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Protests at Trump Rally in California; Trump and Clinton Trade Jabs Over Foreign Policy; Missing Japanese Boy Found Alive at Military Training Area; Iraqi Security Forces Set to enter Fallujah Soon; Prince Dies of Fentanyl Overdose; Iraqi Forces Set to Enter Fallujah Soon; Europe Hit by Widespread Flooding; Heated Debate in Great Britain over Brexit; Brexit Referendum Becoming About Immigration, Economy; Dick Van Dyke Feeling the Bern. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired June 3, 2016 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:21] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, punches thrown, flags burned, another chaotic night outside a Donald Trump rally.

Plus officials rush to save some priceless works of art after flood waters threaten the Louvre.

And a little boy found alive after being left in a dense forest by his parents as punishment.

Well, thanks for joining us, everybody. I'm John Vause. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

The race for the White House is getting nastier between the candidates and their supporters. Anti-Donald Trump protesters set fire to an American flag and one of his "Make America Great Again" hats outside his rally in San Jose, California, on Thursday. Several small fights broke out between pro and anti-Trump supporters and take a look at this.

A Trump supporter hit in the head and left bloody. He said he was walking down the street when someone grabbed his Trump sign.

CNN's Sara Murray is in San Jose.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: It was another night of violent protests following a Donald Trump event here in San Jose, California. Well, protesters spent hours outside, chanting, singing mostly peacefully, after Trump supporters began to leave the event, that is where things got much more difficult.

The protesters tried to corner Trump supporters. They threw eggs, they threw water, at times they threw traffic cones and even bottles. In certain instances things particularly sticky and there were punches thrown.

CNN reporters and producers witnessed at least one arrest on site here, although there could be more. And while at times the situation seemed out of control, protesters took to the streets to actually stop traffic. Now you can see police have moved in trying to put an end to this for the night.

Sara Murray, CNN, San Jose, California.

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VAUSE: Inside the rally, Trump called Hillary Clinton's scathing critique of his foreign policy a pathetic hit job.

Mrs. Clinton spoke earlier in San Diego calling Trump's ideas a mix of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. Trump slammed Clinton's judgment for voting for the Iraq war when she was a senator and said she should be in jail for using a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of state.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Now we don't want to say Lying Ted. I'd love to pull it out and just use it on lying, crooked Hillary. Love to say it because she's a liar. She made up my foreign policy. Donald Trump is going to do this. I said, I never said that. Then Donald Trump is going to do that. And a friend of mine was in the room and said, you never said you were going to do that. I said, that's right, she makes it up. Now she's a bad person.

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VAUSE: Senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta is in San Jose with more on the campaign rally.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: In response to Hillary Clinton's fiery foreign policy speech, Donald Trump blasted right back, accusing the former secretary of state of delivering a political address that had little to do with world affairs.

In her speech, Clinton said Donald Trump is so dangerous he should not be allowed near the nation's nuclear codes. Trump called those jabs pathetic. And here's more of what he had to say at a rally here in San Jose, California.

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TRUMP: I watched Hillary today. It was pathetic. It was pathetic. It was so sad to watch. And you know, she's up there and it was supposed to be a foreign policy speech. It was a political speech. Had nothing to do with foreign policy. She made a political speech tonight, folks, and it was pretty pathetic.

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ACOSTA: Trump also told the crowd here in San Jose that Clinton should go to jail over her e-mail scandal at the State Department. He did not comment, though, on the judge handling the Trump University case, but he told the "Wall Street Journal" that Judge Gonzalo Curiel has a conflict of interest in the case, he said, because of his Mexican heritage.

Trump started his event here in San Jose by telling the crowd, quote, "We love the Hispanics."

Jim Acosta, CNN, San Jose, California.

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VAUSE: Joining us now Democratic strategist Dave Jacobson and Republican consultant John Thomas.

OK, let's start with Donald Trump tonight. He was all fired up. A lot more fired up than I think I've seen him ever. He went after Hillary Clinton big time, especially about the e-mail controversy.

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TRUMP: I have read so much about the e-mails. Folks, honestly, she's guilty as hell. She's guilty as hell.

[01:05:03] And the fact that they even -- and this is true. The fact that they even allow her to participate in this race is a disgrace to the United States. It's a disgrace to our nation.

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VAUSE: So, Dave, really going after Clinton's big weakness here, trust.

