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FBI's Renewed Probe Into Clinton E-Mails May Affect Election; Life After ISIS; Long-Time Confidant to South Korean President Under Emergency Detention; Obama on the Sexism Clinton Will Face; Central Italy After the Earthquake; London's Science Museum. Aired 3-4a ET

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[03:00:00] CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR: The FBI's renewed probe into e- mails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton threatens to have an impact on next week's U.S. election, but there's one significant problem, the bureau is finding won't be known until after November 8th.

Plus.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: When ISIS came into Mosul two years ago, her son who was a major in the Peshmerga was arrested and taken away. This is his wife. These are his children. He has four kids. They have not seen him sense and obviously they fear the worst.

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VANIER: Life after ISIS is not the Utopia that many had hoped for. We'll bring you a live report from Iraq.

And we'll tell you why Halloween was a thriller for one town in Indiana.

Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Cyril Vanier at CNN world headquarters here in Atlanta. And this is CNN Newsroom.

Officials say the FBI's review of e-mails belonging to a close aide of Hillary Clinton will not be completed until after Election Day. The e- mails are currently being screened for possible classified information.

FBI director James Comey, who's under fire for breaking the news about the e-mails on Friday won't comment further.

So, how is this playing out in the race? Well, Donald Trump continues to make it a focal point of his campaign, while Hillary Clinton insists that the FBI will not find anything criminal.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: For those of you who are concerned about my using personal e-mail. I understand. And as I've said, I'm not making excuses. I've said it was a mistake and I regret it.

And now they apparently want to look at e-mails of one of my staffers and by all means they should look at them. And I am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my e-mails for the last year. There is no case here.

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VANIER: Even though no one knows exactly what's in the e-mails, Donald Trump says they're absolutely devastating. With one week to go before Election Day he hopes that the uproar will sway voters his way.

Jim Acosta has the latest.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It's the subject line for all of Donald Trump's rallies this week, Hillary Clinton's e- mails.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think we hit the mother lode.

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ACOSTA: Trump is heaping praise on FBI director James Comey for announcing late last week that federal investigators will be investigating a new batch of e-mails possibly linked to Clinton.

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TRUMP: It took guts for director Comey to make the move that he made. I was not his fan. What he did, he brought back his reputation.

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ACOSTA: Trump's new-found respect for Comey follows months of harsh criticism for the FBI director who said back in July that the bureau would not seek charges against Clinton.

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TRUMP: I think the biggest rigging of all is what's happened with the FBI and the Justice Department with respect to Hillary Clinton, because she is so guilty in so many ways, that she shouldn't be allowed to run for president. So, right there the system is rigged.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

(END VIDEO CLIP) ACOSTA: And Trump suddenly has kind words for disgraced former

Congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. It was Weiner's allege sexting with a minor that prompted FBI interest in his laptop and rekindled the Clinton e-mail probe.

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TRUMP: Thank you, Huma. Thank you, Anthony Weiner.

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ACOSTA: And Trump is pushing back on democrats who blame Comey.

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TRUMP: This is the biggest scandal since Watergate. Hillary wants to blame everyone else for her mounting legal troubles, but she has brought all of this on herself.

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ACOSTA: It's unclear just how much Trump will benefit from the new e- mail questions for Clinton, especially with republicans like former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez taking issue with Comey's actions.

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ALBERTO GONZALEZ, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Throw this kind of lie without more information without really knowing what the facts are, with respect to these additional e-mails, I think was a mistake.

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ACOSTA: But poll showed Trump is closing in on Clinton so he's expanding his own electoral map strategy with events in Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan, and Wisconsin. States that once seemed to out of his reach.

Still Trump advisers worry he could spoil this moment by wandering off message with overheated rhetoric. In Michigan, he warned Clinton will bring about a third World War.

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TRUMP: Now Hillary trapped in her Washington bubble that's blind to the lessons, wants to start a shooting war in Syria, in conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia, that could drag us into a World War III.

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ACOSTA: And in a message that sounded like a Halloween horror movie, he warned of ballots being cast by dead voters.

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TRUMP: Get out and vote by the millions so they can't do anything, we can't let them take it away.

