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Sanders Declares Victory In New Hampshire Primary; Donald Trump Wins New Hampshire Primary; Cruz, Rubio and Bush Fight For Third Place; Clinton Concedes Defeat To Sanders; CNN Reports From Inside War-Torn Aleppo; Chris Christie Returning Home To New Jersey; Officials Puzzled By Head-On Train Crash; Clinton Vows To Work Hard To Earn Votes; People In Rio Cope With Zika And Olympic Pressures. Aired 2-3a ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for joining our two-hour block.

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BARNETT: So Donald Trump led the polls in New Hampshire leading up to the primary and here we are. The numbers held true Tuesday tonight, the billionaire businessman easily won the nation's first primary, scoring more than 35 percent of the vote.

CHURCH: John Kasich finished second in the Republican race with 16 percent and right now Ted Cruz has barely edge out Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio for third place with 12 percent of the votes.

BARNETT: Trump's win pretty unbelievable. But take a look at the picture on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders cruising to victory over Hillary Clinton winning 60 percent of the votes there.

CHURCH: Sanders win comes after a razor thin lost to Clinton in in Iowa. In his victory, Sanders repeated one of his key campaign messages.

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BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Together we have sent a message that we'll echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California! And that is, that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super-PACs.

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BARNETT: Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump was, there he is, all smiles as he address supporters after his New Hampshire win. He was widely expected to come first there. But after a second place finish in Iowa, Trump was eager to get back on top. His speech he promised an American resurgence. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going to rebuild our military. It's going to be so big, so strong, and so powerful, nobody, nobody, is going to mess with us, believe me nobody. Nobody.

We are going to make our country so strong! We are going to start winning again. We don't win anymore as a country. We don't win on trade. We don't win with the military. We can't beat ISIS. We don't win with anything.

We are going to start winning again and you are going to win so much, you are going to be so happy, we are going to make America so great again, maybe greater than ever before!

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BARNETT: Trump certainly staying on message there. Now John Kasich finished second place in the Republican primary and he credits his win, if you can call it that, to running a positive campaign.

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JOHN KASICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Maybe, just maybe, we are turning the page on the dark part of American politics because tonight, the light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning! And you made it happen, you made it happen, you made it happen, you made it happen! You made it happen!

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CHURCH: Meanwhile Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio, are fighting for third place, though, Cruz has a slight advantage at this time. Rubio blames his position on his poor performance at a recent Republican debate and Cruz hails conservatives as the real winner of the race. Take a listen.

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SENATOR MARCO RUBIO (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want you to know something, our disappointment tonight is not on you. It's on me. It's on me. I did not do well on Saturday night so listen to this, that will never happen again!

SENATOR TED CRUZ (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The real winner, the real winner, is the conservative grassroots --

[02:05:07]-- who propelled us to an outright victory in Iowa and to a far stronger result and outcome in New Hampshire than anyone had predicted.

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BARNETT: And we will hear from Jeb Bush, anyone remember him governor of Florida, former president's brother, and we'll hear what he has to say in just a few minutes. CHURCH: But for more on what these results mean and what lies ahead for the candidates, CNN's Chris Frates joins us now live from Manchester, New Hampshire. Good to see you, Chris.

So the outsiders, the clear winners in New Hampshire, Donald Trump taking more than 35 percent of the vote, astounding when you consider he's not a politician and he broke every rule in the book.

How is the Republican establishment dealing with his success and the possibility he could very well be the nominee?

CHRIS FRATES, CNN INVESTIGATIONS CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'll tell you, Rosemary, they're not happy about it. This was not a huge surprise to the Republican establishment. Trump has been leading in New Hampshire for weeks now and it really was a question about who is going to come in second, who is going own that so-called establishment lane?

Tonight, it was Ohio Governor John Kasich. He was able to basically campaign. He camp out here in New Hampshire for eight months and he did over 100 town halls, and he really stuck his campaign and future he put all the ships here on the future. That worked for him.

