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E.U. Struggles with Migrant Crisis; Migrants Stuck in Budapest; World Markets Down; Illinois Police Officer Gunned Down, Manhunt Under Way; Politics Get Heated Between Trump, Bush; One Vote Shy, Kerry Pitches Iran Nuclear Plan Merits; Beijing on Lockdown for Parade; Pope Francis Shakes Up Church on Abortion; Tech-Savvy Drone Fisherman. Aired 2-3a Et

Aired September 2, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:07] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: From Greece to Germany, the migrant crisis is taking its toll on Europe. You are looking at live pictures from Budapest. Now, Hungary's prime minister will go to Brussels to address the chaos.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, an officer gunned down in Illinois. At this moment, there is a massive manhunt underway for three suspects.

CHURCH: And later, controversy at Auschwitz. Officials deny these showers are anything like the ones used during the Holocaust.

BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. We are your anchor team for the next two hours. A welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and around the world.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

BARNETT: Our top story this hour, Europe's widening and worsening migrant crisis. A ship carrying 1700 migrants and refugees arrived in Greece on Tuesday.

CHURCH: They were ferried from a Greek island where local authorities say 1200 migrants were stranded. Greece has been struggling with the influx of migrants many of whom are fleeing war and poverty in their countries.

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UNIDENTIFIED MIGRANT: I want to say to Hungary, why? Why you want to stop the Syrians and others? Why? We said about good life. We said about peace. We are humans. We are humans.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BARNETT: And just to the north in Macedonia, hundred boarded a train provided by the government headed for the Serbian Bosher. The U.N. estimates 3,000 migrants will cross in Macedonia every day in the coming months and many will end up in Hungary during their journey.

CHURCH: Hungary's prime minister will travel to Brussels Thursday to discuss the crisis with E.U. leaders.

BARNETT: Hundreds of migrants rallied in Budapest on Europe after authorities stopped letting them board trains for Western Europe. At the height of emotions there. A day earlier, Syria and Iraqi refugees were allowed to board trains.

CHURCH: And many of those refugees have made it to Germany, the final destination of their long journey.

Fred Pleitgen is live in Munich with more on the country's response.

And, Fred, the German people have stepped up and showed the world how to welcome refugees into their country. Talk about what volunteers have been doing there in Munich to help.

FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, that's been quite remarkable. Yesterday around this time there were many people coming here off trains from places like Austria and Hungary as well. And what happened that throughout the day, because so many of these refugees were coming in that volunteers were starting to bring food and turning the area that I'm in right here -- this is the parking lot outside Munich's main railway station -- like a welcoming and processing center.

If you look behind me there are medical tents behind me. Most people go get checked and they're provided with food and water and toys for their children if they need.

And the big issue right now is that few are coming through because so many are stranded in Hungary. But yesterday, many people made it through and arrived here. Let's have a look.

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(voice-over): With almost every new train another batch of dozens of refugees arrived in Munich, taken in by police and brought to the central station's parking lot for processing.

Many spoke of a harrowing journey to finally make it to Germany, like this young woman who traveled with her family from Afghanistan.

UNIDENTIFIED MIGRANT: It was very hard for us. It took for about more than a month. And in Hungary my mother has got a very bad sick. She was in the hospital. But we are happy because we are here right now.

PLEITGEN: Some of the refugees, tired, weak, and hungry didn't want to talk about their journey, just their joy that they reached their destination.

UNIDENTIFIED MIGRANT: Bright future. And some dreams. And I'm really very thankful for the European Union and especially for German government.

PLEITGEN: In the sweltering heat, police officers also helped handing out food and water and making sure the refugees were swiftly moved to temporary accommodations.

(on camera): The authorities in Germany are somewhat overwhelmed by the flood of people coming here but they are trying to prevent some of the chaos we've seen in other countries. They're trying to get them on buses and bring them to shelter as fast as they can.