DAVE JACOBSON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Right. It's the gift that keeps on giving to Republicans. I think, frankly, she's got to find a way to pivot away from this issue and figure out this trustworthiness issue. And I think the way to do that is to own it, and say, I'm sorry, I screwed up. Moving forward, you know, I know, I'm not going to have a private server. And I think also there's an element of really releasing those transcript with the Wall Street speeches. I think that will help to build up a foundation of trust with voters and say, look, I got nothing else to hide.

I think that's really the strategy that she needs to embrace, and it'll allow her to get leverage in the argument against Donald Trump to say, hey, I've released all my documents, release your taxes.

VAUSE: Will that work?

JOHN THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: That's not how the Clintons handle controversy. You know, they'll debate over the definition of is this.

VAUSE: You're right.

THOMAS: They like to muddle the waters. That's what they do. They're getting lost in nuance in the e-mail servers and they won't release the transcripts because they're worried that there'll just -- the endless fodder that will reinforce the fact that she's beholden to the 1 percent that she's going to claim that she's not.

VAUSE: You know, even the Clintons -- it's never really the crime, it's usually the cover-up that always gets them, right?

THOMAS: The cover-up is what I'm saying.

VAUSE: Is that a fair criticism?

JACOBSON: It is. And I think that's the picture that Donald Trump's trying to paint. It's sort of the IV drip that just keeps drip, drip, dripping. And I think she's really got to figure out a way to pivot away from that and to really build that infrastructure and that trust with voters again. I think the way to do it is to own up on the e- mail issue and get past it.

THOMAS: I think she thinks she can't fix the trust issue that's why she's got to attack Donald Trump early and often.

VAUSE: Right.

THOMAS: And we saw that tonight.

VAUSE: OK. Tonight Donald Trump went after Hillary Clinton and her past relationship with President Barack Obama.

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TRUMP: Remember Hillary Clinton used to hate Obama. She used to hate him. Bill Clinton hated him. Bill Clinton hated him. He called Bill Clinton a racist. Do you remember that? Bill Clinton hated him. And Hillary Clinton hated Obama, now it's yes, sir, Mr. President, sir, yes, sir. What would you like? What would you like me to say here, sir?

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VAUSE: Barack Obama has a, what, 51 percent approval rating right now? He's relatively popular, especially for this time of his -- at this point in time of his presidency. Why go after Obama like this and Clinton?

THOMAS: Not a smart move.

VAUSE: No.

THOMAS: But he should let her hug Obama. In fact, this Democratic primary has forced her to the left. The way she's gotten through this primary so far has been by hugging Obama. The problem is, although Obama's approval ratings are OK today, 66 percent of the nation, the Gallup tracking poll says we're on the wrong track. So let her hug this administration and presidency. It's a strategic mistake.

VAUSE: A strategic mistake?

JACOBSON: I think absolutely. Look, the reality is, you're right, John. President Obama has, according to Gallup, a 51 percent approval rating. And I think this is an indication that Donald Trump is scared of -- of President Obama sort of taking the gloves off and going full throttle against him in the general election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

VAUSE: OK. Well, Hillary Clinton today, she delivered this all-out assault on Donald Trump. She pulled no punches, a lot of people saying it was one of the best speeches if not the best speech she's delivered so far during this campaign. She went after Trump, she said he is essentially dangerous, he's a know-nothing, who would start a nuclear war.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different. They are dangerously incoherent. They're not even really ideas. Just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies. He is not just unprepared, he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility.

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VAUSE: We're in June. OK. So there is a long time to go, or blink of an eye depending on how you look at it. But there are many, many more weeks until, you know, November, and she's basically called Donald Trump as being insane. So where does she go now after that?

JACOBSON: I think she doubles down on this strategy and sort of --

VAUSE: What, he's triple crazy?

JACOBSON: Yes, absolutely. Look, the reality is, this speech was a carbon copy or a near carbon copy of the speech that Mitt Romney gave just a couple of months ago of Donald Trump sort of skewering him.

THOMAS: Look how well that worked.

JACOBSON: Throwing his own words -- well --

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VAUSE: Different audience, though, right?

THOMAS: It's true.

VAUSE: Romney was going for the Republicans.

THOMAS: You're right, it's true. However, here's the problem. She lives in a glass house. I can take her words almost verbatim, incoherent, lies. Is she talking about the 30,000 e-mails she deleted or the inspector general's report where she's caught lying? Every week the story changes.

VAUSE: So I mean --

THOMAS: It's a dangerous -- it's a slippery slope. VAUSE: Well, they're flawed candidates. I think everyone sort of

agrees on that.

JACOBSON: Right.