Now Jeb Bush also making a big comeback and they were able to take Marco Rubio down. That was largely thanks to Chris Christie. He really beat Marco Rubio off in that debate.

Rubio spent most of the week trying to say that he didn't get beat that bad, but he acknowledged tonight he did make a mistake there and that cost his campaign. Chris Christie didn't get much of a bump on that.

He was supposed to go back to South Carolina. He's going to go back to New Jersey instead. He's not suspended his campaign yet or dropped out yet, but certainly he's on dropout watch.

So what does that mean for the establishment right now? That means that John Kasich is riding pretty high, but don't discount Jeb Bush. He has a national network. He has a super-PAC that has raised $100 million.

And look for him and Rubio to really start to go at it because those are the two big dogs right now. There is a big question, though. Even though John Kasich did so well here, does he have the staying power in South Carolina and Nevada and some of these big contests that are coming out?

He wants to play to some of the southern states. He thinks maybe in Mississippi, Alabama he can do well, but he's really looking toward the Midwest. Remember he's from Ohio. He wants to see what happens in Ohio. He also wants to see what happens in Michigan. That's his next New Hampshire.

In fact he's going to spend some time campaigning there, but that's almost a month's time, a lock in change in between there and he's going to need some momentum. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, they are really going to fight it out, guys.

BARNETT: And with all that considered, you know, despite those who have funding, those who have kind of political backing, there is a clear message that has been sent in Iowa and now in New Hampshire by voters, and that is they really do not like the establishment.

I know there's a bit of jockeying going on as you've just described among those still in the race, trying to own that lane. Which of those candidates, though, has the most to gain or momentum coming out of Iowa?

Because whether you are a Democrat or Republican it is a bad year to be considered an establishment choice -- go ahead, Chris.

FRATES: But to answer your question, Errol, I mean, I think it is a bad year to be the establishment candidate whether you're Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton. You saw in Iowa, she was way ahead in the polls there. She only won that race by a few tenths of a percent as she got crushed in New Hampshire.

She is hoping to move on to South Carolina. She has a lot more support in South Carolina. She does very well among African-American voters and they come out in big numbers in South Carolina.

It's why you saw Bernie Sanders start to play even starting this week in New Hampshire. He started to look forward a little bit to South Carolina. He got the backing of former NAACP president, Ben Jealous.

He also started talking about things that are important to the African-American committee. He talked about police shootings. That's obviously very important to Black Lives Matter.

He talked about how African-Americans are unemployed, young African-American's unemployed higher rates than whites, and they are incarcerated for things like marijuana possession in higher rates as well.

So you are starting to see that shift and he is trying to blunt some of the support that Hillary Clinton has among kind of more establishment, more traditional voting blocks like the African- Americans, guys.

CHURCH: All right, Chris Frates, reporting there live from Manchester, New Hampshire. Many thanks. We'll talk again with you next hour.

[02:10:02]BARNETT: Everyone likely exhausted even our equipment is getting tired here as we continue to cover all this. We do want to make the point, though, there's a long way to go still in the presidential race.

Here are some of the key dates to put on your calendar. Next up, South Carolina, Republicans vote in their primary, February 20th and Democrats one week after that. CHURCH: March 1st is super-Tuesday, a potentially make or break day for candidates. Primaries and caucuses will be held in 15 states and territories across the U.S.

BARNETT: Get comfy because campaigning continues through the spring and into summer culminating in national conventions. Republicans meet in Cleveland, July 18th, where they will officially name their presidential candidate.

CHURCH: And the Democrats choose their candidate a week later in Philadelphia and then on to the general election in November.

BARNETT: And later on NEWSROOM, we will have more on the primary results from New Hampshire including analysis on why winning that state is so important considering there are so many more to go so stay tuned for that.

CHURCH: So let's turn to other global news now. The United Nations is warning up to 300,000 Syrian civilians could be cut off from food if government forces are able to surround the rebel-held pass of Aleppo.