[02:05:00] (voice-over): As the scene went on, more and more volunteers showed up bringing food, cosmetics, food and toys and supplies. The parking lot turned into a state-of-the-art processing center.

"We've been out here since 7:00 p.m. last night," this volunteer says. "We've seen five trains with many refugees come here."

And there were really emotional scenes that we witnessed. But as the people in Munich continue to enhance the facility and bring in more supplies, the flow of refugees became thinner. Many stuck in Hungary unable to proceed to Germany where an army of helpers is ready to take them in.

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PLEITGEN: And basically still the situation this morning. We have seen a couple of trains come in from Budapest and some Austrian trains as well. You might find a handful of potential --

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CHURCH: All right, we clearly just lost Fred Pleitgen there.

But certainly giving us an idea on the plight of these refugees and, indeed, seeing the volunteers, incredible number of volunteers in Germany, in Munich specifically stepping up there.

BARNETT: We are seeing scenes like that all over Europe. Hungary insists it is enforcing the E.U. rules. But as the days go by, migrants are growing more frustrated at the Budapest train station.

CHURCH: Yeah, and we're looking at these live pictures of the situation in Budapest right now. You can see the huge crowds waiting to board the trains. Many have waited days, sleeping wherever they can find space on the ground there. And these migrants are desperately trying to continue on their journey to West Europe, many want to end up in Germany.

Arwa Damon reports on their struggle.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The police scribbled on scraps of paper. Babies are tired. But there appears to be no empathy here in Hungary.

(SHOUTING)

DAMON: They beg Germany, a nation that said it would take them in, to save them.

UNIDENTIFIED MIGRANT: We have a ticket but government don't let us go.

(SHOUTING)

DAMON: On Monday, refugees from the wars in Syria and Iraq were permitted to board trains but on Tuesday they were not. The tickets these people waited hours to purchase waved in the air, money they can ill-afford to lose.

Utterly dejected, some cradle their children, listless from the days spent living in the streets.

It was supposed to end. They were supposed to get on the train to Austria and Germany, but their misery continues.

(on camera): They want to know if the reason they can't get on the train is because of the German government or if it's here?

ANNETTE GROTH, GERMAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER: I don't know. I really don't know.

DAMON (voice-over): Annette Groth is with Germany's the left party and a member of parliament.

GROTH: I hope that I can at least alert the German politicians and the other governments as well that this is absolutely against all international humanitarian conventions we signed against the Geneva Protocol. People who flee terror and war have a right to protection.

DAMON: It is right, the refugees say, that does not exist for them here, herded like sheep, they tell us, from one spot to another by Hungarian police as they cleared some areas.

(on camera): They were in the middle of their meal and they say the police came up and said take your tent out or we're going to forcibly bring it down and remove you from the premises.

(voice-over): The family is from Damascus and couldn't take life on the edge of death any more. But here, they say, it's hardly better.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Budapest.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHURCH: In a separate incident, passengers on Euro Star trains had their trips delayed for several hours after police say there were trespassers on the French side of the Euro tunnel near Calais.

BARNETT: Some passengers were sent back to their departure stations. The port city of Calais has been dealing with a surge of migrants trying to access the Euro tunnel and reach England.

We change gears here and focus on Asia where there's fears of China's slowing economy. That has had stocks have been on a wild ride in the last few days and weeks.

CHURCH: There are the numbers. Markets in Sydney and Tokyo have finished trading for the day. So Australia down .21 percent. You can see there, the Shanghai Composite lost 1.15 percent. Japan's Nikkei down .4 percent. Hang Seng still open, of course, that is down .25 percent. But it's all the arrows in negative territory.

[02:10:09] BARNETT: A lot of red in Europe as well. The stock markets begin trading in an hour from now. But on Tuesday, they responded badly to China's economic slowdown. London's FTSE pulling back 3 percent. And the Xetra DAX and the Paris CAC and Zurich SMI all pulling back 2.4 percent respectively.