VAUSE: They're deeply unpopular. But she kept coming back to this image of Donald Trump in control of the nuclear arsenal. Listen to this.

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[01:10:07] CLINTON: Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he's angry but America's entire arsenal.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No way.

CLINTON: Do we want him making those calls, someone thin-skinned and quick to anger, who lashes out at the smallest criticism? Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?

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VAUSE: She also went after Trump for refusing to take advice from, you know, the generals and the ambassadors and people who actually know stuff.

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CLINTON: He says he doesn't have to listen to our generals or admirals, our ambassadors and other high officials, because he has, quote, "a very good brain."

(LAUGHTER)

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VAUSE: And when you hear Hillary Clinton, you know, using Donald Trump's own words, and you see Donald Trump tonight really going after Hillary Clinton, like it was still the primary campaign, not a general election, is this the problem with Donald Trump that he's not making that pivot to the general election to appeal to those swing voters? And this is the attack line that's going to come from the Democrats.

THOMAS: I think he's starting to make the pivot where --

VAUSE: He wasn't pivoting tonight.

THOMAS: Well --

VAUSE: This was old -- like he's still in the primary.

THOMAS: He did attack her on the Iraq war vote.

VAUSE: Yes.

THOMAS: So she's playing the cards she needs to play, he's dangerous, he's unpredictable. If Donald Trump can answer that, that attack line might not work. But here's the problem, scripted speeches and teleprompters are one thing, debates and debate moments are another. And that's where Donald Trump shines. She may not. That's not her seed.

JACOBSON: I think she's trying to make him out to the big bad, you know, boogieman, the scary boogieman and make him out the sort of be dangerous as the next commander in chief. And I think that's a message that is not only trying to appeal to Democratic supporters who are lined up behind Clinton, it's also a message to Bernie Sanders' supporters, saying hey, folks, this race is going to be narrowed down to me versus Donald Trump. Here's the choices that I'm sort of laying out.

And I think it's a message early on to say, hey, folks, you know, you may not be with me today, but as we get to the general election, let's rally against Donald Trump.

THOMAS: Republicans have been attacked for that before. George Bush as a cowboy. Even Ronald Reagan had similar charges. It didn't work.

VAUSE: And very quickly, I want to get to this "Wall Street Journal" interview that Donald Trump did earlier today. He's going after this judge who is presiding over the federal lawsuits about Trump University, in particular the judge's background. He's born in Indiana, but he has Mexican parents. And he said this to the "Journal," "I'm building a wall," effectively, you know, a wall on the Mexican borders. "It's an inherent conflict of interest." In other words the judge has an inherent conflict of interest because he has a Mexican or a Hispanic name?

Is this where the Republican Party wants to go?

THOMAS: No. That's a mistake.

VAUSE: Yes?

THOMAS: What Donald Trump is doing is the classic tabloid wars strategy, don't attack the message, attack the messenger. That's what he's doing. It's a big mistake. Although today he did something that was good. He released a testimonial video from people who went to Trump University who said it was a good thing, they would do it again. That's where he should go. Not making racial innuendos about judges. It's a mistake.

JACOBSON: Right. That's the challenge. I mean, he's sort of built this campaign being the divider-in-chief, sort of pitting one community against another community. I just don't see his pathway forward in terms of winning in the general election if he can't build up a coalition not just of angry white voters, but of other diverse communities.

VAUSE: OK. We'll leave it there.

David and John, thanks for coming.

THOMAS: Thank you.

JACOBSON: Thank you.

VAUSE: Appreciate it.

A short break, when we come back, Prince killed by an accidental opioid overdose. Up next, details on his toxicology report and the growing deadly trend of Fentanyl abuse in the U.S.

Also the lost 7-year-old abandoned by his parents have been found in Japan where their attempt at discipline went out of control.

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[01:17:38] VAUSE: Game one of the NBA Finals is now in the books. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 104-89 on Thursday. The teams tip-off again on Sunday, playing in Oakland, California.

A 7-year-old Japanese boy missing in a forest for nearly a week is alive and in good health. Rescuers found him after his parents abandoned him at the side of the road, punishment for misbehaving. Now his father says he's very sorry for losing his son.

For more on the story, we're joined now by journalist Mike Fern live in Tokyo.

So, Mike, what are the details here? What sort of condition is the boy in right now?