BARNETT: With backing from Russian airstrikes, the regime's assault on the opposition stronghold shows the shift in momentum in the conflict. Our Frederik Pleitgen is inside the city of Aleppo and brings us this an exclusive report.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We are right in the heart of the Aleppo. This is the Gemma Lea area. It's actually fairly closest to the front line, but it's also one of the main places held by the Syrian government.

Now, as you can see in this area, there are a lot of products that are actually available. Food, also a lot of other products as well. However, the people here it is very difficult for them.

There is almost no electricity. Most of it comes from generators and of course, because we are so close to the front line, there is also shelling here. It is quite dangerous for the folks who live here.

(voice-over): I believe we already endured about 80 percent of the hardship this man says and hope the remaining 20 percent will end soon. The situation is very tough right now, he adds, but we are steadfast. We believe the power will be on the correct side.

And this man says, we have had very tough times, but thanks to the victory of the army, we have survived these hard times. Aleppo is also the key battlegrounds in Syrian civil war.

(on camera): The Syrian government under President Bashar al- Assad has started a brutal offensive in this part of the country, also, of course, backed by Russian air power and pro-Iranian militia as well. And they believe that if they're able to deal a crushing blow

to the rebels in this part of Syria, that they could decide the Syrian civil war for themselves.

Of course, that still is unclear. They don't know how solid their gains are at this point or whether or not the rebels might fight along a counterattack.

But at this point in time, Aleppo is certainly one of the toughest battlegrounds in the civil war that's been going on for about five years. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Aleppo.

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BARNETT: Now top U.S. intelligence officials are warning that ISIS will probably try attack the U.S. in the coming year. The director of National Intelligence called ISIS and its eight branches the number one terrorist threat.

CHURCH: James Clapper told a Senate committee the militants infiltrating refugee groups trying to escape the fighting in Iraq and Syria.

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JAMES CLAPPER, U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR: ISIL's leaders are determined to attack the U.S. homeland beyond inspiring homegrown violent extremist attacks. Although the U.S. is a much harder target than Europe, ISIL external operations remain a critical factor in our threat assessments for 2016.

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BARNETT: (Inaudible) also said al Qaeda affiliates are also in a position to make gains in the coming year.

CHURCH: All right, let's take a very short break here, but still to come officials at a German train company say they just can't understand how two of their trains crashed head on. Coming up, a look at where the investigation now stands.

BARNETT: Plus what a difference a state makes. Coming up next, we dive deeper into the second place finish to the New Hampshire primary that stunned many campaign-watchers. More on that after this.

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CHURCH: After a narrow loss to Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Bernie Sanders scored a double digit win in New Hampshire. In his victory speech, he thanked his supporters for turning out to the polls.

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BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What happened here in New Hampshire in terms of an enthusiastic and aroused electorate, people who came out in large numbers, that is what will happen all over this country!

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BARNETT: And consider this, Jeb Bush, the one-time frontrunner of the party is now battling for runner up status. Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, are essentially fighting for a third place finish in New Hampshire's Republican race, though at the moment, Ted Cruz has a slight advantage. However Bush sounded optimistic as he addressed his supporters.

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JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The pundits had it all figured out last Monday night where the Iowa caucuses were complete. They said that the race was now a three-person race between two freshman senators and a reality TV star. While the reality TV star still doing well, it looks like you all have reset the race and for that I am really grateful.

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CHURCH: Chris Christie fell well behind in the Republican race. He congratulated Donald Trump on winning the primary and told supporters he would return home to New Jersey to take a breather and decide the next step in his campaign.

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GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They have chosen their candidate tonight, he deserves congratulations for that and he has both my and Mary Pat's congratulations to he and Melania and their family on their victory tonight.

Mary Pat and I spoke tonight and we have decided that we're going to go home to New Jersey tomorrow and we are going to take a deep breath, see what the final results are tonight.