CHURCH: And Wall Street also took a drubbing on Tuesday. The Dow Jones closed down nearly 3 percent. The trading day starts back up about seven hours from now.

BARNETT: CNN's Asia-Pacific editor, Andrew Stevens, joins us live from Hong Kong to talk about this once again.

Andrew, great to see you.

IMF managing director, Christine Lagarde, says that Asia is expected to lead global growth but the pace is turning out slower than expected. That sums up market sentiment and the volatility we are seeing in many ways.

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: Absolutely. It's not just China showing signs of weakness it's the European group as well, it's the U.S. We had three manufacturing numbers out from China, Europe and the U.S. They were all bad. It wasn't just China. China has been a catalyst and is the biggest concern at this stage, no doubt about it. But it's not happening in isolation. This is a global growth slowdown story with all three engines showing signs of weakness.

Christine Lagarde is right that Asia will lead the pack. It's the best of a bad bunch. But she is making a clear point in Indonesia. Listen to what she had to say.

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CHRISTINE LAGARDE, IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR: Demonstrated in the last few weeks is also how much Asia is a -- of global economy and how much disruptions are occurring in one market in Asia can actually spill over to the rest of the world.

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STEVENS: Pointing out there that this Asian slowdown very, very clearly led by China cannot be contained just in this region. It is a global issue. When you think about it, virtually every economy in the world has some exports to China, some a lot more than others.

BARNETT: And because so many nations and regions do trade with China what market or markets might be most vulnerable because of China's slowdown?

STEVENS: Well, a lot of China's neighbors, countries like Japan, South Korea send between a third -- about a third of their exports to China which gives you an idea. But it's also the commodities- producing countries, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, Australia. Australia has just released its second quarter gross domestic product, GDP growth figures and they are much weaker than expected. The GDP at one-fifth percent growth in the three months to the end of June, which gives you an idea that this economy is now flirting with going into negative territory. And it is all to do with the fact that China is not buying the same amount of commodities of iron ore, of copper that it used to. And this is not just a unique story to Australia. This stretches across many, many countries.

BARNETT: And it's not just the raw materials either. It's the finish products. It's German BMWS and Caterpillar machinery from the U.S. and nuclear power from France and so on. Any way you look, it comes back to China in its leading the global growth lower but there is also lower growth in the European Zone and in the U.S. as well.

BARNETT: We will see the Chinese slowdown in many ways in the weeks and months ahead. A cloudy situation in the markets and a cloudy day in Hong Kong.

Andrew Stevens, thanks for joining us.

STEVENS: Thanks, Errol.

CHURCH: Let's take a short break here. Still to come, a U.S. police officer is killed in the line of duty and the suspects are still at large. An update on the manhunt in Illinois.

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[02:16:53] PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Time to talk weather. I'm Pedram Javaheri for CNN Weather Watch.

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BARNETT: Another U.S. Police officer is gunned down and a huge manhunt is underway right now in northern Illinois for his killers. Police in FOX Lake are searching for three suspects. Helicopters hovered over the area where police on the ground used sniffer dogs to pick up the trail. Residents barricaded themselves in their homes and businesses and several schools are closed.

CHURCH: Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was found with a gunshot wound and his gun taken. He is the fourth law enforcement official to be shot dead in the last nine days.

Ryan Young has the latest.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This manhunt has been going on for 12 hours. The command center is behind me. We are a mile and a half from where the officer was shot. Officer Joseph Gliniewicz, a father of four, a 32-year veteran of the police force here. Officers have been manning this area before spreading out to find the three suspects, which are two white males and one black male, the only description of the suspects. We have seen the ATF and the FBI bringing in their SWAT teams to look for the suspects.

The 32-year vet of the police department was answering a suspicious- persons call when he encountered the three people. Shots were fired. He was killed in the line of duty.

People from the community are upset about what happened, lining the street with signs.