MIKE FERN, TOKYO JOURNALIST: Well, three members of the Self-Defense Forces found Yamato Tanooka this morning just before 8:00. They went into a hut at an SDF training facility. He walks there about 10 kilometers, they say, from where his parents abandoned him. And he'd found an unlocked hut, found a couple of mattresses, which he slept between for warmth, and a tap outside. So he was able to drink water, but no food. So he told the three SDF troops that he was very hungry. They gave him a couple of rice balls and some water, and then he was taken off to hospital.

And doctors say, given what he's been through, that he's been six days without food, that he's had to walk through the woods to get to this SDF facility, he's in pretty good condition. They say he is slightly dehydrated, slightly malnourished. He has got a rash on his arms and legs. They will need to keep him in the hospital for at least a day for checks, but they say that given what he's been through, doing very well -- John.

VAUSE: OK, Mike, thank you. Mike Fern live there in Tokyo.

Well, exactly six weeks after Prince was found dead at his home, the medical examiner has revealed how the music legend died, but his case is far from over.

Here's Sara Sidner.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: John, what killed Prince is no longer a mystery. It is spelled out in black and white from the Midwest medical examiner's report. It is a page long but it gives both the cause and manner of death which is what the law requires. Nothing more than that. The manner of death was an accident. They said that Prince self-administered Fentanyl and that he died from the Fentanyl toxicity.

What is Fentanyl? It is the strongest opioid based painkiller on the market. It is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine and 25 to 50 times stronger than heroin. So we're talking about a really potent painkiller.

[01:20:08] What we do not yet know is exactly how Prince got it. Was he prescribed Fentanyl by a doctor or did he get it some other way? And that is what law enforcement will be still looking into because there is still an investigation going on into why Prince died and how he was able to get a hold of some of these medications.

If they turn out not to be legal, then this will change into a criminal investigation. We know that the law enforcement officials and law enforcement has been talking to the people around Prince. They've also been talking to the doctors and we know that he saw a doctor the day before he died and a couple of weeks prior to that. So there are still a lot of unanswered questions, but we do finally know the answer to one of the big burning questions, why Prince died and what killed him. And it is very clear in the report that it was Fentanyl toxicity that took the mega star's life -- John.

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VAUSE: Our thanks to Sara for that report.

Now Dr. Reef Karim, founder and medical director of the Control Center of Beverly Hills joins me now for more on this.

Doctor, let's talk about Fentanyl. And Fentanyl toxicity -- can they say that? So essentially an overdose?

DR. REEF KARIM, FOUNDER AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR, CONTROL CENTER OF BEVERLY HILLS: Yes, it's an overdose. Fentanyl is a powerful, powerful synthetic painkiller. It's 50 times the potency of morphine.

VAUSE: When would it be normally prescribed? Under what conditions?

KARIM: It could be prescribed for pain. A lot of chronic pain patients have it. But the cartels, the drug cartels are new utilizing Fentanyl and manufacturing it at very cheap prices for them. So there's an outbreak in Fentanyl in this country, and we're seeing more and more deaths due to Fentanyl since, you know, the last couple of years. VAUSE: OK. The National Institute of Drug Abuse says this. Fentanyl

is a powerful synthetic opiate, analgesic to similar to, but more potent than morphine. It's typically used to treat patients with severe pain or to manage pain after surgery. It's also sometimes used to treat people with chronic pain who are physically tolerant to opiates.

So would you say Prince was in chronic pain, possibly from all those years of very physical stage performances? Or would he have developed a tolerance for opiates?

KARIM: So good question. There's a graduation in regards to opiates. You might start out with a narcotic analgesic. That's a combo drug, the combination of acetaminophen and either hydrocodone or Oxycodone. So Percocet. So you start, maybe you start with a non-steroidal then you work your way to a Percocet, and then suddenly the Percocet aren't doing it for you. And you got to -- you got to raise, you know, the game a little bit.

And eventually you reach Fentanyl. And when you're at Fentanyl, there's not really anywhere else to go.

VAUSE: Nowhere else to go.

KARIM: You're kind of stuck.

VAUSE: Is there a time frame on the tolerance or is everybody different in how they react to these pain killers?

KARIM: Everybody's different. So we have an area of our brain called the reward circuitry and in this reward circuitry that when you take an aspirin you don't get addicted. But you might take Fentanyl or you might take Percocet and you might have an addiction to it. Also if you're in constant pain, constant pain patients want constant meds for their pain. So eventually you need more and more to get to the same desired effect because of the tolerance of these drugs. But with everybody, it's variable.

VAUSE: Doctor, is there any special training to prescribe Fentanyl?

KARIM: No.

VAUSE: Any doctor can prescribe it?

KARIM: Yes.