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[02:20:05]CHURCH: There's a lot of moving pieces here. What should we make of everything? CNN political commentator and conservative radio host, Ben Ferguson, joins us now from Dallas to figure it all out.

Ben, I know that you have not been a Trump fan or Trumpeter, as Sarah Palin would say, but he is now a primary winner, this non- politician who said plenty of offensive things is a solidified Republican frontrunner. Are you losing your mind today?

BEN FERGUSON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: No, not losing my mind. I mean, if there is any place that Donald Trump should do well, it would be in New Hampshire. This fits his demographic, obvious support he has among his supporters is very consistent and strong. And when you have a field that's as big as this one was in New

Hampshire, with this many people being in double digits barely, you have him in a sold first place, that is not surprising to me at all.

The big question is moving forward, will he be able to do this in other states. Remember, New Hampshire is a place where it's predominantly white. They are not that many minorities there.

So this is an abnormal electoral map compared to the rest of the country. If you remember John McCain did very well in 2000 in New Hampshire. He went on to lose badly to then Governor Bush who became President Bush so this is far from over.

CHURCH: And Ben, of course, we knew who is going to come first. We didn't who is going to come in second. John Kasich surprised everyone with his second place in New Hampshire. This will be a real shot in the arm for him, but he needs some financial support. How quickly will that come now? Of course, he is now trying to claim the establishment crown.

FERGUSON: Well, he certainly needs to be able to raise money off this very quickly. If you remember Rick Santorum, the last election was that he was not able to capitalize in some of his early victories when it came to raising money against Mitt Romney.

And I think that Kasich will be going to very smart about this and make sure he goes out there and ask people for money directly in the days moving towards South Carolina. But ultimately this is a big show for him.

This is also hard work paying off. He spent a lot of time, had a lot of town halls, more than 100 of them in New Hampshire and that paid off for him and that's going to pay big dividends moving forward.

Plus you had the implosion of Marco Rubio. Make no mistake about it tonight as a terrible night for Rubio and it will be hard for him to recover from this, especially after the beating he took in the debate the other night at the hands of Chris Christie, who really exposed him in his weakest debate thus far.

BARNETT: Let's talk about the rest of the field here. You have Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, as well as Marco Rubio, all walking away with just over 10 percent of the vote each. It seems as though Ted Cruz is leading among them and he will likely do well in South Carolina. So with Rubio having a bad day, explain why Ted Cruz is still in this thing?

FERGUSON: Well, I think Ted Cruz is definitely a candidate that was not going to do well in New Hampshire. The fact that he can finish in the top three or four is certainly a victory for him. One of the main reasons why as many of the people voting.

The majority of them more than 70 percent did not identify as Evangelical Christian. You compare that to Iowa, there is a big different here. So for him to just have a solid showing to South Carolina that is going to be a big showdown there.

He obviously has a solid ground game in South Carolina and that's going to be important. You have to have a real ground game in these states coming up.

CHURCH: And that was CNN political commentator, Ben Ferguson, joining us from Texas.

And coming up shortly we talk to Maria Cardona about the Democratic candidates and what Tuesday's vote could mean for the rest of the race.

BARNETT: All right, now we want to turn to some other big stories we're following, it was during our broadcast yesterday we broke the story of that train collision in Germany. While executives of the train company say they have no clue on how that deadly head-on train crash could have happened because there are systems in place to prevent these types of collisions.

CHURCH: And you are looking at live pictures now from the scene of the crash where ten people were killed and dozens more wounded in Tuesday's incident. CNN's Atika Shubert has more now on where things stand.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The mangled wreckage of the commuter trains both completely derailed in the head-on collision. It happened just before 7:00 a.m. during rush hour. The trains were traveling at a top speed of 120 kilometers an hour. Transport officials say drivers on both trains were unable to see the other as they traveled around a bend on a single track line.

