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Iowa Caucuses Will Make or Break Some U.S. Presidential Candidates; Peace Talks in Syria; IOC Confronts Fear of the Zika Virus; Facebook is Banning All Private Gun Sales on All Platforms; Manhunt Ramping Up for Escaped California Inmates; Clinton's E-Mails; New Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers; Obama to Tackle Equal Pay. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired January 30, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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[04:00:00] GEORGE HOWELL, CNN NEWSROOM HOST: It all comes down to Monday, the Iowa caucuses, a make or break moment for some U.S. presidential candidates. And in the home stretch they're putting it all on the table.

Plus, peace talks in Syria. Syrian opposition groups would be in Geneva for the talks after threatening to boycott them altogether.

And the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the Zika virus. Warning for the International Olympic Committee about how it's handling the outbreak ahead of the games.

From CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm George Howell. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

Good day to you. We start this hour with U.S. politics. The final push for candidates running for president in the very key State of Iowa. The Iowa caucuses could effectively kill both -- any campaign. These parties, as they continue, it is after all the first state to cast votes for the presidential nominees, which will certainly bring momentum to the winner.

Republican Donald Trump was in New Hampshire on Friday but returns to Iowa on Saturday for at least three rallies to be held there. His current main rival, Ted Cruz, will also be traveling around the state stopping for votes.

On the other side of the political coin, democrats will also be busy on Saturday. Hillary Clinton will hold several rallies ending with a rally with her husband and former President, Bill Clinton, along with their daughter Chelsea. Her rival, Bernie Sanders, is also busy with a series of rallies to be held Saturday all day that day.

Our senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny has the very latest for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: A fight to the finish.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Please, between now and Monday night, think hard because the stakes are high.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I-VT) DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we win, it will indicate that this country is ready for real significant change.

ZELENY: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a battle for Iowa.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: You need to caucus for her.

ZELENY: It's a family affair. President Clinton and Chelsea joining for the final countdown.

H. CLINTON: Those of you who are still shopping trying to make up your minds, I hope I can persuade you.

ZELENY: Persuading voters by saying her rival's universal health care plan is wishful thinking.

H. CLINTON: People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have some theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass.

ZELENY: She drove her point home with a personal story.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My daughter had brain cancer.

H. CLINTON: People can't wait.

ZELENY: The race is coming down to a test of campaign organization. It's a duel for the direction of the Democratic Party.

SANDERS: It's going to be a very, very close election.

ZELENY: Sanders is casting Clinton as a candidate of the status quo. He's drawing sharp contrast in TV ads.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How does Wall Street get away with it? Millions in campaign contributions and speaking fees.

ZELENY: He says a political movement his campaign is building can help achieve his lofty agenda.

SANDERS: Everybody here knows that change, real change never comes easily.

ZELENY: Diane Schaeffer is a Clinton supporter. He never thought the race would be this close.

ZELENY: Why is Bernie Sanders giving you her such a run for her money? DIANE SCHAEFFER, CLINTON SUPPORTER: I don't know. I'm really shocked.

I'm really am. I really thought this would be a slam dunk, I really did.

ZELENY: She's part of the split household. Her son believes it's time to shake up the establishment with Sanders.

SCHAEFFER: He is like, all about Bernie. So, I don't know if it's the younger group that is coming out in force and just being like, oh, my gosh, you know, let's go for this radical change that Bernie keeps talking about.

ZELENY: Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Des Moines.

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HOWELL: Donald Trump is attacking his republican opponent Ted Cruz by using a controversial term calling him, quote, "an anchor baby." It is a term that is considered derogatory, but Mr. Trump has used it in the past to describe children born to parents who are in a country illegally.

Those whose citizenship by birth may help the parents remain in the country. Ted Cruz, however, was born in Canada to an American mother who was living legally in that country at the time of his birth.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Ted Cruz may not be a U.S. citizen, right? But he's an anchor baby. He's an anchor baby. Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada, but Canada doesn't accept anchor babies, they just waited a long time.

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HOWELL: Cruz's camp has responded with the following statement, quote, "The only anchor here is the one being dragged behind the SS New York values causing Donald Trump's campaign to stall out as voters learn about his affinity for Hillary Clinton and her previous statements supporting abortion."

[04:05:05] While the U.S. presidential candidates have been arguing fiercely about abortion, Europe has also been wrestling with the problem there, wrestling with the massive influx of migrants from Syria and other war torn regions. It's now prompting some European governments to seek tougher border and asylum policies.

