 27-year-old from Bratislava playing this tournament for the very first time, but you wouldn't have known. Cibulkova winning the first set in just half an hour against Germany's world number one Angelique Kerber. Just look what it means to her. She ultimately prevails 6-3, 6-4 -- emotion etched right across her face.

It's been a weekend to remember too for the Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama. The 24-year-old, one of the games brightest young star and now he can lay claim to the biggest title of his career after winning the Word Golf Championship in Shanghai on Sunday. The world number 10 winning by seven shots no less, raffling (ph) up a 6 under 66, a tournament tally of 23 under par, the first Asian player to win WGC event.

That's a look at your sports headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.

HOWELL: America's Choice 2016, just a few days ago before election day and the FBI now has a search warrant for a computer containing e-mails by Hillary Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin. That computer belonging to Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. It was being examined in an unrelated criminal case about him.

CHURCH: Investigators believe the computer may contain e-mails deleted from Clinton's server before it was handed over to the FBI. Well now, FBI director James Comey is being criticized for bringing up these e- mails on Friday eventhough the bureau knew about them weeks ago.

In a letter, the Senate's top Democrat, Harry Reid, accuses Comey of playing politics and suggest he may have broken the law with the timing of this news. HOWELL: The Clinton campaign wants the FBI director to release more details about the review of these newly found e-mails. Earlier, campaign chairman John Podesta spoke about that probe with CNN's Jake Tapper and had this to say.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: You and the Clinton campaign seem to be blaming Comey for being transparent with Congress. What was he supposed to do?

JOHN PODESTA, CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: Well, look Jake, I think he should have done, in my view and in the view of many senior people in both Democratic and Republican administrations to deputy attorney generals from the Bush administration have already come out. He should have taken further steps. Yahoo News reported last night that they haven't even looked at the contents of this so to throw this in the middle of the campaign 11 days out just seem to break with president and be inappropriate this stage.

If they're not significant, they're not significant. So, he might have taken the first step of actually having looked at them before he did this in the middle of the presidential campaign so close to the voting.

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CHURCH: And Anthony Weiner has mostly stayed out of the public eye since failed bid to become New York's mayor back in 2013. But now his name is being dragged into to this presidential race. CNN's Brynn Gingrass has more on the once rising political star and his pragmatic (ph) fall from grace.

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[03:20:00] BRYNN GINGRASS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A usually overexposed Anthony Weiner remaining quite private as an investigation into his sexting is having a ripple effect on the presidential race. Weiner has made no comment and has not been seen leaving his Manhattan home this weekend as questions remain about what e-mails were discovered that launched the Justice Department to re-open the case into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server.

Weiner, a former Democratic congressman once stood in harmony with Clinton both serving on Capitol Hill at the same time. Weiner, with a charismatic political rising star, who had his eye on Clinton's quite closest confidant, Huma Abedin.

Wiener courted Abedin and eventually opposite attracted. The two married in 2010. Bill Clinton officiated the ceremony. However, marital bliss soon faced a bombshell.

ANTHONY WEINER, FORMER NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN: I'm announcing my resignation from Congress.

GINGRASS: Weiner surrendered his political post after he inadvertently tweeted a picture of his crotch. The scandal broke as the couple was expecting a child. Abedin gave her husband a second chance and Weiner asked New Yorkers for the same as he ran for mayor in 2013. But that bid soon imploded when more lewd online conversations with women surfaced. The final straw for Abedin came this year when the FBI opened an investigation into allegations that Weiner sexted with an underage girl

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He'd ask me to undress. He started talking sexually.

GINGRASS: Abedin announced in August she was separating from Weiner after six years of marriage. Now, her estranged husband choice (ph) is being felt again, this one jolting the election less than two weeks before voters head to the polls. Bryn Gingrass, CNN, New York.

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CHURCH: And Donald Trump's campaign had been losing ground for weeks when the FBI intentionally of not injected Hillary Clinton's e-mail problems back into the presidential race. That was all Trump needed, take a listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: This could be the mother load, you know. This could be the 33,000 that are missing.