And the hundreds of officers now in this area are looking for three suspects who have been involved in a murder of one of their own. It's something that we continue to follow and as we get more information we'll bring it to you.

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[02:20:25] CHURCH: And now to Houston, Texas, where some disturbing anti-police graffiti has been spotted around the area just days after veteran deputy, Darren Goforth, was shot and killed in an execution- style attack while pumping gas.

BARNETT: That graffiti is of two emojis showing a police officer with a gun to his head. Our affiliate, KTRK, says they have seen images in four locations and additional sightings around town.

And new outrage about another officer-involved shooting in Texas in San Antonio.

CHURCH: Eyewitness video from the incident seems to show police officers shooting and killing a man.

Sara Sidner has the story.

And we do warn you, the video you're about to see is disturbing.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sheriff's deputies first ended up going to the home because of a domestic dispute between a husband and wife. A woman had a gash in her head, but by the time they left, the husband was dead, killed by the deputies. An investigation is underway, especially in light of videos that have surfaced showing what happened.

Now what we can tell you is that the big question is whether or not the suspect, Gilbert Flores, was surrendering when the officers shot and killed him the.

Now, there are two videos. One has been released to the public. That shows Flores darting to the home and darting out of the alcove as the police approach. Police say before this there was a confrontation where they used stun guns and a shield to subdue him. But they say nothing worked. We don't see that part in the video. But what we see is Flores putting at least one hands up in the air and that's when two officers open fire.

The video does not make clear whether Flores had his other hand up because there is a pole obscuring the view.

When the television station released the video they received a nasty response saying that releasing the video puts deputies and officers in danger.

But we talked to the young man who gave that video over to news outlets and he says the reason why he did it is that he wants to make sure that nothing was swept under the rug.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was listening to what people were saying online. And no one knew the true story. If I got it, maybe I got to let somebody know and maybe they are not accused of killing a man or anything like that.

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SIDNER: We spoke with the district attorney in this case as he told us the second video, the one not released to the public, is paramount in helping them determine whether or not to charge these officers.

You mentioned that you had seen both the videos. Is one more disturbing than the other? More clear than the other?

NICHOLAS LAHOOD, SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The second video, the one that is not out in the public is much clearer. It's a different angle and closer, so it gives us a better view of what happened.

SIDNER: We spoke with the family attorney who says that the family is devastated and are planning to sue. He says there was no imminent danger to the deputies and they had no justification to shoot.

As we said, an investigation is under way. We hear from the D.A. They will make a fast decision after they get the details from the sheriff's department.

This is also one of the latest in a string of cases that have been controversial in dealing with police shooting suspects and all of that being caught on tape.

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CHURCH: In U.S. politics, it is getting heated between two Republican presidential candidates.

BARNETT: That's right. On one side, you have the front runner, Donald Trump, with his controversies, and on the other, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is lagging in the polls.

Sara Murray shows us what is cooking.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER (voice-over): So much for Jeb Bush holding his fire. We are seeing heated attacks between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.

Floundering in the polls, Jeb Bush firing off his harshest attack so far, using Donald Trump's own words against him in this YouTube video.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: My views are a little different than if I lived in Iowa.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Partial-birth abortion?

TRUMP: I'm very pro choice.

MURRAY: In an interview with CNN, Trump dismissing that attack.

[02:25:00] TRUMP (voice-over): One thing I will say, he mentions the fact that I was at one point Democrat. Well, in New York City everyone was a Democrat, whoever wins the Democrat primary is automatically -- that's -- there was almost no election because the Republicans hardly exist in New York City.

MURRAY: But Bush isn't limiting his attacks to the web. He's also taking it to the campaign trail.

BUSH: Look at his record of what he believes. H supports Democrats. This is not a guy who's a conservative. Using his own words, it's not a mischaracterization. It came out of his own mouth.

MURRAY: So much for the low-energy candidate.