Meanwhile, a coalition representing Syria's opposition groups says it will be in Geneva for peace talks after all. The high negotiations committee had threatened a boycott if Syria's government didn't end the blockades and sieges of Syrian towns.

Following this our CNN international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson is live in Geneva, Switzerland with this story. Nic, good to have you this hour. Look, these talks are finally getting underway after lengthy delays. NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: They are. There's

great hope now or better hope at least that they can really get up and running. Yesterday, the U.N. -- the U.N. special representative Staffan de Mistura who's overseeing the talks here had a two-hour meeting with the delegation from the Syrian government.

He said this was a preparatory meeting laying the groundwork, setting out what the agenda might be. Of course, the agenda has been laid down in a U.N. resolution in December, which says six months of talks lead to a new Constitution and a year after that you get new elections in the country which the U.N. oversees.

These proximity talks, which means he meets with each party separately in different rooms, when he went into that meeting with the Syrian government yesterday, it wasn't clear that the opposition group, the high negotiating committee, were even going to attend here, but he says that he does have assurances from the MAO.

They have said that they will come here, that they will negotiate. But the stumbling blocks were issues that they wanted to address before they got here. They said that they wanted humanitarian access on the ground to beleaguered communities, prisoner release, particularly women and children, and they wanted a cessation of the bombardment, the message from the international committee and from to the U.N. to the most -- to the HNC, get here and then you can talk about it. Now they seem to be coming, George.

HOWELL: Let's talk though. So, you know, there were discussions and negotiations about who would actually be at these talks. I want to ask specifically about the Syrian government. Given that they have so much support now coming from Russia, what is their position now in these talks?

ROBERTSON: It's not clear. They didn't make any comments leaving the talks so we don't know if they've come with a new agenda that's different than the one they came with two years ago.

Two years ago here in Geneva, sort of known as Geneva two, and this is known as Geneva three, the then U.N. special representative, Lakhdar Brahimi, who was trying to, you know, get the talks up and running then blamed the Syrian government for only wanting to talk about the issue of terrorists, that's why he said after a couple of weeks the talks then collapsed.

A Syrian state broadcaster asked the U.N. representative following the meeting what discussion there had been about identifying terrorists? That still remains an issue. Still remains an issue for the Syrian government and for the Russians if that's going to be their only point on the agenda like last time, then it doesn't hold out a lot of hope.

And of course, right now, the Syrian government has support from the Russian, from the Russian Air Force bombing on the ground. They're making strategic gains in the south and the north. And when a military -- when one side is making gains on the ground, oftentimes, it may not seem logical to them to get into talks, so there are a lot of questions over this right now. Why would the Syrians change their track when they're doing better on the ground militarily than they were two years ago even.

HOWELL: Nic, we can talk for hours about the details, the intricacies of these negotiations and the delicacies there. But you know, the bigger issue here in Europe, you have this massive influx of migrants at these talks. What is the hope that these leaders will accomplish?

ROBERTSON: You know, this is the U.N. buildings behind me here encompass a lot of different U.N. operations. The International Office of Migration, the U.N.'s organization that tracks the migrant movement is one of those. So, they're in close proximity to these proximity talks.

The IOM, the International Office of Migration yesterday released new statistics for this year. They're just shocking. I mean, we've learned that 10 more migrants died on a boat trip trying to leave Turkey. The IOM says this year the statistics are already tragic. The first week of this year 50 people died trying to get to Europe by boat.

The week after that 95, the week after that 160, 218, so far crossing the Aegean, Turkey to Greece, 254 across the Mediterranean total this year.

[04:10:00] Europe is bulging at the seams with migrants both politically and socially. They don't want more. They're struggling to accept the numbers they've got, yet, they keep coming. So, this is on everyone's minds here at these talks, George.

HOWELL: Nic Robertson live for us in Geneva, Switzerland. Nic, thank you so much for your reporting, and we'll stay in touch.

Now we move on to the Zika outbreak. The International Olympic Committee is advising countries on how to lower their risk of infection during the summer games in Rio de Janeiro. The committee says teams will be safe from the virus, but added the precautions are necessary.

It recommends using insect repellent and wearing long sleeves and pants. Meanwhile, Brazil's president is speaking out about the virus plaguing her country.