I would think they have some real bad ones but we're going to find out, look, hey, maybe not, maybe not.

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HOWELL: Donald Trump on the campaign trail touting this new information. Not long ago, FBI director James Comey was vilified by Trump for not recommending that Hillary Clinton be prosecuted. That has changed dramatically on Friday when Comey singlehandedly revived the Clinton e-mail controversy.

CHURCH: And now the Republican candidate is praising Comey. CNN's Jake Tapper asked Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway to explain that about face.

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TAPPER: Donald Trump is now saying that he has great respect for FBI director James Comey, but take a listen to what Mr. Trump said just a couple of weeks ago.

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TRUMP: ...them essentially corrupted. The director of the FBI to the point of which stories are already saying that the great, and they are truly great men and women who works for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed of what he's done to one of our truly great institutions, the FBI itself.

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TAPPER: So is James Comey still corrupted Kellyanne or is he only corrupt when he does something that Mr. Trump disagrees with?

KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: So there are two separate investigations here. First on July 5th, Jim Comey came out and told the world Jake the he was declining prosecution of Hillary Clinton based on the investigation. He then proceeded to tell us every reason why he should have indicted her. He should have pressed charges that she was reckless, she was careless.

Two days later he testifies before Congress under oath and completely guts his conclusion and completely undercuts Secretary Clinton's previous statements that there was one device, no, there were many devices. Was there classified information exchange? Yes there was. Was there national security information? Yes there was.

He completely undercut his own conclusion in that investigation, that led to tremendous frustration and criticism by many people who thought either put the statement out that you're not going to press charges and leave it at that or if you're going to go public, at least let your comments, the evidence match your conclusion. This new investigation is a completely separate matter.

In that, he was in an impossible spot it would seem to me, 11 days before an election. Had he sat on the information, one can argue that he also would be interfering with the election by not disclosing to the public that yet again, for the second time in a year, Hillary Clinton is under FBI investigation for something of her own doing.

We are only having this conversation today, Jake, because Hillary Clinton (inaudible) at the law and went and set up a private server so she can hide stuff from the public. And here we are again.

[03:24:56] TAPPER: But Kellyanne, isn't this exactly what people, the public, the American people hate about politicians, one day somebody in law enforcement does something and they're corrupted, and the next day they're a man of great integrity. You yourself tweeted that there was zero accountability at the FBI.

You retweeted an article that said, when combining these moments prove that Mr. Comey gave Hillary Clinton a pass. And you wrote your own comment, zero accountability. I mean, what are voters suppose to think about this when you and your campaign have spent the last few months besmirching the reputation of James Comey?

CONWAY: Now, we never -- I never besmirched the reputation, zero accountability is about the process. And again, had Jim Comey simply come forward, Jake, back in July and said we decline to press charges, the investigation is over, there will be no further charges. Had he just said that, then we would accept that result. What he did was he went on to explain why his conclusion was wrong.

I guess he was trying to clear his own conscience, why else be so public -- I know many prosecutors have talked to them who were confounded that Jim Comey set such a public standard by testifying before Congress by having that unprecedented statement to the world on July 5th where he was leading up to a conclusion that was different than the one he then announced. But back to your original point, isn't this what people hate about politicians, yes it is.

But the politician here is Hillary Clinton and she has put herself, her campaign and more importantly, the nation at risk. She's unqualified and unfit to be president based on her constantly (inaudible) law, based on her closest advisers not complying with and swearing under oath -- they've turned all over all these devices when clearly they have not. It's they who have been imperiled our national security.

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CHURCH: All right, well, only a few more days and the election will be decided.

HOWELL: November 8th, right.

CHURCH: November 8th. Although I think Trump's says another alternate date.

HOWELL: Twenty-eight, no, it's the 8th. It is November 8th.

CHURCH: It is the 8th. Well, thousands of migrants have left the Calais camp known as "the jungle." Coming up, a look at how some are starting new lives in a village in south France.