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ACOSTA: For all of the talk of Trump's blue state strategy it should be noted the GOP nominee is shifting his focus back to more competitive battlegrounds. He has a full slate of events scheduled for Florida on Wednesday.

[03:05:03] Jim Acosta, CNN, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

VANIER: I'm joined now by Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He joins us from Virginia, a CNN regular. Thank you for being with us.

Jim Hobart also pollster, vice president of Public Opinion Strategies here in D.C.

Larry, the first question goes to you. The FBI investigation into those e-mails is not going to be complete before Election Day. So, American voters will go to the polls, for those that haven't voted yet, with this sort of mystery hanging over their heads. As far as I can tell, Hillary Clinton, it's up to her, you know, to explain herself to voters. How do you think she's doing?

LARRY SABATO, VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR POLITICS DIRECTOR: Well, she's explaining herself to the voters who need to support her. And of course that's her base. I've been surprised really and how little movement there really has been in the polls on account of that revelation.

Essentially it happened when virtually everybody had committed one way or the other. You only have a tiny percentage of real hard-core undecided. And I don't think the democratic base has been particularly depressed by this.

I do think Trump's base as energized as it already was has probably been energized further. But I don't see much difference really. I think you had some natural tightening simply because at the end you have some republican partisans who didn't like Trump finally returning home and that seems to be about it.

VANIER: But wait, Larry, we'll crunch the numbers in just a moment. But first I want to ask about her actual strategy. How is she handling it? What she said today was there is no case.

SABATO: Well, she's decided and the democrats have decided to go after FBI director Comey. And they make some good points. Again, I think their points that will be supported mainly by democrats who have already decided to vote for Hillary Clinton.

She needs to firm them up to make sure they don't take the charges seriously or believe there is much new about them and to this point she's succeeded.

VANIER: All right. So, let's bring in Jim Hobart and the pollster and get back to those numbers. Are the polls at the moment giving us an answer, yes or no as to what the impact of the e-mail revelations is?

JIM HOBART, PUBLIC OPINION STRATEGIES VICE PRESIDENT: I think we've seen a handful of polls come out that were conducted entirely after Friday when the news broke on Friday afternoon. So far what we're seeing is that as Larry said there's been very little change.

Some of the polls are showing the exact results where they were getting prior to the latest Comey news. Is it possible that that could change? Sure. Sometimes the ballot is what we call a lagging indicator. If this continues to be the story that dominates the headlines through Thursday or through Friday, maybe the polls start to shift a little bit but there's been no sign of that so far.

VANIER: Right. So, at the moment do we have that clear picture or do we have to wait another 24, 48 hours.

HOBART: I think we'll have a better handle on it in the next 24 to 48 hours.

VANIER: And what do you think you are going to see in the polls. Because you seem pretty confident that we are going to see more of the same.

HOBART: I think so. I think as Larry mentioned that partisans on both sides are really locked in right now. It's just an election where people have such strong opinions about both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that it's going to be difficult to move significant chunks of voters, even the ones who do continue to say that they are undecided.

Remember, that this is an issue that for most voters is baked in. If you were mad about Hillary Clinton about these e-mails you've been upset and not voting for her since this summer. So, it's the same verse of a differ -- or it's a same verse of a different song. It's not necessarily brand new information to voters.

VANIER: All right. So, what you are telling me is this October surprise, which has been described including by yourself, Larry, as one of the purest, you know, and biggest potentially October surprises in a long time, you are telling me, Jim, it's not moving the needle.

HOBART: So far we haven't seen any evidence of that. No, and I think another thing to keep in mind, is this is the fifth or sixth October surprise we have had so far this month. And that with all of them, there just hasn't been the type of movement that a lot of people expected when the Billy Bush tape was released against Trump.

A lot of people thought his numbers would completely plummet and we saw a little bit of movement but it wasn't like the floor dropped out from him either.

VANIER: So, Larry, you are comfortable with that assessment, you'd say pretty much the October surprise was a whole lot of nothing what we've been talking about the last three days in terms of how it impacts the election?

SABATO: Well, it's not a whole lot of nothing. And in fact, as Jim has noted we have had a series of these October surprises. And I'm sure Jim would agree that neither one of us would be shocked if there was another surprise coming before next Tuesday, either a hit on Clinton or a hit on Trump or both.