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DILMA ROUSSEFF, BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT: (TRANSLATED) We are losing the battle against the mosquito. As long as the mosquito keeps reproducing, each and every one of us is losing the battle against the mosquito. SO, we have to mobilize so we do not lose this battle.

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HOWELL: The Zika has been linked to a dangerous disorder in newborns and there is no vaccine or treatment available. Officials warn we could see up to four million cases in the coming year.

CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has this report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: It was an ominous warning from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control today.

MARGARET CHAN, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR GENERAL: The explosive spread of Zika virus.

GUPTA: The mosquito born Zika viruses is spreading explosively with three to four million total cases expected across the Americas in the next year. The level of concern is high says the WHO, as is the level of uncertainty about the virus.

ANNE SCHUCHAT, CENTERS FOR DISEASE PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR: I think their comment about uncertainty is right on. We have to be aggressive if we want to get ahead of it.

GUPTA: Historically, Zika has been a virus of consequences with mild symptoms of fever, rash, and headache that normally resolve within a week. In fact, four out of five people have no symptoms at all. But that all changed last fall in Brazil when the virus began to be linked to what today is over 4,000 cases of microcephaly.

A devastating neurological condition in babies that prevents their head and brains from fully developing. Fifty one of those babies have died. As a result, women living in Brazil, el Salvador, Columbia, Jamaica are being told not to get pregnant at this time.

And the CDC is telling pregnant women in the United States to postpone travel to any of the 24 countries where the virus is currently active. There are already more than 30 cases of Zika in at least 12 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, but all of those were acquired during travel to affected areas.

SCHUCHAT: I would not be surprised if every state has a person returning from one of the affected countries with travel associated zika virus. There are lot of people that travelled back and forth.

GUPTA: So far, there's been no cases of Zika being transmitted from a mosquito to a person within the continent of United States. The CDC, however, warns that will soon change. But still reminds us there is no reason to panic.

SCHUCHAT: For the average American, whether you're traveling or not, we don't think Zika virus is a big threat, even if we have cases of local spread in the United States, we don't expect there to be large outbreaks here the way there is in Brazil.

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GUPTA: It is a fast-moving situation. I think every day now for the next several days, there is probably going to be new guidance, new numbers coming out. We'll certainly bring that to you. I also want to sort of explain a little bit of the Dr. Schuchat's optimism about the United States. She doesn't believe it's going to become widespread in the United States in part because the amenities here in the United States such as simple things, like screens on windows, air conditioned buildings, can really help reduce the spread of a mosquito borne illness.

Many of the places where this is spreading are urbanized and they don't have these sorts of amenities. So, that's part of the reason for her optimism. Back to you.

HOWELL: That was CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta reporting for us.

And now on to China, the nation calls this a miracle. Four miners in utter joy rescued after being trapped for 36 days. The men were brought up one by one on Friday, you see it here.

Days ago, the miners were told that they were going to be rescued and a cell phone was sent down to record their experiences more than 200 meters or 700 feet underground. Wow.

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HOWELL: At least one miner died in the collapse on Christmas Day. Thirteen are still missing and it is unclear what caused the gypsum mine to collapse, but China has been criticized before for poorly enforcing safety rules.

[04:15:05] One man in custody, two more still on the run. The latest on the California jail break coming up on this broadcast.

And ahead, why experts in Flint, Michigan, are saying the filters might not be able to handle all the lead that's in that city's water. Stay with us.

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MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Max foster. These are the top business headlines.

The Dow rallied nearly 400 points on Friday to its biggest single day gain of the month. After the worst start to a year on record, U.S. stocks have finished January down 5.5 percent. Oil prices rose 2.5 percent to just under $35 a barrel. Brent crude is still around 9 percent so far this year down.

Wall Street joined the rally on the global markets that began in Asia. The Bank of Japan took investors by surprise when it cut one of its official interest rates into negative territory. The BOJ hopes that it will jump start and boost stubbornly low prices.

The move puts yet another central bank out of step though, with the U.S. Federal Reserve. Stocks also got a boost from week fourth quarter U.S. great numbers. The GDP grew .7 percent between October and December. That's the lowest since early 2015. A sign the global slowdown is weighing on the American economy.

Investors are hopeful the Fed might go more slowly than expected on future rate hikes.

