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Aired July 23, 2016 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:11] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Terror in Munich. A gunman opens fire on a mall in Germany, killing nine people. We'll let you know what we're learning about the suspect who is now dead.

Also a new development in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and it has do with what we're learning about the pilot.

Also ahead here in U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton had announced her pick for a vice presidential candidate. We'll introduce you to him. It's all ahead on "CNN Newsroom." We're live in Atlanta. Thank you for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.

Official say there was only one shooter behind Friday's attack that killed nine people in Munich. Police raided an apartment in city earlier. It's not clear if it belongs to the 18-year-old gunman. Police the dual German and Iranian citizen started shooting at a McDonald's in northern Munich. It's not clear if the person wearing black in this amateur video there is the gunman. Police say he moved across the street to the city's biggest shopping center, the Olympia mall. Authority says young people are among the dead and wounded.

Our Erin McLaughlin joins us live from Munich. Erin, what are you hearing about how this all unfolded?

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the attack began Natalie at around 5:50 p.m. local time at a McDonald's. That is where the gunman armed with a pistol opened fired. He then moved away from the McDonald toward a mall. And police say he was in that mall that he claimed the most victims some nine people were killed, at least 20 were wounded.

Somehow they say the gunman managed to escape but they later found his body in a side street. They believe he took his own life.

Now, in the chaos that unfolded during this attack, initially police have thought base on eyewitnesses account that there were two other assailants that managed to escape via vehicle and that's what triggered a Munich wide manhunt, involving some 2,300 police officers. Police official say that they managed to track those two individuals down and they were able to rule them out of the investigation. So they believe that this gunman, 18 years old, a German and Iranian nationality was acting alone.

ALLEN: Do we know Erin, where police able to try and shoot him or did they ever engage in gunfire with the suspect? MCLAUGHLIN: It's unclear at this point, Natalie. But we do know, as I said, that this shooter claimed his own life. That is what officials have been led to believe. His body found hours later in a side street not far from the mall.

Also real questions as to the gunman's motive. Why did he do this? That's something that police say is the subject of their really intense investigation at this point. Though I was speaking to some eyewitnesses who were there who said that they heard him rail against, quote, foreigners, take a listen to what one witness had to say.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translation): I heard a scream at first, you (inaudible) foreigners. I am German, you will get it and the first shots were fired and a boy of about 14 or 17 years of age who was left for me collapsed and fell to the floor and the next shots were fired and I threw my bicycle to the side and went myself to safety on my belly in the direction of the boy. I spoke with the boy try to make sure that he'd stayed alert.

And in the meantime, more shots were fired. I estimate about 20 to 30. The boy asked me for help. I tried to talk with him asked him his name, his age if he had a girlfriend. I tried to make sure that he looked at me and his eyes were open.

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MCLAUGHLIN: And this witness told me that that teenager later died, having been shot three times. Really emotional and tragic account. Now authorities here in Munich have set up a hot line, a missing persons' hot line for relatives looking for loved ones can call and try and get help. Natalie.

ALLEN: What a tragic story about that young boy and that witness who tried to help him, Erin McLaughlin. We don't know the names of the people killed yet. We'll wait and see what happens there today in Munich.

Cell phone video from some witnesses show the suspected shooter in an aggravated conversation shortly before he appears to begins his rampage. A warning to our viewers some may find the words here offensive.

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[01:05:01] (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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ALLEN: So there you have it. Witnesses recognizing the gunman and trying to persuade him against what he is about to do. Savannah Leigh Smarch witnessed the scene. She is an American student studying abroad in Germany. And she joins us now from Munich. Savannah, thank you for being with us, it had to be extremely troubling. Where were you when this happened? What was your vantage point where you watched this? SAVANNAH LEIGH SMARCH, WITNESS: Well, we had just come off the central station about 20 minutes before it started, actually. And were up in our B & B. We have a window that can see the street toward (inaudible) where the festival is. And we are just -- we had no idea anything was happening and I get a bunch of messages from my friend Ben up in Oldenburg and his freaking out. All of these people are freaking out. And we look out the window and there is just people running everywhere and some people screaming and it was just hours of ambulances, helicopters, police cars going back and forth. I mean, it was pretty scary.

ALLEN: We can imagine. Did you see the gunman, yourself?

SMARCH: No, I did not. It was all --

ALLEN: Could you hear, you know, we heard these witnesses trying to talk to the gunman and you know, there was an exchange between witnesses and the gunman. Could you hear that?