VAUSE: OK. So Prince was apparently self-medicating, self- administering this -- administrating the drug. When you get into that situation, how dangerous is it? Clearly it was fatal in this case.

KARIM: It's incredibly dangerous. First off, this drug, just a small amount of Fentanyl can cause overdose. That's the first thing. Secondly, you should have a doctor prescribing this medication. Now there is a lot of black market Fentanyl and you don't know what's in that black market Fentanyl. That could be -- the potency could be off. It could be much higher, much lower, it could be mixed with a bunch of other compounds, it could be heroin and Fentanyl mixed. You don't know.

So if you're self-administering it, and who knows where you're getting it from, it's really problematic and there's a really high potential for overdose.

VAUSE: OK. We're looking in the case of Prince, there's a lot of questions of, did he or did he not have a prescription? Was it prescribed by a doctor? Given the fact that it's so freely available, he could have been taking Fentanyl with something else, it's quite possible.

KARIM: Absolutely. In fact most of the time when somebody overdoses, there's something else on board. Either benzodiazepine which also causes respiratory depression like a Valium., or another type of opiate. And they all cause the same thing. They cause our entire body to shut down, slow our breathing and then usually people die of cardiac arrest in the end.

VAUSE: When you get to this point we're taking Fentanyl, self- administering, is an overdose only a matter of time?

KARIM: I mean, depends on how you use it. If you're getting black market potentially.

VAUSE: Yes.

KARIM: Now the overdose might not be a deadly overdose. But you know, in this case, there was Narcan a week before.

VAUSE: Yes.

KARIM: Now the minute I heard that, I knew this was an accidental overdose because when you need Narcan at some point --

VAUSE: You've already overdose.

KARIM: You've got a drug issue.

VAUSE: OK. Doctor, good to speak with you. Thank you.

KARIM: Thank you.

VAUSE: Appreciate the explanations.

[01:25:00] Next here on CNN NEWSROOM, floods in Europe, the rising waters are now creeping towards the home of the home of the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. How officials are protecting the Louvre.

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VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause. The headlines this hour.

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump's ideas on foreign policy are dangerously incoherent, he does not have the temperament to be president. She made the remarks in San Diego, California, on Thursday. But Trump says Clinton is the one with bad judgment and a history of lying.

The medical examiner's office in the U.S. says music legend Prince died of an accidental opioid overdose. The toxicology report shows Prince gave himself Fentanyl and does not indicate whether he had a prescription. Fentanyl is the strongest opioid available in prescription form. Prince died April 21st at his home, age 57.

In Japan, a 7-year-old boy missing in a forest for a week has been found alive. Officials say he took shelter in a military training area where he was able to find drinking water but no food. His parents left him on a mountain road as punishment for throwing rocks.

Iraqi Security Forces look like they are ready to storm Fallujah soon and take it from ISIS. They've already cut off the main highway, but a big concern is the number of civilians ISIS might be using a human shields.

CNN's senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman live in Baghdad this hour.

So, Ben, with so many civilians trapped in that city, any indication the Iraqi forces might actually change their tactics at this point?

[01:30:00] BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it does appear that they may have relented in trying to make a frontal assault on the city, but rather are taking their time, hoping to avoid, we believe, inflicting the civilian casualties. Keeping in mind, there may be as many as 50,000 civilians still inside the city. The Iraqi Army said they were able to cut off the last main route out of the city, from Fallujah, to the north, west of Baghdad -- Fallujah, excuse me. So it does appear that they now have the city completely encircled. We also know, for instance, that the Iraqi forces are only about 400 meters away from the edges of the neighborhood in the southeastern part of the city. But actually going in, street-to- street fighting is going to be difficult. So it appears they may try to wait for civilians to leave the city as much as possible and really to soften up ISIS with continued artillery bombardment and air strikes. Air strikes also by coalition forces which hit a variety of ISIS vehicles yesterday. But it appears that there is some hesitation really to go inside the city at this point -- John?

JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Do we know exactly what's happening inside the city or what conditions are like at the moment and what ISIS is doing with the civilians?

WEDEMAN: Well, conditions are difficult. We know from various relief agencies that the people coming out are saying that they have been sub sifting on almost very little in the way of food. They describe, for instance, eating old dates, grinding the date nuts down into sort of a flour, which they try to make into bread, but the situation in Fallujah has been difficult for quite some time. It's been really since last September that Iraqi forces have been trying to tighten the noose around the city. So for quite some time, there's been a shortage of medicine, food, clean water. The U.N. is worried about the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, as a result of people drinking dirty water out of the Euphrates River. ISIS apparently has hoarded a lot of the food for their own fighters. So those who have been able to get out of the city, we're told, when they arrive at these camps set up by relief agencies, that it's the first real meal they've had in months -- John?