[03:09:59] Sometimes campaigns save something good for the end of the campaign but I agree with Jim that this is a race between two extremely well-known people. Most voters have had very strong opinions about them for months and months and they're just not in a position to change. They don't want to change. And they think they already have a pretty good fix on the election and both the democratic and republican nominees.

VANIER: Larry, I want to get back to this idea that you are saying there might be more surprises. We've just got a week to go before the election. I mean, don't you think that if campaigns had something in store they would have put it out there by now? You know, millions of people have already voted.

SABATO: Well, you would think so, but let's remember, 60 percent or more of the voters in this election are still waiting for Election Day. So, a large majority of voters will not vote until next Tuesday. That's a giant chunk of people.

So, it's well worth the opportunity if a campaign has something good to use it. They wouldn't -- they wouldn't necessarily drop it themselves, they would probably leak it to a friendly news organization or friendly reporter of some sort.

I don't know for sure that it's there, but I'm already getting some hints, I think on the Clinton side, they are looking to Trump's ties to Russia and there have been some hints of this.

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VANIER: Right. And Harry Reid reference that.

SABATO: He did. Harry Reid referenced it. I think he may have let the cat out of the bag to some degree and I think we'll be seeing and hearing more about that in the next few days.

VANIER: Yes. He was actually accusing the FBI of not revealing what he says are ties between Donald Trump and Russia. And he didn't give any substance. He didn't substantiate those allegations there from Harry Reid.

Before I let you go, Larry Sabato, I have to ask you and look into your crystal ball one more time. I spoke to you about a week ago, you know, you run this web site, it's a lot of fun. I recommend you read it for those of you haven't, and you were predicting a fairly confidently a Clinton victory. Do you want to revise that judgment and like the e-mails or does that stay the same?

SABATO: No. I think it's possible that the popular vote will be closer than expected. It's possible that she won't do as well in the Electoral College as she might have done before these revelations, but I still have a very hard time finding Donald Trump's credible path to 270.

And it's relatively easy to put together a credible path for Hillary Clinton. In fact, several credible paths for Hillary Clinton.

VANIER: Yes. Of course, it's all about the 270 Electoral College votes. Thank you very much, Jim Hobart and Larry Sabato for joining us.

SABATO: Thank you, Cyril.

HOBART: Thanks.

VANIER: All right. Still ahead on CNN, Iraqi troops are quickly closing in on Mosul. An update on the offensive and a live report near the front line in just a moment.

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KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Almost three dozen record-setting temperatures from the Ohio River Valley to the Deep South as were still running well above normal for this time of the year.

Hello, everyone. I'm CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis.

Take a look at the warm sector of the system, but gradually a frontal system sweeps across the Great Lakes into the northeast and that will cool those weather conditions down just a little bit. But a couple more days of at or just above record-setting temperatures. Going to be impressive.

And a weather system moves out of the Gulf of Alaska into the Pacific Northwest keeping things unsettled there. Vancouver some rain showers, we might expect a few lingering showers in San Francisco.

Dallas 29, Atlanta 28, New York City partly cloudy skies and 15. Chicago partly cloudy, and Miami will be partly cloudy as well.

You can see the big dip that happens for New York City. We go from temperatures in the teens and 20's only to around 10 degrees on Friday. We head a little bit further to the south, Havana, partly cloudy, 29, Kingston, Jamaica, thunderstorms and 29 degrees expected there.

And in South America, Bogota, typical round of afternoon and evening thunderstorm and in Brasilia 28, Rio de Janeiro sunshine, 32.

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VANIER: The Iraqi offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS has entered a new phase. Iraqi counterterrorism forces say they are just 900 meters from the city limits.

You are looking at the map right now. To the right of your screen, Gogjali, that's the spot, several hundred meters away from the outer city limits of Mosul. Troops have retaken the industrial area just to the east and they are squeezing ISIS fighters from multiple directions.

It's been two weeks since the start of the operation to liberate Iraq's second largest city. And bear in mind, that ISIS has been controlled -- has controlled Mosul more than two years now.

Well, senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is able to join us now. She's on the outskirts of Mosul. She joins us from the front line. Arwa, I understand that you were witness to some fighting earlier. Can you tell us what was going on?

ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And in fact, it is still ongoing. We are continuing to hear the sounds of very loud explosions as well as gun fire. As these various troops continue to try to push their way towards Mosul.

As you were mentioning here, the current target in their sites is trying to clear Gogjali. But this is to be proving to be especially difficult because according to the commander, there are still around 25,000 civilians inside this large sprawling area.

And so, when it comes to calling in air strikes or other kind of artillery that they would want to fire, they have to be very precise on the location that they are firing it at.

Now the counterterrorism unit has been moving in on this area from various locations. Key is of course securing it but then also the direct road from Irbil into Mosul.

The mood amongst the troops that we are with at least for the time being is fairly determined and upbeat to a certain degree. Because they feel as if the end is coming, or least the final battle for the city of Mosul itself is coming.

Of course, they are very realistic in the sense that they do acknowledge that they do believe that the closer they get, and this is something that we have been seeing, the tougher the resistance from ISIS.

The commander we are with, who is with the Special Forces of the counterterrorism unit, he is telling us that they estimate that around 8,000 of ISIS' fighters are still within the city. As for how many maybe in Gogjali that he says is unclear.

Because what they are seeing in the intelligence is that ISIS is constantly moving its fighters in and out, trying to reposition itself as these counterterrorism forces push forward and try to squeeze ISIS out.

VANIER: Arwa, those elite units that you are following today, they have advanced faster than even they expected they would towards Mosul. Do they believe they are going to enter the city limits anytime soon?

DAMON: Well, the sense that they want to put forward and what we heard from them yesterday is that they do believe that yes, they will be entering Mosul as soon as they possibly and realistically can. As you were mentioning there, these are U.S.-trained units and they are very cautious and wary.

[03:20:02] And to a certain degree have a level of understanding of their enemy in that their enemy is entirely unpredictable.

If you look behind me, the skies are pretty dark. Now that's not because it's a cloudy day here. That's because all of that is dust on the one hand being kicked up from various different vehicles moving around, but also most of it is caused by the tires and the fires, the oil fires that ISIS has been lighting on the outskirts of Mosul to try to impede the visibility of drones and fighter jets overhead that continue to buzz on a regular basis.

So, back to your original question, they do feel as if they are ready for Mosul that they will be entering it imminently. At this stage, many of them, we heard them say yesterday, that they hoped that they will be able to push through today at some point.

But they do also recognize that ISIS has proven itself to be an unpredictable enemy and one that continues to launch suicide truck bombs at them. Snipers, they have these underground tunnel complexes that we and others have been through that allow ISIS fighters to pop out and strike at troops.

And in some cases catch them by surprise. ISIS also has a tendency to hide some of it suicide truck bombs or car bombs inside alleyways and buildings and then come up just as the troops are setting up their defensive position.

So, while on the one hand, yes, they are determined they do believe that they will get to Mosul fairly soon. They also recognize that they need to be very careful as they push forward, not just because of the potential that ISIS maybe launching counter attacks trying to encircle them from behind. But also as I was mentioning, in Gogjali itself you have 25,000 civilians. Don't forget, in Mosul you have upwards of 1.2 million, Cyril.

VANIER: And, Arwa, you were just talking about those tunnels built by ISIS a few days ago, you showed us what they look like. So we have a pretty clear picture of what that's like.

I want to show our viewers the map again just so we get a more precise sense of the geography. Because you are talking about Gogjali where the elite forces are right now. And I want to show you that the purple part of the map there is the various city centers. And that's largely to the west of the Tigris River.

Look at that orange line on your map towards the right of the screen. And you'll see those are oil-filled trenches, and Arwa is just telling you that's what creating some of the smoke here and that's going to be one of the challenges for the security forces.

Arwa, one more thing, the security forces that are outside of Mosul now, they are not the only forces involved in this coalition. There are also the Shiite forces, the Peshmerga, are they coordinating this or might they enter alone? DAMON: Well, at this stage the only force that is meant to be

entering the city of Mosul itself is the Iraqi army. And that of course includes the counterterrorism and the other units that are within the army's conventional forces.

The Kurdish Peshmerga pushed forward from the east and the southeast of Mosul and then held a defensive position. They are now going through and reclearing these areas.

The Shia, predominantly, Shia paramilitary force that you mentioned, they are pushing up from the west and one of their main tasks is to cut off the Syria/Mosul supply route.