ALEXANDER DOBRINDT, GERMAN TRANSPORT MINISTER: It's like shaking the spirit. It is shocking that the two trains became wedged. One of the trains drilled into the other one. The cab of the second train was totally torn apart.

SHUBERT: Police arrived within 3 minutes of getting the emergency call. The wooded mountainous area on the Austrian-German border was difficult to reach. More than a dozen helicopters were needed to airlift survivors out.

[02:25:03]This was the first accident, for private train operator, Meridia. Investigators will comb through the data recorders from the train looking at two lines of inquiry, whether there was an issue on board the trains, human error, or technical malfunction, or with the state-run rail infrastructure, a possible signal failure.

UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: Usually the system that automatically stops the train the signal, that's why we don't know what happened. We assume those signals are green, but we don't know yet. On our trains, there have been two train drivers each.

We had a train driver process the train. So usually not two people miss a red light and then this is that automatic braking system doesn't work. So we really don't know exactly yet what has happened.

SHUBERT: This is the worst train accident in Germany in many years. The trains, however, were not as full as they normally would be due to a school holiday and the annual carnival celebration. Atika Shubert, CNN, Berlin.

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CHURCH: We'll take a break on CNN NEWSROOM, but still to come, two political outsiders win big in New Hampshire.

After the break, we will look at some of the more colorful moments in the first primary vote of the U.S. presidential election.

BARNETT: Plus which countries could stay away from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio all over Zika virus concern, all that coming up.

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BARNETT: Now as we've been discussing this hour, the New Hampshire primary really was a winning contest to the anti-establishment candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

CHURCH: And here is a look at how the primary unfolded from the first votes to the victory speeches.

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WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST, "THE SITUATION ROOM": On the Republican side, Donald Trump has high expectations, Bernie Sanders is looking for a clear and commanding win over Hillary Clinton tonight.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They dumped all the ballots out separated them all up.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, "AC 360": We are standing by for the first raw vote totals to come in.

BLITZER: CNN projects that Donald Trump will be the winner of the New Hampshire Republican primary. We also project that Bernie Sanders will be the winner of the Democratic primary.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST, "THE LEAD": Two years ago, if somebody told you that Bernie Sanders, an independent Democratic socialist from Vermont and Donald Trump, a businessman and developer from New York City were going to win the Democratic and Republican New Hampshire primaries, you would have said I was crazy.

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I would have said you are crazy.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are going to make America great again.

GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Bernie Sanders gave a rousing kind of stump speech.

BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Because of a huge voter turnout and I say huge, we won.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is a shellacking or more. It is a total route if you look at the state of New Hampshire.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I still love New Hampshire and I always will!

BLITZER: CNN predicts John Kasich, the Ohio governor, is coming in in second place in the Republican primary.

KASICH: Tonight, the light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning.

TAPPER: It could be a long haul. We are going to have a lot more nights like this. Anderson Cooper, back to you.

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CHURCH: Of course, Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary back in 2008, but history did not repeat itself Tuesday.

BARNETT: No, it wasn't even come close. Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by more than 20 percentage points in this race after a narrow loss the Iowa caucuses. In her concession speech, Clinton told voters, she would keep trying to earn their vote.

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CLINTON: Here is what we're going to do, now we take this campaign to the entire country. We are going to fight for every vote in every state. We're going to fight for real solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.

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CHURCH: And CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist, Maria Cardona, joins us now. So as we heard from Hillary Clinton there, she's going to fight on and she's going to fight for every vote.

But of course this must have taken the wind out of her sails. I know you are particularly a supporter of Hillary. How is she going to win back the youth vote from Bernie and particularly from young women who have abandoned her?

MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, let's say a couple of things. The first one is congratulations to Bernie Sanders. This is a terrific win for him. We can't take that away.

But I will also say from the very beginning when the Clinton campaign knew that Bernie Sanders was going to run, they gathered a bunch of their supporters and I was one of them, and they said New Hampshire is going to be very tough for us and most likely Bernie Sanders will win.