HOWELL: Plus, another powerful earthquake strikes a shattered region in central Italy. A live report ahead as "CNN Newsroom" presses on.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

HOWELL: I'm George Howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. Paramilitary forces in Iraq are fighting ISIS militants to the west of Mosul all in support of the Iraqi army. Officials say 20 villages in that area had been liberated.

In the meantime, Iraqi forces completely cleared ISIS out from the towns of the south of Mosul in their push toward that city.

CHURCH: Saudi Arabia said it has busted two separate terrorist and also were plotting attacks. Authorities arrested four Saudi nationals who have ties to ISIS and four Pakistani nationals from a cell planning to bomb a World Cup qualifying match early this month in Jeddah.

HOWELL: The FBI has obtained a search warrant for newly discovered e- mails belonging to one of Hillary Clinton's top aides. Sources say the FBI first learned of the e-mails weeks ago. Investigators suspect they could include some messages that were deleted before Clinton's private e-mail server was handed over to the FBI. CHURCH: Italian authorities are working to get aid to two central regions rocked by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake Sunday. At least 20 people are injured. This follows two tremors last week and a quake in August which killed almost 300 people.

HOWELL: The most powerful earthquake in decades, CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau joins now live from Rome to talk more about this. Barbie, it was just less than 24 hours ago that you and I were covering this as breaking news and you mentioned that you even felt the earthquake as far away as Rome, and now there are the continuing aftershocks.

BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: That's right. It's just been 24 hours of terror for the people who live in that area. And in Rome today, even the schools are closed while they're verifying that there's been no structural damages. The roads closed in Rome this morning, as well. But in that area close to the epicenter, the concern right now is to try to get people who refuse to leave their homes to safety because there've been continuing aftershocks.

Any building that's been damaged of course risks collapsing entirely in a strong aftershock. There was an aftershock of more than 4.2 early this morning and that's what concern officials right now. There are a lot of people who just refuse to leave their homes because they fear they'll never be able to come back.

And the Civil Protection authorities want them to go to the coast stay in hotels provided by the government just for the next 24 hours or so while they can shore up some buildings to make sure people are safe and make sure they have a place to come back to, but as you see in those images, the damage is so widespread and the little villages, more than a hundred little hamlets and towns affected by this, some of them completely wiped off the map.

HOWELL: Barbie, let's talk just a bit more about that because, again, you mentioned before, many of the people have already left that region because of the earthquakes that happened Wednesday. Very strong earthquakes then and now this, but still you point out that there are some who have not left, some who are choosing to stay and there's this urgency to have people leave their homes.

NADEAU: That's right. I mean the fact that nobody lost their life in this strongest earthquake that's hit Italy in more than 30 years is attributed to the fact that so many people evacuated last week and people evacuated back in August when their homes were damaged or destroyed. But there are some people out here especially the elders. People are so attached to their land, their territory.

These houses are hundreds of years old. Generations of their families have lived there -- built the columns and structure (ph) and they just don't want to leave. And it is a problem for the authorities to convince them that it they leave, they can come back. And that's been the focus today because they can't obviously predict when the next big aftershock is going to happen. They can't predict that there won't be an earthquake even stronger than we felt 24 hours ago. And until everything sort of settles down, and we've had hundreds of

aftershocks in the last 24 hours, we need to make sure people are safe. Even the rescue workers and first responders are dubious about going into certain areas because of the activity, the seismic activity going on and continuing to go on all morning, George.

[03:35:00] HOWELL: Barbie Nadeau, live for us in Rome following developments after this 6.6 magnitude earthquake to hit central Italy. Barbie, thank you for the reporting. We'll stay in touch with you.

CHURCH: And we do want to get more on the quake's aftershocks. Our meteorologist Karen Maginnis joins us again. Karen, this is what's alarming, isn't it when you're talking about hundreds of aftershocks. A real concern for people there with these structures, they're so old, they just can't hold up to that sort of tremor. What do you know -- what more can you tell people about these aftershocks and what they need to do?

KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. Most of the aftershocks people will not feel. However, the buildings have been compromised, we know that for sure. As you say, they're centuries old. They're very vulnerable. And especially now compromised if there are cracks or anything like that, even as far away as Rome. They're investigating buildings there. They've closed some schools. They were checking the infrastructure, the bridges, the roads.

Roads right around this epicenter were definitely affected. Also a river because of a landslide, it was kind of diverted a little bit because of the debris that was in the water. All right, I want to point out that right down here is Rome. You travel about 120 kilometers or so, further to the north and we go into central sections of Italy, a very tectonically interesting area.

Essentially, this was a compression quake, but there are some slip zones, there some subduction zones, but essentially you get into this mountainous region and you've got all kinds of seismic potential that can develop here. Let's tell you what happened with this earthquake, 6.6 magnitude, hundreds of aftershock. I counted, just about an hour or so ago, a magnitude 4.0 or greater -- there were 15. You're going to feel that especially if your senses are heightened to the potential for that to occur. It was relatively shallow about ten kilometers deep.

We can get earthquakes that are 50, 60, a 100 kilometers deep. So, you can see just how relatively shallow this is. We know that thousands, tens of thousands of people are left homeless. Now, there is a lot of shelter available, but for some maybe not. And as we look at the forecast, we're looking at temperatures 7, 8, 9 degrees but then the quake happens on Wednesday. We're expecting those temperatures only around six degrees. You have to remember, this is at some particular elevation. This is right in the vicinity of that epicenter.

The rain starts to move in about 40 percent chance it looked to beyond Wednesday. For Thursday, it looks like we keep the rain chances in. As Rosemary mentioned, centuries old buildings, a very historic value and this is a sort of thing that you can see. That particular picture was out of Perugia and we've seen this kind of cluster or swarm of earthquakes, that's not unusual. We saw a 6.1 just a few days ago -- now 6.6. That 6.1, was a fore shock, meaning it was kind of the prelude to this main event, if you will.

Well, typically over the next weeks or months you can expect these aftershocks to continue in an area where it is very seismically conducive to that. You might see on the order of maybe 20 or 30 that are in that 4.0 magnitude. You might see one that is 5.0 magnitude or greater but nonetheless, this is going to be very unnerving for the millions of folks who have witnessed this destruction. Rosemary, George, back to you.

CHURCH: Yes, so alarming for those people particularly if you've lost your home in the midst of all of that. Thank you so much, Karen. We appreciate it.

HOWELL: Following the story, dozens of migrants who now have small home in a small French village, a new home after living in the so- called jungle camp in Calais, France. Mixed reaction they're getting from local residents still ahead.

CHURCH: Plus, one German manufacturer employs dozens of robots at its factory, but the company says these machines means more jobs for humans, not fewer. We'll explain when we come back. Stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. Well, migrants are facing the reality of life outside of Calais, France after the closure of the jungle migrant camp. Forty refugees were sent to a welcome center in southeastern France.

HOWELL: But as CNN's Zain Asher explains their arrival, is making some of the locals there uncomfortable.

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From the squalid camp in Calais to Champtercier, a picturesque village at the foot of the French Alps nearly 1,000 kilometers away. Forty migrants mostly men from Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan arrived here in the middle of the night. Welcomed by eight workers and a few of the town's residents, the men sat down for hot coffee and tea after their long journey. Zarif (ph), who recently said Afghanistan said leaving Calais was a nightmare.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last night, all jungle is finished. People do fire and the houses is all finished.

ASHER: Zarif (ph) and the others are now settling in at this empty lounge while they apply for asylum in France or elsewhere.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe I'll stay here. Maybe I'm going back to Afghanistan, I don't know.