James Murdoch will serve as the chairman of the broadcaster Sky. He is the son of Rupert Murdoch, the funder of News Corp and James Murdoch stepped down as Sky's chairman in 2012 during the U.K. phone hacking scandal.

Those are the top business headlines. I'm Max Foster in London.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.

Facebook has announced it is banning private gun sales on all of its platforms, including social media site Instagram. The company already prohibits users from selling illegal drugs but says it is hoping to crack down now on peer-to-peer weapon sales.

Licensed firearm retailers will still be able to post about their goods only as long as all transactions take place off site. Facebook says any content that violates its new policy will be removed.

In Southern California, now one of three inmates who escaped the jail last week has now turned himself in. The manhunt is ramping up though, for two other fugitives on the run. And now a woman who taught English as a second language at the jail has been arrested as well.

[04:20:06] CNN's Paul Vercammen has the very latest on her relationship with one of the inmates.

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PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She's 44, he's 37. Both of them of Iranian dissent and involved in a relationship that may have started inside the Orange County jail. Nooshafarin Ravaghi taught English as a second language and reputed jail break ring leader, Hossein Nayeri was her student. After his escape detectives found correspondent between the two, but were these love letters?

JEFF HALLOCK, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF: Obviously it's not out of the question but we don't have any information to determine in fact, it was romantic, but we do know that it was much closer and much more personal than it should have been.

VERCAMMEN: Nayeri's wrap sheet hardly screams hopeless romantic. He grew in the Fresno area and served in the marines but was charged in 2005 for killing a friend after he crashed his car while driving drunk.

And in 2012, prosecutor say he kidnapped and tortured a marijuana dispensary owner burning him with a blowtorch and sexually mutilating the victim. He was in jail awaiting trial before the escape.

Noosha as she calls herself on her web site proclaims she has a masters in French literature. She also says she's been editing books as teaching English, Farsi and French to children and adults.

So, how did he wind up in her English as a second language course?

HALLOCK: The connection whether it's from Iran, we're not exactly sure. That is very much of a concern of us which leads us to believe that she played a significant role in the planning.

VERCAMMEN: The sheriff's department says the instructor may have provided Nayeri with a printed Google map perhaps extremely valuable to someone who could not case a jail roof from the inside, a roof Nayeri and his fellow fugitives repelled off with make shift ropes four stories to freedom.

Authorities say all three fugitives were facing long sentences or life in prison if convicted so they were motivated to break out. But Nayeri and cohorts needed help. So, authorities believed they turned to the woman who was a teacher and perhaps more to Nayeri.

HALLOCK: It's common knowledge that the inmates, especially somebody facing significant amount of time, are going to use whatever they can and manipulation is a tactic they typically will use to get something that they want.

VERCAMMEN: Now this sounds just like that upstate New York escape last summer. Authorities charged extremely violent prisoners got outside with inside help.

Paul Vercammen, CNN, Santa Ana, California.

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HOWELL: The people of Flint, Michigan, will be getting much needed help soon dealing with the consequences of the city's lead contaminated water.

Friday, the governor approved $28 million in funding to be used for filters, testing kits and some water infrastructure issues there. The contamination started after the city changed its water source in 2014, in some cases, environmental officials say they have found levels of lead too high for filters to even remove it effectively.

Now to Canada, where five people are dead after an avalanche in British Columbia. The search team rescued six survivors near the small town of McBride. Details around the incident are still unclear at this point, but authorities say it was human triggered and warned people to exercise great caution in that area.

A snowstorm headed for the United States could impact the Iowa caucuses. And Derek Van Dam, look, I know that these presidential candidates, republican and democrat, don't want to hear that right now.

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I wonder how that would impact voter turnout for the caucuses in Iowa.

HOWELL: Do I stay home?

DAM: They're pretty hearty.

HOWELL: That's true, it's Iowa. But still, it's cold.

DAM: Yes, exactly. So, it looks like as if they are going to get away very, very close to this blizzard impacting them. I think Monday night when the caucuses wrap up they will start to see the first onset of the snow. Buy it's Tuesday when it really starts to ramp up.

HOWELL: Right.

DAM: Let me explain to you, George. Take a look at this graphic and you can see what's at play here. We've got an area of low pressure that isn't even on our weather maps just yet. We've drawn it just to show you where it will be by this time on Tuesday. OK?