SMARCH: Oh, no. We were about -- we're a little ways away from the mall but in between there and the other supposed shooting at shooting over Karlsplatz. That everybody at the time on the news there were mentioning both places and we were right in the middle of both. And the huge festival this weekend is around the corner from us that we could -- that they block off the street for actually and everything. So we kind of separate in the middle of it and it was really chaotic.

ALLEN: It had to be very scary. When did you realize that you were going to be safe and you were OK?

SMARCH: Honestly, probably about six hours later. The news was -- coming from all different places. So it was a little bit confusing. But I had people translating for me from german news stations and everything and getting it from friends who work in the U.S. and everything. And about six hours and I think we realized everyone was off the streets and I think there were police in groups of six or more walking around the cities and all over the streets and everything. And it was a lot better.

ALLEN: Yes, and I know you are an exchange student from here in Georgia. How long have you been in Munich?

SMARCH: We just have been here for two days. We had actually just got here last night and went to visit Dachau today and then came back and all of these happened.

ALLEN: How quickly did you get in touch with your loved ones? Tell him you're OK?

SMARCH: Almost instantly. We were calling -- people were actually responding to us first before we knew what was going on and we were calling everybody immediately.

ALLEN: We wish you all the best sorry that you experienced this, so glad you're OK. Savannah Smarch who just began studying there in Munich. Thank you Savannah. All the best to you. Well, one day after officials announced plans to suspend the search for MH370 there is more news about the missing airliner, specifically the pilot.

[01:10:08] According to "New York Magazine" the pilot seen here flew a suicide route on his home flight simulator. The confidential report says an FBI forensic team uncovered the data from Zaharie Ahmad Shah hard drive. Mary Schiavo a former Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation says officials needed this information sooner.

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MARY SCHIAVO, FORMER INSPECTOR GENERAL, U.S. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION: The FBI had additional data points and in these FBI data points, which they got off the pilot's computer, allegedly, these data points showed a route very close to the route that the plane was believed who have been taken based on the inmarsat data and that was flown on the computer approximately a month before the plane went missing.

And of course the problem with that is that, that was the U.S., the United States FBI that had that data. There were Americans on the plane both citizens and green card holders. And if that's the case, then the search for plane has been going on for two years in a location that may not be the exact location where the pilot had -- if this is correct -- had flown that route.

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ALLEN: Mary Schiavo, MH370 disappeared in March of 2014.

Next year, a look at who Hillary Clinton picked as her running mate and why.

Also ahead, Barack Obama responds to Donald Trump's convention speech and has a message to Americans about terrorism.

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ALLEN: And welcome back. U.S. President Barack Obama took issue with Donald Trump's speech at the convention this week saying the idea, America is on the verge of collapse is not true. Friday speaking with CBS news Mr. Obama said people should not give into fear.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President when Donald Trump spoke to his convention he talked about the security threats. He painted a very dark picture. Now there has been a terrorist attack in Germany. Doesn't that suggest he's right about the darkness?

BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: No, it doesn't. Terrorism is a real threat. And nobody knows that better than me. One of the best ways of preventing it is making sure that we don't divide our own country. That we don't succumb to fear and we don't sacrifice our values. And that we send a very strong signal to the world and to every American citizen that we're in this together.

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ALLEN: Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Tim Kaine to be her running mate in this presidential election.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny takes a look at Kaine's political background.

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SEN. TIM KAINE, U.S. PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL V.P.NOMINEE: Are we ready for Hillary?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine new partners on the Democratic ticket.

KAINE: Do you want a you're fired president or a you're hired president, right?

[01:15:03] ZELENY: It may be an antiestablishment year but Clinton's running mate is an insider. A U.S. senator from Virginia and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

KAINE: And if I have anything to do with it we'll win again.

ZELENY: By selecting Kaine, Clinton is betting that experience in government not sizzle is the best way to defeat Donald Trump.

KAINE: Elections are just the beginning. The real work starts tomorrow.

ZELENY: He's neither flashy nor a show boat. A seemingly safe pick and steady hand, just what Clinton told Anderson Cooper she is looking for in a vice president.

HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I want to be sure that whoever I pick could be president immediately if something were to happen. That's the most important qualification.

KAINE: I'm Tim Kaine.

ZELENY: So who is Timothy Michael Kaine? A decade ago as governor of Virginia he introduced himself in the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address.