So they knew from the very beginning that the terrain was not going to be in her favor. He is as close as New Hampshire can come to a favorite son being from the neighboring state in Vermont.

They have been seeing him for decades, right, because they are in the same media market, and tonight interestingly enough the makeup of the electorate also favored him a lot.

As you know, a lot of independents could go in and right then and there register as Democrats. The electorate on the Democratic side was more liberal than it normally is for New Hampshire and that definitely helps Bernie Sanders.

Moving forward, though, what the campaign is going to do and this is what Secretary Clinton was alluding to, is that you go on to the rest of the states that actually are more representative of the country as a whole.

She will be going into states where you have large electorates of African-Americans, large electorates of Latinos, and I think that is where you're going to see her strength really show.

These are communities where she has been working for decades and she has deep and robust relationships with a lot of the voters in those communities. And I think you're right. She has a challenge with the younger voters and she has a challenge with younger women.

But if you can say anything about Hillary Clinton is that she does not shy from a challenge. And I think that's one of the things that she was alluding to there as well, which is that she is going to work harder than ever to earn those votes.

[02:35:08]To let these young women know that she is going to be for them, that she going to be fighting for them. She is going to be talking about her record.

I think a lot of is -- a lot of these voters are young and they don't necessarily know that she has been working for all of these issues for more than four decades.

BARNETT: The fact is Bernie Sanders having this huge night, in his words, I'm going to if I hear another joke, I'll lose my mind, but he is going to be working just as hard. He is riding this anti- establishment wave, but he is vulnerable for two very important reasons.

He's got this great support from young people, but they don't historically vote or turn out the numbers older people do and his support base is not as adverse. How can he shore up those holes quickly moving to these next primaries?

CARDONA: Well, I will say that he has done a terrific job in the last several months in reaching out to minority communities because I think his campaign understands deeply that that is a big challenge for Senator Sanders. Because he hasn't had the kind of deep relationships or history

with these communities. He hasn't really had to. He comes from Vermont. It's a 95 percent white voter state, right. So they acknowledge that and they have had some success.

They had recently Ben Jealous come out, a former president of the NAACP, and support him and endorse him. I think that's terrific Bernie Sanders.

I think the question though is even though he is doing a lot to get to know these communities in a way that he really hasn't in past years, is it going to be enough and is it going to be in time?

Because he is going to have to do this very quickly and these are communities where the one on one relationship and the trust that you have with the person that you are going to give your vote to is incredibly important.

As a Latina I can tell you that Latinos are very excited about Hillary. Latina women are very excited about Hillary, and she has a great and long and robust relationship with Latinos and that's what she's going to be underscoring moving forward.

CHURCH: All right, we will be watching very closely -- Maria Cardona, thank you for being with us.

CARDONA: I'd love to come back, thank you very much.

BARNETT: Here's another important question, just how accurate are the New Hampshire primaries when it comes to predicting who will the White House.

CHURCH: Yes, Tom Foreman gives us some historical perspective.

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here are all of the Democratic winners of the New Hampshire primary since 1976 and we're going to subtract from this all of the president who are in office trying to hold on to the job.

We wind up seven people out there. Out of these seven who won in New Hampshire, how many became the party nominee, just Jimmy Carter, Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry? Just four of them. Out of those four, only one went on to become the president, and that was Jimmy Carter.

What about Republican side, is it different or better there? Well, let's lay them out since 1976, once again we subtract all of them who were in office just trying to hold on, and that brings us down to seven.

Again, if we say how many of these New Hampshire winners became the party nominee, we get four. Once more, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Only two actually became the president.

So for all this talk about momentum and early leads this really is just one step along the way to the presidency in New Hampshire here and it's not a guaranteed step at all.

BARNETT: Thanks to you, Tom Foreman, for that. So get comfortable --

CHURCH: That puts you in perspective to get excited about New Hampshire.