So, keep in mind, it is still few days too. But what it's doing is drawing in very cold air from the north. We're talking about 15 degrees Fahrenheit below where it should be this time of year. On the front side of this system it's drawing in warm, and very moist, and very unstable atmosphere that's going to create the potential for severe weather. That's the other aspect of this particular storm that's brewing.

But as we play this thing up, look at the moisture spread across the country. Snowfall from the upper great lakes through Iowa all the way through The Rockies. That's going to bring some awesome snowfall totals for the big ski resorts out West as well.

Severe storms possible for, though, for the Tennessee river valley. That's an area that we're concerned of for late Monday into Tuesday. And I told you this storm system isn't even on our weather map just yet. It's not even starting to develop until really late Sunday into Monday where it gathers steam.

[04:25:02] The jet stream takes a dive. We gather some moisture even from the Pacific. That's going to travel across the mountains and eventually makes its way into Iowa. You guessed it. Here's the snowfall totals, big snows across The Rockies.

But look as it moves late into or the middle part of the work week across Iowa and into the upper Great Lakes. We have the potential for over a foot of snow. So, let's time this thing out for everybody. So, you can see exactly what to expect.

From the southwestern sections of Iowa through the northeast, anywhere between 12 to 18 inches of snow with strong winds but, again, that doesn't start to impact the region until late Monday night and into the day on Tuesday.

So, our Monday Iowa caucus forecast stays dry in temperatures actually above freezing. And here's the severe weather threat for Tennessee River Valley. It really starts to explode as we head into the day on Tuesday as we draw on that warm, moist air for Memphis and Nashville. That's the target point.

Take a look at this, George. I want to show you one last video. This is off the coast of France. A crippled cargo ship drifting slowly towards the French Atlantic Coast on Friday. All personnel on board were rescued by helicopter.

(CROSSTALK) HOWELL: Wow, Derek.

DAM: But this cargo ship is just on its own. It's not easily accessible because the seas are so rough from a storm system moving through that region. Dramatic images coming off of Western France.

HOWELL: Wow.

DAM: About 300 kilometers from the shore. It doesn't pose a threat to any land or any people but certainly a sight to see.

HOWELL: Derek, thank you so much.

World number one, Serena Williams, looks to make tennis history in the Australian Open final if she defeats seventh seeded Angelique Kerber. It will be Williams 22nd grand slam singles title. That would match the all-time record currently held by Steffi Graf. Williams hadn't lost a single set until now. Kerber has just won the first set, six games to four.

The young boy who became an internet sensation for his make shift Lionel Messi Jersey has been found now in Afghanistan. The five-year- old gained fame overnight when a picture of his football Jersey made out of a plastic bag made the rounds on Twitter.

The image inspired people to find out who the boy was, where he was. Now that they have, Messi himself is said to be preparing something special for this very young fan.

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And still ahead, thousands of migrants and refugees have sought a safer place in Norway, but now many fear they will be sent out of the country to an uncertain future. We'll have that story next.

Plus, the U.S. State Department says it will not release some of Hillary Clinton's e-mails because they contain top secret information.

What she has to say about that as this broadcast continues around the world this hour. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

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HOWELL: A warm welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Good to have you with us this hour. I'm George Howell.

The headlines we're following for you. The critical Iowa caucuses happen Monday, and U.S. presidential candidates in both parties are making their last-minute appeals to voters. Iowa is the first State to select the person voters want as their party's nominee.

The President of Brazil says her country is losing the battle against the Zika virus and she's calling on everyone to unite against mosquitoes carrying the disease. Zika has been linked to a dangerous birth defect. Birth disorders in newborns and no vaccine or treatment is available.

In the Central African Republic, there are new allegations that U.N. and E.U. peace keepers and troops sexually abused minors. The new accusations, I should say, include troops from countries including Georgia and France. The E.U. and the U.N. are promising to investigate.

An umbrella group representing Syria's opposition says it will attend peace talks led by the U.N. Members of the high negotiations committee are expected to arrive in Geneva later Saturday. Earlier, they had threatened to boycott the talks if the Syrian government did not stop bombing civilians.

Since Syria's Civil War erupted some five years ago, a quarter million Syrians are said to have been killed. More than four million have fled their homeland and millions more have been internally displaced. The mass exodus of refugees into Europe has helped to trigger the migrant crisis that we see now.