Now they also want to eventually capture the city of Tal Afar, this is a Turkmen Sunni city predominantly and that is why we're hearing such pushback and the harsh rhetoric from Turkey that is warning them not to enter which adds another dimension of complexity to the situation.

Pushing into the city of Mosul itself, you don't just have this push by the counterterrorism forces, you also have a push coming up from the south and from the north, as well. The aim is to try to squeeze off ISIS from all possible directions, as they do try to eventually push it out of Iraq, they hope once and for all.

But when you speak to the commanders, they will say that in this particular battle it is unique. Because for the first time all of these various difference entities are, in fact, coordinating together. And of course they are also coordinating with the U.S.-led coalition.

And that is had a critical role in all of this when it comes to the intelligence capabilities the other assets, the enablers that the U.S. and other coalition partners bring to the table. And not to mention the air power that has proven to be vital in allowing these troops to push forward as quickly as they have.

VANIER: All right. Arwa Damon reporting from the front line east of Mosul. Thank you very much.

U.S. and coalition forces launched 16 new air strikes against ISIS on Sunday. Six cities were targeted in Iraq including three strikes on Mosul. Three cities in Syria and neighboring Syria were also targeted.

Still ahead, the renewed e-mail controversy over the Clinton campaign isn't going away anytime soon. We'll explain why when we return.

Plus, a powerful earthquake in central Italy leaves thousands homeless. Just ahead, the government response that's drawing anger from locals.

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VANIER: And a warm welcome back to all our viewers around the world. I'm Cyril Vanier at CNN world headquarters here in Atlanta. Let's update you now on our top stories this hour.

A long-time confidant to South Korea's president is under emergency detention. Prosecutors questioned Choi Soon-sil Monday over her access to government documents. Opposition parties also accuse her of abusing her relationship with President Park Geun-hye for financial gain.

Emergency detention is used under South Korean law when all individual --- when an individual is considered a flight risk or capable of destroying evidence.

China is showing off its new Stealth fighter, two of the J-20 jets flew in an air show in Guangdong province on Tuesday. It is seen as China's answer to the Stealth fighters that the U.S. and Japan plans to deploy in the Pacific. The J-20 first flew in 2011 but this is the first time it's been shown publicly.

Iraqi counterterrorism forces say they are just 900 meters from Mosul and will enter to the city soon. Troops have retaken an industrial district just to the east. They are now waiting on specialized troops to clear a main road before sending in more forces.

And for more on that, CNN's Michael Holmes joins us now live from Irbil in northern Iraq. Michael, good to have you with us. Look, just moments ago we were talking with Arwa Damon who is near the front line and she sort of updated us on the military advance of the specialized forces just a few hundred meters away from Mosul city limits now.

[03:30:05] What's very interesting, Michael, is you've actually been to some of the liberate -- and liberated towns and cities. And you know, it's a different story over there.

Some of the people, as you are about to show us, disappointed.

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We were down near a different front line at the hour and had a look around. There were dozens of towns and villages of course that have been liberated over the last two weeks. Many of them were empty. We went through one that was deserted, that was quite eerie.

Residents taken away to camps to be screened. But in some towns, residents are there and they're really just trying to readjust after those two years they have been through of ISIS rule. We visited one touch town near the front line.

The Peshmerga front line, 12 kilometers from Mosul and within eyesight, the ISIS held town of Al-Samakiah (ph). At the end of a dusty tract, five kilometers in the other direction, Al-Faisaliah (ph) four days ago under the iron fist of ISIS rule, today free.

We are so glad this nightmare is over. Abu Sama (ph) tells us. These past days we lived in celebration. Today, Asmed (ph) is the busiest man in town. More than 50 customers a day, old and young, since ISIS left. Across the street with another barber, Shehab (ph), savoring his first shave since ISIS came more than two years ago.

Under ISIS, we could do nothing without their permission, he says. From the first hour after they left, we felt normal again. One of the most visual aspects is men were not allowed to shave. Barbershops had virtually no business. Check this out. Even the faces of the people on the signs outside were taped over so that you couldn't see their faces, their hair cuts, their beards. The tape has now come off and business is booming. A few shops down, bad habits renewed.