ASHER: Champtercier is small, home to about 700 people. Some of them welcomed the refugees with open arms but some are uncomfortable with the influx of new arrivals.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): My house is 400 meters away from the holiday resort where the migrants will be housed and where I go pass to my morning walk, and I don't know if I'll be able to continue this in the future because I don't feel safe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): I can understand that people are afraid. People are always afraid of what they don't know, afraid of strangers, but you have to be able to control these emotions.

ASHER: It's not clear how long the refugees will stay, but more are due to arrive. Up to 100 will make Champtercier their home while authorities consider their applications for asylum. Zain Asher, Cnn, Atlanta.

HOWELL: Zain, thank you. Usually, when robots come to work, it means that people may lose their jobs.

CHURCH: Yeah, but leaders at German manufacturer SEW say that its co- worker robots are doing exactly the opposite, allowing them to hire more employees. Atika Shubert has the story in this special Europe 2020 report.

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[03:50:00] ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carmen is just one of dozen cobots, co-worker robots from the production line at German machine manufacturer SEW. He's now being designed to pick up loads as heavy as 500 kilos and help even a novice like me gently guide the motor for assembly.

"I'm pretty bad at this."

It takes some practice, but Carmen does the heavy lifting.

"Good job Carmen."

Since adding Carmen, Tanya, Jessie and other cobots, they all have female names, SEW has seen a 15 percent gain in productivity and as much as 40 percent decrease production time. In this factory alone, they make more than a million different kinds of specialty motors. The key per SEW's managing director is to think of all the different ways cobots can assist humans.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We've created a different way of working. It's human robot cooperation. It's got some human workforce at its center.

SHUBERT: The most popular robots here are the smart workstations that roll across the factory floor alongside employees on bicycles. These cobots don't just deliver parts, they could spot mistakes and alert their human co-workers. German factories have long embraced the robot revolution. This year, Adidas announced its newest shoes will be made by so-called speed factory robots, and Volkswagen has used robots to manufacture its cars. Early this year, the World Economic Forum (ph) estimated that as many

as 5 million jobs worldwide could be lost to robots and other technological changes in the next four years, but SEW insists that the robots increase in productivity has actually allowed them to expand and create more jobs and not lose employees. SEW said it wants robots not for a fully automated factory line but as assistance. Robots (inaudible) explains supervisor Toto Valenciano (ph) who has worked here for more than two decades.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We use to have 35 meters on the lines with long production lines. It was hardworking monotonous. Now the robots give us some relief and there's greater variety in how we work.

SHUBERT: SEW is now developing ne robots and Carmen will soon have a younger and stronger sister, Karina for a new factory line. For the robots and humans in this factory, there's no looking back. Atika Shubert, CNN, Stuttgart, Germany.

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HOWELL: Cobots are our friends.

CHURCH: Yes, and we see progress, right. A U.S. woman has turned her front porch into a political pumpkin patch. Coming up Donald Trumpkin, Hillary Clintkin and a wild card

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MAGINNIS: Hello everyone. I'm CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis. This is a look at your weather. We take a look at North America. We've got quite a bit of unsettled weather all the way from British Columbia down across northern California, wind, rain lowering snow levels. It may not be, winter just yet, but it's going to feel fairly brisk.

Much needed rain fall expected for California. Then those near record or record setting temperatures from the Central Plains to the southeast, already the past week we saw exceptionally warm temperatures running 10 to 30 degrees, but where it should be for this time of year. We keep the unsettled weather right across the U.S. Canada border.

In New York City, high temperature expected about 12 degrees as we go see the afternoon that should be really comfortable. Los Angeles sunshine, 19. San Francisco, some rain on the way but Dallas 31. Atlanta 30 and for Miami, look for 28 with partly cloudy skies.

We look at the next four days, Washington, D.C. the temperature bumps up yesterday. Should be about 25 by Thursday. About 20 in New York City on Thursday, and about 28 in Atlanta and for Charlotte. Guatemala City, we look at 26 degrees. Havana, some early thunderstorm and 28 for a high.

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CHURCH: Baseball's Worlkd Series is headed back to Cleveland. The Chicago Cubs kept their title hopes alive beating the Cleveland Indians 3-2 in game 5 Sunday night in Chicago.