TRUMP: Jeb Bush is a low-energy person. For him to get things done is hard. He's very low energy.

MURRAY: Bush trying to show he has a sharp edge, retaliating against Trump for an onslaught of attacks via Instagram, the latest showing Bush complimenting Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: We recognize the commitment of someone who has devoted her life to public service. I want to say thank you to Secretary of State Clinton and President Clinton.

MURRAY: Trump hitting his opponent on Twitter today calling the latest shot from Bush another weak hit from a candidate with a failing campaign. "Will Jeb sink as low in the polls as others that have gone after me?"

The escalating battle between Trump and Bush, as Carson quietly surges. The retired neurosurgeon, suddenly tied with Trump in Iowa, rallying the state's evangelical voters. DR. BEN CARSON, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & RETIRED NEUROSURGEON:

We have to stop listening to these people who tell us that we cannot talk about God, we cannot talk about our faith.

MURRAY (voice-over): Amidst the infighting we are seeing another story line emerge, an effort to win Hispanic voters. You saw Jeb Bush's toughest attack lines on Trump were delivered in Spanish. Meanwhile, it looks like Trump is doing his own outreach, having a private meeting with the CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: We'll take a short break here. But still to come, one of our CNN crews gets stuck and can't get home as Beijing prepares for a massive parade. We'll explain what happened after this short break.

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[02:30:37] CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. Let's update you on our top stories right now.

Hungary's prime minister will travel to Brussels to discuss the migrant crisis. Many are stuck in Budapest after authorities stopped letting them board trains for Western Europe. Hungary insists it is enforcing the E.U. rules.

CHURCH: Stock markets in Sydney and Tokyo have closed if for day. The indices have been on a volatile ride. The arrow in Australia is slightly up, just .1 percent. All the other arrows down in negative territory. And the Shanghai Composite lost 1.25 percent.

BARNETT: Thai authorities made a second arrest in the bombing of the shrine in Bangkok. Police say that suspect was caught trying to cross the Thai/Cambodian border. Police say the unidentified man speaks English but did not specify his role in the blast. Another man was arrested on Saturday.

CHURCH: U.S. President Barack Obama is just one vote shy of securing enough support to implement the Iran nuclear deal.

BARNETT: Now this comes as Delaware Senator Chris Coons and another Senate Democrat announced they will back the agreement. If he gets that final and expected vote, Mr. Obama will have enough to uphold his veto of a Republican resolution disapproving of the deal.

CHURCH: Later today, Secretary of State John Kerry will give a speech defending the merits of the Iran nuclear deal.

I want to bring in CNN emerging markets editor, John Defterios, to talk about it. He joins me now from Iran's capital Tehran.

John, how are the Iranian's reacting to John Kerry's pitch and to the debate currently underway in the U.S. Congress?

JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Well it's clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is going to try to reframe the debate here and get away from the political wrangling. To have the Democrats come over the line and back the deal helps. President Obama is trying to avoid needing to use a veto.

But what is interesting, while we have the internal struggle in the United States whether to proceed or not and whether the deal is perfect or not there are a stream of delegations wanting to do business, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the U.K., France, Italy, they have all been here since the July 14th signing looking to get construction and engineering contracts and particularly energy. And this is the last of the emerging markets with the scale that has not been open to the outside world because of the sanctions. 80 million consumers, 60 percent of the population below the age of 30. They are hungry to get in and the U.S. companies have not been allowed. They want to see the vote go their direction so they can engage with the Iranians.

CHURCH: And as you mention Iran has been struggling under the impact of the sanctions since 2008. What are their plans to revive their oil sector?

DEFTERIOS: As you know, Rosemary, the market has been under pressure but this is not deterring the Iranians to come in aggressively. From the July 14th signing, they have to wait six months if the deal goes through in the U.S. Congress to release more crude on the market. Half a million barrels in January 2016 and taking the production to 3.8 million. They have ambitious plans by the end of next year to get to 4.3 million barrels a day, make it number two within the OPEC countries right now. A major player in energy as the second largest gas reserves and the fourth largest oil reserves in the world. That's why people want to get in here.