Smoking a crime under ISIS, but today, a breath of freedom for Ali Fama Masmud (ph) who told us it's like a black cloud has lifted. I just asked him how he felt compared to a week ago. You saw his face. Don't really need to translate it. Happy man.

Down the street, joy, liberation and anguish, too. This lady is telling us that when ISIS came into Mosul two years ago, her son, who was a major in the Peshmerga was arrested and taken away. This is his wife. These are his children. He has four kids. They have not seen him since and obviously fear the worst.

The story of Al-Faisaliah (ph) is repeated across the battlefield. Towns freed, people relieved, happy but scarred as well. Much damage has been done to bricks and mortar but also to societies and psyches, neighbors and friends. For today, though, here, now, the relief is palpable.

Those other villages that we went through that were deserted, as we said, security forces are taking no chances that ISIS fighters, local people who joined ISIS when they rolled in may have secretly themselves among the locals, shaved their beards off and sort of blended in.

A lot of these villages, people have been taken away and screened very carefully before being allowed to go back. A lot of people can't go back because of booby traps and things. It's gonna take a while for people to actually settle back in to their towns and villages.

VANIER: Michael, what do these people, these villagers think their country and daily life is gonna look like now that ISIS has been rooted out of their towns and villages?

HOLMES: Their dream, of course, is to return to some semblance of normality and to have some sense of security. People were still worried that ISIS could come back. Even though -- there are only five Ks from the front line where we were at and that ISIS town we were watching, they were lobbing mortars at the Peshmerga forces, so they are worried that this could all return.

What I think that people are worried about too in the broader sense is that those locals who supported ISIS could themselves then find themselves subject to retribution being metered out.

[03:35:00] That's a big fear around this area but when this is all over, there's going to be some schools to be settled. That's not a Sunni-Shia thing. That's a Sunni-Sunni thing. A lot of concerns about that. There is gonna be some mistrust among the locals who supported ISIS and those who did not.

VANIER: Michael Holmes reporting there from Irbil, Northern Iraq. Thank you very much. And the U.S. is just one week away from electing a new president. Millions of people have already cast ballots in early voting. But the political landscape is murkier than ever and it appears that the newly revived e-mail controversy is likely to hang over the Clinton campaign beyond election day. CNN's Pamela Brown has the details.

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tonight, the FBI is on a race against the clock. CNN has learned a team of agents is using special software at FBI facilities in Quantico, Virginia to sift through thousands of newly discovered e-mails to isolate those relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private server.

Those e-mails will then be searched for classified information, a process that likely won't be resolved until after the election. In July, when Director Comey initially recommended no charges, he said no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Clinton despite finding classified information on her private server.

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

BROWN: CNN has learned some of the e-mails found in the computer belonged to Anthony Weiner, estranged husband of long-time Clinton aid, Huma Abedin, passed through Clinton's private server. A source says Abedin has no idea how her e-mails ended up on her husband's computer.

Law enforcement sources say several weeks ago, agents stumbled upon the new e-mails while investigating Weiner's alleged sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Comey found out in mid-October but wasn't fully briefed until last Thursday.

A day later, he went against Department of Justice policy, sending a vague letter to congress, revealing the discovery of the e-mails over the objection of DOJ officials.

Tonight, he is taking heat from every direction, even from his former boss, republican appointed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

ALBERTO GONZALES, REPUBLICAN APPOINTED ATTORNEY GENERAL: I didn't understand it. I didn't understand what he was saying, what he was trying to say. I didn't understand the purpose of the letter. Somewhat perplexed about what the director was trying to accomplish here.

BROWN: Now, Comey is under intense pressure to publicly release more information before election day.

GONZALES: We are in a very unusual situation. It may be that in order to protect the integrity of this election, he may need to say something else in relation to this investigation.

BROWN: Tonight, the White House spokesman said he would neither defend nor criticize Comey, but acknowledged he's in a tough spot. JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: He's the one who will be in

a position to defend his actions in the face of significant criticism from a variety of legal experts, including individuals who served in Senior Department of Justice positions and administrations that were led by presidents in both parties.

BROWN: According to officials, Director Comey does not plan on providing any public updates about the investigation until it is done. That means no updates on how many e-mails were discovered that related to the investigation or anything else specific until a conclusion has been reached. So that means, we will likely not hear about it from Director Comey until after the election. Pamela Brown, CNN, Washington.