VAUSE: Wow.

OK, Ben, thank you. Senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, live in Baghdad.

Europe has been hit by widespread flooding. 10 people are dead, two others are missing in southern Germany because of the high water. The area has been soaked by days of heavy rain. Initial flash floods are now causing rivers to overflow and parts of Austria are also affected.

And in France, officials are rushing to protect in the Louvre. Water is rippling towards the museum. Curators are moving exhibits and closing the building on Friday. One person confirmed dead in the floods elsewhere in France.

CNN's Jim Bittermann has the details.

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "Yes, I'm OK," this woman reassures waiting journalists. One by one rescued from the flood waters enveloping their homes, carrying whatever they can with them, especially prized possessions.

The fire department in this town, hard at work, helping both young and old to the relative safety of dry land.

UNIDENTIFIED FIREFIGHTER (through translation): Since yesterday, it's been an absolute deluge. Also, you have to have seen it and honestly lived through it. This is the first time I've been through this. We think it only happens to others, but when it hits us, it's different.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Firemen came to us. It had been almost 48 hours we were in the apartment without electricity. That was the biggest problem. I was on the second floor, so it wasn't too dramatic. It was already. But those on the ground floor were evacuated first because there was water up to the waist at one point.

BITTERMANN: Across France, thousands of evacuations continue as rivers have burst their banks. Hardest hit, the town of Nimor (ph). Cars submerged in the street and shop fronts under water.

The country's prime minister visited here Thursday morning to survey the damage, promising those affected a swift response.

MANUEL VALLS, FRENCH PRIME MINISTER (through translation): There will also be solidarity funds for the regional collectors. And we're going to start an emergency support fund for the regional collectors, because they're going to need help. Nimor (ph) is not a rich city. There are people living here in the city center who have very small incomes.

BITTERMANN: Back in the capitol, the Seine River, usually filled with boats showing tourists the sights of Paris now void of traffic as its banks have burst and water levels continue to rise. With not respite predicted by forecasters, the worst flooding could still be to come.

Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.

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[01:35:16] VAUSE: Let's get more on the forecast with Meteorologist Allison Chinchar.

Hey, Allison.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Hello, John. Let's take a look. Here is a look at the river seine. This guy trying to take advantage of what he can by fishing. Makes it easier. He doesn't have to go that far out. He's at the top level of one of these walkways. Normally, that would expect very far back, no longer does. Again, here is also a look. This just south of Paris. Again, you can see this famous castle here, really, majority, three-fourths of the landscape around it is entirely under water.

It's not just France. We've been talking about Germany. This in Bavaria where two firemen had to rescue women as the waters were rising. It's France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, portions of Switzerland as well. We have this low pressure system based over central Europe and it's just not moving. It's stalled. You can see the circulation here of more and more of this water being added on top of what's already been there. But look at the forecast precipitation. Shows that some areas could see 25, 50 millimeters more. But some areas could pick up an additional one to 150 millimeters. And again, you have to remember, this is on top of what they've already had. In some of those areas, it's very impressive numbers that we've already been seeing. You can see the last couple days in there. 150, 192 millimeters the total here. Saulsberg, under 150. And Belgium has had rain, picking up over 100 millimeters of rain.

John, the problem going forward with this is going to be the extra that they add on top of it. It's not just going to be a day. It's going to be several days. In addition to the flooding, we also have the threat for severe weather. Strong winds, large hail, and also the threat for an isolated tornado as well.

VAUSE: Rocky days ahead, to say the least.

Thanks, Allison.

Football superstar, Leonel Messy, was in court with his father on Thursday to answer tax fraud charges. Prosecutors allege they attempted to defraud the Spanish government of $5 million. They could face almost two years in jail if found guilty. Reports linked Messi to the so-called Panama Papers back in April.

A short break, and when we come back on NEWSROOM, L.A., Britain's prime minister feeling the heat from London's former mayor over the Brexit, as the June 23rd referendum draws closer.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [01:41:05] VAUSE: A heated debate on British television. Prime Minister David Cameron was repeatedly pressed about his position to keep Britain in the European Union.

As Nic Robertson reports, the political stakes are incredibly high for Mr. Cameron as the referendum draws closer.