BARNETT: It does. Many other big stories for you coming up, some Brazilians say the upcoming Olympic Games are not only displacing them, but also putting them at a greater risk for the Zika virus. We'll bring you their story after this short break.

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BARNETT: The Olympic Games in Rio are less than six months away and concerns about the Zika virus could keep some athletes at home.

CHURCH: The head of Kenya's Olympic Committee told Reuters on Tuesday, their team might withdraw from the games, but a committee member later said there are no plans to pull the athletes out and that the chairman's statements were personal comments. New Zealand and Australia meanwhile say they will leave the decision up to the athletes.

BARNETT: As we know by now, Brazil has been ground zero for the mosquito-borne virus. Organizers in Rio have been monitoring Olympic sites to try and control the insect's population.

CHURCH: Well, some Brazilians are not just coping with Zika concerns. They are facing pressure because of construction for the Olympics.

BARNETT: It not only threatens to take their homes, but it's causing pools of water right for most mosquitos that carry Zika. Nick Paton Walsh explains.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pedro is driving us to his home, inside Brazil's nearly completed Olympic Park. The developer, someone for whom the making of this Olympic dream means they will lose their own dream, their home.

He still lives inside the Olympic Park, refusing to move out of the way of the bulldozers, refusing to take the government's buyout.

There are forms of pressure, he says, the most common is to cut the water. While water is here, it's stagnant and that could mean Zika.

(on camera): This was once a lakeside paradise, but now the stagnant water brings with it the risk of mosquitos, the construction site has taken away so much, the greenery they used to know, and now the reluctant new neighbor of the Olympic Park. You are not worried about Zika?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I don't have a fear. I don't have a fear of mosquitos. I have a fear of my mayor.

WALSH (voice-over): He means the city mayor, whose office didn't return our calls. Just outside the park's fence, Luis is parts of several out of what was once 500 families living here.

This is our little corner, he says, a paradise for us. Yes, they have been offered new homes, but won't leave their corner of Brazil. He shows us what demolition means more still water, for Zika carrying mosquitos to breed.

[02:45:10]I called up Rio during Carnival, they're partying, but they are not leaving home. Worrying that if they leave, they'll come back to find their homes bulldozed.

In the rubble, noise and Zika threats, Rafaela gave birth seven days ago. Here, a (inaudible) pregnant spells panic. More fights broke down, she says. I and my children all got fever. So we went see the doctor, but he told us it was from the bad water we drunk and not Zika.

Still, so much medical uncertainty meant only little Sophia's birth let them feel totally safe. I was happy, she says, what matter isn't when their daughter is born healthy?

The idyllic waters where Brazil's Olympic dream, it's a health nightmare and its most disregarded growth and struggle in spite of each other. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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BARNETT: Right now, severe winds are hitting France and here in the U.S., there is a flip-flop of weather extremes. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now to explain it all what's happening here.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We'll start Europe and you know, when it comes to this time of the winter season, there are two things you can count on, right. In winter, it's typically rain or wind is what you are going to get across Europe and combination of often occurring dozens of flights have been impacted from Paris towards portions of Britain as well in recent days.

We'll show you some of the images that are coming out of this region because the winds have actually been equivalent to Category 1 hurricane. This is actually in the southwest of France, gorgeous place if you're out here in the warm season.

Officials lining up sand bags to put the proper precautions in place. But again the winds associated with this front that cruise by this region, as high as 150 kilometers per hour to the north. That is into the lower 90s and miles per hour. That will be a strong Category 1 hurricane.

In fact, not far away in Paris, we had a bill come down, caused significant injuries, an injury to a woman placed in a coma now because of the billboard that landed on top of her with the significant winds that were blowing across the region.

There goes the storm system, it's skirting off to the eastern part of the continent. Back behind it very cold temperatures in place as well, but again, very disruptive to say the least across that region.

Across the Eastern United States, look at the disparity in temperatures, brutally cold temperatures on the eastern side of the U.S., historic warmth taking place on the western of the U.S.