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VANIER: U.S. President Barack Obama said if Hillary Clinton is elected, she will be criticized just for being a woman and being ambitious. Mr. Obama compared it to the unfounded birther movement that saw Donald Trump question whether he was born in the United States.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think the equivalent will be she's tired. She is moody. She is being emotional.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just something about her.

OBAMA: There is something about her. When men are ambitious, it is taken for granted. Of course, they should be ambitious. When women are ambitious, why? That theme, I think, will continue throughout her presidency and it's contributed to this notion that somehow she is hiding something.

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VANIER: Barack Obama also discussed the importance of young people voting, noting that for the first time, his own daughter Malia voted in an election.

Italy's strongest earthquake in decades wasn't deadly but still been very devastating. The fear that thousands have after Sunday's tremor up next.

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VANIER: More than 15,000 people in Central Italy are in temporary shelters after Sunday's powerful earthquake. And that number could still grow as workers go through the hardest hit areas. Now, some people are criticizing the government's response to this disaster. Frederik Pleitgen reports.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, JOURNALIST AND CORRESPONDENT FOR CNN: Another major earthquake in central and southern Italy. Luckily, only a few injured, but major damage to many historic buildings in this beautiful area.

The famous Basilica of Saint Benedict partially collapsed. Many residents like here in the small town Narja (ph) once again displaced in fear of further shocks, angry at their government. There were so many people affected, above all the people who work in agriculture.

Jim Paulo Steffani (ph) says they were not given tents. They were not given houses. They will have to wait until the spring. I don't understand where they will live this winter if they are not given homes or tents or an alternative situation.

This man fears the cold winter ahead. We have to find somewhere, he says. We can't do go into tents or stay in our cars. Look at this weather. It's not the right moment.

Italy had been hit by a series of major quakes and aftershocks since late August when a massive tremor killed almost 300 people, destroying the small town Amatrije (ph). Many more now find themselves with no roofs over their heads. The nuns of Saint Clare of Assisi convent were lucky so far. But now, theirs has been badly damaged.

You can't just say it was a tremor. It was much more than that. Sister Maria Rafaela (ph) says, the entire house was moving. I had the window open which looks on to the Benedictine (ph) bell tower. We saw all of the dust rising.

[03:45:00] You just couldn't see anything and lots of screams, so many screams. Italy's government said it is working to find more temporary housing and has vowed to rebuild all the regions affected by the series of earthquakes this summer and fall.

But many people in this picturesque region are getting impatient, wondering where they will spend the winter and fearing further quakes might be on the way. Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, London.

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VANIER: Let's find out how weather and aftershocks maybe affecting the cleanup operation. Karen Maginnis joins us from the International Weather Center for that. Karen?

MAGINNIS: Cyril, it's been devastating. We can see by this image coming out of Narja (ph)over the last 24 hours. You can see the debris that has just been tossed around. You can certainly see why there would be such devastation. These are historic buildings. So, they have seen some pretty substantial shaking that has taken place here across Central Italy for the better part of two months.

And now we see hundreds and hundreds of aftershocks. Here you can see a policeman who is investigating the damage at the very famous basilica there. Over the next weeks and months, you will feel the aftershocks. Take a look at some of the aftershocks and some of them are very shallow. They may only be 4.0 magnitude, but because they are so shallow, it is about 2 kilometers deep or so, you will really going to feel that. Whereas ordinarily, something a little deeper may take maybe a five or six magnitude earthquake. So, over the next weeks or so, you might experience potential for maybe a 5.0 plus magnitude earthquake. Maybe a dozen or so aftershocks that will be in that four to five magnitude raise. But I already counted some of the 4.0 plus magnitude aftershocks. There have been already about 15.

Let's go ahead and show you on the graphics exactly what we anticipate as far as that 6.6 magnitude earthquake was concerned. If it were at an intermediate depth between about 70 to 500 kilometers deep. This one wasn't, but you would see some shaking or feel some shaking. But because this particular one was much more shallow, only 10 kilometers deep, the shaking becomes much more violent and is much more felt.