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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Have you made the promise again, and it's a promise that cannot be fulfilled?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR (voice-over): Under fire and under pressure.

CAMERON: I don't accept it. I think it remains the right ambition for Britain.

ROBERTSON: Three weeks to voting, British Prime Minister David Cameron on his first Brexit live TV debate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You seriously think it can be fulfilled whilst we stay in the European Union. How?

CAMERON: There have been years, and there will be again, where people from Britain choose to go to work in European countries overseas --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Has it happened in any year of your premiership?

CAMERON: It happened when I first set out the ambition.

ROBERTSON: In a week when his own cabinet ministers in the "Leave" campaign laid big licks on the Tory leader over his failure to curb immigration and his own M.P.s accuse him of lying to beat off a Brexit vote, this primetime Q&A, a chance to fight back, his biggest punch, connecting with economic fears of a Brexit.

CAMERON: If you don't have a strong economy, you can't have the health service that you want. You can't have the schools that you need. You can't have the public service services that you want. This would be an act of self-harm --

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ROBERTSON: Moderator and audience questions, as close to a face-to- face debate with "Leave" campaign opponents as Cameron has agreed to.

But even so, got questions about them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you still think that Boris Johnson would make a good prime minister?

ROBERTSON: Boris Johnson, the flamboyant former London mayor, a former university drinking buddy of Cameron's, favored to be the next prime minister as the Brexit vote becomes a vote of confidence in Cameron's leadership that's dividing his conservative party.

CAMERON: The question was, do I think Boris should be the next prime minister. I'm saying --

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CAMERON: I'm saying he's been a great mayor of London. He's got plenty of fuel left in the tank. And I'll let other people decide, and that's as far as I'm going to go.

ROBERTSON: Among Cameron's Conservative Party, Calls for a vote of no-confidence have been growing. To trigger such a vote, 50 of his M.P.s would have to be on board.

Cameron is confident he can win, however, and has said, bring it on. Reality is, even a win would leave him wounded and vulnerable.

Johnson has pushed for the pair to go head to head live on TV. But don't hold your breath on that. With the polls as close as they are, and no knockout blow this round, Cameron can't afford that kind of gamble.

Nic Robertson, CNN, London.

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VAUSE: In many ways, this referendum is shaping up as an argument between immigration and the economy. The "Leave" campaign has seized on surging numbers of immigrants from the E.U. into the U.K., and those campaigning to stay, warn of dire financial consequences if leaving.

Geoff Dyer is the Washington bureau chief for "The Financial Times." He joins us for more on this.

Hey, Geoff, did I get that right, or is that too simplistic at this point? Would you agree it's immigration on one hand and economics on the other?

GEOFF DYER, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, THE FINANCIAL TIMES: That's been the main dynamic. The "Remain" campaign has started to lose a little bit as well over the last couple of weeks. They've been accused of exaggerating the impact. The economic case they were making that the risk of Brexit was uncertainty where it would put Britain in a situation where it wouldn't know what would happen to its economy. Then last week, the Treasury came out with a report saying that the economy would decline by 3.6 percent in two years if Britain was to leave. A lot of people have said, how can you be so specific? You're saying it was uncertainty, now you're predicting cataclysm. So they got a lot of criticism on that front. And you saw when David Cameron appeared, a lot of the audience accused him of scaremongering and overplaying the economic argument. The immigration thing has helped the "Leave" campaign, but some of the economic argument has turned their way as well.

[01:45:15] VAUSE: Now the "Leave" campaign, they don't just want out of the E.U., they also want out of the European single market because that's where the right of free movement comes from. If you want to control immigration, you have to cut that deal too, right?

DYER: They have. So they've put up their own plan on Wednesday, for essential lie a points system that would control migration into the U.K. So the government would decide the number of people who come in and would really choose people that had certain skills that were needed in the economy and maybe choose people that had English language ability, or certain ability to integrate more easily into society. They're trying to use this anxiety about the big wave of migration and so they have a concrete plan. So when they say that leaving the E.U. would allow us to control our own future, they have a plan about migration that seems to Mike some sort of sense to voters. The problem with the plan is that the people in the "Leave" campaign, they're not a government. David Cameron is head of the government. When he says something, he has a chance of implementing it. The problem for the "Leave" campaign, there's no way they can put their plan into practice in any way.

VAUSE: We're hearing a lot from European leaders, they're weighing in, warning of the consequences if the U.K. votes to opt out. Is that helping or hurting the "Remain" campaign?

DYER: That's a very hard one to tell. I think President Obama, when he came to the U.K. last month and made that speech, I think that was a very important intervention and that really did change the terms of the economic argument.

