the u.s., which once had seven icebreakers in its fleet, now only has two that are fully functional. that s a far cry from russia which has 40. and with russia now appearing to set its sights on the arctic, keeping up with the competition could be critical. international correspondent matthew chance has more for you. reporter: on state controlled television russia projecting its power into the arctic. in recent months the kremlin has staged some of its biggest ever military exercises in the region. deploying a newly created arctic brigade raising concerns this could be the next frigid flash point in its standoff with the west. you know the kremlin s ambitions better than russia s top arctic explorer and president putin s special adviser on arctic
for parsing the numbers. you sound so excited about them, too. it was awesome. thank you so much. all right. now to a ground breaking announcement by the catholic church. just days about ever a historic visit to the united states, propose francis has announced women who have had an abortion and been excommunicated, kicked out of the chump can be forgiven. not only that, that forgiveness can be granted by a woman s parish priest. that s not to say the church no longer considers abortion a moral sin, it does, but pope francis says he has met so many women who bare in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision. so joining me now to talk about all of this, cnn religion commentator father edward beck and to discuss the possible political implications republican consultant, john brabender. he was also a senior strategist for the santorum presidential campaign in 2012. thanks to both of you for being with me. i will start with you, father beck, because as a catholic, i
when we look at the e-mails is to decide, first, to publish them according to the foia request we ve received, but in doing that looking at them and deciding whether any of that material needs to be redacted and classified. elise labott is cnn s global affairs correspondent. she s been poring through the 7,000 e-mails. she joins us live from washington. what have you turned up, elise? reporter: well, carol, we re hearing that 125 of these e-mails of these 7,000 e-mails have been upgraded to classified. now, the information wasn t classified at the time but it s since been upgraded to classified because it was released to the public. one of the things that really kind of comes out in these e-mails is clinton s reliance on outside advisers, particularly sid blumenthal who you remember was a former adviser to her husband, former president bill clinton and has really become a subject of the house committee on benghazi investigating the
rob, what s ben carson s appeal in the eyes of iowa kau caucus goers? being real, answering people s questions directly. that appeals to the electorate he s approachable. as i said last night on another program, he s genuinely a nice guy, a nice man. it s interesting, though, ron. he hasn t outlined really any of his policy positions. does that matter to iowa caucus goers? i think if you ve been a part of some of our rallies here in iowa, he actually has outlined many of his stances. if you go to carson america or ben carson.com, they re all laid out. they re straightforward. they re matter of fact. and they re real. so i think he has laid out a very good strategy and an effective strategy. his strategy against isis, for example, what is it? i mean, we need to eliminate
classified server. still, a lot of sensitive information going back and forth in those e-mails. thank you. and good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. it s been a turbulent 1st day of september in the marketings. stocks are down about 200 points already. stocks nose dived again in asia and have been falling steeply in europe. investigators are blaming china. and who is china blaming? a reporter. alison kosik joins us now. good morning. reporter: if you thought that the triple-digit selloffs were over just because we re intering a new month, think again. today we are getting new