Also it compromises the buildings much more. You have to remember, these are very old historic buildings. In some cases, centuries and centuries old. So, it is going to be a trying time over the next weeks and months to cross this region because of those aftershocks that can feel devastating to people who are living in temporary housing or perhaps are homeless and out in the streets.

What we are looking at is the potential for the rainfall chances to go up over the next several days. Not so much on Tuesday, but going in to Wednesday and Thursday, looks like Thursday now. Yesterday, it was looking like Wednesday, but Thursday now looks to be the better chance for precipitation or better. 40 percent likelihood, high temperatures are gonna in the teens, overnight lows sometimes in the single digits. Cyril?

VANIER: Karen Maginnis, thank you very much, from the CNN International Weather Center, with a full story on the risks in Italy there. Thanks a lot.

Looks like fun and games and it is, but it could also awaken some brilliant young minds. At least that's the hope.

Just ahead, a museum in London that sets out to inspire the next generation of Einsteins.

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VANIER: Who's going to be the next Stephen Hawking or the next astronaut like Tim Peake? Those two brilliant minds were first inspired by London's famous science museum. Now, the museum wants to nurture the next generation of curious explorers with an exhibition that encourages hands-on participation. CNN's Neil Curry checked out the interactive experiments.

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NEIL CURRY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It may look like school play time, but in fact, this is a scientific experiment. These friction slides are made of different materials. So which is the slickest, which is the stickiest? It seems further investigation is required. Science can seem scary at first to some young students.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Scary.

CURRY: But with a little persuasion, it can open up new worlds to explore. Science museum's new wonder lab takes lessons out to the classroom and lets children explore the secrets of the universe without an academic atmosphere.

TOBY PARKIN, CURATOR, SCIENCE MUSEUM: You can touch a cloud, put your head in a cloud, you can order an experiment at the chemistry bar. You can capture lightning. You can see a million volt lightning settle. So the whole idea is we want people to think like a scientist, do their own experiments. Be curious.

CURRY: Among the curious minds electrified by the science museum in the past, astronaut Tim Peake, naturalist David Attenborough, and scientific superstar Stephen Hawking.

TOM O'LEARY, DIRECTOR OF LEARNING SCIENCE MUSEUM: Hawking in particular has a brilliant quote that he talks about when he visited the science museum as a child, and he said the science museum fueled his fascination with physics. And I think if we could do things like that, we are actually doing a brilliant thing.

CURRY: 3.5 million people from all over the world expected to pass through the museum's doors this year, an enthusiastic team stands ready to explain experiments to visitors.

AMANDA FOAN, EXPLAINER AT SCIENCE MUSEUM: Yours has more pulleys than mine. Each time you pull up, you are pulling up less weight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mine is easier.

FOAN: Yours is easier.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Doesn't feel like it.

CURRY: The interactive nature of the experiment is believed to help to capture curious minds not only for kids. The grown ups can get a chance to play, too. Beyond the fun stuff is the serious side of the scientific situation.

[03:55:00] O'LEARY: We live in an age that is driven by technology, by change, by huge challenges that we are facing. And to solve the challenges, we need talented scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. Bit what we do know is we have not gotten young people taking science beyond 16. If you look at the figures, as a nation, we will be short in scientists, mathematicians, and engineers in the future.

CURRY: The number of students in Science University has been on a slide in recent years and it is hope that exhibitions like these at the Science Museum will reverse the trend for future generation. Neil Curry, CNN, London.

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VANIER: Finally this hour, we say farewell for another year at least to one of the world's most flamboyant festivals. That's right. We are going to put Halloween to bed. It's over now. October 31st isn't so much a date in the calendar as it is a competition nowadays with people going to extreme lengths to win Halloween.

Dressing up as a witch just doesn't cut it anymore. If you're going to have a costume, you now need a performance to go with it. And if you want to get any attention on Facebook or You Tube, you need to be doing something like this. No treat without a trick. This group from Indiana managed to outclass the masses.

Thriller by name, thriller by nature. If you are planning a party for 2017, you will need to scare up something special to beat these guys. Thank you for joining us this hour. I'm Cyril Vanier, CNN world headquarter right here in Atlanta. Remember to get with me anytime on Twitter. It's Cyril, CNN. Stay tuned for more news next with Max Foster in London.

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