Thousands of migrants arrived in Norway last year, making the crossing from Russia. But as Phil Black reports, many are afraid they will be sent back to Russia and ultimately, back to Syria.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The winter weather in Norway's arctic region changes quickly. When the sun shines, it's brief. Just a few hours a day this time of year. When it goes, temperatures drop and sharp winds cut through fabric. But thousands of migrants have still come here, to this stark, striking landscape to find safety and perhaps prosperity.

The Norwegian/Russian border. Here the country's flags fly together. There are souvenirs from both. And signs in multiple languages declare this is a frontier, the borderless sham in immigration zone. This is the end goal to what's become known as the arctic route to Europe.

During 2015, 5,400 migrants from various countries traveled through Russia and crossed this border on bikes because they weren't allowed to walk or drive across. Now something has changed here. There are no more bikes.

The Norwegian government says no asylum seekers have tried to cross this border since the start of December last year. They think for a couple of reasons, because of the tough checks they put in place here, but also because of the tough arctic winter conditions.

Now, Norway is working to send many of the migrants back in the other direction. Eighty have been brought from across the country to this nearby camp. The government says they're to be deported because they already have permission to live in Russia which it considers safe.

That's little comfort to the Ibrahim family. Amjed, Noha, and their five-year-old daughter, Letha (ph) have fled the Syrian capital Damascus. They fled to Russia three years ago to live, to work?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, to, you know, we heard that they have treatment for my children and.

BLACK: Amjed said his daughter was diagnosed with autism. The couple hope to escaping the Syrian war and seeing Russian doctors would make a difference but it didn't.

[04:35:05] Amjed (ph) says the treatment his daughter needs doesn't exist in Russia, and Norwegian doctors have since told him they can't help.

What will happen if you return to Russia?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My child will stay like this. She will never be like another child. That will not happen to me.

BLACK: And as a father, what does that mean to you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It means I am dying.

BLACK: Syrians travel to Russia because it's one of the few countries where they can get temporary visas relatively easily. Russia and Syria remain allies, but that also means Moscow believes few Syrians need protection from their own government. So, migrants here say being returned to Russia will inevitably see them sent back to Syria to live under a regime condemned by European countries including Norway.

Phil Black, CNN, Kirkenes, Norway.

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HOWELL: Turning now to U.S. politics. Hillary Clinton's e-mails, they are now back in the spotlight just days before the critical Iowa caucuses. The U.S. State Department said on Friday it will not release 22 e-mails from Clinton's time as Secretary of the State of the U.S. because they contain, quote, "top secret information."

They weren't top secret though, at the time. The Clinton campaign says this is a case of, quote, "over classification run amok."

CNN political commentator and a democratic strategist, Hilary Rosen agrees.

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HILARY ROSEN, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The e-mails that were circulating that are in question actually were being circulated by State Department officials on the unclassified system. So, it really is sort of irrelevant whether or not Hillary Clinton was the recipient of those e-mails.

The issue now is that the State Department is trying to change the classification for e-mails that had previously been on their unclassified system. So, really right now, what you have is sort of a dispute among intelligence officials that in some respects has really nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HOWELL: Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders said in a statement on Friday, Clinton's e-mails should not be politicized and there is a legal process in place. He also said the following, quote, "The voters of Iowa and this nation deserve a serious discussion of the issues facing them."

You may remember, Mr. Sanders declined to attack Hillary Clinton during the debate saying, quote, "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails."

The republican presidential candidates have dozens of events lined up this weekend. Donald Trump returns to Iowa on Saturday for at least three rallies there. And his current main rival, Ted Cruz will also be very busy traveling around the state stumping for votes.

CNN political correspondent Sara Murray has more on the last push.

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TRUMP: Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: After a tough night for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump is piling on.

TRUMP: Cruz is in second place. He got really pummeled last night. Actually, I'm glad I wasn't there because I guess all of that -- he got pummeled, wow. And, you know, they didn't even mention that he was born in Canada, right?

MURRAY: Sharpening his attacks on Cruz's citizenship and delighting in his decision to skip Thursday night's debate.

TRUMP: I did something that was very risky, and I think it turned out great because I'm on the front page of every paper. I'm getting more publicity than if I -- you know? I don't know.

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MURRAY: Cruz is coping with a rockier reception. After sparring with debater moderators.

CRUZ: If you, guys, say, ask one more question, I may have to leave the stage.

MURRAY: And facing incoming fire from his GOP rivals.

RUBIO: The truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes.