But more broadly, the "Leave" campaign have benefitted from a strong anti-establishment type of sentiment in U.K. politics, not dissimilar to the sentiment that Donald Trump has been able to tap in the U.S. So having all these leaders, the IMF, the OECD, the German chancellor, come out criticizing the idea of leaving the E.U., it doesn't help the campaign. It stimulates some of that resentment, some of that populist anger against the establishment that is a big part of the "Leave" campaign.

VAUSE: Geoff, good to speak with you. Thank you.

DYER: My pleasure.

VAUSE: Lot of celebrities here in California feeling the Bern, including legendary entertainer, Dick Van Dyke. I'll talk with him next.

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[01:51:30] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. It seems Bernie Sanders is not even close to ending his run for president. On Thursday, in California, the Democratic candidate told the crowd he plans to win this state and a few others next week. Sanders also ripped campaign financing, saying it undermines democracy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I), VERMONT & DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Democracy is not a complicated process. What it means is, you get a vote, and you get a vote, and you get a vote. One person, one vote.

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VAUSE: Sanders has good reason to be confident. He's in a close race with Hillary Clinton in California. A new poll from "The Los Angeles Times" shows Sanders leading his rival among eligible voters by one point, but lagging behind among likely voters by 10 points.

Sanders has a lot of support in Hollywood, which has always been a mostly Democratic town. Some of the big names range from Ryan Gosling to Miley Cyrus, Susan Sarandon and Spike Lee.

Earlier, I spoke to legendary actor, comedian, entertainer, Dick Van Dyke.

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VAUSE: You're a Bernie Sanders' supporter. Why?

DICK VAN DYKE, ACTOR: Well, thank you for having me. I'm quite excited about it.

VAUSE: Wonderful to have you here.

VAN DYKE: The first time I heard Bernie's speech, he described exactly what I've been noticing for the last four decades. He's telling the truth about what's been happening. We're almost an oligarchy at the moment. So I want him to be heard.

VAUSE: Do you think he has a real shot at getting the nomination, or right now is he just trying to push through his agenda onto the party platform?

VAN DYKE: Well, I hope -- I think he's still got a chance, because he's nipping at her heels right now. But the main thing is that his message continues on. You know, if his voice is silenced, my grandchildren will be living in an oligarchy.

VAUSE: If he doesn't get the nomination, are you a Hillary Clinton supporter?

VAN DYKE: Anything to keep Trump out of there. He's been a magnet for all the hidden racists and xenophobes in the country. And that's who is supporting him. No, I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

VAUSE: I saw that you wrote that in "The Hollywood Reporter." I thought that was quite a -- because that was obviously an incredibly terrifying moment for the entire world. And you're equating Donald Trump with that? VAN DYKE: Because I think the world -- the human race is hanging in a

dear delicate balance in a lot of areas right now, ISIS and North Korea, and Russia and China. I'm just so afraid that he'll put us in a war almost immediately. Isolationism is a thing of the past. It's a global community now. He wants NATO -- to get out of NATO. I think that's a tragic mistake. He scares me.

VAUSE: We had this rally in San Jose tonight. A lot of people were outside and clashed with police. There was a face-off between Donald Trump supporters and the anti-Trump people. When you see that, does that remind you of any particular turbulent times that the U.S. has gone through before?

VAN DYKE: The '68 convention in Chicago when Eugene McCarthy was running. I was there for that, and it was scary, yeah. I don't think it's as bad as that.

People shouldn't demonstrate against Trump. He's got a right to speak. And I think that's a terrible mistake to do what they're doing. Let him speak, let him have his say. It's America.

VAUSE: When you go to the rallies and you speak to the young people, are they surprised that you're there? What's the reaction that you get?

VAN DYKE: Well, they're happy to see me. I always say, I like to give young politicians like Bernie a break because, to me, he's a kid. I'm 90.

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[01:55:15] VAUSE: Dick Van Dyke, such a pleasure.

VAN DYKE: Thanks so much for having me.

VAUSE: Thank you for coming in. An honor to meet you sir. Take care.

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VAUSE: Looking good for 90.

Well, it's a mystery many years in the making. Where did the dagger found in King Tutankhamen's tomb come from? Egyptian and Italian researchers have an answer -- space. New analysis shows a blade made from iron from a meteorite. They also say other objects found in the pharaoh's tomb, including jewelry, also made from meteorite iron.

OK, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

The news continues with Natalie Allen right after this.

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