Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom Live 20150625 : comparemel

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom Live 20150625

More than 1,000 people have died in pakistans brutal recordbreaking heat wave. Nearly all of those deaths happened in karachi, resources are overwhelmed with morgues and hospitals filled beyond capacity. Pakistans electricity grid is also being strained with frequent Power Outages being reported. Earlier cnn correspondent saima mohsin visited a morgue and graveyard. These scenes may be upsetting. Reporter even as we approached the morgue the stench of death surrounded us. Corpses covered in flies left out in the heat. A charity runs this morgue but it is struggling to provide the service. Daily Power Outages means the cold room cant be kept cool. I want to take you in to show you the extent of the problem. There is a putrid, pungent smell. Bodies upon bodies, piled high. 650 people have been brought here in just a few days. I really couldnt stay inside there any longer. That is supposed to be a cold storage unit in a morgue. Its hot and sticky in here. And it seems like even the dead arent being given the dignity they deserve. Lengthy power cuts plague the living and the dead. One of the major hospitals has treated up to 8,000 people since saturdays soaring temperatures struck. The unforgiving heat has spared no one. Young children and the elderly, the most vulnerable. I felt so hot, i was vomiting says this old man. I felt weak and my heart sank. My son had a High Temperature and then he had a fit, this woman says i ask her if she has water and electricity in her home. Nothing. We have none of those things, she says. And the hospital theyve turned to for help is overwhelmed. These doctors and nurses tell me the governmentrun hospital has been relying on volunteers and donors. People are bringing us water, ice, and even medicines. Their frustration was palpable. Saima mohsin reporting there. And she joins me on the phone from karachi. I know this has been a very difficult story for you to cover there at the morgue and youve just come away from the graveyard there. Talk to us about the scene there. Reporter you know rosemary the more i cover this story and follow each chain of events whether its the piece being rushed to the hospital as we saw, the ultimate man at the mortuary and further now where we have been to the graveyard its just horrific how unable the city is able to cope with something as simple as a heat wave. There are no room for graves. There is just no space. They are trying to eke out space between graves that have been there for years. I saw one man digging into a grave. He told me that people are flocking to this graveyard because is it the major graveyard in this city. There are dozens of others in an incredibly large city but its the bodies are decomposing so fast in this heat and as we saw, theres only one major mortuary that has the capacity to provide cold storage and that is failing because of Power Outages. People need to bury their dead fast. They are flocking to this particular graveyard. There is no space. And one grave digger told me they are in fact now opening up old graves and burying them in there. Rosemary . It is too grim to bear and of course more than a thousand people dead now, the fear that the death toll will rise. Joining us there, saima mohsin from karachi. I want to get more now. We have derek van dam in the studio. It is horrendous when you look at this. And the government hasnt done a lot to help people. There is little you can do to really offer some sort of relief. On top of that rosie, the heat wave is coinciding with ramadan. So you are fasting from sunrise to sunset no food or drink and that does not give you relief from the heat. Five consecutive days of 40 degrees plus. Three consecutive overnight periods that didnt drop below 91 degrees fahrenheit and the temperature just not cooling down at nighttime. Its not allowing the body to get that break it deserves and requires in order to cool your internal body temperature down. However, in karachi, the most populated city in the country, has seen some relief even though it is minimal, well take it. A couple of degrees thanks to an onshore wind. You can see the temperatures are just above average. We should be 33 degrees this time of year. But this is a far cry from the 40degree plus weather we have been experiencing. And the overnight lows dropping below 30 degrees. The monsoon has not reached pakistan just yet. We are desperately waiting for the monsoon rains and winds to help cool us down. The area that have seen the monsoon weather places like new delhi and to the south we have seen that cooler weather settle in. That has brought the relief from the excessive heat seen two weeks ago in india. Look at the heat wave into this region where we factor in the humidity levels it feels like 46 degrees in some locations. Temperatures in the upper 30s. But when you factor in the humidity level it starts to feel oppressive. People are make due with what they can find. We are selling ice on the sides of the road handing out water to family and community members, anything they can do to bring relief from this heat wave. Its going to be a few days. It is. We have a couple of days of more heat but we