MURRAY: Cruz woke up to this front page in Iowa and trying to get back on offense by taking shots at his opponents.

CRUZ: It's easy to come to Iowa and proposed as Donald Trump said, let's expand the ethanol mandate. Now, next week, he may have a different position but that's the position today.

MURRAY: Cruz isn't the only one drawing scrutiny as Rubio's rivalries put him on defense over his shifting stance on immigration.

RUBIO: You changed your position on immigration because you used to support a path to citizenship.

JEB BUSH, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So did you.

MURRAY: Meanwhile, Trump's opponents predicted his debate could undercut him in Iowa.

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think the disdain Trump showed by not coming may well turn off Iowa voters.

MURRAY: But Trump told CNN's Brianna Keiler it was a show of strength.

TRUMP: I think you're going to find a lot of voters and caucus goers are going to say, he's the one person that will stand up for himself.

MURRAY: And tonight, Iowa conservatives seemed to believe it won't do much damage.

Did it hurt him, not hurt him?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think it hurt him at all. His nearest competitor kind of bloodied. I think the headline of the Des Moines Register which says rough night for Ted Cruz says it all.

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[04:40:05] HOWELL: The Iowa caucuses are the first nominating contest of the U.S. presidential race. The caucus is a neighborhood meeting that is open to any registered voter in the party. In the State of Iowa, the two parties caucus differently though.

Republicans come together and try to persuade each other to vote for their favorite candidate, then they cast a ballot for their preference. But Iowa democrats caucus in a more traditional way. Our Jonathan Mann explains.

JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: First, the caucus goers gather in a public space like a high school gymnasium. Each candidate has someone speaking on their behalf trying to sway undecided voters, and everyone else, too. It looks like the speeches are done. Now the voters are headed for their respective candidate's corners.

George Washington has the most support with seven of faces little people but the caucuses isn't over yet. It's time now for the community discussion and persuasion.

Jefferson supporters are headed for the Washington corner with cupcakes and every reason they can imagine for their rival supporters to join them and they have succeeded in convincing one Washington supporter to move over to the Jefferson camp. They don't actually have eyes.

But Lincoln supporters see an opportunity. And one of them is headed over to Jefferson's camp armed with evidence of Lincoln's achievements and every argument he can sum on it. But, no, the Washington supporter who defected to Jefferson is going back to the first president corner and he's taking a Lincoln supporter.

So, the tally is now eight for Washington, four for Jefferson and just three for Abraham Lincoln. Does anybody want to change their votes? No, so it looks like the caucus is over and George Washington will have his cupcake and eat it too if they had mouths, they'd be smiling.

HOWELL: Ahead, seasoned investors say January has been gut wrenching but was Friday's end to a turbulent month any indication of what's ahead? We will take a look at the latest volatility next.

Plus, we go backstage with a young D.J. who's changing the state of music as we know. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday a new rule that is meant to achieve equal pay for women. Private businesses with more than 100 employees will be required to report pay data broken down by gender, by race, and ethnicity. The White House says having better information is crucial to closing the salary gap between men and women.

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BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: We're going to keep pushing until every single girl has the rights and the opportunities and the freedom to go as far as her dreams will take her. That's the spirit that I intend to keep pushing as long as I have the privilege to be in this office.

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HOWELL: The White House says women in the U.S. on average make only about 79 cents for every dollar that men earn.

U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial average jumped more than 396 points, but that was hardly enough to make up for a terrible January for U.S. markets. The Dow is down 5.5 percent for the month. Investors have had to cope with the economic slowdown in China and the global meltdown in oil prices.

If there was a time that you wanted to make it big in the music industry, the key was, of course, to sell albums and then to get your song on the radio. Twenty-four-year-old, Norwegian D.J. Kygo says forget the radio, forget about the albums. He says you don't need to sing or even write songs.

CNN's Samuel Burke goes backstage with Kygo to find out more about the $6 billion industry of electronic dance music.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SAMUEL BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooklyn's biggest arena, Barclays Center, is sold out. The D.J. Kygos didn't write these lyrics, and he doesn't have an album out. That hasn't stopped 20,000 people from paying top dollar to see him tonight.

Off stage, everyone calls Kygo by his real name, Kyra. The 24-year-old Norwegian has reached a billion streams on Spotify, faster than any other musician on earth.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Streaming is so key. I think that's sort been our avenue. That's how we've built our brand and we've been able to sell so many tickets and to show so much around the world is streaming.