But Iran's energy minister was suggesting that we're not going to hold back because the market is lower. They think they deserve to have their fair share of the global market. Let's take a listen.

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[02:35:03] BIJAN ZANGANEH, IRANIAN OIL MINISTER: And wait and not produce after lifting the sanction? Who can accept it in Iran? Do you believe that the nation of our country will accept it? Not to produce for security the market for others? The first oil producer in the Middle East? Can we lose our share in the market? It's not fair.

DEFTERIOS: By 2020, the combined production of Iran and Iraq will be about level with Saudi Arabia. This will change the dynamics within OPEC and the OPEC leadership. How will it change, do you think?

ZANGANEH: We -- with all difficulty that we had, it's the history of OPEC that we should cooperate with each other and to go ahead with each other. It's very, very important. We should cooperate with each other. It's organization. It's the signal to the market that we want to be with each other. (END VIDEO CLIP)

DEFTERIOS: A very different strategy, though, Rosemary, the Iranians want to take oil off the market to boost prices. Saudi Arabia and the gulf states of the Arab peninsula want to push out U.S. shale producers. That's the big gap we see between Iran and Saudi Arabia and behind the scenes is a Shia/Sunni divide as well. It's pretty complex.

CHURCH: It certainly is, isn't it?

John Defterios reporting from the Iranian capital. We do apologize for the audio issues there, of course.

BARNETT: A commemoration of the end of World War II could put a deeper strain on relations between Russia and Japan. You see, Russia held a parade on a chain of disputed islands on Wednesday. Russia refers to them as the Kurille Islands (ph) Japan called them the Northern Territories.

CHURCH: Soviet forces occupied the four islands in the final days of the war. The dispute has kept Russia and Japan from signing a formal peace treaty.

China's president is determined to make sure a parade on Thursday in Beijing in his honor goes off without a hitch. Hundreds of factories are closed. Flights in and out of Beijing have been cancelled. And half of Beijing's five million registered cars are banned from the streets.

BARNETT: If you live within the parade area, you have to pay close attention to lockdown times, as Will Ripley learned first hand.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Missile launchers are rolling through the streets, rehearsal for China's massive military parade and we are stuck on the wrong side of the road.

(on camera): We, along with other people, cannot get back to our rooms and homes. Roads cut off, subways closed. No way in or out for up to 16 hours.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's stupid. It's really stupid.

RIPLEY (voice-over): Thousands of people missed or ignored the announcements, leaving them stranded over night.

"We just have to wait," says this 80-year-old woman who can't go home.

Beijingers have come to expect big hassles during big events.

Thursday's parade will be the third largest in Chinese history, marking victory day, 70 years since the end of World War II.

(MUSIC) RIPLEY: Expect a three-hour show of force from the world's largest military, even bigger than the last parade in 2009. Weapons never before seen in public.

SIA POW (ph), BEIJING PROFESSOR: They show Xi Jinping's firm control.

RIPLEY: Beijing professor, Sia Pow (ph), says China's president won't risk any mistakes.

POW (ph): The government will make sure this will be a great success.

RIPLEY: The capital's two airports will shut down for three hours, stock markets, schools, even residents windows closed.

One bright spot, clear skies. Beijing's notorious smog is gone.

POW (ph): Look at the blue sky. We call this the military parade blue. And before that, we had the APAC blue and Olympic blue.

RIPLEY: Like past events, drastic measures to protect air quality. Nearly 2000 factories stopping or slowing production, construction sites closed, license plate restrictions cutting traffic in half.

The morning after parade rehearsal, barricades come down, streets reopen.

(on camera): We made it. So more than 12 hours after this adventure began, I finally crossed the street.