should start to see the monsoon settle in in the next week or two. Thanks for that appreciate it, derek. Following developing news now, a car bomb has exploded in kobani near a Turkish Border gate. The militants are fighting kurdish ypg forces. Dozens of people have been killed or wound bud an exact count is not known at this point. A kurdish ypg official tells reuters that isis staged an attack from three sides of the town. Isis fighters have attacked Government Forces in the city of al hasakah. The fighting is still going on and the government has launched air strikes in the area. The group also says isis militants detonated a car bomb at a military check point and taken control of several neighborhoods in the southern part of the city. Nato is more than tripling the capacity of its response force. The secretarygeneral announced the force will have 40,000 troops up from the current 13,000. The move comes in response to russias involvement in Eastern Ukraine and moscows decision to increase its nuclear arsenal. The alliance has been conducting military exercises recently. Russias Foreign Ministry has accused nato countries of sliding toward confrontation. France is fuming following spying allegations from wikileak. The report cites u. S. Government documents indicating the nsa eavesdropped on french president Francois Hollande his two predecessors and other top officials from 2006 to 2012. President barack obama called french Francois Hollande on wednesday to smooth things over and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry echoed the president s claims that this is not true. This is an old wikileaks document. I dont know what date it starts at or refers to. But i am telling you we are not and will not target the conversations of any friendly president , anybody i know of and certainly not president hollande or the french ministry. That is not happening. And mr. Hollande gathered his Defense Council to discuss the allegations. And they summoned jane hartley to explain the report. But the french are still miffed over these revelations. Translator it is out of the question that we accept that the president of the republic the three successive president s of the republic be wiretapped including their private conversations and anyone can understand that. Thats the watch word and thats how it should be between allies. There should be a certain degree of trust. Frances parliament gave approval to a surveillance law. It gives the government the right to collect data from phones without a warrant. Critics say it gives the government far too much power. Frances highest court still has to okay it before it officially becomes law. Eurozone finance ministers will pick up negotiations on greeces debt crisis in the coming hours. Wednesdays talks ended with no sign of a deal. The clock is ticking, of course for greece. It has just a few days to work out an agreement to secure more money before its next debt payment. Other it will default. For the latest we want to go to Elinda Labropoulou who is live in athens. Elinda as we mentioned, time is fast running out here as talks are resuming to try to find a solution to greeces debt crisis. How likely is it that a deal will be made by that deadline . Reporter well its what everyone hopes or that they thats what they hope for. And weve seen days and days of talks and hours and hours from all sides and efforts united. The truth is that 24 hours ago we were closer to a deal than we are now. In the last 24 hours a number of complications seemed to have arise. We have had a number of issues between greece and the imf. The imf saying that greece is talking about too heavy taxation and not enough spending cuts. It seems as talks resume today they are going to try to find another middle ground some concessions probably from both sides on the table before the euro group resumes later today as well. From the greek side we are hearing that you know greece came to the table with a number of proposals that were initially accepted on monday. Then that seems to have changed and now theyre being asked to do more. Theyre being asked to cover a number of red lines things to do with pensions things to do with v. A. T. These are lines that the greek government was not initially prepared to cross. We dont have some of the main issues yet addressed it seems and primarily the issue of dead relief is one of the key points in order to close this deal or not. Greece has been asking for a sustainable solution that includes a debt relief in these talks. A promise a conversation about debt relief would at some point start. It would be something easier for the greek government to sell to its own parliamentarians. If we dont have that on the table or a solution that mr. Tsipras can present to the Greek Parliament if there is a deal that will complicate the political situation in greece enormously. For the time being this could go either way. A lot of people wonder building the greek leadership understand the urgency of this. 