We continue to see some of the coldest air we've seen for this time of year or at least parts of the U.S. in a very long time. In fact if you take a look at New York City, the forecast is minus 17 Celcius at Central Park, that is on Saturday night into Sunday morning.

That would be the single coldest temperature since that exact date Valentine's Day of 1916, on Sunday it would be Valentine's Day across the United States, a hundred year of trends.

You look back up to the northern parts of the U.S., Washington State, has latitude similar to Paris, temperatures are at 20s that's about 73 Degrees Fahrenheit. It is warmer in Washington State than in Southern Florida down in Miami and the trend is going to get very chilly.

Take a look at this. In Miami, temperatures could drop into the single digits, 7 Celcius, 45 Fahrenheit, the coldest in 356 days. So yes, the flip-flop is taking place across the United States. It's been a wild --

BARNETT: That's bizarre for Miami too, usually folks there are on the beach year round.

JAVAHERI: The latitude is similar to Hong Kong, imagine Hong Kong getting to the single digits which it did recently and it was a big story as well.

CHURCH: Nothing is predictable anymore in the weather. Pedram, thanks so much.

An Indian-American actor whose plane ticket was canceled because he refused to remove hits turban has accepted an apology from Aeromexico.

BARNETT: Yes, the airline says it is, quote, "Proud of the diversity of its passengers" and apologized to Waris Ahluwalia, for Monday's incident. But he says he won't fly home to Mexico City until further steps are taken by the airline.

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WARIS AHLUWALIA, ACTOR, DESIGNER: The apology is a brilliant first step and I want to thank Aeromexico for that, that's past looking. The apology is about the past and that's great. Now we're talking about is the future and what steps in the future. The reason I didn't board any other plane and the reason I'm

here on my own will is that I'm afraid if I leave this can happen again to someone else. I can't in good conscience allow that.

So I'm here until we can have a dialogue about training their staff and about training and education, really, this is about education about the Sikh religion but also of other religions, and this is not just about me or Sikhs.

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[02:50:08]BARNETT: Ahluwalia really doesn't want this happening to anyone else. He was actually in Mexico City for an art show. The incident took place as he prepare to fly to his home in New York.

All right, still to come for you after the break, some parting shots to close our first hour. Stick around.

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BARNETT: Now the campaigns leading up to the New Hampshire primaries were filled with forceful, harsh, and a few points vulgar language.

CHURCH: But with this political round over and the votes tallied each candidate addressed their supporters and here are some of their parting words for New Hampshire.

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CLINTON: Thank you all very, very much!

TRUMP: It's so beautiful.

SANDERS: Thank you New Hampshire! Because of a huge voter turnout and I say huge, we won.

CLINTON: I know I have some work to do particularly with young people, but I will repeat again what I said this week. Even if they are not supporting me now, I support them.

SANDERS: They are throwing at me except the kitchen sink and I have a feeling that kitchen sink is coming pretty soon as well.

[02:55:10]CLINTON: There are those that want to deny the passion and the purpose you all show every day for this campaign. You are the reason we are here and you are the reason we are going to win!

TRUMP: We have to start with Melania, what she puts up with.

KASICH: There's magic in the area air for this campaign. There is an opportunity for all of us to reshine America, to restore the spirit of America, and to leave no one behind, am I right? That is what we're all fighting for.

TRUMP: Parts of Bernie speech, he wants to give away our country, folks, he wants to give away -- we're not going to let it happen. RUBIO: Our disappointment tonight is not on you, it's on me. I did not do well on Saturday night and listen to me, that will never happen again!

CHRISTIE: That is going to allow us to make a decision about how we move from here, in this race.

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CHURCH: And you are watching CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. Remember you can always connect with us on Twitter. It's great to hear from you. We will have much more on the New Hampshire results in our next hour. Stay with us.

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BARNETT: A very big win for the outsiders. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump crushed their competition for the White House --