KAINE: I worked as a missionary when I was a young man. And I learned to measure my life by the difference I could make in someone else's life.

ZELENY: It was that stent as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras that shaped and now distinguishing him. He learn fluent Spanish and still speaks it today, which makes him a different kind of attack dog against Trump.

KAINE: If you're a Latino, he's going to trash talk you.

ZELENY: Born in Minnesota and raised in Kansas.

KAINE: The best decision I ever made was moving to Richmond to marry my wife Anne 26 years ago.

ZELENY: He built his political career in Virginia rising from city council and mayor of Richmond to lieutenant governor and governor.

KAINE: Thank you all so very much.

ZELENY: He is 58, ten years younger than Clinton. Known well inside the party but not beyond.

KAINE: I'm not the one with the biggest profile, I'm not the one that's the best known.

ZELENY: He signed on with Clinton early. This time around endorsing her in 2014 more than a year before she declared her candidacy. For an original Barack Obama supporter, it was a chance to make up for lost time.

OBAMA: Give it up for Tim Kaine.

ZELENY: His politics are more moderate than the liberal strange driving today's Democratic Party. He's a Catholic. Outwardly moved by Pope Francis' visit to Capitol Hill last year. His views on abortion are more conservative than most Democrats. As he explained in this interview.

KAINE: I'm personally opposed to abortion and the death penalty. And I've lived my life that way. Law is what it is and I'm going to carry out the law. I'm going to protect women's legal rights. To make their own reproductive decisions.

ZELENY: He's also spoken out forcefully against the administration for failing to seek congressional approval to fight the Islamic state.

KAINE: The war against Isil was just, it's necessary, its noble but it's illegal. There's been no congressional authorization for this war.

ZELENY: It's an open question whether Kaine fits the mold of today's red hot politics yet his selection could help soften Clinton's partisan edges.

KAINE: When it comes to our leadership in the world, trash talk ain't enough. We need a bridge builder and we've got a bridge builder in Hillary Clinton.

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ALLEN: Jeff Zeleny reporting there. In British politics new Prime Minister Theresa May is off to a running start. She wrapped up meetings with German and French leaders it's taking on the opposition at home.

Our Robin Oakley has more for us from London. ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Britain's second woman prime minister took just two days to slash and burn David Cameron's cabinet and assemble her own team. Larry the Downing Street cat was almost the only established figure to keep his place.

Week two, the phase is only quickened. Keen to show post-Brexit Britain would still play a world role, this is made took charge Monday of a debate back in back in Britain's Trident nuclear missile system. Would she be prepared to press the button to cost maybe 100,000 lives?

THERESA MAY, BRITIAN PRIME MINISTER: The whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know we would be prepared to use it.

OAKLEY: First box ticked. With the help of 140 opposition labor MPs who voted with her while their learder Jeremy Corbyn defined his party's official policy and condemned nuclear weapons.

JEREMY CORBYN, LABOUR PARTY LEADER: Questions to the prime minister.

OAKLEY: Wednesday came the next test the political bear pit of question time. Prime ministers must dominate to survive. 2/3 of Corbyn's MPs have voted no confidence in him, so many have resigned post that he'd to get those that remained to double up on some jobs. Unwisely the Labour leader asked a question about unscrupulous employers and she skewered him.

MAY: There are many members on the opposition benches who might be familiar with an unscrupulous boss, a boss who doesn't listen to his workers. A boss who requires some of his workers to double their workload. A boss -- and maybe even a boss who exploits the rules to further his own career. Remind him of anybody?

OAKLEY: Her performance certainly reminded her own conservative MPs and the media of somebody. Another box ticked. But leaders must carry conviction on the world stage too.

The Britain Brexit decision has not pleased E.U. leaders who don't want destabilizing delay.

[01:20:05] The Britain's Brexit decision hasn't pleased E.U. leaders who don't want destabilizing delay. So that evening it is off to Berlin to see Germany's chancellor. The new prime minister promised an orderly departure from the E.U.

THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Two women who if I may say so, I think get on with the job and both wants deliver the best possible results for the people of the U.K. and the people of Germany.

OAKLEY: The body language was promising, so was the message.

ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR: On this I think that a good preparation is important and this is also in the interest of the E.U. and we will wait for Great Britain to enter the application and trigger the article.

OAKLEY: Mrs. May had bought some time where it mattered most. But before Brexit, French President, Francois Hollande had warned darkly that it would bring consequences.