(voice-over): With the economy slowing, stocks struggling, territorial disputes ongoing. China's Communist Party wants to project power and control, determined not the let anything rain on their parade.

Will Ripley, CNN, Beijing.

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[02:40:09] BARNETT: Now to other stories we're following for you. Guatemala's president is facing the possibility of prosecution on corruption charges. Congress voted unanimously to strip him of immunity.

CHURCH: He and his close aides are accused of receiving bribes in exchange for lower taxes for companies importing products into the country. The president denies the charges.

Pope Francis has shaken up the Catholic world by announcing that priests everywhere will be authorized to forgive women for the sin of having abortions if their confess.

BARNETT: This policy applies during the church's Year of Mercy, which begins in December.

CNN's Delia Gallagher tells us more from Rome.

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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: The change by Pope Francis has made it easier for a woman who has had an abortion to return to the church. Previously, abortion carried an automatic excommunication a ban only lifted by special permission of a bishop. Now the pope says that is no longer necessary and any priest can absolve a woman of the sin in a confession. It is still considered a moral evil and carries the penalty of excommunication. But he has stream lined the process temporarily to allow women seeking forgiveness to be reinstated to the Catholic Church. This is in anticipation of a Year of Mercy set to begin on December 8 of this year and running through November 20 next year. And the duration of the special concession is for those dates. But many expect it will continue even afterwards. This is the latest in a series of moves by Pope Francis to encourage those who may have stayed away from the Catholic Church because of its moral rules to be welcomed back.

Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.

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BARNETT: Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, controversy at Auschwitz. Some visitors say these misting stations look too much like showers that were used during the Holocaust. What do you think? We'll discuss after the break.

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[02:45:34] ANNOUNCER: Now firing up at maximum thrust. And liftoff for the 500th time since Gagarin's start, a rocket roaring into the air.

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CHURCH: Look at that! A new crew is now en route to the international space station. A Russian cosmonaut and two others launched in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan just hours ago. Very smooth.

BARNETT: Very smooth. I hope they're all friendly, because it will be crowded up there. For the first time since 2013, nine will be calling the ISS home. There is usually a crew of six.

CHURCH: It's a party.

(LAUGHTER)

BARNETT: It's a party. Hopefully, they are friendly roommates.

CHURCH: Exactly.

BARNETT: The management team at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland are in controversy over misting stations. Officials say they were installed for the purpose of cooling off visitors to the former Nazi prison camp.

CHURCH: But many Jewish patrons say they evoke the memory of the execution of millions of their ancestors in gas chambers disguised as showers during the Holocaust.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They are good to get cooler, but in fact connote bad things.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do not have associations with gas chambers. It's so hot. And there's no other place here to cool down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BARNETT: You understand why that is controversial.

CHURCH: Yes.

BARNETT: But undeniably --

CHURCH: It is very hot.

BARNETT: -- it's very hot as record heat is baking parts of Eastern Europe.

Our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us with more on that.

You want misting stations in many places like this.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: The entire summer, we have seen temperatures we have not seen in a long time, especially in Eastern Europe and now two weeks away from autumn and not cooling off yet.

We'll break down the temperature trend. The heat has been on over the region. We'll show you what we're seeing over the area. Much of the eastern corner of the continent. But back to the West it is cooling off nicely. We'll see you how it shaped up in Belgrade and Bucharest, temperatures in the mid-90s Fahrenheit. The average is in the low 80s Fahrenheit. And in the West the cool air begins filtering in, in the next three to four days, and the coolest weather since the first week of June. In London, temps 19 to 17 Celsius, mid-60s Fahrenheit and in the upper 40s for the cold temperatures. We had a nice trend in the eastern United States. Autumn temperatures were there but the summer like temperatures are back. In Washington, D.C., at this hour, it is 80 degrees in the early morning hours about 2:45 in the morning. Warmer than Panama City, Florida. Impressive spell of muggy weather in place. Last week, Chicago high temperature, 67 Fahrenheit. They skyrocketed into what is the warmest start to September since 1985 for Chicago. Typically, middle of July, early August when you expect the peak summer temperatures and you begin to see a downward trend. Wednesday, no such thing the temperatures will feel like the 90s in places like Detroit when last week temperatures in parts of Michigan were 53 degrees Fahrenheit, 90 degrees now in the first week of September.