HOWELL: The Indians still hold a 3-2 lead in the best of seven series. They haven't won a title since 1948, and for the Chicago Cubs, it's been even longer -- 108 years since the Cubs won.

CHURCH: Wow. Well, the first legal pot store in Alaska opened its doors to much excitement from there.

HOWELL: That's right. Voters in that state approved the measure legalizing marijuana two years ago, but retail sale of the drug just started. Shannon Ballard from CNN affiliate KVA talked to some people who waited in line for the doors to open and explains why the party may be short-lived.

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SHANNON BALLARD, KTVA ELEVEN NEW: There are people lined out here from all over south central Alaska. They wanted to be here today in Valdez to be part of history.

Patrons young and old, men and women, started lining up around 8:00 this morning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have been waiting years for pot to be legal.

BALLARD: The doors didn't open until high noon. And when they did, people cheered. Mike Holcomb was the first inside. He calls this moment monumental. Most people don't know Mike has a felony conviction for a marijuana related crime. Today he's joined by dozens of others who are buying pot legally -- buying pot legally for the first time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's very exciting and very rare. It seem the people that did it, you know, all of us that made it happen. So, it's very exciting. I think it's going to be a success. Maybe (inaudible)

BALLARD: As successful as today was. The future of Herbal Outfitters is still a bit up in the air. A group of concerned citizen collected enough signatures to put an initiative on the ballot that could have banned the industry. That vote is in the city election happening in May. In Valdez, Shannon Ballard, KTVA, Eleven News.

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HOWELL: Thank you. Here's when you think you've seen it all this election season, well, think again.

CHURCHL: Yes, Jeannie Moos uncovered one more October surprise. A political pumpkin patch.

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JEANNIE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: One porch like any other. Until you notice who is sitting on it, Donald Trumpkin, Hillary Clintchkin and who's that third one?

JEANETTE PARAS, PUMPKIN PATCH OWNER: The wild card, though, was Putkin -- Putin. I call him Putkin.

MOOS: With a smirk and wink, Vladimir is the biggest at 341 pounds. But it's the Donald and Hillary who get most of the attention.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go pumpkins.

MOOS: Here in Dublin, Ohio and now worldwide, Jeanette Paras is famous for her portraits though she's not really an artist.

PARAS: I started pumpkinizing giant celebrity pumpkin to 1988.

MOOS: She's done everyone from Miley Cyrus with her ling tongue to Kim Jung Un. Jay Leno's chin required a vertical pumpkin. Kanye West was a hit with his glasses. Since she pumpkinizes whoever is big in the news, the Donald and Hillary were no brainers. She's already done a 374 pound Trumpkin last year.

[03:55:00] The trickiest feature to get right on Trumpkin, what else, the hair. It's made up of six very large wigs. Carved Trumpkins are popping up all over social media right down to the minimalist wig and hole. When it comes to Halloween, the Donald is winning.

His mask is overwhelmingly out selling Hillary's nationwide. Usually the candidates whose mask sells best tends to win the election. But the Trump mask has an advantage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The left likes to buy it because they want to lampoon him and the right likes to buy him because he's, you know, god-like, He's their candidate.

MOOS: And over 95 percent of people who buy latex masks are men. As for the Donald's pumpkin, uncarved, it will last until New Years. So, what happens when it's time to get rid of Trumpkin, Clintchkin, and Putkin? Before dumping them in the trash, Jeanettes says she chops them up like in the "Psycho" shower scene. That's hair-raising. Jennie Moss, CNN, New York.

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CHURCH: Feels like there's a great little business there.

HOWELL: How many days until election day?

CHURCH: Well, really, I guess nine.

HOWELL: And then it's all over.

CHURCH: And then it's all -- apparently, we're going to see when it's all over.

HOWELL: We thank you for being with us, as we count down the days until election day.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. Stay tuned to see CNN. The news continues with Max Foster in London (inaudible) great day.

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