So on Thursday, Paris, having previously urged to immediate negotiations, Mr. Hollande too now agreed Britain needed time to prepare. But he still wanted talks as soon as possible.

FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, FRENCH PRESIDENT, (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): It's in our common interest, the sooner, the better.

OAKLEY: The new prime minister has had a dream start. British officials were happy too, with a continental trip that has opened communication channels. But the key sticking point remains.

The E.U. won't open its markets to a Brexit Britain that refuses to accept free movement of people. Mrs. May remains at among that she will deliver on her promise to restrict immigrant entry. For now, long pass.

Robin Oakley, CNN, London.

ALLEN: We return to our top story after this, the shooting rampage in Munich, Germany. Just who was this 18-year-old gunman?

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ALLEN: Our breaking story is from Munich, Germany. Police are trying to determine why an 18-year-old went on an rampage that killed nine people and injured 21 others, we were told the injured and the victims include children.

They say the shooter killed himself after opening fire at a McDonald's and then at Munich's biggest shopping center on Friday that's him on the roof there. They found his body on a side street near the Olympia Shopping Mall.

They say the suspect was German and Iranian and had lived in Munich for more than two years. They believe he acted alone. But what they don't know is why.

We spoke earlier with a woman who works inside the mall. Lynn Stein explained where she was when she heard the gunfire and witnessed the chaos that followed.

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LYNN STEIN, EYEWITNESS: So I was inside. I was then just trying -- I was going to buy something and my co-worker was still working and I heard the shots fired and several shots, you know, maybe six, seven. And people are confused and they were looking around. And I started running out and there was like an emergency exit right at the shop I was at. So I run outside as well. And there were more shots. And I just stood by. Some people came outside and more ran. I just waited there for to see what happened or what was going on. So people were very confused and they're running and they're screaming.

And later I heard the shots, like I think they transferred. There's a parking lot, he already said that there's a parking house. And I heard shots there or coming from that direction.

So at that point I went back inside the mall because I wanted to check on my co-worker. She didn't take the phone and I couldn't reach her. So I went back inside and I -- there were some people who are still in the shop. Like some people had closed them and the shops were empty.

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ALLEN: Lynn Stein there who witnessed it. We have not heard the victims' names as of yet. They've not been identified.

Other news that we're following here, President Obama is rejecting suggestions, the U.S. was behind the failed coup in Turkey and he is voicing strong support for the government. And Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his comments come as CNN Nic Robertson met with the politician in Ankara who also backs Mr. Erdogan and his hopeful of Turkish future.

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[01:25:12] NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On the hilly fringes of Turkey's capital, Yasha Akalin (ph) the local community leader Mukhtar lays out a rosy vision of Ankara's future.

New housing for all away with the old illegal shanks he says, his job to keep everyone happy with the government. As we pass, an old lady in a green scarf listens carefully. We'll come back to her later.

In the valley below, Akalin (ph) proudly shows us a new brand new sports stadium.

We've got a new swimming pool too. He tells me. It's what the people here deserve and we've got it thanks to President Erdogan. Back in his tiny office, he is busy. 30,000 local residents depend on him. He tells me, "He is a bridge between people and government." Indeed, Erdogan describes voters like him as the core of democracy, makes time to meet them, all 50,000.

Akalin (ph) has no high school education had his turn a few years ago.

"Erdogan is a simple man," he tells me. He speaks the language of the people, understands the people. He is a great leader.

And so it was on the night of the coup, bombs dropping, tanks on the streets. Akalin (ph) says he was one of the first to risk his life for the leader.

"I was climbing on the tanks, pulling at soldiers," he says, when I ask him, "Why?" He says, "Because he want our future, the coup people would put us in jail, kill us just when the country was getting better." Outside Akalin's (ph) office, validation he is delivering for government.

I want to ask you how has this area changed in the last ten years? "Erdogan is a great man," she says. "He has made so many and prevalence around here better housing, better life." But not everyone buys the Mukhtar's message. Remember the lady with the green scarf? She lives in one of the old ramshackle houses. We go back to see her.

"The government is not giving us good housing," she complains and then she starts railing on the Mukhtar, insulting him says, "He gets paid by the government and he makes money filling out all those forms. We don't trust him." But she admits, life is getting better.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Ankara, Turkey.

ALLEN: That is CNN Newsroom.

George Howell joins me at the top of the hour for two more hours of news. We have to see you then. World Sport is next.