BARNETT: Wow.

CHURCH: Wow.

JAVAHERI: An impressive swing.

CHURCH: Amazing. Goodness.

BARNETT: I don't know what clothes to put on.

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BARNETT: All right, Pedram, thank you.

CHURCH: Thanks so much.

We have a fish tale. You'll have to see it to believe it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, guys. Farmer Derek here. I'm going to try fishing with my drone.

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CHURCH: Coming up, see how this man is changing the sport of fishing from the air.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sports headline.

England's football transfer window closed on Tuesday but the fallout will continue from the deal that never was. Manchester United have categorically denied they were at fault at the collapse of Rial (ph) moved to Madrid. And a report that the $44 million deal would also single out Costa Rica keeper, Kala Navas (ph). Rial (ph) had accused their rivals of holding up the exchanging documents for eight hours on Monday.

Meantime, United has confirmed that Anthony Mascow (ph), the world's most expensive team footballer, has signed for a league in Monaco on a four-year contract with an option for a third or one-year extension. The fee reported to be at around the $55 million mark. The teenager becoming United's third most expensive signing ever.

The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has scraped the 2020's game logo after claims of plagiarism, and will start the selection process for a new logo. The CEO of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee says he was confident the current logo is an original design but the Olympic Committee decided to follow the suggestion to drop the logo because of allegations it was too similar to the design used by someone else.

That's a look at the CNN World Sports headlines. Thank you for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell.

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BARNETT: Welcome back. Now usually, fish stories are about the one that got away. Love stories are, too, aren't they? But the next story is about the one that got caught using a drone.

CHURCH: CNN's Jeanne Moos introduces us to a tech-savvy fisherman from Kansas.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Forgot that old-fashioned rod you may get hooked on a new way to fish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, guys. Farmer Derek here. I'm going to try fishing with my drone. This is my first attempt.

MOOS: Don't disturb the fish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was just messing around.

MOOS: A Kansas farmer is known for his odd-ball farm videos, playing Jingle Bells --

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MOOS: -- on an electric trombone to his cattle or strategically dropping feed so they form a smiley face --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at that. It's perfect.

MOOS: -- when captured on his drone cam.

But this time, what he was trying to catch were fish.

The first one got away but, within 10 minutes --

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MOOS: -- he hooked a little bluegill using a plastic worm.

(on camera): Now, if the fish were bigger, you could end up like in "Jaws."

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: We're going to need a bigger --

MOOS (voice-over): Drone.

But the fish was no monster "Jaws" like the shark in the video.

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[02:55:11] MOOS: It left two Australian morning show hosts dumbfounded.

UNIDENTIFIED AUSTRALIAN MORNING SHOW HOST: I am never going back in the water.

UNIDENTIFIED AUSTRALIAN MORNING SHOW HOST: Me either.

MOOS: The bluegill ended up going back in the water --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My first drone fish.

MOOS: -- but not before Derek documented his catch by taking a selfie.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A fishy.

MOOS: As for drone fishing technique, when you feel a nibble, it's like jerking up the rod.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was setting my drone straight up.

MOOS: As for the poor fish, it had to put up with Derek droning on --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My first drone fish.

MOOS: -- about his new way of fly fishing.

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Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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BARNETT: That is cool.

CHURCH: Yes, it is. A lot of fun.

BARNETT: I was going to say, Derek has a lot of free time on that farm.

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CHURCH: You have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. We're only half way through. Please do stay with us. More after the break.

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