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Prison guard gene palmer is accused of taking frozen meat embedded with tools, to the inmates cell area. He is accused of taking the inmates to a cat walk area. They used the cat walks in their escape. It has been 20 days since richard matt and david sweat broke out of prison. Authorities are following thousands of leads and they discovered the inmates dna inside a cabin. Jason carroll reports on what else has been found, including a bloody sock. Reporter the search perimeter nearly 75 square miles of rural, dense derare 1,000 people helicopters, and allterrain vehicles but the focus on an area surrounding that hunting cabin in Mountain View and a report from a witness who says he saw a man running from his hunting cabin. We have virtually 100 assurance that they were in that area. I believe that they were at that point last seen as of 10 30 a. M. On saturday morning. Reporter despite the two avoiding capture for 19 days there are clues that could help investigators learn more about the escaped killers physical condition. There are numerous items recovered from the cabin although i cant specify what the items were we have no definitive information to reveal that someone was injured. A bloody sock could mean someone had a blister or it could mean a lot worst. Im hoping for the best. Reporter as the search intensifies so too does the investigation into the inmates escape. Joyce mitchell under arrest admitting that she put hacksaw blades and a large frozen slab of hamburger meat and convinced a guard to pass it on to richard matt. Palmers Attorney Says his client had no knowledge there was anything inside the meat. As for mitchells relationship with the escaped inmates her attorney again denies it. She has indicated to me and to my knowledge to the police that she never had sexual relations with david sweat. Thats all im going to comment on. She has indicated that on denied that on multiple occasions. And did she mention anything about richard matt . Im not going to get into richard matt. Her attorney reviewing 20 hours of interviews mitchell has given to police. What is she seemingly what has she admitted to at this point . Im not going to comment on that. Thats something she has talked to the police. She may be in a position to continue to give help assistance to them and i dont want to be in a position of harming her plea bargaining opportunities. Reporter jason carroll, cnn, cadyville, new york. In Charleston South Carolina worshippers displayed their resolve, faith, and defiance on wednesday. They resumed bible study in the same room where nine people were murdered at emanuel ame church. Wednesdays lesson listed on the churchs website was called the power of love. We have certainly seen that. Meanwhile, thousands of mourners spent wednesday in South Carolinas state house viewing the open casket of reverend Clementa Pinckney who was a state senator. A public viewing will be held again thursday at emanuel ame and then another church nearby. President obama will deliver the eulogy on friday. More now from ryan young on the memorial surrounding pinckneys passing. Reporter state senator Clementa Pinckneys body arrived at the South Carolina state house as hundreds lined the streets to pay their respects. His body lying in state inside the capitol while outside the symbol of the old south flies over the state grounds. Its time to move the flag from the Capitol Grounds. Reporter after nikki haleys statement, South Carolina lawmakers voted to open the debate to remove the flag from Capitol Grounds once and for all. But the vote to take down the flag has yet to occur and by any measure its passing is not a sure thing. Haileys office says she does not have the authority to remove the flag herself today or any day and she will continue to work to change the law. As the debate over the future of the Confederate Flag overshadows the mourning in South Carolina calls for taking down the flag are spreading across the south. Alabamas republican governor ordered the Confederate Flag to be removed from the state Capitol Grounds joining Virginia North carolina tennessee, and georgia, who have also sought to diminish the presence of the controversial symbol. Even in boise, idaho, the Mississippi State flag was removed from a display of state flags at city hall. It stays until the people of South Carolina say it should come down. Reporter in South Carolina taking down the flag is an uphill battle as some are trying to shift the focus of the debate. Cnn spoke to william chumley. These people sat in there and waited their turn to be shot. Thats sad. Someone with a means of selfdefense could have stopped this and we could have less funerals. Are you turning this into a gun debate. You said guns why didnt Somebody Just do something . I mean, you got one skinny person. Shooting a gun. Ryan young reporting there. And we also just learned that the u. S. National park service has asked its bookstore and gift shop vendors to remove stand alone Confederate Flag items from their shelves. One of the biggest merchants has agreed and she expects all 70 vendors to comply. France is turning to the front line for a growing crisis in europe. Hundreds of desperate migrants are trying to reach the United Kingdom. What britain is considering to stop them. Al shabaab Militants Attack government soldiers. You are watching cnn newsroom. Welcome back everyone youre watching cnn newsroom. Im rosemary church. We want to check the headlines this hour. A car bomb has exploded in kobani

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