BURKE: The machine behind Kygo is even younger than he is, his manager, just 22. EDM is all 20 something's, Patrick Moxey, the founder of Kygo's label Ultra, is a 30-year veteran of the electronic music scene.

PATRICK MOXEY, ULTRA MUSIC FOUNDER & PRESIDENT: I think this could maybe be a hit for us.

BURKE: The rest of the industry is fighting the rise of streaming. Moxey says they're all missing the point.

MOXEY: With five singles out and we're selling out a huge venue with Barclays Center. So, I think it's a tribute to the way the relationship has changed between artists and music and the fans through the internet.

BURKE: You don't even have an album out yet?

KYGO, NORWEGIAN DJ: I don't. You don't need the album because it was like people don't really listen to albums anymore. They just like find good songs.

BURKE: And they listen a lot. Electronic dance music is now a $6 billion market.

How are you making money?

KYGO: I guess it's mostly on playing shows.

BURKE: You like this?

KYGO: Yes, I like this.

BURKE: My mom said to me how did this guy sell out a show in New York? He doesn't write the words for the song, he doesn't sing.

So what draws people to your shows?

KYGO: I think the people like live, that's what I love to do.

BURKE: You're a musician?

KYGO: I am. BURKE: D.J.'s like Kygo, David Guetta, and Avicii are all over the

charts. Critics says the genre is a bubble that might just pop. Even if it does fade, EDM has already changed how music makes money.

KYGO: I never thought that I would play venues like this. And it's all because of you guys.

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HOWELL: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, we have some incredible video to show you of a shark depowering another shark at a South Korean aquarium. We'll tell you what may have led up to this moment. Stay with us.

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HOWELL: Let's take you to an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea where a shark attacked another shark. You can see the lower body of the smaller shark hanging out from her mouth. It took the 8-year-old about -- I should say it took the 8-year-old about 21 hours to eat most of the younger male. Later, only the tail remained visible. Wow.

The aquarium believes this attack was caused by a turf war.

Now this might be not be everyone's first choice for a tattoo, but some people in the United States and the State of New Hampshire are rushing to get free ink of republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The owner of the shop says he has been getting tons of calls since announcing that he would give out free Trump tattoos and the Trump faithful are rushing to take advantage of it, with some planning to come from as far away as Florida to get that.

Now you'll remember Sarah Palin recently endorsed Trump. She is not a 2016 candidate and, in fact, she's not even a public servant at the moment but, still, she remains a lightning rod on the political and comedy scene.

And while audiences may get a kick out of her most famous impersonator, Palin's daughter says Tina Fey has it all wrong. Here's Jeanne Moos.

[04:55:02] JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You may think Tina Fey has nailed.

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TINA FEY, COMEDIAN: That's her spinning.

MOOS: Her Sarah Palin impersonation.

FEY: Heads are spinning. Media heads are spinning.

MOOS: But there's one critic who sounds a little bitter.

FEY: Right winging, bitter clinging, right clinging, bitter, proud clingers of our guns.

MOOS: Sarah Palin's daughter is clinging proudly to her mother, writing in her blog that Tina Fey sounds nothing like my mom. Bristol compared what she called Tina Fey's fake accent a nail on a chalkboard.

FEY: Slurping off the gravy train.

MOOS: Bristol thinks SNL has been slurping off the Palin gravy train writing Saturday Night Live and Tina Fey have been clinging to this impersonation a little too long. It's getting pathetic.

FEY: You rock and rollers and holy rollers pushing strollers, pro- bowler with an abscessed molar.

MOOS: And then there's the glitzy sweater. Bristol said she thought it was funny SNL couldn't get its hands on the same top her mom wore because it sold out. The costume department had to recreate it, which it did in less than a week. SNL proudly trumpeted.

FEY: Trump and his Trumpeters.

MOOS: But when Bristol took a poll, who wore it better, Sarah or Tina, it was Fey all the way, 87 percent. That sounds like what Bristol would like to do to Tina.

Jeanne Moos.

FEY: God mess the United States of America.

MOOS: CNN.

FEY: God bless some of the United States of America.

MOOS: New York.

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HOWELL: American politics. Got to love it. Thanks for joining us. I'm George Howell. I'll be back after the break with another hour of news from around the world. Thank you for watching CNN, the world's news leader.

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